Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1936 — Page 22

Apollo Film Also Includes Competent ‘Grown-Up’ Players.

* “My, how they've grown.” By “they,” we mean the Dionne Quintuplets, whose “new picture, “Reunion,” opens at the Apollo today. And it you saw “The Country Doctor,” you are sure to make the above statement, so we'll

do it for you at the outset.

The five young ladies are, as someone has said, bigger and better than ever. They've taken on a new “repertoire of tricks, such as falling into their cribs head first ahd climbing out again; taking eaders” down slides, and doing their own pouring at a “tea” party which consists of milk and more milk. ¢ And when four of them get going at once on a piano, while the fifth ‘ and most versatile sister performs ‘on a toy clarinet, saxophone and | accordion, it’s time for Ina Ray Hutton and her band to start worrying. Much like the star backfield on a big football team, the picture's stars are saved for the crucial moments. They appear at the beginning and again in the “last quarter.” But when they are in there, they score —and plenty. When they make their last entrance, each in a separate pony cart complete with nursé-mad and liveried footmsan, we ‘predict that the stands will go wi ia. A very able corps of “shoc troops” carries the brunt of the drama,

"Which is quite able to stand on its | .

Starlet Shirley Ross Believes Right Now Is the Time for bos Self-Improvement

| own feet when the occasion de- | mands. Jean Hersholt, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, Slim Sum- . merville, Helen Vinson and a score of others contribute to a film that . earries on the adventures of Dr. | John Luke of Moosetown, who made . his bow in “The Country Doctor.”

Plan Celebration It seems that Dr. Luke has delivered his three thousandth baby, and the Moosetown Chamber of Commerce feels that a celebration is in order. So they send out invitations

to all the “babies,” of assorted sizes and ages, to-attend a reunion honoring the gentleman who assisted at their debut. : All sorts of people come back for the reunion. The story mainly concerns an actress down on her luck (Esther Ralston); a surgeon and his young wife (Tom Moore and Helen Vinson) ; a governor from the States and his wife (Alan Dinehart and Katherine Alexander), and Dr. John’s nephew Tony and Mary Mac- * ~‘Kenzie, Dr. Luke’s nurse (Mr. Kent and Miss Hudson.) Dr. Luke spends his reunion day in fixing up the tangled lives of . these people. ~The actress, star cf the silent days, is broke, but buoyed up by the promise of a stage role in New York. When a telegram arrives, telling her that the part is given to another; she shoots herself. But it isn’t fatal, and she recovers to take back the home-town boy who loved her all those years.

Order Finally Restored |

Young Dr. Tony comes back to his uncle andthe adoring Mary from Toronto. But it seems that the surgeon's wife, Gloria Sheridan, als much in love with him. Dr. Luke = eventually restores every one to the rightful mate, but it is no easy task, we assure you. : / Meanwhile, the doctor finds time to provide the childless Governor ~ and his wife with a foundling orphan boy. Again there is the pathetic figure of .the Quintuplets’ father (John Qualen)—the real “forgotten man”; and the town constable (Mr. Summerville), who . somehow survives the sorrow of * fathering only one child instead of _sextuplets, which he had hoped for. Altogether, , it’s an appealing little story and a good foil for the Misses/ Dionne. Mr. Hersholt is © excellent, we need not tell you, and you ht to be glad to see the still Jou ul looking Miss Ralston and Mr. Moore—with that same Irish ~ smile—once again. But we all know the stars who will pack them in to see “Reunion.” You'd better go while there still are some vacant seats. (By J. Q. T)

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“GO WEST, YOUNG MAN”—Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Lyle Talbot and Alice Brady. Scréen play and dialogue by ase West ;- directed by Hemy Hathaway; produced by Emanuel en. Story—Movie star on tour, falls for farm boy inventor. Renounces love for sake of farm girl when press agent shows her a baby sweater the girl is knitting. The sweater turns out to be 108 the girl's baby sister and the press agent the man for the actress. “THE BIG GAME”—Bruce Cabot, June Travis, Philip. Huston, James Gleason, Andy Devine and famous football stars. Story by Francis Wallace; directed by George Nicholls Jr.; produced by Pandro S. Berman. Story—Roommates and sai tootball players get involved with gamblers but mansdge to turn the tables at the last minute and win crucial game. : : ‘ . Loew's “LOVE ON THE RUN”—Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot . Tone, Reginald Owen and Mona Barrie. Story by Alan Green and Julian Brodie; directed by W. S. Van Dyke; produced by Joseph Mankiewicz, . Story—American newspaper man in Europe saves heiress from title ‘marriage, and in wild dash across continent captures. spies, gets; page one story and marries heiress.

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«MANHATTAN SCANDALS OF 1937”—0n Stage—Red Skelton, comedian; Lucien LaRiviere, singer; Petch and ‘Deauville, danee team; Aloma, dancer; Charles Carrer, juggler; chorus of 24 girls. “THE LUCKIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD—On Screen—Jane Wyatt, Louis Hayward, Nat Pendleton and Eugene Pallette. Story by Anne Jordan; directed by Edward Buzell; produced by Chas. R. gers. Story—Spoiled daughter tries to prove she can live on $150 a month, the galary of her flance. In New York, she falls in love with another man. Back.home again, finding fiance has married,

she rushes back to New York and new friend.

March \ Visits Old Teacher

in.New York|

Actor Steals Few Moments From Society to Pay Respects. BY GEORGE ROSS NEW YORK, Nov. 19—(NEA)~

Not all the moments of Frederic Msrch’s vacation sojourn in Man-

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hattan were spent in the limelight| §

and public glare, in the manner. of the true-dyed Hollywoodian. It escaped notice at the time that

Mr. March dodged everybody one}

day and took a taxicab to a little-

known address in Washington |

Heights, rapped upon an obscure door and waited for an old and] withered woman to respond. She was no kin of his; senéimentally, she was something even more to him. To fully understand, go back] some years. After the World War, Frederic © March returned. from overseas, an officer of the A. E. F.

and a heartily disillusioned young |:

man. Disinterested in most pursuits, he preserved a passion for. the stage and went to a dramatic teacher. She was an erstwhile actress. of note and advanced in years. Under her academic wing— and she taught him all she knew. of stagecraft—Mareh became ° good enough to be called to- ‘Hollywood. Sg he went to the cinema colony, where, of course, he became one of the highest-paid and most sought-

in Hollywood’s main industry. Today Shirley is regarded as having won her spurs as a starlet. Her important role in “Hideaway Girl,” with Martha Raye and Robert Cummings, is due directly to the work which she accomplished in “The Big Broadcast of 1937.”

But young. Miss Ross, an advocate of self-discipline, believes that right now is the time for self-im-provement. She has written her own commandments for the present and the future. They are rules which virtually any one, not necessarily an actress or a college professor, could apply, probably advantageously, to their own daily lives. Here are Shirley’s regulations: 1. Take your criticisms more to heart than your cempliments. 2. Try to dress with the perfection you would if you were going out on an interview for your first job. 3. Read at least one good book a week. 4, Get at least eight hours of sleep each night. 5. Read one newspaper each day, one weekly magazine on current events and one monthly periodical. 6. Don’t let other people waste your time; it’s too valuable.

Young Film Actress Has Own Rigorous ‘Ten Commandments’

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 19 —Shirley Ross didn't have to crash Hollywood. She was brought up in the film capital, attending its schools and the University of California. For that matter so have thousands of other girls, but Miss Ross is one of the few who succeeded in getting a start

7. Don’t allow yourself to get all upset over something that probably won't happen anyway. 8. When you find yourself gaining more than three pounds do something about it—it’s easier to keep from gaining than it is to lose. 9. Don’t “yes” people. “No” them once in a while but have substantial arguments to back up your ideals. 10. Keep a mental score of merits and demerits and if you find yourself on the demerit side of the ledger do something about it at once.

Actress Practices First Singing Role

> HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 19.—Instead

of taking the customary vacation after finishing “Lloyds of London,” Madeleine Carroll has been practicing singing and dancing. | She is cast in “On the Avenue,” Irving Berlin’s musical, .and is to be seén and heard dancing and singing for the first time,

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tomorrow.

after Adorilses in celluloid, iSoumbin= erous, in fact, were his various jobs,

‘that he had little leisure for a prolonged holiday in New York.

This came his way, at last, several weeks ago and he was feted by the home office: of his studios, ad--miring scriveners, autograph hounds and fans in general. But one day he excused himself froni social servitude, did some amateur detective | work and ordered a cab driver to the Washington Heights address.

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oor for him was, of course, she who had taught Frederic March how to act}

in ‘the post-war days of 1918. Grown old and inactive, she had retired to private and impecunious life in a furnished flat -uptown. She hardly recognized him, incidentally,

when he arrived. She never, as she explained, went to moving pictures. . So Mr. March refreshed her memory as best he could.

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Tinies Special HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

Government air force chief, has DeSh Signed 43 SocHDiG) adviser for “Stowaway,” Shirley Temple's picture now in production. i Shirley 1s seen as 8 waif in in. terior China_who makes her way

{to the seacdt and eventually aboard a world cruise ship. Mr.

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Hall, former Chinese Nationalist |scenes are authentic./

SO REAL. IN EMOTION * you'll LIVE every minute: of it! SO RICH IN: ROMANCE you'll LOYE every second of it!

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ro Doctor untangles the lives the men and women he Brought in the world!

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. “Say It With Candy” «Colorful _ With Virginia Verrill Occupations”

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a JOAN! HELLO CLARK

“Gosh, what fun’ we had raking Tove.on the Run'l...When you ran out on yor wedding — and I found the bridal bouquet —and chased you

all’ over Europe (with Franchot following fast!)

—and then that romantic’ airplane ride and the laundry bus —the castle was okay but that Bay.

stack was_ticklish”\...(Come on, folks! Let's ‘have fun with Jas and Clark loviagon the run)