Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1936 — Page 13

Bard's Story Recast But Is Still Tops

‘Tamed and How’ Has Lots of Laughs and Plenty of. Speed, However.

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BY JAMES THRASHER Some 300 years ago, one William - Shakespeare wrote a play called “The Taming of the Shrew.” Much more recently, a Mr. Charles B. Harrison used the, same plot in “Tamed and How!” the Federal Players’ current offering at Keith's. Me, Shakespeare's version is bet-

There is some similarity in the dramatic treatment of :the "two works, at least locally. Director John Cameron of the Federal com-, pany has chosen to interpret very literally the Harrison play’s~subtitle: “A Farce in Three Acts.” His players use the extremely broad technique which usually is reserved for the comedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Perhaps it is because we associate such treatment with costumes and the older classics. At any rate it's a little disquieting in ‘Tamed and How.” Daughter Gets Even

In case you have forgotten the Shakespeare-Harrison plot, it is about a father, and his willful, deadstrong © and ill - tempered daughter. He has a likely young man picked out for her, but she refuses even to meet him. Instead, she informs the family that she is to marry an insipidly poetic young fortune hunter. Father refuses. He also hires new chauffeur; a very likely young man, incidentally. Daughter, in a fit of rage. marries him. ‘The chauffeur proceeds to tame her completely. © She cooks, washes dishes, scrubs floor, comes at his beck and call. When she doesn't, he picks her up and carries her off on his shculder—just as well as Alfred Lunt carried Lynn Fon~tanne when ‘The Taming of the Shrew” played here. Comes Act III, and the. chauffeur announces to the family that he is going to Australia; that .he learned to love his now meek young ‘bride at a distance, long before he met her; that he now is ready to ‘release her from her vows.

Hardly a Surprise

Daughter then says that she, too, has learned to love her domineering spouse, and that she intends to go to Australia, or even the North Pole. Then Father informs the family. ‘that this is the masquerading suitor he picked out, and that it’s all a horrid trick. The family is.

surprised. The

AT audience, of course, fathomed the

dark secret during the first five minutes of Act I. Jack Duval is Father; Betty Anne Brown, the daughter, ‘and Ned Le Fevre, the chauffeur-husband. “There are others in the cast, of _ course. Hal Hawkes plays the post; - Ira B. Klein is the son of the family; Ruth King appears as Mrs. Powers, the mother; Alice Arnold is the Powers’ ward. The butler, a disappointed opera singer, is done by _Frederick G. Winter, and Robert Turner is the police chief.

Plenty of Speed

Probably, for out-and-out farce of the baldest sort, the performance is capable enough. This calls for characterization of the exaggerated, ..comic-strip school, sor it’s hard to comment on the “acting.” 2 One thing the play does have— speed, and plenty of it. Every one shouts his lines at the top of his “voice, and with the rapidity of an ‘-- auctioneer. So the whole thing is over before you know it. The opening night audience, an unusually large one, howled with glee throughout the entire performance. We didn’t.

Hays, Duce Discuss Picture Problems

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By United Press . ME, Nov. 2¢4.— Will Hays, [American movie arbiter, today con- - ferred with distributors of Ameri-

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..Foster Movie

May Be Gift]

Sond: of Noted Composer Contained in Movie.

J. K. Lilly today was awaiting word from Hollywood regarding a proposed gift of motion picture sound film to Foster Hall. RKO Producer Sol Lesser, according to West Coast reports, is planning to present 850 feet ‘of film from a new picture, “Rainbow on the River,” to the local Foster museum on the way to the picture’s New York opening iA December. | The film contains recordings of “Old Folks at Home,” “Ring, Ring ‘Banjo,” “De Camptown Races”

and other Foster melodies by the |

child singer, Bobby Breen, and. the 11 Johnson Choir. This gift will mark the film dustry’s first contribution to ter Hall, according to Mr.

Galli-Curci Sees

‘Second’ Career

Voice of Prima Donna ls}

Changed by Operation

By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 24—On the eve of her debut tonight in this city which 20 years ago gave her an ovation resembling a stampede, Amelita Galli-Curci was confident she is beginning a second and even more brilliant career than the one she began with “Rigoletto” in 1916. In her first performance since a goitre operation in August, 1935, which changed her voice from coloratura to lyric, the Italian-Span-ish soprano will sing the role of Mimi in “La Boheme.” With a new freedom of voice in the lyric roles the prima di expects to win new glories and new friends “with a simple outpouring of emotion which was never possible in coloratura roles.”

When she steps onto the stage,

following the timid knock of the frail Mimi, she may well remember her overwhelming triumph on that memorable Saturday afternoon 20

years ago when she sang for the America. :

first time in First Triumph Unique Her ‘rubber-soled entrance” — without benefit of press-agent bally-

not | hoo—into the operatic program of

1316 took some 4000 sauve, sedate opera-goers right off their feet and

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLLO

“Reunion,” with the Dionne Quintuplets, Jean Hersholt, Rochelle - .son, Helen Vinson, Slim Summerville and Robert Xen at 11:42, 1:44, 3:46.

48. 7:50 and CIRCLE

“Go West, Young Man,” with Mae West, Warren Ewch and Ran § and

Scott, B 7: 10:21. Also “Phe Game June Trévis er Fhilip

ruce Cabo usjon, at a 37, 3:29, 6:14 an

KEITH'S

“Tamed, and How!’ presented by the Federal Players, at 8:15. -

LOEW'S

on the Run,” rawford, Clark Gable an Tone, at" 11:10. 1:15, 3:30,

LYRIC

“Manhattan Scandals of 1937.” on | Rife with Re Regt easton, Lucien La- | ere 4 105, -3:49, | Cc | , Ha yward, at 11:28. 2:12, 5:06. 8 and 10:37.

ston,

ALAMO

Nee Cargo, with Conrad Also Ji es Oliver Curwood's Rh ‘Grande. 2m

AMBASSADOR = “Ramona,” with Loretta Young. Also “Isle of Fury,” with Margaret Lindsay. OHIO

Predia ee Mle ar Dormitory, * with Simon

with Joan d Franchot 5:40, 7:50

with Simon.

Miriam Hopkins | Signs for Picture

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24 Miriam Hopkins has been signed to co-star with Herbert Marshall in: “Escadrille,” which will be a picturization of the French novel, “Equipage,” by Joseph Kessel. Miss Hopkins recently came back

1—Hang onto your hats—they’re oft! ! Aboard. the piebald horse are Joan Blondell, Frank McHugh and Carol Hughes. Youll see them in “Three Men on a Horse,” opening Thanksgiving Day: at the Apollo. 2—Nino Martini, opera star, and Ida Lupino seem pretty much wrapped up in each other, thanks to Leo. Carillo. They're in “The Gay Desperado,” whigh, with Martha Raye

Friday attraction.

3—Loew's will present Irene Dunhe in her first comedy role when

“Hideaway Girl,” is the Circle's

“Theodora Goes Wild,” with Melvyn Douglas, starts a week’s engage-

ment Friday. The second feature is “Mad Holiday,”

Lowe and Elissa Landi.

with Edmund

4 Olsen and Johnson have entertained you often on the Lyric

stage.

ance Friday on that theater’s screen in “Country Gentlemen,”

But the famous comedy duo will make their first film appearRimac’s

Carioca: Rumba Orchesira headlines the coming stage bill.

Stars Will Feast Thursday, but

Not All of Them on Turkey

Helen Broderick will Defy New England Tradition by

Serving Pork and Sauerkraut.

Times Special

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 9 —This strange land of strange people be- | comes more confusing every day.

H

eastern-bred, is’ to have pork and sauer

It is shocking to think that Miss Broderick, who clings

the main to good American tradi-

tions, should be false to the memory |

| of her Pilgrim Fathers.

Miss Broderick - is, of course, ) comedienne, and our first reaction was that the homely hog and crude cabbage were being offered in: jesting mood. But, no; Miss Broderick

stopped production of her current|

opus, “We, the Jury,” ‘to argue ‘the point most earnestly. “Why not pork and sauerkraut?” she demanded. < “Why not, indeed?

my boy, siways emis |

Hollywood restaurants serve turkey |: 365 days of the year, Tov :

hd

we love pote and a will be

| trom England, where she stayed the | oi.

| better part of a year. While there

| she made one picture, “Men Are Not | der: | Gods,” for Alexander Korda.

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ONLY 122 COUSINS Michael Whalen has 122 cousins d | scattered about the United States.

LLL ISH re -

_coNczmT BY

‘Broderick, - eastern-born and

ut for Thanksgiving dinner. tenaciously,

‘sauce; and’ pumpkin pie. Right,

t this writer finds it hard ‘Broderick

Sings at Festival Miss Jeanetie Zant, voice student at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, is to appear as soprano soloist tenight at the annual fall music’ ‘festival of the Pirst Methodist Church, Newcastle.’ Miss Zant is an advanced pupil of Franklin Taylor at the conservatory.

| Gary Cooper, Henry Wilcoxon and

Frances. Dee. Making a picture called “Souls at Sea,” they will be marooned in mid-Pacific on an old Square- rigger, Star of Finland. They'll take. what they can get and have to like it. ‘Perhaps they may [eat lobscouse, slumgullion; hardstack and plum duff steamed in the cook’s hat; such was often the menu in the old ‘clipper ship days. There is one home in Hollywood this writer would enjoy visiting on Nov. 26—the home of Harpo Marx and his bride, Susan Fleming. They will have as dinner guests the three

n other Marx brothers,

Zeppo, and Chico, and their fam- © Verily, this should top all can offer as to mad and merry joviality. by. Gummo, the fifth

‘has wired egrets | from New we have been told.

ilies

Early Music to Be Played

Gloria Stuart Has California Library

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24—One of the most comprehensive libraries on early California history is A the prized possession of Gloria Stuart who currently is co-starring * with Lee Tracy in “Wanted: Jane Turner.” A native of . California, Miss Stuart. began at an early age to collect rare books describing such historical events as the founding of the ons, the gold rush and the tragic tale of the ill-fated Donner party. One of her most valued books is a first edition of the “The Shirley Letters,” published in 1854, and written by an eye witness fo the histarie scramble for gold.

on Old Instruments by Young Artists.

ye Berliners differ from 0 ons in that present both vocal and a ey music, and in the variety of instruments which they play. Recorders, viole da bratcio, viole de gamba, peasant fiddles, early violins, tranverse flutes and the harpischord are among those to be heard. > The recorder 1s a vertical flute, made of wood and without keys, Its origin is ‘obscure, but it existed until the middle of the eighteenth century, and was especially popus lar in Elizabethan England. Two Viols to Be Played

The transverse flute is a de= velopment of the recorder, and the name properly applies to our fa= miliar orchestral instrument. Tae flute was not equiped~with keys, however, until “about 100 years ago. From the large family of viols we are to hear the two mentioned above. The viola da braccio (arm viol) is an alto or small tenor viok The viola de gamba (leg viol) was so called because, owing to its size, it was held between the knees. This makes it, of course, the modern cello’s precursor. Soth instruments normally had six strings, and are characterized by the flat back and sloping shoulders of the present-day double bass — the only surviving member of the viol family in general use. Bach Also on Program

Tomorrow night's compositions are to embrace a period from about 1450 to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). © Included among the earlier composers . are the Flemish’ masters Dufay and Ockeghem, and the latter’s most famous pupil, Josquin des Pres. - From the same c¢entury music by the Germans, Heinrich Finck and Thomas Stolzer, will be heard. Later and more familiar are Palestrina, Arcadelt, Monteveridi, Frohberger and Lully, examples of whose music is included on the program. Bach will be represent= ed by the “Coffee Cantata,” for voices, string instruments, flute and harpsicord. (By J. QT)

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