Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1936 — Page 13

TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 1936

FEDERAL

New Yorkers Make Debut In Comedy

Howard Play Direéted by John Cameron Who Has Leading Role.

BY RALPH NORMAN

Howard's amusing “They Knew What Wanted,” with some vers new to the Federal upe, will be seen by the local stock company’s patrons this week. John Cameron

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Federal director, the opening last night, proved his lity to direct and play a leading Miss Terry Carlson and json Langill of the New York eater Project, are seen here for the first time Miss Carlson's

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introductory role Amv, the only woman in the play th exception of minor players, rs the actress ample opportunito prove her worth. She failed, though, to give a convincing performance, particularly in the first in her part, that of a San Fran0 waitress who is courted and hy the ‘correspondence As the play developed, howher acting became more nat- | and agreeable.

Has Simple Plot

“They Knew What very simple. As fruit farmer in the f ‘California, Jack

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plot of We an Italian Napa Valley Duval

inted” fs

0 does the brings Amy to his farm home to him. She expects to find = andsome voung man awaiting her, instead finds old, kind-hearted who is hurt badly in an autoaccident while going to meet am Jewilde

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Tony mohile

red, broke-—and game, too Amv decides to go through with the marriage, although she loves Joe Ir. Cameron), whose picture Tony ent her as his own. And Joe is easy to see, immediately falls with her Like A myst houldn't know happens the final

hat

ery story, you too ‘much about the last two act: happy ending They Knew What They Wanted” is Iargely situation ‘comedy, and funny situations are met, to pleasure of the audience.

Duval Plays Well

moves rapidly is not sufcomplicated to maintain interest, consequently ‘it often lags. There are ‘many humorlines, though, and the last act is extremely entertaining. Mr. Duval's difficult role as Tony, including many long speeches, was well done and Frederic Winters as Father McKee, spiritual ‘adviser and friend ‘of Tony, ‘capably handled a supporting role Minor parts are played by Langill, Hal Hawkes, Herbert Sloan, (Gene Brittain and William WV. Schneider, and ‘many additional plavers augment the rather small the marriage celebration.

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Howard's play

but the plot

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Conductor ls Honored

Transcription Dedicated to Ferdinand Schaefer.

Fabien Sevitzky has informed Indianapolis Symphony ‘Orchestra Trt tees that he shortly will end the score and orchestration of his tra anscription ‘of Bach's “Giant” Fugue to Ferdinand Schaefer, to whom the transcription is dedicated Mr. Sevitzky performed the work for the first time when he conducted it as an encore at the Nov. 17 con- ! He announced at that time t had been arranged as a token appreciation of the local orchestra and its founder and conductor Schaefer, Meanwhile, as rehearsals progress the January concert, those who wish may journey to Cincinnati to hear the Cincinnati Symphony Orhi estra in two pairs of concerts coniwcted by Dr. Viadimir Bakaleinioff, who will make his second ap‘arance as the local orchestra's guest conductor on March 28. Dr. Bakaleinikoff, the Cincinnati orchestra's associate conductor, will appear on Jan. 1 and 2, and again al the Jan. 8 and 9 concerts. This week-end the soloist is to be Jose Iturbi, playing the Liszt Piano Concerto in E Flat. The orchestra's numbers, all by Russian composers, will include a Concert ‘Overture bt Galzounofl, the Fifth Symphony of Tschaikowsky, and Rimskv-Korsa-kofl's “Capriccio Espagnole.” On the following Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, the violinist, Joseph Szigeti, will be heard in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. On the same program will be Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony, Rosen's “Fantaisie Americaine,” “Death and Transfiguration,” by Richard

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and the “Entrance of the Emperor |

and His Court,” hy Kodaly.

James Cagney—With All Star Cast “TAXIE"

“Roof Tops of Manhattan" Short Feature Bod Burns

KEITH'S MATINEE SAT. FEDERAL PLAYERS in the N. Y. Theotre Guild Success

“THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED"

letter writing ‘which |

Mr. |

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PLAYERS SCORE IN THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED’

LILY PONS AS SWINGING DIVA

The swinging diva.

de-hi in a scene from the moving picture, w hich opens New Yours Eve at we

From Paris,”

Lily Pons looking very

hi“That Girl on vie Slspinet,

Career as Screen Writer Would Please Ernie Pyl

BY ERNIE PYLE

Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29.—Any

time Warner

Brothers decides to

offer me 500 bucks a week as a ‘movie writer, all I can say is that they've

bought themselves a man, There be 500 altogether as $4000 a week. Roy Chanslor writers at Warners’. He's the kind that used to live half-starved in a Greenwich Village basement and try to write plays. He went East from San Francisco 14 years ago. He worked on New York mewspapers off and on for years, getting fired occasionally just as a matter of self-discipline.

Wrote Several Plays

He turned out several plays between jobs, ‘Only one was produced, and it died in Detroit ‘on the way in to Broadway. He wrote some magazine fiction, and a book. Some of his friends bought copies, and that was all. But the book got him a call to Hollywood He first came here nearly years ago. He staved nine ‘months and did so-so here and itched to get back and starve in New York. But he found that New starving had lost when the second call ‘came a year later he headed West ‘determined to like it or die. I saw him here two years ago, and all he would say then | was that it was a cragy business and that he was trying ‘to like ‘it. But it's got him now. He loves | southern California and the 'mov- | ies and everything. He works from | 10 till 5, with as ‘much lunch time | as he wants. He has built & mag- | nificent house on & ‘hilltop (his wife | designed it) with five acres of estate | around it. He can sit ‘on his terrace and look down upon the world in | all directions.

York

are 50 screen writers at Warner Brothers alone, in Hollywood. Some of the hot shots make as much Some as little as $50. is one of the cracks

| variation.

five |

but he hated it out |

There must

there

if you couldn't ‘write couldn't write anywhere.

Wrote 17 Pictures

you

Indiana Theater, the fiddle's E string, while Frank Jenks jams down

Dumas' Stage Classic to

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Greta Garbo

Plays Role of ‘Camille’

Usher in New Year At Loew's.

For 84 years, the love, re-

‘munciation, suffering and | death of Marguerite Gautier, ‘as set forth by Alexandre

Dumas in “The Lady of the

Camellias,” have furnished a | favorite vehicle Tor the great |actresses of two continents.

| |

| Shelusi Mod jeska, Olga Nethersole and others

Made famous by Duse, Bernhardt, Clara Morris, up to

| the present day, “Camille” at length | has come to the talking screen with

| Greta Garbo as the star. usher. in the new

It will vear at Loew's,

| beginning New Year's Eve.

| been surrounded with | noted ‘names

The silent star of the talkies has a cast of

to celebrate her

eleventh year of stardom for the

| M-G-M. Robert Taylor, plays his Allan is seen as Nichette.

Jack Oakie 1s going to town on

|all the time, and that's what movie | people do. He goes out very little to | | the Hollywood hot spots. And inei- | dentally, one of his best friends is that guy Lynn Riggs, the Sante Fe

| Jean Muir and Joan Crawford. | Lordy, but I'm getting sick of hearing people rave about that fellow. Chanslor says Hollywood doesn't | make the most of its writers,

says Hollywood doesn’t know how |

Chanslor has written 17 pictures |

in Hollywood. Only four of those |

were originals, right out of his head. |

| The ‘others were transcriptions of |

magazine stories, rewrites had an |

idea. He's now working on his sixth | story with a newspaper background.

| always say it's

to handle them. Writers, he says, | are like dogs—you have to be good | to them, and pet them once in a | while. Hollywood doesn't. It just pays them high salaries and ‘treats | them like servants. Which is wrong, of course. But I better to be treated | | like a servant at $500 a week than | to be a servant at $6 a week, What |

during his three and a half years | do You think? r

Next—Johnny Burns comes back.

a —————————

BENITA REFORMS |

Benita Hume has cast aside the | cloak of feminine villainy to become |

He has written drama, melodrama, la ‘comedienne with ‘many worshipcomedy and even one Western. He jpg lovers in “The Last of Mrs.

no |

can ‘never be permitted to pet a ‘dog. That'd make him the hero. The villain always has to kick the dog.

Chanslor, being a newspaper man, |

wrote on & typewriter when he first | Then he tried dictating, |

came out,

and that worked all right so he dic- | tated ‘everything for about a year. | Then somehow he got started writ- | ing ‘by hand with ‘pencil, and that’s |

its glamour, and |

the way he writes now. He works in a sleeveless jersey, in

a haze of ‘cigar smoke. He has writ- |

ten a complete story in eight days, || ‘and then again he ‘much as three months on a story.

Knows Few Stars

has spent as |

First, he has to submit a “tront- |

ment.” That's idea, in 10 or 15 pages. ducer and ‘director go over it, and say ‘either yes or mo, or ves with

| variations.

& synopsis of your | The 'pro- |

Then the writer starts putting it |

in shooting form, with

| camera instructions and so on. He

Happy and Contented In the house are such things as a room 70 feet long, & sunken bathtub, & bar, and a pool table (he paid his way through college 'plaving pool), and there are guest rooms and servrooms (he has two), and two in his garage (one of them America's ‘most expensive). And he has brought his ‘parents down from San Francisco and given

them & place. Chanslor's life is good. and Tull of

ants’ Cars being

idle content, and IT imagine he purrs | people. He doesn doesn't Tike to talk Salk Shop Rr I T Z

when he goes to bed. 1 knew him way back in the old New York | basement days. He never wanted to | be rich then. He just ‘wanted to create, Now he lives in luxury, but I don’t believe it really makes any | difference to him. He's the same | floppy, hazy, likeable fellow he &alWAVS Was. Every writer at Warners’ has a beautiful private office, with a secretary in an anteroom. There are a big chair and a davenport and | Qeap Tugs "hd 3 an lecric fan, and |

| writes,

“Fade in ‘on ‘montage and pick up street corner scene shows

dialogue, |

ing urchins fighting. Medium long |

shot.” script usually runs about 120 pages. After a story is finished and | 0. k.'d, ‘Chanslor seldom follows it | on ‘into production. Once in a great |

And then some dialogue. A |

while he is called out to the set to |

clear up something. Consequently, he knows only a few | of the stars, and none of them very well,

The Servant Problem His friends are largely non-movie |

LAST 3 DAYS BoBBY SREEY

Berar 25c Until 6

But not ‘often. |

starring Joan ‘Crawford, |

gomery.

Dancing Ton ght THE CASINO

3547 E. Washington St. Adm., 15¢ Before 8:30

Buy Your Tickets Now! New Year's Eve Frolic and Dance Till Dawn Floor Show—Favors Tickets on Sale Downtown at MORROW NUT HOUSES Advance Prices, 40¢

playwright who is the best friend of | | plionsirie Plessis,

Lionel Barrymore

father,

Lenore Ulrich Returns Others are Lenore Ulric, who re-

turns to pictures after three years, | | and Russell Hardie, opposite © Miss Lady” on Broadway in 1929, familiar players are Jessie Ralph, | Henry and Rex O'Malley. John Bryan, grandson of William | | Jennings Bryan, portrays Alfred de | | Musset, famous French poet of the | Mr. |

who played

Ulric in

Daniell, Laura Hope Crews

early ‘nineteenth cenfury. [ Bryan's first screen part was Friar | John in “Romeo and Juliet.” Dumas’ well-known story is said

to be based on the author's own months duration, |

romance, of 11 with one Marie Duplessis, or Al-

Duplessis lived a

friends, with all her

cept her death bed in the hands of | He | creditors.

Unlike Armand, however, Dumas effected no tearful last-minute reconciliation with the lady. She died in February, 1847, at the age of 23, | when her future biographer was visiting ‘in 8 in Spain.

STAR GETS SOUVENIR

Luise Rainer has received an interesting souvenir ‘of her role in ‘The Good Earth.” From San Francisco, one ‘of the Chinese play- | ers in the picture has sent her a green jade Buddha, supposed to | | bring good Jortune.

| Jack BEwny ff | BURNS ALLEN | MARY BOLAND IMARTHA RAVE

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Double Fenttire Johnny Weissmuller “TARZAN RETURNS’ “GENERAL DIES AT DAWN”

DAVY

‘“'HE BIG mroADCAST OF “CORA SH DONOVA

NORTH SIDE

Tlinois and 34th Double Feature Stuart Trwin “PIGSKIN PARADE” John Bries— ‘CRAIG'S WIFE»

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EMERSON

4! Ee & College Double Feature Wm. Powell

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Special Peatire tir Fredric March Olivia De Havilland—Anita “ANT TONY ADVERSE"

TUXEDO 4020 E. New York

Double Feature LIBELED

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Jean Harlow LADY”

| “CHARLIE ORAN AT THE RACE TRACK"

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FOUNTAIN SOUARE

Shirley Temple

‘CRATG'S WIFE"

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ENTERTAINER

Rosalyn Ludwig will be one of the chief attractions in the floor

show at the Claypool's New Year's

Eve party in the Riley Room.

In the role of Armand is |

and Elizabeth |

“Pagan More |

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

‘Stowaway’ with Shirley re nple. Robert Young and Alice Faye, 11:35, ‘1:35, 3:35. ‘5:35, 7:35 ‘and 9: 35.

CIRCLE

nny Holiday,’ peany, urns and Allen, 7:43 and 9:53,

INDIANA

“Rainbow on the River,” with Bobby Breen, May Robson, oharles and 3003 at 11, 1:46, 4:32, 18

and Also “Let's Make a Million,” with Edward Breet Horton, at 12:46,

3:32, 6:18 and KETTH'S

“They Knew What They Wanted,” presented by the Federal Players, Curtain at 8:15.

LOEW'S

“After the Thin Man,” ‘with William Powell and Myrna Loy, at 11:40, 2:10, 4:50, 7:25 and 10,

LYRIC

“Smart Blonde,” with Slenth Farell and Barton McLane, at 11:4 24, 5:28, 12 and 10:46 “Also “Gala Christmas Stage Revue,” at 1, 3:43, 6:47 and 9:31.

ALAMO

“Trail Dust,” with William Rovd ASO eos Princess,” with Walelly

AMBASSADOR Hostess.’ "with Judith Bar-

Week-End Millionaire,” Rogers.

OHIO

James Cagney. Also (shorty

with Jack at 11:03

“Plyin rett. Also with Buddy

“Taxi,” with ‘Roof Tops of Manhattan,” with Bob Burns,

Receipts Up, Movies Plan Expansion

‘Revenues for Year Top

Those of 1935 by 250 Million.

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29-—Mo-tion pigture production will enter 1937 on the crest of a wave of prosperity that has poured approximately a billion dollars in gross re-

ceipts into the industry, during the |

last 12 months. A survey of Hollywood today revealed that the industry grossed about $250,000,000 more in 1936 than

time record. The 1935 weekly attendance was of 1933 averaged only 54 million. Chief result of this

lin 1935, one of the best figures in| film history and tops for five vears. | Theater attendance rose accordingly | {during the year with a weekly average of 81 million, close to an all-

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71 ‘million while the dark mon:hs slate at M-G-M for

dollars is expansion in most studios. |

Many new building projects

‘already under way and others are in | Lesser, | the blue-print stage.

parade are Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

DANCER

Entertainment at the Fifty Club's annual New Year's Eve dinner dance and frolic on the Severin Roof will feature Betty Lou Kohl, dancer.

under the new plans. Film pro= ‘duction will be boosted accordingly, [with about 80 major films and numerous short subjects on the the new vear, Radio-Keith-Orpheum is building

influx ‘of | heavily and will increase production

from some 36 major subjects to 50,

are | as well as producing a number of

Hirliman, Loew and Disney

Heading the | feature pictures,

Universal Studios, Twentieth Cens

and Warner Brothers, both ‘pushing | tury-Fox, United Artists, and many

expansion programs of ‘more than |of the smaller

two million dollars each.

Other Firms to Expand M-G-M plans about 30 sound |

stages while Warners’ will have 40, |

studios have announced proportionate increases tao keep pace with the era of prosperity.

WM, POWELL ¢ MYRNA LOY

AFTER THE THIN MAN

W. 8. Van Dyke MG -M Sequel to ‘Thin Man”

“You are the only one in th’ world 1 could love the way I love you!” Gerbo... poulng out her heart to Robert Taylor!

Thrills... as these two meet in

ost soul-gripping of all love stories!

GARBO

LOVES

1 RoR

1 ¥iT™" LIONEL BARRYMORE ELIZABETH ALLAN - JESSIE RALPH + LENORE WLRIC HENRY DANIELL + LAURA HOPE CREWS A Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Picvare + Diveered by GEORGE CUKOR

Coming’ Xi ry “ONPTAINS arth erent MUOM

“Based on Play awd Novel “LA DAME AUX CAMELIAS” Qady OF The Cameliss) 3» ALEXANDRE DUMAS