Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1937 — Page 12
SATURDAY, JAN. 2, 1937
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Beauty Sleep Prepares Ziegfeld Follies Chorine for St-enuous Night of Work and’ Play
“Drat that alarm clock!” yawns beautiful Flor-
ence Baker. It's past 5 and she’ll
work. But don’t feel sorry for her—that's 5 p. m. | Florence, you see, is a Ziegfeld Follies show girl. |
Her day starts late, ends early.
have to hurry to ing like a million
Except on matinee days, when she reports at the theater about 1 p. m., Florence gets on the job, look-
dollars, shortly after 7. Like Lewis
Carroll's snark, she usually breakfasts at 5 o'clock | tea and dines the following day.
It'd be easier if she lived at the theater, for no sooner does she get on the job than she has to undress, redo her hair, make up anew for the first act. .
Then into her costume, a rom : through the wings, and into the
stage.
those on the stage. holding up her skirts.
That's right,
If you've got as good an eye for beauty as the stagedoor John- | nies, you ought to be able to pick oi |
the star of these pictures among | llorence Baker is in center, coyly
Short hours but hard work—quick. changes of costume, strenuous
dances, tedious waits. day’s stint. bright spots.
By 11:30 p. m. Florence Baker has done her Into an evening diess and a good time at Broadway's Her topsy-turvy life turns night into day.
Then home in!
the wee hours that make afternoon a good time to get up.
‘The Plainsman’ Thrilling Picture of Old West:
Lyric O
Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur Give Fine Portrayals in Film.
By JAMES THRASHER
Wild Bill Hickok had a|
long nose, little chin and a mustache long enough to hook back over his ears. Calamity Jane, judging from her photographs, was one of
the least beautiful of ladies.
Yet the fact that these two famous frontier characters are portrayed by handsome Gary Cooper and the lovely Jean Arthur in Cecil B. De Mille’s “The Plainsman,” now at the Circle, need nok disturb your enjoyment. The picture’s chief attraction is not historical accuracy, anyway. It is. not known whether Hickok died in Calamity Jane's arms, as he does in the picture. If is true, however, that Calamity mourned his death. And the fact that he was shot in the back by Jack McCall is history. These are highlights in an excellent picture which, built around the two above-named principals, Buffalo Bill Cody, Gen. George A. Custer and. others, portrays the conquest of the West in the troublous decade of 1866-76.
Attracted by Hickok
The film opens with a prologue showing Lincoln’s last Sabinet meeting, when he said that “the frontier must be made safe.” We also are shown unscrupulous arms manufacturers planning to get rid of their surplus repeating rifles by smuggling them to the Indians in return for furs and other commodities. Then we see Hickok, with Cody and his bride, arriving in the West following demobilization. There Hickok meets Calamity Jane, who - falls in love with him. Both men depart on an Indian expedition, and while they are away, Calamity is captured. Risking his own neck, Wild Bill catches up with the ‘Indians and their captive. :
Great Battle Scene
The Indian chief knows that Cody is leading a cavalry troop and, when Hickok is tortured over a fire, forces Calamity to reveal their destina.tion. The Indians ambush ; the troop; Hickok escapes, sends Calamity back to Custer for help, and joins the soldiers. Then follows “the massacre of Beecher’s Island—incidentally one of the most exciting battle scenes in the history of Western “epics,” and splendidly handled. After this, Hickok discovers the identity of the gunrunner, John Lattimer (Charles Bickford.) Eventually he catches up with Lattimer, shoots him, captures his men 8nd starts a poker game while waiting for government troops to arrive. * It is then that McCall shoots and kills him, in Calamity’s saloon.
ffers Comedy
> Hugh Herbert Funnier in Musical Film
* With James Melton. — #
fan you must not fail to see him in “Sing Me a Love Song,” at the Lyric this week. He seldom has been droller than as the delightful kleptomaniac, Siegfried Hammerschlag—and incidentally as. Papa Hammerschlag and the two elder brothers as well. Mr. Herbert doesn’t happen to be
starred in the picture, but it is all
his own, nonetheless. Top billing, coes to James Melton, radio's popular lyric tenor, who is seen as the youny playboy head of a city department store. He inherits the business and when financial ruin faces it, takes charge by beginning at the bottom—in the sheet music department, to be exact. This gives him a chance to work in more than the ordinary number or songs.
Melton Sings Frequently
All that is necessary is for a customer to ask to hear a song, and we get another number. He also sings on several other occasions. Since Mr. Melton isn’t an actor, and the place isn’t very dramatic, it is pleasant to hear him often. Patricia Ellis is the right girl. Of course she doesn’t learn Mr. Melton’s real identity until later in the picture and then she gets mad, thinking he bas been trifling with a shop-girl’'s affections. But Mr. Melton, surprising as it may seem, wins her back. Additional comedy is supplied by Zasu Pitts and Allen Jenkins, and Walter Catlett is grand as a pompous floor walker. But they haven't a chance when Mr. Herbert starts relieving the store of its excess stock withe an air of childlike innocence. It's colossal.
Vaudeville Is Good
If you have not seen Charles Withers recently in his “op’ry house” skit of rustic, slapstick humor, you may refresh your memory this week, since Mr. Withers headlines the Lyric vaudeville bill. The venerable turn still is a diverting bit of slambang homespun. A particularly good animal act is offered by Hill's Society Circus, featuring performing eiephants, ponies and dogs. The Four Albee Sisto play a variety of instruments, and the Libonati Trio works at three xylophones with diligence and zest. A gentleman billed as Van Cello does some extraordinary sleight-of-foot juggling.
" MAIL BY ZEPPELIN
Della Lind receives all of her European mail and packages via the Zep, Hindenberg. /
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Tickets on
Room 201.
BOMAR CRAMER
. ENGLISH THEATER, Sunday, January 10, 3:30 P. M.
GLADYS ALWES MUSIC SHOPPE, 33 Monument Circle Prices:
sale at
$1.65, $1.10, 55¢, Tax incl.
FOURTH SUBSC
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MARTENS GONGERTS, INC.——
ENGLISH’S THURSDAY EVENING, JANUAY 21
ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
VLADIMIR GOLSCHMANN, : Seats on Sale Martens Office, 33 Monument Circle. PRICES—$1.10, $2.20, $2.75, $3.30. Tax incl
RIBED CONCERT
ICIANS
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WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Gold Diggers of 1937’ with Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell and Osgood Perkins, at 11:24, 1:20, 3:34, 5:38, 7:43 and
CIRCLE “The Plainsman,’ Soaper and Jean Arthur, 2:15, 4:40, 7:15 and 9:5 DA
“That Girl From Paris, "* with Say Ra} d k
Gary
witht at 11:40,
Gertrude Michael, at 2:31, 5:41 and 8:51.
KEITH'S
“They Knew What They Wanted,” presented by the Federal Players. Curtain at 8:30.
LOEW'S
“Camille,” with Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor, .at 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 and 10
LYRIC
a Love Song.” James Melton, Patricia Ellis and Hugh Herbert, at 11:07, 1:30, 3:5 6:16, 8:39 and 11:02. Also vaudeville on stage at 12:30, 2:53, 5:16, 7:39 and 10:02.
Alan
n't Turn Bruce "Cabot. iE ders.”
“Sing Me with
Loose,” with Sn Saun-
AMUASSADOR “Cain and Mabel,” with Clark Gable. Also ‘Wives li Know,’ with Charlie Ruggles.
OHIO
“Give Me Your Heart” Francis. Also “Twenty Years in Sing-Sing.”
Movie Will Show Russian Dances
with Kay Thousand
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2.—Traditional dances, formerly presented only sfor the Russian imperial family and never seen outside the palace, are to be staged for scenes in “Michael Strogoff.” Anton Walbrook, continental stage and screen star, is making his American film debut in the picture. The dancers are descendants of court entertainers who danced for the tsars and who came to the
United States after the fall of Russian monarchy.
Josef Hofmann Cancels Concert
By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Josef Hofmann, concert pianist, was recovered sufficiently from a slight case of grippe to return to his home in Philadelphia today. Mr. Hofmann was forced to cancel a concert in Xansas City, his manager said, but plans to continue his tour, appearing next in Winnipeg, Canada, on Monday. Mr. Hofmann was ill when he played with the New Yo Phil-harmonic-Symphony Orchestra last Sunday.
GETS SHAMROCK
An express package delivered to Clark Gable proved to be native Irish shamrdck. "A film fan in County Clare, learning that Gable was to play the lead in “Pung
and impecunious
1937 Version ‘Gold Digger’ Film on View
Stage Stars Are Help to Familiar Plot, Re-
viewer Says.
Every two years Warner Brothers takes out the “Gold Digger” story, revises the plot slightly, adds some new characters, songs and dances, and serves. The current dish, titled “Gold Diggers of 1937,” is
now on the Apollo screen.
Fortunately, the Warners raided the New York stage for this production, and came away with Vietor Moore and Osgood Perkins, among others. That’s all to the good. Mr. Moore, as the hesitant, hypochondriac, wealthy and soft-hearted theatrical producer, J. J. Hobart, dominates the show. His adroit and original comedy is a boon which the picture badly needs.
Co-stars are Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, and the cast likewise boasts Glenda Farrell, Lee Dixon, a new hoofer and a good one; Rosalind Marquis and Charles D. Brown.
Story Begins Well
The story, from a play called “Sweet Mystery of Life,” which had brief Broadway engagement, starts off well enough. Mr. Perkins and Mr. Brown, two delightful villains and partners of J. J., have lost all the firm’s money in speculation. J. J. (well call him that, because everyone else does) is ignorant of this. So the partners decide to insure him for a million dollars, trusting in his precarious health.
They call in Mr. Powell, a young insurance salesman. He sells J. J., and figures if he. can keep him alive he can live on the premiums. So the battle begins. The partners try to scare the old gentleman to death, while Mr.- Powell launches him on a health campaign. From this point J. J. waxes healthier, but the story goes into a rapid decline. It winds up with the partners exposed, the show almost failing to open because of no money, and its eventual success. Briefly, the old hokum.
“Super-Super” Dances » The dances, needless to say, are spectacles of the “super-super”
variety. There is a particularly zood number which features Mr. Dixon.
Francis, George Bren
Kay “GIVE ME YOUR HEART”
A Return Engagement
“20,000 Years in Sing Sing” “Bengal Tiger” (Midnight Show)
sent him the shamrock. “Where the Crowds Go” THE OLD-INN
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DANCE TONIGHT
Goldy Saylor and Her Orchestra
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Yes, '| Like Me’ Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2— Luise- Rainer got her first glimpse of herself in “The Good Earth” when she invaded the musical scoring stage and saw scenes as the musical background was recorded. Throughout the making of the picture she wasn’t allowed to see rushes for fear it might disturb her performance. Luise watched with interest ber scenes with Paul Muni. and her characterization of the Chinese peasant wife. . “I guess, on the whole,” the star finally decided, “I like me.”
Double Feature At Ambassador
A first-run picture, “The Long-
est Night,” which features Robert and Ted | ©
Young, Florence = Rice Healy, is to be the Ambassador’s attraction for two days beginning tonOIrow.
The story is of a young couple, locked up at night in a department store, who surprise and capture a
burglar, When the culprit’s partner arrives a fight ensues, in which one thug shoots another, The young man is held for murder when the police arrive. : The supporting feature will be “The Girl on the Front Page,” with Edmund Lowe and Gloria Stuart.
The finale is like most of the “Gold Digger” creations. Jet black bac grounds, white costumes and prop-A erties; this time over-sized rocking [® chairs in place of the fiddles and grand pianos.
Stern realists, this writer included, probably will continue to object to scenes in which the curtain of a rather small New York playhouse rises, revealing at least a quarter section of floor space, peopled by some 1800 chorus girls. Specific criticism in this case might be directed at the use of one tune, “All's Fair in Love and War,” throughout the finale—ad nauseam.
Miss Blondell is fair and sparkling to look upon, and Miss Farrell does well with what opportunities. are given her. Whatever your opinion of Mr. Powell's abilities may be; you won’t have to change it after the present picture. One thing must be said for him—he’s consistent. (By J. Q. T)
BiSoTuER ACTS and d
DANCE TONIGHT AYARS LA MARR and His
Southern Gentlemen 40c All Evening
Mrs. Coogan
| Bride of Jackie's Manager.
Nidow Becomes
\y United Press LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jan. 2.—Jackie © oogan’s mother, Mrs. Lillian R. i loogan, was married Thursday to rthur Bernstein, manager of the 1 lillion-dollar interests Jackie built 1p as a “kid” film star. ‘The party motored here from 1 pllywood. Judge Marion B. Earl 1 irformed the ceremony. Jackie 21d Ann Stevens were witnesses. Jackie’s father was killed in an g itomobile accident near San Diego r ore than a year ago. The former ¢ iild actor, now 22, was the only sirvivor of the accident which k led three others besides his fiither. Mrs. Coogan gave her age as 41 2d Bernstein as 51. It was Berns »in’s second marriage. Jackie’s film fortune is ‘tied up iz. Jackie Coogan Productions, Inc., o which Mr. Bernstein is the mana; pr.
‘Mrs. Stan Laurel
Weds Again,
Gets Divorce
By United Press | HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2. — Mrs. Stan’ Laurel today had a substantial Christmas present in the form of 5 per cent of the comedian’s income, their Beverly Hills home, two automobiles and thousands of dollars in bank accounts already in her possession. The settlement ended Mrs. Laurel’s suit for divorce, to which Mr. Laurel had filed a cross-com-
| plaint. Superior Judge Dudley S. i Valentine approved the property
agreed to its terms at a conference yesterday. Mrs. Laurel's attorney, Rogert Marchetti, was awarded $9000 counsel fees. In a brief appearance on the witness stand, Mrs. Laurel accused the comedian of staying away from home at night. “He told me he married me for spite and that he did not, love me,” she said.
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The next article in Ernie Pyle’s Hollywood series will appear on this page Monday. |
settlement after the two principals Week Starting
KEITH’ MON. NIGHT FEDERAL PLAYERS in “THE HOUSE OF CONNELLY”
BY PAUL GREEN
NIGHTS—15¢, 25¢, 40c SAT. MATINEE—10c, 20c, 30c
WEEK JAN. 11—“MAD HOPES” |
The Week . End’s Best Attroctions
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WEST SIDE = A === 2702 W. 10th St.
S TATE Double Feature
Joe E. Brown “ALIBI IKE” “ |AGEBRUSH TROUBADOUR” "un. Doubie Feature—Jean Harlow “LIBELED LADY” “DANIEL BOONE”
W. Wash. & Belmont
B a] slmon t Double Feature
Fred MacMurray
“THE TEXAS RANGERS” “LADY BE CAREFUL”
un. Double Feature—Joel McCrea | “COME AND GET IT” Tm. Frawley “ROSE BOWL” D. A | SY Double Feature John Haliday
«1 'OLLYWOOD BOULEVARD” \ “TRAILIN’ WEST” | Double Feature—Edward Arnold “COME AND GET IT” ster Crabbee “ROSE BOWL”
~ NORTH § SIDE
RI TZ i3==> __ Niinois and 34th
Double Feature Janet Gaynor “LADIES IN LOVE” . “LONGEST NIGHT” 1 Double Feature—Shirley Temple “DIMPLES” \LL-AMERICAN CHUMP”
Central at Fall Crk. Ze ring
Double Feature Irene Dunne . “SHOW BOAT” “THE BIG GAME” ur. Dounle Feature—Wallace Beery “OLD HUTCH” “ 'HE FLYING HOSTESS” .
42nd & College Double Feature Joan Bennett
TWO IN A CROWD” “CRASH DONOVAN” Sun. | Double Feature—Stuart Irwin “PIGSKIN PARADE” “UNDER YOUR SPELL”
Ga . k 30th and Hiinols ouble Feature a ric Randolph Scott “LA ST OF THE MOHICANS” “BUNKER BEAN” Sun. Double Feature—Kay Francis
“G VE ME YOUR HEART” “! OWN THE STRETCH”
St St. Cl. & Ft. Wayne t. Cl
Double Feature Stuart Erwin nik PARADE” “YELLOW CARGO” 1 ouble Feature—Shirley Temple “DIMPLES”
TT ade W. Mich St.
B:
! rwo IN A CROWD” Udell at Clifton Double Feature
U D L L. Shirley Temple
“ /APTAIN JANUARY”
“COUNTERFEIT”
Darkest Africa No. 4 Sun. 1! puble Feature—Jack London’ s
“WHITE FANG” “Ané So They Were Married” Double Feature
Tao i ott Freddie Bartholomew
Talbott & 22nd
TUN NORTH SIDE
-. .r 19th 4 & College Double Feature
Stra tford pom ester “RHYTHM ON THE RANGE” “COUNTERFEIT” Sun. Double Feature—Joan Crawford “GORGEOUS HUSSY” “HEART OF THE WEST”
e/~7~ A Noble & Mass. Double Feature
M MECCA Franchot Tone “GORGEOUS HUSSY” W. C. Fields “POPPY” Sun. Double Feature—Mary Boland “A SON COMES HOME” “ARIZONA RAIDERS” Double Feature
D R EAM Wallace Beery
“OLD HUTCH” “LADY BE CAREFUL” Sun. Special Feature—William Powell Myrna Loy—Louise Rainer—Frank Morgan “THE GREAT ZIEGFELD” Feature Starts 1:45—5:10—8:40
Hollywood Double Feature Bing Crosby “RHYTHM ON THE RANGE” “SMALL TOWN GIRL” / Sun. Double Feature—Gary Cooper “The General Died at Dawn” “DEVIL IS A SISSY”
EAST SII SIDE
3155 E. 10th R | RIVOL | Doots Open 5:45 Stuart Erwin “PIGSKIN PARADE” . Roscoe Karns “3 Married Men” EXTRA! Last Show Tonight Only! William Powell “KENNEL MURDER CASE” Sun. Double Feature—Clark Gable “CAIN & MABEL “THE CAPTAIN'S KID”
Taco ma 2442 E. Wash. St.
Double Feature Loretta Young “RAMONA” Jane Withers “PEPPER” Sun. Double Feature—Jackie Cooper
“DEVIL IS A SISSY” “WALKING ON AIR”
Tu xe do 4020 E. New York
Double Feature Loretta Young “RAMONA” “HERE COMES CARTER” Sun. Double Feature—Wallace Beery “OLD HUTCH” “MY AMERICAN WIFE”
IRVI N G 5507 E. Wash. St.
Double Feature Fredric March “THE ROAD TO GLORY” “HERE COMES CARTER” Sun. Double Feature—Simone Simon “LADIES IN LOVE” “OLD HUTCH” Double Feature
E me rson Rosalind Russell |
“CRAIG'S WIFE” “SWORN ENEMY” Sun. Double Feature—Edward Arnold “COME AND GET IT” “THE BIG GAME”
2116 E. 10th St.
2361 Station St.
1500 Roosevelt . Ave.
4630 E. 10th St.
“3EVIL IS A SISSY” “GIRL ON THE FRONT PAGE”
Sun. D¢ ible Feature—Victor McLaglen “M. GNIFICENT BRUTE” = {SWORN ENEMY” | Double Feature
R EX t Claire Trevor
“S 'AR FOR A NIGHT” ‘DESERT GOLD”
30th at Northw’t’n
H a m I ton Double Feature
Warner \| Baxter “TO MARY, WITH LOVE” Walter Huston “DODSWORTH”
Sun. Double Feature—Adolph Menjou
“SING, BABY, SING” “A WOMAN REBELS”
Follow The Times For Your Daily Neighborhood Theater
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EAST SIDE
2086 E. 1 Pa rker * Double Feature George Raft “YOURS FOR THE ASKING” “ONE RAINY AFTERNOON” Sun Double Feature—Bing Crosby
“RHYTHM ON THE RANGE” W. C. Fields “POPPY”
Strand - 1332 E. Wash. St.
Double Feature First City Showing Stuart Erwin—Rob’t. Armstrong “ALL-AMERICAN CHUMP” “DON’T TURN EM LOOSE” Our Gang Comedy Sun. Double Feature—Wallace Beery “OLD HUTCH” “THE LONGEST: NIGHT”
Continuous Matinee
Paramount : = wan. Double Feature Bill Boyd “GO-GET-EM HAINES” “THE LONELY TRAIL” Sun. Double Feature—Fred MacMurray “THE TEXAS RANGERS” Jane Withers “PEPPER”
BT 17 | ili E. Washington B J O U Double Feature Ginger Rogers . “SWING TIME” “THE KID RANGER” Sun. Double Feature—Mary Astor “TRAPPED BY TELEVISION”
“Gentleman From Louisiana” SOUTH SIDE
Fountain Square Double Feature Roger Pryor “TICKET TO PARADISE” “WIND OF WASTELAND” Sun. Double Feature—TJohnny Weismuller “TARZAN ESCAPES” : “THE LONGEST NIGHT” 3}
Sanders At Fountain Square
Double Feature George O’Brien “BORDER PATROLMAN” Spencer Tracy “FURY” Sun. Double Feature—Loretta Young “RAMONA” “ABSOLUTE QUIET”
Ava lon Pros., Churchman
Double Feature Fred Astaire “FOLLOW THE FLEET” “PHANTOM RIDER” Sun Double Feature—George Raft “YOURS FOR THE ASKING” “DEVIL ON HORSEBACK”
Oriental 1105 S. Meridian St.
Double Feature Will Rogers “STATE FAIR” “GIRL ON THE FRONT. PAGE” Sun. Double Feature—Loret{a Young ; “RAMONA” “SEA: SPOILERS”
: 2203 Shelby St. Double Ga rfi I € ld Warren penn : “STAGE STRUCK”, Jane Withers “PEPPER” Sun. Double Feature—Loretta Young
| Chester Morris
Lincoln
“RAMONA” “COUNTERFEIT” S. East at Lincoln
Double Feature Patricia Ellis
“DOWN THE STRETCH” “LONE WOLF RETURNS” Sun. Double I'eature—Edw. G. Robinson “BULLETS GR BALLOTS” “MY AMERICAN WIFE” 1045 Virginia Ave. Today and Sunday
Granada Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly—Arline Judge “PIGSKIN PARADE” “LOVE LETTERS OF A STAR” (A Studie Murder
E. 10th St.
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