Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1937 — Page 10
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“PAGE 10 Skate Queen Makes Debut In Comic Film
hie 'One in a Million’ Highly Entertaining Musical.
By JAMES THRASHER No one ever broke the ice of _ cinema stardom more gracefully than Sonja Henie, thrice Olympic figure skating champion, who makes her film debut in “One in a Million,” which opened at the Apollo today. |
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~~ When you [see the bright-eyzd, apple-cheeked | and utterly charming Miss Henie flash across the screen, you see something new in motion pictures. Her skating deserves to be called something less trite than “the poetry of motion.” Yet it’s as good a description as any for an art that is a miracle of rhythmic grace. * No ordinary figure skater is this blond Norwegian star. She is an accomplished dancer who, with the help of ice and steel, is able to express herself without such bother-, some obstacles as gravity and friction. Incidentally, Miss Henie does very well as an actress. She speaks ~an excellent brand of English, and her vivacity, naturalness and appearance of radiant, chubby good health are most refreshing. Having secured Miss Henie’s services after some furious competitive bidding, the 20th Century-Fox people didn’t content themselves with having the world’s fanciest skater. They put Leonard Praskins and Mark Kelly to work on the screen play, and these gentlemen turned out one of the most humorous and believable “musicals” that we have seen. Cast 18-Carat
Then they assembled a cast for Miss Henie that is 18-carat throughout. Jean Hersholt plays the part of her father, Adolphe Menjou is excellent as a visionary, high-pres-sure leader of a girl's band and traveling vaudeville act. N=d Sparks and Arline Judge are good for a laugh with every line. Don Ameche, as a newspaper reporter, is entirely acceptable in the other romantic lead. And, though he was famed as a radio singer before he came to the movies, his bosses only have him sing once in this picture. We think that’s swell. _- The cast also includes the Ritz Brothers who, as you may know, are the Marx Brothers’ only rivals in the matter of hilarious insanity. Their imitations of Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton and Peter Lorre are an achievement in sophisticated slapstick. Even Borrah Minnevitch and his harmonica band we found not only bearable but entertaining.
Trains Daughter for Olympics
An outline of the story can give no flavor of its charm and humor. In short, however, it’s about a Swiss innkeeper Who has trained his daughter for 12 years to enter the Olympic skating competition. A week before the winter games, she appears: in an exhibition at St. Moritz with a traveling troupe stranded in her father’s hostelry. At the Olympics there is a grand mix-up as to who gets the prize. But eventually the heroine’s amateur standing is established. With the medal fairly won, she turns professional and is brought by the band leader to Madison Square Garden. There the picture ends .in an ice “ballet that is a delight to the eye. Either Miss Henie's skating or the supporting cast’s excellent performance possess enough entertainment value to make the picture highly recommended. Together they are an outstanding attraction. To call the picture “one in a million” would be to quote over-long odds, but it certainly is in a class by itself,
Powell Film Here Again
"After the Thin Man' Opens For Short Run Today.
Though “After the Thin Man” | . broke a three-year house record at Loew’s when it played there the . last week in December, there apparently are al good many who did ot get to see the new William well-Myrna, Loy comedy. Accordingly, the picture opens a ur-day return engagement today, with “Romeo and Juliet” moving in | for a three-day road showing on Tuesday. Quite up to its predecessor, “The 4Thin Man,” this sequel moves Mr. and Mrs. Nick Charles back from “New York to their San Francisco ‘home. Nick promptly finds another | tangled murder mystery which he | proceeds to unsnarl with his customary dispatch. Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, James Stewart, Sam Levine and Jessie Ralph are in the supporting cast of this highly recommended picture.
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CP ara ——
ing of the Shakespearean tragedy
— A candid cameraman on the “Romeo and Juliet” lot caught these informal pictures during the film-
gin a three-day run at Loew’s Tuesday. Left, John Barrymore, who plays Mercutio,
scene. which is to be-
is
getting a final pat on the headdress before the next
At right, Leslie Howard, with clenched fists, is telling Reginald Denny and the intent director, George Cukor, how he thinks it ought to be done.
By United Press
motion picture.
For lo! these many years Morgans have been going their | separate ways in the movies wilh | producers ignoring their pleas for | co-roles. Frank Morgan—he's the | one with the platinum ring on his | finger—has been a film actor, off | and on, since 1914 and was Anita | Stewart’s leading man, Morgan—a gold ring identifies him —started his career on the stage and has been in pictures since 1931. “Apparently,” Frank says, “executives think one Morgan in a picture is enough. But co-featured roles are our one ambition—a sort of ultimate goal of our motion picture achievement.” Contrary to general belief, the Morgans are not twins. Ralph is a little older and a little shorter than Frank, who is six feet tall. Frank is the playboy, yet retaining a complete understanding of his trade, and possessing a determination to give value received to his audiences—as he has done in “The Affairs of Cellini,” “The Great Ziegfeld,” and, currently, in “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” in which he is sharing honors with Joan Crawford, William Powell and Robert Montgomery. The “story of our shame,” as Frank describes their entering pictures, began when Ralph was stagestricken. After his preparatory course at Columbia, he tossed up law practice to act in Richmond, Va. The family was wild about it, Frank says, but “not in the encouraging way.” Frank. a at St. Thomas’ Churches, entered Cornell versity. “Cornell didn’t interest me,” ‘he cays, “so I took French leave and became a door-to-door salesman. “Ralph was going completely berserk after his success. He changed his name from Wupperman to Morgan because of admiration of A. E. Morgan, favorite actor of the day. “Well—I decided that if Ralph could do the trick, I, as a boy soprano of some fame, could do it too. So here I am, Frank Morgan, the movie actor.” Despite their artistic pursuits, the Morgans — or Wuppermans — have retained their business acumen, and still control distribution in this
boy soprano soloist and All Angeles’ Uni-
| country of Agnostura bitters. legacy
from the family that objected to their choice of professions.
POLICY VOIDED BY ACTOR'S SUICIDE
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 15—Friends | of the late Ross Alexander today disclosed that his widow, screen actress Ann Nagel, will not benefit from a $35,000 insurance policy the actor carried because he com-
| mitted suicide a few months before
expiration of the two-year suicide clause.
John Mack Brown “ROGUE of the RANGE”
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Ralph and Frank Morgan Seek Costarring Roles
OLLYWOOD, Jan. 15.—Hollywood's “House of Morgan"—Ilesser known ! as the Wupperman boys—has a complaint. Members of the firm | —Frank and Ralph Morgan—want to pool their histrionic assets in a |
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Release Features _ Kidnaping Pictures.
Latest developments in the automobile workers’ strike at Flint, Mich., and the finding of the body of kidnaped Charles Mattson near Everett, Wash., feature the current issue of The Times-Universal newsreel now showing at neighboghood theaters. Other scenes described by Graham McNamee in the new pictorial review of important and interesting happenings include a Eucharistic Congress in Cuba attended by 60 thousand devout Catholics; snowblocked roads which tied up traffic in the Midwest, with scenes taken near Omaha, Neb.; Italian student cooks learning fanciest ways to make pastries in a Rome school; 700 participants in a cross-country race near Paris; the New York boat show, and a fashion parade, with photographs from Miami, Fla., resorts. The newsreel also shows New York WPA workers protesting layoffs on unfinished projects, and other scenes from various parts of the world.
Frances Benner To Sing in Ohio
Frances Benner, mezzo-soprano, who formerly was a student here and now is studying at the College of Music, Cincinnati, is to sing the part of Marcellina in Mozart's “The Marriage of Figaro,” to be presented by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Jan. 22 and 23. She also sang the Young Shepherds role in a recent production of Puccini's “La Tosca” in Cincinnati, and was heard in recital this week as assisting artist with Helen Dustman, Kalamazoo, Mich., violinist. Miss Benner studied singing with Glenn Friermood and piano with
‘Willard MacGregor at the Arthur
Jordan Conservatory here. At present she is a pupil of Robert Korst at the College of Music.
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WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
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“One in a Million,” with Sonja Henie, Jean Hersholt ond Adolphe Menjou. at 11:29, 1:31, 3:33, 5:35. 7:37 and 9:39.
CIRCLE
“Winterset.” with Been Meredith and 3 ior at 11:5 136, 5:06, 7:36 and 10:13. Iso LEE Ladv.d with Ann Dvorak, at 11, 1:37, 4:07, 6:37 and 9:14.
CIVIC
Civic Theater cast in 8. \N. Behrman's ‘‘Biography.” Curtain 8:30. 3
INDIANA
“Plough and the Stars,” with Barbara Stanwyck and Preston ny at 12:15, 2:50, 5:20. 7:55 and 0:25. Also “The Plot Thickens.’ * with James Gleason and Zasu Pitts.
KEITH'S
Players cast Curtain at 8:15.
LOEW'S
“After the Thin Man,” with WilJom Powell and Myrna op at 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25 and 10.
LYRIC
“Once a Doctor’* (on screen), with on Muir 1:38, 2:25. Hw “Revue Continental” stage), at 1, 3:47, 6:43 and 9:30
ALAMO
‘Love Letters of a Henry Hunter. Also * Rio Grande.
AMBASSADOR
“Charge of the Light Brigade.” with Errol Flynn. Also ‘‘All-Amer-ican Chump,” with Stuart Erwin.
OHIO
“Magnificent Brute,” McLaglen and Binnie Barnes. ‘Cynara, with Kay Francis Ronald Colman.
Federal Hopes.”
in “Mad
Star,” with ‘Headin' for the
with Victor Also, and
| mitigated gloom of
NELSON EDDY BEGINS LONG CONCERT TOUR
Nelson Eddy today was in San Francisco to begin a four-month concert tour which will bring him to Indianapolis on April 11, The popular singer scarcely had completed his current motion picture with Jeanette MacDonald when he boarded a train for San Francisco and his first recital appearance. He will be heard in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Salt Lake City before he heads eastward.
Irish Drama Finds Climax Of Rebellion
'ThesPlough and the Stars’ Follows Motif of
'The Informer.
Hollywood belatedly is tapping the rich dramatic vein found in Ireland’s brave but futile struggle for independence in the early years of the World War. After “The Informer,” rather timorously launched but enthusiastically received,
we now have “The Plough
and the Stars,” currently at the Indiana. Probably the historical highpoint of this struggle was the Easter Week “rising” which culminated in the siege and final capture of the Dublin Postoffice, held by 900 Irish Civiiian Army soldiers against 20,000 British. This is treated for the first time by the movies in “The Plough and, the Stars.” The play upon which the picture is based is by Sean O’Casey, famous Irish playwright who helped engineer the rebellion.
Give-Away at Opening
A clue to the film's strength and weakness is given in the opening shot. Beneath a street lamp, in the murky gloom of a Dublin evening, we behold the self-same tenor whose voice was heard in “The Informer’s” opening scene. That was effective in the earlier picture, but it’s a dead give-away that Director John Ford is going to try to repeat “The Informer’s” success by the same means. ;
It fails to reach this success, and not entirely because Mr. Ford has striven for a sure-fire repeater. One grows a little weary of the unphotography, and longs to strike a match and see what is going on. First of all, Mr. O’Casey seems ‘to have put down a straight historical narrative, unrelieved by much dramatic byplay. There® are two main themes: The organization of the I. C. A. and the Postoffice seige, and the not-toc-original pronouncement that “men must fight and women must weep,” . uttered frequently by Barbara Stanwyck as the wife of Preston Foster, one of the patriots’ officers.
Abbey Players Add Humor A touch of humor is supplied by
| Barry Fitzgerald, Eileen Crowe and | others imported from Dublin's Ab-
bey Theater for the occasion. _ Directness and 'brevity may be
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considered virtues of the production, which runs only about 65 minutes. But th: real climax, the defeat of the “‘ostoffice defenders, comes eariy ‘11 the picture. Mr: Ford leaves the s)ldiers in the heat of a losing battl:, and informs us of the eventual c1itcome by—of all things—a subtitle After this we se roof tops, the pui over the slates & and his escape ir ing. There we (Una O'Connor), wyck and the Al ered about the ¢ little daughter, w the the siege.
suit of Mr. Foster 1d chimney pots, ‘0 an attic dwell'e Maggie Gogan with Miss™ Stanjey players gathhffin of Maggie's 10 has died dur-
Coffin Sives Day und at the door, nceals his gun in conquerors even-
The soldiers pt and Mr. Foster c the coffin. The tually decide not to open the coffin, and allow the mourners to bear it to the church. | Here the picture ends. It should he a tense and moving moment ‘when Mr. Foster's
fate hangs in thi balance, but for this writer, at lezst, it didn’t come off. i (By J.Q. T.
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“THE SIENERAL DIED AT DAWN” PY BE CAREFUL”
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“GIVE ME YOUR HEART” .__ “TWO-FISTED GENTLEMAN’ '
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