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- the lyrics and sketches for last

: Feb. 12 for a six-night engagement.

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New Revue Due to Open

Here Feb. 12

‘Speak of the Devil' Is

Entirely the Work of ~ Young Compost.

By JAMES THRASHER

The theatrical world’s second most-famous Gaynor is in town. His name is Charles and, while he is not related

to Janet, you may know him.

Charles Gaynor is the gentleman who wrote the music and most of

year’s Civic Theater musical show, and he-is back here to do the Civic’s new revue. It is to be entitled “Speak of the Devil,” and will open

Last year Mr. Gaynor was assisted by Nancy Hamilton, who did some plastic surgery on the Broadway show, “New Faces,” among other things. But the coming production will be Mr." Gaynor’'s own —words, music, book, everything.

Friend of Burleigh

The reason Mr. Gaynor found his . out to Indianapolis from Broadway is that he knew Civic Director Frederick Burleigh when they were in Dartmouth. After graduation the young composer studied for three years in Vienna with Edmund Eysler, then returned to New York in 1932. He was placed under contract by 20th Century-Fox and also worked for stations WMCA and WHN. Since then he has been doing radio and night club acts, both words and musié¢, in association with Miss Hamilton. Mr. Gaynor has had the new production simmering mentally since last season, and expects to bring it fo a quick boil during the next few eeks. Much of the material has been written to suit the talents of the players who were in “Hold Your Hats” last year, and who will return for “Speak of the Devil.”

Third Musical Production

This will be the third Civic musical production under Mr. Burleigh’s direction, and is patterned after the successful revue of last winter. For the first time, the an--nual musical offering has been included as part of the regular sub- | scription season. [ Mr. Burleigh expects to announce the complete cast next week. He promises some new ‘discoveries’ as well as former favorites. Many of the production directors who helped | put across “Hold Your Hats” also are at work on the forthcoming revue. : Among them are Louise Sparks, who presided at the second piano with Mr. Gaynor in last year’s performance, and who has assisted Mr. Burleigh in assembling the present cast. Jac Broderick again will take care of staging most of the dance numbers.

Mary Signs Star

{actor and with Frank Bacon's son,

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CO-AUTHOR AND STAR OF PLAY

back-stage at Keith's waiting for

His name was Charles Withers, star. prietor of “Withers’. Opry” never suspect him of being blond or | youthful. Nor does he look like a | veteran of more than a quartercentury's trouping. Yet he is both. |

Mr. Withers has played :English’s, Keith's and the Lyric, each of them many times. The latter theaters have seen him often in his famous vaudeville act; English's was the scene of his first Indianapolis appearance. That was more than 25 years ago in a play whose cast included Frank Bacon, later star of “Lightnin’”; Josephine Cohan, sister of George M.; Fred Niblo, the movie director, and Noah Beery, also of the films.

Long, Varied Show Experience Back of Charles | Withers, Leading Actor in 'Bringin' Back the Drama,’ to Open at Keith's Tonight.

A blond. youngish looking man was sitting in a dressing

Impresario Charley Withers . . . lifts the curtain on a “world premiere.

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room a rehearsal of “Bringin’ Back the |

Drama,” which has its first performance on any stage tonight. °

and he is the play’s co-author and |

Now, anyone who has seen Mr. Withers as the aged, rustic pro- | would

Studio Sighs British Star

Gracie Fils to. o Work for} 20th Century-Fox. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25.—Eng-

land's leading comedienne, Gracie Fields, has signed a Hollywood

Experience Varied » | “I've done just about everything,” | Mr. Withers reflected. “I've .done vaudeville, musical comedy, stock, legitimate drama. I was featured in ‘Hitchey-Koo’ and other Broadway plays. I've worked for George M. Cohan, the Shuberts, Charles Dillingham—all of them. “There's hardly anyone in the show business I haven't met,” he continued. “I played with Chaplin when he was doing his ‘Night in a London Music Hall’ I appeared in the same show with Chevalier in London and I played stock with Harold Lloyd when he was a boy

Lloyd, who's now a movie director.” It wasn't long ago that Mr.

For New Project

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25.—Mary | Pickford had signed the first player | for the unit she is forming to maks | pictures for United Artists Studio, of which she is a part owner. He is Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor and formerly a member of the tamous Dublin Abbey Players. Mr. Fitzgerald was awarded a longterm contract by Miss Pickford, who declared -he should be “splendid” film material. Mary said she expected to sign -several more players soon, and would begin production following her return from Europe in May. Mary recently broke off her successful partnership with Jesse L. Lasky after they had made two hit productions together.

CROSSES OCEAN FOR 3-DAY visit

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25.—Gustav Machady, European film dirzsctor now in Hollywood, today reported that his wife, Maria Ray, Italian actress, was traveling here from Italy for a three-day reunion with him apd then would return to Rome. SEL round trip will take 18 days, tving Miss Ray only three days "in Hollywood Jr her husband. She cabled Mr. Mac yesterday that she had starte a voyage, but must be back in three weeks to start a new picture.

BEGINS EAST TOUR

Jane Withers took a big new autograph book with her when she departed for Boston this week on the first leg of a personal appearance tour. Jane is one of Hollywood's top ranking autograph hounds.

BEAUTIFUL

Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan “DIMPLES”

Sylvia Sidney, Herbert Marshal “ACCENT ON YOUT

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CHARLES WITHERS S555T

STAR First Time on Any Stage

“Bringin’ Back the Drama” BY RALPH STEWART

{at the Lyric. Now he is back to do {a new show with the Federal Play- | ers at Keith's.

Withers did the “op’ry house” sketch

The play contains ‘some ‘“op’ry house” sequences, and | the central character is similar to | the famous Withers characterization, but it is a new play all the same, the co-author insists.

Ralph Stuart Directing

Ralph Stuart, the other half of the collaboration, is doing a large part of the directing. And the new scenery for the drama’s seven scenes has been executed by Richard Cox, the Federals’ designer. Mr. Withers admired the job which he said was done “under difficulties, since the men had to work around the set for “Ten Minute Alibi,” Keith's offering last week. “Bringin’ Back the Drama” differs from most melodrama revivals, Mr. Withers explained. For one thing, the lines, makeup, settings, attitude and situation will be perfectly serious, as far as the‘cast is concerned. How the public will react, Mr.

‘were that it topped the salaries of

Withers didn't care to predict. “Two hours of farce melodrama, such as the other revivals have been, is too much,” he said. “So we have made the melodrama only a part of the play. The chief character is an old-time opera house manager who is strong for the drama, but ‘agin’ the pictures. How he- goes about bringing the drama hack again gave us our plot.”

PHOTOS ARE HOBBY

Victor Kilian, who now is playing the famous role of the street-washer in “Seventh Heaven,” is Hollywood's latest convert to amateur photography and has equipped his home with a darkroom.

w ul HENIE * Abourie MENJOU

Next Week—Lady of Letters”

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ithe air for a scene | Heaven. »?

movie contract, 20th Century-Fox Studio disclosed _today. The salary to be paid Miss Fields was not made public, but reports

most Hollywood film stars. The studio had been anxious to sign her for some time because of her popularity in the British Dominions, but Miss Fields refused to leave England, where she canmanded a high salary from British studios.

Joseph Schenck, chairman of the |

board of 20th Century-Fox, then made a deal with Miss Fields under which she will work for his organization in pictures to be made in England.

Sokoloff Signs Movie Contract

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25.—Vladimir Sokoloff, famous European actor, has been signed to a long-term contract by Warner Bros., the company announced today. Mr. Sokoloff, accompanied by his wife, has sailed for New York aboard the French liner Champlain; he will spend ga few days there and then will resume his journey to California. While no definite announcement has been made as to his first American picture, his debut in this country may be made in a film directed by Max Reinhardt, who is also under contract to Warner Bros. One of Mr. Sokoloff’s best-known stage appearances was in the Reinhardt | production of “Sumurun.”

WALKS HIGH PLANK

Simone Simon practiced walking on a plank three feet off the ground before she would attempt to walk | across a similar plank 25 feet in in ‘Seventh

NOW—25c¢ to

HEART-WARMING ROMANCE

MERLE OBERON “BELOVED ENEMY’

Plus Fixciting Adventure

‘MAN WHO LIVED TWICE’

RALPH BELLAMY

JEAN ARTHUR GEO. BRENT

“MORE THAN A SECRETARY”

HOME OWNED—HOME PITTS

LYRIC

4 LAST DAYS!

THE FILM THAT DEFIES THE

BLACK LEGION

HUMPHREY BOGART

~The Killer of ‘Petrified Forest

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WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“One in a Million,” Henie, Jean Mefshole an Menjou, at 11:2 :31, 7:37 and 9:39.

with Sonia - d Adolphe 3:33, 5:35,

CIRCLE

The. Woman Alone,” with Sylvia vat 11, 1:57, 4:54, 7: d (10:17. Also “Man o George, res, at 12:46, rs,

KEITH'S

Charles Withers in “Bringin' Back the Drama.” first performance anywhere. Curtain at 8:15.

LOEW'S r

“Beloved Enemy,” with Merle Obon and Brian Aherne. at 12:40, 3:50, 6:55 and 10. Also. ‘‘The Man Who Lived Twice.” .at 11:30, 2:35, 5:40

and 8:45. LYRIC

“Black Legion” (on screen). with Humphrey Bogart and Erin Danan Moore, at 11:17. 2:10, 4:57, 7:50 and 10:37. Vaudeville (on stage) at 1, 3:37, 6:40 and 9:27,

ALAMO

“Emptv Saddles.” with Buck Jones. Also “Killer at Large,” with Mary Brian.

AMBASSADOR

From Heaven, 9 Also, “Case of with Ricardo Cortez.

~ OHIO

“Ladies in Love,” with Janet Gayvnor and Loretta Young. Also, ‘Case of the Howling Dog.” with Warren William and Mary Astor.

with the

‘Pennies Bing Crosby. Black Cat,’

INFLUENZA RUINS BIG FILM CHANCE

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25.—One of the most keenly disappointed young women in Hollywood right now is Mary Rogers, daughter of the late Will Rogers. For three years, she worked ‘hard to launch herself on a film career, playing a few bit roles under an assumed name, then | going East for paris in stock and | finally on Broadway. . Recently, she was signed to a | long-term contract and given a featured role in “The Last Slaver’— her big film chance. But instead of taking the part, Mary was taken to a Hollywood hospital, a victim of influenza, stricken after the picture had started.

Plan Probe

Into Death Of Actress

Marie Prevost, Former

Star of Silent Screen,

Is Found Dead.

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25.— An inquest to determine whether pert Marie Prevost, one-time Mack Sennett bathing beauty and film star of the silent screen, died of natural causes will be called early this week, Coroner

Frank Nance said. The dark-haired actress, born Mary Dunn in Ontario, Canada, 39 years ago, was found dead in her apartment Saturday, face down in

side the body. She had been dead two days. On the apartment pinned an ironic note: -

* “Please do not knock on this door more than once, as it makes my dog bark. If I am in, I will hear you, as I am not deaf.” Dr. Frank Webb, autopsy surgeon, after a preliminary examination, said death probably was due to an attack of heart disease. The girl who talked her way into a job at $3 a day on the Mack Sennett lots 20 years ago and rose to stardom with Charles Ray in the silent cinema, tear-jerkers of the early 1920's, was poverty stricken when she died.

Breaks In, Finds Body

William Bogle, houseboy in the apartment house where Miss Prevost lived, found the body. He heard the dog growling in the room and said he had not seen Miss Prevost for several days, so he broke into the room. He summoned Harry Jenks, the manager, who called police. Her body showed teeth marks of the dog, indicating the animal had tried to arouse her. An empty whisky bottle was in the kitchen sink. ‘The former bathing beauty. lived the last years of her life in constant hope she. could make a comeback in films. She had fought against increasing weight, which relegated her fo bit parts and “heavy roles,” and physicians who had attended her believed she had weakened her system by slow starvation to restore her former slenderness. In 1924, Miss Prevost, then enjoying the full tide of fame, married Kenneth Harlan, one of her leading men of silent films, and for three years remained out of pictures. In 1927 she divorced Harlan and returned to studio work.

KNITS CAST SLIPPERS

Florence Roberts, grandmother of

door was

the Jones Family, celebrated the | completion of “Off to the Races” by presenting each member of the famoy with a pair of knitted slippers.

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HS vom, Jan. 2 Embarrassing mild catastrophes in t movie stars. They don’ laughed at unless they'r comedians. But there they can do—Hollywood fish bowl, and a faux goes unnoticed.

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Regan was considereg one of movietown’'s most eligible bachelors until it was revealed that he has been married for i2 yeirs and is the father of four childre}. his fans quite a jolt, an awkward situation for hi: ” ”

aself. a i Miss Hughes was the dietim of a| similar exposure. Yor si it months | Hollywood thought her 5) unmar-

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broadcast. She suddenly developed an acute attack of microphobia. The words just wouldn't come out, her knees were shaking, and, in the stuffy studio, she was afraid that She was going to faint. She had to be held up on each side before she could stammer a few words, = ”

NYTHING can happen during the filming of a picture and ! sometimes the occurences are of a most embarrassing nature. Flynn's experience, for example. 7 a 2

He was dressed in a very tightfitting pair of silk trousers for a scene just the other day. The action called for him to bow. When He did, the trousers split, much to the amusement of onlookers. to n 5

Equally distressing was Greta | Garbo’s experience during the film- | ing of “Camille.” She was supposed {to faint and fall back on a couch. | But she misjudged the distance and i landed on the floor.

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JAN. 25, 1937

Errol |

Appearance Of Hepburn Postpon ed

Nazimova Will Present "Hedda Gabler"

Tomorrow.

The engagement of Katharine Hepburn in “Jane Eyre” at English’s, booked for Feb. 8, has been postponed until March 1, 2 and 3, Vincent Burke, English’s manager, announces. But Mme. Nazimova's production of “Hedda Gabler” will go on tomorrow night as scheduled. According to a telegram from Thoda Cocroft, Miss Hepburn’s advance agent, “Jane Eyre” is playing to standing room at each performance in Chicago, and an added week is necessary to fill the ticket demand. Mme. - Nazimova chose “Hedda Gabler” as her first play after learning the English language. When she returned to the title role again this year, New YorK critics are said to have plunged into a fury of comparisons almost comparable to that between the Hamlets of Leslie How ard and John Gielgud. Mme. Nazimova, however, faced comparison with Emily Stevens, Elenora Duse, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Nance O'Neill and Mrs. Fiske. And she came off with an abundant crop of praise. “Hedda. Gabler” was written nearly 50 years ago, but its.theme remains pertinent today. Considered among Ibsen's greatest works, it tells of a bored wife whose petty social ambitions are baffled. She turns to an almost savage domination of those about her, and finds herself eventually in a hopeless tane gle of opposing wills and circume stances.

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