Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1937 — Page 12

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2|l Acts Featuring 150 Entertainers Booked for Benefit.

By JAMES THRASHER

The greatest lineup of talent ever assembled in Indianapolis, according to local showmen, is to take part in the four-hour emergency relief benefit show at the Indiana tonight. The doors will be open at 7 o'clock and the performance is to begin promptly at 7:25. The benefit is being svonsored by Indianapolis theater owners, film exchanges and the Variety Club. ; The Indiana ticket office will be open all day, and tickets, at $1 each,

may be purchased downtown at any

theater, hotel, department store, office * buildings, clubs, restaurants, the State House and City Hall or at neighborhood stores and theaters. Twenty-one acts, with approximately 150 performers, will be seen on the stage and the screen attractions are to include a new feature, “Crack-Up,” featuring Brian Donlevy, Peter Lorre and Ralph Morgan and cartoons, comedies and newsreels. Among the latter will be the Paramount. News flood pictures now showing at the Circle. The ‘Lyric stage show, intact, will open the program. The orchestra, stage cxew, electricians and Ted Nicholas} as announcer will move over with the vaudeville acts from the Illinois St. house, present an hour show and hurry back to the Lyric for their next performance. Charles Withers, now appearing in “Bringin’ Back the Drama” Keith's, will speed up his part of the show to get in on the latter part of the benefit.

Dance Bands to Play

Local dance bands who will appear on the stage with their specialty acts include Amos Otstot’s organization from the Columbia Club; Louis Lowe and his boys from the Indianapolis Athletic Club; Joe Cappo, Indiana Roof; Hank Henry, Red Gables, plus the five-act Red Gables floor show, and Chick Meyers from the Antlers.

Walter Reauleaux is to conduct a 30-piece orchestra made up of Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra players and other members of the local Musicians’ Union.

. Other acts include the Tudor Girls and Avery, five acrobats; Lambert and Sweet, musical act; Mildred Meyers revue of four acts; the American Legion Quartet; Joe Baker, vocalist; the Harlin Brothers, steel guitarists; Danny Kinder and his California sweetheart; Helen Bucher, WLW “blues” singer; Geanie Theard, tap dancer from the High Hat Club, Chicago; Ernie Snowberger, Marion - tap dancer; Joan Baylor, eccentric dancer; Rosalind and Marjorie, sister act, and Dessa Byrd, organist.

Services Are Donated

All performers are donating their services and many are planning to buy tickets as well. Use of the theater and lights and services of all employees likewise are gratis.

The entire proceeds will go directly to the Red Cross. Each theater subscribed for a quota of tickets which will be paid for whether they are sold or not. Individual tickets also have been sold by 250 women, including wives of Variety

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Opening Tomorrow Apollo

“GOD'S COUNTRY -AND THE WOMAN”—George Brent, Beverley Rgberts, Barton MacLane, Robert Barrat, Alan Hale. Based

on the novel by James Oliver Keighley. ¢

Story—'Young lumberman, disgusted by brother’s crooked tac-: tics, starts back to city from camp. Plane cracks up, lands him on

property of rival company, run by attractive girl. C Through numerous fights, climax-

he ends feud, wins girl. Circle i

“CHAMPAGNE WALTZ”—Gladys Swarthout, Fred MacMurray, ck Oakie, Veloz and Yolanda. Directed by A. Edward Sutherland; scReen play by Don Hartman and Frank Butler, : tory—American dance band invades Vienna, ruins business of Band leader, incognito, meets, falls for She learns his identity, throws him over. He 0 America but friend transplants waltz palace to New York.

brother’s plot to get girl's lands. ing in dyngmiting of log jam, *

nextR¥door waltz palace. nan’s® daughter.

Big hit.\Bdy gets girl.

young violin hospital, docto out, young M. mother sues hospi ties if he will glefen Recovers.

“MORE THAN A SE Lionel Stander, Ruth Donnel directed by Akred E. Green.

tableaux; 12 American Rockets. duced by Sol M. Wurtzel.

young fighters. self—wins.

UTOR’S DIARY”—John Trent, Helen Burgess, George roduced by B. P. Schulberg; directed by Charles Vidor. yung doctor criticizes surgeon who fails to operate on ius, causing him to lose use of arm. Dismissed from goes into private practice. Infantile paralysis breaks is denied use of hospital. for negligence, doctor is offered hospital facililleagues. He agrees, is shot at trial by mother.

. Loew's TARY”—Jean Arthur, George Brent, Based on a story by Matt Taylor;

Story—Young secretarial sch handsome htalth magazine editor's animated carrot into human being, t After numerous tribulations, girl gets boy. “COUNTERFEIT LADY”—Ralph Bella Dumbrille. Directed by D. Ross Lederman. Story—Jeweler hires private sleuth to catch valuable gem.‘ Sleuth pursues her, is crossed and jeweler's henchman, eventually gets diamond. Girl "respectable jeweler's daughter recovering father’s .sto Sleuth rounds’ up crooked gang, marries bx-diamond thief}

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GEORGE CHOOS’ “YOUR HIT PARADE” (on stage)—Hel Denizon, ballet. dancer; Stewart and Martin, comedy duo; ‘ ‘Laz Bill” Huggins, radio singer; Jeanne Midget comedienne; Pickard and Mickey, trained seal; Phil Estes,

“WOMAN WISE” (on screen)-—Michael Whalen, Rochelle Hudson, Thomas Beck, Douglas Fowley.

Story—Sports writer tries to break up crooked boxing ring which brings broken-down ex-champions out of retirement as buildup for Reporter is forced to fight former ‘champion himOld fighter’s daughter. eventually won ower to reporter’s idea, comes to his rescue when reporter is framed on bribery charge.

Curwood; directed by William

He discovers

When boy violinist’s

proprietor takes position as cretary. Reforms him from loses him to dizzy blond.

Joam Perry, Douglass

ble-crossed by veals she is property.

dancer; Urban Models, in

Directed by Allan Dwan; pro-

Ah Choo! Yes, Even Film Stars Have Winter Colds

HOLLYWOOD, Jan 28 (NEA)—For a week now (at this writing) Hollywood has been colder than a casting director’s heart. It has been so cold that George Raft had to change to a winter grade

of oil for his hair.

It’s so cold that chills actually have been running up and down the spine of Boris Karloff. He fled, quaking, to a hospital, and his studio had to suspend shooting on his picture. :

Ofcourse, it's an ill blizzard that blows nobody good. Fourteen chorus girls have acquired mink coats. Mickey Mouse is just about the only actor that hasn't got the sniffles. The Warner Brothers, who are opportunists fromeaway back, hastily assigned 11 writers to batting out a comedy script in which all the characters have golds. Thus they can utilize the players who would be unfit for normal, healthy roles. Greta Garbo, who is used to all kinds of atmospheric frigidity, including the Scandinavian, looks fine and even has a faint blush on her cheeks. . Most of Hollywood's he-men, though, are sitting around on radiators and arguing whether aspirin is better than a hot toddy. Robert. Wildhack, .the snore expert, has just been signed for “The Broadway Melody of 1937” and is

Club members and theater owners and women's club members. Mayor Kern plans to be present and make a brief speech if a new flood crisis does not arise which will keep him at his post. The benefit is one of high entertainment as well as philanthropic merit and deserving of a packed house.

planning a monolog on the different kinds of sneezes. ¢ Actresses of the “Maytime” company at M-G-M are wearing flannel slacks ynder their flowing, floorlength dresses.

Steaming breatBs of the players

| were clearly visib®e to the cameras

and balked an attempt to film a summer garden-priy scene out of doors. Flowers Frostbitten

On the set of “Che Last of Mrs. Cheney,” real flowers were frostbitten inside the sgund stage. Stepin Fetchit Ras gone into hibernation and can’t be found anywhere. : Columbia is shooting a picture called “Weather or No.” Smoke from the smudge pots of distraught fruit-growers has pbscuredsthe sun for days and is thwarting the plans of several movie companies to work on location. ’ Universal had an appropriate bit

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Tom Brown

New Idea in Jungle Film

Is Offered

‘Beyond Bengal' to Open at Fountain Square Theater Today.

Something new in jungle pictures is promised Fountain Square patrons in “Beyond Bengal,” which opens a threeday engagement at the South Side theater today.

The picture was filmed by Harry Schenck in Malayan Peninsula with the Sultan of Perak’s co-operation. The producer originally went to

| Siam with a prepared script, but

ran -into governmental difficulties.

So he moved on to Malay, aban-

doned the script and let the story tell itself. Two young natives, Ali and Bee, who met and fell in love on the expedition, are said to be the chief figures in the jungle film romance. There also are numerous wild animal shots, and much space is devoted to the 50 Saikis (wild men) who accompanied the party. It is said that this is the first jungle picture in which the sound was not “dubbed in” afterwards. Mr. Schenek took sound-recording equipment with him and filmed the sound as well as sight of the animals in their native state. Among the beasts to be seen in ond Bengal” are the sladang, ine-like creature and one of

and Boya River ich are shown capsiz- . boats and attacking

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 28.— gagement of Toby Wing and PiRkY Tomlin was broken today and t.

blond actress said she had returned Mr. Tomlin’s ring. Miss Wing said she and the bespectacled singer were still good friends. They announced their engagement several months ago at a Hollywood party and were to be married in March. :

of shooting the other day—a bucolic, frost-is-on-the-pumpkin scene which will be part of “When Love Is Young.” But propertymen took blowtorches and melted all the real frost off the pumpkins. Then they were able to spray them with artificial frost, which photographed more realistically. In Culver City, 87 snowflakes fell before the astonished eyes of William Powell and Jean Harlow, who counted them. In Beverly Hills, at the end of the Sunset strip, a dejected little man and a large, shivering mule are plowing under the vast field of poinsettias, now frozen, which used to gladden the hearts of all winter tourists. Myrna Loy is wearing galoshes rushed from the east by airmail. This is VERY unusual weather. (Florida papers please copy.)

POLIS TIMES

ELIEF SHOW TONIGHT

FILM TO FEATURE ABBES

FILM CONTRACT OF TWINS IS APPROVED

By United Press ‘HOLLYWOOD, Jan. wood’s only identical were embarked upon a

8.—Hollyins today m career,

THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 1937

having received seven-year con« tracts which will pay them from $100 to $750 a week. : The twins, Gloria and Barbara Brewster, Encinitas, Cal., received judicial approval on their contracts

when they appeared before Superior Judge Fletcher Bowron,

Those famous Abbe children, Richard (left), Patience and John, co-authors of the best-selling “Around the World in Eleven Years,” have signed a contract to star in a coming picture. They're also writing a new book. Charlie Chaplin will get an autographed copy because he complied with their request to “be funny”

when they called on him recently,

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“One in a Million,” with Sonja Henie, Jean Hersholt and Adolphe 1:29, 1:31, 3:33, 5:35.

‘CIRCLE

“The Woman Alone.” with Sylvia Sidney, at 11, 1:57, 4:54, 7:20 and 10:17. Also ‘‘Man of Affairs,”’ with George Arliss, at 12:46, 3:43, 6:09

and 9:06, KEITH'S

Charles Withers in *Bringin’ Back the Drama,” first performance anywhere. Curtain at 8:15.

LOEW’S

“Belover Bnemy,” with Merle Oberon 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 ILegion’’ (on screen), with’ Humphrey Bogart and Erin O'BrienMoore, at 11:17. 2:10. 4:57. 7:50 and Vaudeville (on stage) at 6:40 and 9:27.

0:37. 1, 3:37.

ALAMO

“Cowboy Star,” with Charles Starrett. Also ‘‘His Brother's Wife,” with Robert Tayler.

AMBASSADOR

“Banjo on My Knee,” with Barbara Stanwyck. “Rose Bowl,” with

Tom Brown, OHIO “Shakedown.” with Lew Ayres.

Also “Isle of Fury,” with Humphrey Bogart.

IRGINIA LANGDON ACCEPTS OFFER

By Und Press HOLIWOOD, Jan. 28.—Virginia Langdon, \aughter of Harry Langdon, silent geen star, today was en route to NewYork to appear in a new Shubert pIRg. The girl was Qing tested for a film part when she ¥gceived the New York call and she (Rgided not to await results of the scre®u test.

TIER . FINAL DAY POLE : etd ovat 311, 11°

ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW

LYRIC

HOME OWNED—HOME OPERATED

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‘Actor Hog’ Gets Care From Cold

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan, 28.—Wafford, an Ozark razorback hog, today was guarded against the current California cold spell with more solicitude than was shown many film players. The hog was wrapped in a blanket and kept in a fur-lined case on a heated movie set. The reason for the care was that Wafford has an important part in a picture,

Wafford was sent here by plane recently to Bob Burns from friends in Arkansas. An.Ozark mountaineer, Jim Rose, accompanied Wafford West and has been caring for him. :

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