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FRIDAY, JAN. 29, 1987

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PAGE 25

JEAN ARTHUR REVERSES SECRETARY'S ROLE IN LOEW'S FILM

Smart Lines MY

DEAR MR.

BRENT |

Help to Hide Ancient Plot

Dorothea Kent and George Brent Also Featured in Gay Comedy.

By JAMES THRASHER

The gem of the ocean, Columbia, has put out another Jean Arthur picture. That, for many of us, is an occasion for some flag waving. Columbia is the film com-| . 1 pany that rescued Miss Ar-| thur from a career as a horseopera prima donna, let her go fo town with Mr. Deeds, and now | permits her to put George Brent through a course of sprouts in “More Than a Secretary,” at Loew's this week The picture itself is very much the same old hash of bov-girl-quar-' . rel-happy-ending—except that girl gets boy in the end, instead of vice Fi be lk Di versa. But happens to have a } nN Pp piquant sauce that contains Miss O Arthur. Mr. Brent (in the first real comedy portraval he ever put | across) blond newcomer named Dorothea Kent, and some smart dialog by Dale Van Every and Linn Starling. Judging from the frstrate comedies Columbia has a wav of turning out, the recipe must be their private property.

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HOLLYWOOD 29

Jan, Always sick in the Midwest flood areas. It was impossible to total figures were hardly benefit parties, individual contributio The Fox West Coast Corp. helped start the ball rolling with a $1000 check. while Elissa Landi, screen star, inspired a contagious spree of donations at a Cocoanut Grove party. Checks for $250 were turned in quickly by Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, W. S. Van Dyke, M-G-M director, actor.

film Transformation Expected

the picture's opening Arthur apply for a secretarial job attired in a prim tai-horn-rimmed glasses and coiffure, then blosas a vision of you

When, at

vou see Miss

suit, an unbecoming

lored

dav without

som out next Joveliness, get a sinking feeling. Shades of Bella and Samuel Spewack.” you say to vourself, “this is going to be just like all the rest.” But before things have progressed far, vou'll find yourself highly amused. See if vou don't. Miss Arthur and Ruth Donnelly are running a business school when the curtain goes up. They're prim but happy. They have a problem child, however, plaved by Miss Kent. She is so dim-witted. despite her peroxide pulchritude. that they have to dismiss her. Before she leaves, she gives them some pertinent advice on the secretarial requirement of “getting their man.” On second thought, they decide that maybe she’s right.

the glasses, and Tim McCoy, Miss Landi gave the money to the Red Cross, Cantor Sends £1000 Eddie Cantor sent a $1000 check to Red Cross headquarters. Mae West and Shirley Temple, both Kentucky Colonels, are making substantial gifts, but Shirley is not participating in the national movement for the “kernels” to help Kentucky refugees. She will join with other! employees at 20th Century-Fox in a studio contribution. Several benefit performances have been planned. Al Malaikah Temple will present a huge show next Wednesday, with the arrangement committee including Harold Lloyd, Jack Warner, Louis B. Mayer, Dick | Powell, Clark Gable, Carl Laemmle Sr, Richard Dix and Warner Baxter. The Song Writers Association is giving another benefit under the | auspices of a committee including Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Warren and Dubin. Pollack and Mitchell, Ralph Rainger, Sam Cowlow and Oscar Hammerstein. A third show is planned | for Hollywood next Wednesday undirection of Roy Randolph, screen and Society dance director.

Music School Sets Recital

The Burroughs School of Music is to present a children’s recital at 4 P. m. Sunday in the Hotel Washington. Miss Ada Straub has arranged the program. The following are to take part: Pupils of Miss Straub—Barbara Ann | Bidwell, Mary Evelyn Davis and Raymond Kirkoff: pupils of Dorothy | Head—Phyllis Joan Bell. Bob Wil- | son, Alice Mae Springer, Mary Caro- | lyn Congary, Margie Dietch and June Wierich; pupils of Jane Bur- | roughs—Doris Hurt, Constance McLean, Betty Fields, Betty Ann Hocker, Margaret Ellen Ehlers, Jo Ellen Burroughs and Martha Rooker: pupil of Eugene Fife—Marjorie | Shatz.

BENEFIT PLANNED FOR FLOOD FUND

The Paramount Theater, 411 E. | Washington St. is offering a benefit | show for the Red Cross relief fund | at 11:15 o'clock tonight. Admission ! will be free and a free-will offering | will be taken. “Kansas City Princess,” with | Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell. is to be the feature of the bill | which also will contain four short | Subjects. {

Exacting Client Served

Whereupon Miss Arthur sallies forth to take care of their most exacting client, Mr. Brent, who runs a health magazine. She finds a handsome, healthy and normal gentleman with carrots in his desk | and vitamins in his body but no! sentiment in his soul. Over a period of time she fixes this deficiency, however. Queerly | enough, she falls in love with him right at the start. Incidentally, she tries to fix up the magazine and becomes associate editor. Miss Kent meanwhile has taken a position with Reginald Denny, seen as a gavish sort of gent. When his wife returns from Europe he wishes his blond secretary more than a secretary, in fact— onto friend Brent, Then the fun begins, Conquest Is Made Miss Arthur has built her employer up into a human and vulnerable voung man, and Miss Kent comes along to make the conquest. It's an overwhelming victory. Miss ' Arthur does all the work while Mr. Brent plays around. Finally she gets mad, quits her job and leaves town. From here the picture coasts] down the well-worn finale stretch, past awakening love, frantic pursuit and on to the final reconciliation under the wire. There are a few distressing spots in the picture, and one unforgivable one in the lines when Miss Arthur shouts: “You can't fire me —I just resigned!”

Miss Kent Gets Best Lines

Miss Arthur has to fight plenty hard to keep Miss Kent from romp- | ing off with the first-place trophy. | Miss Kent raises the proverbial | light-haired light-headedness to a | new high. She gets most of the | seript’s ‘choicest lines and knows what to do with them. Lionel Stander does his amusing job as Mr. Brent's “trainer,” and the principals, as we have remarked, are pretty grand. Alfred E. Green's direction enters right into the Spirit of the hing.

PLAYS COMEDY ROLE

“Big Boy”

| i idm a i | | |

EYEE,

«BANJO ON ‘NY KNEE"

Barbara Stanwyck

“ROSE BOWL”

usual

Tom

The bad hombres of “The Texas Rangers” are now the Gay young dogs of Old Vienna —and what a time they'll hand you!

FRED MacMURRAY ® JACK OAKIE © GLADYS SWARTHOUT

he a Waltz"

With

VELOZ and YOLANDA Wo ld's Top Dance Team!

wood was contributing generously toda)

the exception as

| homecoming

Into Pockets

To Aid Victims of Flood

charitable in time of need. Hollyy for the relief of the homeless and

in four from

contributions but checks the dollars rained down ns and studio gifts. =

Show's Funds

To Red Cross

Two Indianapolis Men in New

Play at English's.

Vincent Burke, English manager, has made arrangements with Sam Harris, producer of “You Can't Take It With You," to donate a portion of the opening night's receipts to the Red Cross emergency flood relief fund. For two members of the Can't Take It With You” cast, performance at English’s Thurs-

day, Friday and Saturday will be a | to Indianapolis and |

to local drama.

One of the players who is to be

seen in the road company's pre-

sentation of the Moss Hart-George |

Offers Work

who was born here |

S. Kaufman comedy success is Walter Vonnegut, and attended Shortridge Sch-~al. Tr. Vonnegut, after tending Cornell University

High

and

studying abroad, became associated |

with the Stuart Walker Co, first as business manager, later as an actor. He later appeared in “Main Street,” “Mourning Becomes Electra.” “Strange Interlude,” “Grand

| Hotel” and “The Petrified Forest.” Several years ago he purchased |

a farm near Culver, Ind, where he returns for vacations. Aldrich Bowker, a second mem- | ber of the “You Can't Take It With You” cludes many Indianapolis perform-

| ances, was a member of the Stuart | Walker

at Keith's and the Murat for many | 4 3 Pp. m.;

| acting, one for adults at 7 p. m. on |

troupe which held forth

seasons. More recently he has appeared in New York in “Let Freedom Ring.” “Bury the Dead.” “The Gold Journey” and “200 Were Chosen.”

The Indianapolis performance of |

“You Can't Take It With You" will [be the first for the newly-organ-ized road company, which will take the play to Chicago after the threeday local stand. Mr. Kaufman and | Sam Harris, producer, are expected | here for the premiere. “You Can't | Take It With You” is considered thé | outstanding hit of the current New | York Season.

GETS DRAMATIC ROLE

J. Edward Bromberg will play one of his most dramatic roles in “That I May Live.” Bromberg was brought

| to Hollywood after creating the role | | of the head doctor in the Broadway |

| production or ‘Men In White.”

“You | the |

at- |

George Brent is going to sit right down and write himself a letter, with Jean Arthur's assist ance, in this scene from “More Than a Secretary,” now at Loew's

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“God's Country and the Woman.’ with George Brent and Beveriey Robe erts, at 11:35, 1:35 3:35 5:35 7:35

and 9:35 CIRCLE

aS mpagne, Waltz,” with Fred MacMurray, Gladys Swarthout and Jack Oakie, at 12:40, 3:50, 7 and 0:10 Iso "A Doctor's Diary,” with George or seoh and Helen Burgess, at 11:20, 2:30. 5:40 and 8:50.

KEITH'S

Back the Drama. ™ npresented by Charles Withers and the Federal Plavers. Curtain at 8:15.

LOEW'S

Than a Secretary.” and George Brent, 5, 7:50 Lady i nn 35,

LYRIC

Hit Parade” revue on stage 3:40. 6:43 and 0:37 Also “Woman Wise,” with Michael Whalen and Rochelle Hudson, on screen at 11:41, 2:25, 5:19, 8:13 and 10:37.

“Bringin'

“More Jean Arthur 12, 2:40. 5 “Counterfeit PO iamy, at 23

Also Ralph

4:10, 6:45 and

“Your at 1:05,

OHIO

“Call of the Wild," with Clark Gable and Loretta Young Also “Don’t Turn 'Em Loose’ with Bruce Cabot,

AMBASSADOR

“Banjo on My Knee '' with Barbara Stanwvek. Also "Rose Bowl” with Tom Brown.

ALAMO

Star.” with Charles Star“His Brother's Wife Taylor,

“Cowhov rett Also with Robert

In Dramatics

Jordan Conservatory

Open Six New Courses.

Six special courses in dramatics,

to be taught by Rolla Farmer, have

| been announced by the Arthur Jor- | dan Conservatory of Music for the! | new

cast whose stage career in- | day

semester which begins Mon-

These include two classes in marionettes, at 9 a. m, three courses in play

Mondays and the others for chil- |

dren at 4 p. m. Fridays and 2 p. m, Saturdays. A business men's class in speech and dramatics also has been announced at 8 p. m.

have difficulty in speaking in public. All six classes are to be practical in nature and will feature performance by registrants. Mr. Far- | mer formerly was director of the | Terre Haute Civic Theater,

Clark Gable, Loretta Young, sack Oakie “CALL OF THE WIL Bruce Cabot, Lewis uy

“DON'T TURN EM LOOSE”

GEORGE

Sion Lb

to |

Saturday |

This course will | include instruction for men who |

You Cannot Dance Well, | Yolanda Told

SURPRISED!

| Besinning inauspicious for No

Dance Team.

| Ballroom

Whatever one may think of | dance contests, they gave America one of its most popu- | lar and accomplished dance teams, Veloz and Yolanda, who make theirs film debut in

“Champagne Waltz,” opening | exposes a crooked gambling racket oy Ip | in “Woman Wise,” the Lyric's iE) 81 Whe Circle. aOyear old | screen attraction this week. assistant manager in a textile mill when he met the 15-year-old miss now known simply as Yolanda. It was at the Collegiate Club, a New York community center where neighborhood youngsters gather for] Saturday night dances. He asked her to dance. It wast] | ia very auspicious beginning, how- | | ever, First Job Lasted Seven Days |

“You're not a good dancer,” Veloz told Yolanda, “you're leading me.” That ended that. At the end of | six months they tried again, got | (along better, and proceeded to win = pp 700 screen siren came to | {a lot of ballroom contests. In fact | Washington with Robert Taylor, the | they won so many that managers | new matinee idol, to help along the | “spotted” them and would not let | President's Birthday Ball tomorrow | them compete. | night, Finally they got a week's engage-| The cinema experts were plying | ment at the Palais d'Or which |the press with whisky sours, when | ended promptly at the end of seven |in walked Jean and Robert, They | days. It was back to the amateurs, | started walking around the dining but opportunity knocked twice in room, kissing people! Jean did the this case. They got another chance | kissing: Robert merely shook hands at the Everglades Club and stuck with the men, beamed on the ladies. it out. | “Smack-—it's delightful to see you Signed by Schuberts again,” said Miss Harlow, as she walked around the room greeting old friends. I wasn't an old friend, but I thought she might make a mistake. The movie men said: “Mr. Othman, Miss Harlow.” It was a thrilling moment. Miss | Harlow's red fox fur tickled my | nose as she came close and gave me a soulful look. She said,

Judging from the expression on Michael Whalen's face, he must have been scooped at least. Mr. Whalen plays a sports writer who

Jean Kisses; Fred Misses

It Just Wasn't Reporter's Lucky Day.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

United Press Staif Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—I nearly | got kissed by Jean Harlow today,

ture. At present they are in Chi-| “Smack” I heard her Kiss the | cago with their own orchestra. | voman on my left. Broken hearted,

The two dancers were married in | 1 didn’t even look to see.

- DANCE TONIGHT wp

» JOE CAPPO

N 25¢ BEFORE 9:00

*How do you do,”

| Got Chance in Million

Veloz says there is more to it | than that. “We love to dance, and we love each other.’

Dance Contests Are to Continue

Coming Sun., Feh. 7th

ge FLETCHER HENDERSON

| | | | | | | | |

IALAMOITE: BREATHTAKING EXPOSE!

gy Inside

A new six weeks' series of foxtrot contests has heen announced at the Casino, East Side ballroom Sunday night. A trophy cup will be awarded the winning couple each | week. The “City Waltz Championship” trophy was won at the final contest | § | last Sunday by Helen Botten and | | Bob Thompson. The Casino's week-night trative] | continue, with Tuesday given over | to dancing lessons; Wednesday is | “swing night,” with Hal Bailey's or=- | | Chestra featured; Thursday is la- | | dies’ night; Friday, waltz night, and | Saturday is cabaret night, with or- | chestra novelties and dancing until | a.m, The ballroom is available for spe- | cial parties on Monday nights.

O) ————————————————————————————————— ————

Estimated $4000 Added To Red Cross Flood Fund By Benefit Show Here

3200 Jam Indiana Theater for Special Performance; Receipts Are Augmented by the Sale of Donated Flowers.

Some 4000 dollar bills can start translating themselves into food and shelter, doctors, nurses and medicine for flood | refugees today as a result of last night's benefit performs(ance at the Indiana. It was a show that deserves to be called “stupendous” and “colossal.” Sympathetic citizens, many of whom had | contributed generously be-¢ fore, turned out to pack the | came late to the Indiana, still in | ac ) : grease paint, to add their bit to | 3200-seat house and witness | the benefit. an evening's entertainment of

Mayor Kern, in his brief remarks, y > | said he never had been so proud gargantuan proportions. The festivities began at 7: :30 |

of Indianapolis as he was last night. o'clock with an overture by mem-

| Mayor Kern Is Proud

| The Lyric vaudeville unit moved | | over intact to start things going | after the overture. The profes- | sionals put an added punch to their | usual routine and the performers | | who followed gave a little better | than their usual best. There were local dance pends, | vaudeville acts and soloists. The | Federal Players, whose current at- | traction stars the noted vaudevillian Charles Withers, hurried through their evening's stint and

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