Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1937 — Page 15

TUESDAY, FEB. 2, 1937

Swing Band Is Nucleus

Of Big Show

30 Performers Are Used. In Production Dedicat-

ed to Indianapolis.

There will be nothing masculine about the forthcoming Lyric stage show unless it be benign spirit of the bland Maj. Bowes, which doubtless will brood over his “All-Girl Revue.” The revue, third local Bowes presentation since the Major went off the “amateur” standard—at least for vaudeville purposes—is made up of some 30 feminine entertainers, including a 15-piece “swing” band. Equipped with union cards, the | unblushing professional dance band | forms the nucleus around which the |

show is built. The band, in turn, | has a nucleus in the four Smith hes |

An Acrobatic M. C.

Leading the Bowes revue band | and acting as mistress of ceremonies |

groomed for a go with Ina Ray Hutton for the “blond bombshell”

championship. Miss Dowling went through an arduous training course | for her career with the baton. It] consisted of doing acrobatic dancing | on roller skates for Bob Ripley's | and other shows. { The girls outside the orchestra | were all strictly amateur at one | time, and all first came out of their | corners at the sound of the Major 's | gong. Now each has at least a vear to her credit with Bowes road shows, For instance, there's Jean Clark, who does bird imitations just for a lark. She is wealthy and is an ornithologist by profession. Out of | some 800 varieties of birds, Jean | can imitate 250 with fidelity. She also imitates erickets—soprano, alto and tenor—and the police whistles of various cities.

In Demand as Lecturer

Miss Clark often fills lecturing dates between vaudeville perform- | ances, being quite in demand among | high schools and college students of our feathered friends. At these! times she not only whistles but] brings out an elaborate chart which | has the birds cross-filed as te na- | five haunts, color, race, previous | condition of servitude, migratory habits and voice. Then there is Mildred Cobb. She | plays saxophone along with three of the Smith girls. Before that she used to have her own and in Chi- | cago and also did some teaching. | Golf fans may remember her as winner of the Women's Open golf tournament in Cleveland in 1934. Miss Cobb likewise is a polo player | and has a reputation as a mean bowler. By merest chance, Maj. Bowes is to dedicate his program this week to Indianapolis the night before the revue opens on the local stage. And -—surprise!—a girl winner from the broadcast will join the show here. There'll also be a feature picture. It is “The Great O'Malley.” with Pat O'Brien as the star and Sibyl Jason and Humphrey Bogart in the supporting cast.

FURNITURE SIDE LINE

Frank Morgan, during his infre- | quent days off on “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” set, commutes between | Los Angeles and Palm Springs to check up on his furniture store, | which he operates in the desert re- | sort.

Clark Gable, Marion Davies “CAIN AND MARBLE” Wm. Powell as Philo Vance

“KENNEL MURDER CASE”

| ships and scholarships.

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| sciousness.

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‘ALL GIRL REVUE, A MAJOR BOWES’ UNI

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T, COMING TO LYRIC

FLIGHT BY SEA ENDS IN SAFETY

With a calm sea and danger of capture behind | | them, Tyronne Power and Madeleine Corroll head

across the Channel to England in this scene from “Lloyds of London,” opening Friday at the Apollo.

Awards Are Announced By Bureau of New Plays

: Climaxing a five-months nationwide competition, the Bureau of | is Elaine Dowling, who is being | New Plays announced today the names of playwrights, none of them

more than three years out of college, who will receive awards, fellow-

The Bureau of New

sorship of seven leading film companies, | playwriting talent. Theresa Helburn, 4

York Theater the an-

member of the New Guild board of managers and bureau's director, made the nouncement of awards. A $500 award will go to Robert Wetzel of New York, a University , of Michigan graduate,” for his play. | “Fool's Hill.” Wesley drama instructor at the University | of South Dakota, and Janet Mar- |

Alan Couts, |

shal, graduate student at Yale Uni- |

versity, have been chosen for fel-

lowships amounting to $2500 each. Scholarship awards amounting to |

| $1250 each have been granted Bernard V. Dryer, student at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; Arthur A. Miller, |igan student, and Norman Rosten, | graduate student at Brooklyn College. Five additional playwrights were given honorable mention.

Assisting Miss Helburn in the

University of Mich- |

| meticulous director,

final selection were Eva Le Gal-|

lienne, actress and producer; Antoinette Peery. stage director; Walter Pritchard Eaton, critic and Yale faculty member; ville. chairman of the drama department, New York University; A. | M. Drummond, director of the Cor- | nell University Theater; ner, drama critic of the New TheaHarry Wagstaff Gribble, dramatist and stage director; Melvyn Douglas, actor and director, and { Joseph Wood Krutch, critic of The Nation. The submitted plays were divided into six groups: Human Relations, Social, Farce, Melodrama, Satire and Character Plays. Of the 230 manuscripts submitted, nearly half were in the Human Relations group, with plays on social problems second. All the awards were made in these two divisions.

Randolph Somer- |

. Can't

to discover and encourage new

Plays was founded last year, under the spon- |

Kaufman Due For Opening

‘Author to Direct Rehearsal Here.

Dress |

| |

George S. Kaufman, parent of |

numerous dramatic hits and cur-

rently famous as the co-author of |

“You Can't Take It With You,”

is |

to arrive in Indianapolis today for | the opening of the play's first road | performance at English’'s Thursday |

| night.

Known as a painstaking and

has been rehearsing the road com-

| pany for several weeks in New York !

and will apply finishing touches at a dress rehearsal tomorrow night.

The local engagement, which in-

| cludes three evening performances | and a matinee, will be the first

John Gass- | Showing of “You

Can't Take It With You” outside New York. So great is the play's metropolitan success that three or four other traveling troupes are being organized. Douglas Gilbert, New York WorldTelegram drama critic, hailed “You Take It With You” as the

{ best play of 1936. Other New York

reviewers greeted its appearance with almost unanimous enthusiasm.

One third of Thursday night's | box office receipts will be turned | dver to the Red Cross for the bene- | | fit of flood sufferers.

| ment was made by Vincent Burke,

In commenting upon the selec- |

| tions, Miss Helburn said. “Although |

some plays were classified specifi- | cally as social plays, there was in |

or farces,

tary on this particular period of our !

history.”

JEAN

ARTHUR GEO. BRENT *“MORE THAN A SECRETARY”

—PLUS—

“‘Counterfeit Lady”

25¢

English's manager, with Sam Harris, the play's producer.

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Double Feature Stuart Erwin “PIGSKIN PARADE” “HERE COMES CARTER”

4020 E. New York Double Feature rene Dunne “THEODORA GOES WILD" “CAPTAIN'S KID 556% E. Wash. St. Double Feature Clark Gable LOVE ON THE RUN” COME AND GET IT” 4630 E. 10th St

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Double Feature William Powell “THE GREY, 2IEGTE ELD” Showing at 6 M.— M S T R A N D Double Feature Eleanor Powell

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Stratford Mary Astor

“AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED” “LITTLE AMERICA”

Talbott 4 & 2nd

30th & Northw't'n, Double Feature Alice Faye SING” “DIMPLES”

Noble & Mass. Double Feature Anne Shirley “MLISS” “STAMPEDE”

D | R E A M 2361 Station St.

Double Feature MacMurray “THE TEXAS RANGERS” “STAGE STRUCK”

1500 Roosevelt Ave. Double Feature Irene Dunne "THEOBORA CO SOL. WILD"

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WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“God's Country and the Woman,” with George Brent pnd Beverley Rob. erts, at : 1:35, 3:35. 5:35,

and 9:3 CIRCLE

“Champagne Waltz,”' with Fred MacMurray, Gladys Swarthout and Jack Oakie, at 12:40, 3:50, 7 and 10:10. Also “A Doctor's Diary,” with George Bancroft and Helen Burgess, at 11:20, 2:30, 5:40 and 8:50.

KEITH'S

“Bringin’ Back the Drama.” presented by Charles Withers and the Federal Players. Curtain at 8:15.

LOEW'S

“More Than a Secretary.” with Jean Arthur and George Brent, at 12 2: 5:15, 7:50 and 10. Also HE otten Lady,’ with Ralph Bellamy, at 11, 1: 35. 4:10, 6:45 and

LYRIC

“Your Hit Parade’ revue on stage at 1:05, 3:49, 6:43 and 9:37. Also “Woman Wise,” with Michael Whalen and Rochelle Hudson, on screen at 11:41, 2:25, 5:19, 8:13 and 10:37.

OHIO “Cain and Mabel,” with Clark Gable. Also ‘Kennel Murder Case,” with William Powell.

AMBASSADOR “Born to Dance,” with Eleanor Powell. Also "You Can't Get Away With It.”

ALAMO

“Legion of Terror.” with Marguerite Churchill. Also, “Aces of Eight,” with Tim MeCoy.

Pipe Organ Classes Set

The first of four free class lessons, offered as an introduction in be-

| ginning pipe organ playing, is to be

Rice at the 7:30

given by Mrs. Clell T. Irvington School of Music at o'clock tonight. Membership in the class will be

The arrange- |

in co-operation |

limited to four and instruction will | be the same as in private lessons, | including modulation, transposition and improvisation,

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Lounisian King's Oren,

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| Troy,

‘Little Eva’ Turns Movie

Addict at 89

Shirley Temple of Pre-

Civil War Era Tells Of Triumphs.

By United Press BELMONT, Mass., Feb. 2.— The Shirley Temple of preCivil War days, who won the applause of Abraham Lincoln as the original Little Eva of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” celebrated her 89th birthday anniversary here yesterday and confessed that she had devel-

oped into a movie fan. “I'm afraid I couldn't have had much to contribute to the stage,” mused small. bright-eyed Mrs. Cor-

delia Howard MacDonald ‘because |

since I retired (at the age of 12, in 1860) I never have had a desire to return to the theater except as a member of the audience.” Usually Mrs. MacDonald motors to Cambridge for a birthday dinner party with relatives, but yesterday, nursing a slight cold, she said: “There is too much flu around. I think I shall stay home.” Retains Theater Interest

Despite the lapse of TT years since her footlight career ended, she retains a lively interest in things theatrical and the plays and talkies that she frequently attends she views with a critical eve. Sitting on the edge of a sofa in the parlor of her home, her silver hair in tight ringlets against her head, her blue eyes shining, she smilingly protested: “Through the years, people have insisted on making me out a celebrity when I thought I was a nonentity.” Her memory carried her back to that notable night of Sept. 27, 1852 —only four years after her birth in Providence, R. I.—when, as Cordelia Howard, “the wonder of the » she played the role of Little Eva in the premiere of the dramatic or “Life Among the Lowly.” Shirley Temple of Day It was N. Y., that she made her first trip to Heaven—a journey, via telegraph wire, which was destined to bring tears to the eyes of millions of theatergoers in the years | to come.

"1 suppose 1 I was the Shirley

in the old museum at |

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PIONEER

Composer of “Christopher Columbus,” saxophone virtuoso and one of “swingdom’s” pioneers, Fletcher Henderson will biing his band to the Indiana Roof for a one-night engagement on Sunday.

ald smiled. “Like Shirley, I ed, sang and danced. Little Eva was only one of the parts I played. In the short tim& I was on the stage I acted in about 10 roles. Let's see, there was “Dread of the Dismal Swamp,” dramatized from Mrs. Stowe’s second book. I played a little slave. Then there was “Fashion and Famine” by a Mrs. Stevens of Philadelphia. In that I was the strawberry girl. And then there was “A Page of History” in which I played the little Polish boy. I played Oliver Twist, too” As to the movies, Mrs. MacDonald enjoyed “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” but thought James Cagney was miscast as Nick Bottom. In “Mary of Scotland,” she thought, Katharine Hepburn “failed to rise to the part.” And while “Mutiny on the Bounty” was a splendid picture, she felt that Charles Laughton, as Capt. Bligh, ghasn’t quite tough enough.”

Extra! Flood Scenes!

Grand Comedy! Delightful Romance!

FRED wok | JACK OAKIE and * GLADYS SWARTHOUT !

3) Champagne Waltz’ Plus. . \ |*ADOCTORS el | With JOHN TRENT GEORGE BANCROFT HELEN BURGESS LIVE ONCE”

Fri: “YOU ONLY

Temple of my day,” Mrs. MacDon- |

act- | | mother have been

Music Lovers May Hear Concert by Poldi Mildner,

Pianist, at Bloomington

Viennese Artist, Originally Scheduled by Concert

Guild to Play Here, Will Appear in DownState City This Evening.

By JAMES THRASHER

Good news for the many local friends and admirers of Poldi Mildner is the fact that the young and gifted pianist will play at Bloomington tonight. More good news, in case anyone is worrying, is the fact that the roads are open between here and the university town. In fact, it looks like a big night in this season which is remarkable for a dearth of®

| good piano recitals. | tember. She has been in America Tonight's program is to include | for the last month and will leave | the Schubert Fantasie, the Andante | Nere the end of March for another Favori by Beethover, Schumann's Month's tour of Europe. “Carnaval,” the C Minor Nocturne 1he blond young virtuoso says and Barcarolle of Chopin and |she likes American audiences, Brahms’ “Paganini Variations. | American jazz and American move The lovely Miss Mildner and her | ies, dislikes the long train rides in town for the | necessary in her extended tour, past three days visiting friends be- | Her between-concert thoughts are tween engagements. The pianist | occupied considerably by plans for a originally was booked for an In- | New home she is building in dianapolis Concert Guild recital on | Czechoslovakia, March 28. Later she was to have | Miss Mildner said that she had substituted for Marian Anderson on | been invited to appear on Bing CrosJan. 17, but this recital was can- | | by's radio hour during her stay in celed two days before her scheduled | | California. Thinking over the long appearance. and illustrious list of artists who From Bloomington Miss Mildner | have preceded her on the popular is to go to Milwaukee and thence | Crooner 's program, we could assure to the West Coast for an appear- | her that she had achieved the ance with the Portland, Ore, currently ultimate in artistic Symphony Orchestra, a recital in | success. Seattle and seven engagements in| California, Including San Francisco, | Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego. | These recitals will be followed by | her second tour of Texas this season, which will end with a long hop | from Laredo, Tex, to Toronto. Miss Mildner’s concert season be- | gan with a European tour in Sep-

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NEXT SUN.

Famous Composer of "Christopher Columbus"

FLETCHER HENDERSON

And His Orchestra

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