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TUESDAY, FEB. 16,

1937

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PAGE 15

REVIVED 'MRS. CHEYNEY' TO BE PRESENTED FRIDAY AT LOEW'S

Powell and Crawford Play L Leads

Story of American Jewel, Thiefin London Society | Holds Favor.

By JAMES THRASHER Motion pictures some time ago attained the ripe and retrospective age of “revivals,” even as the stage before

them. Numerous popular silent films have been remade with sound. Now comes

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with its second sound version of “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.’ With Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery and Frank Morgan in the leading parts, it will be shown for a week beginning Friday at Loew's, the same theater that played the earlier ef-

fort, featuring Norma Shearer, in 1929, Not yet a dozen years old, “The | Last of Mrs. Cheyney” is one of few plays of the 1920's that has cap-|

tured and held the public fancy from the start. original Mrs. Cheyney in the play which ran at the Fulton Theater, New York, from Nov. 5, 1925, to July 10 of the following year. Roland Young and A. were in the supporting Charles Dillingham was ducer.

cast, and the pro-

Bootleggers Absent

Free from whimsy and bootleggers, the era’s two greatest dramatic sins, the Frederick Lonsdale play was trouped all over the country, played by road companies and in stock. For all I know, it may crop up again in some New England barn theater next summer. Mr. Lonsdale, vou may recall, the author of several popular plays, among them “Spring Cleaning” and “Aren’t We All.” You also may recall that his Mrs. Cheyney was an American who cracked the top crust of London society, posing as a wealthy Australian widow. She turns out to be a budding young jewel thief and, though she doesn’t

get the pearls she gets her man, |

which doubtless is just as well. It would be interesting to compare the two talking picture editions of this play, not oniy as regards ability of the two casts, but to see the progress of sound technique in the last eight years. When the first Mrs. Cheyney appeared on the screen, film sound was a lusty, raucous, and already beloved infant. | Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Morgan | were unknown to film fans. Miss Crawford was getting her start with her present employers. And Aileen Pringle, who has a part in the coming picture, was just past the crest of her popularity as one of the si-| lent screen's most glamorous ladies. Remember her in “Souls for Sale” and “Three Weeks”? Other familiar faces in “The Last | of Mrs. Cheyney” belong to Jessie Ralph, Ralph Forbes, Benita Hume, Sara Haden and Lumsden Hare.

Players Named For "Wells Fargo’

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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 16—Frank

| must

Ina Claire was the |

E. Matthews |

RITZ BOYS GANG UP

TO IMPERSONATE PROF. EINSTEIN

Gurn- Shoes’ Prescribed |

For All in Movie Industry

Times Specinl HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 16. — Moviemaking is a “gum-shoe” business. Heel-pounders have been barred since the inception of talking pictures, and now, after years of experience, every man whose business takes him rugularly or occasionally to the sound stages wears gumsoled shoes or rubber heels. Women, who naturally walk more quietly and who carry their weight on their toes, give much less trouble to the studio sound engineers than do men. A pair of leather heels on a man's shoes, through a set of a picture, will punctuate the sound track with thundering pockets of noise. Dick Powell is a reasonably heavy walker. rent “The Singing Marine,” which has a military and naval setting, he wears only rubber heel tips which silence his steps but leave enough leather exposed to permit him to “click” them in the most approved manner,

Muni Walks Quietly

Paul Muni, on the other hand, walks almost silently, no matter what he wears. So do Edward G. Robinson and Leslie Howard. Pat O'Brien strikes his heels first and firmly when he walks, and must wear rubber heels during the filming of a picture. He doesn’t particularly like to do so, however. “I like to hear myself walk,” he says. “I like to hear any man walk; but I realize that when you hear a character walk in a picture you can hear little else, and that unless this is a ‘point ‘in the story it is most disconcerting to an audience.” In his own shoes Patric Knowles | can be heard half a block away, and

| this is true also of James Melton

and Dick Purcell. Claude Rains is another heavy walker, coming | down squarely on his heels, which be padded if the picture is to be saved. South Seas Soften Flynn Step

Long years of walking in the open and of balancing himsell on a small rocking boat in the South Seas have given Errol Flynn a soft step. “A man who walks on his heels

{in countries where the natives are

(not always friendly

Lloyd, director-producer with “Wells |

Fargo” next on his production schedule, has bobbed up with some prominent names for his leading players. Fred MacMurray Scott will team up with Frances Farmer, the “Come and Get It” girl,

and Randolph |

while Charles Bickford will play the |

heavy role as he did in “The Plainsman.” The picture will be a drama of the old pony express days of the West.

adds to the danger to himself and with him,” young Humphrey Bogart and Frank Me-

Formal Opening

GOLDEN THEATER

6116 E. WASHINGTON ST.

Tomorrow Nite—Wednesday Doors Open 6:30

For pictures like his cur- |

all those | explains the adventurous | Irishman.

| pictures ‘a

walking |

| New York.

| Hugh are quiet steppers, while Lee

Dixon pounds noisily along even

when he has no tap-plates on his |

toes. Rather than make separate rules |

for individuals, one studio issued a general rule that all players who work or regularly visit sets

must be equipped to walk silently on

the sound stages. certainly “gum-shoe”

makes business.

Award Winner

Which

Returns Home

By United Pre HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 16. — Luise Rainer, the Viennese actress who

is scaling the heights in the Amer- | is back in Hol- |

ican cinema world,

lywood today after a short trip to

Miss Rainer to receive the award of the Metropolitan Film Critics for feminine screen performance of 1936. Her

of Anna Held in “The Great Zieg- |

feld.” |

The enviable boxoffice record of the picture is likely to be overshadowed, however, by Miss Rainer s | latest picture, “The Good Earth, - in which she costars with Paul Muni. The third week of the pic- | ture here broite all records.

SCREEN PLAYER |

SAILS FOR EAST

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 16. Fay Bainter, New York actress and | screen player, left Califorina over the week-end for a leisurely cruise | through the Panama Canal to New | York.

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“WOMAN IN RED" “FIRST A GIRL"

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ell and Marion Davies Also 'Adventures in Manhattan.” with Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea, AMBASSADOR | “After the Thin Man,” with Wil. liam Powell and Myrna Loy. Also, “Sinbad, the Sailor.” ALAMO “Can ‘This Be Dixie,’ ith Jane Withers. Also “The Devil Is a Sissy,

The Ritz Brothers, seen in “On the Avenue” at the Apollo beginning Friday, are in a combined imAlbert Einstein. At the richt, Madeleine (Annie Oakley) Carroll does some fancy shooting while Dick Powell looks on,

who will be

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO

| | “Lloyds of London," 11:35

3 with Freddie Bartholomew, at 4:35,

2:05,

7:05 and 9:35 CIRCLE { “We're on the Jury.” with Victor | Moore and Helen Broderick, at 11 {| 1:50, 4:40. 7:30 and 10:20. Also “Outcast,” with Warren William, at 12:32, 3:22, 6:12 and 9:02. CIVIC THE ATER “Speak of the Devil,” musical re. vue by Charles B. Gaynor. Curtain at 8: RETTS “Criminal-at-Lar presented by Federal Players. SirtalX at "8 30.

LOEW'S

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Federal Drama Unravels Tangled Mystery Story Laid in English Setting

‘Play Concerns Murders, Scotland Yard Officers and Assorted Lords, Ladies and Americans; Langill Stars in Role.

“Crimes

It presents a tangled skein that includes some strangled victims, Scotland Yard, numerous misapprehensions and incidental small-fry mysteries before the final solution. audience has a fair bit of fun in threading these out, but the

The

players are confronted with a | ster ner task—that of keeping | things going before and after the sure-fire goose flesh of | Act TIL | Let it be known, then, that [local company triumphs in the end. To do this they have to surmount an interminably pedestrian first act and

— . : . ; a concluding chapter in which the | element, of surprise comes sauntering

~ d . [ Grand Piano Festival to be held in |i; jike an old friend. However, oun ation | May at the Butler Fieldhouse. things do hold together and the la Nm of these committees casts noble efforts put across the ar Mr. Herrmann, finance, Mrs, |aforementioned Act II with a bang S osen ig ways and means; Adelaide | 3nd several shrieks from the audiConte, publicity; Gladys M. Fowler, | ance ickets: rs. Brown, festval ar- | "i is one of those not-so-mye- ¢ S} “hing, : - 4 State igre Wouters Will | membership; Sister Cecelia Rose, Leuk a whieh ce Administer Fund Plano study; Mrs. Charles Brom- |. per than behind the footlights. It minister Funds. { ley, state legislation; Gladys Al-| 3 | wes, music and programs has Inspector Tanner and Sergeants EE = An official OF p fan 10 | Ferraby and Totty, all of the C, I. ized | tion ; gan of the Founda- |p" yi has Lady Lebanon, clinging Officers of the recently-organized | tion, The Piano Teachers Digest, |=: 2v 18s y Le , clinging Wilking Foundation have been an- also is planned. It is to appear |LrMIy to her family tree amid all

the goings-on; her son, the youth-

nounced by the board of directors. | monthly.

They are Julius F, Herrmann, In- fou. ian 2 Br . dianapolis, president; Mrs. Blanche | rer ward, Isla, also a Lebanon an Dunne Brown, Indianapolis, first LANGFORD GETS SR for He Young Lord's Bie. | vice president; Mrs. J. O. Miller, ’ so there are two ill-mannered but | Peru, second vice president; Donald | ROLE IN 'VOGUES' determined young Americans ate | EB. Rogers, Newcastle, third vice — tached to the Lebanon household. | president; Mrs. Thurman Overton, | Times Special Two Men Strangled Columbus, fourth vice president; HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 16-—Frances Pr ‘ ; : ; aly : . C5 | From these ingredient: ) 7§= Mrs, Carrie M. Grubbs, Martins- | Langford, diminutive contralto, is |{epy is Aim Mg a oy ville, fifth vice president; Earl|the first performer to be selected | Wet ‘ : She 3 Howe Jones. Indianapolis, treasurer | for ; Suit 8 : : ‘that two men are found strangled Ee he DE dC ran important supporting role in | near Mark's Priory, ancestral seat of

| teacher in Indianapolis for the past

of scholarships and student loan by Sam and Be la Spewack, funds. oo - te Festival Committees Named to

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the | “A Day

and Miss Esther Dean, Indianapolis, | “Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938.” | : . 4 secretary. { A Lakeland, Fla, girl, Miss Lang- ie TE ON Mr. Herrmann has been a piano fgorq first won fame when she ap- Wallace, the author, had it hap-

peared on Rudy Vallee's radio pro- [pen right before their eyes, with no gram, Following this, she had [mirrors or dealing off the bottom of tage roles, toured in vaudeville and | {he deck. is featured on a radio program. She Bright spot in a a good performance made her debut in pictures in v Wanger's “Every Night at Eight,” supporting George Raft. “Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938” is to be based on an original story |

38 years and is serving his third term as president of the Indianapolis Piano Teachers Association. Each vice president is a plano teacher and will represent the Foundation in State districts, having charge of auditions and the selection of judges for presentation

Mr. Jones is teacher of piano and piano ensemble at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music and is |

Last 3 Days Richard DIX

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is Judson Langill's comedy as the Irish Sergeant Tanner. Restrained yet played for its full worth, it is one of the richest, ripest slices of

| humor served on Keith's stage this

| season, and the play needs it. Vera Massey, the new ingenue, | confirms the excellent impression of her debut last week with a wells played and thoroughly frightened Isla. Jack Duval's xersatility again is advantageous in the considerable part of the Inspector. As Lady Lebanon, Ruth King is sympathetic and convincing, though a little more contrast as the plot proceeds might be a help. Frederic Winter, who is about to desert the stage for radio, gives an able valedictory performance, and Herbert Sloan shows improvement as Lord Lebanon, The intricate “business” of the production is well handled. By J. T

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