Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1937 — Page 33

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ANNABELLA,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

IN APOLLO FILM, PROVES REAL DISCOVERY

% SR WRN

PER SIR A

French Star

IN STRAIT AND NARROW—AT LAST

Saves Movie From Mixup

British Color Photography

Called Superior to |

al} Hollywood's. By JAMES THRASHER | It is difficult to avoid reaching for all the 12-cylinder, moth-eaten | adjectives ot Hollywood press- | agents in describing the attractive ! qualities of the French star called Annabella, who makes her appearance in “Wings of the Morning,” which opens at the Apollo today. The picture also boasts the first English attempt at an all-color feature picture—which happens to be better than anything Hollywood has turned out—and a shortwinded, meandering plot whose like has not been seen in many years thank Heaven. There's enough delight in looking at Annabella, however, to forgive !

a Dpipe-dream sort of story that gives you Gypsy camps, of the Spanish revolution, vistas of the Emerald Isle, McCormack in a group of songs, a horse race finish at Epsom Downs and “boy gets girl”—all in baffling POISON Rare Quality Shown Well, to return to Annabella which is the most congenial task in speaking of this picture. She is a French actress in her first Englishspeaking role. She possesses that rare quality that can project the 1 of personality through the en's two-dimensional handicap and that is a quality more important in a star than acting ability. The box-office will tell vou that Canny controls

lovely

screen

Century

new to

its

-Fox, which American market, seems running mate equal to foreign entry, Simone Simon—--maybe better given an intelligent story and better direction. The picture's other mentioned earlier, is the truly gorgeous color photography. The Irish landscape, London on Derby Day and the race itself delight the eve as nothing, even “The Garden of Allah,” has done before. Also on the right side of the ledger are Mi: McCormack, who sings a group of songs with his accustomed artistry, and Henry Fonda, hero of the piece, who performs in a creditable manner

20th

the

chief virtue,

Plot Meandering

get into the plot 1 haven't

The

I can’t bear to because, after one viewing. much idea of what it’s about. scenario is stories by Donn Byrne, and there must be at least a half dozen of the Irish writer's yarns mixed into the final result. There's something about a Gypsy princess who married an Irish nobleman in 1889—that's how it starts The nobleman is killed in a fall from a horse, the wife returns to her tribe and one of the women lays a third-generation curse upon her for marrying outside the race. Well, such are the prolific propensities of these Gypsies that in 1940, the 1889 bride has a fullgrown great-granddaughter. The girl escapes from Spain, disguised as a boy, comes back to Erin and immediately swaps her greatgrandma's prize race horse for six old nags. Well, she gets in so doing,

from

the horse back and, meets a young Canadian relative of her great-grandfather's family. He grooms the Gypsy horse, “Wings of the Morning,” along with his own entry. If “Wings” wins the Derby, the Gypsy girl gets a dowry and a Spanish husband. Then comes the race, a mixup at the end which lets the Spanish fiance think that the horse has lost and his dowry has gone, and a final readjustment which gives the heroine the purse and the Canadian groom Yes, they'd been in love all the time. In spite of all this I think you might like the picture. I did. I'm not one to go off the deep end for Hollywood glamor-girls, but Mlle Annabella is pretty fancy, all the same,

Student Recital To Be Presented

Jordan Conservatory of Music will be heard in a recital at 8 p. m. tomorrow in Odeon Hall, 106 E. North St. Those appearing on the program | are Thelma Sacks, Helen Rosner, | Kathryn McLin, Edythe Dale, Ve- | tha Worley, Jane Howe, Virginia | Buchanan, Betty Jean Hatfield, Juanita Truitt, Jayne Linaburry. The performers are pupils of Sara | Miller, Alberta Speicher, Zorn and Lucille Wagner.

DIXIE DUNBAR HAS TONSILS REMOVED

By United Press

HOLLYWOOD, March 12.—Dixie Dunbar, film starlet from Atlanta, Ga. was recovering today from an operation for removal of her tonsils. The operation was performed at in

Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Hollywood.

a dash |

John

| about the point where I'd hit.

Advanced students of the Arthur | it wouldn't be so nice to bump one

Mildred Boyl and |

Marie

and his ORCHESTRA Egyptian Room

MURAT TEMPLE TONIGHT

930 P.M

10 Per Person Including Tax)

n If rchased oe 6 Po ni ht of dance. Tickets on sale now at Murat ie

Violent is the word for Olsen and Johnson. who open a week at the Lyric Qropped | in on Chiel Morrissey

famous comedians, today,

The

as soon as I

Tower Workers, Now in Novis, Describe Plunges

limes Spe

HOLLYW OOD, March 12

Almost evervone has heard the statement

at one time or another that a human being so unfortunate as to tumble off a high place invariably reviews his entire life during the brief period before he strikes the ground or whatever else happens to bring his fall

to an end. That statement, of a crew Stuart Erwin, William Wister hazardous work of build the towers long-distance lines. All three of these linemen have survived to tell of falls off towers they were helping to build—falls ranging from 75 to 100 feet-— and not one of them has the faintest recollection of having reviewed the minutest part of his life during the terrifving descent.

Survived 100-Foot Drop H. A. Wayland, who has worked

however,

Haines's novel, the men who and string the

longest fall of the three. his footing on the topmost crossbeam of a 100-foot tower—a height equal to that of an eight-story building—and fell all the way to | the ground. “Did 1 review my life during that | fall?” he said in answer to Pat O'Brien's query. “I did not! too busy looking for something to grab and hang on to.” Wayland's fall was broken 10 feet from the ground by a rope that was fortunately fastened diagonally across the base of the tower. The rope parted under the strain but it held just long enough to break the lineman’'s fall. He was not even scratched. “What did you do then?” O’Brien wanted to know. Wayland grinned. “I skinned right back up that tower like a rabbit,” he said, “because I knew that if I didn’t do it right away I'd lose my nerve and never climb another tower.”

Looked for Landing Spot

George Martinson is another veteran of the high-tension lines. He

Mr.

fell about 80 feet several years ago |

while working on a project in Mississippi.

Asked what flashed through his | | mind while he was falling, thought concerned |

he said

that his first

| what lay immediately below him.

“Every time I twisted around in

| the air I'd look at the ground,” he ! recalled. “On about the second twist

I noticed that a great big six-ton jack was alongside the tower right | 1 began to worry about that, because |

of those big jacks. “On the next spin I was amazad |

of linemen now working with Pat J. Farrell MacDonald and others on the picturization of “Slim.” ~~

{ first the jack and then Swede.

. . . ‘was a great guy.” on: high tension transmission proj- | £ g { ects all over the country, had the |

He lost |

I was |

is pure bunk, according to three members

O'Brien, Henry ¥onda,

The rice deals with the

quarters of the way down I grazed one of the lower legs and bounced off just like a rubber ball. I cracked up on a pile of empty insulator boxes, which just folded up under me like a mattress. All I got was

they arrived yesterday. ping on them two new spring strait-jackets—just for size—in a padded cell

a compound fracture of the right |

leg. “I never did get a chance think of the good or the bad things I'd done. All I could think of was He

Four Months in Hospital

to |

Ralph Lee was less fortunate than | | the other two linemen in that he |

fractured seven ribs, broke both legs |

and suffered a brain concussion in

| addition to assorted bruises and | | abrasions that laid him up in the |

for four Like the other two, however, he has no recollections whatever of having reviewed his during the 75-foot fall he suffered | seven years ago in western Pennsylvania. “I was lookin’ grab on to all the way down. | I didn't catch anything until reached the X-shaped strut at the top of the lowest section of the tower. It caught me right in the | mid-section and I hung on it for a | split second. It didn’t do me no |

| hospital months,

But

and one-half |

life |

The Chief is shown slip-

at police headquarters.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

of the Morning,” with Fonda And Annabella. at 11 35,

5 and 9:35,

“WwW ngs Henn 1:35. 3

CIRCLE

“Swing High, Carole Lombard ray, at 11:10 hd 10.

Swing Low,” with and Fred sas eMuL, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 50

CIVIC Chat.”

by Civic 8:30

KEITH'S “Co-respondent

sented by Federal at 8:30.

bv Noel Theater

“Home presented Curtain at

Coward, Players.

Unknown,” Players,

pres Curtain

LOEW'S

“A Affair.” "with Lionel Barrymore Seetla Patker and Bric Linden, at 12:20, 2:45 5:10, 7:35 and 10. Also “Parole Racket.” with Paul Kelly and Rosalind Keith, at 11:10, 1:35, 4, 6:25 and 8:50.

LYRIC

Olsen and igs 12:45. 2:55, 5:05 17:25 Husband' s Secretary” 11:30, 1:50,

Family

ig p pave) at 9:45. ‘Her on screen) at 4, 6:10, 8:30 and 10.

OHIO

“Theodora Goes Wild" Dunne. Also Wild B with Ralph Bellamy.

AMBASSADOR

nr oRrand, ' with Charles LaughAlso "Once a Doctor,” with Donald" Woods.

ALAMO

eat Guy,” with James Cagney. “Stormy Trail,” with Rex Beil.

with _Trene rian Kent,

“Or Also

~ | innocent,

FORESEE RISE IN

for something to |

| good, but I guess I shouldn't com- |

| plain because if I hadn't hit that |b

HILTON FILES FOR DIVORCE IN JUAREZ

By United Press

EL PASO, Tex, March 12 —James Hilton, author of “Goodbye, Mr. | Chips” and “Lost Horizon,” has filed [suit in Juarez Civil Court for di|vorce from Alice Helen Brown | Hilton of London, England, the Herald-Post learned today. Mr. Hilton charged incompatibility. His petition states that he and Miss Brown were married in East- | bourne District, Sussex, Oct, 19, 1935, | and have been separated since July | 1936. They have \ no children.

’

to notice that a great big ground |

worker, whom we called ‘Swede, | had jumped over the jack. He knew [ he couldn't move it alone, so he

| had hunched himself over the dog-

| goned thing so I'd hit him instead | | of the jack. “Well, I didn’t hit either him or | the jack because about three- '

| ne, Melvyn “THEODORA GOES is Ralph Bellamy, Mae Clark “WILD BRIAN KENT”

Today!—A Grand Uproarious Story of

ONE MAN'S FAMILY

(it might be yours!) Stars of “Ah; Wilderness!” Are Together Again In

‘A FAMILY

PLUS Who Gets Em Out?

PAROLE RACKET

Thrillingly Shows You!

CECILIA

25¢

AFFAIR

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cast

LIONEL BARRYMORE

PARKER « ERIC LINDEN

MICKEY ROONEY « CHAS. GRAPEWIN

LOEW'S

PICTURE TARIFFS

By United hits PARIS, March 12. — Possibility that the United States film industry | will be forced out of Austria was

| foreseen in the Paris headquarters | sit-down striker,

of the industry in Europe today.

| the importation of | Hollywood. The fees now range be-

| tween $300 for an American film with one print to $900 for a film | ner Challenge Cup in an exciting

with three or more copies.

y 25 per cent in the Austrian fee on pictures from |

‘Home Chat’

Offered at Playhouse

‘Cosmopolitan Cast Is tp Be Seen in Civic

from the English upper class, *

which represents Scotland, | England and the United States. | Christian Morris came to America | { from Scotland; Tina Brant

| Triangle Situations Presented i |

In “Home Chat,” the first Coward | play to be offered by Civic players ! | since “I I.eave It to You” in 1931, | the author introduces several of his | | famous triangle situations. | The story concerns a couple whose | escape from a train wreck gives | cause for drawing room gossip, and {the woman, forgiven by her hus- | [band for an affair of which she is revenges herself by pretending guilt. | When “Home Chat” was first presented in London a few vears ago, one critic wrote of the characters: “Their talk consists largely of consequential, often witty, nothings, replete with affectation and current slang. They play a hectic game on the edge of an abyss in a frenzied attempt to escape the brutal facts of life by ignoring them.” Sets for “Home Chat” were designed by Emily Tharp, and Mr. Burleigh, as usual, directed. The offering may be seen each evening through Wednesday, with the curtain at 8:30 o'clock.

Film Shows Court Fight

Newsreel Pictures Roosevelt

Judiciary Talk.

| 1 { { |

The opening of the fight over the President's proposed judiciary | reorganization is featured in The Times-Universal newsreel now showing in Indianapolis community theaters. President Roosevelt is seen and heard as he opens his court attack, speaking at the Democratic Victory Dinner in Washington. Opposing the proposed changes, Rear- | Admiral Hobson also speaks in | Washington. | Other features of this week's pictorial news review, announced by Graham McNamee, are big league

from | | Ttaly and S. Olive Payne from Eng- | land. These players will make their |

Recital Set

| of Mrs.

| Ruth Clore, Martha Rooker, Harold Mah- |

| Joan | Buchanan, | stance MeclLeon,

| baseball clubs in training quarters; | views of the tanker, | rammed and sunk by a liner off | San Francisco; customers picketing a tavern in Joliet, Ill.;

Bernardino, Cal, and Columbiana is shown winning the $50,000 Wide-

race at Hialeah Park, Miami.

ao hot trum. pet, but he's only @ cold potato fo Corolel

A smash love story — sockeroo comedy . .. and things and stuff! *

on LE

mm, a a Be

Last Day! Jus. Cagney “The Great Guy”

TOMORROW: FIRST SHOWING

Frank Buck, |

MONEY-SAVING TWINS

Jean and Judith Kircher have created a small revolution in the pic-

ture industry.

Since they've been in the movies, directors who employ

them are saved the costly production hours of coaxing an infant to ory

in one scene and look pleasant in the next.

The reason is, as the pic-

ture shows, that Jean always cries when placed under studio lights,

While 3

For Sunda

‘Burroughs Junior Students to

Give Concert.

The Burroughs School of Music | has announced a junior student re-

cital to be given at 4 p. m. Sunday | The fol- |

in the Hotel Washington. lowing pupils will participate: Dorothy Hurst, Marjorie Dick Ulrick, Joan Smith, Ruthy Ellen Middleton, Herman Wichser, Ruth Bell, Gertrude Hall, Bobbv Johnston, Alma Jean Ehlers, Jane Butter, Patty Ward, Mary Ann Mallott, Mary Wierick, Margaret Ellen Ehlers, Ruth Clore, Betty Fields, Helen Ann Garrison, Bobby Kuester, Dorothy Jean Kuester, Marylyn Voger, Betty Burgess and Billy

| Horn, | A feature of the program will be

the junior choir under the direction Jane Johnson Burroughs. The choir personnel Wilma Rooker,

Joan Crass,

Schatz, |

iSeer Judith behaves ike a per fect lady.

Bur-

| be open to all persons interested in |

[opers. Stud study. oc |

SOPRANO SIGNS TO FILM "LUCIA"

By United Press TURIN, March 12, = Mercedes Capsir Tanzi, Spanish soprano well known in the United States, nounced today she had signed a contract to appear in a film version of “Lucia di Lammermoor” in Hollywood. She said she would leave for Hollywood shortly with a supporting cast of Italian Yocalists.

includes Miss |

sling, Myra Ann Mahsling, Robert, |

Pool, Janet Johnson, Childs,

Johnson,

Martha Eifert,

Fredda Miller, Jo Ellen Burroughs, Lashier, Martha Jones, Esta Dolly Buchanan, ConBilly Loase, Marion Muhlenbuch, Carol Arnholter, Albert Arnholter, Marjorie Ann Schatz, Mary Jane

Joan Evans,

TODAY! They Loved...

, RECKLESSLY. . . FEARLESSLY, cee DEFIANTLY!

Romance flaming from wirife« torn Spain to the home of English Kings! Drama . . . specta- « thrills , . . more thrill-

in color that's perfect!

ANNABELLA

(Remember her mame... you'll never forget her lovely face!)

NRL ii LESLIE

IN NATURAL TECHNICOLOR

JOHN McCORMACK singing treasured melodies of Ireland

STEVE DONOGHUE riding in the most sensational English Derby aver runt

EXTRA JOY!

THE SEASON'S MUSICA MASTERPIECE! N

“SWING, FOR SALE"

With HAL LEROY MOVIETONE

|ZARING

Monna Gale | Joan | Joyce Ann Lowe, Joseph | | Price, Howard Moore, Ann Kahn,

Betty Browning,

Betty Ann Hocker, |

Barbara Ann Bidwell and |

department, | pre= |

an=- |

FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937

Thorpe Says Father Took

State Relief

Difficulties With Mary Astor Forced Action, Doctor Says.

By United Press HOLAKYWOOD, March 12, =Dr, Franklin P. Thorpe, Mary Astor's former huse band, today angrily admitted the truth of a published report that his efforts to pro- | vide financial security for the | diary writing actress forced ‘him to permit his parents to 80 on public charity for 15 | months in 1934-35. “I wouldn't have opened my mouth about it,” said the | physician, “only 1 was told that the matter was going to

| be brought up by other parties, and I consented to give out the | facts.” Dr. Thorpe said 65-year-old Mr, [and Mrs. Samuel 8. Thorpe were on | State relief from May 22, 1934. to August, 1935. Then his father, who lost a $250,000 fortune, obtained a job as Federal Revenue Bureau investigator. The elder plied for

Thorpe ‘said relief because his son “had been sucked dry through | lawsuits over his marital affairs.” ({ Dr. Thorpe, when he was di= | vorced from Miss Astor, agreed to a property settlement and support of their 5-year-old daughter, Mari= lyn. This was prior to the child custody suit bringing to light the | famous purple-ink diary wherein the star detailed Hollywood film colony love life

PROFESSOR

As a result of his performance in “Maid of Salem,” Harvey Stephens was given a long term contract. Currently he .is playing a college professor role in "Murder Goes to College.”

he ap-

oN THE SCREEN

“HER HUSBAND'S SECRETARY"

Jean Muir

with BEVERLY ROBERTS WARREN HULL

Tonight's Presentetions at Your

Neighborhood Theaters

NORTH SIDE

Minois and #ith Double Feature

R | T LZ rd Arliss

“EAST MEETS WE _"COME_ CL OSrR FOLKS"

” 500 Roosevelt Ave, | Holly wood |

YN outre Feature Bruce Cabot Yo OF TERROR" "RANGER | GER COURAGE" w Central at Fall Creek | Double Feature Barbara Stanwyek “THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS” Joe EE. Brown "POLO JOE"

UPTOWN 42d and College

Double Feature Te a | “HEARTS IN BOND “ “LUCKIEST GIRL IN Tn orp |

GARRICK 80th and Illinois

Double Feature Prank Me Hugh “THREE MEN ON H E TIMOTHY'S Que Eo ST. CLAIR “opin Featu “AMBASSADOR BILL" “OUR RELATIONS”

UDELL Udell at_Ciifton

Double Feature Martha Raye “HIDEAWAY GIRL" 'T00_ MANY PARENTS” Talbott & 22d TA TALBOTT Double Feature Er fe Linden ‘IN HIS STE pr, YING HOSTESS’ ’ 80th & Northw't'n. RE E) X Super Special Clark Gable Marion Daviex—Roscoe Karns CAIN AND MABEL

Double Feature

19th & College Stratford “GENTLEMEN ARE BORN” ___ "Bulldog Drummond Strikes Again” Double ve ture Rudy ailee “SWEET MUSIC” Walter Huston ) a 2361 Station St, Double Feature “THE Cn OF THE BLACK CAT” SECRET VALLEY” ~ WW a 2102 W. 10th St. S T A T E Double Feature “T'RAIL ey THE LON OME PINE” w. Wash. & Belmont Double Feature “COME CLOSER FOLKS" MHOPALONG CEARSIDY RETURNS" Dovble Feature an ER ROE” J ® AND 1 Kip"

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Double Feature Martha Raye wHBk AWAY GIRL’ EMPTY SADDLES’

SANDERS 0 Yorwinin Savors

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WAY PASSAGE’ 1105 8. Meridian St. ORIENTAL

Double Feature Stuart Erwin “ALL-AMERICAN CHUMP" “EVERYTHING IS THUNDER”

a , — GARFIELD ~~ ‘pouie fear “DANIEL BOONE" “SMART BLOND"

8. East at Lincoln LINCOLN Roiible Feature William Boyd “HOPALONG CASSIDY RETURNS” Spencer Tracy "FURY" a 1045 Virginia Ave, GRANADA Double Feature Jack Benny “THE BIG BROADCAST” ——THE_PRESIDENT'S MYSTERY"

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