Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1937 — Page 8
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937
LEAGUE OF NATIONS PRIZE FILM TO BE SHOWN AT LOEW’ S
Flora Robson Has Role of ‘Queen Bess’
Other Well-Known English Screen Stars Also In Cast.
| Winner of the League of Nations | Award by unanimous vote of 52] member nations, and boasting a successful American premiere at Radio City, New York, March 4, Alexander Korda's “Fire Over England” is to open a week's engage- | ment at Loew's on Friday. Judging from the advance pub- | licity, the picture is England's lat- | est contribution to the unofficial | contest between London and Holly- | wood to see which city can produce the mast spectacular and ac- | curate reproductions of British history and literary “classics. Directed by an American, William K. Howard, the film is acted by a cast which includes some of Englapd's best known screen players. Among these are Flora Robson, who plays Queen Elizabeth: Ray- | mond Massey as King Philip of Spain; Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks and Laurence Olivier, who appeared in several American films some five vears back, among them “Westward Passage,” with Ann Harding. Elizabeth Present
The story is of the days when Spain was at the height of its pow- | er and England was at the begin-! ning of its strength—the days of the Spanish Armada. the defeat of which plays an important part in the picture. Naturally, one of the chief characters is Queen Elizabeth. | Miss Robson was confronted with the same problem that besets any other actress attempting to do the famous English sovereign. She had | to decide upon the salient quality of the many sided Elizabeth—was she truly “Good Queen Bess" or was she, as a contemporary put it. “Crafty and jealous, suspicious and mean’? In recent ‘years have seen her in a tering light through “Elizabeth the Queen” and “Mary of Scotland.” both plays hy Maxwell Anderson. Miss Robson spent 18 months, it 1s said, studying Elizabethan lore before undertaking the part. and came to the following conclusions about her subject:
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Cameo Portrait Given
“Although she may not have deserved the title ‘Good Queen Bess she was most certainly a woman of action, a skillful diplomat. whose energy and zeal for the welfare of her country made her reigh immortal “My characterization is really a cameo portrait of what Elizabeth stood for. rather than a biographical survey . As I see her Elizabeth was a provocative. aggressive. possessive woman, temperamental if vou like, but every inch a queen “The zeal she showed in retaining her popularity with her subjects was matched only by her anxiety for their welfare. That is why her reign marked the real rise of England to prestige and power and became known as the golden age of its history. With all her foibles. Elizebeth taught people to worship an ideal.”
STARLET'S DIARY RECORDS FRIENDS
Timee Specin HOLLYWOOD, March 16. —Rosslind Marquis has perhaps the world's most unusual diary. She calls it her “good friends” diary She is determined that if she reaches the top she will not forget those who have aided her upward climb As an aid to memorv. the darkhaired starlet keeps a small black notebook in which she records every friendly act anvone in Hollvwood does in her behalf In the book thus far are the names of directors. casting directors fellow actors cameramen, make-up artists. electricians, property men and dozens of others, ALAMO
“CHAN AT
Last Day! Geo. O'Brien
THE OPERA" & “The Logger”
TOMORROW: 3 DAYS
RALPH BELLAMY
“MAN WHO LOR
A COLUMBIA PICTURE TEX RI TTER
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EAST SIDE
3155 ¥ 10th RIVOLI nod pens Deanna Durbin “THREE SMART GIRLS" Humphrey Bogart “BLACK LEGION” Prize 1936 Silly Symphony
TACOMA 2112 E. ‘Wash. St.
Double Feature Hugh Herbert “SING ME A LOVE SONG" Shirley Temple “STOWAWAY"
4020 E. New York TUXEDO Double Feature Dick Powell “GOLD DIGGERS OF 193%" 3s mes Cagney “THE GREAT GUY" 5507 E. Wash. St. 1 R V | NGS = Double Feature
Joan Blondell “GOLD DIGGERS OF 193%"
“GENERAL SPANKY”
EMERSON 4630 E. 10th St,
Double Feature Merle Oberon TO9VED ENEMY" “THE " 3 WHO LIVED TWICE”
HAMILTON “bras Festus
Double Feature Dick Powell “GOLD DIGGERS OF 193%" “THE PLOT THICKENS"
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1332 E. Wash. St. Double Feature Dvorak “RACING LADY Merideth AWINTERSET" p + nr hy St. ona ook aramoun Jack La Rue “ELLIS TSLAND" Comedyv—Noveitly
8 JO U 111 E. Wash. St.
Double Feature nee, aR A ING
Rurgess
Wendie Barrie
“RUSTLERS - ey POG” No. 1
NORTH SIDE i © Ilino's ana 3ith R | T L Double Feature “ONE IN A > “CHARLIE CHAN A
ST. CLAIR
Stratford
"HE'S THE WHOLE FAMILY
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The whole * “Johnson Family,’ headline the Lyric's stage show well known (oo radio listeners dP. ‘Mm, large “cast”
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Paul Wants Reciprocity
Favors Dickstein Bill Limit Alien Artists.
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Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 16.—Paul Whiteman, king of jazz, told the House Immigration Committee today that he believes art should be on a reciprocal trade basis, like and cattle. said he favored the DickBill, permitting foreign artto enter the United States in this fashion and added that he probably was tired paving “hoodle ' abroad “This ‘whole thing is like a football team,” he ‘explained. “I ‘went to England and they made me train a band the same cize as my own before they would let me plav. In France thev made me hire fou: men for each one in mv band 1 am tired of paving hnodle, of paving somebody else's salary for the privilece of working.” Mr. Whiteman refused to divulge the method whereby he had shrunk his avordupois from 327 pounds to a mere 195 “How 1 ‘do ‘it is Mrs, man's racket,” he said writing a book about it.”
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American Music To Be Presented
A program of American music will be offered by members of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia musical fraternity at 8:30 o'clock toniecht in Odeon Hall. The program is open to the public The following heard:
music ‘Is to ‘be
1 Piano and Organ Edward Turechek and Dale W. Young mn
At Sea."
Earl
Poem for Howe Jones
Sonata Vir Piano In the Woods “At the Biz House" Louis E. Zerke
RImianesuae’ for Violin and
John Powel
(Virginia Reel) and Earl Howe Jones 1
clk ITI Wake. Awake’ F. Melivs Christiansen “Show Me Thy Wav. O Lord oo ‘an Denman Thompson The Christ Child’ Mabel Daniels ang He. Never Said a Mu mba in’ rr Oh Sus anna’ Choral Fantasy
rone ~Koshetz Rhymes. H. Ak >xander Matthews “Song of the Marching Men’
Fo on Nursery
Hadley
Tech Choir. J n. director
NORTH SIDE H I} d 1500 Roosevelt Ave. Double Feature ° ywoo Wm. Powell “AFTER THE THIN MAN" ___Laurel- -Hardy “OUR RELATIONS" Central at Fall Creek ZARING Double Feature James Gleason “THE PLOT THICKENS" Greta Garbo “CAMILLE” 42d and College JPTOWN Double Feature Edward Arnold “COVE. AND GET IT" “FLYING HOSTESS”
GARR ICK 30th and Minois
Double Feature Gary Cooper “GENERAL DIED AT DAWN “CASE OF THE BLACK CAT" St. Cl. & Ft. Wayne Double Feature Wm. Powell
“AFTER THE THIN MAN" —. SITTING ON THE MOON"
u D E L L Udell at Clifton
Double Feature Joan Crawford “LOVE ON THE RUN” John Wavne “SEA SPOILERS" Talbott & 22d _ TALBOTT Double Feature 'm. Powell “AFTER THE THIN MAN" “MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS”
R E X 30th & Northw't'n.
Double Feature Dirk Powell “GOLD oIGGERS OF 193% “CAN THIS BE DYXIE?" 19th & College Double Feature ary Astor “TRAPPED RY TELEVISION” ‘T LIVE FOR LOV
MECCA
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Noble & Mass, Double Feature
VAL. HOUR" AN TOVE"
2361 Station St. Double Feature To» E. Brown
"in the person of Jimmy Scribner, which opens Friday.
Mondays through Fridays, of his broadcast series,
SANDERS
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Harpo Marx Has Melody In His Voice
‘Stars Can't Foul Sound Men, Technician
Tells Writer.
By JOHN DUNLAP
United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, March 16. : sound technician ‘and he'll tell you that no matter how much members of ‘one family may look alike, act alike and sound alike, their voices are never the
same.
Newell Sparks, chief sound mixer | for the Marx brothers, has ample | opportunity to realize this while | listening to the three brothers. This | includes Harpo, the one who never } | speaks in his films, because Sparks ‘ | hears many a speech by Harpo when scenes are being rehearsed. | “Harpo would be a big success | with dialogue if he ever talked,” the technician said. “He has a soft. ! s, | smooth and melodic voice which is {of clear quality. “Groucho has a high. clear tone, easily distinguished. while Chico's voice is hard. Groucho and Chico speak a great deal louder than most actors because of their stage experience, “Their technique is for gags to! tumble out of their mouths at top Lionel Barrvmore, Prank and Ralph | speed. And on the stage, having to Morgan, the Bennett sisters and | overcome constant laughter, they wallace Beery, Noah Beery and have learned to speak loud enough ' Noah Beery Jr. to be heard in the back rows. :
As for Harpo, never having had to shout above audience laughter, he speaks more softly and at a lower pitch than his brothers.” Mr. Sparks pointed out that this difference in voices is easily noted among other screen families, such as S Ue Costello sisters, John and
Guest artists with the Incianapolis Symphony Orchestra next Tuesday night at the Murat will be Vladimir Bakaleinikoff, associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, who will conduct the local players; and Miss Elma Igelman, artist teacher of voice at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory, who will be heard with the orchestra in arias by Bruch and Bellini.
Sea rch for Boy Rogues
Scouts Hunt Tom and Huck For Movie.
version of Mark
“Tom Sawyer.
i boys for a film | Twain's famed story
boy actor sources and tests of hundreds of applicants had failed to turn up suitable boys for the lead roles, Mr. Selznick ordered an extensive search. | Six ‘talent ‘scouts ‘were ‘sent throughout Southern California | schools, concentrating on outlying | areas because the producer believes - Ala Tom Sawyer Finn are most likely to be found in some country town, Working fast during school hours, the scouts are visiting four to six schools a day. Stardom may await la pair of boys now bending unsus- | pectingly over school gesks.
will Mr. Scribner is his one-man show over WLW at He portrays all members in the
I'nited Pres HOLLYWOOD, March 16 systematic search of Southern California schools was underway today for two roguish-faced bovs who can
play the film roles of Tom Sawyer and Huckelberry Finn. Producer David Selznick needs the
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
‘Wings of the Morning." LL Targa and Annabella. at 11
5:35. 7:35 and 9:33
CIRCLE
with 35
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And His Orchestra
T.adies, 15¢, All Evening Gentlemen, 25¢, Before 9
Tomorrow Night
ST. PATRICK DANG
Sponsored by A, .
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Swing Low with and Ried wha CME 20. 3:30, 5:40, 7:50
“Swing High Carole Lombard ray. . at 11:10 and 10 3 CIVIC “Home Chat by Noel presented by Civ Theater Curtain at 8:30
KEITH'S “Deluge.’’ presented Plavers. Curtain at 8:30
LOE W'S
“A Pamil Affa Barrymore, Cecila
Coward, ic Plavers
Binz Crosby, ge Evans, E. Fellows PENNIES FROM HEAVEN” Jane Withers, Slim Summerville
“CAN THIS BE DIXIE”
by Federal
Ruby Keeler says:
“Luckies are a light smoke that treat a tender throat right
’ with Lionel Parker and Eric Linden, ‘at. ,12:20. 2:45. 5:10. 7:35. and 10 Also “Parole Racket " with Paul Kelly and Resalind Keith, at 11:10. 1:35. 4. "6:25 “and "8:50 LYRIC and Johnson 101 6:39 and 3; 20
Secretary
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Olsen 1. 3:39 hand's
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Portre “Her screen 8 Hy 10 30
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“Pennies From Heaven Crosh Isa. ‘Can This with Jane Withers
AMBASSADOR In a Million Alsn The Plot Jimmy Gleason
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“Park Avene logger i Geonrece O'Brien Also ‘Charlie Chat at the Opera.”
with Bing Be Dixie
with 8onia
Thicken
One Henie with
SCHOOL PUPILS SEE BEERY FLY
limes Special HOLLYWOOD. March ona ace Beery gave 125 school kids the hrill of their lives, when aviation classes from the McKinley School for Boys and the Columbia School A El Monte, were the first to pre‘lew his new safety plane at the Zand Contral Airport. The M-G-M star. who holds a ransport pi'nt's licence, visited the ~irport to take delivery of his Siinon monoplan2, equipped with the test radio devices and spacial flyne instruments. The ‘students naking a tour of the aviation field ‘nd hangars ‘with their teachers. F. \C. Trapan ahd L. Mosier, ‘discovered Mr, Beery and refused to let him go.
[v PRICES CHANGE AT 5 P. M. |
SCREEN" “HER HUSBAND'S SECRETARY”
with Aean Muir, Roberts,
An independent survey was made recently among professional men and women — lawyers, doctors, lecturers, scientists, etc. Of those who said they smoke cigarettes, more than 87% stated they personally prefer a light smoke. Miss Keeler verifies the wisdom of this preference, and so do other leading artists of the radio, stage, screen and opera. Their voices are their fortunes. That’s why so many of them smoke Luckies. You, t00, can have the throat protec tion of Luckies—a light smoke, free of certain harsh irritants removed by the exclusive process “It’s Toasted”. Luckies are gentle on the throat.
Beverty Warren Hull
WEST SIDE
2302 WW, nth St, ST A T E Edmund Lowe Flis<a Landi “MAD HOLIDAY" Coma~dy—Cartoon
oe , W. Wash. & Belmont | >ELMON : ure
Pe uble Feature “THF
ary Cooper “MYSTERIOUS CROSSING”
PL NINSM AN 2540 'W. Mich st. 3 A | S Y Qauble Feature arth R “HIDEAWAY GIRL" A Rye Dionne Quintuplets “REUNION
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Tinig wht’ Ria fare cn “LOVE LETTERS CF A STAR” er Comedv—Novelties
SOUTH SIDE
FOUNTAIN SQUARE
Double Feature Jack Oakie "THE TEXAS RANGERS” “THE BLACK LEGION" At Fountain ‘Square Double Feature Patsy Kelly “PIGSKIN PARADE" “DON” TURN EM LOOSE”
AVALON Pros. at Churchman
Double Feature Clark Gable “CAIN AND MABEL “RAINBOW ON THE RIVER" 1105 S. Meridian Double Feature
ames ND “HEARTS IN BONDAGE" Pater Lorre ho On, Br
GARFIELD fii:
Doble Yexture Hugh Herbert “SING UE \ LOVE SON Shir'sv Temple UNC NN
CSTOWAW Ay
S._East at Lincoln ; Te Feature
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| play
| is excellent » | of Christian ny : "awakening After a preliminary check of routine |
and Huckelberry |
Mississippi Has Lead in Federal Play
Climax Fails to Arrive in Week's Drama at Keith's.
Periodically for the past 20 years that stage on, for irrever-
the movies ‘spoiled’ every they laid their hands reason of happy endings, ence or something. Most of the time it has been true. But you can see one instance where it was not at Keith's this week where the Federal Players are doing Frank Allen's “The Deluge.” The idea behind Mr. Allen's play It is the awakening brotherhood, : rude prodded by the fear of death. A rising Mississippi, weakening levees and a cloudburst set the stage for the drama. The scene is a saloon in a river town. One by one the characters enter. There is an elocutionary shyster lawyer, a hard-headed wheat speculator and his truehearted ‘fancy lady” whom he has cast off: a small-time gambler. a hoofer, a Swedish laborer with the idea for an invention. the taproom proprietor and his helper. They are marooned, the water rises, telephone. stock-ticker and finally the lights fail. All this the movie ‘which the writer remembers
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| vividly from several vears ago) | builds up to a powerful clunax. In both play and picture, the characters forgive their small-town hatreds of long standing, forget class barriers and unite to face death in a bond of brotherhood. Climax Is Missing But whereas the movie kept them penned in their basement crypt until they faced death from suffoca« tion, then impelled them to throw open the door to seek a quicker and easier death by drowning, the play rises to no heights. Both players and audience are skeptical about | the existence of the flood, and the climax never comes off Of course in both cases all the old animosity, selfishness and snobbishness rush back with the first feeling of safety. To comment on the performance is to be confronted again with the obvious inadequacies of a8 week's rehearsal concurrent with another play, and the tribulae« tions of a first nignt. The reliable Jack Duval is taking his second week's rest in more than a vear of exhausting work, and the part of O'Neill the lawyer, made= to-orcier for him, is placed in the hands of Herbert Sloan, up to now the company's juvenile. Mr. Sloan is hopelessly miscast and his drae matic deficiencies are more appars= ent than usual. Best jobs are done by C'Mari de Schipper as Sadie, Ira B. Klein as Nordling, the laborer and Gene Brittain, who does the bartender. Director John Cameron, Judson Langill, Mel Schwartz and Hal Hawkes, in the other principal parts, manage to keep their heads ahove water even when the storm races fiercest. (By J Q. TD
Glorious Uproarious Comedy Drama!
‘A FAMILY AFFAIR’
Barrymore Parker
Lionel Cecilia Erie Linden Mickey Rooney —PLUS— “PAROLE RACKET"
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“In a way, it’s easier to keep in con dition as a dancer than as a singer. Exercise can keep the muscles in shape, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong with the voice and throat. It stands to reason, then, that any actress wants a cigarette that is gentle and strikes the right note with her throat. I started smoking Luckies 4 years ago. They're a light smoke that treat a tender throat right.”
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LOVELY WARNER BROS. STAR NOW APPEARING IN "READY, WILLING AND ABLE”
THE FINEST TOBACCOS= “THE CREAM OF THE CROP”
A Light Smoke *It’s Toasted”—Your Throat Protection
AGAINST IRRITATION — AGAINST