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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937

HISTORY, SWING AND TRAGEDY OFFERED IN MOVIE THEATERS

Orchestra

ls Reseated For Prelude

Bakaleinikoff tion to Require Violins in Unison.

Transcrip-

I'uesday night's concert by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will offer the first appearance of Miss Elma Igelman, lyric soprano

and teacher at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory, as soloist with the orchestra: the second engagement of Vladimir Bakaleinikofi, associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, as guest conductor, and the first Indianapolis hearing of Mr. Bakaleinikofl’s transscription for orchestra of the Bach Prelude in E Major. The prelude is the familiar one written originally as part of the E Major Sonata for violin alone, and heard frequently both in its original form and with piano accompaniment. In the Bakaleinikoff version the solo part is played by the orchestra’s first and second violins in unison To gain the desired ensemble effect. Mr. Bakaleinikoff has reseated the orchestra according to the arrangement used by the Cincinnati Symphony. The second violins are to be beside the firsts, and the violas are to face the first violins at the right of the stage, with the cellos beside them

Franck Symphony

The Introduction of Mussorgsky's opera, “Khovantschina,” will open the program. It will be heard in the orchestration of Rimsky-Kor-sakov. who rescored this and Muss- | orgsky's other opera, “Boris Godounov.” { Cesar Franck’'s D Minor Symphony will be the program's largest item. This work, whose cyclical and cumulative use of themes throughout the three movements is credited with having set the style of modern symphonic treatment, has not appeared on the local orchestra’s programs in the last three seasons Miss Igelman has chosen to sing the recitative and aria, “Care Campagne,” from Bellini's opera, “La Somnambula,” and an “Ave | Maria” by Max Bruch. Following |

Set

Opening \g Tomorrow

Apollo (Opening Today)

“THE HOLY TERROR”—With Jane Withers, Anthony Martin, Leah Ray, Joan Davis, Bd Brendel and Joe Lewis. Directed by James Tinling; screen play by Lou Breslow and John Patrick; photographed by Daniel B. Clark. Story—Peppy youngster at naval air base is assighed young sailor to keep her out of trouble. Sailor spends much time at a hangout operated by his girl friend. Sailors, aided by girl friend, give show, but it is broken up by riot in crowd, and commandant closes hangout by refusing to let sailors go there. Spies take it over and are about to learn secret airplane plans by using it as observation base when youngster drives them out, reunites her sailor with his girl friend and restores happiness for everyone.

Cirele (Second Week!

“SWING HIGH, SWING LOW"—With Carole Lombard, Fred McMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour and Harvey Stephens. Directed by Mitchell Leisen; screen play by Virginia Van Upp and Oscar Hammerstein IT from play by George M. Watters and Rrthur Hopkins; photographed by Ted Tetzlafl. Story—Happy-go-lucky ex-soldier and night club singer, who js en route to California and marriage, meet on boat bound for Panama. He takes girl on tour of Panama, gets into fight over her with natives. Arrested, they miss the boat. She gets his trumpet out of hock, then gets him job in night club. Then she marries him. He becomes sensation, and goes to New York, forgetting her But when he hears she is to get divorce, he loses interest in music, then loses jobs. Friends persuade her to return to him, and he becomes a swingdom sensation.

Loew's

“FIRE OVER ENGLAND"—With Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Morton Selten and Tamara Desni. Directed by William K. Howard; screen play by Clemence Dane and Sergei Nolbandov from novel by A. E. W, Mason; photographed by James W. Howe. Story—Enlish lieutenant and son, in service of Sir Francis Drake, are captured by Spanish during sea battle. The Spanish commander, an old friend of the lieutenant, allows young man to escape, but the father is burned alive by the Inquisition. Young lieutenant swears to avenge father's death, although he has fallen in love with beautiful Spanish girl. He returns to England to serve Queen Elizabeth, saves her from attempted assassination, but loses standing when he tells openly that members of her court, in pay of Spanish King, plot against her. He later gets chance to go to Spain to learn names of blotters, and returns to England to share in glory of the defeat of the Armada. He also wooes and wins pretty lady-in-waiting to the queen, Lyric

“NANCY STEELE IS MISSING” (on screen)—With Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre, June Lang and Robert Kent. Directed by George Marshall; screen play by Gene Fowler and Hal Long from story from Charles Francis Coe; photographed by Edward Cronjager. Story—Ardent pacifist, hating munitions king, kidnaps latter's daughter, burying clothes to identify her later and leaving her with farm family. He {s sentenced to prison for minor brawl, later is “framed” and gets life sentence. Before his release 20 years later, he meets clever crook who learns his secret. Out of prison, he intends to return kidnaped child, now a grown woman, but she accepts him as her father, and he abandons idea. Then prison acquaintance shecots him, and passes off another woman as the long-missing daughter. Kidnaper recovers and confesses and goes back to prison for life. VAUDEVILLE (on stage) —With Jimmy Seribner, Mutual-WLwW radio entertainer and one-man show known for his “Johnson Family”; Watson Sisters, comedians; Allen and Kent, dancers; Three Flames, rolier skaters; the New Yorkers, a miniature revue.

‘safe to come back to Hollywood. |

| jurisdiction.

court Friday.

Fannie T. Mitchell Returns | i ' . . ’ | From 'Negotiation. | out fail becomes one of the most | stage.

If It's Safe, | He'd Return | To Filmland

George Kaufman Seeks Dismissal of Warrant In Diary Case.

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, March 18. - George Kaufman, the “he’s wonderful” man of Mary Astor's dairy, extended a cautious feeler from | New York today to make sure it's

A court proceeding—by proxy |

with Mr, Kaufman still safely out | of reach--was on file asking dis-! missal of a bench warrant issued when the playwright skipped town last summer to avoid giving details in court of his association with Miss Astor.

Mr. Kaufman caused a citation to be served on A. P. Michael Narlian, lawyer for Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, the red-haired star's former husband. Mr, Narlian had subpenaed Mr. Kauiman at the time Miss Astor’s purple-ink diary was being read in court during the ThorpeAstor child custody battle. With the citation, which demanded that Mr. Narlian show cause why the warrant should not | be dismissed, was an affidavit, de- | claring Mr. Kaufman is a New York resident and out of California

is scheduled for Dr. Thorpe said he was willing to drop the contempt proceedings.

The matter

Back in Reno For Divorce

By United Press

| {

| Todd Mitchell, St. Louis playwright,

| has returned to Reno, apparently to | to

RENO, Nev., March 18.—Fannie

| resume preparations to divorce her | ballet-master husband, Leon Leoni-

! doff, New York, for the second time.

M. A. Diskin, her attorney, de-

| of

WEEPING

HAS PLACE IN COMEDY

A tearful moment in the comedy, Swing Low,” which begins ils second week at the _Carole Lombard and Fred Mac-

Circle tomor row.

“Swing High,

Murray, the stars, are shown at the right, Jean Dixon and Charles Butterworth look on apprehensively from behind the piano.

while

Lionel Barrymore Rated Star Over His Own Protest

By OTIS WILES Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, March 18.—Lionel Barrymore is a motion picture star

over his own protests,

Rated as one of the leading stars in films, with more than 25 years of stage and screen experience behind him, Barrymore insists he is nothing

more than a character actor.

Although his name appears constantly in star billing he is happiest when he plays small roles that require strong and unusual characteriza~

tion.

He has done this often, most re- | screen gives the actor a greater

with Greta Garbo in “Caand the smaller role with-

cently | mille,” { dominant sequences in the picture, “Day of Character Actor” He believes that this is the day such stars as

Paul Muni, Gladys George, Wallace Beery and Edward Arnold, who, in

[ reality, are character players of the { highest order.

the character actor and points Luise Rainer, |

| chance for naturalness than the

“An actor before an audience

| feels a personal contact. | his friends may be out there bevond the footlights and, knowing this, their presence often causes | him to detract from the natural and impersonal performance he | had resolved to give.” | Mr, Barrymore had many ups and

Many of |

cess was in “The Lion and the | Mouse.” At that early date, pictures were still clumsy, Mr. Barrymore | |€ thought he saw a chance to aid in| improving them, so he became a director. His first job as director was “Madame X,” starring Ruth Chatterton, Until then, the camera was enclosed in a huge “ice-box” and the microphone also was stationary. He wanted the microphone to move with the movements of the characters. Sound engineers almost swooned when they heard such a revolutionary idea. The “mike” has been mobile ever since. Mr. Barrymore also directed the | first all-color motion picture, the | “Rogue Song,” starring Lawrence Tibbett.

ADDED TO FAME

Charles Riesner, directing “Mur« der Goes to College,” is author of the song, “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France,” that took the country by storm as the United States entered the World War. He is still receiving royalities on it.

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Your favorite “public “nuisance” is on tho loese " agoin...te the Admiral's sorrow . . . to the mid- } shipmen's Joy ® She's riotous, laughable, prank. Ish...a whirlwind of mischief, oxcitement ond joy!

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TONY MARTIN

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LEAH RAY Jo DAVIS EL BRENDEL Y JOE LEWIS ®

GRAND TUNES, TOO! “Don't Sing~—Evarybody Swing" “There | Go Again” “1 Don't Know Myself Since | Know You"

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Movietone News

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LAST DAY —‘A FAMILY AFFAIR" —

“PAROLE RACKET"

TOMORROW! 2 SPLENDID HITS!

WITH RECKLESS ADVENT UY al “. /

the intermission the Bach Prelude | will be heard. | ‘Romeo’ Overture Scheduled

To close the concert, Mr. Bakaleinikoff will conduct the orchestra in Tschaikowsky’s Overture-Fan-tasy, “Romeo and Juliet.” This overture was one of the first of Tschaikowsky's works to gain fame, and remains one of the most admired of his compositions, Its themes generally are accepted as characterizing Friar Laurence, then the strife between the Capulets and Montagues, and finally the love of

downs before the screen found its voice. He even supported a trained | dog in a silent picture. When sound arrived he was acclaimed overnight one of the greatest character ace tors who ever lived. His first suc-

| clined to comment on a possibility | 5" ‘ in the sf | that a controversy over property | This couldn't happen in the si-

| ‘Announce Troth | rights had been settled, Miss |lent days” said Mr. Barrymore. Of Lyle Talbott ; Mitchell came to Reno two months | “When movies were in their infancy,

|ago but left hurriedly two weeks | 2S the trite saying goes, the stories

ago for New York to “negotiate” always dealt with adolescent love. By United Prese | with Mr. Leonidoff. | Character actors then were only inHOLLYWOOD, March 18.—Lyle The playwright and ballet master © dental 0 sue sory. d motion pie wood’ | at the Radio City Music Hall first | “When s ‘ed m A Tali one of Hollywood's most el- | were married on Ay 6, 1930, at Ma- | tures, that was the salvalion of the | igible bachelors, | forgotten character actor. Spark- |

Is to be matried a | maroneck, N. Y. Their first divorce (week from Sunday to Miss Marthy ling dialogue issuing from the | mouths of babes did not sound right.

game in Reno on Oct. 26, 1932, when | | Cran p F res ner, friends of the actor re | Thus we character players and older |

Miss Mitchell obtained a decree on | | vealed today. a cruelty charge. In February, 1933, | actors. were admitted into better jobs in pictures.”

Miss Cramer met Mr. Talbot at She married Seymour A. Wooner, Christmas time in the home of Mr, Put soon divorced him and remar- Barrymore also believes the |

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

Terror,” with Jane 12:48, 2:36, 4:33. 6:21

BLAZING

Holy 'ithers, at 11, 8:00 and 9:57. SD — . IF rl. IL Il] Fl #

EYE Ee,

SYLVIA SIDNEY “Woman

CIRCLE “Swing High, Swing Low' with

Carole Lombard and Fred NacMur: ray. at 11:10. 1:20. 3:30, 5:40, 7:50

and 10 owe

“Home Chat,’ by Noel Coward presented bY. “Givte Theater Players

Curtain at KEITH'S

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"Winterset"

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Romeo and Juliet, After this exposition of the themes the *strife” motive returns, then there is re=currence of the Friar Laurence music, and Romeo's song of lamentation closes the overture. The orchestra will be augmented T'uesday night by Emil Schmachtenberg, bass clarinetist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, whose services are required in the Franck symphony. | Subscribers who can not use their tickets for this concert are re-| quested by the Symphony Socieiy to turn them in at the Society's headquarters, 120 E. Ohio St. so that at least a part of the heavy demand can Je _ccomodated

Film Guns Roar On Two Fronts’

limes Special | HOLLYWOOD, March 18.—With machine guns roaring on two! “fronts”—the sets of two pictures on the same studio lot involving such gunnery—bullets figuratively were | fiying thick and fast this week in moving picture making. One of the machine guns was operated by Charles Quigley, playing | the role of an undercover flying GMan, in “Honeymoon Pilot.” Foilowing a genuine midair “dog fight” between several planes on location, | closeups of Quigley's aerial shooting | were made on a sound stage. The other picture was “Right Guy,” featuring Paul Kelly and | Jacqueline Wells, in which Kelly plays a modern police officer. Al half dozen machine guns rattled a | rain of bullets in a scene in which | Kelly is rescued from gangsters by {ellow officers.

VIRGINIA KEEPS FIT

Virginia Bruce's Sunday exercise | consists of a horseback ride in the! morning, a five-minute bicycle ride | at noon and tennis in the after- |

noon.

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“Deluge.” presented bv Federal

Players. Curtain at 8:3

LOEW'S

“A Family Afaly. with Lionel Barrymore, Cecila Barker and Bric Linden at 12:20, 2:45, 5:10. 7:35 and 10. Also “Parole Racket.” with oa Kelly and Rosalind, gern at 11:10 | 1:35. 4. 6:25 and 8

LYRIC

Olsen and Johnson (on stage) at { 1, 3:39, 6:39 end 9:29, “Her Husband's Secretary’ (on screen) at

31, 2:10, 5:10. 8 and 10:30.

OHIO

the Light Brigade and Olivia de

| “Charge of { with Errol Flynn Havilland. AMBASSADOR “Winterset,” with Margo and Bur- ! gess Meredith, Also ! with Sylvia Sidney, |

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land Mrs. Sam Davis of Hollywood, | where the wedding will be held. Mr. Talbot indicated that he would take

‘his bride on a honeymoon to Eng{land as soon as he finished a picture He will be en- | severe case of make-up poisoning, |

| gaged in picture work in England on | and his wife rapidly recuperating |

at Republic Studios.

the trip. The Talbots expect to make their |

{home in Hollywood.

'RISKIN PLANS

EUROPE HOLIDAY |

i Times Special

| ried Mr. Leonidofl.

Mr.

M'MURRAYS WELL

Himself fully recovered from a |

| after a long illness, Mr. and Mrs. |

| | | |

HOLLYWOOD, March gis]

ert Riskin, who wrote the screen play of “Lost Horizon” and recently was promoted to directorship at Columbia Studios, is planning a vacation in Europe. Upon his return he will launch his next picture, as yet unchosen, both write and direct.

which he probably will

Fred MacMurray took their first | joint outing in many weeks today | | when they drove to Santa Barbara for a brief holiday.

ENGLISH | MAR. 25. 26, 27 2 SEATS NOW

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