Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1937 — Page 6

PAGE 6

‘REALLY,

French Star

Resembles Edward VIII

But Movie Is Amazing Mistake, Says Studio.

“The King and the Chorus Girl,” which introduces Fernand Gravet to American film audiences, will open Friday at the Apollo.

times Special

HOLLYWOOD, March 23. | —Anyvbody around Warner Brothers’ studio will tell you | it was all a mistake. Merely | coincidence. Amazing, yes, but just one of those things that give Hollywood's film moguls gray hairs. Of course, “Ihe King and the | Cherus Girl’ does deal with an ex- | monarch’s love for an American | lady. Of course, Fernand Gravet| does look and talk like the Duke of Windsor, But it's and— { “Really, Mr. Hays, we didn't have | the Edward-Wallis Simpson affair in mind at all when we started pro- | duction. Why, we wouldn't think | of such a thing, Mr. Hays! Such were the frantic denials of | the film executives when England's King and Emperor suddenly quit | his job right in the middle of pro- | duction of Director Mervyn LeRoy's latest film romance. “But now look here, Mr. they added plaintively, “there won't by any harm in advertising that it | was inspired by the affair, will it?

Czar Puts Foot Down But Movie Czar Will Hays, whose heart is sometimes described as twice as hard as diamond and 20 degrees below zero, emphatically replied that there would. He wouldn't permit it, And

1 | | still merely coincidence, | |

Hays,” |

so when Wamer Brothers releases “The King and the Chorus Girl” this week, you won't see a speck of advertising even suggesting England. It's Mr. Gravet’s American debut and it's remarkable how many : scenes there are in which he sug- | gests Great Britain's abdicated King. Sometimes you see the resemblance | in the mouth, again in the eyes, or again in some mannerism. Groucho Helped Write It | The story of “The King and the] Chorus Girl” is an original yarn by , Groucho Marx and Norman Krasna, ! written prior to the Simpson case. | Mr. Gravet, as a bored ex-H.R. H,, | falls in love with an American charmer (Joan Blondell) in the chorus of the Folies Bergere. During a private dinner party in his | suite, she finds it necessary to slap him and walk out. Intrigued, the former monarch of all he surveyed decides that here is a girl worth marrying. And so he does Smart, smooth, spicy are some of the adjectives previewers have used, | adding that it has what is known in the film trade as the Lubitsch touch—with “belly laughs.” Edward Everett Horton is seen in the role of His Royal Highness’ gentleman-in-waiting

| {

Father: Doughter TeaminNewFilm

y United P» HOLLYWOOD, March 23.—Barbara Pepper and her ‘father, David | Pepper, the only father-daughter acting team in Hollywood, will be seen soon in “Outcasts of Poker ! Flat,” a story of the early gold rush days in California | Papa Pepper was a stock actor in his early days but deserted the stage for a business career while still a young man, It was not un- | til he visited his young daughter

MR. HAYS, FILM

A - nN.

THE INDIANaruLlS TIMES

WAS JUST COINCIDENCE

HIS MAJESTY

Mr. Gravet “a has ex-kingly look.

‘Convicts’ Faces Cut From Film

led Presse

By Uni

HOLLYWOOD, March

2ral convicts in San Quentin prison

ost the chance to be movie stars | today.

Warner Brothers' picture after the prison was shot partly inside the institution on condition it be censored by the prison board and warden before release. Five feet of film, which convicts’ faces, was sliminated.

ANN SOTHERN

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| secure them early.

To Benefit Scholarship

Mu Phi Epsilon Sponsors Poldi Mildner Recital

The local chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music honor society, which is spon- | soring the recital by Poldi | Mildner, Viennese pianist, ! April 1 in Caleb Mills Hall, | will apply proceeds from the ticket sale to its scholarship fund, it has been announced. |

Tickets are being sold by active | members, patronesses and alumnae | members, who urge prospective | patrons wishing reserved seats to About half the | seats will be sold unreserved at | half price for the benefit of students, while the reserved seats are being offered at “popular” prices, Miss Ada Bicking, director of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, today voiced her approval of the sorority’s annual scholarship

| | benefit. |

Scholarship Praised

“The occasion Is not only of

| first-rate musical importance, but

lit is a major philanthropic event

as well,” Miss Bicking said. “There | is no more important work to be | { done in any educational institution |

than the fostering of high academic |

| standards,

and the granting of scholarship help to worthy students who might otherwise be prevented

| from taking full advantage of the

23. —By |

(the snip of the censors shears, sev- | standing as an honor society,

| by

named |

institution's opportunities. “Mu Phi Epsilon, by virtue of its and | means of the annual scholarship that it grants to conservatory students, is carrying on both phases of this important work. Its activ-

conservatory’s ideals, and are highly | valued and appreciated by the offi-

, cers and directors of the conserva-

| tory.” showed |

BIDS FOR RECORD |

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, March Sothern, the “commuting bride,” was back in Hollywood today, chalking up a total of 18,642 miles by air

Chicago since her marriage five | months ago to Roger Pryor, orches-

: tra leader.

“There's thrill in coming back to | work in Hollywood and then going | home to my husband in Chicago,” she said. “I expect to travel at least

| 50,000 miles this year.”

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| Times Special 23.—Ann | | ael, | Miriam Hopkins, had the time of {his young life when he visited his

Gaudio,

JEETER GIVES AWAY REAL BRIDE

Jeeter Lester gives away a daughter , right, Irving Backer, manager of the “Tobacco Road” company which opens a weck at English’'s Monday;

. . left to |

Edward G. Robinson Insists On Solitude for ‘Demise

Times Special

HOLLYWOOD, March 23.—Edward . tive solitude,

G. Robinson “died” in compara-

Only Director Michael Curtiz, Jack Sullivan, assistant director; Tony

up his toes.

That was how

officials put *

the cameraman;

Mr. Robinson

wanted it to be. He had studio

six electricians, five “grips,” Bette Davie, Jane Bryan, Harry Carey and Wayne Morris saw him turn

a property man,

formant, the electrician, !

{ told us)

Benny, was

of a fight arena and no one even | He didn't smile.

men were stationed at each door | ye felt, apparently, there was noth‘and to those who craved admit- |

tance the cops said

| can't 20 in there. Mr.

| dying.’ Information Second-Hand,

Star's Adopted | Son Visits Set

| cinematic bullet from Humphrey | mise with greatest equanimity, The writers who felt | this one moved him so much he

HOLLYWOOD, March 23.—Mich- | S5-year-old adopted son of

| mother on the set of “The Woman and rail in trips between here and 'I Love.”

| |

| showing Michael the

!loons, his pockets full of

A carnival scene was in progress, | and Miss Hopkins telephoned the! | boy's governess to bring him over. The entire company joined in! sights. Not {only was he given a ride on the fer- | | ris wheel, but the merry-go-rounds | which had been erected on a stage. | When he left, it was with 11 bal- |

popcorn |

and peanuts, and a big cone of spun | j sugar candy.

| wishes to be in the movies.

Now, Master Michael says he |

| Ry United Press

HOLLYWOOD, March 23.—Warner Brothers, rebuffed by the Su-

! perior Court in an effort to hire the

mother of William and Robert, had |

‘SANDERS |

"EMERSON HAMILTON

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12-year-old Mauch twins for $250 a, week each, prepared new contract terms today. Superior Judge Emmet H. Wilson refused the Court approval that is required for all minor age actors’| contracts. Mrs. Marguerite Mauch,

| Oblected to the contract. |

I seription

| Miss Dav

minutes.

{ his face.

There can be, no of Mr.

| timely end, broug

Bogart's gun.

succinctly: “You Robinson is

eye-witness deRobinson's unht about by a

called upon to describe to the world

! Benny

ing humorous in his cinematic extinction. According to Benny-—-we don't! know his last name—Mr. Robinson's | death was a very moving thing. said he didn't cry but he was on the verge of tears. He said i he has seen at least 40 actors die and ordinarily looks on their debut |

forgot to pull a switch and caught |

how Mr. Robinson kicked the bucket | the devil from his boss, Vic Johnson. had to get their information sec-

than Mr.

ond-hand from the handful of men and women who were much more Robinson

“on the spot.”

Benny ‘is an electrician, not a writer. He is a rotund fellow with | a bald head, a sensitive soul and vivid descriptive powers.

We didn't see him die, but we can | brung him in and laid him out on

{assure you that Mr. Robinson up-

the table,” he related. “The first

holds the screen tradition of taking | time they nearly dropped him so

a long time to cash in his checks. | they had to do it over.

He didn’t

He had a good deal to say before | groan much—just let out a couple he went West, and he said it with of whimpers.”

the customary Robinsonian {and dispatch.

We have it on that Mr. Robinson | to say before he

verve |

good aunty | had much more died than did |

Leslie Howard at the end of "Petri- |

fied Forest.”

Mr. Howard, who was also slain |

page of dialog, a bit of verse from | is’ lips and a minute and a hen he passed on.

Time: Two

| by Mr. Bogart (a confirmed and in-| | corrigible slayer),

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and Bryan tears, a from Mr. Carey

cline, Mr. RO

and exactly We witnessed Mr. ard’s demise because he wasn't par- | | ticular about the company he kept | when he had a rendezvous with film death. He was reclining in Miss Davis’ arms, & very pleasant place to reand there was a

dialog, a quart of assorted Davis

few choice words two | How- |

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Mrs. Charles William Day, Jr. Sally Sanderson; of the Georgia back-country saga. >

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A back-stage romance that began with a one-night stand of the *“Tocompany in Tulsa,

a year ago last January, brought Sallie Sanderson and Charles William Day Jr., to the altar at Christ Church here yesterday. Mrs. Day-—she’ll probably remain Sally Sanderson on the playbills— {is a former Savannah, Ga., debutante who plays Pearl, the 12-year- | old child wife in “Tobacco Road.” i Mr. Day has a real estate business in Tulsa. They met during the company’s , brief Tulsa engagement, parted when the troupe left the next morning, and for more than a year the new bridegroom had done most of bis courting by long-distance telephone, He flew in from the Southwest yesterday, accompanied by his moth- | er, Mrs. Charles W. Day, and bringing with him a veil for the bride which had been worn by his sister, Mrs. Allen D. Masters of Tulsa. Taylor Holmes, the play's Jeeter Lester and a noted stage and screen actqQr, served in a paternal capacity by giving the bride in marriage. It was the first wedding in Christ | Church during Holy Week for 31 years, and special permission was received in order that the ceremony might take place. The Rev. E.

“They | Ainger Powell officiated.

Choirs Open

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937

OR WAS

Holy Week Observance

Tabernacle and Wittenberg Groups Present Cantatas.

By JAMES THRASHER

Audiences at opposite sides of the city last night heard two choirs in programs which opened the Holy Week observances in Indianapolis. The Tabernacle Presbyterian | Choir presented Horatio Parker's “Hora Novissima” in a memorial concert honoring the late Fred Newell Morris, singing teacher, choral conductor and for many years director of the Tabernacle Choir. | Meanwhile the a cappella choir from | Wittenberg College in Springfield, O., was singing in St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. A standard item among the latterday oratorios, the “Hora Novissima” has not been heard frequently here. It is a melodious and well-wrought work of polite, rather than profound, sentiments. The soloists were Mrs. Francess Batt Wallace, soprano; Miss Patra Kennedy, contralto; Perry M. Rush, tenor, and George Newton, bass, and all were heard to excellent advantage. Paul R. Matthews conducted from his place at the organ. The choir sang well, and occasional hesitant entrances and faulty: balance did not mar the general effect unduly.

Schela Cantorum Sings

The Schola Cantorum of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, with Elmer Andrew Steffen directing, sang between the oratorio’s two parts. As always, their splendid tone, suppleness of phrase and exemplary Latin diction were a delight.

Hurried commuting from the

North to the South Sides prevented my hearing the first half of the Wittenberg choristers’ program, which included compositions by Hassler and Nevin and excerpts from two Bach motets, as well as two organ selections by E. Arne Hovdesven, To conclude the concert, they sang Dubois’ cantata, “The Seven Last Words of Christ.” Soloists were Miss Ruth Freeburg, soprano; Hile bert Collins, tenor, and John Bene nett Ham, baritone. Byron Griest, pianist, assisted Mr. Hovdesven as accompanist.

The cantata disclosed the finest choral singing that has been heard here in concert this season. The young voices were of lovely timbre, true as to intonation and possessing a rich tonal palette from a luscious pianissimo to a resonant forte. There was, in addition, an excellent pree cision of attack and release. John Thomas Williams, the die rector who has brought the singers to their proficient state, wisely left all labors and exhortation in the ree

| hearsal room. His conducting last

night obtained its results with a minimum of stick waving and with self-effacing modesty.

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