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PAGT 28 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES THURSDAY, MARCH 2 25, 1937

FHOLLYWOOD DRESS EXTRAS CLAIM SOCIAL RANK

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with the original New York

Nash, Jane Wyman, Kenny Baker and Luis Alberni; directed by “Idiot's Delight.” will open at connection with the picture,

Mervyn LeRoy; screen Diay by Norman Krasna and Groucho Marx; English's tonight for three eve- “Wanted Jane Turner,” which opens

" Ted Keohler; photo- || o> ‘ | For Casting | me fm san = rome = : For Glamour Fe | ie prtormanees and a Sai- ||a. three-day. engagement. at we - a || urday matinee. | Ee Story—Unhafpy king, living with friends in Paris, is drunk con- a : SRY MSHIS. eo soporte CH tTe AO TEOw chr SET Clio

tinuously, and friends engage American chorus girl, with whom he - en : — || cast are Richard Whorf, SydA ney Greenstreet, George Mead- || “reward” competition,

falls in love, to keep him sober. When he proposes, chorus girl in- . . . | Top Jobs 90 Per Cent troduces psuedo-fiance. King learns of ruse and again proposes, Gracie Fields, Highest ; line ; Concert Orchestra and | er, Bretaigne Windust, Jean || On the stage of the Fountain but when chorus girl learns he knows she was paid to be his com- . ki : i > 4 i . : Macintyre, Francis Thompson Square tonight, and at the Granada Clothes, Says United Patties, she See. He follows her, and they are married on boat en Paid Actress, Ma ing | A : | Harpist Assist in and Edward Raquello. ‘tomorrow night, patrons may see the Artists Official. Cirele First U. S. Picture. ¥ i Concert Series. William Greuling and assisted by | | mythical Japs, Turner,” who will TORY i AE A Ohare Weg ok Jean = » j | —- — Pasquale Montani, harpist, and n| ane 4 Da ; lat AFUE hot . tive. irected by Fran rzage: ‘oo e” is to circulate amon India and Boston aren't the only gat ies Caeille M eI a ly Dh Sey oY Times Special 23 Bion : The second of five Easter and post | combined chorus from P.-T. A. | Fountain Square stores on ey spots on the globe noted for social Gregg Toland. | ROLLY WOOD hare SSE onde. | | Easter concerts, being presented by | mothers’ groups, coached by WRA| on and the first adult per= ie, ie _Calibis Sind ov. fy Story—Rich shipowner hires chauffeur to compromise wife so comedy characterizations in song | | Federal Music Project members, w will | teachers, will gve the concerts. Hugh | to identify her properly will fine lines of distinction among the || She Will drop divorce action. She is saved by stranger, who pre- |and. dance have carried her along | be given at 7:45 p. m. today in School | Mason of the Burroughs School of | i 0 ihe “reward.” extras, says Robert Webb, United tends to steal her jewels and kidnap her. They fall in love, each | for years as tire favorite actress of 178, 43¢ N. Sherman Drive. The re- | Music is to serve as the chorus’ guest | Artists casting director. not knowing other's identity. Stranger is headwaiter. Chauffeur || Great Britain, is preparing for her | MB maining concerts are scheduled for |... q.ctor. ie Mr. Webb had charge of hiring dies, and waiter is hunted as murderer. Magnate and wife come to | first American film. : April 6 at Lawrence High School in Community singing, led by Carl B. | Mth the coming attraction will be the supers for “History Is Made at America, waiter and friend follow. Wife is about to return to Voted in 1936 as the most popular | Chic Myers, local orchestra lead- Lawrence: April 14 at School 73, 4101 ging, y [“The Plough and the Stars,” story Night” opening at the Circle to- France to clear man arrested for murder, when she meets waiter. || cereen star in the British Empire, jer with a national reputation, will |[E. 30th St, and April 18 at School Jones will follow each concert. The | of the Irish “Easter Week” rebel~ morrow. Since he is credited with in New York. They then decide to return to clear innocent man. ||Miss Fields arrived in the movie open an engagement at Red Gables 54, 1002 N. Dearborn St. April 14 concert is to begin at 1: ih featuring Barbara Stanwyck having said “ves.” “no” or “mavhe” Boat sinks, husband commits suicide, waiter and widow are rescued, capital “to get me some glamour | on Monday night. A concert orchestra conducted by Ip. m., the others 1 at 7:45 p. m. and Preston Foster. to more atmosphere plavers than the arrested man is cleared and happiness abounds. {and see what ’Ollywood looks like.” - tte — amps — — yi ean be found in a barrel of epics. “CRIMINAL LAWYER" "—Lee Tracy, Margot Grahame, Eduardo || After spending four weeks here, ¥ di me RR Ciannelli, Erik Rhodes, Betty Lawford. Directed by Christy Cabanne; || she will return to England for the |

people are inclined to listen when he speaks about the 250.000 Holly- screen play by G. V. Atwater and Thomas Lennon from a story by | Coronation ! and to sing at some of | : . , e festivities.

wood hopefuls on call for picture Louis Stevens. making. ; ; Story—Criminal lawyer. elected district attorney, is forced into || Often called by foreign critics the | There are two classes of these|| marriage with socially ambitious girl. Is called upon to prosecute [| Woman Charlie Chaplin, Miss Fields players, Mr. Webb says—extras and || former gangster friend for murder. Lawyer's real girl friend, wit- | wil sing, dance and pantomime for | dress extras. And like the famous || ness of shooting, is intimidated by gangster, forced to testify in his || her first American film, bringing bo Boston families in the poem. the ex- || defense. Lawyer exposes girl's perjury and his own past but con- || the United Staies for the first june | tras speak only to the dress extras, victs murderer. He then seeks annulment of marriage and happi- LS A at Jay ess extras speak only to ness with girl of his choige. the highest received by any actress i , Loew's lin the world. Besides her stage and screen work | in Great Britain, she also has been | starred on radio programs, ‘and the | sale of her gramophone records in | recent vears has reached five mil- |

A lion, -Young New England girl wants to leave home town and * Acquires Glamour

eg PH iy Sa re Drohih sweetheart for stage career. She goes to elderly neighbor for advice, || : i. x Rav. but © f this ue ND and the older lady tells her the story of her career. A brilliant young Ollywood Is trying to make me | a out of this they must keep singer in Paris, she promises to marry the opera's impresario because look ‘lurish,” said the pretty come- | Phen wardrobs ip lo the minute. of what he had done for her career. She does not love him. Then || dienne, who prefers: her natural | BE ie thor lias 2s Coy el she meets handsome young American, lunches with him and quick- complexion to make-up. "I'm afraid | Sa vs asting director ly falls in love with him. She marries impresario, and her years are | that my British friends won’t apContrary t Yar wad crowded with success. In New York, her lover sings in same opera || prove of glamour, though. They | vontrary to popular belief, these and again they fall in love. Impresario, observing romance, kills || rather like me as a diamond in the |

. vray f , An v Ap : aristocrats among the supernumer- || her sweetheart, and she retires, heart-broken, to the small country | rough. But if I'm going 'Ollywood, | | aries are not chosen on the basis town. I might as well go all the way and

of pulchritude and personality. Lurie let them try to fird some beauty in | “It's 90 per cent wardrobe. 5 per yry this face of mine.’ cent personality and 5 per cent ex- “WE HAVE OUR MOMENTS"—With James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Miss Fields, who can drop her | perience.” says Mr. Webb. “The 250 Mischa Auer, David Niven, Warren Hymer, Marjorie Gateson, “h's” or use them as she pleases, dress extras we can depend on have Thurston Hall and Virginia Sale. | began trouping when she was eight. the correct costumes for every oc- Story—Detective, on trail of gang of bank robbers fleeing from | Known as the Lancashire lass casion—and the knack of appearing America to Europe to convert “hot” money into foreign currency, | whose comedy singing and dancing at ease in them. There are another meets New Engiand ‘school marm” touring Europe to forget roman- | could loosen the most blase and | hundred we could call on in an tic -difficulties. She becomes involved with crooks, but detective saves | staid of English audiences, she beemergency, but they are distinctly the day. | came early in her teens the “darling second-flight because they display a “CASA MANANA REVUE (on stage) —With Sid Page. master of |of England.” She has made only tinge of noveau-riche in their man- | ceremonies; Ada Brown, singer; “Happy Delano Dell, dancing ||one previous visit to the United ner, or appear somewhat clothes- comedian; five Top Top Girls, acrobatic dancers: Tung Pin Soo. | States, and that one, 10 years ago conscious. magician; Brown brothers, tumblers; Larimer and Hudson, cyclists, || When she played a stage engagement Cinderellas Rare and Princess Yeva, Oriental dancer. , | in New York.

ningham, manager, is offering a $25

Granada's second feature

Wardrobe Prohibitive “MAYTIME"—With Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Only one-tenth of one per cent Barrymore, Herman Bing and Tom Brown. Directed by Robert Z. ol these bit players are in the dress | Leonard; based on play, “Maytime,” with screen play by Noel Langcategory, and of these 250, 200 were lev: music by Sigmund Romberg and Herbert Stothart; photographed used in the coming Circle film. The by Oliver T. Marsh. reason for their scarcity is that : Story—

“If a man in a dinner jacket looks : like a waiter it's a death blow to \ ‘ Seo ome she his a heard | his career. If there is the slightest be dl M h M lk 5 g . . % suspicion that a woman wearing an rien Y IC rop one a es In recent months the “customers ermine wrap might be a model, she | have net Je Snging | vowes of is immediately removed from the | " set ov e ad rs tel O gle ng and Carol Hughes, and the fan mail Extras singled out to speak even received by each of these indicates one line—even a “hello” or “good- that their efforts have been well

bve'—rate a $25 check for the day's | Times Special there. We'll soon know how it sounds | liked. : : : work. “Omnies,” however, are part, HOLLYWOOD, March 25. —1In through the microphone.” | Everybody's doing it. It may be of the day's work for everyone. Mr. spring, actress’ thoughts turn to Hugh Herbert S b spring in the air. Hollywood bathWebb explains “omnies” as crowd song—as well as to love, it appears. ; SUCCRINDS {rooms resound to voices that have, Boises, dance floor patter, court-|One by one they yield to the temp-| Carole Lombard is said to have | now, been too timid to be foom mumble, conversational buzz, | tation to try their singing voices on sung her first song for a picture in angry mobs” and other indistinct, | the public. “Swing High, Swing Low,” and even atmospheric words. Results usually are better than Hugh Herbert, the comedian, stands As for the Cinderellr who is might be expected. Singing into a |up and sings in “Top of the Town.” | plucked from the ranks and boosted friendly microphone, in charge of a | On the screen for the first time in to stardom, Mr. Webb has this to kindly sound “mixer,” is a little like | Ann Sheridan will be heard singing sa) <inging in your bathroom at home. in “San Quentin.” Joan Blondell “THE PLAINSMAN?” “It can happen, but seldom does. | You surprise yourself. You sound |sings in “The King and the Chorus —__ Gary Cooper-Jean Arthur A dress extra is too busy worrying | better than you know you should. | Girl,” and while this will not be the | Jas. Dunn Come Closer about the new suit he needs or a| prgvie stars have learned this first for her it will be only the v shabby top hat that must be re-|y. qe secret at last and the timid | — - = placed, to indulge in any day dreams. one< who never claimed to be He knows it's a million-to one shot | warplers even in their home town he won't be ‘discovered’ on the set. | .,ureh choirs, are ready, willing and in true fan magazine tradition—and | apie to lift their voices in song in Iie knows he can’t eat glamour.” pictures.

Kay Francis is one. She will sing DESIGNS GOWNS in her next picture, “One Hour of Romance,” which goes into produc- | tion very shortly. It will be a love | song translated from German.

Gowns worn by Katharine Hepburn. costarred with Franchot Tone In “Quality Street,” by Fay Baint- | gr. Estelle Winwood, Cora Wither- | Bette Davis Rehearses Spoon and others of the picture, | ys will be the second time Miss | were designed by Walter Plunkett. | pyancis has sung in pictures. The | currently designing costumes for | fst was in “Mandalay,” and her the film version of “Gone With the | jow-pitched voice was found then to Wind. have a pleasant throaty quality pe- | culiarly suitable for the microphone.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE | Bette Davis i “ Eclipsing Their “Naughty

song for her new

APOLLO | Galahad,” in which she shares starr- be Marietta” and “Rose Marie"!

ing honors with Edward G. Robin-

hors. oH). oie ass Yih, Jane | ison and Humphrey Bogart. Miss ta 9 and 9:57 : | Davis has a rich, low toned voice, of 5 Mac

CIRCLE high quality when heard through

ing High. Swing Low. with ||he microphone. Her musician-hus- Ng ombard and Jigd J MaeMur | band, Harmon O. Nelson, is coach- ™ : 43 : A

and 10-05 10; JL 3 RE ing her with the solo she will half |

ENGILISH'S | sing, hulf recite. rod@iol’s Delight. presented by Al- [| “I've always wanted to try myself n — re unt 3 t SF 3 tive ar E50 an tenwande ow out with a song on the screen, con- | Romberg's

\ , fides Miss Davis. “Of course the | SETS song could be dubbed in with an- | With JONN_BARRYMORE + Herman bing | Robert I. Leonard » Mom or; toy

ore Courthiesented by Federal 1]gther voice, but that isn't what I} 4 at 8:30 i : Today—* LOEW'S | want. Every actress, I think. should § ay—*Fire Over England” —"Let's Get Married” “Pire Over Engl “ : be able to sing a little, and ‘Ham’ ob3eR 4 4 neland, © with Flore ||tells me my voice is acceptable for |

Laurence olivier . . [30 ih fan ise . 3 | screen purposes. I've been rehear- | n : : at 12:35. 3:25. 61 {sing in the shower bath for several |

WEEKS: It sounds seeeplabie’ | to me!

LYRIC = ‘““Nancv Steele Is Missin wit} ictor McLagl en. .at 11:22, 2.00 5 daaigiatilak 7:50 ang 10:30. RN andeviie “on stage) at 1. 3:30. 6:38 and 9:28. OHIO

“Heroes for Sale,”” with Richard P Barthelmes re Loretta sYount. ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW

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