Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1937 — Page 6
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1937
‘THE GOOD EARTH’ SCHEDULED AT LOEW'S ON APRIL 9
Chinese Film To Be Shown Twice Daily
Irving Thalberg Supervised Much of Work Before Death.
By JAMES THRASHER
If any picture ever seemed | destined for popularity from | its first day’s shooting, it was “The Good Earth,” which will open a road-show engagement at Loew's beginning Friday, Performances will 2:30 and 8:30 p. m,, sale is to open this Friday. First of all
April
a novel which had the distinction |
of being both beautifully written and
widely read. Second, it was the last |
motion the
of the great tributions of Thalberg. after Mr. Thalberg's death, the important work of planning and painstaking research was carried on under his supervision, The stars of the play are the hrs rent prize-winning actors of the Mo- | tion Picture Academy award, Paul | Muni and Luise Rainer. With the noted dancer, Tilly Losch, in the | important role of Lotus, the Chinese | epic boasts a trio of Austrian head- | liners. | Months Spent in China
late Irving G.
Other principal parts are taken | by Walter Connolly as the Uncle, Charles Grapewin as the Old Father, and Jessie Ralph as Cuckoo. Sixty- | eight speaking parts are filled by! Chinese players, and the whole cast
is numbered in the thousands. The ! director was Sidney Franklin, whose productions include “The Barrets of | Wimpole Street” and “Reunion in| Vienna.”
An outline of the preliminary | preparation made for this picture will give prospective audiences a good | idea of what to expect. A camera | unit spent four months in China | getting atmospheric background | “shots.” The crew brought more than | 400 cases of properties back with | them. included { nese water and water falo The Great Wall of China was bit- | ten out of a California mountainside | bv a battery of steam shovels and | garnished with granite boulders | carved by pneumatic drills.
River Created
some Chibuf- |
Imports wheels
The “location” truly is colossal— in an industry where that adjective | is tossed about with careless ease. It | comprises a 500-acre tract, on which farms were laid out, terraced and;
planted, exactly as they are in China. Even a small river, lined with stones in the Chinese fashion, | was included. The imported water | wheels and buffalo supplied the tra- | ditional method of irrigation. The agricultural phase of produc- | tion was supervised by Yee On, an American-born veteran farmer who | spent 20 years in China. Lessons in Chinese deportment and etiquette | were gleaned from a book called “Patterns of Filial Piety,” and supplemented by the advice of Gen. Theodore Tu, who served as tech- | nical expert through the courtesy of |
the Chinese government. f
Talbot Jennings, Marc Connelly | and Frances Marion adapted the Pearl S. Buck novel for the screen, and the musical score is by Herbert Stothart, who contributed the music to such successes as “Romeo and | Juliet” and “Maytime.”
Pandro Berman Signs New Terms
Timer Special HOLLYWOOD, March 31, _Pan- | dro S. Berman, film producer who has been responsible for five of the | six boxoffice successes Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and
for 10 of the 12 features starring |
Katharine Hepburn, has been signed by R-K-O-Radio to a new | three-year conrtact, Mr. Berman will start work im- | mediately on a series of six major | features. One of the first will be | “Vivacious Lady,” starring Miss | Rogers. Others are “Stage Door,” with Miss Rogers, Miss Hepburn and Burgess Meredith; “Damsei in Disfress,” in which Mr. Astaire will solo: the screen version of “Irene;” a picture based on events in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle, and a third Lily Pons feature.
COMPILES LIBRARY
Edward Arnold, star of “The Toast of New York,” opposite Frances Farmer and Cary Grant, is compiling a library of motion picture scripts. Already 25 of the pictures in which he has been seen are well bound for future readers.
POLDI MILDNER, PIANIST CALEB MILLS HALL SHORTRIDGE HIGH $OR00L Apri. 1st Pr. Benefit Mu Pri EO Scholarship Fund General Admission 55¢, Reserved $1.10 Tickets at Gladys Alwes Music Shop 22 Monument Place
Barbara Nek “Plough and the Stars” ~ “1 CONQUER THE SEA”
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Loretta GRAN: Frank McHugh RAND SLAM” Cony Nagle, Eleanor Hunt
“YELLOW CARGO”
for a week | 9. | begin at | and the seat |
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| manager and producer,
| cated in English schools, which ac- | counts for his excellent English dic-
| He has another
| designs.
scored by |
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Though it was completed |
Here looking at of "Seventh Heaven” Apollo Friday.
which,
vou are Simone Simon and James Stewart, in its new sound version, comes to the
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{ | Fields had been, show is the first time that Mr. | Clark
| the death of his veteran
stars
| Gravet Finds Freedom
From Sou
Fernand Gravet, To him it's a
graph hunters. Mr. Gravet has been a film star
| Hollywood, so he finds it rather dif-« | ficult to go anywhere on the con-|
tinent of Europe without being besieged by admirers. He costarred
| with Anna Neagle in a British pic- |
ture; he has made a couple of successful pictures in Berlin and has |
‘some 15 starring films to his eres |
in France, his adopted home,
Born on Christmas |
He was born on Christmas mornin Belgium. His father, | was of French | notea Weatricel His mother | was a Belgian actress and her son | (took his present stage name from | her maiden name, Fernande Gravet. When the World War came Mr. | Gravet's father managed to get his | family to England by way of Hol{land. The future actor was edu-
Leopold Martens, descent and a
tion, if not for his resemblance to Britain's former King Edward VIII. | Later young Fernand joined the | British Marine Cadets. He had further military training, for, as a | Belgian citizen, he had to return to that country and serve two years [in the army. Following his parents’ footsteps to the stage door, Mr. Gravet toured every European nation except Russia and the Scandinavian countries, and made side trips to Egypt and South America.
Married Actress
He was starred for three years in | 20 plays on the Parisian stage dur- | ing which he met and married the! French actress, Jean Renouardt. | For the next three years they were | | starred together. Mr. Gravet is intensely interested in picture making's technical as-| pects. Early in his screen career, |
when his leading lady in a German | | film became ill, he asked to work on |
| half salary as assistant cameraman | |and film editor until she recovered. | hobby-—military | which he collects and! He has a collection of 13,000 in his Paris home. This hobby | is said to have made him an authority on military uniforms, and he in- | tends to write a book on the sub- | ject if and when the demand for | his movie services dies down,
miniatures,
LOWES EN ROUTE | TO CORONATION
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, March 31.—Ed- | mund Lowe, screen star, and his
| wife were en route to London to- | | get through working on another lot. day to invite the Lord Mayor to |
| attend the Golden Gate Bridge | opening in San Francisco May 27. Mayor Angelo Rossi askeq Mr. Lowe to carry the invitation when he learned the actor planned to attend the Coronation.
ENGLISH MAT. TODAY at 2:30
And All Week, Matinee Saturday The Nation's Epic of the Stage
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star of the Apollo's current picture, Chorus Girl,” likes the United States, but not for the usual reasons. “sweet land of liberty” colored glasses, a false mustache and outlandish clothes to escape auto-
France Calls
| are at work, with directors wildly
ENGLISH
NEXT MONDAY TO THURS. APRIL 5, 6, 7, 8. Mat, Wed. Gorgeous 1937 Stage Edition
Fanny Brice 4 Bobby Clar JANE PICKENS ¢ GYPSY ROSE LEE World famous girl revue direct from Broadway and Chicage Intact—
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for return of tickets,
venir Hunters
“The King and
because he doesn't need to wear
in three countries before coming to
Silent nt Stars
old Screens Favorites Hired |
By Paris Producers.
| turned out the imposing number of | Who is wrongfully convicted.
Bu United Press | HOLLYWOOD, March 31. Holly- |
| wood screen favorites of the “silent” |
{ picture days learned today they're | still “tops” in France and jobs are | waiting. i
Andre Dumonceau, Paris theatri- | cal agent, is in Hollywood commis- | sioned to look up silent day stars | who are available for French films. He has cables from Paris producers, asking that he contact the players and obtain recent photographs. French producers, he revealed, are eager to sign up Hollwood stars who were famous about 10 years ago. These luminaries of 1925-27 are still familiar names and faces to French fans and Paris producers see a way to boxoffice appeal at comparatively low costs. Recently rising stars of the “talkie” era are unknown except in the larger European cities. Bebe Daniels, Erich von Stroheim and Sessue Hayakawa were reported signed by Paris producers already and competition is growing. A French film magnate’'s normal offer is said to be round trip fare to France, expenses and $5,000 to $8,000 a picture.
Dress- Clothed | | Extras in Demand
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, March 31.—Hollywood motion pictures were about | | ready to borrow the undertaker’s, | dress suit. |
For the first time in years a shortage of dress-suited extras is holding up production. Some 1000 “dress” | extras—those who have “soup-and-fish” and evening gowns—are listed at Central Casting Corp. A number of major studios simultaneously are shooting pictures laid in swanky settings, and all 1000
| calling for hundreds more. One studio is holding up its cameras, Waiting for the tuxedo-clad extras to
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Tickets 8Ge incl, tax till 8 P. M. Sunday, at Indiana Theatre News Shop. After that all tickets 1.10 incl. tax.
WALTZ TONIGHT
PAUL COLLINS And His Orchestra 250 Before ®
bby Clark Billed Alone In ‘Follies’
Appears for First Time Without McCullough
As Companion.
It will seem strange to see Bobby Clark's name alone on the program of the “Ziegfeld Follies” when the current edition opens at English’s
§ | Monday night. 30 years the names of |
For
HAWAIIAN BAZOOKA EFFECTIVE
Clark and McCullough were | | inseparable in the show busi- | ness—as inseparable as Weber and |
And the preesnt
has appeared alone since “straight man”
| Cullough,
: | The two performers grew up to- | | gether
in Springfield, O. As bovs | they ran away with a tent show and made a name for themselves as acrobatic clowns. Later thev concocted a vaudeville comedy act that clicked, and after that assumed the role of burlesque “magnates” at the head of their own show,
Made 104 Movies
When the troupe reached New York, Clark and McCullough became the talk of the town. The brothers Shubert saw them, sensed their musical comedy possibilities and sent them on tour in “Chuckles.” Sam Harris grabbed them after that and featured them in a succession of “Music Box Revues” that kept them in steady work for four years. They starred successfully for Philip Goodman in “The Ramblers.” Then came “Strike Up the Band,” some engagements abroad and another top spot in “Thumbs Up.” In | the meantime they made frequent | (trips to Hollywood where they | 104 “shorts.” Now, funnier than ever, accordng to those who have seen the show, Mr, Clark is sharing top billing in the “Follies” with Fannie Brice. It will be their second appearance in the same show, since hoth were featured in the "Music Box Revue” of 1925. Burlesque Graduate
Miss Brice is known to stage and radio fans for her inimitable | burlesques and original character sketches. She came up to the “Follies,” by way of amateur nights and | burlesque, in 1916, where she made
her debut in a takeoff of Paviova's |
dance, “The Dying Swan.” Her lampoon of Theda Bara was another high spot of the same show, and those who saw her in the 1922 “Follies” are still talking about her burlesque of “Camille,” with W. C. Fields and the late Raymond HitchCOCK. Other featured members of the “Follies” company are Jane Pickens and Gypsy Rose Lee, Minsky's gift to top-price musical comedy. And of course there is the chorus, without which no “Follies” would be worthy of the name.
Ann to Relinquish Role in 1 ‘Candida’
Bul ae Press NDON, March 31.—Ann Hardoo American actress, will relinquish her part in George Bernard | play, “Candida,” on Friday because her “presence is needed in the United States,” it was an- | nounced today. She will be replaced by Diana ! Wynyard, British actress. The substitution is provided for in the terms of Miss Harding's contract,
and companion, Paul Mec- |
Bob Burns has swapped his bazooka for a ukelele, but he still has Martha Raye with him in “Waikiki Wedding,” which will open a week's engagement at the Circle on Friday.
Propaganda Film Booked
Ambassador to Show Story Of Doomed Innocent.
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
King and the Chorus with Fernand Gravett and 0 11:39, 1:31, 3:33,
“The Girl, joan Blondel,
CIRCLE
“lil ‘“‘Histery Is Made at Night,” Challe Boxe er and,
6:50 inal Lawyer,” with Lee Tracy and Margot Grahame, at 11:19, 2:29, 5:39
and 8:49 ENGLISH'S
“Tobacco Road,” with Holmes and Florence Gerald.
at 8:30 KEITH'S
“Within These Walls,” presented by Federal Players. Curtain at 8:30,
LOEW’S
“Maytime"” with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, at 11, 1:39, 4:21, 7:03 and 9:45.
LYRIC
Have Our Moments,” James 5p aig Sally Eilers, 11: 39 24, 5:19, 8:34 and 10:40, “Casa fa ana ‘Revue’ (on stage) at 1, 3:45, 6:40 and 9:35,
OHIO
“Grand Slam.” with Loretta Young and Frank McHugh. Also “Yellow Cargn.”” with Conrad Nagle and Eleanor Hunt,
AMBASSADOR
“Women ‘of Glamour ' with Vir ginia Bruce. Also ‘Doctor's Diary,” with John Trent,
ALAMO
“The Mighty Treve,”' with Beery Jr Also ‘Counterfeit with Joan Perry,
with
What the combined forces of a gangster frameup, a politically ambitious district attorney, false testi- | mony and misguided public opinion | can do to an innocent man is set forth in “We Who Are About to Die,” | a first-run melodrama which opens a three-day engagement at the Am- | | bassador tomorrow. John Beal plays the young man | Ann | Dvorak is seen as his fiancee and | | Preston Foster plays a police in- | | vestigator who rights the wrong in | the nick of time. The added feature is “More Than | a Secretary,” featuring Jean Arthur | and George Brent, Meanwhile Loretta may see a revival of one of her earlier successes in “Grand Slam.” which will show at the Ohio todav | and tomorrow. Frank McHugh head: | the supporting cast. The second pic- | ture is “Yellow Cargo,” with Con- | rad Nagel.
Garbo’s Friend Lauds U. S. Girls
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, March 31.—Greta Garbo’s current escort took a chance at keeping in her favor today and declared American women “are the most beautiful in the world.” Einar Nerman, Swedish artist here to sketch film stars, including Garbo, expanded his admiration: “All American women look like movie stars. Such curves! I walk
Taylor Cur-
“We with
Young fans
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Jowell Lady,
down the boulevard. I see a lovely girl and say to myself, ‘She must be in the movies.” But no, she is just an average American girl.”
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To Initiate Auditorium
Be First in War
Memorial.
Road Show
“Lost Horizon,” film version of James Hilton's widely-read novel of the same title, will open a week's road-show engagement at the Indiana April 16. There will be two shows daily. Ronald Colman, Margo, Jane Wyatt, H. B. Warner and Sam Jaffe head the large cast. Frank Capra was the director and the picture, which tells of a party marooned in a Tibetan lamasary, is said to be one of the most elaborate production movies in recent years,
A recital by Miss Sara Miller, pianist, at 3:30 p. m. Sunday will mark the first public performance of any kind in the new auditorium of the
Indiana World War Memorial.
Another special item of interest will be the first Indianapolis hear- | ing of three sonatas by the 18th | Century Spanish composers, Padre | Soler and Mateo Ferrer, and a suite, | “Suburbs,” by the contemporary Catalan composer, Mompou, The pianist is a faculty member of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music and one of the best younger Indianapolis re-
citalists.
; Miss Miller's complete program includes; Three Little Sonatas C Sharp Minor G Minor . D Major “Suburbs’ !
18th Century Spanish Padre Soler Padre Soler Maten Ferrer Mompou The Street. the Guitarist and the d Horse" “The Gypsies” “The Little Blind Girl" “The Man from Ariston” Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
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HIGH SCHOOL GIRL GIVEN CONTRACT
By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, March 31.—The Cinderella story of a 17-year-old Hollywood high school girl, Lana Turner, reached a climax when she came before the judge for approval of a contract starting at $500 and
| scaling to $2500.
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SANDERS At Fountain Square
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“SWORN ENEMY"
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GARFI ELD "2203 Shelby St.
Robert Taylor “CAMILLE”
Greta Garbo _ Selected Shorts S. East at Lincoln LINCOLN Double Feature Dick Powell “GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937” "ALONG CAME LOVE” = EAST SIDE 3155 E. 10th
Doors Open 5:45 Fred 0 i
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Greta Garbo “CAMILLE”
Robert Taylor Selected Shorts
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