Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1937 — Page 28

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VARIETY Waikiki Vies With Paris: For Crowds

| 'Seventh Heaven' Revived: Real Razorback |

Role.

Loses

“Seventh Heaven,” now on | the Apolo scr een, started out to be a one-act comedy. Austin Strong, the playwright, thought it would be | fun to write a little piece about a taxicab driver's antics in Paris during the World War. He took the idea to John Golden, the noted New York producer. -Mr. Golden liked it, except forsone or two details. He thought it ought to be expanded to three acts, and made into a serious emo- | tional drama instead of a farce. | Aside from that it was-all right. So Mr. Strong went to work. and turned out “Seventh Heaven.” It opened in Detroit in 1920, played by the Jessie Bonstelle stock company. It drew crowded houses and everyone liked it except Mr. Strong. So he rewrote it. Two years later was tried out ag ; Y. Once again it|got an enthusiastic reception, and again its author decided a little more polishing was necessary. So he took it down to Atlantic City, and went up to Lake Placid to work

“Seventh Heaven” in in Elmira, N.

records at the New Jersey resort. Helen Menken——Janet Gaynor : Finally Mr. Strong expressed himself pleased with) the brain-child, and the play opened at the Booth

theater in New York, October, 1922. | S

|eigagement of Jack Kirk- 5) DrATveY

I nd’s hardy perennial drama | i “The Ggod Earth.” ‘ond segson with | and she hasn’t spoken a word on!

Helen Menken ahd Robert Keith were the stars.

Brother of pianistic fame.) Stewart was borrowed from M-G-M | for the occasion to| play opposite the young French artress who was hailed as the scrgen “find” of the last film season. [Henry King, who scored recently with “Lloyds of Lon-. don,” was the director. Different Emot Meanwhile, around the corner at! the Circle, you may see a! picture | designed to appeal to an entirely different set of | emotions; It “Waikiki Wedding,” which begins its week’s run today, and which headlines Bing Crosby, Bob Burns, Martha Raye and Shirley Ross. There is only one serious aspect to clear up for: those planning to see | this new comedy. That concerns! Wafford, the pig. Those with an eye for newspaper pictures may, remember that Bob Burns, first titizen of Van Buren, Ark., received a razorback hog a few ‘months ago from his admiring fellow-townsmen in the Ozafhs, Bob named him Wafford.

Not Real Ozarkian

But. the Wafford you see in “Waikiki Wedding” will rot be the Ozark native, though he was booked for a part. It is just an ordinary little barnyard pig masquerading under an assumed name. The real Wafford is of a stern and warlike race. The first day on the set| he ran, as the saying it, “hog wild.” There were slashed hands and legs all over the place. Wafford, it seemed, didn't want to be an actor Studio officials promptly decided’ to look a gift pig in the mouth and discovered that Wafford’s tusks, plus his belligerent nature, were just & little more than unwelcome. So, for the sake of a lot of expensive featured players, to say nothing of 200 hula-dancing chorus girls, the docile | little substitute was hired. They | say he does a pretty good job of! acting, too.

BEAUTY WINNER ENTERS MOVIES

By United Press:

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HOLLYWOOD, April 2—-C ath |

erine Lohden, "16, willowy blond New York high, school girl who won = beauty contest over 3000 competi |

tors, started in Hollywood movie: a

today. Producer Mervyn Le Roy cast he! for a role in “The Deep South” af ter she was selected by a committe: of society women, fashion expert, and film scouts.

Wheeler. “MUMMY S BOYS”

June Travis, 2 Huston “THE BIG GAME”

, Woolsey

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“TONIGHT PAUL COLLINS

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FILM FAVORITES RELAX AT TABLE TENNIS

2 the alterations }, while his play was breaking house ,

Mr. |

‘A Shropshire Lad”

& \

Melvyn Douglas gets ready to burn over a fast 0.2 as a group of Hollywood notables relax bezen shots with a game of table

is Robert Young,

tennis. Mr. |

Douglas’ partner—if any identification 1s needed-—

Colbert and Wesley Ruggles, producer-director.

and the spectators are Claudette

Taylor Holmes Recorded

Best t Selling

3 acco ‘Road’ Corn: | |

pany Has Varied |

Interests.

Notes on “Tobacco Roadrs,” who will close a week’s

with performances tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening at English’s: Taylor Holmes, the play's far, not | oly had unusual success in the the- | ser, motion pictures and on the air, | {1 it in the phonograph record field | a5 well.

His disc of Kipling’s “Gun¢a Din” was among the 10 best sell- | (11g records for years. He used to | get 14 or 15 curtain calls when he | scited it at the New York Winter |

(arden IL Football and law study occupied | ‘hie undergraduate attention of Wil- | .lam Bishop, who plays Lov Ben- | sey, when he attended the Univer- | tity of West Virginia. Eventually | ootball won out over the law, and | “hen the stage put athletics in the | hade. The young collegiate actor! :5 a nephew of Playwright Charles ! JacArthur. “The actor. should know something |

{ of history, modern languages, eco- | i-aomits, philosophy, psychology and |

)f course should have good athletic | raining,” says Mr. Bishop. “While iwone of these may enter objectively | nto his performance they form a sound background, particularly if he

| George Newton | To Give Recital

Three song cycles by English Ba | American composers are to be i cluded in the program which Cia Newion. basso, will offer in the Y. W. C. A’s Green Parlor, 329 N Pennsylvania St., at 8:15 o'clock (0-| night. Walter Whitworth will be! accompanist. : The complete program is as follows:

“Songs of Travel” .Ralph Yaughan Williams (R. L. TStevenso on) Y “The Vagaoond” % “Bright 1s the Ring of Words” 3 “The Roadside Fire “Let Beaut, “Youth an “In Dreams” “The mninite Shining Heavens” | “Silent Noon .Vau, an-Williaths . G. Rossetti)

“Linden Lea™ Vaughan- Willlaras (Dorsetshire)

Artur Somervell

( Housm eoyjiest of the Trees, the Cherry “When I Was One-and- -Twenty" ‘There Pass the Careless People” “In Summer-time on Bre Ta , Street Sounds to the Soldiers’

Tre “On the Idle Hill of Summer” YWhice in the Moon the Long Road

Joe No More, Lad; Laugh, Be olly”’ “Into My Heart an Air That JKills”? “The Lads in Their Hundred

1 Songs ¢f Ancient China and Japa harles Pr Griffes “So- Fei Gathering. Flowers” “Landscap

5 ars” “AfFeast of Lanterns’ { “An Old Song Resting “By a Lonely Forest Pathway” .. | “Night on Ways Unknown Has Fallen

“Sorrow ‘of Mydath”

Griffes Griffes

Gr iffes Griffes

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| the corners. lian Arglell, former Boston newspa-

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sane, old “Temple Among the Moun- ]

for return 4

‘Gunga Din’

lis 0 in characterizing his part... i Broadway Veteran Seen No one who sees “Tobacco Road” can forget the pathetic old grand- | mother who creeps about with a! bundle pf twigs or sits unnoticed in -She is played by Lil- |

per woman and veteran of nearly 20 Brogdway productions. She has | “Chu Chin Chow,” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and This is her sec- | “Tobacco Road,”

the stage in more than 600 perform- | ances. |

When! he was 17 years old, Wal- | | ter Ayres, who plays the hardhearted banker, asked his stock | company manager to let him play | | character parts. He has been doing | it. ever |since. - This is Mr. Ayres’ | 36th segson on the stage. Five tons of Georgia dirt—the! New York company uses New Jersey | soil—are carted around by the *“To- | bacco Rpad” company to provide the Lesters’ front yard and roadway. It’s the show’ s most extensive property. | Trailing “Hamlet” and ‘“Rain” closely was “Tobacco Road,” in a recent poll taken among stage professionals. Among those who placed iit on their list of favorites were {Charles| Chaplin, James wien |

Paul M ni, Edward G. Robinson, Tallulah Bankhead, Marc Connelly, Carl Van Doren, Rudy Vallee, Alex- | ander Woolcott, George Raft, Herbert Bayard Swope, Edgar Selwyn

rand = O’Brien-Moore. be Judge Ouashes | Kaufman Writ

"By United Press

HOLLYWOOD, April 2—Holly-|

, wood is safe today for George S. Kaufman of New York, the “he’s | erful” man of Mary Astor's | diary. | A bench warrant for the bespec- | tacled Broadway playwright’s arrest

{ was dismissed by Superior Judge

Fletcher Bowron. The warrant was one of the last vestiges of the sen- | Ap child custody battle between Astor and her divorced hus- | pn Dr.. Franklyn Thorpe. Dr. Thorpe agreed to the dis-. mibsal. His attorneys originally had | instigated its issuance by subpenae- | ing Mr. Kaufman to court to tell the intimate details of an. affair Miss Astor” sketched in her purpleink diary. Mr. Kaufman skipped town instead.

Movie Fans!

Your attention is called to the fact that The Times maintains at Washington, D. C., a special Question and Answer Service for your free use. See Question and Answer column on Pase 38 for details.

‘Gardners Worry

| Dorothy Wilson, Patricia Farr and

‘teamed again -for the leading roles

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Seventh Heaven,” with Simone Simon and James Stewart, at 11, :05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35 and 9:45.

CIRCLE Weddings’ with - Bing

Burns, Martha Raye and at 11:35, 1:43, 3:30,

“Waikiki Crosby, Bob Shirley Ross, 5:55 and 10:05. ENGLISH'S

“Tobacco ' Road.” with Taylor Holmes and Fiorence Gerald. Cur-

at 8:30 : KEITH'S

“Within These Walls.” presented by Federal Players. Curtain at 8:30.

LOEW'S ‘May J with Jeanette MacDonald Fin Nelson ad at 11, 1:39, 4:21, 7:03 and 9:45.

LYRIC ay Ente s Revue” on stage =

THE A Nbrsnirore TIMES

OFFERED TO MOVIE FANS HERE Poldi Plays

Chopin With Real Beauty

Viznnese Pianist's Technique Has Improved During’ Absence.

By JAMES THRASHER

The attractive and modest young pianist, Poldi Mildner, unleashed her scintillating executive powers to the delight of a moderate-sized but en-

RECITALIST

Sarah Miller, Indianapolis pian-

thusiastic audience in Caleb Mills Hall last night. Her appear- | arice was sponsored by Mu Phi | Epsilon. It was the blond Viennese artist's | first recital here in three seasons, |

fore it was evident that she had | added several cubits to her artistic stature during her absence. She chose a program which made stern interpretative as well as technical emands. And the manner in which she met them provided a most satislying musical evening as well as promise of even fuller artistic development.

Miss Mildner’s serious intent was

{evident in the first three numbers

of her program — Beethoven's 32 Variations in C Minor; the Schumann “Carnaval,” and the Chopin B Minor Sonata. Af the sonata’s close there were no signs of fatigue on the part of performer or listeners, which is ample proof of all-round artistic equipment.

Error in Opening Number

‘Many women pianists fail as

i Beethoven interpreters through a

too feminine ‘approach, but when ‘Miss Mildner erred in her opening number, it was on the side of brusqueness. There was in incisiveness about the theme’s announcement, due regard for con-

... 5:10, 7:25 and 9:35. In Exile,” with Dick Pircell and Tine Traovis, on screen at

11:35, 1:45, 4, 6:10, 8:25 and 10:35. OHIO

“Mummy's Boys.’ and Woolsey. Also * with June Travis.

AMBASSADOR

“We Who Are About to Die,” with John Beal. Also ‘More Than a Secretary,” with Jean Arthur,

ALAMO

“The Plough .and the Stars,” with Preston Foster and Barbara Stanwyck. Also “I Conquer the Sea.”

with Wheeler Thy Big Game,”

Lambert Hillyer

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, April 2—Hollywood will install a prison system, using numbers instead of names, if the casting office sends Lambert Hillyer any more Gardners. This week the director took his “Speed to Spare” film troupe to Ascot Speedway in Los Angeles, for race scenes using Charles Quigley,

prominent drivers. Getting ready to start a scene, Mr. Hillyer called for “Gardner.” Instantly, people .sprang at him from all directions—Chet Gardner, the racing pilot; Ray Gardner, his !brother-mechanic; - Harry Gardner, Chet’s son; Jack Gardner, an actor cast as Mr. Quigley’s mechanic; Terry Gardner, electrician; and two extras who weren't Gardners at all, but who spelled: their name Gardinier. Just as Mr. Hillyer had straightened out the tangle, by numbering (each Gardner, a little old man in {overalls hobbled up to him. “Did you call me, sir?” he asked. Mr. Hillyer stared at him. “Don’t tell me your name is Gardner, too?” The other shook his head, “No. But I'm putting ‘in the lawn over | there,” pointing to the infield, “and II Thought you yelled for the garden-

TEAMED AGAIN

Barbara Stanwyck and Joel Mc-

Crea, who are currently appearing |

in “Banjo On My Knee,” have been

in “Internes Can't Take Money,” which Alfred Santell is directing.

Tomorrow

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‘GREAT | STARS

Traitor”

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trasts of tonal quantity and quality, and a general, air of virile ! solidity which, with : minor excep-

, tions, was entirely as it should be.

‘and the extended poetic sweep of

| the sonata, the pianist was at her :

| best. Beside brilliant facility there

| as a sensitive feeling for Schu-

{ mann’s warm romanticism, and she possessed the necessary alertness for the music’s swiftly changing moods. The final stamp of authorily and emotional compulsion which marks the truly great interpretation of this work may be predicted safely for Miss Mildner's maturer years. One was conscious of the Chopin sonata’s beauty rather than its length in last night's delivery. There was a genuine depth of feeling in Miss Mildner’s playing of the Largo, and she reached a thrilling peak of excitement in the Finale. Over the program’s concluding group the young artist presided like a golden-haired, well-poised fury. She played the C Sharp Minor Scherzo of Chopin, the same composer’s Octave Etude from Op. 25, and a collection of Strauss waltz excerpts which Moritz Rosenthal (if the writer is not mistaken) has woven into a contrapuntal web cf appaling difficulty. This last number was in place of the programmed ‘Mephisto Waltz” of Liszt. Plays at Dizzy Speed Miss Mildner possesses ‘that vanishing power of lashing an audience to enthusiasm ‘through sheer, breath-taking bravura. pin etude whirled at a dizzy speed, and she tossed off with apparent ease the labyrinthine Strauss excerpts which baffle the ear. Despite a sometimes faulty balance in cantabile playing and a slight inclination to excessive speed, Miss Mildner has digital prowess of an Olympian order. It may be hoped that she will delight Indianapolis often in the future with her steadily ripening art. .

and she had not proceeded far be-

| In the kaleidoscopic “Carnaval” |

The Cho-.

| ist, will be heard in recital at 3:30 p. m. Sunday in the new auditorium of | the Indiana World War Memorial.

Flynn Wears

Praises Loyalists. By United Press VALENCIA, Spain, April 2.—Errol Flynn, American actor, was given a threadbare overcoat in Paris to wear in Spain “so his good clothes would not make him the object of too much attention.” The first thing he had to do, he said today, was to buy a new coat so he wouldn’t be “the worst dressed man in Spain.” “That's how little everybody seems to know .about Spain,” he said.

{ from Hollywood to New York, that’s why I came here. I want to see things first hand for myself.” Mr. Flynn arrived here with Dr. Hermann Erben, New York specialist in tropical ‘diseases. They will go on to Madrid. “My first impression,” Mr. Flynn said, “is that the Loyalists show a | wonderful spirit of enthusiasm. I cannot see how Franco could possibly crush that spirit.”

Vanderbilt Seen In ‘Inner Circle’

By United Press {

Rags in Spain

Actor Shops for New Coat;

“Ignorance on the subject extends |;

PROTEGES MEET

Two famous products of the Max Reinhardt repertoire company, known wherever acting is known, are united in the production of “The

"FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937

Story of Emile. Zola.” They are W liarn Dieterle, director, who served nine years with Reinhardt in Berli, anc Joseph Schildkraut, who went from his native Vienna to study under Reinhardt in Berlin.

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HOLLYWOOD, April 2.—One of the most eagerly sought bachelors at film colony functions today is Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, scion of the wealthy, sports-loving family. The young millionaire, who came to Southern California to race his stable of thoroughbreds at Santa Anita track, has centered his interest, however, on two actresses—Ginger Rogers and Nan Grey. _ Mr. Vanderbilt, smiling and gay, is seen at most of the more elaborate movie parties. No real romgntic rumors were associated with young Mr. Vanderbilt and the two actresses as they explained “Alf” merely liked dancing and a good time. Although other Eastern turfmen are in Southern California, Mr. Vanderbilt, as one of the youngest and best known, was taken into the film colony’s “inner circle” last season when he first came here.

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