Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1937 — Page 15

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“WEDNESDAY, MAY

“MILLS BROTHERS WILL OPEN WEEK'S RU

SCENES FROM APOLLO'S

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Show vier

In Europe

John Boles to Be Seen in Film, 'As Good as Married.’

The Mills Brothers, like the horseless carriage, Maj. Bowes and “Abie’s Irish Rose,” seem here to stay. Wiseacres said all these institutions were a passing fancy—or worse—yet the Major continues on the airways, Anne Nichols play ran five years and reopened in New York last week, and the

Mills Brothers are coming to the Lyric Friday for a week's engagement. It is now five years since these “four boys and a guitar” made their American radio network debut. The public liked them, and they have established records from London to Los Angeles. They recently have returned from their second European tour to make some new recordings | and their current vaudeville tour. | Everyone knows by this time of | their clever imitations of instru-' ments by the simple means of |

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mouths and hands. They have done |.

their acts for radio, motion . pic- | tures, in night clubs and on oe stage. Their first European trip | was in 1934. Booked for four weeks | in England, they stayed 12 and included among their record accomplishments a command performance before the late King Edward V, four BBC broadcasts during their first two weeks abroad and special | recordings for immediate European | release. A-.tour of Holland followed which broke even their English attendance records.

| Began With Broadcasts ! |

Tt all started with a solid year of bi-weekly CBS - broadcasts. By | the time they had finished, five | vaudeville and stage-show circuits thought enough of their talents ta | break precedent by combining to | furnish them a route. When they reached the West Coast three motion picture companies were ready to sign them for films to be made during their | stay there. After two more longterm broadcast contracts. they re- | turned to Europe’ to find their popularity undiminished. Besides the Mills Brothers, Lyric has booked a miniature dance

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Bureau. narrator, 'the Federal Theater. | Louise Eyden, the accompanist, also | composed the fourth act music as | well as incidental interludes. !

| case i umphed. Act III, which was Hia-

sincere

Dancing Is Outstanding

In "Song of

Dancing, vocal and instrumental music, Cepia poetry.

tume against a scenic background.

famous poem in “The Song of Hiawatha,” Caleb Mills Hall as the third of the season's Theater Workship Series. |

Miss Kah-Roun Tootikian directed

tumes and masks and created the coreography. | corps of children. and adults. classes, occasion and coral representatives |

The Boy Scouts drafted for the:

of the Marion County Recreation | Robert Turner acted as: through the courtesy of and Mary!

In any synthesis of the arts, ama- |

| teur or professional, one of them is

bound to take precedence. In this it was the dance that tri-

some | at- |

exhibited conceived

watha's wedding,

and well

revue headed by Don Alvin; Ward, “knockabout comedians; Ray Vaughn, who plays a xylophone and a set of musical | bottles, and the team of Lewis and |

Pinkie and || Terry,

Ames. John Boles to Be Seen

The screen attraction will fea- | ture John Boles as a philandering architect in “As Good as Married.”

Doris Nolan is the girl in the case, and the plot's. complications arise from the fact that the architect his lot of

wants to marry her to lower income tax and avoid a » . . breach of promise suits.

ican Indian.

showing tribal ritual of the Amer- | The result was not |

| always as happy as the conception, !

but the performance was patently of the “workshop” variety, and | therefore cannot be accused of too | much pretension. The costumes, | lighting and properties were au- | thentic and in good taste.

and «kill in a brief appearance. As

ceded this, there was

attempts at dramatic recitation.

Miss Tootikian assigned. herself a modest role in-the dance-drama. | but showed her accustomed grace |

for the two short acts that ‘pre- | too much | poorly prepared singing and inept |

Walter Pidgeon, Tala Birell. Alan Mowbray, Esther Ralston and Er- _ nest Cossart head the supporting | cast in the picture, which was di- | rected by Eddie Buzzell.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“The Prince and the Pauper.” with | Brrol Flynn and the Mauch twins, at 11:34, 2: 4:32. 7:01 and 9:30.

CIRCLE

“Turn Off the Moon." with Charliz Ruggles, at 12:49. 3:59. 7:09 and 10:19. Also “King of Gamblers.” with Claire Trevors. at 11:30, 2:40,

5:50 .and 9 : INDIANA

“The Man Who Found Himself, with Joan Fontaine. and John eal at 12:07, 2:49.- 5:31, 8:13 and 10:1 Jan Garber ton ? ame) at 1:10, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:10.

KEITH'S

- “Carnival in Flanders.” French prize-winning movie. at 2. 4, 6, 8

and 10 LOEW'S

“A Star Is. Born,” with Fredric Marth and Janet Gaynor, at 13:20. 3:35, 6:45 and 10. Also ‘Song of the City.” at 11. 2:20. 5:35 and 8:50.

LYRIC

“Cafe Metropole,” with Tyrone Power and Loretta Young, at 11:31, 2:18, 5:05. 7:52 and 10:20. Ted Lewis (on stage) at 1:69, 3:36, 6:43 and 9:30.

OHIO

antes) Jane Turner.’ with Lee Tra Also “The Gay Desperado.” Lin ¥Xino Martini. :

AMBASSADOR

“The King and the Chorus Girl with Fernand Gravet. Also Have Our Moments?’

Bilers. ALAMO

“Don’t Tell the Wife,’ with Guy Kibbee. Also “Valley of the Terror,” with Ken Maynard.

with Sans

Complete Coronation Ceremonies in News at

ETE

~ NOW Hurry to See the Thrilling Technicolor Hit! . Janet \ GAYNOR Fredric

MARCH

“A STAR IS BORN”

Adolphe. Menjou

Every Except

Evening Monday

DANCE

WEST LAKE

Heated on Cool Evenings PAUL COLLIN'S ORCHESTRA

sloria Stuart, Lee Tracy “WANTED—JANE TURNER” Nino Martini, Ida Lupino “GAY DESPERADO”

i charitable consideration if the eve-

One might be more inclined to a

invited. Instead,

fee attached. Until money |

present, the entertainment-seeker | has a right to expect more for his |

| money than was offered last night. |

Bow a JUNE LANG AND AGENT TO WED

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, May 19. —dJune | Lang, actress, said today she will | be married to Victor Orsatti, art- | ists’ agent, in Hollywood May 29. | They will honeymoon in Hono- | lulu. Miss Lang is a native of Minneapolis. Orsatti is a brother of Ernie Orsatti, major league | baseball player. They met a year ago.

LORETTA DENIES TOUR ROMANCE

By United Press | HOLLYWOOD, May 19.—Loretta Young, brunette film beauty, returned from a Bermuda vacation today with the usual denials of romance that follow a Hollywood star’s vacation. i The man concerned in her de- | nials is a young merchant -of! Hamilton, Bermuda, whom she met | several years ago.

nari | event as ning’s entertainment had been ad- |

of Hiawatha'

combined to interpret Longfellow’s

| | |

all in cos- |

presented last evening in |

the performance, designed the cos- |

re were members of her dancing |

CORONATION

Complete. newsreels of. the British coronation ceremonies will be shown at the Circle and Indiana, beginning tomorrow. They were made by Pathe and Paramount, brought to New York by boat and flown to Indianapolis yesterday afternoon for a showing one week after the event took place in London.

Child Awaited At Cooper Home

Bu United Press HOLLYWOOD, May 19.—Long- | legged Gary Cooper was not like his |

shy screen self today as he proudly ! |

announced to all who would listen that he is to become a father. Grinning broadly, the cowpuncher set the date for “some time in September.” It will be the first child for Coop- | er and his wife, the former Veronica | | Balfe, New York society girl who acted on the screen under the name of Sandra Shaw. They were married in New York in December, 1933. and Miss Shaw abandoned her movie career. The Coopers recently were recalled from a Bermuda vacation when the actor was needed for ad- | I ditional scenes in “Souls at Sea” for Paramount.

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SCREEN BOOKINGS OF

Scenes from pictures scheduled to show at the Apollo during the next three weeks are shown above. 1. Sweethearts in real life, Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck finally have been teamed on the screen in “This Is My Afiair,” booked to open June 4. 2. Flankéd hy two of the screen's most noterious ‘public enemies” is Bette Davis. Her companions, of course. are Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart. They will be seen in “Kid Galahad,” which is to open May 28. 3. Friday's picture will star little Jane Withers, whose latest opus is called “Angel's Holiday.” Her soda-fountain companion akove is Frank Jenks. ©

Ei Pay High

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, May Dorothy Reid, film producer widow of Wallace Reid. was back from Samoa today with the news that the good old days when a film {company could hire South Sea belles for a couple of breadfruit a | day are gone forever. | “We had to pay $5 a day and | | meals,” Mrs. Reid related. “And | chieftains had to be paid extra to! | wear their decorations.” Mrs. Reid was in Tutuila te months shooting flim for “Paradise | Isle.” Wallace Reid Jr. met her at the docks.

SPEND FISK FORTUNE

A large share of the fortune of | Jim Fisk, made from the old Erie | Railroad stock promotion schemes,

was lavished on that beguiling siren, Josie Manseld, played by Frantes Farmer in “The Toast of New { York.” Edward Arnold is seen as Fisk.

SPEEDWAY

DANCE]|

ATHENAEUM

New Jersey St. at Mass.

FRIDAY NIGHT

May 21st—9:30—12:30

Music by

WAYNE M’INTYRE

Popular Radio Orchestra Admission 50c¢ a Person

In South Seas

; | for 19.—Murs. | and |

‘at 1505-07 E. Michigan St. also will have available |

DISASTER FILMS ARE AVAILABLE ?

Films of the Hindenburg disaster use. in home movie projectors are available through the R. B. Annis Co. Films may be previewed at the company's projection room The company coronation pictures for use in both 16 and 8 mm. Projesbm se

ASPIRED TO TEACH

Jean Muir, | the feminine lead of

currently appearing in “Outcasts of

The Adventure -Screen's Crowning Achievement!

Pririceaipe

MARK TWAIN Ip

bost-lovea story, siaming

' ERROL FLYNN

Ye JOAN DAVIS SALLY BLANE

If He Is Laughing At

He Who Laughs Last Laughs Just as Hard as He Who Laughed First

“Carnival in Flanders”

Today's ‘continuous showings from 2 p. m.

Last Chance for the Last Laugh KEITH'S THEATER Adults 40c Children 25c¢

Provide the

—ADDED HIT—

LEO C

HELEN MACK THOMAS MITCHELL

CHESTER

MORRIS ARRILLO

Starts Friday at LOEW'S

P tery

er Flat,” opposite Preston Fos-

rench teacher and enrolled at |

they French Conservatory until she |had,”

| became stage struck.

NEXT THREE WEEKS

had an early desire to become :

10-Yeor-Old.Girl Follows Mother

| By United Press : HOLLYWOOD, May 19.—Maria, | 10-year-old daughter of Agnes Ayres, {began work in a Hollywood film | studio today just as her famous i mother did in’the silent picture days { more than a decade ago. As Maria, bright-eyed, dark-haired

| little girl, began her career in a Hal,

BETTE HIRES TEACHER

Bette Davis, encouraged by her | first screen singing for “Kid Galahas hired a. voice teacher and | begun to study in earnest.

comedy,

She wanted to taste the thrills of life for herself! See what happened to this reckless, headstrong heroine! The daring drama of one American family!

A Paramount Picture, With

VICTOR MOORE ® BEULAH

BONDI

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And on the Same Program: -

| “SILENT BARRIERS”

with RICHARD ARLEN

Lone Consor Invites Help

Omaha Officials Fails Alter Prize Play.

By United Press | OMAHA, Neb., May 19.—Mayor' Dan Butler gave up his lone-hand censorship today and announced he would have a Welfare Board to help him pass on matters of propriety on the stage and screen. Mayor Butler's attempt to expurgate Robert Sherwood’s Pulitzer prize play, “Idiot's Delight.” back=fired last night with what star actor Alfred Lunt termed “the most enthusiastic reception in 500 performances.” | The Mayor termed certain pase sages of the play obscene, penciled them out so vigorously that members of the cast packed and prepared to move. Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Dean Stephen McGinley of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. and others protested. Bishop Oxnam is former president of DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. The Mayor decided to let the play go on as a means of acquainting Omahans with the objectives of his campaign. | More than 300) came for their “lesson.” Some passages to Which i the Mayor objected were greetzd with laughter and applause. One reference, to an Omaha hotel. stopped } the show monientarily.

PRAISE FOLLOWS EXTRAS' PRANK

Times Special 2 HOLLYWOOD, May 19.—Ran=dolph Scott's uniform good nature prompted a prank from the extras working with him m “High, Wide and Handsome.” In tie thick of a fight being staged on a bridge over a stream at Chino, Cal., Scott was slugging and tussling so vigorously that Director Mamouiian commented on it through the loudspeakers. “Great work. Randy,” he shouted. ‘Marvelous! Bravo!” “You'd fight. too,” retorted Randy, ‘if all the extras on the bridge were trying to throw you into the water!”

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Last £ Uays! Phil Harris and his band and Kenny Baker Charlie Ruggles Ben Blue! Eleanore Whitney Johnny Downs ix

TURN OFF THE MGDN

Sys OF ann GAMBLERS :

Ja VSL Bal Cl WE TS

MOTION PICTURES ‘OF THE

CORONATION

Rushed here by fast hoat and plane —will be shown on the Cirgle screen this afterncon and evening!

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HELEN BURGESS + PORTER NALL

1:10, 3:5

i oe dw 2

6:40, 9

with N BEAL #010 JON Norns PICTURE PHILIP HUSTON

COMING FRIDAY: FLETCHER HENDERSON

At a EE Theater

LL - ‘wsoumrn SIDE 2203 Shelby GARFIELD Double Feature | “ROSE BOWL” SE “MEN TARE Bay GODS” = FOUNTAIN SQUARE Double Feature oan Blondel

“KING AND THE CHORUS IRL Jane Withers “HOLY TERROR”

SANDERS At Fountain Square

Double Feature Tyrone Power “LLOYDS OF LONDON” “LADY FROM NOWHERE” Pros. & Churchman

Grace Moore

AVALON "erie Siters

"WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE" Comedy—Travelogue

ORIENTAL 1105 S. Meridian St.

Double Feature Robert Young “DANGEROUS NUMBER” “COME CLOSER, FOLKS”

: S. East at Lincoln LINCOLN Double Feature James Melton “SING ME A LOVE SONG” Myrna Loy “WHIPSAW”

EAST SIDE

Double Feature Ann Sothern “DANGEROUS NUMBER” _. Fred St Stone ‘‘GRAND JURY”

IRVING 5507 E. Wash. St _

Double Feature Constance Cummings “SEVEN SINNERS”’ _____ Warren William * CAST”

Double Feature uby Keeler “READY WILLING & ABLE” Betty Furness “FAIR WARNING” EXTRA! -Donald Duck Revue 40 Minutes of Donald Duck

HAMILTON 2116 E. 10th St.

Double Feature Lo retta Young “LOVE IS NEW “WINGS 5 OF THE MORNING” St. Double Feature “HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT” (First East Side Sho ER"

1332 E. Wash. St. STRAND Charles Boxer Lee Tracy “CRIMINAL LA

St.

EAST SIDE

411 E. Wash. James Dunn

Pe ramount Pigg

“MYSTERIOUS CROSSING” Comedy—March of Time

B1J 0 u 114 E. Washington

Double Feature John Wayne ONFL “RIO GRANDE ROMANCE “RUSTLERS OF RED DOG”—No. 10 3155 E. 10th

R I Vv oO L | Doors Open 5:15

Joan Blondell “KING AND THE CHORUS GIRL” “WE HAVE OUR MOMENTS” HINDENBERG DISASTER NEWS SHOTS

Special Added Attraction! A Hollywood Carnival Revue 40 Minutes of Fun and Frivolity Surfing Mickey Mouse—Popeye Little Wolves—Pluto—3 Little Pigs

2442 ‘Wash. St. Hie Feature Herbert Marshall “MAKE WAY FOR A LADY”

“MURDER WITH PICTURES”

NORTH SIDE

TA LBOTT Double Feature

“MURDER GOES COLLE se ‘WE’ RE IN THE LEGION NOW” at

30th Bruce

R E X Margaret

“SINNER TAKE ALL” Selected Shorts

GARRICK Sai iis

Double Feature Katherine | Hepburn “A WOMAN REBELS ’ a" ‘COWBOY STAR”

MECCA

“ALIBI FOR MURDER “LOVE LETTERS OF A STAR”

Stratford

“THE AR “TUGBOAT PRINCESS” J

Talbott & 22d

Northw’ t'n Cabot Lindsay

Noble & M Mass. Double Feature rs Gargan

19th & College Double Feature Mah ,Nolan

NORTH SIDE

Si RHEE 2361 | Station St, D R L A M Double Feature Claudette Colbert “MAID OF. SALEM” “IT’S LOVE AGAIN”

Illinois and “31 ith

Ww.

“Blaine

R | T Z Double Feature Miriam Hopkins ‘MEN ARE NOT G “TIME ort FOR ROMANCE” He lly d 13) Roosevelt Ave. ouble Feature o woo Franchot Tone “EXCLUSIVE STORY” “HOPALONG CASSIDY RETURNS” A DIR Central and Fall Ck. ZARING Douhle Feature ean Arthur "MISTORY a MADE AT NIGHT” HINA PASSAGE” 12d |& College UPTOWN Double Feature 4 ou Bapeam “NINE DAYS A QUE Jane Withers “HOLY TERROR” St. & Ft. Wayne ST. CLAIR - Dobie Feature esar Romero “SHE'S DANGEROUS: ”. Preston Foster “SEA DEVILS” Udell at Clifton U D E L L Double Feature Joan Bennett “TWO IN A CROWD” “TROUBLE IN TEXAS” WEST SIDE Wash. & Belmont BELMONT Double Feature “HISTORY IS MADE AT NI “ROMANCE AND RICHI HES 2540 W. Mich. St. D A A | S Y Double Feature Claudette Colbert “MAID OF SALEM” Roscoe: Karns “CLARENCE” HOWARD "Gi % “SINNER TAKE ALL” Short Subjects 231062 W. STAT E D

“10th St.