Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1937 — Page 10
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Sports Cast Chosen for Lyric's Film
Baseball Fan Joe E. Brown
And Golf Writer's Daughter Star.
It's a sporting cast that) Lyric patrons will see in “Riding on Air,” which opens at the local vaudeville house tomorrow. And reports indicate that meetings of the “hot stove league” — Hollywood chapter—were held between
Opening Tomorrow
Apollo
{ “SINGING MARINE"—With Dick Powell, Doris Weston, Lee || Dixon, Hugh Herbert and Jane Darwell Music and lyrics by || Harry Warren and Al Dubin; directed by Ray Enright. Story—Marine private is successful on radio amateur hour, || gets contracts and forgets girl friend and Marine friends when '| success goes to his head. His furlough over, he is gent to China, where his agents use his money to finance big night club. He pays off debts, turns club over to a friend; and returns to his old companions, the Marines and the girl.
Circle
“EASY LIVING’ '—With Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni and Mary Nash. Directed by Mitchell Leisen. Story—Office girl, on way to work, has expensive sable coat thrown from an apartment onto her' shoulders. She meets rich banker who threw it, and his buying her a hat to go with coat is misconstrued by his friends. She, by knowing him, causes stock market crash and boom, makes herself a fortune and finally falls in love with handsome young man who turns out to be the banker's son. “LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID”—With Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Karen Morley, Lionel Atwill, Helen Mack and Robert Cummings. Directed by Janles Hogan. Story—Madrid government official in charge of a train taking citizens from the beleagured city of Valencia, learns his fiancee loves a political prisoner who is to be released. He arranges for
most of the scenes.
Joe E. Brown and Florence Rice | are the picture's headliners, and | both have an athletic background. | Miss Rice is a daughter of Grant- | land Rice, sports columnist, and Mr. Brown is one of the country’s most | rabid baseball fans as well as an | ex-professional player, Director Edward Sedgwick was 8 catcher in the Texas League in one phase of his prescreen career, while | Pat O'Shea, who is Mr. Brown's stand-in, formerly played shortstop with Coast League teams and was up for a time with the Chicago Cubs. Although he admits he never will be classed with baseball's immortals, Joe E. Brown was good enough to win a dugout seat with the New York Yankees in 1922-23, and also saw service with the Boston Red Sox. { Started at St. Paul
Following a circus and vaudeville | career, Mr. Brown broke into the | American Association as an outfielder with St. Paul. By the time he reached the big leagues he had become a second baseman. “I'll never forget when I once batted for Harry Hooper of the Red | Sox in an important game,” Joe re- | called recently. “I tried my best to | line one out to right field, but the | best I could do was hit safely to | left instead.” In the off-seasons of his brief | big league career, the infielder- | comedian put in three years with | the “Greenwich Village Follies.” He | didn't lose interest in the national | pastime, however, and a few years | ago appeared in a different capac- | ity when he bought a “piece” of the | Kansas City baseball club. Got Baseball Role First |
Four years ago Mr. Brown made his movie baseball debut in “Elmer the Great,” and he has another “Elmer” role in his new picture. This time, however, he is cast as Elmer Lane, managing editor of the mythical Claremont (Wis) Chronjcle, and hero of the popular Elmer Lane magazine stories by Richard Macaulay. The author, incidentally, had a hand in bringing “Riding on Air” to the screen. Guy Kibbee is cast as the chief comedy support in the film. The Lyric’s stage bill for the coming week is headed by Sammy | White, stage and screen actor. He played in both the legitimate and picture versions of “Show Boat,” and more recently has appeared in “Cain and Mabel,” with Marion Davies and in “The Hit Parade.” An Indianapolis girl among the supporting acts is Miss Ruth Thompson, who will be seen with the Varsity Coeds, a singing ensemble,
HUSBAND PAYS VISIT TO MARLENE
Timer Special HOLLYWOOD, July 8—Rudolph Sieber, husband of Marlene Dietrich, has joined his famous wife. Mr. | Sieber, arriving from France, where he is a film director, plans an in- | definite stay in Los Angeles. Later in the summer he, Miss Dietrich and their daughter, Maria, probably will visit France and England before she | starts her next picture.
| quette had to be introduced today
| mother with her naturaily dark skin
prisoner to go on train, and is arrested for allowing prisoner to escape. Prisoner, meanwhile, has accepted a pass belonging to murdered man. After train leaves, orders come to stop it for arrest of escaped prisoner, but official, knowing he will be shot, delays order so woman he loves may escape with the man she loves.
Loew’s (Second Week)
“A DAY AT THE RACES”—The Marx Brothers, Allan Jones and Maureen O'Sullivan. Directed by Sam Wood.
Story—The Marx Brothers, berserk in a sanitarium, race through a series of scenes which culminate in their winning a steeplechase with the sanitarium owner's horse, enabling her to pay off the mortgage. Groucho, Chico and Harpo are seen as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (really a horse doctor), as Tony, an ice cream salesman at the race track, and as Stuffy, a jockey, respectively. “THE DEVIL IS DRIVING”—Richard Dix, Joan Perry, Nina Bryant and Frank C. Wilson. Directed by Harry Lachman.
Lyric
“RIDING ON AIR”"—With Joe E. Brown, Guy Kibbee, Florence Rice and Vinton Haworth. Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Story—Small town publisher is rival of rich young man for affection of the town’s prettiest girl. Publisher wins $5000 in radio contest, invests it in radio-beam manufacturing on advice of city slicker who hears of his good fortune, Other citizens lose money in enterprise and publisher is blamed, but he flies on the radio beam to catch a smugglers’ plane, and legitimate concern, hearing of his exploit, buys out manufacturing business with profit for everyone. He gets the girl and the presidency of the new firm. “CRAZY QUILT REVUE (on stage)—With Sammy White, Ziegfeld star, as master of ceremonies; Masters and Rollins, comedy team; Varsity Coeds, singing ensemble; Fortunello and Cirillino, European pantomime artists; Jack LaVier and troupe in comedy aerial act, and Fitz and Cahill, dance team.
Stars Shine In Roles Held Secondary
Film Great Break Tradition in Taking Attractive Lesser Parts.
Timez Special
HOLLYWOOD, July 8.— The tradition that the film great can accept nothing less than starring roles and survive seems due to be chucked into permanent discard. Even stranger than the change in sentiment, however, is the fact that it is being brought about by the stars themselves. Bette Davis, for example, insisted that she be permitted to play Joyce Arden, the actress, in her current picture, “It’s Love I'm After,” with Leslie Howard and Olivia
de Havilland. It was a characterization that Miss Davis thought suited to her particular talents, so she insisted that she be allowed to play it.
Previously Miss Davis had failed | | in an effort to get the role of Nana,
the unfortunate woman in “The Life of Emile Zola,” Paul Muni’s latest picture. Bette wanted the
ply could not see last year's Academy Award winner in a role that would last only a few moments in
the finished production. Errol Flynn, currently making “The Perfect Specimen,” is another
top-ranking star who recently went after and won a secondary role be-
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIME
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cause he felt it should be his. Flynn was definitely second in importance to the Mauch twins, Billy and Bobby, in “The Prince and the
Pauper,” but the role of Miles Hendon probably did as much to
advance his screen popularity as | | any starring part he has played to | part as she had never wanted any- |
| thing before, but her producers sim-
date. Pat O'Brien took a role second in
“They Wanted
To Marry” Tomorrow!
Betty Furnas
“SEVENTH HEAVEN"
Lina’s Costume Frightens Son
Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, July 8.—Lina Bas-
to her own son, and very properly, too. His nurse brought the 3-year-old tot, Eddie, to the set of “Ebb Tide,” where Miss Basquette is playing the role of a South Sea Island native girl. The actress rushed over to greet her son—and the child drew back,
badly frightened, and began weeping loudly. He didn’t recognize his
darkened further by makeup, and garbed in the abbreviated pareu of the South Sea Islander.
ACTOR TRAINS DOG
George Murphy is teaching his pet collie, Jock MacLean, to obey silent commands. George has a different gesture for each stunt the
dog does, and Mr. Murphy says that if the dog learns enough commands the actor will try to have the dog appear with him in his next picture.
MUTUAL
Starting at Midnight Show, July 10th
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Tonight’s Presentations at Your
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Joseph Calleia i “MAN OF THE PEOPLE” Patsy Kelly “NOBODY'S BABY" H I d on. Roosevent | e Feature | o ywoo Jack Holt | “TROUBLE IN MOROCCO’ | _ “PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY ViI® Central at Fall Creek | ZARING Special Feature anet Gaynor Fredrie March—Andy Deyvine—May Robson “A STAR IS BORN" CINEMA 16th & Delaware
Jean Arthur
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Double Feature Loretta Young “CAFE METROPOLE" “PARK AVENUE LOGGER”
ST. CLAIR ‘St. CL & Ft. Wayne
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THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1987
MAD MARXES TO STAY ANOTHER WEEK
Recital Set For Tonight
Mrs. Laura Poland to Present Piano Pupils.
The commencement recital of Mrs, Laura Craig Poland's piano students will be held at 7:45 o'clock this evee
ning instead of last Thursday, as was announced earlier. Eleven pupils are to receive cer= tificates from the Sherwood School of Music, Chicago, with which Mrs, Poland is affiliated. They are Maxine Smith, Aloha Carlin, Dorothy Jatho, Norma Sanders, Lillian Rose Smith, Ora Elizabeth Coates, Margaret Mueller, Levonne Brenner, Wilbur Gilbert, Florence Karkhoff and Miss Ruby Kaufman, who will receive a teacher's certificate. Others taking part will be Norma Bunce, Royer Coats, Maxine Wheeler, Julia Ann McCullough, Mary Jean Jones, Maxine Bunce, William Wood, Betty Bunce, William Thomas, Mary Ellen Jessup, Griffith Thomas, Elsie Starck and Mrs. Guy Wilson.
STRATOSPHERE MAN FEATURED
A feature of Broad Ripple. Park's week-end attractions will be the opening appearance of Arenzo E. Seldon, known as the Stratosphere Man. His act consists of balancing and trapeze performances on a pole 130 feet from the ground. Mr. Seldon, a veteran of 30 years in circus and vaudeville, will begin a two-weeks engagement with pere formances at 3 and 9 p. m. Sunday,
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JEAN ARTHUR | | EDWARD ARNOLD
A Paramount Picture with
RAY MILLAND
LUIS ALBERNI ‘ MARY NASH Directed by MITCHELL LEISEN
Plus Thrills! Action!
“THE LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID”