Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1937 — Page 18
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
FRIDAY, JULY :0, 1937
GHOSTS HECKLE BANKER IN ‘TOPPER, NEW ‘PICTURE AT CIRCLE
Spooky Pair Renovates Dull Citizen
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Roland Young Has Good Deed Done to Him Whether ¢ or No.
By JAMES THRASHER
After seeing Roland Young | heckled and hexed by a couple of amiable apparitions In “Topper,” one is forced to the conclusion that nothing 1S sacred any more—not even death. “Topper,” now at the Circle, is the world's funniest ghost story. No doubt about it. It is adapted from | a novel by the late Thorne Smith, whose “Night Life of the Gods,” also found its way into the movies and whose fantastic sense of humor apparently knew no limits. “Night Life of the Gods” concerned a bunch of statues that came to life, but “Topper” is the story of a young couple who started out after death | to do the good deed they had missed while living. The title, by the way, anything to do with a silk hat. It's the hero's name, Cosmo Topper. He is played by Mr. Young, and he is a successful stodgy banker with an even stodgier wife, portrayed by | Billie Burke. Now, George and Marion Kerby (Cary Grant and Constance Ben- | nett) always felt that Topper needed stirring up. They had ample opportunity to observe his repres- | sion, because George was the bank's heaviest stockholder,
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Topper Is ‘It
But George and Marion got Killed. | The car smashes up and they find | themselves sitting on a log. It occurs to them that they are what is termed “no more.” What to do? | No trumpets sound, nothing happens. Then George, in a prescient moment, realizes that they must do | one good deed before they are released from this earth. Topper is “it,” by mutual agreement. Here, as you can see, the | springboard that can launch the enterprising author or direator into | endless possibilities. The Pichure | takes a running jump and dives in. It developes that George and Ma- |S rion have only a limited amount | of ectoplasm (see Webster) at their | disposal. So they find it expedient to remain invisible except when | theit material presence is absolute- | ly necessary. Just think of all the fun you | could have if you were invisible, and | you can understand that from here | on in the picture must be seen and | bt talked about. It's enough to say {that poor Topper meets the ghosts | and they go to work.
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Leaves Home | He becomes innocently involved | in a street brawl with the “unknown blond.” After the ensuing scandal | he leaves nome, with Mrs. Topper | picking up the pieces of her shattered life. Thanks to the newspapers, Top- | per's scandal makes him out a Don Juan and makes Mrs. Topper a social success. Meanwhile. the lovely Marion has appeared in Toppers s | car, He goes to a hotel, and there | his spectral sidekicks play hide-and- | scek—and how! When it's all over, Topper has | come home, his wife has decided to become just as modern and alluring as the “unknown blond,” and the Kerbys, their handiwork and found it good, | depart for Heaven.
PRotography Is Riot
The trick photography is a riot. You won't want to forget the invisible Mr. Kerby changing a tire, nor | Mrs. Kerby, likewise invisible, slap- | ping the elevator boy, nor yet the! two of them supporting the tipsy Topper through a hotel lobby. The farce reaches its height in the final scene, with Mr. Kerby throwing sheep dogs at the gendarmes and raising the devil generally. I don’t know how the camera tricks are done, but theyre something to see. Apparently having the time of | their lives, the four stars cavort with the able assistance of Alan Mowbray, as the Topper butler, and Eugene Pallette, the house detective. “Topper” is easily the weirdest cinema farce ever filmed, and incidentally one of the season's most enjoyable entertainments.
LONG RECORD
“Mt for a King,” Joe E. Brown's latest comedy production, is Direc- | tor Edward Sedgewick's 105th fea- | ture picture. He has lost count of | the one and two-reel comedies Ai-| rected in 25 years in motion pic- | tures.
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JORDAN HIRES NOTED PIANIST
Baron Yriges
These Stars! How They Wo rey Poor Directors
By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, July 30.—(NEA)— |
| Random snapshots of some people |
| you know: While making recordings of her songs for the flickers, Jeanette MacDonald always wants to sway with the tempo. And that’s bad, because | should remain just the] So lean she
they make Miss MacDonald when
Then she can't sway. They have a hard time keeping
Nelson Eddy from shaking his head |
while he sings. That's all right on the concert stage, but before a microphone it produces sound. Eleanor Powell has learned to keep her body fairly still while re-
| cording, but they have to stand her |
on a thick rug to silence the toetappings which she does involun- | tarily. Robert’ Taylor gave technicians a bad time during the making of “Broadway Melody of 1936"—he kept snapping his fingers. But Taylor isn’t nervous now, The best one-man show in Hollywood is William Wellman, now directing “Nothing Sacred.” When he
wants to register approval of any- |
| thing, he barks. If he barks after a scene is photographed, the players | and technicians know it's perfect. If he barks at an actress, she is flattered though flustered. Wellman carries an air pistol on the set and amuses himself shooting at the small eandjescent up in the rafters. He's shot. In fact, he seems ol do everything well, and wins a lot | of money from people by besting | them at anything from mumblety- | peg to swimming under water. To get a bet, travagantly and make obvious misstatements about records he has | held. The goaded victim usually
having looked upon |tries to squelch him by offering | sultry-eyed actress who played the
odds. Wellman then steps out and wins easily. The director never pampers players. If he likes them he insults them—and they like it. In this picture Fredric March | and Carole Lombard have a fight. | yrdered March to Kick | Miss Lombard and the actor was reluctant. “Like this, Freddie—" said Wellman, and by way of demonstration he gave the astonished star a lusty boot that nearly | lifted her off her feet. Director John Ford used to be a | handkerchief-chewer. ous habit acquired after he had nearly ruined his teeth chewing up pipe-stems. Watching a scene, the tense Ford would twist a handkerchief. Pretty soon he'd have one end in his teeth, yanking at it and tearing it to shreds. _Sometimes he'd
SWIM- DANCE
WESTLAKE
PAUL QOLLINS. CHE RA FEATURING JENNIFER CNET TER Every evening except Monday
a wavering
by |
he will brag ex- |
It was a nerv-
| ruin: half a dozen handkerchiefs a day. He doesn’t do it any more, Mrs. Ford sent him a bill. The bills showed that he had been chewing up handkerchiefs worth §15 a | dozen. Joan Blondell and Jimmy Cagney | were sold to Warner Brothers as | Shatiels along with a play called | “Penny Arcade” The studio didn't want them, but they were part of the contract. | Since coming here she has | played more chorus-girl roles than | any other actress. Yet the only | time she ever was a chorus girl | was during a day's rehearsals of “Rosalie” on Broadway. They decided she wouldn't do. Warner Baxter has no patience | With actors who say theyre not | temperamental. He says, “Actors | are not normal people. Normal peo- | ple are happy and placid. Actors { have got to have a sort of nervous | instability seething inside 'em. Without temperament they're not fitted | for anything better than mob scenes or jobs as stand-ins.’ Dorothy Arzner, only woman director, doubts that she ever will have much feminine company in her pro- | fession. The reason is simple: A male di- | Yecvor commands respect, or anyway awe, when he blows off steam by shouting and cussing, But let a woman director try that and the cust would snicker and think she was having hysterics. | Miss Arzner has a male assistant
who does the necessary shouting on | But he seldom swears for |
her sets. | her.
ACTRESS MOVITA ENDS MARRIAGE
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, 4-vear-old marriage
30.—The Movita,
July of
| role of a dusky South Seas beauty [in the movie, “Mutiny on the Bounty,” was at an end today. | Movita, born Maria Castaneda, of | Nogales, Ariz., obtained an annul- | ment of her marriage to Samuel D. | Garrison. She married him at | Santa Ana, Cal., in 1933, when she 17 and lacked her parents’ conThe actress said she rethe marriage immediately never lived with
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| Was | sent. gretted | afterward and | Mr. _Garrison.
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Harold Triggs, nationally known | pianist and composer, has been appointed artist teacher of piano at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, Miss Ada Bicking, director, announced today. His work will begin Sept. 15. The pianist is best known to American concert and radio audiences as a member of the successful two-piano team of Triggs and Brodsky. He has appeared as soloist and duo-pianist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the National Orchestra Associa=tion of New York, Alfred Wallenstein’s Sinfonietta, the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, the Emo Rapee Symphony, at the Lewisohn Stadium concerts in New York, and on the broadcast programs of Rudy Vallee, Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring and Deems Taylor. In addition Mr. Triggs has appeared as recitalist at the Town Hall, Carnegie Hall and Metropolitan Opera House in New York, and in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Toronto, Baltimore and Washington. His compositions include a symphonic poem, performed at the Salzburg, Austria, Festival in 1932; songs, and works for two pianos and solo piano.
Chicago Graduate Mr. Triggs received his Ph. B. degree from the University of Chicago. Later he graduated in piano
from the Bush Conservatory in the | Selections,
same city. His teachers included Jan Chiapusso and the late Julie Rive-King. He also received his
master of music degree and first |
prize in piano from the Bush Conservatory.
Band to Play At Garfield On Sunday
Schumacher to Conduct Second of Public Open-Air Series.
The second of three free open-air concerts by the Indianapolis Concert Band will be given at 8 p. m. Sunday in Garfield Park. William Schu-
macher again is to conduct.
An audience of 6500 heard the concert two weeks ago, and preparations have been made for another large crowd on Sunday. Early-com-ers will find a large number of benches available, Mr. Schumacher states, and traffic will be stopped in
| varied
local interference. Another program music has
of heen
light and
| which will consist of the following | selections:
| Selections,
Soloists
| March, ‘Chicago Tribune’
‘Show Boat" Kern Serenade” T Herman flute; Tom Cox, “Piccolo Pic” .. Soloist: Herman “Tressel | “Invitation to the Dance’ “Fortune Teller" INTERMISSION Overture. “Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna” .. se Rubbe “Comin’ Through the Rye” . Bellste: Medley of Old Favorites . en Selections, “No, No, Nanette” .. " Youmans | “Stars and Stripes Forever"
Tressel, French horn.
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‘Maureen to Be
Leaving Chicago, Mr. Triggs en- |
tered the Juillard Graduate School | in New York, where
he studied |
piano for five years with Josef and |
Rosina Lhevinne and theory composition with Rubin mark. As a pedagog, posel served for two years at the Bush Conservatory, the Juillard School of Music, and at present is on the faculties of
{ Juillard and Columbia University.
During the coming season he will teach one day each week at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in addition to his work at the local school. '
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“The Road Back,” with John King and Richard Crom well, 20, 1:23, 3:26, 5:29, 7:32 and 9:35.
CIRCLE
“Topper,” with Roland Young, Constance Bennett and Cary Grant, at 12:30, 3:40, 6:50 and 10 Also “You Can't Beat Love,” with Preston Foster, at 11:30, 2:40, 5:50
and LOEW'S
" with Jean Harjow and at 1L 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 “League of Frightened Walter Connolly and at 12:40, 3:30, 6:25
LYRIC
with Pat O’Brien Pogart, at 59 an 10:20 Sissie’s Orchestra (on 1:06, 3:34, 6:42 and 9:30
OHI0
“Join the Marines,” with June Travis and Paul Kelly. Also “That Man's Here Again,” with Hugh Her-
bert AMBASSADOR
“This Is My Affair,” with Robert Taylor ¢ Barbara Stanwyck. Also “13th Chair,” with Lewis Stone and Madge Evans.
ALAMO “Rustlers Valley, ” with William Boyd. Also “Charlie Chan at the - Olympics,” with Warner Oland.
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“Saratoga, Clark Gable and 0 Men,” with Lionel Stander, and 9
“San Quentin,” and Humphrey 2.23, 5:11,
the pianist-com- | O'Sullivan today
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and | Gold- |
Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, July 30.—Maureen
was assigned to | | play opposite Robert Taylor in “Yank at Oxford,” first production ™ be filmed in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's London studios. The actress came to Hollywood from Ireland eight years ago and has been in more than 30 Hollywood films, including “A Day at the Races,” “The Emperor's Candlesticks” and “Between Two Women” within the past few months. She will leave for London within a few weeks, on completion of her role in “My Dear Miss Aldrich” in which she is featured with Edna May Oliver and Walter Pidgean. Jack Conway
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