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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18, 1937

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

} PAGE 13

‘GOOD EARTH TO. COME TO LOEW'S FRIDAY AT POPULAR PRICES

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| JIM FISK'S CORNER ON GOLD CAUSES PANIC

Flavor of Book Kept | In Picture

Performances by Muni, Rainer Are Film's

Highlights.

: By JAMES THRASHER Many of us are going to “re read” Pearl S. Buck's “The | Good Earth,” in screen translation, when it returns to Loew’s Friday for a popularpriced engagement. That term “reread” is not an idle one. In the first place, the picture has captured faithfully the book's essential flavor as well as its story sequence. It is the only instance in my recollection where a literary style actually has been reflected in the cinema medium. And secondly, there are enough beautiful and memorable moments in the picture | to draw us back for repeated see- | ing, just as we return again and | again to a favorite book or play. |! Indianapolis was one of 300 cities | to sée "The Good Earth” at roadshow prices. Now, as the elimax of | a list of sterling summer releases | from’ the M-G-M studios, it is be- | ing reshown to these and many |

other cities at the prevailing admissipn price,

The short,

In the above scene from

Justifies Artistic Claims

“The Good Earth” is one of those | pictures which the industry makes | now and again to justify its claims as an artistic medium. Many of | them are not successful; some fail to live up to their pretensions. | However, “The Good Earth's” popularity is a tribute to the taste of | j|] from infirmities of old ageits makers and its audiences. At | js 84—that he was not told of the popular prices, second weeks have | qeath. Mr. Heath was the straightbeen required in Pittsburgh, Phila- | man of the duo. the man who gave | delphia, Buffalo and other “test” | point to the slow, dry wit of MecIncities {tyre on the stages of the Victorian | Highlights are the performances | age. of Luise Rainer and Paul Muni, who Mr. are pated, until next spring at least, | the “monarchs of minstrelsy” as the movies’ ranking stars, thanks | though he went far beyond to . the Motion Picture Academy | minstrel form of entertainment. He | awards. Their capable assistants in | pecame seriously ill about a week | the cast include Walter Connolly. | 400 and lapsed into a coma last Charles Grapewin, Tilly Losch and | week-end. At his bedside was his Jessie Ralph. | daughter, Mrs. George Martin, Thalberg's Work Evident Research for the picture was one | of ‘the last undertakings of Irving Thalberg before his untimely death. The stamp of his excellent taste is | visible in the production, though most of the filming was done after | he died. Sidney Franklin's direc- | tion caps the veteran megaphoner’s | distinguished list of efforts. M:=G-M ought to reap an additional harvest at the boxoffice, for | the . popular-priced showing comes at atime when worldwide interest | is “directed toward China. All of | whieh adds interest to the vivid and | presumably truthful picture of | China's courageous peasants set forth in "The Goad Earth.”

Chico’ S Absence Postpones, Trial

By United Press

SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., Aug.

As Mr. | Setauket, N. X

Began in 1874 Broadway was a slow-moving | street when McIntyre and Heath | began. The date was May 10, the place was San and both never stances. A crowd of cowbovs rode into town to shoot up Main when they saw a silk topper. Guns | fired, the trooper skidded into the dust and Mr. Heath found himself

ner, a Mr. Butler. Mr. Butler never topper and Mr. Heath decided to take in his place a one-time candy butcher with an amazing ear | Negro dialect and a pair of twinkling feet. | Mr. MecIntyre's preparation for | | show business had been unorthodox. | | Born in Kenosha, Wis.. he traveled | through the South on trains, danc- | ing for the engine crew in his | | spare time. Fascinated by

| a novel way of getting | phrases. He would offer glass of lemonade, then away.

unstudied | a Negro a | snatch it

Tim HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.— Because Chico Marx is busy on a film, | the preliminary hearing of a young fight fan accused of tossing an] empty whisky bottle at the movie- | starred ringside of a boxing show | last week has been postponed until tomorrow, Mr. Marx is star

ce Npeeinl

Expert on Negro Dialect

This usually produced a (and so keen was Mr.

protest

witness against [of the words. Theodore Watts, 27, charged with | in Americana went to him for adassault with deadly weapon. The | Vice on writing a recording Negro | bottle shattered against a ringpost | Speech. and showered Mr. Marx, Al Jolson| Then Mr. McIntyre toured and Ruby Keeler with glass. | mountains of Alabama with a wagon Al Jolson, Ruby's husband, chal-| circus. lenged the entire gallery to fight partner, a woman named Kate Put- | to get at the bottle thrower. |, and toured the South with a CE [clog dance routine.

Antonio, Tex., | forgot the circum- |

18. | of the lost art of minstrelsy which started in a frontier town 63 years ago was broken today with ihe death of James McIntyre, 81, blackface co- | median of the famous team of McIntyre & Heath. McIntyre lapsed from coma into death. a few miles away at . his {riand and fellow-trouper, hes eran -

MeIntvre was called one vl | Why

| |

1874, |

St. |

watching his fast disappearing part-

returned to his |

| reply, or bo

the in- | | flection of Negro dialect he hit upon |

| 1 | |

MeclIntyre's ear |

{

After this jaunt he took a | | Stockman

Following ‘his |

but shocking “panic” which gripped the New York Stock Exchange when Jim Fisk cornered the gold market is re-enacted “The _Toast

of New York,” coming Friday

McIntyre and Heath Team Split by Trouper’s Death

A friendship between two masters

Thomas K. Heath. was so

in which Mr. Heath would throw

away a cigaret butt and yank it up |

| with an invisible thread as Mr. Mc- | Intyre leaped for it. McIntyre would demand to Mr. Heath had previously hit ‘him with an overripe tomato. “For the last

| he would say, brandishing a razor,

Whereupon Mr. | Know |

time I asked you." |

“hv what jurisprudence do you vin- |

submarine activity with a vegetable

dicate your dvnamiting me | compound?”

Mr. Heath wculd ignore

in |

the re- |

quest by giving orders to an imagi- |

nary attendant.

“Pascal de a Gardo,” he would

say, ' blood.”

‘give my pet lion two quarts of |

Another howl went up when Mr. |

Mcintyre came out behind a line of chorus girls. Heath—Haven't fore? MecIntyre—Oh, before. And in all their plays Mr. would ask: “Are you married?” Came invariably Mr.

I seen you I've been behind |

Heath

MclIntyre's

ence!

“No. I'm in business for myself.”

Expert Gives Dancing Ti

‘Stockman Again to!Teach at although he had grave fears for|

Masters’ School.

—————————————

|gagement at the Chicago Associa- | Airport. They whooped and cheered Normal | and made for him in a solid mass | with outstretched autograph books. Mr,

tion of Dancing Masters’

the | School.

On tHe eve of departure, left his friends the following admonition:

“Watch your dancing, for it is a

|came an appearance in the vener- | barometer of your breeding.”

able classic, “East Lynne.” He quit, |

Stars’ Secret Numbers Found!

job of stableboy at Henderson, Ky.

| was an instant fusing of talent and | | per sonality.

wv E'nited Press HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18 Holly - | wood motion picture studios today |start always was the somewhat pes- | sought te plug leaks through which | simistic comedian and Mr. Heath have trickled the confidential tele- | the straight man with a dash of opphone numbers and addresses of | timism, stars, presumably to be sold to fans | Ya unie and oi hunters. Introduced Buck and Wing Eleanor Whitney and Betty| Their first routine was new Grable, voung actresses, prompted | dance, the buck and wing. They the. investigation with complaints | got $20 a week for it, but were raised that fans have been sitting on their [to $100 a week when they introduced front steps several days. Complaints |it in Chicago. In 1876 they weve also came from Martha Raye and | engaged by Tony Pastor to appear Frances Farmer. at his celebrated theater in New —_— York.

Despite their success as dancers CONNIE DIRECTS they concentrated most on humor. COSMETIC FIRM | [songs and jokes, McIntyre and inte the cosmetic business today. | and for a period of 10 consecutive don and Paris. | Ham Tree” which ran three years, attractive and unattractive is a | Mr. ELEANORE 1s BUSY for two hours of fittings preparing

{ Where minstrelsy had been standardized as a semicircle of blackBy United Press HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.—Con- | Heath added beautiful girls, elaborate scenery and lighting effects. Known as Constance Bennett, | .,.c jy was estimated they averInc., her company will center In | aged $3000 a week for the team. Miss Bennett, in announcing the | «iy Haiti.” “The Georgia Mincompany, remarked: strels.” “Red Pepper” matter of habit; there are really but Mr. McIntyre made appearances | no ugly women. Eleanore Whitney is practicing dance routines for four hours daily for “Summer Romance,” her next picture.

BR | friction. Mr. McIntyre from

{death of his wife, Emma McIntyre, in 1935, Fashions in humor change, but the heyday of the team they rolled |

| faced singers and comics with a few stance Bennett, movie star, went | They Were received sensationally Hollywood with branches in Lon- | Their productions included “The “The difference between being | Alexander.’ and then reporting to the wardrobe <i , (ot EY, jo - A {5 FINAL week

01787173 | EVERYTHING

and “Hello |

Heath retired some years ago, |

Few teams ever have | Big Apple, had so long a career with so little | the night club of its origin in Cothe | lumbia,

| | |

up to 1933. He was depressed by the |

patrons | in the aisles with a scene |

A frowner “freak” dancing,

upon

| the stage for a time to accept the | Mr, Stockman has been touring th»

| country this sumer and reports on

But when he met Mr. Heath there | | the sectional terpsichorean trends.

In the deep South he found the a dance named after

S. C. The club originally | was a Negro church, Mr. Stockman says, and the dance is a combina- | tion. of the prevailing Harlem didoes, with a dash of the Virginia Reel.

Finds Middle West Conservative

On the West Coast, the local instructor found couples ambulating side by side in what he calls the “conversational position.” In the East, the tango and rhumba are the go in the more expensive dance spots, with Harlem still furnishing the inspiration for dance halls in the lower price brackets. Mr. Stockman predicts that Middle Westerners, conservative to the end, will stick to the waltz and fox trot. Though, he says, the less decorous” “Indiana Hops’ and such will prevail among those with the agility and taste for such things.

Clarence Bud- \ ington Kelland's

whispered also by the audi- |

Indianapolis |

be- |

| | | |

PS Robert Taylor. movie star,

| booed by Louis Stockman of the Stockman | failure to obtain an autograph. | that he could repeat every shading | Dance Studios, is to leave tomorrow In later years experts for his 10th annual teaching en-| women, met his plane at Municipal

| |

E |

to the Circle. Edward Arnold is shown here as the famous speeculator of the Seventies. The cast also includes Jack Oakie, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer and Donald Meek.

1 Opera Calls

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO

“Yon Can't Have Everything,” with Pon Ameche and Alice Fave, at 11:05, 1:02, 3:19, 5:25, 7:33 and 9:40

CIRCLE

“Artists and Models,” with Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Gail Paris and Richard Arlen, at 12:32, 6:52 and 10:02. Also “Wild Boner with Edward Everett Horton hd Camphell. at 11:23, 2:23, 9

LOEW'S

“Stella Dallas,” wyek and John Boles, 6:50 and 10. Also “The ¥Fra

Evelyn Daw Is Noticed by Metropolitan Agent.

Louise 5:43 and

18. The robbing with BRarhara Stans

at 12:25. 3.33, Kelly and Jncaueline Wels. 2:25, 5:40 and 8.5

LYRIC

Dodd Takes the Air,” with Kennv Baker and Frank McHugh, at 11:24, 2:08. 4:58, 7:40 and 10:24 ‘New Stars on Parade’ (on stage), at 1:10, 3:48, 6:42 and 9:46,

OHIO

Prince and the Pauper.” with the Mauch twins ano Errol Flynn. Also “I'd Give y Life,”" with Frances Drake and Sir Guy Standing

AMBASSADOR

“Mountain Music.” with Bob Burns Martha Rave Also “The Public Pays.”

Pauli 15,

with at 11

“Mr. an audition.

The tiny lyric-soprano was covered” bv Director | zinger and given the role of | prima donna in James Cagney's picture, "Something to Sing About.” Earl Lewis, Metropolitan | treasurer, here and invited her to New | with the virtual assurance of a contract. She leaves next month.

Opera Singer

“dis-

ALAMO

“A Night of Mystery,” Karns, Also “Big Business,’ Prouty

with Roscoe ‘with Jed

Taylor Hos |... Fan Trouble wr

18 garian opera singer with a | she said nobody | nounce, joined today. Pictures

the movie colony

Star Reported to Have Fled

| From Admirers. | who sent for Ilona Hajmassy fi her a contract. | here, however, as Lona | the name she adopted in New York. “It's easier to pronounce,” she explained. “And conveys the

American spirit.”

By United Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Aug. 18. con- | | tinued eastward by plane today with

'his life and his clothes intact]

SWIM-DANCE

WESTLAKE

PAUL COLLINS’ ORCHESTRA |

Featuring Jennifer Sheffer except Monday

| both of them during a riotous recep- | | tion last night at which he was] women disappointed at | mostly

About 1500 Taylor fans,

Every evening

life to break to the drive-

“It'd be worth my through that crowd way,” he muttered. Besides, he said, he had to think of his clothes, which included a rich | brown tweed coat and a furry felt hat with a feather. He waited until the airport manager got a cab to the plane and police had cleared a route,

Last 2 Days! 25¢ to 6. “Stella Dallas” Barbara Stanwyck John Boles Ann Shirley

Healthfully Cool

|on a film star.

| dresses.

returned |

| serving Association to go to New York for |

Victor Schert- | a,

Opera | gave her a brief audition | York, |

| | | {

Changes Name HOWARD

| | |

A Hun- | STA TE

name | here could pro- |

she sent to Hollywood | BELMONT

DAISY

‘SANDERS

| works,”

Film Singer

“®

Film Stars

Like Privacy

Occasionally Fred MacMurray Tries to

Lose Himself in Crowds.

By United Presse

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.— Every actor likes the applause |

of his followers and is willing | to accept their adoration as

| part of the work, but the] time comes When even public performers want to be themselves, away from their fans. Some actors like to mingle | with the public without being | recognized. Others want to be entirely alone to relax. And each has his method of escaping the demands |

Fred MacMurray says the best | place to relax is in a crowded city | where thousands of persons congregate—Seventh and Broadway in Los Angeles, Times Square in New York or in the Loop district of ChiCARO, “TI have tried it and 1 know it MacMurray savs. “OF |. course, if you appear in such places | wearing makeup and dark glasses,

| vou'll probably be spotted at once.

It's also a good idea not to dress as | the public conceives a movie star |

of '

Resemblance Noted | | |

DON AMECHE HAS GOOD SPOT

| from Hollywood.

Don Ameche seems lo the Lyrics left to

Pleasantly situated in an enviable position, be enjoying himself in this scene from “Love Under Fire,” next screen attraction. The two main attractions are, from right, ‘Misses Loreua young and Frances Drake.

BURNS IS GOOD SHOT

While serving in the World War as a member of the Marines, Bob Burns became an expert rifle shot,

£0 ERROL FLYNN

RINCE AND THE

Plus! Tom Brown

( achieving privacy. They have taken a house in a far corner oi San Fer- | nando Valley, across the foothills To further their isolation, they have no telephone, Gary Cooper thinks President Roosevelt has the right idea when he boards a Government cutter to get away from Washinaton, Mr, Cooper will not admit it openly, but he is thinking about joining Cecil B. De Mille, Lee Tracy and others in becoming a yacht owner, |

MAUCH TWINS

PAUPER"

“I'D GIVE Y LIFE"

HT]: 8 2

Greater Reductions CE ERECT VR in Ladies’, Men's, Children’s Quality {LETT

Al Your Neighborhooc Theater

WEST SIDE

Howard & Blaine Double Feature rthur Treecher “STEP LIVELY, |

“WOMAN IN

JEEVES DISTRESS” 2902 Ww, Double Pan!

10th St, Reature

“JOIN THE MARINES" | “MOUNTAIN JUSTICE" | Str | |

W. Wash. & Belmont

Westinghouse Air-Conditioned | Double Feature—John Beal “MAN WHO FOUND HIMSELF" | “THE PRINCESS COMES ACROSS

2340 W. Mich. St. Double Feature Chester Morris

“I PROMISE TO PAY" =

Will Rogers “DR. BULL"

SOUTH SIDE

FOUNTAIN SQUARE |

Onr New Cooling Svstem Keeps You Soar Cool Allway

Double Feature adee Evans | “THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR" Bob Burns “MOUNTAIN MUSIC” |

At Fountain Saware |

Double Feature Claire Trevor “KING OF GAMBLERS"

“WHEN LOVE IS YOUNG”

AVALON Miriam, Homkins

“THE WOMAN 1 Jungle Jim and hy il 1105 8. Meridian ORIENTAL

Double Feature “SONG

Margaret Lindsay | ITY” “AS GOOD AS MARRIED”

Pros. & Churchman | Paul

OF THE C |

~~ S. East at Lincoln Double Feature | Shatien N Ruggles |

‘TURN OFF THE

“HER HUSBAND'S SECRETARY"

DREAM RITZ

NORTH SIDE

30th and [Hlinois Double Feature All-Star Cast ADVERSE" | ARD COMMANDS" |

Noble & Mass, M E C c A Double Feature Wm, Gargan “BREEZING HOME" “ROMANCE AND RICHES”

19th & College | fratiord Double Feature " ‘WE’ RE IN THE

Vietor MeLaglen | LEGION NOW" | “LARCENY ON THE AIR EMERSON 2301 Station SU. | Freddie, Double Feature Hugh Herhert { “THAT MAN'S HERE AGAIN" “BELOW THE DEADLINE" Minois and 31th ouble Feature Freddie Datiholomew “e APTAINS COURAGEOUS | “SING AND BE AAPDY w

NORTH SIDE

Udell St. at Clifton Double Feature Reginald Denny OF HAPPENED" PARADE"

SIDE

5507 E. Wash, St. Double Featore Vietor Moore TOMORROW" THE CITY"

UDELL

“iy COULDN, 1 GSKIN

EAST

IRVING

“MAKE w AY SON(

NTHONY “80 ont AND YA

FOR OF 4630 E. 10th Comfortably Cool Spencer Traev Bartholomew—Melvyn JDourias APTAINS COURAGEOUS Local Neighhorhood Showing) o “FIND THE WITNESS"

(GOLDEN “lic Nishi

‘MAN oF THE PEOPLE" “WEDDING PRESENT"

HAMILTON Sil fit

“Double Feature CTRIRTEENTH LenAIRY

Gable-Loy 1332 E. Wash. a™ STRAND Double Feature Pslow Stevens “YOU CAN'T BUY LUCK" F. Horton “OH! DOCTOR" 411 E, Wash.

(First. Als

6116 E. Wash, St. Double Feature

1500 Roosevelt Ave, Double Feature

Hollywood Edw. G. Robinson NDER IN Whe ary”

"oe MANY Double Feature

ZARING ns low, Ry evens

“YOU CAN’ a x oo SAWN’ " { Eddie Quillan

Kav Francis “A id 1 2 Jind Sts, | > { Paramount Charlette Henry

‘CINEMA Double Feature “THE MANDARIN MYSTER

audette Colbert R Novelty—Snan No YSIRY,

“1 MET HIM in PARIS 111 KE. Washington BIJOU

“LLOYDS OF LONDON" Continuous from 1:30 Double Feature Conrad Nagel “THE a0. D RACKET" “RE AH “PHANTOM

UPTOWN 42nd & College RIVOLI

Charice piature arle “HISTORY IS MADE N HT" “AS GOOD AS MARRIED" 3155 E. 10th Bt Doors Open al “NORTH oF Pat OO’ Brien “Si

AT NIG | ST. CLAIR St. Clair & Ft, Wayne TACOMA Mg Wash, _

Double Feature daenh Calleia “MAN OF THE PEOPLE" “CRIMINALS OF THE AIR” Chester Morris Helen Mack “TI. PROMISE TO PAY’ Selected Shoriz

TALBOTT ° Talbott & 22d

Westinghouse Ai hee ~Conditioned Double Feature VERY NIGHT AT EIGHT" OIN mh at Nortiwestern | Donbie Feature Joseph Call fuxene Fdw. G. Robinson “MAN OF THE PEOPLE" Selected Shorts

Central at Fall Crk.

Fdw

No,

George Raft eM J THE MARINES” R E X Florence ea Bette Davis “KID GALAHAD"

Selected Shorts

NOW. . vo AT POPULAR PRICES oo THE SEASON 4 ‘OUTSTANDING PICTURE!

LOTUS BLOSSOM... the sing-song gicl whose beauty came between a man and his wife...

Yes. here it is! The great production that vou've waited eagerly to see. Uncut! Unchanged! Direct from its sensational $2 Road Show

triumphs! A fortune to produce..

fo ! NN / Pearl Buck's novel | wins Pulitzer Prize!

A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS darkens the sky ns embat. tiled farmers

pray to the gods to spare their fields

.thousands in its mighty cast!

9540

“SHOOT THE GIRL!"

O:-Lan. aug hy troops - she realy + the jewels y food

ART

STARRING

Nl... RAINER

with WALTER CONNOLLY - Tilly Losch + Charley Grapewn - Jessie Ralph

Based on the Novel yl bY J Pran S$. Buck + Adapted for the Stage by Owen Davis and Donald Davie by Sidney Franklin + A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

THE YEAR'S FINEST STARS! winners of

FRIDAY at iLO E w S

Coming! M-G-M's Star-Studded Musical ROBERT TAYLOR + ELEANOR POWELL

and Big Cast in "BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938"