Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1937 — Page 14

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Filmed With No Hedging

Urchins Outshine Stars in Melodrama of Crime And Poverty.

By JAMES THRASHER “Dead End. Sidney gave the theater frankest, bitterest exciting pictures York tenement life. Samuel Goldwyn pulled punches when he brought it to the screen. Often a stage play the cutting room hedged strictions and box office jitters. The theater never could dream of anys thing so large as the movie public, and the picture industry can't take chances with its millions of patrons. Yet Mr. Goldwyn took the chance. The results are admirable. On a squalid dead-end street run= ning down to New York's Bast River we meet the parsons of the drama. First of all, a gang of five boys who Know no other life but one of POV= erly, cruelty, noise ana filth. Later we see “Baby Face” Martin, He started as these boys did and has become a hunted killer. His one vestige of decency and sentiment has brought him back to find his mother and boyhood sweetheart. Even with a face remade by plastic surgery, he's risking his life and Knows it. The picture's with Dave ang Dave is an architect, tious, idealistic and unemployed. Kay the mistress of a wealthy man who lives in the palatial apartment house adjoining the tenements. An orphaned neighborhood girl, Drina is doing her best to rear her voung brother Tommy, the gang's leader in something approaching decency,

Boys Make Killer Hero

In Loew's,

now Kingsley one of and of

emerges rom in by ve=

third theme deals Drina and Kav.

young, ambi-

jungle He

their Martin,

The boys, living by code, find a haro in preaches a gospel of cruelty, ness and disrespect of fair They gang up on & wealthy youngster from the big apartments. beat him and steal his watch. When the boy's father catches Tommy, Tommy sticks his hand with a knife. He flees, and the police are put on his trail. Dave the surgery the neighborhood. SISts In his quest. When he finds his mother she strikes him. tells him to leave, wishes him dead. He finds Francey, his former sweetheart. Francev, as the picture's advertisements will tell you, has taken “the easiest wav.” Desperate and disgusted, Martin determines to Kidnap the boy whom the gang had beaten. Dave hears him discussing it with his henchman. They fight it out; Dave is wounded and Martin killed. Dave collects the ransom on Martin's head. Dave and Kay End Romance

recognizes Martin, despite He orders him out of But Martin pexr-

Meanwhile the young architect and Kay have decided that a farewell is the logical solution of their romance. Then, when the advice of Dave and surrender to the police, denly discovers that Drina’s unuttered standing That is how the picture ends, with Tommy on his way to reform school, and the voung couple facing something besides the rosy future of the usual movie ending. Humphrey Bogart plays Martin: Dave is done by Joel McCrea; Sylvia Sidney is Drina; Claire Trevor Francey, and Wendy Barrie plavs Kay. All are excellent. But these experienced professionals are outshone completely by the five urchins. Boys Played on Stage

Drina Dave sudhe retwns love of

These boys are Billy Halop, Leo Goreey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan and Gabriel Dell. Thev created these parts in the New York stage company, they played them for two years, and they have absorbed these characters right into their bones This quintet, it seems to me, represents some of the most remarkable characterization of recent years The performance matches the conception. Here, Mr. Kingsley's character 1s not impeded by moralizing or delivering a “message.” His play is, first of all, & melodrama. He poses no remedy for his people's sorry plight. Consequently, he has achieved the rare combination of reality and artistic creation in his tenement dwellers. If you saw the piay, should not distress you. play, the crippled Gimpty the picture's Dave) is down by Martin. Gimpty him to the police, more for

ven-

geance and the reward than for a|

In its place, the picture introduces an able-bodied Dave, the brief Kidnap interlude, and the gun battle,

Dramatic Values Kept

public service.

Nowhere is the dramatic lessened. The cutting of lines was done deftly, and the fluidity of action that to the good Besides William Wyler's splendid direction, the single setting by Norman Bel Geddes deserves many words of special praise. say that it is up to the excellent standard of Mr. Bel Geddes’ stage set for the : same play.

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Bankhead

Injured while protecting a dog from injury, Dian — sereen | actress, formerly of Indianapolis, was in a Los Angeles hospital today.

with a broken shoulder.

According to United Press, Miss Manners was posing with a prize Blond Afghan hound on the “Goldywn Follies” set when a big are lamp

fell. She jumped to pull the dog to

Her arm was set at the studio and reset at the hospital. Miss Manners’ screen work will be inter- |

several parts awaiting her,

rupted fo r several months, her mother,

ginia Ave. said today, The actress is

weeks, Miss Manners,

several weeks last winter with her

gma Ave, address,

Cinderella Era Dawns

‘Brave Princes’ Returning to Film Popularity.

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Times Xpeecim} HOLLYWOOD, Aug. -Romance is returning to the movies. I'he blase love of the postwar era Is finally giving wav to stories of brave princes and good princesses. it appears, New film stories are like the legends of Cinderella anc her Prince Charming, Tristram and Isolde, Rama and Sita and Aucassin and Nicolette, “The Life of the Party,” soon to be released with Harriet Hilliard and Gene Raymond as stars, is very much the story of Cindrella. Even the slipper tale is used, although

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Miss Hilliard's slipper is not a glass

one, Movie men ascribe the new trend | to what they call the “primary need of a human being for romantic | love” and the fact that about 220. | 000,000 persons, according to the! Motion Picture Almanac, each week

| get their romance vicariously at the

theaters,

ARRANGES SCORE FOR ASTAIRE FILM

I'imes Special | HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2%.--Victor| Baravalle, one of America's fore- | most composers and arrangers, has | been signed by R-K-O to score the | Gershwin music ror Fred Astaire's first solo-starring film, “A Damsel in Distress.” The late George | Gershwin completed the music for the production before his death, and his brother, Ira, wrote the | lyrics.

FORMER FOOTBALL | STAR HAS FILM JOB

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. U.P.) — Jeff Cravath, one-time football star | and now assistant coach at Univer. | sity of Southern California, was at work in the movies today as a technical adviser, He is directing a | football game staged for the picture “Hold Em Navy,’

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RITZ BROTHERS | FATHER IS ILL |

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27 (U.P) | Max Ritz, father of the Ritz brothers, movie comedians, was in serious

condition with a kidney ailment to-

| day in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. | Dr. W. L. Marxer said he improved

River a + blood transfusion.

rast 2 Days!

ORETTA YOUNG BLONDE" “Riding” on Air"

Hurry! x NV “ PL AT INUM

JOE E. BROWN

and the injured shoulder will be in a cast for 16 weeks. who has appeared as a dancer “Follies” and other musical shows as well as in pictures, frequently reams 10 Indianapolis from her professional engagements.

ACTRESSES LEAVE |!

| Times Specint

To Appear At English’s

Tallulah Is to Play Queen ‘Antony and Cleopatra.’

| Indianapolis i8 to see Tallulah Bankhead in Shakes. peare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” at English’'s Oct. 28, 29 and 30, prior to the New | York opening, it was announced today.

Miss Bankhead, who appeared here last year in “Reflected Glory,” is to play the Egyptian queen in this rarely seen play. Conway Tearle, | veteran stage and film actor, will have the other title part. The announced cast also includes the names of Charles Waldron, Emery and Joanna Roos. The preliminary tour is to open in Rochester, N. Y.,, on Oct. 13. The | local engagement is the second definitely announced date of the season, which is to open Sept. 23 with “Teovarich.” Miss Bankhead's acting version of | the Shakespeare tragedy is said to | [be a “well-knit” adaptation. The | cutting was done by Prof. William Strunk Jr. of Cornell University, |

safety, and was struck.

f “Romeo and Juliet.” Reginald Bach is to direct the | production, and settings will be by | Jo Mielziner,

BING GOES FISHING

Bing Crosby, now that he has completed his work on “Double or Nothing,” is dividing his time be- { tween his horse | sea fishing,

With

Mrs. May McDonough, 950 Virto remain in the hospital for three

in the Ziegfeld

She spent

uncle, Dr. E. M. Ryan of the Vir-

| Free Concert Set for Sunday

May - — 5.50 |

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO

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The Indianapolis Concert

Jones

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ing, will give the sixth of seven summer concerts at 8 p. m. Sunday

CIRCLE

“Souls at Sea,” with Gary Cooper, George Raft and Frances Dee, al 12:40, 3:53, 7:08 and 10:19, “Blond Trouble,” wih Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs and Lynne Overman, at 11:32, 2:45, 5:58 and 9:11

The free concerts are sponsored by

the Park Board. Sunday night's program as announced: “Marche Slav" Entry’ acte and Waltz from “Coppelia’ .. “Album Leaf ‘he Three Solitaires’ Frank Mikesell, John Schumacher Frank Kessler, trumpet soloists Coconut Dance" Selections, "High Jinks" Intermission Querture ta “William elt ‘Bouncing Ball” "avs Marche Militaire Rhapsody, “Espana” Se lections, "Rio Rit

Ex- Child Actress

LOEW'S

Dead End,” with and Joel McCrea, at 120 and 10 “In Can't Ralph Rellamy Armstrong and Ravmond at 12:35, 1.25 6:10 ana 8.9

LYRIC

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OHIO

“Woman Chaxex Man," with Miriam Hopkins and Joel MeC rea Alsen “Criminals of the Air,” with Rosalind Keith and Charles Quigley,

AMBASSADOR

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ALAMO

“Mountain Music,’ Rave and Bob shy. Legionnaires,’

Svivia Sidney .Tschaikowsky 11, 1:45, 4.30, Delihes «Wagner | Herbert and

Last Porever,"” with Betty Furness, Robert Walburn, LN

Rossing Trombauer . Schubert Chabrier | Tierney

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27 (U Virginia Lee Cady, one-time child actress, charged in an amended divorce complaint today that her | husband brought his former wife to | live with them and even took her | along on a four-month tour, The 17-year-old dancer said her FILM SICK LIST. 42-year-old husband, Edgar Med - | ley, an actor, remarked: | | for HOLLYWOOD, Aug. Anita | for : Louise and Gloria Stuart, motion | | NIN ie wife's picture stars, were off the sick list aside. today. Miss Stuart came back to work at | 20th Century-Fox with a limp from | & sprained hip suffered while play- | ing tennis Sunday. She collided | with an actor on the courts of the | Beverly Hills Tennis Club. Miss Louise was ill several days with influenza. :

with Also

Martha “Three

vou,” last week succeétded in| annulment set |

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Miriam Hopkins

Plus! Star Cast SUNDAY GAY NOR

‘Woman Chases Man’

Ra iminnls of the Air" et Star

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The Jones Family , , , th people's choice . . . on

THE Ee THE INCONCEIVAB THE IMPOSSIBLE! me on the idle Rimed for the first a of ~ topsy-to™Y the upsides nature in reverse! JORNSON w vig JORNSON'S

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JED PROUTY SHIRLEY DEANE SPRING BYINGTON RUSSELL GLEASON KENNETH HOWELL

The Season's Laugh Hit

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‘DEAD END’ RETAINS ALL FLAVOR OF FRANK, BITTER STA

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to you, |

John |

| who supervised the motion picture | racing and deep |

Band, | with William Schumacher conduct-

(in the Garfield Park amphitheater, |

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Sues for Divorce

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“I'm ready the rocking chair—I'm too old |

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nda Drniuwacs FADEINN PAINS

FRIDAY, AUG. 27, 1987

IN NEW YORK— GEORGE ROSS

Far tastern War Hasn't Held Up Influx of Fan Mail From Japan

N® iW YORK, Aug. 27 in the world, But the postoffice from all other

| Ing note, to my notion. is the one

Americans are the greatest fan-letter writers | entertainment parts of the world,

stars get their adulation through too. The most touch-

a local celebrity received from a

Japanese admirer who wrote as follows:

“Dear Blank:

“I beg your pardon to bother vou suddenly with a loathsome writing

to you without the etiquette of bei day I was secondly given a chance | speaking, I was hardly able to bear » myself from unconsciousness with exultation, my friends were in wonsder at my unselfpossessioned atti tude in excess, and at the moment I would not more stand for refraining myself from writing direct 1 confess “If T were in America. T would be able to see vou, but Alas! the vast ocean intervening between us acts heartlessly the condemned role of separating me from vou. The ocean, nevertheless, may be a good barricade to vou, which shields you from the attack of such a fantastic (girl as me. 1 think “Longing and farther

art, BY TOWN NOTES: Allred Gwynne Vanderbilt seems to be usurping his brother George's place as the night club man of the family, | George abdicated when he married | Lueille Parsons, Restaurateur Arnold Reuben. who spent a fortune publicizing himself | as the Sandwich King, now forbids | his press agents to mention it.

When Russ Morgan's band opens at Manhattan Beach. where thev | Will serenade the bathers, they will be accompanied by Robert, the Fifth | Avenue beautician, who will take (care of the musicians’ complexions | and coiffures under the baking sun. Seems that the band is under con= tract to Warner Brothers and | [musn’t get suntanned,

Richard Barthelmess | Europe and reading scripts sub | mitted to him by various producers { The sereen star wants to appear on | Broadway next fall. Barthelmess did [the Cain play, “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” a season ago,

health your

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for vour efforts »

“Truly vour's

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fs touring

n ” » MUSEMENT trade paper ostimates place George Gershwin's estate at $800,000, Although the New York World's | Fair is still two years away, 13 | major industrial companies have already signed on the dotted line for and 12 foreign na= their accep-

i exhibit space . . . tions have indicated | tance, | Tom Mix, the former cinema | | Rodeo-Romeo, strolled the length | (and breadth of the Broadway sec- | tor the other noontime without | {causing S60 much as a tiny ripple of pedestrian fanfare, Maurice Chevalier is France's [newest convert to nationalism --be[coming 0 carried away with pa- | triotic fervor on France's big dav, | July 14, that he went throuch his entire song-and-dance routine from the back of a truck . . . all for the! benefit of the sidewalk celebrants.

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and her

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LIE

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LYRIC

See, Hear, Thrill to Him

and kis ORCHESTRA

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ng introduced to vou. The other

to see you in a movie,

around the hlock until the for the next symphonic selection. Raymond Hitchcock was the brave est of them all-he used to mingle with crowds in the lobby.

Kitty Carlisle, during the run of |

White Horse Inn,” used her leisure time by feeding the mountain goats

that the management kept outside |

the stage door, Ilka Chase rarely tween-the-acts habit near the stage door, cigaret and exchanging with the back-stage crew.

" » »

varies her be-

chit-chat

HIS week's success story

cerns Shelia Cole, a blond and |

beautiful press agent. A few days ago Miss Cole went to the Belmont-Plaza Hotel to talk

[over a publicity campaign with her |

Dick Ballou. in the midst

The | of

band leader client, band leader was

| rehearsal so Miss Cole sat down to

wait, As she thumbed through her papers she hummed to herself, Richard E. Daley, general manof the hotel, happened to be passing by and heard the press agent's muted song. “I think you can sing,” “Let me hear you.” Miss Cole protested that she was a press agent, not a singer, but she was persuaded to get on the bande

stand, She got a contract after her first number, And now-she has a press agent herself,

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‘New Concertmaster for Symphony Appointed

Heading the list of new orchestra members for the coming Indianap= olis Symphony Orchestra season will be Boris Schwarz, who nas bean appointed concertmaster by Fabien Sevitzky, conductor, Mr, Schwarz, son Joseph Schwarz, is ally known violinist here last season

of an

the pianist, nternationw He appeared AR concertmasispe with the Ballet Russe de Monts Carlo, Following the ballet son's close, he was engaged as Vios lin teacher at the Settlement Musie School, Philadelphia The new concertmaster was born in Leningrad and moved to Berlin with his famliy when he was §, He began his studies with Oarl Flesch at the Stern Conservatory, where his father was a teacher. A : 3 i Berlin debut at 13, in joint recital ki with the elder Schwarz, was [ole | & 3 lowed by a five-year European tour, : A second tour was made in 1027 after Mr. Schwarz's Paris debug | Be with the Pasdeloup and Lamoreux 4 orchestras He has played in all the princis i pal European centers and for threes | ¥ vears was Mr, Flesch's assistant teacher in Berlin He also has published numerous musical ariieles in German journals, Mr, Schwarz is to teach at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory in ade Y dition to his orchestral duties.

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