Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1937 — Page 24
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1937
SKATING BALLETS SPARKLE WITH SONJA IN THIN ICE" AT APOLLO
Skill Shown
By Chorus in New Picture
Story Is Whimsical, but
Exciting Scenes
'Make' Film.
By JAMES THRASHER
Sonja Henie was put on ice | at the Apollo today. She is to | remain there for a week, skimming about with an ef- | fortless grace that makes | Misses Eleanor Powell and Ginger Rogers, and Messrs. Fred Astaire and Bill Robinson look like stumble-bugs. | If you like Miss Henie in | “One in a Million"—and who | didn't—you're bound to find the skating sequences in “Thin Ice” breath-taking. Miss Henie was the whole show in her first picture, but | in the present opus she has a capable chorus of skating assistants | who set off her scintillating per- | formance even more effectively. “here are two big ballets in “Thin Jce” The first is done to the | Polovetsian Dances from “Prince | Igor,” with the skating danseuse | and her corps de ballet in Russian | costumes. The finale is skated to Straus’ “Tales From the Vienna Woods.” One is inclined to fall back | on such phrases as “poetry of mo- | tion” to describe these spectacles. | Certainly nothing like them has been seen on the screen before. Real Skaters Perform
Sometime during the past season | the 20th Century-Fox people must | have raided the ice hockey teams at our institutions of higher learn- | ing. They came up with some boys | and girls who really can skate. You | doubtless remember the chorines with wobby ankles who grabbed | hands and hung on for dear life in “One in a Million.” Well, there's | nothing like that now. The skaters | speed backward and forward, form- | ing intricate designs, while Miss | Henie glides, leaps and whirls in their midst. The ice ballets were conceived | and directed by a new dance direc- | tor. Harry Losee, who shouldn't have much trouble finding work from now on. He formerly was a | dancer with the Metropolitan and San Carlo Opera companies, and more recently was dance director | for “At Home Abroad” and "The | Show Is On” on Broadway. For the Apollo's picture, his work is iImaginative, exciting and fits the medium to perfection In addition to the skating sequences, there is a good bit of good I fear that Miss Henie and Power had doubles who zoomed down the mountainside at breakneck speed, but it doesn’t matter. Story Not So Good “Thin Tce” cracks pretty badly. Miss Henie, who is a | “skating instructress at an Alpine resort, falls in love with a prince (Mr. Power) and doesn’t know it. You see, the prince doesn’t like diplomacy. So when he arrives at the resort hotel for an international | conference he feigns illness. Then | he goes to the village inn and registers under an assumed name. He | and the skating teacher meet while out skiing, and he tells her he is a newspaper reporter. It happens that the chauffeur is cousin of Miss Heine's village Romeo. So the | chauffeur takes the young couple | for a ride in the princely limousine. | Some townspeople see Miss Henie alight—and you know how rumors grow. First thing she knows, everyone thinks she is in love with the | prince. From there on in, the story goes | whimsical. And the whimsy gets | soggy, what with the prince com- | ing to watch his girl friend skate, | disguised with a wig, mustache and | putty nose. But about the time | that things are at their soggiest, | along comes the final ice ballet, and | everything is all right again, and | youre glad you came. {
CANOVAS IN FILM
Judy, Anne and Zeke Canova, | “hillbillies” from the flatlands of | northern Florida, have been set for | featured roles in “Thrill of a Lifetime.” KING WAS ANCESTOR Shirley Ross is a direct lineal de- | scendant of Henry the Fourth, originator of the Tudor line which ruled | England for four centuries. Her real | name is Gaunt.
As a story,
prince’s | a
Indianapolis Residents Spea
| “If the High | lived 200 years, I should like to re-
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IDEAS DIFFER ON SHANGRI-LA
In “Lost Horizon,” the Ancient High Lama (Sam Jaffe) tells why he and his followers live in remote Shangri-La, “the doom that gathers around on every side’:
and
Bond Series |
At Garfield Ends Sunday
‘Musical Organization Is
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away from the world
“Here we shall stay with our books and our music and our medita=-
tions . ... are all spent. . .
seeking such wisdom as men shall need when their passions | . When the strong have devoured
each other, the
Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled, and the meek shall inherit the
earth.”
Up on Their Versions.
What is your Shangri-La? Or,
if vou haven't read James Hilton's or seen the picture | 3 aq | which opens at Loew's today, what |
“Lost Horizon” is your Utopia? The two are about the same. For “Lost Horizon” tells of the British! and American group who find themselves in a remote Tibetan lamasery, | where conflict, greed, jealousy—and | almost death are nonexistent. Life's troubles and passions are exchanged for a life devoted to beauty, | contemplation and quiet.
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| electric lights and no telephone.”
That is Mr. Hilton's Shangri-La. |’ But everyone has a Shangri-La, ex- |
| pressed or imagined, and here are & | few,
discovered in a short walk down a busy street: Miss Betty Augustus,
Lama of Shangri-La
main attractive for 200 vears—that's |
| the feminine angle—and have all | the friends I wanted.”
Would Create Ideals
The Rev. B. R. Johnson, minister: “In my Shangri-La we would have an opportunity to enjoy and each other. chance to think and create from the changing world. learn to think and live with himself,
‘he will never find happiness.”
Miss Doris Maxine Eyster, salesgirl: “My Shangri-La would be a
| husband—he wouldn't have to be a [Clark Gable or {| Eddy—but I'd like him to be a good
sing like Nelson
provider.”
secretary: |
BORROWED FOR |
| uers
Mother Has Her Utopia Mrs. William Snyder, housewife: “What do you know about Shangri- | You ought to see my baby ’s | [ smile ‘in sleep.” Kelton Bailey, retired: “My Shan- | gri-La would be a little place in the | {country where I could spend the | rest of my life with my sweetheart | {of 40 years—my wife.” Miss Elaine Hantzis, theater cash- | jer: “My Shangri-La would be an| | opportunity to travel extensively— | but in style.” James H. White, factory worker: | ‘No A. F. of L—no C. I. O.—no| political speeches—no Liberty Leag- | or Chambers of Commerce. | a
Just job at decent wages—I'll |
| make my Shangni- a.”
ourselves | We would have a | ideals | influences of a | If a man cannot |
FEATURED ROLE
Times Sperinl | HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 3. — Lana] | Turner has been Dvorrowed by | Samuel Goldwyn from Mervyn Le Roy for a featured role in ‘The | Adventures of Marco Polo.” Miss Turner made her screen debut in| “They Won't Forget.” “The Adventures of Marco Polo,” starring Gary Cooper, with Sigrid |
| Gurie, Basil Rathbone, Alan Hale |
| and Ernest
| screen play,
Truex in support, is | being directed by Archie Mayo. The | by Robert Sherwood, |
|1s based upon an original story by |
| Capt.
W. Rowland Allen, business execu- | tive and member of the City Merit |
Commission: country, trees,
“Shangri-La? — the
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Thin Ice,” Tyrone Power, 5:38,
with Sonja Henie and X at 11:44, 1:42, 3:40. 7:36 and 9:34
CIRCLE
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LOEW'S with Ronald ColEwan Everett 5. 7:10 and
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‘M Breen at 11, “Hide 12:45,
Stone. at
“Lost Horizon.” man, Margo and Horton, at 11. 1340
Toni Farr LY pictures at 3:40, 6:25 and 9:05
. CYRIC “State Fair Frolic” 1:06. 3:54, 6:42 and
“Footloose Sheridan. on screen 5:28, 8:17 and 10:27
AMBASSADOR
“A Day at the Races,” with the Marx Brothers Also “Born Reckless,’ with Rochelle Hudson.
ALAMO
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“‘Wildcatter,” with “Californian,”
Jean Rogers. with Ricardo
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Plus—““There Goes My Girl” ANN SOTHERN——GENE RAYMOND
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BIG NIGHTGOWN
Olivia de Havilland wears an elaborate chiffon nightgown in “The which contains 60
MARIE WEAVES SILK
Marie Wilson has made herself a | pair of stockings on a small silk
LAST 3 DAY
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To Be Heard in Fair Concerts.
The last of seven municipally sponsored open-air con- | certs is to be given by the In- | dianapolis Concert Band at 8 | |p. m. Sunday in Garfield Park. The band, made up largely of Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra players, again will be under the direction of William Schumacher. Following the close of the summer park concerts, the band will go to the State Fair for a five-day engagement beginning Monday. Three Garfield Park concerts origwere scheduled, but response was the City Council appropriation. | exceeded all expectations, Mr. | macher said,
that granted
SchuSunday’s concert at
The following program has been selected for the sl concert:
“Coron ition March’ Selections, “The St oh Prince” I'rumpet solo Frank Mikesell “Vision of Salome” . ‘The Evolution of Dixie” Intermission “Alda ‘
"Valse Bluette' “Victor Herbert Favorites’ “Blue Danube’ Wa “Auld Yar “syne”
Meyerheer | ..Romberg Selected
MeCanughey Drigo Lake Strauss
THEY'RE CANDID
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. Photographic autographs! This is the latest wrinkle eme ployed by autograph seekers to authenticate the signatures they obtain from stars. When Joan Crawford attended a recent Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer preview, she was asked for an autograph. As the star obliged, the girl requesting the autograph stepped to her side and a friend snapped the picture. The friend had the latest candid camera equipment, with a flashlight attachment.
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No YORK, Sept. 3.—All Around | the Town: There is talk again that Noel | Coward will be knighted shortly. Since reporting that the Four | | Freed Scottsboro Boys were settling | | down to obscurity in Harlem, they’ ve |
been taken in hand. An opportunist | agent booked them into vaudeville | ! last week, with an act which strikes bottom for bad taste. Luise Rainer slips in and out of New York unnoticed on those quick visits she makes-—because she uses ! the name of Lillian Roth. Dick Merrill never has earned | any considerable sums from his | trans-Atlantic flights. So he be- | came movie actor to strengthen a | | fading fortune and he has entered his name in the Bendix Air Race. | John D. Rockefeller buys his | | tickets, like all other customers, to | his own shows in Radio City.
" | { LREADY the town is looking forward to the violent days will ensue during the AmerLegion Convention in New
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{that ican { York. Rumors of the Legionnaires’ dem|onstrations of good cheer in other capitals have reached the peoples’ ears; and they mean no offense [when merchants plan to board up [their windows during the siege; or {when pedestrians lay in supplies of armor plate for the occasion. More | than 10,000 Legion delegates are ex[pected here for the event in mid- | | September and 500 British Tommies are coming over to help the Yanks celebrate on Broadway |
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has been considered | since Caruso’s opera performed in| [America was “Barber of Seville.” “Cavelleria Rusticana” was writ-
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Wife Asks $3500 The longest opera on the Met's | Monthly of Oland
repertoire is “Gotterdammerung. The first opera ever composed was | “Daphne” by Peri. HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 3 (U Walter Damrosch’'s father intro- | Warner Oland, the Charlie Chan of yam opera to America. | the movies, must show cause in n Europe, operas start in the | wi y Tie afternoon and last through the eve- Jeours Why he should not pay his estranged wife $3500 a month. And
States and England [en her a two large countries in | do not subsidize
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IALTO LEDGER: Here, as the | ticket brokers call the turn, are the late summer stage hits of | the town: “You Can't Take It | With You,” “Room Service,” "The | Women,” “Yes, My Darling Gd |
MAGNIFICENCE! BREATH-TAKING BEAUTY!
All that you've ever longed for in entertain. ment, as your "One in a Million" girl finds the boy in a million in this gay and romantic mu-
ter,” and “Having Wonderful Time. Being the only musieal in town “Babes in Arms” does a lively trade, | would be doing even with a |
The Monti Mori who is making her stage debut # the daughter of Dave Kletchner, otherwise | known as the proprietor of Dave's | Blue Room, a Broadway hangout. | Paul Whiteman's, vocalist, Linda Lee, is taking dramatic lessons and Florence Odets, Clifford | Odel’s sister, also may turn up | on Broadway this season. A visitor from London reports that Robert Donat, ‘the young British star of “39 Steps,” “The Ghost Goes West” and other nota-
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