Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1937 — Page 6

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. *Horizon' To Remain

New’ Policy ‘at Keith's

Also Seen Encouraging

a Quality.

By.l JAMES THRASHER The fact that “Thin Ice” and “Lost Horizon” will begin “their second weeks tomorrow t the Apollo and Loew's, re‘spectively, speaks a good word -for the public taste in pictures.

[The movie-goers’ taste needs & goa word—several, in fact—for it 1 i§ a constant target for sneers from various sources. Many of these | sneers are deserved. Yet, if we may ‘take the present holdovers as fair indications of popular pictures, it uld seem that the general level _|of appreciation is not so low. “I.ost Horizon” has been aclclaimed often enough, here and . elsewhere, to convince any skeptic at it is an unusual and worthy product. Too much can not be said about the beauty of its photography and settings, the skill with which : I Cior Frank Capra has handled a (difficult subject, the generally excellent performance by the entire cast. Music Gets Mention

In addition, there is a phase of the production that has not come’ in! for enough general recognition. I refer to Dimitri Tiomkin’s musical score. There is little information on Mr. Tiomkin avaliable. Columbia Studios’ publicists refer -to to| him vaguely as “a composer of international reputation.” He has been in Holywood four years and has written the music for - five pictures, but his “Lost Horizon”. score is as fitting, sensitive, able and enjoyable as Max Steiner’s music for “The Informer” or Werner Janssen’s for “The General Died at

Dawn.” In-other words, about tops |’

for sound-track accompaniment. “Thin Ice” isn’t an “arty” picture, yet its drawing power is healthy. First of all, Miss Sonja Henie, the star, is: a healthy looking young lady. None of your Hollywood “glamour girls,” the young Olympic star is scoring in her sec"ond film through unaffected charm as’ ‘well as miraculous ice skating.

Ballets Peak of Grace

The two ice ballets that form the picture’s high-point of excitement also mark the peak of beauty and grace in picture “production numbers” to date, so far as I am concerned. Enough people seem to be "sharing that opinion to threaten the Roptiivs attendance records. Accord= i pel to Kenneth Collins, manager, : two of the late Will Rogers’ on ures “packed ’em in” any tighter than ‘Thin Ice.” . Yet another encouraging item in the week’s theatrical news is that Keith's, after: two weeks of pseudoburlesque, is embarking upon a policy of vaudeville and pictures. Stepin. Fetchit, Negro picture comedian . "whose inertia has made him famous, “headlines the stage show.

IN AIR EPIC

ed MacMurray and Ray Miland. -will head the cast of Para--mount’s aviation epic, “Men With Wings,” which will be filmed in ‘technicolor under the direction of . ‘William A. Wellman.

Ates Gets Mad; | Doesn't Stutter

. \CHICAGO, Sept. 9 (U. P.) — Roscoe Ates, stammering star of the movies, was so mad today he couldn/t stutter when he told police te arrest his chauffeur, Dick Dennis, for stripping the car of his vaudeville partnér, Lenora Belle Jumps. Mr. Ates said Dennis was sent -aliead to Chicago with Miss ‘Jumps’ car while they finished a Cleveland theater engagement. * Dennis, Mr. Ates asserted, was told to put the car in a ‘garage. When the comedian got here the car had disappeared- but was discovered a./few hours later minus approximately $200 worth of accessories. Dennis was gone also. He was found in Cleveland where he said two Negroes held him up, stole the car and he was afraid to come to Chicago. Mr. Ates- talked- him into coming and had police arrest him when he arrived. :

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persuades him to escape.

and Howard Elisi Smith.

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“THIN ICE”—Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Walburn, Joan Davis. Directed by Sidney Lanfield; music by Pollack and Mitchell; Gordon and Revel; dances staged by Harry ;

Story--When ‘girl ice-skater in. Alpine resort goes riding with rustic ‘Poy friend in visiting prince's limousine, villagers and visiting diplomats believe she is in love with prince. Meanwhile, prince, bored with diplomatic mission, masquerades as newspaperman, meets girl. After being feted by visiting ambassadors and making headlines, skater discovers her boy friend is prince.

Circle

“THE LIFE OF THE PARTY”—Joe Fenner, Gene Raymond, Harriet ‘Hilliard; Victor ‘Moore, Directed hy William Seiter; songs by Herb Magidson, George Jessel.

Story—Wealthy young man falls m love wtih ambitious musical She is :being forced into loveless ‘marriage. must wait three years to marry or lose inheritance of millions. They pose as married to offset parental plans.

Keith's

VAUDEVILLE (on stage) —Stepin Fetchit, Negro movie coms= edian; Lois Moree; Betty Lee Austin, xylophonist; Lang and Lee, comedy team; Raftone Sisters and Bob Jay;

“TRANSATLANTIC MERRY-GO-ROUND” Benny, Gene Raymond, Boswell Sisters.

Loew’s (Second Week)

“LOST HORIZON”—Ronald Colman, Margo, Edward Everett Horton, Sam Jeffe, H. B. Warner, Jane Wyatt. Directed by Frank Capra; based on James Hilton’s novel of the same title. Story—In escaping British Indian insurrection, party of British and Americans are “kidnaped” in plane. Shangri-La, mysterious forgotten Tibetan lamasery. try to escape, then are willing to stay. One, Conway, is chosen to succeed the high lama, then over 200 years old. Conway’s brother When brother dies on Tibeisn plateau Conway heads back to Shangri-La.

Lyric

“THINK FAST, MR. MOTO” ginia Field, Thomas Beck. Based on the “Mr. Moto” stories of J. P. Marquand; directed by Norman Foster; screen play by Mr. Foster

Story—Mr. Moto, Japanese detective, trails smugglers from San With ‘help of brilliant deductions and several disguises, he solves two murders, breaks up smuggling ring.

VAUDEVILLE (on stage)—Roscoe Ates, stuttering film comedian; Helene Denizon, dancer; Loria Brothers, six young Mexican musicians; Miss “Chic” Kennedy, master of ceremonies; Phil Estes, acrobatic tap dancer; the American Rockets, dancers.

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Helen ‘Broderick.

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Find themselves in Inmates first

(on screen)—Peter Lorre, Vir-

supplies for a depleted refrigerator.

IN NEW YORK —s, croree ross

Alfred Hitchcock Takes His 254 Pounds Back to

England, Leaving Bare Larder Here.

EW -YORK, Sept. 9—Two hundred and fifty-four pounds of Alfred Hitchcock have just gone back to England, aquiver with enthusiasm about the American cuisine. Never has an Englishman grunted so with delight about our E-bone steaks, our French frys, our lamb stews and beef and kidney pies, as has this brilliant and eccentric film director. At*Twenty-One,” where he ate most of the time, they are laying in new

Hitchcock is that Briton who keeps his avoirdupois down to 254 pounds. by climbing a three-story walk-up four times daily and who likes to shatter teacups after he has drained their contents. He also is- the fellow who sleeps: through the pictures he has directed and never looks at them twice. And while tales of these quirks reached us from London regularly, we never quite believed them explicitly until he arrived. 2 ” 2

HE rumors of his stomach capacity were verified. Twenty interviewers, all with healthy appetites, testified that he ate them right under the table. Several of them have gained weight since he came here and have taken to the calisthenics table. “Hitch,” however, hasn't put on an ounce. As for his teacup-breaking proclivity, there is no reliable testimony because “Twenty One” wouldn't let him. As for his swooning into the arms of Morpheus, neutral observers confirm it., They took him down to Greenwich Village to see his own film, “The 39 Steps,” in revival and he insisted upon standing up through it, lest he drop off into a deep sleep while in a sitting position. With him, he is taking back to England a set of recipes for the edu=

cation of the chef at the Savoy Grill, 2 ” ”

NE playboy who doesn’t trust the news accounts of his routs and escapades unless he turns the story in himself is that estimable spender, Tommy Manville Jr.. City desks now consider it routine for Manville to phone in from his city or country home and relate the events of the previous evening. The other morning he called to report that one of his guards almost pulled a gun on him and he has given the desk succinctly-worded reports of other personal happenings. If there is a new blond in his life, Tommy will tell the press about it in time for a five-star edition and if the blond should step out of his life, he himself will apprise the boys of it. His calls have become so frequent that one subeditor automatically turns him over to a rewrite man.

LONG ON EYE-LASHES

Marie Wilson is noted for the smallest waist and the longest lashes in Hollywood. Her waist measures 19 inches and her eyelashes are three-quarters of an inch long when uncurled.

SECOND BIG WEEK STARTS TOMORROW!

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lProducer

: Loses Suit In Boycott

Aimed to Restrain ~ Theater Owners. :

PHILADELPHIA. “Sept.

filed by Paramount Pictures,

ter owners in southern New Jersey, Delaware, and eastern Pennsylvania from conducting a “protest strike” against the production com-

pany. The strike was called by the operators as part of a nation-wide boycott of Paramount on the grounds that it refused to release them six feature pictures on contracts.

Previously Judge Dickinson had issued a temporary restraining order which prevented the boycott from starting Aug. 1, as scheduled. He ruled today, however, .that the court had no jurisdiction in the case. . The effect of his ruling today is to permit the operators to-go ahead with the strike unless dttorneys for the company obtain a supersedeas in Bedora! Circuit’ Court.

Music Clubs!

List Ideals

Federation in Session at

Chattanooga.

Times Special

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. 9. —An effort to raise the performance standards of amateur. choral groups and the stimulation of " intercollegiate musical activities are the chief concerns of officers, directors and leading ‘members of the National Federation: of Music. Clubs, meeting here this week.

The meeting, the first general

Jide Dismisses Action |

{(U. P.).— Federal “District : Judge Oliver B. Dickinson | Sl had dismissed today a suit}

Inc., to restrain 400 inde- | | pendent” motion picture thea- |

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Joe (Piccolo Pete) Penner seems to be making an excellent im-

pression at his audition with Maestro Billy Gilbert (center) and Frink-

lin Pangborn< (left). The scene is

from “Life of the Party,” op€aing

“at the Circle tomorrow. The comedy also features Gene Rayn ond,

Harriet Hilliard, Helen Broderick and Victor Moore.

tion’s biennial convention in Indianapolis last April, is the annual conclave of the board of directors, council of state and district presidents. Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober of Norfolk, Va., elected national president

1at the Indianapolis convention, is

presiding. Delegates include representative music educators and patrons from 47 states.\ An extensive program of development in the choral field is being discussed. Plans are being made for a large national chorus of club members to appear at the 1939 convention in Baltimore. Speakers include Dr. M. Augus-

fine. arts at Boston University and the Federation’s chairman of music in religious education, and Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff, national WPA Music Project director, who is to address the meeting tomorrow morning on “Building 208 a Musical America.” Musical programs are to be presented by Eugenia Buxton, pianist;

Isadore Kaset, violinist, young Tennessee musicians, and the Cadek

business session since the Federa-

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Choral Society of Chattanooga,

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‘“ ‘Thin Ice’ is truly Grand Entertainment Fra pushy a3 place our eally-Shoola-Sou list.” y

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2 2 = ‘“‘Sonja Henle . asses the thrill’ and eauty of her debut : performance in ‘One In, a Million’ in ‘Thin ce’.

. Corbin Patrick—Star, = » » “Skating ballets - kle with Son Si ‘Thin Ice’ at Apollo. "

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“Make a Wish,” with Bobb at 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 9 “Hideaway,” with Fred silly 12:45, 3: 30, %:15 and 9:0,

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Louis-Farr Aeht pictures at 13: 5, 3:40, 6:25 and 9:05.

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Irvington School.

A -musical tea at the Southport Beptist Church Sunday. afternoon is to mark the fall opening of the Irvington School of Music¢’s branch studio there. Mrs. Leah Horner has planned a

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program which is to include piano solos by Miss Nancy Louise Fose ter; a group of songs by R. H. Lindstrom; a short costume recital of songs by Miss Frances. Bryant, ‘and readings by Miss ela Ruth Groves. Assisting the hostesses will be Mesdames Clell T. Rice, C. W, and Misses Ruth Johnson, LaVonne Ryker, Wilma Schnier and Blanche Dawson. Mrs. Horner is dtrector of the Southport _biasien, which opened

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