Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1937 — Page 8

PAGE 8°

Peter Lorre

Detects as Ates ‘A-a-cts’

Lyric Bill Offers Offers Mystery Film and Master

Stammerer.

By JAMES THRASHER

With bullet-proof vest,

suave manner and an inscrutable intuition, Mr. Moto (portrayed by Peter Lorre) joins the gallery of screen sleuths. His first appearance is in “Think Fast, Mr. Moto,” now on the Lyric screen. Mr. Moto’s advent should be welcomed by all mystery film addicts. As the J. P. Marquand fiction hero is set forth by Mr. Lorre, in a screen adaptation by Howard Smith and Norman Foster, Mr. Moto is an en-

tirely likeable genius.

author-adapter-actor so

combine

far has kept away from the hokum | that clutters up Mr. Moto's Oriental | partner in crime detection, Charlie’

Chan. Disguised As Peddler

We meet Mr. Moto disguised as a rug peddler, snooping about San Francisco's Chinatown in search of a smuggling ring. We follow him on a boat to Shanghai, where he meets the son of the ship company’s president. Their affairs become entangled, for the ship company is being used by the smugglers, and

Mr. Moto, an importer, is one of the |

company’s best customers. * Then there is a girl, with whom the young. man falls in love. She “is the" innocent accomplice of the head smuggler. Our hero and Mr. Moto discover her singing in a Shanghai gambling house. Mr. Moto poses as a smuggler and almost gets away with it. But just as things look the worst, Moto starts thinking fast, he culprits are brought to justice] and boy gets girl. There are a few bad moments, especially at the end when the villain stands menacingly over Mr. Moto, gun in hand and muttering threats until the police arrive. Mostly, however, the action is believable, and the plot unfolds in an ingenious and | logical way. You even forgive Mr. Moto his bullet-proof vest. The supporting cast includes Vir-

ginia Field, the pretty miss who was |

the barmaid in “Lloyds of London”; Thomas Beck, Sig Rumann and Murray Kinnell. -On the stage is Roscoe Ates, stammering comedian of many films, who heads an enjoyable hour of vaudeville. Mr. Ates was a variety

pastimer long before the movies |

claimed him, and consequently he knows his way about the stage and can deliver his comedy for all it's worth.

Mexican Group Appears

His act, in which he is assisted by Barbara Ray, is much funnier than the one he offered two Years ago, Mr. Ates doesn’t overdo his stammer, and depends upon a plentiful supply of -clever lines to keep the audience amused. In addition, he continues to play a creditable brand of fiddle.

Others on the Lyric stage are the Loria Brothers, six clever Mexican youngsters who sing and dance; Miss “Chic” Kennedy, who combines singing and impersonations with the duties of mistress of ceremonies; Phil Estes, acrobatic tap dancer, and the American Rockets, six boys and six girls with Helene Denizon, - toe dancer. Miss Denizon worked yesterday with a painfully injured foot. it d ot seem to impede her perance. The Rockets, more than a routine chorus, present a clever and enjoyable combination of tap and acrobatic dancing.

o

And the

lish’s Nov. 15.

tour last season. They are

to be able to take a good rest.”

Stars of the world of music and dance who will appear on the forthcoming Martens Concerts season are shown above. 1. The Joos Ballet, European dancers who made a successful Indianapolis debut last year in the Martens series, are to return to Eng-

2. New to the city are Vronsky and Bhbin, young Russian duopianists who come here highly recommended after a first American “booked for Feb. 6.

Stepin Fetchit Lolls—With Assistance—in Act Here

That monument of sloth, Stepin Fetchit, lolls, with the aid of an assistant on Keith's stage this week. “I always wanted to be somethin’ but I never wanted to do nothin’ to be it,” Stepin says in explaining his success in the movies. The less he does, the more he gets paid, the sepia slow-motion expert explains, and so he does very little because “in my old age I want

Stepin ' just manages to through a dance without collaps- | ing and then requests the audience | not to applaud any more because

IN NEW YORK — GEORGE ROSS

$100 Tips Are Not Safe Now, Playboys Find; Club Concessions Pay Plenty.

TEW YORK, Sept. 11.—A maitre d’hotel has told all about tipping. And among his exposures is the phoney who impresses his guests by leaving a $100 bill on the table and returns the next day for an adjustment. No figment of the headwaiter’s imagination, this happens frequently. So often, in fact, that the man with the serviette across his arm has become hard-boiled about it. He now is afflicted with a sudden lapse of memory; and when the phoney calls up, doesn’t recall ever having seen a large lump sum of money.

And it serves the counterfeit phil-

anthropist right. Gay blades, incidentally, who get a vicarious thrill out of emulating playboys by tipping the hat-check girl anything from a greenback to a $5 bill, are the most gallant suckers along the Rialto. For it might interest them to know that the hatchecker keeps nothing for herself from any tip less than five dollars. And the same holds true for the cigaret and flower girls. Those ex-

Harold -

"Dance Cork’s

Saturday Sunday SK Y Orchestra Sats ote] couple before 9:30; 80c¢c cou2:00; 50c couple after 12:00.

50c Couple After 9: One Block South Municipal Airpert

cesive gratuities fill the coffers, instead, of concessionaires who pay for the privilege of checking your hat and providing other personal services. o ” 2 An acquaintance just back from Paris, by the way, reports that the 10 per cent tipping habit is on the way out. The Gaelic servitors would like to do away with it, for they can earn more, if their tips were left to individual . initiative. Even the Frenchman might be induced to tip more than he was expected to, if the present system didn’t regiment him to a universal 10 per cent.

Tonite and Sunday

MUTUAL

IRLS IN

MAT, 2:15; TWO SHOWS

Attraction Extraordinary Midnight Show Sat.

wr wees NEW YORK’S PERSONALITY GIRL THE 10000 DOLLAR BEAUTY

SUNYA smiLes) SLANE

BLUE : =

AT NIGHT 7 AND-9 P. M.

CONTINUOUS ON SUNDAY

GET UP A PARTY AND ATTEND OUR FAMOUS MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT

get®T

it tires him to come “way out on the stage an’ bow.” Stepin headlines a six-act vaudeville program which the Keith management reports inaugurates a new policy of all-vaudeville on the stage. Bernie Dunn acts as master of ceremonies, and Danny Daniel's Band plays on the stage during the major part of the performance. Other acts include Betty Lee Austin, xylophonist; Lois Moree, acrobatic dancer; Lang and Lee and dog, comedy team, and the Raftone

TINIE

JOAN bird si0 ium ALAN HALE H RAY . MRVILLE COOPER

ARTHUR TREACHE RAYMOND WALSURN DAVIS

p:\ ls Ya SY and Ti NT Tel Parade! hs Comedian—With Barbara Ray

HELENE DENIZON

«America’s OWD . Paviowa”

0560 Sern

eatured in “Ne Faces of 1931 “Chie

KENNEDY

BT.

SETER LORRE as the famous Seturdey

3. A welcome return engagement will be that of Jascha Heifetz, o—

world-renowned violinist, on Dec. 5.

Hd

Nl = NA

4. Richard Crooks, tenor of Metropolitan Opera and radio fame, is to close the regular season’s concerts April 11,

In addition to the above artists

there will be Helen Jepson, Metro-

politan soprano, who is to open the series Oct. 18, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann, conducting, which will returh for the second year on Jan. 19. :

Sisters and Bob Jay, accordionists and guitarist, respectively. Mr. Jay also sings. Lang and Lee, it may be said, are not family entertainment. On the screen, Keith's offers

“Transatlantic Merry - Go - Round” with Jack Benny, Nancy Carroll and Gene Raymond. Among the supporting players are Sydney Howard, Mitzi Green, Sid Silvers, Frank

Parker and the Boswell Sisters. “Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round” is

a reissue of the picture first released in 193¢—(By J. H. J.)

GRACE MOORE'S RECOVERY NEAR

HOLLYWOOD, SOD, Sept. 11 (U, P.)— Grace Moore, grand opera and movie songbird, will leave Santa Monica Hospital Monday. Her doctor said she was making a quick recovery after an operation per-

St. Louis Symphony

RICHARD

Internationally Famed Tenor of

— MARTENS CONCERTS,

8th Annual Season Announcement

ALL-STAR ARTIST SERIES

SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR CHOICE SEATS AT

POPULAR CONCERT PRICES

SEASON TICKETS—6 CONCERTS $5.50, $6.60, $8.80, SIL. OPENING CONCERT MONDAY EVE, OCT. 18

HELEN JEPSON

Glamorous Soprano of Opera, Radio and Screen MONDAY VEMBER 15TH

EVENING, NO

JOOSS BALLET

UND AY F AEENG ON by Ly Demand

“JASCHA HEIFETZ

Eminent Violinist in Recital after an absence of 10 vears. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY

Vladimir Golschmann, Conductor. ONDA JE EROS orchestra in America.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON,

V.'VRONSKY AND V. "BABIN

Sensational Russian Pianist in Recital for Two Pianos. MONDAY EVEN RIL 11TH

: SEASON TICKETS NOW ON SALE MARTENS CONCERTS, INC.-Room 201-33 Monument Circle-LI. 8921

Take advantage of low cost of season tickets. ; will be advanced in price.

formed Sept. 4. INC. es

00, $13.20, Incl. Tax

DECEMBER 5TH

19TH Orchestra (90 Men)

FEBRUARY 6TH

CROOKS

Metropolitan Opera and Radio.

Single admissions

KEITH 5

fa

DIRECT FROM hel H

1 $ TIL TILL 1:00 CLOSE

CHILDREN ACCOMPANIED y/ ay PARENT JUS

RSON

DAISY

Avalon

Talbott

Yalen Rampant in Circle's ‘The Life of the Party, but Story Is Along ‘Usual’ Lines

Subdued Joe Penner Aids Parkyakarkus With Comedy; Gene Raymond Turns to Song, New Tunes; Plot Mixes Whimsy and Romance.

You may pick your favorite to qualify for the title role in “The Life

¢f the Party,” now at the Circle.

Por the film's producers have ase

sembled encugh talent, romantic, comic and musical, for two or three

fzatures.

If it’s comedy you are after, you will find Joe Penner, rather subdued ¢nd minus cigar and duck; Parkyakarkus, as a Greek house detective; the celightful bewilderment and frustration of Victor Moore's talent; Helen Biroderick’s bright quips, or the versatile foolery of Billy Gilbert.

Por music, you have Harriet HilLard of radio fame, and Gene Ray=riond, who -combines light romance vith | some excursions into song. (Perhaps it comes from his having 1aarried Jeanette MacDonald.) You'll finda half-dozen new tunes and 3 cance ensembles thrown in

| of which. unfortunately, n't add up to very much. The 1 follows the usual lines of the g singer (Miss Hilliard) trying fo get a break. There is the persistent [suitor (Mr. Raymond) who breaks down the singer's haughty opposition. Mr. Moore is Mr. Rayinond’s “keeper,” trying to prevent the young man from marrying for three years, at which time he will inherit a fortune. Miss Broderick is ‘Miss Hilliard’s unsuccessful agent.

Eventually the plot winds up as:

all such plots do. There is an overibundance of whimsy mixed up in She romance. Miss Broderick and ‘Mr. Moore are delightful, of course, n the slight material allotted them. Mr. Penner is the same as ever, and your enjoyment depends upon your

‘ondness for his stock in trade. Mr. |

Parkyakarkus is endowed with a reat many singularly mirthless ouns. There is also a second film on the Circle bill. It is .called “She's No Lady,” featuring Ann Dvorak and the former air transport flier, John Trent. Also there is the latest edi-

tion of that excellent supernewstael, ;

“The March of Time.”

ICIRELE Now! ee ——

IAS TREY Relax—and let

ITEC LLLY the laughs PARKYAKARK roll int!

VICTOR MOORE CHART HELEN BRODERICK

BING CROSBY MARTHA RAYE

FO I Le

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

-APOLLO

“Thin Ice,” with Sonja Henle and Tyrone Power, at 11:42, 1:42, 3:4 5:42, 7:42 and 9:42 CIRCLE

“Life of the Pasty, ” with Joe Penner and Harries Hi liard.. at 11, 1:54, 4:48, 7:42 and 1 Also “She's Ne 5 ad. * with Ann Dvorak and join Trent, at 12:51, 3:45, 6: 35 and 9 “March at 12:31, 3:25, 6:19 and 9

oh Time

"KEITH'S 3 Stage show at 1:40, 4:20, 7 and

“‘Fransatlantic Meiry-Go-Round,” with Jack Benny, at 13, 2:50, 5:30, . 8:10 and 10:50.

LOEW'S “Lost Horizon,” with Ronald Col-

man, Margo and Edward Everett Horton, at 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and

Louis-Farr Fo pictures at 12:55, 3:40. 6:25 and - LYRIC Stage show at 1:06, 3:54, 6:42 and

“Think Fast, Mr. Moto.” with Peter lore. at 11:36, 2:24, 5:12, 8 and

OHIO Power Gondolier,” with Dick Also * Ouicasts of Poker Flat,” with

Jean AMBASSADOR “Emperor’s Candlesticks,” with wil liam Powell. Also Jean Arthur in “Easy Living.”

ik “BROADWAY GONDOLIER Plus! Preston Foster - Jean M “Outcasts of Foker Flat” Tomorrow—"This Is My A Robert Barbara TAYLOR STANWYCK

gets ;

RONALD COLMAN

LOST JIE]

——

At Your Neighborhood T heater

| At Your This Week-End’s Best Attractions

: WEST SIDE F - owa r d Howard & Blaine

Double Feature Buck Jones “SMOKE TREE RANGE” “15 MAIDEN' LANE” Sun., Double Feature—Spencer Tracy, “CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS” Edw. E. Horton “OH! DOCTOR”

C 2702 W. 10th Rt STATE ifs “TOLL OF THE DESERT” “I COVER THE WAR” Sun., Deuble Feature—Marx Bros. |. “A DAY AT THE RACES” “BEHIND THE JE3DLINoS

Be mon t Air-Conditioned . Double Feature Preston Foster “YOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE” Jean Arthur “EASY LIVING” . ' Sun., Double Feature—Jack Holt, “ROARING TIMBER” Jack Oakie “SUPER SLEUTH”

2540 W. Mich. St. Double Feature Rochelle Hudson

“THAT ¥ MAY LIVE” “EMPTY HOLSTERS” | Sun,, Double Feature—Kay Francis “ANOTHER DAWN” . “SHALL WE DANCE?”

SOUTH SIDE

w. i

REX

NORTH SIDE

30th at Northwestern Newly Decorated Spencer Tracy

“THEY GAVE HIM A GUN” “THAT MAN’S HERE AGAIN” Sun. Double Feature—Spencer Tracy “CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS” Jones Family “BIG BUSINESS”

U DELL Udell St. at Clifton

Double Feature Jene Audrey “RIDE, RANGER, RIDE” Burgess Merideth “WINTERSET” Sun., Double TFeature—Astaire-Rogers, | “SHALL WE DANCE?” “COCK OF THE AIR”

Garrick “Shue” a r r 1 C ; Paul Muni “THE WOMAN I LOVE” “LAW OF THE RANGER” Sun,, Double Feature—James Melton, “MELODY FOR TWO” Fat O’Brien “SLIM”

Noble & Mass, M FCCA Rouble Feature © Grace Moore “WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE” “PAROLE RACKET” Double Feature—George Brent,

Sun.,

Sa Nn ders At Fountain Square

Double Feature Ricardo Cortez “THE CALIFORNIAN” ‘SHE HAD TO EAT” Sun., Double Feature—Robert Taylor. “THIS IS MY AFFAIR” “MANDARIN MYSTERY”

Pros. & Churchman Double Feature Margaret Lindsay

“SONG OF THE CITY” “WILD HORSE ROUNDUP” Sun., Double Feature—Edw. G. Robinson “KID GALAHAD” ‘Patsy Kelly “NOBODY'S BABY”

“l'HE GO-GETTER” “DON’T TELL THE WIFE” 19th & College Double Feature

Stratfor June Travis “MEN IN EXILE” “231, HOURS LEAVE” Sun., Double Feature—Edw. G. Robinson,

“KID GALAHAD” “IN HIS STEPS”

2361 Station St. D REAM Double Feature Conrad Nagel “THE GOLD RACKET” © “SMIOKE TREE RANGE” Sun., Double Feature—F. = Bartholomew,

“NORTH OF THE RIO GRANDE”

Oriental 1105 S. Meridian

Ann Shey “TOO MANY WIVES” “FIRE OVER ENGLAND” Sun.,, Double Feature—Gene Raymond, “THERE GOES MY GIRL” “TROUBLE IN MOROCCO”

° 8S. East at Lincoln 0 Lincoln "oeilieaiis “IT HAPPENED OUT WEST” Del Cambre’s “TUNDRA” Sun., Double Feature—Robert Taylor, “THIS IS MY AFFAIR” “ “231%, HOURS LEAVE”

Fountain Square

. O=r New Cooling System K 1 oI rm Re Sens You

Comfortab Double Feature Jack * Holt “TROUBLE IN MOROCCO” “DRAEGERMAN COURAGE” Sun., Double Feature—Shirley Temple “WEE WILLIE WINKLE” “BORN RECKLESS”

NORTH SIDE

° St. Cl. & Ft. Wayne St. Clair ™ peu res “WINGS OVER HONOLULU” Boris Karloff “JUGGERNAUT” Sun., Double Feature—Spencer Tracy “CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS” “WOMAN CHASES MAN” Talbott & 22nd Westinghouse

Air-Conditioned Double Feature Spencer Tracy

“CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS” “THE MAN IN BLUE” Sun., Double Feature—Wendy Barrie “WINGS OVER HONOLULU”

Fred McMurray “EXCLUSIVE”

. Illinois and 84th R ! TZ Double Feature 1 Joe Penner “NEW FACES OF 1937” “THE CALIFORNIAN” Sun., Double Feature—Helen Mack, “YOU CAN'T BUY LUCK” Jean Harlow “SARATOGA”

; 1500 Hollywood sews are. Double Feature Lee Tracy “BEHIND THE HEADLINES” “RECKLESS RANGER” Sun., Double Feature—Spencer Tracy, “CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS” ~ “IWWINGS OVER HONOLULU” Zoring “Thi “THIS IS MY AFFAIR” “yOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE”

Sun., Double Feature—Tony Martin, «SING AND BE HAPPY”

Central at Fall Crk.

“CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS”

NORTH SIDE Double Feature

U ptown Wendy Barrie “WINGS OVER HONOLULU” “SHALL WE DANCE?” Sun., Double Feature—Wm. Powell, “EMPEROR’S CANDLESTICKS” Jack Haley “PICK A STAR”

EAST SIDE

42nd & College

B 1] ou 114 E. Washington

Double Feature June Lang “NANCY STEELE IS MISSING” “WHISTLING BULLETS” - Sum., Double Feature—Geo. Bancroft, “RACKETEERS IN EXILE” “HEADLINE CRASHER”

3155 | E. 10th. St. RIVOLI Doers, Oen at 5:48 Dick Powell “THE SINGING MARINE” “AFFAIR OF CAPPY RICKS” EXTRA! Last Show Tonight Only! Jack Ps Te Healy—Una, Merkel “IT’S IN THE AIR” Sun., Double Feature—Dorothy Lamoup

“LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID”

Jean Arthur “EASY LIVING” 2 Double Feature

Tacoma George Brent “THE GO-GETTER” “CHAN AT THE OLYMPICS” Sun.,, Double Feature—Glenda Farrel “FLY AWAY BABY”

443 E. Wash. St.

~ Bob Burns "MOUNTAIN MUSIC” 4020 E. New York Donble Feature

Tu xedo Hugh Herbert

“TOP OF THE TOWN” “California Straight Ahead” Sun., Double Feature—Marx Bros, “A DAY AT THE RACES” “I PROMISE TO PAY”

IRVI NG 5507 E. Wash. St

Double Feature Robert Wilcox “ARMORED CAR” Walt Disney's Review Sun., Double Feature—Marx Bros, “A DAY AT THE RACES” Ricardo Cortez “CALIFORNIAN”

E pea) E. Toth. me rson oii Tag tne Joe E. Brown “RIDING ON AIR” Rochelle Hudson “Born Reckless” Starts Sunday— Jean Harlow “SARATOGA” Plus “League of Frightened Men”

GOLDE 6116 E. Wash. St Double Feature Norma Shearer “Barrets of Wimpole Street” “FARMER IN THE DELL” Sun., Double Feature—Spencer Tracy, “CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS” “TOO MANY WIVES”

2116 E. 10th St,

Hami | ton Double Feature

Brown . “RIDING ON AIR” Jones Family “BIG BUSINESS” Sun., Double Feature—Marx Bros.,

“A DAY AT THE RACES”

Jack Oakie “SUPER SLEUTH” 16th & Delaware Double Feature

C i nema George O’ Brien

“PARK AVENUE LOGGER" Will Rogers “DAVID HARUM” Sun. Double Feature—Gene Raymond . “THERE GOES MY GIRL” Kay Francis “ANOTHER DAWN”

Sow Oe s from 1: 30

“THE DEVIL IS DRIVING” 1332 Sat.,

Strand = shel

Sun., Mon, “SWEETHEART OF THE NAVY” Jean Harlow “SARATOGA” Continuous Matinee Sunday. Starts Tuesdav—Prestion Foster,

“YOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE” “WINGS. OVER RONOLULY®

Follow THE TIMES Daily Neighborhood Directory

for your favorite programs

Paramount veusie reaare

Charles Starrett “TWO-FISTED SHERIFF” Jones Family “BIG BUSINESS” Sun., Double Feature—Preston Foster,

“OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT” Pat O’Brien “SLIM”

AR

B

v, AR

~ A NE ra Sn A RA ep