Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1937 — Page 6

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Jan Garber - Booked for Night Here

Indiana Roof Arranges For Opening on Sept. 23.

By JAMES THRASHER ' Tom Devine, Indiana Roof Impresario, has two messages for Indianapolis today. One is that Jan Garber and his orchestra are to open the Roof’s fall season with a one-night stand Sept. 23. The other is . that Dick Powell has nothing ‘against Indianapolis, scene of

his early triumphs. To attend, first of all, to the business at hand, Mr. Devine says that the Garber booking pushed his opening date one day ahead. He had planned for a Sept. 24 opening when he received notice of Mr. Garber’s availability. Knowing what Indianapolis thinks of Garber, and realizing the uncertainty of radio committments, Mr. Devine lost no time in signing the band. The Indiana Roof also will book gs many “name bands” as can be procured, Mr. Devine promised. But their engagements are rather spur-of-the-moment affairs, so he can’t announce any in advance. |The usual policy will prevail for the coming season: Dancing each night except Monday and Thursday, which are reserved for private parties. And Wednesday again will be sacred to the waltz.

| City’s Sidetracking Explained

Now as to Mr. Powell. Mr. Devine visited the popular crooner of the “Hollywood Hotel” set during his vacation this summer. Dick showed Mr. Devine around, had their pictures taken together and let the home-town visitor see some movie making. And in the course of conversation, he explained that Indianapolis’ neglect in the Powell biographies was out of his control. As often happens when celebrities spring up overnight there were conflicting stories about Mr. Powell's early life and career when he first became a picture star. At least that’s how Mr. Devine understood the matter. Finally, press agents for the Brothers Warner decided they'd better get one story and stick to |it. Somehow in the “official life story” our Hoosier metropolis got sidetracked. Louisville and Pittsburgh are landmarks on the rocky path from the Ozarks to Hollywood,

Judging from these samples, Circle audiences will be in for a tuneful time when “Double or Nothing” opens Friday. Above, Bing Crosby, the star and the gentleman on the right, croons a high one for Director Ted Reed (left), who enjoys it; Mary Carlisle, who wonders how Bing ever made it, and Andy Devine, who's having more fun looking at the camera than listening. At the right, Steve and Andre Calgary, European vaudeville team, try out some close and brotherly harmony.

but never an official studio mention of Indianapolis. Well, Mr. Powell told Mr. Devine it was all the fault of “these guys out here,” with a sweeping gesture that took in the whole studio force. Dick remembers clearly the old days with Charlie Davis and with his own band at the Roof. What's more important, he also remembers his old friends today. Another former local musician on the West Coast is Lou Forbes, former head man in the Indiana Theater pit and now a music director for Universal Pictures. He's the brother of Leo Forbstein, Warner

Bros.” music head.

IN NEW YORK —sy ceoree ross

Sky Seems to Be the Limit for Modern Press Agents, Who Go in for Pigeons.

EW YORK, Sept. 15.—Time was when invitations to the press for such revels as a club. unveiling, picture premiere or the drama’s first nights came on engraved cards or by telegram. But the boys have been going in for the bizarre, lately, regaling us with dizzy mementoes of the occasion and livestock of several descriptions. Latest dido is a homing pigeon, delivered to our desks by nattily

uniformed messengers who crept away as stealthily as they came.

At-

tached to the pigeon’s foreleg is a polite inquiry, asking for our presence at the opening of a sepian cabaret on upper Broadway.

We are requested to stuff our reply, yes or no, back into the tube on the ornithological carrier's foreleg and let him out of the. window of the| city room. It is assumed that the bird will fly back directly to the cafe in point, prop himself on the bar, deliver our answers, call for a tall Scotch and soda, and wait for the| floor show. And a host of other cafe proprietors will promptly pigeonhole this antic with which to disturb our peace again.

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roT long ago, it was a canary dispatched to the inmates of

the Fourth Estate by way of heralding the arrival of a new song-

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

. APOLLO “Thin Ice,” witn gon a Hoe 2pd Ione Power, at 3:4 5:42, 7:42 and 9:42.

CIRCLE

“Life of the Party,” with Joe Penx and Harriet Hilliard at 11, 1:54, 18 3 Mz and 10:38 of n SO e's No .Lady,’ with Ann Dyorak and John Trant. at 12:51, at 12:31, 3:25,

6:39 and 9:33. ‘March of Time,” 6:19 and 9:13 KEITH'S + show at 1:40, 4:20, 7 and

Merry-Go-Round,” at 12, 2:50, 5:30,

LOEW'S ny Hotizen, with Ronald Col-

Mar, an W. E Horton, ote 1. 1:40. 4: ire ye

t‘Transatlantic with Jack Benny, 8:10 and 10:50.

25. 7:10 and Louis-Farr> 3 ht pi aula gl ak.D ctures at 12:58,

LYRIC Stage show at 1:06. 3:54. 6:42 and

ihink Fast, i Moto.” with Pet Lorre, at 11:36, 3:24, 5:12, 8 and

OHIO

with Carole Lombard, Also “Straight fm the

with Raiph Bellam

AMBASSADOR “Wee Willie Winkle” with Sh Fefple and Victor McLaglen Shirley Also “Exclusive” with Fred McMurray. : aIaMo Y‘Speed to Spare,’ with Charles Quig ey. Also “The Lady Escapes.”

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stress and the implication was plain. Though when ‘some of us heard the vocalist in question, we

thought that it would have been much more appropriate had they sent a night owl. When the film’s wonderboys pondered the problem of informing. us of “The Firefly” recently, they considered every means except a formal announcement of its coming to town. It was the inspiration of a genius that led to our receiving one

phosphorescent goo that almost scared the daylights out of Pauline, the society desk girl, who sits near us. #.8 =

OU get insensitive to gibes in this business, but sometimes, something happens to upset your placidity, such as coming in to work one morning and finding a squirrel monkey gaping at you from a corner of your cubbyhole. That is one of the recent emissaries to come into the office with a message tied around his neck about a night club opening. This stunt, by the way, has been about tops in tact and diplomacy, as praCticed by the titans uptown of the club circuit. The monkey, incidentally, has since found comfortable living quarters and is happy. He never wanted to

GEO. RAFT in “RUMBA”

“Straight from the Shoulder” with

Ralph Bellamy and xATHERNE

Starting This Friday

Estelle Taylor IN PERSON

A famous stage, screen, and radio star.

With Six Other High Class Acts wk

day, a fisherman’s fly, coated in|

Due Here on | Her Way to Comeback

Estelle Taylor Is to Be Headliner at Keith's.

Estelle Taylor, on ° the movie comeback trail, is to stop in Indianapolis en route from Europe to Hollywood and headline Keith’s vaudeville bill for the week beginning Friday. : Miss Taylor has been absent from the screen for five years, but is said to have an RKO contract for several pictures, beginning this fall. The Keith management announces that this will be Miss Taylor's last

personal appearance before she resumes picture work.

The former wife of Jack Dempsey was booked to replace Edith Fellowes, child actress, who became ill while visiting relatives in Evansville. Miss Taylor’s theatrical life began when she rebelled so strongly against a business career that her parents called in the family physician. He decided the theater was the best

Accordingly, Miss Taylor, fresh from a Wilmington, Del., business college, enrolled at Sargent’s Dramatic School in New York.

Spotted in Chorus

Jesse Lasky saw her in the chorus of “Come On, Charlie,” and hired her as double for the one-time screen star, Dorothy Dalton. She returned to the stage, and received her first big movie chance when

‘| Cecil DeMille cast her as Miriam in

see a pallid night club proprietor again. z » 2 BOUT a year ago the Ziegfeld Girls’ Club was organized as a press stunt to ballyhop the film biography of The Great Glorifier. Many beauties who had graced the chorus in Ziegfeld’s lavish pageants were summoned to a reunion at the Stork Club and for the first time in many years the pulchritudinous ladies met and caught up with each other's lives. And though “The Great Ziegfeld” since has come and gone and the publicists no longer are interested, the club has become a permanent institution. The erst< while belles of New York meet twice monthly, assess themselves for generous relief funds that are donated to their sisters-in-need, and throw a gala party in one of the swankier hotels twice annually. 2 ” 2

A. ROLFE is revered by mem- » bers of his band for many reasons. One of them is the fact that when Rolfe employs a musi-

cian, he has the applicant fill out a questionnaire which lists such questions as “Married or Single,” date of marriage, wife’s and mother'’s birthdays. The man. thén is

unable to forget his wedding anniversary or his wife’s birthday, because Rolfe reminds him—while giving him his pay check for the week.

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“The Ten Commandments.” An attack of arthritis halted her rise in pictures, but she came back to play with Mary Pickford in “Dorothy Vernon of Hadden Hall” and in such successes as “The Alaskan” and “Don Juan.” After her marriage and divorce, Miss Taylor played a character part in “Cimarron” and appeared for Samuel Goldwyn in “The Unholy Garden” and “Street Scene,” ber most recent picture to date. Besides Miss Taylor, Keith's will offer six other vaudeville acts and a motion picture.

SLEEPS IN BACK YARD

When Errol Flynn is troubled by insomnia, the Warner Bros. star frequently sleeps in a pup tent which he pitches in his back yard.

GUEST SOLOIST

outlet for such emotional energy. |

(Screen play by JACK McGOWAN) Directed ‘by ROY DEL RUTH Produced by JACK CUMMINGS {a Metro- Goldwyn -Mayer Picture.

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Bomar Cramer, Indianapolis pianist, has been added to the list of distinguished artists who aie to appear as soloists with the Irdianapolis Symphony Orchestra during the coming season. ; Mr. Cramer, who has appeared with the orchestra on two previous occasions, has been invited by Fabien Sevitzky to appear on the concerts of April 2 and 3, which will close the orchestras subscription season.

Cast Rehearsed For ‘Robin Hood!

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. 15 (U. P.) —Fifty actors finished up a month’s practice with broadsworis and long-bows today and prepared to board a special {rain soon for a

'| forest near Chico, Cal., for the film-

ing of the picture, “Adventures of Robin Hood.” Ten baggage cars will canny equipment and a fleet of sound trucks will follow. . The cast, sta’ring Errol Flynn and Alan Ha'e, will spend two months at the forest. Jack Warner announced®that the picture will cost $1,600,000.

evidence of his achievements are shown in pictures of schools, factories and low cost housing projects. Then Japan’s encroachment on hér big neighbor’s territory is shown. First Japan seizes Korea, then Manchuria and now, Peiping. But China, under Chiang Kaijishek, is no longer as helpless as she once was. Chinese troops march to defentl their homes and country.

Then destruction hits Shanghai; the cisad and wounded lie in the

and in the crowded native quarters. {| Perhaps most poignant of all the hots are the two of the model housng project on the outskirts of Shanghai, built for families of coolies earning less than $4 a week. First shot shows the women washing and cooking in peaceful domesticity. Then disaster strikes and little but a few broken walls remains of the pretty settlement.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1 Background of Conflict In China Is Depicted in Film Being Shown Here

Latest edition of the March of Time at the Circle this week depicts in graphic fashion part of the background of ‘the present conflict in China and includes shots the destruction wrought in Shanghai by bombs and shells. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s successful efforts of the last 10 years to bring a consciousness of national unity

some of

in China are depicted, and?

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And the Japanese, according to the March of Time commentator, say this is but a taste of the punishment in store for China for daring, at last, to resist her ancient enemy. The March of Time’s other subject is the fight of farmers and the U. S. Department of Agriculture to save the nation’s crops and trees from insect pests and diseases. —(By J. H. J) )

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