Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1937 — Page 18

THURSDAY, SEPT. 16,

New Season

Loews’ Screen Tomorrow

Latest of Series Begun Eight Years Ago Features Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor; Settings Termed 'Ultraspectacular.'

The 1938 edition of “Broadway Melody,” M-G-M’s an-

nual cinema institution, is to

a week’s engagement beginning tomorrow. This is the third consecutive production in a series which began eight years came to the screen. “Melody” was one of the first attempts to take musical com-

ago, soon after sound

edy away from Broadway. Here are a few facts on the

new season’s opener:

The Stars—Eleanor = Powell and Robert Taylor. Both are veterans of the “Broadway Melody of 1936,” and Miss Powell also was in last year’s edition. Although Mr. Taylor is not a musical star, he does have the background of a cello-playing career. He sandwiched this in with medical studies in the days before he was forced to drop both to be what the fan magazines call “America's No. 1 heart throb.”

Miss Powell, of course, is first and last a dancer. She came to the West Coast from top spots in the “Vanities,” “Scandals,” “Crazy Quilt” and other New York successes. In Hollywood she joined a large group of Jack Donahue-Jack Boyle dancing school alumni, all of whom have taken graduate work before the camera. Included in the group are Joe E. Brown, Ruby Keeler, Buddy Ebsen, Arline Judge, George Murphy, Miriam Hopkins, Dorothy Stone and Ginger Rogers.

The Supporting Players—Mr. Murphy, mentioned above, is the first equal-footing dancing partner to, be featured with Miss Powell in her film experience. He's a Yale graduate, and was succesively a tool maker, real estate agent and night club dancer before crashing the big musicals. These included “Good News,” “Of Thee I Sing,” “Shoot the Works,” “Hold Everything” and “Roberta.” Another veteran of the 1936 “Melody”%is Sophie Tucker, the selfstyled “last of the red-hot mammas.” Miss Tucker has been vacationing and picturemaking in Europe the past two seasons, but hurried home when she heard a new “Melody” was in production. In the current picture she has been teamed with youthful Judy Garland, who has been tagged the “baby Nora Bayes.” Judy has been seen here before in “Pigskin Parade” in which she revealed a voice quite able to cope with Miss Tucker's. Other featured performers are Robert Benchley, whose comedy takes both corporeal and literary forms; Charles Igor Gorin, the Russian baritone who drops the Charles in his radio appearances, and Binnie Barnes, blond Britisher last seen in “Three Smart Girls.” The Production—This year’s “Melody” was directed by Roy Del Ruth, making his third annual megaphoning appearance. In more than 20 years’ film experience, he has concentrated on screen musicals, with a sideline of “gangster” and mystery pictures. Other recent tune-and-tap pictures to Mr. Del Ruth's credit are “Born to Dance,” “On the Avenue” and “Thanks a Million.” Jack Cummings was the producer, dances were directed by Dave Gould, who has worked with Mr. Del Ruth in several pictures and who won the 1935 Academy Award for his footwork staging.

The Mdsic—Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, collaborating tunesmiths for the past four years, have written six new songs for the picture. Song-and-dance numbers include “Feelin’ Like a Million,” (Miss Powell and Murphy); “Yours and Mine” (Miss Powell and Mr. . Taylor); “Sun Showers” (Gorin); “Pair of New Shoes” and “Follow in My Footsteps” (Miss Powell, Mur=+ phy and Ebsen), and “Your Broed-

1987

‘Broadway Melody’ Opens

Showings on

open Loew’s new season with

The initial

Wayne Ave. grocery store.

way and Mine,” the finale which contains fragments from the other movies of the same series. The Settings — Ultraspectacular : backgrounds are promised. The finale has a Broadway background, as might be expected. It is introduced by the raising of seven silk curtains, then of ga glass curfain, 120 feet high and 100 feet wide. Behind this is a miniature Manhattan, lit by 25,000 lights. The “buildings,” like the glass curtain, are manipulated by elevator motors, and grow from a height of 20 feet to 90 feet. As the buildings rise, traffic begins to flow. There are motor cars, cabs, trucks and motorcycles, all built to scale and operated by remote control. It took six months of preparation for the finale, and three weeks for the actual filming. Nearly 3000 persons, performers and technicians, had a part in this closing sequence.

Shores Pay

Ex-Hoosier

NERA EAN

Scents from early fall releases booked at Loew's:

1. The surrealistic looking lady is Myrna Loy, of course, and her military companion, William Powell. They'll be seen in “Double Wed-

ding.”

2. A domestic serenade, featuring Franchot Tone and Joan Craws= ford, who will appear in “The Bride Wore Red.”

3. Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer as Countess Marie Walewska

and Napoleon in “Conquest.”

4. “The Big City” will provide Luise Rainer with her first modern, American movie role. She is shown here with Spencer Tracy and a couple of companions in a scene from the picture. 5. Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor, stars of “Broadway Melody

of 1938,” which opens tomorrow.

Local Quartet Was His First Bid for Fame.

There probably will be some envious gentlemen in Loew's audiences during the coming week who have come to see their boyhood friend, Robert Wildhack, in “Broadway Melody of 1938.” For Mr. Wildhack has what seems to be one of the world’s softest jobs. He snores for a living, Mr, Wildhack’s earliest venture in the entertainment field was as a member of the “Breadbox Quartet.” The quartet got its name from the fact that performances were confined largely to a Ft. This, one of the “boys” recalled today, was because their favorite drug store proprietor didn’t appreciate the music as much as did the groceryman. In those days Mr. Wildhack didn’t snore for company. He sang, and also gained considerable fame as a mimic. He didn’t discover his real gift until some time later, it seems, for he spent several years as a cartoonist. First he worked on the Indianapolis Sentinel, then went to a New York paper and finally wound up as a magazine illustrator. Mr. Wildhack left Indianapolis some 20 years ago. It was much later, however, before he turned to the stage. Except for making some phonograph records of audible slumber he remained strictly amateur. Now, since he has cashed in on his talent, you're likely to hear him anywhere, even via the radio. He appeared in the Broadway Melody of 1936.” ;

IS THAT CRICKET?

A cricket on a Warner Bros. set chirped so stridently in the sound recording that shooting was halted a half hour while cast -and crew searched frantically before the culprit finally was located on the microphone boom.

Tonight’s Presentation at Your

Neighborhood Theaters

WEST SIDE |

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Double Feature ‘WINGS OF THE MOR “CRIMINALS OF THE| AIR”

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Double Feature Ricardo Cortez “THE CALIFORNIAN” Clark Gable “PARNELL” W. Was 3 & Belmont BELMONT ™ Weilinfasmas Air-Conditioned Double Feature yle Talbot “WES ITED’

L T BOUND LIMITE “MEET THE MISSUS”

2540 W. Mich. St. D A i S Y Double Feature “THIS 1S MY AFFAIR: “RACKETEERS IN EXILE”

SOUTH SIDE SANDERS “oop Tei

a “MAN WHO FOUND HIMSELF” MANEFT HANDED LAW”

AV A L ON Pros. & Churchman

Double Feature CRIMINALS OF FRE AIR» ”, ” “FLY-AWAY BABY”

ORIENTAL 'Dousie Featare”

NORTH SIDE 2361 Station St. D R BE A M Double Foatury “MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW" “SCOTLAND YARD COMMANDS” Illinois and 384th R | T Z Double Feature 0 . “RIDING ON am “OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT” Hollywood '“Dusbiefeatar™ ® oo John Wayne “I_COVER THE WAR” Judith Barrett “ARMORED CAR” Central at Fall Crk. ZARI NG Double Feature T Robert “YOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE” C IN EM 16th & Delaware A Double Eeatute arian Hopkins “WOMAN CHASES MAN” “THAT I MAY LIVE”

Continuous from 1:30

UPTOWN 42nd & College

Double Feature Edw. G. Robinson “THUNDER IN HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE”

THE_CITY” EAST SIDE

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Double Feature MEET THE PL Wallace Beery “SLAVE SHIP” 4630 E. 10th EMERSON “

Double Feature Jack Haley SHE HAD T Warner Baxter “SLAVE SHIP”

GOLDEN : 6116 E. Wash. St.

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“THE THIRTEENTH C Double Feature SHE HAD TO Wallace Beery “SLAVE SHIP” “YOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE”

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HOW ANN REHEARSES |home. Thus she is able to study | ACTED ON 3 CONTINENTS | has acted on three continents—EuAnn Sheridan has a sound-proof, | herself from every angle and im-| Brian Aherne, currently in “The | ope, North America and Australia mirror-lined rehearsal room in her | Prove her histrionics. Great Garrick,” at Warner Bros, !—and has traveled in 52 countries.

Loews’ beats the gun with another of the new season winners . . . the smashing musical triumph for which Hollywood and Broadway merged their mightiest talents. Other Fall hits are on the way! Read about them in the adjoining columns. Watch the newspa- ~ pers for dates.

THE GREATEST OF ALL “BRO! DIES!”

Sweethearts Again! The girl who was born to dance... the boy who was born to romance!

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THE GREATEST NEWS OF THE YEAR. METRO-GOLDW YNMAYER'S BIG PARADE OF 1937-38 HITS IS ON THE WAY

FIREFLY ‘The Road Show Hit coming at Popular Prices. 21; hours of glorious spectacle, melody, romance, starring’ Jeanette MacDonald with Allan Jones, Warren William and cast of thousands!

_ Biceny. Luise Rainer and Spericer Tracy — together for the first time —in a dy, namic romantic melodrama of life in a’ tnetropolis. Roaring drama of city love! -

ATHE BRIDE WORE RED Joan Crawford in an ex¢iting romance of a cabaret entertainer who fought for her charice:for happiness. The cast intludes Franchot Tone, Robert Young.

__DOUBLE WEDDING Your favorite light-hearted twosom William Powell and Myrna Loy—in a story of two sisters who loved the same man!

THE GREAT CANADIAN] Clark Gableasarougnand tough hockey)

star. Skating is his work; loving, his pastime. It’s tailor-made for Gable. .

CONQUEST. ‘The great Garbo returns with romans tic Charles Boyer in the momentous; ‘drama of the secret love in the life) .of the Emperor Napoleon.

LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Ru sell in a great story of a young coupl who found that love helped them ov

‘the rough spots in life!

‘THE LAST GANGSTER Edward G. Robinson in a roaring tu )

bulent melodrama packed with action) ‘and suspense, heightened by a touchs)

- ing love story! =

PRL PILOT rs uy grand love story against the exciting Eo of spectacular air races, end stunts in the clouds. It’s Joaded vith laughs and packed with pinches.’ Clark Gable, Spencer Tracyandbig cast.

) IDIOT'S DELIGHT __ Norma Shearer in the Pulitzer Prize play that scored a’ country-wide success.V A dramatic story of intrigue lopiced with fun and romance. Miss Shearer will also be starred in MARIE, ANTOINETTE.”

‘THE GIRL OF THE _ GOLDEN WEST, e=with golden-voiced Jeanette: Mac: Donald singing Romberg music. This picture umph for the talented star of “Firefly”

_ AYANK'AY OXFORD

Starring Robert Taylor. He learns the

language of love—in the most famous of AE

nglish universities.

‘THOROUGHBREDS

___ DONT CRY. Watch for this one! Mickey Rooney; Judy's Garla - Sophie Tucker{and Douglas Scotejwill give’ you_a” real beart-thrill!

: - . - - NAVY BLUE AND GOLD A big-name cast of stars in an excitin story of life in Uncle Sam’s Naval Academy! =

MANNEQUIN | Glamotous Joan Crawford in a gran romance by Katherine Brush,; who wrote “Young Man of Manhattan” % 4's A brilliant M-G:M cast supports the star.’ =

BAD MEN OF BRIMSTONE

Wallace Beery returns to the “tough hombre” role.’ A rip-roaring melos

drama with handsome James Stewart)

rises an even greater trie -

___ROSALE|

A giant romantic musical eave 0

_(=—from one of Ziegfeld’s most fam

'productions — with more stars than you can count, headed by_ Eleanor Powell and Nelson Eddy.

SWING FEVER,

Allan Jones, Judy Garland and Billie ‘Burke combine their talents to bring

3 [you tender romance, glotious melodies

and vivid excitement. It’s a great show!

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