Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1937 — Page 4
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{Seven PLAYS OF PROVEN POPULARITY CHOSEN FOR
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~ GroupOpens Here Oct. 15
'No More Ladies,’ One Of Mantle's '10 Best,’ ~ To Launch Season.
By JAMES THRASHER
Seven plays, new to Indian~apolis yet of proven popularity elsewhere, have been selected from a list of about 50 for the Civic Theater's drama season, which begins Oct. 15. Alfred Etcheverry and his play reading committee are
offering Civic patrons no pigs in pokes for Mr. Etcheverry’s first season at the Alabama St. playhouse. All but one of the list—Owen Davis’ “And For Yale,” which will be
“revived” in May—are successes of | =
recent vintage. And in addition there will be a brand new musical revue for the February attraction.
A. E. Thomas’ “No More Ladies” is booked for the opening bill. This play was on Burns Mantle’s “19 best” list for 1934, and was made into a picture with Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Edna May Oliver. This and all other Civic plays will have a six-night engagement, and the Friday opening policy, adopted last year, will continue.
“Night of January 16”
On Nov. 12, the Civic is to offer “The Night of January 16,” one of the most-talked-of courtroom plays of recent years. You doubtless will recall that this is the play in which a jury is selected from the audience to decide the issue. The drama has two endings, and the patron-jury decides which shall be used. Another S. N. Behrman success, . “Rain From Heaven,” is listed for a Dec. 10 opening. The Civic already has done Mr. Behrman’s “Biography,” “Second Man” and “Brief Moment.” | The same playwright’s “End of Summer” was seen at English’s last year, with Ina Claire and Osgood Perkins. Most recent work on the Civic list is Victor Wolfson’s “Excursion,” which is to| open Jan. 21. This play had a late spring and early summer run in New York this year, and later found its way to some of New England’s hayloft and town hall theaters. “Excursion” is one of the most unusual of “escape” dramas. Seeking to save his Coney Island excursion steamer from the fate of becoming a garbage scow, the skipper sets out for| an island south of Trinidad. It’s said to be a brave adventure, even though the captain and his passengers don’t escape their * humdrum existences for very long. Arrangements have not been completed for the annual musical show, but the date has been set for Feb. 18. Following that, the Civic has chosen a rather serious opus, Emmett Lavery’s “The First Legion,” for its Lenten offering. The opening will be March 18. Another comedy, “Goodby Again,” will be seen for the six days beginning April 15. This is the Allan Scott-George Haight play in which Osgood Perkins delighted Broadway audiences a few seasons ago.
Boat Race Scheduled
The closing production, mentioned above, is scheduled for May 13. “And for Yale” is a story of that famous university at the turn of the century. in “Naughty Naught,” of the past New York season, “And for Yale” will be done in the manner of the time, with turtle-neck sweaters and other authentic equipment. And don’t miss the exciting YaleHarvard boat race, folks, which will be re-enacted before your very eyes as the climax of this spectacular drama! Assisting Mr. Etcheverry in selecting the season's outlay was a committee which spent a good part of the summer reading plays. More than 30 were chosen for final consideration. Mrs. William G. Sparks headed the group, and other members were Miss Jane Weldon, Mrs. Rosamond | Van Camp Hill, Mrs. William B. Stokely Jr., Mortimer C. Furscott and Dr. Jean S. Milner, The only possible change in the announced list, Mr. Etcheverry says, is that the Civic may substitute a newer play for anyone during the season if a suitable and worthwhile work should be available.
TONE CHOSEN AS BEST PERFORMER
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20 (U. P)). —Franchot Tone, sleek actor-hus-band of Joan Crawford, was the choice of the Screen Actors’ Guild, composed of most of Hollywood's film players, for the best perform-
ance during the month of July. The Guild’s award, announced today, was for his work in the picture,
autograph hounds.
IT APPEARS TO BE A MISTAKE
Ozark elegance, or the art of taking tea. bearded demonstrator will identify him as Bob Burns. looking companion is Director Frank Lloyd, who introduced Mr. Burns to the afternoon-tea custom and appears to be regretting it.
A quick glance at the His anxious-
IN NEW YORK —8y croreE ross
George M. Cohan's Insomnia Must Trouble Him Again; He's Writing Patriotic Songs.
EW YORK, Sept. 20—Manhattan Miscellany: George M. Cohan, N whose patriotic ditties sold more copies than any other songwriters’ in the country, again is taking up the hobby. Two of his latest compositions are “When New York Was New York (New York was a Wonderful Town)” and “Johnny Q. Public (of the U. S. A)” and they soon will be on their way to the radio and gramaphones. by ‘the way, turns to these tunes as relaxation during periods of insomnia;
The Song and Dance Man,
writes them in the dead of night. It was at “Twenty One,” within earshot of the over-signed that Barbara Stanwyck remarked to persistent inquirers, “I shan’t get married this year.” Or next year, for that matter. What she emphasized was that Robert Taylor and she were friends, intimate friends; and that their mutual feelings are affectionate. But the rumor persists that romance has sprung up between Miss Stanwyck and the No. 1 Love man of Hollywood. He, by the way, may loiter in Europe until next year. > Jim Tully is in town with several stories he’d like to market and Beatrice Lillie is catching up with the night life she missed while she vacationed in England. If Charles Chaplin is going to change character, by the way, Paulette Goddard, who, it has been hinted often is Mrs. Chaplin, doesn’t know much about it. At least, she professed little knowledge of Chaplin’s change of plan when friends spoke of it the other night over a restaurant table in the Fifties.
” ”» ” March on Broadway
ALK: that Freddy March would quit the screen awhile to act on Broadway was confirmed the other day with the announcement that his wife, Florence Eldridge,
and he would turn up in a play this season. And not only will he act in this vehicle but he also will serve as its coproducer, with a half financial interest. And friends of his state
may remain on Broadway permanently. Thus, another screen satellite joins the ranks. Others who have capitulated to the living stage to date: Elissa Landi, Katharine Hepburn, Mona Barrie, Katherine Alexander, Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, Constance Cummings, Elizabeth Young, Dudley Digges, Herbert Marshall, Doris Nolan, Jean Arthur, Walter Huston, Gene Lockhart, Marjorie Rambeau, Jean Muir, Gertrude Michael, Phillips Holmes. Some already are back. Others will be back as the season tides along. . » 2 =
Booked Up
N the literary field, it seems that Kenneth Roberts has replaced Hervey Allen as ace prize of the His historical romance, “Northwest Passage,” has stirred the signature fanciers to a frenzy and the publishers of that best-seller have thousands of requests for persondlly aufographed copies. So they had to lure the successful author back from Kennebunkport, Me., to sign the flyleaves of his book while the public looked on. ” » 2
Grand Opening YING with Billy Rose’s “Jumbo”
for postponements, the International Casino already has delayed
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“They Gave Him a Gun.”
Frances Flynn
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its opening four times, but at this writing, was about to come through with a gala premier. It is heralded by such expert previewers as Joe Cook with great anticipation. These are auspicious days along the night club belt, what with Helen Morgan perched atop a piano again at the Club Eldorado, Mitzi Green, now grown up but demure, entertaining in an oasis in the Fifties and Libby Holman expected to join the personnel. Tragedy, however, befell the sepian saturnalia at the Cotton Club which had been scheduled to open with the incomparable Bill Robinson. Announcements of his
participation had been out. But it appears that at the last minute, Robinson’s film employers lifted his option and ordered him back to the cameras immediately. At last reports, he was passing Kansas City, though the Cotton Club is hoping to have him back after negotiating with his cinema bosses.
DOES ALL RIGHT
Though not old enough to vote, Ann Rutherford is doing quite all right along financial lines. The 20-year-old Toronto- native is working under a film contract that now pays her $250 a week. And in four months it will be increased to $1250.
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Girl ‘Dumbbell’ Dancer
That Way;
Her Life Story Proves It
Suzanne Ridgeway Couldn't Get Job at First but Later Screen Test Gave Her First Chance And She Preferred the Chorus.
By PAUL HARRISON (Today Mr. Harrison turns his attention to one of Hollywood's
“forgotten women”—the ladies of the ensemble.
ing Miss Ridgeway’s life story, you Circle’s current picture.)
Perhaps, after readmay be able to identify her in the
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20.—One of the cuties you'll see doing a dumbbell routine—with real dumbbells, I mean—in
“Double or Nothing” is a girl
named Suzanne Ridgeway.
She’s a brunet and glad of it, because, she says she always has heard that blonds are not so smart, She believes that girls who bleach their dark hair are likely to bleach
| their brains at the same time.
THESE. BEAUTIES KNOW THEIR PONIES
California is threatening Kentucky’s traditional fame to fast horses and beautiful women. Here is a quartet of beauties lined up to watch a recent polo game at Will Rogers Memorial Field, Hollywood.
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Luise Rainer (left) turns an eye on the horses and an ear to Gloria Stuart's remarks from the second row. Next is Anne Shirley, who, with Ginger Rogers, is giving her full attention to the ponies.
Suzanne knew a girl like that once. “And was she ever crazy!” exclaimed Miss Ridgeway. “Why, she had to go to the psychology ward.” Suzanne says she was born in Paris. “Paris, France,” she explains. “I'm not really French, I just happened to be born there because my mother was there at the time. Mr. Prinz (LeRoy Prinz, Paramount dance director) says he looked up my history and I was born under the Arc de Triomphe, and I guess that’s right.”
In providing personal data for membership in the Junior Guild, Miss Ridgeway stated that she is French and Spanish on her . mother’s side and English on her stepfather’s side. She is interested in British affairs because she says they're just like a movie. One _day she commented to Russell ° Pafterson that she had listened to the .coronation on the radio. “And was it ever thrilling!” she said. “And you know?—I never had heard it before.” “Huh?” asked Patterson, “Whaddaya mean?” “I mean I missed that program last year.” Suzanne went to Mr. Prinz several months ago for a job, but he didn’t have one just then. So she got on a radio program by winning a con-
test for a dumbbell role—and I don’t mean real dumbbells this time—and somebody sent her to Warner Brothers for a screen test. She took the test, but went right back to Mr. Prinz. She said, “You've got first chance at hiring me, because I came to you first. And anyway I don’t want to be a leading lady just now. I think it would be better to start as a chorus girl and work up.” He hired her and put her in the chorus of “Artists and Models.” On the set she met a group of men including Patterson, McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno and Jefferson Machamer. She asked whether they danced or sang or acted or what, and they said they were only makeup men. So before every shot Suzanne would imperiously demand their services, and they'd all gather round and contribute a few thousand dollars’ worth of retouching to her features. : Later she found out that they also painted pictures, and she thought that was a very nice hobby for make-up men, During "the weeks of rehearsals, Prinz~found it was necessary to tie a handkerchief to Miss Ridgeway’s left wrist to identify her left hand. She explained that she never could remember right or left because she is ambidextrous,
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“100 Men and a girl,” with Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski, at 11:40, 1:43,-3:46, 5:49, 7:52 and
CIRCLE
“Double or Nothing,” wih Bing Crosby and Martha Raye, at 12:38, 3:48, 6:58 and 10:18. “Flight from Glory,” with ChesSor Morris and Whitney Bourne, at 1:31, 2:41, 5:51 and 9:01.
KEITH'S
Vaudeville, with Estelle Taylor. “Legion of Missing Men,” with Ralph Forbes.
LOEW’S
“Broadway Melody of 1938,” with Eleanor Powell and Robert Taster, at 11:25, 2:05, 4:25. 7:20 and 1
LYRIC “Broadway ind 9:0, on stage at
1, 3:50, 6:40 and “All Over Town,” with Olsen and
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College Holiday,” with Burns and Allen 1so ‘““Another Dawn,” with Kay Francis.
AMBASSADOR
“Wee Willie Winkle” with Shirley Temple and Victor McLagle Also “Exclusive” with Fred McMurray.
ALAMO .
“Last Train From Madrid,” with Lew Ayres. Also “Black Aces,” with Buck Jones.
FATHER IS ATTORNEY
Maurice Murphy, now in a War- |
ner Bros. picture, is the son of-John F. Murphy, former district attorney of Seattle.
Movie Stock
Sale Is Near
Goldwyn - Korda Seeking Pickford Shares. a
HOLLYWOOD Sept. 20 (U. P.).— Samuel Goldwyn and Alexander Korda, ranked as two of the world’s leading movie producers, today were said to be considering the purchase of United Artists Corp. in which they now ar tners. If the sale is concluded, the two producers will buy the shares owned by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin. The reported sale was given partial confirmation by the departure of David L. Rose, vice president of Goldwyn’s production company, for London over the week-end. Mr. Goldwyn and Mr. Korda were given an option on the studio by the three stars last May and have until Dec. 31 to exercise it. Mr. Goldwyn produces the majority of pictures released by United Artists, with Selznick International and Walters Wanger contributing to the quota.
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Inventors Call on Actors To Back Weird Projects
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—Not all the people who write letters to Hollywood film celebrities are movie fans interested in photographs, autographs or other mementoes of their favorite stars. Inventors can write, tod, unfortunately for movie actors.
Every actor of note in Hollywood has a correspondence file containing letters from inventors whose contraptions rival the wildest dreams of futuristic artists for absurdity. Summer is the favorite season for such correspondents. Most of them propose that the actors finance their patents for a share of the profits. Weird Contraption Recently Ray Milland, Paramount leading man, received an offer of a patent partnership which he insists must have come from Rube Goldberg under an assumed name. The inventor had conceived a deck chair which he advanced as a certain preventive and cure for seasickness. The general idea was that the seat worked on the principle of the gyroscope, keeping the occupant on an even keel by absorb-
ing the roll of a ship through its me-
chanism. The inventor was a Nebraska garage mechanic who admitted he had never seen an ocean liner. Fred MacMurray had a request for funds to finance a Massachusetts bookkeeper’s idea of reducing traffic casualties by attaching to the front of automobiles a contrivance of pliable wire netting. The inventor declared the scoop would pick up luckless pedestrians instead b knocking them down. Bounce Jumpers Another inventor proposed that Jack Benny get behind his blueprints for an automobile bumper fashioned from hard rubber and steel springs. The idea was to prevent damage in collisions by bouncing the offending car away from the one it hit. Bob Burns was given an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a device calculated to arouse the heavy sleeper in a pleasant manner. The idea was to start the sleepyhead off to a smiling day with a clock which turned on the radio. Fredric March has an opportunity to go in with an inventor of a holdup alarm. The idea is that when a victim holds up his
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Quota Full For ( Choir
Private Auditions to Admit Limited Number.
Although the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir has filled its quota of 200 voices, a limited number of outstanding voices will be admitted by private audition, Louis Schwitzer, Choir Association president, announced today. Elmer A. Steffen, choir conductor, also announced a complete list of male choir members. Applications for choir auditions must be made in writing to Ernest ~ Heberlein, choir secretary, 213 Occidental Building. The choir is to appear in concert with the | Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra during the coming season. - Season subscriptions for the 10 Friday afternoon or the 10 Saturddy evening series may be obtained at Indiana State Symphony Society headquarters in the
hands, at the command of a bandit, he sets off an electric signal which attracts persons nearby. But the actor is turning the proposition down—he’s all wrapped up in another patent, a pencil which is also a flashlight, nail file, toothpick and screw driver.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20 (U. P.) —Paramount Studio revealed today that Marlene Dietrich telephoned from Wolfgang, Austria, asking for a dozen pair of false eyelashes, of the type the studio keeps for her film appearances. ‘She said, according to the studio, that European sources do not stock the right color.
Murat Theater or at 5850 Sunset Lane. Male members of the choir announced today by Mr. Steffen are: Seward A. Baker, Walter Bruce, Harry E. Calland, Floyd Chafee, James D. Cooney, F. M. Delaney, Charles F. Diggs, Edward E. Hittle, C. C. Hogue, Eugene B. Holmes, C. F. Hutchins, L. R. Jabinson, Chester V. McLaughlin, William T. Mullen=holz, Robert Parkin, Maurice W. Pennicke, H. E. Rennard, George F. Roe, Vernon C. Roth, Donald Scheick, Walter A. Schulz, Keith Shock, Gordon O. Sowle, Clyde A. Wands, Dick W. Whittington, Lee R. Woods, Donald Wright, J. Harold Wright, J. T. Ackerman, Earl Albertson, Robert D. Armstrong, Richard A. Auten, J. A. Baker, Lyndon Beals, Floyd Blanford, Harold W. Brady, Jimmie Brill, Louis Candedo, Evans Cochrane, C. R. Davenport, Walter R. Elliott, Clarence Firth, Warren Foreman, Will J. Hauék, Ernst Heberlein, Kenneth E. Herron, Walter Hoffmann, Lloyd Hutchinson, Charles W. Jones, Isaac Keen, Arch W. Keltner, Wallace Knapp, John Main, Edward Martin, Glenn McGill, Phillip Montgomery, Kenneth Parker, W. R. Ramsey, Carl Seet Jr., D. Snyder, Louis G. Stott, Richard Strother, Paul Taylor, Edward W. Thomas, Earl Thorpe, Paul L, Walters, John M. White and Albert Wollenweber.
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