Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1937 — Page 4

Music Stars Booked for |. U. Series

Rachmaninoff and Chaliapin on Programs.

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By JAMES THRASHER

Announcement that Bloomington’s University and City Music Series this year will offer Fritz Kreisler, Serge Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is the third account of outside-the-city music events to appear here within a‘ week.

There is no intention of minimizing the importance of our own musical plans or of diverting attention from them. But these neighboring concerts, along with the Indianapolis schedule, re-emphasize the fact that much of the finest music available will be at or near our doorstep this season. The best of American and European opera stars are booked for the Chicago City Opera season. St. Louis’ list of symphony orchestra soloists, coupled with our own, is an imposing one. The Cincinnati Symphony season, as yet unreported, will bring added luster to the already brilliant orchestral and oper‘atic list.

Kreisler’s Tour Short

Bloomington is particularly fortunate in obtaining Mr. Kreisler for his fourth appearance at the University, as he is to be in the United States only three weeks this season. His recital is set for Nov. 1. Mr. Rachmaninoff is booked for Nov. 17, and he will be playing in Bloomington for the first time. The Russian pianist’s engagements in this vicinity ‘have been all too infrequent in recent years, and his return is welcome, Both he and Mr. Kreisler still are shinning representatives of an aging but distinguished generation of virtuosi whose names have become legendary in their own lifetime. The matchless singing-actor, Chaliapin, likewise will be on a three-week visit to this country. Besides an opera commitment in Chicago, he has only six recitals scheduled. He will close the university’s - first-semester concert series on Dec. 7. The Indianapolis orchestra is booked for three concerts in 1938. They will be on Feb. 8 and 22, and on March 22. 8 x = Meanwhile. an interesting item concerning the Joos Ballet comes from Mrs. Nancy Martens, who will bring the European dancers to English’s on Nov. 15. Their first Indianapolis appearance last year met with an especially enthusiastic reception. When their re-engagement was announced, a majority of subscribers requested that they repeat “The Green Table,” their famous peace propaganda ‘in dance form. So Mrs. Martens forwarded balletloving Indianapolis’ request to Kurt Joos, the group's director and choreographer. In his cabled reply, Mr. Joos stated that he would, if Indianapolis insisted, do “The Green Table” again. But he strongly advised substitution of “The Mirror,” sequel to “The Green Table,” which reflects a postwar world’s struggle to escape the moral, social and political aftermath of its own folly. Our local _entrepreneuse accord--ingly accepted the suggestion, and has announced “The Mirror” for the Joos program here, aleng with “Seven Heroes,” based on a fable by the brothers Grimm; a ballet to Ravel's “Pavane,” and “Johann Strauss—Tonight.” ‘ The Joos dancers are to arrive from Europe on Oct. 5, and after appearances in Baltimore, Philadelphia and a few other Eastern cities, will open a four-performance engagement in New York on Oct. 16. Helen Jepson is to open the Martens series on Oct. 18. The Metropolitan Opera soprano will be followed by the Joos Ballet, and Jascha Heifetz, the St. Louis Symphony Orchesta, Vronsky and Babin, duopianists, and Richard Crooks will complete the series.

GORDON TO START "WOMEN" AS FILM

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27 (U. P.) — Max Gordon, New York stage producer, in a telegram to film trade papers, disclosed that the Broadway hit “The Women” was not for sale to any movie company because he intends producing it as a film himself. In his message, Mr. Gordon said he had been offered $300,000 for the movie rights to the play but refused the offer. He said his own company would start a film version of the play in January.

LITVAK AND MIRIAM

Kreisler,

WILL STAY IN U. S..

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27 (U. P.). —Anatole Litvak, famous European - film director, today had disclosed he intends to remain in Hollywood with his bride, blond Miriam Hopkins, instead of returning to Europe to direct foreign pictures. Mr. Litvak signed a three-year contract with Warner Brothers but he and his bride intend to take a long European vacation.

‘PRISONER OF ZENDA,'

Director Dieterle Can Boss Actors, but Not His Wife

By WILLIAM BOEHNEL Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Standing 6 feet 4, as trim and fit as a Jack Dempsey in the pink, William Dieterle, director of “The Life of

Emile Zola,” at the Hollywood, and of last season’s “The Story

Louis Pasteur,” may be able to command players on the studio lots, but when it comes to ordering lunch or dinner it's his petite wife,

Charlotte, who takes control. If it is simply a matter of deciding how Paul Muni should do a certain scene in “Zola,” or whether or not Joseph Schildkraut should speak during the prison release scene or do it in pantomime in the same film, Mr. Dieterle is the final court of appeals. But when the problem of whether Mr. Dieterle should have a steak for lunch or just a light salad is before the house, it is Mrs. Dieterle who has the last word. Yesterday it was ‘a sizzling steak, ordered by Mrs. Dieterle, which her husband ate as he discussed their recent three months’ tour of Europe in particular and motion pictures in general. After visiting England, France, Germany, Italy, the North Cape countries and Russia, among others, Mr. Dieterle is of the opinion that there are only two places in which to live—the United States and Soviet Russia.

Eager to Learn

Everywhere they went in Russia, Mr. Deiterle said, they found the greatest of freedom in movement and speech, excellent hotel accommodations and fine roads and methods of transportation. “The eagerness among people to learn anything and everything is the outstanding impression I brought back with me from Russia,” he said. “One day in a park we saw a soldier reading Kant. I started to take a picture of him but decided that if I showed it to any one they would say it was the usual propaganda. At a large art exhibit in Moscow we saw peasants from the provinces in native dress poring over descriptive catalogs which gave them the history and background of the paintings they were viewing. No matter where we went we found the same avid interest in education.” Dieterle believes that the finest films being made today are coming from the Soviet studios. “I saw several films, which have not yet been released, which will surpass anything the Russians have yet produced. Nowhere in the world are there such brilliant actors.” Asked about Sergei Eisenstein, he said that the great Russian director had not yet been able to readjust himself to sound and dialogue. “Eisenstein would like to die as the creator of ‘Potemkin,’” Mr. Dieterle said. “He made a talking picture but scrapped it because he didn’t like it. At the present time he is teaching only and feels that if he ever makes a talking picture again, it will be after long experience in the theater.”

Hollywood Is Criticized .

About Hollywood Mr. Dieterle feels that a great industry is in the wrong hands. AT “Hollywood is beautifully organized,” he said. “There are fine technicians, designers and assis= tants, but those who control production very often don’t know anything about the business.” He feels particularly bitter about supervisors. “There was a time,” Mr. Dieterle said, “when the director was in su-

J preme command of the production

of a film. But today the supervisors take over the picture, and when it is released it is very often totally different from what it was like when the director finished it. “It is, of course, our own fault, because we put up with it, but the directors in Hollywood are not yet organized strongly enough to demand certain concessions from the producers. Frankly, I must confess that the supervisor is the inevitable result of directorial inefficiency. Unable to get ideas, directors in the past very frequently wasted days

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and days trying to figure out certain problems while large and expensive casts stood by doing nothing. As a result the producers had to curb this extravagance and created the supervisor.” . Mr. Dieterle believes that the time is near when the producers will realize that they can no longer take a neutral stand when filming subjects of topical interest, that it is well worth doing two or three films you don't like to do in order to get a chance at a subject like “Zola,” and that there are really only two first-rate actors in Hollywood—Paul Muni and Spencer Tsacy. His greatest ambition is to do a film based on the life of Karl Marx, but he admits that at best it is only a daydream. :

Film Pair Files Intent to Wed

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27 (U.P). — Dark-haired Katherine De Mille, 22-year-old adopted daughter of film producer Cecil B. De Mille, and Anthony Quinn, Irish-Indian actor, have filed notice of intention to wed. They met a few weeks ago when the actress walked on the set of a picture her father is producing and met Mr. Quinn, who plays a leading role in the film.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Double or Nothing,” with Bin Crosby and Martha Raye, at 12:3 3:48 6:58 and 10:18. “Flight From Glory,” with Chester Morris and Whithey Bourne, at 11:31, 2:41, 5:51 and 9:01.

CIRCLE

“Varsity Show,” with Dick Powell, Fred Waring, Rosemary and Priscilla Lane, at 11, 1:42, 4:24, 7:06 and 9:48.

KEITH'S Vaudeville, on stage. with Wi Hall, at 1:30, 4, 6:50 and 9:20. sage) “Th Hoosier = Schoolboy,” on

with Mickey Rooney, at 132, 7:50 and 10:20, 7

LOEW'S

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LYRIC

“Maj. Bowes’ Second Anniversary Radio vue,” on stage, at 1:11, 3:50, Se 2% reulation” With. Pat . n Circulation,” w! a O'Brien and Joan Blondel, 2:14, 5:04, 7:5¢ and 10:23,

OHIO “Waikiki Wedding,” Qrosby. Also “Born Roche le Hudson. AMBASSADOR “Married Before Breakfast” with Robert Young. Also, “F with Larry Crabbe. sriory: River ALAMO ‘“‘Hopalong Rides Again,” with William Bo d. 0, fu ] Woman,” with William rgan. the

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‘Waikiki Wedding’ Bing Croshy also Bob BURNS—Martha RAYE

Plus! recites» Brian Donlevy

One of the first and most famous of mythical-kingdom novels, Anthony Hope's, “The Prisoner of Zenda,” has been refilmed and will be seen on Loew’s screen beginning Friday, with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. featured.

1. Miss Carroll, out of character but not out of costume, checks

with the maid on the evening’s dinner. 2. Mr. Colman is going in for

princely pleasures in a big way, and 3, Mr, Fairbanks follows in the family tradition with a swashbuckling role,

IN NEW YORK a GEORGE ROSS

Mr. Fowler, Literary World's Katzenjammer Kid,

Turns Back to First Love.

[EW YORK, Sept. 27.—Gene Fowler, not the most sedate katzenjammer kid in the literary world, has turned back to his first love,

the novel. “Salute to Yesterday,”

chance like a fireman going down the sliding pole during a threealarm. The Fourth Estate is where he hails from and of all habitats, he cherishes the city room. When his studio contract came up for renewal last month, Darryl Zanuck asked him what he thought he was worth, “$75 a week to any newspaper editor,” the blunt Fowler replied, $2500 to you.” Since he gave up chasing fire engines for the morning edition, he has waxed rich on brain work in film land. Occasionally, he was lured out by an adroit publisher to perpetuate his bizarre, literary styles within the covers of a volume. Whenever he succumbed, he usually travelled directly from Hollywood to Fire Island, a gloomy strip of land near Manhattan, and conducted a hermitage while he fulfilled his writing obligations. In a Fire Island retreat, he wrote “The Great Mouthpiece,” “Timberline,” “Father Goose” and “Salute to Yesterday.” - : Not that he is reticent or shy. By no means. When plots and unwritten pages are not preying on his mind, the Algonquin set and the boys on the lobster shift know Fowler as a quixotic prankster with the sky as a limit. Among his numerous playfellows, Ben Hecht and Charlie "McArthur probably have figured in the most brilliant exploits. ” 2 ” HERE raconteurs foregather, They still relate with admiration and awe, the Messrs. Fowler and MacArthur's coup over a trolley car. The scene was Mount Clemsens, Mich, the night was dark

and the reason both Mr. F. and Mr. M. happened to be there was that they had drifted willy-nilly

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2ND FEATURE ‘BAD GUY”

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr.

Between story conferences, Hollywood style,

he has put out

a salty fiction of the Rocky Mountain West which will be on the bookstands shortly.: off for Europe on a reportorial assignment. Fowler jumped at this journalistic ¢

Meanwhile the author has shoved

out of their desk jobs in a Chicago newspaper. . The night was dark and the trusting crew of Mount Clemens’ lone trolley had deserted their electric omnibus to warm themselves at the stove and take refreshment in a diner. They made two mistakes in doing so: (1) they didn’t - look arountl for culprits, (2) they forgot to take the motorman’s handle. . When Fowler and MacArthur happened by, the trolley stood as deserted as the Sahara. So they appropriated it. Conductor Fowler shouted “Yoicks,” pulled the bell cord twice and rang up five imaginary fares while Motorman MacArthur sped them away into the night. Halfway down the block, a female customer waited forlornly at the curb for the rattling crate that careened along the tracks. Conductor Fowler signalled “one-bell.” Motorman MacArthur brought the contraption to a frantic stop. : And the lone fare boarded, muttering as she did that trolleys

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didn’t have to be maneuvered along their route as if they were psycopathic wards. She should have known better than to squawk with those two servants of public utilities. For with little ado, Conductor Fowler accepted her nickel, showed her to the exit, calmly kicked her off, gave two bells to the motorman who signalled back and the embezzled vehicle was off. They took it as far, by the way, as the car barn,

MARTHA'S DIVORCE - TO BE QUIET, HINT

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27 (U.P.).— A quiet divorce was in prospect today for the blues singer, Martha Raye and Hamilton (Buddy) Westmore. The threatened fight lost its punch when Mr. Westmore’s elder brother, Percival, a makeup man, obtained appointment as his younger brother’s guardian on grounds

that Hamilton was a minor. As guardian, the elder brother substituted a routine reply to Miss Raye’s charges of cruelty. Miss Raye had accused her husband of slapping her a week after they eloped to Las Vegas, Nev. last May and of threatening her with a gun.

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| Lone Ranger -

Is Scheduled

For Filming

Radio Show to be Adapted for Feafure Picture, and Serials.

Times Special HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 27.— One of radio's popular shows, “The Lone Ranger,” is going into motion pictures. This announcement follows the signing of a contract with Republic Pictures. Republic will produce one full-length feature picture and 15 two-reel serials, based on the famous radio dramatization heard Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from coast to coast over the MBS network from 7:30 to 8 p. m. The feature production of “The Lone

Ranger” will be ready for dise tribution before March 1, and the shorter films will follow on reguelar schedule. Although many radio stars have been inducted into motion victures, this is one of the few occasions that a radio show has been bought

for production in the movies.

Tonight's Presentation at Your

Neighborhood Theater

NORTH SIDE

RICA A 16h & Delaware CINEMA ‘hails Beli:

“WE'RE ON THE JURY” Continuous Matinee from 1:30

42nd & College UPTOWN Double Feature . Shirley Temple “WEE WILLIE WINKIE” “SWEETHEART OF THE NAVY”

ST. CLAIR St. Cl. & Fi. Wayne

Double Feature Shirley Temple “WEE WILLIE WINKIE” “SWEETHEART OF THE NAVY”

Al D/NTT Talbott & 220 TALBOTT Westinghouse Air-Conditioned Double jean , Arthur “RIDING ON AIR” . 30th at Northwestern R = X Newly Decorated Marx Bros.

“A DAY AT THE RACES” “GIRL FROM SCOTLAND YARD”

GARRICK 30th _and_Tllinois

Double Feature Kay Francis “ANOTHER DAWN” “SILENT BARRIERS” Also Official Fight Pictures JOE LOUIS vs. TOMMY FARR Make Your Own Decision!

M E C Cc A Noble & Mass.

Double Feature Glenda Farrell “FLY AWAY BABY” “BLAZING SIXES”

S ira Hor d 19th & College

Double Feature Pat O’B SLIM “TWO WISE MAIDS”

DREAM 2361 Station St.

Double Feature Marx Bros. “A DAY AT THE RACES” “FLY AWAY BABY” -

Illinois and 34th R | T Z Double Feature : ORE BRE AKE AST ‘MARRIED BEF Cary Grant “TOPPER” 1500 Roosevelt Ave.

Rollywood messeveit ave. |

“ELEPHANT BOY Bob Burns “MOUNTAIN MUSIC”

ZARI N G Central at Fall Creek

Double Feature Marlene Deitrich “KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR” “MARRY THE GIRL”

EAST SIDE

STRAND

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1332 E. Wash. Si. First Local Neigh4 borhood Showing Marlene Deitrich—Robt. D t “KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR” “MARRIED BEFORE BREAKFAST”

1 E. Wash. Paramount to

41 Double Feature Robert Taylor “THIS IS MY AFFAIR” Bob Burns “MOUNTAIN MUSIC” 114 E. Washington Double Feature

SIN

Henry Wilcoxen “TWO WHO DARED” “THE QUITTER”

Hethousht he knew how to blush

EAST SIDE

i oa RIV OL poor Oven at oi “DANCE. CHARLIE,

Stuart Erwin DANCE” Fred MacMurray “EXCLUSIVE”

2442 E. Wash. St, TACOMA Double Feature Dick Powell “THE SINGING MARINE” “OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT” —- 4020 E. New York TUXEDO Double Feature Dick Powell “THE SINGING MARINE” Ricardo Cortez “CALIFORNIAN”

R V I N G 5507 E. Wash. St.

Double Feature ean Muir “WHITE BONDAGE” Gable-Harlow “SARATOGA” 4630 E. 10th EMERSON Double Feature Marlene Deitric “KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR” “MARRIED BEFORE BREAKFAST”

Marx Bros. “MEN IN WHITE” Dick Pow WEST SIDE Westinghouse Double Feature—Join King Double Feature “EXCLU .________“ANGEL'S HOLIDAY” Double Feature Nan Grey “MAN IN BLUE” Victor Moore Jean Harlow “SARATOGA” Double Feature “THREE SMART GIRLS Double Feature—Frank McHugh “MARRY T GIRL” Double Feature «GIRL FROM SCOTLAND YA Pros. : Double Feature “SHALL WE ORIENTAL Vatu”

GOLDEN 6116 E. Wash. St. 2116 E. 10th St. “THE SINGING MARINE” Air-Conditioned “THE ROAD “KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR” Fred MacMurray HOWAR Harlow-Gable S T A T E 2702 W. 10th St. MISSUS” SOUTH SIDE Deanna Durbin Robt. Wilcox “ARMORED CAR” H Cary Grant “TOPPER” Bob Burns “MOUNTAIN MUSIC” Astaire-Rogers 1105 S. Double Feature «CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS

Double Feature “A DAY AT THE RACES” HAMILTON ‘Bosc fetta Jack Oakie ‘SUPER SLEUTH” W. Wash. & Belmont BELMONT es . 2540 W. Mich. St. DAISY SIVE” Howard & Blaine “SARATOGA” Double Feature “MEET THE ' » 1S. East at Lincoln LINCOLN FOUNTAIN SQUARE At Fountain Square SANDERS A & Churchman AVALON Chas. Grapewin rE QUITTER” Spencer gracy FIND THE WITNESS”

But both Abner and Daisy Mae have a lot to learn—and you'll have more than a lot to laugh over in the forthcoming

sequence of—

LI'L ABNER

‘The trouble all starts on account of Abner’s being too smart. A contest proves him the brightest boy in Dogpatch County, ‘what with knowing nearly the whole alphabet and all. And with his victory goes a scholarship to college. We're not zoing tc spoil the fun of your finding out for yourself what happens next. But we will tell you that Abner finds himself not faced with collegiate duties but thrown into the midst of a host of scholastic cuties. Watch for the opening of this newest story in Al Capp'’s riotous daily strip. It starts September 29 in

~The Indianapolis Times