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Old Joke Is

Theme for

— "The Great Garrick’ to Open Tomorrow

At Lyric.

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Twenty vears a-borning, Ernst | Vajda's dramatic translation of an | ancient and amusing anecdote | comes to the screen in “The Great | Garrick,” which the Lyric will | show with its stage attraction for | the week beginning tomorrow. In case you don’t know the 4 names mentioned above, David Garrick was the famous English | actor of the middie 18th Century | whose name survives today as a legendary synonym of dramatic greatness. Mr. Vajda is the noted Hungarian playwright who brought such successes as “The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” “The Guardsman” and “Reunion in Vienna” to the screen. The germ of the present film | was found in an old book 20 years | ago. At the time Mr. Vajda decided that here was material for a | comedy. But other interests side- | tracked the idea. The playwright was a busy man. At one time he had four plays running in New | York at the same time. A few seasons later he wrote “Confession” under the pen name of Sidney Garrick, showing, perhaps, that the | central character of his proposed | work was still in his mind. | Discovered the Star [ However, wnen the author saw | Brian Aherne, the present picture's | star, in “Beloved Enemy,” he de- | cided that here was the Garrick | he had been waiting for, so without more ado, he set to work on the story According to the old story, Gar- | rick was the victim of a practical | joke. About to depart from Lon- | don for Paris. someone attributed to him the promise that he was | going over to “teach the French | how to act.” This angered the artists of the Comedie Francaise, | and they decided to get even. When Garrick arrived at a | French inn en route to the capital, | he was given a frightful reception. | But the English actor recognized | too many theatrical mannerisms to | be deceived. He played right back | at the French actors turned inn- | keepers, waiters, chefs, maids, sta- | ble boys and what-not. And in the picture Mr. Vajda in- | troduces a lovely young lady | (Olivia de Havilland) whom the actor mistakes for one of the | troupe. The fact that he is acting | and she isn’t gives rise to a situa-'! tion which has been compared to | the famous and amusing tangle in | “The Guardsman.”

Opening Today

“LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN”—Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, Mickey Rooney. Directed by George Fitzmaurice; from a story by Marion Parsonnet. Story—Unknown, penniless young painter marries socialite. Fight with sailors in park makes artist front page news, sells his pictures. Success inflates his ego, all but wrecks marriage. Timely awakening saves situation.

“IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD” —Richard Dix, Fay Wray. Story by Myles Connolly; directed by Harry Lachman. Story—Cowboy star of silent pictures loses job with advent of sound. When youthful admirer, a crippled boy, comes to Hollywood to see his favorite, star puts on show with help of friends. Crippled boy falls from horse, is injured. To pay hospital expenses former star tries to rob bank. Instead he catches bandits, becomes hero.

Openina

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“Amorrow

Circle

“FIGHT FOR YOUR LADY”—John Boles, Jack Oakie, Ida Lupino, Margot Grahame. Story by Jean Negulseco and Isabel Leighton; directed by Ben Stoloff. Story—About a prize fighter's manager who takes a baritone under his wing and tries to accommodate him when, disappointed in love, he wishes to die. He introduces the singer to a young lady in Budapest with a jealous suitor. When the singer is about to be killed in a duel, exfight manager saves day by impersonating singer's mother,

“THE WESTLAND CASE”—Preston Foster, Carol Hughes, Barbara Pepper, Frank Jenks. From a novel by Jonathan Latimer; directed by Christy Cabanne. Story—A detective solves another “perfect crime” in which all doors and windows are locked from the inside in the apartment where the murder was committed.

Indiana

“ANGEL”—Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton. Directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch; adapted from the European stage success by Melchior Lengyel. Story—Wife of dull but affectionate British statesman has brief romantic interlude with young man who knows her only as “Angel.” Later husband and same young man become good friends. Latter tells of fascinating “Angel,” and arouses husband's curiosity. Climax comes when husband surprises wife and friend in Paris, wins her

back by courageous lie.

Benny Baker.

“THE MAN

ity to convince authorities of his

is charged.

imitations.

“THE GREAT GARRICK”

Ernst Vajda.

an inn where Garrick is to stop.

VAUDEVILLE Choice”; Saul Grauman and Co.,

“HOLD EM NAVY”—Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, John Howard, Directed by Kurt Neumann. Story—-About the rivalry of two young men for a girl and the first-string quarterback position at the U. S. Naval Academy.

Keith's WHO CRIED WOLF” Barbara Read, Tom Brown. Directed by Lewis R. Foster.

Story—A murder mystery concerning an actor who feigns insan-

VAUDEVILLE (on stage) —Five Swing Girls; Fitch B. Cooper, “musical rube”; Jack and Leo, songs and dances; “The Girl on the Pedestal,” contortion act; Jordan Trio, skaters; Mickey Haggerty,

Lyric

(on screen) —Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Lionel Atwill. James Whale and supervised by Mervyn LeRoy; screen play by

Story-—Based on a supposedly true incident in the life of David Garrick, famous 18th Century English actor. sulted the French theater in a farewell sperch in London, members of the Comedie Francaise determine on vengeance. of their terrifying reception with amusing results. (on stage) —“Senator

dienne; Shanghai Wing Troupe; Ross and Bennett.

(on screen) —Lewis Stone,

guilt in crime with which his son

Directed by

Garrick, having in-

They take over The actor sees through the ruse

Murphy, the People’s dancers; Harriet Hutchins, come-

IN NEW YORK —sy ctorae ross

Al Smith Reaches New

Heights of Success as

Empire State Spieler.

EW YORK, Nov. 4 —Alfred E. Smith, as president of the Empire State Building Corp., has | shown so many notables the remarkable vista of New York stretch- | ing away hundreds of feet under his observatory on the 102d floor | that observers now note a tone of the spieler in his remarks. This was plainest the day when | he showed Vittorio Mussolini, son of | I1 Duce, about. As they walked | about the platform and Vittorio gasped politely, Smith waved one arm toward the New Jersey shore. “Now on this side,” he declaimed, “we have—." Someone snickered and cleared his throat. When Smith | continued, it was in a lower and more personal tone, Incidentally, the only night club excursion the younger Mussolini made in New York was to the new, | elaborate International Casino. The | Italian dictator's son arrived with | nine bodyguards in tow and a cowed | and awed management hardly knew | where to begin. | The large party sat down at a favored table and a corps of head- | waiters fawned, after sending to the | chef for the finest viands in the house. The distinguished visitor ! overheard these commands to the Kitchen | “Just bring me,” Le said to an interpreter who relayed it to a table captain, “a plate of spaghetti.” » n » ONGWRITER Larry Hart's maid who goes informally by the name of “Big Mary,” is a celebrated figure among. celebrities. George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart found her the inspiration for Rheba, the maid, in “You Can't Take It With You,” ‘and it is =a legend that she once put down Josephine Baker in such a barrage of words that the ex-belle of Harlem fled to Paris. Well, a couple of weeks ago, “Big Mary” was interviewed about her

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known at Larry Hart's apartment and the next day she was offered a stage contract for a week's appearance in a Harlem playhouse. She turned it down. » n " NE of the curious exposures made in the recent political campaign hereabouts is that Hyman Scharenstein, Commissioner of Records in Brooklyn—a Tammany ally —has been alleged to be unable to read or write. At least it seemed so when the Commissioner of Accounts examined him in one of the many investigations inspired by Mayor La Guardia. Hyman said “little” whereupon he was asked whether he could spell his name. “Certainly.” he snapped, but when the inquisitor asked him to prove it, this is what he turned in: “h=s-t-c=t=e-i-n.” La Guardia made a transcript of the questioning available as part

| of his campaign for re-election.

This of his epic sweep

edifice reared

is part the shaky Tammany Hall. " Ww Ww ERMAN HYDE is a low comic at the colossal cabaret, the French Casino. His act consists of hisarious pa.tomime and a dozen dizzy props, such as a cello that

— HATES CINE, ENGLISH'S “AFTERNSON COSSACKS

COMING SERGE JAROFF, Conductor

ONLY APPEARANCE NEW PROGRAM A Don Cossack Concert is a Thrilling Experience—Once Heard is Never Forgotten POPULAR PRICES: GOOD SEATS $1.10, $1.65, $2.20. Tax Inel, SEATS ON SALE MARTENS OFFICE, ROOM 201 33 MONUMENT CIRCLE

dealings with the mighty and well-

LAST TIMES TODAY—BLACKSTONE

KEITH

ON ke STAGE BIG NEW VAUDEVILLE ACTS

Topped By The FIVE SWING GIRLS

Novel Dance Innovations

Fitch Cooper | Jack and

Musical Rube | oN

The Girl

Acme of Contortion Artistry

Jordan Trio | Mickey Haggerty

Skato- | Character maniacs | Delineator

REMEMRER THE PR "”

4 EN.

Two Cronies

Pedestal

IR | LEWIS STONE

AND HISSHOW OF 1001 WONDERS STARTS

FRIDAY

QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY AT BARGAIN PRICES

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CITY SHOWING

“THE MAN WHO CRIED WOLF”

Tense Action Drama With

BARBARA READ TOM BROWN

Plus Diversified Short Subjects

he could read a |

Lyle an egg, a violin that spawns a moth when it is being used to

| i play “The Moth and the Flame”

and a selection of other maniacal items. But low comedy is not first love. He spends all day in portrait painting and he is good

» ‘ yg . ” enough to have earned various ex- horse, jade king. ‘ | hibitions. He once gave up clown- | Posed the divorce suit.

| ing for a year to study in the mu|seums of Europe and he spends | the daylight of week-ends in the country, grasping the landscapes in oils. Every two years, he gathers the money he saves from his stage work, goes with his wife to a distant, sunny climate and resumes his career with brush and easel.

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| men on Junior Day.

Talent Hunt To Begin at Film House

Fountain Square Theater Is to Present Stage Show.

A new search for screen and radio performers will be instituted tonight when the Fountain Square | Theater's first “Talent Night” pro- | gram will be presented from the | stage. Universal

Productions Co.

have been

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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rep- | interview- |

ing aspirants for some weeks, and | six of their selections will be heard |

| resentatives |

| on the first program. They are | “The Hoosier Hill Billies”;, a | youngster who calls himself “Bo-

{ Jingles”; Clifford Wissing,

Jane |

| Ault, Peggy Dean Schaefer, Dickie |

| Humphries and the “Hessler Kids.” This is the first of a series of which will be continued until further notice. All | must have auditions before they ap- | pear on the programs. | ditions are to be held at | ater between 1 and 4 p. m. | Saturday. There will be representatives | eight potential radio sponsors | tonight's audience, Barl | ham, Fountain Square manager, said today. In addition to the stage at- | traction, there will be the regu- | larly scheduled double-feature bill,

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consisting of “Midnight Madonna,” | featuring Warren William, and | Gene Autrey in “Guns and | Guitars.”

Local Student Show Composer

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Composer of the music used in the recent production of “Fresh- | man Show,” enacted by the stu-| dents of Rockford College, Rock- | ford, Ill, was Miss Jeanette Tark- | ington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | Elvan Y. Tarkington, 3024 Ruckle | St. In addition, Miss Tarkington was one of two in her class elected by the juniors to represent the freshMiss Tarking-

(ton is a freshman, having won an |

art scholarship while a pupil

at Shortridge High School last year.

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DIVORCE IS ERROR, | ACTRESS RELATES

HOLLYWOOD, Nov, 4 (U. P.) .—| Hala Linda, red-haired Scandina- | vian actress, said today she and | her husband, Richard B. Gump, were living together at the time her lawyer obtained the actress a final divorce decree without her knowledge. She testified in a depo-

Hyde's | Sition supporting a suit to void the

divorce. Mr. Gump is the son of Abraham Levinston, the San Fran- | Mr. Gump op-

Ernestine and Joe Carlile and Capable Assistants

Carlile Dance Studios

“Indianapolis’ most ponular school of the dance.”

Tap, Toe, Dancing, Advanced.

22% N. Pennsylvania St.

Acrobatic, and Ballroom Children, Adults, Beginners,

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participants |

regular Thursday “Talent Nights” |

These au- | the the- | each |

of |

Cunning- |

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‘LIVE AND LOVE' FLOORS TRIO

| to take Director Eddie Sutherland’s

Floored by the latest turn in events are Robert Montgomery, Robert Benchley and Rosalind Russell, the principals of Loew's new picture,

“Live, Love and Learn.”

| hat-checker roles.

He hired them, Luna Hilton and Millicent Miller.

NOTICE To Contestants

The Times Seek-a-Star Silhouette Contest ends Saturday, Nov. 6. Al must be delivered Silhouette Contest Editor, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland St., by & p. m.

C3 vaturaay.

answers to The

HAT, COAT GETS 2 MOVIE ROLES |

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4 (U. P).— | Two checkroom girls who happened |

Starting Tomorrow

AND HIS ORCHESTRA

Special Armistice Dance

hat and coat at a cafe on just the | ] Next Thurs, Nov, 11

right night were in the movies today. Sutherland remembered that next | day he needed two pretty girls in |

Roaring Melodrama of the Air! “BE

the MIKE”

with WILLIAM GARGAN

ERIS

HEIDI

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Fabien Sevitzky, Musical Director and Cond.

Opening Concerts Nov. 19-20

Program: Brahms——Dubensky——Strauss—Weber 10 Concerts: 7.50, 10.00, 15.00, 18.50, 22.50 ) MURAT

| Concert: 1.00, 1.50, 2.00, 2.50, 3.00 ) THEATER

Last Day! Hurry!

EDDIE CANTOR in “ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN" Plus “DANGEROUSLY YOURS"

him! -e

ADOLPH ZUKOR PRESENTS

Marlene Dietrich

LJ on ANGEL

Ernst Lubitsch Herbert Marshall

Melvyn Douglas

Ernest Cossart A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

Officers Named ACTRESS NIXON

THURSDAY, NOV. 4, 1937

| presigent. and H. H. Johnson, fifth -

| ROBBED OF $4500

| The Associated Theater Owners | | of Indiana have begun their new year under the officers appointed | by their recently elected board of | directors yesterday. | The new officers are: Maurice | Rubin, Michigan City, president; | I. R. Holycross, Anderson, first vice | president; Frank B. Sanders, Indianapolis, treasurer; H. Lisle | Kreighbaum, first district vice | president; Leonard Sowar, second | district vice president, Harry Mar- { kun, third district vice president;

Marian Nixon, actress, lost a mink coat, $1500 wrist watch,

of $4500 when

is the wife of William A.

movie director,

“SING

PINKY MLIN Walter Connolly Irene Hervey

“League of

WHILE YOUR ABLE"

Frightened Men”

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4 (U, P) = $2500 and other belongings to the total value a burglar scaled a high wall and looted her home. She Seiter,

| Roy Harrold, fourth district vice

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TAG ALONG WITH THIS MAD, MERRY TRIO . . .

wh . Y

For lickety-split, uproarious fun ... as two gay moderns (and Ossified Oscar) bounce from love and watered soup in a Bohemian attic to hisses and champagne breakfasts in a Park Avenue penthouse!

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