Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1937 — Page 28

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Benchley Unique as

Comedian

Lacks Stock Mannerisms But Proves Worth in ‘Live and Learn.’

By JAMES THRASHER

Thanks to “Live, Love and Learn,” now at Loew's, we have an opportunity to study in some detail that delightful entertainment enon known as Robert Benchley. Mr. actor. He doesn’t look overly funny. He has no stock mannerisms and his dialog is not of the sparkling fool-proof variety. Yet, somehow, he succeeds in being one of the most refreshing, amusing gentlemen before the camera today. Mavbe the deadly double-feature may be thanked for Mr. Benchley's appearance in this present role. The actor-humorist made a few shorts for M-G-M. They were devastatingly funny. But they didn't sell so well, because there's no room for shorts on a bill that includes two features. So Mr. Benchley's employers finally have given him more than a “bit” in this production. And. unless he walks out on Hollywood, we are sure to see more of him. His Name Is Oscar

In “Live, Love and Learn,” Mr. Benchley plays Oscar, the impoverished gentleman whom Bob (Robert Montgomery) and Julie (Rosalind Russell) have “adopted” soon

phenom- |

Benchley is not primarily an

after their marriage. Bob is one of those struggling Greenwich Village artists. Julie is | a rich girl, fed up with the arti-| ficiality of her own circle, who wants | to find something genuine and “get | away from it all.” She certainly | does. Between faites attempts to | sell his pictures, Bob lives by bluffing the grocer out of enough food to tie | soul and body together. One day Bob is painting in the park and gets embroiled in a fight | between the Navy and the Marine | Corps regarding the artistic worth | of his endeavors. He also gets on the front pages of the papers. Now | Bob, being an unaffected person, | doesn't want publicity. But the press comes, singly and by twos and threes, representing itself as art dealers. In the midst of all this | comes one Mr. Bawltitude. He is a | real art dealer. After Bob and Oscar | have doused him with water, snipped his cravat and suspender buttons and tried to pull his beard off, they discover this. {

Art Before Person

Mr. Bawltitude, however, is a true art lover. Despite his reception, he feels that Bob has the gift, and launches him on a career. From here on in the picture fol- | lows the well worn path of en | stand-success stories. Bob gets rich and lazy and loses his inspiration. | Julie almost divorces him. But all | ends well, thanks in no small part | to Oscar's benign and understand- | in. ministrations. The first two-thirds of this film are a superlative sort of fun, so that you really shouldn't care that things bog down a trifle toward the rol And even when the plot slows downs to a walk, Mr. Benchley | comes popping on the scene and evervthing is all right again. Both | Mr. Montgomery and Miss Russell give their excellent best in holding | up a trio of amusing performances. “Live, Love and Learn” is good enough, in fact, to lead me to believe that some of our coming crop of comedies may be transferred to the vicinity of Washington Square, thereby giving the city rooms back to the newspapers. That will be something in itself.

FINISHES FILM WORK

Johnny Green, radio orchestra leader, has finished his movie work | and is in New Work dickering for a new air series.

KATE PREFERS APRON

Kate Smith always wears a white apron to her radio rehearsals. She says it's clean, convenient and com-

| Arthur

fortable.

'ALI BABA

IS TO STAY IN TOWN

“Ali Baba Goes to Town” for beginning today, when the

picture moves from the Indiana

the second week new

The star, Eddie Cantor to the Apollo.

who was recently feted on his 25th birthday anniversary as a showman, is shown above with Roland Young,

Critic Does | Double Duty

Gets Ride From Editor Loesser. |

| |

CLEVELAND, Nov. § (U. P.).— Loesser is a well-known Cleveland pianist. Arthur Loesser also is music editor of the Oleveland Press. Today, Press readers were | astounded to see two pictures of Mr. | Loesser, facing each other, with al

Pianist Loesser

| news story of a last night Loesser |

recital betwixt. The story was Critic Loesser tak{ing Musician Loesser for a hard | ride over the bumps. “Mr. Loesser seems to have ween | bitten by the irritating bug of want- | ing to do something far- fetched | every time he plays; his program | consisted of a lot of obscure music | ' Mr. Loesser wrote. | playing half-forgotten comhe prevents his sharpcared musical colleagues from checking up on him in case he| should pull any boners or make any | embarrassing messes. “The Scaclatti pieces were not| badly done, chiefly because their | atmosphere of refined wise-cracking | is congenial with Mr. Loesser’s personality. “Before playing the pretentious Clementi sonata, Mr. Loesser succumbed once again to his favorite vice, that of listening to the sound

of his own voice . . . “Possibly a few people in the

« “By positions

| audience really enjoyed the program

and a great many more did a convincing job of pretending.” n

GARBER GOES 'SWING'

Jan Garber's band, long patterned after Lombardo’s smoothies, swings

to swing for its engagement at the |

Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles where Benny Goodman is King.

ROBERT

ROSALIND 11913 i ow BENCHLY

PLUS!

RICHARD DIX

“IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD’

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO

“Ali Baba Goes to Town.” with Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Roland HAN and heii Lang, at 11:03, 1:49, 5 10

7:23 “Dangerousiy Yours,” with Cesar Romero i] Svilis Brooks, at 12:46,

3:33, 6.20 CIRCLE

“Fight For Your Lady,” with John Boles, Jack Oakie and, Ta Lupino, at 12:03, 2:43, 5:23. 8:0 0:43. “The Westland Case, » wi Preston Foster Wo Carol Hughes, at 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7. 9:40

INDIANA

“Angel,” with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas and Edward Everett Horton, at 12:39, 3: 47. 6: 55, 10:03. “Hold 'em Navy,” with Lew Avres and Siary Carlisle, at 11:36, 2:44,

KEITH'S 9:1 Yudeville on stage at 1:30, 4, 6:50,

"ine Man Whe Cried Wolf,” with Lewis Stone, Barbara Read and Dn Brown, at 12, 2:30, 5, 7:50,

LOEW'S

“Live, Love and Learn,” with Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell 520. 8 ROBE, Benchley, at 12:10, 2:45, “NK Ss pened in Hollywood,” with Richard Dix and Pay Wray, at 11, 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20.

LYRIC

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OHIO

“Public Wedding,” with Jane Wy. man and William Hopper. Also “Hills of Old Wyoming,” with William Boyd and George Haves.

AMBASSADOR

“Thin Jee,” with Sonja Henle and Tyrone Power. Also ‘‘Confession,” with Kay Francis.

ALAMO

“Wild Money,” with Edward Everett Horton. Also “Small Town Boy,” with Stuart Erwin.

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Labor Heads Dislike Show

| Cohar's New lew Deal Satire Is Attack Target. Times Kpecial

WASHINGTON, labor leaders are

Nov. 5.—Some not joining in the Broadway

Deal. The United Mine Workers Journal, regarded as a spokesman for John L. Lewis of the C. I. O. reprints with approval the following from “Labor,” magazine of the railway brotherhoods: “George M. Cohan is out with a new comedy guaranteed to win the applause of every true-blue Liberty Leaguer. It's entitled ‘I'd Rather Be Right,’ and satirizes President Roosevelt, Frances Perkins and other leaders of the New Deal. “This is the same Cohan who, back in 1919, right after the World War, tried to destroy Bquity, the actors’ union, then in its infancy. As we recall it, he said he would rather quit the show business than recognize the thespians’ right to organize. The Mine Workers Journal comments that “George's lack of good taste is probably excused on the grounds that he ‘needs the money.’ ”

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FRIDAY, NOV. 5, 1937

To View Movie on Radium

Tonight Indiana University medical students will go to the movies for their weekly seminar. Or, more accurately, the movies will come to them. For the seminar period is to be devoted to a view and discussion of Pete Smith's M-G-M short subject, “The Romance of Radium.” Preparation for filming this un-# usual Piciire was Jong and Fiape that made them look like someorate. ought it is shown in alle? minutes, 10 months were devoted to {thing out of H. G. Wells’ more the preliminaries. Since this min-| imaginative movies. eral is one of the most dangerous| Suits and hoods were made of substances known, it was necessary | lead and wool, hoods were lined that every emergency be prepared | with pure lead. The camera likefor before the cameras started|wise was put in a lead sheath with a special glass panel. When all this Smith and his| was done, it was discovered that

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this Jekyll and Hyde of the scien-| jects clearly when subjected to

| have dubbed the “Modern Voltaire of France,” sat down and wrote his own version of Aeschylus’ show. He didn't want any misunderstanding nor any suits for plagarism. So he named the script “Amphitryon 38” to indicate where he came in. Then S. N. Behrman, one of America's

most distinguished playwrights, came upon Giraudoux's play in French and readapted it for the American stage. Which gives the play quite a n checkered history.

Make It Gin

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 5 (U. P.).— Hollywood heard annoyed protests from the bourbon whisky distillers today that the movies invariably have their actors ask for “Scotch, please,” whenever a drink is poured in a picture. This, the distillers say, gives the Scotch whiskey makers free publicity at the expense of American - manufactured bourbon. They say the actors || [——— should answer, “Bourbon, if you please,” or at least give them an even break with, “Whisky and soda, please.” Bourbon distillers were reported to be preparing to send a representative to Hollywood to lobby for their cause.

tific world. They interviewed many | radium emanations. That gave a

doctors and physicists. They took| job to J. M. Nicholaus, who not out blanket insurance on all work- | only perfected a film to withstand ers connected with the film, and in-| the radium rays, but which also sured the radium itself for $250,000 contained a preservative to keep the with Lloyds of London. | first pictures of radium intact. Then the real work began. The | Though radium has cost many

radium workers not only handled |lives in the process of its develop-|"

the potent mineral with gloves, but ment, there were no injuries conwore fantistic protective costumes| nected with its screen debut.

IN NEW YORK —s8y ceorce ross

Broadway Welcomes Two Hits; Morgenthau

Joins Citizens in Enjoying New Deal Farce.

EW YORK, Nov. 5—THE STAGE What Broadway has been | waiting for these many languid moons, has happened. George M. Cohan has come to us as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the boldest public satire of the century, “I'd Rather Be Right,” written by those Katzenjammer Kids of drama, the Messrs. Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. ® And Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne have started kicking up a | for example, Mr. Cohan as F. D. R. half-celestial, half-earthly rumpus| feels a chat coming on, his secrein “Amphitryon 38,” the comedy|tary, Marvin McIntyre, always has

Aeschylus, that facile Greek, in-| 5 portable fireplace handy; and if

vented— Ss iy the first bedroom farce on the White House butler, a certain

The respective premieres of both | Alf Landon of Kansas, isn’t helpful colossal occasions were events that|in balancing the budget, Postmaster will linger long within active mem- | General James A. Farley shows the ories. That moment which grew | path right out of the mess by makinto minutes of applause when Mr. | Cohan made his entrance in “Td | Rather Be Right” will not be for-| gotten quickly among the theater's first-night parishioners. That pro- | longed reluctance of the audience] at the Lunts’ show to leave the theater until the stars attempted a curtain speech almost grew into | an all-night sit-down strike. And | that, too, will be remembered when | this season will be read about in| books.

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