Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1937 — Page 16
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TUESDAY, NOV. 16, 1937
ACTRESS LUPE LETS
PUBLIC
IN ON HER MIMICRY BY PRESENTING HERSELF AS FOUR OTHER MOVIE STARS
Jooss Europe
an Ballet
Gives Vivid Performance For Enthusiastic Throng
Dancers Able to Portray Aftermath in Sequel
Group Has No '
By JAMES THRASHER
For the second time in as ma packed English’'s to welcome and a which last evening offered a highly number on the Martens Concerts® subscription list. There was less surprise and, perhaps, greater enjoyment in seeing this group for a second time. Their distinctive approach to the venerable art of the dance was deployed throughout a program which consisted of a comic ballet, “The Seven Heroes,” based on one of the Grimm fairy tales; a short and effective interpretation of Ravel's familiar “Pavane”; a repetition of their delightful “Ball in Old Vienna” from last season's performance, and “The Mirror,” Mr. Jooss’ sequel to his terpsichorean treatise on the folly of war, “The Green Table.” In “The Mirror” are found all the arresting qualities that make this group unique among practicioners of their art. The dance tells of war's aftermath; of the return to civilian life of the Gentleman of Leisure, the Middle-Class Man and | the Laborer. War has kindled an unrest in all three of them, and though they return to their former ways of life, there is, in the end, a social upheaval which restores the three comrades to a common search for an ideal existence.
Need Little Explanation
All this is set down in the program. Yet little explanation is necessary, For so vivid is the dancers’ portrayal that the story is | told as ciearly as though it were in words instead of movement,
It might be better if Mr. Jooss called his corps “dancing actors” or some such distinguishing title. For, to them, the movements of the dance are only an underlying technique. This technique is treated as it should be in serious art, as a way of expressing freely an emotional meaning. Nowhere except in the classic ballet—unless, maybe the opera—is technical display glorified for itself alone. The prima donna or premiere danseuse, given an exciting technique, can indulge in artistic liberties. The public accepts them while, if they were tried by a pianist or orchestra conductor, this same public would boo them off the stage,
Effecting Revolution
We find the Jooss dancers, then, asking no more quarter than do a company of actors or a string quartet. Who would believe that a dancer could make clear the MiddleClass Man's despair of his fellow creatures’ complacent way of living; or that six other dancers, with simple movement and pantomine, could express eloquently the tragedy of the unemployed?
But all this was done, as last night's audience can testify. It is
ACTRESS "BALD"; SUES BEAUTICIANS
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 16 (U. P).—| Shirley White, film dancer, charged
in a $1762 damage suit against a Hollywood beauty shop today that she became “virtually bald” after having her hair changed from brunet to blond. As a result, she charged, she lost 15 days’ work and had te buy a wig.
BOWLING MISHAP
Ann Rutherford, sprained her thumb the other night. Forgot to remove it from the hole in the ball wnile bowling.
Carl (Deacon) Moore | AND HIS
ORCHESTRA |
TONIGHT | | | 3
man told as much of the fiddle’s
Clearly Story of War's to 'Green Table’; | Star System.’
ny seasons, an enthusiastic throng pplaud the Jooss European Ballet, stimulating program as the second
not too much to say that Mr. Jooss is effecting a revolution in the world of ballet quite comparable to Wagner's reform of the opera. The choreography of “The Mirror” makes up for its lack of “The Green Table’s” purely emotional excitement. There is a wealth of contrapuntal movement, of shifting rhythms, highlighted “themes,” contrasts of color. One may hear a cry of “treason” on all sides if he voices an opinion tha. the Jooss ballet surpasses the Russian branch of the art, with all its sacred tradition and technical polish. It is true that many canons are violated. Mr. Jooss’ style is eclectic. He has taken what he wished from all styles, ancient and modem. Anc. with the resulting technique, he has raised his choreography from the dubious value of a narrative to an authentic art form. There is no “star system” in this | group. Therefore it is idle to go | searching for outstanding dancers. | Ye’ Elsa Kahl's dancing and mim- | ing in “The Mirror” cannot be * passed by without a special word of | praise. | Once more the performance bene- | fited by the arrangements by Fritz | Cohen of the music of Purcell and Lanner for the earlier dances, and | by his potent and perfectly synchronized score for “The Mirror.”
Having convulsed Hollywood parties for years with imitations of & her colleagues, Lupe Velez finally has consented to let the world in on |
her talent for mimicry.
From left to right you see Miss Velez—if you haven't guessed them already—as Simone Simon, Dolores Del Rio, Shirley Temple and Kath-
arine Hepburn,
IN NEW YORK —s8y croret ross
Odets' ‘Golden Boy" Satisfies Anxious Majority; Playwrights Do Odd Things Opening Night.
EW YORK, Nov. 16.—The Stage:
Ever since Clifford Odets, the the-
ater’s white hope, succumbed to Hollywood, Broadway has been
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awaiting his new play. Had the movies tarnished his | talent? Corrupted his social point | of view? Made him a Mammon worshipper? And diverted his dramaturgic eye to the eventual
scenario? Broadway had been asking these questions a long time until Odets came along with a new drama, entitled “Golden Boy.”
It is a play he announced that he would write, even while he toiled in Hollywood's jute mill. It is said to be based on the life of Lou Ambers, erstwhile lightweight champion of the world; and it is the story of how a sensitive young fellow must sacrifice his hands from the violin for the callous trade of pugilism, because of the unbalanced social structure. Those questions that Broadway asked about Odets were satisfactorily answered by “Golden Boy.” He neither had succumbed to Hollywood nor had his talent been tarnished by his stay out there. But that did not assure his play of a universally enthusiastic reception. Those who greeted it with praise, spoke in the most flattering terms. Those who did not care for “Golden Boy,” disparaged it in no uncertain words. The majority vote, nevertheless, was un ‘Golden Boy's” side. It is being acted now in the late David Belasco’s ornate playhouse by the Group Theater, where Odets had his artistic start, and its chief protagonists are Luther Adler and Frances Farmer—she of the films. Miss Farmer, who is lovely to look at and blond, fared
Rubinoff Play
Aid's Promise to Press
The press was invited to meet Rubinoff at 3 p. m. in the Claypool. William Green, the violinist's representative, said that if the press would come, he'd promise that “the Maestro” wouldn’t play.
s, Despite
Mr. Rubinoff arrived at 5 p. m. and he immediately started in to give the assembled guests an informal recital. But no one objected, for Mr. Rubinoff is, as one of the guests put it, “vlenty tough on that fiddle.” What really started the recital was Harry Haseman. Mr. Haseman 15 a young man who lives in Linton and who owns an old violin. He had read that Mr. Rubino sometimes inspects old fiddles and passes cn their authenticity. So when he read that the famous radio violinist was in the vicinity, he wrapped the violin in a paper sack and hitchhiked to Indianapolis.
Waits Five Hours
He arrived at noon yesterday, af:er three and a half hours on the road. The next five hours were spent in trying to see Rubinoff. While he was waiting, Mr. Hase-
history as he knew. There is a record of it in the family Bible showing that the Cruises (his mother’s people) have owned it for 100 years. The Cruises came from Germany to Massachusetts, and to Indiana by way of Tennessee and Kentucky. Mr, Haseman’s grandfather, the first of the family borm in this state, was the last one to play the instrument. He knew more than 100 “hoe-down tunes, his grandson said. Young Mr. Hasemen doesn’t play himself. He's a termite exterminator by trade. But he's proud of the family violin—recently refused to sell it for $150.
; So when Mr. Rubinoff finally
arrived at his party, Mr. Green told him that there was a young man waiting to show him a violin. It wasn’t much of an instrument to look at. One string was missing, the bridge was resting under the tail piece, and the body was badly scratched and cracked. But Mr. Rubinoff looked at it with a practiced eye and said, “That's a good looking fiddle.” He tonk his own bow, tuned up the three strings and drew some good sounding music from it. “So you hitch-hiked up here?” the violinist inquired. “Well, we'll fix| that up. I'll buy the fiddle from] you.” He did, too.
‘Got This For Nothing’
Then he played his own Stradivarius. The short program was devoted to Rubinoff compositions There was a “Tango Tzigane,” which the composer said Fritz Kreisler has promised to feature. Then came “Banjo Eyes,” dedicated to Eddie Cantor's 25th anniversary as a showman—*though it must really be 50,” the violinist added. After this were two popular tunes.
There were a couple of timid “bravos” and a polite smattering of applause after each number. “Don’t go crazy,” remarked Mr. Rubinoff, with a trace of wounded artistic dignity. “Remember, you're getting this for nothing.”
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far worse than Odets in the general consensus, ” EJ »
PEAKING of plays and First Nights, it long has been a matter of wonder as to what playwrights do while their brain children are aborning. Well, investigation reveals this much: Odets generally stands in the back of the darkened orchestra, leans against a side wall and hopes for the best. Moss Hart wanders around the whole theater. seeking encouragement from the audience and shushes people who whisper. S. N. Behrman attends his own premieres with a party of friends and sits quietly among the paying guests. Richard Rodgers takes in his own shows calmly with his wife. But his partner, Lorenz Hart, is another floor-pacer. Jed Harris declines to attend his own opening nights. When a Maxwell Anderson show opens up the author remains by his fireside in the country or patronizes a neighborhood movie. Mare Connelly goes home after the final rehearsal, switches to formal clothes, goes to a palatial place for a patrician dinner and then proceeds to the theater where he stands in the back. The most unruffled of them all is George Abbott, who visits his own premieres as if they belonged to someone else. ” = n BOUT that young lady, Joy Hodges, who has within a fortnight burst upon the scene as the romantic ingenue in the smash hit, “I'd Rather Be Right,” as one of the stars in a current talkie and who has become the darling of the various broadcasting sponsors. She
lis a lissome-figured lady, brunet,
in her early 20's and hails from Des Moines, where she attended dancing school. She made her way into the movies via a dance orchestra with which she sang. Moss Hart discovered her for his musical lampoon while listening to a broadcast in Hollywood one night. Her true name is not Joy. She says that she changed it to Joy when a numerologist told her that 1937 would be the luckiest year of her life.
” ORE frequently than they would prefer, department stores discover that someone has walked off with a trifle here and there, having evaded the vigilance of the house detectives. But when one of those giant
' shops suddenly finds itself unable | to account for a canoe missing from
stock, that constitutes news among the most ambitious of shoplifters. That is exactly what happened to one of the behemoth stores recently. This is how detectives decided it was done:
Two fellows, in work
attired
| clothing, wandered into the sport-
ing goods department, casually picked up a light-craft canoe and nonchalantly bore it on their shoulders to the freight door. They were hardly questioned; when the elevator runner asked them where they were taking the canoe, they responded that it was on its way to the advertising office, to be photographed. Thence to the street where a waiting truck bore it to an unknown destination, sans sales
THE SHOW OF SHOWS!
TOMORROW!
Children’s Group Sets Ballet Date
Strawbridge Fairy Tale for Nov. 27 Show.
Selects
Edwin Strawbridge, dancer, will return with his company to present another narrative-ballet, “The Princess and the Swineherd,” in Caleb Mills Hall Nov. 27. The appearance is sponsored by the Children’s Civic Theater. The Children’s Theater last year presented Mr. Strawbridge and his company in “Pinocchio” at the Murat. For his coming production, Mr. Strawbridge has selected the famous Hans Christian Andersen story of the same title. Frances Farnsworth will dance and mime the part of the Princess, while Mr. Strawbrige will have the other title part. Princess Constance Pignatelli has written the narrative for the dance performance, and the narrator will be Ianni Carvel. The musical score has been compiled from Norwegian folk music, compositions by Grieg and lighter music of Beethoven by St. Moritz von Bomhard, of the Juillard School of Music faculty. The costumes were designed by Elizabeth Parsons. Tickets for this performance may be obtained at the Civic Theater, according to Mrs. John G. Kinghan, the Children’s Theater committee chairman.
‘Chan’ No Match For Real Sleuth
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 16 (U, P.).— Charlie Chan, invincible Chinese detective of the movies, is no match for a small-town sleuth in real life, it developed today. Warner Oland, who plays the Chan roles, was ordered to pay his wife $2760 temporary alimony. A deputy sheriff trying to serve the order recalled that Oland dodged a previous order a long time by staying away from Hollywood. So the deputy sheriff tried first in Carpinteria, Cal, and found Oland'’s car. To fool the chauffeur, he pretended to lose the car, but actually followed it to a small cottage where he found the actor sun bathing. Oland, an imperturbably smiling Oriental on the screen, was surly in real life, the deputy reported,
GABLE REPORTS THEFT OF GUN
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Uncivilized,” with Dennis Hoe ahd, Margot Rhys, at 12:54, 3:57,
“She Asked for It,” with Willlam Gargan, Orien Hayward and Vivisane Osborne, at 11:45, 2:48, 5:51, 8:54,
CIRCLE
“The Barrier,” with Leo Carillo, geal Parker and James Ellison, at
12:4 Night Club Scandal, » with John Barrymore, Lyn Overman nd Louise Campbell, Rt 11:30, 2:40, 2) 30,
CIVIC "Night of January 16.,”—Curtain
INDIANA
“Second Honeymoon,” with Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Stuart Erwin and Bat jorie Weaver, at 12:59, 4: 7:07, 10:11 “45 Fathers,” with Jane Withers, Thomas Beck and Louisé Henry, at 11:48, 2:52, 5:56, 9.
KEITH'S
Barney Rapp and His New E landers x stage at 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:20. “Wallaby Jim of the Islands,” with George Houston and Ruth Coleman, at 12, 2:30, 5, 7:50 10:20.
LOEW'S
“Conquest,” with Greta Garbo Charles Boyer and Reginald Owen, at 12:10, 3:30, 6:45 and 10 “It's A Yours,” with Madeleine Carroll, Francis Lederer and Mischa Auer, at 10:45, 2, 5:20 and 8:40.
LYRIC "Hellywood Band Wagon” on stage at 1:05, 3:5 : 9:35. “Alcatraz Yistand," Sn Ann Sheri-
dan, John Litel aud ary Maguire, at 11:42, 2:32, 5:22, 10:33.
ofio
“Easy Living,” with Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold. Also “Mr. Dodd Takes the Air,” with Kenny Baker,
AMBASSADOR
“Varsity Show,” with Dick Powell and Waring's Pennsylvanians. Also “Hotel Haywire.”
ALAMO
Deputy,”
Pp with - Fred “Hideaway,”
“Fighting with Fred
Scott. Also Stone.
Riley Patients To Hear Quartet
The newly formed Indianapolis Symphony Quartet is to make its
first appearance at 3 p. m. tomor- |
row in the Riley Memorial Hospital.
Members are Boris Schwartz, Indianapolis Symphony concertmaster; Avram Weiss, assistant concertmaster; Jules Salkin, first viola, and Paulo Gruppe, first cello. The players requested that they be allowed to make some musical contribution to the children who will be unable to attend the orchestra’s series at the Murat. Tomorrow’s concert is to be the first of several public appearances planned for the year. A program of familiar music has been selected, and includes the following compositions:
‘Drink to Me Only With Thine Eves”.. Traditional
“old Black Joe” Canzonetta ........iu300, Allegro Siritoso
ONE OF EIGHT SONS
Victor McLaglen is one of eight sons, all of whom served in the British Army auring the World
... Mendelssohn Senaille-Gruppe
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 16 (U. P.).—| War
Clark Gable, film leading man, reported today that a burglar stole a prized ivory handled revolver from his home. He reported the theft, the actor explained, for his own protection “in event the gun is used to perpetrate a crime.”
! Last Times Today Jean Arthur—Edw. Arnold in “EASY LIVING”
Plus: “Mr. Dodds Takes the Air”
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Plus Exciting Comedy!
JANE WITHERS in “45 FATHERS"
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LEO CARRILLO B.C EE ET JAMES ELLISON Plus Mystery Dramel
“NIGHT CLUB SCANDAL"
With JOHN BARRYMORE
APOLLC
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Crosby Art Handicaped By Monkeys
Simians Enjoying Outing, But Crooner Must Foot Big Bill.
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 16 (U. P.).— Bing Crosby's simians wandered through Hollywood today, peeping into lone women's windows, swiping food, tangling traffic and making monkey business of the movies. Estimating that 150 monkeys had escaped from his studio, Crooner Crosby called upon the Fire Department to help catch ’em. The fire department snickered. Crosby phoned the Police Department and it sneered “publicity stunt” before it slammed down the hook.
Monkeys by then were scampering through Hollywood's palm trees, crawling into parked automobiles and tearing up the upholstery, raiding restaurants, peering into bedroom windows, frightening pedestrians, and ruining telephone service, Raises Reward Ante
Crosby offered $1 reward for each monkey caught. He raised the ante to $2 when the monkey situation threatened to reach a ringtailed crisis, by interfering with his art. Crosby was making a picture known a couple of weeks ago as “The Badge of Policeman O'Roon,” last week as “On the Sentimental
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Side,” today as “Doctor Rhythm,” and tomorrow—probably—as “Mone key Business.” Upon the studio lawn, directly in front of the pink and white bungalow of Mae West, the technicians had built a replica of New York's Central Park Zoo, complete with cages of elephants and tigers, crocodiles and cormorants, mongeese (if that's the way to spell ’em) (Editor’s Note—it isn’t) and, of course, monkeys. The plot called for Crosby and the eminent thespian, Andy Devine, to stagger into the zoo, and open the doors of all the animal cages. Monks Break Out
They passed by the lions and the panthers and stopped in front of the monkey cage. They unsnapped the lock. The monkeys did the rest. The technicians had covered the whole zoo with netting such as that which tennis players use. But it wasn’t enough to stop the monks. Two dozens of them congregated on one spot and the netting ripped. They jumped through it. So did all their friends. Came the dawn—today’s— and some of Crosby's monkeys were back in their cages. Some weren't, as evidenced by the fact that prpductions stopped because of the monkey shortage. The missing monkeys will cost Crosby $12 each, while the monkey business will cost him, because of lost time and monkey hunting, nearer $12,000.
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