Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1937 — Page 6
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Howard in Last Films,
He Reports
One More Production Will Follow Lyric Picture Actor Says.
By JAMES THRASHER
On Priday you may Howard at the Lyric in a comedy called “It’s Love I'm After.” you happen to be a Howard ian, you had best have a good long look at your favorite. For Mr. Howard if he has his way, is not long for American movies. For years (nine, to be exact) Mr. Howard has been unhappy in his chosen profession of picture actor, He has. written articles condemning Hollywood for its artificiality in life and art. He has yearned to be a director and to play “Hamlet.” He did do the melancholy Prince, with gemnerally melancholy results. Now he has organized an English producing company and plans to launch it late this year with “Bonnie Prince Charlie.” Mr. Howard has chosen the important but invisible role of director. Meanwhile you may Howard in farce comedy. “It's Love I'm After” he is to appear with Joan Blondell in Clarence Budington Kelland's “Stand-In.” After that—no more American mov=ies, says the blond Britisher. Appearing opposite Mr. Howard in the Lyric picture is Bette Davis. Mr. Howard appears as a hale and hearty survivor of that vanishing tribe, the Matinee Idol. He runs into all ‘sorts of embarrassing trouble trying to get a swooning young admirer (Olivia de Havilland) to fall out of love with him. The harder he tries, the more he abuses her, the greater grows her affection. All this is complicated by the fact that the matinee idol is engaged to his leading lady, who is Miss Davis. The Lyric's accompanying stage show will be headlined by three veteran and favorite vaudeville acts.
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WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO “Uncivilized,” with Dennis 10:03 Margot Rhys, at 12:54, 3 “She Asked for It.” with Willlam Gargan, Orien Hayward and Vivienne Osborne, at 11:45, 2:48. 5:51, 8:54.
CIRCLE
“The Barrier,” with Leo Carillo, Jean Parker and, James Ellison, at 12:40, 3:50, 7. “Night Club Sandal, ” with John Barrymore, Lynn Overman and Jouise Campbell, at 11:30, 2:40, 5:50,
CIVIC "Night of January 16.”—Curtain at 8: INDIANA
“Second Honeymoon,” with Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Stuart Erwin and Marjorie Weaver, at 12:59, 4:03, 1 . “45 Fathers,” with Jane Withers, Thomas Heck, and, Louise Henry, at
11:48, 2:52 KEITH'S
Barney Rapp and Mis New Englanders on stage at 1:30, 6:50, 9:20. “Wallaby Jim of the stands > with George Houston and Ruth Coleman, at 12, 2:30. §, 7:50 10:20.
LOEW'S Garbo,
with Greta Charle over a Reginald Owen, at 13:16, 3 30, 6:45 and 10, “It's All Yours,” with Madeleine Carroll, Francis Lederer and Mischa Auer, at 10:45, 2, 5:20 and 8:40
LYRIC
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IN NEW YORK ——=By GEORGE ROSS
Conga, Gotham's Latest Dance, Is Cuban "Big Apple’; Everyone Gives Own Version.
EW YORK, Nov. 17.—The Conga, Gotham’s latest dance diversion, And that's just about the best way to explain what's happening these nights when you see folks in their
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musical crew. @ Though the Conga may look somewhat like the “Big-Apple,” all comparisons end there, for it is possessed of a past that makes any dance you care to name seem like a Sunday School taffy pull. In the first place, this primitive dance has been prohibited by law in Cuba for the past 14 years. Which should give you some idea. It antedates the rhumba by at least a hundred years, and probably had | its origin among the aboriginal | sepians in Africa. A conga, in its original form, was fone of those celebrations that | started on a Saturday night and ran Straight through until the following | Monday, usually culminating in a | frenzy of rum, rhythm and rough | stuff in which one or more par- [ ticipants invariably were - knifed. The frequency with which this happened caused the authorities to ban the dance, a ban that was only [lifted in Havana last summer. EJ » #" OWADAYS, you can throw a | 4 NX conga party in ‘Cuba—but ‘only if the gendarmes are around | to keep order. According to mu3 sicians, the music for the dance is best described as sounding “like la vibraphone caught in a washing
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machine.” Addicts of the dance claim that there are no steps—it's the drums that get you, acting hypnotically on anyone who happens to be listening. Besides the drums, a Conga band boasts of an instrument made of the jawbones of an ass and which plays upon the subconscious with disastrous effects. This fact was borne out the other evening at Manhattan's current capitol of after-dark Cuban activity—La Conga—a new night spot where the customers pitch in and formulate their own version of this torrid, tropical, two-step. Your reporter has seen Eddie Duchin, Ramon and Renita, Jock Whitney, Gloria Baker, Mary Brian, Erskinne Gwynne, Mae Murray, Ethel Merman, Hildegarde, and George Abbott among those twisting and turning to the staccato rhythm of a genuine conga. The dance started
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out with only a handful of people, but in a few minutes the entire clientele of the club was on the floor trying out this new importation from the Cuban jungle. The Conga, like its more effete cousin, the rhumba, seems destined to become one of the nation’s newest terpsichorean crazes, Watch out for it. If you want to speed things up a bit, just whisper the word “conga” to any of the Cuban musicians in your home town—and watch things sizzle!
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ANHATTAN Miscellany: New York gets its first real major motion picture studio when the 20th Century-Fox start construction on their new mammoth cinema studio over on 10th Ave. next month.
The new Ed Wynn show, “Hurray for What,” will have the wives of two celebrated gentlemen as leading members of the cast—Hannah Williams, who is Mrs. Jack Dempsey when the grease-paint is removed, is one, and Ethel Shutta, the better half of George Olsen, is the other,
COLISEUM Fairgrounds
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THT INDIANAPOLIS TES TRIANGLE JUST PART OF TROUBLE
Three Hits Now Enrich Sam Harris
‘Stage Door,’ Second of Them Due Here on Nov. 29.
“Stage Door,” which will come to English’'s Nov. 29 with Joan Bennett as the star, is only one of three hits which currently are making glad the heart of Producer Sam H. Harris, Also under the Harris banner are “You Can't Take It With You” and “I'd Rather Be Right.” The former is now in its second Broadway vear, while the Chicago company ‘(seen here last spring) is approaching its 40th week. “I'd Rather Be Right,” recently opened, is sold out for weeks in advance. “Stage Door” likewise enjoyed a lengthy New York run, with Margaret Sullavan as the star. George S. Kaufman, most prolific and successful of American playwrights, is coauthor of all three plays, and has directed the staging of each, Mr. Kaufman's collaborator for the play coming here, was Edna Ferber, noted novelist who also combined her talents with Mr. Kaufman's to produce “The Royal Family” and “Dinner at Eight.”
Dramatist Was Stage-Strock It may be that Miss Ferber's own girlhood prompted this play of theatrical life. For the novelist admits that as a girl in Appleton,
Wis,, she was decidedly stage-siruck.
And she never completely recovered. The action of “Stage Door” takes place in the Footlights Club, a boarding house for aspiring young actresses. This mythical location has an actual counterpart in the Rehearsal Club in West 53 St.,, New York. Miss Ferber visited the Rehearsal Club while the play was a-borning in search of authentic atmosphere, During the casting of “Stage Door” in the spring of 1936, nearly 500 girls from all parts of the country flocked to Mr, Harris’ office in search of parts. This was a con-
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Bid For Dewey
HOLLYWOOD, Nov, 17 (U. P.) .—~Movie producers struck a new note in realism today by offering $150,000 to Thomas E. Dewey, New York City’s racketbusting prosecutor and newly elected District Attorney, if he would play the role of a hero in a gangster picture. If Mr. Dewey declines, it was reported that the offer would be made to J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The offer apparently came from Jack Linder, a movie agent and former Broadway stage producer, who represented an unnamed major studio. The picture he had in mind was one based on the life of Charles (Lucky) Lueciano, New York vice racketeer, whom Mr. Dewey prosecuted and sent to Sing Sing. Mr. Dewey would play the part of himself prosecuting Luciano, but the gangster would be represented by some less realistic actor, Ray Le Strange, former publicity man for Tammany Hall and Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York, announced Linder’s proposition,
siderable boon to the authors, for their play was written about just such theatrical neophytes. So Miss Ferber and Mr. Kaufman interviewed most of the applicants and selected 18 of them to play the ambitious young actresses in the play. Prominent in the cast supporting Miss Bennett are Douglas Gilmore, Madeline Grey, Walter Davis, Muriel Campbell, June Gale and Jean Carmen. >
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Rachmaninoff to Play Own Works at Recital.
Sergei Rachmaninoff's first appearance in Bloomington, and his first Indiana recital in several years, will take place this evening. The | eminent Russian composer-pianist | is to give the second of the season 's | University and City Music Series | concerts in the Men's Gymnasium, | Included in the recital will be four
STAR CELEBRATES 58TH BIRTHDAY
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17 (U., P.. —Lewis Stone, of the movies’ white-haired gentleman roles, yesterday celebrated his 58th birthday and the 22d anniversary of his first
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17, 1937"
of the soloist's own preludes, The remainder of the program will be given over to music of the Classic and Romantic schools of composition, The announced program includes the following selections:
“Weinen, klagen’ {Prejudte After Js oS: ach) : . ig Itallan Concerto . . ch Sonata, Opus 31, No, 2 has Beethoven Scherzo in C Sharp "Mi nor . a Chopin Four Preludes ... ...Rachmaninoff B Minor a Minor + Minor B Flat Major \Bonetto della Petrarca" "Spinning Song’ from Dutchman’
TE Liszt “Magic Fire”
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GEORGE ARLISS VISITS IN U. S.
Times Special NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Ceorge Are liss, whose newest film. “Dr. Syn,” has its American premiere this week, has arrived here from London to attend the opening and to spend his vacation in this country. It is his first visit here in two vears. He was accompanied by Mn 5, Arliss,
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