Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1937 — Page 18
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Fun Film Sparkles At Loew's
'The Awful Truth' Rated | | Among Best of Comedies.
By JAMES THRASHER A gem in the ocean of this sea- | son's’ screen comedies, “The Awful | Truth,” Loew's main attraction this | week, is delightful to see and im- | possible to describe. i The simplest thing would be to | send out a brief and all-embracing | exhortation to see the picture, for it's difficult to imagine anyone's not liking it. But probably it is better to tell | you that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are the stars; that Vina Delmar wrote the screen play frcm Ar Richman's play in which na Claire once starred; that Senge B. Seitz directed the film, d that everyone has done a beautial job. Story in Brief The story is simply: Wife divorces husband. both are caught on reboth are still in love with her. they are reconciled at he fi fadeout. Nothing to it, apparently—but wait il vou see the picture. It | is one of the few comedies that is | funny from start to finish. There is high and low comedy. You will be convulsed by slapstick, and you will chuckle for days remembering | a lift of Miss Dunne’s eyebrows. | The Richman-Delmar combination has opened a whole new bag of farcical tricks. New situations ahound, and the lines are sparkling. And Mr, Seitz has directed the pro- | a
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call comedi mands . Terrier Gets Credit
Perhaps a large part of the credit should go to a wire-haired | terrier named Skippy. He played | Asta in the two “Thin Man” pic- | tures. and he also plays Mr. Smith | in “The Awful Truth.” Whether or | not his presence had anything to | do with it, the present picture's stars measure up in every way to | the famous Loy-Powell combination. | Miss Dunne, having alternately sinned, suffered and sung through | several seasons, proves here that “Theodora Goes Wild” was no fluke. She is a real comedienne, | subtle and engaging. Of all the glamour girls who have: had a | fling at comedy this year, she is one who shouldnt be lost to the fold. | Equally adept is Mr. Grant, and Ralph Bellamy, who has been up to his knees in Class B pictures for too long, gives hilarious support. | Cecil Cunningham (Jack B>nny’s secretary in “Artists and Models™), | Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Alexander D'Arcy and all the other players are excellent without exception. Serious Film Is Foil As a foil for “The Awful Truth.” | Loew's also is playing “Between Two Women,” the only serious attraction in the week's first-run assortment, The picture has a “Wife, Doctor and Nurse” theme, but it isn’t treated lightlv. Franchot Tone, Maureen O'Sullivan and Virginia Bruce take care of the principal roles. | For a plot we have the sad plight | of a nurse, tied by wifely duty to a drunken husband, and a young surgeon who marries a rich, pstulant young patient in a weak moment. Later doctor and nurse find they are in love. But the doctor’s wife and her lover are injured, and the wife is crippled an ad | her beauty destroyed as a result. Docter and nurse renounce their love to return to their dutiful and joyless lives. But the ending takes a turn for the better.
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That theatrical legend, known to many old timers as the team of Weber and Fields, returns to the |
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Story of Gold Mine and Ear Trouble Told In Circle Film.
Somehow, the frost seems to have nipped the buds of “Blossoms on | somewhere between the’ author's first blush of inspiration |
{and the Circle screen, where it may
be seen this week. Author Theodore Reeves had u | { tolerable idea to begin with. It's, about a stage-struck girl who falis | confidence man.
a young lady from the open spaces
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Second Honeymoon,” with Tyrone er and Loretta Young, at 12:52, 4: 03, 7.14, 10.15. “13 ‘Fathers, » with Jane Wi mes gud Thomas Beck. at 11:41, 2:52, 6:03,
CIRCLE
“Blossoms on Broadwa¥.,” with Edward Arnold. Shirley Ross and John Trent, at 12:46, 3:51 6:56, 10:01 “Over the Goal,” with Johnnie Davis and June Travis at 11:43, 2:48,
INDIANA
“Merry-Go-Round of 1938,” with Mischa Auer, Alice Brady. Bert 2 Ry Savo, at 12:30, 3:50.
“Girl With Ideas,” with Wendy Barrie Be SEY Taylor, at 11:35,
2:45, 5:50 KEITH'S
Andre Lasky’s French Revue on stage, at 1 30, 4, 6:50, 9:20 “Thanks For Listening.” with | Pinks Tomlin and Maxine Doyle, 12, 2:30, 5, 7:50, 10:20
LOEW'S
“The Awful Truth,” with Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy 3 1) OE aa at 12:35. 3:45, 6:
“Betwee! Two Women,” with Franchot “tone. Maureen O’ sully an and Virginia Bruce at 11, 2:10, 5:20,
LYRIC
6: Yavdesitte on stage, at 12:57, 3:48, Ne . Tove I'm_ After.” with leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Olivia de Re rand. at 11:14 2:02, 5:01, 9:50,
OHIO
“Champagne Waltz.” with Fred MacMurray and Lire Swarthout Also “Meet the Missus,” with Victor Moore and Helen Broderick
AMBASSADOR “Double or Nothing.” with Bing Crosby. Also “Big City.” ALAMO “What Price Vengeance,” with
Lyle Talbot. Also “The Great Gambini”,
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the Circle.
who has a gold mine and ear
trouble.
Cora is coming to New York >
see an ear doctor. But before she
| can arrive, the fake promoter man- | ages to put her in hiding and sub- | stitute his young friend. The girl, | whose name is Sally, has a way ol yielding to her impulses, which us- |
ually are a bit berserk. This nearly | | ruins the promotion schemes on a good many occasions. Finally the confidence man, whose | ' name is Ira Collins, gets a wealthy |
|old gentleman to give him his, | hoarded gold supply. This is to be
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COWBOY NO. I"
FROM GLORY"
HOLLYWOOD TELEGRAM TOMORROW SEE FAMOUS GENE AUTRY AT THE ALAMO THEATRE IN HIS NEWEST THRILL HIT "PUBLIC IT'S ONE OF GENE'S BEST STOP AUTRY IS AMERICA'S BIGGEST STAR TODAY STOP ON SAME PROGRAM SEE CHESTER MORRIS IN "FLI
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| melted up, planted in Cora’s mine and disposed of. But, after a good deal of trouble, the whole gang is rounded up, “Death Valley Cora,” swindler herself.
Sally’s Friend to Rescue Sally escapes, because the hand-
who is a
| some young man she falls in love
with and hires as a chauffeur turns out to be—you guessed it, a G-Man! Well, that’s the story. And amus-
ing pictures have been made from | But Shirley |
less stuff than that. Ross, as Sally, is badly miscast, and | John Trent, the ex-aviator, isn’t much help either. Director Richard Wallace didn’t seem to know quite how to tell his | He has applied a coating of | broad comedy with a heavy hand. Edward Arnold labors valiantly as
the confidence man, but his best ef- | forts don’t count for much. The] | narrative is both | labored.
To bolster the comedy, the grand |
old combination of Weber and Fields |
has been brought out of retirement. Their brief sample of vintage humor is confined to an opera-burlesque sequence which no one—not even Weber or Fields—could do much with. Rufe Davis also is present, with
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! | the usual musie, muggin’ and imitations in his bag of tricks. Johnnie “Scat” Davis, the Brazil, nd., boy who came to the films via | Fred Waring’s band, is featured in| | the other feature, called “Over the | { Goal.” It is much like other foot- | ball pictures, except that it doesn’t go in for the usual condemnation of subsidized athletics. The University of Southern California is enlisted for the “big game” scenes. But these can’t compare with the newsreel shots of the YalePrinceton encounter, in which Capt. | Clint Frank runs wild and scores | all of Eli's 26 points. There, folks, is football. | The newsreel also contains some | shocking pictures of] fall. J.T)
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ONE DOES!
One celebrity is the same as another to tiny Virginia Weidler. | When John Barrymore made a spe|cial trip to her set “They Knew | What Happened” and asked her if she remembered him and her an[swer was “not exactly. I meet so | many people.” In “Moby Dick,” Virginia's first picture, she played with Barrymore.
It Starts Today—See It!
Fred MacMurray oa | “CHAMPAGNE WALTZ”
P lus: “MEET THE MISSUS”
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Apollo Gets’
'Second Honeymoon’
| Fathers.” | discounted, either,
Erstwhile Indiana Bill
And Jane Withers Film Are Held in City.
After eight booming days at the Indiana, “Second Honeymoon” is moving over for a second week at
the Apollo. On the same bill is the latest Jane Withers picture,
says Col, Cdilins, Indiana manager.
In a short vaiedictory speech yes-
terday, Col. Collins had some affectionate words for his departing double bill. The starring combination of Loretta Young and Tyrone Power in “Second Honeymoon” proved the most popular attraction since the theater reopened, he said. And young Miss Withers, hitherto considered a sort of second-string Shirley Temple, was nearly as popular. A good many compliments for
| the chubby starlet reached the ears | of Col. Collins and his assistants.
As for Marjorie Weaver, the for-
| mer Indiana University student, the | Colonel thinks her film success is |
assured. Miss Weaver has an im-
portant supporting part in “Second |
Honeymoon.” It was her first big
INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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screen chance and, taking opportunity by the forelock, she really “went to town.” “Miss Weaver was booked for a personal appearance in Louisville when the picture was shown there,” Col. Collins said. “But it was cane celed at the last minute because Darryl Zanuck wanted her for another picture.”
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Chinese Star's Sister Refugee
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 19 (U, P.).— After giving up a job in a shrapnelspattered office in Shanghai, Anna May Wong's sister, Wong Liu Heung, was in Hollywood today to live out the duration of the Oriental
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war with the famous Chinese movie star. The name Liu Heung means frae grant willow. She is tall and wile lowy like her sister. Both were born in America. Miss Wong’s sister left Shanghal just before Japanese captured the Customs Office, where she was em= ployed. Shrapnel struck the offices occasionally and she was near the ‘bombed North Station.
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