Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1937 — Page 28

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Credit Is Due Hollywood For Revised ‘Stage Door’; Spy Episode Is at Loew's

Picture on Indiana Screen MacDonald and Jones in Much Better Than Good Voice in Original Play. 'Firefly.'

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2 By JAMES THRASHER £ Hollywood, as the picture industry | Maybe you thought Wellington conveniently and contemptuously | won the battle of Vittoria. If you nown, picked the right play on did, you may be set right by a visit Which to work an unaccustomed to Loew's this week, where “The y agic. | Firefly” is showing. § This play is “Stage Door,” which| 1 seems that the strategy of a Fras at English's the first part of | young woman, played by Jeanette $he week and is now on the Indiana | MacDonald, drove Napoleon out of creen. And “Stage Door” went 10 Spain. . . . Yes, Napoleon is stalkgreat lengths to prove that the tin- | ing Loew's screen again this week. $el and dross of the movie capital But he's only a sinister name this fatal to artistic survival, | time, instead of the corpulent and Well, Hollywood has taken the | amorous hero of “Conquest.” juthors’ satire and slapped them | In the present picture, Miss Mac$n the face with it, | Donald is known professionally as 2 On occasion, this writer and many “The Firefly.” As such, she dances hers have found fault with the the can-can in cafes, chucks the ovie people for “butchering” & | boys under the chin and sings at jage success, They have been the drop of a hat. Off stage, howrapped for spending huge sums on ever, she is Nina Maria, a sort of

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FRIDAY, DEC. 8, 1937

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® play, then scrapping the plot and early 19th Century Mata Hari. It's |

{ her business to work her fatal {charm upon the French officers and [come back with a map of the enemy lines,

[sing only its title, > Movie Is Direct

All this has been justified. But Ray I am happy to eat my words

$|hd congratulate the California cin- | (Allan Jones). He is persistently Ematicians for doing exactly these attentive. When her secret duties Rhings. They have built a new play | take Nina Maria to Bayonne, Don Bround the title, “Stage Door,” and | Diego comes riding out of the hills, dt is an infinitely better play. Where | and accompanies her on horseback. Soran and overerowaed, the| inn Finds She's Falling prawling p aed, the ¥novie is direct and dramatic. For the better part of an hour, « Further, the scenarists have beat- | you could cut the picture's whimsy 5 the witty George S. Kaufman at | with a knife. If, in real life. a ic own game. In “Stage Door” I Joung ‘Swain ‘Were ‘ms impolite ‘and Shink that Mr. Kaufman's reputa-| ouns SWa ere as impolite ¥ion saved him. [esert between the oases of humor. | young lady probably $And too often the wit is Simply & |pim. Ana no jury $uild-up to an off-color gag, would convict her. There is no point in going into a But such is Don Diego's fatal

2 3 » etailed account of the movie's plot. cinematic charm, that Nina Maria finds she's falling, in spite of her-

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& young man called Don Diego

would shoot in the world

Wnough to say that they have taken

out the ribbing of Hollywood—which | cr

> pretty old stuff by now--with no | “you mustn't get the idea. howll ‘effects. And, contrary to 8ll|ayer that this is any different than $Ecreen procedure, the “love interest any other spy picture. Don Diego Shas been weeded out, instead of aug- | turns out to be Captain Andre, a ¥mented. In fact, a great many point- French spy. In the duel of espioess side plots have been deleted. nage “The Firefly” finally wins at Characters have been consolidated | vittoria. Don Diego is shot outside So strengthened, and the few addi- Nina Maria's prison window, while Rions are decidedly to the point. [she sings a ditty to him midst the So, on the screen, we find Katha- thundering cannon. Fine Hepburn as a serious, wealthy | “The Firefly” 1s a return to the srerry Randall, who is determined | gid-style musical of early talkie Ro scale the dramatic heights with- days. The leading players cannot ut benefit of family finances. Gin- | walk by a grassy knoll or climb ®er Rogers’ Jean Maitland is a per3 delightful wisecracker—a com-

ing into song. Reverts to Old Technique I don't know why the traditional

osite of the play's Terry and Jean | nd several others. & The suicide of Kaye Hamilton, a |

geeble gesture in the play, brings | operetta technique is so out of place e movie to a powerful climax,

h Bren the talentless Terry, inspired | On the screen. Perhaps because Hv the tragic death of the starving, | much effort is expended upon mak-

¥isillusioned Kaye, goes out to give | ing the nonmusical portion of the ® stunning performance on her first film realistic. In “The Firefly” we #hight, v y say it's hokum. But : right, you may say &t ut : have marching soldiers, swash-

Jefy you to keep a lump out of V : our throat. buckling espionage and scenes of battle.

Miss Hepburn in Right Role | However, when the whole action

Miss Rogers comes forth as ais bogged down to give vou endless Superb comedienne in this picture. | glimpses of billing, cooing and eyend the Terry Randall role fits batting, the effort seems decidedly 1.ss Hepburn like a glove. I never | wasted. Stould share the general enthusiasm | “The Firefly” is based, with alterSor Miss Hepburn, but there's no | ations, upon Rudolf Friml's operetta senying that she is the one person | of the same name, produced in New o piay this revamped part. | York 25 years ago with Emma Tren5% Among the added characters in|tini as the star. Most of the songs Mire screen play are Adolphe Menjou, | — “Sympathy,” “Giannina Mia,” Scho contributes high comedy as the | “Love Is Like a Firefly,” and so oh $philandering producer, and that | —are familiar. i You will find both stars singing

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veteran, Constance Collier, | Ra: ¢ 8S | retired actress now “coach- well. Herbert Stothart has provided Sng” the Footlights Club inmates. |® pleasing orchestral accompani- = In the ranks of newcomers, An-| ment, and the music sounds all the rea Leeds is outstanding. She does | better for Loew's new wide-range the emotional, tragic role of Kaye Sound projector, Swith the sureness and restraint of | The accompanying feature Mn artist. And this is her first major “All-American Sweetheart,” ar.. Another promising youngster which Patricia Farr and Gene Mors Lucille Ball, who looks a bit like | 88h are featured. liss Hepburn and tosses QUIDS aS |; ars ro sleftly as Miss Rogers. = Even though the picture may | hine more brightly with the memrr of a pretty egregious perform- | WE at English's still in mind, cold | udgment certainly places it among | She fading year's St, by all means.

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In Madrid, one evening, she meets |

There is a lot of | painfully cute as Don Diego, the |

aboard a donkey cart without burst- |

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“Stage Door,” with Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe MenJou, Andrea Leeds and Gail Patrick, at 11:33, 1:39, 3:45 5:51, 7:57, 10:03. “March of Time,” at 11, 1:08, 3:12, 5:18, 7:24, 9:30

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40, 5: LYRIC

Vaudeville on stage, at 1:07, 3:53, 6:39, 9:25

If Simon Barer, this week's sym- | phony orchestra soloist, were given | to trite phrases, he might observe that “It's a small world after all.” For, when the eminent Russian | pianist went to the orchestra's re- | hearsal yesterday, he found Boris | Schwartz sitting in the concert- | ( master's chair. Mr. Barer was a | | friend of the Schwartz family in| | Odessa. He knew the concertmas- | | ter's pianist father well, and went to school with Mr, Schwartz’ uncle —also a pianist. This is Mr. Barer's first visit to | Indianapolis, since it is his first | [ American tour, Now, after his appearances today | and tomorrow night, he is bound for | | Chicago, where he will give two re- | [ citals within three days. { Mr, Barer was resting in his room at the Hotel Lincoln and || 2:01, 447, 7:33 recalling old times with Mr. OH10 Schwartz when the interviewer “Rhythm on the Range,” with Bing ( found them. The pianist said that | Mie Drs An eR Burns, Also “One only after he had congratulated vor and Sally Blane, Cli he Mr. Sevitzky on his fine orchestra | AMBASSADOR did he learn that he would be “The Bride Wore Red,” with Pran- | playing at the new organization's | oa Tone And Joan Crawford. Also | second concert. [| ‘eer ‘tna Claude Rains, © Ort Kru: Indianapolis was mentioned to | ALAMO [him as one of the country’s im- | “David Harum,” wita Will Robers portant musical cities before his || Also “Renfrew of the Royal Mount. | first American tour, Mr. Barer said. 9 Nit HG; New It was Mr. Schwartz, rather than | the modest virtuoso, who told two | stories of his pianistic attainments. | One was that of the late Ossip Ga- | brilowitsch who, on hearing some | [of Mr. Barer's recordings, refused | | to believe that they had been played | | by only one player on one piano, The other concerned his record- | ing of the Schumann Toccata. For | years pianists have been trying to { | crowd this taxing work on one side ' 'of a record. Even the renowned | Vladimir Horowitz tried during four years without avail. | To make a long story as short ss | Mr. Barer's performance of the | Toccata—he did it. It's on the| | record. (J. TV).

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CONCERT TONIGHT Simon Barer, Soloist

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A capacity audience is expected to greet Jascha Heifetz at English's | Sunday afternoon, when the violin- | ist makes his first Indianapolis ap-

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