Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1937 — Page 10

Lois Wilson,

Costar .of.

Valentino in Old Silent Films, to Play in "Women’

Former Screeh Favorite Has Fostured Role in Clare Boothe's Comedy Opening at. English's Thursday for Four Performances.

By JAMES For the second time in

THRASHER

10 days, English’s, venerable temple of the

legitimate theater, will be entertaining a cast headed by a screen ‘star og “The Women’ moves in for four performances on Thursday night. Lois Wilson is the featured actress who will start shedding cinema

glamour where Joan Bennett left o this Clare Boothe comedy, Wilson is making her first stage ap- - ‘pearance east of Los Angeles—except for a very brief New York appearance—on her present tour. It will be interesting to see whether this former star runs into the screen player’s usual bevy of autograph hunters, or whether sh will have to register at a hote secretly, as Miss Bennett did, in order to get a moment's privacy. | Played "Opposite Valentino Most of our more insistent film , fans are of a younger generation, To them Miss Wilson will not be the household name that she was once. A decade or 50 ago, however, her name was a considerable boon at the box office. | Many, probably, will be drawn to English’s by the memory of Miss Wilson's performance in that Western “epic,” “The Covered Wagon.” Others will remember her in powdered wig and brocaded gown opposite Rudolph Valentino in “Monsieur Beaucaire.” Her other well-remembered silent pictures include “Miss Lulu Bett,” “What Every Woman Knows” and “Manslaughter.” She appeared with Thomas Meighan, . Wallace | Reid, Robert Warwick and Bryant Washburn when those gentlemen were the Gables and Taylors and Powells of their day.

Went Job Hunting 3

- When Hollywood found its voice, Miss Wilson decided that stage experience would be! necessary. For the four years after 1928, she was a member of companies directed by Edward Everett Horton and Henry i Duffy, who were doing most of the available stage successes. Then came appearances in some sound

ff. Playing Mrs. Stephen Haines in

Misso—

Always Tomorrow” and Shirley Temple’s “Bright Eyes.” ; Slightly more than a year ago, ‘Miss. Wilson was inthe van of the West-to-East caravan of Hollywood luminaries. She pounded the pavements like any Broadway tyro, and won the leading role in a play called “Farewell Summer.” But Summer’s lease had all too short a date. The play ran a week, and then more job hunting started. With the fgrmation of “The Women’s” road company, the quest came to an end. Miss Wilson now has a “run of the play” contract, and apparently is set for a winter’s engagement.

ties, there is another one in the “cast. One of Shirley Temple's predecessors, she was known on the screen as “Baby Battista” when she was 2. That was. some 20 years ago.

Wife of Publisher

Today she is Miriam Battista, and she is playing Nora, the Irish maid in “The Women.” Her most famous film role was that of the little lame girl in “Humoresque.” “The Women” is Miss Boqthe’s first and only successful play. She once. wrote a play called “Abide With Me,” in collaboration with Beatrice (Mrs... George S.) Kaufman. It was what is known as a “floperoo.” As Clare Boothe Brokaw, the playwright also . has done some novel writing. of the name comes from a former marriage, but she is now the wife

and other magazines: There is a well-founded . rumor that Miss Boothe turns over the royalties from “The Women” to

pictures, such as 'Seed,” “There's

her favorite charities.

5. Music Events Scheduled: Here for Coming Week

Music avents scheduled for the

coming week include a recital by

Paulo Gruppe, cellist, and a toncert by the Notre Dame Glee Club tomorrow night; the first public Indianapolis recital by Harold Triggs,

pianist, in the World War Memorial recital by Mildred on Friday afternoon, and the first

auditorium on Thursday evening; a

Dilling, harpist, in the L. S. Ayres & Co. auditorium

of the Indianapolis. Symphony Or-

chestra popular concerts next Sunday afternoon in the Murat.

Mr. Gruppe, the symphony or-¥

chestra’s solo cellist and a teacher at the Jordan Conservatory, will be heard in Odeon Hall at 8:30 Pp. m. His program includes-his own _ arrangement of a Sonata in D by. Cocatelli; the Saint-Saens Concerto in A Minor; Brahms’ Sonata in E Minor, and compositions by Schumann, Popper and Faure. . Dorothy Munger wiil be the accompanist. The Notre Dame choristers, singing in the Murat, will offer a program ranging from 16th Century liturgical music to campus songs arranged by their director, Prof. J. J. Casasanta. Soloists are to be William V. O'Brien and John R. Collins, tenors; Robert B. Heywood and Donald G. Tiedemann, baritones, and Arthur C. Davidson, pianist. . Plans Chopin Group’

- Having been presented last week by the’ Maennerchor, Mr. Triggs will play for the general public at 8:30 p. m. Thursday. His program will open with music by Martin Peerson, Scarlatti and Bach, and continue with the “Appassionata” Sunsta of Beethoven. A Chopin group is to include a Polonaise, Prelude, Nocturne, Waltz and the F Minor Fantasie. Mr. Triggs’ closing group is listed under the general heading of Americana. Included are Debuss’s “Minstrels”;

Rives, ” set by Perey ‘Grainger, and the pianist’s own suite, titled “Expansions Like a Blind Astronomer.” Its divisions are “The Sigh of Resting Rivers” (Amy Lowell): “Death, Ain’t Yuh Got, No Shame” (Spiritual From Carolina Lowlands) ; (Waltz (N. Y. C.J); Minuet, “She ‘Weeps Over Rahoon” (James Joyce); Laendler and “Fiesta in Mexico.” ; : Miss Dilling’s recital will be a presentation of the Indianapolis | Matinee Musicale. Included in her listed program are compositions by Bach, Rameau, Daquin, Handel, Liszt, Alabiev, Tournier, Prokofiev, Debussy, Granjany and Renie.

Boris Schwartz is to be soloist at the | orchestra’s Sunday concert. The concertmaster will be heard in ‘the Mendelssohn Concerto. Other compositions on the program are the “Egmont” Overture . of Beethoven; the “Peer Gynt” Suite by Grieg; the first two movements of Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony,

Cesana’s “Negro Heaven,” and the “1812” Overture of Tschaikowsky.

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Here are a half dozen of the 15 featured players in “Manhattan Merry-Go-Round,” coming Friday to the Circle, Standing, left to right, are Leo Carillo, Gene Autry and James Gleason. . Seated are Tamara

Geva, Phil Regan and Ann Dvorak.

Others in the large cast are Ted

Lewis, Cab Calloway and’ Louis’ Prima, with their orchestras; Joe Di

Maggio, in his movie debut; Henry

Armetta and Luis Alberni.

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* APOLLO

“A Damsel in Distress,” with Pred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen ahd Ray Noble, at 12:32, 3:45, 6:58,

* “Borrowing Trouble,” with the PY family, at 11:32, 2:45, 5:58,

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“March of rime. at 11, 2 06, 3: 0 5:18, 7:24, 9:30. KEITH'S

Husk O’Hare and his orchestra on sta, e, at 1:30, 4, 6:50. 9:20. ‘Three Broadway Girls,” with Joan Blonder Madge Evans, Ina Claire

. and David Manners, at 12, 2:30, 5, 7:50, 10:20. Le LOEW'S

“The Firefly,” with Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones and Warren Wile um, at 11:20, 2:45, 6:15, 9:45. merican Sweetheart, with Patricia Reed Gene Morgan, at

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One Time ‘Boy Violinist’ Is Acclaimed Again at 2]

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (U. P.).—Yehudt Menuhin, dne time “boy vio-

linist” now entered upon manhood,

stage last night after more than a year’s absence to receive new plaudits and the assurance of critics that the promise of his boyhood is being

returned to the New York concert

fulfilled. The 21-year-old California artist played selections from Mozart, Bach,

Paganini, Kreisler and others, but the one which attracted the most

“Lost” Concerto by Robert Schumann, which he played in a piano accompaniment version. The concerto, recently exhumed from the archives of the Prussian State Library and given its first performance in ‘Berlin Nov. 26, was

| written "84 years ago, three Fears

before the composer’s dedth in asylum. Critics agreed that Menuhin per-

formed the concerto brilliantly, but | |

they took exception to his recently reiterated assertions that the composition was Schumann at his best. Olin Downes of the New York Times said ‘the concerto is the work of a tired mind.” In the opinion of Lawrence Gilman of the New

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matter of pyrotechnics, a sensitiveness and dawning poetry which showed the forming of an artistic individuality which promises to fulfill all the expectations aroused by the earliest appearances.” | Gilman objected to the performance of the Schumann Concerto without ‘orchestral accompaniment, but felt Menuhin played “the music in the image that his faith had wrought for it, and he played it very beautifully.” The young violinist will play the concerto with orchestra in St. Louis later this month.

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IN NEW YORK —sy ceoret: ross : i » » 8 8 # - | New, Block-Long Casino—Plus Reveler Shortage—Empties Small Night Clubs. . EW YORK, Dec. 7—The abrupt demise of that mammoth cabaret, the lavish French Casino, is the first major casualty in Broadway's

raging cafe war. The French Casino was the oldest, largest and most secure temple of night life on the Rialto.

Casino came along, with a behemoth interior, a costly floorshow and an investment of more than $500,000 behind it. When the International opened, cafe men trembled and so did their auditors, as business fell off and customers patronized their formidable rival.

30 the French Casino closed. Its sudden swoon can be wholly attributed to the International Casino's arrival. There is talk that another big table d’hote place with a lavish floorshow will put up the shutters shortly and that many smaller night clubs only are awaiting the Christmas and New Year's hauls before they bar their doors. Proving ‘what? Well, this, for exaraple: That despite what you hear, New York doesn’t have enough rounders or reveling - visiting firemen to support the number of night ‘clubs, big and .small, that have sprung up. And that a surfeit of giant cabarets on Broadway, each with a seating capacity of more than a thousand, will spell doom for them all. For (this is sotto voce) even the International, with all its vastness and splendor, isn’t minting coin, though it is pulling the crowds. Anyway, the passing of the French Casino is giving the njght club impresarios food for thought. Extravagant as they have been in. the past, they no longer ‘care 2 flood the midnight market with cabarets that look like the wide open spaces. Two —maybe three—on Broadway are snough. i

2 2 ¥ NRELIABLE— these Chinese. As witness: the Chinese Embassy in New York gave a luncheon the other day at Chow Mein Inn, an epicurean haunt in the Times Square district. There were 15 Chinese officials and some Americans and when the or-

| ders were taken, it was ascertained

that most of the Orient visitors had ordered ham and eggs while the

| few local boys had uniformly re-

quested chow mein. A plethora of Chinese eating

| places, incidentally, has settled upon

the town, and especially in the Times Square district. There are

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at least two dozen Oriental restaurants from. one end of the Rialto to the other; and one of them is a cafeteria where naught but Oriental dishes are dispensed in serve-your-self style. The others vary in caste and quality. but there are three that are frequented by the most demands ing devotees of an Oriental cuisine. These are the Cantcn Village, the | ‘House of Fu Manchu (the. chef is ° more imaginative than the man who christeped. it), and Ruby Foo's, a branch‘ of the Ruby Foo’s in Bos= ton which is famey around the country.

. Those Geolienials, though, who are exacting in their tastes still insist upon journeying to Mott and Pell Sts. for their Chinese dinners. And Lum Fong’s on Canal St. gets a great deal of the celebrity trade. This is one place where a truly gastronomical masterpiece must be ordered a day or two in advance. . = ® ROM the Gagsters: Alice Rost’s simile: As clever as the party of the second part in a two-line joke. Lots of comedians are quick to catch on, Jack Fulton laments, but don’t know when to let go. Broadway's’ road to fame; Carl Rove insists, is all pull and a yard wide. Bess Johnson tells of the crooncr who has just bought a new car with reversible headlights. Al Jolson knows a Hollywood gold digger who got her first love letter from a married star and is undecided whether to frame it or him. The well-dressed film stars, observes Joe Penner, wear ties with tots, buy suits with stripes and get letters with checks.

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