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"TUESDAY, DEC. 21, 1037

63-YEAR REIGN OF ENGLAND'S REVERED QUEEN VICTORIA BROUGHT

" THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Prima Donna Of Blues Due To Sing Here

Ethel Waters Booked at Lyric Along With Kay Francis, ’

By JAMES THRASHER

On the day before Christmas, and during the ensuing week, - you may sec two “first ladies” at the Lyric in their first Indianapolis appearances at popular prices. More than that, you may see them both for the price of one. The screen attraction will be

‘Warner Brothers’ adaptation of the | Katharine Dayton-George S. Kauf-

man stage hit, “First Lady,” which played at English’s last year with Jane Cowl in the name part. And on the stage will be that prima donna of dusky singers, Ethel Waters. . : : This engagement marks Miss Waters’ first local vaudeville appearance, though she has been’ seen at English’s and the Murat in such big Negro revues as “Rhapsody in Black,” as well as in “As Thousands Cheer.”

Other Features Promised

They say that Miss Waters was the singer who introduced that almost legendary ditty called “Dinah,” long since g darling of the swing band maestros. Also she gave the world first hearings of the less ancient “Am I Blue” and “Stormy Weather.” These, of course, she will sing again for Lyric patrons. And if you are a real Ethel Waters fan, you'll be more happy to know that “Miss

Otis Regrets,” “Supper Time,” “Heat |

‘Wave and other selections of a Similar nature are on the promised

The songstress is only the be-

- ginnin’, folks, of the “Harlem Holly-

wood Revue,” which will include Eddie Mallory and his 16 swingsters; “Butterbeans and Susie” and Jayner and Nelson, two comedy teams; six “Big Apple” dancers, and “Sunshine Sammy,” late of the “Our. Gang” comedies, with his partner, “Sleepy” Williams

Anyone who saw “First Lady” on the stage knows that Mr. Kaufman never hitched his name by a hyphen to the authorship of anything funnier. Dolly Gann Recalled It remains to be seen what will happen when the part of Lucy Chase Wayne is intrusted to Miss Kay Francis, whose chief asset heretofore has been the ability to wear gowns with tragic beauty, instead of Miss Cowl, who could do anything

from Shakespeare to slapstick with

equal grace. But Sts a fact that the movies won't .need to add any laughs. to “First Lady” as they did to Mr. Kaufman's © more recent effort, #Stage Door.” : In the legitimate production, every one of Miss Cowl’s exit lines feft the audience rolling helplessly in the aisles. You will recall that “First Lady” paused quite a stir. when it first came out because the wise ones happehed. to see the shadow of Mis.

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PONIGHT HENRY BIA-GINI *

and His 14 Aries

Nicholas Longworth and Mrs. Dolly

Gann in the play’s feud between the wives of a Senator and a Supreme Court justice. “First Lady,” however, remained amusing after the polite hair-pull-ings of a former administration were all but forgotton. Miss Dayton knows her Washington, and she set down her observations in: a satire that was devastatingly funny. Mr. Kaufman, who is something of a wit himself, did the production no harm. The results ought to be good in any medium. The movie’s cast includes Verree Teasdale as the other principal in the political teapot’s tempest; Walter Connolly as the aging jurist; Preston Foster .as Senator Wayne; Victor Jory as the young congressman; Anifa Louise in the role of Lucy’s niece, and Louise Fazenda as Mrs. Lavinia Mae Creevey, the obstreperous and ubiquitous clubwoman,

MAUCH TWINS’ TONSILS SPARED

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21 (U. P.).— Billy and Bobby Mauch, the movie twins, gained today a delay in twin operations to remove their tonsils. Doctors ordered the . operations, but a delay was permitted until January so the boy actors will not

be in the hospital Christmas Day.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Madame X,” with Gladys George ang Join Beal, at 11:24; 2:36, 5:48

Manhattan Melodrama,” Myrna Loy, Clark Gable and liam Powell, at 12:36, 0:48, 7 and

CIRCLE

“Victoria .the Great,” with Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and H.. B. y/arner, at 11, 1:41, 4:22, 7 03 and

INDIANA

“True Confession,” with Carole Lombard and Fred MaoMurray, at 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 a hy 10:20.

, at

KEITH'S

Ptany Xi Hedy Kiesler, at 1, 5:50. and 10:40. «Atlantic Fit nt. 5 with Dick MerIn, Jac mbie and Paul Stone, t 12, 2:25 4:50, 7:15 and 9:4

LOEW'S

and In ” with - Leslie Howard d “Joan Blondel, at 12:40, 3:50,

0. ‘Thoroughbreds. Don’t Cry,” - with J Garland dnd Mickey. "Rooney, at 11:15, 2:20, 5:25 and 8:

LYRIC ‘Missing Witnesses,” with John Lite and Dic Dick Pure cell, at 11:50, 2:30,

: “Glamour ¢ Girls. of 1938,” with Nils > pSraniung, pat 1:05, 3:45, 6:43 and OHIO

“Wild and Wooly,” Withers. Also “Love Under

AMBASSADOR “Double Wedding.” with - William Powell and Myms y. Also “Breakfast for Tw ALAMO

“On Such a Night,” with aren Morley. - Also “Carnival Queen

with Jane | Fire.”

IN NEW YORK —s, ceoreE ross

Arliss Denies He Will Portray Late Rockefeller;

Manville Can't Excite City Room.

EW YORK, Dec. 21—They persistently pumped George Arliss, while he was in New York, about the rumor that he would portray the late John DD. Rockefeller on the screen.

said he wouldn’t, adding that the rumor firsf; began when the late oil king started looking like him. But he failed to explain why he wouldn't add & portrayal of the late American Croesus to his crowded gallery ¢f impersonations. He wouldn't, that is. to interviewers. But in private conversation the other day, Mr. Arliss gave his real reason for shunning the assignment. His relucfance, it seems, lies in his distaste for one phase of the Rockefeller benefactions: medical research in all parts of the world. Mr. Arliss is an ardent antivivisectionist. And he, therefore, opposes any kind of surgical experiment. He doesn’t believe that he can do Justice to the character, in view of the difference of opinion. : » » # IME was when the amatory life of playboy Tommy Manville was followed with blind devotion by editors and scribes; and the ladies in his life glways enjoyed grandstand seats on the front pages. But the ardor has died and no one in the city reoin, apparently, cares any more about the didoes of T. M. or any or his alleged inamoratas. The ofher night, Norma Taylor, whose neme was linked with Tommy almost to-the altar, entered & night club with a stranger. The house attache. grew excited; he phoned a tabloid end asked for the city desk. “Tommy Manville’s ex—,” he began.

desk man, “we wouldn't care if she

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“Forget it,” cut in a lackadaisical |

And repeatedly, the British actor

were Tommy's Madame X.” And hung up. - A Carnegie Hall habitue attended a piano recital by Walter Gieseking, and afterward idled about the stage door, waiting for no one in pats ticular. ® 8 =

UT after a while, he saw the renowned musician come out, accompanied by a lady. This fellow swears he wasn’t following them. He just happened to be walking in their direction. He saw them turn in on West Fifty-Second Street and go into one of those many swing dens that dot the noisy block. He even had the courage to inquire later and find out that GieSeking is a great admirer of the offat. Swings a mean tune himself over the ivory keys. That animosity which professional performers once directed at Major Bowes when he exploited the Amateur Hour now .is being aimed at Arthur Murray by veteran ball room dancers.

INDIANA

Daughter of Shanghai

With Anna May "i

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IT'S DYNAMITE! l

LYRIQ o2Nakenen Hysterics as THEA T. h

Three ' Score ro Laugh 3 Triumphs! Indianapolis ‘has neve power seen such

You have mever heard such Inughs! —————

N. T. G. AnD His | “Glamor Girls of 1938"

Also Starring

® THE THREE SAILORS

Sensational I Comedy Trio

o LINA BASQUETTE . . Movie Star—in Person

® gy ANDRE Daring Semi-Nude Dancer

Come Early Today in Order To Be Sure of Getting Seats.

On Lyric Screen

“MISSING WITNESSES'®

Friday = Ethel Waters 11) Person, x

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Double Feature E su Pitts FORTY NAUGHTY GIRLS”

Shirley Temple “HEIDI”

ST. CLAI St. CL._& Ft. Wayne

Souls Keatuss Ron ma, “PRISONER rp AREISONER oF AT WORK”

TALBOTT “ui win’ BRIDE wort"h Crawford Dick Poum “VARSITY SHOW” RE. FE X 30th at Northwestern

Souble FSurbin “100 MEN AND A GIRL’ tin Bruce Cabot “BAD GUY”

GARR ICK 80th and Iilinois

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DAISY “Boutlc Pettus”

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“THERE: GOES ‘MY GIRL”

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The Circle this week is offering the first cinema biography of g England’s revered queen in “Victoria the Great,” with Anna Neagle in the title part. In the above pictures are glimpses of Miss Neagle as she portrays Victoria in various periods of her 63-year reign. From left to right, we see the young queen with her first prime minister, Lord Melbourne (H. B. Warner); as a bride, in the first years of her marriage to Prince Albert; the monarch in middle life, during the Prince Consort’s last illness, and as the aged Empress of India. Christmas party and dance tonight

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