Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1937 — Page 22
JEDNE SDAY, DEC. 22, 1937
‘MAN - PROOF’ GIVEN FOUR STARS
Ho * Apollo Gets
EF ilm Before
~ Radio City
Lily Pons, However, to -. See Her New Movie In Manhattan.
By JAMES THRASHER
~ If Lily Pons weren't so busy this . week she might run out to Indianapolis to have a look at her latest picture, ‘Hitting a New High” Which opens Friday at the Apollo. . The Indianapolis opening beats that in New York's Radio City by one day. But Miss Pons has prom:iSed to be at the New York pre‘miere. Meanwhile she has things to .do. Tonight there is a radio broad.cast; tomorrow, a rehearsai for her ~ first Metropolitan Opera appearance of the season next month, and on Saturday she hopes to get around to ‘Maestro Toscanini’s first broadcast - with the NBC Symphony Orchestra -after looking in at Radio City. So ‘there’s really little time. That’s the way things go with the French coloratura. If it isn’t opera, “movies, recitals, radio and all the “consequent rehearsals, there’s a new “house in Connecticut to look after. All of which adds up to a heavy
schedule for a mere hundred pounds
of prima donna. Grace Moore Started It
You would think the movie people might have pity on the dady and make things as easy for her as possible. But nothing is sacred this ..year out Hollywood way. Familiar‘ity seems to breed familiarity, or something, for with each new picture the movie-starring opera sing- : ers are being treated more roughly. .-And after a few fast rounds with _ movie directors, the divas have decided they haven’t any corner on ‘temperament. So theyre just “taking it"—along with a handsome
salary. It all dates from the day they made Grace Moore sing “Minnie the Moocher.? Miss Moore didn’t walk out of the studio. In fact she rather liked it. [So did the audiences. So now anything goes with. the star sopranos. In her next picture, Gladys Swarthout is going to be pelted with tomatoes. Miss Pons doesn’t go to quite these lengths, but her current starring vehicle makes up in variety what it lacks in violence.
Six-Ounce Costume
Among other things, she is re- | ' ‘quired to cavort in a costume consisting of six ounces of vulture | feathers, shells and teeth. This |. ample garb is waterproofed, because Miss Pons spent 48 hours in a pool of water on a sound-stage jungle set. After her immersion she had to climb out of the pool, looking fresh as a daisy, and igo right into .an aria. Also she has to don a sequined tail coat, top hat, white tie and * tights and go into her song and dance in a night club sequence. ‘She “swings” the “Blue Danube,” does a couple of “lah-de-ah” choruses, imitates Louis Armstrong’s “trumpet | playing, and winds up ~ with the picture’s theme song, “I “Hit a New High.” "Even discounting the Hollywood ‘press-agent’s exuberance, this is quite an -asignment. Another thing Miss Pons is said to do is hit the “FF above C on four occasions. Tha 0 “too, may have something to d ~ with the picture's title. All these antics come to pass in ‘a’ picture about an ambitious youn ’ singer (Miss Pons), an imagens press agent (Jack Oakie), and a ingenuous big-game hunter ° (Edward Everett Horton).
Plenty of Jungles
_'* To secure her “big chance,” M ‘Pons lets Mr. Oakie| persuade he to journey to the jungle, “herself as a sort of female Tarzan, and allow the big-game hunter discover her singing as though he Tittle throat would burst. When the said “big chance! arrives, it is as a night club singer rather than an opera star. Which - gecounts for the rest of the rather jntormal and undignified entertain-
: Et think that you won't get -your fill| of jungles at the Apollo For besides Miss Pons’ feathere sequence, the second feature will provide other, more pur--poseful and decidedly more fan-_-tastic wilderness expeditions. The _ picture is none other than “Xing ~ ‘Solomon’s Mines,” Sir Rider Hag- _ gard’s hair-raising thriller of our
Hood. The cast includes Sir ‘Cedric _ Hardwicke, of the London and New “York stage; Anna Lee, one of Britain’s most decorative contributions to the cinema; Paul Ro _'son, the distinguished Negro actol“singer; Roland Young and John _ Loder. Many of the exteriors were -” filmed in Africa:
NAZIS TO CENSOR -- 'HARMFUL MUSIC!
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BERLIN, Dec. 22 (U. P) — Nazi authorities moved today to protect Germans from the insidious strains - of “poisonous music.” Censorship .was established over all imported musical scores = It was explained that importation “of “harmful” music from abroad
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._ ...would be stopped. The Propaganda
Ministry’s Music Department will _do the work, aiming particularly against jazz, the works of Jewish _ COmPpOSers and modernistic. music, ———
JOB ON HER HANDS
‘Anna May Wong, Chinese actress, now appearing in “Daughter of .Sh ,” is raising a fund for re“lief in China. To everyone sending ~her a contribution she
returns _ autographed photograph of Perselt, :
‘signed both in English and Chinese.
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This stellar quartet will be featured in one-half “Man-Proof.” | are left to right, Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Walter
of Loew’s Christmas offering,
They
IN NEW YORK— GEORGE ROSS
Theater a Plan Stag Chis ines Al Gordon's Trick Dogs to| Entertain.
EW YORK, Dec. 22.—There is a popular notation that drama critics are vulturous wolves who bare their fangs at most actors and plays; and are misanthropes who slink down and up to aisle and out, brooding to themselves; and are thwarted, poor devils who never get
much fun out of life. Since the Drama Critics Circle was formed, however, there, has been reason to \scorn such slanderous remar becaus2 the | boys prove to be quite the contrary of the gossip. It seems that instead of being embittered recluses, they are a sociable lot and like to get together often. Now George Jean Nathan, who is president of the group, is working on a stag Christmas dinner for the critical fraternity. For entertainment, he has recruited Al Gordon’s trick dogs who bother the life out of Ed Wynn in “Hooray for What!” Mark it down to their sense of humor, if you like, but the critics believe ‘that in a season of acting by Lillian Gish, Ina Claire, Orson Welles, George M. Cohan, etc. Al Gordon’s dogs submit performances that belong” with the best of the season. Precautions have been taken, incidentally, to prevent a dog biting a critic. ” ” a8
HE last time Joan Crawford visited Manhattan with her husband, Franchot Tone, they caused several human stampedes when they attended the theater. Joan, in town alone this time, is being highly considerate of her fellow playgoers. She waits until the houselights are down before
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Madame X,” with Gladys George and John Beal. at 11:24; 2:36, 5:48
and Manhattan Myrna Loy liam Powell, 10:12.
Melodrama,” with Clark Gable and Wilat 12:36, .:48, and
CIRCLE
“Victoria the Great,” with Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and H. B. yarner. at 11, 1:41, 4:22, 7:03 and
INDIANA
“True Confession,” with Carole Fred Nscaurrey, at
: :40, 0:20 “Daughter hanghai,” with Anna May Wong and BP ilip Ahn, at 12:45, 3:45, 6:25 and 9:30.
KEITH’ S with Bedy K Kiesler, at
with Bick MerJac and Paul Stone, t 12, 5s, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:40. LOEW'S Stand | In,” with Leslie Howard Biondell. at 12:40, 3:50,
:50, er 10. “Thorou hbreds Don’t Cry,” with Garland and Mickeys. Rooney, 1:15, "2720 5:25 and 8
LYRIC
“Missing Witnesses,” with John Lites and Dick Purcell, at 11:50, 2:30, 5:28, 8:26 and 10:46. “Glamour Girls of 103%, » with Nils To Granlund, at 1:05, 3:45, 6:43 and
> OHIO
“Top of the Town,” with George Murphy. Also “As Good as Married.”
AMBASSADOR “Double Wedding,” with William Powell and Myrna oy. Also ‘‘Breakfast for T ALAMO
“On Such a Night,” with Karen Morley. Also “Carnival Queen.” :
a “Ecstasy,” 5:50. 8:15 Atlantic “Flight. 3 ml,
Daughter of
Shanghai With Anna May Wong
NY ml
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| Stratford
ISTRAND
she enters the Broadway theaters. And she has been spared running the gauntlet of the autograph hounds. | I 2 ” 2 FJALLULAH BANKHEAD is in3 dignant. Someone said the other day that her groom, John Emery, has a pair of cauliflower ‘ears. Which would have been no great disgrace because, Tallulah’s husband was a pugilist before he turned actor. Btu she is indignant, nevertheless, at the aspersions cast at the shape and condition of her mate’s hearing apparatus. There is some truth in it, Tallulah says, but the truth only covers one ear. The other, thank heaven, was spared. And don’t let anyone tell you different about Tallulah’s man.
Arliss Flees Movie Work
English Actor Plans to Spend Winter in Hollywood.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22—(U.P.).— George Arliss hitched up his monicle today and announced a “going away from work strike” for the next 10 months.
The English actor, arriving by boat to spend the winter in Hollywood, said he is taking his first holiday. “This is the first time I've ever refused work,” Mr. Arliss said. “But I'm going to rest. I'm a laborer and I'm going to introduce something new—the ‘going away strike” I'm going to keep going away from work.” | Mr. Arliss’ vacation began when he completed his last picture for Gaumont-British in London. Mrs. Arliss is with him,
Pidgeon and ‘Rosalind Russell. The other picture, “Beg Borrow or Steal,” headlines Frank Morgan, Florence Rice and John Beal.
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Paul Whiteman Uncovers Forgotten Gershwin Tune, ‘Second Rhapsody in Blue’
Orchestra Leader, Thumbing Throtigh Old Music,
Recognizes Friend
\
's Familiar Scrawl; Expects Criticism of Title.
CHICAGO, Dec. 22 (. P.) —Years ago the late George Gershwin,
best known among composers of the
so-called American folk music, wrote
a rhapsody and filed it away to be forgotten. He apparently believed
it worthless. Eventually it was lost.
Whiteman among old arrangements,
Today, found by Orchestra Leader Paul
it was revealed as a “Second Rhap-
sody in Blue.” Whiteman was one of the com-
poser’s closest friends. His orches-
tra, “which usually introduced Gershwin’s works, made the first rhapsody famous. “Apparently George didn’t think much of this one,” Whiteman said. “But I believe it equals the first.” He said he was rummaging through arrangements used 10 and 12 years ago in an attempt to settle a dispute over comparison of present day swing and jazz.
Recognizes Scrawl
" «1 started with one pile of longforgotten music and began thumbing it through. I came to a sheet bearing the title, ‘Second Rhapsody’
Barrymores Just Couple
Back Home
for Christmas
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (U. P.).—It was the same distinguished left profile and the same dramatic white forelock, all right, but the man who wore them down Broadway today seemed vastly different from the John Barrymore who made theatrical history as Hamlet and newspaper head-
lines as Caliban. His brilliant stage performance of Hamlet was “quite some years ago, you know,” he said, and the Caliban who fled across the continent a couple of years ago from his Ariel had come back playing Adam to her Eve. “ Asked for the “recipe” which has made him an apparently contented married man, and Elaine (Ariel) Barrie a ‘rapturous young wife, he said: “Ask Adam and Eve.”
All Is Forgotten
The Barrymores are, in short, a married couple home for the Christmas holidays with the in-laws. The
race of two years ago and the divorce court charges and countercharges of a year ago have been forgotten and the once temperamental John has become, in the words of the woman who should knew, a “so thoughtful” husband. The change is apparent, too, in Mr. Barrymore's attitude toward his work. Time was when no one dreamed of offering him anything less than the star’s role, but: “How do you like playing minor parts?” : Go Shopping
“Swell. You don’t have to get up so early.” The Barrymores went shopping their first day here for some overcoats and hats for John. “Mama” went along. She is Mrs. Edna Jacobs, the actor's mother-in-law. She picked out a coat and a hat.
2 Days!
Tonight's Presentation at Your
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Continuous from 1:30
UPTOWN 42nd ‘and Ccliege
Double Feature Zasu Pitt
“FORTY NAUGHTY GIRLS” {Shirley Temple “HEIDI”
CLAIR 56 Daible Bayne
“LoNDON BY NiGHTS “GUNS AND GUITARS”
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RS’ D R [= A M 2351 Station St. Do le Feature i pa Brook “LOVE IN “CORONATION” = Technicolor Hiinois and 34th
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Doors Open 5:45 Loretta Youn ung “WIFE, DOCTO
AND NUR “CHARLIE CHAN Ton BROADWAY”
TACOMA
“WESTBOUND Fred Stone “HIDEAWAY”
4020 E. New York TUXEDO Richard Dix Joan Perry “THE DEVIL IS DRIVING” Selected Shorts
IRVING 5507 E. Wash St.
Double Feature Preston Foster “QUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT” Jean Rogers “REPORTED MISSING”
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HOWARD =
“SWEETHEART OF THE NAVY” “LEGION OF MISSING MEN”
STATE 2702 W. 10th St.
2442 E. Wash St. Double Feature Lyle Talbo
Double Feature Eric Lind:
Double tu o arr “BULLDOG DRUMMOND ) SOMES BACK”
“BLOND, hiiisal Wash. & Belmont
BELMONT Double i
“COUNSEL FO RIME “IDOL OF THE CROWDS”.
DAISY ‘Bou Festurs
Double Feat houhle Featirs
“ONE M MILE FROM AVEN" evor
HE “THERE GOES MY GIRL”
SPEEDWAY Doutle Fe Feature
“THAT CERTAIN W » “LIFE BEGINS oy WORN"
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AD OVER HEEL Md Del Rio pein LOVE I
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SANDERS
“THE GREAT GAME Dolores Del Rio LAMENT” SPY”
GROVE Beech Grove
aa “MY DEAR MISS ALD ver “THEY WON'T FORGETS AY. ALON Pros. & Churchman
Double woliure ; “Wan” Jane Wyman VE PUBLIC WED
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Mr. Barrymore rejected the one as “too collegiate” and said. of the othe?, “I don’t like it so much.” Having asserted himself in the matter of clothes, Mr. Barrymore acquiesced in the Christmas plans nade by his wife and mother-in-
Swill you have Christmas with your wife’s relatives?” he was asked. “Oh, yes, of course,” said Mrs. Barrymore. “Oh, yes,” said John.
—
STAN'S WIFE ASKS DELAY ON DIVORCE
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 (U. P.).— Mrs. Virginia Ruth Laurel, wife of the movie comedian Stan Laurel, asked a court today not to give her a final decree of divorce. Mrs. Laurel obtained an interlocutory decree a year ago. In a petition filed in Superior Court yesterday she asked that the final decree be withheld. She said she and Laurel had become reconciled several times during the year.
and / BIG HIT!
M-G-M's HILARIOUS COMEDY WITH A GRAND CAST OF comics!
FRANK MORGAN
JOHN BEAL - FLORENCE RICE HERMAN BING \ GEORGE GIVOT \ E.E.CLIVE
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written in George’s familiar scrawl. I tore open the cover and recognized his typical maner of writing Jotet, I forgot the controversy and urried to have my pianist play it. Some of the other boys listened in. “They were exceptionally. impressed. The orchestral arrangement required little work.” . Whiteman said the score originally was written as accompaniment to a motion picture and was renamed “Rhapsody in Rivets” for the purpose. “It will be presented under its original title of ‘The Second Rhapsody in Blue,’” he said. The rhapsody was played once by the Boston Symphony, he said.
Expects Criticism
“TI expect there will be criticism because the work is called a rhapsody, since it does not conform to the style set by Liszt rhapsodies. But it must be remembered that ‘rhapsody’ means ‘free form. “That is the best description I can give of the ‘Second Rhapsody’ except that you might call it a ‘tone poem’ with a strong -love theme running through it.
“It doesn’t seize the imagination like the first, but it does something to you after hearing it two or three times.” He said he also found several smaller works with the score. “George must have written them about the same time and then cast them off as unsuccessful,” he said. “I’m sure this music will be wel-
much needed addition to the scanty number of his works now available.” Gershwin died in Hollywood July 11 of a brain tumor. The ‘“Rhapsody in Blue” and “American in Paris,” were his best known works.
DESIGNS WATCH
Margot. Grahame, featured with Fredric March and Franciska Gaal in “The Buccaneer,” has designed a diamond and sapphire watch for men which is being manufactured by Europe's best-known maker of expensive watches. She gave the first one to arrive in this country
to Cecil B. DeMille, her producerdirector.
comed by Gershwin followers as a.
TED HEALY,
Ted Healy
Broderick Pupils Plan 2 Programs
Mr. and Mrs. Jac Broderick have arranged the Christmas programs which are to be presented this afternoon and tomorrow at the City Hospital by the St. Margaret Guild. Varied programs of classic and
popular dances will be offered by pupils of the Broderick Studios. Featured dancers will-be Miss Harriet McCord, assistant teacher at the studios. Other numbers are to be presented by. Shirley and Billy Pierce, Philip Parsons, Betty Bailey, Rosalie Robinson, Elaine Morris, Rosemary Albert, Mary Helen McClelland, Janet O’Hara, Betty Stine. Iris Cromwell, Martha Ann Gibbons, Vera Jean Davis and Dickie Edwards.
CHARMED CHAMBER
Isa Miranda, glamorous new importation from Italy, has inherited Marlene Dietrich’s sumptuous dressing room. She'll make her American debut in “Lady in the Tropics.”
FRIDAY: 522 oor:
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wih WALTER PIDGEON| Screen Play by Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young and Gegige
Oppenheime Directed by RICHZ.2D THORPE « Produced by LOUIS D. LIGHTON A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE
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TONE Hal
CREATOR
OF STOOGES, ‘IS DEAD
lcomedion Married First Wife While Playing At Lyric.
From four-a-day vaudeville ho er to musical comedy and pictl headliner, Ted Healy had been favorite of Inclianapolis audien for 20 years, And today these cal audiences, with those all o the country, are saddened by the death of the wry-faced comedian. The man who made the word “stooge” famous died in Hollywood yesterday, shortly after visiting his wife and new-born son. In New: York, the four “stooges” who had been part of his act for years, scarcely could believe him dead. “It can’t be on the level,” said Curley Howard. “He was all right, that guy.” Curley, his brothers Shemp and Moe, and Larry Fein, had known Mr. Healy as children. One day, while witnessing his vaudeville act, they were invited to come up on the stage.: They stayed in from that performance on. Indianapolis was the scene of Mr. Healy’s first marriage. The bride was his vaudeville partner, Betty Braun, and they were playing the Lyric at the time. That was nearly 20 years ago, Charles M. Olsen, Lyric manager said. Mr. Healy's last personal appearance in Indianapolis was at English’s in Billy Rose’s “Crazy Quilt.” He was costarred with Fannie Brice and Phil Baker. This was in Jan=uary of 1932. The show was returned to English’s in April of that year for two more performances.
THE WHOLE TOWN'S GOING SCREWY OVER LYRIC STAGE SHOW!
Famous Beauties, Dynamite Laughs Make Socko _Entertalnment!
N. T. G. AND HIS “Glamor Girls of 1938"
Also Starring
® THE THREE SAILORS
Sensational - Con Comedy Trio eo LINA BASQUETTE
Movie erson
e JANIS ANDRE Daring Soml-Nude Dancer
Come Early Today in Order To Be Sure of Getting Seats.
On Lyric Screen “MISSING WITNESSES"
Friday — Ethel Waters in
: Person.
Mm-G-M BRINGS YOU AR BIG HAPPY HOLIDAY DOUBLE FEATURE IN ONE GRAND SHOW! a a