Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1938 — Page 4

Loew's Will - Offer ‘Find’ “In New Film

Rose Stradner Makes Ist Hollywood Appearance In ‘Last Gangster.’

By JAMES THRASHER For the second time in as many weeks, Loew's is going to offer you, among the various attractions of its coming feature, another look at a new European “find.” 4 In “Rosalie,” now holding forth at the Pennsylvania St. playhouse, may be seen Ilona Massey, a blond and beauteous Bohemian, who is one of M-G-M’s major importations of the season. Now, come Friday, we shall

see Rose Stradner in her first American appearance. That will be opposite Edward G. Robinson in “The Last Gangster.” Max Reinhardt protegees seem to be as plentiful as descendents of the Mayflower’s passenger list, but be that as it may, Miss Stradner took her early theatrical training under the great Max in her home city of Vienna. Except for a brief residence in Zurich, Switzerland, the actress spent all her young life in the city of Strauss waltzes and schnitzel until the day when she arrived at that ultimate destination of all good Reinhardt students—the M-G-M Studio. While in Vienna Miss Stradner

did her early work ‘in the Volks-||

theater alongside a girl named Luise Rainer. When the latter graduated to Hollywood, her dramatic partner transferred to the Josefstadt Theater, where she starred in a series of successful productions. In 50 Productions

Under Mr. Reinhardt she appeared in more than 50 productions, ranging from Shakespeare, Moliere and Ibsen to works of contemporary writers. Her performance in Arthur Schnitler’s “Miss Else” won her an American film contract. Miss Massey's first assignment demanded little more than that she look pretty and display a charming variety of broken English in a husky contralto. But Miss Stradner was handed sterner’ stuff for her first role. As Talya Krozac, she plays the wife of a mobster who seeks to ‘avenge himself on her for her degertion during his 10 years in prison. Mr. Robinson, who again is the bad man of the piece, is also a European, though he has become recognized as the embodiment of the American gangster, whether he likes it or not. Born in Bucharest, Rumania, he was brought to New York as a child, and gained his edu- ~ cation and stage experience in that

city. At Odds With Law Now, just as Mr. Robinson is getting a nice reputation, via radio, as . crusading managing editor, we find him at odds with the law again in this coming picture. But he really hasn’t been as bad as he’s usually . painted. : Says the cigar-chewing star: “It probably all started because I played the first gangster role on the screen away back when we did ‘The Widow From Chicago.’ Now the public generally credits me with having played about a hundred gangster roles. As a matter of fact, I have played more comedy characters than gangsters.” Mr. Robinson credits himself with only six “straight gangster” roles. Those were in “The Widow From Chicago,” “Night Ride,” “Little Caesar,” “Little Giant,” “The Whole Town’s Talking” and the present vehicle, “The Last Gang-

‘Comedy More Pleasant’ “Playing a gangster role is interesting,” he says, “because it presents a study in psychology. It takes a lot of imagining to get the viewpoint of a vicious criminal. That makes it a rather fascinating game. “But I wouldn't care to play it too often. Comedy roles are more pleasant and less wear and tear on the imagination and emotions.” Other players in this drama of jove and lawlessness are James Stewart, Lionel Stander, John Carradine, Douglas Scott, Sidney -Blackmer, Grant Mitchell and Edward Brophy.

HALEY IS GIVEN BETTER CONTRACT

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5—A double cause of celebrating the holidays was given Jack Haley when Darryl P. Zanuck tore up the comedian’s

contract and gave him a new star-

ring termer. . At tht same time, his first role under the new agreement was assigned to him. He will have one of the important parts in Irving Berlin’s next musical, “Alexander’s Ragtime - Band,” which starts next month with Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche and Ethel Merman in leading roles. :

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IN NEW YORK ——8y cEoReE ROSS Club Doormen Include Ex-Member of Tsar's Personal Guard and Greek Shipowner.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5—There have been many legends about door-

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Over the years the tale persisted that the doorman at Jack & Charlie’s famous “21”. Club dealt in costly realty by day. And though on quarter tips, the word went that he was in a position to buy or sell Fifty-Second Street.

And there is the doorman at a downtown Russian cafe, in the dashing Cossack mufti, whose credentials show that once he served in the Tsar's personal guard; and

venture back into Leningrad or Moscow. It leads up -to this: the other night your correspondent wes listening to the lament of a swarthy and amiable Greek who pushes the revolving door at a club. He was moaning about the depression in mercantile shipping, a topic which seemed far removed from the man at the door of a night club. But he had a personal stake in it, he said, for he happened to be part proprietor of freighters belonging to a great Greek fleet—and business was not so good! The sedentary life gives the playboys their wierd ideas and all kinds of funny notions germinate in their heads while they loiter at El Morocco. Now the other night, H. H. Rogers, heir to the oil fortune, gazed into the crystal of a champagne

the winter. He was, he said, going to sail his yacht down to Palm Beach and after casting anchor, he was going to cement the side of his boat against the harbor wall. Then he was planning to convert his pasted-up craft into a floating

And he might, too.

It’s downright silly, but it's a laugh. During the past few nights, Lynne Fontanne has cuddled up to Alfred Lunt in the more intimate scenes of their classic vehicle, “Amphitryon 38”, and murmured this strange query, “Perwitsky? Perwitsky?” once or twice. It isn’t in the English script, nor did the author ever hear of it, and the Greeks, from whom the play was taken, never had such a word; nor is it an incantation the Lunts made up themselves.

But it turns out that they picked up a newspaper last week and read in a column that Lynne Fontanne wears the only Perwitsky coat in town. The information surprised them, too, if for no other reason than they don’t know a Perwitsky coat from a Hudson seal. But they like the sound of the word and they are hoping that somebody in the audience jis going to hear ‘Perwitsky” one night and come araund and explain. > Maybe it hasn’t occurred to you

that some of the screen's most

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southern mansion for all his friends.

glamorous sirens are bandleaders’ wives and that these baton wavers have, at last, banded together for their own protection.

They've organized a fraternity where they can cry on each others’ shoulders about the distance that divides them from Hollywood wives. the charter members include Herbie Kay who is Dorothy’s Lamour’s husband, Ozzie Nelson who is married to Harriet Hilliard, Roger Pryor who wed Ann Sothern, Herman Nelson who is married to Bette Davis, Johnny Green who married Betty Furness, and Lou Bring who, off the podium, is the husband of Frances Hunt. :

Big Town Facts to Be Stored Away for Future Reference: The management of the Hotel St. Regis suddenly came to the conclusion last week that its guests were veritable’ Goliaths and that the beds were too short for them. So ‘the hapless commissary department had to go out and stock.in a huge suply of extra long sideboards and extra long mattresses. And if it is any comfort to you, the feet of the Se Regis’ patronage no longer stick out.

You have it on the word of Pierre, the confectioner at Henri's, that John J. Raskob, former Democratic Committee chairman, likes to wander in now and then to indulge in his favorite vice—chocolate covered orange peel. Gertrude Lawrence likes to poke her lovely head out of her dressing room each night and accept the greetings of the autograph hounds who crowd the curb to serenade her with “yoo-hoo, there, Miss Lawrence.” ® x 8

Another year passes and Russ Morgan wonders if these inmates of 1937 are still around: The chorine who calls everybody “darling”; the girl who says that she is the next Mrs. Tommy Manville; the tailor who daily predicts that men will

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take to purple jackets, cream colored trousers and maroon top hats; the night club doorman with only two half dollars in his jeans when he is making change; the society juveniles and ingenues who are always eloping from the Stork Club; the actors and actresses who announce weekly that they will turn up next as Hamlet or Ophelia; the master of ceremonies who. always is staging something “by request,” although not a soul has called for it.

Charles: Walters would have you know about the small-time booker who wandered from the lobby .of a big office building into a nearby hat store. “Give me a hat two sizes larger than this one,” he gasped, ‘I just booked a client and I'm enlarging my office.” ‘

And they would tell you that George Jean Nathan was complaining oI a sudden attack of indigestion after a dinner with his cqnfreres. “I wonder what could have caused it,” he mused. i “You probably ate something,” retorted a fellow who knows Nathan’s critical standards, “that you disagreed with.”

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The other day, Jean Lenauer, the French film man, was going east in a shuttle train, when a guard at the Grand Central stopped him. “Pardon me, sir,” the subway attache said, “but do you mind if I inquire where you bought your shoes?” Lenauer replied graciously in the negative and\added that he had just returned 'from a trip abroad. “In Paris!” the subway man said with a sweep of the arm, “Mais oui, ils sont tres jolis,” he confided. One more. flourish of the arms and he was back to duty, “Wach yer step, wa’ch yer step. Careful gettin’ off.” Charming town this, says Monsieur Leanuer,

ROSE BOWL QUEEN

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5 (U. P).— Cheryl Walker, pretty blond coed who rode as queen of Pasadena’s Tournament of Roses parade New Year's Day, had the opportunity today to become a movie star, . Scouts from Paramount Studio Signed her for voice and screen ests. : :

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“King Richard II” % Englishs for performances on on Tuesday evenings. 0 Mr. Evans, as the whole country

unanimous praise, and capacity

which many erudite commentators have agreed was unplayable. In this connection, they naturally have agreed that it is minor Shakespeare, written in his younger days before the full force of his genius was set. But Mr. Evans’ characterizations, plus Margaret Webster's direction, and with the added ingredient of David Folkes’ settings, has made it the great Shakespearean triumph

1 of this generation.

Last Seen 60 Years Ago It has been more than 60 years since Booth gave New York its previous Richard II. ‘That was a flop, though whether it was so called in that genteel day is not known. Since then no one has dared touch it. Yet the present sticcess is an ine citement to more theatrical enthusiasm than we have had a right to entertain in a long time. Douglas Gilbert, in the New York World-Telegram, has sought to show that there might have been some just cause for Booth’s failure. In an interesting account of the play’s

bert tells us that Booth changed the play’s beginning (it opens with Richard and John of Gaunt upon the stage), sacrificing the noble opening lines for a fanfare, and seeking a delayed and “noble” entrance. : Other and earlier difficulties are recounted further in Mr. Gilbert's article, as follows: “But ' Booth’s monkey business was not nearly as flagrant as his forerunners, some of whom made of it a veritable hodge-podge so. as to get it upon the boards without provoking Elizabeth. For the Queen hated the play. Its deposition of a King she deemed sinister and forbidding. She was frightened of it, snd because of this fear, lines 154318 (the deposition scene) were stricken from the text. ! “The testy sovereign, plagued at the time by the rebellion of Essex, clapped Sir John Hayward into prison for his ‘History of the Life and Raigne of Henry IV, which

who preceded Henry. And the actors of the Globe and other Elizabethan theaters, themselves then held in no decent repute, were not

insisting upon playing Shakespeare’s tragedy verbatim.” A ;

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“Things will be both sinister and sunny on the new Lyric bill opening Friday. Peter Lorre, left, can be relied upon to slink across the Lyric screen with some sly deductions in “Think Fast, Mr. Moto.”

And on the

right is that venerated and high-hatted * © inquirer after everybody's happiness, Ted Lewis, who returns to the Lyric’s stage with a new show, but the same old clarinet and battered hat, ‘

Fargo.” with Joell McCre Bob" a Bt 11:42, 2:08. 4:34, and 9:26. : ; CIRCLE

«Tovarich.” with Claudette Col--bert, Charles Boyer at 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8 and 10:10. * INDIANA

“Love and Hisses,” with Ben Bernie, Walter Winchell, at 12:05, 2:30, 4:65, 7:20 and 9:45 A

‘WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

DEANNA DURBIN ~ WILL VISIT EAST

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5 (U, P.).— Deanna Durbin, 15-year-old singing movie star, will go to New York early next month, after her current picture is firished. “I want to see the shows,” the schoolgirl seid, in the manner of older Hollywood stars, “and I want to see what the girls in New York

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“Rain,” with Joan Crawford. Also “Think Fast, Mr. Moto.”

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