Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1938 — Page 6
Lyric to See Maj. Bowes’ Varsity Bill
‘Collegiate Revue' Opens Friday With 30 in Variety of Acts.
By JAMES THRASHER Who knows but that Maj. Bowes may have a Carnegie Foundation investigation on his hands before long. For the paternal entrepreneur has raided the simon-pure entertaining ranks among our institutions of higher learning and is sending the result, his “Collegiate Revue,” to the Lyric for a week beginning Friday. Many, doubtless, have wanted to raid amateur college theatricals for one reason or another. But this is probably the only time that a raid brought anything resembling happiness to the performers. Some 30 entertainers, however, were chosen by the Major for the transition from varsity to variety, to lose their amateur theatrical standing in exchange for public plaudits. Among the acts will be a Coed Band, a “college style” Glee Club and a set of six intercollegiate “shag” dancers. Varied Bill Offered
In addition there will be several single acts including a ‘‘torch” singer, a brace of roller skaters, two stair-tap dancers, and Joe Higgins and Roy Davis, who bill themselves
Down the street at breakneck speed, with Daredevil Charlie Butterworth at the wheel, comes Mae West in this horseress carriage of uncertain age and
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as the “Monarchs of Mimicry.” But amidst all the amateurs there | will stand one man, Raymond Bar- | rett, professional and unashamed. | He is to be master of ceremonies. But if he doesn’t pick up a stick | and conduct the orchestra it will be | a wonder, Mr. Barrett, it seems, was wielding a baton when most youngsters are playing with rattles. Before he | was 5, a bandmaster friend of his | father’s let him direct the players | in “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” | That's how it came. about that | years before Edward G. Robinson ! became famous as ‘Little Caesar,” | Mr. Barrett had been tagged as | “Little Sousa.” In fact, Mr, Bar- | rett's press-agent assures us solemn- | ly that the lad, after two months of | training, “was able to conduct an | overture two hours in length.” The fact that he was able to discover an overture as long as two and a half symphonies, and hold the | stick and the audience's attention | through 120 grueling minutes, ranks | him with Mr. Toscanini, even though he was only 5 at the time.
Ted Lewis Here
Today and tomorrow are your last chances for a glimpse of Ted Lewis’ | show at the Lyric, which includes | two Indianapolis singers, Ruth | Thompson and Maxine Moore, in its | “cast. Miss Moore, who, until she joined | the unit, was a dignified recitalist and church choir soloist, said ves- | terday that she was enjoying her | “lessons in showmanship” with Mr. | Lewis She was ready to join the WLW | staff when a call from Ben Yost | sent her hurrying to New York on | Nov. 7 to join the top-hatted Mr. | Lewis and his entertainers. From here the show goes to Milwaukee, and March will find them in Los Angeles for a six-weeks’ en- | gagement. After that, it wouldn't | surprise Miss Moore or her local ad- | mirers any if she lent her voice to! WGN's radio programs in Chicago. | Meanwhile. Miss Moore admits “I never get tired of watching Mr. Lewis work. He's a wonderful showman.” |:
LON CHANEY JR. | WED, HE REVEALS
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12 (U. P| Lon Chaney Jr., son of the late “Man of a thousand faces,” revealed today that he and Patsy Beck, a! nonprofessional, have been married since Oct. 1. Chaney said “it's possible to keep! a secret in Hollywood, after all.” | He said they eloped to Colton, Cal, with movie players Astrid Allwyn| and Robert Kent as witnesses. They | then went on an auto trailer honey- | moon. Chaney has had minor parts in| films.
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TALENT NITE MANUALS GERMAN BAND Bill Adair’s Topnotchers
JO ELLEN BURROUGHS .AND OTHERS
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Babel of Tongues Assaults Broadway Ears From
IN NEW YORK —s, GEORGE ROSS
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Theaters and Pitch Stands. |
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Cosmopolitan Signs: vaudeville show on Broadway at 53d St. | the street from Lindy’s is showing a talkie in Swedish. In 42d St., the | | Cameo has been offering a Soviet Russian picture. “The Gods at. Play” at the World Cinema. is being offered to Yiddish enthusiasts at 59th St. dolls at 57th St. and 8th Ave. an Indian from | Society.
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nese pitchman selling toy
There is an Italian | A continental playhouse across |
France is represented | “The Brothers Ashkenazi” | And there is a Chi-
Bombay discoursing on the goodly life from a soapbox podium off the |
Rialto . .
Scratch a satirist and find a tragic | lish literature at Canada’s McGill
| heart beating underneath all the time. Pagliaccis—sans the grease-
| paint.
As examples: Sheila Barrett,
mimic of them all, openly confesses | ‘1 S | his novels,
| to a yearning for the legitimate stage. Cornelia Otis Skinner, whose satirical sketches have brought huge box office grosses from Maine to
California, finally tried her hand at
| a serious play, in which she was the |
lone character, this season. Charlie Chaplin frequently announced his intention to play Hamin time. Eddie Garr, the clown, has a se-
| eret penchant to be a tragedian.
Groucho Marx took off the ludicrous mustache, laid away that tall | cigar, to portray a serious part with | a Maine troupe some summers ago. Jimmy Savo, the pint-sized pantomimist of low comedy, would like to be an earnest thespian. While Stephen Leacock, supersatirist of them all, spends most of his working life as professor of Eng-
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Tovarich,” with Claudette Deis. Charles AY at 11, 1:11, 133. 7:44 and, 9:55.
CIRCLE
“Battle of Swing,” with Clyde McCoy. Don Bestor and heir orchestras, on stage at 12:58. 3:45, 6:45 and
20. Thrill of a Lifetime,” with Ben Blue. Judy Canova, on screen at 11:20, 2:08, 4:56, 7:44 and 10:32.
INDIANA
“You're a Sweetheart.” with Alice Faye. ai’ 11, 1:08, 3:16, 5:24, 7:32 and
LOEW'S
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11, 1:50, 4.40, 7:20 “She Married An Artist,” with
John Boles: So Deste, at 12:25, 3:15,
6:05 and LYRIC ed Lewis and nis orchestra on e at 1:06, 3:5 and 9:2 * with “Peter 5:12,
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T! stay hank You, Mr. Moto.” ors oR. ein at 11:36, 2:24,
8 and OHIO “Michael O'Halloran,” with Warren Hull. Also Charlie McCarthy short subject.
AMBASSADOR
“Second Honeymoon,”” with Tyrone Power. Also “Between Two Women,” with Franchot Tone.
ALAMO
“The Big Show,” with Gene Autry. Also “Dangerously Yours.”
LOEW S
. all these assorted tongues stirred in the babel of Broadway.
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come of $400 or $500 a year,
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University. * ® % John Steinbeck's delayed Christwas a trip across the country to see both the plays on Broadway inspired by “Of Mice and Men” and “Tortilla Flat.” He stays in Monterey where he is finishing a book and drawing down the largest royalties of the season. He can devote himself to writing these days, instead of nights, because he isn't compelled to work in the vineyards or lumber forests for his living. They say he now gets a thousand dollars a week for his literary efforts,
After you've survived en an inas the Steinbecks often did, a thousand looks like a million. An intimate friend of both vividly recalls the day that Steinbeck came into the Big Money. Veiling his mission in secrecy, he went up to San Francisco and in a terrific splurge bought his wife a swishy, satiny $5.75 dress. That night there was an exultant scene in the Steinbeck’s Monterey home. Carol paraded up and down the room in her new frock, like a proud manikin, and neighbors were called in to behold the spectacle. It was the first $5.75 dress she had ever worn! » Gloria Baker, lucky
glamor debutante, when she chose the |
| Franconia for a world cruise. Three |of the town's leading playboys are | aboard—Bob Tapping, John (Ship- |
| wreck) Kelly and Ed Eily. | discovered before sailing that he |
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matters, the leading debutante of | the season is Miss Martha Stephen- | son, a pretty young miss with social and artistic aspirations. But Miss Stephenson's position ds distinguished for more reasons than one. | She never, for instance, went to the costly ceremony of a lavish com-
| ing-out party to establish herself in
She lives in a modest hotel in the East Fifties, rather than in a tradition-strewn brownstone house. She does not exude an aura of unlimited wealth. When society accepts a debutante as the First Young Lady on such an unpresuming basis, it becomes pretty unusual, Dorothea Lawrence doesn't know where she read it, but the lines, pertinently observed that a ‘man has to be a contortionist in these trying times. He has to keep his back to the wall, his ears to the ground, his nose to the grindstone, his shoulder to the wheel, his head level and both id on the earth.”
CHAPS ARE POPULAR
Ronald Sinclair is among the younger Hollywood actors to take up riding at the Bel-Air academy. Ronnie celebrated his first lesson by wearing a pair of cowboy chaps to ‘the studio schoolhouse.
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Frances Mercer's Diary Tells Hopes and Fears in Seven-Month Film Rise
Her Hollywood Career Is Dream at Last Come True;
Soars to Second Lead
With Ginger Rogers
In "Vivacious Lady" Production.
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12 (U, P.).—When Miss Frances Mercer, New vork debutante, alighted from a plane last May to be whisked on a sight-seeing tour of movie sound stages, she could scarcely believe what
she saw.
It was like a dream, but she intended to make it come true.
Many
another girl has had the same idea and failed. Miss Mercer persisted— and today she’s playing the second lead in the R-K-O production,
“Vivacious Lady.”
starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart.
Here
is her diary, beginning with the day she arrived here:
“May 5: Saw Ronald Coleman on® a sound stage. Wonder if I'll ever get to meet him? TI realize fit is a strike against you to come out here as a beauty contest winner. I'm going to pull every string I can and be seen around town a iot. “May 8: Lunched at 20th Cen-tury-Fox and saw Tyrone Power who is just as good looking off the screen as on. “May 17: Mother and I have such a cute, sunny apartment and are constantly meeting new people. “May 26: Where'll I be a month from today? “June 26: My second marriage proposal in a week. I wasn't interested.” Signs Contract
Early in June she got three days work as a bit player at Universal at wages of $50 a day. Things 100ked up and she signed a contract with an agent. “Aug. 6: Saw James Stewart at the Trocadero. I would like to meet him. “Sept. 17: Called at Paramount and read a scene from ‘Stage Door.’ They said my reading was good but very monotonous. “Oct. 2: A test at Warners. They just sat me in a chair and the director asked me some dopey questions. I didn't know they were recording my voice. “Oct. 6: I weigh 127 pounds. Ye Gods! “Oct. 9: Saw my Warner's test. The voice was clear and concise, but as usual. very snooty sounding. They seemed to like it. “Oct. 21: A wonderful deal at Warners. subject to extensive testing. to start Tuesday. I won't even write down the terms until I get them. Three-Hour Screening
“Oct. 24: Saw a man with a badg- |
Hollywood Boulevard. Now I've seen everything! “Oct. 26: Warner's shot me from 2 till 5. Was I nervous! They said I was too cold, giving a blah performance. “Nov. 6: T start at Warner's at $125 a week, which isn't much, but they won't expect much of me and I'll have more of a chance. “Nov. 9: No word from the agent.
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“Nov. 15: Tf T don't sign the thing tomorrow I'll bust. “Nov. 16: I'm slowly going out of my mind. “Nov. 18: The impossible has happened. The Warner deal has fallen through, I still have faith in myself. ‘Dec. 1: to R-K-O. “Dec. 3: Saw Phil Friedman, the R-K-O casting director. He's nice and he raved about my test. He wants Pandro Berman, the producer to see it.
Another Contract
“Dec. 7: Saw Berman. He liked my test. Ginger Rogers burst in. They all seemed enthusiastic. I've got my fingers crossed.
“Dec. 9: I'm to sign a contract with R-K-O; $175 a week for first six months and up. But it's not final and I've learned my lesson, “Dec. 11: The deal is set. I'm s0 excited! “Dec. 12: Sent in $30 to join the Screen Actors’ Guild. Necessary. Also had to apply for Social Security number. To think, I'll have to pay an income tax next year. Goodbye, carefree poverty. “Dec. 15: Berman says he thinks I can do the second lead in Ginger Rogers’ picture. “Dec. 18: Will T get the part? Will T get good notices? Will I go nuts? “Dec. 21:
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I got the part! Whee! “Dec. 31, 1937, (The final entry in Miss Mercer's diary): After six in Hollywood I finally
SHIRLEY GOOD PUPIL
Bill Robinson, famed tap dancer, avers that Shirley Temple is the person to do his renowned “stair dance” properly. They do it together in “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” Shirley's latest for 20th Cen-tury-Fox.
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Second Run Films Booked For Keith's
House to Open Saturday With Two-Feature Policy. Central City Amusement Manny Marcus, president, has taken over the lease of Keith's Theater and is to reopen the house with a double-feature pros gram on Saturday. The company also operates the Ambassador, Alamo and Cozy theaters. A policy of downtown first subsequent run pictures, now in effect at the other three theaters, will be maintained at Keith's, Keith's most recently was opers ated on a picture-and-vaudeville
policy by Jack Kane. His operation was discontinued on Jan. 2.
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, is to be soloist at second popular-priced concert at p. m. Sunday in the Murat.
the Lalo Concerto in D Minor, Fabien Sevitzky will concert,
Recital Set By Faculty
Quartet to Take Part at Odeon Tonight.
A program of chamber music presented by Julio Mazzocca, clarinetist; Dorothy Munger, pianist, and the Indianapolis Symphony String Quartet, will be given at 8:50 o'clock tonight in the Odeon, 106 E. North St. This is one of the regular Wednesday night faculty recitals | being presented throughout the sea- | son by the Jordan Conservatory of | Musie. | Mr. Mazzocca, who is first clarinetist of the Indianapolis Symphony, | will offer a Mozart Concerto, a Concertino by Guilhaud and Debussy’s | Rhapsodie for Clarinet as his solos. | He will be joined by the quartet and Mrs. Munger in a performance of
Serge Prokofiev. Debussy's String Quartet, Opus 10, will be played by the symphony orchestra quartet, whose members are
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