Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1938 — Page 8

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Breaks (In Ankles) Led

To Career

One Turned Miriam to Stage, Other Kept Her in New York.

was Had it

Miriam Hopkins’ career molded in two plaster casts. not been for a couple of ankles, the blond would not be appearing in Girl,” which opened today Circle screen.

“Wise

i | One misfortune turned her to the |

stage, and the second one kept her in New York, in a position to heed opportunity’s knocking. But before that, there was an earlier revolt in which chance and accident played no part. The Hopkinses of Bainbridge, Ga., were intent upon a social career for their pretty daughter. And, among the social graces, they deemed the art of piano playing a necessity. But of all things in the world that Miss Hopkins didn't care for,

So one fine day she announced, un- | aware of the coming plaster casts, that she would shape her own | destiny. Off to Vermont

= me veo neve 10 coin. Football Produces Fireworks For Next Play at English'’s

Seminary in Barre, Vt. There she | devoted her energies to painting | lessons and English lit classes. Enter | now the broken ankle, During convalescence, Miss Hopkins’ doctor told her she take up dancing to strengthen her] leg muscles. Straightway the |

Georgia belle decided upon a pro- |

fessional She made pearances: the Japanese dancer, with Lisa Serova. to go to South ballet company

dancing career. two noteworthy ap-| One with Michio Ito, and the other] She was slated | America with a when along came | fracture No. 2. Her pain and dis- | appointment were lessened con-| siderably when she learned that her | fellow-artists got stranded in a far-| off South American country and all | but had to hitchhike their way home. Meanwhile the pesky ankle had healed and Miss Hopkins had a job in the "Music Box Revue” chorus. | She had a solo number, too. And| when the curtain went up on opening night and Miss Hopkins saw her favorite screen stars, Norma | and Constance Talmadge, in the audience, she nearly fainted.

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Here Comes the Drama

A year of dancing and the Geor- | gia chorine decided to quiet down and go in for the drama. Her first part was in “Puppets” with Fredric March, who incidentally, returned to the New York, stage this week. Several other plays followed, among

the mthat famous modernized slice of Greek antiquity, “Lysistrata.”

broken | star probably |

on the!

the | leaders were social activities in gen- | eral and piano lessons in particular. |

| cushion. | of sticks on a curious square drum.

| whistle, | out and the

Before Miss Hopkins knew it, she was out. on the West Coast acting with Mr. March in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Since then she has alter- _ hated between comedy and melodrama. Currently she is combining the two in “Wise Girl,” wherein she leaves Park Avenue for the byways of Greenwich Village to rescue two little nieces from a handsome, artistic foster-father. And, as is the cinematic way, she falls in love with the artist, who is played by Ray Milland.

AUTHOR OF CIVIC MUSICAL IS HERE

With the new Civic Theater musical show almost complete, Charles Gaynor, its author-composer, is in town and ready to begin rehearsals. | Mr. Gaynor arrived from New | York yesterday. He said that the new production had a tentative title of “Half a Loaf.” But if the tradition of naming Civic musicals holds good, it should wind up as something else after temporary tags.

UP THE LADDER

Whitney Bourne, New York actress, has the leading role opposite Preston Foster in “Double Danger,” new mystery offering.

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MEETS ALI BABA'S FORTY THIEVES

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Above, left to right, Murphy and Mary Lou,

an unidentified horse and Mary

are Private Murphy, otherwise Ronald Reagan,

Sergt.

McGuire. The top billing.

trio may be seen in the Lyric’s current movie which, too, is called “Sergeant Murphy,” giving the horse

At 10:15 p. m. stage at English's, where * progress. Four shirt - sleeved gentlemen will be huddled in a booth, surrounded by microphones and paraphernalia weird enough to have | come ont of the Sycamore’s living room on stage. They will be gazing raptly at a red incandescent bulb hanging from a cord in the center of the booth. Suddenly the bulb will light up. And then these four men will start some amazing gyrations. Two of them will beat, a furious tattoo with rattan rods on an automobile Another will beat a pair

The fourth will roll a football mysteriously in front of a microphone, | meanwhile blowing a policeman’s | Presently the light will go | hubbub cease. The second act will be over. |

What It All Means saw the Kaufman-Hart when it plaved English's you probably know al-

If you comedy last year,

| ready what these men are up to.

If you didn’t, it's time you knew that they're really shooting fire- | works. Mr. Sycamore, you see, makes fireworks in the basement of his home. And the climax of Act II | comes when thé. pyrotéchnical in- | ventions go off just as the family is entertaining some Federal agents | upstairs. | The noises produced by the men | in the booth are released through | six amplifiers in the orchestra pit. So the sound actually comes from

“downstairs.” Of all the racket, the loudest, queerly enough is made by the rolling foothall. Inside it are a half dezen pellets of shot. Moved about directly in front of a microphone, the amplified result sounds like nothing less than battleships firing a full broadside,

on next Thursday, should | and at 2:15 Saturday afternoon—there will be strange goings-on back‘You Can't Take It With You” will be in

a

Friday and Saturday nights—

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Wells Fargo,” with Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Bob Burns, at 11:38, 2:11, 4:34, 6:57 and 9:30.

CIRCLE |

“Wise Girl,” with Miriam Hopkins, | Ray Milland and Walter Abel, at 11, 1:5 40. 7:30 and 10:20 re prion for Rominee. Mischa Auer and Wendy RITE 12:44, 3:34, 6:24 and 9:14.

INDIANA

“Every Day’s.a Holiday,” with Mae West, Charles Butterworth, Charles Winninger, at 11:55, 2:29, 5:04, 7:39 and 10:14. “‘Bulldeg Drummond's Revenge,” with John Barrymore, John Howard, at 11, 1:34, 4:09, 6:44 and 9:19.

LOEW'S

“The Hurricane,” with Dorothy Lamon “Mary Astor, 2:3 5:10. 7:50 and 10. “Paid to ‘Dance,’ with Don Terry, Jacqueline Wells, at 11, 1:35, 4:10, 6:05 and 9:25.

LYRIC

“Maj. Bowes’ Collegiate Revue,” on stace at 1:08, 3:52. 6:46 and 9:30. ‘Sergeant urphy, ” with Ronald Redean, Mary McGuire: on screen at 47, 2: 51) 5:25, 8:09 and 10:25.

OHIO

“Danger, Love at Work,” with Ann Sothern Also “Forlorn River.’

with at

Jon Hall, at 12,

AMBASSADOR

“Second Honeymoon, ” with Tyrone Power. Also “Between Two Women,” with Franchot Tone.

ALAMO

“Behind Prison 5 with Ralph Morgan. Also ** ough- Riding Rhythm,” with Ken Maynard

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‘ACTOR IS SICK BUT CAMERAS GRIND ON

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14 (U. P.) — Walter Pidgeon, movie actor, was ill today with bronchial pneumonia. The cameras were shooting around his role in the picture, “The. Girl of the Golden West,” pending his recovery.

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Standard Movie Firm Organized

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14 (U. P.).— In the old Vitagraph Studio, purchased from Warner Brothers, a new Hollywood motion picture company will start producing “B” class pictures April 1. Charles B. Taylor, Los Angeles lawyer, announced formation of the new Standard Pietures Corp. of which he is secre+ tary-treasurer. Mr. Taylor said they plan 16 “high class, but low cost, feature length” pictures the first year. An Eastern syndicate is financing the project, with Van Rensselaer Sternbergh of New York as one of the directors.

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Symphony Plays Here Wednesday

St. Louis Orchestra May Offer 'Schwanda’

Excerpts Here.

Following its home concerts this week-end, at which Samuel Dushkin, violinist, will be soloist, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will embark upon its annual midwinter tour which brings them to English’s Wednesday night. This will mark the second season that the Martens Concerts have presented our neighboring symphonists under their young French conductor, Vladimir Golschmann. On Wednesday evening Mr. Golschmann will conduct a program that includes the Overture to “Coriolanus” by Beethoven; Tschaikowsky's Symphony No. 6 (the “Pathetic’”); Strauss’ tone poem, “Don Juan,” and the Polka and Fugue from Weinberger's opera, “Schwanda.” Since Mr. Sevitzky and the Indianapolis orchestra are offering us a great many first performances this season, it is interesting to note that the “Schwanda” excerpts also may be added to the list of first local hearings.

First Performed in 1927 The opera’s full title is “Schwan«da, the Bagpiper,” or, in its much more euphonious German version, “Schwanda, der Dudelsackspfeifer.” Its composer, Jaromir Weinberger, is a resident of Prague, where he was born in 1896. His opera had its first performance at the Czech National Theater, Prague, in April of 1927. It was given in America for the first time at the Metropolitan in 1931. Schwanda is a small-town musician, and his fantastic operatic adventures include meetings with a bandit, a beautiful queen, a wicked magician and no less a personage than the devil himself. After all these tribulations, Schwanda comes to the conclusion that the great outside world isn't so great after all, and that there's

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nothing much more satisfactory than his own fireside and the company of his simple but devoted wife. The excerpts which Mr. Golschmann is to play here beat the entire opera to America by something more than a year. Since then they have had frequent performances by most of our leading orchestras. In the Polka and Fugue the composer has united an old and a comparatively new form. The fugue dates from the 16th Century, while the polka is said to have been invented by a girl named Anna Slezak, one Sunday afternoon in 1830. Copied down by a village musician, it spread to Prague, then to Vienna, and thence across Europe like wildfire. It was admired, copied and ridiculed, and eventually died out. It remains dear to the Czech people even today, however, for its rhythm never has lost, its underlying Slavic and rustic character.

FIND THEM FIRST

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‘Disney Wins

Story Suit

Mickey's Plot Not Stolen, Court Decides.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14 /(U. P.) — On the theory that there is nothing new under the sun, Mickey Mouse's creator was cleared of plagiarism charges today. John P. Wade, actor and writer,

FRIDAY, JAN. 14, 1938

sued Walt Disney for a share of the profits of the cartoon comedy entitled “Mickey's Polo Team.” He said the plot was lifted from his own skit entitled “The Trainer’s Nightmare.”

It developed in court that both skits used the gag of the horses mounting their riders, but Mr. Disney successfully contended that this, known as “the reversal gag,” was original not with either of them, but with Aesop, the famous author of fables. Judge Thomas C. Gould ruled in favor of Mr. Disney, saying that “undoubtedly Mr. Wade believed this was an original idea.

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