Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1938 — Page 2

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Loew's Gets Boxing Film, |’ Disney Short

Grace Moore Picture Follows Second Week Of "Hurricane.

By JAMES THRASHER

It's encouraging, this growing attention to “shorts” on the part of exhibitors and moviegoers alike. For therein, no doubt, lies the key that will reopen to us the portals of single blessedness, as far as movie programs are concerned. In this connection, Loew’s has a few words to say about its current and coming programs. Beginning today, the management will supplement its second week of “The Hurricane” and “Paid to Dance” with the pictures of the Braddock-Farr fight of last Friday night. Beginning with next Friday's bill, Loew's is to show the latest Walt Disney cartoon, “Hawaiian Holiday.” Resume Disney Films With this short featrue, the theater

the regular Disney output. Not

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

‘GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST' HAS MODERN AIDS IN HISTORIC SETTING

once more will offer patrons | So |

long ago the creators of Mickey |

Mouse, et al, companies and released tures through RKO, instead ' of M-G-M. But Loew's recently completed arrangements whereby they will show them, anyway. Meanwhile, there is no news concerning “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” so far as Indianapolis is concerned. The full-length color cartoon is being sold separately from the other Disney “product.” So, al-

their pic-

though we all have read a good bit | about this pretentious feature, well | have to let the glowing praises whet

cur appetites for a while longer.

Jackie Cooper Film Before Loew's decided “The Hurricane” was worth a fortnight's ex- | hibition, there was some mention in this space about the second feature | that would be seen with Grace Moore's “Ill Take Romance,” beginning this Friday for sure. The film is a Monogram picture | called “Boy of the Streets,” starring | Jackie Cooper. Since it comes to us recommended by the National Board of Review as a worthwhile “social document,” and also has won the Parents Magazine medal for the best picture of the month, it would seem to deserve another mention. In the principal feature, Miss Moore will be seen as a Metropolitan Opera star, a not-so-difficult assignment. Incidentally, this singer completed her picture work in time | to get back to the Metropolitan about 10 days ago to sing Mimi in “La Boheme.” And she had some very nice things said about her after | a two-years’ absence. Diversified Program As usual, Miss Moore's current screen vehicle includes music which should attract a diversified audience. Her “program” includes four operatic excerpts: The Gavotte from “Manon,” the Drinking Song from “La Traviata.” the quintet and finale from the third act of “Martha” and the duet from “Madame Butterfly”: the French music hall Iavorite, “Paree.” and the hill-billy classic, “Shell Be Comin’ Round the Mountain.” Melvyn Douglas will Moore romantic support, bulk of the comedy Stuart Erwin.

HYMER'S EX-WIFE | WINS ALIMONY

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 24 (U. P) — Warren Hymer, film actor, was under court orders today to pay his divorced wife Mabel $6000 back alimony plus interest. Mr. his wife's remarrizge cancell led his obligations, but the Superior Judge Henry Willis disagreed.

lend Miss | while the 1s entrusted to

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

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Everything.” and Ann Sother 7:24 and 10:12. Monte Carle,” Keve Luke and at 12:36, 3:24, 6:12 CIVIC 2 comedy Curtain at 8:30. INDIANA “The Jury's Taylor and Fay 5:42 and 8:53. “Hollywood Wotel.” with

Goodman, Dick Powell and mary Lane, at 12:26, 3:37, 9:59.

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“Something to Sing About,” with James Cagney. Also “Alcatraz isang

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“Weidi,”” with Shirley Temple “Breakfast for Two

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“God's Country and the Man” Sih Tom Keene, Also “The Westiand Case.”

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NEW YORK, Jan. and the current interest in

24. —The term, Cafe Society,

Foibles of Cafe Society Keep Night Spot Contingent From Unpardenable Sin of Boredom.

has come to ‘stay

this charmed circle continues unabated.

This, then, seems the time to chronicle the personal peccadillos of the folk who inhabit the night-time precincts,

Query: after night in the so-called swank

What does the white-tie and ermine contingent do night

spots? What do they talk about?

What are their peeves and preferences?

Query: How do they prevent a

pall from falling over them?

Here are glimpses at several of them, culled from the hoysliook:

Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.. it seems. *

has a peeve, unrivaled by Hollywood’s most temperamental cinema | star's, against being photographed the nightspots. He is on the alert for lensmen from the second | he sits down for “relaxation.” Pho- |

tographers are invariably rushed in- |

to the back room the moment he steps across the portals. Marcel and George Sanchez, Cuba's gift to Cafe Society, and the two largest spenders in New York, amuse themselves by dispatching bottles of champagne to their friends seated around the ringside. Bob Tapping and Shipwreck Kelly

| are football fanatics. Tallulah Bankhead is the restless]

type. glamour a Cook's tour with the entourage usually winding up at either the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem or sipping black coffee in Reuben's while daylight streaks in through the windows. Moss Hart never drinks, prefers | to sit in one spot, watching the hoi-polloi parade by host to those who drop by his table | for a bit of conservational smalltalk. Some of Their Foibles

Harris usually taking a peek or two at the

Sam about,

| cash register—if no one is looking.

Clifton Webb is rarely without full evening dress regalia, and seldom dances unless a fast waltz is served up by the club's musical

| crew.

Ben Bernie visits all over the

premises, gets a Kick out of sending |

the cigaret girls scurrying for those dollar cigars. “Sonny” Whitney likes to tote along large parties, prefers to get | ringside tables exclusively and can sit perfectly still for hours watch-

ing the dance couples on the floor. | | Elsa Maxwell is always in a hurry, |

never likes to spend too much time in the better bistros—perhaps because some of her blueblood party subscribers might get the idea that [even she has fun without a costume. Gloria Baker, now on the high seas, however, just looks bored, usually has three or four escorts and runs up thes tiniest checks. Maury Paul prefers the solitude

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With Fay Kent

Pins Grand Action Hit! GARY COOPER in “THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER”

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An average evening with the | girl from Alabama is like | of the night spots |

and playing |

wanders |

[of a corner table, and a leisurely | 100 per cent pure Havana. | Baron George Wrangel, of the {Czarist Wrangles, is perennially | searching for a backgammon parti ner. Vincent Astor talks for | about his Hotel St. Regis. Mr. and Mrs. George Vanderbilt either bore people to tears or

hours

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| send them into ecstacies with ac- |

counts of their hunting and fishing exploits. The Jimmy Walkers are dog enthusiasts, Vernon MacFarlane, who has | the town’s most famous clubs and restaurants, flees into the night at | the first sound of rhumba music. Herbert Bayard Swope relieves the tedium by betting on everything. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken isn’t happy unless half a dozen members | of the newspaper fraternity are | within eyesight. Gilbert Miller is a true gourmet, pays more attention to his food than the mink-and-sable procession {and usually departs at an early { hour. Larry Hart's bosom companions | are the various bartenders ‘round town, since his jittery disposition | makes it impossible for him to remail seated at a table for longer than 10 or 15 minutes.

Tommy Manville’s idea of indoor |

| sport is to give the various East Side saloonkeepers palpitations ef the right ventricle by outlining | gargantuan schemes for the con- | struction of similar night spots in | Westchester, Florida and Bankok.

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The setting for “The Girl of the Golden West” may be California

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Will Present Bigger Show

Program Opening Feb. 16 to Be Expanded To Four Numbers.

Because Indianapolis is exceptione ally “ballet conscious,” the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo has agreed to

present four numbers, instead of the usual three, when it comes to the Murat on Feb. 16. Of the four scheduled productions, there will be seen here for the first time and are, in fact, new to the

of the 1850s, but modern communication means are in use on the

M-G-M lot, where the picture is in

Lawson, Indianapolis’ gift to the cinema, is crooning a tune for whoever

wants to listen, while Director Clarence Brown holds the “mike.”

| the making. On the left, Priscilla | At | | |

the right, Nelson Eddy, who usually does the singing, picks up Miss Lawson's efforts on a portable telephone on another section of the set.

‘Room Service’ Is Based On Authors’ Experiences

Playgoers are leaming about hotel deadbeats from “Room Service,” which opens a three-day engagement at Englisii’s on Feb. 3. In this hilarious farce a quartet of shoestringers settle down in a Broadway hotel and run up a bill ef $1200, which prevents them from checking out, ordering a box of Corona-Coronas or putting through a long-distance call to a friend in California. Cut off from the outside world by the landlord. they manage to raise the rent, anyway, and salvage what meals they can from the dumbwaiter.

from the cigar stand

Since the show is an out-and-out ® farce, most ploygoers aren't willing | to believe that it is possible to run | up a bill in a New York hotel and get away with it. Well, though the | program doesn’t say so, “Room | Service,” is based on the authors’ | experiences. The two young men who wrote “Room Service’—Allen Boretz and John Murray—are erstwhile scen-

musical short for a thousand dollars. The money burned in their pockets and nothing would do but they must move into a hotel. A day later they nmioved into a suite of a Times Square hostelry, sat down to more scenarios and by the end of the third week ran out of funds as well as ideas. One of the duo wanted to move out and find a nice, comfortable bench in Bryant Park for the spring. But the other was all for staying on and waiting for something lucky to happen. He won the argument and t boys continued their sumptuous life in the three-room suite. Their * most memorable evening was the Thanksgiving dinner they

SHIRLEY TEMPLE “HEIDI”

Barbara Stanwyck “Breakfast for Two”

Tonight’s Presentation at Your

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SOUTH SIDE

At Fountain Square Double Feature

SANDERS Warner Baxter

“VOGUES OF 1938" “WEST OF SHANGHAI” Double Feature

GROVE Warner Baxter

“VOGUES OF 19538” “SHE ASKED FOR IT” Double Feature

AVALON Joe Penner

“LIFE OF THE PARTY” “A FIGHT TO A FINISH” Double Feature

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30th and Minois Double Feature

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“CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS” “BRIDE WORE RED”

Noble & Mass. MECCA Double Feature O’Brien “WINDJAMMER” “IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT”

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Double Feature ‘IT'S ALL YOURS

Madeleine Carroll Myrna Loy “BROADWAY BULL”

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RIVOLI 3155 E. 10th St. Fredric March: NOTHING SACRED” Joan Crawford “ALl BABA GOES TO TOWN” Franchot Tone “ALCATRAZ ISLAND" Franchot Tone RAVE, LOVE AND LEARN" Franchot Tone ¥rances Farmer “EBB TIDE” Double Feature GHT” Dick Powell * VARSITY SHOW” Reighoee Sawing ‘DAMS Plus “THERE GOES THE GROOM” _ Jeanette MacDonald 11 E. Wash. “THE PERFECT SPECIMEN Pouble Feature “REPOR » Jones Family “BIG BUSINESS Double “ALY BARA GOES TO Tow te Regent ETRA ol FAT ERS ’ Pat » Double here “LOVE IN A ‘ INE D-1”

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A KING” Double Feature “THE BRIDE WORE RED” Donble Feature “BETWEEN TWO WOMEN" Double Feature BETWEEN TWO WOMEN" Double Feature “BETWEEN TWO WOMEN" 6116 E. Wash. “ATI LANTIC FLX First Local FE AMSEL IN DISTRESS” Double Feature : SUBMARINE Dp” Paramount Joan Blondel 11 E, eh BIJOU TED MISSING CAIRN R FR Howard & HOWARD 22 W. 16th Si. : STATE Ww. > BELMONT 8 Pat O'Brien * a MA A Care oe vomba bard Ray Milian’ I.

threw for 40 friends in the main dining room. It had to be the main | dining room where they could sign

side wasn't worth a Confederate farthing. When the bill reached a thousand ! dollars the muddled management | still didn’t do anything, because attaching the boys’ clothing would hardly have made up the deficit. When the bill arrived at the sum of $2000 the management decided to do something. They issued a notice of dispossess. Next morning the hotel went into bankruptcy. So, still as guests of the unhappy hostelry, they sat down and wrote a show about their experiences. The show is “Room Service.” It ought to earn a half million dollars for | both of them before its career i] ended.

Brady Cites Theater lls

Pleads for Aid to Save U. S. Houses From Ruin.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (U.P.) — William A. Brady, veteran New York theatrical producer, appealed today to the House Ways and Means Committee to “save the legitimate theater from bankruptcy.” “It’s a sad thing,” said Mr. Brady, “to see 90 per cent of American theaters in the hands of the banks or the hands of the sheriff when other nations are subsidizing their theaters.” Mr. Brady cent excise tax on admissions. He testified as the Ways

of its hearing. Chairman Fred M. Vinson (D. Ky.) of the tax sub-

attacked the 10 per |

and | Means Committee neared the end |

during the hearings to convince “The theater is close to elimination,” Mr. Brady said. “Think of it! There is no spoken theater in New England outside of Boston. There is none in all the South.” He told the committee the story of a boy who never had seen a legitimate play before. Asked by his father how he liked it, youngster said: “I like the round actors better than the flat ones.” “Give us a chance to open the theaters outside of New York,” he urged. He complained that the Treasury regulations prevented theaters from reducing their prices without paying a higher tax. Questioned by Treadway (R. Mass.) as to theatrical expenses, Mr. Brady said: “Actors travel, they buy | They don’t come in cans.

committee said nothing developed |

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company’s repertory this year. They are “The Hundred Kisses,” "“Fran|cesca da Rimini” and “The Gods | Go A-Begging.” The repeated bale | let will be “Spectre de la Rose.” | “The Hundred Kisses” is adapted [from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, “The Swineherd.” The | music is by the French opera come poser, D'Erlanger. Bronislava Nie | pinska, sister of the famous Nijine | sky, did the choreography. |

Arranged by Beecham

Sir Thomas Beecham, the English conductor, arranged music by Handel for “The Gods Go A-Begging,” land “Francesca da Rimini” is danced | to the Tschaikowsky overture of the same title, Of special interest this season is the appearance of Michel Fokine, | the choreographer of “Spectre de la | Rose.” He was ballet master of | Diahilev's famous Ballet Russe of | prewar days. Incidentally, he wrote { the scenario for “The Fire Bird,” | whose music by Stravinsky was | heard at the past week-end’s syme phony orchestra concerts. As usual, the entire ballet come [ pany will be here, as well as the | special orchestra and conductors. { The Indianapolis Junior Chamber { of Commerce is sponsoring the ap= | pearance for the third consecutive | season.

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