Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1938 — Page 18

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Farce Packs Laugh Load At English’s

Able Cast Gives Sparkle And Speed to Riotous

'Room Service.’

THE INDIANAPOLIS TRVMES ‘The Buccaneer Adds to De Mille Screen Laurels; Tamiroff Acting Praised

FRIDAY, FEB. 4, 1938

Franciska Gaal, Newcomer, Impresses Opposite March in 1812 Spectacle Based on Life of Lafitte, Notorious Louisiana Pirate.

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“gh, The Octopus,” with Buh Herbert and Alan Jenkins, at 11:32, 1:58, 4:24, 6:50 and 9:16. ‘Tarzan’ venge,”’ with Glenn Morris and Eleanor Holm, at 12:26, :52, 5:18, 7:44 and 10:10.

CIRCLE “Happy Landing,” with Sonia Henle, Don Ameche a Cesar Romero, at 11:48, 2:19, £80. iH and “March of Time" feature, “Inside Nazi Germany—1938," at 11:32, 2:03, 4:34. 7:05 and 0:36.

ENGLISH'S “Room Service.” A comedy by John Murray and Allen Boretz. Cur=tain at 8:30 p. m, INDIANA

“The Buccaneer,” with Fredric March and Franeiska Gaal, at 11:18,

School Adds

Two Dancers To Faculty

Anna Ludmila and John Sweet Join Burroughs

Staff.

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Wednesday afternoons for private instruction. An adult class in balle room dancing is being organized for Wednesday nights, and on Friday evenings Miss Ludmila and Mr. Sweet will meet a high school group. Following the trend in eastern music schools, Mrs. Burroughs is offering fencing instruction for

voice students in the interest of more charm and grace of movement. Robert F. Gardner, medal student of the French duelist, Nestor Le= maire, is the school’s instructor. He is offering lessons in fencing, foil, saber, epic dueling, blade and rapier.

1:52, 4:28, 7:04 and 9:40,

LOEW'S “The Baa Man of Brimstone,” with

Tomorrow night the faculty of the Burroughs downtown and Irve ington branches will meet at the East Side headquarters, 5567 E. Washington St., for a dinner and program by Berniece Fee Mozingo, organist; Hugh M. Mason, singer, and Dorothy Woods, violinist. Mrs. Both new teachers are well known. | Ricca Scott Titus will discuss curs dancers and instructors at the | rent Broadway plays. Broderick Studios, and will offer |

s lessons in ballet, 3 private or class lessons ENGLISH Tonight 8:30

ballroom, tap and acrobatic dancing for adults and children. They Tomorrow 2:30 and 8:30 GEORGE ABBOTT'S

The addition of Anna Ludmila and Johnnie Sweet to the Burroughs Irvington School of Music faculty was announced today by Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, director.

(Another Story, Page 13) If history ever provided made-to-order movie material, it was in the career of Jean Lafitte, gentleman pirate. And Cecil B. DeMille was wanbe Bad an sennis O'Keete and the logical man to bring the swashbuckling Jean to the screen, as he Virginia Bruce, at 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 has done in “The Buccaneer,” now at the Indiana, ano irime to Marry.” with Richard The old adage about ‘honor Aten and Mary Astor, at 12:35, 3:20,

among thieves” might have Deen |gg,ataria and wipes out the settle- LYRIC

coined for Lafitte, For, having | ..¢ (Thi Na’ J . s is one of Mr. DeMille’s vaudeville, with The Three Stooges, found a haven for his nefarious! qgitions. Actually no one ques- evils: “6.58 40

“ , “of Heart,” with Lyle Talpractices on the Louisiana bayous, ; ot Re Oa Stuart. at 11:27, 2:14, he rose to the occasion, turned down Holle ie imi motives except || bof, MAILE foie. * a handsome British offer, and | yhen Jackson arrives, Lafitte, KEITH'S helped Andrew Jackson win the |yho has escaped, surprises the gen- || also Ob Tolle” Dallas. With Barbara Battle of New Orleans. In fact, | ara] and, at the point of a gun, Stanwyck. it’s probably not too much to Say | again offers his serv ckson OHIO ag s services. Ja that the piratical volunteers turned | accepts, releases Lafitte’s men from “Soarfage,® With Paul Muni and the tide in the War of 1812. prison, and promises them full par- ens olen and

: ft. Also ai d little |don. Lafitte asks only an hour's Tr, VL HCE Ad Jor Lafitte’s exploits neede . sks 1 embellishment to become dramatic start when the battle is done. —. AMBASSADOR Huriter material, so Mr. DeMille has fol- So Jackson's regulars, with the Also “Manhattan Melodrama,” with lowed history rather closely. The |help of the pirates, raw mountain- Clark Gable. picture omits Lafitte’s brother and |eer militia and New Orleans civil- “Singing 0 ALAMO Bob Bak partner, Pierre, and does not in- |ians, wins the battle. It actually took || er. Als partners in I clude their eariier career when they 15 days, but it’s accomplished in one arrived from France and opened a [On the screen. At a victory ball, blacksmith shop in New Orleans. Gretchen appears in one of the . gowns taken from the scuttled Price on Lafitte's Head American ship. The secret is out. They began their lawless practices | But Lafitte still has Jackson's promby forging chains for slave smug- ise of an hour's start, and escapes. glers. Later they drifted into the | Gretchen joins him aboard ship, and trade’s more active aspects, so, by they resume a life of wandering. the time the picture opens, we find Lafitte's life really had a happier Lafitte swaggering through New ending, though no one knows just Orleans streets with a price on his | What it was. He received a full head, and openly advertising an pardon, and he and his brother are auction of smuggled goods at his

supposed to have gone to Galveston This graceful leap is carrying Sonja Henie from the Indiana to the earmp in Barataria Bay. ing honors go to Akim Tamiroff.

and thence to Central America, remaining prosperous pirates to the Circle screen, where the skating star's new picture, “Happy Landing,” Lafitte is in love with Annette This usually sinister character opens its second downtown week today. deRemy, aristocratic New Orleans — —

end. resident. For her he promises to Spectacle Technique Exciting give up his piracy. But about this time one of his ships is scuttling an American merchantman. Lafitte, returning, punishes the offenders and fishes the only survivor, a Dutch servant girl named Gretchen, out of the deep.

By JAMES THRASHER

From George Abbott all good things come in threes. So the producer of “Three Men on a Horse” has presented us with another hilarious tidbit which might be called

“Thgee Men on a Cuff.” Actually, the title is “Room Service,” and you may see it at English’s tonight and twice tomorrow. The play is about one of those prevalent denizens of the Rialto, a shoestring theatrical producer; his director, and the play's author, fresh—oh, so fresh—from Oswego. The opening act finds the first two ensconced with their cast in a Broadway hotel operated by the producer's brother-in-law. The brother-in-law has a “piece of the show” and a bill against his relative for $1200. Add to these ingredients a hardBoiled hotel auditor, and the author, who arrives with a typewriter, two bags, 67 cents and a lot of idealism. He's relieved of all of them in short order. .

will be available at the Irvington School on Monday, Tuesday and

dons a putty nose and scraggly whiskers to give us a winning, Beeryesque performance of Dominique You, “the great cannoneer of Napoleon.” Dominique was a | real person, 100, who actually held | a fuse at New Orleans. Hugh Sothern is a most effective Jackson, and the notable cast also | includes Walter Brennan, Ian Keith, Beulah Bondi, Anthony | Quinn, Douglass Dumbrille” and a | dozen other familiar and able performers. Altogether, it is a rousing good action picture in the grand manner . . . hot another “pPlainsman,” but corking entertainment, all the same. T.

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tume role. Yet legend has it that Lafitte was handsome, dashing and polite, an actual embodiment of drama’s suave villainy. So perhaps Mr. March is entirely in character. Franciska Gaal, the heralded Hungarian newcomer, is pretty and capable as Gretchen, and Margot

Grahame lends her beauty to the role of Annette. But the film's act-

SEATS NOW

Win Over Obstacles

Through a so-so first act, a bright and witty second one, and a riotous, whoopingly funny finale, the producer and his henchmen contend with the hotel executve in the hope of getting the play on the stage. By devious routes they hurdle such obstaales as a lockout, house detectives, threats of jail and even a stopped payment on the sizeable check of their almost backer. Probably the happy outcome is a bit too facile, but by the time it comes around youre so weak from laughing that you shouldn't care. The play is out-and-out farce. Toward the end convulsing situations are piled up in profusion. There is,

Otherwise, “The Buccaneer” remains rather true to life. In any life, even a pirate’s, there must have been |

speech, I'll have to listen. But please make it short, because when you finish the judgment will still be $35,000 for Miss Bennett.” Gretchen is held in camp as a

Schaefer to Take rather valuable corpus delicti and, of 1 course, she falls in love with the Part in Concert *hoss. Meanwhile, the

however,

ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE COME THUNDERING OUT OF THE WEST!

Robust men and exciting women, answering the call of life and love in wild adventure that packs all the thrills of. “Cimarron’ and “VivaVilla”'{

NOW THRU SAT. GRAND FEATURES

Judge Rules For Actress

Constance Bennett Reproved, Then Awarded $35,000.

dull and routine days. And the picture droops in numerous places. But | the storming of Barataria and the | Battle of New Orleans are exciting, | and done in the traditional, sump- | tuous DeMille style. Fredric March's performance of | Lafitte seems to be surrounded by |

of course, the eating scene of which you doubtless have heard before now. And it wrings an unbelievable amount of humor out of the simple fact of three very hungry men having a meal. The funniest moments, however, come in the third act “death scene.”

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 4 (U. P).— Constance Bennett had a sweet smile today for the hard-boiled judge who bawled her out for trying to be an actress in court. He later awarded her $35,000 for a picture she never made.

In it the “corpse” returns to life through an urgent necessity to be | sick. That will give you an idea of | what to expect. Play Ably Acted

| Such things as “Room Service” | make notorious demands upon di- | rector and cast. Well, Mr, Abbott | has done the directing, so you know that was in good hands. Tempo, «pusiness,” everything show the touch of a master comedy-producer’s hand. And the cast is as good as Mr. Abbott generally vouchsafes the provinces, which is very good indeed. There is no quibble with any of the performances. Reed Brown Jr. proves himself a smooth comedian as the producer, James Lane tallies often as the director, and Fleming Ward, Matt Briggs and Nat Cantor are excellent in other roles. Then there are two comely and capricious young ladies, Mary Cheffey and Patricia Palmer, to help things along. But top acting honors go to Clinton Sundberg as Leo Davis, the play's author. His coltish awkwardness, his thin, eager voice, his fngenuous manner have precisely the right touch. We've seen no better farce-comedy playing here in a long time. In fact, you will find in “Room Service” a production of sparkle and speed, vet one that is never carried to the breadth of incredipility. It's a delightful little snack to sandwich in between the “King Richard II” just past, and the “Victoria Regina” to come.

NELLIE SHAFFER

TO GIVE RECITAL

Nellie B. Shaffer is to present a group of piano students in recital at her home, 4749 Central Ave, this evening at 8:15 o'clock. Those taking part will be Rosalie McKee, Mary Ellen Dorschell, Barpara Kershaw, Karleen Ralya, Forrest Ralya, Betty Lou Billiter, Marjorie Yelvington, Jean Campbell, Emma Steinbach, Beatrice Ann Cooper, Peggy Yockey and Marilyn Rogers.

The judge is Charles S. Burnell, who interrupted the mink coat-clad actress on the witness stand the other day, reminded her she was

not a movie star to the court, just a garden variety witness, and tow | her “so just sit there and look beautiful. He brought the warm smile from the blond star with another interruption, this time directed at the

mont-British pictures of England. Miss Bennett said they hired her for a picture and then never called her to work. «You can argue until doomsday,” the judge snapped, breaking in upon Attorney Don Marlin, “but you can't change my mind. Gau-mont-British retained Miss Bennett to produce ‘The Hawk’ and guaranteed her $35,000 or 10 per cent | of its gross. The film was never made, although she kept herself sitting around Hollywood waiting | to he called.” { Attorney Marlin started again, | and the Judge caught him up with: “If you insist on making a

earnestly arguing lawyer for |

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British send emissaries to Lafitte, offering him money and a navy commission if he will assist them in taking New Orleans. Lafitte delalps his answer, goes to New Orleans and offers his men and ammunition to Governor Claiborne.

DeMille Changes Story

Claiborne accepts, but a British agent in American official circles persuades Claiborne that this is a trick. An. American force is sent to

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PICTURE... Jean Lafitte’

Gretchen

(Franciska Gaal). . . the dashing, swashbuckling buccaneer who held the hearts of all the

belles of New Orleans in his pirate’s hand...

who won the heart of a nation when he

joined Andrew Jackson's little American army to save the United States from British rule forever in the Battle of New Orleans. . .and the

blue-eyed Miss who won his pirate’s heart.

SEE the capture of Washington by the British and the amazing escape of the President's wife with the Declaration of Independence in her hands.

SEE the thrilling capture of the Corin: thian, great merchant ship, by Jean Lafitte's buccaneers, and the burning of the vessel.

SEE the glorious Battle of New Orleans ... Jean Lafitte’s buccaneers, Andrew Jackson's Tennessee sharpshooters conquer a huge British army, save the nation in exactly twenty minutes of heroic, savage warfare.

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