Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1938 — Page 11

MONDAY, rEE. a 1038 Two Russian Pianists Win Praise Here

Technical Resources Are Noted in Brilliant, Varied Program.

By JAMES THRASHER

To the constantly growing list of expert duo-pianists who have played here in recent seasons we may add today the appearance at English’s Sunday afternoon of Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, two youthfut Russians who were presented as the fifth Martens Concerts attraction. In some respects these artists outclass their contemporary colleagues. Wedded in art, as they are in life, their playing discloses a unanimity of feeling that at times approaches perfection. Both possess prodigious technical resources that permit them to grasp bristling notes by the handful and stir up a tonal and technical tempest with ridiculous ease. Their program opened with two beloved staples of the two-piano repertory, Brahms’ Variations on a Theme to Haydn, and Mozart's Sonata in D Major. The first was sturdy, scintillating or suave as the occasion demanded. There were fleeting moods of lyrical dialog, and the final passacaglia rose to all the tonal heights that two pianos can muster. This concluding variation, however, demands the orchestra’s massive structure and varied colors which no keyboard artists can achieve. Played With Clarity

The Mozart sonata had clarity, delicacy and all the fleetness that the work demands. It had everything, in fact, except that elusive, final touch that marks great Mozart playing. That is, perhaps, the player’s overflowing enthusiasm and delight in the music which carries a listener to the peak of satisfaction. Between the sonata and the final Polovetsian Dances from Borodin’s “Prince Igor,” which Mr. Babin has arranged, the pianists trod rather unfamiliar ground. Their selections included a Fantasy in four sections, by Rachmaninoff; an unfamiliar Debussy composition, “Epigraphes antiques,” and three Studies by Mr. Babin. The Fantasy was typical Rachmaninoff music—broad melodies of full-throated melancholy, embellished with rippling water in the Barcarolle, twittering birds in the Adagio sostenuto, and “Easter Bells,” which was the final movement’s subtitle. This overindulgence in melody with figuration leads to an inevitable monotony, but the artists met the music's weakness with all the ample powers at their command.

Artists Win Praise

Amid a crackling barrage of coughs and rustling programs, Miss Vronsky and Mr. Babin evoked a shimmering atmosphere which the Debussy music demanded. Then promptly they plunged into as stunning an exhibition of duple virtuosity as one might hope to hear. As a composer, Mr. Babin revealed a knowledge of the two-piano combination’s most thrilling effects, as well as a predilection and telling use of latter-day harmonies. And the “Prince Igor” dances set the crowning gem on a brilliant performance. The growing legion of two-piano admirers was represented in a wellfilled house which cheered the players with great enthusiasm. Five encores were added after the scheduled program. The final attraction in this year’s subscription series will be the appearance of Richard Crooks, the Metropolitan tenor, on April 11. For next season Mrs. Martens already has announced the return engagement of Jascha Heifetz; the first recital here by Kirsten Flagstad, and a reappearance, after several years, of Lawrence Tibbett. Remaining concerts in the series will be announced at a later date.

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TITLE CHARACTERS IN DISNEY CARTOON FILM FRIDAY

AT INDIANA

Snow White had been left in the | deep forest to die by a henchman of % her wicked aunt, she becomes panice-" stricken and imagines the trees have

eves and are malicious beings.

She

finally is rescued by several timid animals, who take her to the dwarfs’

home

Everything is clean now and, accompanied by the animals who had helped her, Snow. White ascends ry the stairs in search of a bed upon

which to rest her weary head.

To the music of an accordion, Snow White shows the dwarfs the dances of the court from which she was banished by the wicked queen.

oa “My, my," says Snow White, “such a dirty place. Pedple who live here must be the most slovenly in the

world.”

She cleans ‘it up with the

help of the animals who had rescued her. .

When Doc and Grumpy aud all the others left for work everything was nice and disorderly. Now they

, are flabbergasted. The dishes are * washed, the furniture is where it | a should be and everything dusted.

| sThere's someone in this house.” i ‘mumbles Doc. “I can feel it.”

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“Ah, my Prince Charming, I knew you'd come,” murmurs Snow White after she had been saved from death

by poison, devised aunt.

are soon married

They are now firm friends.

IN NEW YORK wmeeBy GEORGE ROSS

Intelligence Tests Latest Night Club Gag in Bid for More Patronage.

‘NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Sometimes that the night club entrepreneurs are

one is forced to the conclusion the most ingenious men in town.

There is no limit to the artifices to which they resort to lure trade to

their particular dens. One day jt is Ching Gong, a form of oriental checkers, or Bingo or turtle races, and the next, perhaps, free wrist charms for the ladies or a chance to gawk at the cast of a Broadway revue (who get a free meal). Now a new trend appears. At least one club has decided that its added attraction henceforth will be an intelligence test to determine the I. Q. of its patrons. Psychology might well prepare itself for some new low figures. This department has had the opportunity to examine the first of these tests at some length and can report only dissatisfaction with the questions asked. Example: Name the husbands of Peggy Hopkins Joyce in order. This is vlementary (for night club habitues) and hardly germane to the accurate rating of after-dark intelligence. So yours truly has compiled his own test, part of which is here presented; with some of the answers just to help out.

A Few Examples - @—What is the difference between doctored ginger ale and the champagne you are being served? A—$10 a quart. Q—Is it polite to pay atteation during an act? A ertainly not! The kind of person who would do that would arrive at a theater before the curtain went up. " @—What is the process used by clip joint waiters in compiling a check. A—Multiplication. Chinese New Year fell a few days ago, but there were no fireworks,

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no dragons, no feasts, no parading and no debt liquidations, in Chinatown. The vicinity of Mott and Pell Sts. went about its business cn New Year’s Day as usual, and the Orientals even neglected to put cut the . ceremonial lettuce leaves 10 keep evil spirits away. For this is no year of rejoicing in the Chinese colony and all the expense of celebration has been diverted, instead, toward relief of their embattled compatriots. Put there has been some promise of a deferred revelry—when the war reports are brighter. Milton Berle, the gag larcenist, returned to town the other day and before he left the film factory, had been tapped for a role with the Marx Brothers in “Room Service,” which transpires in a hotel. They said he might be in it during an evening soiree at the Brown Derby, and Charles Butterworth came over to Groucho Marx’ table. “Aren't you afraid Berle will swipe your scene?” Butterworth asked. “Not a bit,” flipped Groucho, “all we're worried about are the towels!” When Errol Flynn checked out of the Savoy-Plaza, he presented the help with British three-penny coins as good luck charms. When Arturo Toscanini visited the Cotton Club the other night, he gave only one autograph—to George, the bartender, who asked the maestro’s son-in-law, Count Castelbarco, to get it for him.

ENGLISH—TONIGHT ONLY «3

CORNELIA OTIS

SKINNER

in Her Latest New York Triumph

“Edna His Wife’

From the Novel by MARGARET AYE Dre! A aT $1.65, $1.10. Gal,

Schaefer Wins

Union's Favor

Honorary membership in the | American Federation of Musicians, | with full benefits, has been recom- | mended for Ferdinand Schaeter, the Indianapolis Symphony Or- | chestra’s founder and conductor emeritus, by Indianapolis Local No. | 3, A F.of M. | The appointment will be subject to the general membership’s approval at a meeting later in the year. The recommendation “undoubtedly will be approved unanimously,” according to Abe Hammerschlag, Local No. 3 secretary.

Girl's Songs at Party Win Job

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7 (U. P).— Tonight the Greco family will hold a big spaghetti dinner. Heien Greco, 12, a pupil in grade 8-B of St. Thomas’ School here, | was entertaining a group of family friends with songs and impersonations at her home. William J. Heineman, sales executive for Universal Motion Picture Studio, was in the group. He called the studio’s attention to the pretty little Italian

1. Helen was signed to a long-term contract to sing and dance for the movies. Today she started studies at her studio school, after her contract was approved in court. Helen is one of the 11 children

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“gh, The Octopus,” with Herbert and Alan Jenkins, at 1:53, 4:21, 6:49 and 9:17 “Tarzan’s Revenge,’ Morris and Eleanor Holm, 2:46, 5:14. 7:42 and 10:10:

CIRCLE “Happy Landing,’ with Sonja Henie. Don Amcthe and Cesar Ro: 1ero, at 11:48, 2:10, 4:50, 7:21 and

9:52. “March of Time" feature. “Inside Nazi Germany—1938,"" at 11:32, 2:03, 4:34 7:05 and 9:36.

ENGLISH'S Cornelia Otis Skinner in “Edna, His Wife,” from the novel oy Margaret Ayer Barnes. Curtain at 8:30.

INDIANA “The Buccaneer,” With Fredric March and Franciska Gaal. at 11:18, 1:52. 4:28, 7:04 and 9:40.

LOEW'S “The Bad Man of Brimstone,” with wallace Beery, Dennis O'Keefe and

Virginia Bruce, at 11. 1:45. 4:30. 7:15 an

10. “No Time to Marry,” with Richard azlen and _Mary Astor, at 12:35, 3:20.

105 and LYRIC vaudeville, with The Three Stonges, at 1:08, 3:55, 6:53 nd 9:40. «Change of Heart,” with Lyle Ia) bot and Gloria Stuart. at 11:27, 2:14, 5:12, 7:59 and 10:36.

KEITH'S «Call of the Wild,” with Clark Gable. Also “Fit for a King,” with Joe E. Brown.

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opp’s Love I'm After,” with esl Howard, Also ‘‘Aleatraz Island,” with John Litel.

AMBASSADOR «Navy Blue and Gold.” with Robert Young. Also “Trapped by GMen,” with Jack Holt. ALAMO

Hugh 11:25.

with Glenn at 12:18,

«Hell's House,’ with Pat O'Brien. also “sudden Bill Porn,” with Buck ones.

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Greco. merchant, Wash.

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Here you may meet Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and brush up on the story of Walt Disney’s first full-length technicolor cartoon

picture which the whole country is cheering these days.

“Snow White

and the Seven Dwarfs” will be at the Indiana beginning Friday.

Dietrich Seeks Rebate on Taxes

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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7 (U. P)— Marlene Dietrich, German film star, today asked a $32,526 refund of taxes paid on her 1932 income. She earned $173,707 that year, the actress said in a Federal Court suit. Miss Dietrich said she and her director husband, Rudolph Sieber, were entitled to file separate tax retyrns, Instead, she said, the tax was figured on the basis of community earnings, almost doubling the amount of her tax.

Duce’s Son Bids For Film Director

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7 P)— Premier Mussolini's 21-year-old son, Vittorio, was reported today to be negotiating to produce a motion picture in Italy with technical talent recruited from Hollywood. Vittorio, who came to Hollywood several months ago for a conference on a working agreement with Hal

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Nominations Also Include Tracy, Greta Garbo,

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7 (U.

The 10 stars Academy of Motion Picture Arts® and Sciences, and the pictures that won them consideration were: Actors: Muni, in the title role of “The Life of Emile Zola.” Charles Boyer, in the Napoleon of “Conquest.” Spencer Tracy, the rough, lovable Portuguese fisherman in “Captains Courageous.” Fredric March, of Born.” Robert Montgomery, the handsome killer in “Night Must Fall.”

“A Star Is

Actresses: Greta Garbo, the tragedienne of

“Camille.” Miss Rainer, the patient Chinese

wife in “Good Earth.” Irene Dunne, the misunderstood wife of “The Awful Truth.” Janet Gaynor, the country girl turned movie star, in “ A Star Is Born.” : Barbara Stanwyck, the sacrificing mother in “Stella Dallas.”

15,000 to Get Ballots

Nominees were selected by the senior members of the Screen Actors Guild. These are the higherpaid players. The vote for the final selection is open to the entire industry, the extra players, technicians and others. Ballots will go out to the 15,000 on Feb. 15 and the awards will be announced at a bhan-

quet March 3. Also voted upon were the 10 best pictures of £he year and the “champions” in most of the specialized divisions of movie-making. Pictures nominated for 1937 were «The Awful Truth” Columbia; “Captains Courageous,” M-G-M; “Dead End,” samuel Goldwyn; “Good Earth,” M-G-M; “In Old Chicago,” 20th Century-Fox; “Life of Emile Zola,” Warner Bros.; “Lost Horizon,” Columbia; “One Hundred Men and a Girl,” Universal; “Stage Door,” RKO-Radio; “A Star Is Born,” Selznick Internation-

al. Nominated for the pest actor and actress in a supporting role were: Ralph Bellamy in “The Awful Truth”; Thomas Mitchell in “Hurricane”; Joseph Schildkraut in “The Life of Emile Zola”; H. B. Warner in “Lost Horizon”; Roland Young in “Topper”; Alice Brady in “In Old Chicago”; Andrea Leeds in “Stage Door”; Anne Shirley in “Stella Dallas”; Claire Trevor in “Dead End,” and Dame May Whitty in “Night Must Fall.”

Five Directors Named

Directors nominated five of their number for outstanding work on a picture during the year: Leo McCarey (“The Awful Truth”); Sidney Franklin (“The Good Earth”); William Dieterle (“The Life of Emile Zola”): Gregory Lacava (“Stage Door”), and William Wellman (“A Star Is Born”). The Screen Writers’ Guild nominated for the best-written screen play: “The Awful Truth,” by Vina Delmar: “Captains Courageous,” by John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly and Dale Van Every; “The Life of Emile Zola,” by Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg; “Stage Door,” by Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller; “A

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Muni and Luise Rainer Again Named in List of 10 For Best 1937 Film Role

Charles Boyer, Spencer

Irene Dunne; Awards

To Be Made March 3.

P.).—Movie stars picked from thier own ranks today the five actors and actresses they considered to have given the best performances of the past year, and placed the names in nomination for 15,000 fellow workers to select the best two. Luise Rainer, last year's winners, were nominated again. thus nominated for the annual merit awards of the (rr -

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Star Is Born,” by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Robert Carson. Nominated for the best original motion picture story were: “Black Legion,” by Robert Lord: “In Old Chicago,” by Niven Gusch; “The Life of Emile Zola,” by Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg; “One Hundred Men and a Girl,” by Hans Kraly, and “A Star Is Born,” by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson. Nominated for song writing hon= ors were Harry Warren and Al Dubin (“Remember Me”); Harry Owens (“Sweet Lelanie”); Lew Brown and Sammy Fain (“That Old Feeling”); the late George and Ira Gershwin (“They Can't Take That Away From Me”), and Frederick Hollander and Leo Robin (“Whis= pers in the Dark”). Three animated cartoons were named: Paramount's “Educated Fish,” Walt Disney's “The Old Mill,” and Columbia’s “The Little Match Girl.” Disney’s sensational featurelength cartoon, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” was considered a 1938 production and was excluded from the voting.

‘Prop Men’ Pound Bells

With Sledge Hammer Too, And at Night!

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. T (U. P.).— Ranchers of San Fernando Valley learned today that the crew of men, carrying a church bell on a truck, and ringing it with a sledge hammer, were not escaped lunatics. They were prop men from a mo= tion picture studio. Distant bells are supposed to sound in a picture, “Chapel Bells,” starring Deanna Durbin, young singing actress. Sound experts tried ringing small bells faintly, close to the microphone. It wouldn't do. The church kell truck was sent out over the surrounding country=side at night. An operator at a short wave radio set aboard the truck kept in communication with

the studio, and ordered the crew:

stopped at intervals. Then two other men rang the bell with sledge hammer strokes.

EXTRA—On Screen

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Joe E. Brown “FIT FOR A KING” «pRISONER OF ZENDA’ — 3 114 E. Washington

B 1Jou Preston Foster

“YOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE” “RENFREW OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED”

PARKER yg Irene Dunne “HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME” “BETWEEN TWO WOMEN" R | Vv O L | 3155 E. 10th St. Mick

icke “THOROUGHBREDS DON'T Leslie Howard, “STAND-IN” EXTRA! Leon Errol Comedy

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TUXEDO oube Fe “A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS: “IT'S ALL YOURS" 3507 E. Double Feature

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“SECOND HONEYMOON Wm. Powell, “DOUBLE WEDDING"

HAMILTON “Doasi Fostre . . Fred Astaire ‘A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS’ Leo Carillo, “THE BARRIER”

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GO LD EN Clark Gable

“IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Marlene Dietrich, “ANGEL"

EMERSON

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4020 E. New York Double Feature

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6116 E. Wash. Double Feature

Double Featur e Clark Gable

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Tonight’s Presentations

Neighborhood Theater |

WEST SIDE PY 0 W. Mich. St.

D A | S Y 25 Double Feature

Dick Purcell “MISSING WITNESS” fan Hunter, ‘52D STREET” Speedway City Double Feature James Dunn “LIVING ON_LOVE” Ginger Rogers, “STAGE DOOR" rd & Blaine

HOWARD ‘Double Feature

Dick Powell “VARSITY SHOW” Jane Withers, ‘45 FATHERS”

STATE *Dounie Feature - Jed Prouty BORROWING TROUBLE” Greta Garbo, “CONQUEST” W. Wash, & Bel BELMONT "Beanie Jeatiie,

“NAVY BLUE AND GOLD Ginger Rogers, “STAGE DOOR”

SOUTH SIDE

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Double Feature Carole Lombard “NOTHING SACRED” «THE PERFECT SPECIMEN’

FOUNTAIN SQUARE De bie Feature vik . Satlang THOROUGH RE n STREET" At Fountain Square Double Feature

SANDERS Warner Paster

“WIFE, DOCTOR AND NURS

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TOR “BREAKFAST FOR TWO” Beech Grove Double Feature

GROVE Frederick March

HING SAC Pat O'Brien. “SUBMARINE D-1"

AV ALON Pre Double Feature

Paul Muni “THE GOOD EARTH” «FORTY NAUGHTY GIRLS"

1105 8. Meridian ORIENTAL Double Feature “IRE AWFUL ThOTHT “FIT FOR A KING"

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GARRICK Bais

Double Feature ames Ellison , “ANNAPOLIS SALUTE” “IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD” MECCA Double Feature Jack Holt

“OUTLAWS OF THE OR 4 “IT CAN'T LAST FOREVER"

S tra Hor d 19th & College

Double Feature retta Young . “BREAKFAST FOR TWO” ‘LEAGUE OF FRIGHTENED. MEN"

D R i A M Double Feature

Li A “HOLD EM NAVY” Yres Jeanette MacDonald, “FIREFLY”

Illinois and 34th Double Feature "NOTHING SACRED, od “MISSING WITNESS” 1500 Roosevelt Double Feature

Hollywood Irene Dunne

“THE AWFUL TRUTH" “OVER THE GOAL"

Central at Fall Creek ZARING Royle Feature yrone Power “SECOND HONEYMOON” Kenny Baker, “52D STREET” 16th & Delaware CINEMA Double Feature “ Eddie Cantor . ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN" “WINE. WOMEN AND HORSES" Continuous From 1:30

Noble & Mass.

2351 Station St.

42nd and College Double Feature Fred Astaire “pAMSEL IN DISTRESS” “TRAPPED BY G-MEN"

St. Cl. & Ft. Wayne ST CLAIR Double Feature . Fred Astaire “pDAMSEL IN DISTRESS" “BEHIND THE MIKE”

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30th at Northwestern Double Feats

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