Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1938 — Page 10

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Muni Wins Top Rating With ‘Zola’

Critics' Poll Puts Rainer First Among Actresses; Tracy Stands High

By JAMES THRASHER

Even now, with spring in the air, with the first crocus preparing raise its dainty head, and the groundhog and baseball holdout stirring in their sleep, comes a reminder that wintry business is still at hand. In other words, the annual Critics of America poll, conducted by the Minneapolis Journal, has issued its choice of best 10 pictures, actors and actresses for 1937.

Yes, it is a little late in the day. But Merle Potter and his assistants in Minneapolis had to count and tabulate the selections of 998 reviewers. So, after giving 75 points for first places, 50 points for second and 25 for third, Mr. Potter and the Journal are all ready with the results. And the results are not particularly surprising. “The Life of Emile Zola” won out in the picture class with 47525 points. Its star, Paul Muni, copped the critics’ medal for the best male performance with 54,100 points, and Luise Rainer made a score of 42,225 for her O-Lan in “The Good Earth.”

Other Films Favored

Runnersup among the pictures were “The Good Barth” (28,225 points), “Captains Courageous,” “Lost Horizon,” “A Star Is Born,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Stage Door,” “Night Must Fall,” “Make Way for Tomorrow” and “They Won't Forget.” The ranking actors, listed as they came under the wire, were Spencer Tracy in “Captains Courageous” (39,800), Robert Montgomery in “Night Must Fall,” Fredric March in “A Star Is Born,” Charles Boyer in “Conquest,” John Barrymore in “Romeo and Juliet,” Freddie Bartholomew in “Captains Courageous,” “Joseph Schildkraut in “Zola,” Claude Rains in “They Won't Forget,” and Victor Moore in “Make Way for Tomorrow.”

The actresses finished as follows: Irene Dunne in “The Awful Truth” (16,325), Norma Shearer in “Romeo and Juliet,” Greta Garbo in “Camille,” Barbara Stanwyck in “Stella Dallas,” Janet Gaynor in “A Star Is Born,” Katharine Hepburn in “Stage Door,” Bette Davis in “Marked Woman,” Andrea Leeds in “Stage Door,” and Beulah Bondi in “Make Way for Tomorrow.”

Comedies Omitted

There aren’ many conclusions to draw from this last—we hope-—se-lection for, though it's one of the most accurate, the best conclusions were drawn off long ago. Howe ever, it's interesting to note that of all Hollywood's many slapstick creations in the past year of grace, not one managed to make the AllAmerican. In fact, you'll notice there isn't an out-and-out comedy in the list, though the first part of “Stage Door” approached that category, Also, you doubtless have noticed by now that Misses Dunne, Garbo and Stanwyck made the select list, though their pictures fell by the wayside, and that among the men, only Mr, Boyer triumphed over his vehicle. An interesting sidelight on the poll is the fact that in 1937, as in the year before, not a single critic from New Hampshire sent in a ballot, though the other 47 states were represented.

Now for 1938

Perhaps the professional moviegoers in the Granite State are jealous of their neighboring states of Maine and Vermont, and have decided to bring New Hampshire a little nonconformist distinction of its own, Well, now we may start looking forward to 1938 in earnest. And this movie-reviewer, I don’t mind telling you, is off to a flying start. Already 1 have picked out the 10 best performances of our youthful year, They are by Dopey, Grumpy, Doe, Sneezy, Sleepy, Happy, Bashful, Snow White and the Prince in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” and Mississippi River in the Department of Agriculture's short feature, “The River.”

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Sh, The Octopus,” w \ Horbert and Alan By kine Uh, hg 1:53 3:31, 6:49 and §:17, ith qh ‘“‘Tarzan’s evenge,'” Ww ® orris leanor Holm. at 18.1 . Me! 5:14, 7:42 and 10:10. r

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“March of Time" feature. “Inside Nazi Germany—1088." 133, 2:08, NE Sapa. 0 Thin WY INDIANA

“The Bucoaneer,” March Franciska 1:52, 4:38, 7:04 and 9:

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a LL) le! 6:08 at y 53 and 6:40, Shige of Haart, | with Lyle Talbot and Gloria Stuart, at 11:27, 2:14, 5:13, 7:59 and 10:38,

KEITH'S “Damsel in Distress,” with Fred Astaire. Also “God's untry and the Woman,” with George Brento,

OHIO “Gilded Lily,” with Claudette Oolbert, Also. “Love hh on the Ae with June Travis, AMBASSADOR “Beg, Borrow or Steal,” with Ralph Morgan, Also “First Lady,” with Kay nels,

“Lad hts Back,” with Taylor. ne “Frontier Town,” Tex Ritter,

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Opening Tomorrow

Cirele "«=Bob Burns, Jack Oakie, Kenny Baker, Victor Moore, Milton Berle, Helen Broderick, Jane ¥roman and Hal Kemp and his orchestra. Directed by Ben Stoloff, Story—Back-stage stories evolve into back-of-the-microphone stories. This one is about a hill-billy who composes songs in his sleep. When insomnia sets in it looks like there isn't going to be a show, but nature takes its course. “DOUBLE DANGER"=Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Donald Meek, Paul Guilfoyle and Arthur Lake,

Story—-What happens when a lady crook meets a gentleman crook and falls in love with him. Work and play won't mix and 80 they have to give up stealing jewels from one another and others. They promise the police commissioner to be good and go off to

Indiana

“SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS"=<An entirely new oast of characters taken from the works of the Brothers Walt Disney. Directed by

under the direction of Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul

Story-First feature-length animated oartoon story by the Disney Studios. The Oracle tells the wicked Queen that her stepdaughter is more beautiful than Her Majesty. fs sent into the forest to be killed. She escapes and is adopted The Queen then gives her a potion oalled

kiss of Snow White's Prince awakens her.

Loew's

UIN"=Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Mary Phillips, Elizabeth Risdon, Ralph Morgan, Oscar O'Shea and Leo Goreey. Directed by Frank Borzage. Story--Shop girl marries tin<horn gambler, poses she should divorce him to marry man with money, clean him, and return to gambler, she does all but the last. Money man loses money, is told by gambler it was a frame-up, but shop girl proves him wrong. Shop girl and deflated money man start all

“YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCE"-lewis Stone, Oeolla Parker, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden and Frank Oraven,

Story—Aging judge takes his family on first real vacation in years. They run wild, Judge goes broke and they stop running

Lyrie

“DAVE APOLLON'S VARIETIES OF 1938” (on stage)-Dave Apollon, Cass Daley, Bob Ripa, Five Hollywood Co-eds, Max and his Gang, George Lyons, The DiBatanos, La Conga and others. “BLONDES AT WORK” (on screen)-—Cilenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy and Betty Compson. Directed by Frank

Story--Another of the Torchy Blane series. This time it's all

Keep your eye on Torchy: She has the real dope.

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Dave Hand.

Hurter and Joe Grant. Music

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the man guilty or not guilty.

Senate Acts On Film Bill

Measure Would End Block Booking of. Pictures.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.) = The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee today reported favorably

the Neely bill to make illegal block bookings of motion picture films, The practice of block bookings has long been an issue but Oongressional action on the problem repeatedly has been delayed. The Dil ne been pending since Jan. 6, Proponents of the measure oriticized the practice of some film concerns whereby theater managers were required to buy blindly a large block of pictures in order to get the feature products of a company. The bill provides that it shall be “illegal for any distributor of motion picture films in commerce to offer to lease for public exhibition

any film over 2000 feet in length unless such distributor shall fure nish the exhibitor at or before the time of making such offer a com plete and true synopsis of the contents of such film.”

Blanche Sweet's Belongings Sold

HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 10 (U, P).— The glamour that surrounded Blanche Sweet as a movie star was lacking today as some 200 articles of

her old Hollywood furnishings were auctioned, Quarters, dimes, at the most a few dollars characterized most bids. An evening gown went for 25 cents, a jewel box for the same, a parasol for 75 cents. All were relies of the days when she reighed with Mary Pickford and the Gish sisters as a queen of the silent pictures. A big Chinese needlework drapery, ue of the auction, brought only Miss Sweet is now the wife of Raymond Hackett, New York stage actor,

Set Prices,

Schedule for ‘Snow White’

Adult Rates Unchanged For Disney Film At Indiana.

The Indiana management today answered two questions which have been asked repeatedly concerning Walt Disney's “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” opening at Washington St. theater tomorrow.

will be no advance in adult admis=

been playing at roadshow fees elsewhere. There will be a slight advance in children’s admission price, however, Children under 12 will be admitted for 25 cents to any seat

evening performances. The other announcement ooncerns time schedules, The Indiana “will try to” maintain its regular policy of five feature showings a day. But they are sure that the Saturday orowds cannot be ac comodated on this schedule. So the doors are to be opened at 8:30 a. m,, and the first performance will commence at § o'clock. Incidentally, the London reaction to this picture will have no effect on the local policy. The British censor board felt that young chil dren might be unduly frightened when the Wicked Queen turns into the Old Witch. So they decreed that all persons under 18 must be accompanied by parents. The Indlana is Imposing no such restric tions.

Keith's Sets New Policy

Vaudeville, First-Run Films On Week-End Bills.

Keith's will inaugurate its new policy of vaudeville and first-run pictures at the Saturday and Sunday performances. Two different types of program are to be presents ed each week, Second=-run double features will be presented Mondays through Fridays, and the vaudeville and new picture programs will be seen on the other days. The opening vaudeville bill is to be headed by Brown and LaVelle, of stage and radio fame, Others will be the Three Byrons, novelty tumblers; Malim and Marlowe, eccentric dancing; Weyman and Mack, in “a musical cocktail”; Billy Guthrie, singer; Delores Norton, dancer; the Six English Macks, acrobatic turn; Pat Sutton and his girls, and the Ten Dixielanders, singing and dancing troupe. The frst-run picture is titled “Lady Behave,” a comedy featur= ing Sally Eilers, Neil Hamilton, Joseph Schildkraut, Warren Hymer

the 1 First, regarding admission: There | §

sion price for the Indianapolis en=| gagement, though the pleture has |

in the theater, either matinee or |:

and Patrieia Farr,

— half of Hollywood's comics and romantics strut their stuff! » ++ A glittering world turns upside down and inside out...

AND YOU HAVE ALL THE FUN!

and the gentlemen attempting to persuade him to

The incorrigible insomniac above iz Bob Burns, slumber are Jack Oakie and Milton Berle. This |

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Rendezvous Bar and Grill.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Ironics on the Island: John D. Rookefeller's Rainbow Room is one of the patrician places in town, but the hired help there insist upon calling it “Jack's Bar & Grill.” Simpson's pawnshop on Broadway at 46th Bt, is just next door to the Silver Dollar Restaurant, of all places, There's the perennial cluster

of pavement bookias in the midtown the State of New York. Dorothy Parker may be the first wit and sophisticate of this paras doxical town, but her friends note that she also is one of its leading sentimentalists, J, P. Morgan's town house, big and opulent, covers one entire block on Madison Ave, Yet, it fronts some of the most sordid browns stones this side of a “Dead End” stage setting.

The George M. Oohan Theater hasn't received Mr, Cohah, on stage or in the audience, for almost a dozen years,

Night Club Whimsy

There are the night club enter. tainers who constantly complain of laryngitis and other vocal afflicitions and brave the chilly midnight air with evening frocks artfully cut to their midriffs, There is that private house ‘in the hurly=burly of Fifty-second St. the mecea of swing, whose occu= pants open their windows, pull down blinds and retire at 11 p. m, in what must be a losing struggle to get some sleep before 5 a, m, Ambulance surgeons in the Bellevue bailiwick get their share of ex» citement reading detective yarns in between life and death oalls=—

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sectors, though betting is illegal in

SES the small hours of the morn= ne. More paradoxes: Sholem Ses cundah, author of “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” the national menace, who took his musical studies from hia musical studies from his first cousin, Ray Lev, the famous oon cert pianist, Veloz and Yolanda, Dario and Diane, Gomez and Winoha and other top-notch ballroom teams, re= laxing after office hours by dancing =gratis=in La Conga, : Times Square, the “glamorous” oross roads of the world, where the four corners boast, respectively of a cigar store, a drug store, a brauhaus and a hot dog stand. Columbus Oirole, named for the foremost discoverer, where out=of= towners get lost oftener than in any other part of the eity, The bell on the floor of the Stock Exchange—which has exactly the same pitch and tone as the clarion

soene is only a part of the goings=on in “Radio Oity Revels,” which comes to the Oircle tomorrow, along with "Double Danger.”

‘nel still tenderly cultivates mushs

used at the boxing matehes in Madison Square Garden, Still More Paradoxes: Wall Btreet moguls waiting patiently for traffic to cease along South St-—80 they oan cross to the other side and clamber into commuters’ seaplanes anchored in the Bast River, Florida=bound travelers changing trains at Grand Central Depot=—and pausing to glance at the show charts for skiing enthusiasts, The front entrance to the New York Curb Exchange on Trinity Place=which happens to be farther from the curb than any other build= ng on the street, he damp, dark cellars of the larger breweries where the persons

room patches, a hobby held over from the idle days of prohibition. The Manhatan offices of Metro= Goldwyn=-Mayer which eontinue to keep the late Irving Thalberg's name in gold leaf on the door, as a sentimental gesture, Athletes from uptown colleges earning a dollar a night oarrying spears in the mob scene at the Met» ropolitan Opera House,

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HOTEL RILEY

COFFEE SHOP or THE COOKTAIL GRILLE

16TH ST. & CAPITOL AVE

Y, FEB. 1, Spanish Film Set for Civic

Documentary Movie of War Torn Spain Here Soon.

“The Spanish ®arth” highly praised documentary film, is to have an Thdianapolis showing at the Oivie Theater oh Bunday, March 13, It will be presented by the Thdianm Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. Two performances will be given, at 3:30 and 8 p. Mm, This story of life inh a War-torh village oh the Madrid=Valeneia highway was filmed last year by Joris Ivens, with the assistance of Ernest Hemingway, American novs elist. Other noted writers who @ols laborated on the story from Which the picture was made are Archibald MaeLeish, Johh Dos Passos and Lillian Hellman, The musical score 18 by Mare Blitatein, who wrote "The Oradle Will Roek,” leftist operetta now Playing in New York, and Virgil homson, composer of music for “The River,” Government film seen Iast week at the Lyvie,

Hemingway Narrator

Myr, Hemingway wrote the coms mentary accompanying "The Bpans ish Farth,” ahd speaks the narras toi's part in the film, The author of "Farewell to Arms” Was somes thing of an "added starter” in the film's production. He met Mr, Ivens and his eameraman in Paris, afte they had completed preliminary work on a picture edmmissioned by Contemporary Historians, The, Mr, Hamingway returned with them to Spain, and reshaped the picture to its present version. Mich of the oredit for its completion, however, i8 given by Mr, Ivens ta ah unexpected ally, Sidney Franks lin, the American bullfighter Being an idolized figure in Mas dria, Mr, Franklin was able to des vote his energies to acutting red tape and securing supplies for the pieture=-makers, Bullfighting 18 "out” at preseng, Mr, Ivens reports, the idea being that lives shouldn't be risked ih the pull ring when there are more suitable places to risk them, FIELDS GETS AUTO W. ©. Fields eelebrated ecomples tion of "The Big Broadeast of 1038" by buying a new automobile of luxurious design, It even has # fur rug on the floor,

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