Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1938 — Page 8

PAGE 8 Mannequin

Unites Gown And Glamour

Spencer Tracy's Artistry Lauded as Lifelike And Credible.

By JAMES THRASHER

Gowns and glamour on the one hand, and one of the screen’s foremost actors on the other, constitute the double charge of “audience appeal” in “Mannequin” at Loew's this week.

Joan Crawford is the party of the first part, sharing top-billing with Spencer Tracy. Along with an able cast and Director Frank Borzage, they labor valiantly with a trite and tawdry little tale from the facile typewriter of Katharine Brush. The picture's title is misleading, for it is inspired by a sequence tacked on to enable Miss Crawford to model some current examples of the couturier’s art. Actually, the story is about three natives of Hester St. in East Side New York. ,

She's a Factory Girl

First we meet Jessie Cassidy (Miss Crawford), who works in a garment factory to support a lazy father and brother and a patient, hard-working mother. Then there is Eddie (Alan Curtis) Jessie's goodlooking but shiftiess “boy friend.” Jessie rebels finally against the squalor and drudgery of her home life and persuades Eddie to marry her. At their wedding supper they meet John L. Hennessey (Mr. Tracy), a Hester St. boy who started out with a rowboat and now owns a fleet of ships. He buys the party champagne, the bride and groom come over to thank him, and the fiangle is drawn. Jessie soon discovers that she has no prize package in Eddie. In a crap game he loses the fighter he manages, and she is forced to support him by working in a revue chorus. Ere long Eddie's insidious plan comes out. He wants his wife to dviorce him, marry Hennessey (who by this time is In love with her), then divorce Hennessey and return to her first husband with a large settlement. From here on into port, the story drifts along the familiar channels wherein so many of Miss Crawford’s pictures have run. Jessie leaves Eddie, marries John L. and almost leaves him when Eddie threatens to tell Hennessey that hi: wife was in on the scheme. But the shipping tycoon loses his boats in a sit-down strike. And the gallant Jessie is able to prove that it was love after all by sticking by—for richer. for poorer. Through it all Mr. Tracy moves with that rough-and-ready artistry that makes his performances lifelike and credible. His ease, his timing and the gift for making every speech and movement seem spontaneous are a high type of cinema art, and a joy to watch.

Joan Seems Inspired

Miss Crawford, too. seems inspired by his presence and responds to Mr. Borzage's urgings with something more than her accustomed aptitude. Mr. Curtis, a newcomer, does well as the “heel” in the threecornered affair, and there are some excellent supporting performances by Oscar O'Shea, Elizabeth Risdon and Leo Gorcey as Jessie's parents and brother. Young Mr. Gorcey was the “Spit” in “Dead End” of stage and screen. He nearly runs off with the day's juvenile acting honors, though he is competing with Mickey Rooney, featured with Lewis Stone in Loew's second picture, “You're Only Young Once.”

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Happy Landing,” with Sonja He-. nie, Don Ameche and Cesar Romero, at 11:48, 2:19, 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.

CIRCLE “Radio City Revels,” with Bob Burns, Jack Oakie and Kenny Baker, at 11, 1:46, 4:32, 7:18 and 10:04. “Double Danger,” with Preston Foster and Whitney Bourne, at 12:44, 3:30, 6:16 and 9:02.

INDIANA White and the Seven Dwarfs,” first feature-length animated color cartoon, from the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale, at 9, 4 12:45, 2:35, 4:30, 6:20, 8:15 and 10:10.

LOEW'S “Mannequin,” with Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy, at 12:40, 3:45, 6:50 and 10. “You're Only Young Once,” with Lewis Stone and Mickev Rooney, at 11:15, 2:25, 5:30 and 8:40.

LYRIC “Dave Apollon’s Varieties of 1938" on stage at 1, 3.52, 6:4 9:36. “Blondes at Work,” with Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane, at 11:43, 2:35, 5:27, 8:19 and 10:41.

KEITH'S

“Hollywood Sketchbook Review,” on stage. Also “Lady Behave,” with

Sally Eilers. OHIO

“Hell's Angels,” with Jean Harlow and P°n Lvon. Also ‘Adventurous Blond.” with Glenda Farrell.

AMBASSADOR “Beg, Borrow or Steal,” with

Ralph Morgan. Also “First Lady.” with Kay Francis.

ALAMO “Rootin’, Tootin’ Rhythm,” with

Gene Autrey. Also “Exiled in Shanghai,” with Wallace Ford.

“Snow

Jean Harlow Mise Bt! "HELL'S ANGELS"-

Plus “Adventurous Blonde”

STARRING IN BALLET RUSSE

ance.

The famous and popular ballerina, Olga Morosova, will be one of the many attractions when Col. W. De Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo comes to the Murat Wednesday night for a four-ballet perform-

exciting stage mecca anywhere.

place.

IN NEW YORK —sy ceoreE ress

'Our Town," Jed Harris' Latest Play, Is Warm,

Sentimental and Human Story.

EW YORK, Feb. 12.—The Stage: In space of a month, the Broadway theater has struck a stride that must make this city the most For, hardly had the critics’ fraternity drawn second wind, after touting the important Irish drama, “Shadow and Substance” all over the place, when other luminous events took

The other night, Jed Harris enriched the Wilder's first, full-length show, “Our Town,” which must be put down

season with Thornton

as one of the bravest plays on Broadway. In defiance of tradition and common practice, Mr. Wilder —best remembered, perhaps, for his popular book, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”—has written “Our Town” without scenery; and Mr, Harris has put it on a bare stage with such unfailing skill that the lack of painted props is welcome.

Instead, “Our Town” relies upon the humanity and the warmth of the people it deals with, in order to penetrate beyond the footlights. Instead of the cold print of the program to denote the characters and the scene, Frank Craven, whose wide-open smile and neighborly manner of speech endear him to any crowd, takes charge. He is the Greek Chorus in the guise of a New Hampshire bucolic and from him the audience learns where the action is taking place and why; he is both the Greek chorus and Elbert Hubbard of “Our Town,” for he mixes his information about the folk onstage with welcome scraps of homespun philosophy.

Perilous Drama

You Must See “The Road Gang”

WALLACE FORD JUNE TRAVIS

EVERY Two Shows at Night, 7 and 9; M

FEBRUARY 12th to FEBRUARY 19th HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND

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THE 10,000-DOLLAR BEAUTY

WITH SMILES wo KISSES

A 14 GORGEOUS SINGING and DANCING

ONE A FEATURE at. 2:15—Special Midnight Show Sat. Night

GIRLS

ROM this, I fear, you may gather that “Our Town” is mystical in design and therefore, over your heads. On the other

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Extra! Third Big Week!

MARCH OF TIME

Presenting the sensational uncen-

Cass Daley Scores Tops In Rhythmic Art of

Noisemaking.

First there was the swarm of Iocusts in “The Good Earth,” then the big wind in “Hurricane,” and now there's Dave Apollon and his “Varieties of 1938” at the Lyric. If you are limp after “The Good Earth” and “Hurricane,” then you know how you'll feel when Mr. Apoljon and his troupe have finished with - you. You'll wobble up the aisles gasping for breath; for the bouncing Russian, recently returned from Hollywood, has captured the “third degree” technique and brought it back alive to bludgeon you into having a good time. Cass Daley, late of the “Follies,” is his star, and for coon-shouting, facial and physical contortions and general ribaldry she makes Martha Raye look like a bashful little girl whose tongue has been taken into custody by the kitty. She is absolutely the last word in rhythmic noise-making. If they get any more raucous, the Lyric management will have to remove the first five rows of seats or permit the customers’ to enter only at their own peril.

Company at Best

Mr. Apollon and the standing members of the company to which he refers as the “league of nations,” are much the same as they have always been—their best—and that is very good. The “Boss” is a real showman and knows how to pick talent as well as present it with its best foot forward. There is never a dull moment in an Apollon show— he keeps things moving along at such a pace that even if there were serious flaws they would go unnoticed. And his “Varieties” are really variety. It is “big-time” vaudeville with new costumes and settings and a general atmosphere of excitement that always attends the theatrical when it is in top form. The Five Hoilywood Coeds, an-

hand, it is all so remarkably unpretentious, so simply understood and sympathetic, that it cannot fail but touch a sentimental spot of the most insensitive playgoer. For, after all, it is a nostalgic excursion on which Mr. Wilder is taking us, into any small town where youth and love and death form ar unvarying, uncomplicated and eternal pattern. And in the foreground of a tender romance in “Our Town,” Mr. Wilder's philosophy is not hard to follow. With his old genius for placing the right people in the right parts, Mr. Harris could have traveled to the farthest ends of actordom and not found a better master of ceremonies than Frank Craven. To keep it in the family, Craven's son, John, is beautifully portraying a lovestruck lad. And in Martha Scott, who portrays the girl, Mr. Harris has discovered an unknown young actress of vast talent and considerable emotional quality. Not only is Mr. Wilder's play one of the unusual events of the season, but one of the finest. Perhaps, the finest.

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Box Office Open 9

Prices—25¢,

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

FABIEN SEVITZKY, Conductor THIRD POPULAR CONCERT

With the

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONIC CHOIR ELMER STEFFEN, Choral Conductor : and

Soloist: MARJORIE CALL, Harpist Tomorrow Murat Theater 3 P. M.

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40c, 50c, 75¢

SYMPHONY CONCERT SOLOIST

Marjorie Call, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra harpist, will be soloist at tomorrow’s popular-priced orchestra concert which Fabien Sevitzky will conduct at the Murat, beginning at 3 p. m. Miss Call will play the Ravel Rondo and Allegro for harp and orchestra.

other of Mr. Apollon’s star attractions, are girls whose talents, individually and collectively, are as outstanding as anything seen in Indianapolis for some time. They're vocalists, dancers and acrobats and highly capable in any and all of the three roles.

For the second week in succession the Lyric has seen juggling at its incredible best. Bob Ripa of the current show is perhaps the hard-est-working member of the company. He will do almost anything for your “amazement,” as Mr. Apollon says, and he calls on you for more than attention and applause. Get your throwing arm in shape, for you may be asked to help Mr. Ripa with his act. Then there is Max and His Gang, an acrobat with four highly trained dogs; the DiGatanos, an extremely graceful and talented dancing team; George Lyons, a singing harpist; the Continental Dancing Ladies, and Maxine Lewis, a vocalist whose gestures are full of meaning but, oddly, they seem to

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have little if anything to do with her songs. Otherwise Miss Lewis is very pleasing. : On the screen you may see Glenda Farrell in her now quite familiar role of Torchy Blane, the mystery solving newspaper woman. You've seen Torchy at work before and, if you've enjoyed her past adventures, you'll probably like these just as well. L. BE. RH.

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40 PEOPLE ON STAGE

Stage Shows 15¢ to 1, After, 25¢

“LADY

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JRDAY, FEB. 12, 1938

Good Tunes Save Film Featuring Radio Stars

One thing hasn't been affected by the recession, and that's the film=

revue mill, which might even be suspected of working overtime.

The

latest model off the assembly line is called “Radio City Revels,” and is

now on view at the Circle. The cast includes Bob Burns, Jack Oakie, Victor Moore, Kenny Baker and Helen Broderick. On the credit side it may be said that there are several good tunes and a spectacle in which Mr. Oakie apparently pours an entire hot-water bottleful of milk down Mr. Burns’ throat without the latter coming up for air. The picture's demerits include a rambling, impossible story and a lot of hysterical “acting” in the attempt to be farcical. It’s all about a pair of song writers, played by Mr. Oakie and Milton Berle, who have run out of ideas and money at the same time. Mr. Burns, as one of their Ozark correspondence pupils, appears and they discover that he composes songs in his sleep.

Windup Spectacular

The rest of the picture is devoted to keeping Mr. Burns asleep or trying to keep him awake, depending on whose side you're on. There are also several sidetrips to take in Kenny Baker wooing Ann Miller in song, and Miss Miller responding with tap dances. At the end there is the usual “production spectacle,” set in New York's Radio City and garnished with the usual Hollywood birthdaycake settings. Hal Kemp and his orchestra and Jane Froman appear briefly in the picture. But it's a picture that they,

or the combined falents of Messrs. Burns, Oakie, Baker, Moore and

NEXT WEDNESDAY

Murat Theater Feb. 16—8:30 P. M.

Seats: $1.10, $1.65, $2.20, $2.75, $3.30. Get tickets at Ayres Accommodation Desk. Sponsored by Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Miss Broderick, can do nothing for nor with. There also is a second feature called “Double Danger,” with Prese ton Foster and Whitney Bourne. J.T

Chez Paree Has New Manager

The Chez Paree, downtown supe per ciub, is now under the management of Zeke Campbell, a well=known figure In local night club circles. Hal Bailey and his orchestra will continue to provide dance music under the new management, and dancing will be from 7 p. m. until closing. Floor shows are presented three times nightly, and the current, _ entertainers include Keith, Deane and Diana, novelty dancers, and Caroline Carr, singer.

An entirely new floor-show vill be presented beginning Monday night,

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IN NEWER

At Your Neighborhood Theater

NORTH SIDE

30th at Northwestern Three-Hit Feature Chester Morris

“FLIGHT FROM GLORY” Jones Family “HOT WATER” “DEVIL.DOGS OF THE AIR” Sun. Double Feature—Eddie Cantor

“ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN” “BETWEEN TWO WOMEN”

Garrick 30th and Illinois

Double Feature Patsy Kelly “PICK A STAR” “ANNIE OAKLEY”

Sun. Double Feature—Irene Dunne

“THE AWFUL TRUTH” “MAN WHO CRIED WOLF”

Noble & Mass. M ECCA Double Feature Eleanor Powell

“BORN TO DANCE” “REPORTED MISSING”

Sun. Double Feature—Star Cast

“WOMEN ARE TROUBLE” “KELLY THE SECOND”

19th & College Double Feature

Stratford Bs si

“THE AWFUL TRUTH” “ANNIE OAKLEY” Sun. Double Feature—Paul Muni “THE GOOD EARTH” “UNDER COVER OF NIGHT” DREAM Double Feature Bette Davis “IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER” “SOPHIE LANG GOES WEST” Sun. Double Feature—The Jones Family

“BORROWING TROUBLE” Frances Farmer “EBB TIDE”

R YZ Illinois and 3%th

Double Feature Beverly Roberts “EXPENSIVE HUSBANDS” “BEG, BORROW OR STEAL” Sun. Double Feature—Joe E. Brown “FIT FOR A KING” Myrna Loy “MAN-PROOF” Double Feature

Hol lywoo Chas. Starrett “OLD WYOMING TRAIL” “WESTLAND CASE” Sun. Double Feature—Fred Astaire

“A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS” “ALCATRAZ ISLAND” Double Feature

Za ri ng Loretta Young “WIFE, DOCTOR AND NURSE” Marlene Dietrich “ANGEL” Sun. Double Feature—James Dunn

“LIVING ON LOVE” Leslie Howard “STAND-IN” Double Feature

C | n e ma Dick Pureell

“MISSING WITNESSES” Frances Farmer “EBB TIDE”

Sun. Double Feature—Loretta Young

2351 Station St.

1500 Roosevelt

Central at Fall Crk.

16th & Delaware

“SECOND HONEYMOON” i ON BROADWAY”

42nd & College Double Feature Chas. Quigley “THE GAME THAT KILLS” “LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA” Sun. Double Feature—Dorothy Wilson “SPEED TO SPARE” Kay Francis “FIRST LADY” 1 . Cl. & Ft. Wayne

S it. C | a i r 5 Double Feature

Joe E. Brown “FIT FOR A KING” Jones Family “Borrowing Trouble” Sun. Double Feature—Carole Lombard “NOTHING SACRED” “MERRY-GO-ROUND OF 1938”

Ta bott Talbott & 22nd

Double Feature Ann Sothern “THERE GOES THE GROOM” “MERRY-GO-ROUND OF 1938” Sun. Double Feature— Jeanette MacDonald “THE FIREFLY” _Pat O’Brien “SUBMARINE D-1” EAST SIDE

Tonight & Tomorrow Special Double Feature Myrna Loy—Franchot Tone “MANPROOF” Lily Pons—Jack Oakie “HITTING A NEW HIGH”

Paramount soe reso

Double Feature Ann Dvorak “SHE’S NO LADY” “HOLLYWOOD ROUNDUP” Sun. Double Feature—Ann Sheridan “ALCATRAZ ISLAND” Jane Withers “45 FATHERS”

1 114 E. Washington Double Feature

B JOU Richard Cromwell “THE ROAD BACK” “TWO-GUN LAW” Sun. Double Feature—Jack Holt

“TROUBLE IN MOROCCO” _ Harry Carey “BORDER CAFE”

Parker ‘ves: 10th Se.” ouble u arke Bette Davis “THAT CERTAIN WOMAN” Dick Foran “CHEROKEE STRIP” Sun. Double Feature—Warner Baxter “VOGUES OF 1938” “BREAKFAST FOR TWO”

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Continuous Matinee Roland Young

Today—Adults 15¢ Till 6 P. M. “KING SOLOMON’S MINES” Dick Purcell “Missing Witnesses” Also Tom Patricola and Buster West EXTRA! Last Shew Tonight Only! Fred Astaire—Ginger Rogers Eric Blore—Helen Broderick . “SWINGTIME” Sun. Double Feature—Myrna Loy Franchot Tone “MAN-PROOF” Jack Oakie—Lily Pons “HITTING A NEW HIGH”

TTR TN acoma Irene Dunne “THE AWFUL TRUTH” “I COVER THE WAR” Sun. Double Feature—Loretts. Young

“SECOND HONEYMOON”

| Jane Withers “45 FATHERS”

EAST SIDE

T a 40%) E. New York ouble Feature uxe Oo Stuart Erwin “DANCE, CHARLIE, DANCE” “WEST OF SHANGHAI” Sun. Double Feature—Fredric March

“NOTHING SACRED” Pat O’Brien “SUBMARINE D-1”

5507 E. Wash. St. | RVI NG Double Feature Fred Astaire “DAMSEL IN DISTRESS” “WEST OF SHANGHAI” Sun. Double Feature—Carole Lombard

“NOTHING SACRED” Jones Family “Borrowing Trouble”

H . + 30% E. 10th St. ouble Feature ami on Ann Sheridan “ALCATRAZ ISLAND” Jones Family “HOT WATER” Sun. Double Feature—Carole Lombard

“NOTHING SACRED” “DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI”

GOL DEN "6116 E. Wash.

Double Feature Gary Cooper “MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN” Movita “PARADISE ISLE” Sun. Double Feature—Joan Crawford “THE BRIDE WORE RED” Spencer Tracy “BIG CITY”

Emerson: comms shine

oday—Adults Carole Lombard 15¢ Till 6 P. M. “NOTHING SACRED” Janet MacDonald “FIREFLY” Starts Tomorrow—Pat O’Brien Geo. Brent “SUBMARINE D-1” “BEG, BORROW OR STEAL”

WEST SIDE ~~

2 | t Ww. uh, 2 Belmont ouble Feature e mon Frank Morgan “BEG, PARDON OR STEAL” Gladys George “MADAME X” Sun. Double Feature—Ian Hunter

“FIFTY-SECOND STREET” Myrna Loy “MAN-PROOF”

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Double Feature Chester Morris “FLIGHT FROM GLORY” Zane Grey's “THUNDER TRAIL” Sun. Double Feature—Eddie Cantor “ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN” Leslie Howard “STAND-IN” Double Feature

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“ADVENTUROUS BLONDE“ Ricardo Cortez “CALIFORNIAN” Sun. Double Feature—Lily Pons “HITTING A NEW HIGH” Joan Blondell “STAND-IN”

Howa rd Carole Lombard “NOTHING SACRED”

in Gorgeous Technicolor of the Hooded Horseman” Sun. Double Feature—Lionel Barrymore

“NAVY BLUE AND GOLD”

Speedway City

Howard & Blaine Double Feature

“FIT FOR A KING”

: WEST SIDE S TAT E r 2302 W. 10th St. ouble Feature Gene Autry “PUBLIC COWBOY No. 1” “BIG TOWN GIRL” Sun. Double Feature—Tyrone Power

“BETWEEN TWO WOMEN” “MERRY-GO-ROUND OF 1938”

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East at Lincoln

SOUTH SIDE Double Feat Lincoln mows resiure

“SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT” “TRAILING TROUBLE”

Sun. Double Feature—Warner Oland

“CHAN ON BROADWAY” Wm. Powell “DOUBLE WEDDING”

New Garfield

2203 Shelby Madeleine Carroll “IT’S ALL YOURS” Native Gast “ELEPHANT BOY” Sun. Double Feature—Irene Dunne “THE AWFUL TRUTH” “FIT FOR A KING” Fountain Square Double Feature Leo Carillo “THE BARRIER” Zane Grey's “THUNDER TRAIL” Sun. Donble Feature—Carole Lombard “TRUE CONFESSION” Jones Family “Borrowing Trouble” Sande rs Double Feature Bette Davis “THAT CERTAIN WOMAN” Wm. Boyd “RUSTLER’'S VALLEY”

Sun. Double Feature—Irene Dunne “THE AWFUL TRUTH” Jane Withers “45 FATHERS” Double Feature

G rove Chas. Starrett

“OLD WYOMING TRAIL” Jane Withers “45 FATHERS” Sun. Double Feature—Tyrone Power “SECOND HONEYMOON” John Wayne “ADVENTURE’S END” Double Feat Avalon “TiTSER

“BOSS OF LONELY VALLEY” “YOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE” Sun. Double Feature—Geo. Murphy “WOMEN MEN MARRY” Shirley Temple “HEIDI”

Oriental mm tm rien a Robt. Montgomery “LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN” Will Rogers “JUDGE PRIEST” Sun. Double Feature—Glenda Farrell “ADVENTUROUS BLONDE” Jane Withers “45 FATHERS”

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Tomorrow Special Double Feature Myrna Lo Franchot Tone

¥ “MAN-PROOF” Mischa Auer—Bert Lahr “MERRY-GO-ROUND OF 1938”