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Former |. U. Coad Is Star

In New Film|

Sally, | rene and Mary" Is Here Friday With

Marjorie Weaver.

By JAMES THRASHER

If one consults Marjorie Weaver's classmates at Indiana University, and then turns to her studio’s publicity, one is likely to get a different version of the Weaver cess story.” But it is a success story, no matter who tells it. Since the picture, “Second Honeymoon,” the movie-going world doesn’t need to be told who Marjorie Weaver is. Her efforts in a “bit” which grew into a considerable part were responsible for her being

~ cast in “Selly, Irene and Mary,” 3

which comes to the Indiana Friday. And indications are that the public hasn’t seen or heard the last of Miss Weaver. As to the divergent stories: It is & melancholy fact that one may put more store in the dccounts of Miss ‘Weaver’s precinema career from the lips of a college friend than from the accounts emanating om Holly¥ wood. It’s a better story, too. Here’s What Press Agent Says Press-agentry hath it that this brunet miss from the: South was

thrice chosen beauty queen of the Indiana campus, had the lead in all

the big dramatic productions, and |3 made the welkin ring at all the gym

dances and proms with her “swingy” voice as soloist with the dance orchestras.

Actually, Miss Weaver seems not |& to have been quite so prominent. |8

Yet, from the time she won a beauty contest because her roommate entered her picture, Miss ‘Weaver has avoided the pitfalls and

oblivion that await most beauty-|"

contest winners. Her triumph now is real. And because she has come to the top from a not-too-dis-tinguished beginning, the moretinguished beginning, the more credible accounts seem decidedly more to her credit.

In her progress from a Tennessee birthplace to Hollywood, with stopovers in Kentucky, Indiana and New York, Miss. Weaver seems to-have ~ acquired a level head, a good bit of foresight and = will to succeed. For when opportunity knocked faintly in “Second Honeymoon,” the young actress threw open the door and invited that elusive individual in.

Blond Bccomes Brunet

The character of Joy in that picture was a minor one when it began. She was blond and faintly menacing. Bui 20th Century-Fox finally decided to let Miss Weaver keep her own tresses and deleted the “blond” references from the script. Before the shooting was finished, there were more script changes. As Miss Weaver's work and personality became more impressive, the part grew. She and Stuart Erwin even _appropriated the picture’s fadeout. People were beginning to sit| up and notice this Weaver giri soon after “Second roneymoon” released. The old home town in Louisville wanted her to come back for ‘the picture’s o»ening. ‘ Announcement was made to that effect, then Darryl P. Zanu-k, production chief at Miss Weav-'r’s studio, decided he’d found hims-If a gold mine.| So before his new starlet could catch her breath, she was signed for the third part of th: title role in “Sally, Irene and Mary ” They say the: if you know the right people in Louisville, you can pick up several t 10usand posters advertising Marjor 2 Weaver's personal gppearance—pra Facally for a font.

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ROMANCE COMES TO BABY SNOOKS IN NEW FILM, ‘EVERYBODY SING’

St. Louis A Cappella Choir To Give April Concert Here

j .The Lutheran Orphans’, Welfare Association, Mrs. Paul Rupprecht, president, has announced the engagement of the St. Louis A Cappella Choir for a concert April 22 in Caleb Mills Hall.

year, but the appearance conflicted with one of the opening concerts of the National Federation" of Music Clubs convention. Mrs. Rupprec:t has stated that numerous and insistent requests for another hearing have led tu: the reengagement. William B. Heyne directs the choir, which has appeared on several occasions with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Indianapolis concert will open the group’s annual spring tour, which this year will in-

| clude Illinois and Indiana.

ach Piece on Program

Included in the program here will be Bach’s motet, “Be Not Afraid.” All periods of choral compositions

it is announced, from a group of compositions by Orlando Gibbons and other early masters, to the present-day music of Rachmaninoff and Christiansen.

Concert proceeds are to be used to finance the Association’s work for the welfare of children in the Lutheran Orphanage. 2 2 8

The Male Chorus of the Senate Ave. branch Y. M. C. A. will be presented in concert at 8 o'clock tonight in the United Presbyterian Church, 25th St. and Paris Ave. Roscoe R. Polin conducts the chorus, which will be assisted by Clarence Lucas, violinist, and Ernest Kirk, flutist. Others on the program will be Catherine Dickerson and Laura Davis, pianists, and a speaking choir

Tieaturing J. D. Bridges, reader.

Music by Bach, Barnaby, Rogers and Huhn, and group of spirituals Farewell

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will be considered in the program,

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will be heard in the choral portion of the program. Chorus members are P. R. Shack, Charles Smith, Lee McFarland, Fausteno Ricco, John Perpener, Roger R. Hurd, Fred Frazier, Robert Brent, Guy Franklin, Gelee Corley, Rudolph Smith, Emory Dillon, Rupert Cox, Eugene Barber, Jonathan Holman, Paul White and Wilbert Johnson. The concert is being sponsored by the church’s Young People’s Christian Union.

Wanger Enlists Kurt Weills’ Aid

Times Special ~ HOLLYWOOD, March 1.— Walter Wanger announced today that Kurt Weill, composer of a number of operas and symphonies, is to orchestrate the score for “The River Is Blue,” the new Wanger production starring Madeleine Carroll and Henry Fonda. Mr. Weill, one of Europe’s leading modern musicians, was brought to Hollywood by Mr. Wanger after the premiere of his latest musical play, “The Silver Lake,” ‘had been produced simultaneously in 10 European cities. He also composed the score for Max Rheinhardt’s “The Eternal Road” and the Theater Guild’s “Johnny Johnson.”

“The River Is Blue” is being di-}

rected by William Dieterle from the screen play by John Howard Lawson. John Halliday and J.eo Car-rillo-head the supporting cast.

As a pride to the picture, «Everybody Sing,” here are two views Brice’s incomparable “Baby Snooks,” so dear to the hearts

of Fannie of stage/and radio fans.

And between them is a scene wherein Ro-

Manes In me person of Allan Jones, enters Miss Brice’s life. She and Mr. Jones, with Judy Gearland, the young lady in the righthand pic-’

ture, are featured in this film which will be at Loew’s beginning Friday. ;

IN NEW YORK—s GEORGE ROSS

Eqrinine Tattacer Reloicos for Mr. Disney's Dwarfs; They Should Be Best Sellers.

EW YORK, March 1.—Mildred of the Bowery—she has all but forgotten her surname--is pleased to report a boom in the tattooing business. Some of it, she says, is due to the Social Security Act and the fear of many workers that they will lose their numbers.

Mildred’s Bowery barber shop is the rendezvous for dozens of soldiers and sailors—as well as civilian permanent epidermal decorations. A plump lady of jovial manner, Mildred chose her calling after she herself had submitted to mural exterior decorating that covered her ample torso with $800 worth of serpentine allegories. She found herself . returning for these corporeal water colors so many times that she saw the profit possibilities of such a business. Now she is busy thanking Providence for Walt Disney because she expects the Seven Dwarfs to give her business even further impetus.

Orchestral Avocations

After playing in the orchestra pit —or on the bandstand--intermit-tently, a musician’s respite is sacred unto and he takes his leisure seriously! And if you've wondered where he disappears, or what he does, ‘ask. Don Voorhees, an old hand with the baton. Don ventures “hat selecting parlays for the following afternoon at the race track is the most popular diversion with his men. Musicians are notoriously avid customers of tradesmen who ply the stage doors. Thus, a great deal of commercial traffic goes on in the musicians’ quarters while you are in the lobby having a smoke, or finishing your scotch and soda. Music makers buy socks, ties, shirts,

diamond stickpins, etc., from these

salesmen. * Since musicians are, in the main, a poor business lot and My things on the ‘installment plan, a deal of activity in their dressing rooms is devoted to warding off the collection men who want a payment or the article returned. Also, recent installment of those pin-

ball machines around town is the

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source of worry to musical comedy and cabaret managers. Musicians are great addicts of this indoor diversion and often must be herded back to their stands after overstaying their intermission. And, incidentally, playing in the pit band of a Broadway show has served as the stepping stone to fame for such maestri as Benny Goodman, Red Nichols, Tommy Dorsey, Rubinoff and Bunny Berrigan. - Man, the Egg Newest dido: The Bachelor's Cooking School, conducted by Peggy Simpson, an attractive young lady from a current show who DOES know how to cook. Miss Simpson is concerned about man’s helplessness in the kitchen; and especially solicitous about the male not, connubially blessed. So the other day Miss Simpson was urged to give a one-day course at a model kitchen and demonstrate to the bachelor class how they could be equally at home on the range. There was. one hitch, though. The pupils kept a more vigilant eye upon the pretty teacher than the frying pan. The Mercury troupe’s production of “Julius Caesar,” without benefit of scenery, has acted as a challenge

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to Broadway producers, who are now in search of unique ideas to create talk and help put their plays over. In Jed Harris’ “Our Town,” the first scene discloses no scenery and Frank Craven, alone on the stage as the curtain rises, walks around at will, surveys the audience casually and then starts off the shd@w with his first line, when and as he pleases. And, although Al Woods may change his mind later on, his play, “Censored,” is expected -to have poiicemen dashing madly down the aisle, yanking the’ players

[warn Woke]

off the stage, presumably into patrol wagons. s 8 = So you thought that our dramatic critics are tough hombres. Well, Bob Musel ran across this dandy in a review of the 1900’s: “The play is billed as an original farce and there

can be no dispute of its accuracy.’

It’s the original farce Noah took aboard the Ark!”

Robe rt Taylor

. HOLLYWOOD, March1l (U. P).—~ Robert Taylor, idol of women motion picture fans, ‘has been confined to his home under doctor’s care with an eye ailment, his studio revealed today. Mr. Taylor's ailment was not seri-

lous, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio | reported, and the star was expected ‘| to be back at work today or tomor=

row. He is working on the “Three Comrades.”

STARTS REHEARSAL

After several weeks of sectional rehearsals, the Indianapolis Syme phonic Choir this evening is to be= gin its full rehearsals of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony, which the choir and the Indianapolis Symsphony Orchestra will present at the Murat on April 2 and 3.

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