Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1938 — Page 20

“Billie Burke Stars Again af ._oew'sin ‘Merrily We Live’;

Indiana Has

t Sscond Picture Revives Mester Criminal, Arsene Lupin.

i mn ped wit th: mad also seems to have '& way of developing mad families. ‘One "is forced to that conclusion, ‘anyway, if he is a regular Loew's ‘pa‘ron. Beginning today, the PennSylvania St. film emporium is showdng “Merrily We Live,” and, ‘in it, Billié Burke is carrying on where she left off yesterday in “Everybody Sing. » . Last week, you remember, Miss Burke was the fogbound Mrs. Bellars. Now she is the equally addle<brained Emily Kilbourne, wife of a wealthy financier with an incurable penchant for cleaning, renovating and tramps. 2s the picture opens, Ambrose, the Kilbourne’s last sociological misfit, has trotted off with the family silver. No sooner has Mrs. Kilbourne promised the family — daughters Jerry and Marion (Constance Bennet: and Bonita Granville), son Kana (Tom Brown) and Mr. Kilbourne (Clarence Kolb)—that there will be no more tramps, when in walzs a stranger. He Charms Household H's name’ is Wade Rawlins, and . all ~e wants to do is use the telephore. But Mrs. Kilbourne is seized by that old philanthropic urge. And whe the smoke clears away, there is 27r. Rawlins established as the fami'y chauffeur, in spite of himself. Now. the advertisements have - beer: ‘giving you parenthetical assureice that the tramp is an author in disguise, and that he is the hancsome Brian Aherne. So I'm giving away no secrets when I say that beneath Wade's week-old beard and unkempt clothing - there beats a heart of gold, to say nothing of a sens= of humor. After a bit, this; inw=rd beating is quickened by the prox mity of daughter Jerry. ; _.. Well, you can imagine how things go 0:1. Grosvenor, the bulter (played to perfection by Alan Mowbray) is incensed at the intrusion. But Jerry and little Marion, to say nothing of the cook and maid, are charmed by the stranger as soon as he gets a bath, shave and chauffeur’s uni forrm. So is Minerva Harlan, who coms to dinner with her father and motiier., She pounces on Wade and converts him into a dinner guest, Hough he is supposed to be “but-

It Ends Happily

Thereupon Wade establishes himself in the guest room. Meanwhile the police have found. his old car * which-slid off the road while he was bringing it a drink. That’s why ‘he came to telephone, see? And all the papers say - that Wade © Rawlins, prominent young author, has been killed. While -Wade' is out, the Kilbournes read the sad news, and there is such an epidemic of fainting as you've never seen. There are also a lot of undignifed falls on the kitchen floor which don’t add much to the picture—but then that’s the cinema’s current idea of high comedy. But Wade returns and-boy ‘gets girl. “Merrily ‘We Live” is a bright, amusing liftle piece. Sometimes it’s a bit too bright, perhaps. But the cast and director, Norman McLeod, have succeeded where others might have failed. Mr. Ahern is a. smooth perfo and Miss Bennett does co ax in an engaging manner, so that, much is in good hands. Mr. Mowhihy, course, is a gem, and Mis: already has been mention amusing sequences win those that are somewhat forced in their zaiety—but it’s not a shutout, by ary means. Loew's second: picture revives that fabulous French master-criminal, Arsene Lupin. Galled “Argene Liipin Returns,” it features Melvyn DougJas, Virgina Brig: and Waren wilam.

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Hollywood—As Fyle Sees It Ernie. Pyle, the Vagabond from Indiana, is in Hollywood again. For breezy, informative chatter about the goings-on in the: film- capital, follow "Ernie daily in The Times. Fis. Column = We. is on

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Katharine Hepburn Takes Lead in Film ‘Bringing Up Baby.’

By JAMES THRASHER

Maybe it’s the farce to end all farces, this “Bringing Up Baby” which the Indiana is showing this week. Af :least-the slapstick craze, which has been bubbling ‘along for the past year or so, has burst.forth and shot ‘the volcanic works in one of the most wild-eyed comedies’ in Hollywood ‘history. Whether or not you'll like it depends upon your capacity. You may be of a mathematical turn of mind. If so, it is possible that you’ll agree with the producers that if one leopard running wild in Connecticut is funny, two are twice as funny. Or if all the chases and falls in the old two-reelers were effective, then these same tactics, expanded to feature length, should be triply potent. The picture~ features - Katharine | Hepburn, of all people. Costarred is Cary Grant, a rather bored and bemused Cary Grant, I feel, pining for the more spontaneous fun of his rich parts in “Topper” and “The Awful Truth.” And the excellent cast also boasts Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson and Walter Catlett.

“His Plans Are Disrupted

It’s impossible to extract much of a plot-resume from all the antics. But briefly, Mr. Grant is a zoolo-

gist, assembling a brontosaurus skeleton, contemplating a cold and scientific marriage ‘the next day, and hoping for:a million-dollar gift for his museum from a rich old lady. / All this is “disrupted when he meets Miss Hepburn on the golf course. She plays a young heiress whose mental. processes would put Gracie Allen’s radio personality on a par with the Seven. Pillars of Wisdom. Before she is through with him she’s taken him and “Baby,” her leopard, from New York to Connecticut. She steals his clothing, dresses him in.one of her 'negligees and later, a hunting outfit. Her dog steals the one bone necessary to complete the brontosaurus reconstruction. They chase the dog and dig up the estate in search of the bone. They chase “Baby,” who escapes. They also chase another leopard, a killer, who escapes from a circus. They fall in bushes. They fall down hill. They fall in a pond. They even fall in love.

Finally Land in Jail

Miss Hepburn gets the back torn out of her dress in a hotel dining room. Mr. Grant has fenders torn off his car. Finally everyone lands in jail, because the jailer thinks they're all crazy. I think he’s right. What would you say to people who chased jungle beasts in New England, or sang “I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby” underneath your window, or howled leopard mating calls in the dead of night? Of course, as I have intimated, you may like the picture. People seem to be feeling ‘very violently one way or the other about it. But while I line up with those whose thumbs are pointing toward the | ground, .you might as well go and

see it for yourself. Fe

Shortridge Show Continues Today

The vaudeville show presented by Shortridge juniors will be repeated tonight, after opening before an appreciative audience last nigh ht at Caleb Mills Hall. Six fast-paced acts range from a “Baby Ruth Hour” chorus and dance to a hillbilly pantomime of “The Martins and the Coys.”

toe dancers and modern music are featured. Charles Smith is vaude-

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she said “No thanks.”

tonight at English’s. This story. of bleak lives and bleak swrroundings was told first in the popular short novel by the late Edith Wharton. Owen Davis and his son, Donald, remade the story into, a play which enjoyed a New York run last year with Pauline Lord as the featured performer. “Ethan Frome” tells of a struggling farmer of that name and his nagging, hypochrondriac wife, Zenohia. To escape the household drudgery, Zenobia brings her young, pretty and penniless cousin, Mattie, to live with them. When Zenobia realizes the grow-|

Queen Mary because he has been poor all his life and he has not yet become accustomed to spending much of his $800 a week royalties. He still lives with his wife and three children in the dingy flat Where he wrote the play. A representative of the produce, Eddie Dowling, told the mild-man-nered little man that the least -he could expect to net from the play in the next three years was $140,000. Mr. Carroll brushd a hand across his eyes and muttered: “My, my, my » Mr. Carroll, ‘who talks in a rich Irish brogue, said he was anxious to see America ‘but. did not care much about going to Hollywood. ~ “Nobody has asked me. to come out there and write for the ¢inema,” he said. “I'm afraid it wouldn't be

told they pay writers very good salaries but keep them sitting ajouii} doing nothing. A That might be all would never do for a restless Irishman like myself.”

He said he was working on another play for the: Abbey: ‘Players

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: Luise Rainer

HOLLYWOOD, March 11 (U. P.)—With the possible exception of Miss Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy, who won the gilt dolls, Hollywood awoke today with a hangover after such a banquet as nobody any-

The occasion was the 10th annual awarding of prizes b e Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best 1937 go

Tracy, who won first prize for actors by his performance in “Captains Courageous,” was in a hospital recovering from a minor operation. The committee called him tp and he said he was mighty pleased. Miss Rainer, who carried off first honors for actresses by her portrayal of a Chinese peasant woman in “The Good Earth,” was sitting in her house slippers, when the committee announced her the victor. She’d had an invitation to attend the dinner in the Biltmore Bowl, but When she learned she’d won, she hanged her slippers, put on an evening gown and hastened downtown for her doll.

Hampden Takes Unfamiliar Role at English’s Tonight

Walter Hampden, tainilia¥ to us in the romsiits siavities of & Cyrano, a Caponsacchi or a Richelieu, will don the overalls and rubber boots of a 19th Century New Tgiand farmer in “Ethan Frome,” opening

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Jima attachment between Ethan and Mattie, she sends the girl away. But the two, with their love now articulate, decide to crash a sled into a tree at the bottom of a long hill, ' ending their suspense and misery. Instead of dying, however, Ethan and Mattie are maimed for life. They are returned the Frome homestead, where the) grudging Zénobia takes up .the /burden of

hews will be seen Ruth Lee as the wife. r was the play's di-

Dorothy as Mattie, a

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Hit Drama's Author Takes Tourist Class to View It

NEW YORK, March 11 (U. P.).—Paul Vincent Carroll, Irish schoolmaster who lives in the slums of Glasgow, has arrived here to see his play “Shadow and Substance,” one of the hits of the Broadway season.

He sailed tourist class on the®

very good for me if they did. I'm |

right for an Englishman but it 1 “My American Wife” Francis Lederer Tyrone

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Fabien Sevitzky, Conductor

SOLOISTS

Harold Triggs, Pianist

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and recalled that his last Broadway play—“Things That Are

Caesar 8" in 1932—brought him: only|

$200. “I didn’t mind that, »: he said, “because everyone said it was an artistie success.”

JACKIE COOPER ILL AT HIS HOME

HOLLYWOOD, March 11 @. P.). —Jackie Cooper, youthful motion

picture star, was confined to his] home by influenza today. Filming}:

of his latest picture, “White Banners,” was delayed. He had been ill

Alice Brady

Warner Brothers got one for “The Life of Emile Zola,” Judged the

. best production of 1937. Other awards included:

Joseph Schildkraut, best supporting actor, in “The Life of mle Zola”; Alice Brady, best supporting actress in “In Old Chicago”; McCarey, best director for “The Awful Truth,” and William A. fire man and Robert Carson, best: original story, for “A Star Is.Born.” Darryl Zanuck got a special award: for being the best producer; Edgar Bergen obtained a wooden dummy for his work with a ditto, and Mack Sennett received a plaque for his pioneering in the bathing

beauty industry.

~ ‘There were 1300 people In their best bibs and tuckers jammed into a room designed to hold half that many and trying to down an

$10 for those in the middle, and $7.50 for those back among the palms. .Bob Burns, the Arkansas bazooka player and Times columnist,

functioned as toastmaster.

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“Bordertown,” with Paul Muni, Bette Davis and Eugene Salette, 2 11:15, 1:24, 3:33, 5:42, 7:51 an

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“Hollywood Hotel Revue” on st Fh Many May and others, at 12: 7 -3:41, 6:43 and 9:27.

Cin he Baroness and the Butise.” with William Powell and Annabella, “at 11:18, 2:03, 5:04, 7:48 and 10:32.

ENGLISH'S “Ethan Frome, Sha Walter Hampden. Curtain al INAS “Bringing Up Baby with Katha-

: Sing Hepburn and 3 gant, at 1:31 1: ta, 1:08 and 9 144,

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“Merrily We Live) with ns pnce Bennett and Brian Aherne, at 12:4 4, x 15 and 10. dhs Lupin,” with Melvyn Doug3 and yugln a Bruce, at 11:10,

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Louis Armstrong and Ris Qrchestsa on stage, at 1:08, 3:52, 6:46 and 9 “Penrod and His Twin Bix Fin the Mauch twins, at 11:51, 2:35, 5:29, 8:13 and 10:30:

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“My American Wife with Francis Lederer and Ann Sothern. Also “Second Honeymoon,” with Tysolie Power.

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" ALWAYS BIG TIME Kay Johnson, an actress ever since she was graduated from the American: ‘Academy of Dramatic ‘Art, has

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BERLIN FINISHES

TUNES FOR MOVIE

Times Special.

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| bridge, completed one of their most | difficult assignments with the film-

| production of his “Alexander’s Rag‘time Band,” for 20th Century-Fox.

HOLLYWOOD, March 11 —Irving Berlin has completed three new swing melodies. for the $2,000,000

The new numbers are “Now: It Can Be Told,” “I'm Marching Along With Time,” and “My Walking Stick.” All three numbers will be played by a big symphony orchestra, and

Quintuplets. Big Problem

men With Multitude Of Restrictions.

RKO - Pathe cameramen, who think nothing of strolling up and down the cables of a suspension

ing of a few simple pictures of five. young ladies. If you go to see “Quintupletland,”

in conjunction with “Bringing Up Baby,” you'll get an idea of the trials of photographing the world’s most famous babies. The boys weren't allowed to be themselves. They had to play masquerade, doffing ‘the tra-

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of their profession for the white smocks and the gauze masks of the surgery.

which ‘opens: at the Indiana today :

with | coughs-ne has wu ohe idea‘ in mind: To get his world-famous pa=tients through the sniffie and upsete stomach period without mishap. And the good: doctor is particularly ‘wary of foreigners in Rauintupledand » suspecting each one of being ‘poten {tial Death. Filmi Complete Biography It didn’t make any difference to Dr. Dafoe that it was 17 degrees below zero and that cameramen had to shout directions ‘back and: forth to film the snow scenes. Muzzled they were when they c¢dme in and [nuzgled they Temaitied until they

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