Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1938 — Page 20

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ___

BLUEBEARD'S PRIVATE LIFE

COMPOSER AND WIFE VISIT CITY

A little family dispute is in progress above, all in the course of “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” moves to the Apollo today from the Indiana. Edward

which

Everett Horton and ‘Elizabeth Patterson are the active combatants, while Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert, the picture's stars, stand by.

"Dr. Edgar Stillman-Kelley, the American composer and Mrs. Still-man-Kelley (right), at a luncheon given them by the Woman's Department Club. With them is Mrs. Ralph Chappell.

Chicago of

'67 Rebuilt On Film Lot

Extra Half Million Added To Production Budget Of Big Picture.

(Mr. Harrison gives you eyewitness information on the stupendous bonfire of “In Old Chicago,” which may be seen on the

Anton Scherrer has another “In Old Chicago” story, Page 17.)

“village.

By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, April 1.—The lavish smusical sets which have had fans and studio auditors gasping for breath during the past year are merely spangled patches on the profligacy of some of the newer spectacle films. Most of the cost of “Hurricane” went into the erection and destruction of South Seas islands and a That mythical town of Klausterberg in “The Road Back” was substantially made of semipermanent buildings. The old city of Bagdad was constructed at 20th Century-Fox. At Metro they put up two whole blocks of a New York street for “Big City.” But the biggest thing yet is the group of sets for “In Old Chicago.” To do the job right, they added a cool half-million dollars to the previous budget of $1,000,000. For a section of the Chicago business district, there were 37 major structures complete in every exterior detail down to show-windows fully stocked with merchandise of the period. The entire city of the Chicago of 1867 was built in miniature for long shots of the big fire. It wasn't so small, at that, because the whole thing, together with a tank representing part of Lake Michigan, occupied a couple of acres.

MAE WEST IS LOSER

=~ IN DEMURRER PLEA

HOLLYWOOD, April 1 (U. P.).— Mae West was the loser today in the first skirmish with Mark Linder, who claims $1,000,000 as his share of the profits from her screen hit, “She Done Him Wrong.” Mr, Linder filed a suit charging that, she made the film from a play, “Diamond Lil,” which he and the actress wrote jointly. Miss West asked the court to throw out the. suit "on a demurrer, but was refused, and given 30 days to file a legal answer.

Indiana screen beginning today.

IN NEW YORK —sy ctorck ross

Jack Dempsey Achieves Personal Touch and

Makes Hospitality

Pay Big Dividends.

NEW YORK, April 1.—As thousands of the city’s travelers will tell you, Jack Dempsey bows to no peer as a restaurant host in New York, He has been in the business several years now and he has not shirked

the job.

Hero worshippers may be sure of his bluff salute in the corridor, his

Steeplechase smile and his vigorous handshake.

The Manassa, Mauler

has mastered the Personal Touch. ®"

Affectations don’t mar his hearty manner, and He has perfected the technique of convincing the customer that he is an invited guest. Dempsey, it is little known, also has won his spurs as a promotional genius.© Undoubtedly, nine-tenths of his clientele is transient and convergent from all ¢ Sores of America. Naturally

his ‘patrons are flattered to come into direct contact with the pugi-list-hero and to hear him inquire into their state ‘of health and prosperity. And pleased as punch to put their names and addresses

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, at 12:50, 3:55, 7 and 10:05. “Dangerous toe Know,” with Akim Tamiroff, Anna May Wong, at 11:40, 2:45, 5:50 and 8:5

CIRCLE

“Hawaii Calls,” with Bobby Breen, Ned Sparks, at. 12: 05, 2:35, 5:05 7:35 and 10. “Bulldog Drummond-s. Peril,” with John Barrymor John Howard Louise Campbell. St 11, 1:30, 4, 6:30, a

INDIANA

Old Chicago,” in FLL Power, Alice Faye, Ameche, Alte ar at 11: 40, ": 10, 4:40,

7:1 “Mare ch of Time,» at 11:05, 1:35, 1:05./ 6:40 and 9:10.

LOEW'S

“The First Hundred Years,” with Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Warren Flam, at 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 and 26. “Little ites Roughneck,” with Edith Slows, Leo Carrillo, at 11:05, 1:40, 4:10, 6:40 and 9:15.

LYRIC

“Calling All Stars,” with Vince a Eddie Foy 3 on stage at 1:05, , 6:45 and 9:4 hang’ in the Sky,” with Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, at 11:38, 2:23, 5:18, 8:13 and 10:38.

OHIO

“The Texas Rangers,” with Fred MacMurray Also “She Loved a Fireman.» with Dick Foran.

ALAMO toharlie Than at Monte Carlo.” with W. r Oland. Also * Hawaiian Pn are T with Smith Ballew

AMBASSALOR equin,” with. Joan Craw-

“Crashing Hollywood,” with Lee Tracy

with

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in the Autograph Book in the lobby. Their vanities are prodded even farther. For-soon after they identify themselves in the Big Book, Dempsey’s lieutenants dispatch missives, over Jack's signature, to their home-town papers. They are genial letters, informing the gditor that Mr. and Mrs. Jones of Tiny Falls (or whatever the town is called) dropped in on him the night before and that Jack is eager to meet more of Tiny Falls’ citizens. Such a communication from a celebrity like that is likely to wind up in print and éreate more good will than money ever can hope to purchase. No hamlet is too small for these mailed dispatches. The idea was Jack’s. They are not form letters. He dictates as many as he can in a busy, executive day. The others, his assistants compose. Some Ideas on New York I came across this in a city guide: A news photographer once posed this query to Louis Bromfield and Alice Hunt Bartlett: “What typifies New York?” To this Bromfield replied, “The skyline from the bay. There is no other skyline like it. It is New York to me as much as anything.” , ; : Exercising her womanly preroga-

| tive, Miss Bartlett, .a poetess, was

more ‘verbose. ‘New York’s spires, New York's towers,” she said, “these typify the-city. New York's striving, it’s reaching upward, these are concrete in the tall buildings. They seem symbolic of the sweep and surge of the city and of its aspiration.” In the same brochure, I find these scraps of data about the landmarks: Grant’s Tomb on upper Riverside Drive is constantly mistaken for the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument, a short distance away. And though maligners say that Grant’s Tomb is the least frequented sight around here, itis’ visited by 200,000 people annually. .

Today--Tomorrow

MaCHERRAYTEXAS RANGERS"

“SHE LOVED A FIREMAN” Dick Foran

‘place.

Ghost of Dexter Fellows

Abroad as Circus Opens

NEW YORK, April 1 (U, P.)— The rumble of “sesquipedalian” words was heard along Broadway

today and old-timers swore it was the ghost of Dexter W. Fellows announcing that the greatest show on earth was back, “bigger and better beyond belief.”

It wasn't Fellows—who has been in his grave these five months—but it was the press vanguerd of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows which “Dr. Dexter” for nearly 20 years preceded into town each spring on a gale of words as “stunning, stupendous and striking” as the circus they ballyhooed.

It wasn’t Fellows, but it was the circus, and it was spring. For years no New York city editor placed any credence in first robins, peeping crocuses, the weather man or the calendar. It wasn’t spring until Dexter and his checkered fopcoat and his gold-headed cane made their appearance in the city rooms around town, Show Must Go on

Buf Dr. Dexter died last November, and the greatest show must go on. It will open April 8 in Madison Square Garden as usual. Roland Butler, in charge of the show’s press department for the past 10 years, and Frank EBEraden, circus “strong man,” undertook this week to call at the newspapers which Fellows always visited. “Buf - understand,”. Mr. Butler said, “we're not trying to take Dex's ‘He was one bf those personages who can’t be replaced. We won’t even t Mr. Fellows is dead, but his mag-

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Symphony's Strings Give Last Recital

Musical Progress Noted In Quartet's Presenta- | tion of Beethoven.

By JAMES THRASHER Among regrets accompanying our

: waning symphony season is one con-

cerning the Indianapolis Symphony String Quartet. ' This group, organized this season, gave increasing pleasure in three subscription concerts, the last of which took place yesterday. And now that things are progressing nicely it seems too bag

that it must come to an end, at least until next fall. Yesterday's performance, given at the J. A. Goodman home on Kessler Blvd, brought a good-sized audience a program of the Bethoven Quartet, Opus 18 No. 1; the single and beautiful of Debussy’ s essays in this field, the G Minor Quartet and, between them, Turina’s short and atmospheric “Oration of the Bullfighter.” As an added number there

| was the “Little Toy March” by Wil-

liam Kroll. Progress Noted

It is a quite remarkable fact that in a short time, and an extremely busy one, this group has progressed from four individual players, as of ‘the first concert, to the real quartet that played yesterday. There was a gratifying unanimity, tone quality and quantity were better and intonation was improved. The program itself, too, was within the new group’s range, something that could not have been said of the first one.

hear, full of healthy vigor and with a noble, affecting slow movement. The Debussy work is of rare beduty

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- The Beethoven quartet is a joy to}:

. FRIDAY, APRIL 1 1988

—=a proof that the string quartet is not entirely a German institution— and it received a satisfactory inter. pretation. The players, as the musically nformed certainly know by this time, were Boris Schwarz, Avram Weiss, Jules Salkin and Paulo Gruppe. They are to be congratulated on their musical progress and its consequent pleasure.

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That Funny Guy of the Movies

Star-Studded Revue with

EDDIE FOY. Jr.

and Vicki Cummings

“Of course,” Mr. Butler said, “we | can’t do it like Dexter, but at that, we're not turning out any sissy copy.” He pointed proudly to the “Mags zine of Wonders” wherein is described “the world’s most terrifying living creature,” Gargantua the

Great, a 450-pound gorilla which the circus is: featuring this year. |

“Sesquipedalian®” Words

“Look at this: ‘Menacing, marauding, murderous, man-like monster,’ ‘sagacious savagery,’ ‘vehemently vicious,” ‘deadliest denizen’ Not hod, is #? Dexter would have liked a » In a way, Mr. Butler said, the opening ‘a week from tonight will be a memorial to Mr. Fellows. All his New York newspaper friends will be there, and so will the famous coat and cane. Mr. Dexter's widow, Mrs. Signe Fellows, is bringing them down fron New Britain, Conn, for the opening. There is a rumor that she will present them to Mr. Butler and Mi. Braden, but Mr. Butler wouldn't say if it was true. | “It would be too great an honor,” he said. &

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