Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1938 — Page 14

PAGE U4’ Joe Brown At Loew's

Still Howls Like Banshee, and Is Lucky in Love.

Slapstick may come and glamor girls go, but Joe E. Brown apparently is going on forever. It’s a comforting thought in this day of cinematic trends and general hurlyburly. . His latest film effort, called “Wide Open Faces” for the most obvious reason, is at Loew’s this week, lending a rough-and-ready touch to a “pill that also includes “Of Human Hearts.” Needless to say, old Marse Joe is doing exa¢tly the same things in the same places. Periodically he howls like a banshee, makes bashful love, sneezes in a way to put Billy Gilbert to shame, and winds up by getting the girl and becoming the hometown hero. This time he helps capture a gangster returning to a deserted house for his loot. He also discovers a young woman (Jane Wyman) and her aunt (Alison Skipworth), who have inherited this deserted and .tumble-down inn. Publicity leads other criminals to believe that Wilbur Meeks (that’s Joe) has the money.

Always Ends With Chase

They descend on the town en masse. and the old inn does a booming . business. Eventually Wilbur finds the money and there is the usual chase before everything quiets down. There's something comforting about these final chases in Joe E. Brown pictures. They don't pretend to be any. more plausible than a horse opera pursuit. Joe says to the girl “Get on the hand car and we'll head ’em off,” and the spectators chuckle and inch themselves forward in their seats. Somehow it's much more fun than “sophisticated cock-eyed comedites.” Mr. Brown is edging 50 at present, and he hasn't been out of ‘he

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daring young woman aerialist goes a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Square Garden, New York.

stretches since he ran away with the circus when he was 9. He's devoid of beauty and sex appeal, and he can’t act much. Yet for years he was among the top 10 moneymaking stars through the simple expedient of being a small-town boy who made good, three and fout

show business for many long

times a season.—J. T.

ON THE

RADIO

TONIGHT 7:00—Monday Show, WFBM. %:00—Burns-Allen WIRE. 8:00—Phila. Orch., NBC-Blue. 9:30—Men’s Show, WLW. 9:30—Eddie Cantor, WFBM. 11:00—Norvo’s Orch.,, WIRE. 11:30—Bob Crosby, WIRE. : 8 8 = Paraphrasing Ed Wynn's famous radio remark, Eddie Cantor promises his listeners that “from now on things are going te be different” with his new show. Few .guest stars scheduled weeks ahead; visitors picked for timely news interest; baseball players, Broadway actors, Benny Goodman's Quartet—these are among the promised features. It should be a relief from all the obvious pictureplugging on the variety hours. Tonight (CBS-WFBM, 9:30 p. m.) Gertrude Lawrence finally will get around to the Cantor show. Con- * flicting commitments prevented her scheduled appearance on the inaugu-| ral a fortnight ago. ” » 2 Speaking of Ed Wynn, he’s an- - nounced recently that he’s looking for radio sponsors and ideas, but will not return on his former gag-. swapping basis. (Cheers!) Ed says

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‘radio appeals to him because he

“needs the money.” Meanwhile he is reported to be getting a sizeable weekly slice from the: gross of “Hooray for What,” his current starring Broadway vehicle. # #. = Warden Lewis E. Lawes departs NBC-Blue this evening, after 26 weeks ‘Behind Prison Bars.”

” = » Eugene: Ormandy will begin tonight's Philadelphia Orchestra

broadcast with a Rossini Overture, follow it with the popular. Largo from Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony, and proceed to music, mostly in dance forms, by de Falla, Humperdinck, Brahms and Strauss (8 p. m, NBC-Blue). . . . With Richard Crooks at English’s tonight, Margaret Speaks will take over the NBC-WIRE broadcast, 7:30 p. m. Ravel's “Bolero” is on Alfred Wallenstein’s orchestra list for the broadcast. . » » ” Tonight's “Radio Theater” guests are Miriam Hopkins, Henry Fonda, Mary Astor and Lloyd Nolan in “Mary Burns, Fugitive.” . . . John Ringling North (circus thrills) and Boris Karloff (cinema horrors) will star on the “Men’s Show” program tonight (NBC-WLW, 9:30 p. m.).

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through a breath-taking routine for Bailey Circus audience in Madison

Fil Depicts Life of Christ

'Golgotha' to Be Shown at Granada Tomorrow.

“Golgotha,” the talking picture portraying Christ’s last days on

-| earth, is to be shown tomorrow night

only at the Granada. Sponsoring the showing is the Bethany Lutheran Church and its pastor, the Rev. J. Luther Seng. The picture has been approved and endorsed by both Catholic and Protestant authorities. It is said tc pe the first talking picture dealing with the life of Christ. Done on a large scale, the film employed several hundred extras in addition to the large cast of principal players. A musical score was written especially for the picture by the noted

contemporary French composer, Jacques Ibert, and is played by a full symphony orchestra. Included in the film are the en{ry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper, Judas’ betrayal, the trial before Pilate, the march to Calvary, the crucifixion and the resurrection.

EIGHT GUARDSMEN * AT ATRIUM CAFE

The Eight Guardsmen, vocal ensemble heard last week in the Lyric revue, “Calling All Stars,” are appearing this week at the Atrium Cafe in the Claypool Hotel. The engagement of Vince Barnett, movie comedian who headlined the Lyric show, for appearance in New York gave the rest of the cast an open week.

DEMILLE GUARDED AGAINST VISITORS

HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (U. P.).— Studio police stood outside Director

Cecil B DeMille’s hospital room today to ward off ambitious actors and authors. Persons anxious to see Mr. DeMille have been taking advantage of the director's recent operation to call on him at Good Samaritan Hospital.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Jezebel,” with Bette Davis, Henry Fonda and Geores Brent, at 12:31, 3:41, 6:51 and 10.

2 KEY NETWORK STATIONS (Subject to change): NBC-BLUE—WJZ, 760; WOWO, 1160; WENR-WLS, 870; KWK, 1350. NBC-RED—WEAF, 660; WTAM, 1070; WWJ, 920; WMAQ, 670.

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Tiges-Acme:’ Photo. smilingly leads the procession. of

feminine drum majors at the Madison Square Garden Opening.

The famous clown, Poodles Hanneford, rehearses an equestrian act with his daughter Gracie for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus’ Indianapolis engagement. There will be performances Saturday and Mon-

day at Keystone and Southeastern

Aves.

Ramon Novarro Breaks Yogi Vow to Take Role

HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (U. P.) dropped from the Hollywood scene height of his movie career, of India were responsible. The matinee idol, leading man waod epics, said he had become a.

—Ramon Novarro, who mysieriously three years ago after reaching the

revealed today that the age-old philosophies

and gay caballero of many Hollyconvert to Yogi and that his only

ambition now was to attain a state of utter tranquility.

Born in 1905 in Durango, Mexico, of a family of 14, Mr. Novarro still is younger than most established picture stars. Also, he is more handsome than many. In 1935 he parted company abruptly with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after starring in such productions as “The Prisoner of Zenda,”

| “Scaramouche,” “Ben Hur,” “Mata

Hari,” and many others. Since then he has appeared in only one picture and in a brief European concert tour, J “I'd made all the money I ever hoped to need,” he said in his hillside home, where the living room curtains are steel and a full sized swimming pool serves as his bath tub. “I was grateful for what I'd received, but I began to wonder whether it was necessary for me to continue. «I became a student of Yogi. I gave up drinking and smoking. They no longer give ‘me pleasure. “I learned the breathing exercises of Yogi, and I thought deeply of the philosophies involved. I tried to practice them. They seem to boil down to the idea that we must take life as we find it; that we must not get angry, or excited. “We must not even get too happy. “The state of tranquility, mentally and physically, is the one for

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which we should strive. I think I am on the road toward -attaining it. ” 2 A few weeks ago Republic Studios persuaded him to appear in another forthcoming picture, but Mr. Novarro isn’t sure whether he would not be better off, thinking in his garden.

.“I have no agent,” he said. “I did not ask for the job. But the studio came to me. / In line with the Yogi idea of taking things as they come, I agreed to. do the part. It is a modern comedy, with the title, ‘As You Are,’ but I still am not sure in my own mind whether I ought to be doing it.” Mr. Novarro, one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, lives almost a Spartan life with his mother and sister in a ‘house far above the Hollywood: hullabaloo. His home is four stories high, but built upon a hillside so steep it looks no bigger than a tool shed from the street.

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18 to the Aquarium.

NEW YORK, April 11.—This is a news flash from the Aquarium which hasn’t yielded a fresh, piscatorial | ‘item in quite a little while. It is about Charlie, the Aquarium’s newest tenant, who moved in a couple of weeks ago and now is occupying the star dressing ‘tank. He is getting along swimmingly, according to the attendants present,

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this son of a sea lion. Charlie is as talented and as weary a sea lion as ever plowed through the brine, which he deserted, not of his own free will, at the age of 3. He left the sea for a stage career under the management of a man named Ray Huling who, incidentally, bequeathed Charlie to the Aquarium. For 18 years, Charlie trod the boards under Huling’s aegis, a headliner wherever he went. Out of appearances all around the world, he earned some $300,000 for Mr. Huling bécause he had a natural faculty for neighing like a horse, cooing like a dove, barking like a dog, tap-dancing like Bill Robinson, -hula-hulaing like a bona fide Hawaiian, smoking a pipe and blowing out a lighted match, buzzing like a bee, snoring like any human and bleating ‘like a lamb. Not to speak of a few other: tricks in his repertoire.

Charlie Got Lonesome

Don't draw any nasty conclusions about Mr. Huling’s disposing of Charlie to a public institution. When Charlie retired, his manager

and mentor had built a vast pool for him in upper New York where, he could cavort to his heart’s con. tent without worry over curtain. calls and encores. But Huling ‘had business in town and Charlie frequently got lonesome. There was one thing leit to do; provide him with the company of some of his own. friends. And so Charlie, the sea lion, now frisks about with two juvenile sea lions named Frisco and Cally, who will get over it. They are frankly awestruck by their recent roommate, for Charlie wears his glamour on his furry sleeve. Mr. Huling has not forgotten nor does he feel less sentimentally attached fo his meal ticket. “He’s more than a pet,” he was saying the other day, “I wanted him to be in some place like this where I

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| Brandy a la Napoleon !

THERE is nothing: objectionable about the ceremonious manner in which fine restaurants serve their cuisine to the customers, even though they often conduct the: ritual as if it was handed down from divine sources. - But sometimes. a restaurateur who mistakes pretentiousness for showmanship goes we far. | I am told about an eating place, not far from here, where a bust of Napoleon occupies a niche in the corner of the dining room. When a customer orders an aged Napoleon brandy, the waiter brings forth a magnum of the excellent cognac, marches military style to.the bust of the Little Corporal, bows in reverence, salutes his general, wheels about and solemnly pours a snifter from .the bottle before a muchimpressed patron. This ceremony shows up on the check, of course.

JOBS. FOR EXTRAS DROP IN MARCH

HOLLYWOOD, April 11: w. P). Ea A slump in jobs for Hollywood mobony Dictate extra players was noted

Yay al Casting reported only 16,750 ‘extra jobs were filled in March, com-

19317. It was the slackest month in thrde years. :

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SerippaHoward Scorers Laud Star's ‘Mad About Music."

“The Seripps-Howard official scorers have given Deanna Durbin three hits in three trips before the camera by selecting her latest movie, “Mad About Music,” as the picture hit of the month for March. “Mad About Music” had a two weeks’. Indianapolis engagement, playing one week at the Indiana and going to the Apollo for a holdover. Scripps-Howard . critics ace claimed the 15-year-old star’s acting as well as her unusual singing voice, and the San Diego Sun reviewer predicted she “is on her way to: become the Jenny Lind of the 20th Century.”

Still ‘Unspoiled: Child’

Following are other comments accompanying the picture hit selection:

Kaspar Monahan of the Pla

burgh Press writes:

“Score another hit for 15-yeare old Deanna Durbin, whose motion picture career to date is probably without precedent. Her current ‘Mad About Music’ reveals her as still the unspoiled child of her first two films, ‘100 Men and a Girl’ and ‘Three Smart Girls,’ whose une affected charm and singing and acting talents steer her safely over that dividing line between an ine fantile cuteness on the one hand and an unseemly precocious soe phistication on the other. And Here bert Marshall turns in his best per formance in years as her ‘adopted’ father in the charming and humoreous story.” “It is a gay, light, frothy, tuneful, continuously . entertaining, superbly played and directed offering,” says William Boehnel of the New York World-Telegram.

~ “Among Best” Films

Laurie March of the Times=Press, comments: ‘ “As an example of what good music ‘and fine production can do with.« simple story this film ranks among the best. And because Miss Durbin sets a precedent among the child stars who Hvariably fail at the age ‘in which she is making such a splendid success.” From Buffalo, Ardis Smith of the Times, comments: “The yarn behind the Durbin piece wins it my vote. I mean here was a company, Universal, spending scads ‘of mazuma and getting nowhere until the chit came along and inspired its better minds to go to town. I like the picture for the infectious effect the kid had, evidently, on all her feilow. players, for Herbert Marshall's revival as a crackerjack comedian and the sincere light-heartedness of the whole shebang.” “A snappy: production with scintillating Deanna Durbin. It gives you something gay and lively to take home with you,” says H. A. Michael of .the El Paso Herald-Post. Ed Klingler of the Evansville Press: “The mood and manner of this picture are completely charming.”

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