Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1938 — Page 22

* Capra Film| Is Held Over At Loew's Deanna Durbin's Latest

At Circle; Lyric Offers Phil Spitalny.

By JAMES THRASHER Ever since the Sycamores landed at Loew’s last week the situation has been so delightfully out of hand ‘that the management, having pondered the box-office tally, has announced a second’ week of “You ‘Can’t Take It With You.” This was to be expected. For in its original stage version, the George Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy came back to English’s a second year for a second engagement. Since playgoers here and elsewhere are a discriminating, if not a fickle, group, their welcome of the play's return foretold a warm reception of the movie . . . prvided that the movie did the play justice. It did, of course. There were moments during production when fears were felt. Word came from the studio at one time that Hollywood, in its inscrutable wisdom, was going to change Grandpa Vanderhof’s name to Grandpa Sycamore. Fortunately this didn’t take place. Grandpa remained Vanderhof; his daughter, her husband the children remained Sycamore, and. the whole bunch emerged as harumscarum’ as

ever. : Finds Finale -Excusable

There has been some grumbling, as there will be even concerning the best pictures. Some have complained that the film contained too much “preaching.” To these dissenters a reading of the original play could be recommended. For the wild and hilarious antics ended with the second act. Act IIL in comparison, was a pricked balloon.

The movie's harmonica-playing finale may seem a bit forced and hysterical, but I think it is excusable since it results in maintaining the pace. At least it is preferable to Grandpa's extended moralizing in the play. ° It always seemed doubtful to me that “You Can’t Take It With You” was quite Pulitzer Prize material. The last act was one reason. A second was that the premise of the futility of gold-grabbing is scarcely very fresh or novel. Still, when you think of Penny with her plays, Essie with her ballet dancing and fudge making, Kolenkhov with his olfactory reaction to the world’s woes— well, it would be hard to hold back the palm, at that.

Embody Escape Formula

The Sycamore family is almost the embodiment of the “escape” formula, Hollywood's much maligned stock in trade. Each member indulges his whims and fancies devoid of any inhibiting thoughts of gainful occupation or public comment. And that’s very nearly wishful thinking incarnate.

There is one big difference, however. It's doubtful that many of the merry heroes and heroines of the whoop-de-do school of “madcap” movie comedy ever had a reallife counterpart. hand, we've ,all met each of the Sycamore family somewhere—but individually. What Messrs. Kaufman and Hart probably did was to look about them, pick their characters, then gather them together under one roof, Whereupon the fun began, and what fun. Only I still wish the movie makers had left in the whole sequence of Grandpa and the income tax. 2 = = Elsewhere on the movie front, we find Deanna Durbin opening at the Circle tomorrow in “That Certain Age.” It seems Miss Durbin’s studio is keeping pace with their ace star's growing-up process by matching her stories to her age. So the 15-year-old ‘Miss Durbin plays a 15-year-old girl who falls in love with a polished and “glamorous” man old enough to be her father, quite in the painfully typical manner. of girls that age. The Lyric is presenting Phil Spitalny and his all-girl band of 25 as its stage attraction. Unless you are one of those few, hardy and radioless holdouts, you should know all about this versatile band by now. As its accompanying movie, the Lyric has “Garden of the Moor,” a comedy with a triangular plot involving a night club owner, a swing band leader and a girl who writes

publicity. It’s been seven years since “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” first

raised horrified goose-flesh in a movie house. And folks are still talking about them. So the Apollo has booked both these chiller-dil-lers on the same program, beginning tomorrow. = Now that all the trouble between Gene Autry and his studio has been settled, Western fans may look for the pearly-toothed and goldenvoiced movie cowboy more regularly. Mr. Autry’s latest, called “Prairie Moon,” is due at the Alamo tomorrow for an engagement through Monday.

STUDIO MAY DROP CHAN FILM SERIES

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13 (U. P.).— Officials: of 20th Century-Fox Studio revealed today that unless they soon find a successor to the late Warner Oland to play the part of Charlie Chan, they may not complete the series of Chinese detective pictures. : The studio has tested 32 candidates and none has been found suitable. Most recent candidates for the job were Charles Coburn and Sidney Toler.

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Harman, swing singer; Three Little Lola, duo-pianists.

This film finds Miss Durbin in. the throes of ‘adolescent love. affection’s object is a globe-trotting reporter who works for her newsHer romance is tempestuous, the disillusionment cataclysmic, but hes broken: heart mends nicely.\ —Dixie - Dunbar, Truex. Directed by Frank ey screen play by Charles Grayson. Time marches on, and the pangs of youthful love move up into the

"Opening. Tomorrow

Apollo So “DRACULA’ »_ ‘Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chander, peien by Tod Browning; from the novel by Bram Stoker... -

“FRANKENSTEIN. —Boris Karloff, John: Boles, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive. Directed by James ‘Whale; based on the novel by Mary Shelley. These two 1931 thrillers distilled into a Gouble dose of the horrors-onj. .

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Loew’s (Second Week) “YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU”—Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Ann Miller, Edward Arnold. Directed by Frank Capra; adapted for the screen by Robert Riskin from. the stage play, by {George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. | Mr. Capra gives you the Kaufman-Hart Pulitzer Prize winner about the zany Sycamore family: Grandpa Vanderhof, who quit work because he wasn’t having any fun and refused to pay income tax because he didn’t approve of it; Alice, who fell in love with the rich man’s son; Penny, who writes plays; Essie, who yearns to be a ballet dancer, and

Lyric

“HOUR OF CHARM” (on stage)—Phil Spitalny and his all-girl orchestra; company of 25 featuring Evelyn, violinist; Maxine, contralto; Ginger

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“GARDEN OF THE MOON” (on screen)—Pat O’Brien, Margaret Lindsay, Johnnie Davis, John Payne. Directed by Busby Berkelely; songs by Harry Warren, Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer. All about a night club feud between the proprietor ‘and ‘the band deader. The heroine, also the night club press agent, gets caught in the middle. She puts her money on the bandman.

Queen Mother To View Film

Times Special NEW YORK, Oct. 13. — Queen Mother Mary of England is to attehd the premiere of the picture, “Sixty Glorious Years,” in London tomorrow, according to RKO-Radio, the film's American distributors. The picture is.a sequel to last season’s “Victoria the Great,” and features the same players, Anna Naegle as Victoria, and Anton Walbrook as the Prince Consort. C. Aubrey Smith also has a leading part.

Following a run at the Odeon Theater, London, “Sixty Glorious

Years” will have a simultaneous release throughout Great Britain on Boxing Day.

SYNDICATE BUYS STARS' PLAYLAND

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13 (U. P.).— Producer Joseph M. Schenck and other film capitalists today bought

Arrowhead Springs, mountain resort 60 miles east of here, where many movie stars play. Constance Bennett was said to be a member of the purchasing syndicate. Mr. Schenck disclosed plans to make the place a second Karlsbad. Many movie folk have gone every year to Karlsbad, resort in the Sudeten area now ceded to Germany from Czechoslovakia.

Orchesha’ ‘Will Star} Work Monday ‘Night.

Sectional rehearsals of the Jor-}

dan Conservatory Orchestra are to begin Monday night, “pending the arrival of Fabien ‘Sevitzky, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra . conductor and Jordan faculty member,

late ‘this month. Mr. Sevitzky has agreed to conduct the student orchestras: first full rehearsal Oct. 26. The conductor, back from a summer in Europe, is in Philadelphia preparing for a ‘concert with the Philadelphia Sinfonietta next week. Monday’s string rehearsal will be directed by Edwin Jones, Jordan violin teacher and Indianapolis’ Symphony member. Jacob. Nabokin is to have charge. of the woodwind rehearsal. Mr. Nabokin likewise is a Symphony ‘Orchestra member. The Jordan Orchestra’s personnel includes advanced students, faculty members and other advanced musicians. Its work this year will be under Mr. Sevitzky’s supervision, with three assistants to serve as heads of the string, woodwind and | brass sections. :

GARFIELD ASKS 'NIJINSKY" ROLE|

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13 — John Garfield, who attracted critical and public notice with his first screen role in “Four Daughters,” has asked Warner Brothers for the. title role in “Nijinsky,” screem. play based on the noted ballet dancer’s life. Mr. Garfield volunteered for the role because of his personal interest in Nijinsky and his own ballet experience, acquired in New York during the early stages of his Broad-

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Tour Planned By Tom Waring

Times Special i NEW YORK, Oct. 13—Tom Waring, A and piano playing half t of the musical Waring brothers, 1s planning a joint recital tour this season with Del Ardem, tenor. The composer of “So Beats My Heart for You” and other popular hits, Mr. Waring has turned his creative talent te more serious music in recent years. His recital programs will include many of his own compositions, among them his settings of Burns’ “John Anderson, Wordsworth’s “Lost Love,” and several of his own poems. . Mr. Waring, who is a baritone, ex-

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If he comes to terms with Paramount, he will be cast in a picture today. Miss Valde is 24, Mr. Blue Carroll and Fred 37. The wedding will be on ne

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“LAST DAY FOR “THIS SHOW a-MEN STEP IN” 12g%y JOHN BOLES “SHE MARBIED AN ARTIST”

recognized. as movie star material until he came to America, soon will return to England to make his first] picture there, it was disclosed today. Freddie's “home-coming” will be to take "a role in a pieture to be made abroad by Metro-Goldwyn-

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