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ment, though he was a Columbia Club fixture for several seasons, Coming Indiana Roof attractions include a “battle of swing” between | Rita Rio and her girls’ band, and

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Open Tuesday With 'Pins, Needles.’

By JAMES THRASHER .. With November almost upon us, : * Indianapolis’ professional dramatic 3: season still is waiting at the post— -. a most unusual occurrence. But the * barrier will be sprung next Tuesday, < and play-acting may be expected to » : find its stride quickly with three ! openings in nine days. : At this time last year we already - had seen “Tovarich,” “Yes, My Dark ling Daughter” -* Cleopatra,” and were ready for the = “Doll's House” opening on Nov. 2. Why the touring thespians should - be tardy this year is something of a mystery; the general introduction : .. of air-conditioning in Broadway the- * aters may have upset the early fall : departures, or maybe all the actors * aren’t back from the summer hay- -. stack circuit. . At any rate, the new shows will +» serve to show us that the theater, a “the fabulous invalid,” as Moss Hart and George Kaufman have dubbed N it in their new play, does change « with the times. : > ‘Pins, Needles,” Nov. 1 . The Nov. 1 attraction, “Pins and : Needles,” will bring us the first rec- - reational project of a labor union : that has gone professional, stormed ny and made a hit. On Nov. + 9, for .only one performance, we may : see again Cornelia Otis Skinner in : “Edna, His Wife,” the first full2 length, full-production play ever : presented, so far as is known, by

-« one actor. a Then comes “I'd Rather Be « Right,” with a Nov. 10 opening. And “ here is another “first.” For never . before has the theater been brash enough to introduce a President, < his Cabinet, the Supreme Court 1 and other dignitaries, make them = characters in a musical comedy and .: play upon their foibles, mannerisms «and records with a good-natured : satire. Of course, it couldn't be ' done in any country but this. » This titillating prospect, and the = fact that George M. Cohan is the * star, has sent the advance ticket i sale booming. Vincent Burke, Eng- : lish’s manager. has described the ! rush as being “like Helen Hayes, > only worse.’ Deaspite the President’s popularI ity, it would seem that Mr. Cohan Lis the coming show’s chief drawing

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* card. After all, there are plenty of : vaudeville comedians who will give! you imitations of a fireside chat. | ’ You can find them frequently at the ! Lyric. So Rooseveltian satire isn’t | “unheard of. But the Cohan name +is a magnet that has lost none of - its power in 30 years.

Big House Awaits Miss Skinner

: Miss Skinner, though her book- * ing may be unfortunate, must not = be thought of as simply a prelim- . inary to the next night's “main go.’ 3 The first announcement of her re- > turn engagement started a steady > flow of mail-orders, and the versa- = tile artist likely will find a larger - house this time than the one that = greeted her last year. - On her present tour business has : grown through the more extended - runs until, in Boston, Chicago and * - Washington, she was playing to : standees toward the end of the . week. It's the sort of show that : builds by word of mouth. The : play's appeal is within everyone's : experience, and the writing (her - own adaptation) and performance : memorable. : It is more than a mere stunt to - play the title part and seven sup- - porting characters; it’s a dramatic : achievement. Looking back on last * year’s production, it is difficult to : © believe that the stage was not peo- - pled with the usual number of ac- :- tors. © To fill out a busy week, Miss - Skinner's and Mr. Cohan’s openings - will be followed, on Nov. 11, by the : Civic Theater's second presentation : of the season, Philp Barry's : “Spring Dance.”

Not His Original Work

© The play is not Mr. Barry’s orig- :- inal work, but an adaptation of a +: script by Eleanor Golden and Eloise - Barrangon. Though no names are : named, as in “Brother Rat,” there * is a suspicion that the play’s locale "is Smith College. : This suspicion has persisted since ~ Jed Harris opened the comedy. on Broadway in 1936. For one thing, - Miss Barrangon attended Smith. "And the titles derives from an annual campus function traditional to . -- the Massachusetts girls’ school. So "the Civic is asking that Smith alumnae in Indianapolis attend with an > ear attuned to inference, and an eye open for familiar scenes. The cast will include Misses Irv"ing Moxley, Alice Vonnegut, Mary . Wiley, Kitty Myers, Joan Dougan : and Mary Margaret Tutewiler and : Ray Robinson, Wilson Cronenwett, . Richard McDufTee, J. B. Cusick, Jack % Prosch and Eli Messenger.

:MENDURA PUPILS TO GIVE RECITAL

Philip Mendura is to present his + pupils in an accordion recital at 8 < p. m. today in the K. of P. Hall, { Pennsylvania St. and Massa- ‘ chusetts Ave. + The performance, which is open 3 to the public, is being sponsored by ‘ the Knights of Pythias and Pythian - Sisters, proceeds to go to their x : Charity fund.

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The Misses Dionne, reading from left to right—well, anyway, the ‘quintuplets are shown here going about their daily tasks in “Five of a | Barbara Stanwyck in “The Mad Miss Manton.”

Kind,” which comes to the Circle Friday. The twin bill also includes

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Ball Monday

Dusty Rhoades to Play at Indiana Roof Event.

Th Indiana Roof’s annual “Mask-o-Ween” Ball on Monday night will

and his orchestra. As is the Roof custom, there will be prizes for the best Halloween costumes in various classifications. Dusty and his band will arrive Saturday night after a two-months’ engagement at the Muehlbach Hotel, Kansas City. They will follow Clyde McCoy and his “Sugss Blues” orchestra, who will be here for one night only on Friday. This week's music is by Amos Otstot, playing his first Roof engage-

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Don Albert and his orchestra. “The oddly

hostilities are scheduled, enough, for Armistice Day.

"WHAT A MAN!

When John Payne was not a. movie star he skipped breakfast, washed dishes for lunch and supper, wrote pulp magazine stories for his

room rent and wrestled professionally for spending money.

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Sarah Marks Plays Recital

Youthful Pianist, Pupil of Ganz, Well Received.

Miss Sarah Elizabeth Marks brought home a musical report card to an admiring group of friends who | packed the War Memorial Auditorium snugly last evening. Starting her third season as a. scholar-

ship pupil of Rudolph Ganz in Chicago, the young pianist demonstrated her recent accomplishments in a recital program of exacting demands. The piece de resistance was the great Schumann Phantasie, which stood midway in the program. Before it came the familiar Prelude and Fugue in E Flat Minor from Bach's “Well Tempered Clavichord,” Book I; the Beethoven Sonata Opus 14 No. 2, and two items from Brahms’ Opus 116, the Intermezzo in E and the Capriccio in D Minor. The third group contained Granados’ “The Maiden and the Nightingale”; Ravel's “Ondine”; the “Hommage a Rameau” by Debussy, and Pabst’s concert paraphrase ol themes from Tschaikowsky’s opera, “Eugene Onegin.”

Plays With Vigor

It is evident from this that Miss Marks had set herself no mean task. And she -is possessed of the digital tools to cope with it. Her playing has facility and a masculine strength and vigor. In fact, she had acquired much of these qualities in her years with Bomar Cramer before she went to the famous Swiss pedagog. The immaturity of Miss Marks’ playing is evident in a certain angularity. The phrases seem squarecut rather than smoothly molded; the tone, though sonorous, has sharp edges; there is a decided want of contrast, expressiveness and buoyancy. Yet it must be added in fairness that Miss Marks is stili a student, and does not assume to be otherwise. This is a consideration which, while it has no reason to affect the enjoyment, must be considered in an opinion. The process of growing up does strange and wonderful things to the emotional nature. And the passing days doubtless will bring

warmth and mellowness. Already she has the strength and fluency to summon tempestuous sounds from the piano. There remains a need to make the instrument sing, to deliver the simple phrase with tenderness and a deep appreciation of its beauty. And that

this young pianist’s playing more |.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“That Certain Age,” with Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Dougl Jackie Con er. at 12:25. 3:35. 6:50 and 10. reshman Year.” with Dixie Dunbar, William Lundigan, at 11:15. 2:30, 5:40 and 8:50

CIRCLE

The Arkansas Traveler,” with Bob - Burns, Fay Bainter. Irvin S. Cobb, at, 11. 1:50 4:40. a 30 and <2: “Touchdewn Army ith John Howard, Mery Carlisle, at Te 35,-2:25;

6:15 and 9:0 INDIANA

“The Sisters.” ith Bette Davis, Fo nn wo Louise, at 12:35,

e Affairs of Annabelle,” with Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, at 11:25 2:40; 5:55 and 9:05.

LOEW'S

“Stablemates,’’ with Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney, at li, 1:49, 4:35, 7:25

an “Vacation From Love,” with Dennis QBs Florence Rice, at 22:35, 3:25, 6:15 and 9:03.

: LYRIC

Vaudeville. with Pepper Martin and bis Mudcat Band, on stage, at 3:07, :53, 6:49 and 9:35. pi Musketeers,” with Margaret Lindsay. Ann Sheridan, Marie ilson. orn screen at 11:33 a. m. and 2:19, 5°15. 8:01 and 10:30.

Music Program Waits Teachers

The first appearance of an allstate high school chorus, an address by Fabien Sevitzky and a short recital by Joseph Lautner, tenor, will be musical highlights of tomorrow’s Indiana State Teachers Association meeting. Jacob A. Evanson, music supervisor, will direct the 500

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Lincoln Films Are Planned

Hollywood Interest Follows Broadway Success.

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 26 (U. P.).— The life of Abraham Lincoln may be the basis for at least three motion pictures, if tentative plans of rival studios are completed. The current revival of film interest in Lincoln apparently is due to the success of the stage play, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” now playing on Broadway and for which several studios are bidding. Twentieth Century-Fox jumped

the gun on the other studios by an-

nouncing that a story which has been on the shelf for more than a year is being rushed into production. Warner Bros. Studio is completing plans for a technicolor film to be called “Lincoln in the White House.” This, however, will be an historical short subject, not a fulllength feature. The current cycle of Civil War period films is expected to be climaxed when “Gone With the Wind” goes into production, if the role of Scarlett O’Hara ever is cast.

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3:15 p. m. in Caleb Mills Hall. Their program includes music by Palestrina, Foster, Clokey, Fox, BronWright and Cain. Mr. Sevitzky, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's conductor, will address the instrumental clinic in the Shortridge High School library at 10:45 a. m. Mr. Lautner, head of the Jordan Conservatory’s opera department, will be heard in Caleb Mills Hall at 11:20 a. m. His selections include Siegmund'’s “Spring Song” from Wagner's “Die Walkuere,” arrangements of the “Londonderry Air” and “Little David,” and Bridge's “Love Went ARiding.” Mrs. Lautner = be the accompanist.

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