Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1938 — Page 28
of “What a Life.”
all Makes - Actor Turn . Playwright
Slip Is Turning Point Career of Author of 'What a Life."
‘It is a generally accepted fact in
| theatrical circles that if Clifford Goldsmith, a silent-movie actor, had not fallen down a flight of stairs one day, tripped the picture’s star
and upset three movie cameras |;
NIGHT |Loew’s Gets
during a “take,” English’s would not | 3
be opening tonight with a three-
" day engagement of “What a Life”— |; not forgetting the Saturday mati- 3
nee. Mr. Goldsmith, on the occasion referred to, was not yet the author He was, in fact, an ambitious cinema performer. But that three-point landing put a dent in his plans. He retired to a | farre In’ Paoli, Pa., there to raise chickens and try to forget. Such were the effects ot bucolic life that in a short time he | was giving health lectures before | ~ high school audiences. In
Pr
; the |
the |
course of his tours he picked up|
some choice tales from harrassed teachers and principals. He heard
about the high school youth who!
pawned half the school's band instruments to buy a ticket to the junior prom. And another one who, asked to turn in his gym turned up with three sneakers—all for the left foot.
Abbott Halts Vacation
Mr. Goldsmith's chuckles finally
developed into a letter to George |§ This letter informed the|
Abbott. producer that, since he had made the public laugh at horse racing in “Three Men on a Horse,” at the movies in “Boy Meets Girl” and at military college life in ‘Brother Rat,” he ought to do something about our high schools’ hilarious potentialities. Mr. Abbott replied that if Mr. Goldsmith thought high schools were so darned funny, why didn’t he write a play about them himself? - Some months later, Mr.- Abbott received a script from Mr. Goldsmith. Mr. Abbott receives hundreds of scripts a year, but this happened to be a good one. So he gave up a Palm Beach vacation .and came back to work. Right at the moment when he and some Cincinnati school children were mulling over the relationship between diet and behavior, the Paoli playwright received a sumnions to New York, to sign the contracts in the Abbott sanctum.
Eighth Month on Broadway
That was last year. The play was tried out in Baltimore three weeks after Mr. Goldsmith abandoned diet and health for the Rialto. Today his play is going strong in its eighth month on - Broadway, while another company sets up shop in Indianapolis.
Friedlander
shoes, |
A pensive moment in “His Exciting Night,” the Arollo’s next film, wherein we see Maxie Rosenbloom
lending a shell-pink cauliflower ear to Charlie Ruggles’ dreamy discourse,
Paulette—on
Sound Track
Stardom, ‘ but Has Arrived Anyway.
Paulette Goddard, the Corrigan of the glamour girls, ‘makes her local talking-picture debut at Loew’s today in “The Young in Heart.” Perhaps Miss Goddard has not achieved fame by going the wrong way, but she certainly has taken an unconventional route toward stardom. First of all, she appeared with Charlie Chaplain in “Modern Times” and, though it was a sound film, neither she nor the star said anything. Then they took a trip around the world with Miss Goddard’s mother, and still they didn’t say anything. Pro and con rumors of matrimony left the interested parties mum. Only last summer Miss Goddard finally broke down and registered in a golf tournament as Mrs. Charles Chaplin.
Used to Be Blond
In the meantime her policy of negation kept getting her on the nation’s front pages. .She didn’t make any more pictures after “Modern Times” (1936). She didn’t show up for an advertised summer-thea-ter engagement on Cape Cod this summer. Then, to top it off, she didn’t get "the part of Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind"— unless Mr. Selznick has changed his mind while this is being written. But positively, mind you, Miss Goddard is on Loew’s screen for the coming week, neither affirming nor denying, just speaking her lines. Here are a few more positive facts. Miss Goddard was born in Great
Opening Today
Loew’s
“THE YOUNC IN HEART”—Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke. Directed by Richard Wallace.
tongues. But business isn’t so good. When things seem the darkest, they meet a Miss Fortune who is just crying to have someone live with her and help spend her money. The result is serious: The ringleader goes to work and his son falls in love with a poor girl. You'll have to see the rest.
“LISTEN DARLING”—Freddie Bartholomew, Judy Garland, Mary Astor, Walter Pidgeon. Directed by Edwin L. Marin. Two youngsters play matchmakers and try to marry off Judy’s
mother suitably. Like all this heedless, stubborn older generation, (what are they coming to, anyway?) she complicates matters by getting interested in the wrong man.
Opening Tomorrow : Alamo “COME ON, RANGERS”—Raymond Hatton, Roy Rogers, Mary Hart,
J. Farrell MacDonald. Directed by Joe Cain.
A captain in the Texas Rangers joins the U. 8. Cavalry when the Ranger organization is dissolved. Lawlessness runs rampant in Texas, and when the ex-captain’s brother is killed by a marauding gang of cut-
" |throats, the hero swings into action to mete out justice.
“STORM OVER BENGAL”—Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell,
Rochelle Hudson. Directed by Sidney Salkow.
Debut Heard;
Symphony Cellist: and Wife ‘Please Odeon Audience.
+ By JAMES THRASHER
wt “Though not entirely a stranger. Ernest Friedlander spenf his first full musical evening his new fellow-townsmen at the Odeon last ht, where he played his first Inaianapolis recital.
“Mr. Friedlander, late of Vienna and more recently a member of the * Pittsburgh Symphony, joined our own orchestra this fall as first cellist _. and also became a member of the "Jordan Conservatory faculty. It was under the music school’s auspices that he appeared last night. This ug the second in a series of recitals by which we may meet new musicians as well as renew some old acquaintances.
The performance turned out to be a (double debut, in fact, for Marie Friedlander, the soloist’s wife, made her local bow as co-artist and accompanist. am are excellent and ists, and there was great unanimity of feeling and style in their ensemble. They made music which offered no blaze of fireworks, but which was marked by admirable ; taste and understanding throughout. playing, of course, is far more pressive in the long run.
Like Shakespeare
sg Variations, Opus . were heard first, reminding us in how seldom this composer's rs grace the ceilist’s program. TRe Variations may not have some he sonatas’ sustained worth, but they certainly have moments of 3 upon which the Friedlanders
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italized. sually it is damning with faint e to call an interpretation insting. But that, with all good ce, is the description for the Brahms Sonata in F Major which followed. Dne most often hears this magnifid t .work done with great Breadth _ ofistyle and a certain austerity, but Jagt night's players scaled it down
ved it straight from the heart. One cannot quarrel with either inefpretation, since Brahms speaks a sort of Shakespearean idiom, apable of many colors and nflec-
must not be thought from this t there was anything of the ed peachstone” school of muanship in Mr. and Mrs. Priedger’'s playing. The music was m and supple, vet vitality and g climaxes were not lacking. e was a final tonal adjustment en the two instruments, and a did balance in the whole soa's conception. pllowing the intermission came |
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The story of the “sniper” warfare existing between the Lancers and the hill tribesmen in India’s hill country. There's a one-girl, two-men angle to the love story. Ambassador
“ROAD TO RENO”—Randolph Scott, Hope Hampton, Helen Broderick, Glenda Farrell. Directed by S. Sylvan Simon. Excitement on a dude ranch overrun by gay divorcees. It concerns an opera star who has decided to divorce her husband because he insists she give up her career and live on his ranch near Reno. He refuses the divorce and she retaliates by turning the ranch into a stopping place for grass widows. Apollo
“PECK’S BAD BOY WITH THE CIRCUS”—Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis, Edgar Kennedy, Benita Hume. Directed by Edward F. Cline. What most boys dream about at one time or another—traveling with a circus. Bill Peck loses his railroad fare to a summer camp and hitch-hikes with a circus. He tames the lions by feeding them sleeping pills and when the show’s star bareback rider sprains her ankle, he. assumes a disguise and goes on in her place.
HIS EXCITING NIGHT”—Charlie Ruggles. Ona Misiison, Maxie Rosenblooin, Stepin Fetchit. Directed by Gus Meins. Dealing with the misadventures of a bridegroom kidnaped on his wedding night and tricked into a compromising situation with a blond with a jealous husband. Indiana “THANKS FOR EVERYTHING”—Adolphe Menjou, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Arlene Whalen, Binnie Barnes; a Darryl PF. Zanuck production; directed by William A. Seiter.
Adventures of “Mr. Average Man” in New York, who loses both a contest and girl, then wins them back.
“TARNISHED ANGEL”—Sally Eilers, Lee Bowman, Ann Miller, Alma Kruger, Paul Guilfoyle. Directed by Leslie Goodwins. A girl of the underworld is forced to leave town as a result of her activities. Unable to get work, she becomes a revivalist. Finding that straight “preaching” does not bring her the money she craves, she resorts to trickery in performing miracles. Her record finally catches up with her, : Lyric HAL KEMP AND ORCHESTRA (on stage)—Judy Starr, Bob Allen, singers; Saxie Dowell, comedian; Florence and Bob Robinson, dancers; Paul Remos and Wonder Midgets,-acrobats. “ROAD DEMON?” (on screen)—Henry Armetta, Henry Arthur, Joan Valerie. This is what those movie cameramen were doing out at the Speedway last spring.
arising from some vibration in the instrument. It was not, however, a great impediment to enjoyment.
ski’s “Guitarre.” And, as an encore, a beautifully played movement from one of the Bach unaccompan-
All about a very charming family who lives by its wits and glib]
Neck, L. I., “some 27 years ago,” the publicity says. She is one of the Long Island Levys. At 14 she got a chorus job on Broadway in “Rio Rita.” Then, out of a job, she tried Hollywood. She secured a stock-company con}ltract with Hal Roach, then a part in Eddie Cantor's “The Kid From Spain.” - On the Cantor lot she met Mr. Chaplin, who said if she would let her hair go back from platinum blond to natural brown, she was the girl for “Modern Times.” :
EARTHY O'CONNOR
Donald O'Connor and Billy Cook, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer in “Tom Sawyer, Detective,” had more than 20 pounds.of dirt daubed on them while ‘working in one sequence of the picture. The dirt was for make-up.
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO
“Breaking the Ice.” with Bobby Breen, Charlie Ruggles. Dolores Cosii soLne Dare, at 12:56, 4. 7:04
08 “Mr. Doodle Kicks Off,” with Joe Penner. June Travis, at 11:38, 2:42, 5:46 and 8:50.
ENGLISH’S
“What a Life,” a comedy by Clifford Goldsmith, presented by George Abbott and featuring Eddie Broce: Suna at 8:30. Matinee Saturday,
INDIANA
“Hollywood to Broadway Revue,” with Gypsy Rose Lee, Jack Durant, on stage at 12:59, 3: 3 “Annabel Takes a Tour,” Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Ruth Donnelly. on screen at 11:20. 2:09, 4:58. 7:57 and 10:26.
LOEW'S
“The Young in Heart,” with Janet Gaynor. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Tong, Billie Burke, at 12:45, 3: 45, 6:50 and 9:55. “Listen Sn TE on Freddie Bartholomew, Judy Garland, Mery Astor, at 11:20, 2:25, 5:30 and 8:35.
LYRIC
Roger Pryor and his orchestra with Lane Truesdale and Red on stage at 1: 09. 3:54, 6: , “Comer Over Broadway with Kay Francis and Ian Hunter, on screen
Shop Early; Relax—See This Show
PAT O'BRIEN
“Qil for the Lamps of China”
at 11:45, 2:30, 5:25, 8:10 and 10:35.
SALLY BLANE “Numbered Woman”
You took them for Nice People. . . until | they took you for all you were worth!
TODAY!
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Three players in the Tabefnacle Presbyterian Church Dramatic Club’s production of the comedy, “Here Comes Charlie,” are Ralph
‘Sharpe (left), Mary Ann Meyncke and Ralph Cleveland. The play will be given at 8 p. m, Friday in the church’s recreational hall.
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THE E GYPSY! S ACT
Subdued but nl Tread, Gypsy Rose Lee and her dropping draperies went into the finale of their engagement at the Indiana today. . Miss Lee won .a draw in wo bouts with the local gendarmerie Tuesday night and Wednesday. Her script and strip drew complaints which sent Sergt. Carl Ashley on two trips to see the “Hollywood to Broadway” revue. Yesterday the officer indicated that Miss Lee had made requested changes in her act, and that he would turn in a report indicating
‘he was “satisfied.”
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literature.
Mr. Friedlander is not a cellist of big tone and bravura style; he is a musician first and foremost, and a virtuoso incidentally, Unfortunately there was a mysterious and extraneous noise accompanying his forte playing last night, apparently
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