Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1938 — Page 19
Having decorated and installed all new seats during several weeks of : darkaoin the Circle will reopen
Friday with “Dawn Patrol” as its Christmas Week attractio
Above are the principals of the all-male
cast: Basil Rathyone at the telephone; David Niven (center) and Errol Flynn.
A “natural” for the Yuletide season is Loew’s attraction beginning tomorrow. It is the film version of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” with
Reginald Owen and Terry Kilburn
(above) as Scrooge and Tiny Tim, .
Two Chérity Shows Set
Rivoli and Emerson will Stage Benefits.
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The Rivoli and Emerson Theaters will hold their annual Christ. mas Benefit Shows at 1 p. m. tos morrow, under auspices of the Ins dianapolis Council, Camp Fire Girls. “Admission price” will be a can of food, of any size of kind. Miss Mary E. Remrich, Camp Fire Girls ( executive secretary, and Miss Ruth J. Davis, field worker, have appointed six girls from School 33 to help fill the ood naskets at the Rivoli, and a like number from School %2 to assist | at the Emerson.
The Emerson's - film attraction will include a ‘Western feature, “Borderland,” and a selected group of Disney and cther animated cartoons. At the Rivoli there also will be selected cartoons and a Western, “Fugitive Sheriff.” In addition, the bill will present a group of singers from the Dorothy Prince School of Dancing. They are| Jackie Crist, Betty Wade, Wilma Musgrave, Ronald .-Doak, Maxine Clidance, Reatha Jordan, Sue McCollum, Barbara and Mary Wallace and Mary Jean Stalhut. East Side churches are co- oper ating with the two theaters by supplying names of needy families to whom the food will be distributed. Tonight Rivoli andl Emerson®employees are to have! their annual Christmas party at! the Variety Club. A dinner will be followed by games, dancing and an exchange of gifts. | rd
FILM USES MANY 10- -CENT| CIGARS
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21 (U. P)i— Extras in the picture “Union Pacific” puffed today on free cigers—1000 a day of them, snd all 10-centers. | The scene is a gambling resort with plenty of smoking. They can’t use cigdiets because (the film is laid in precigaret days. They can't use cheap cigars because Barbara Stanwyck and the other stars can't stand the bad smoke cloud.
CHAMP AUTOGRAPHER
Clark Gable gives more aufographs than ‘any star in Hollywood and tries never to disappoint a fan. When he can’t stop to sign autographs, he asks the fans to send their books to hin. |
IN NEW: YORK —8y GEORGE ROSS
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Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops 'Jive'
Band Is Edsel Fords's Favorite.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Doctor Sausage and his Five Pork Chops is the name of a new “jive” band that has come to town. It has the honor
of being Edsel Ford's favorite swing contingent.
That in itself seems
rather striking, since nobody knew that the Fords cared for any kind of music other than symphonic scores or square dances in the barn.
But if Papa Henry engages in old- &—
fashioned American music lore, his son and heir, Edsel, is up to the minute. It seems that Sausage and his Pork Chops (a more quaint.orchestral name we've never heard) had been playing in the Plantation Club, a Detroit hotspot. One night, Edsel Ford and a party of five dropped in, having taken a night off from weighty responsibilities. Ford was keen enough about this odd unit to invite the group to play at a party he was giving at a smart country club. All this happened less than a month ago. We have it on the word of Prof. Sausage himself that what tycoon Ford said was: “We've had all sorts of bands here, but this one is the first band that didn’t bore us to death.” And what makes it more unusual is that this outfit isn’t one of your %genteel swing contingents, but a demoniacal combination of Stuff Smith, the Schnickelfritzers and the Kidoodlers. Yes, that’s in English! . ” ” 8 IFTH AVE. now is aglow with myriad Christmas displays in glamorous shop windows. The pedestrian, strolling the most luxurious thoroughfare in the world, is afforded a better show than any he could pay for in a theater. For window displays ceased being haphazard piling-up - of merchandise a long time ago. Display men must be showmen and, sometimes, more ingenious wizards than those artists who dress up a stage. One department store displays a virtual St. Moritz, with a constant cascade of snowflakes, along its Fifth Ave. facade and the others are not far behind in extravagant and
‘spectacular exhibits.
From a Fifth Ave. bustop, it is a brilliant parade of wonders and flashes of bizarre colors, and New Yorkers now tour that avenue as though they were attending the latest hit on Broadway. «8H a on OW. the ice-skating has hegun in Radio City, the broad terrace at the Prometheus Fountain has been frosted into a handsome square of smoothly leveled ice, and the skaters crowd the rink, dancing to phonograpnic waltzes. The spectators’ gallery always is congested and the rails are lined three deep by folk who come to gaze
upon this incongruous continental
scene in a hurly-burly of ‘the metropolis. ” ” Three lads were kneeling on a subway grating. They held strings with nails attached at the ends. They were fishing for something. Tommy Riggs, the radio star, came along and asked what they had lost. They admitted they hadn’t lost anything, but evidently somebody had, because there was a 25-cent piece at the bottom of the grating. For an hour they had been trying without success to get it out. Tommy offered to try his hand at it. He was promptly given the three strings. So he tried for fifteen minutes and had no success. Then Tommy reached into his pocket and handed each of the three lads a half dollar. He didn’t want them to be disappointed. Tommy’s chauffeur then led him back to the limousine.
Scribe at Culver For Atmosphere
Times Special CULVER, Dec. 21.—Whitney Bolton, Hollywood scenarist, has been spending the past week at Culver Military Academy observing cadet routine and gathering “atmosphere” for the film, “Tom Brown at Culver,” which is to be remade by Universal. \ Jackie Cooper will have the title part in the new picture. In the earlier version, made in 1933, the real-life Tom Brown played his cinema namesake, and Eugene Fallette, C. M. A. '08, also appeared. Andy Devine is the only original cast member re-engaged for the new production. Several location ‘pictures already have been taken at Culver, and other sequences will be borrowed from the Academy’s recent threereel film, “Fit for the Future.”
The Screen’s Best Sas To sth WILLIAM POWELL—JE
‘THE EX-MRS. BRADFORD’
PLUS “CONVICTED”
*IN TECHNICOTOR!
UC
with
LORETTA YOUNG
RICHARD GREENE WALTER BRENNAN
DOUGLAS KAREN
MORLEY MORONI OLSEN Directed by DAVID BUTLER Associote Producer Gene Markey Screen Play by Lamar Trotti and John Taintor Foote « From the story “The Lack of Eagles” by John Taintor Foota A 20th Century-Fox Picture DARRYL F. ZANUCK in Charge o_of Production
DUMBRILLE
Plus The Jones Family in
“Down On The Farm"
Comic Turns To Dictators
Chaplin New Film; Wanger Urges Boycott.
Plans
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (U. P).— Dictatorship was the theme of two motion picture announcements made here today. The first was that Charlie Chaplain, | erstwhile silent comedian, would start shooting his new alltalking picture shortly after the first of the year. The picture's tentative title is “The Dictator.” It will be released by United Artists: The second was that Walter Wanger, United Artists producer, favored withdrawal of American films from “dictator nations.” “The motion picture has refused to accept political dictatorship,” Mr. Wanger said. “During 1938 the American industry has courageously preferred to withdraw its pictures © from dictator nations rather than to accept censorship of its own high ideals. “Dictator nations showed their hand this year. Democracies will not cater to them. Neither will the influential and important motion picture industry.”
STAR DODGES STAR
Eleanor Powell is dodging James Stewart on the Metro-Goldwyn-
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
“Say It in French,” with Olym Bradna, Ray, Miliand, at 11:11, 1:50, 4:46, 7:42 and 10:21. | “Ride a Craohed Mile.” * With Akin Tamiroff, Leif Erikso Prance Parmer, at 12:32, 3:28, 5 24 and 9: 03.
: LOEW'S
“Drums,” with Sabu, Raymond i Ri Tester, at 12:35,
0 Faloh Bein: the S Ring,” with lon Bonimy, . Fay "ray. Te 11:25, a
LYRIC
: Bob Crosby and His Orclienteas on stage at 1:10; 3:58, 6:45 and 9:30. “Up the River,” with Ton on screen at 11:32, 2:20, and 10:24.
SMartin :08, 7:56
STAR IN NEW FILM Limes Special HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21.—“The Knight and the Lady’ will be the title for the Errol Flynn-Bette Davis costarring picture based on “Elizabeth the Queen,” Theater Guild play
Mayer lot. Eleanor is doing an imitation of Jimmy in “Honolulu” and | friends have told him it is so funny | that he’s getting worried.
by Maxwell Anderson. / Farewell
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2 Prize Plays
Two prize-winning plays and the pre-Broadway showing of a new production are scheduled to ring in the new year at English’s after “Tobacco Road” has ushered out 1938 with an 11:15 p. m. perform-| ance on New Year's Eve. John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle award last season, will open for three nights
Luce of the ew York cast, and Guy Robertson, the musical comedy favorite, will be featured players. On Jan. 9-11, Sinclair Lewis and Fay Wray will be seen in “Angela 1s 22,” of which they are coauthors and costars. It will be Mr. Lewis’ first appearance with an all-profes-sional company. The play is expected to reach Broadway later in the winter. The Pulitzer Prize winner of 1938, “Our Town,” will arrive for the customary half-week’s stay on Jan. 20. The original New York cast, which played a year in New York, will be seen here in the Thornton Wilder drama. Frank Craven is starred,
and a matinee on Jan. 2. Claire
and other principals are Evelyn
arden Helen Carew Ross, Dorothy McGuire and Craven, the star’s son. : Anothér possible January ‘attrac tion is “Golden Boy,” by Clifford Odets. Jean Muir, late oR the movies, will have the role created by Frances Farmer, who has 16= turned to Hellywood.,
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