Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1938 — Page 25

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Yule Plums ~~ On Rialto

i Are Provided in ) © Holiday Bills.

By JAMES THRASHER

"All signs point toward a Merry

‘Christmas for the movie-goer, °°

You may sit in the Circle’s brand |

ov seats for a look at “Dawn Pa-

trol” (they say those mew chairs in the loges are the last word in “streamlined fireside comfort). “The Indiana’s furnishings have

ha cleaned, painted and renovated | until the theater is expected to -{ glistetr as brilliantiy.as the techniLootor on dts screen. the picture is | “Kentucky.” -- : {| The Apollo is ; | Ship,” with Wallace Beery and ‘Mickey Rooney: spotlighted. - . The Lyric will give you a look at

‘a for-sure screen star in the fleshi|

—none other than Lola, of the love dy Lane Sisters... © |“ And Loew’sihas a film version of ‘that beloved Christmas story, Dick‘ens’ “A Christmas Carol,” opening

| ¢ today. 25 3 | Hollywood, specifically M-G-M, deserves a word of praise for “A

Christmas Carol,”Jeven before the picture is seen. For it is obviously in the nature:of a Christmas gift rather than an’atfempt to make ‘a big profit. iW ‘limited to the Christinas week, and it can’t hope to pick up-a little ex‘tra change by filling out a doublebill during the other 51. - Lew Ayres Back Again However, if the picture succeeds in an righ showink, Reginald Owen's

ansahyual event, like moresion the radio, or ist the ‘White

] first time, incidentally, that the-Dickens tale thas “heen done into .& smovie.. Three ‘years ago the Circlé played an EngJish version -titled “Scrooge.” “i ‘Also ‘on Loew's bill is “Young “Kildare,” in which Lew Ayres sgontinues his comeback started with ‘8 fine performance in “Holiday.” ‘JAonel Barrymore, ‘slated for Mr. ‘Owens’ role in “A Christmas Carol” “until illness forced his withdrawal,

_ ‘also appéars in the film.

“i #Young Dr, Kildare” is the sec‘end ‘of the year’s medical movie ‘trilogy to arrive here: The first was the excellent “The Citadel” “The other, “A Man to Remember,” hasn’t been heard of in these parts.

- Loew's present film has been well

received in. earlier showings elsewhere. The Circle’s attraction is a new version of a British war aviation

#i film first made in 1930 with Rich-

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- ard Barthelmess as the star. The cast list includes no women, and sthe producers were able to assem- . ble an: almost 100 per cent British wscast in the interests of authen«ticity. : Xi Errol Flynn Appears

.. . Errol Flynn and Barry Fitzgerald are Irishmen; Basil Rathbone, " David Niven, Donald Crisp, Mel- . ville Cooper, Carl Esmond, Morton

reviving “Slave :

Its drawing power isi.

Sperformancesot Scppoge might pos-|

IN MASK AND WIG CLUB SHOW

In the kilts is William Alexander Borrie, about to resurrect that joke about the Scotchman for John Pehr Stokes, the announcer, and a , possible radio audience. These young men, players in the University © of PennsMvania Mask and Wig Club's “All Around ‘the’ Town,” will |

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“be seen at the Murat Tuesday night. !

~ Opening Today 4

Loew’s

“A CHRISTMAS CAROL”—Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart,’ Kathleen Lockhart, Teiry Kilburn, “Directed by Edwin.L. Matin; screen play by Hugo: Butler.“ “> © ; 0 ota The “favorite: Dickens .story “about the regeneration: of Ebenezer Scrooge, the mean:old ‘miser, by, Tiny Tim, the Hittle cripple boy. “YOUNG DR.;KILDARE”—Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lynn carver, Nat Pendiétoh.” Directed by Harold S. Biicquet; from ‘an original story by Max:Brand.,. . i. © Chl a i . A“young doctor!tirns down his father's country-practice for interneship in a large Cityshospital. «There he ‘is suspended. en circumstantial evidence, solves a mystery and goes home, reconciled to a country doctor's

life. x . Bone pl ny, Opening Tomorrow Xn Apollo | i

“SLAVE SHIP”—Warner ' Baxter, Mickey Rooney, Wallace - Beery Elizabeth Allan. Directed by Tay Garnett; based on a novel by (George S. King. al : : : | { Adventure: aboard the last slaver, wherein the captain finally succeeds in reforming. for the little woman’s sake. fy

Circle

“DAWN PATROL”—Errol Flynn, Basil "Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp. Directed by Edmund Goulding; from a story by John Monk Saunders. A World War story of the Royal Flying Corps, in which a friendship is broken up through an officer’s necessity of sending his pal’s brother into danger and death. The officer's act of heroism ends the bitterness. _ “NEXT TIME I MARRY”—Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Lee Bowman. Produced by Lee Marcus. / About a WPA worker who agrees to marry an heiress so she can get her fortune, then divorce her to let her marry a foreigner, which the will forbids. The results are what might be expected. !

Indiana

“KENTUCKY”—Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter . Brennan, Karen Morley. Directed by David Butler; from the story, “The Look of Eagles,” by John Taintor Foote. . : How the Kentucky Derby settles a feud that began in Civil War time and, incidentally, cements a romance. ay THE JONES FAMILY “DOWN ON THE FARM”—Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Louise Fazenda, Russell Gleason. Directed by Macolm St. Clair. The Joneses go in for corn husking and politics, with Dad Jones winding up a champion husker and the senatorial nominee.

B| George Brent, who just finished his . role opposite Bette Davis in|.

}soon:in “Wings of the Navy,” begins

/| Chester Morris, the actor, and his ‘| wife, were reconciled today after

1|cago, hugged’ their: children, Cyn-

. Lowry, Herbert Evans and Michael Brooke (the JSarl of Warwicke) were ~__borry in England, and Sidney Bracy ...comes from Australia. - The rainbow-hued “Kentucky” at __ the Indiana employs Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan ...and Karen Morley, among others, to tell you how the Kentucky Derby helps to clear up a hatred between -- two families that began with a Civil » War feud. If the plot sounds fa- + miliar, it’s | probably because - you

% read John .Tainter Foote’s “The

Look of Eagles,” from which the Screen play was taken. Miss Lang comes to the Lyric to

« interrupt a succession of big-name

" dance bands. Recently she had

"+ top billing in Cincinnati on a bill

that included the acts seen at the P“hdiana with Gypsy Rose ‘Lee. Miss

§ Lee left the company after the

| Indianapolis engagement. | ¢ /The Lyric’s film, janother tech'nieolor offering, will be “Heart of

§: the North,” with Dick Foran and

+ ¥’ Gale Page the featured players. -

| Hardy Family. series is credited for - the Apello’s “Slave 'Ship” ‘revival. . Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery and

§ Elizabeth Allan were featured when

': the picture first appeared, about a

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= || year and a half ago. But with the

| rise of the Hardy's, young Rooney’s

i name has become ‘an; increasing |. {| magnet. So now’he’s billed next tof

Mr. Baxter. % ‘Movie Star Off. sit Orphans

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 (U. P.).— \ Madeleine Carroll; English film star, wag en route today for;Paris to keep a ‘New Year's - Eve’ date -with /200 ! orphans, fo

The gctress rushed through ‘final

2 scenes of “Cafe Soefety” and caught

i a train for New: York to hoard the

for the orphans of .the Maison de Charite in Paris. . -

50k $ - ‘Ever since her student days at the § Sorbonne, the star: has spent New|.

i Year's Eve whenever:

possible ‘with

§| the youngsters. = - + TX,

FIELDS' DOCTOR

curing Com

“shocles the conscience.” . |, + The Appellate Court reversed a dower court judgment for this

amount that had: been obtained by |-

_ Jesse Citron, Mr. Fields was ly ‘of 1936. . ..

DANCE! 25¢ ‘All Eve... ‘The BANDWAGON . | Southeastern & Emerson EVERY NITE EXCEPT MON,

11 in June and

Mickey Rooney's popularity in the:

: Normandie with "trunkloads of toys!

BILL 'SHOCKING'|

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 (U. P).—| A judge ruled today that $12,000 for}: edian W. C. ‘Fields of." bronchial pneumonia was so exces-|:: sively high a doctor’s fee that it]:

Lyric | | VAUDEVILLE (on stage)—lola Lane, screen star; Bert Walton, comedian and master of ceremonies; Buster West, comedy dancing; Lucille Page, acrobatic dancer. ; “HEART OF THE NORTH” (on screen)—Dick Foran, Gale Page, Jean Dixon, Allen Jenkins. : Action in the north country, with the Royal Northwest Mounties getting their man.

KIDDIES' PARTY “SET AT VOGUE

Manager Carl: Niesse of the new Vogue, North ‘Side neighborhood house, has announced the theater’s first children’s Christmas party for 1:30 p. m. Saturday. pop Besides a generous picture bill in-

cluding “Donald Duck Reyueland,” Mickey Rooney ‘in’ “The; Hoosier Schoolboy,” “Annabel’s Affairs,”

with Jack Oakie and Lucille Ball, and a chapter of the “Lone Ranger” serial, Mr. Niesse promises a ‘‘per=

sonal appearance” of Senta ‘Claus. Each child is to receive a’ giff.

NOW 15¢ t¢ |

Robert Donat “LHE CITADEL" onne at an cates in

Dionne on “FIVE OF A KIND

. ; to NOW 15¢c" & P. O’Brien “GARDEN OF THE MOON” Janet Gaynér — Robert Montgomery : “THREE LOVES HAS NANCY”

“DICK, TRACY, RETURNS” — News

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ELIZABETH ALLAN - GEORGE SANDERS | . Arthur Hohl « Minna Gombell + Billy Bevan |" 2 #4 Francs Ford + J.Fareell MacDonald Paul Hurst Jl = 1 HEAT vate LAST TIM'S TODAY! . Ray Milland ‘ in "SAYA IN: FRENCH" | With © Olympe Bradna + 5c pups) ;:. Akim Tamiroff * "in RIDE A’ ol CROOKEEL ‘MILE

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... "THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

5 at Warner's Get Contracts

Times Special ; HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22.—Warner Bros. has awarded new term contracts to five of its stars and featured players ias a resulf of their work in recent and coming releases.

“Dark Victory” and will be seen

his -eighth year at Warner's with a new contract. : Humphrey Bogart, who also appeared in “Dark Victory” and .is working now witli James Cagney in “Oklahoma Kid,” will start his fifth year with the studio. © James Stephenson, English actor, and Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall of the “Dead End” boys contingent, all of whom started about a year ago, will continue their Warner association with new contracts.

DE LESSEPS FIGHTS SHOWING OF 'SUEZ'

. PARIS, Dec. 22 (U. P.).—Paul de Lesseps, son of Ferdinand de Lesseps, original engineer of the Suez Canal, prepared an: injunction today to bar the Hollywood film “Suez” from the screen.in France, contending that it is -historically unjust to his family. | M. de Lesseps, accompanied by a bailiff, two lawyers and two stenographers, attended a regular public showing of -the film at the Cinema de Paris before going to court.

CHESTER MORRIS AND WIFE MAKE UP

- HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 (U. P).—

several monthSiof trial separafion. They stepped ‘off a train from Chi-

thia and Brooks, and said: “This is going to be the:happiest Christmas

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we have ever spent.” é H The Morrises,” married <12:years, plan ‘a “second honeymoon” ¢ to Hawaii. om, TE iets

LEAVES FILLNG.

STATION FOR FILMS [bec rm Talent scouts told of Dana An-

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 (U. P.)—|drews, a young man “who gives you A tall and handsome young Texan, five gallons of gasoline with the

— “SMASHING SPY RING”

LAST DAY_ “DRUMS”

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