Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1938 — Page 11

ESDAY, DEC. 28, 1938

STARS RING BELLS AND

In Theatrical During Eve

Business Upturns Noted

World Here nt-Filled Year

1938 Without Single "Putsch," Thrasher Notes in Annual Review; Horace Heidt Sets Record; English's Gets Three Plays Before Broadway.

| By JAMES THRASHER : ven if the amusements business came through 1938 without a single |

puts¢h or anschluss, enough things happened in the Temple of the Popular Muses to meriti a backward glance before we push on to an-

other year.

or instance, on the local front. the Indiana had a world premiere,

“Thanks for Bleryiningy “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” a week’s

visit | from Gypsy Rose iness uptirns were noted when:

B . sCarll Niesse departed the Ambas-

_ righ

sador and Alamo and built himself e streamlined Vogue [Theater out e Canal, and when the Circle ut (in all new seats.

Heidt Sets Record

dianapolis rhythm fans lost hearts and the Lyric lost its house record to Horace Heidt, who packed the theater to the rafters t in the heat of summer. The pollo lost Shirley Temple to the Indiana but, along with Loew’s, got in a supply of Movie Quiz booklets. nd Loew’s helped to cement Anglomerican relations by Showing three itish-made films superlative der: te and “Sterm in a Teacup.” nglish’s had a look at Maurice rvans, Helen Hayes and Sir Cedric Ege. as well as two visits of acce Road” company, all dn the calendar: year. It also saw three plays before they got to Broadway: “You Never Know,” “A Doll's House” and “Antony and Cleopatra,” in which| last the audiences had the unique experience of seeing Tallulah Bankhead do the Egyptian charmer | with lines by Shakespeare = gestures by Minsky. The Indianapolis Symphony Orhestra began the season with some 0, new players and |a new weekly roadcast series. d Conductor

V Fabien Sevitzky started wearing a

long cloak to rehearsals. Hollywood Buries Hatchets

Out in Hcllywood, the movie industry, buried its |hatchets and pooled its adjectives [to prove to us that “motion pictures are your best entertainment.” Coincidentally, diversified doings like the following were in progress: | George Faft kissed a seal in “Spawn of the North.” Directors with six-figure salaries organized as a protection, against| exploitation of their genius. Simone Simon, last survivor of Hollywood's Gallic glamour contingent, went home to make a French picture in which she is once more a natural brunet. Tyrone Power played one of the O'Leary boys of early Chicago; a fanciful screen counterpart of Irving Berlin; Marie Antoinette’s Danish lover, and the builder of the Suez Canal—and all without batting an eye or chariging an expression. He's now in the process of portraying Alexander Graham Bell before the camera, and is mentioned prominently for the role of Abraham Lincoln.

Shearer as Trapeze Artist

Robert . Taylor changed from a matinee idol to a tough guy over

night. As the year drew to a close, |

Joan Crawford started a picture in hich she is supposed to be a skill-

ful ice skater; Norma Shearer, hav-|,

ing finished “Marie Antoinette,” was cast as a trapeze artist opposite Clark Gable, who plays a song-and-dance man in ‘‘Idiot’s Delight.” The year’s two most. popular

actors were a dummy named Mec-|

Carthy and a cartoon figure named Dopey. Isa Miranda, Sig: Mussolini’s favorite aciress, came to Holly-

wood and got a Paramount contract;

Leni Riefenstahl, Herr Hitler's favorite acfress, came to Hollywood and got the bum’s rush Miss Shearer and Paulette Goddard were rumored to have been signed for the role of Scarlett O’Hara. By uncanny coincidence, the report of Miss Shearer’s ‘selection came at about the same time as. the release of “Marie Antoinette”; Miss Goddard was her-

alded as the long-awaited Scarlett

“The Citadel,” “To the Vic-]

e, a new coat of paint and a summer vacation.

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| just before her latest film, “Dra{matic School,” was showing in New York. Trained Fleas

Meanwhile, “Gone With the Wind” waited with television just around the corner. And Shirley Temple, suspected of being a Red, went to work on her first color picture. Hollywood, | in the interest of authenticity, had two trained fleas flown out by air express from New York to appear inside Claudette Colbert’s blouse in “Zaza.” They died of excitement or suffocation or something before their movie career even started. .Greta Garbo insisted that her

next picture should be a comedy. And Leopold Stokowski conducted the music for a Walt Disney feature in which he will receive equal billing with Mickey Mouse.

PEANUT BUTTER IS COLT'S DELIGHT

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28 (U. P.).— George Raft and a movie company of 150 waited an hour and a half while a property man tried to induce a month-old colt to lick its lips. The colt, in a scene for the picture “The Lady’s From Kentucky,” is supposed to see Comedian Hugh Herbert with a carrot, lick its lips and run after the vegetable. Charles Mason, the property man, tried smearing the colt’s lips with molasses, honey, sugar, whipped cream, tartar sauce, milk chocolate, grenadine, | custard and lemon meringue, but to no avail. When he finally tried peanut butter, the colt licked its lips vigorguy, and they went on with the show

NAB FRENCH FILM CHIEFS IN FRAUD

PARIS, Dec. 28 (U. P.).—A scandal in the French film industry was revealed today with police announcement of the arrest on Christmas Eve of three men prominent in the industry. Those arrested are Bernard Tanenzapf, known as Bernard Natan; Jean Cerf and Alexandre Joannides, who were charged with fraud and embezzlement of funds belonging to the French Pathe Cinema Co.

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2 Performances New Year's Eve 8:30 and 11:15

STAGE SUCCESS OF THE CENTURY

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& RO an. HOLIDAY BARGAIN PRICES!

ves: 88¢, $1.10, $1. 85 Mata: 580, 830, $110 (Tax Ine.)

NEXT MON., TUES., WED. MATINEE WEDNESDAY

SAM WH. HARRIS presents

Of MICE and MEN

with CLAIRE LUCE == GUY ROBERTSON 1p $3.76. Wed. Mat,, 850 to $1.6, Toei, Tax, Seats. Now én Sai.

Loew’s will greet the new year with the technicolor film,

“Sweet-

hearts,” which opens tomorrow. Here are the stars and director celebrating the picture’s completion. Youll rec@gnize Nelson Eddy chiseling in on the festive cake, while Jeanette. MacDonald and W. S. Van

Dyke look on. At the left and right are Miss Mac!

Bolger in one of the film’s dances.

Donald and Ray “Sweethearts” has a musical score

made up of Victor Herbert favorites.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Slave Ship, with Mickey Rooney, Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery. at 11:31, 1:34 3:37. 5:49. 7:43 and 9:46..

CIRCLE

“pawn Patrol,” with Errol Flynn, oi , David Niven, at

d 9:55. “Next Time I Marry,” with Lucille Ball. Jathes SHison, at 11:20, 2:30,

5 #0 and ENGLISH’S

“Tobacco Road,” witn John Barton. Curtain at 8.30. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. 2:30.

INDIANA

“Kentucky.” with Loretta Young, Pichard Sreens Walter Brennan, at

9: 56. 1 ea on the Farm. ith Jones Family, at 11:37, 2: 3 5 40 The 8:

LOEW'S

“A Christmas Carol,” with Regi-' nald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Terry Rigas, at pe 35, 3:20, 6:10 and 9. Youn Kildare,” with Ayres, yg Barrymore. at 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7:20 and

LYRIC

Vaudeville, with Lola Lane, Bert Yajten, Buster West, on stage at 1:03. 3:25, 6:41 and 9:30. eart of the North,” with Dick Foran, G.oria Dickson. on screen at 11:25, 2:13 5:02, 7:51 and 30:30,

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Song Classics In Powell Film Times Special = HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28.—Wolfgang Mozart, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner and Friedrich Smetana will be given screen credit for their music in the latest Dick Powell picture, “The Professor Steps Out.” The famous composers will be represented by songs titled “Ha, Ha,” “Lolita,” “You Got Me Dreaming” and “I Always Knew, Babe.” If the titles do not fit into the classical repertory, it is because they are all part of the show. Allen Jenkins and Jerry Colonna play two Tin Pan Alley song writers who have a habit of “lifting” ideas from the classics. The Hollywood team of Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer adapted the music, wrote the lyrics and devised the new titles.

KOLB WITH POWELL

Clarence Kolb, of the old musical comedy team of Kolb and Dill, the Weber and Fields of the Pacific Coast, will play an important role in the new Eleanor Powell picture, “Honolulu.”

Around the Town”—the town being New York. And there is really no need to offer the usual apologies due a college production. Last night's performance at the Murat had the lilt and sparkle that make a good evening’s fun in the theater. Of the club's 51 shows, this reviewer has had experience with only two of them. But the 1938 offering is decidedly superior to last year’s “Fifty -Fifty.”

Offers Excellent Tunes

For one thing, it has some extra good tunes by Dr. Clay A. Boland, 26. Dr. Boland has quite outdone himself with such things as “When I Go a-Dreamin’,” “There’s No Place Like Your Arms,” “Ya Got Me” and several others that would do credit to any Broadway revue. Most of the sketches are by George Elliott Hess, ’39, who likewise lends a droll presentation to a good bit of his writing. Students and alumni have pitched in on stage and dance direction, and Dr. Boland has dressed up his music with some orchestral and vocal arrangements that are really “in the groove.” The result is smooth, fast-moving and entirely enjoyable. Some of the ‘social significance” sketches probably aren’t as funny as

| everyone wishes they might be. But

the opening skit in a broadcasting studio, where a kilted Scotsman is awarded first prize in a contest conducted by a button-hole manufacturer, is a clever dig at radio contests in general. The “Showcase of a Nation”

ACTORS CHARGED IN TAX LIENS

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28 (U. P.).— The Treasury Department tried to spoil Christmas today for a group of Hollywood film stars who al-

tax payments. Liens were filed in Federal Court against John Barrymore for $1236 on his 1937 income, and against his wife Elaine for $2701; against Mr. and Mrs. Basil Rathbone for $3806; Ann Dvorak for $153; Anita Louise for $1615; Bert Wheeler for $1972; Ben Blue for $247.

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Rollicking Mask and Wig Revue Earns a Big Hand

The University of Pennsylvania’s Mask and Wig Club is off on its second half-century with quite the. merriest college show you could find in several semesters of extracurricular theater going. This year's revue is called “All&

legedly are short in their income

sketch, wherein a quartet of Bonwit Teller Window dummies come to life, also -is amusing. And the “Swing Versus Sweet” number is clever, with Melody Moe and Killer Diller actually fighting it out in the Madison Square Garden ring. The dances don’t depentl upon the unfailingly funny spectacle of a bunch of muscular young men dressed up as girls. The chorus is well routined; their dances are cleverly conceived and they put them over in a skillful manner.

Last night’s fashionable audience’

VICTOR HERBERT'S

raised the roof with its cheers, and

for good reason.

“All Around the

Town” needed no politeness or pride in alma mater to stimulate applause.

One might have stopped

s school-

ing in the eighth grade, jand still

have enjoyed it.

IN GLORIOUS

TECHNICOLOR

with FRANK MORGAN + RAY BOLGER

FLORENCE RICE - HERMAN BING + REGINALD GARDI

MISCHA AUER NER

Screen Play by Dorothy Parker and Alan Cam Directed by W. S. Van Dyke Il ~~ /Z0F,~ Produced by Hunt Stromberg

. A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE

Starting

| TOMORROW

Warners Plan 5 Major Films

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28.—Warner Bros. Studio will begin the new year with a special production schedule of five major pictures. Scripts planned for early January Shooting + include the following:

“Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” with a script which lists as collaborator G-Man Leon Torrou, who wrote a series of articles on the uncovering of a Nazi spy ring in this country. “Each Dawn I Die,” with James Cagney and Ann Sheridan featured

Limes Special LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 —Charles

picture,

“ diot’s Delight.”

in an adaption of Jerome Odlum’s novel. “Beethoven,” in which Paul Muni will play the greht composer after he has completed work in “Juarez.” “Battle of City Hall,” a story of corrupt municipal politics with Humphrey Bogart and the “Dead End” boys. “Fly Away Home,” an adaption of the Broadway success with an unannounced cast.

CARTOONS ON AGAIN

¢ The Ohio’s special feature of six color cartoons called “Mickey Mouse’s Year-End Jubilee,” which was shown this morning, will be repeated at 11 a. m. tomorrow.

ANSWERS TWICE

Robert Benchley accumulates his correspondence and answers all of it twice yearly on his train trips from coast-to-coast.

Town Red, White and Blue!

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Gala Midnight Show New Year's Eve!

EXTRA! DONALD DUCK

SPECTACLE! SONG! DRAMA!

Starts FRIDAY! Buck Benny's Biggest Show—

Radio’s Public Cowboy No. 1 and His Band of Buckerettes Painting the

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