Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1939 — Page 17

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Hollywood Takes Off

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‘Idiot's Delight,’ Opening Today at Loew's, Packs Punch.

By JAMES THRASHER The downtown movie houses bring

‘us this week, besides a revival, a| § i a couple of new films, |{

holdover " the first example of what may be

known, in |later years, as Hollywood’s frank and fearless age. That exaniple is “Idiot’s Delight,” opening today at Loew’s and based, of course, on Robert E. Sherwood’s well novy play. M-G-M had the screen rights almost from the time the play opened, but its material was rather| explosive. If you saw light” at English’s, you

“ pointed observations on war and its © makers. The blame for international conflict is laid right in the munitions makers’ laps. ~And there are some slaps at those usually calm and intelligent. persons who suddenly develop a case of jingoism when the bugles blow.

They Grow Bolder

. This isn’t meant to be a sight-un-seen review. It is permissible to _ note, however, that the almost com“plete failure of" Hollywood's European film market is making the picture producers a little bolder. We are promised that the movie of “Idiot’s Delight” pulls no punches in the scene where the young pacifist denounces the munitions king. And this is a sort of toe:treading undreamed of until recent months. An even bolder step is looked for in the Warners’ two anti-Nazi films, one already in production and the other planned and promised. All of which looks as if the day is approaching when Hollywood's ‘“top‘ical films” will be something more than a cops-and-robbers melodrama with a background of newspaper « headlines. ; Another notable thing about “Idiot’s Delight,” gleaned from the . advance publicity, is that the story - hasn’t been tampered with by other . writers. Nobody, it seemed, wanted to . change the title. The list of production credits : fails to disclose, for once, that there . is additional dialog by Joe Doaks ur : interpolated gags by Floyd Doy. It simply says: “Screen play by RobThat, friends, is something. : + Mr. Sherwood has changed his

drama’s local®, however.

In the play, the setting was the Italian Alps, and the Italians were credited with starting a new world war. This time the action, or most of it, is in a mythical country. It’s so mythical that the film capital's extras had to learn some dialog in the international language, Esperanto. . Same Old Van

‘But Mr. Sherwood did not change the character of his hero, Harry Van. Harry ‘is a vaudeville hoofer, and that’s why Clark Gable, who played ‘the part, has been staying 8 these days. Mr. Gable worked for six -weeks in patent leather shoes, rehearsing and shooting the dance . scenes., When the smoke cleared -away it was found that the Gable “dogs” had swollen a full size beyond their usual 10%. Thus the true

. artist suffers. for his career.

And heére is something extra for -you tol look for when you go to .see “Idiot’s Delight.” It’s a surprise, thrown lin free of charge, and provided through the courtesy of a native of |Southwestern Indiana who

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_ This native saw a picture on The Times amusement page Tuesday which showed Mr. Gable and Joe Yule (Mickey Rooney's father) dancing lon a stage in front of a painted curtain. . He took a second look at the ~backdrop| and = discovered, of all . things, that it was a painting of the ‘corner of Sixth and Main, Evans- ~ ville. ~~ But maybe you noticed it, too.

3 RITZ BROTHERS IN $150,000 SUfT

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 2 (U. P.).— The three Ritz Brothers were not "only ‘denied their $7500 a week joint .pay check today, but faced a $150,000 damage suit for refusing to work in their latest picture. ~The suiti was filed by 20th Cen-tury-Fox Studio, holding the come- | dians responsible for the money already spent on the | picture “The Gorilla,” at which they balked. | The damage suit was based upon alleged breach of a contract the - brothers signed with the studio last July 20.

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The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s soloists for the week-end’s concerts will be Eudice Shapiro (left), violinist, and Virginia Majewski, violist. Miss Shapiro won the National Federation of Music Clubs prize in 1937, and made her New York debut last year. Miss Majewski began her musical studies with Ferdinand Schaefer, the orchestra’s founder who will conduct the coming concerts, The young women will play the Mozart Symphonie Concertante.

Opening Today

" “IDIOT’S DELIGHT”—Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Meredith. Adapted by Robert E. Sherwood from his play of the same title; directed by Clarence E. Brown. Harry and Iréne meet in an Omaha vaudeville theater, part after a brief romance and are reunited, six years later, in a mythical European country. War breaks out. Irene’s wealthy lover ‘leaves her but Harry remains, after all the others have left to escape an air raid. Romance renews amidst the crashing bombs, and the story

ends happily.

Opening Tomorrow Alamo :

“FEDERAL MAN HUNT”—Robert Livingston, June Travis, John Gallaudet. Directed by Nick Grinde. | A frameup, a murder and a chase, with a private detective making the catch and getting the gangster’s girl.

Farnum. Directed by Joe Kane. | A Western with music and Lulu Belle and Scotty, radio barn dance

favorites, as added attractions. « Apollo

“MISSISSIPPI”—Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, Joan Bennett. Directed by Edward A. Suthreland; screen play by Herbert Fields and Claude Binyon, adapted from Booth Tarkington. Just like before. Yankee loves Southern belle but not enough to duel for her. In disgrace, joins Commodore Jackson's riverboating actors and becomes tops in gunfighting. Meanwhile succumbs to Southern belle’s sister—also belle. She is an antiduelist, so it’s reformation and matrimony. Saved by the belle. “LITTLE; MISS MARKER”—Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford. Directed by Alexander Hall, Screen play by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman and Gladys Lehman. Same as in 1934. Shirley becomes part of racing crowd after her father loses a bet for which she is security. Crooked racing straightens out and gamWling gang goes noble. Shirley is pitched from a race horse and nearly from the picture. A transfusion saves all, love cracks one gambler and it ends rosily.

Circle

“ST. LOUIS BLUES”—Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan, Tito Guizar, Maxine Sullivan. Directed by Raoul Walsh. . . In this, Miss Lamour, rebelling at the perennial sarong, deserts a “South Sea singer’s” career on Broadway. She joins a Mississippi showboat troupe, is rejected as “too amateur” and finally, despite villainy and injunctions, scor~s a sarongless success. ¥ “PERSONS IN HIDING”—Lynne Overman, Patricia Morrisc¢d, J. Carrol Naish. Directed by Louis King. . A gangster melodrama based on J. Edgar Hoover’s book of the same title. :

Indiana (Second Week) “JESSE JAMES”—Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Ran-

dolph Scott, Henry Hull. Directed by Henry King; original screen play by Nunnally Johnson.

the Jooss Ballet here, also is re-¢ - | sponsible for Miss Schoop’s pres- | ence,’

Schoop’s advertisements that Walt] Disney has added something to the ballet vocabulary. For she talls her performances symphonies in the fi press reports, it also would appear that Miss Schoop herself has added something. Apparently she not only spoofs life, but the very canons and subject matter of the ballet itself.

will consist, not of the traditional} three or four ballets, but one performance in eight scenes called “The Blond Marie.” most popular number of her present repertory, if not of all the ballets the young Swiss dancer has sented since her American debut three years ago.

the music for “The Blond Marie,” which will be played at two pianos by Lothar Perl and Max Fickel. The story and choreography are by Miss Schoop.

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family has invited friends for afternoon tea, on which occasion Marie, the maid servant, plays a rather unlovely role.

the Sign of the Wild Man,” Marie|. has acquired a new situation—and a beau.

a sore throat, the tenor has an idea, a chorus girl has a lucky break—so the director is complete2 ; ly ha . «SHINE ON HARVEST MOON”--Roy Fogers, Mary Hart, William |*Y 5¢ tho thrill being served by someone else and is happy to have money in her pocket; the time is a few hours preceding the gala premiere.

unknown chorus girl Marie becomes a famous soubrette. The program announces the cast and libretto of

an operetta, “The Blond Marie,” with music by Paul Schoop.

husband, a pretty child, but no peace of mind. Then she meets a young, unknown artist.

artist is painting a picture of the mother and child, the latter being a great nuisance.

public painting is not a success, Which greatly upsets Marie. izes what such a failure may mean, and becomes so impetuous -and dramtic that the attention of the newspapers is thereby attracted and enormous which her object is achieved.

Grapewin’s latest play, “Top Soil,” on Broadway. this year. eran actor may join the cast after he finishes “Hero for a Day.”

Trudi Schoop and Ballet Pugin City on Monday

Two years ago Indianapolis discovered there was something more to

the ballet than grace and acrobatics when Kurt Jooss and his dancers came to town with their forceful, expressionistic performances.

Now another discovery is promised the local dance fans on Monday

night at English’s. At that time Trudi Schoop and her dancing comedians will make their first appearance here. Martens Concerts, which brought

$216 OPERA SUIT SETTLED FOR $75

PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 2 (U. P.). —A $216 suit brought by Sylvan Levin, musical director of the Philadelphia Opera Co. and former assistant conductor of the Philadelphia - Orchestra, against Natalie Bodanya, Metropolitan Opera soprano, for lessons he allegedly gave her, has been settled for $75. The diva was served with a process when she came here to sing the role of the forest bird in the Metropolitari’s production of Wagner's “Siegfried.” Mr. Levin said the money was for lessons he gave Miss Bodanya before her Metropolitan debut in 1936. ‘He said he trained her for the part of Micaela in “Carmen.” “She was beautiful in it, too,” Mr. Levin said. “It was a great success. She is a fine musician, a talented artist.” A press agent for Miss Bodanya in New York said she sang -at the Metropolitan before Mr, Levin's coaching started in. 1936.

PICTURES LURE BETTY BRONSON

. HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 2 (U. P.).— Betty Bronson, who won screen stardom 14 years ago when James M. Barrie selected her to play the role of “Peter Pan” in the screen version of his play, was back in

Hollywood today after a long retirement from the films. The actress left the screen in 1932 when she married Ludwig Lauerhass, scion of: a wealthy Asheville, N. C., family, Then Miss Bronson said she was leaving the movies at her husband’s wish. After six years of marriage, however,’ Miss Bronson apparently changed his views on acting, and he accompanied her to Hollywood. They will make their home here while she tries to pick up her film career.

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The Meyer Home—The Meyer

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At Rehearsal—The soubrette has

At the Hairdresser’s—Marie has a

Marie This! Marie That! Premiere of the Operetta—The

The Villa—Marie now has a rich

111. U. '31 LAW GRAD COMPLETES BOOK

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Feb. 2.— “To My Fellow Workers,” a book by Roy Fleischer, Indiana University law school graduate in 1931, is to be published this spring by the Chris(topher Publishing House, Boston.

The volume will contain a shorf novel, 11 short stories and more than 40 essays.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO

“pacific Liner,” with Chester Morvis. Vietor eLagle . Wendy Barrie, at 11:05, 1:49, 4:33, 7:17 and 9:50. “Fighting Thoroughbreds,” with Ralph Byrd, Mary Carlisle, at 12:45, 3:29, 6:13 and 8:46.

CIRCLE

Made Me a Criminal” with arfield. Ann Sheridan, the ** Kids, at 12:35; 3:40, 6:45

“The: John “Dead End ind 9:50. “Torchy Blane in Chinatown,” with

Glenda Farrell, Barton McLane, at 11:40, 2:45, 5:50 and 8:55.

INDIANA

fin » with Tyrone Power, : : : Jesse James y "45. author, Mr.

Fleischer is a member of the Ha ford (Conn. Courant city staff and a practicing attorney. One of his stories was placed on the honor roll of Edward J. O’'Brien’s 1934 collece tion of “Best Short Stories.”

NOW 15¢ 2 CIEE EET

Judy Garland—Freddie Bartholomew “LISTEN, DARLING" : “PECK’S BAD BOY IN THE CIRCUS"

NOW 15¢c %

Tim McCoy “SIX-GUN TRAIL” J. Litel “Nancy Drew, Detective” Three Stooges Comedy—News

; 1 an “March of Time at 11:10, 1:42, 4:14, 6:46 and 9:18.

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Nancy Kelly. Henry Fonda, at 11:45 2:17. 4:49, Vig d 9:53.

Besides. being an « «jdiot’s Delight,” with Clark WYITY 5 (Gable, Norma earer, Edward Arnold, Joseph Schildkraut, at 11, 1:10, | 3:25, 5:40, 9:55 and 10.

LYRIC ° Vaudeville, with Ted Weems and his orchestra, on stage.

“King of the Underworld.’ with ‘Kay SL ancis, Humphrey Bogart, on screen. ;

EUROPE 'TOO HOT" FOR OTTO KRUGER

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 2 (U. P.)o— Otto er, movie actor, was back from a ‘vacation in Europe today feeling as if “I have stepped out of a red-hot frying pan.” He said the war situation abroad is “like a game of drop the handkerchief, oniy a lot more serious, and. with no one anxious to drop i first.” :

INDIANAPOLIS

SYMPHONY

ORCHESTRA . FABIEN SEVITZKY

Musical Director and Conductor

FERDINAND SCHAEFER

Guest Conductor CONCERTS

Tomorrow at 2:45 Saturday at 8:30

MURAT THEATER

SOLOISTS: EUDICE SHAPIRO, Violin

VIRGINIA MAJEWSKI, Viola

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It Takes Supplies Aplenty

ENGLISH Tomorrow and Saturday 2%

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NEW YORK, Feb. 2.=A regular supply department has been set up at the Winter Garden to take care of the demands of Olsen and Johnson's “Hellzapoppin,” an outstanding hit of the current Broadway season. The nature of the comedy which these two zanies distill is such that many items are consumed or destroyed during the course of a performance, and it is the property department’s business to see that a

steady supply of these articles is kept constantly on hand. Roughly, and without trying to give a complete list of the purchases made, here are some of the things which are needed for every show: Five pounds of beans, three large window panes, 12 bananas, chicken feathers, which are obtained by tearing pillows apart; 150 pounds of ice, two bottles of beer, one box

blank cartridges, one straw hat, three dozen carnations and any nuinber of cigarets.

Multiply these by nine—since “Hellzapoppin” gives three regular matinees a week, the only show in New York, incidentally, to go on such a heavy schedule—and one has an idea of what the purchasing agent is up against.

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