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Trudi Schoop

Shows Ballet

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Dancing Comedians in Local Debut Before Packed House.

By JAMES THRASHER The Russians discovered that the

_ballet, through technical perfection,

could be thrillingly beautiful. The

Germans discovered it could be movingly dramatic. ‘Trudi Schoop Siscavered it could be outrageously And, incidentally, discovered Trudi Schoop and her lary last to its. obvious delight, at last night. The Swiss miss and ‘her dancing comedians made their first local appearance on the Martens course be fore a house

packed and standing, - Miss Schoop chose to give us her|

famous “The Blond Marie.” This is a ballet, or “dance comedy,” ac-

-cording to the program, which tells

of a servant girl who becomes a famous actress, marries a rich husband, falls in love with a young painter, murders her husband, and finally awakens from her dream in her employer's home, humble, happy, and still a servant girl,

Tin Cans on Sacred Cows In the course of the eight scenes,

' Miss Schoop and her antic crew

tied tin cans on the tails of some sacred cows in a highly original and artistic manner. There was some rich and deserved fun poked at the mugging and mannerisms of opera, both light and grand. There was a howling “pas de deux”

"in which Meta Krahn and Otto Ul-’

bricht parodied the gyrations of muscle dancers and snake charmers, But the comic climax arrived

in a burlesque of tradition by af]

pink-skirted corps de ballet. The Schoop dancers settled conclusively a suspicion that has haunted many of our minds: That there is nothing more ludicrous than the human feet in the third ballet position.

Everyone Worked Hard

The whole troupe worked hard every minute, as hard as the Jooss Ballet, for instance, in its sternest plastic allegories. Each person was “in character” during every minute on the stage. Their interpretation extended to word and song (there were snatches of each) and facial expression, as well as motion. This was" necessary. For Miss Schoop’s “Blond Marie” has sprung from a complete sense of the ludicrous that amounts to genius. Not an implication of her subject seemed overlooked. : As to Miss Schoop’s individual performance, it was a joy. She has a Chaplinesque quality: A mobile, expressive face, a sense of timing. that makes every gesture eloquent, and a certain pathos with all her boisterous good humor. But Miss Schoop was in no sense the whole show. Much time and attention went to Katta : Sterna, Edith Carola, Ralph Ray, Marin Raae, Miss Krahn and Otto Ulbricht, and all proved to be little Jess talented than their director. Each dancer did many parts in the course of the evening, and did each with finished detail. A sort of Abbey Theater of the ballet. - Lothar Perl and Max Fickel, at two pianos, did an excellent job of playing the comedy’s tuneful music, composed by Paul Schoop, the star's brother.

Take Many Ways) To ‘Double Door’

Showboats, expositions and college musicals have contributed to the experience of players who will be seen in the Civic Theater's production of “Double Door,” opening at the Playhouse Friday for six nights. For instance, Noel Collier spent four years with the George Sharpe Players, toured for two years with the Show Boat Players, helped entertain the visitors at Texas antl California expositions and put in some time at the Pittsburgh Play-

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e. Fred Schultz learned his histrionics in stock with the Obrecht Sisters and Beach-Jones companies. Marie Jackson has been appearing in Players Club productions for the last six years. The Lima Q., Comsaunity Piayers gave William L.

‘ Gordon his start after he left Ohio

State University and its Scarlet Mask Club. Others in the cast of this Elizabeth McFadden play are Winifred Skyrme, Mary Thomson Bogart, Camilla Keogh, Maurice T. Harrell, Ned Le Fevre, Edward M. Miller Jr., Kenneth Badger and Toner M. Overley.

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LAUGHTON TAKES

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The sodden derelict, Ginger Ted, now joins Ruggles, Capt. Bligh and Rembrandt in Charles Laughton’s gallery of screen portraits. Ginger Ted (1) is the princi pal character in “The Beach-. comber,” coming to the Circle. Friday. Below, Mr. Laughton should be easily recognized in his well remembered roles in (2) “Ruggles of Red Gap,” (3) “Rembrandt” and (4) “Mutiny on the Bounty.”

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Now Diero is called “the Daddy of cordion itself is played by some 800,

IN NEW YORK —» GEORGE ROSS

Aoriion Novelty Just Before World War, Now Played by 800,000 in U. S.

EW YORK, Feb. 7.—Just before the World War, a man went from saloon to saloon playing an instrument somewhat like a ‘concertina and scraping a living from the pennies he received. He was Piétro Diero, his instrument the then little known accordion.

the Piano Accordion” and the ac900 000 persons in this country.

pily celebrating the anniversary of the acceptance of the accordion into the musical life of the nation and from the statistical barrage one gathers: that Frank Capra ' and James Stewart (who learned it at Princeton) are two of the foremost devotees.

Charlie Chaplin is another, with Mischa Auer and Tyrone Power and a dozen more film luminaries among the players. The Duke of Windsor, Doris Duke Cromwell, Jascha Heifetz and Charlie. MacArthur are other accordion=ists. New York's best-known accordionist is Tito, who was on Paul Whiteman’s All-America Band, first team. Tito’s other chief claim to fame is that as a member of the knockabout Frank and Milt Britton band he had more than 100,000 flimsy violins broken over his head in the typical Britton fashion. He resigned from the band after he was instructed to play the accordion while standing on the head of the first 6 Viokinish: 2 8 HEN an interviewer questioned him about his loves and hates, this is how Playwright Noel Coward summed them up: He dislikes Puritanism, clams, big parties, the interior of the Paramount Theater, Italian furniture, tapioca pudding, amateurs, champagne and bad acting. He likes suet puddings, the Temple of Heaven in Pekin, tabloids, Rachmaninoff’s Concerto in C Minor, frosted chocolates, paper

end of any of his first acts, Charlie Chaplin, arriving places and leaving places. ® ” 8 2 HOUGH Fifty-Second Street, the cradle and hotbed of swing, has provided us with more than ample “copy,” we still regard that thoroughfare as a garish, tawdry alley. Can’t n't help it, we're an in-

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The accordion people are -hap-®—

grate, but swing never fails to jar discordantly on our ears. The most flagrant manifestation of currént. youth occurs among the patronage at the Paramount Theater, the mecca of all swing bands in the country. Not even. highlyskilled psychologists who looked in there professionally, could ‘explain the jitterbugs’ sperrajjons, Nor can we.

8 8 HIS ironical yarn ‘was recounted over a Stork Club table the other evening, An official of the Prison Association was present and he was talking about the reformation ‘work that his group attempts to do among convicts. The talk got around to Richard Whitney, now serving a term in Sing Sing, and this gentleman recalled a reply he had received once from ‘Whitney, then the head of the Stock Exchange, to a plea for a contribution. “I.am not interested, ” read Whitney’s response, “in crime or its many ramifications!”

TRACY FOREGOES TRIP

Spencer - Tracy, after months of planning, will be unable to take that fishing trip to .\capulco, Mexico, with Director Frank Borzage. Upon the completion of “I Take This Woman,” he must move immediately over to another studio on J ia

Congo Film Here Feb. 18

Denis- Roosevelt Trippers ‘Made "Dark Rapture.’

At long last, to drop into the the royal vernacular, Indianapolis is to see “Dark | Rapture,” sound film made by the Denis-Roosevelt Expedition to the Belgian Congo. Its first showing has been booked for the Cozy, beginning Feb. 18. The film was previewed here several months ago, on the eve of the producers’ arrival for a personal appearance. Preview audience opinions, ‘and reviews from other cities where the picture had shown, indicated ‘it to be one of the most exciting and authentic African pictures ever made. Yet, as time went on, its engagement seemed to have

gone the way of James Cagney’s

Irish. repertory theater, or James Ellison’s d on to abandon the movies for law practice. However, Rex Carr, manager of the Ambassador, Alamo and Cozy, finally obtained (it for the smallest of the three theaters, which has

redecoration in anticipation of the event. According to present plans, “Dark Rapture” will be here for an indefinite engagement. Its makers are Mr. and Mrs. Armand Denis, Mrs. Denis is the former Leila Roosevelt, a cousin of Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt. Mr. Denis, a Belgian, made the expeditions with the co-operation of the Belgian Government, and his motion: pictures were the first ever made in that country’s African colonies. “Dark Rapture” is only a portion of the pictures secured. In all, about 150,000 feet of movie film and 25,000 feet of sound film were shot, most of which are now ‘in the archives of the Belgian Government. The commercial picture’s title, incidentally, was added by the American distributors.

GIVES UP SCHOOLING

Virginia Bruce was offered a motion picture contract while on her way to enroll at the University of California at Los Angeles, and gave up. college for films.

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By Chaplin

Hints Two-Million Dollar Parody on Hitler and Mussolini. / HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 7 (U. P)— Charlie Chaplin announced today he

would begin work on his ' movie in three years on March 15, and it

would parody the personalities and attributes of two men—Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini! Murray Silverstone, “head of]. ‘United Artists, announced that Mr.

“The Dictators” and that Mr. Chaplin would play a dual role. Nothing more was said concerning the plot and setting of the picture, except that it would be replete with

It will be ready for release in all countries where “the people are still permitted to have a sense ' of humor,” Mr. Silverstone said. For the first time, Mr. Chaplain will speak on the screen. His last picture was “Modern Times,” which had no sound effects but in which the shuffling, little “tramp” was silent—as always. It was not the financial success his other productions have been and Mr. Chaplin decided to abandon his opposition to the talkies. Mr. Chaplin has written the story. He also will direct’ the picture and produce it. “The story is about dictators,” he said. “Its primary idea is to make people laugh. The present political situation as it concerns dictators makes an exceptional vehicle for comedy and people with an overabundance of dignity and power make themselves targets for laughr.? Mr. Chaplin would not reveal whether any roles had been cast. The picture is budgeted to cost a little more than $2,000,000.

'STAR' COMPLAINS; ARREST ‘DIRECTOR’

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7 (U. P.). —Jack C. Nelson, self-styled motion picture director and head of “Holy Bible Production, Inc.” was in jail today on charges of grand theft and violation of the State Corporate Securities Act. Nelson, 45, from Los Angeles, was arrested on the complaint of Miss Paula Conneley. Miss Conneley told District Attorney Mathew Brady that Nelson promised to star her in three pictures to be filmed in the Holy Land and to be based on Bible Stories. “I bought $2000 worth of stock in his company,” Miss Conneley, “but nothing happened about the pictures at all.”

COWARD SEEKING COCOANUT TREES

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7 (U. P.). — Noel Coward, English playwright, was en route to Pagopago today aboard the liner Monterey to seek dramatic inspiration, he said, under a cocoanut tree. Seeing him off at the dock were Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, Miriam Hopkins and the Earl of Warwick. Mr. Coward has been Mr. Grant’s guest in Hollywood.

ALL-AMERICA SHORT James A. FitzPatrick, noted screen traveltalker, has started production of “Cavalcade of California,” first in a series of all-America shorts he will make during the current year.

HAS OWN TOGS For scenes in “The Hardys Ride. High,” Mickey Rooney wears his own football uniform, the same he sported when he was captain of his gridiron team.

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FOREIGN POLICY T0 BE SUBJECT

Chicago U. Round Table ‘Experts to Appear Here Saturday.

Table’s foreign policy experts will appear on the Town Hall program at 11 a. m, Saturday at English’s Theater. They = will = discuss “American Foreign Policy—Drift or Design?”

ter H. C. Laves, political scientist at the University of Chicago; Harry ‘D. Gideonse, economist, who re= cently left Chicago to take a professorship at Columbia University, and Maynard C. Krueger, successor to Prof. Gideonse at Chicago. Prof. Gideonse recently disagreed with the views of Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of thé University of Chicago, by replying to Mr. Hutchins’ “Higher Learning in America” with his own “Higher Learning in a Democracy.” Prof. Laves is Midwest office director of the League of Nations Association. He recently made a survey of European political conditions, spending several months in Europe. Prof. Khueger has been affiliated with Albion College and the University of Pennsylvania. He has been associated with Norman Thomas in Socialist Party leadership and has been a member of its national executive committee since 1934.

DRIVER IN HEARSE CRASH PAYS FINE

VALPARAISO, Feb. 7 (U. P). =! John Kado Jr. today had paid a fine of $25 and damages of $150 resulting from his collison with a hearse leading a funeral procession. State Police had charged Kado with intoxication: The accident disabled the hearse. ’ :

SCHRICKER WILL SPEAK Times Special LOGANSPORT, Feb. 7.—Lieut. Gov. Schricker will speak tomorrow night here on a program planned by the. Cass Crop Improvement Association honoring Cass County

Corn Show winners.

The University of Chicago Round |

There will be three speakers, Wal-|

Five-Acre Corn Club members and

MARKET PLANS

Sheepmen Expected Here

Walter H. C. Laves

Maynard C. Krueger

DEBATE FRIDAY AT CALEB MILLS HALL

Results to Have Bearing on State-Wide Contest.

Two debates Friday at Caleb Mills Hall will help to determine the Marion County winner in the statewide debate contest now being sponsored by Manchester College. The Shortridge High School affirmative team meets the Tech High negative team and the Shortridge negative meets .the Crispus Attucks affirmative. Last Friday the Shortridge negative beat the Washington

affirmative. The winner of the Marion County

- | district will compete with winners

from five other state districts to determine the Indiana State Debat-

-|ing League championship.

CHURCH PARLEY FRIDAY

MONTICELLO, Feb. 7—A conference will be held Friday in Monticello Presbyterian Church by the Logansport Presbytery. Cass, Pulaski, Fulton and White Counties will bé represented. The Rev. Wil-

liam PF. Wefer of Philadelphia, Pa., will serve as leader.

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nounced plans for the Association's” annual meeting to be held Monday at the Washington Hotel.

Reports, luncheon, a discussion of 1939 wool marketing plans and election of officers for the coming year

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Ferris said. Hassil E. Schenck, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., will welcome Association members to the meeting. Dr. O. O. Wolf, Kansas Farm Bureau president and vice president of the National Wool Marketing Corp., will speak on “The Objectives, Results and Value of the National Wool Marketing Corp.” = . “Co-Operative Wool’Marketing as It Affects the Lamb Feeder” will be

. [the subject of an address by W. ¢ = | Marshall ft: | Marketing Corp. manager.

Ross, Mid-West Wool

Meiks to Speak

Scott Meiks, Indianapolis Producers Commission

manager, will discuss “Lamb Marketing in Indiana.” How Sullivan County obtained a 190 per cent in-

1 crease of consigned wool in 1938 over

1937 will be discussed by J. Lynn Thomas, Sullivan County Farm Bu-

reau Co-Operative manager.

Philo Wildman, Fountain County Farm Bureau Co-Operative mane ager, will tell how his county ine creased its consigned wool 373 per cent in 1938. Claude Harper, Purdue University sheep specialist, will discuss “The Sheep Business as- It Affects Indiana Agriculture.” -Sheepmen from every Indiana county are expected to be represented at the meeting, Mr. Ferris sa :

AIR ROUTE EXTENDED

NEW YORK, Peb. 7 (U. P= Eastern Airlines announced today a new route extension between Tampa and Memphis with stops at Talla hassee, Fla.,, Montgomery, Birmingham and Muscle Shoals, Ala.

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Popular Concert Sunday; Feb. 12—3 P. M.

Murat Theater

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Indianapolis Symphonie Choir

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