Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1939 — Page 17
; Miss: Eo? e re e Soon,
Noted Praises May Be yi City. March 30 to See Miss Cornell
By JAMES THRASHER . Even with the newspapers full of pational debts and appropriations, . the figures to date on Clare Booth’s
‘#Kiss the Boys Goodbye” are sil
Impressive. Ji ' By the time Miss Booth's comedy reaches Efglish’s a week from tonight to start our brisk flurry of late March drama, the show will “have played to more than 300,000
Jatzons, And the play's total gross].
be approaching $650,000, which is considerably more than buttons, no matter how you figure it. These figures inciude the New York run, which began Sept. 28; the * Gltloage ‘engagement, still going ng after several weeks, and the A tour, ely launched on. its way here, b> play's leading part, that of Cindy Lou, seems to have been a tough one to cast, even if it wasn't as exacting as that of Scarlett Q'Hara, Katherine Cornell or Helen Hayes or Ina Claire, for instance, could not possibly have been chosen for the role. For Cindy Lou must be young, pretty and the possessor of an authentic Southern drawl, or _the play loses its point, ¢ Scouts Went South So. there was considerable scurrying ‘about when the present touring company . was formed. Producer Brock Pemberton already had Helen Claire of Union Springs, Ala, playing the part in New York, and Lucia Lull of Wetumpka, same state, doing likewise in Chicago. ‘Mr. Pemberton sent his scouts ‘below the Mason-Dixon line again, and they bobbed up eventually with Ann Fairleigh, a Hopkinsville, Ky., girl; to do Cindy Lou for Indian-~ apolis and points south. Incidentally, Miss Fairleigh’s home town alsa was the birthplace of Mr. Pemberton’s father, While “Kiss the Boys” is eleaning up, Miss Booth is putting the finishing touches on “The Wedding Day." In spite of persistent reports that Miss -Booth is neither hard-boiled nor cynical, and her threats that she will write ‘a soft and sentimental comedy some. day, “The Wedding Day" is In the same satirical vein of “Kiss the Boys Goodbye” and “The Women.” It’s. about ‘two youngsters of wealthy: families who fall in love, but are separated by their parents and then start quarreling over the wedding plans. pr ® 8.8 William } Fields, in town ahead of Katharine Cornell, said that the august members of the Playwrights’ Company might. gome fo town for the first performance of 8. N. Behrman’s “No Time for Comedy,” on March 30. know, is the star. This would mean that Indianapolis would be host to such famous dramatists as Maxwell Anderson, Mr. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood, in addition to Miss Cornell and her famous director-husband, Guthrie MecClintie. This surely would be the city’s biggest consignment of liter-|’ ary genius since the days when Indiana grew its own famous men of letters in half-dozen lots, The playwrights have had some notable success in the first year of their brave undertaking. They have given New York Mr, Sherwood’s “Abe Lincoln ihr Illinois” and Mr. Anderson's “Knickerbocker -- Holiday, which ‘are hits, and Mr. Rice’s “American’ Landscape,” which wasn't. = -And the most remarkable thing, says Mr. Fields, is that these lions and lambs of dramaturgy have lain down ‘together in perfect friendliness, and: their joint efforts have been marked by accord rather than temperamental didoes. it seems to have disappointed the Broadway wiseacres no. end. Woilg o. The nicest compliment paid so far to “Susan and God,” which will be here March 28 and 29, came from a rival press-agent. This publicist, who shall be nameless, said that Jessie Royce Landis, who will play ‘the: front half of the title part
here, does a better job of it than|.
Gertrude Lawrence, whn did the
same role in New York and.on al
limited tour. Of course that is one man's opin-
fon, and an opinion on which this}
department takes no ‘sides. But, since it comes from a man who saw both productions and has been looking at’ plays for many years, it might serve to ease some local. dis-
appointment occasioned by Miss |
Lawrence's absence. ; This is the second time in as many seasons that Miss Landis Be followed Miss Lawrence in the same part—or parts, rather, in this case.
For last year she went on tour in|:
Noel Coward's nine one-act plays, “Tonight at 8:30,” which the author and Miss Lawrence did in New York. Other plays in which Indianapolis thedter-goers may have: seen Miss Landis are “Love from a Stranger,” “Peter Ibbetson,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” . “Command Performance,” and “The Solid South” (with Richard Bennett). All these were Broagway productions, .
H 16, 1939
‘Tomorrow
Circle
Opening ing
TED LEWIS AND HIS ORCHEGTRA (on stage)—Eddie Leonard, a
‘| Danny White, others, “SUDDEN MONEY —Charli: Ruzgles, Marjorie Rambeau, *| Grapewin. Screen play by Lewis ‘ostor; directed by Nick Grinde, The Pattersons, an average ‘amily, win a Afi Ws and begin on their lifelong ambitions. Mr, Patterson (Charlie Ruggles) organizes a swing band, his wife develops her peinting; the brother-in-law plays the horses and the daughter dois a little social climbing. out and everyone Fetus. 4 to normal.
Indiana
“LOVE AFFAIR". Lee Bowman, Screen play by Delmar Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart; directed by Leo McCarey, Irene Dunne and Shares ‘3oyer. fail in Jove en route to their respective marriages. ‘They brea: their engagements, work for a year and agree to meet. Miss Dunne is hit by car while going to trysting place, so Boyer believes he is jilt:c. Miss Dunn, crippled from acciclent, does not contact Mr. Bayer. He learns of a crippled girl who es his painting and discovers his last love. “THE GREAT MAN VOTI§”—John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler. Screex play hy John Twist; directed by Garson Kanin. A down and out scholar regains eminence through the faith of his children and the fact that he is he only voter in Precinct 13, His children wangle a school commissioner's job for him and are almost taken away from their father by their aunt and uncle.
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“HUCKLEBERRY FINN" Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley, -Rex Ingram, Screen play by Hugo Butler; directed by
h Richard Thorpe. %, lives with the Widow Douglass and
Huck Finn, son of a reproba is a friend of Jim, a slave ownid by the widow. His father demands
$800 from the widow, so Huck ali Jim run away but-are captured by “pap” Finn, who gets killed in # brawl Huck and Jim expose two swindlers and Jim is caught. Huk thwarts a lynching and returns to
widow. 5 oe CIDE BUREAU”—Bru:e Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Law-
rence. Screen play by Earle Snell directed by C. C. Coleman Jr. Homicide officer is assigned gangster murder in anticrime campaign. Miss Bliss, scientific and ke ;uti‘ul policewoman, gums up works. The officer. is demoted unjustly bu: continues his investigation and solves case. Power behind the throne is vie “big shot.” Miss Bliss and officer get together.
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE : APOLLO : FE het
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Audience to Vot: At School Show
The Suglor class at Weskitgieh High School will present its annuill Junior Vaudeville Show at 2:30 p. ni. next Thursday afternoon ‘and ¢t 8 p. m, Friday, March 24. A contest to determine the best act of the show will be conducted as a feature of the program. The audience will be provided with bal- | lots as they leave the performanci. | Faculty and student sponsors witlh the acts to be presented are R. J. Weaver and Jean Ludwig, ‘Doodlers’ He x mb ard, 8 Delight”: J. C. Nelson and Ruth : ilLet Us Live," anh Henry Fonds, Spears, “Huddle of 1945"; Mrs. | Maureen OBu livan, at 11:25, 2: Grace Barker and Verdis, Winegar, 38 * LYRIC “Hay Hyser’s High Hai Har: Hor wit monizers”; Henry Bogue 2nd Eileen ane! Ji Davghter’ BH Newby, ‘Ferdinand the Bull’; Lowell ‘Good and James Miller, - “Candy land”; Miss Orrell Negus end Heler Stansbery, “Deep Purple’; Led Rosaco and Marietta Tucker, “Mis: DeVarcy’s Angels with Dirty Faces."
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“Spirit. of Culver,” with ( Coaper er Dreqdie, Bartholomew, Ww Vv
10; aioty Smugglers,” wi Poster. D ene: ervey, st 13:
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“The Little Princess, with Shire i mple Greene, Ani Ta A 2:43, 5 48, 5:53 and 9:58
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With Nick Lucas,
reliving the World War. He was a corporal in the A. E. F, in France
Money runs
—TIrene Dunn, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, :
Entertainment. will be feature between acts, The sponsors have announced they will “do a Carrigan,’ prestnting the finale first. Russell Irwin, junior class president, and
and specialized in war pictures.
Casting directors said he made ani
unusually excellent “war type” and they always called for him when the y had war scenes,
Miss Cornell, as you|
his orchestra will. provide music Harvey Curson is dancing in-|{ structor and Mrs. Virginia Guyton || and Frank Lugar are class Sponsors |
FILM EXTRA LEAVES - | ESTATE OF $40,000
HOLLYWOOD, March 16 (U, P.). ~The usual story of the starving| 1% Hollywood movie extra was beliecl| yl today in the case of 4l-year-oli|@" Fred Hammer. He died last wee: | § and his estate was found to consis: ||’ of between $40,000 and $50,000, a |] amassed in his work as an extra. : Mr. Hammer made his fortune by /
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RUTH BARNES
Taps in rhythm
DANNY WHITE
Pantomiing
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Dancer extraordinary | | CHARLES “SIOWBI i WHITTIER
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This is Hal Hawkes, caught in a moment of fine journalistic frenzy
Page,” which will be presented by the Indianapolis Newspaper Guild at the Civic Theater Saturday night and Sunday afternoon and
highly aggressive and justly famous managing editor, Walter Burns,
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Morgan 1 Tells of or
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United Press ERIC] i! Corres OOD, March 16—Frank that for the last 30 years he’s been t
sly’ today:
g sto 0 inv Americans
using Angestura bitters for somet beside cocktail flavering. “But they won't do it,” he remarked sadly, “and 8 bottle of bitters
Morgan, the distinguished revealed himself as the co-
proprietor of the Wupperman An-
gostura Bitters Co., the firm that
ye ay we've een trying to
prove Sha our bitters are good for]
a lot of t ” he said. “We've cured hams with hitters. We've flavored gravies and we've made bitters an iritegral part of pork sau-| sages. We even tried to get a salmon packer: to. shake a couple of drops into each and every ean, to cut the grease. But what happened? “Nobody uses bitters except for
: cocktails. A man buys a bottle of|*
Bitters and Love i Di s lament anent the business same = his
M-G-M ahout bitters and la we think, is a fascinating one:
«My grandfather owned a steam-.
ship line irom New York fo South America, When his daughter, Josephine, was 18 years old she was sickly, so she took a free ride on‘a family boat to Venezuela, There
she fell in' love with a man named |:
Wuppermapn, She married him, but
my grandfather insisted he come tof:
the United States and bring 2 busi‘ness with him.
t forever. That cuts down on ‘my profits.
actor and radio comedian,
states and Canadian distributorship for Angostura Bitters, manufac-|
movie
[tured in Trinidad, _He made a nice}
thing of it. When his sons—Ralph and. myself—came: along, he wanted us. to go into ‘the bitters business. We tried ity but we didn’t like it.
an aefor .X tried punching cows in Nevada and peddling such items as footh brushes, real estate, and advertising. - That was no go either. 30 I changed my name 0] Morgan, Yoo, .and followed Ralph to the stage.” About that time Frank met Miss Alma Muller of New York. “Her parents didn’t like actors,” pe said. “So. we eloped to Hohe en. “We Kent our marriage so secret that Alma's folks still tried to break up our romance. They even took her to Europe. When she returned, they'd let me call on her, but they'd keep a close eye on me. For months 1 never got to see my wife alone, “Eventually I joined a broken-
- “He did, _He took on the United i.
“Ralph changed his name from Wupperman to Morgan and became|
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