Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1939 — Page 26

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Miss Cornell

Captivating in

[GABLES HOME

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AFTER ELOPEMENT

New Comedy

Audience Cheers 5 Min.

utes; Play Abounds in Hilarious Comment.

By JAMES THRASHER

As Indianapolis’ recent history goes, last night's opening of “No Time for Comedy” at English's must be put down as a red-letter occasion even by the categorical objector to the cinema influence which transa play's inevitable tryout into 1d premiere >

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Hitchcock's

Latest Sets

British Director Turns Out Spine-Tingling Mystery In 'Lady Vanishes.’

Alfred Hitchcock, the British |

plot and counter-plot in Vanishes” night and tomorrow night. Whereas in his “The 39 Steps” and “A Woman Alone” the tempo was masterfully retarded to create a pulsating excitement. his latest mystery has the pace of a spy infested “Hellzapoppin.” Perhaps the most striking difrerence between it and the earlier Hitchcock masterpieces is that it is more American than British, despite the English cast and Continental setting. “The Lady Vanishes” has thrown restraint to the utmost reaches of the British Empire,

Mystery Plot Thickens The principal plot is that the lady

fellow train passengers deny she has

Fast Pace

| ery.

director who excels at suspense, has| abandoned his forte to work with] “The Lady | out a window the wrapper of the showing at the Rivoli to- |tea the Dame had asked the steward

(Dame May Whitty) not only van-| ishes, but that at least a score of

Deanna Moves

The sprightly comedy, “Three Smart Girls Grow Up,” Deanna Durbin’s latest flim, moves today from the Indiana to the Apollo for a second downtown week. With it goes “Beauty for the Asking,” featuring Lucille Ball.

[nique is shown in the scenes lead-

ing to Dame Whitty's final discovPacked with suspense scene where Miss Lockwood is about to find where Dame Whitty has written her name on the dusty dining car window, only to have: the | train plunge through a tunnel where the smoke erases the writing. Similarly spine-tingling is the action of the train's chef in throwing

to prepare. To see that paper flutter past the cars and then stick momentarily on a window near Mr. Rederave is enough to cause you to shout: “There it is. Look!” Then there is the shot when you feel there is something peculiar about the nun who is tending Mr. Lukas’ patient and you suddenly realize she is wearing high-heeled shoes,

The Hitchcock hand is there, but,

because in almost any artist there

are times when he drops below his own par, it has just passed over the ingredients lightly instead of mixing them fully and with his usual skill. Fine performances are given by Miss Lockwood and Mr. Redgrave as the couple who are deseperately | fighting against the train load of

is the!

FREDDIE, 15, GETS

HIS FIRST TUXEDO |

HOLLYWOOD, March 31 (U. P.. —Freddie Bartholomew, who was thrilled not so many years ago when his aunt let him don trausers instead of knee pants, was resplendent today in his first tuxedo. It was a present on his 15th birthday from his aunt and guardian, ‘Miss Myllicent Bartholomew.

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1980 CET TWO MILANO INN

Nite Club 231 S. Noble

Entertainment Fri. & Saturday Helen's Swingette Band Spaghetti Dinners a Specialfy * WINE AND * BEER

TRY A WANT AD IN THE TIMES.

THE CHICAGO STORE Brings Special Values for

Open Saturday N ight

SPRING

Until 9 o’Clock

You Would Gladly ~ Pay $22.50 for These Men's

| = ; . 3 : ever existed, Margaret Lockwood — Britain's contribution to the Hedy Lamarrish girls—who shares a compartment with the lady, and several other pas- | sengers know that she does exist,

| people. Minor parts both, those of Dame Whitiv and Mr. Lukas are treated with their old-trouper|

finesse. (D. M.) | and is not a figment of the imagina-|

FOR REMEMBRANCE tion as Dr. Harz (Paul Lukas) in-|

sists bo Bore B. Jane malier of Je A : " ..poputlar Lane sisters, 1s decoratin Cecil Parker and Linden Travers the garden in their new home wir fre fleeing Fs Vell rosemary, because it matches the a Na wel bon! blue of daughter Rosemary's eyes. Wayne and Basil Radford, to whom | cricket is 99.44 per cent of their| complacent lives, won't admit Dame | Whitty is missing because a delay | would mean they might miss the, international matches.

Two Angles of Approach

Comedy” P resents

Ci yroach. One is the

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may a Times Telephoto. Ariz, where they quietly secured a license and were married by a minister before newspapermen could catch up with them.

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, filmdom’s leading romantic couple, at Miss Lombards home in Hollywood after their elopement to Kingman,

d decided Having done he

a good case for

weantien M-G-M Lists 52 Movies

Gav One-a-Week for Coming Year Is ‘Birthday Present.’

“Live, Love and Learn’ Plus: “Border Flight”

SO,

Philip Leaver in Cast

Philip Leaver, Zelma Vas Dias, |

1 . / Si-Lan Chen's . Catherine Lacey, Josephine Wilson, | Da Nces Liste Mary Clare and Mr, Lukas are par- |

a [ ties to the plot which has resulted! 833 |i {in the disappearance of Dame Whit- | fie tv. The rest of the passengers are | ey at too bored to care. | The single person to believe Miss Lockwood is Michael Redgrave, who properly—for film stories—has met, | | fought and conquered her. Being a| skeptical man he only believes her | when he finally discovers positive

nd Fie FOR MEDY proof of the elderly lady's actuality. au

ed in her program will be interpre-|" hat Mr. Hitchcock has not en-| with tations of Moussorgsky's “Boat ti ely abandoned his suspense tech- | Laurence Olivier—Margalo Gilimore

Girl": “Landlord on a Horse.” by a te be Prokofief; "Death From the Skies.” Lawrence Qlivier an Honnegervitch, and Preludes from 2 HITS START START TODAY! Gur Engagement Shostakovitch, including “Esthete,” 38 (“De Luxe,” “Espanola” and “Patriotic Matron.” In the second half of her recital. Miss Chen will present “Chinese Partisan.” by Cowell; “In Conquering Nanking,” Ravel: “Southern Blues.” a poem by Langston Hughes and arranged bv Ledbetter. She will include Tuirk and Usbee folk dances in her repertoire. Raiph Morgan, at

ith Plo

ann Burner: || 'GUNGA DIN' SUIT F FILED |

‘Alan Marshal | 11, 1:45, 4:30, HOLLYWOOD, March 31 (U. P). |

3 8 ” ; Harry Gould, a writer, charged - > ] aring a Her, disse] £5 Bold, Daring a ; Romantic Story

“Gunga Din” was pirated from | script he submitted to a studio | .

1034 with

with Frank Morgan and The PENNIES FROM SEVEN FLORENCE RICE

Hardwicke Rose starring No. 1 Rillv Halop. Dead End Kid, has pictures are planned for dov Gene Autry, also has a promi- more than 10.000 pennies, a colleeGarbo, including one about nent role for the veteran William tion he started on his seventh birth- | Mme. Curie: the Marx Brothers Farnum | day {also have two films UNA MERKEL ANN RUTHERFORD MARY HOWARD ALAN MARSHAL BUDDY EBSEN

three Joan Crawiord scheduled Metro. Goldwyn-Ma er Expo, of a "Hospital Gol Digger! !

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Chen, interpretative danwill be presented at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the Odeon in a dance recital under auspices of the Indianapolis China Aid committee. The voung dancer is the daughter of the former Chinese Foreign Minister, Dr. Eugene Chen. Includ-

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fakes It Seriously SThETS

Local reprezentatives of Metro-Goldwin-Marer today anhounced a “birthday present” of 32 pictures for Loew's patrons in the coming 12 months. following the studios 15th birthdav anniversary sales convenin Chicago The one-a-week ule 1 backed bv budget 41 miilion dc A partial hist of the cludes such With the Wind and Vivien Leigh: Oz. all-stay color photography. and of Sinclair Lewis Happen Here { Tracy hwest

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Miss Cornell Delighted nd

are

lined up,

vehicles Mr. Farnum, one of the wealthiest

and most famous stars of the early silent davs. plays the part of a |appea: ance with Jeanette MacDon- Bietiean priest in the Autry film ald and with Ilona Mas- He bas been doing occasional “bit” sev. “The Life Storr of Thomas parts in recent vears Edison” will be made in two pic-| tures, the first starring Micke: {| Rooney, the second, Spencer ce Olivier Miss Cornell {Tracy fortunate choice | Hardy Family Goes On handsome and| Young Mr. Rooney alo is slatessed with the gift foried to appear in "A Yank at Eton of to be filmed in London. The Hardy Family series will carry on. there will be another Dr. Kildare picture and a new family cvele is planned Clark Gable and Myrna lov are to be costarred in "The Great Canadian,” and Miss Loy, besides her appearance in the “Thin Man” film. is to have a part with James Stewart in an aviation comedy sea-| Several musicals besides the Nelper- ‘son Eddy pictures and the annual es go, for which Guthrie “Broadway Melody” spectacle are meticulous artistry of planned. Among numerous kooks may be thanked The due for film treatment are Kipaudience—an Indianapolis audience, lings “Kim” and “Soldiers Three.” cheered for nearly five Robert Donat will star in a Lonafter the final curtain. don production of the famus war g this time the modest Mr. play, “Journeys End.” And rman kept inconspicuously toiline with the current trend. M-G-M orchestra seat and mingled his will make a picture dealing with tribute to the actors with the present-day conditions in Germanv applause and titled * 1 Had a Comrade.”

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HOLLYWOOD. March 31 (U. P) | | —Harvno, the silent one of the Marx] | Brothers, was legally the father of | ‘a 2-year-old bov today. The movie! madcap and his wife received from Juvenile Judge W. Turney Fox the! final adoption papers for William Woollcott Marx |

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