Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1939 — Page 16
THURSDAY, JUNE § 1989
TWO
By JAMES THRASHER ~~
MOVIES
Wale Indianapolis (including those of its citizens who practice journalism) was absorbed in the 500-mile race on Memorial Day, the townsfolk of Springfield, Ill, were entertaining some visiting firemen themselves. In fact, Springfield stole a couple of bows from Indianapolis on our traditional day in the national limelight. : The occasion was the premiere of a movie called “Young Mr. Lincoln.” To bring the story up to date, the film will be at the Circle for the week beginning tomorrow. Apparently it was one of the most dignified and decorous of the recent barrage of openings in the outlands. There were movie stars there, to be sure, But the guests also included Lincoin biographers and other assorted scholars, among them Indiana University’s President Herman B Wells. The person who stole the show, according to all reports, was not Alice Brady or Binnie Barnes, or even Cesar Romero. It was the famous Negro contralto, Marian Anderson. “Young Mr. Lincoln” seems to be coming along at a propitious time, both for public and pro-
ducer. If any reawakening of public interest in Lincoln was needed, this season's Broadway production of “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” provided it. Robert E. Sherwood won the Pulitzer Prize for its writing, and Raymond Massey reaped a bountiful harvest of acclaim for his performance in
quarter-million. Fox, on the other hand, assigned the story to a staff writer, samar Trotti. It gave the leading part to Henry Fonda, one of the studio's contract players. The picture treats of Lincoln's early days; it opens in 1831, the year after the Lincoln family migrated from Indiana. The advance synopsis reveals no special attempt in the story to point up the foreshadowing of future greatness. The hero, it would seem, is the earnest, story-loving backwoodsman, master of the frontier’s homely humor, roughhewn logic and even less subtle fisticuffs. Of course, Mr. Fonda's performance will have to meet demands of an exacting public, for the average American has built himself a private image of Lin-
Brahms, Chopin, Albeniz,
The last two piano recitals in the Bomar Cramer Studios series will be presented by Nina Hayes Dutton (left) at 8:30 o'clock tonight, and by Betty McShirley, at 3 p. m. Sunday, at the World War Memorial. Mrs. Dutton, a faculty member, will play music by Handel, Bach, Oswald, Toch MecShirley’s program lists compositions by ILeo, Paradies, Scarlatti, Bach, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Medtner and Godowsky.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Hart Sues
To Get Fund!
Cowboy-Actor Says He Was '‘Baby Hoax' Victim,
HOLLYWOOD, June 8 (U. P.).— William S. Hart, the old two-gun cowpuncher of the silent movies, re-| vealed details today of the famous] “baby hoax” case 21 years ago|
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AT GROTTO FROLIC iW be given at 8 o'clock tonight at
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which, he said, damaged his pres- &= tige in Hollywood and resulted in|
his wife's obtaining a divorce.
Mr. Hart, who now lives the quiet |&
life of a gentleman rancher, made the disclosures in a suit by which he seeks to dissolve a $12,000 trust fund he established for a baby he thought was his own. In 18923 he learned that the baby was not his and since has not contributed to its support. Tells of Advertisement
Mr. Hart obtained a deposition ™
from Lucy Webb of South Lincoln, Mass, who said she was the mother | of the baby. Mrs. Webb said in the deposition that in 1918 she answered a newspaper advertisement reading: “Wanted: A baby boy about a year old.” Mrs. Webb said that through an intermediary her son was turned over to Miss Elizabeth MacCaulley
Roy Rogers, the beaming buck-
aroo, is featured in the Alamo's |
“Frontier Pony Express,” begin ning tomorrow.
(Church. The players include Dale Ten bands will compete and later © mth W. T. Allen, L. E. York,
| Join forces in a massed concert as|allen Kraft, Leroy Huddleston, a musical feature of tomorrow’s Sa-| Donald L. Wright, Mrs. A. E. Hoy, hara Grotto Frolic at Riverside | Frank E. Wright, Ruth Essex and Park. E. A. Miles, Contest entrants include bands] from Danville, Zionsville, Franklin | 4-H Club, Washington Township, | the Jordan Conservatory and the Rinne Knot-Hole band. They will compete for silver cups, Oscar Buehler and J. Stephen Fullen have charge of the activities, |
LAST DAY RONALD REGAN “Secret Service of the Air” PLUS MELVYN DOUGLAS “There's That Woman Again”
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With the Dead End Girls and Popeye “WHAT A NIGHTMARE” OM MISSOURI” Y’'S FROM KENTUCKY” Tomorrow night only 8:30 p. m,
| | | | The sensational new discovery
Starts Sunday “I'M FR “THE LAD
On the Stage i —— Sp a SWING AND SWAY SESSION SANDERS. 1106 Denny Dutton and His Band! 4 PROSPECT
the name part. Starring Dorothy Rowbard
Sight unseen, it is impossible to surmise if “Young Mr. Lincoln” has any pretension or promise of
coln from books and photographs. And he’s apt to be pretty insistent about its fulfillment. In this vicinity, however, a
and that the child was taken to| A cast of 100 from the George) New Mexico. Miss MacCauley, who |W. Lipps School of the Dance is to] now lives in Winnetka, Ill, had con- |take part in the school’s 15th annual vinced Mr. Hart he was the father revue at 8:15 p. m. tomorrow at uo ba
Cincinnati Stage Is Set
10c To All Tonight! “HOME ON THE PRAIRIE" “PIRATES OF THE SKIES"
being in the same league with the Sherwood play. But it has its obvious points, at least from a business angle,
good bit of attention probably will be diverted toward Marjorie Weaver's portrayal of Mary Todd. This is the former Indiana University coed’s first big chance since breaking in through the usual avenue of ingenue and light comedy roles. The imperious, ambitious Southern girl who became Lincoln’s wife, a much maligned
music, two Middle Western institu business at the same old stand. » = n N the first place, 20th CenturyFox may have stolen a little thunder from RKO, which purchased “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” and the services of Mr. Massey to play his stage role. Probably it | and possibly misunderstood wommade the picture for what, in | an, should be a “fat” part for comparison with the RKO outlay, | any young actress. It will be inmay be considered as buttons. For | teresting to see what the pride one thing, rights to the Sherwood | of the Bloomington campus will play amounted to approximately a ' do with it.
way. This is the St. Louis organiza- | tion's 21st season, while Cincinnati's | operatic forces will be starting their | 18th summer a week from Sunday. | Apparently neither of them is suffering from boxoffice jitters. Disdaining the traditional “Aida” | and kindred war horses, the Cin-| cinnati season will have Boito's| “Mefistofele” as the curtain raiser. Norman Cordon, young Metropolitan Opera basso, will sing the title part. The season schedule lists “Manon” and “Madame Butterfly,” with “Mefistofele,” for the first week: “Hansel and Gretel” and “Pagliacei”’—double feature—"Rig-| oletto” and “Carmen” for the sec-| ond week; “Barber of Seville,” Rosalind Keith, | “Traviata” and “Aida,” third week; | [“Lucia,” “Boheme” and “Trovatore” |
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Opening Tomorrow—
. Alamo
“MANHATTAN SHAKEDOWN”—John Gallaudet, George McKay. Directed by Leon Barsha. Sleuthing newscaster suspects prominent psychoanalyst of criminal|in the fourth week; ‘Tannhaeuser,” activity. Also falls in love with suspect's daughter, In the end, boy gets “Masked Ball” and an open date girl with no blots on the family escutcheon. {for the fifth week; two open dates “FRONTIER PONY EXPRESS"—Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond and “Mignon” in the final week. Hatton. Directed by Joseph Kane. James Melton, who made his opAdventures of a pony express driver in Civil War days. Some |eratic debut at the Zoo last sumcourtin’ and git-tar strumming on the side. (mer, will return for six performek ances of three operas, including Cirele “Butterfly” and “Traviata.” Gladys in 3h : i | SW i | “YOUNG MR. LINCOLN"—Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie | Sar OW Ne Ngaiiline To "eye w] AA y iy » “A . “5 ors 1 y » ' ; IN yer arisen Whelan. Directed by John Ford; original screen play by |" Among. the leading sopranos will About the gangling young frontiersman who clerked in a New Salem, | 0 Josephine Antoine. Lucisile Ae Il. store back in the 1830s; practiced law in Springfield; wrestled, | Sel. Rose Tentoni, Susanne Sener, debated. told stories, fell in love and also saved two boys from a lynch Anne Roselle, Lucy Monroe, Fidelia mob in the “moonlight murder case.” Abe Lincoln was the name, SPIES, ie Pine Greco and “THE GORILLA"—The Ritz Brothers, Anita Louise, Patsy Kelly,| Dr ne leualte SH ET ih jonel 2 ill. irec y an; $ th y by Ralph | , : Et pons Atw Directed by Allan Dwan; based on the play by alph | anos will be Coe Glade. Anna The late Arthur Brisbane, who said a gorilla could lick 10 men, should | Kaskas and Lucielle Browning.
i Ni x . : | s: Jan Peerce, Armand see this one. The decision goes to the Three Ritzes. | Tenors: J , bi g " | Tokatyan, Sidney Rayner, Harold Loew's
| Lindi, Franco Perulli, Joseph Adler “CALLING DR. KILDARE"—Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine 27g, hiodovico Oliviero. Day, Nat Pendleton, Lana Turner, Directed by Harold S. Bucquet; |v qe Joseph Rover from a story by Max Brand. ) avs a Young Dr. Kildare, whom you met in the film of that name, returns Pole: who ane i in the second of this series. He works in a tenement clinic and does | 1 an owns some amateur detecting, among ou.er things. “oo “STREETS OF NEW YORK"—Jackie Cooper, Martin Spellman, Dick| The St. Louis season opened last Purcell, Marjorie Reynolds. Directed by William Nigh [Friday with “Rose Marie” and with About a Manhattan newsboy's efforts to go straight and reform a ; > 4 S $100,000 in advance subscriptions.
racketeer brother. | | - rm (“Queen High” opens next Monday | night and weekly productions, |
{mainly of popular operettas, will |
Robert Angelo Carlo
and basses.
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' = Topper’ Movie | feontinue through Aug. 27 {
WHEN DOES IT START? || ug. 27 | Namesa ke Sues! a note of novelty the season
APOLLO
“Union Pacific,” with Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tame d Robert Preston at 11, 1:41, 7:08 and 9:44
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“Juarez,” with Paul Muni, Bette s. Briane Aherne and John Gar1 1:40, 4:20. 7:05 and 9:45 Time,” at 1:20, 4:05,
LOEW'S “Let Freedom Ring,” with Nelson Eddy Virginia
Bruce and Lionel 1:45 4:35 7.2%
present Sinetana’s comic opera, | |“The Bartered Bride,” and the | American premiere of a new work, HOLLYWOOD, June 8 (U. P).— “Victoria and Her Hussar.” Infor-|
A stunt employed to publicize a mation on the composer of this is motion picture resulted today in the lacking, as is any word as to filing of a $30.000 damage suit by whether the Victoria of the title is
- ueen or commoner. ‘Marion Kerby, concert singer, whose| ye list of principals is sub-|
name is identical with that of a stantially the same as that appearfictional character played in the] a en . movie by Constance Bennett, Anni. 3° Jraner Connolly The concert singer charged that SE —— | defendants sent out 10,000 alSOUTHEASTERN |legedly “spicy letters” to men inINDIANAPOLIS \ pV a KEYS TONE | oCon ; AFTERNOON OLIS Ave & KEYSTONE (iting them to meet “Marion Kerby” : RR fat a certain location, actually the
WED JUNE 14 {address of the theater where the = PP was playing.
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Barrymore at 11, and
"Bridal Suite,” with Robert Young, Any a hell at
PYLLLLY GROUP IN CHURCH ! TO PRESENT PLAY
The Young ladies’ League of St. ‘Paul Evangelical and Reformed {Church will present a three-act | comedy, “A Southern Cinderella,” lat 8 p. m. tomorrow at the church | parish house.
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While Philadelphia worries about its open-air Robin Hood Dell concerts and New York scraps its World's Fair program of “classical”
They are, of course, the Cincinnati Zoo Opera, which opens its season on June 25, and the St. Louis Municipal Opera, already under
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|Cropsey Hall. 'is giving a private recital at her
14 of her voice pupils will be heard.
[students of Clifford D. Long and |piano pupils of Mrs. Mabel Syden-
tions of summer music are doing
ing in the last several seasons. And the settings are designed and construction supervised by Norris Houghton, late of Indianapolis, who is a former Guggenheim fellow, an author and a general authority on | things theatrical.
= ” ” Harold Triggs, in his now familiar role of teacher and collab orator, will present Dorothy Munger in a recital of two-piano music at
8:30 o'clock at the Jordan Conservatory’s Odeon. Mr. Triggs, needless to say, will be the other pianist. os ” »
The bumper crop of student re-
[to have told Mrs.
(in the Security-First National Bank
and she the mother of the child, the suit charged. |
her, Mrs. Webb said, and informed her that the baby was in a Boston hospital. Miss MacCaulley was said Webb that the child was ill and that she had no further use for it. Mentioned in Divorce Suit Meantime, Mr. Hart's wife, Winifred Westover, actress, filed suit! for divorce and in the action men-| tioned Miss MacCaulley, The trust fund, which originally was for $6928 but has increased until its present value is $12,000, was placed
of Los Angeles. The bank refused to release the money to Mr. Hart until it was shown in court that he was the victim of a hoax.
RECITAL TOMORROW
Drama students of Mrs. Glenn
citals is in full bloom this weekend. ! Tomorrow night there will be pi- |
|ano recitals by students of Norma !
{ Kristian | School
in the auditorium of 78, and of Grace Lillian Eaton at the Brookside public school auditorium. Also tomorrow night will be the second annual presentation of “Juvenile Stars” by MarLee. All performances are scheduled for 8 p. m. On Saturday night Ruth Gentry Edwards will present some of her violin students at 8:15 o'clock at Mrs. W. R. Sieber
home, 402 W. Maple Rd, at which The Central Studios of Music will
hold graduation exercises at ¢ p. m. Sunday at Cropsey Hall. Voice
stricker will present the program, and the Rev. G. H. Reynolds, pastor | of the Bellaire Methodist Church, | will speak.
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JOHN FORD
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