Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1939 — Page 26

PAGE 26 Play Tonight Opens Civic's 25th" Season

Veteran Cast Will Present 'When Ladies Meet.'

It will be a veteran crst which opens the Civic Theater's 25th season tonight with a performance of rachel Crothers’ comedy, “When Ladies Meet.” The production, directed by Edward Steinmetz Jr., is scheduled for the accustomed sixnight run, ending Wednesday. Among the players, © Norman Green has been in 25 civic produc- * tions, Jane Weldon Kinghan has been in eight plays, and Mrs. Irving Maus Fauvre has appeared in six. Mrs. Kinghan also has a year’s experience at the Cleveland Playhouse to her dramatic credit. George Palmer has made eight appearances on the civic stage, besides playing in the Cincinnati Actors’ Guild production of “Beyond the Horizon.” A veteran of seven productions is Phyllis Byron, while Walter Manners has been seen in two. Paul S. McNamara, making his civic debut, has had considerable radio experience. The opening production brings with it an announcement of considerable interest from William Brenn, stage manager, who joined the civic staff this fall. By cutting one of the sets in half, says Mr. Brenn, he has divided the time necessary for scene changing in the same manner. The play calls for a balcony and a living room set. By building the latter set in two parts, it can remain standing while the balcony set is moved in or out.

'RIP VAN WINKLE' CAMERAS READY

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13.—“Rip Van Winkle,” which Monogram Studios announced last May, was to go into production soon at the company’s studios here. The picture will be ready for distribution about Dec. 1. Monogram also announced early shooting on the latest Boris Karloff thriller, “Mr. Wong at Headquarters.”

——CALEB MI

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Whe SUPREME STORY

An Extra Lecture

INDPLS. TOWN

ENGLISH

Don Irwin (above) and his NBC Orchestra will open the fall and winter social season 6K tomorrow night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Louie Lowe and his regular I. A. C. Orchestra will return to the club tomorrow night, also. They will continue to play through the season.

PLAYS AT LAC They Shall

Laurels Won By Sherwood

'Abe Lincoln in Illinois’ Adds

To Movie 'Prizes.'

Times Special

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13.—Probably no living playwright has to his

credit more plays made into great pictures than has Robert E. Sherwood. His “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” now is being produced by Max Gordon and Harry Goetz. Probably none of Mr. Sherwood’s plays purchased for screening has sold for less than $100,000 and some of them have sold for nearly twice as much. For “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” the bidding was up in $250,000 figures and finally was obtained by Messrs. Gordon and Goetz on an unrevealed- royalty basis which is likely to net the famous playwright

kiss his girl.

ondary to the audience, which just Heifetz’ music.

that part of something from an-

Have Music’

Loew's Bills Heifetz and Artie Shaw in Duo of Varying Notes.

The sign on the marquee over Loew’s Theater says: “They Shall Have Music.” * They do. The bill this week is: 1. Jascha Heifetz (THE Heifetz) in “They Shall Have Music.” 2. Artie Shaw (THE Shaw) in “Dancing Coed.” Sam Goldwyn, who produced the Heifetz opus, had a tricky job. Mr. Heifetz can make a violin. talk, all right, but he's no rug cutter and since cutting rugs seems to be ‘sort of a national pastime these days the job required finesse. How well Mr. Goldwyn did his job you can judge from the audience reaction. As ‘the- picture ended, there was a moment's hush and then a burst. .of applause.

All Seems Logical

Heifetz comes into the picture naturally enough and it all seems logical despite the fact that the drama is frankly manufactured. Mr. Heifetz meets a ward of the Lawson Music School and willy-nilly is enlisted as the school’s sponsor. Then comes the excitement. Mr. Heifetz must play for the school’s recital or the school will be closed and its’ instruments taken away. Also, in a burst of pixy, Terry Kilburn steals Mr. Heifetz’ violin. The necessary love interest is

handled to everyone's satisfaction{. by Andrea Leeds and Joel McCrae. The latter is a ‘peculiar kind of

over. He can hardly find time to

It’s Music They Want All these things seemed to be secolled along. between hearing Mr.

It wouldn’t hurt anything to say

And They Do

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show-stealing from Artie Shaw. That, of course, is not to say the jitterers won't get their jitters from Mr. Shaw.

‘Planted’ in College

Monarch Studios is searching for a dancing star to take the place of their own, who is about to have a. baby. They have a nation-wide contest and “plant” Miss Turner, a Broadway hoofer, at Midwestern College. Miss Turner falls in love with the college, and Richard Carlson, and almost spoils everything. The swing maestro played all the major tunes that have put him on top of the jitter-heap and was met with more than a ripple of enthusiasm, It’s very hard to get over Heifetz, though.

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Sammy McKim and Phylis Isley aren’t goin’ ta shoot until they see the whites. .of the enemies’ eyes. Frontier,” opening today at the Alamo with the Three Mesquiteers. :

That way they’ll save the “New

MOVIES

It Seems to Portrayed in

By HARRY MORRISON

Be Your Guess—Who's "Hollywood Cavalcade'?

dale as Mr, Sennett could make it. Don Ameche portrays a great director. But there are no bets down on who he’s really supposed to be. Alan Curtis is Alice Fay’s leading man and has a lot of the characteristics of Rudolph Valentino and Wallace Reid. Like them, he meets an untimely death. Of course Rudolph r.ever married his (or anyone else's) leading lady. THE STUDIO, SENSING a ciscussion of this kind, stepped :nto the Faye argument. They describe her as a combination of Mabel Normand and Mary Pickford. The Curtis-Faye marriage is a lot like the Pickford-Fair-banks alliance, Marshall Ruth, an imitator of Fatty Arbuckle in the latter's heyday, appears. But Mr, Arbuckle’s name is not used. In the Keystone -Kop scenes Jed Prouty plays a role that was described by the studio as a “Ford Sterling” type. One star you can’t miss. That's

turns down. He doesn’t :iike dogs. Youll remember that Daryll F. Zanuck did, and got his start with the first—Rin Tin Tin. It's the famous dog's grandson who takes the role in the picture. The original mood-music players who worked in the silents were called up to take their identical roles in the scenes that showed that part of the developmz nt of the cinema. The show is no rehash. And the Senneft touch is quite visible. Most noteworthy is the indication that Mr. Sennett has not stopped creating. The gag: A custard pie that would have

missed had it not turned a cor-

THERE IS GOING to. be a great deal-of Monday quarterbacking and plain general argument as to. what early Hollywoodians are portrayed in “Hollywood Cavalcade,” opening today at the Indiana. Mack Sennett, master of slapstick, was technical director, might get everyone off to a good start to know that the studio portrayed in the picture is as near like Mr. Sennett’s first one at Eden-

ner and smacked the villain in the face. 8.8" = A DES MOINES, IOWA, theater is cashing in on some new seats. A sign outside the theater says: “Staggered seats for vision, love seats for comfort.” . . ., A couple of days ago we told the story of Pat O’Brien leaving his hat at the scene of murder of Claire Dodd. She’s a hard person 0 kill. By post this morning we received the information that Director Tay Garnett had had her killed by a knife stab in the back, but had to do the thing all over again because the knife was at a bad angle. They have all kinds of trouble at that studio. ... John Ford, the director, has a hobby— a 7T8-piece junior American Legion band from Portland, Me. He sent them to the Legion convention at his own expense, later took them to New York. Katherine Hepburn heard about it and bought seats for the “Philadelphia Story” for the whole crowd. She threw a backstage party, with lots of hot dogs, lemonade and pop. . . . Air raid sirens have been deleted from the sound track of “Idiot’s Delight” playing at Southend, England,. because the audience, censors thought, might think it was the real thing.

RECORD GARFIELD FILM SYMPHONY

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13.—A 110-

piece orchestra under direction of}

Max Rabinowitsch will record the completed “Symphony Moderne” begun in “Four Daughters” by John Garfield, who played the defeatist composer, Max Steiner, Warner Bros. comvoser, finished the symphony, which will be published this fall.

Cohan [Is Booked Here Next Month

With George M. Cohan signed as the star, the Playwrights’ Company production of “Madam Will You Walk,” is ready to go into rehearsals Monday and may have an Indianapolis tryout next month. This new play, the last completed work by the late Sidney Howard, was to have opened the Playwrights’ season but has been postponed frequently because of casting difficulties. The group’s opening attraction will be Maxwell Anderson’s new “Key Largo,” which will have its world premiere at English’s, Oct. 30. Paul Muni will play the star role. English’s added another play to its already full calendar yesterday with the booking of Ruth Chatterton in “Tonight We Dance,” for three days beginning Nov. 20. The play currently is running in Chicago.

BEGAN ON PAPER

Max Fleischer, who is today producing “Gulliver's Travels” for Paramount at the Fleischer Studios, started in the cartoon field as a cartoonist on the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,

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Quartet of New York. The pro-

26 and 27 at the Herron Art Museum. ‘Ticekts may be obtained at the museum. Seat sale during the past week

the Indianapolis Art Association. Only 200 seats will be sold. ’

Proceeds for Art

The series by this noted American ensemble, which has been heard. in Indianapolis on several previous occasions, is made possible through a gift by a small group of the quartet’s Indianapolis friends, on the condition that a moderate price be charged and that only 200 seats be sold. Receipts from these concerts wiil revert to the Art Association for enlargement of its maintenance fund. Members of the quartet are Sascha Jacobsen and Paul Bernard, violins; William Hymanson, viola, and Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff, cello. They will be assisted at the final concert by Louise Essex, Indianapolis cellist. :

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