Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1939 — Page 16

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‘Elizabeth and Essex’ - Will Be Given First Public

~ Showing Here Tomorrow

Indians New Film Offering Is By Maxwell Anderson; Cab Calloway's Band Will Broadcast

From Circle Tomorrow Night.

Speaking of world premieres and Maxwell Anderson, the first public showing anywhere of “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex,” based on Mr. Anderson’s play, will be at the Indiana tomorrow. It hardly seems necessary to add that Mr. Anderson’s new play, “Key Largo,” was introduced to the public at English’s Monday night, with

Paul Muni (in the flesh) as ifs star.

for the opening. What's more, he stayed over after the visiting celebrities had departed, pruning a word here and a sentence there and doing all those apparently inevitable tasks that come up after a new play has been acted before an audience. “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” is based on “Elizabeth the Queen,” in which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared in 1930-31. In the cinema version, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn take over the leading parts.

Those who can’t get to the Circle on opening day may take comfort in the fact that Cab Calloway and his band will broadcast from that theater’s stage tomorrow night. The time is 6:30 p. m., and the station, WIRE.

During that time Mr. Calloway

and his hepcat henchmen will 'attempt (probably successfully) to prove the assertion that “the jimjam jump is the jumpin’ jive.” And if you don’t know what that means, very likely you will by the time Cab has finished. Featured in the Calloway menage is the young lady known as Sister Tharpe, who swings Negro spirituals. She received due notice for .this practice in Life magazine a couple of months ago. ” ” 2 The Billy Rose influence is being felt at the Lyric this wek. Usually a dance band haven, the theater is presenting Miss Lottie Mayer's Watercade Revue. In it the diving belles go under ‘water and, just about the time you are ready to yell for a resuscitator, reappear where they started from. They do it with trap doors, not mirrors.

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There are family series and yet again family series. But the Alamo, beginning tomorrow, has the only one whose stars are as closely related off the set as they are on the screen. ° Meaning, of course, the Gleasons: vJames (father), Lucile (mother), and (Russell (son). For cinematic purposes, they are the Higgins family. They do have to call on outside help, however, to provide a - couple of extra children and a grandfather before the camera. Their latest, “Should Husbands Work?” is a first-run attraction in the city. So is the Alamo’s other picture, “Lure of the Wastelands,”

with Grant Withers. rm oar. 8:90

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Matinee Saturday, 2:30

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Dean Jagger McKay Morris Nights, 55¢ to $2.75 Sat, Mat., 55¢ to $2.20

Tues, Wed. Eves., Nov. 7, 8

TAYLOR HOLMES

In Paul Osborn’s N. Y. Success

“ON BORROWED TIME”

hse wight Deere Wiman Produstion lees: $2.20, $1.65, $1.10, 55¢ ay Ine. Tickets Now on Sale at Box Office

Mr. ,Anderson himself was here

French Aid Film Colony

Boyer, Others Are Released From Army Duties.

PARIS, Nov. 2 (U. P.).—The French motion‘ picture industry, paralyzed by mobilization when war started, was returning to normal today.

The Government was making concerted efforts to stimulate its actors, directors and writers. They were being released from the army. Among these were Charles Boyer and other members of the cast of “Corsaire,” a film interrupted in the middle of its production. It is scheduled to be finished in a month. A documentary film, “France Is an Empire,” will be distributed throughout France and all neutral countries this week. The music hall and night life of Paris also was being revived. Maurice Chevalier and Josephine Baker will go to the front shortly to entertain troops with songs which they will sing at the Casino De Pgris when it reopens in two weeks.

TWO 'FIRST-RUNS' OPEN AT EMERSON

3 Downtown movie theaters don’t have a corner on first-run attractions this week. Today’s bill at the Emerson brings two: A Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy called “Night Work,” and, for good measure, “Grand Jury Secrets,” which features John Howard and Gail Patrick.

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO

“Rio,” with Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen Sigrid Gurie, at 12:06, 14. 7:48 and 10:92. 3 ail a Messenger,” with Billy Halop, Mary Sade Larry Crabbe, at 11, 1:34 4:08, 6:42 and 10:22.

CIRCLE

Joes E. Brewn. and Yaudeyille pe 1:05. 3:50, 6:45 and 9:30.

11: 298s.

10, 5:10, 7:50 and 10:25.

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urday matinee. \ INDIANA

“The Rearing Twenties with James Cagney, Priscilla La Humaey Bogart, at 12, 3:18, "6: ‘36 and

Drew and the Missing with Bonita Grapyilie, at 11, 2:18, 5:36 and 8 LOEW'S Glory,”

Tes Nancy Staircase,” John Litel,

Cooney Apes Leeds. David Ni rea ; at 11, 1:45, 4.30." 7:20 0 and 10. Yeu, “Hidden Power,” with Jack Holt. Jetoruds o Michael. at 12:40. 3:25,

6:15 LYRIC Will Osborne and Ris orchestra, with Gladys Seorge, other . vaudeSas. on stage at 3:53, 6:46 and

he dventures of She Kk Holmes,” on Basil Rathbone Nigel ruce, on screen at 11:17, 2: 10, 5:

with Gary

7:56 and 10:32.

A Grand JUBILEE of ENTERTAINMENT With CAB on STAGE and BOB HOPE on SCREEN!

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Bette Davis and Errol Flynn are teamed again, this time in Tudor costume, to enact the tragic story found in “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex,” tomorrow’s attraction at the Indiana.

In New Role

Tonight brings Ethel Barrymore back to English’s in another rocking-chair role. This time Miss Barrymore is th: 97-year-old Ouma Gerart in “Farm of Three Echoes,” a new play by Noel Langley.

Hedley Is Heard In Local Debut

Charles Hedley, new head of the Jordan Conservatory of Music voice department, made his bow before an Indianapolis audience that filled the World War Memorial auditorium last night. His program was rather short and, while it avoided anything that was heavy or excessively demanding, bespoke a discriminating taste. In the first group were Handel's “Where E’er You Walk”; “I'll Sail Upon the Dog Star,” by Henry Purcell; the familiar “Passing By,” by Purcell’s son, Edward, and Parker’s “The Lark Now Leaves His Wat'ry Nest.” The protean Handel, this time in his guise of Italian opera composer, also opened the second group’s songs with “Amor Commanda.” There followed Schubert’s “Ungeduld,” “Princessita,” by the contemporary Spaniard, Padilla, and Fourdrain’s “Chevauchee Cosaque.” Following intermission, Mr. Hedley turned his attention to the lovely Aubade from Lalo’s opera, “Le Roi d’Ys,” and concluded the scheduled portion of 'his program with Dobson's setting of the John Masefield poem, “Cargoes”; CampbellTipton’s “The Opium Smoker”; “Love’s Secret,” by Granville Bantock, and “Love a-Riding,” by Frank Bridge. . Incidentally, a better

FINAL DAY! “R10”

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Opening Today

¥ Loew’s “THE REAL GLORY,” with Gary Cooper, Andrea Leeds, David Niven, Reginald Owen. Directed by Henry Hathaway; from the novel by Charles L. Clifford. A turn-of-the-century tale of the Philippines; particularly of three American soldiers of fortune and their fight against the savage Moros. “HIDDEN POWER,” with Jack Holt, Gertrude Michael, Dickie Moore, Henry Kolker. Directed by Lewis D. Collins. About a doctor and his discovery of an effective but highly explosive specific for severe burns. Efforts to purchase the remedy lead to ‘complications and eventual proof of its worth ‘when used on the doctor’s injured son.

Opening Tomorrow

re Apollo lett.

Directed by George Amy. About the boxer who sings from the ring after every bout.

that the champion knocks him out. SUBMARINE D-1,” with Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, George Brent. A reissue of a sea thriller, Circle CAB CALLOWAY AND HIS ORCHESTRA on stage, with Sister Tharpe, blues singer; Cotton Club Boys and Girls; the Three Chocolateers, “skat” singers; Helena Smith, tap dancer; others. ‘THE CAT AND THE CANARY,” on screen, with Bob Hope, Paullette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery. Directed by Elliott Nugent; based on the stage play by John Willard. A remake of the popular comedy-mystery which has to do with seven potential heirs to a fortune and “The Cat,” a crazed mruderer, Indiana “THS PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX,” with Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale. Concerning the still controversial love affair of Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, in which it develops that, between ruling a country and satisfying political ambitions, a queen and her favorite have little chance with the tender emotion. “PRIDE OF THE BLUEGRASS,” with Edith Fellows, James McCal-

lion, Granville Bates. Directed by William McGann. In this one you'll see a lot of Gantry the Great, 15-year-old blind

“wonder horse.” Lyric

«HERE IAM A STRANGER, » on screen, with Richard Greene, Rich-. ard Di Brenda Joyce, Roland Young. A college student, reared by his mother and stepfather, meets his real father, a down-and-out journalist. The father’s regeneration fol=lows and things come to a head when the son has to decide whether

trial for murder. VAUDEVILLE, on, stage, with Lottie Mayer's Watercade Revue; Roy Smeck, electric guitarist; Lew Parker, comedian; Parks and Clifford, acrobats; Dave Monahan, novelty xylophonist.

than usual selection of modern

songs in English. A singer whose career has been mostly in opera, Mr. Hedley revealed the expansive style of. the lyric stage in his recital last night. Vocally, he was heard to best advantage in the middle reaches of his compass. As an interpreter, he gave such songs as “Passing By” a Rossinian touch which was somewhat out of character, In the Padilla song, Mr. Hedley’s gestures were even more expressive than his voice. Mrs. Dorothy Munger’s accompaniments met all demands of technic and temperament, and the applause was long and hearty.

~ TONORROW!

WHEN HE SWINGS... LOOK OUT FOR

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As timely as tow day’s news . . truth that is more thrilling than fiction!

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“KID NIGHTINGALE,” with John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Cat- |

He : winds up happy, having been signed to an opera contract the night

to leave his mother and his own world, or see an innocent man stand].

Movie Censors Expected

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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2 (NEA) ~Censorship moves in mysterious ways its blunders to perform, and the guardians of the pure-in-mind re-

gard themselves pretty seriously. laughing at itself in one sequence of

| the Circus.”

So it's a relief to find censorship

the new Marx Brothers picture, “At

Groucho is frying to recover from Eve Arden a wallet containing a

‘The byplay is ob-| vious. Miss Arden knows that Groucho knows that she has stuffed the money into the front of her lowcut circus costume. The comedian

‘lis baffled and tries to think of a -|plan.

Bars Up—Some ‘The camera draws in to a closeup of Groucho, and he says:

“There must be some way to get that wallet without getting" into

‘| trouble with the Hays office.”

The Hollywood preview audience It’s understood that an extra degree of latitude is to be granted moviemakers now that

| | the war-hobbled industry needs

more customers. There's some grumbling, though, about favoritism. It’s pointed out, as one example, that Greta Garbo, in the expensive comedy “Ninotchka,” says some things which doubtless would be stricken from the lips of a lesser actress in a cheaper picture. Garbo, the esthete, can speak lines which Mae West, the professional vulgarian, should not. Jean Harlew could - say “Good morning” or “Please pass the salt” or “How’s your Aunt Harriet?” in a manner which sounded downright libidinous.

Comedies Are ‘Easier’

* Comedies and comedians always have been able to get away with lines and situations which would not

Ibe allowed in straight romantic ve-

hicles. When Mary Martin replaced another actress during rehearsals of “Leave It to Me,” on Broadway, her

‘part had to be rewritten becatise her

delivery of the original lines made them sound entirely too daring.

Most censors are too pure to be efficient. For years script writers drew howls from audiences by sly working in innocuous-sounding tag lines of well-known smutty stories. They have pretty generally stopped that by industry agreement, but they still employ double entendre which often goes over the heads of the ‘censors, In “Bachelor Mother,” the Hays’ office passed a last line spoken by Ginger Rogers which had a startlingly suggestive implication. Day after the preview, when all Hollywood was talking about it, the line was ordered cut out. Years. ago, Missouri’s strict state board saw and passed Cecil DeMille’s “The Golden Bed.” A few

days later Leatrice Joy arrived in|

Kansas City on a personal appearance tour and made a routine call on the censor group. Thinking to put in a good word for Hollywood, she cited “The Golden Bed” as an

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She pointed out how Mr. DeMille had skillfully avoided offense. The censors were grateful for Miss Joy's little speech because they hadn't realized what the picture was trying to reveal. They immediately withdrew their approval and ordered the film banned.

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