Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1939 — Page 24

+ want to see the feathers fly, the

* ' calendar. The first thing that greets

Good Shows, No Turkey’ ; Ses Movie Stars Here in + Person for Holiday.

By JAMES THRASHER . The arrival of Thanksgiving Day i and a new batch of entertainment "in downtown theaters brings up a little matter of Journalistic taboo, ~ Which, might as well be dealt with ; once and for all, and then forgotten. In the obscure branch of news..papering that has to do with movies “and the theater, you don’t mention key in connebtion with the holibrid Elsewhere in your paper you will find it referred to as Turkey Day. Pictures of strutting gobblers may adorn Page One. But on the| movie page one chooses his words carefully. . For “turkey,” in case you didn't know it, means a bum show in theatrical parlance. So, if he doesn’t

movie writer avoids the temptation of any play on words, lest he be unfair,

(If you're wondering about this ‘adjoining - picture of Lucille Ball carving the festive fowl, we just ~ sneaked it in—mostly because Miss - Ball is so attractive at any season of the year.) :

tained Paul Muni, Edward Everett Horton, Joe E. Brown, Ruth Chatterton and Lila Lee, in addition to the present delegation. And as for

“world premieres,” we've had one So now, without’ even a passing| ach on stage and screen, and reference to giblet gravy, let us have gui some more that T've forgota look at the new cinema and stage | io,

It takes all one’s Hoosier fortitude

- the eye is a trio of movie stars.

~ the Lyric.

Martha Raye on the Circle stage, and Jack Haley and Mary Carlisle making a personal appearance at

_ In the last mont we have enter-

to keep from becoming blase in the face of this profusion of ‘glamour. There also is much of promise in the flicker offerings. For instance, William Powell and Myrna Loy return today to Loew’s in “Another

Here, spread before you, is a ‘full-eonrse: feast of Tha

Swingsters

~ Will Battle

Cab Calloway vs. Harold Cork Is Indiana Program.

Another musical battle-of-the-century - is on the calendar for to-

‘morrow: night, when Cab Calloway

and his Cotton Club Orchestra will,

‘Harold ' Cork’s swing band at the

{ | Indiana Ballroom.

"Cab ahd his musicians recently |

i played ‘a successful week on the § [circle stage, wheer ' they missed

breaking the theater's one-day at-

beats and an eighth note. The Cork swingsters are heard regularly at the Ballroom, and expect a good mary loyal: jitterbugs||.

“lout to cheer them on in their tune~

ful encounter against some famous competition INDIANAPO LIS| ORCHESTRA FABIEN SEVITRKY ‘Popular C Concert NEXT SUNDAY—3 P

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entertainment at downtown theaters, Lucille : Ball, ‘when not ie the holiday bird, is playing opposite Kay Kyser, in the Indiana’s: “That's Right—You’re Wrong,” which opens today. The young lady eyeing the turkey from a California springboard is, of course, Martha Raye, who will be at the Circle in person for the week starting tomorrow. At her right, William Powell and Myrna Loy ‘contemplate a triangular engineering problem in Loew’s current “Andther Thin Man,” while below is Jack Teagarden, the ace trombonist recently re-elected to Paul Whiteman’s All-American Swing Band, who brings his orchesira to the Lyric stage tomorrow,

Thin Man.” This brings us the third in the original and still, perhaps, : the most popular of the “family” » | series pictures. Since Mr. and Mrs. Nick Charles came among us’! the domestic sequels have bean augmented by arrival’ of the Hardys, Joneses, Higginses and others. They have become pretty prolific entertainers. But if the “Thin Man” pictures have been fewer, the first two examples have been comedy-mystery - gems of purest ray serene, If William Powell had not been Opening Today ill for nearly two years, there might have been more doings of the : — Charles family. But now that he’s : Indiana Ropes Te stars tracing bopulace! “THAT'S RIGHT—YOU'RE WRONG, with Kay Kyser, Adolphe [ . y ’ 0. BD eo ayo iat Way, and that yy... "May Robson, Lucille Ball, Deaais OResr hivcry Joiphe

the Charles family may flourish until Nick Jr. grows to a Hopom. ted by David Butler; screen play by William Conselman He plot of

F th i Ni Jr. now, planed gd De ie po, Kay Kyser and his orchestra are featured in a movie, William A. Poulsen, who still com- Whi I bon Kay Re iy his prehesizs. Haine a movi : ! Y “ N,” with Jean Hersholt Dorothy Lovett, putes his age in months Robert Baldwin. Directed by Bernard Vorhaus. Jean Hersholt’s popular “Dr. Christian” radio series is here transferred to the screen in a story about small-town strife and Jealousy.

TONIGHT JITTERBUG CONTEST Loew's

Admission Free & ANOTHER THIN MAN,” ih William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia ¢ Tr A GRAHAM'S OLD INN ey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith. Directed by Ww. S. Van Dyke II.

The Nick Charleses aré back with Asta and a new son, Nick Jr. South of Big 4 Shops, Beech Grove

There's also a murder mystery, which finally gets solved in Nick's

neatest manner. % Tomorrow Night %

“BAD LITTLE ANGEL,” with Virginia Weidler, Gene Reynolds,

Guy Kibbee, Ian Hunter. Directed by William Thiele; pased on a novel | )> and His Famous Cotton Club Orchestra

by Margaret Turnbull, VS.

About, the little orphan girl who (in 1885): softens the heait o cruel old millionaire, reforms the town and does several other little and His Orchestra THANKSGIVING

odd jobs. DANCE TONIGHT ERD IAN ABBALLR JAAR

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DOORS OPEN 11 A. M. 25¢ Till 2—30c-40c After 2

TOMORROW

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Woiegest Array of Headliners Ever i in One Stage e Show!

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MAY ROBSON LUCILLE BALL DENNIS O'KEEFE

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON

ROSCOE KARNS MORON! OLSEN

Bing Crosby's % Blonde Le Leading Lod

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Opening Tomorrow

Circle

Martha Raye (on stage) with Senor Winches, ventriloquist; Jack Welliams, tap dancer; the Grasella Dancers, adagio team; Four Laznders, comedy acrobats. “ON DRESS PARADE” (on screen), with the “Dead End Kids,” John Litel, Cissie Loftus. Directed by William Clemens. . All about the uppity lad who goes to military school and 'is shunned until he proves himself a hero.

ADVANCE AT BOOK STORE

and

KAY KYSER’S' BAND, featurin "GINNY SIMMS - HARRY BA SULLY MASON - ISH KABIBBLE and “The College of Musical Knowledge”

One of your favorifé radio programs in spires a great new. screen feoture series!

Jem HERSHOLT "Mast Doctor Christan”

DOROTHY IY LOVETT ROBERT BALDWIN.

Lyric

. Jack Haley and Mary Carlisle (on stage), with Jack Teagarden’s orchestra; Kitty Kallen, singer; Charles Spivak, trumpet player; -Howard Nichols, juggler; Roberts and Martin, dancers; Tiny Anne and Tony mal “MAIN STREET LAWYER” (on screen), with Edward Ellis and Anita Louise. Directed by Dudle Murphy. A story of the tribulations of :small town lawyering, which reaches its climax when a girl is prosecuted for murder by her flance, and defended by her foster father. : 2

‘Tobacco Road’ Wins in Court

- NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nov. 23 (U. P.) —Producers of “Tobaéco Road” won their 32d victory out of 35 court tests after Special Chancellor John J. Hooker ruled the play could be

presented here tonight. Chancellor Hooker ruled that a

HERE Is Your Holiday Show!

wishoLS ROBERTS & MAR TINY_ANN & JONY 8 $

RADIO, STAGE

and SCREEN STAR With a ‘Great Show on STAGE and SCREEN!

1914 Nashville City ordinance providing for a censor board was invalid. The present city - chapter, adopted after passage of the 1914 ordinance, did not provide: for a censor. board. After Chancellor Hooker’s ruling, attorneys speculated whether the City of Nashville would seek to enforce its laws against public profanity when the play is presented. They pointed out that the ruling in no way affected these laws and that | any member of the-cast could be: arrested each time he or she cursed.

L ‘NEXT WEEK LUM 'N ABNER

SHEP FIELDS and His Orchestra

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EAST SIDE OLSON THEATERS

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