Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1939 — Page 12
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HERE WITH ‘GIRLS & GIRLY
At ‘Sabotage’
Charges Filmdom Is Bucking
Anti-Trust Suits.
Times Speciat + WASHINGTON, Depart
Dec. 20.—Justice
ent officials charged today |
that attempts are being made from | within the moving picture industry |
to sabotage Government
anti- |
trust suits brought against the in-| dustry to stop alleged illegal trade |
practices. These officials struck at propa-| ganda they said was being circulated |
|
to the effect that the anti-trust
cases never would come to trial or| that compromises would be reached | on issues involved in the fight.
Concerning the fact that the trials!
are not scheduled to begin in New York until May 1, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Armold said; “The only reason for the delay in the moving picture suits
is the]
difficulty of getting judges in New
York, where the Federal Court is overworked. ready to go to trial May 1, and pre-trial hearings are to begin in March.” The Government is seeking to divorce the producing and distributing end of the business from the exhibiting end.
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Though the ads say “Girls &
Girls,” the three comic Slate Bros. |¥
also will be among those present when “A Wight at the Moulin Rouge” arrives at the Lyric Friday. And on the Lyric screen will be Alice Faye | \ (below), costarred with Warner Baxter in “Barricade.” |
NEIGHBORHOODS Building of Open-Air Theater §
Here
in Spring Being Planned.
—By HARRY MORRISON
IT SEEMS FAIRLY certain th
at by next spring Indianapolis wil
have joined the growing list of cities with open-air theaters—theaters
that hold automobiles and have h or shine.
William G. Sobel, field representative for the Mid-West Drive-In | A tentative site has been picked for
Theaters Corp. is in town today. the theater and specifications have been distributed to local contractors. Philip Smith, president, and Murray Weiss, chief engineer for the corporation, will arrive in Indianapolis Tuesday and will award
The theater will cover 15 acres
42d St. Circular,
and Massachusetts
Ave. slightly raised
uge screens that can be seen rain
Anna Hollenbaugh, Richard Jenkins, David Lee Johnson, Donald Mason, Joan Mikels, Dorothy Mc-
Guire, Susie Steele, Louise Walls, |
. 'G. White, Robert and Charles White. Mary Sue Young and Carol Jean Westall. =
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The Cantor Theaters are presenting a special Christmas week rogram of cartoons this week.
ast time is tonight for a number |
gayly called the “Holiday Happiness Revue,” starring the Disney
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THE MIDWEEK CALENDAR follows: AVALON — Tonight “Wells Fargo” and Vacation.” BELMONT Tonight “Hawaiian Nights Blackhawk CINEMA — Tonight “Sing You Sinners” Fraud.’ DAISY Tonight and tomorrow: “Charlie Chan on Treasure Island” “Clouds Over Europe EMERSON - -Tonight: alcade” and ‘Chicken Wagon Family. Tomorrow through Saturday ‘Disputed Passage’ and "They Shall Have Music.” ESQUIRE—Tonight: “Golden Boy” “Dancing Co-Ed.’ Tomorrow Saturday $1000 a Touchdown” “Full Confession
Fou NTAIN SQUARE--Tonight through Friday: ‘Adventures 1, Sheriock Holmes” and ‘Hawaiian Nigh GRAN ADA Tonight : and “Scandal Sheet.” Tomorrow Saturday: ‘Pride of ‘the Blue Grass” “In Old Caliente.’ HAMILTON —Tonight: 4d’ and “Golden Bor. through Saturday: “Viva “Indianapolis Speedway.’ IRVING—Tonight: ‘A Woman is Judge’ and ‘‘Grand Jury Secrets.” To morrow through Saiurday ‘Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” and “Here I am a Stranger
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WEDNESDAY, DEG. 20, 1939
THE STAGE
English's
By JAMES THRASHER Promises Theater-Goers
Merry Yuletide, Lustrous New Year
PUTTING ONE LITTLE WORD after another, as Joe Williams says, and whatever became of that Lincoln play contest, sponsored by
the Southwestern Indiana Civic Association? . .
. English’s future book-
ings are shaping up, with the new year promising added luster to an
already brilliant season.
Manager Vincent Burke said today that in the offing are no less
appetizing morsels than Maurice Evans’ full-length “Hamlet” and Helen Hayes in “Ladies and Gentlemen.” They probably won't be around until February. . . . But get your bids in early. » » ”
NEARER AT HAND, of course, are three contrasting plays: The biographical “Abe Lincoln in Ilinois,” opening tomorrow night, with Raymond Massey; the earthy and indestructible “Tobacco Road,” opening Christmas night for a week, and Constance Bennett in Noel Coward's “Basy Virtue,” which comes in for three days on Jan. 1. * & =» READING FROM FUTURE to it might interest you to “Easy Virtue” has been
| rewritten somewhat, not for Miss
Bennett, but to bring it up to date.
| The rewriting, needless to add, has
been done by Mr. Coward.
» & @ PROBABLY THE WORLD'S
| most indefatigable press agent is
§ | ing “Tobacco Road”
Carlton Miles, advance agent, occasional director and guide, philosopher and friend of the tourcompany. Mr. Miles has been touring with
| or just ahead of the show for five
years. You would think that in this time he would have exhaust-
| ed every possible publicity source t| to be found in the sharezropping | classic, but somehow he continues | to wring literary blood from the
turnips which the Lester tribe
| munch at each performance.
In the past five seasons, he
| never has duplicated a story for | this department,
and I presume he has done as well by others
| throughout the land. And to make
ad selected short subjects, Tomorrow and Friday: ‘Grand Jury Secrets” and “Clouds Over Europe.” PARKER-- Tonight: ‘Lawless Valley" and ‘It Could Happen to You’ Tomorrow through Saturday: “Each Dawn 1 Die’ and ‘Rose Marie.”
REX Tonight and tomorrow: ‘‘Colo-
and “The Spellbinder.”
RITZ—Tonight: ‘Wizard of Oz" ““Konga, the Wild Stallion.’ Tomorrow through Sunday: ‘Here I am a Stranger’ and ‘They Shall Have Music.”
RIVOLI-—Tonight: ‘‘Espionage Agent" and '‘Nancy Drew any the Hidden Staircase.” . Tomorrow hrough Saturday “Pride of the fe * Grass’ and “Kid Nightingale.” ST. CLAIR—Tonight: “Coast Guard" and “Trapped in the Sky.” Tomorrow through Sunday: ‘Here I am a Stranger” | and ‘They Shall Have Music.’ | SANDERS Tonight: “I Stole a Mil- | | lion” and ‘Code of the Secret Service.” | Tomorrow through Saturday ‘Murder Is News' and ‘Phantom Stage.” SHERIDAN Tonight: “Honeymoon in ali’’ and ‘Beau Geste y morrow through Saturday: oarood "Cavalcadle”’ and ‘Bachelor Moth SPEEDWAY Tonight "ie tomorrow: ‘Espionage Agent” and "Hero for a Day. STATE—Tonight and tomorrow. erybody's Hobby” and ‘Should a Marry. STRAND Tonight: | ties” and ‘‘Nancy | den Staircase.’ day. ‘‘Private | Essex” and | Holmes." STRATFORD Ton ight Everybody's Hobb Madden.’ TACOMA — Tonight and “Conspiracy” and “Torchy Dynamite.’
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{ UPTOWN-—-Tonight: ‘“‘Babes in RIS | and ‘‘Indianapolis Speedway.’ Tom | row through Saturday: “Angels Wash | ely Faces” and “Konga, the Wild Stalion. VOGUE--Tonight: “‘Disouted Passage | and ‘They Shall Have Music or- | row through Saturday “Chicken Wagon Family” and ‘News Is Made at Night
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bi ZARING — Tonight through Friday i “Flirting With Fate” and “Listen, Dar- { ling. \
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Carlile Arranges | Program Series
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! Lincoln,”
more remarkable, Mr. Miles writes to the dramatic editor's specifications instead of passing out carbon copies. ” n
Out of this vear's gleaning of wisdom and information, it is enough to pass along a few random notes at this time. Quite the most surprising of Mr. Miles’ communiques—and he swears it's true—is the revelation that Harpo Marx for years has nursed an ambition to play the speechless Grandma Lester in the Jack Kirkland saga. He almost made it last spring in Los Angeles. But retakes on “At the Circus” prevented him at the last minute. If they only could coax Harpd into the New York or touring companies, the play would probably run seven more years. Grandma's second-act scene with Pearl, as the mute Marxian doubtless would play it, certainly would insure the drama’s perpetuity.
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» » ” “TOBACCO ROAD” an imposing list of alumni There's Henry Hull, of course, who was the first Jeeter and whose stage and screen fame need no explanation. Another former Jester is Calvin
Thomas, who plays Josh Speed in | | tomorrow's Two Bright Boys.” |
“Abe Lincoln in Illinois.” . Ann Dere, a former Ada, and Dean Jagger, who once played Lov Bensey, were here with Ethel Barrymore last month in “Farm of Three Echoes.” Sam Byrd, the original Dude, is producing ‘John Henry,” starring Paul Robeson and due -for an early Broadway opening, and acting in “The Man Who Killed also due before long. * @& =» Other former Tobacco Roadsters are Mary Servoss, who was the Queen to Leslie Howard's “Hamlet”; Norman Budd, who is in the latest “Dr, Kildare” picture, and Haila Stoddard, cur-
rently rehearsing ¢ a part in Paul
The Carlile Dance Studios are to = |
present a series of student programs | {during the holiday season under sponsorship of varibus clubs and) | organizations. { | Entertainment will be provided | for the P, R. Mallory & Co. chil- | dren's party, the Indianapolis Or-| | phans Home, Englisih Ave. Boys Club, Lauter Memorial Boys Club, | Masonic Temple, Eagles Lodge, Riviera Club and others. | In addition to her regular teach- | ling duties, Ernestine Carlile is di-| [recting the dance numbers for the | [Civic Theater's forthcoming produc- | {tion of Maxwell Anderson's “Knick‘erbocker Holiday.”
HOOSIER SWIMMER
CHICAGO, Dec. 20 (U. PH .—| Adolf Keifer, Hoosier Olympic and | |. S. backstroke swimming cham- | [ pion, said today he had signed with | | | Hollywood film agents to appear in | motion pictures. | The 20-year-old native of Huntsaid he had enrolled {in a dramatic school as preliminary
| The swimmer won his first national title in 1934 and has held every | Amer ican and Olympic backstroke EE since then. ‘ BRON
| ENGLISH— MATINEE SAT, 3:5 THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CO.
PRENENTS » x
RAYMOND MASSEY in ROBERT E. WN ILLINOIS
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Vincent Carroll's new “Kindred.” And that isn't a fraction of what Carlton Miles could tell you. ” » n AS FOR “ABE LINCOLN in Illinois,” it seems useless to add a word of advance recommendation to what has been written and said before. The play and Mr. Massey's performance have been praised unstintingly by those who talk and write about the theater; they have been the subject of editorials; they have been taken to Hollywood for a picture which will be released next month. And of course Robert E. Sherwood, the playwright, received last year's Pulitzer Prize for his efforts. In short, it seems safe to say that the engagement is one of the brightest Christmas gifts that English's ever bestowed upon the public.
ENGLISH TO START MOVIE PRODUCTION
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20 (U.P). — England will resume production of
motion pictures early next year, Da- |
vid Rose, managing director of Paramount interests in Europe, said today. Mr. Rose, who plans to make five “Class A” pictures, said he returned here from London to obtain the services of British actors.
WHEN DOES IT START?
APOLLO “Whe en Germany Sorrendsred, » at : AS and
a pooks, wi "Joe Brown, Mary Carlisle, at Ry. 41, 3:29, 6:17 and 9:04. CIRCLE “Allegheny Uprising,” with Claire rayne. George Sand7:15 and 10:05. “The Flying no a» with waurel oud Hardy, at 12:30, 8:20, 6:05 and
CIVIC “Personal Appearance,” Lawrence Riley's comedy presented by a Civie Theater cast under Edward Rteinmetz direction. Engagement nightly through Wednesday. Re Urthin at
INDIANA “Tower of London,’ with Basil Rathbone, Boris arloff, O'Neil, at 12:40, 3.52, 7:04 and “The Night of Nights,” with Pa Prien, OLED ob Bradna, at 11:12, LOEW'S
“Intermezzo,” with 55s Howard, Jugrid Bergman, 1:50, 4:45
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Greer Garson, gv 3:15, 6:10 and LYRIC Orrin Tucker and his orchestra, ThE Bonnie DARE on stage at 1:00,
Neate "Hostess. » with Preston re ter, Ann Dvo rak, oh screen at 11: 1:58, 4:02, 6:11, 8:20, 10:29.
{will spend $10,000,000 in his state
(have been kidding,”
Arizona Covets LAST 2 DAYS Movie Studios
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20 (U. P.) .— Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s cam=paign to move the film industry to
New York—a campaign Hallywood met quite tranquilly—brought a sharp protest today from Arizona. The movies, announced Governor Bob Jones a‘ Phoenix, are not going to New York City, but to the cactus-studded stretches of Arizona. “Mayor La Guardia surely must the Arizona Governor said, “when he recommended New York and its facilities for motion picture production. The motion picture producers did at one time attempt to carry on produc | tion in New York. The attempt ap- | rarently was not successful. The Mayor has evidently forgotten that.” Governor Jones pointed out that the Hollywood studios, which have been using Arizona locations with | increasing [quency for Western pictures, have assured him that they
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pared as a starring vehicle for Nel-| son Eddy.
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