Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1940 — Page 8

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~ Civic Revue Opening Set

"Knickerbocker Holiday' to Play Six Nights.

Here is the cast for the Civic Theater's production of “Knickerbocker Holiday,” which opens tomorrow evening for a six-nighten-gagement. Principal parts will be taken by

Ronald S. Skyrme, Kathleen Wal-|

lace, John Main, Robert McVay, Eleanor Y. Pelham, Harold S. Cheney, Davis Harrison, Sol Blumenthal, James C. Mueller, Henry J. Budenz and Howard B. Pelham.

Chorgses Are Listed

Council members will be played by Jack Cantwell, Woodrow Cochran, Ted Lippincott Jr, C. James McLemore, Charles EF. Nourse, Harold O. Richter, Richard Rosebush and Roger W, Teeguarden. The “ladies of [the ensemble” are Louise Regina Argus, Audrey Ann Brown, Mary- Catherine Stair, Betty Stayton, Jane Carter, Margaret Wright, Jean Ann Gardner, Betty Jeanne Balz, Doris Pohler,” Juanita Hamp, °Irene Werker, Dorothea West, Carolyn Heller and _ Lenore Eisenbarth. |

Hit Last Season

In the men’s chorus are Egan Leck, Larry Knowlton, James Woodfill, John Connor, Frank Reissner, Edward Brennan and Thomas Arkins., J. B. Cusick and Noble Pearcy are cast as soldiers, while the revue’s tribe of Indians will be made up of Roger Hurd, Edward L. Phillips, Rudolph Schack, J. Leslie Johnson, Monroe Horne, Maynard - Gill, Thomas Johnson, Nathaniel Scott and Austin B. Smith. These players will be -the first performers, aside from the original professional cast, to present this Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill hit of last season. Edward Steinmetz Jr. has di-

Things have happened since “Brother Rat” appeared here on stage

and screen.

Specifically, there is young Master Peter B. Good, who

plays the latter half of the title part in “Brother Rat and the Baby,” which comes tomorrow to the Indiana. The “mama and papa” in the above picture are Jane Bryan and Eddie Albert.

MUSIC STUDIOS RECITAL SUNDAY

The Central Studios of Music will present an “Hour of Music” on Sunday at 3:30 p. m. in the Y. W, C. A. auditorium. The soloists will be Pauline Bade, soprano and Ford Blanford, baritone, assisted by Grace Noblitt, drmatic reader. Accompanists will be Anita Meggenhofen and Martha Elizabeth Stephens.

rected, assisted by Ernestine Carlile, dance director, and Paul Matthews and Dorothy Merrill Ritter, who directed the musical numbers. Mrs. Matthews and Mrs. Merrill will play the show’s accompaniments.

The mersiest and most heart-warming film you'll see this year... as Lubitsch puts the touch that made “Ninotchka” hilarious on appealing Margaret Sullavan and James (“Mr.Smith Goes toWashington”) Stewart...

Pandro S. Corn Now at M-G-M

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 11 —Pandro S. Berman, former head of R. K. O. production, has joined the M-G-M executive personnel as a director. The 35-year-old producer resigned his R. K. O. post Dec. 15. Son of a film executive,- Mr. Berman served as an assistant director at FBO, um editor for R. K. O. In accepting his new position, Mr. Berman said that 'he was “truly happy and proud” and that he had “always hoped to be with M-G-M some day.”

Susanna ‘Foster ~ After Hectic Days at Studios

By PAUL HARRISON

‘Arrives’

OOD, Jan. 11.—The

ography of Susanna decl

ares that at the age or 8 she could sing “every on the piano, with the excepf the top two.” But that’s

ever, and still has, an astonishing reach in the upper register. Today, at 15, Susanna can reach and sustain B-flat above high C, which is higher than any other warbler can go. Shell do this in her first picture, “The Great Victor Herbert.” J Miss Foster already has been the subject of a good deal of misinformation, and it’s time that some of the facts were established. For one thing, she was no stranger to Flollywood when Paramount signed her for the Victor Herbert picture. | More than. three years ago in Minneapolis, Susanna (then Suzanne Delee Flanders Larson) was auditioned by Carl Johnson, leader of the orchestra at the Palace Theater. Johnson was enthusiastic. He coached her without charge and paid her to sing with the orchestra on Saturdays and Sundays. Then he and Merle Potter, a Minneapolis entertainment editor,

sponsored her for pictures. and |

sent recordings of her voice to Hollywood. - Metro hired her for $100 a week. 2 8 8 THE FIRST FEW MONTHS were fine. Metro treated her like

Look at James Stewart—he’s glum as

can be-

And Margaret Sullavan’s up the same

tree...

They’re not acting gay « they're not

having fun!

Something quite drastic will have to

done!

Now Margaret’s giddy and gay as a dove,

And Jimmy is certainly falling

in love...

He’s making a play for her heart, “ and he'll win it!

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a queen, bought her clothes, gave her drama lessons and everything. But wouldn’t give her anything to do in picturés. That went on for a year, and she didn’t once face a camera. . “I was called in and told that I could act a little bit, but that I didn’t have a voice!” said Miss. Larson. “So they didn’t take up my option, and things began to get tough. The finance company took our furniture and car, and we had to rent two rooms at the beach. It was small for mother and father and us three girls, and I got so I hated the sight of oleomargarine.” When Paramount was testing children for “The Star Maker,” she.stood in line with hundreds of others and eventually was auditioned. But by that time the leading role already had been given to Linda Ware. Miss Larson had

LeRoy Prinz, though, and he took her around the lot to sing for every executive who'd listen. After about 20 such private auditions, she got a four-week contract at $75. “In the meantime I'd been trying to get in at RKO,” she said. “Mother had changed my name from Larson to Foster, and I got a chance on the ‘Gateway to Hollywood’ radio program. Rufus LeMaire heard me and said, ‘That was a rare treat. Haven't I seen you somewhere before?’ I told him my real name, and reminded him Metro had fired me.

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went through about that time. Paramount thought just the. opposite of MGM—they said I had a voice but couldn’t act.” So I was

given dramatic lessons, and my

contract was extended from week to week. “The eighth week was the first week of the Victor Herbert picture. They still weren’t sure about me, but I guess I did all right because I stayed in the picture, and my salary went up to $300. Now that the picture is done, I get $250 a. week and I'm praying they'll keep me another year.” : Studio officials, convinced ‘that they’ve got another young singing star, assure Miss Foster that she hasn’t anything to worry about.

. I noticed that her fingernails.

were bitten to the quick and made some remark about nervousness. She said, “No, it isn’t that. I'm’ not nervous when I'm working. But I've been going to a lot of movies lately, and I always get excited and chew off my nails.”

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The Tabernacle Dramatic Club will present a <three-act. comedy, “One Mad Night,” at 7:30 p. m. to-

morrow at the Tabernacle Presby-|

terian Church. Cast members are Barbara Mahr, Robert Elake, Ralph Sharpe, Miriam Fatout, Katharine Lynch, Carolyn Moosely, Helen Humphrey, Bob Watkins, Bob Maley, Gaylord Allen, Kenneth Rothochill and Richard Jewett. Miss B. J. Watkins is di-

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