Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1940 — Page 8
AGE 8
The Wind's : Re
Hurricane at Loew's!
When Margaret Mitchell made
ame
egular
her first vague notes about Scarlett
O’Hara for a book tentatively titled “Gone With the Wind” she prob-
ably never realized she was going to create a tornado about the office
of Manager Ward Farrar of Loew's
‘Theater here.
As you may have heard, they made quite a movie of the best seller.
The movie will open here Jan. 26. reservations for more than $16,000 worth of tickets. - The special boxoffice next to the theater was opened about a week ago. - According to Mr. Farrar, there hasn’t been a minute during office hours there hasn’t been someone at the window.
. Two switchboards have been installed. Three telephone operators have been hired. They receive calls from all over the State. The theater executive personnel has been working on a day and night basis. The boxoffice is open from 10:30 a. m. to 10 p. m. After that the boys work until midnight and after filling mail orders. ' The first mail order was received about the day the world premiere was held at Atlanta, Dec. 19. It was from a doctor in Anderson, Ind. He said he wanted two tickets “for the first performance of “G. W. T. W.” when it plays your theater.” Since then, letters have come from all over the State and as far away as Dayton, O. Many have had to be returned because the positions of the seats requested were not specific. enough or because the requests came too late to be filled satisfactorily. “It’s paramount with us that everyone be satisfied. We'd rather
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Lucie A FRIDAY! —TED LEWIS
RUSSELL
Already Loew's has taken advance
return their applications than give them something they won't like.
the Loew organization who has had experience (with “road shows.” He
others. It was his job to whip a ticket-selling unit into shape for a job that has ‘exceeded all his expectations.” | Matinee performances will start at 10 a. m. to run continuously with no seats reserved. The second show starts at 2:45 p. m. and no one will he| admitted afteer that time. -All night performances and Sunday matinees are reserved. : r——————————————————
Cramer Soloist
~ With Symphony
Bomar Cramer, one of Indianapolis’ leading musical citizens and a nationally known pianist, will be principal soloist at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’ subscription concerts on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. This will be Mr. [Cramer's fourth appearance with the orchestra and his second under Fabien Sevitzky’s direction. Mr. Cramer will play the Schumann Concerto in A Minor. In addition, the concert will include a performance of the Te Deum by Anton Bruckner, which will enlist the services of the Indianapolis Symphonic. Choir and the following Indiana soloists: Elma Igelman, soprano; Edna Tynes Bowles, alto; Farrell M. Scotf, tenor, and George Newton, bass.
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ALLAN JONES MARY MARTIN SILENT
LEA " ALL WOMEN HAVE SECRETS
“March of Time”
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PARAMOUNT
Makers: of Such Epics as : § “WELLS FARGO” “UNION PACIFIC” “THE PLAINSMAN”
And now “Geronimo” Friday at the
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Mr. Farrar is the only person in.’
worked on “Trader Horn,” “Grand Hotel,” “The Great Ziegfeld” and
LIVE
CONSERVATION MEDAL GOES TO.
Charles C. Deam Wins High. Recognition for Botany, ‘Adopted as Hobby.
because he refused to just walk
t i'when he was ordered to walk for
Sonja Henie . . . ice skates and a smile brought farhe.
‘Golden Girl' of 1930 Is Best Sports Attraction; Rank
Among First 10 in Films.
Sonja Henie, who brings her ice show to the Coliseum Feb. 6-10, was billed .as the Golden Girl when she first skated in New York in
1930. And what a prophetic name
that was.
She is today, at 27, the best box office draw in a sports arena, and for three years she has been in the first 10 of movies. : The blond Norwegian, 5 feet 2 and 105 pounds of radiant personality,
lifted a minor sport out of obscurs ity to set her off as a great, unbeaten athlete. And she is the only sports figure to strike a real bonanza in them thar Hollywood hills.
The Golden Girl who came here in 1930 was a chubby-faced lass with a contagious giggle, who didn’t mind wearing darned siik stockings. The gold was far away. - The movieglamorized Henie will come here at the head of a million-dollar enterprise. Her Hollywood Ice Revue will gross that, and more, in a tour of 10 cities. > Sonja’s father, Wilhelm, who died in. Hollywood in 1937, was passionately devoted {o a great career for his daughter. Champion bicyclist of Europe at | Antwerp in 1893 he preached sport. His business was furs. Her dad launched Sonja on roller skates, then figure skates, then the ballet. At 11 she won the Norwegian skating title. In 1927, when she was 14, her sports epic began. Attended by her father and mother, Mrs. Selma Nilsen Henie, she toured the world, winning 10 straight world titles successively in Oslo, London, Budapest, New York, Fi Montreal, 1
Stockholm, Vienna and Paris. She won Olympic gold medals in 1928, 1932 and 1936. | Probably the. heartbreaking moment of her life came in 1928. After winning the world title in London, she did a command performance for Their Majesties. Henie fell twice and left the rink weeping. That is the only case on record when she lost her composure on the ice. ; The 1930 exhibition in New York was in. the first big ice show there. In 1932 she skated .there again, on her way to the Lake Placid Olym-
pics.
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She packed Madison Square Garden for the charity carnival of 1934, and in 1936 she turned pro for the carnjval, after an . international squabble. The Norway and world skating associations tried to hold up American rinks for a percentage of the gate of Henie shows. A week after the 1936 carnival Sonja began her pro career on her own—with a flop. = A hastily-ar-ranged show, with a 40-cent hockey game passing the time. between Heinie’s exhibitions, drew .only 10,000 to the Garden at a $2 top. After that bust, Hollywood, which had talked real money to Sonja when she was amateur, offered her shorts. Henie said Class A features at $100,000 a flicker, not a nickel less. The magnates didn’t know their Henie. She trekked cross-continent to Hollywood with the family and Hugo Quist and hired the Polar Palace skating rink. | She bucked the off season and a listlessness which Hollywood had developed for all skaters. But one performance made the town delirious and she got raves like those for an opening in Grauman’s Egyptian. Darryl Francis Zanuck got her on the dotted line first for Twentieth Century-Fox at 100 G’s. And then how the money rolled in! Her first picture, “One in" a Million,” released in January, 1937, did $1,700,000 in first runs through this country and Canada, “Thin Ice” excceded that gross in seven months. “Happy Landing” pulled $170,000 in four weeks at the Roxy. Her income from movies alone in 1937 was $210,729. : Lucrative skate and - ski-suit indorsements, which are still working for her, piled up- the banknotes. . - And the personal-appearance circuit was all heavy sugar. The
Hollywood Ice Revue jammed aisles wherever it played on its first tour in 1938. After pleasing 102,000 witnesses in six nights in New York the revue figures showed 387,000 customers and $684,000 in five cities. Sonja will be 28 on April 8, but she is the Golden Girl more than ever. That marvelous endurance of the phenomenal athlete is there, the ‘magic still is in her skates and, best for the boxoffice, she can turn on that friendly, come-hither smile and look cute right through seven stints a night six nights a week in 10 cities through three months.
HELD -OVER I%y sar AND HIS CBS ORCH.
fancy, luxurious eyeful called the
his health, today was the recipient of a new honor .. . the Pugsley silver medal. Announcement of the award was made last night at the annual dinner of .the American Scenic and
| | Historic Preservation Society in New . | | York, and is “for the important and |far-reaching influence of his scien-
tific contributions to the: cause of conservation.” Col. Richard Leiber, former conservation commissioner, is the only other Hoosier to be given the honor. Mr. Deam, a man who will drop almost any work to talk of conservation but who will rarely talk about himself, started business life as a druggist. ; Because of the extremely long hours, his health showed signs of giving way and a physician ordered him to take walks. As he walked, he became interested in botany. No man to do things half way, he soon became the leading botanist in the State and now is regarded as one of the finest in the nation. / = - Eventually he began to over-work at the hobby he had selected to cure over-working and the physician this time ordered that he take naps. He said the relaxation would do him good. So Mr. Deam, loath to leave his studies, would lie down at prescribed times for a nap—holding a flat iron in each hand. When he started to fall asleep, the muscles holding the irons would relax, the irons would drop, he would awaken and resume work. ' Today he works about 12 to-15 hours a day at his spacious home and is haunted by the notion that he never will get everything done he wants done. In the summer] hundreds of persons visit his arboreum and he is always glad to take them through, hoping for converts to conservation. He is research forester for the Indiana Department of Conservation, and ‘once was forester. Those who know, say he knows more about Indiana plants than any living person. He once rebuked a professor of ‘botany with whom he was doing field work. : ; “You gather grasses like a cow,” he said.
WHEN DOES IT START?
APOLLO
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” with Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitcnels at 11:36, 2:09, 4:42, 7:15
CIRCLE
“The Great Victor Herbert,” with Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Walter Sb Susanna Foster, at 12:35, 3:45, 6:55 and 10:05. sot 1 cHomen ave Ssorets,” with ney, Jose en Jr., a 11:25, 295 345 and 8:55. :
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“Knickerbocker Holiday,” a musical comedy about Nieuw Amsterda. x Maxwell Anderson and Kurt eill, presented by a Civic Theater cast under Edward Steinmetz’ direetion Engagement through Wednesday; curtain at 8:30. .
INDIANA
‘Brother Rat and a Baby,” with . Prisciila Lane. Jane BIY . man. Wayne Morris, Eddie Albert, , 1:48 4:36 7:24 and 10:12. “British Intelligence,”” with Boris: Karloff. Margaret Lindsay, at 12:46, 3:34, 6:22 and 9:10. LOEW'S
“The Shop Around the Corner,” with James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, at 11. 1:49, 4:38, 7:27 and
‘Nick Carter, Master Detective,” with Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, at 12:44, 3:33, 6:22 and 9:11. LYRIC Andy Devine, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Jackie Searl, other vaudeville on stage at 12:58, 3:52, 6:46 and 9:33. “Money to Burn,”’ with James, Lucile and Russell Gleason, at 11:32, 2:26, 5:20, 8:14 ‘and 10:34.
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NORTH SIDE Luxurious Seats—In the New
Doors
Bette Davis—Errol Flynn “ELIZABETH AND ESSEX” Hugh Herbert “Little Accident”
———— TTI, THE REX 31st & Northw’trn
Jas. Cagney “ROARING 20's” “EVERYTHING'S ON ICE”
Central at Fall Crk ZARING Kay Eyser “ “THAT'S RIGHT—YOU'RE. WRENS” Dead End Kids ‘ON DRESS PARADE”
TALBOTT Talbott at 22d
Frankie John Litel “Nancy Drew and The i
Hidden Conrad Veidt ‘“U-BOAT 29”
"College & 19th « To Stratford alc Fore “HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE” OON IN LI”
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Richard Greene—Richard Dix “HERE I AM A STRANGER” “RULERS OF THE SEA”
. WEST SIDE
NEW DAISY “5%, Tek"
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2702 W. Tenth. Jack Dn DorotLY Lamour “M OUT TOWN”
Gary Cooper “BEAU GESTE” Speedway City Speedway
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“MR. SMITH GOES TO WAS )} Irene Rick “EVERYBODY'S HOBBY
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MAN i Dead End Kids ‘‘ON° DRESS PARADE”
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INDIANAPOLIS WATER C OMPANY
11d
Myrna Loy
Show starts 6
HL Adults till 6. .
Victor McLaglen “RIO” “MAIN STREET LAWYER”
1106 Prospect
SANDERS Basil Rathbone
“Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Melvyn Douglas “TELL NO TALES”
EAST SIDE
Open 6:45
Gary Cooper “THE RE G dig Bob Hove “CAT AND T Sanaa
3 $ ;
Tonight and Wed.—8 Unit Program Kay Kyser, Adolph M » May Ro “That’s Rig ll Wrong:
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"| Jean Hersholt “Meet Dr. Christian”
"8 Stooges “Oily to Bed—Oily to Rise”
4630 5:45 3 INI E 10th tog 19¢€ “MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON” Jane Withers “Pack Up Vos Hroabies” 6116 E. Wash.
SH ERIDAN Formerly The Golden
1st Irvington Showings Gary Cooper “REAL GLORY”. Charles Laughton ‘“JAMAICA INN”
2930 E. 10th Doors Open 6:45
F. MacMurray “HONEYMOON (N BALI” Dorothy Lamour “DISPUTED PASSAGE’
Ed. Ellis “MAIN STREET LAWYER” Norma Shearer “THE WOMEN”
The Mecca 733 N. Noble
Jane Withers— Leo Carrillo ‘‘Chicken Wagon Family” Bette Davis “THE OLD MAID”
ETE SHOULD A GIRL MARRY?"
2—Bruce Cabot—Ralph Byrd Fo PriMICKEY THE KID”
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BLUFFTON MAN
. Charles C. Deam, the Bluffton, Ind., druggist who became a botanist;
Top Forester
Charles C. Deam. . . . “You gather grasses like a cow,” he once told a: professor.
LAUTNER HEADS
BUTLER MUSIC
Closer Jordan-College Tie Sought; Faculty to Be Shifted.
Prof. Joseph Lautner today heads the new department of music at Butler University. The new department was created by President D. S. Robinson and Miss Ada Bicking, a director of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, to bring about a closer affiliation of Butler and the Jordan conservatory. Prof. Lautner also has been named chairman of a joint committee of the two schools to administer the new affiliation agreement. Instruction in the music department’s course will be given on the Butler campus and at the Conservatory. The existing arrangements for the bachelor of science degree in public school music will continue between ‘ the College of Education and the conservatory, President Robinson said. Several faculty members who have been: teaching music in other departments will be placed. under Prof. Lautner’s direction in the new department. :
Dr. Meritt M. Otto of the research department of the Reilly Tar & Chemical Co., and Harry C. Mahan, psychologist at the Indiana State Reformatory, have been appointed to the staff of the Butler University evening division.
MRS. ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U. P.) — Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will deliver an address on “The Churches and World Peace” tonight at the national conference of the Christians and Jews Institute of Human
Relations.
TOWNSENDITES TO MEET Townsend Club 48 will meet at
) 7:30 o’cleek tonight in the I. O. O. F. 1 Hall, 1326 N. Delaware St. The Rev.
R. M. Dodrill, pastor of the Broadway Baptist Church, will preside.
Be Pr
, Lugosi “Phantom Creeps”
BATTLES HER SIST
ER TO COMMIT SUICIDE
P.).—Two middle-aged sisters, the
elder despondent and determined to end her life, struggled on a fifth
|floor window ledge of a hotel for
several minutes today until finally the dejected one broke free and plunged to her death. ! The suicide was Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Potts, 61-year-old 'English-
.4 Woman who was to have sailed home “| tomorrow. She had been spending
a six-months’ visit with her sister, Miss Dorothy Bolton, fn the lat-
{ter’s apartment in the Fairmount
Hotel. Miss Bolton, frantic and near
fall, but the older and stronger woman was able to wrench herself
free. INDANAPOLIS
GYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
FABIEN SEVITZKY, Conductor MURAT THEATER Soloist
BOMAR CRAMER, Pianist
and INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONIC CHOIR Friday, Jan. 19, at 2:45 Saturday, Jan. 20, at 8:30 Prices $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 MURAT BOX OFFICE—RI-9597
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STARTING FRIDAY!
JERSEY CITY, N. J, Jan. 16 (U.|
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