Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1940 — Page 8
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NEW YORK, April 18—Appearing on the s with distinguished authors may give an actor something to tell the grandchildren, but it’s no cinch d g the actual process. That, at least, is the conclusion of Donald Cook, who has the
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“Skylark.” Mr. Cook played with Alexander Woollcott in “Wine of Choice,” with Thornton Wilder in “Our Town” and with Sinclair Lewis in “It Can’t Happen Here.” His impressions are set forth as follows: “All were easy and natural on the stage, but they lacked stage technique. Woollcott would constantly try to improve the script by adding lines here and there, very often straying fro the cue. Lewis, though he knew his lines and generally kept to them, couldn’t understand why he had to be on a certain spot at a certain word. “Wilder spoke too rapidly for anyone to follow.”
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Confronted with. an embarrassment of husbands, Jean Arthur tries to keep the peace between Spouses Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas in “Too Many Husbands,” opening at Loew’s tomorrow.
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Here we see Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres in an unclinical moment from “Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case,” the other featue on Loew’s new bill.
Opesing Today
Lyrie Eid “BOONE COUNTY JAMBOREE” (on stage)—With Lulu Belle and Scotty, Jim Day, Tex Owens, Girls of the Golden West, Dolly and Millie Good, Helen Diller, others. “ZANZIBAR” (on screen) —With Lola Lane, James Craig, Eduardo Cianelli. Directed by Harold Schuster. A glamorous ‘big game huntress, African head hunters, jungle beasts and an erupting volcano—mixed thoroughly and served piping hot.
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Alamo “LEGION OF LOST FLIERS”—With Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Directed by Christy Cabanne.
crackup for which he is blamed. There he joins a “flying legion” and eventually gets both confession and girl. “TEXAS RENEGADES”—With Tim McCoy, Nora Lane. Directed by Peter Stewart. : Circle
“DR. CYCLOPS”—With Albert Dekker, Janice Logan, Thomas Coley. Directed by Ernest Schoedsack. The, wicked Dr. Thorkel gets three colleagues in a Peruvian mine shaft, turns on the radium and reduces them to a height of 14 inches. Fortunately the doctor is done away with and two of the pint-sized victims grow up and get married. “FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS”—With Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey. Directed by Anthony Asquith; based on the play by Terence Rattigan. About an attractive and predatory female who descends upon Prof. Maingot’s School for English Gentlemen in the south of France. The results, it seems, are dire.
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country. A prospectus outlining details has been mailed to 1500 “little theater” groups, college and school dramatic societies and similar organizations.
First step, according to present plans, will be the formation of a producing company. Its affairs would be directed by leading American managers, actors, playwrights and scene designers.
The National Theater and Academy’s intention at present is to produce five plays a season and tour them about the country, particularly to communities which would never
Times Special NEW YORK, April 18.—Plans for a National People’s Theater (for that will probably be the name) have been set in ‘motion by the American National Theater and Academy, of which Robert E. Sherwood is president. This theater would be self-sup-porting and without government subsidy, and would make stage plays available at a maximum price of $1.50 to the greatest possible number of communities throughout the
Indiana : “JOHNNY APOLLO”—With Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan. Directed by Henry Hathaway. The son of an embezzling investment broker turns gangster when his father goes to Jail in an attempt to get money for father’s parole. The boy winds up in the penitentiary himself, tries to break out and'is prevented by his father. Father is shot but evérything turns out all right. “CHARLIE CHAN IN PANAMA”—With Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel Atwill." Directed by Norman Foster. This one, in‘a word, is about Charlie Chan in Panama.
Loew’s “TOO MANY HUSBANDS”—With Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport. Directed by Wesley Ruggles; based on a play by Somerset Maugham. Enoch Arden, or Mr. MacMurray, comes back from a supposed watery see a good professional production grave to find his wife married to his business partner. After several| under present circumstances. There |tangled reels Wife divorces Husband No. 1 and remarries Husband No. 2; would be separate acting companies {then divorces Husband No. 2 and remarries Husband No. 1. = for each play, and they would be “DR. KILDARE’S STRANGE CASE”—With Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrypresented two or three weeks apart. more, Laraine Day. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet. It is planned that the National Dr. Kildare is still having adventures, and Dr. Gillespie is still alive. People’s Theater operate &s a non-|This time the young physician administers an insulin shock to a brain profit enterprise. operation patient t to bring him back to sanity.
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