Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1940 — Page 14
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MOVIES
'Doctor Takes a Wife' Proves Good Medicine for Laughs
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Ea CIRCLE—"“Buck Benny Rides Again,” with Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, cee (Rochester) Anderson, Andy Devine. Also “Opened by Mistake,” th Charlie Ruggles, Janice Logan (second week),
INDIANA—“If I Had My Way,” with Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, aries Winninger. Also “Enemy Agent,” with Richard Cromwell, Helen
LOEW’'S—“The Doctor Takes a Wife,” with Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick. Also “Two Girls on Broadway,” With Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy.
LYRIO—"Dark Command,” with Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, on screen. Also “Variety Revels,” with Paul Remos and Toy Boys, Three Swifts, Aunt Jemima, on stage.
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In the wake of the headlines, you may feel that what you and the country need right now is a little laughter by way of an antidote. In that case “The Doctor Takes a Wife” is what the doctor ordered. Here is an amiable taffy pull, somewhat drawn out but distinctly diverting. Some of the gags are as old as the plot is preposterous, and the slapstick mood becomes too, too madeap upon occasion. Still and al], there's & good cast, bright lines ———————— and a couple of devastating situa- » Lyric “Dark Command” is made from
tions. The plot is set up when a young the same cloth that Republic used to concoct “Stagecoach.”
doctor gives a lift to a thoroughly unpleasant, man-hating young authoress whose “Spinsters Aren't Spinach” is a best-seller, The two 3 " quarrel all the way from somewhere| 'hile the materials seem to have in Massachusetts to Greenwich, |grown a little thin the result is alConn. There a confused urchin ties most as good as the really highclass “Stagecoach.” Probably highest on the list of reasons why “Dark Command” stands out is an excellent cast,
a “Just Married” sign on the doctor’'s, not the newlyweds’, car. On such chance happenings are empires Claire Trevor is a lovely person with a lovely voice and she understands how to be convincing. John
won and lost, and movies built, Wayne, with 10 years of cowboy
The quarrel continues in the young lady’s apartment. The doctor work in thé movies behind him, is typical as .a movie marshal, slow-
gets drunk, then drunker. The press rushes in, vaults over the young lady’s denial and espies the doctor, talking, retiring in love, direct in gunplay. Republic shot the works in the
trouserless, in the bedroom. The situation, though blameless, is delirest of the casting, They brought in Roy Rogers, who usually takes
cate. About all that the plot needs to slip into high gear are a couple: of excuses for keeping up appearances f the sh marriage, and the preshe of it ce Tren are [Singing cowboy leads, and George provided, and things get to rolling. Hayes, the all-talking version of a June (that's the authoress) needs (living sleeping-bag. And they too the marriage to last so that she may [another leading man in the person write a new book and cash in on the of usual-hero in the “B" pictures, Walter Pidgeon, and made a villain out of him. Has Civil War Setting The movie is big. It presages more of the promise Republic has
publicity. And it's just as imporbeen threatening in its move to
tant to Tim (that's the doctor), bebecause he has won a coveted protake over some of the prestige that usually has gone to the bigger
fessorship on the strength of his studios.
marital status. The movie tells the story of
Just when it's all over, of course, June and Tim learn that the tender border troubles in Kansas in the days preceding and during the
passion has got 'em. This realization comes when Dr. Tim gives an Civil War. Mary McCloud (Miss Trevor) lives
emergency performance in a farmhouse, while June forgets that she at Lawrence, Kas.,, with her banker father (Porter Hall) and her
is a career woman and assists at the kitchen stove, Among the film's shining virtues fs one hectic, sequence, without doubt the funniest of the season, in wich TT, Tin, With a hahigover, brother, Fletch (Mr. Rogers). Violence has begun to break out between the proponents of slavery and freedom, there to vote the territory into the Union according te their precepts.
conducts a violent search for his stolen pants while a quartet from Two men love her. Will Cantrell (Mr. Pidgeon) is a mild school-
Postal Telegraph and a trio from Western Union sing wedding greetteacher The other is Bob Seton (Mr, Wayne), an illiterate Texas
ings in desperate and dissonant competition. These few serewpall cowboy, who defeats Cantrell for the job of town marshal,
moments are worth the price of admission. Embittered, Cantrell turns his coat and becomes leader of a band
From Dixie
Lee Dixon brings his Dixieland band from Duke University to Tom Devine's Music Hall for appearances tonight and tomorrow
who was her first movie director.
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These are only a few of the well-wishers who greeted May Robson on her 76th birthday recently, The occasion also rounded out 50 years—no less—of movie acting for Miss Robson. She was one of the first to pose for the Vitascope “pictures that move” in 1890. Congratulating the veteran actress, now at work on her 85th picture, are (left to right) Preston Foster, Gary Cooper, Cecil B. DeMille and Lynne Overman. Seated beside Miss Robson is J. Stuart Blackton,
MUSIC
By JAMES THRASHER
Festival Concert Proves Ours Is Orchestral Nation
with a concert in the Murat.
chamber compositions heard in the festival's previous concerts, And the works which Fabien Sevitzky chose for these programs may be considered representative,
So it seems safe to say that the orchestra is the 20th Century composer's chief inspiration, as the piano stimulated creators of a hundred years ago and the string quartet the musicians of the 18th Century. Mr. Sevitzky conducted the Jordan Conservatory Orchestra and the Jordan-Butler Choir last night in music of uniformly high merit. If there were no towering masterpieces, neither were there any arid stretches. Of the eight numbers played, three were given their first Indianapolis performance, while one was having its first performance anywhere. This was the Ballade for Viola and Orchestra by Harriet Payne, in which the composer took the solo part, Miss Payne, of course, in an Indianapolitan, born and bred, and most generally known here as violist and pianist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and as a teacher. But she is also a prolific and gifted composer. The Ballade was the first f her “big” works to be done here, but her most ambitious creations have been performed by other American orchestras, On a first hearing there were several impressive features of Miss Payne's Ballade, noteworthy are the economy of thematic material and the ingenuity of its development. There is everywhere an avoidance of the obvious in the mildly astringent harmonies. Miss Payne has scored the work to give the solo instrument due prominence, and has brightened the orchestral background to compensate for the viola's rather somber tone. The general mood is rhapsodic, perhaps a bit melancholy. It is a thoroughly melodic work, though the melody is not exactly orthodox. And it proclaims throughout its measures the fact that its composer possesses an original mind and a remarkably fluent command of orchestral writing. . .. All these are first impressions. What another performance might reveal must wait upon a second hearing. » » » LAST NIGHT'S program, and the whole festival, in fact, directed attention to composers rather than performers. Yet it would be unfair to give less than special attention to Dorothy Munger’s playing of the MacDowell Second Piano Concerto. At its conclusion there was bounteous applause, fortified by some brave shouts of approval. For a few moments it seemed that Mrs. Munger would steal the show from both composers and colleagues. Her ovation was entirely merited, for her playing had all the ingredients which the music requires. Sure fingers, a sparkling bravura, ¢larion tone, and a style which could be heroic, sprightly and lyrical by turn. The Mac-
WHEN DOES IT START?
CIRCLE
y Rides Again,’ with llen Drew, Rochester, 12:40, 3:50, 7 and 10:05. “Opened by Mistake,” with Charlie Ruggles. at 11:35, 3:50, 2:45, 5:50 and 9,
INDIANA
“IH I Had My Way,” with Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, at 12:38, 3:44, 6:50 and 9:56. “Enemy nt,” with Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson, at 11:37, 2:43, 5:49 and 8:55.
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retta Young,
OURS IS AN ORCHESTRAL AGE and an orchestral nation, one is led to conclude after hearing the three programs in the Jordan Conservatory's Festival of American Music, which closed last night
The conclusion may be a hasty one, Yet the music heard last evening, all of which employed full orchestra, far surpassed the solo and
Particularly
Dowell Second, if it is a thoroughly conventional concerto, is nevertheless a very effective one, And under Mrs. Munger's vive ifying influence, it became capital fun. As for the other “first time” performances, they were Albert Stoessel's “Festival Fanfare,” effective paraphrase on B: chorales; two choruses from Henry Hadley's “Ode to Music,” and “Noel” and “Jubilee,” two of the Symphonic Sketches by George Chadwick. Also on the program were Dubensky's “Tom Sawyer” Overture, Paul White's “Voyages of the Mayflower” and, as an addition to the printed program, an orchestra arrangement of several Stephen Foster melodies. To comment upon all the music would certainly drag this discussion out to undue length—and anyone who sat through last night's generous program will appreciate a little brevity, But the subject cannot be left without some generous praise to the Jordan orchestra's performance under Mr. Sevitzky's baton, and to the conductor himself, who brought the young players to a satisfying state of competence and led them with unflagging diligence. Last of all, there should be a paragraph of congratulation to all those connected with this series of American programs. The advantages and disadvantages of such an event are obvious but the point is that there has been a willingness to plan, prepare and present these evenings free of charge. Those who took advantage of the Jordan's generosity doubtless know considerably more about American music today than they did before Wednesday. True, some of the music was scarcely worth preparing or listening to, but last night's concert redeemed most of the previous sins.
D'MILLE'S RAIN GAG BACKFIRES
HOLLYWOOD, May 11 (U. P). —Producer Cecil B. DeMille admitted today that his latest publicity stunt had been too much of a success. He brought 20 Navajo Ine dians to town for movie parts and asked them, as a gag, to pray for rain. The tribe has been drought stricken for seven years. The Indians beseeched their rain
god for a storm. It stormed so hard that four companies on location in Southern California and Arizona abandoned fllming of pictures,
GORDON BINKERD : TO GIVE RECITAL
Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind, May 11.—Gordon W. Binkerd, piano instructor at Franklin College, will give a recital of music from Bach to Schoenberg in the college chapel at 4 p. m. tomorrow, Other composers included in Mr. Binkerd's diversified list are Brahms, Chopin, Granados, Mendelssohn, Satie, Prokofiev and de Falla.
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Fountain Square Theater Has Twelfth Anniversary
THIS MONTH marks the 12th anniversary of the opening of the Fountain Square Theater, South Side bellwether of the group that includes the Fountain Square, the Granada and the Sanders.
The Fountain Square was opened May 5, 1928.
The Sanders
was already in operation then and the Granada had opened a few
months previously. In 1033 the three theaters were placed under one management, with Morris Horowitz, president; B. E. Sagalowsky, secretary and treasurer, and Earl Cunningham, manager, No special celebration has been planned. As Mr, Cunningham typically says: “The theaters play all the pictures, anyhow, and the month of May happens to be a good one for movie fans.” The Fountain Square and the Granada each seat 1500 persons and the Sanders seats 600. All three are clustered around Fountain Square within 150 yards of each other. In most cases the Granada or the Fountain Square show first run for the South Side and the Sanders shows the same picture a few weeks later, This grouping of three theaters under the same management within that small area has aroused national attention. When anyone thinks of the Fountain Square he immediately thinks of Earl Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham has been in the theater business many years. He used to be a “theater doctor” for Paramount in the lush days of that company when they ruled ail the roost. He was a kind of efficiency expert. In later years he was in the field casting department. He wasn't exactly a talent scout, hut he was supposed to keep his eyes open for good material. Some of the youngsters he first put on the Hollywood trail are now seasoned, successful stars.
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SOME MAY THINK the day of the short comedy is over but not the youngster at the Tacoma recently. He was brought, crying “as if his heart would break,” to Al Ackerman, Tacoma manager, recently, The previews had run a little long and he was sure going to be any comedy . . . Mr, Ackerman calls to our attention the fact that Tioga, Tex. has recently been rechristened Autry Springs, in honor of its most distinguisired native, Gene Autry, Mr, Ackerman also says the Tacoma is showing Mr. Autry tomorrow through Tuesday in “Rancho Grande,” . . , The Granada is bringing back “Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone, Monday through Wednesday . . , A probable alltime record will be hung up next week when the Esquire shows, for the third time this season, “Honeymoon in Bali” and “ The Cat and the Canary,” tomorrow and Mon=day, and “The Great Victor Herbert” and “Remember the Night,” Tuesday and Wednesday.
» » » The Cantor Theaters have been running a trailer in each of their houses recommending that “in these hectic times of war, why wouldn't it be a good idea to go to church?” The management also shows a trailer each Saturday urging church attendance for the following day. They say they have received a gratified response from church leaders here , . . Starting Thursday the Irvington will go on a summer booking policy with only two program changes, one Thursday and one
Monday. » » »
The week-end calendar follows:
BELMONT-—-Tonight: “Lone Wolf “Strikes” and ‘Green Hell.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: “Virginia City” and
“Calli Philo Vance. CINEMA —Toni ht: “Northwest Pas-
sage’ and shorts. Tomorrow through Tuesday: ‘‘Oastle on the Hudson” and
"Granny n. DAIS ght: “Two Thoroughbreds’’ and ‘‘Liano Kid." Tomorrow and Monday: ‘Man from Dakota” and “Slightly Honorable.” E SON-—Tonight: ‘Northwest Passage’ and selected shorts, Tomorrow through Wednesday: ‘Broadway Melody of 1940" and ‘Escape to Paradise.” ESQUIRE-—Tonight: “Northwest Pas"and ‘‘Scrappily Married.” Tomorrow and Monday: ‘Honeymoon in Bali” and ‘‘Cat and the Canary.” FOUNTAIN SQUARE—Tonight through Tuesday: ‘Virginia City” and “Calling Philo Vance.” GRANADA—-T on ight and tomorrow: “Pinocchio” and ‘Ma, He's Making Eves
at Me. HAMILTON-Tonight: “Hold That Kiss” and ‘Castle on the Hudson.” Tomorrow through Wednesday: “Broadway Melody of 1940" and “Man from Da-
kota." HOLLYWOOD—Tonight: “His Girl Friday’ and ‘Gentleman from Arizona.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: ‘‘Three Cheers for the Irish” and ‘Ma, He’ Making Eyes at Me.” MECCA—Tonight: ‘Showdown and “Invisible Stripes.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: ‘My Little Chickadee” and “The Shop Around the Corner.’ RIENTAL—-Tonight: “Invisible “Stripes” and n
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day’ and ‘The Lone f Strikes.” PARAMOUNT--Tonight: ‘West of Car« son City” and "British Intelligence.” Tomorrow and Monday: “Judge Hardy and Son’ and Invisible Stripes.’ PARKER--Tonight: “Little Old New York” and “Vigil in the NigHR." Tomorrow through Tuesday: ‘My Little Chickadee” and “Man from Montreal.” REX -— Tonight: “Marines Fly High" and ‘The Texans.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: “I Take This Womaf” and “Swiss Family Robinson.” RITZ-—Tonight: “Granny Get Your Gun’ and “Blondie on a Budget.” Tomorrow through Wednesday: ‘Man from Dakota” and ‘Castle oh the
udson.” RIVOLI--Tonight and tomorrow: *Vire ginia City” end ‘Adventure in Diamonds.”” Last show tonight only: ‘Tropic Holiday." WST. OLAIR—Tonight and tomorrow: ‘Strange Oargo’’ and ‘Ghost Comes Home." SANDERS-—Tonight: “Roving Tumble. weeds” and “Main Street Lawyer.” Tomorrow and Monday "The Shop Around the Corner’ and “Nick Carter, Master Detective." SHERIDAN--Tonight: “Union Pacific’ and “Man About Town.” Tomerrow through Wednesday “I__ Take This Woman’ and ‘Grapes of Wrath.” SPEEDWAY-—Tonight:: “Invisible Stripes” and “City of Chance.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: ‘Virginia City’ and ‘‘Honeymoon Deferred.’ STATE Tonight: ‘Man Who Wouldn't Talk” and ‘“‘Code of the Cactus.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: “Grapes of Wrath” and “Marines High." v STRAND--Tonight and tomorrow: Virginia City’ and “Green Hell.” STRATFORD—Tonight: ‘Sante Fe Marshal” and “Man Who Wouldn't Talk, Tomorrow through ‘Tuesday: ‘Little ‘Old New York” and “He Married His Wife.” TACOMA--Tonight: ‘Northwest Passage” and selected shorts. Tomorrow through Tuesday: “Broadway Melody of 1940" and ‘Rancho Grande.” TALBOTT-—Tonight: “Granny Get Your Gun” and ‘Isle of Destiny.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: ‘Broadway Melody of 1040” and ‘‘Castle on the Hudson." TUXEDO--Tonight: “Castle on the udson” and ‘Granny Get Your Gun.” Tomorrow through Wednesday: ‘* Carpe and ‘‘Ghost Comes Home." UPTOWN Tonight: ‘Ghost Comes Home” and “Invisible Man Returns.’ Tomorrow through Wednesday: ‘Strange Cargo’ and ‘Slightly Honorable.” VOGUE-—-Tonight: City" and ‘Mexican Tomorrow in the
through ‘Vigil ght and ‘Broadway Melody of 1040." 4 “Three Cheers for
ARING- Tonight: the Irish” and ‘‘Bscape to Paradise.” Tomorrow through Saturday: ‘“Pinoce chio” and "Saliae Philo Vance.” DOWNTOWN
ALAMO--Tonight through Monday: ‘Young Buffalo Bill,” They Came hy Night” and “Drums of Fu Manchu.” Last show tonight only: ‘Pull Confes-
sion, AMBASSADOR — Tonight: ‘‘Virgini City” and “Adventure in Diamonds + Tomorrow through Wednesday: ‘Strange Cargo” and ‘Ghost Comes Home.”
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SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1040 'Sit-Down’ Gave Hoover
Insatiable Love for Civic
Richard Hoover’s professional entrance into the Temple of Thespis was marked by a protracted “sit-down.” Ten years ago, fresh out of Shortridge High School, Mr. Hoover
went to work at the
Civic Theater as assistant electrician for a
production of “Saint's Parade.” He came to work on Saturday and
remained in the theater for eight sleeping on the stage until the play opened the following Saturday. Somehow, Mr, Hoover's family recovered from the shock and admitted him once more to the shelter of their roof. But Mr. Hoover never got over the love of the theater which his first experience betokened.
Today, an older and wiser man, he is back at the Civic as guest director. He now gets out for meals and sleeps in his own bed, but his enthusiasm has kept pace with his increased knowledge. That may be one of the reasons why he was invited to come over from Pittsburgh after Edward Steinmetz Jr.'s resignation from the Civic directorate and stage “Co-respondent Unknown,” the last bill of the Civic’s 25th season. Mr. Hoover finds himself today in the surroundings where he learned his theatrical A. B. Cs. He graduated from his first job as assistant electrician to one in charge of properties and costumes. In 1931-32, when the Civic fell upon evil days, he was one of the staff members who volunteered for double duty and passed up salaries. That year the bookkeeper also became the janitor, the press agent took on the electrician’s work, and Mr. Hoover added the job of stage manager to his property duties. He continued as stage manager the next season and then went back
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Frederick Burleigh as director, A couple of years later he became the Civie's publicity. man, mixing in a few odd jobs of performance. Mr. Hoover doesn’t apply any wishful trimmings to his career as an actor, “I played parts that nobody else would,” he says. “In-all I think I had 12 parts with 17 lines.” He also directed a Children’s Theater play and prepared the Civics production of “Excursion” while Director Alfred Etcheverry was on his honeymoon. Two years ago Mr. Hoover went with Mr. Burleigh to the Pittsburgh Playhouse, where he has been publicity head and assistant director. In the summer he employs his publicity and managerial talents for the South Shore Players at Cohasset, Mass. Completely free from diffidence regarding his early and humble service at the Civic, Mr. Hoover included in his cast for “Co-respond-ent Unknown” some players who “knew him when.” Two of these, Reginald Garstang and C. C. Robinson, were playing leads when he first started. Fanchon Fattig, one of the current play's principals, made her Civic bow as a maid during Mr. Hoover's second season, Frances Westcott was a Yale classmate of Hale MacKeen, the Civic’s director 10 years ago. ’ Fortunately, Mr, Hoover says, there has been no embarrassment surrounding his return in the role of “boss.” The veteran players
days and seven nights, eating and sought him out before rehearsals started and assured him that he was the director and his theatrical word was law, There is no discernible attitude of “local boy makes good” around the Civic this week, however, With the play opening Friday night, there isn’t any time for temperament or nostalgia.
English Honor
Davis and Donat
HOLLYWOOD, May 11 (U, P.) = Bette Davis and Robert Donat learned today that they have won the gold medal of merit for the best screen performances in England. Miss Davis won on the basis of her performance in “Dark Victory”; Mr, Donat for his role in “Goodbye, Mr. Chips.” Wendy Hiller and Laurence Olivier, both British ac~ tors, were runnersup.
PARK OFFICIALLY OPEN
Although Riverside Park has been open for two weeks, the formal opening ceremonies will take place today and tomorrow at the North Side amusement center.
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STOKOWSKI PLANS NYA TOUR AUDITIONS
WASHINGTON, May 11 (U, P.) — Leopold Stokowski, noted orchestra conductor, wired the National Youth Administration from Hollywood today that he will proceed with auditions which the NYA has arranged in connection with his plan to form an American ‘Youth Orchestra for a tour of Latin America.
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