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See My Lawye

- Not love, but litigation, provides the basis for most of the fun-in “See My Lawyer,” the farce comedy which opens at the Civic Theater tonight. The play is by Richard Maibaum and Harry Clork and was produced on Broadway last year by George Abbott, If has to do with three young attorneys who suffer from a woeful deficiency of clients until a millionaire ‘playboy drops into their laps and promises to support them Srougn, ‘his various brushes with the aw “See My Lawyer” is the third production of the Civic season, and the first out-and-out com 2dy. “Of Thee I Sing,” a comedy with music, opened the season, and was followed by Robert E. Sherwood’s “The Petrified Forest.” Richard Hoover has staged the play, and the cast includes Egan Leck; James McDaniel, Andre Rhoads, Noel Collier, William H. Cook,” E. Edward Green, Russell Von Ohlen, Oliver W. Greer, Robert Krueger, Juanna Donnohue, Catherine . Cunningham, | William Tedrowe, = William Thomas, Mary Elizabeth Roth, Aubrey Silien and

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The Indiana University = Choral Union, assisted by the Tabernacle Church of Christ choir from Columbus, Ind. will present its annual Christmas concert at 2:30 p. m. Sunday in the Men’s Gymnasium. The combined choir will be composed of more than 200 voices, ac

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PAGE 33

MOVIES

Constance Moore.

Charles Winninger. Meek.

Indiana

Costas Jean Nathan, the Westbrook Pegler of the New York Critics’ Circle, has written that “the greatest movie actress’ is the girl who has the best director, the best cameraman, the best’ script writer, He even goes further: “As herself she is nothing. » That opinion is’. certainly belied in Warner Bros. magnificent screen version of Somerset Maugham’s puissant play of the tropics, “The Letter.” True, there are few finer Holly= wood technicians than director william Wyler, writer Howard Koch and cameraman Tony Gaudio. Together with a splendid cast they have created a memorable motion picture. But to imply that Bette Davis is simply a composite of director, cameraman, electrician, publicity agent, make-up man, author, and so on, is to let prejudice fog the record. For nearly 10 years Miss Davis has stirred us deeply with her potent characterization of women morally, spiritually and sometimes physically depraved. Who among you will soon forget her great performances in “Dangerous,” “Marked Woman,” “Jezebel,” “Dark Victory,” and . another powerful Maugham story, “Of Human Bondage”? Never, though, has she equaled her present achievement. Particularly since the material with which she is working is of lesser originality than many of those other films. You who saw Katharine Cornell on the stage a dozen years ago or witnessed Jeanne Eagels play it on the screen in 1929 know its brittle fiber. : It is the morbid tale of the wife of an English rubber planter in the Malay States who kills a man presumably in defense of what is known as her honor. As the story uncoils, however, her lawyer learns that there is extant a letter written by her to the dead min on the day of the slaying. The letter fatally incriminates her. Thus the | degrading and desperate task. of the woman and her lawyer is to get the letter away from the dead man’s Eurasian wife.

It is an evil tale. Both Mr. Wyler and Mr. Gaudio have intensified its ominousness with their tense, almost actionless treatment. With

created the dark, humid atmosphere of the rubber country. Mr. Gaudio’s camera moves slowly, watching the drip of tapped rubbér trees, finding a dead body lying in a rubbercuring hut, picking up the lacquered face of the native woman, or focusing significantly on the tinkling Chinese decorations. Mr. Koch’s script, too, is as taut as a drumhead and as receptive to dramatic fingerings. Miss Davis as the calculating and devious killer has superb support in intensifying the somber mood. Herbert Marshall is the excellent unsuspecting husband; Sen Yung as the slyly intelligent clerk now stands as one of the foremost Oriental actors, and Gale Sondegaard is the menacing Eurasian woman. Second only to Miss Davis is James Stephenson as the honest lawyer who jeopardizes his career for a friend.—D. M.

SCENE IS COSTLY

Actress Gene Tierney and Actor William Tracey had to do a barefoot. scene for the film production of ‘Tobacco Road.” Miss Tierney contracted a bad cold; Mr. Tracey, poison ivy.

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE “Tin Pan Alley,” with Alice

Betty rable, Jac Pay; 0, > 12:39, 3: Aer 7: Cokes 1b 10° of, Ba rer ole Weaver, t T15002:80, 5:56 and 5:03, caver: & oo M CIVIO y Lawyer,” a com Richard Matbaurs iy Harry on presented by a Civic Theater orks under Richard Hoover's direction, Engagement through Wednesday; curtain at 8:30. ENGLISH'S “There Shall Be 7? - ort a Shed Pht Ro

4 orf, Sydney Greenstreet. Engagement through Saturday. . Cars jan at 8:30; Saturday matinee at

ik INDIANA “The Letter,” with Bette Davis, Herbert 5:48 1:0 Sames Stephenson,

at 12: 3%. 01 and d 1%: ' with ow,’ Dennis OS eet Constance Moore, at 11:34, 2:46, 5:58 and 9. LOEW’S ttle Nellie Ri 0 with Gar and George M V, Winninger, at 2: 15, 3:25, 6.40 and

:55. ‘Sky Murder,” with Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, at 11, 2:10, 5:20 LYRIO

Wood Hotel” Royus on stage. 3: 4% 6:39 and 9:31.

Judy Charles

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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 6 (U.P,).—|;

Bette Davis Gives Her Grostost Portrayal; dudy Sarland Has Sentimental Dual Role

INDIANA—“The Letter,” with Bette: Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson. Also “Im Nobody's Sweetheart Now,” with Dennis O'Keefe,

LOEW’S—*“Little Nellie Kelly,” with Judy Garland, George Murphy, Also “Sky Murder,”

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During a good PaaL of her fouryear film career, Miss "Judy Garland has played stooge to Mickey Rooney.

Mr. Rooney is of that school of actors which ‘would turn cartwheels upstage while Maurice Evans was delivering Hamlet’s soliloquy. But Miss Garland not only has been noticed, but rewarded with a starring part in “Little Nellie Kelly,” a sentimental Litvof blarfiey which flowed from the prolific pen of George M. Cohan some years

ago. Judy deserves the break. She's not only a vivacious, charming youngster, and pretty in a snubnosed sort of way. She is now one of our most curvaceous young actresses, and she has likewise toned down her singing voice until now practically no one would mistake her for the pumper at Engine House 13 starting out on a run. Which makes Miss Judy practically perfect in the estimate of all but - the most captious. M-G-M has given her a fine chance to spread herself in “Little Nellie Kelly.” Not only does she sing, and very charmingly, but she also plays a dual role, gets to use a little Irish brogue, weeps, cries and gets made love to, and even has a death-bed scene. Some actresses have paid their Equity dues for years without having half those opportunities. “Little Nellie Kelly” is abort the Irish colleen who, marries handsome Jerry Kelly despite her lazy, selfish and pig-headed father. The old man won't speak to Jerry, even unto the second generation. although he rears Jerry’s motherless daughter and partakes of Jerry's hospitality over a period of years. Finally it’s Nellie II who gets her spunk up and brings the old man around. According to a consensus of conservative minds, they live happily ever after. ; Charles Winninger does well with traditional portrayal of the theatrical Irishman, a flannel-mouthed spalpeen if there ever was one. George Murphy is also good in his non-song-and-dance assignment as Jerry. Dougles McPhail lends his baritone voice to the proceedings, and Arthur Shields, late of the Abbey Players, has a minor part. The Abbeyites, bless them, don’t seem to fare very well in Hollywood.—J. T.

CLUB TO PRESENT 'MESSIAH' SUNDAY

olis, an organization sponsored by the studios of Benjamin F. Swarthout, will sing Handel's “Messiah” 8 the Greenwood Methodist hurch Sunday at 3 p. m. Mrs. Agnes Warriner Helgesson, will be the accompanist and soloists will be Lois Morton, Mrs. Lorena Moore Auginbaugh, Agnes Noerr, David Starr Jordan, Raymond Keeslar and Selden Marsh, The program is being sponsored by the Greenwood Matinee Musicale.

CALLS FILMS "VITAL"

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 6 (U.P.).— Singer Carl Brisson, returning from London, today told of a “relatively quiet” Atlantic crossing in which his ship was attacked once by a bomber and twice by submarines. He said American motion pictures were doing a great deal for the morale of the British and that each new film is “as vital right now as war supplies.” :

ning Monday.

The fact that Miss Gar-|: land has been noticed in spite of |: this is distinctly to her credit. For|’

The Qratoria Club of Indianap-|

William Saroyan’s “The Time of Your' Life,” which will arrive for three nights and a matinee beginThis will “give the theater’s management and ‘patrons just one day to draw their breath after the departure of “There Shall Be No Night” tomorrow eve-=-ning. And after the Saroyan play comes the season's first musical comedy, “DuBarry Was a Lady,” ‘which will finish out the week,” commencing Thurgday night. “The Time of Your Life will give this city’s theater-goers. a chance to reach a definite conclusion about the muchdiscussed Mr. Saroyan, a fledgling playwright who last year won the New' York Drama Critics’ Circle award and not only won, but turned down the Pulitzer Prize,

There are | two main groups in the theatrical camp today. One holds that Mr. Saroyan is a genius. And in this belief they are fortunately bolstered by the enthusiastic support of Mr. The other group,

Mr. Saroyan

which thinks bers rapidly to the other camp.

lands,” the first Saroyan play to be produced, reached Broadway, there was a general scoffing from the journalistic fraternity in the alsle seats! Buf by the time the next offering (which is the one in question) was presented, the critics were in a. more kindly mood. Either they had caught the Saroyan spirit or the playwright was doing a better job.

At any rate, Mr. Saroyan found hifself hailed as the theater’s fairhaired boy. This fact ‘surprised practically everyone but.the selfassertive author and, perhaps, Eddie Dowling, the co-producer and co-star of “The Time of Your Life.” , Mr. Dowling is the retired song-

Saroyan himself. |

otherwise, seems to be losing. mem-

When “My Heart's in the High-|

‘Time of Your Life! Next On Calendar at Enclish's

Next on English's calendar comes and-dance man who did an abrupt

about-face a few seasons back by presenting Maurice Richard II." two of Paul Vincent Carroll’s excel lent ‘pieces, “Shadow and Substance” and “The White Steed.”

- When the Saroyan manuscripts) ‘came to hand he sensed their pos-

sibilities. “Not only did he hook up with the Theater Guild to present English’s forthcoming play, but he also undertook one of the two leading parts. Julie Haydon is the other featured player.

LILY PONS TO GET

CITIZENSHIP TODAY |

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Dec. 6 (U. P.).—Lily Pons, famous opera singer, is to become an American citizen today. ; Miss Pons, wife of orchestra leader Andre Kostelanetz, will appear before U. S. Judge Carroll C. Hincks for admission to citizenship. She was not required to take out first papers because her ‘husband is a citizen.

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