Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1941 — Page 27

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“Burlesque,” ” 8 trifling play which, i,q sour scenes By George

poiled down, tells the story of a woman who "“goes” for a man who does her “dirt.” But she keeps coming back for more.

ater group is no easy task. And it

-|is on this score that Director Hoo-

Gene Raymond and. Jeanette McDonald, wisn and wife i real fe,

are cast ay oung sweethe Through,” opening to

PAY RAISE ENDS | MATURE'S STRIKE

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 16 ( Actor Victor Mature ot mmave; while, Producer Hal Roach agreed, fo boost iis .pay to ‘$1850 'a week while he” 48. on loan to another studio. The raise ended 'Mature's brief . “The ‘actor refused to go 40 e.' 20th ' Century-Fox, ot for work unless. he. received mi than his contractual $450 a week.

in the technicolor version of “Smilin’ at Loew's.

Openings Tomorrow

CIRCLE — “Sergeant York,” with Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and Joan Leslie. INDIANA—“New York Town” with. Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Robert Preston and Akim Tamiroff, Also “Henry ‘Aldrich for President,” with Jimmy Lydon, June Preisser, Mary Anderson and Charles Smith. \

LOEW'S —“Smilin’ Through,” with Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond-and Ian Hunter. Also “Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day,” with ' Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Larraine Day and Red Skelton, LYRIO—Managér Pete Bathory: will Shouse’ the new.. bill tor morrow.

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“HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 16. —Abtress Merrick, ‘18, has.i signed a

| movie “contrsict -Which . eventually

will provide a $1000 a week salary.

Superior Judge Emmet H. Wilson |

Anproved the contract with Republic: Pictures, and mentioned that the young actress’ taxes would: be ‘high. “Tm 8p shappy to have taxes to

worry .about that I’m not“ worried

‘about; taxes,”

“she told ‘the Judge. PLAINLY: DRESSED

Claudette Colbert has one costume in “Skylark”in° which she doesn't

ver deserves a warm commendation. Acting Like ‘Actors

Mr. Hoover is one who constantly drives for a fast pace and after the lame and dragging first act, he had his charges going at a good rate of speed. So much so, in fact, that some lines were said without much

‘ meaning. Last night, however, was : night, In adress O0 & Gnemendous Wad of Chewing

really hardly more "than rehearsgl and one can ihe that such matters will work themselves as the run goes on. (The play will be presented nightly until Oct. 22.) “Burlesque” really is the story of Bonny and. how she manages tc pusih her unambitious, unfaith husband, Skid, onto ‘Broadway, bu meantime losing him to the cunning Sylvia Marco. There are some heart | throbs stuck around here and ther in the plot, but as seen last. night they are none too convincing. Ray Robinson as Skid does an energetic job and there are a couple of times when he turned some fine pieces of acting. His neurotic out burst against his wife and her “new man” in the second act had his audience correctly tense. .

Background of Burlesque

And when‘ he returns to the show (in Act IID: from a long and wear-

{ing drunk ahd there in the theater

finds his ‘wife again, he ‘is excellent. This show is laid against a background of burlesque. Speaking as a person who spent his more formative years in pool rooms and fall-ing-down burlesque = ‘houses; it seemed. to this reviewer: that the background was rather’ authéntic. Dorofhy ‘Robinson, as’ Mazie, a “featured performer,” gets “off “her business: in - the approved Mae Westian manner. :

she sings a couple of - songs ‘that are sure things for comedy. The top comedy honors, go to William "Cook, who as Bozo, a: burlesque clown, doés a strip-tease act that drew the lustiest guffaws of

the evening.

. Sol Blumenthal, playing the. role

flof Lefty, the company manager, is

a hard but warm-hearted man and

Hoover returned dor ; ay Sooner " Wado, ahatrr] St.‘thespians |

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«Juanii Chorus Girls—Sue Canny, - Jenny Lind Duncan, Addy Martin, Freda Brill, Betty Jean Balz and Natalie Pinnell,

John Connor, a rancher who falls in love with Bonny, is appropriately seedy and at the same time sincere. And ‘before: passing,iwe must remark that the chorus was correctly sloppy and indifferent. Even to the was | girl third from the left who gnaws

O Biirlesque”. has its laughs and an occasional heart tug—but that's as far ag wish to go—F. P. -

Actress Spurns Finnish Medal

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (U.P.).—The

Fight for Freedom Committee has revedled that actress Gertrude Lawrence refused a Finnish Government medal offeréd in return for her work in raising Finnish relief funds last year bécause she believed Pinland “is now the vassal of Nazi| Germany.” “ I cannot help being convinced that it is one more case in which the Government of a small country is being used by the Nazis|m in .an attempt to make people of good will and humanity appear to indorse the actions of the Nazi regime,” she said in a letter to the Finnish Relief Fund, through which|™ manne the medal had been offered.

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Comedy to Open

.English's Season

“Father's Day,” a new comedy by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett starring Charles Butterworth,

opens at English’s tonight for a three-day stay that will include a Saturday matinee. ' Curtain Himes are 8:30 and 2:30 p. m. ‘The show opened last week in Cléveland, O., and comes here from ‘Columbus, O., where it played three days. The company ‘was to arrive in the city about hoon. “Father's Day” opens the season at English’s and Manager Vincent Burke reported this morning that the theater has been put through the annual cleaning should be “shining” by tonight.

‘MAP CHANGES FAST

Because the map of Europe was changing too fast, a scene Setyeeh Mary Martin and ‘Bob Preston in “New York Town” had oT be altered to show them examining South America on the globe.

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HOLLYWQOD, Oct. 16 (U; P.).— Jimmy (Schnozzle) Durante was nursing a cracked rib today, but his nose was all right. Durante was doing ‘an ‘adagio dance, dressed in feminine clothes, and he tripped and fell,

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