Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1941 — Page 6

THE TIME IS FAST APPROACHING WHEN the spirit of Christ- |

‘mas will be in us-all—and money will be flowing about much more

freely. We'll be feeling ‘otrselves.

With such a happy state of plentitude and g ing, what better time than now for the moving pict: g out some of their choice items? And wha frsi ‘than ‘Garbo, Crosby and March to draw.

the customers’ pockets? “Tomo1ro “new downtown movies are’ fnown to. the trade as : ‘box office “naturals.” ake. Garbo, for instance. + Years ago she seers. to have - “lost her first name (Greta) ‘some t place and simultaneously become ‘a million-dollar start. In all her new pictures she is introduced as { “néw Garbo” (customarily printed With capitals and red ink). Her present one, ‘“Two-Faced Woman,” is no exception in this:

: We are assiired by the M-G ‘publicity department that ud ) rhumbas,: cooks, skis, sings—and shows off a new : ro bob (short) that is intended - $to set: all" the: woman ~whacking ‘Tat their long hair like people ~ | possessed with the barber's devil.

{and vice versa. When he returns “to New York, however, an old * flame, Constance Bennett, again + gets him in her clutches and it 4 looks bad for Garbo. .. But at’ this point, Garbo dis“guises herself as her “twin sister,” ‘slaps on the glamour and gets Melvyn back in the fold. And that’s that. In the “interesting facts” de- . partment we find that: 1. This is the tHird time that Mr. Douglas has played opposite Garbo, a record unequalled. 2. The picture was directed by George Cukor, who bossed the ‘great one in “Camille” and also ‘turned out. “The Philadelphia ° Story” and “A Woman's Face.” 3. Robert Alton, Broadway dance instructor who came out to teach "Garbo, got along with her so well they put him in the picture.

bo # = = _ Swingin’ the Blues

IF YOU like the blues, Crosby and hot brass, then surely a listing of some the song titles will be the best recommendation for “Birth of the Blues,” opening tomorrow at the Indiana. So: “St. Louis =Blues,” “By the ‘Light of the : “Tiger Rag,” “Wait Till the Sun | Shines, Nellie,” “Memphis Blues,” : “After the Ball,” “Shine,” “Birth of the 'Blues” and “My Melan- ~ choly Baby.”

Silvery = Moon,”

‘like lavishing the very best upon our friends ‘and, contagious spirit that it is, we're more apt to jo the Esire for

nerosity “prevail-

He) magnetic

ge Si ; i :

With an auth lent by the presence of Jack Teagarden, the ‘bonist, this pict “the musical pio gers of Memphis and New Orlei who favored

ican music out of the rut and put it ‘in the groove.’ ” It is laid in New Orleans about the year: 1210, when a bunch of

the country, except perhaps on Beale St. in Memphis. Bing is a clarinet-tooting = bandleader in search of a hot eornet man. Brian Donlevy turns out te be

him he also becomes acquainted with Mary Martin, who learns to sing “Negro style.” Crosby’s Basin ‘Street Hot Shots are the

| hottest players in all the Delta.

Theyre so hot, in fact, they have a chance to go to Chicago, but the night club owner, J. Carrol Naish, puts the damper on that. If they're g¢ at all, their going to do it at his place, says he. . Then comes the escape at night, a river-boat ride up Chicago-way and bigger successes, up where everybody in the world can” hear them play the new “blues.”

8 8 Plain Religion - WILLIAM H. SPENCE was a

preached in a “half-dozen Iowa

years ago. But for ‘a “son, Hartzell, who turned out to be a writer, tie Rev. Mr. Spence | probably would never have been known beyond his family and those religionloving ‘flocks to whom he administered. His son, however, wrote a novel about his father and his simple lifg and the book became a best seller, And now Warners have’ made it into a movie, with Fredric March as the Rev. William H. Spence and Martha Scott as his everhelpful and strengthening wife. - “One Foof in Heaven” is no more than a story of. this man, the pastor, his decision to join the clergy, his marriage, his family and his work. From parish to parish the Spences go, facing everywhere

roofs that leak and congregations

e boys to begin | the jingles out of tic touch being t “blues”. tromis dedicated to: the ‘hot’ over the ‘sweet’-—those | early jazz men who took Amer-

Basin St. musicians were playing music heard, no other place in

his man and when he meets

Such atrocities as Eddie Garr delivering a hunk of ice to a member of the audience (who might be a stooge) will be commitfed at English’s tonight in the name of “Hellzapoppin’.” The musical revue will be here

for four days, with matinees tomorrow and Saturday.

going to play hot

Opening Tomorrow—

Methodist minister who lived and .

towns and cities. He died ‘five

CIRCLE—‘‘One Foot in Heaven,” with Fredric March and Martha Scott. Also “Nine Lives Are Not Enough,” with Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry and James Gleason. ‘INDIANA —“‘Birth of the Blues,” with Bing Crosby, Brian Donlevy, Rochester, - Mary Martin, Carolyn. Lee and J. ‘Carrol

Naish. Also “Among the Living,”

with Albert Dekker, Susan -Hayward, Harry Carey and Frances Farmer. LOEW’S — “Two-Faced Wom-

an,” with Greta Garbo, Melvyn .

Douglas, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Robert Sterling and Ruth Gordon. Also “Down in San Diego,” with Boni Granville, Ray McDonald and Henry O'Neill,

who pay their pastor when and if they get the money. This is not a story of religion with huge pageants and gigantic cathedrals. It’s about a smalltime minister, the kind who every day are out raising money for an addition to the ehurch and trying to keep the choir leader from quarreling with the Sunday school superintendent. And all the while thinking of something spiritual to say on Sundays.

STARTING TOMORROW AT CIRCLE

| | ANOTHER ONE LIKE HiM/

[Heb the affable, laffable hes ul family that ever stepped outo Amerr as screens...info America's heart

a: A WARNER BROS. ¢ SUCCESS { BONDI + GENE LOCKHART + ELISABETH

Thrillingly teamed in - the story of the man ~ who had one foot in - heaven—and the other in hot water!

BASER - HARRY DAVENPORT |

by IRVING RAPPER °

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WHEN DOES IT START? CIRCLE

“The Maltese Falcon,” with H hrey Bogart and Mary ony Tat 12:30, 3:40, 6:50 and 10. “Law- of the Tropics,” with Con-" ‘stance ‘Bennett and Jedrey Lynn, at 11:10, 2:20. 5:30 and 8:4

ENGLISH’S

created by sen and Jo starring Billy House and Eddie Garr. Nightly through Saturday. at 8:15, with ‘matinees Thursday and ‘Sate urday at 2:30.

INDIANA

hy a Xith Abbott

“Keep ‘Em . 6:53 2nd

J. and Costello, at 9:58.

“Mob 'Yown,” with Dick Foran, Ann. Gwynne and the Dead Kids, at 11:42,"2:47, 5:52 and 8: 51.

LOEW'S

waaaloy of the Thin Man,” with , Wi Wiliam. 2 Sven Sd nd 10, Loy, at

“Two in a Manhattan,” ‘with Joan Davis and Jinx Falkenburg, at 12:40, 3:30, 6:20 and 9:10.

LYRIC

“International Squadron,” with Ronald Reagan, Olympe Bradna and James jtephenson, at 11, 1:50, 4:45, 7:40 and 10:35. Fetter Takes a Wife,” with ~Adolphe Men ou and Gloria Swanson, at 12:35, 3:30, 6:20 and 9:15.

~Hellzapoppin’, *» a musieal revue § n a

BECOMES JANITOR

“Mr. and Mrs. North,”

Jr, at M-G-M. ~

“I'm in love with both of them, and even I can’t tell them apart!”

Cast in the role of an excitable janitor, Fortunio Bona-Nova, joined starring Gracie Allen, with William Post

[Appears ith Symphery in|

First. Pop Concert, /!

Symphony Orchestra gives its opening “pop” concert of the season at the Murat. ead

birthplace in Phila-

derson’s “home town,” Miss Lewis’.

story is like that of many others of | .| her race who have had to struggle

to ‘express their talents. Father Was’ Teamster

she was 5 years old, and ‘her mother supported the family by running a grocery store. And her mother died when Miss Lewis was a sophomore in: high school,

Mack Choir which~appeared in! a revue entitled

Then in October of 1939 she was given WPA work and played piane: SMOmpanimen: ‘in various Phila-| delpkia workers’ centers. ‘During this time her voicé was discovered

|by William B. King, ‘who for 14

years had been ‘Marian Anderson’s

laccompanist and who also had -|worked with Roland Hayes.