Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1941 — Page 8
The Bartons Are in Town
Wife Able Aid to the
Irascible 'Jeeter.'
“Tobacco Road,” most constant of American plays, opens tonight at Englishs for a weeks stay. And when John Barton goes to the dressing room to make up for his role as the sinful old rogue, Jeeter Lester, he will have the assistance. as usual, of his wife, Anne. The romance of the Bartons has become one of the stories of the theater. John first saw Anne Ashley when the was playing in a stock company in Pittsburgh. As far as he is concerned, that is when the romance started. His admiration continued when she joined “The Bowery” company in which Mr. Barton was playing and a few months later they were married. For 30 years, billed as Barton and Ashley, they headlined vaudeville shows the country over and also in Great Britain. Their best-re-membered sketch was “Canal Boat Sal." But when Mr. Barton joined the “Tobacco Road” company, a job he’s held now for five years, there was no part for his wife. And so now she travels with him simply as “Mrs. Barton.”
The Cambridge String Quartet, a new ensemble formed about a month ago by four members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, will make its debut at 8:15 tomorrow in a free recital at Kirshbaum Center. Left to right are Jerome Kasin, violin; Theodore Silavin, violin; Sam Sciacchitan, ‘cello; Harold Sorin, viola, and Harriet Payne, who will appear with the guartet as guest violist.
At about every performance she's
backstage in his dressing room. helping him to apply all the paint, whiskers and dirt that it takes to create the character of the cussin’ Jeeter Lester.
VETERAN AT FOUR
Four-year-old Keith Coplen, veteran screen actor since he was nine
VOICE from the Balcony by FREMONT POWER
months of age, went into his first speaking role in “The Vanishing Virginian.”
HOW TO BE A STAR
Mary Martin once sang at one other.
Awards in a walk. That is a conservative distillation of Mr. Rivers’ word-heavy outbursts. “Yes,” said Mr. Rivers, eyeing a fresh cigar with complacent pride, “it’s the greatest year we've had since the days of ‘Roberta,’ ‘Cimmaron’ and ‘Rio Rita.” At which point the man from the West began to elaborate. The first of RKO's prized babies is “Suspicion,” which is really and actually a superior production and now on view at the Circle. Next Thursday at the Indiana another of the studio's prides will open— “Look Who's Laughing,” with those domestic zanies of the radio, Fibber McGee and Molly. “Already,” said Mr. Rivers, “this one is mowing ‘em down at box offices the country over.” But of course, you should remember that “mowing ‘em down” can be a matter of degrees when used in this way. There are, however, some considerations to be made that would bear up Mr. Rivers’ contentions. For one thing. the movie has, in addition to the aforementioned folk, Charlie McCarthy (and by coincidence, Edgar Bergen) and also Lucille Ball. The picture had a two-week
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MR. EDDIE RIVERS, A SLIM YOUNG MAN from the West who can juggle a long cigar and eight-syllable words with the greatest of
ease, was quite agog. He was exuding the pop-eyed excitement to be expected of those in his trade and spouting off about the cinema things-to-come which will bear the RKO label.
And if we are to believe him, RKO will tie up all the Academy
holdover in Louisville, and that is understandable.
And On He Chortles
BY THIS TIME, of course, Mr. Rivers was just getting warmed
up. One of the best properties which RKO is showing to the public is Walt Disneys “Dumbo.” The occasional movie critic, Mr. Westbrook Pegler, already has termed this one “pure Disney, which means that it combines beauty with gentle entertainment.” The Times’ Mr. Pegler saw “Snow White” once long ago and since that time he has been strictly a Disney man, quitting the team only in the case of “Fantasia.” Presenting the case of a baby elephant who learns to fly with his oversize ears, “Dumbo” must be in about its sixth week now on Broadway. Or, anyway, it is drawing much of the long green. Next—and of particular interest to Indianapolis—is Orson Welles’ adaptation of the Booth
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Tarkington novel, nificent Ambersons.” “Which reminds me.’ Mr. Rivers said, pensively- he got out pencil and paper and jotted down a memo that this one, by all rights, should be premiered in Indianapolis. He said he'd send it off to the studio right away. “You've got to write ‘em about something,” he explained. And then Mr. Rivers
“The
comiums in still greater profusion.
More and More
ALSO COMING up with the RKO label is “All That ‘Money Can Buy,” which William Dieterle
made from the now-famous Stephen Benet short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster.” Walter Huston is one of the stars in this one (and not just as a goodwill token to his son, John) and also among the super-luminaries is Edward Arnold. Mr. Arnold is ole Dan’l Webster, of the brimestone tongue and the brickwall mind. Mr. Dieterle has another one, too, one that claims to tell the tale of modern American swing music. It'll be entitled “Syncopation.” Of a very diffierent nature will be Kay Kyser’s newest, “Play Mates,” a travesty on William Shakespeare in which accessories to the crime were added by John (call-me-at-the-hospital) Barrymore, Lupe Velez, May Robson, Patsy Kelly, Ginny Sims, Harry Babbitt and Ish Kabibble. There seemed to be no end of what Mr. Rivers had to publicize. Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck are co-starred in “Ball of Fire,” which will be shown to the trade here this week. The studio
will try to meet the demand for
new faces by presenting the French Michele Morgan and Paul Henreid in “Joan of Paris” “This one may not be the year's biggest crowd-getter,” Mr. Rivers admitted, “but it will get the finest rave reviews from the critics since ‘Seventh Heaven'.” And that put me to wondering: Did “Seventh Heaven" get rave reviews? For those folk who like to get out of the smog now and then, RKO will offer the Clarence Budington Kelland melodrama, “Valley of the Sun” with Miss Ball James Craig, Dean Jagger, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and others. Apparently feeling himself weakening, Mr. Rivers began to get briefer. He spoke quickly of Victor McLaglen and Edmond O’Brien in Vicki Baum’s “Powder Town;” a new Lum and Abe ner release; June Havoc (Gypsy's little sister) in “Four Jacks and a Jill,” and the haughty and distinguished Charles Laughton in “The Tuttles of Tahiti” And then Mr. Rivers made a cursory swipe at his brow and gasped for air, We felt that though the new year may bring misery and despair, RKO will be ever near and watching over us. “It is a good feeling to have” Mr. Rivers agreed.
Mag-
started reeling off titles, names and en-
WHEN DOES IT START?
CIRCLE
"Suspicion" with Cary Grant and ntaine, 12:30. 3:40, 6:50 and
"Susp Joan 10. “Unexpected Uncle,” with Ann Shirley, James Craig and Charles Coburn at 11:25 and 2:35, 5:45 and 8:55.
ENGLISH'S
“Tobacco Road” (on stage), John Barton, at 8:30.
INDIANA
Up Screaming," with Betty Grable and at 12:50, 4, 7:05 and
with
“I Wake Victor Mature, Laird Cregar, 10:10. “Great Guns,” with Laurel and Hardy, at 11:37, 2:49, 5:53 and 8:57.
LOEW'S
“Sundown,” with Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders, Sir Cedrie Hardwicke and Harry Carey, at 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 and 10.
“Niagara Falls,” with Marjorie Woodworth, Tom Brown, Zasu Pitts and Slim Summerville, at 11, 1:35, 4:10, 6:45 and 9:20
LYRIC
“Birth of the Blues” Crosby, Brian Donlevey, Mary Martin, Carolyn Carrol Naish, at 11, 1:50, 4:45, and 10:30.
with Bing Rochester, Lee and J. 7:35
“Among the Living,” with Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey and Frances Farmer, at 12:35, 3:30, 6:20 and 9:15.
Mitzi Mayfair Is Sued by Creditor
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (U.P.)— John Osterstock is demanding in Supreme Court that Mitzi Mayfair give back, plus interest, the $5000 he allegedly loaned her in 1938, six months after her marriage to Albert Hoffman. Osterstock, a friend of Hoffman, said he loaned Miss Mayfair the money because she wanted to start a dancing school but feared she “might not take the venture seriously if she used her husband's money.” Desiring to return to public life after six months of retirement, Miss
at East Orange, N. J, but became “bored” with it, Osterstock’s petition said, with the result that it failed toward the end of 1940,
Holmes Band Due
On Indiana Roof
Herbie Holmes and his orchestra will make their first Indianapolis appearance Wednesday when they come to the Indiana Roof for a four-night stand. They will play there Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Coming here from the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, the Holmes band, which numbers 18, is one of the largest to take the Roof bandstand in several weeks. Featured as vocalists are the Cromwell Sisters and Nancy Hutson.
L. Ayres “Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day" Jack Benny "CHARLEY'S AUNT" “Don Winslow of the Navy" -Shorts
Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Ray Hatton “GUN MEN FROM BODIE"
Flora Robson "THE POISON PEN" J. Holt "HOLT of SECRET SERVICE"
detachment at Ft. Harrison,
Mayfair did open a dancing school
In the Services
ONLY 8 NEEDED IN CITY AIR UNIT
Naval Reserves to Start Training Soon; 3 More Join Marines.
Only eight more men are needed to complete Indianapolis’ own unit in Naval Reserve flight training and the Navy's selection board will be here this week-end in an attempt to sign the needed enlistees. The unit will begin training Jan. 28 at the Naval Aviation base, Glenview, Ill. L.T. Dwyer of the McLoughlin Manufacturing Co, is sponsoring a contest among students of John Herron Art School for the design of an insignia which the squadron will adopt.
Get ‘Wings’ Soon
Burton D. Yarian, 660 E. 46th St., will receive his “wings” when Class 42-A graduates from the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Victoria, Tex, in January.
Pvt. Charles R. Livingston, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Livingston, 1114 Brunswick Ave, recently was appointed chief clerk of the 48th squadron at the Air Corps Advanced Flying School, Victoria, Tex. Pvt. Harry C. Foster, 43 N. Bradley St, stationed with the medical has been made a corporal. Pvt. Donald R. Decker of this city, also a member of the medical detachment, was transferred from the post to the Danville, Ky., Gen-
eral Hospital.
3 More for Marines
The Marine Corps recruiting station here received three Indianap-
olis recruits during last week. They
are Charles Cherry, 15 N. Hamilton Ave, and Lester R. Hurt, 1730 E. 30th St, who have begun training at Parris Island, S.C., and Charles W. Gregory, 3305 Schofield Ave, who will enter training at San Diego, Cal.
‘OUR COUNTRY’ AGAIN IS 1ST WITH TRIBUNE
CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—The Chicago Tribune, outspoken foe of the Roosevelt Administration and voice of isolationism, today returned Stephen Decatur’s famous slogan
“Our Country, Right or Wrong” to its masthead. After breaking with President Roosevelt, the Tribune had replaced the words of Decatur with “Save Our Republic.” In a front page editorial, the Tribune asserted that war had been forced upon America by “an insane clique of Japanese militarists.” “America faces war through no volition of any American” the editorial said. “Recriminations are useless and we doubt they will be indulged in. Certainly not by us ...all of us from this day forth have but one task. That is to strike with all our might to protect and preserve the American freedom that we all hold dear.”
County Dentist Likes Athletics
Dr. G. P. Silver, Indianapolis, will become Marion County dentist Jan. 1. Dr. Silver is an active high school athletic official and vice president of the Indiana Officials Associa tion. He will succeed Dr. Leo Commiskey. Dr. Silver lives at Lafayette Road and 84th St. in Pike Township. He has practiced dentistry Dr. Silver in Indianapolis for the last 12 years. He is a graduate of Indi ana University school of dentistry.
COAST GUARD ORDERS PACIFIC CRAFT HOME
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 (U. P.)—The U.S. Coast Guard today ordered all craft on the Pacific Coast into home ports “pending clarification of the situation arising from the Japanese air attack on Hawaii and the Philippine Islands.” Lt. Com. Paul Clark of the local Coast Guard station said the order will affect 18,000 motor boats and 1000 fishing boats in the district bounded by the Oregon border and the San Lus Obispo County, California, southern line. Lt. Com. Clark said the collector of customs in San Francisco was expected to hold all deep sea vessels in port “until further notice.”
CAA GROUNDS PILOTS OF CIVILIAN PLANES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P.).— The Civil Aeronautics Authority tonight temporarily suspended all private aircraft pilot certificates except on the scheduled air lines and in some other special instances.
BETTY GRABLE VICTOR MATURE CAROLE LANDIS
STAN OLIVER LAUREL HARDY GREAT GUNS
ENGLISH
NIGHTLY AT 8:30 55¢, $1.10, $1.65
OT A
SATURDAY at 8:30
Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2:30 — 55c, 85c, $1.10 Jack Kirkland Presents
A PICTURE, BUT THE STAGE PLAY "WITH THE STORY THE PICTURE DARED NOT TELL"
with JOHN BARTON
AND THE NEW YORK CAST Dramatized by Jack Kirkland, based on Erskine Caldwell's Novel
The REAL "Tobacco Road,” with Laughs Galore!
TONIGHT Through
ARCHITECTS RENAME LENNOX PRESIDENT
Richard C. Lennox has been reelected president of the Indiana Society of Architects. Other officers named at the society's annual winter convention Saturday are John R. Kelley, first vice-president; David V. Burns. second vice-president; Richard K. Zimmerly, secretary, and O. A. Tislow, treasurer. Directors chosen were James M. Turner of Hammond, Alvin M. Strauss of Ft. Wayne, Ralph O. Yeager of Terre Haute, Edwin C. Berendes of Evansville, Edward D. Pierre of Indianapolis, and Vincent Fagan of South Bend. Dean Arthur M. Weimer of Indiana University school of business spoke at the closing banquet at the Claypool Hotel. Earlier in the day Herbert Willard Foltz, Indianapolis, was honored and talks were given by Frank Hoke, head of the local OPM division of contract distribution, and James D. Faley of the HOLC.
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR HAS MIILTIA READY
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 8 (U. P.) —Gov. Dwight H. Green of Illinois tonight offered President Roosevelt the “united support and unstinted efforts” of his State in the war with Japan. The Governor revealed that he had offered Federal military authorities in this area complete cooperation of the reserve Militia in guarding defense industries.
THE MOST THRILLING
ADVENTURE PICTURE OF THE YEAR!
GEORGE SANDERS HARDWICKE
BRUCE CABOT SIR CEDRIC
"NIAGRA FALLS" TOM BROWN Disney Cartoon.
MARJORIE LORETTA YOUNG in “THE MEN IN HER LIFE"
CONRAD VEIDTDEAN JAGGER
OFFICERS DON UNIFORMS WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P.) The War Department today requested the United Press to announce that Secretary Stimson had ordered all officers in the United States to wear uniforms when reporting for duty today.
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Holiday lights in every window wink a welcome through the Yule-ish nights.
And on the theatre marquees the bright lights wink a kindred welcome to a holiday in pictures. M-G-M’s “H. M. Pulham, Esq.” Have you read the book? J. P. Marquand, the author, likes the film version very much. King Vidor, who is one of the really
top directors, goes over the top in this fine film.
Hedy Lamarr as Marvin Myles, the girl in every man’s life, gives a performance that will establish Hedy for a whole career.
Not that Hedy isn’t an important establishment already. She's been tapped
Dream Girl. Some of the boys count Hedy at night instead of sheep. But back to “Pulham.” It is true, dramatic, nostalgic. ..a technical triumph. Also a triumph for Bob Young. This is really his first great part. Congratulations, Robert!
You'll pull for “Pulham"!
plus “SECRETS OF THE LONE WOLF"
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Robert Montgomery- Claude Rains HERE COMES / Ronald Colman Anna Lee
"MY LIFE WITH CAROLINE"
ENGLISH
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Seats at $1.10 at $1.65, $2.20, $2.76
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Sonja Henie
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7 NIGHTS DEC. 25 to 31 MATINEES SAT. & WED.
OSCAR SERLIN presents CLARENCE DAY'S
MAIL Made into a play by HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE
ORDERS With PERCY WARAM AND MARGALO GILLMORE
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Eves. Orch., $2.75 Wed. & Sat., Mats.
CINEMA 16th & Dela.
“MY LIFE WITH CAROLINE"
Jeffrey Lynn
Stratford 10th & College
Jean Arthur "TOO MANY
J. MacDonald "SMILIN' THROUGH" "MY LIFE WITH CAROLINE"
Fred MacMurray HUSBAND Jeffrey Lynn "UNDERGROUND" Central
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Gary Cooper - Walter Brennan 'SEARGENT YORK'
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S. Tracey “DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE" D. Morgan “BAD MEN OF MISSOURI™ College at 63rd St,
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H. Fonda “WILD GEESE CALLING” “ANGELS HAVE WINGS”
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Orson Welles “CITIZEN KANE"
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Dr. Kildare's WEDDING DAY
Laraine Day
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Lionel BARRYMORE
Belmont & W. Wash. Betty Grable
BELMONT
"A YANK IN THE R.A.F." Jeanette MacDonald "Smilin' Through" Thru Tuesday Welles
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"HARMON OF MICHIGAN" Clark Gable “HONKY TONK"
SOUTH SIDE
OPEN 8:45
GRANADA STARTS 7
GARY COOPER
“Sergeant York"
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Bob Hope, "Nothing But the Truth" SANDERS 1106 Prospect
Jack Benny Kay Francis "CHARLEY'S AUNT" Plus "DEAD MEN TELL"
PARKER 2030 E. Tenth Door Open 6:45
Arlen-Devine “RAIDERS OF DESERT" Jack Holt “THE GREAT SWINDLE” EXTRA! Serial Scoop “IRON CLAW"
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