Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1942 — Page 20

by FREMONT POWER

from the Balcony

OR THE Lab PEW NUTS. of Au peovad ight “Separate Rooms” is as cyclonic as a cyclone. Alan Dinehart, as the big shot columnist and brother of Lyle Talbot,

persuades his sister-in-law that genial with husband or she will scandal.

Whereupon Virginia Smith, playing the wife, so showers her mate with kindness that he is blindly dumbfounded and the

That is the highlight of the play, which opened ost Wight at Eng-

lish’s and will be there tonight and tomorrow, with a matinee on the latter day. Otherwise, “Separate Rooms” slips neatly into the comfortable little groove wherein lie thousands of others about fancy talk in fancy apartments, where people gladly prostrate themselves on the altar of witticism. The play is no more than a trifle, with a few bright gags apparently inserted by Alex Gottlieb and Edmund Joseph. It’s the Dinehart-Talbot-Smith threesome that make it entertaining. Given nothing but a overly tinseled bauble, it. is rather remarkable how the Messrs. Dinehart and Talbot can toss it back and forth and keep an on-looker attracted, if only mildly.

Grimaces Galore

KENOWN EVEN to the smallest hamlet through the medium of Hollywood, Mr. Dinehart, who directed and helped write the play, is equally adept as a stage comedian. His grimaces, the easy smile, deep guffaws and his wide-open, astonishing eyes are really the bright spots of the play—about as funny usually as that hilarious conclusion of the second act. Mr. Dinehart makes one admire veterans. As the befuddled, glasses-wear-ing playwright, Mr. Talbot doesn’t have a chance to shine like his cohort. But for passive personableness, Mr. Talbot is right there. Miss Smith, who reminds one of several others adept at playing the gold-digger type, is likewise amusing. Her work in the aforementioned brief second-act episode of hilarity is like a whirlwind. =

One Idea

“SEPARATE Rooms” concerns itself with two bachelor brothers,

That is the brief period when

she had better be a bit more conpresently find herself smeared with

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The Cast

“SEPARATE ROOMS™—A comedy In three acts and four scenes by Joseph Carole and Alan Dinehart, in collaboration with Alex Gottlieb and Edmund Joseph. Directed by Mr. Dinehart and presented by Thanks for My Wife, Ine. Opened at English’s on Jan. 1. The cast: Gary Bryce Taggert .........veven Don Stackhouse Scoop Davis Pemela Barry Jim Stackhouse Linda Roberts Leona Sharpe

Lionel Ince ..Kirk Brown Lyle Talbot .. Warren Douglas Virginia Smith .alan Dinehart Blanche Faye Madora Keene

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one a newspaperman (the fictional kind) and the other a budding playwright who has delivered himself with a surprise hit. Mr. Dinehart (the columnist) looks upon his brother's marriage with large and warranted suspicion. His doubts are justified and so he decides to blackmail his sister-in-law into connubial devotion. And there is the single clever idea of the play. By threatening to print her “past” in his column, Mr. Dinehart brings the little gold-digging actress-wife around to more domestic ways, meantime getting himself ensnared in a romance. The victimized wife thinks that one up. All ends on a happy domestic note, with family expectancy saturating the penthouse air. The play constantly gives the impression that it is merely a vehicle for a few bright cracks, like a radio program, but once the lumberous first act is said, it manages to keep one from nodding.

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Comes now a successor to that flippant classic, Fishes.” The title of this new-comer is “The Little Guppy,” all about a minnow innocently amazed by the domestic mysteries surrounding him. The lyrics contain such immortal rhymes as:

Gurgle, gurgle gurgle, goo! Mommy, I'm still asking you, Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, glop! Tell me, mommy, where's my pop? As sung by the Merry Macs (Decca), “The Little Guppy” is cleverly bouncing and altogether charming. On the backside is a revival of “Annabella.” Vocals seem to have much the most of it among current releases, not the least of which is a doublesided ballad on Joe Louis written by Richard Wright, the novelist, and set to music by Count Basie. “King Jee” they call it and the vocals, which have a weird, legendary effect, are handled by that eminent Negro concert singer, Paul Robeson, with Basie’s orchestra accompanying (Okeh). It's a successful, odd collaboration. Two other vocal platters of top ranking are Ella Fitzgerald (Decca). in “Make Love to Me” and “I'm Thrilled,” both plaintively done, and Una Mae Carlisle (Bluebird), in “I'm the One Who Loves You” and “Coffee and Cakes,” both very fetching. Judy Garland (Decca), however, doesn’t get much done with “Blues in the Night” and “The End of the Rainbow” and “How About You?” and “F. D. R. Jones.” Kate Smith (Columbia) is Kate Smith in “The White Cliffs of Dover” and “Rose o'Dav.”

Goodman, B.

FOR HIS debut on the Okeh label, King Goodman chooses three tried-and-true tunes and one new one, “The Earl” written

by his young pianist, Mel Powell, out of admiration for Father Hines. The Goodman Sextet is 100 per cent in the groove with “Limehouse Blues” and “If I Had You.” With the full Goodman orchestra, Peggy Lee phrases “Let's Do It” expertly and the other side is devoted to the aforementioned “The Earl,” which has lots of the dazzling pianistics typical of the Father, A hit debut! Also in the Okeh department is Frankie Master's orchestra with “From One Love to Another” and “Coffee and Cakes,” both of which are distinguished by a full, swelling and ebbing sax section. Tommy Tucker clips it clean in “The Train Song” (it sounds like “Frankie and Johnnie”) and “The White Cliffs of Dover’ (Okeh, too).

Beethoven, Too

NOTHING BEING sacred these days, Glenn Miller (Bluebird) turns the Moonlight Sonata over to Pianist Chummy MacGregor and the result is a little Sonata and a lot of orchestral meandering. “Slumber Song’ is the flipver, and it's smooth and sleepy. Also from Bluebird: Earl Hines cuts up with “I Got It Bad” and “Straight to Love” (his own tune); “Doc” Wheeler imparts some advice to the ladies

“Three Little

Fat and Forty-Four,” coupling it with “Gabby”; Yvonne King, of the Alvino Rey forces, sings a risque ditty, “I Said No!" and Bill Schallen and Skeets Herfurt vocalizes “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” A tenor sax sings mellowly through “Blossoms” and a muted trumpet blows hot in “Get Happy,” both by Tony Pastor’s orchestra, and Irv Carrolls band gets off with a novelty about hepcats in “Five Guys Named Moe,” with a waltz, “Go Home, Little Girl, Go Home,” on the backside.

Hot Stuff!

Duke Ellington (Victor), playing like no other bandsman, presents “Clementine” and “Five o'Clock Drag” in an original manner that makes this one of the best releases from any band recently. The rhythm is unavoidable. Tops from Harry James (Columbia) is “My Silent Love,” wherein the maestro rides his trumpet higher and higher and makes it sing with full and smooth lyricism. The backside, done with a bounce, is “My Melancholy Baby.” Other title from the James boys: “You Don’t Know What Love Is” and “Make Love to Me.” Jimmie Lunceford (Decca) is not up to his usual spectacular ways in “Impromptu” and “Gone.”

WRITER AND DIVA REUNITED BY SON

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2 (U. P).— Reunited by their 15-year-old son, George Rosner, playwright and scenarist, and Mrs. Adele Rosener, former opera singer, will be married a second time, they said today. Mrs. Rosener said their son, Michael, had reunited them with his protests over living first in one home, then another.

SINGER'S BROTHER KILLED IN ACTION

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2 (U. P).— Mary Lou Cook, singer in the Merry Macs Chorus of the movies and radio, has been informed that her brother, Corp. Harold Cook, 22, was

HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Ebullient Mickey Rooney 'Cuts Up' With Fiancee

killed in the defense of Wake Island.

Has Bounce Only on Job

After Work John Howard Is One of Laziest Men.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2 (U. P).— John Howard once was voted the “most likely to succeed” of his class at college. He was a Phi Beta Kappa, too, but survived both these incidents to become a big time movie star. How he achieved either honor in school is somewhat of a mystery to those on the set of “X Marks the Spot” at Republic where John is

currently employed. Fellow workers are puzzled by his reported scholastic attainments because the good-looking, tall young actor is the laziest man found on a movie set since Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper took their first nap.

Prefers to Listen

Mr. Howard is full of bounce before the camera, but when the shooting is finished he usually gets off to one side somewhere and takes it easy, physically and vocally. “It’s not that I'm antisocial,” explained John, “it's just that I'm & listener. After all, I hog the spotlight and wordage when the camera is rolling. So what's wrong with relaxing between scenes?” If he can be induced to talk, it will be discovered that Mr. Howard has numerous interests outside the movies. He's an amateur photographer, capable woodworker, a busy reader, and keeps up with the sports world, too. Other Interests John has other interests around town, as he is one of Hollywood's bachelors. Hedy Lamarr has been getting considerable attention

lately. Before getting into the movies,

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