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PAGE 6 — . THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7, 1942 |

Civic to Be | 28 ” —|Composer on | Teaching Manly Art" in Circle Film Billy Dodges [7 EY Frrer

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“Don Winslow of the Navy’ —Shorts

Service Men Will Hear Sym- Sol he hn, || Gilbert Wins Argument His f LA= Les L=l—b To See Previews. i phony Free Sunday. Wo LL Nose Is Overworked. nee A vial | “ : > ale HEY Lew Ayres ‘Kildare’s Wedding Day” Nearly 700 patrons of Indianap- REVIEWERS MAY SPOUT AND RAVE and beat their typewriters Roy Harris, eminent American : A TE HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 7 (U. P.).—||llJack Holt “Holt of the Secret Service” olis community centers will be guests pot. But the fact remains: Some of the most highly acclaimed movies | composer, is scheduled to arrive G . Tae Ponderous Billy Gilbert, who has of the Civic Theater for preview receive only mediocre treatment at the box office. here tomorrow morning to attend : : : Ee a sneezed for the movies in a dozen Ye © performances of “Ladies in Retire- Sometimes the films don't have the “big names” that pack the |the performance of his revised coms . 8 2 i Analy: his “Won:.onl. ia '\ LAST Rh S ment” tonight and tomorrow night.| patrons in no matter what the story. No Gable, no Lana, no business. | position, “Acceleration,” by the In SE : & | languages, finally BS : REEN! Featuring Winfred Skyrme, Dor-! In other cases it may be that the picture just doesn’t have that elusive dianapolis Symphony Orchestra y 8 oa 3 his contention that his nose is be- (0])'| THE SC . othy Robinson, Sara Lauter, Marie something that attracts business. Vi | Friday afternoon and Saturday 8 : ing overworked. He has a role with Ie PLL the Jackson. Florence Hazen, Marv It might be the title, the theater lobby signs or the way it's sold |,jent at the Murat. 0 not a single sneeze in the script. gid Show :

Community Center Patrons |

Elizabeth Jones and J. B. Cusick,| to the public. Somehow it just doesn’t click and the prospective eus- | Traveling here from Ithaca, N. Y, : : His screen foolishness, Mr. Gilbert the plav will open Friday night at, tomers go elsewhere—and frequently pass up a first-rate picture, {where he heads the Cornell Uni- CE i : ; : said. sometimes has been carried to La the playhouse and run through Jan “Long Voyage Home” was one " versity music department, Mr. i . L$ - 4 : extremes and he believes the public 14. It is the fourth production of like that. For powerful story tell- | ture’s high merit, he was firmly | garris also will attend a rehearsal I 4 3 likes him better in more natural the season. - ing, attractiveness of plot and | convinced. No doubt about that. [of his piece tomorrow. He has ex- |g] oh 3 : 1 characterizations. For tonight's preview, Jack Duval authenticity of the setting, here | But his business is box office and |pressed particular interest in the pe ; | "| Mr. Gilbert's latest assignment is |

tupervisor of the City Recreation| Was a picture that still remains | not artistic achievement. | performance since “Acceleration” : ; with Judy Canova in Republic's Department's adult drama clubs. | in the memory of those who saw And so it is rather a compli- will be played for the first time in b | “Sleepytime Girl” He is Popadopohas distributed tickets to the North- it. For the most part, however, | ment to the public's taste to find its present form. 5 F Ns, & ciel, with Judy us his baking, western, J. T. V. Hill and Rav st | the film enjoyed only average | Mr. Baker reporting that How Dalies Frantz, young American ; : asietarit A 1 » | Green Was My Valley = ChjoY. [pianist who will be guest soloist : ; ; Although most often cast as a “The Little Foxes” is another | ing splendid cash support. It with the orchestfa next week-end, J o ee Tr a tl example. Its drawing power at | comes as a boon to those to oy was to arrive tonight or tomorrow a Ren de Was DOM Iv Loulte the Indiana was a keen disap- reflect that pictures stand or fa morning. He will be heard in the]. oe Evil or HE ner ang io thel pointment to those who liked it so | on names, hot talent. . Grieg A minor concerto. Ek : Mohionciiinn, Opera: COMBE, New| ™ other examples are plentiful 0 the te Ha cen Wat My | pe am Ping a Pay York, and his mother was in the| rode ur oe : "aa Y the orchestra's pair of sub- | \ choTus. ot fost hy evs Gigen een a in ph serie a aD un, incluge 8 , Mr, Gilbert grew up to be a proKane” at the Indiana wasn't fi- | the best of last year. They point LS y an ie Tg : i Re (ducer of plavs and Fevues-in New the feature role. It recently was naneially sensational by any @ to the superb direction of John | Phony ane Fon op Twoneia, by 3 : ss | York before he went into vaudeville hi seen here as a movie, at Loew's. — : ; ° "| Ford, Who now is in the Navy and | Sibelius, mmm 2 A : : ) ‘and finally into the movies. AKIN Pm With 16a Lupine stared. | For those long in the show | may not return to Hollywood for Rollswing yo SO hn! 2 ; : Si He started as a villian, then grad-| Rady V | business, this remains one of the a long time. Donald Crisp and | Seviteiy wi pe galse the Cronos . 3 a RB [ually worked into comedy. His first| OISEN....JOHNSON BING SETS NEW RECORD baffling problems t! rarently X re ited as ia Sunday morning for its 10-day Be 5 : big chance came in the role of a N baffling problems that apparentl Sara Allgood have been cited tour starting Monday. The man- og meiines Salo Sandie Sa : ph’ Bing Crosby sings 12 times in defies solution. Universal intro- giving the outstanding perform- agement has announced that all | : I Madelaiis Cabroll andi ERR > MARTHA RAYE Irving Berlin's “Holiday Inn.” a new | duced Abbott and Costello to the | ances of last year. | service men and officers in uniform itn : : D P a : = NS Nk high mark for songs done by him| movie public in "Buck Privates” | Twelve-year-old Roddy Me- |) "pl “aqiitted to the rehearsal _ ng ; "To th 1 the set Mr. Gil- HUGH HERBERT in any film. Fred Astaire does eight and the studio still hasn't re- | Dowall, the little English boy who free of charge : i . ; ot ie opis On b 3 8 : ‘ " MISCHA AUER dance routines for the picture, a| Covered from the shock of public | came to America when the Lon- ¢ | Roddy McDowall, after taking a licking at school in “How Green bert is “Uncle Billy Wa most mo JANE FRAZEE Was My Valley,” is given a lesson in boxing by Rhys Williams (front) fans he probably is “that funny man |

new record for him in this respect | response. The box office was, as | don bombings became too severe,

Irving Berlin wrote 13 new sones they say, terrific. It was one of has been praised with the most STUDIO CcoOP QUITS: | and Barry Fitzgerald. Adapted from Richard Llewellyn’s best-selling again.” “Again” is right. He has) { novel, the movie is playing now at the Circle. |been averaging 14 pictures a year

centers. Tomorrow night the Civic cast will play before guests from the Northeast, Brookside, South Side, Kevstone. Rhodius, Eagle and Municipal Gardens centers The play is a mystery melodrama by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham and was seen last season on Broadway with Flora Robson in

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mark season. might call him the juvenile “find” | | the novelist, Richard Llewellyn, without “names” or high-flown (the same time achieves an ambition . p , Olsen and Johnson for more than vear by renting it to the various Was My Valley,” which is show- phefore leaving his Welsh home- |80Ing to be an actor. word or seript. They play strictly | —-_ as were rabidly enthusiastic about story of how his people were |bicture at RKO, wrote in a part for ovie version of “Hellzapoppin',”| 3rd BIG WEEK! Trg __ TE highest ens | wishes, he can wander about the set| mv as0e has a serious affair with | 3 Fld VERA VICTOR The picture was excellently cast he's cast as a waterfront policeman. | |,is home town. Martha Rave and nn to a 25-year career that produced 5 ts vow ‘ FRAN & BUDDIE ’ _ ton, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin down in writing. But Olsen and RENDEZVYOUS ROOM ne others. | Private Henry Bartholomew Smith IT SHOWS {6th St. at Capitol Ave. | and another to see the Circle's at- three hours daily, when possible. _ CIRCLE

for the tilm, another new high the phenomenons of the 1940-41 scintillating words. In fact, one NOW TO BE ACTOR! =. > oy baying. no il Bt Sie Patt teens, re. of ihe og a gars HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 7 (U. P).— Olsen Johnson | MONEY IN THE AIR But Not Always of the boy Huw, before whose eyes | Capt. Edward J. Donnelly, 76, head ' . Eddie Norris, featured in “I Live INFREQUENTLY, however, a |, i lof the studio police force at RKO 3 g : : ILL. & NEW YORK—CONT. 11 A.M. to 11 P.M, superior picture comes along and unreeled the story. | for 23 years, retires this week, but at Pass Up Script eger Sh enough. to pay Featuring THE HAWAIIAN BEAUTY or his new plane during the past |} ballyho, scores a solid success. The A Backward Look {he has nursed almost from the first ~ .._._. Salm y ' | example at hand is “How Green i day he worked in Hollywood—he's 25 Years have yegaled Lhe vaudeviile Hollywood studios for use in air| TINEE PLUS example at ha: : 0 ¥ PACKING A few belongings |day O11 *S public without benefit of printed gq. < | @SARCAIN MATINEE A TRY A WANT AD IN THE TIMES. ng now 4b She Cifele. : land forever, Huw looks back | Producer Harold Lloyd and Actor«| tin the brain. And according ol — sco— Though the trade and the press upon his life and recounts the Musician Kay Kyser, preparing a Universal, they do the same in the HELD OVER! ” { & the Jee: Naha Art Baker driven - from their once-happy Capt. i It will be a few! which opens Friday at the Indiana. RT . o eo | of the Circle had few hopes of it | yallev. weeks before the shooting schedule Some sort of a plot or story was a 5 being any more than an average Walter Pidgeon as the preacher calls for Capt. Donnellys appear- | ,qoessary, however, and so a couple | : J box office item. As to the pic- | and Maureen O'Hara likewise |ance and in the mean time, if he/qr jomances were concocted. Jane : A had = YT aft the S$ 1 1 nave received HURRY! LAST 2 DAYS! comiums for their work. And Ann and pick up a few acting pointers. | pobhert Paige, the young ex-radio Eo Lee, too, as Bronwen. , He doesn't think he'll need them— |, quncer who lists Indianapolis as N ZORINA MOORE , Presents throughout. and if it is to be Di- | — Mischa Auer have an affair that N : 3 : For Yeur Entertainment A! ' TE Fg. ORS | GHOSTS re Sr edith : We () i 1 : : E The shades of George Washing-| All that, of course, had to be pu : leh tl ; ; such milestones as “The Inform- ; dati X Instrumentalists & Vocalists er” “Stagecoach” “Grapes of | Franklin, Chief Justice Marshall. Joann play it strictly from the . » In the Popular Wrath.” “Long Voyage Home” and | Thomas Jefferson, Jesse James and : ela h 3 Famous for Mixed Drinks ) 3 | It is gratifving to those who try | appeared in “The Remarkable An- | to evaluate between one picture [fey Vera Zorina rehearses at leas! FREE PARKING for Patrons THE, wan | (Faclih eebing the subpart 3 | IWIHEN DOES IT START? “How Green Was My Valley,” with Waiter , Maureen O'Hara

Sara Allgood, Anna

Lee and Roddy McDowall, at 12:10, \ 3:20, 6:30 and 9:40. : “Marry the Boss's Daughter,” with \ Brenda Jovee, Bruce wards and George Barbier, at 11:10, 2:20. 5:30 and 8:40 : ENGLISH'S i “The Rivals” (on stage), with

Eva Le Gallienne, Walter Hampden and Bobby Clark, at 2:30 and 8:30

\ : N INDIANA he “They Died With Their Boots On™ with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havil1:54, 4:26, 6:58 an

The CIRCLE | ph. bf aE ane ew BR “ s Very Proud to Have Sa a ; N B : : Rocoibes uy Broadwas.” Aith Mickey MN f een Able to Present One of the EEN Sania I reir gind Mop, North wen ovens | | RRR FAST GREAT Pictures of Our Time and to | ER OS EE NN = ole”

LYRIC A Ol 3 ‘Louisiana Purchase” (in techni. nnounce Another Glorious Week! Sn Snr NO

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and Roy Hare 5. 6:30 and 9:20.

ENGLISN Last 2 Times MATINEE 2:% TONIGHT &:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE BOBBY CLARK WALTER HAMPDEN

IN 1942°s FUNNIEST SHOW

“THE RIVALS"

A THEATER QUILD PRODUCTION

Eves.—1.10, 1.65, 2.20, 2.5, 8.30 Wed. Mat. 1.10, 1.65, 2.20, 2.78

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MATINEE WEDNESDAY

SEATS Hell 1 $1.10, $1.68, NOW Wed, Mat.—83¢, $1.10, $1.65,

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20¢ k 40¢ His Blues Trumpet nama R N NN o Na y AANA

and His Orchestra Featuring AS

DEACON WILLIAMS | : ND NN \ AAI Aer p:N. and GLENN WEST EAA oc A

Outstanding Guitarist

ROBERTO & SARITA S———————— Dancers Divine ROMANCE, COMEDY, MYSTERY NOW PLAYING

“MARRY THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER" THE BEST . STEAK DINNER GRACIE ALLEN Brenda JOYCE « George BARBIER ow i { Wie AF teat o W n/ “MRAND MRS. NORTH

Two Shows Nitely—8 and 12 P.M with

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