Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1942 — Page 20

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lish's March 17-18. : “Arsenic and Old Lace, ” the maid-

[March 17,

and

The Joseph Kesselring comedy,

: the first production undertaken by

the Broadway boys who adapted “Life With Father” to the! stage, Howard Lindsay and Russell (Crouse,

i is murder made quite funny.

Two maiden ladies, sixtyish and

: Victorian, operate a rest hoine for| kindly old gentlemen who wish to ‘live out their days in ease in a

shady, old street in Brooklyn To their roomers, the ladies offer wine with just a touch of arsenic, enough to pile up a dozen corpses or so in the cellar. The murder-minded spinstérs are played by Laura Hope Crews and Effie Shannon, aided and abetted by Eric von Stroheim who is more

- sinister than usual.

Others in the cast dre Jack Whit-

: ing and Forrest Orr.

MOOSE WOMEN HOLD

INITIATION ,TONIGHT

A class of candidates will be initiated into Indianapolis chapter 11, Women of the Moose, at a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight in Moose headquarters, 135 N. Delaware st. The meeting will be a chapter night program in charge of the recorder, ‘Mrs. Beulah Anderson, according to Mrs. Edna Mershon, senior regent, Mrs. Ann Cornell, treasurer, will be honored by the incoming members. | Entertainment will be in charge of Mrs. Bea Brown, and Mrs. listher Hansford will speak.

WHEN soa} IT START?

1s, 1:53, 4:33, 7113 an 0: “Bomba; Oli y’ “with Wiliam

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corY oman of the Year,” with Spenacy, Katharine Hepburn, Fa Fay Bainter and Regina a Owen, at 10:3

Gleason Nosh Knox, at 19:25,

“Son of Fury, with Tyrone Power, @! e Sanders, 1 Hardy BER a 4 Dudley Diges, “Ri ght to the He: rt,” with Brenda

fri Joseph Allen] Jr, and Cdbina Jes J ri, at 11: 2:40, 5:45 and

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en lady play of the century, comes) | ‘to English’s for a second season] | + Tuesday night, 3 Wednesday ‘atternoon ami evening, i March 18.

1. Mr. Cagney suffers in “Captains of the Clouds” opening tomorrow at the Indiana. 2. Mr. McCrea suffers " “Sullivan’s Travels” opening tomorrow at the Circle.

Veronica Lake at Circle: RCAF Comes to Indiana

‘Sullivan's Travels' Sees Both| ‘Captains of the Clouds’ lts Stars Defy Is a Thriller— Typing.’ All Out. The Circle presents “Sullivan’s| Opening at the Indiana tomorTravels” tomorrow — with confi-!row, is a James Cagney aerial thrilldence. er, “Captains of the Clouds.” It’s Joel McCres and Veronica Lake!in technicolor. ia team up in this comedy which has| The Warner Bros’ stable of to do with a screwball Hollywood scribes has gone all out on the ad-

director who goes on the bum. It’s|jectives in describing this - one, a different vehicle for both stars. |Which was filmed with the co-oper-The fans lave had Miss Lake i of the Royal Canadian air orce. tagged as the siren type and MT.| The picture's director is’ Michael McCrea as the nature's nobleman|Curtiz who has a reputation in type. Both desert their “types” in|Hollywood for daredevil action the picture. shots and “Captains of the Clouds” “Sullivan’s Travels” is a Preston doesn't miss many. daredeviltry

Sturgis plece, written and directed | oS duties. by the writer-producer who has Dorothy Maynor rung the bell in‘the past with “The| Sarshall them in the home of her father,/Great McGinty” and “Christmas in a Methodist minister, at Norfolk,|July.” Va., before she started to study| Supporting players gre Robert|, music. Warwick, William Demarest, Mar-|... some of the fighting men on

HOOSIER MAYOR IN COMA are Haye : and Eric. Blore. tap in the production which intil she was persuaded that her rich| NEW ALBANY, Feb. 26 (U. P.).|,, Circle's associate feature 1s|yoiveq 23500 hours of actual flying voice had concert possibilities. |—Mayor Noble F. Mitchell was re-| Lorpedo Boat,” with Richard Ar-lu.. to make, Although she sings the folk songs|ported in a critical condition today len and Jean Parker. The Indiana's associate feature is of her people and the lyric and|by physicians following a major a military musical, “Swing It Solcoloratura arias with equal ease,|operation at St. Edwards hoppusal dier,” with Ken Murray, Frances she prefers spirituals and she likes|here Monday. Physicians said ne| IN ewton End S Langford, Don Wilson and Brenda to sing them best sitting down. had been in. 4 coma since re and Cobina. Recital Series Sings Beethoven, Sharpe, Mussorgsky Tomorrow.

That was the way she first sang'day. George Newton, Indianapolis bassbaritone, will sing the final recital in his series of programs at 8:15 p. m. tomorrow at the John Herron Art institute. ? A native of the Middle West, Mr. Newton held a four-year fellowship

at the Juilliard graduate school in New York and for two seasons was soloist at the Chautauqua institute. He has taught at Ball State Teachjers’ college and at Tudor hall,

Dorothy Maynor Concludes Martens Series Here Sunday

The gracious Negro soprano, Dorothy Maynor, will sing at 3. p. m Sunday at English’s. She: is the final attraction in the Martens Cone| i gerts, Inc., artists series this season. Dorothy Maynor is one of the nation’s finest concert sopranos. She rose to fame about a year ago, i after Serge Koussevitzky gave her a} 4 surprise audition before members of

the Boston Symphony orchestra, Voice Has Wide Range

Her voice range is unusual, from the high, bell notes of a true soprano, to the warm, deep, throbbing| tones which are more characteristic| # of Negro voices. These qualities of range will be heard in her recital which includes operatic arias of Mozart, Handel and Charpentier and the spirituals of the deep South. Miss Maynor is a graduate of Hampton institute which she entered at the age of 14. She toured Europe with the institute’s choir.

She Prefers Spirituals Her plans were to teach domestic

Dennis Morgan rides the airlanes with Cagney in bombers bound for Britain. Alan Hale, George Tobias, Regald Gardner and Reginald Denny

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DRIVER HURT AS | AUTO, STREETCAR COLLIDE

A cut on the ear was the only casualty today in a collision between an automobile and a streetcar {at 16th and Illinais sts., police reported. . injured motorist, William Renn, 48, of 1418 Barth ave. declined the offer of police to take thim to 'a hospital. Both he and Prentis Coghill, 634 Buchanan st. operator of the streetcar, contended they had -the green light at the intersection. Lea Michel, 52, of 3219 College| ave. suffered cuts when she was struck by an auto last night at Ohio and Meridian: sts. Her condition at City hospital was reported today as fair.’ Police said Louis Long, 27, of Summitville, Ind, was the driver of-the car.

Y’S MEN TO INDUCT 6 AT ANNUAL DINNER

Indianapolis Y’s men at their third 4nnual dinner meeting and party at 7:39 tonight at the central branch Y. C. A. will hear a talk by Susiey sckiam It. disor ot the eulsHalamin : ga hin. the en They are A. J. Murray, ‘Wayne Burdge, Oatroll Lewis, W. W. Siefker, Evan Walker and |H. P. McKoy. b Arrangements committee members are W. L. LeMaster, John Jones, W. R. Sellers, Ovid Jones, Vinson Snow-| berger, Dr. Francis Smith ‘and Arthur Williams.

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SSR \ i | Tonight in Los Angeles, the

and Sciences will present the covets

of 1941.

_ Will the industry’s judgment mateh people's choice?

is only one chance in 10.

Out: of the 10 films nominated for the award by the academy, re

only one received the fans’ ace claim in a survey of the six best= liked, films conducted by the American Institute of Public n. - That was “Sergeant York,” star-

! ring Gary Cooper. The fans liked

it best. E The other five films the fans liked best in descending order were “Caught in the ' Draft” “Philadelphia Story” “Dive Bomber,” “Buck Privates” and

“Yank in the R. A. F.”*

Other academy nominations listed alphabetically ‘were “Blos-

w=] soms in the Dust,” “Citizen Kane,”

“Here Comes Mr. Jordan,” “Hold Back the Dawn,” “How Green Was My Valley,” “The Little Foxes,” “The Maltese Falcon,” “One Foot in Heaven” and “Suspicion.’ ” sn There was considerable differ=ence of opinion between the men and women fans in the Gallup survey. The men liked the war pictures. “Sergeant York,” ,“Dive Bomber,” “Buck Privates,” “Caught in the Draft,” “A Yank in the R. A. F." and “Keep 'Em Flying” were their choices. The ladies liked “Philadelphia Story,” Blossoms in the Dust,” “Sergeant York,” “The Great Lie,” “Penny Serenade” and “Sun Val-

"ley Serenade.”

Income groups differed in their ons, too, although they agreed on “Sergeant- York” for

number one.

In addition to this, the upper income groups liked “Philadelphia Story,” “Citizen Kane,” “Dive Bomber,” “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” and the “Little Foxes.” The lower income group, after “Sergeant York,” - liked “Dive Bomber,” “Hold That Ghost,” “Caught in the Draft,” “Keep 'Em Flying” and “Yank in the R.A. F.” There is some room for speculation here. One of the questions raised by the congressional quiz of the motion picture industry last fall, you recall, was “why so many war pictures?” The little men of Nippon got loose before the quizzers found the answer, but Dr. Gallup’s poll gives us a pretty good clue. You will note that five of the films the fans liked were war films, or at least had a war background. Only “Philadelphia Story,” in third place, was non-military, that is, in the sense of organized warfare, To the unaided eye, it would

“selection. “on the shoulders of a great Arch

* for the best picture There

public simply ate ‘em up, But what Hollywood likes to

{produce and what it likes to see only one of the nominations by ‘Motion Pic

up this case, because

Academy was a war picture. | It is the old story that while

‘movie people made the war pic-

tures for the| big take, they did not, in their secret hearts, consider these pictures to be so hot, It was surprising to see “Hold Back the Dawn” in the academy's It leaned pathetically

Oboler radio play, “An American Is Born,” and'took hearly two

hours to say what Mr, Oboler said

in 30 minutes. In addition, the picture didn’t get to first base in the public poll. But, of course, the 12,000 artists, technicians, - producers, publicity men, writers, office Qoys and undiscovered glamour girls in the

- extra lines may have different

standards. Maybe they are taking into ace count items like direction, photography, character, plot, interpreta tion, scene design, plot structure and other technicalities which don’t. worry the public unless they're bad. I have a feeling, though, the fans are right. . They have put the finger of praise on “Sergeant York” as the best motion picture of 1941. In my own feeble way, I think I'd. go along with that.

DOORS OPEN 10:15 A, M,

a new trial on or before April 6. Stephenson, former Indiana Kue Klux Klan leader, whose attorneys filed a writ of error coram nobis in the Hamilton Circuit court 10 days ago, is servirig a life sentence for second- ~degree murder. = Stephenson asks for a new trial

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