Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1942 — Page 6

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lis Subjes, shoul: be: “Buried Ripple has taken the place of their fair community as the point of By NAT A. BARROWS ) Oct. 13 origin for various stage characters who appear to be the environmental t, 2% The Indisnapolis Times i products of remote and thinly populated districts. Take Violet, for . : ays, 5 In the comedy, “My Sister Eileen,” which returned to English’s last night for a week’s run, What happened to Violet happened Broad Ripple, Ind. This is some- ‘Times Amusement thing new on the Indianapolis stage. Formerly, everything that Clock happened to anybody happened in Ben Davis, . I remember how it used to be

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ing of the advisory council of the national editorial association that the war could not be covered by newspapers “as you would cover a fire on Main street.” “American newspapers, on the whole, have done a good job of covering the war; they have cerSatnly covered it more fully than

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stars. di They now are i ; i 5 ey ck p io8 Livi but no-| _ Doris Dudley, one of the newer | i; pittsburgh. The sterling com- Afton and § ‘body except the patrons of rural| Hollywood glamour girls, gets her | munity of McKees Rocks used to | | ooooiu sone ooo ‘movie houses even know they're] chance at acting in “The Moon | yo the butt of vaudeville jokes ILE and Sixpence,” opening at Loew's | when the show was in the dis- = Cade, Thorghin and

re Going © Msivirt tomorrow. trict. There is a theory in the theater that localizing a gag helps. " “We are buried in Hollywood,” re- One evening, however, the co- | | Rey Milne: sad mg ported Elviry, speaking for Cicero U, S, M AY median got his geography mixed. 11:30, 3:15, 4:55, 7:30 and 10:10. Hus an Abhes ae He announced that his inebriated : partner who was stumbling about : Elviry, who a: tor * th ee the concern, said she even had some Se stage i fg 00 uh eres Bon Heuser. Bul Stert inel the captain, were ume of news is made comprehen- The World At War mews for Herbert J. Yates, head of Snap nd Waltef Brennan, at 11, 3:34, | (men, including 2 deck l F Qualificati sible. Republic Pictures. rare. os Aavbody Jn : a dea. 4 | U-oat 1 hag, Jus 3 Hii ormer Qualifications Are Criticizes Headlines sets 800 " 1 550 2% Ze hut he 5 (Including Tax) a Tan o's| Transfer From Britain of {hi sidionce Yow that Wiking 0a and 530 failed to sink her. Dropped; Want Youths | TW Devs crticied a New York) le ure, a sobri- paper, y —_— kind of military secret. We're sell-| oJ Supply Line Due ma ay OE a Water, Not Gasoline Trained as Nazis its banner line “A. E. F. Invades ing our houses and when we wind : option in western Pennsylvania, | | Rooney, Freddy Bartholomew She was loaded deep when the at-| . | Europe” on the story of American up a contract calling for a couple In December had been stone dry for years, so | | Marta Linden. at 13:50. 3:50. 6:88 | |. come but actually she was in By PAUL GHALI participation in the raid on Dieppe. ‘More pictures, we're heading back . the gag failed. ° Enemy Agents M ballast, her tanks filled with drink-|Gopyright, 1042, by The Indianapolis Times | “Obviously, playing the story like ito Sprmtisld, Mo, to slay. LONDON, Oct. 13 (U. P.)—The hn William Giigen und "3 | |ing water for Aruba. The Germans Chicago Dally News, Mc. | that was of great help to the GerThe Weaver brothers nodded 80 if Slates soon may tole: oon ’ 2 5:25 and 8:8. © * | [couldn't understand why the loaded| BERN, Oct. 13—The very totali-|mans in trying to put over their _ ‘berly. They're now working in pro-|U Wooden Performance . LYRIO tanker didn’t burst into flame, for-|tarian reich is “democratizing” its|argument that a real attempt at ingeotion No 11, Tudled "Mountain idl of the ‘Britisheopersied ‘Tran “Wake alana,” with Brian Don. | |ward and aft, and they continuea pry, vasion had been made, and derailway that carries American sup- I SUPPOSE the same might be S Tiana, iit ix 00 Ra | lis shellfire until nearly daybreak. s Maria nih ‘Don’t Like Titles plies to Russia, reliable informants| said about having had it happen eh ah, Ge, 45, 1:40 and 1 B 0, i When the navy arrived she pre-| a to the d German high =, 5, criticism was based on “Though I don’t know where the|S8Y. to Violet in Broad Ripple. How- ter Morris and jean Parker, st | |sented a sorty picture but she was th f held announcement, | ie She haiet headline of g California | ” They understood that transfer of 12:40, 3:35, 6:30 and 9:20. warships and |e career of a Wehrmacht officer studio thought up that name,” El- ey be-| ever, there is much more than still afloat. While ships is now open to any young German |P8Per, also unnamed, h read, viry said. “The storys about some (the 400-mile single track line be-f & t= =" 0 T failings of airplanes hunted down ‘the sub-| oo toe onal, sociat| “Hitler Crushed at Stalingrad.” Ozark farmers coming to California |tWeen Bandar Shahpur and Tehe- i hg the people in it just haven't any |marine, Capt. George L. Compo| “eo 0% tt “Hitler was stopped at Stalingrad to take over the Jap farms. Some- [Fan With its rolling stock would take Wis Seosuivs| peoducilon of “My | push left. and Comm. Mays L. Lewis organ-| gq, 4» ou the German officers’|- - + Put he is a long way from being times I think this Mr, Yates just|Place in December. tigtl Tien Eileen to be that | rer. uppose by this time everybody (ized salvage parties which included| on yoo been very conservative|CTushed. Tp play the news that feaches down in 3 barrel for a title| These informed circles said Al any rate, Bema knows that “My Sister Eileen” |soveral members of her crew. and exclusive. In Kaiser Wilhelm's| Wa only encourages disdppointment| » SUNNY RICE that suits him. The names of our American control of the ‘railway| Ben Davis has n ‘taking a | is a comedy about two Columbus, They boarded the tanker from day the social and financial back. 20d disillusion,” Mr. Davis said. a . pictures never have had anything|Would not affect: the position of} beating long enough in the stage | 0, girls who go to New York for [small boats. . |gound of ‘the would-be officer was| IP outlining the work of the office } fo do with the stories, And that British troops now occupying south-| shows that pass through Indi- | careers and find queer adventures Better Ever all ‘important. Since World War 1|°f War information, Mr. Davis said fsn’t all. ern and central Iran or Russian| anapolis, and I am behind the | marching in on them in their Than “higher education” hias been re-| there had been no suggestions of “I don’t know anything about|troops in northern Iran. trend toward Broad Ripple, sim- | basement “studio” apartment un- | Lieut. Comm. T. S. Thorne and quired. Now all these undemocratio censorship of public utterances of movie making, but it seems to me| Averill Harriman, American lend-| ply as a change of pace. der which the subway company Ensign Stephen C. Hale Jr. led |U. 8. government or state officials. that whenever they. want us to do Icase expert, o Bis voy home oom @ iolet i bo ary on - a ini a new pnd, Re Sonierences Ecow Tecemuy» P pares e adventures e an ling and repairs, They opened the|i; pecome an officer who. can KEITH Xs 3 Sow en Jus Sate ae spent several days in Iran examin-| as done by Audrey Totter, relieves | amorous landlord-artist who has |cross connection valves to correct his worthiness for the sd WS go again, We're not getting any- ing communications and studying| the tired feeling which charac- | passed the blue-green stage of |the list, patched up breaks in the|_ readiness to stake all for Nazi > VAUDEVILLE Ys want to quit.” recalled here. She and Seldon Bennett managed | the world to recognize his genius; |ship for towing. But once they had|more, he must possess “marked aw vi Mri i The importance of the southern| to exploit the humor in their a professional football player, un- extinguished the various small fires, qualities of . character, an idealistic GLE _& y a 8 [PHT

supply route through Iran to Rus-| lines. employed, who hides out in the |they found that the tanker would|conception of an officer's profession,

sia has grown as hazards increased] Even with a wooden perform- | girls’ apartment to evade his TRY A' WANT AD IN THE TIMES.

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on the northern sea route to Murmansk and Archangel.

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ance, though, “My Sister Eileen” is still a very funny play, one of the funniest situation comedies alive today. I had the impression that the production has been pushing through so many miles of terrain this year that some of

prospective mother-in-law; a passionate newspaperman; a number of officers of the Brazilian navy who do the conga; an associate magazine publisher who becomes dis-associated and, finally, a subway driller who loses his

IT WILL GET QUICK RESULTS,

HES |lin Prather Masonic temple. way in the tunnel below and emerges into the apartment in the last scene.

» 2 2 Humor Slowed THE TRICK of the players of waiting until the laughs subside before going on with their lines slows up the stage traffic like the downtown stop light system, and the result is a good deal of mill-

ing. “’You can treat them like dogs.

Ever: the few bad lines in th OR : (he did!)

play are emphasized by these —beat 1 "i your arm

pauses which have the effect of 0 four-wheel brakes on the humor, he did¥) - ond still they love y you they did)

Effie Afton as Ruth, the witty sister, got along pretty well until But in the end they'll get you and You are ‘helpless in their hands.”

the second act when she appeared

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to slow down, while Peggy Van Fleet was woody and siiff all the way through. Guy Roberston as the Wreck from Georgia Tech put back some of the life that seemed to be ebbing out of the performance, but there was too "| ’ D ah much timber even for his mighty | LB A Lo a 1 . 8 frame to support. | ¥ | : a : Perhaps these are the observa. : 3 : co : tions of a hack who expected too | Lr : much, not having been present | ; i : last year when the play came 3 ) a : oo Se a around. Some of the lines and 1 | Gr : : Cy nearly all of the situations are iE x } |

= : : Ni ; together again,” romancing : ML ice to fhe. swing-and-s | 2, Wii va rhythms of Sammy Kaye ) : ar i #Orchestral| The stars ond sy igh whew hoy fli vollick in breathtokingspee *

hilarious. : Even so, I anticipated a much stronger production. Perhaps I put myself in the class with the iy i inland citizen who saw the ocean iq 1 : for the first time, gazed and i . gazed until he found the horizon, { then turned away disappointed. ; —~ He thought it was bigger.

“My Sister Eileen,” a threeact comedy by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, based on the Ruth McKenney stories, and staged by George S. Kaufman. It plays the week of Oct, 12 at English’s,

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