Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1942 — Page 8
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BUD ABBOTT TO SUE FOR FALSE ARREST
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10 (U. P.).— Film comedian Bud Abbott tonight said he would file suit for false arrest against police officers who took him into custody on a drunk charge, and, at the same time, offered to contribute $5000 to any charity the officers named if they could prove he was intoxicated. The comedian was arrested when he went to the Van Nuys police sta-
tion to protest against the arrest of Morrie Teff, manager of Abbott's cafe in San Fernando valley, on charges of violating dim-out regulation.
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VOICE from the Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS
It s A Long, Long Road
A LONG TIME ago, Erksine Caldwell wrote a novel of social
significance, exposing the enormous croppers.
“Tobacco Road,” like John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath,”
which came a decade later, was a shocker. It revealed the depths of economic and social degeneration which
had taken place in the back country of the Old South, focusing a
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poverty of the Georgia share-
floodlightof indignation upon the plight of American farmers who had become “white trash” after generations of fighting and unequal battle against erosion, red dust and past-due mortgages. The novel was a best seller. When Jack Kirkland fashioned it into a play, it was still a shocker. People came to see it unbelieving, horrified and at fleeting moments, a little amused at the bitter humor of poverty and degradation.
“Tobacco Road,” presented for the eighth year at English’s the week beginning Nov. 9, by Jack Kirkland.
CAST
Dude Lester Ada Lester Jeeter Lester Ellie May Grandma ‘Lester... Lov Bensey Henry Peabody Sister Bessie Rice
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A decade has passed and in the twistings and turnings of time and of .the theater, “Tobacco Road” has shed its bitterness and its social significance. It’s a folk comedy today. It makes people laugh.
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THIS IS the “Tobacco Road” which settled down at English’s | last night for a week’s run on iis eighth year around the circuit. John Barton, the grand old gentleman of the theater, retains some of the innate dignity and humility of the character he has portrayed for seven years. But
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Jeeter Lester isn’t the symbol of the forgotten man any more. Jeeter’s a comedian.
Road” is an old story. pened centuries ago when an English satirist, Jonathan Swift, wrote a scathing denunciation of British politics. of “Gulliver's Travels,” but remembered it for its fantasy and gave it to children to read.
pose. It was also a great piece of literature. the expose. erature.
can say about the performance. It was excellent, as usual. chifly impressive, I think, as a phenomenon of the stage.
city, town and village where there was a theater big enough to hold it in the last eight years it has been on the road. It has played to urbane audiences in New York and Boston and to penniless sharecroppers Louisiana who also found it amusing.
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It has given employment to 127 actors and actresses, has paid more than $140,000 out in railroad fares, has been seen by more than 8,000,000 theatergoers, has grossed nearly $7,000,000. Since the show took the road in
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1934, there have been five Jeeters. In addition to Mr. Barton, James Kirkwoall, Charles (Slim) Timblin (who burlesqued Jeeter not long ago on Keith's vaudeville stage), Taylor Holmes and Calvin Thomas have Jeetered in the show. There have been a number of Sister Bessies. ‘Maude Lambert, Patricia Quinn, Mary Perry and Florence Dunlap have played the part, in addition to Vinnie Phillips, who now plays it. Miss Phillips is Mrs. Irving N. Becker, wife
Norman Budd plays Dude this trip, but Robert Rose and Pitt Herbert have done the role béfore him. Sara Perry has held on to the role of Ada, Jeeter’s worn wife, for four years now. Florence Gerald was the first Ada. Gladys Leslie is® the current Pearl of the golden tresses. She's a dancer. Elaine Ellis was the original Pearl.. Since 1935, Lillian Ardell has huddled wordlessly on the stage as gran’ma. Ed Walter is the veteran. He’s the banker who has been ousting old Jeeter off his land since Dec. 4, 1933, when the play opened in New York. Mr. Walter has never missed a performance in 3531 nights and matinees. That’s “Tobacco Road,” a great play with a purpose which lost its purpose and remained, simply, a great play.
REPUBLICAN VETS TO FETE WINNERS
In celebration of last week's G. O. P. victory at the polls, the Republican Veterans of Indiana will hold a banquet at 6:30 p. m., Nov. 19, at the Columbia club. State Chairman Ralph Gates and the successful state candidates will be guests of honor. Neal Grider, program chairman, will announce committees for the function later,
LAUGHTONS GET PAPERS
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Charles Laughton, film e¢haracter actor, and his actress wife, Elsa Lanchester, disclosed today that they have taken out their first American citizenship papers. Both are British citizens. - O. E. S. DINNER SET Golden Rule chapter 413, O. E. S., will observe brothers’ night at 6:30 p. m. Friday with a pitch-in dinner at the Masonic temple, North and Illinois sts. Miss Ruth Cochrane is worthy matron and Aubrey Porter is worthy patron.
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Sisters,” with the at 12:40, 3:25,
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Edna Oliver,
Trouped for 30 Years, Then
lof Edna May Oliver, 63-year-old
Long lll, Dies
Went to Films
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, ‘Nov. 10.—Hollywood today - mourned “the death
dour dowager of the comedy screen who ‘succumbed on her birthday
'|WAR WORKERS ASKED!
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SOLDIERS INJURED SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 10 (U. P.).
—Eighteen soldiers were injured, six seriously, when an army truck went
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tom yesterday.
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Quebec, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Four persons were killed when two Canadian National crashed head-on a mile west of here yesterday.
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yesterday in the hospital bedroom that had been her home for months. Miss Oliver, who kidded herself with such nicknames as “Prune Puss” and “Pickle Pan,” succumbed to a lingering illness, the gravity of which she never knew. . Miss Oliver was a spinster with ideas of her own on all subjects, though her tongue in real life never was as acidulous as on the screen. She was a vegetarian because she read once that Walter Pidgeon didn’t eat meat.
Drank Special Water
She drank nothing but a special brand of California mineral water. On a vacation to Honolulu she took: along a plentiful supply, but the food was salty, and she drank more than her daily quota. For the last 48 hours during her return voyage she had nothing to drink.” Miss Oliver's vegetarianism led inevitably to the case of the California lemons and the suspicious customs man. Shortly before the war she went to Europe, where she understood there was little to eat but liverwurst, dried prunes and brussels sprouts. She took along two cases of the finest California lemons. Her destination was Italy. There she found more lemons than in Hollywood. She at Italian lemons and when she returned to America—she being a thrifty soul —she brought her California lemons with her. The customs agent in New York was adamant.
Pushed Them Off Pier
“But they're California lemons,” she insisted. “From Italy?” he demanded. “The hell with ’em,” she replied. pushing her lemons off the pier, Miss Oliver, a descendant of the second president of the United States and one of Hollywood's best and best-beloved actresses, had her most serious troubles as a home owner, Seems that when her father died in Boston, she got a $3 per week job as a milliner. Then she carried spears in gay 90s operettas and eventually became a fullfledged actress. For 30 years she lived out of a trunk. She climbed to small bedrooms in hotels all over the world and wished and dreamed and prayed for a home of her own.
Couldn’t Stand Big House
Ten years ago she came to Hollywood and for three years saved almost her whole salary. Then she bought one of those movie houses, super de luxe, with a 40-foot living room and an air conditioner in the attic. As she told this writer last summer: “I never have felt at home in it. I've been like an old fire horse at range. There's too much room in that house. ‘And too many possessions. And too much worry about whether the roses will get mildewed. I'm going home. I'm selling the house and I'm going to rent me a room and be happy.” Miss Oliver put the house up for sale, but her illness forced her to rent the room in the hospital. A nice room, too, she told visitors. except that nobody ever knocked before walking in. Miss Oliver couldn't get used to that, even in a hospital.
DAUGHTER BORN TO BRENDA JOYCE
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Film Actress Brenda Joyce today named her new baby girl Pamela. Miss Joyce and her daughter, who was born yesterday, were reported doing well. The father, Lieut. Owen Ward, planned to return to army
duty after a furlough for the event.
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