Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1942 — Page 35

VOICE from the Balcony

by RICHARD LEWIS

‘Spring Again’ ANY TOMEDY with the title, “Spring Again,” could be either or, just so, 0 oh, well, ' It is an innocuous title for the kind of innocuous comedy v lich has been flitting along the road this season and alightg with considerable success. ight tour: in the theater. This particular comedy, sometimes edged with satire, Spened to a good Hous: at English’s last night, a house which appreciated the presence f such seasoned performers 5 Grace George, C. Aubrey Sn ith and Michael Rosenberg. : “Spring Again” rests upon the idiosyncra: 7 of an old gentleman (C. Aubre:;') whose adult life has "largely beri occupied with unveil.ing monu: ents to his father, a Civil war general. Mr. Smith ‘plays the sire-worshiper somewhat in th manner in which one is accustor ed to seeing him on the screen. Thé sat cal angles which the situation uggests are “speedily realized. ¢ Aubrey refuses to go through wi a the latest unveiling of his fath Mayor aGuardia can't be "there, he is ittending a fire, Marshall Field couldnt come, he is out somev ere saving another newspaper. . ® s f J o

Sells Story

WORN DWN by the continuation of th: Civil war, the wife (Grace Geo: e) makes her bid for freedom fro: . the past. She sells an uncenso ed account of the

“Spring Again,” a comedy in three acts by Isabel Leighton and Bertram Bloch, produced by Guthrie McClintic at English’s Nov, 19, 20 and 21.

. THE CAST

Halstead Carter..... C. Aubrey Smith Nell Carter Grace George Elizabeth Charlotte Bemis Edith Weybright Ann Andrews Girard Weybright Richard Stevenson Bell boy n Mitchell Millicent Cornish a Cotter Tom Cornish Donald Murphy Robert Reynolds Ben Lackland Dr. Lionel Carter...Douglas Gregory Robert Alvin 1: J. Edmon Ryan A TIA, Union boy. ...Dick Briggs Wm. Auchinschloss Michael Rosenberg Arnold Greaves Lucian Self

food concern which puts it on the radio as a daytime serial. Her collaborator in throwing the family’s general to the public is young Tom, struggling playwright, who has married C. Aubrey’s granddaughter. He is considered unsuitable by the girl's ‘high-sassiety mother. He doesn’t live far enough in the past. The radio serial is a great success and meets the eagle eye of a character from Hollywood modeled after the legends of Producer Sam Goldwyn. The character is played by Michael Rosenberg and his appearance in the third act takes the play down the home stretch to a conclusion which is

far better than what went before it. “Spring Again” is comedy which sometimes borders on satire and sometimes on farce. . It relies heavily on a sort of vaudevillestyle dialog, full of two-line gags, some of which appear to have no

general's ac! ivities to a breakfast ) Friday, Saturday

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This, it seems, is the season for the.

Keith's Has Novel Act

Girl Dancers Produce Music

From Stairs.

KEITH'S STAGE show this week produces the phenomenon known as Saul Grauman's musical staircase. The staircase is an instrument disgiuised as a flight of steps. Each step is a key which plays a musical note on a backboard when stepped on by any of the four girl tap dancers in Mrs. Grauman’s troupe. Mr. Grauman’s idea is to produce

k ' music by tap dancing via the girls

and the sound-wired staircase and the idea works most of the time. The girls prance up and down, playing such numbers of Tecchaikowsky's “1812” overture, “March of the Toys” and “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” as the backboard lights up to the sound of each note like a pinball machine, The effect is just a little unreal gnd it's novelty makes the act somewhat superior to average vaudeville fare. The four tapettes are pretty good dancers and so is Mr. Grauman., In addition to the staircase trick, they do a sword dance with a pair of fencing sabers and straight tap.

Dick Gordon Sings

Anthony and Rogers claim to be a couple of Greeks with ‘a Weber and Fields comedy line. They represent the better kind of twoman comedy. Lady Barbara's pets, a menagerie act, consist of three ponies, a monkey, three dogs and a ‘mule, all wonderfully trained. Dick Gordon is the singing m. c. with his own interpretation of “Praise the Lord, and Pass the Ammunition” and Jim McNally juggles with hats. A roller skating fotirsome was Gupposed to appear in the show, but was held over in Pittsburgh, according to the management. Maybe they could find their way out. Anyway, Woodie and Betty, boy and girl roller

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skaters, take over adequately enough.

Keith's picture is a Hugh Her-|

bert comedy, “There's One Born Every Minute.” It seems as though there's one made like it every minute; too, or maybe only every other minute. . By R. L.

Times Amusement

Clock

OPENING TODAY ' CIRCLE

On Stage, Ina Ray Hutton, Wee Bonnie Baker and band, at 1:03, 3:57, 6:51 and 9:23 “Girl Trouble,” with Don Ameche and Joan Bennett, at 31:29, 2:21, 5:15, 7:47 and 10:18. CURRENT SHOWS ENGLISH'S

Again,” C.

with Grace Aubrey Smith, at

“Spring Cieorge and 8:30.

KEITH'S

On stage, “Three Cheers,” 1:46, 4:17, 6:48 and 9:29.

"There's One Born Every Min. ute.” with Tom Brown and Peggy Moran, at 12:24, 2:55, 5:26, 8.07 and 10:29.

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“Gentleman Jim,” with Erroll Flynn and Alexis Smith, at 12:08, 3:25, 6:42 -and 9:59. “Flying Fortress,” with Richard Greene and Carla Lenmann, at 11, 2:17, 5:34-And 8:51.

LOEW'S

“I Married a Witch,” with Veronica Lake and Frederick Mgrch, at 11:18, 2:05, 4:52, 17:39 and 10:26. “The Mtoe of Martha,” with Marsha Hunt, Richard Carlson and Marjorie Main, at 12:41, 3:28, 6:15 and 9:02,

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Springtime’ in the Rockies,” with Betty Grable and John Payne, at 12:30, 3:45, 7:05 and 10:25. “Manila Calling,” at 11:10, 2:25, 5:45 and 9:05.

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C. Aubrey Smith is supremely satisfied with the exploits of his Civil war general parent in “Spring Again,” comedy at English’s.

Festival at Temple Set

Annual Musical Program Scheduled Tonight

The annual music festival of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation and the Jordan Conservatory will be held tonight at the Temple, 10th and Delaware sts. The Butler-Jordan philharmonie choir, under the direction of Prof. Joseph E. Lautner, will join the Temple quartet, under Farrell Scott's direction, in a full program of religious and secular music, The Program

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WATives w. LL 0 i] . GRACE

GEORGE» SMITH

in The 1942 Prize-winning Comedy

Anthem:

Of Servants

Miss Crawford Keeps House

Between Film Roles.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent

HOLLYOOD, Nov, 20 (U. P.)— She’s not asking for sympathy, Joan Crawford isn’t, but you can forget those fan magazine pieces about her, shut your eyes, and imagine her down on her knees, scrubbing the floor. And you'll be correct. If you shut your eyes tightly enough, you'll see her husband, Phil Terry, running the vacuum sweeper. They're victims of the crisis in household servants hereabouts, where butlers now make bombers and upstairs maids are timekeepers in the shipyards. Miss Crawford hasn't had a cook for these many months. She did hire a girl to dust the house, but the girl said it looked like too much work for her and quit the next day. That leaves the master of the house | and the mistress with their sleeves rolled up.

She Hates the Dust

’ “Not, that we mind,” said Miss C., “except that the place is likely to get a little dusty when we'fe at work.” At the moment she is at work at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, wearing one of the fanciest baby blue nightgowns these tired old eyes ever saw and looking not like a scrubber of floors, but like a glamour girl. To

| and the trouble goes on

The original script called for one of the actors, Bruce Lester, to shoot

a Nazi during the proceedings, but |.

the Hays office balked at that. Seems that an allied soldier can kill Germans in the movies, but civilians ‘can’t, not without being

there.

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be exact, she’s looking like Joan | Crawford, | She's playing opposite Fred Mac- | Murray in a spy story called “Above | Suspicion.” It is one long chase, according to Director Richard Thorpe, and as such should prove exciting.

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