Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1942 — Page 18

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5 Evelyn Ankers is the girl the “sinister characters are after in “Sherlock Holmes and the Voice “of Terror,” now playing at the . Lyrie.

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“Sin Town,” with ” Bennett and Brod Crawford, at 12:05, 2:45, 4:25, 8:05 and 10.45. “Sherlock Holmes,” with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, at II, * 1:40, 4:20, 7 and ¢:40.

KEITE'S

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LOEW'S

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“The Boogie Man Will Get You,” with Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Slapsy Maxie RosenBloom, at 11:20, 2:24, 5:28 and

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by RICHARD LEWIS

Balcony

The Ice Sooctacle

THE SECOND GENT on my left was decidedly sleeping the sleep that follows the Thanksgiving dinner. He was awake until the ‘““flamingo flare.” That got him. So soft, so pastel, so delicate, so soothing. But the lady watched it intently—so soft, so pastel, so delicate, so exciting. I imagine Freddy Trenkler, the bouncing ball of the ice, brought the sleeper to. The guy’s a wonder.

amused, but only somewhat. - Yes, he is clever, isn’t he? Let’s leave it at that, the point being that Sonja Henie’'s 1943 Hollywood Ice Revue has something for everybody. It has ballet. It has comedy, both high and: low, broad and subtle. It has fantasy and slapstick, boogiewoogie and speed skating. You can go to sleep, but you can’t stay that way. It's pegged for everybody. The idea of the show itself is a little on the astounding side. It's as ostentatious as a doublebreasted mink coat. Extravaganza would be the word for it if that adjective hadn't become diluted by constant application to lesser events. So we'll just have to let it go withaut a word. » on ”

Dress Rehearsal THE WORLD PREMIERE at the Coliseum last night. as every-

one who was there discovered, was a dress rehearsal. From the viewpoint of the kind of a performance a show like this de- | mands, the going was rough and uneven. Occasionally, a member of the | ¢horus tripped and flopped. Ensemble people were nervous, uncertain frequently out of line. lighting cues seemed to be missed repeatedly. The orchestra, in addition to missing cues, played the score as though the boys were sight-reading. Timing was off in scene after scene. At one point, the lights went up to reveal an elderly stage hand lugging a papier mache apple tree out on the ice for “The Garden of Jive” scene. He struggled the tree into position and bustled toward the wings, running and sliding, as the chorus swooped on. All of these misfortunes could not, however, dim the talent and genius that has gone into this show. The conception involved is tremendous. I think that as it tightens up, the 1943 revue will emerge as the best Miss Henie has ever done. , ” n

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where Freddie Trenkler clowns the squad misfit. Mr. Trenkler the great comic artist of the ice, a kind of Chaplin on skates. Miss Henie's “Swan” and her dance routine in “The Belle of New Orleans” are sensational, another term diluted by trade use in this instance. And there are the immaculate duo-skaters, the Caley Sisters and two excellent knockabout teams, Bob Murphy and Cloyd Cawthorn and James Kelly and John Van Doren. John Flanagan does a remarkable job in a single as the happy autograph hound. Speedskaters Leo Freisinger, James Casesar, Charles Hadlett - and George Vavenny leap over tree trunks, just plain stunting, in garish-green Robin Hood outfits. The ensemble opens with a winter skating scene which is followed by a patriotic display of color and movement, from which Miss Henie makes her appearance in a milk-white plane as the orchestra plays service songs. The

Antics” scene

glittering metallicly. In the flamingo flare, they are pastel pink; in the New Orleans scene, they are something out of this world, Color and design and movement are magnificent—boldly and imaginatively conceived. The’ theme of the show seems

future of America, edged off in white at the finale with the assurance that there will always he a Christmas. ” o ”

It's New TOO BAD about that finale last night, Mixed-up lighting had the audience so confused that half the patrons were rushing for the exits and their cars as Miss Henie took her final bow, amid much noise and scuffle. ‘And yet, these things don’t matter much.

This is the kind of a show one | remembers for years. It is an event in the entertainment world, not merely because it’s lavish and expensive and has Sonja Henie in it, but because its entertainment values are heightened by the extravagant use of imagination and skill. One of the most frequent comments I hear about the Henie ice show in general is that they are all the same , , . if ‘you've seen one, you've seen them all. If that was true in the past, it certainly isn’t this year. It’s bewilderingly new and original. And I suspect it will remain new, for the prophets say that it will be the last Henie ice show until the war is over.

Veterans on

Keith Bill

Gus Van and Chaz Chase

Share Honors.

GUS VAN, veteran song man, headlines the bill this week at Keith’s which opened its new stage show yesterday. Gus sings a medley of tunes with his own words and his performance illustrates some of the best in vaudeville showmanship. Also on the bill is Chaz Chase and his variety act which includes. eating handy objects, like cigars, lighted matches and his shirt. These two veterans hold up the stage bill. Val Owen has something different in the way of magic to offer. He's a perfume magician. Mr. Owen's trick is tq create any perfume you can name and some perfumes you can’t name out of water, which he apepars to do very neatly. © He passes the finished product out t¢ women members of the audience. Simmons and Joey are a couple of comedians slightly on the hammy side who manage to wreck their

act by laughing so hard at their|

own gags they can’t tell them. Bar-

ton & Brady roll around the stage 2

in an acrobatic knockabout. The Debutantes, dancing no better than usual, are back again, this time with several new but not particularly dazzling routines. ” ” ”

KEITH'S film this week is “The Old Homestead,” a rustic comedy with the Weaver Bros. & Elviry, whoever they are.

$45,000 WORTH OF

BONDS PURGHASED

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Nov, 27 (U. P.).—War bonds amounting to $45, 000 were sold Wednesday at a luncheon and auction sponsored by women of Ft. Wayne at which Mrs. Henry F. Schricker was the principal speaker. Miss Alma Centlivre, chairman of the $100-a-plate luncheon, said $20,000 in bonds was pledged by women attending the luncheon and an additional $25,000 in bonds was procured through the auction. Mrs. Schricker, wife of the governor, offered her corsage of orchids for auction and the flowers were bought by Mrs. Edward C. Springer for $3500. Mrs. H. H. Arnholter of Indianapolis, director of women’s activities of the state war savings staff, auctioned her corsage of gardenias (which brought a price of $1700 from | Mrs. J. B. Conley.

CHINA EXPECTS JAP DRIVE INTO YUNNAN

CHUNGKING, Nov. 27 (U. P.).— Chinese military quarters today believed a Japanese offensive designed to conquer the interior of Yunnan province was imminent and would be a two-way drive with one force assaulting from the west and another driving up from French IndoChina on the south. A military spokesman said 5000 Japanese troops landed at Haiphong, on the Gulf of Tongking in extreme northern Indo-China Nov. 17 and enemy troops in southern Indo-China were moving northward.

SHERLOCK HOLMES turns up at the Lyric this week to outwit the

Nazi agents and an assorted collec-| tion of saboteurs to save England.! The film is “Sherlock Holmes, and the Voice of Terror,” teaming Basil! Rathbone as the detective, Nigel | Bruce as Watson and Evelyn Ankers!

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A good cast and a corny plot built up with the atmosphere of foggy London streets and dank waterfront passages conspire together to make film a middling fair mystery. A little effort on imagination could have made it a good one. Like most mystery serials on the screen, the Sherlock Holmes series is rapidly going down hill. Taking the famous detective out of his 19th century setting may be one of the reasons. Substituting a Hollywood concoc-

A | [tion for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

stories is probably the main reason. Universal has the redoubtable Holmes searching for a mysterious

| [radio voice which describes an in-

vasion plan. The plan is for the Nazis to attack the northeast coast. From that, Holmes reasons they will attack the southeast coast. Elementary, my dear Watson, deduc-

didn’t dare invade England. Holmes

foil ’em. Elementary. ” » ”

“SIN TOWN,” a story of gamblers in the wild, wild west, is the Lyric’s Friday, Saturday

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BUSMEN STRIKE IN PONTIAC PONTIAC, Mich,, Nov. 27 (U. P.). —A strike by A. F. of L. bus drivers: today tied up the only public transportation service in Pontiae, a b-elty of 66,000 population.

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