Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1943 — Page 12

OICE from the. Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS

‘Wanger' s Arabian Nightmare

. THEY FIGURED at Universal studios that since the atidlent vor ~ glan -tales of the “One Thousand One Nights” have been revised by nearly every scribe who has recorded them in the past millenium, Walter Wanger and his merry men at Universal could do a job them-

selves.

The. result is a new «Arabian Nights” in shrieking technicolor,

Times Amusement

Clock

OPENING TODAY LOEW’ S

“Dr. Gillespie's Assistant,” with Lionel Barrymore and Van Johnson, at 11:15, 2:20, 5:25 and 8:35.

“Whistling in Dixie,” with Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford and George . Bancroft, at 1, 4:10, 7:15 and 10

KEITH'S

On stage, “Sunny Side Up,” with William Wright and Meiguelils Chapman, at 12:29, 2:59, 5: 29, and 10:20.

CURRENT FEATURES

INDIANA «Arabian Nights,” with Jon Hall, Maria Montez and Sabu, at 12:40, 3:46, 6:52 and 9:58. «Strictly in the Groove,” with ‘ Leon Errol and Martha Tilton, at 11:40, 2:46, 5:52 and 8:58. LYRIC “George Washington Slept Here,” with Jack ‘Benny, Ann Sheridan and Percy Kilbride, at 11:05, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and 10: 20. “Army Surgeon,” with James Ellison and Jane Wyatt, at 11:41, 2:44, 5:47 and 8:50.

CIRCLE

On stage, Henry Busse & band, at 1, 3:55, 6:40 and 9:25. «Joe-Capades,” with Jerry Colonna and Vera vague. at 11:15, 2:10, 5:05, 17:50 and 10:3

DAUGHTERS INSTALL OFFICERS TONIGHT

Capital City Council 53, Daughters of America, will install officers for the semi-annual term, Jan. 1 to July 1, tonight in their hall, 512 N. Illinois st. Mrs. Carrie Cubert, deputy state councillor, will be. installing officer. , Miss Sarah Cubert, councillor for the last six months, will be installed as junior past councillor, and Mrs. Ina Cubert, associate councillor, will be installed as associate Junior past councillor.

CONCER

Saturday, Jan. 9, 8:30 p. m. Sunday, Jan, 10, S$ p. m.

MURAT — RI-9596 Soloist

ALEXANDER - BRAILOWSKY

Pianist RACHMANINOFF

Piano Concerto in C Minor SIBELIUS Second Symphony in D Major CARPENTER Birthday of the Infanta

Good Seats Either Concert $1.10, $1. % $2. 20, $2.75, $3.30 ax

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LEON ERROL MARTHA TILTON USL INL

Vaudeville Road Show

Featuring

Britt Wood

Stage & Screen Star nvm—

= The Smiles «Table Rocking”

Russian born pianist who will be

| his feats of remembering rail-

said he believed the radio was “rel-

with plenty of dancing gals around in gauzy garments and guys with ‘ towels around their "heads, whooping it up with the old wild west spirit, Any resemblance between this whooperoo and the tales of Scheherezade is highly coincidental and purely unintentional. : Jon Hall is running round in a sheet as. the Caliph Haroun al Raschid, rescuing Maria Montez as “Scheherezade,” from the bad Be: also in sheets. Getting this thing in its’ proper perspective, Maria is a dancing gal, sort of on the Dietrich side without feathers; who works for a traveling circus. Jon, he is having trouble with his brother, Leif Erickson, who is trying to take over Baghdad. Erickson’s mob moves in under cover of some confusion in the market place, wounding Hall, who is saved by Sabu, performer with the circus, and Maria, » » 2

Double Crosses Boss

MARIA SAYS she wants to be Big Annie in the community. She wants to marry the ‘“caleeph,” she says, not knowing that Hall is the legitimate caliph. Erickson, now in power, dispatches one of his torpedoes in a regulation sheet to pick up the dancing gal, but the big shot’s right hand man, the vizier, doublecrosses his boss and has Maria sold in the slave market, along with Hall, Sabu and a couple of comics the story refers to as Sinbad and Aladdin. Sinbad bores everybody by trying to tell about his voyages and Aladdin keeps hunting up his magic lamp. This plagiarism from the “Arabian Nights” is smoothed over by burlesquing the two characters. Hall, aided by Sabu and the comics, escapes from the slave market just as Maria is being carried off by her purchaser, the grand vizier in disguise. Swinging from a rope, like Tarzan, Hall knocks the vizier off the horse and gallops into the desert. But they're recaptured by Erickson’s mob before they can get out of the county. One thing leads to another and it develops that Maria loves Jon for himself and doesn’t want to be Big Annie any. more, so Jon calls in his mob and takes over Baghdad again, All Wanger needed to round out his Arabian nightmare is Gene Autry riding away and singing he got spurs that jingle jangle jingle. Wonder how come he left that out? .

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Human Timetable ALEXANDER BRAILOWSKY,

soloist ‘with the Indianapolis symphony orchestra Saturday and Sunday, is another one of these. people you read about with photographic memories. His press book is filled with

road, steamship and airline timetables to the exact minute, for an entire season. Once having studied a timetable, it is said, the pianist never forgets it. For the rest of the season, he remembers accurately every train arrival and departure on his itinerary, not to mention planes and boats. This is just dandy. For years, the; symphony people have worried about their soloists missing trains and planes. Now, at least, they have a soloist who operates on a timetable. Only they get him at a time when the railroads have abandoned that monotonous prace tice. They are still worrying.

RECORD ONLY ‘FREE’ PAPER, RANKIN SAYS WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (U. P.).— Rep. John Rankin (D. Miss.) yesterday told the house that the Congressional Record is the lone survivor of a free press, because it is not controlled by advertisers. Rankin also charged that a few “flannel mouth” speakers were spreading “propaganda and insinuations” against congress over the radio and suggested a “national radio system,” or a requirement that members of congress obtain equal time with their asserted detractors to defend the legislative branch of the government. Rep. Yarl E. Mundt (R. S. D.)

atively fair,” but noted that many speakers use radio time obtained by advertisers,

SHRINE 12 WILL MEET Pilgrim Shrine 12 will "hold a stated meeting at 8 p. m. tonight in Castle hall. Daisy Darlisle, worthy high priestess, and Howard Hoff“|meyer, watchman of the shepherts, will be in charge,

USED PIANOS

ALL KINDS ‘ ALL PRICES—E-Z TERMS

Alberta and Lynn, who appear “Priorities of 1942,” through Saturday. Hank Ladd.

From Rensselaer, Ind, come the Helen Reynolds skating girls,

in the de luxe vaudeville show,

which opens at English’s tonight and runs The show stars Willie Howard, Bert Wheeler and

By MARTIN KANE United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Jan. T7—Walter Florell, who is built like a middleweight boxer but designs some of the highest priced millinery that ever knocked a wallet flat, pleaded today he meant no harm when he designed for Joan Crawford a hat which the Hays office banned as too seductive. His ihnocent intent, he protested, was foiled by the fact that the hat had a tricky veil which clung to Miss Crawford’s nose but left her eyes and mouth free to act. That made it seductive, he explained. “I always say,” Flyorell said, “that the nose portrays intellect while the eyes and mouth are seductive features. If you conceal the nose what is left but seduction?” - Florell was not prepared to say that a noseguard would add anything to Dorothy Lamour’s effectiveness in a sarong. The Crawford hat, he said, was

which some kissing went on. There have -been theories that the kissing had somewhat to do with the banning but Florell, a man of independent views, will argue about that at the drop of a hat. “It was the hat,” he said firmly. “The rest is a joke.” Florell was engaged in a “psychoneurological experiment” to

worn in a taxicab scene during

That Veil Makes Joan's Hat ‘Too Seductive for Censors

prove his theory that soldiers, and all men, like women to wear frilly hats which look like women’s hats. For this purpose he paraded before seven soldiers an array of hats worn by an array of models ranging from willowy blonds to saucy brunets. The army, under strict orders to keep an eye on the objective, gazed dutifully at the hats and broke ranks only at the end in order to improve their French with two of the. models Florell imported from Paris. Florell was right about the hats the soldiers would choose. They turned . thumbs down on bizarre items named “Second Floor Right,” “Keep Off the Grass,” or “Goodby, 11 Duce,” all of which won applause from the women present, and went for lacy stuff like one identified as “Clean Linen in Public” and a picture hat named “Rendezvous.” They also went for a perky model named Bettina Bolegard.

MOTHERS TO HEAR REV. R. H. MINKLER

The Rev. Ross H. Minkler will speak on “Child Need of Security” before a meeting of the Mothers club of the Clifton kindergarten at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. The hostesses for the meeting will

be Mesdames Vollie Rifner, Frank

Dillon and Highland.

60 FINISH WAI TRAINING HERE

U. Business School Awards Certificates in.

Three Classes.

The Indiana university séhool of Disiness has awarded certificates to 5 uroans who completed three of training courses offered in ne _. under the auspices of the engineering, science and management war training program of the U. S. office of education.

Receiving certificates in the office management class conducted by Prof. Geoffrey Carmichael of the university's business’ school were Bernard J. Bray, Howard J. Bussell, Robert L. Dillon, Bert L. Edwards, Raymond M. Featherstone, Claude A. Loesch, Abraham W. Let-

1iff, Wilbur E. Mohr, Clendon Right-

sell, Wilfred J. Smith, M. Louise Baker, Agnes P. Brown, Seiphy M. Bussell, Marie G. Cecil, Murial G. Davis, Isabella Legg, Nellie A. Polley, Mary Helen Six, Margaret E. Snodgrass and Ruth Stockton, all of Indianapolis; Eugene W. Miller of Rushville and Mary Agnes Smith of Cumberland. The course in personnel administration, conducted by W. Leonard Johnson, state personnel director, was completed by Clarence C. Addison, Esther M. Zinn, Robert E. Clark, Lowell S. Hamilton, Bruce M. Trabue, George D. Anderson, Wilfred R. Mason, Daisy D. Shick, K LaVon Rice, Marjorie G. Helsel, Abraham W. Letiff, Mary E. Ramier, Nellie A. Polley, Raymond M. Featherstone, Helen F. Dawson, Marguerite C. Linton, Elizabeth P. Maitlen, Joe R. Robinson and Lloyd M. Decker, The following received certificates in the social security and payroll accounting class taught by Prof. Carmichael: Ruth Stockton, Rossie L. Pittman, Rose W. Diffily, Clara L. Iverson, Mary Stewart, Isabella Legg, Marie G. Cecil, Mary H. Six, Ralph H. Taylor, James R. Whitesell, Russel E., Hiner, Thomas K. Cox, Benjamin F. Snyder, Paul V. Graybill, James W. Eaton, Thomas I. Dwyer and David S. Fowler, all of Indianapolis; Mary Agnes Smith of Cumberland and Eugene W. Miller of Rushville,

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Bad Weath or Bogs Down Air And Land Fighting i in Libya

Copyright, 1043, by The Ind. CAIRO, Jan. 7.—Bad wc:=ther is slowing up land and air &ict.vioy in Libya. Where the ground :: sandy, strong winds are stirring it up and blowing it all over the place. Where the soil is earth: rain is making it boggy. Low re clouds are interfering with the air war as well as the sand or mud oi he airfields. Such weather is norma ter time except that, since started, there have been ni: sandstorms than there use: In peace time, sandstorrs desert averaged only five & 1941, according to Egypti: experts, there were 32 san The reason for théir inc: the war: The thousands ¢! and tanks scratching the surface for thousands. of roadless desert; thousand: trenches, dugouts and oth: fortifications that have scar cd the desert; hundreds of deser! landing grounds swept by the slipsi:: ams of many - planes; the thouszncs of bursting bombs and shells,

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All these things have loo:cned the.

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desert’s sandy surface and areas it takes only an « breeze to stir up clouds of ust sand. Contrary to what seems 0 have become a common belief (perhaps because all three British: desert offensives’ of the war began in the autumn), the best camozighing season for desert warfare, mn this correspondent’s opinion, is midsummer and early autumn. Along the North African coast. where nearly all the Middle Ess.s war has been fought, it néver zets too hot to fight. The biggest handicap . ©!

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mer campaigning is the greater consumption of water by ‘men and machines. But in summer the weather is nearly always perfect so that planes are not hampered by .rainsoaked airfields. High-altitude bombers can be practically certain that their targets will not be obscured by clouds.

| PENSION GROUP TO MEET

The Indiana Old-Age Pension group 1 will meet this evening in

BELIEF CORP INSTALLS The Alvin P. Hovey, Women's Relief corps, will install officers at 1 p. m. tomorrow at Ft. Friendly.

ENGLISH "55m TT BROADWAY'S FUNNIERT SHOW

HOLTZ . HOWARD WHEELER °® LADD

Gene SHELDON—Lubas MALINA and the Versailles Beauties

PRIORITIES OF 1942

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MATINEE

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RED SKELTON

with ANN RUTHERFORD

GEORGE GUY KIBBEE

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PETER WHITNEY

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