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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-19

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Evening star., 1930-04-06
AS Germany Saw It.

End is a play with historical back
ground. History has to be true to fact,
and the fact is that the pretty name
OF the Tommies, the Doughboys and
the PoiluS for their enemy was 'Boche.'
But do mind the scene In which
the German soldier appears after he
has been taken prisoner in the raid.
Owing, apparently, to the direction of
the New York producer, the poor fellow
does not know how to act. Generally
one hardly knows how a prisoner un-
der such awkward circumstances would
act. He may go down on his knees and
cry for mercy. That would not be
heroic, but it would be human. 1t Is
left entirely to the producers imagina-
tion to determine. But perhaps the
heroic manner would answer better the
intention OF the play, and perhaps
Sheriff had this thought in mind when
he wrote the scene
Anyway. the Berlin production shows
how it could be done without offending
the peaceful attitude of mind. And
the BeIC0 production of this scene.
which certainly Is not pro-German,
shows the correct way a soldier of the
old German army, even in an emer-
gency. most probably would salute. At
attention or overcome by fear, he would
not salute at ALL But he certainly
would not click his heels together and
make bow in favored civilian style,
as II to say, SO long. colonel The
producer must be under the impression
that this is the usual way of bidding
farewell in Germany. Even II 1t were
so, it is 'deplace' in this scene. It takes
the whole effect away. The audience
does not know If 1t should be sorry for
the poor fellow or cry or smile. Occa-
sionally one laughs"
Evening star., 1930-04-06

JOURNEYS END" which begins its
second week at Polls, is a play
made from incidents experienced by the
writer, r. c. Sheriff., during his service
as lieutenant in the great conflict.
People with German sympathies have
kept pretty well away from war plays,
but DR.. Curt L. Heyman, correspondent
OF Berlin newspapers and the manager
Of the city of Berlins bureau Of infor-
nation in New York, has written let
ter, contrasting the Berlin production
OF Journeys End" with the American
production by Gilbert Miller.
Journeys End" is being produced all
over the world with outstanding sue
cess, which Is credited to its peaceful
tendency. Consequently, pacifists claim
that the play. with its peaceful spirit,
should be the best medium for anti-war
propaganda. That Mr.. Sherriffs play
has partly served this purpose is said
produced in Berlin and accepted by the
German stage Immediately after its
London success.
II saw the Berlin performance" wrote
DR. .Heyman. Wonderful acting! Ex-
cellent mlSe-en-Scene. German actors
and producers seem to have got the
spirit of that strange milieu. pathetic
and dramatic, heroic and cowardly, and
with a touch of humor at the same
time. In fact, after this performance
in Berlin every one in the audience was
convinced of the prevailing peaceful
spirit and the anti-war tendency Of the
play.
"Of course, In the Berlin performance
the word 'Boche' Is carefully omitted.
A war time of hatred would not be
suitable. ! don't mind that. Journey q
Evening star., 1930-04-06
In the New York Theaters
Stage Attractions of the Season

Maltby's satirical farce began to look
up, and by the time ne tried to drink
from one Of Lady Shoreham's patched
tea cups, only to bite out a slice of china
which he extricated with some difficulty
from his mouth. the audience was won
over, quite convulsed, and the act ended
in q gale Of laughter.
strange piece, certainly-farce, SEN
timental comedy, burlesque and parody,
touches of melodrama, all mixed with
out any particular rhyme or reason. A
foreword spoken by an eighteenth cen
tury gentleman before the curtain,
warned the audience not to try to take
1t too seriously. But even with that
warning one was hard put to know how
to take. the thing during most of the
first act.
A GENTLEMAN of Harvard New Eng
land background, an engineer by
profession, writing in to say that he
disagrees with the popular view of THE
Green Pastures" and that he objects
to having any mans religion made fun
OF" adds the following comment:
"As a Unitarian, the Apostles Greed,
as you can hear it any Sunday spoken
by sophisticated congregations in Epis-
copal churches, is to me just as quaint
as anything these Negroes do in Green
Z GdoJuLcS. WudL Is LIle actual picture
in my friends minds when they repeat
descended to He'll, the third day rose
again from the dead, assembled into
Heaven, seated at the right hand Of
God, the Father Almighty when He will
come TO judge the quick and the dead.
:. believe in the Holy Ghost {.
the communion of saints the res
direction of the flssh' and so on?
Suppose I were to write a play be-
ginning where Green Pastures leaves
of, and to put similarly into stage char
acters and a stage story such phrases
as descended to He'll, seated at the
right hand Of God the resurrection of
the flesh :. . Would it be any less
quaint and priceless than the f1sh-fry
or the Lords saying to Gabriel in the
Connolly play, Just keep those thunder
bolts, Gabe, We may want to use them
again some time? Happily for the
peace of mind of the Green Pastures
spectators, the play stops short, histor-
ically, of anything that could step on
the toes of most contemporary audi
enceS. I should like to see somebody
write postscript to Green Pastures
in the same vein, bringing in the doc
trine of the redemption. for example,
and see how long it would be before
some Of our orthodox sects would be
heard from"
Evening star., 1930-04-06
Variety of Attractions in
The Capital Playhouses
NATIONAL-NatiOnal Players In
brothers"

Romance, filial affection and tht
criminal code are all compounded into
the melodrama Brothers, which tho
National Players will offer for the new
week beginning tomorrow night.
On Christmas night, 1928, Bert Lytell
o screen star who before the screen was
fully developed was stage actor, began
in this play what developed to be a
phenomenal run. An entire season in
New York was followed by year on
tour, the production closing last night
In Philadelphia. The coincidence OF
the termination of the road tour and
opening of the play here permitted the
Players to purchase the Bert Lytell pro-
duction outright and bring 1t here lu
special cars.
Brothers" begins with prologue in
Producing three scientists who have firm
iGeas on the power of heredity and en-
vironment Twin boys, newly born, are
allotted to wholly opposite environ
mentS, one admitted to the home of q
distinguished jurist, the other adopted
by a sailor and his wife. Twenty-eight
years later these twins meet, one bril-
liant young lawyer acting as counsel
for the other on a murder charge.
The dual role of the brothers will be
played by Walter Gilbert. with Marion
Wells cast in the same role in which
she supported Mr.. Lytel for several
months in this same play. Not only is
the male leading role eXacting as tc
length of the part, but absolute dex-
terity Is required for the quick changes
necessary,
Evening star., 1930-04-06
Movies and War Episodes.

"THEY tell us now the talkie is one of
the greatest things on earth as a
civilizing influence. This is not to be
wondered at, If it has gained such
power that it is taking a hand in des-
tiny and shaping life to its own ends. :"
Thus the press agent soliloquises.
At any rate, story has been evolved
woven, not out of ordinary screen dust,
but out of life itself by those who make
images for the screen. The locale. of
course, Is Hollywood, and the players
were men and women employed in
making the Fox film, The Sky Hawk" +"
In order, as they enter. comes Lieut..
Peter Ginter, former German Zeppelin
pilot and bombing officer. engaged to
give expert advice on the sport of bomb
in genemy cities, and next Capt. Ster-
ling Campbell, late of the British Royal
Flying Corps who has contracted TO
supply the necessary technical data on
ethics. tactics. etc, concerned with the
shooting down Of ZeppelinS over Lon
don.
These two, during the filming of "The
Sky Hawk" became great friends, in
spite of war memories, for in one of
the episodes of the story 1t was neces-
sary to show German fighter put out
by squadron Of British flyers. Lieut.
Ginter accomplished this with appar-
ent ease. and the director was so
pleased that he asked him as to the
why's and wherefores of his skill. Lieut.
Ginter replied that the whole thing
had been easy, because all he had to 90
was to make a replica of a fight ex-
perience of his own. It occurred over
in Cambria in 1918, when he had
managed to bring his bullet-riddled
plane down at point behind his own
lines, almost at the expense of his life
The director was even more pleased
when Capt. Campbell supplied the de-
tails of an engagement in which a
squadron brings down a single-seater
Evening star., 1930-04-06
Big Music in Hollywood.

"TF any one doubts the acquisitive-
= ness of the film industry. let him
go to Hollywood and look over the roster
OF famous musicians now working In
its studios" says Emo Rapee, well
known baton waver.
Engaged in making bigger and bet
ter motion pictures are Oscar Strauss
Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein,
Rudolph Friml and Jerome Kern. And
beside them are thousand and one
others whose names in year or SC
will be bubbling over with Importance"
Their importance seems partly evil
denced by the fact that their salaries
are somewhere up in among six-numeral
figures per year, and that such a per-
son as Mary Lewis, Metropolitan Opera
warbler. is to get $4,000 every time she
opens her mouth.
Evening star., 1930-04-06
Discovered-A Gypsy.

WORD has come to this vale of the
cherry blossoms that cinema land
has snatched up the services of a real
Gypsy. Her name is Carmen Sinaia and
she is a member of the Karaim tribe of
Rumanian Gypsies. In the Fall she
will betake herself to the picture capi-
tai and become starred in a Gypsy
talkie.
Miss Sinaia, who is at present study
ing English IN New York, has had a
varied career, which began when, as a
little girl, she wandered through Ru-
mania. Hungary, Turkey and Egypt. 1t
seems that when she was about IS her
Gypsy dancing attracted so much at
tention that she was offered a con-
tract with a Berlin revue. At that mo-
ment she bade gOod-by to her former
hand-tO-mouth existence, plunged into
her new life with a will.
She emerged as star in such cele-
brated places as the National Theater
in Budapest, the Berlin Winter Garden,
the Del Castro Revue and later in mov-
ing pictures of the Sascha Film Corpo-
ration Of Berlin.
Now at last she is tucking herself
awsy in the modest little village of
Manhattan, preparing herself for the
sunshine and ficker-lights Of Holly
wood.
Evening star., 1930-04-06

April and 8. The leading role will
be played by Blanche iLyddane, sup
ported by Elizabeth Cunningham, Louise
Waters and Anne LeSieur in important
roles. Others will include Henrietta
Batch, Florence Crack. Virginia Darcy,
Helen Donovan, Loretta Erhmantraut,
Margaret Hutchins. Ruth Kelly, Mary
Joseph Kelly. Margaret Mary Kuhn,
Caroline Kloss, Lillian Krouse, Mary
Jane Scheil, Hilda Mohun, Margaret
O'Connor, Harriet Stanton, Teresa Nc
Clellan and Frances Sebastian.
This is the first time a Lenten play
will have been given in Holy Trinity
Parish.
TAKOMA PLAYERS-"The Brat"
The Takoma Players, who were re-
Gently awarded second place in the
Community Drama Guild one-act play
competition for their performance of
"The Valiant" have completed the Sc
lection of the cast for THE Brat" /.
three-act comedy by Maude Fulton,
which they will present April "a, rs and
26 at Community Hall, Takoma Park,
under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid
Society Of the Takoma Park PreSby-
terian Church.
Rehearsals are now being conducted
under the direction of e. Clyde Shade,
who will also play a role in the pro-
duction. The cast will be headed by
Miss Mary Alexander, Paul r. Mattix
and Harry Richards. Miss Alexander
has previously inspired favorable COM
ment for her characterizationS In "The
Fortune Hunter" and "Kempy," given
by the Takoma Players, while Mr. Mat
Tx and Mrs. Richards were both last
seen in THE Valiant"
CHILDREN'S CARNIVAL, April 26.
Saturday afternoon, April 20, at the
Beiasco Theater, Miss Hawke will give
her annual Children's Dancing Carnival
introducing the playlet, THE Sleeping
Beauty" dramatized by Mrs. Goring
Bliss.
The dancing carnival will include
novel tap dance by a group of 80 girls
Hungarian peasant dance, an Indian
song and dance and many other group
and solo dances, as well as an Oriental
ballet. About 100 children will take
part, their ages ranging from 5 years
to is years.
Tickets may be secured from Miss
Hawke at 1871 @ street.
Evening star., 1930-04-06
and the Palace Orchestra complete the
program.

R-K-O KEITH-"Ladies Of Leisure"
Ladies of Leisure" a talking picture
production adapted from a David Be-
laSco play by Milton Herbert Gropper
is the current feature at R-K-O Keith
It has been brought to the screen on a
pretentlous scale, with notable cast
including Barbara StanWyck, Lowell
Sherman, Ralph Graves and Marie Pre-
vOSt In the principal roles. Others en-
Johnnie Walker and Juliette Compton.
1t Is claimed that Frank Capra, the
director of the screen production, has
adhered to the traditions Of BelaSco in
the matter Of minute detail.
The plot concerns an idealiSt, an art
iSt, who becomes interested in girl
of the streets and asks her to pose for
him. She falls in love with him and
without being aware Of 1t. she becomes
representative of his ideal of woman
hood and he falls in love with his mind
creation. Interference on the part OF
ariStocratic parents, who will not accept
the girl for what she has become but
rather reject her for what she has
been, separate the young people. the
girl having been led to believe that she
will ruin the young artists future II she
maIries him. Through q near tragedy
the true state of affairs is revealed to
the artist, who then decides to do
things in his own way.
The story Is unfolded against back
grounds of cabarets, artists studios,
elaborate penthouses and questionable
boarding houses. Ralph Graves inter-
prets the role of the artist and Barbara
Stanwyck, that attractive young actress
of "BurlesQue," the leading feminine
role. Lowell Sherman is seen as a
worldly gentleman.
Short supplementary film novelties
and Freddy Clark and his R-K-OlianS
complete the program.
Evening star., 1930-04-06
\HE invasion of New York by Fritz
Leiber and his Chicago Civic
Shakespeare Society company
was nothing If not le-bodied-

Shakespeare Society company
i was nothing II not able -bodied-
most of the better known Shake
speare plays and some not so well known
and a different bill every highland if
not precisely thrilled by the perform
ances, that portion of the metropolitan
herd which cherishes the Bard has been
duly grateful.
A good deal was made in the advance
notices Of the sanguine, not to say Jolly,
air with which Mr.. Leiber approaches
Shakespeare, and one was assured that
he came not to revive" or "infiict" e.
classic, but to play dramas which were
written primarily to be acted and to en-
tertain. Something at least of this re-
freshing attitude got into the perform
ances, although not as much as might
have been expected. They moved
briskly, were not topheavy with scenery,
and there was an evident attempt to
keep the story moving, but in general
the presentations are those of q capable
stock company reciting the famous lines
rather than making them live, with Mr..
Leibers personal contribution standing
well above that Of most Of his support
ing players.
But, taken all in all, the perform
ances are interesting and sound, and a
real opportunity for young people and
CHOSS more 1amular WIN ffOIlyWOOd
than with the master of English theatre
cal eloquence, as well as for old Shake
spearean hands to see in action and
hear again lines that can scarcely be
heard too much.
n 4 X
UTNHE OLD RASCAL" a comedy by
and with William Hodge, in which
he leaves his familiar "man-from- home"
sort Of role for rollicking and rather
daring entertainment more in the
rougher Broadway manner. Mr.. Hodge
plays with JUNCTION the part of a genial
liquor-loving "hick" from Martinsville,
Calf, in revolt against the Puritanism
Of his overbearing wife and her family.
Funny. but not exactly for those with
thin skins or tender years.
X X
1NTIL mufiny old Lord Tottenham
began to fall through poor; dear
Lady Shoreham's furniture, in the Sec
ond act Of Dear Old England" (Which
played for year in London), the piece
seemed both bewildering and rather
awful. When Lord Tottenham leaned
on q chest of drawers and 1t promptly
tipped over. and tried to sit down on
the sofa, only to crash through 1t. Mr..
Evening star., 1930-04-06
Cantor CanterinS.

Says Eddie Cantor in the New York
- Times:
"This is to certify that I am in my
right mind, white, free and rearin' to
get to Hollywood. don't believe there
Is anything will do In the talkies
that will affect the industry.
Il have many reasons for going, one
being the fact that in October, 1929,
certain things happened ON the Stock
Exchange which affected me consider
ably. Never mind the other reasons.
I'm making 'Whoopee,' which means
playing the picture and not what you
might think 1t means, 1t will be like
putting new coat Of paint on an old
home. Not that "Whoopee" Is old,
but having played it since November.
1928, think know the lines and Situ-
ations quite well.
with the abundance Of relatives that
have found in the past few years, it
has been a financial impoSsibility to
send them all tickets. and SO, in put
ting 'Whoopee' on the screen, it will
save my problem Of relativity.
Am bringing my family with me for
protection. Lily Damita. Wilma Banky
and Evelyn Laye all having seen my
picture, I'm taking no chances"
Evening star., 1930-04-06
Schumann-Heink Romance

remained in the fatherland all this
while. for their own patriotic reasons
joined up with the German forces.
Thus, these brothers fought on opposite
sides in the great war of the world,
although happily they never came face
to face in the front-line trenches.
Now, In Blaze o. Glory" Ferdinand
Schumann- -Heink plays the part of a
German soldier whose life is spared by
an American, in this case, Eddie Dowl-
ing.
In talking about It, the son Of the
opera diva says: while nobody can
accuse me Of trying to be on both sides
of the war, have at least worn both
uniforms" whereupon he flashed the
buttons of his German uniform under
the arc OF a Kleig light and smiled
good naturedly at Eddie Dowling. who
was just about ready to burst into one
OF his Broadway Moo" songs.
Evening star., 1930-04-06
Has the Get-There Germ.

Oakland. Calf, she was playing like
real trouper with the Henry Duffy
Players. At 17-she is only 20 now
Duffy took her with selected troupe
to Australia and New Zealand for a
six months venture, during which she
played in 1.-THE Best People" Meet the
Wife" and THE Patsy" She has had
lots of other experience, but 1t won't
do to tell it all in one story.
Those who saw the precocious young
lady in Holiday" last week doubtless
know that she knows her business and
has the grit to put things over, even
if her more experienced associates did
yield to first night stage fright" q not
uncommon affliction, to which even the
greatest of players sooner or later sue
cumb at the most unexpected times.
Evening star., 1930-04-06
Likes the "Lesit" Best.

& LTHOUGH George Arliss has blazed
"A his name pretty thoroughly across
the country via the celluloid medium,
and has done more than his share as
far as ''elevating the talkies" is con-
ccrned. it seems that he likes the le-
gitimate stage best. after all.
The star of "DiSraeli" and "The
Green Goddess" recently returned from
England. Although on his way to H0l-
lyWood to make "Old English" John
Galsworthy's celebrated stage play, he
insists that he prefers the stage on ac-
count OF the spontaneous reactions of
the audience.
Therefore, after "Old English" has
been ground out. reel for reel. Mr.. Arliss
will return to Broadway in the Fall and
transfer his talents to an as yet un-
decided play.
Evening star., 1930-04-06

MARION STERLY, Manager Steve
Cochran's new ingenue. who near
ly ran away with the show Monday
evening at the opening of the National
Players season, is one of the live wires
of the stage and has covered much
ground In her brief career. incidentally
that career includes a squirt in the
talking movies with Lester Allen, one
of the most amusing of comedians.
The picture, Leave it to Lester" in
which Marion plays a pretty Swiss
maid. Is one Of the treats ahead.
After all this, however, the fact re-
mains that her real name is not Sterly,
but Stierly, for her father was one of
the famous Twelve jolly Corks who
founded the Elks' lodge. Marion simply
knocked an eye out of Stierly for stage
purposes.
Marion originated in the Golden
State of California, and at the age of
IL, while still in the high school at
Evening star., 1930-04-06
Seven Leading Men.

CHARLES ("BUDDY') ROGERS was
thought to have set record when he
introduced five leading women In his
bers." Now Clara Bow sets a new mark
by having seven leading men in her
Paramount picture, True to the Navy"
the fact that Miss Bow portrays a soda
fountain girl with sweetheart on every
warship seems to be responsible for this
profusion.
At the head Of this group of sailor
suitors Is Frederic March, stage and
screen actor who was seen with Ruth
Chatterton in Sarah and Son." His
rivals include Eddie Dunn, Rex Bell
Eddie Fetherston. Harry Sweet, Ray
Cooke and Charles Sullivan.
Evening star., 1930-04-06
pOLrS-"Journey's End"

Journeys End" the great war drama,
has been held over for second week at
Polls, with a performance this eve
ming. The play started in England and
New York over a year ago, and was not
seen in Washington until the past week
The public here has approved it, and
another week of big business is assured
Right after the war number of war
plays failed. Khaki scared of the pub
lie; drums drove people the other way
Paying taxes and eating war bread had
dampened the ardor of patriotism
After a while the public again began to
be interested in the war. Although
What Price Glory made a tremendous
hit, along with books like Three Sol
diers," etc, decidedly war had become
unpopular.
Journeys End" is not propaganda
It has the pathos of truth, that's all
There is realism without nausea. II
does not overflow with oaths and offen-
sive things. Some may believe this
omission makes it untrue. But 1t should
be remembered that the action takes
place among a group of officers, whose
background of education. habits and
ideals are somewhat higher than the
general run, or are at least assumed
10 be so.
Evening star., 1930-04-06
The Movies Have It.

THE all-talking version of Journeys
End" produced by Tiffany in con-
junction with Gainsborough Produc-
tions and Welsh -Pearson-E Elder of Eng
land. will later be produced in German
with German actors. in French with
French actors, and in Italian with Ital-
ian actors. These productions will be
for the countries named.
Journeys End" will have its world
premiere at the Gaiety Theater. New
York. tomorrow. The 77th Division As
sociatiOn has bought out the house for
the following Wednesday.
Evening star., 1930-04-06
GAYETY-"Get Hot"

A brand-new entertainment on the
Mutual Burlesque Circuit, Get Hot" is
announced for the Gayety Theater this
week, recommended as one of the fun
niest, snappieSt and altogether WORTH
while features on the Herk wheel.
Topping the cast are AL Hitler, the
droll Dutch-dialect funster, and Joe
Forte, straight man. Others include
Alice Duval, soubrette, featured among
the feminine leads; Gladys Mccormick,
dancing ingenue; joey Montague, pep
piest of juveniles; Artie Brooks, second
comedian of the eccentric type; Alline
Rogers, soubrette, and May Maiben, q
number leading miss Of charm, with .
lively dancing and singing chorus of
girls dazzlingly coStumed. who appear
in II numbers. Stress Is laid on a spe-
cial dancing finale