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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Versatile Trio
Starsi Lyric
Stage Program

That versatile trio of radio stars
Tom, Dick and Harry, whose chain
programs have endeared them to
thousands, are appearing in person
as the headliners of the current
stage show at the Lyric theater.
They make up one of the six acts
of metropolitan vaudeville which
constitutes the Lyrics stage show.
The motion picture feature is
Warner Brothers comedy produc-
ton, "Smarty" in which Joan
Blondell and Warren William have
the leading roles.
The acts surrounding Tom, Dick
and Harry include Barney Grant
and company in a comedy sketch;
Harry WEIGH and Bobby Taylor, a
team of comedians who specialize
in the hokum brand of merriment:
Victoria and Lorenz, acrobatic
sailors who climax their offering
with a table rock stunt; York and
Tracey in a unique singing and
talking skit entitled Can She Take
It!", and Sakuras japanese Revue,
an Oriental novelty which embraces
~equilibristic and barrel jumping
feats.
The fun is speeded by Frank
McHugh, Claire Dodd, Virginia
Sale and Leonard Carey. "Smarty"
was adapted for the screen from a
stage play by F. Hugh Herbert.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Carroll Movie on View

Murder at the Vanities," a Para
mount film adapted from Earl
CAROLS stage hit, and which COM
bines for the first time a musical
show and a murder mystery, is now
on view at the Circle.
Paramount brought Carroll to
Hollywood to supervise the screen
production. and he took eleven of
his famous New York beauties to
Hollywood to appear in the film.
After he arrived, he then picked
seven Hollywood girls to be with his
eleven, and the eighteen are fea-
tured with Carl Brisson, Victor Nc
Laglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle,
Duke Ellington and his famous or
chestra, Dorothy Stickney and Ger
trude Michael.
Carl Brisson is the noted Danish
screen and stage star who was just
recently brought to the United
States under a long-term Para
mount contract.
The film, directed by Mitchell
Lessen from the original by Earl
Carroll and Rufus King, opens with
the premiere of an elaborate musical
show.
While girls are dancing and sing
ing, and while the audience is in
tune. with the frivolity of the eve
ming, a mysterious murder takes
place. Victor McLaglen, detective
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Lyric InstaIIs New Sound
System, Adopts New Policy

fact that our sound horns, being
carried on a track, had to be shunt-
ed into the wings at the left of the
stage so that they would not inter-
fere with the presentation of stage
material, and later they had to be
pushed back into place again.
IT can also safely assert that
Lyric patrons have really never
heard sound in the theater until
they hear it reproduced by the new
system now in the course of install
lation. If I remember correctly, the
Lyric was the third house in In
dianapolis in which sound was in
stalled. There has, of course, been
an unlimited number of improve
ments mace in the sound system
field since that time, and the Lyrics
new system viii have them all"
Catherine The Great" will be
followed by Universal's big special
production, Little Man, What
Now" starring Margaret SULLIVAN,
the brilliant young actress who
made such a pronounced hit with
John Boles, in only Yesterday"
In only Yesterday" Miss Sulla-
van was c~o-starred with BoleS, but
in Little Man, What Now" she is,
in recognition of her talent, accord
ed sole stellar honorS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26

over the rowdy denizens of the rae
ing racket. They do not realize
their interest in the child until she
begins to pick up their rough Ian
guage and equally rough ways.
A fall from a horse sends the
little girl to the hospital and a
last-minute blood TRANSMISSION serves
for a tear jerking finale, it is said.
The cast of Little Miss Marker"
includes Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy
Dell, Charles Bickford and Shirley
Temple. 1t was directed by Alex
ander Hall.
The second picture on the pro-
gram is whirlpool" and includes
in its cast Jack Holt, Jean Arthur.
Donald Cook, Allen jenkins ano
Lila Lee.
The film purports to tell the pow
erful story of an ex-convict who
rises to a position of illicit af1uence
in the mad era of prohibition-but
who is still courageous enough and
noble enoguh to sacrifice his own
life that his innocent wife and
daughter be freed of the stigma of
his checkered career
The program will also include an
indianapolis Times news weekly
and selected short subjects.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Noble SissIe
to Appeal at
Indiana Roof

Current interest on the Indiana
Roof is divided between Noble
Sissle and his orchestra's one night
engagement Saturday, June 2, and
the roofs annual speedway ball, to
be held Tuesday night.
Featured at the speedway ball
will be ChiX's revue and dance or
chestra, a twenty-five piece unit
which will entertain continuously
from 9 until dawn.
Included in the revue are the
Harriet Smith girls; the Marsh sis
tiers, formerly featured in the Zieg-
field Follies; the Martin sisters,
formerly featured from WLW; and
Virginia Maye.
The floor show will be offered at
1880 and again at 1870 A. M.
The roofs ladies free program
which will be abandoned Tuesday
because of the speedway ball will
be resumed Tuesday, June 5.
Noble Sissle and his orchestra,
who have spent the past three
months playing one night engage
ments in the key cities of the
United States, are returning to the
roof by popular demand.
SiSSle, formerly teamed with
Eubie Blake, has featured his dance
orchestra on three continents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26

Dec. 10 in some of the ballets which
have made this organization Sensa-
tional.
In the new year, the first concert
of the series will present a distinct
musical treat when the Glazounoff
quartet with Igor Stravinsky, ia
nous Russian composer-pianist, and
Samuel Dushkin, Russia's celebrated
violiniSt, will give a joint recital.
At that time, Mr.. StravinSky will
be heard at the piano in. his own
compositions with the quartet.
Stravinsky is world renowned for
his Fire Bird Music" "Petrouchka'
and many other well-known musical
works.
Joe 1trubi, famous Spanish
pianist, will be the fifth concert on
Sunday afternoon, Feb. II.
The closing concert on Monday
evening, March 4, will bring a new
conner to Indianapolis, but a world
renowned soprano of Europe and now
a valued member of the Metropol-
itan Opera Company, Lotte Leh-
mann.
Season subscriptions for the seriea
of concerts are now being filed and
reservations are being made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Two at Indiana

The Indiana is now offering a
double-feature program with Little
Miss Marker" and Whirlpool"
both on the same program.
Little Miss Marker" was written
by Damon Runyon and is based
upon the same formula by the same
writer as Lady for a Day"
1t is a baby girl instead of an old
lady whom the tough gamblers take
to heart. She gets her name be-
cause she is left as security by her
father for a marker" more easily
identified as an 1. o. U. for a rae
ing bet. AS the father does not
return to redeem the human Sc
curity, the bookmaker is compelled
to keep the child.
She Immediately starts winning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26

Co-incident with the installation
at the Lyric theater of the latest
Western Electric sound system for
the presentation of talking pictures,
Charles M. Olson, who operates the
house, announces that the current
vaudeville bill will mark the Lyrics
last stage show until fall.
The theater will be devoted during
the summer months to pictures
only, the first of these, starting next
Friday, being Catherine The
Great" the much discussed and
warmly lauded EngliSh-made United
Artists production, starring Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., and Elizabeth Berg
ner.
THE Lyrics new sound system"
said Mr.. Olson, will embrace every
device for the improvement of sound
and enunciation that has thus far
been discovered. 1t will include
wide range" by which is meant the
perfect reproduction of the high and
low tones of the human voice, as
we'll as nigh and low tones of other
sounds, and it will also include a
battery of simplifying horns which
can be flied or carried up into the
flies of the theater as a part of the
picture screen.
"This latter accomplishment is
something especially desirable in a
theater which presents stage shows
together with feature pictures. 1t
entirely abolishes the problem of
waits, while going from pictures into
the acts or stage shows, such as has
been unavoidable because of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26

of Change of Heart" might sup
pose the noted writer was merely
drawing on her imagination when
she set the story down on paper.
On the contrary, this tale of four
pennileSs college youngsters and
their adventures in New York is
said to have been taken to an I'M
usual degree from real life, being
largely based on the authors own
experiences in the same situation.
The story reveals the lives of four
young people just out of college,
two boys and two girls. Inspired
and confident, they depart FOR a
great city in which each hopes to
realize his ambition.
Awed by the topless towers and
the gigantic eXpanse of the mighty
metropolis, they settle themselves in
a boarding house, their confidence
somewhat shaken.
Through all their adventures runs
a complex love situation. The love
of Janet Gaynor for Farrell, how
ever, soon become the focal inter-
est of the plot. Farrell, believing
himself in love with Ginger Rogers,
regards her only as a sincere friend
and pal.
Becoming respondent over Gin
gers engagement to a wealthy r.ap
he falls seriously i'll. Janet fin
him in a tenement house ncar -
death.
The love scene between Farrell
and Miss Gaynor, after she has
nursed him back to c~onvalesence, is
described as being the most singu-
lar in picture history.
James Dunn and Ginger Rogers
are the other two young people
around which the story revolves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26

Mckee" Tone, for the first time in
his three pictures with Miss Craw-
ford, wins the girl" in the final
sequence.
The two other important roles
we're filled by Gene Raymond and
Edward Arnold.
The New York stage offered two
of its actors to the supporting cast
in Jean Dixon and Leo G. Carroll.
Miss Dixon plays Opal, Joan'S
friend, and Carroll the heavy" role
of the butler.
Esther Ralston returns to the
screen in the role of Dolly, blond
vaudeville headliner and torch
singer.
Clarence Brown, who directed
Miss Crawford in Possessed" and
Lefty Lynton," two of her biggest
successes, was at the megaphone in
Sadie Mckee"
Brown and Freed, Songwriters,
contribute three hit tunes to the
new picture: AL I Do Is Dream of
YOU" Please Make Me Care" and
Il Looked in Your Eyes"
The story deals with a small town
girl in love with an amateur
crooner. They elope and rush off to
New York where the crooner, a
weakling, deserts her for a vaude-
vile singer.
She fights her way through va
rious stages and finally marries a
dipsomaniac millionaire whose life
she ultimately saves from excessive
drinking.
In the close of the picture, she
discovers that her love lies, not in
these two men, but another, her
childhood friend, and one-time
enemy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Ripple
Swimming Pool
Opens Tonight

The big swimming pool and the
amusement park at Broad Ripple
will officially open tonight for the
1884 season. The park and pool
will be open every afternoon and
night this summer. No admission
will be charged to enter the park
at any time during the summer.
For many weeks scores of carp
enters, painters and electricians
have been busy giving the north
side resort its spring housekeeping.
The swimming pool is expected to
continue its popularity as one of the
show places of the middle west. A
large staff of efficient swimming in
structors and guards has been en-
gagged and will be on duty at all
times.
A number of new fun and thrill
devices have been installed in the
amusement section of the park,
among which is a junior speedway,
where the youngsters may enjoy
all the thrills of driving real minia-
ture gasoline-propelled racing cars.
The cars are the latest models
and are equipped with safety de-
vices SO that they may be handled
by the smallest children without
danger.
Nat Griffiths Jr. and his orchestra
has been engaged for the season
in the Broad Ripple dance pavilion.
George Himmelbauer, the new park
manager, states that well-known
bands will be brought to the park
at two-week intervals for one-night
engagements.
The new dance pavilion will be
partly under roof and partly out
door, and patrons are invited to
suggest a new name for the dance
place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Thomas, Prominent
Baritone, TO Sing Oct. Is
Sensational Group of Sixty Dancers Comprising Monte
Carlo Ballet Among Features Listed.

the Martens Concerts, Inc, announces the fifth annual season of con-
ceTtS VIII De given at Englshs when six musical attractions will be pre-
sented. Thursday evening, Oct. 10, John Charles Thomas, Americas
favorne baritone again will be heard. The date for this concert comedies
with the visit of the state teachers to indianapolis and will give them the
opportunity 81 attending. The Don Cossack Russian male chorus. Serge
Jarof conducting, will appear Sunday afternoon, Nov. 18.
Inc most gamorous spectacle in ten years in America will be the
third offering of the Martens concerts when the Monte Carlo Ballet of
sixty dancers and an orchestra Of thmtx will be seen Monday evening
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Joan Crawford, Natural
in De|mar' Sadie Mckee
Picture, With Franchot Tone in Lead, Reflects Private
Life Romance of Famous HOLLYWOOD Lovers.

Joan Crawford is said to play one of the outstanding roles OF her film
career in the title role of Sadie Mckee" new Metro Goodwin Mayer film
which is now on view at Loews Palace.
The story adapted to the screen by John Meehan, is one of Vna
DelmarS popular novels.
1t ran seriaIy in a national magazine before being published in book
form and adapted to the screen.
With Franchot Tone playing the romantic lead stimulatons is auto
maticany aroused. For the private life romance of these two famous
lovers is thus reflected on the screen in a whirlwind drama. In Sadie
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-26
Gaynor Held Over

Many readers Of Kathleen Norris
recent novel, Manhattan Love
Song" which now is enjoying its
second week at the Apollo theater,
as a Jaynet Gaynor- Charles Far
rell screen feature, under the title
Evening star., 1934-04-15

enthusiasm for the sport, such achievement in
breeding the thoroughbreds that excel in it
and making the men whose steeled nerves are
those of great riders.
There are some who will challenge the claims
of supremacy for Virginia and Maryland as
steeplechase centers. With truth they say the
fame of the Norths Meadowbrook Cup, the
New Jersey Cup, the Long Island Cup. is wide
spread Yet even in those regions it will be
remembered that the largest percentage of win
ming jockeys, Of horses and trainers in seasons
past had their roots somewhere in the earth
nearby Washington.
Metropolitan sportsmen, owning large stables
in New York and its vicinity, offer lavish purses
and valuable trophies to attract the best in the
game to their native bailiwick but few of them
stay home that last week in April when 25, 900
people are pouring into Worthington Valley
for the Maryland Hunt Cup-or 10000 to War
renton for the Virginia Gold Cup.
That gracious group of South Carolinians-
by adoption-who sponsored the Aiken and
Camden racing this year may point with pride
to their successes Yet the Aiken Cup was
won by Virginia owned, Virginia trained and
Virginia-ridden horse. The Carolina Cup met
virtually the same destiny.
Fortunately, the question of local superiorities
does not play disturbing role in amateur
racing here or elsewhere. Men and women,
who pay $4,000 to s25, 900 for horses foot the
bills for their upkeep and training and then
compete vigorously for cups and small purses,
are not actuated simply by a desire to settle
an issue. AS members of race committees
they seek to provide good sport for the thou
sands who attend the meets. AS owners they
want their horses tested in the best company
and, if they found worthy, to win On
that basis the competitions between racing
districts exist
A lot unlike road show is the excitino
Y game of the steeplechase. Its tour is
launched in the South when the first warm
days appear, extends to the North in Summer,
drops back again below the Mason-Dixon Line
in the crisp Fall. leaving some of its strength
among the october and November events in
the upper States.
After each performance in the grand circuit
Evening star., 1934-04-15

ably there were not 10000 people in America
who had conversational knowledge of an
amateur race meet. Ten years later, perhaps
half that many had seen one. Today the figure
represents approximately the total attendance
in nearby Maryland and Virginia alone. Over
the Nation of course, the number mounts far
higher.
TIMBER and brush and fiat turf races rid
den by gentleman jockeys have become a
national fad among horse lovers and an i'm
portant industry the side. Bright plads.
flashy scarfs, tweeds and brogans dot the
fields of amateur race courses scattered from
Long Island down to South Carolina, from st.
Louis to California. In these distant States
and on many terrainS thousands chase from
one vantage point to another to catch every
thrill as the horses sweep through gruelling
tests of their endurance, speed and jump
ing skill.
Nowhere however, so much as in the terri
tory adjacent to Washington is there more
Evening star., 1934-04-15

the principal actors are loaded into vans and
trucked away to the next stand. The transient
audience following like children after q de-
parting circus, wraps its checkered garments
about it, climbs into limousines, sleek phaetons
and battered station wagons and motors off
to settle on the new locale, always in setting
much like the last.
Back Of the smooth, superbly mounted pro-
ductions staged by race committees today lies
a history and an origin simple the theater's
miracle play.
Legend has it that steeplechasing began one
moonlit evening in England after a group of
fox-hunting gentlemen had warmed their rem
iniscences with a hatful of toddies.
Stroling out in their nightshirts for last
breath of air before retiring, they saw glinting
in the distance church spire. One of their
number, in that vein of eternal argument ma
tive to horsemen, remarked that his hunter
could Jump any fence between the house and
the steeple and, furthermore, do it faster than
any horse in the country.
The boast might have slipped by at that
sleepy hour had it not bounced straight into
the gentlemen's plenttude Of toddies. They
leaped into debate, the debate into action
Boots were jerked on hurriedly beneath night
clothes. Horses were startled from their stalls
and saddled as challenges threats, promises and
bets few between man and man.
Whether the father of all steeplechasing won
his point or lost 1t the story does not say.
Nevertheless method of trying a hunting
horses mettle was established. 1t grew In pop
ularity and came out of the moonlight into
the sun. At first the steeplechase course" was
designated only by two points. The starters
began at one and reached the other as best
they could across country. Certain routes al
ways proved the best for this purpose, of course.
Soon those passages were marked by flags and
the route rigidly prescribed within their bounds.
THE first type of racing gave hunting men
u an opportunity to show they had fast
horses, stout-hearted and clever over fence,
such animals as would never be left behind In
the hottest chase or brought to grief getting
over obstacles. When the tagged course came
into use, a new type of lepper began to
evolve with it.
horse can streak over the firm turf of a
race course at clip impossible through ordi-
nary fields, plowed ground and rough, hilly
country. The emphasis on speed increased,
therefore, as tagging began. To prevent the
transformation of hunt meets into mere tests
Evening star., 1934-04-15

by 900 to 100000 spectators year within
rs miles of Washington.
Already the preliminaries have been written
into the years sporting history at South Car
olna, Richmond the first day of the Middle
burg Hunt meeting and the My Ladys Manor
yesterday.
Now the cavalcade has begun to roll into
those three gay and frenzied weeks embracing
the second Middleburg day, this Wednesday;
the Little Grand National in Maryland on Sat-
urday; thence to the heart-breaking Maryland
Hunt Cup, the week after, and down to the
on May S.
Beginning as quiet, neighborly amusement,
this business Of steeplechasing has grown to
impressive proportions Thirty years ago prob
Evening star., 1934-04-15

OWN the green hillsides of Virginia
and Maryland this week the flying
hoofs of thoroughbreds will roll,
drumming a salute to the Spring
amateur steeplechase season, hail
ing the return of sport patronized
Evening star., 1934-10-16

tent group Of young men In the Long
Island Commission" were intent On
making good Job of their task. and
were selecting msn on the basis Of
merit alone.
Nobody can accuse Mr.. Farley Of
being hypocriticai. His views on the
spoils system are the realistic views
Of the politician and he does not
attempt to make them appear to be
anything else. A. he says. they are
the same today that they were In
1891. The only source Of confusion
= the fact that Mr.. Farley continues
to hold the political post Of Job dis
penser Of the Democratic party
along with his post Of Postmaster
General under an administration
that. under some difhculty. has sought
to give the impression that 1t dis
ayows politics In running the United
States Government and believes In
the merit system.
II everybody were - frank as Mr..
Farley there would be no misun-
derstanding.
Evening star., 1934-10-16
Hauptmann's Alibi.

Quite regardless Of whether he Il
innocent or guilty, the assurance and
readiness with which Richard Haupt-
mann, accused Of the Lindbergh kid
mapping and murder. sets up IN alibi for
the night Of March /, 1881, when the
crime occurred, promptly evoke dis
belief. He gives . detailed account Of
his whereabouts and movements on
that date. although II he had no part
In the tragedy in New Jersey there
would be no reason whatever for his
remembering 10 precisely. For that
day was as were almost all other
days Of that period in his life II he
was pursuing his usual course.
: Unless Hauptmann Il quite An ex-
traordinary person and sifted with an
Sexceptional memory he has only Q
fxed, habitual routine to warrant
the positive assertion that upon the
LIST Of March. 1882, he was at Z
certain place at certain hour. Had
he replied to his questioners that he
probably was following his usual course
of action On that date. the presump-
stion would be In his favor. FOR that
IL the best that any but the phe-
nomenal person can do In such CIR
cumstances.
Ask . thousand people where they
were 1t . certain hour on . certain
day two and . half years prior and
! probably not one win b able with ~