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Evening star., 1935-10-13
THIS WEEK
Hollywood Illusion
Continued from page five

Harold looks naively bewildered like
the Harold in pictures when he is
struggling through to a crisis. He
manages to say some kind words, and
then asks if we will excuse him. His
business manager goes out with him,
returns and breaks the news. Sweet.
trustful Harold has fired us all!
That was his answer when every
thing including story trouble was hit
ting him at once, and he wanted to go
into production. The rest is screen
history. Disregarding the walls of
friends who wanted him to 60 back to
his old methods, he persisted in hiring
and eliminating writer's until he got
straight dramatic screen play with few
laughs compared to his successes of
the past.
The release of "Catspaw" told the
story. Critics everywhere hailed it as
a successful and courageous departure
from RarOldS old formula.
Sometimes the Hollywood illu-
sionists achieve stature that passes
beyond the glittering dimensions of
show business. Consider an experience
l had one time at La Quinta, the
beautiful desert resort that Marie
Dressler loved 80 we'll.
am walking to my bungalow after
Sunday breakfast, late, because I
arrived late the night before, when
am interrupted by the genial La
Quinta host.
Marie wants to know if she can
see you," he tells me. "She read an
article in which you mentioned her,
and she'd like to talk to you about it."
My knees start knocking together.
What had written about Miss Dres-
sler had been far from sugared. But
he is drawing me to her bungalow.
You'll get a shock when you 60 in,"
he says; don't let her feel it! She's
leaving us today, she must be nearer
her Los Angeles doctor; I'm afraid
this is the last time we shall any of us
be seeing her -"
His voice shakes and he stops
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abruptly. l follow him inside the
bungalow, dazed at this news. The
papers are still ringing with accounts
of her birthday party; l had not
dreamed that she was i'll again. had
not seen her since year before, when.
with her gay court around her here
at La Quinta, she had reminded me
more of a great Polish Princess had
known than the screen Marie with her
famous folksy pathos, and ! had said
so in print.
1t is a warm day, but Marie is
stretched upon a chaise-longue in
front of blazing fire. She is wearing
flowered chiffon dress. l can see no
change in the vivid face save for her
eyes, which are great cavernous pools
that light up as she smiles and waves
me to a seat with a royal gesture.
MY DEAR" she says, II wanted to
tell you how much l liked your
article"
"WhatT I stammer.
That's the way like to think of
myself. she says. land you're the only
one has ever caught it!'
'OhT l say.
This at the moment when am so
discouraged with my writing that I
have come to La Quinta for rest!. :.
We talk. We discover that I know
some of the fine, fancy people whom
she knows all over the world - she
even knows the Polish princess
and we discuss them, revelling in their
plushy names.
She has always wanted to do an
aristocrat on the screen: "One that's
funny about it, just like you had me
be, my dear" She has made Metro
buy a story for her, although they are
holding out for more roles of the Tug
boat Annie type. If they delay too
long. she says, she will buy the grande
dame story from them and do it her.
self, and she asks me if will write it.
When leave we have arranged Our
next meeting to be at Santa Barbara
where she gives her parties, - "Wait
till you see my parties there. my DEAR"
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But when come back to town there
are no more parties for Marie in Santa
Barbara.
She must have known that she was
dying. but she had pushed that knowl-
edge into small corner of her big
heart. And the illusion of life and
action, so powerful within her. had
flowed over that knowledge until it
transcribed physical facts.
There are some Hollywood illu-
sionists who might be surprised tor
hear themselves so designated. These
are the executives. Upon my arrival in
Phantasyville am told by the powers
that were land are no longer. for it is
three years since then - Hollywood
ifetime):
''Let'ssee. you're sophisticated stuff,
aren't you? Well. you can do The
Cobra"
81 don't want to do The Cobra'r'
squeak. Il am not sophisticated stuff
! am"
But they are talking about some
thing else. I do not have another
opportunity to say what I am for
three years, the end of which time
finds me in another studio. discussing
the possibility of putting Jane
Austen's Pride and Prejudice" upon
the screen.
''Of course, you are the one to do
it." am told, "as long as you are old
costume stuff anyway"
II arm not old costume period stuff!'
Isqueal. Unless three years in Holly
wood have made me sol am -"
But they are talking about some
thing else. If my illusion of myself
has not been exciting enough for them
to remember. they will invent one
they can remember and give me a.
chance to live up to it.
wander mournfully out on the
RKO lot and find Corey Ford. who
has bored a hole in the tire of an
automobile newly arrived from the
East and is gratefully drinking in the
nice dank Eastern air.
That's where / belong" he cries:
back where the sun rests once in a
while, and I can be a pessimist if I
want tor
That's your Illusion" I tell him.
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and neither we're they, being old Lloyd
men who were accustomed to writing
their own story, if any, between
Laughs. So we were all rather poutish
at our first meeting, over which Harold
gently presided. For the first time in
his career he had bought story. Our
job was to help each other bat it into
screen shape.
Help each other! We glare and
part. l call a conference the next
day to submit my idea for a prelimi-
nary skeleton of the screen moves,
which must be plotted out like chess
game. They listen politely and begin
to talk about the football season.
Our conferences 60 on like that for
days. Finally they start calling me up
and saying. 1--WE want to play golf
this afternoon, so will you tell Harold
you're not ready to see us YETI"
At our next meeting / object to this
malingering - and l have to listen to
tales of the old Mack Sennett days.
All this time Harold is like lamb
in the midst of ravening wolves. He
praises our industry. He calls several
story conferences and listens to the
wildly conflicting ideas. Each time he
gently suggests something that might
combine the best of our warning ele.
ments. But we are too fixed on our
sides to hear.
Finally we are told to get whatever
work we have ready into typewriter
form and report to Douglas Fair
banks Office in the United Artists
building - temporary headquarters
until Harold's new bungalow is ready
As Harold comes in he is greeted by
deathly silence. He asks to see the
story, and read what have done. 1t
isn't much. Harold's face says. The
gaggies read theirs. They have rou-
tines they've never bothered to tell me
about - or which they worked up at
the last moment; sequences and Sc
quences Of routines among which.
every so often. Mr.. Kelland's story
lifts timid head and breathes.
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and there's nothing he don't know
about, see?
II don't care how sophisticated he
is! said Miss West. "Ail he's given
me is smokers, and not one belly-laugh.
Don't you know you got to laugh all
the way at diamond ladies or just
give up and cry?'
I'm going to give up and cry in
one more minutew walled the director.
Isn't there anybody will help me out
of this spot?"
There's me, buddy" said Miss
West. I'm gonna rewrite my part
complete, and I've got my entrance
line right now!"
It was not, however. until the
rushes OF the first days shooting
showed how Mae was coming over on
the screen that she was allowed to
write her own lines. In the interim off
the screen she continued to dramatize
herself as the giggle-teasing diamond
lady everyone knows by now. rather
than the painting pantherine outlined
by the Sophisticated" writer.
On the set there was a tempera-
mental actor who made life irksome
with his complaints about those
squeaks in the machinery of existence
which had best be ignored. One day he
got to the flies. which at times are diff
ficult to keep away from motion
picture set. Mae stood it for a while
and then staggered over to him. hand
on hip. Flies getting you DOWN." she
drawled.
"Yes, they arer' snapped the peevish
one.
"Okay, buddy" she told him
soothingly. Nov. you just point out
which ones are annoying you and I'll
have 'em killed"
Harold Lloyd is an example OF
dramatizing an idea so sincerely that
even his business associates do not
realize he is doing it until too late. He
acts as sweet and unsuspecting of all
guile as the boy who has gained him
fortune in pictures - and somehow
or other, again like the screen Harold,
his righteousness always brings him
out on top.
On one of Harold's pictures l was
told that l was going to have two gag
men to help me whip the story out of
shape. was none too pleased at this
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COULDN'T FORGET

NEW, perhaps, to the present genera
~ ton, homemade fresh cucumber pickle
is relish that delights all who remember
the olden time pickle jar.
Our grandmothers knew best. Their old
fashioned pickle has never been surpassed.
And so Heinz has borrowed their recipe.
Crisp and luscious slices of garden-fresh Gu
cumbers-delicate spices, and old-fashioned
cooking skill make Heinz Fresh Cucumber
Pickle utterly different infinitely sl--
perior to modern variations.
In the Heinz kitchens newly harvested
cucumbers are sliced, drenched in Heinz
pure vinegar and rare spices, then vacuum
packed in jars. Heinz Fresh Cucumber
Pickle stimulates the appetite and, even
when eaten literally, is extremely easy to
digest. As a relish, it adds tempting flavor
contrast to any menu. It is salad in itself
and it makes delicious sandwich.
Try one jar of Heinz Fresh Cucumber
Pickle. Your grocer has it, at reasonable
price. Ten to one, your family will vote it
an every-meal relish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-23
Club Board to Meet

MRS. FRANK B. HUNTER,
1Vl president of the Indiana Fed
Grafton of Music Clubs, has called
a meeting Of the official board of
the organization for IL a. m. next
Saturday in the Claypool.
The board will elect a chairman
of the nominating committee which
will nominate officers to be elected
at the state convention to be held
March 81. % and % in the ClaypoOi.
Officers 10 be elected are treasurer,
first vice president and third vice
president. Officers are elected for
two years.
Mrs. Hunter will report to the
board a tentative program for the
federation convention, and plans
for the intercollegiate glee club
and choir concert which the fedora
ton is sponsoring as its contribu-
ton to the program of the North
Central Conference meeting of mu-
sic supervisors which will gather in
Indianapolis March II to %.
Many of the meetings Of the two
organizations will be held jointly.
The federation is cooperating with
the officers of the conference and
assisting in many of the social and
professional activities of the confer
ence meeting which will bring to In
dianapolis a large group of educa-
tors and students in the music field.
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Dancers to Return

And another secret which has
crept out is to the effect that Ar
mand and Marie, the dance team
which captured night club hearts at
the Chateau Lido several moons ago,
will return to the fold this week
and will be seen in novel concep-
ton of the new dances which are
sweeping the country.
La Sale and Lucas, also seen at
the Chateau some time ago, and
known as the Duke and Duchess of
Rhythm" also will be on the bill.
They will be on hand with new tap
and speed numbers.
Miss 10 Arnold, the well-liked
blues singer, is still doing the "hot"
music department with the band,
and Max Hilbert is doing the master
of ceremonies act.
Erwin Cakes and his Acorns are
turning into sturdy "Oaks" as far as
Lido patrons are concerned, and
seems to be becoming permanent
part of the program.
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Indiana Roof BUYS

A busy week on the Indiana Roof
will start with the American Lee
gion 40 and Society's annual
Washington birthday ball tonight
and will end with the Sunnyside
Guilds annual charity ball Friday.
Musical duties for the week will
be divided between the Johnny
Burkarth and Marty Judd orches-
tras.
Burkarth, who has been playing
a return engagement on the roof
for the last week, will be featured
at the 40 and dance tonight and
will have his farewell dance tomor-
row night.
The 40 and Society, fun division
of the American Legion, promises
that it's dance will be one of the
gayest and most colorful of the year
The Marty Judd orchestra, fea-
turing the beautiful and talented
Lynne Rogers, will be heard on the
roof Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week. They played a two
nights engagement here three
weeks ago.
Miss Rogers, who joined the Judd
orchestra while it was playing in
Columbus, o., her home tow, is
one of the few feminine orchestra
leaders in the country.
The roof management is offering
an advance ticket sale for the one
night engagements of Don Bestor
and his orchestra, Saturday, March
2, and Don. Redman's orchestra on
Sunday, March 3.
Tickets for the Sunnyside Guild
ball are available only through
members of the guild.
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GaynOr Movie Held Over

A Woman's eager pursuit Of the
glamour Of romance is the theme
Of the latest Janet GaynOr and
Warner Baxter cO-starTing vehicle,
zone More Spring" which is APP
pearng for the second week upon
the screen of the Apollo Theater.
Reports from other cities where
this Fox film Is playing to capacity
audiences. is repUted to reveal that
It scores one more triumph for these
two popular stars who seemingly
belong together in the screen
zone More Spring" is described as
a dramatic modern story, of high
adventure and gallant courage,
adapted from the widely acclaimed
novel of Robert Nathan which
proved a best seller.
The locale is a large city park
during the rigOrs of winter and the
promise Of spring. Into this set
ting drift. separately, a number OF
strange types. each original. each
reduced by circumstances 10 near
destitutiOn. They include a girl
out of work. a ruined auctiOneer. a
starving violiniSt. a Suicide-courting
banker. a white wing worker, a cop
and a lion tanner.
This motley crew. brought tOgeth-
or bv fate. work out their destiny.
and find that their hitherto drab
lives have been heightened by their
adventures together. Janet GaynOr
Is said to have a deeply emotional
role as a courageous girl alone in
the world. Warner Baxter Is the
romantic adventurer who clings TO
the right 10 dream
As the slOW-mOving. eaSy-gOlng
lion tanner. the inimitable comedian
Stepin FetChit has role that Is
good for many laughs. according to
REPORTS. other members Of the cast
ere Walter King. Jane DarWeH.
Grant Mitchell and Roger Imhoff.
zone More Spring" was directed by
Henry King. Winfield Sheehan
supervised production
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A New Murder Mystery

Observation-Disclosures new film
story. After Office Hours" starring,
or rather co-starring, two of Holly
woods most important stars. Clark
Gable and Constance Bennett, is
now on view at Loew's Palace.
The new story concerns the life
of a hard-boiled newspaper editor,
played by Gable, out to get the low
down on an important murder case
and finds he has tackled a job just
a trifie too large for one man, so
ne takes his pretty society reporter
along; the two prove to be at one
anOther's Threats most of the time
and together they unravel the mys-
terry. Miss Bennett, of course, is the
reporter.
The film is said to be filled with
the same kind Of pep and verve and
travel at the same rate of speed
that "ForSaking All Others" and 1T
Happened One Night" did. In this,
Gable is the rough, snappy type
which he has made famous on the
screen.
Miss Bennett is said to look more
lovely than ever before wearing the
distinctive gowns as fashioned by
HollywOod's peer costumer. Adrian.
In addition to the co-stars, the
play boasts an unusually strong
supporting cast including Stuart
Erwin as the cameraman for Gable;
Billie Burke as the mother of Con-
ME; Katherine Alexander and
Harvey Stephens who will be re-
membered for his role in Evelyn
Prentice"
Added to the feature program will
be another Fitzpatrick traveltalk in
cOlors. Canyon of Color" also
Todd Kelly comedy, Bum Voyage"
and a color cartoon. Edwin G. Hill
will be commentator for Hearst
MetrotOne News.
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little flower. the scarlet pimpernel.
that grows along the roadside in
England. which was taken as a seal
By a small band Of regency bloods
who had pledged themselves to save
certain Frenchmen from the gull
lotine during the French Revolu-
ton.
Leslie Howard is the leader Of the
group and IN order to keep his
identity a secret from English So
ciety and his beautiful French wife
plays the part Of a fOp and a fool
before them all
Prior 20 this movement, Howard
has been a model husband and his
wife can not justify his change in
attitude and becomes very bitter
over the turn of his affections.
The wife is played by Miss OBJ
eron. who is making her starring
debut IN this picture.
The picture was directed by
Harold Young with a supporting
cast including Nigel Bruce. Ray
mond Massey and Joan Gardner.
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Temptations

The Technical High School DEM
egorians viii present the subject.
Temptations" in four different
speeches, when they address the
congregation of the Third Christian
Church, Seventeenth-st and Broad
way, al evening services tomorrow.
Speakers and subjects will be:
Dorothy Hammer, bad Bar
gains; Norman Judd, Escapes;
Albert Smith, Temptations Up
ward" and Alice Cleveland, Temp
tations at Work" The chairman
will be Maxine Johnson. The Dem
egorianS are under the direction Of
Charles r. Parks.
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tiles, is in charge and will appear
in a short playlet.
Old songs will be sung by the
choir and the audience. Katherine
Morris of Meet My Sister" fame
will entertain with a dance and
singing skit, and the soloists and
choir will sing the seXtet from
Lucia De Lammermoor" in its
original setting, using the entire en-
Semble.
Old and interesting costumes ap-
propriate to the times will be used.
The night of Wednesday, March 8,
is the date.
The chorus is under the direction
of Fred Newell Morris and the &C
companist is Paul R. Matthews.
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cial Characterization as we'll as
physical movement to accentuate
his representations. One of the best
of those given last night was AN
Old Actors Testimonial" a charac-
ter study written by himself.
Three other monologs on the pro-
gram were written by Mr.. Schwartz.
They included I'm an Old Syna-
gogue," Three Politicians" and "A
Drunken Cantor" with which the
artist closed his program.
Miss Richter sang nicely, if a bit
stiffly. several songs, Faint Echoes" "
by Bernstein, and The Eternal
Flame" by Medvedeff, being out
standing.
Mr.. Glabodin possesses a strong,
bold and brilliant pianistic tech
nique which was most pleasantly
evident in Glazunoff's Dance of
Salome." (By j. w. t.
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The movie feature is The Wom-
an in Red" starring Barbara
StanwvCk
The story deals with the romance
Of an aristoCratic Kentucky sirI. por-
trayed BY Miss Stanwyck. who
through family financial reverses.
becomes a professional rider at
society horse shows.
she meets Gene Raymond IN the
role Of a scion Of a blue OloOded
Long Island family. also impover-
lshed- II is love al first sight with
both Of them.
But Miss StanWyck's employer. a
part played BY Genevieve TObin. is
herself madly in love with Raymond.
and VOWS 70 break up the match be-
tween Miss StanWyck and RAYMOND
John Eldredge has the role Of
wealthy man of the world. a rival
rider Of Miss Stanwyck with whom
he is madlv infatuated Miss Stan
WICK. while IN love with her own
husband is deeply indebted 10 the
other man. and indiscreetly boards
his yacht 10 help him out IN bust
ness zeal.
There Is an accident IN which a
girl is drowned and Eldredge held
for murder.
In a sensational trial. Miss Stan
WICK finally reveals her identity IS
the other girl aboard the yacht.
There is a smashing climax when
her husbands family. who never
have approved Of her. appear IN
court IN a body 10 save the family
pride
Dorothy Tree has the part Of the
girl who is drowned. while others IN
the large and talented cast include
Phillip Reed. Russell Hicks. Nella
Walker. Claude Gillingwater. Doris
LLOYD. Hale Hamilton. Arthur
Preacher. Ed Van Sloan. Forester
Harvey. Ann Shoemaker. Gordon
Elliot. Fred VOgeding. Eleanor Yves
selhOft and Brandon Hurst.
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City Will Hear
Lotte Lehman
Noted Soprano Will Close
Martens Series.

The song recitalS of Lotte Leh-
mann, who will be heard for the first
time in Indianapolis on Monday
night, March 4, in the last concert
of the season of Martens Concerts,
are major musical events in every
city where this great prima donna
of the Metropolitan Opera Company
appears.
Nine. lehman is as great a
singer of songs as she is an inter-
prefer of opera. After a recent
Boston recital the critic Of the Her
aid of that city wrote:
1T is for such singers as Lofts
Lehman that lieder were written
for singers with warmth, passion,
tenderness, understanding. After
hearing her one realizes again how
seldom music gets the performance
it asks for. She has everything a
singer needs"
Of her singing the Chicago Her.
ald-EXaminer said:
This is a voice of heavenly beau
ty-a glorious and soaring tone,
warm, yet pure; dramatic, yet ex-
quisitely lyric; joined to a musical
intelligence, superlative vocal
technique, and depth of feeling
such as only rarely encounters"
On Feb 7 the fame of Nine. Leh-
mann brought an audience to Town
Hall, New York, that filled every
inch Of space on the stage and
showered her with demands for more
even after she had generously added
an almost endless list of encores.
Her program for Indianapolis viii
include some of the arias from
operas which have made her world
famous, as well as lieder of Schu-
mann, Schubert and Strauss.
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Tech Chorus to Sing

CLYDE CARTER, tenor, and
~ Sonia Grigo, soprano, will be
soloists for the Technical High
School Mixed Concert Chorus when
it sings the Scottish Rite program
to be given at 3 tomorrow after
noon.
Other solos will be sung by Paula
Hickey. Joann McDermed, Robert
Jordan and Edward Bennett. The
organist will be Miss Charlotte
Moore, and the violiniSt. Richard
Orion. Miss Moore and Joan Tay-
lor will be accompanies.
The program will be as follows;
organ - ,..-..-
"Aneelus" .... ...-.. Jules Msssenet
.chanson" =. Edward Shipper Barnes
Invocation
The Pilgrim Fathers Percy Fletcher
Spanish Easter Carol OF the e. -,
The Blind Ploughman,' .,....--c.,- -.
.-.---..---.. Robert c. Clark
..LullabvF' Mozart Burkhart
The christ Of the Snow" Harvey iaul
Devotional Period
Solo-Sonja GriEo
20 Lord Most Holy" Cesar Franck
Concert Choir
Jesus on the Water Side" -----.-.-
.............. Aschenbrenner
Heaven" ........... ar. by Noble Cain
Benediction
Choral Response
The mixed concert chorus is I'M
der the direction of j. Russell Pax
ton.
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Bio Feature at Circle

The Scarlet Pimpernel." current
offering at the Circle. features Leslie
Howard. star OF Human Bondage.
and Merle OberOn.
Miss OberOn won fame by her
work as Anne BOlyen. second wife
OF Henry VIII
The current feature was produced
BY the makers Of The Private Life
of Henry VIII and Catherine the
Great under the personal super
vision Of Alexander KOrda-
The picture was taken from a best
selling StoIy by the Baroness ORGY
that did many million copies IN
England and the United States
II was translated in . different
languages. The selection Of the
title was made from the name Of A