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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE 19 Ilotwoon TIip Avis What's Showing And When FEBRUARY 26, 1948 Pitching Uorspshopn iWhat Makes A Star at 11 I 3 0 05 p.m. 3:30, 6 i5 CIRCI.E-"lf Too Knew Susie 1 40. 4 .10. 7 15 and "Cared Fury." at 12 40 and m. ST.

ri.A!R-"The Barhrlnr and 'the Bobby Soaer" and "Thai Daren Girl t'PTOWN-'The Bachelor and the Bobby Soier" and "That Harm Girl." and short VOT.I Wild Irish Row' subjects. Clvde Beatty "THE LOST JUNGLE" Wildest Adventure Etrr Filmed 'WILD BEAST AT BAY" INHIAVA--I Walk Alone." at 1 SB. 3 50, and 10:15 m. "Jirgs and Mafrrie in Society," at 11 30 am, 2 40, 5.55 and 9:10 p.m. KUTH S-' Tha Invisible Man." at 11 am 1:50.

4:40. 7 30 and 10 20 m. "The Invisible Man Returns' at 12 30, 3:20, 3 0 and 05 Timnrrlanr at 11:33 a.m., 2 05. A 37. 7 09 and 9 44 m.

ZARING-FGVPTlAN- 'My Wild Irish Rose" and ahort subjects. DKF AM "Marked Woman" and Keeper of the Bees." HAMILTON "They Won't Believe Me" and "On the Old Spanish Trail." Mild Irish Rose" and -Soap Bov Herbs." The Primitive Type 4I Walk Alone' lias A Rugged Hero By Corbin Patrick ALL THOSE PUBLIC enemies sent to the big house by the fearless G-Men in the gangster cycle of the 30s are getting out of prison now and making trouble for the smooth operators who double-crossed them in the gangster cycle of the 40s. That is the lesson to learned in "I Walk Alone," underworld melodrama offered since yesterday at the Indiana. The man who walks alone, until joined by a semiattached blond, is an abvsmal brute relentlessly seeking vengeance on a crooked Tonight ENGLISH Thru Sat, 8:30 of the Turtle." at 1 2 17 Perilous ORIENTAL "Fseape Me IVeurr" and "Ad- 48. 6 59 and 10 10 it I By Billy Rose CAUGHT Gertie Lawrence the other evening in a revival of the I A Noel Coward playlet, "Tonight at 8:30." As I watched Miss Lawrence take charge of the audience I asked myself, "What makes 'this babe worth five thousand a week?" Is she funny? Yes, pretty funny, but Nancy Walker is funnier.

Can she act? Sure, but not any better than a little gal named Barbara Bel Geddes. Is she a great singer? Well, it's a matter of taste, hut personally I prefer Pearl Bailey. Is she an outstanding hoofer? Heck, no. 'Any of my chorus kids can dance better. What, then, makes her Gertie Lawrence? What kind of light and heat does this star give out that makes her a bigger draw at 'the box office than all the other girls I've msntioned put together? venture Inland Waters," at 11.31 242.

5:53 and fMlphin Strprt' Fabulous Trian" short suhjerts. 01.1 TRAIl "The "New Hounds." 9 04 p.m. Remember Mama, at 8 30 p.m. on stage MATINEE 2:80 9 Cbrlotti CREEHWOOD John Van Drutcn'i and SI'KH)WAV-'Road to and Ianr." lost Junrle' and "Wild Beast at Bay." "Romance and "GI BOIt.O-"Wayard and "Terror of DAIM-- i hundrr in the Vallry' Uar Brides." he Plains. When partner wno grew IILll III iujuv wiuu nunc nc laiifuiancu llr.IA- Drstry Rides (md 14 years in durance vile.

"TZ This mobster of the old sawed- other players lends an air of sus- mS2S' TilURAT MARCH 3 8:30 1 1 off shotgun school is played as if pense and conviction to a slick and '-coparabana adipted trom Kttttryn Forbi' wtfc his life depended on it by auri but insignificant tale of murder Mrcy and and mayhem. It's an old story "MAMA'S BANK ACCOUNf KURT KATCH Eves. 1.2 II. $1 .83, 2.40. $3.

J3 0, with tax. Matinee. 60c. $1.20. $1 80.

S2.40. p'ayms wnn guns, our nero ne- wen, that a question more easily faced than fathomed. Ask any five producers why one person is a wow and another a walk-on, and you're liable to get five different answers. Ask me end I'll mumble mumble about some mysterious and magnetic quantity I call the ability to turn it on when you need it. SUSIE AND PAL Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis in "If You Knew Susie," opening today at the Circle.

Lancaster, an actor of the primitive type. The exotic Lizabeth (no E) Scott, she of the low-pitched voice, is the girl involved. The realistic work of these and At The Indiana In Person The Poet of the Piano CARMEN CAYALLARO His Orchestra and Concert Revue! MON. TLE MCH. 1-2-S MATINEE ED.

gins to feel more at home in the game. He escapes the dragnet, takes the villain's pocket exterminator away from him and locks him in a refrigerator until he signs a written confession. It's I WALK ALONE Screen play hy Charles Schnee. Directed by Byron Haskin. Presented by Paramount.

1 THE CAST lu Hoilvivonil Totlav I. In the back of the house Hart, Weil and Gershwin gave each other the old "that-does-it" look. Moss was already speculating on what he could substitute for Danny's show-stopping specialty. And then took over. When the applause finally tapered off, Miss Lawrence slipped down off the swing, saluted Danny with a deft gesture, took stage center and went into "Jennie." Now remember she was singing a song that wasn't her style, and which she didn't especially like.

But the crowd had cheered somebody else some smart alec had whipped four service aces past the champ. 0iEmi mm MAIOOS COMEDY HIT Frank-ip Madison Burt Lancaster Kay Lawrence Lizabeth scott ready when the police arrive. Frank-ip Burt Lancaster NOW noii Turner Kirk Doutias where, vou mav ask does the Dave Wendell Corey! Mrs. Richtrdson Knstine Miller 1 girt come Well, she the Maurice. George Riuaud night club canarv who svmpa- Nick Palestro Marc Dan Mike Mazurkt thizes with the big lug and steers nim on a course that doesn't lead Sinatra, Rooney And Kelly Will Star In New Musical MI BOX OFFrcK-ll.

J. WASSON i CO. (RECORD MPT.) PRICKS: 3.0, 3.00. 2.40, 1.80, 1.20 SEATS NOW Kves. $1.20 to $3 60 Wed Mat.

bOe to $2.40 WITH 1AX him right back to the peniten brought up to date, with all the gory details. The thick-skulled hero takes a territfic beating before accounts are squared. NOW By SHEILAII GRAHAM Hollywood, Feb. 25 FRANK SINATRA, is now definite to play Dick Rodgers in "Words and Music," life story of Songwriters Rodgers and Hart, OPEN tiary. For good measure 1 he Indiana this week offers Joe Yule 'Mickey Rooney's pop) and Renie Riano in a film based on the popular cartoon strip, "Jiggs and Maggie in Society." with Mickey Roor.ey i laying Hart.

Gene Kelly appears as himself I Jo(lern Methods 111 IIIC 1 Ilia JIUW aimftra up as ail 1 uiui xicttu muaiiai super-special. Judy Garland gets the surprise new star on the Mtro lot, Jules Munshin, for the top comedy role in "Annie Get Your Gun." Jules I first saw him on the stage in "This Is the Army" has a two-minute bit as a waiter in "Easter Parade." He wrote it himself, and he steals the picture with it. ner i kuiobm; that world Series 'game in Chicago when Babe turned to the fans who jwere booing him, pointed to a Spot in the bleachers and smacked the next pitch right Xvhere he had pointed? That was X. Remember that day at Forest Hills when a fairish tennis player named Jones banged successive aces past Fred Perry? The fabulous Fred was never noted for his serve, but he saluted Jones and then aced him right back with four of the fastest serves of his life. Another example of what I mean by X-ap-peal.

But let me tell you about one of the- times Gertie Lawrence turned it on. In "Lady in the Dark," as you and several million other customers remember, Gertie played the boss lady of a slick fashion magazine. The plot of this musical concerned itself with her neuroses which were sprouting neuroses. Moss Hart fashioned this libretto with the English star in mind, and the sainted Sam Harris, who produced the show, had to guarantee Gertie $5,000 a week against a double helping of the gross. Like Cornell and Hayes, she was the show and was in a position to call all the shots.

And, from what I heard around Broadway, Gertie frequently called them at the top of her voice. THE yj if fa WEEK I 000! It cost Warners something like $1,600 it was an original and someone on the lot batted it out in four weeks! SUDDENLY GERTIE stopped being Miss Lawrence and became Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice and Gypsie Rose Lee. As she reached the end of the first couplet of "Jennie," Gertie let go with a Beale Street bump. During stanzas two and three, she did things with her aristocratic derriere which had the audience in a walleyed trance. And down near the end of the song the star went into the most magnificent mock strip-tease ever seen inside the theater or out.

Well, when Gertie finished, they had to do everything but turn on the sprinkler system to quiet the crowd and get back to the plot again. And "Jennie," the song nobody liked, went skyrocketing into theatrical history. I presume Miss Lawrence still cashes a pretty big check on payday. Well, as far as I'm concerned, the lady doesn't have to blush when 'she hands it to the TIMES HAVE CHANGED, this character finds, after his long stretch up the river. The strong-arm boys have been retired to rear positions while the front line defenses of the racketeers are manned by corporation lawyers whose methods are too devious and deep for muggs like him.

So he finds he has been politely eased out of business by the partner on whom he had counted for a new start in life. When he continues to ask questions, the double crosser calls in the muscle squad to soften him up. When one of the brains in the outfit threatens to squeal, his ex-friend has him shot in the back and arrange the evidence to make the cops think our hero did it. But now that everybody's He's ihe juy jS. xSSi ihthe 1 NICK STUART'S I' I 5IOVIEIJVND BAND room: rl Adm.

si $1.25 Alter Films At Library Contrast between the American and Russian way of life will be illustrated in motion pictures to be shown on the two countries at 8 p.m. tonight at Central Public Library's auditorium. The pictures will be "Peoples of 1he Soviet Russia" and "America the Beautiful." 3 UWW'rVtjSr 1 Barbara Stanwyck is doing a burn. It was she who induced Warners to buy "The Fountain-head," with the idea that Barbara would star in it. Now Lauren Bacall is the star, with Gary Cooper, and Barbara does not think that's fair.

Raft Must Go GEORGE RAFT has been served notice by the French government that he must leave French Morocco by March 6. They expect a lot of trouble after that from the Arabs over the Palestine question. George has communicated with his studio in Hollywood to tell them of his plans to return. He'll finish "Outpost Morocco" here. Greer Garson is home again sick and her movie, "Julia Misbehaves," has had to close down until she recovers.

The last time Greer was bedded with flu they could shoot around her. Now the only parts still unfilmed are scenes calling for Greer's presence. Gregory Peck will probably get to do "Act of Violence" after all the Mark Hellinger estate has now sold this property to Metro for $150,000. And Greg owes Metro a picture. Talk about inflation Hellinger bought "Act of Violence" from Warners for WHEN CANTOR SINGS bank teller.

If I were the bank teller she wouldn't even have to sign her name. Her would be sufficient. (Copyrlrht, 148, by Billy Rosel I ff I 6rStie mm 'Martha' Will Open Toniahl At DcPauw DURING THE LAST week of rehearsals, Moss got worried. Miss Lawrence had some cute songs, including the one about her ship having sails of silk, but no slam-bang comic song had been written for her. On the other hand, a kid out of the Borscht Circuit named Danny Kaye had been handed a clever ditty called "Tschaikowsky." The Greencastle, Ind Feb.

25 (Spl.) DePauw University's of the opera "Martha" will terrific musical takes the down-beat a billion dollar story about two lovable hams who became the world's richest script called for Danny to sing be presented at 8 p.m. tomorrow this sonfrin Act Two while Gertie through Saturday in Speech Hall relaxed in a swing upstage. Well, on the campus. Moss knew his show business Dr. Herold T.

Ross, head of well enough to know that the the speech department, and Prof, star wasn't going to sit by hap- George Gove of the School of pily while a newcomer with hair Music will direct the production, like a popsicle took the theater The cast includes more than for one fabulous weekl irT RONALD ELEANOR .7 70 students with the leads tomorrow and Saturday carried by Marjorie Horn, Greencastle; Esther Petry, Hoopeston, Richard Hairrell, Roanoke, and Chris Hamilton, Greencastle. Friday's performance will star Constance Caylor, Bluff ton; Margery MacDaniel, Crawfordsville; William Lockwood, Greencastle, and William Anderson, Wyandotte, Wis. INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FABIEN SEVITZKY Conductor Ml'RAT TIIFATEB Concerts Feb. 28, 8:30 p.m.; Feb. 3 p.m.

Soloist, Soprano FI.FANOR STEBER Star of thf "Met" and Radio Cowrll: Bip Sinp Aria from "The Marriage of Firare" Mnurl and "fer FmschueU" Uber Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Li RAT Rl. 9596 Si nn, S3 40, S3. S3.H0, $4 20. Tai Inc.

Also Wasson's Record Dept. over. Ischaikowsky was a cinch to be yanked right after the opening performance out of town. The worried Moss cornered Composer Kurt Weil and Lyricist Ira Gershwin, locked them in a room and stood guard. At 6:30 next morning the boys emerged with a multi-versed little number callen "Jennie." Hart didn't think too much of it, and when it was played for her that afternoon, neither did Gertie.

The star pointed out it was only moderately funny and not her 2nd 1 NORTH SIDE I NORTH SIDE mm vwvwaBHHH Jr. "WE ijoH. au si. rA. .4 INVfSIBU Tonight 5:45 to 6 25c Plm Ta Marlene Dietrirh James Stewart "DESTRY RIDES AGAIN" Randolph Scott Kar Franeii 'WHEN DALTOHS RODE' fiOEtRT PAi6 Etri vf i i I fed ki- mM I Ber2 i NOREEN NASH I nttmWBU CAST SIDE DREAM BRIGHTWOOD CH.

7693 vju aai cwTiIt ia. mvi 3 6:45 -SSI, DENNIS MORGAN 1- RcwwcoStf INDIANA "MARKED WOMAN" Gene Stratton Porter's Novel "KEEPER OF THE BEES" style. It might do for a shout- i ing songstress like Sophie Tucker, but after all, Gertie was a lady. "Look, my pet," Moss pleaded, "we're going up to Boslon to try things out. Learn the song ami see how it goes.

If it doesn't click, Kurt and Ira will write another for you." "Okay," agreed the star, "but it's a waste of Miss Lawrence memorized the lyric, and during the dress rehearsal in Boston half-mumbled and half-sang it, making no secret of her belief that "Jennie" would be jettisoned before the New York premiere. AND THEN CAME opening night at the Colonial Theater. In Act 1 Danny Kaye gave a good account of himself, but Gertie was the star and the audience was given no chance to forget it. But down in Act two Danny stepped to the footlights and let go with "Tschaikowsky." And as Moss Hart tells it, Danny was scared scared he was going to stop the show with this murderously good piece of lyric writing. And then have it cut out by order of the star.

But the lyrics of "Tschaikowsky" were too hot to be cooled off, and Kaye had too much of what it takes not to give. When he finished the funny tongue- twister the crowd applauded for two solid minutes practically a lifetime in the theater. The distressed Danny tried to shush the i but this was mistaken by the customers for modesty and they clapped all the louder. (AdTertlaeraenSf 9 HUB TLtOIRL I JllllillliIJ.T.Wl aoth ni uii.iiiMirjyin- Robert Milchum. PI RSIKD" Groucho Man.

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