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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1933. DOROTHEA WIECK MAKES FINE START IN AMERICAN FILMS MOTION PICTURE THEATERS. STARTS TODAY! She Stars in Gentle, Poignant Play, "Cradle Song," on Screen at Circle Engagement of Doug Fairbanks Jr. to British Star Is Reported by Friends SCREEN ODDITIES 5S, 10 1 miMMimFT' I iti7ir irT jipi 1 11 Jrt Ifl A Bombshell of I- v5l i 1 1 with firemen today in extinguishing HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21.

Wl The engagement of Douglas Fair BY CORBIX PATKICK. a oiaze at kku studios. in Will Rnrlr tha Pitu I Wk" 1 banks Jr. and Gertrude Lawrence, The fire started in the office of I OROTHEA W1ECK, much lauded German star of "Maedchen raBFI British stage actress, was reported Carl Drayer, chief sound technician, by friends of the actor today. apparently from an overheated radi ator.

Seeing the flames from an ad In Uniform," which was seen by connoisseurs of the cinema at a local theater several months ago, makes her American debut auspiciously in Paramount's adaptation of Martinez The troth, it was said, will be announced next May when Joan Craw joining; sound stage, Douglas Fair- DanKs Jr. and zasu. Pitts rushed to Drayer aid. ford divorce from young Fairbanks becomes final. "I can't say anything about it now because the divorce is not final," Fairbanks said.

"However, I never would have left England if it hadn't Before the studio fire department arrived, the volunteer crew was com Sierra's beautiful play of mother love in a Spanish convent, "Cradle Song," on exhibition at the Circle yesterday, today and tomorrow. It is worth while, although we fear that its delicacy, its gentleness, its lack of the roar and bustle of this day and age Women" seems as rowdy as a horse opera in comparison) will definitely limit posed of Ralph Bellamy. Allen Vin cent, Edgar Kennedy and J. Walter II I VI i I i t-v Kuben, the director. All the players were in evening dress.

its appeal and that is a pity. Tom ktNNfccv. amnv villain, found ue could I MOT PEMOVE A. BLACkl EVE HE HAO RAIWTEO ON FOB I i scehe iv come cry, me had peceived a real oxc. Paul Lukas Hurt.

Been for a role I badly wanted to play in Hollywood." Fairbanks, who attended school in England and recently worked in pictures there, will return to London in five weeks. He has known Miss Lawrence eight years. One-Horse Parade. PALM SPRINGS, Dec. Martinez Sierra tells a tender, poignant tale of the nuns in a Dominican house, who find an infant girl at their door one morning, with a piteous plea from the foreign mother that they keep the baby as (U.P.) Paul Lukas, film actor and FRIENDS OF KAY FRANCIS are optimistic since the wire announcing her separation from Kenneth Mc-Kenna made no mention of divorce GRETA GARBO has imported a Christmas tree from Sweden.

EIGHTY MILLION people, more or less, go to the movies in the United States every week. KAY former Hungarian cavalry officer, suffered a broken collar bone today when thrown from his horse. The mount stumbled in trying to avoid HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21. () A film actress, Frances Drake, staged a one-horse parade here to an animal burrow.

FRANCIS, by the way, wore moccasins in her scenes with Edward G. Robinson in "I Loved a Woman" to make Eddie look taller. ANN DVORAK still is looking for her father, Edward McKim, Shakespearean actor, whom she has not AMUSEMENTS. their own rather than throw it upon the mercy of the world. The good doctor who treats their physical infirmities gives the child his name, and she grows in grace and virtue to splendid young womanhood under the tireless, loving care of the sisters, each of whom is mother to her.

Then one fine day she falls in love and is going away to be married. The scene of the parting at the convent is genuinely touching, i THE PRODUCTION is added evi- I 7 IYI-W; rx lutn at tuc 4 DAYS BEG. SUN. NIGHT, DEC. 24.

seen in fourteen years. HEATHER ANGEL, leading lady of "Berkeley Square." will reappear in "Murder in Trinidad." RICH day and, as a result, got a ticket from a traffic policeman for violating a city ordinance. Clad in jaunty riding habit, Miss Drake was en route to the studio from her home when her horse was halted by Officer L. D. Pearson.

"Got a parade permit, lady?" Pearson inqured. "Do I look like a parade?" questioned the actress. Pearson explained that a city parade permit was required to ride a horse on a street. Actors Fight Fire. HOLLYWOOD, Dec.

21. (U.P.) Costumed film actors joined MATINEE WEDNESDAY Margaret ANGLIN In Max Gordon'! New York Comedy "HER MASTER'S VOICE" with Queenie SMITH Louis Jean Heydt. Jessica New-combe and Cast of N. Y. ARD DIX now is recuperating at his ranch and will start his next film, "The Crime Doctor," after New Year's.

MARGARET McCON-NELL. Indiana girl under contract with MGM. is coming home to Kewanna for Christmas. Lk Tracy WM A HE ALWAYS I TRAVELS WITH A SUITCASE. TvtoCu.

TDMOQCOW CHICK CMAMTXCRS UNIQOC EXPERIENCE I li-11 IM THE SHOW WOBLO I Favorites dence of Hollywood's ability to deal intelligently and tastefully with fragile subjects when it is so inclined. While the story has been enlarged somewhat in an effort to give it a bit more color than the simple severity of the stage version allowed, it is remarkably faithful in treatment and spirit to the original, which has been done twice on local stages. Incidentally, the picture, as fine and moving as it is. deepens our admiration for the Civic Theater players who per NO HIGHER Pop. Prices.

35c to $1 Music, Comedy, Romance Feature Holiday Theater Bills mJWr ftee Carlile's 'mmw MOTION PICTURE THEATERS. Dresser in Standing and Louise Starting Today "Cradle Song." RKITH'S Bette Davis and Pat Brien in "Bureau of Missing Persons." APOLLO Will Rogers has a new-leading lady in his latest photoplay "Mr. Skitch" Fox Film production heading the Apollo Christmas week program and having its initial showings today. That new leading lady is none other than Miss Zasu Pitts. The new Rogers-Pitts costarring formed it splendidly last season.

Miss Wieck. in her American debut. plavs the part of the nun who is es- penally the girl's guardian with a i rare quality of spiritual beauty. Lou- Ue Dresser and others who serve as inmates of the cloister are admirably cast. Sir Guy Standing is delightful as the doctor and Edna Venable, a comely newcomer, pleasing as the I JLTm I 1 1 Treenta-by I ALIVE WITH YOUTH! liiBurning Up the Campus with Zip Zest and Action! tertaimng roles of her film career in the novel musical production, "Going Hollywood," her new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehicle which opens today at Loew's Palace.

The picture, an original story from the pen of Donald Ogden Stewart, actor, l4( STARTING SUNDAY, DEC. 24 First Choke! First Runl First Qualityl Outsanding and Unusual Picture Programs at These SENSATIONALLY LOW PRICES vehicle is based upon the Anne Cam-i eron Saturday Evening Post story "Green Dice." Rogers in the title role appears as the head of a family of six, and suddenly finds himself penniless, due to a bank failure, and rTiTV Tffi I Mary Carlisle, Buster Crabbe I YR1C VCt- piiftBirMriir hit humorist and playwright, is said to be a keyhole view of the real Holly-woud, spiced with catchy song hits and bizarre dance ensembles. Bing Crosby plays the radio crooner role opposite Miss Da vies. Six melodies have been created for the film by the noted composing team of Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, coauthors of the national song hits, "Wedding of the Painted Doll" and "The Old Woman in the Shoe." Their new numbers "Our 20c ALL SEATS From 11 A. M.

to 1 P. M. Except Sundays girl. Mitchell Leisen is to ee congratulated on his reverent, discriminating direction. -s- THE DIFFICULTIES to be encountered in timely, topical melodrama are being brought home to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with a vengeance.

Yesterday's report that Vienna had declared an embargo on MGM films because Austrian sensibilities had been offended by the characterization of a Hapsburg prince in "Re-uninn in Vienna." follows by a few iw ni FIRST TIME SHOWN Kidnaping Must Stop at the same time confronted with the task of supplying sufficient funds co support his family. He places his brood in a dilapi illpilll BALLROOM Miller Welch and HI" PURDUE UNIVERSITY DANCE 1P.M.to6P.M.5a and from 1 to 2 Sunday qf SIGMA CHI AFTER 6 P. M. and after 2 P. M.

Sundays 25c and 40c 20c and 25c With Ted Flo-Iilto dated car and starts toward California with the hope that he may secure a job in another community. He and II i Orchestra Three Midshipmen Three Bins Keys Here' the Children: Any Seat Any Time: 10c 1 weeks a reoort from London tnat tne finally lands a job as thrill I ii Cl mmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmrmmmmmmmmr waiter in a gambles his Big Love Scene," "Going Hollywood," "We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines," "Temptation," "Cinderella's Fella" and "After Sundown" were written especially for Miss Davies and Crosby. The story deals with a lonely girl dauehter of Rasputin, once power gambling casino. He si' -K 1 Extant throbbing, true- lirst dollar earned and wins a large PancInK lit story of (he men who pledged their 1 1 to a. Mill.

sai. patroa A va to in love with a crooner's voice, who smiish the natch racket! behind the Russian throne, was suing because of the manner in which her father was presented in "Rasputin and the Empress." MGM, however, Is not the only studio whose drawn-frnm-life pictures have caused unpleasant aftermaths. Warners have just settled out of court a damage suit brought bv the warden of a Georgia prison camp as a result, of their film. "I'm a Fugitive From a Chain Gang." Here 's a em HILARIOUS amount of money, only to have his wife, played by Miss Pitts, go on a spending spree. This lavishness is unwarranted as Rogers loses the money in the same casino.

Penniless once more, he starts for Hollywood to capitalize on the talents of a young bride, who also is a no mean impersonator of movie stars, How Rogers and his family finally emera from financial difficulties is said to bring the film to an unroarinus finale. In support of Rogers and Miss Pitts is Rochelle Hudson and Charles Starred in the romantic roles; Florence Desmond, Harry Green and Eugene Pallette. James Cruze directed. Short subjects included on the program are Movietone News, a musical trails nim to Hollywood, wnere he is to make his first appearance as a film star and who, after much difficulty with a flighty, temperamental French actress, who likewise loves the crooner, becomps a picture star in ner own right. In the supporting cast are Fifi D'Orsay, the French actress; Stuart Erwin, as the sympathetic picture producer; Ned Sparks, as the hard-boiled director; Patsy Kelly, as Jill; Bobby Watson, as Crosby's manager, and the Three Radio Rogues.

Featured on the short subject program is a special Christmas treat for the kiddies in the form of a Silly CHRISTMAS SHOW FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! THE MATTER of star, leading lady and director for the long-heralded Metro-Golden-Mayer production of "The Merry Widow" finally has been settled just as it was first reported many months ago. In spite of objections Maurice Chevalier is Ml Symphony cartoon in. Technicolor novelty, "The Last Doggie." and an Andy Clyde comedy entitled "Frozen Assets." I titled "The Night Before Christ-I mas." Also, Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly in their latest comedy, "Air Flight;" a burlesque subject titled "Goofy Movies" and completed by the latest minute views of current I news as picturized by Hearst Metro- NEWS WEEKLY COMEDY tone News. paid to have raised to making another picture with Jeanette McDonald and Ernst Lubitsch, they will be his associates again. This puts to rest rumors that Joan Crawford might play the title role and a still later story that MGM was considering John Gilbert, who player) the prince in the silent version with Mae Murray, instead of Chevalier.

Maurice is expected from France about Jan. 10. -T- WHEN EDDIE CANTOR'S new film, "Roman Scandals," was screened, one of the gags which drew the most laughter from the preview audience was that in which the girl said, "Oh, Eddie, let me hold 1C Until 6 p.m. After 6 p.m. OGi, I Children.

Alwan Ida Other Features. CIRCLE Dorothea Wieck, Sir Guy LYRIC Christmas week at the Lyric theater, starting today, ushers in "Spices of 1934" on thes.tage with Count Berni Vici and his fifteen girl symphonists heading the company of fifty stellar artists. An extra added stage feature will be Ernestine Ewing Carlile's Kiddie Revue in which thirty talented Indianapolis youngsters participate. The screen attraction will be "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi," a romantic comedy of college life embellished with songs and music. "Spices of 1934" is heralded as the most elaborate musical show on tour.

NOW! -pb Sing vl 3 The Star of "Maedchen In Uniform" vour hand, ana Kfinie repnpn, if I let you hold my hand, you'll soon want to shuffle my whole deck." dorothea "CRADLE WIECK song" A double stage is utilized for the performance which is in twenty-five scenes, introducing such favorites as LAST 2 DAYS "THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN hasn't asked me yet," said Gertrude ll wilh THELMA TODII-FltANK McHIGH JOHNNY MACK BROWN-JEAN MIIR I a 'a f'4By0 1 Get set to fall out of your I "i''V 1 from laughter when I Je akM command of a ft rA battleship the fleet is using 8aL m. i0' tarKet practice! ing svstem Joe Jiesser, tamous co Lawrence of the British stage in i denving reports that she will marry DOUG median; Paul Sutton, the "Bing Crosby of the stage;" Bobby (Uke) Hensliaw, Broadway playboy; Dianne and Annette, dancers, and Bordine Doug Fairbanks Jr. 35. JR. Is 26 and Gertrude is Starts SUNDAY! Almost Every Woman Has Loved and Carrol, renowned adagio experts.

There is also a beauty chorus of singers and dancers while the suave LIONS' HOLIDAY PARTY. PLAINFIELD. Dec. 21. Members of the Plainfield Lions Club I nl Count Berni vici and, his musical charmers are in evidence throughout the entire show.

Christmas I In The Sweetheart of Sigma cm tonight were hosts at party to the members of the club Mary Carlisle of College Humor Here is a fine woman who did not share her love between two men. She gave all her heart. BOTH OF THEM! from Mooresville, Brownsburg, Clay ton and Danville, AMrSEMEXTS. KIMG AND QUEEN OF LAUGHTER TOGETHER WILL GIVE YOU A HAPPY ff CHRISTMAS fj Ladies FREE Tonight Gentlemen toe Before 9 P. fame, Buster Crabbe, Charles Star-rett and Florence Lake have the leading roles supported by a big cast and such entertaining units as Ted Fio-Rito and his orchestra, the Three Midshipmen and the Three Blue Keys.

The story has to do with an episode of youth, and is climaxed by a thrilling race between two crews of champion college oarsmen. Beginning tonight Miller Welch and his Purdue University Dance orchestra will hold forth in the Lyric ballroom. The band comprises twelve Purdue boys, and it enjoys the distinction of having won the Big Ten universities 1933 dance band contest. It will remain in the ballroom throughout the holidays MIRIAM HOPKINS FREDRIC MARCH GARY COOPER HeSKITCMS WILL KEP YOU IN IN DON'T MISS OI XMAS DANCES MON. 25c Before I.

M. INDIANA ROOF DESIGN FOR LIVING STITCHSS AS mr HIT THE MH SPOTS Of HILARITY 1. 'efn I t-K. Oirl LOEW'S PALACE Marion Davies is said to play one of the most en- h0 0 A Story About Three People Who Loved Eazh Other Very Much With ML Extra! Silly Symphony Cartoon "The Nlicht Before Xmas" EDWARD EVERETT NORTON Added BING Features! CROSBY In PLEASE" They couldn't go on alone so oil three settled down togetherl ma. 1 "Tuletlde Greeting!" CARTOON STAHTIXG TIMES Aft er he Dance F7 5SKI is Over WHtRi THE BIG PICTURES PLAY Mr? TV7 ONTMARTRE ttri 1.

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