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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933. MRS. STAN LAUREL RUES LIFE WITH FILM COMEDIAN COMPLAINT MADE AT DIVORCE TRIAL CAREER IDEAS OF ACTRESS CHANGE 1 She Testifies Husband Left Home Frequently and Refused Explain. LOS ANGELES, October 12 (AJ At 6 Living with a motion picture co '7 i i A 4 Dorothy Free Once Wealthy and Then Finds Work Is for Livelihood. HOLLYWOOD.

October 12 (A.P.) It is not the same thing this is Dorothy Tree speaking working for a nebulous career when you do not have to work at all, and working when your work means bread and butter. Miss Tree, a brown-eyed brunette whose looks are striking rather than merely pretty, learned this for hcr self. Dorothy Tree, now a movie actress, left Cornell after two years in college because she was Impatient to be about a career and because "the 10,000 students made me feel," she says, "lost in a crowd." She wished to be a writer, but changed to the stage as her aim. That found little approval at home, where her father, then a wealthy New York business man, frowned darkly on the idea. Earns Own Way.

"So I said I'd earn my own way, and I did make enough, as dramatis counselor in a girls' camp, to take a course in stage producing," she relates. "I didnt know exactly how to go about breaking into the theater. It was Madam Albertl. the dramatic coach, who persuaded me to turn to acting and drop the study of producing. "And then I decided for myself that the way to learn acting was to act.

I finally got "walk-on" assisn-ments, such as maids, on the and I thought I was really working hard for my money. Situation Changes. "But after father lost his money in the crash, I realized that it was different. "Subconsciously or otherwise. I had been leaning on the support it gave me to know that at home there was financial security.

I think I really began to work after that realization that I had to work." This Is Miss Tree's second venture in Hollywood. Her first was ended Lionel Barrymore in "One Man's Journey." Indiana, Starting Friday. INDIANAPOLIS THEATERS PRESENT NEW SHOWS iiS. Mae West in "I'm No Angel." Circle. Starting: Saturday.

median Is not just a life of giggles Mrs. Lois Laurel told a superior court judge to win a divorce from Stan Laurel, the slender half of the film comedy team, Laurel and Hardy, "He was forever leaving home, stay lng away for two or three days at a time." Laurel testified. "'He re fused to explain where he had been when he returned. "Anything but Funny." "He recently told me that I could not get a divorce fast enough to rait him. I decided life with film comedian was anything but By a property settlement, Mrs Laurel will have custody of their five-year-old daughter Lois.

The Laurels were married August 23, 1925 and separated last May 20, she said. Hardy, the fat member of the team. sued his wife for divorce several months ago, but they recently an nounced a reconciliation. "OIL" MAY COST FIANCE LOVE OF FRENCH ACTRESS HOLLYWOOD, October 12 (A.P.) Forsaking medicine for oil. Fill D'Orsay said here, may cost her fiance, Maurice Hill, the love of the petite French actress.

lier marriage to Hill, son of of a wealthy Chicago manufacturer, hangs, she said, on the question, "a doctor or an oil man? The actress said she had been In formed Hill had accepted a position with the foreign department of an oil company, forsaking his study of medicine in a Chicago hospital. Hill, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. Miss D'Orsay says, expects to go to the orient. "Never do I want to live In the the actress exclaimed. "SPIRITUAL FRIEND" OF GARBO LANDS IN PRISON SANTA MONICA, October 12 (A.P.) For three years, Oscar H.

Brosi, a Long Beach laborer, said he had "enjoyed a spiritual friendship" with Greta Oarbo. Ha decided to visit the Swedish actress at her home and meet her "In person." Brosl was in the local jail today. Police caught him as he attempted to climb the fence last night Into the actress's yard. Brosl said he was an amateur author and exhibited several writing pads which were filled with sentimental verse and prose of his own composition. Police said he will have a sanity hearing.

THREE-A-DAY SCHEDULE AT INDIANA ANNOUNCED i A new three-day schedule for Ft age show performances at the Indiana will be started Friday, according to announcement by Ace Berry, general manager. One ctage show will be presented In the afternoon and two at night each day, except on Saturdays and Sundays, when there will be four performances. Fewer daily performances will make It possible for the management to book larger and more important stage attractions. Berry explained. Prospective "Renters" shop News Rent Ads FIRST, because of the large selection of places listed their.

IN CITY THEATERS TODAY I if -5 1 in "Walls of Gold. Apollo. -I 4 i 4 If 4 4 in "The Bowery." Friday. -Loew's Palace. whose love making harvests diamonds, masculine adulation and triumph, she has created a new screen type.

"I'm No Angel" will run for eight days through next Friday, on the Circle screen. COMING BILLS APOLLO Sally Eilers and Ralph Morgan in "Walls of Gold-" Also short reels. Starting Friday. LOEWS PALACE! George Raft and Wallace Beery in "The Bowery." Return engagement of Silly Symphony, "Three Little Pigs." Starting Friday. INDIANA Lionel Barrymore and May Robson in "One Man's Journey" and vaudeville on stage.

Starting Friday. CIRCLE Mae West and Cary Grant in "I'm No Angel." Also short reels. Starting Saturday. BALL AT K. E.

A. HALL SET A floor show and specialty tap dancing will be featured at the benefit dance to be given Wednesday night. October 18, at the K. E. A.

hall, Blackford and Maryland streets, by the- Kingan Athletic Association. Members of the committee are Miss Myrtle Dean, Miss Anna McGlen, Miss Sarah Stenley, Mr. Daley and Dal Bowman. Foster, Sally Eilers and Ralph Morgan Starting Friday. Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper Starting: ers lend Barrymore support in the cast.

John Robertson directed the photoplay for RKO-Radio. A vaudeville show on the stage accompanied by Lou Forbes and his orchestra will be an additional feature on the Indiana bill. "I'M NO ANGEL" -Circle. Mae West, who is accredited with startling changes that have taken place in the fashion panorama since the appearance of her first photoplay, "She Done Him Wrong," and who is thought to be responsible for the popular revival of what characterized the 1890's, is scheduled to appear at the Circle Friday in her second Paramount picture, "I'm No Angel." Conjecture is rife as to whether she will repeat her previous success and whether she will be the same Mae in modern settings. Story by Miss West.

Tm No Angel," an original story by Miss West, presents her as a modern charmer, though her costumes are modernized versions of those 1890 clothes for which she is famous. She portrays a circus lion-tamer, hard-boiled, ambitious, captivator of man after man. When the film ends she has one for keeps, a millionaire bachelor, who Is "tall, dark and handsome." Cary Grant again acts as her leading: man. In Miss West's exposition of the constant sinner with a pearly smile, 11:45 a. m.

and 1:45, 3:55, 5:55, 8 and 10:05 p. m. -KEITH'S HeVirietta Crosman In "Pilgrimage." Also short reels. AMBASSADOR Victor Jory in "The Devil's in Love." OHIO Diane Sinclair, in "Damaged Lives." TALBOTT Lionel Atwill in "The Sphinx." BELMONT Richard Dix in, "No Marriage Ties." HOLLYWOOD James Dunn in "Sailor's Luck" and "Scarlet River." RIVOLI Marie Dressier In "Tugboat Annie." GRANADA Marie Dressier in 'Tugboat Annie." FOUNT AINE SQUARE Ken Maynard in "The Lone Avenger" and "Sign of the Four." RITZ Helen Hayes in "Another Language" and "Disgraced." UPTOWN Ann Harding in "When Ladies Meet" and "The Wrecker." ORIENTAL Nancy Carroll in "I Love That Man." ST. CLAIR Lee Tracy, in "The STRAND Lee Tracy in "The Nuisance." ZARING Marie Dressier In "Tugboat Annie." APOLLO Spencer Tracy and Col- leen Moore in "The Power and the Glory." Also short reels.

Feature begins at 11:44 a. m. and 1:44, 3:44, 5:44, 7:44 and 9:44 p. m. LOEW'S PALACE John Barrymore and Helen Hayes in "Night Flight." Also short reels.

Feature begins at 11:10 a. m. and 1:20, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50 and 10 p. m. INDIANA Claudette Colbert In "Torch Singer" on screen and Brooke Johns on stage.

Also short reels. Feature begins at 11 :22 a. and 2:02, 4:32, 5:43, 8:13 and 10:43 p. m. CIRCLE Madge Evans and Walter Huston in "Ann Vickers." Also short reels.

Feature begins at NEW FILMS AT KEITH'S AND THE AMBASSADOR Keith's has arranged a schedule including one first-run and two sec ond-run films to be shown the fol lowing week. "Pilgrimage," the current photo play at Keith's, will continue through Friday. "College Humor," a musical com edy with a gay college scene for back ground, will start a four-day en gagement Saturday. Bing" Crosby croons in the production and Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, George Burns and Gracie Allen are other featured players. Mystery Drama.

"The Girl in 419" will begin a first- run engagement Wednesday. It is a mystery drama with James Dunn and Gloria Stuart heading the cast, The Ambassador announces first-run and a second-run motion picture on its week-end schedule "The Blind Adventure," with Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack, will be shown Friday and Saturday. The first Indianapolis engagement of "Gambling Ship" will begin Sun day, to continue at the Ambassador four days. "THE BOWERY" Norman live again In the drama adapted from the novel entitled, "Chuck Connors." Chuck Connors and Others. Chuck Connors himself, the "mayor" of Chinatown, appears; Steve Brodie again makes his daring leap from Brooklyn bridge; John L.

Sullivan fights bare-knuckled and Carrie Nation smashes dens of yice with her hatchet. Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray and Pert Kelton portray these famous Bowery rowdies. The flourishing day of the Bowery, as pictured In the film, was the period of the swinging door sa loon, the honky-tonk, volunteer fire brigades and such hot song number as "Ta-ra-ra Boom De-Ay." Steve Brodie's Rivalry. "The Bowery" tells the story of the strong rivalry between Chuck Connors, famous saloon leader, and Steve Brodie, who never took a dare, but who dared, it is claimed, to jump off Brooklyn bridge know ing that, should he succeed, his fame would eclipse that of Connors. A return engagement of Walt Disney's now famous Silly Symphony, "The Three Little Pigs," also will be shown at the Palace for week starting Friday.

The 'car toon, filmed in technicolor, fea tures the song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf." An M-G-M musical revue, "Rhapsody of Brew," and news reel will complete the bill. JOURNEY" In- diana. Lionel Barrymore plays what many critics regard as his most sympathetic role as a country doctor in "One Man's Journey," the new presentation opening at the Indiana Friday. He appears as Dr. Eli watt, a country practitioner of the old school.

The drama first shows him returning to the rural community where he was reared, a middle-aged man to whose ambitions a severe blow has been dealt by the death of his wife. A Life of Service. Dr. Watt settles down to begin life anew in behalf of his little son. After years of caring for the ails of the community he has an opportunity to realize his dreams of specialized study.

A girl whom he brought into the world, and who loves him as a father, needs him, however, and he forsakes personal Interests to serve her in a crisis. It is his lot, he realizes at last, to devote his life to the service of others and to remain obscure, In the background. He feels that he is a failure, but others recognize his true great ness and express their appreciation In dramatic fashion. May Robson in Cast. May Robson, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee and other play- LAST DAY fakOORg JOHNS and Vaudovillo Rovuo On Screen Claucletto COLBERT In "TORCH in THE DO I fj A 0) for the same reason that caused her to quit Cornell that feeing of be ing lost in a crowd.

Under Contract. She was under contract to a large studio where there seemingly were too many girls for one more to get a chance. Here once more, she is no longer "lost in a crowd." She is the only girl under regular contract to Columbia, a smaller studio." Tomorrow and Every Friday Ladies Free GENTLEMEN, 15c Before 9:00 P. M. Checking' 10c TED MACK and His Orchestra A ft i 6 LS" McCREAl ROBSON Over Science i "WALLS OF GOLD" Apollo.

Culbertson's new bridge films. "Murder at the Bridge Table," shares honors with the LLmlzation of Kath leen Norris's "Walls of Gold," on the new program starting Friday at the Apollo. The Culbertson feature, first epi sode of "My Bridge Experiences," brings Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson, Julie Hayden Jind Phil Dunham to the screen.

Bridge Game in Court. It shows an actual bridge game which a quarrel arises between husband and wife, resulting in the husband's death. The game is analyzed by Culbertson In court, play by which not only will interest bridge enthusiasts, but brings about the wife's acquittal. The story of "Walls of Gold" is said to aim with Kathleen Norm di rectness and logic at the vital prob- ems of modern youth. It presents situation in which a young girl must make a difficult choice.

Luxury or Love. Accustomed to luxury, she must weigh the advantages of love with those of a life of ease and comfort. The one is offered by a young man who adores her; the other by the boy's uncle, wealthy, popular, somewhat of a connoisseur of art. The girl chooses the wrong man. She becomes bitter and satiated with uxuries, but in the climax of the story she finds the key to happiness.

Sally Eilers has the leading role with Ralph Morgan and Norman Foster playing opposite her. THE BOWERY" Loew's Palace. The Bowery, that lively mile on New York's east side as it appeared in its heyday in the naughty nineties, comes to life again in the first production of the new Twen tieth Century Pictures Company, "The Bowery," scheduled to open at Loew's Palace Friday. The characters of the robust "Franlde and Johnny" era, that made the Bowery one of the most talked of streets in the world also -4 OFF ALL SEATS iter-'" A a a I -A i Come Early FR1D AY DOORS OPEN AT NOON Enjoy this truly outstanding mai-, trplc on the cron plus a -stage show brim full of joyous entertainment I SINCLAIR LEWIS' confrovio! with a Brilliant AlUStar Cast IRENE DUNNE fipc "Bi Last Da wmci'rmmmimtmKPm rmm.jw imntMMmmmmmmmmAtmmmmmimmmmmhiimm MMf WMI ggll THREE; TOUGH GUYS TOGETHER L'Mn YY Ull 9' His Greatest Personal Triumph LIONEL A lf FRANCES DEE JOEL Of bangandf bustles I a STARTS 11 A. M.

TOMORROW SHOWS AT lltOO, 1:13, 3sSO 5t45 America's motl fascinating actress one toss of htr hips and one lift of htr eytss make women furious with envy men agog with emotion! DOROTHY JORDAN MAY Mil ONE MAN'S JOURNEY A Healir of Hearts os as Bodies He Made Love Triumph OM THE ITflCE mxm VAU VI 11 with Nino Headline Acts Including COLLETTE LVONS S'nllif with Immrwy Pp Mutit fvml GEO. SNYDER ANDREWS SISTERS Ptrtmeurtt't ttgtrtf Mt wltk CARY GRANT GREGORY AT As WIST fiO, th natkn a Ing bvty who can't plus LOU FORBES music SVBILLA BOWMAN THREE RICE BROTHERS CHRISTY Sc MILLER Cmi Acrkmtt im "Tht tthtmrtml" LEE MASON 12 H00SIERETTES Sin tint "Cm urn mm' iri fmttlmt" fX ft A ADDtD rtATUDt if you mid iminn xmnri SifOEt 6 w. m. ED MACK Ant ff I p.m. I 25c I Sol.

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