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THE INDIANAPOLIS ST Alt, THURSDAY" DECEMBER 22, 1932. MOVIE TEMPLES CAN SEAT ONE-TENTH OF POPULATION SIMULTANEOUSLY 8 AT CIRCLE TODAY. THE SCREEN. THE STAGE )ne in 400 Gets Staid Metropolitan Is Treated to "Sister Act" With Close Harmony SCREEN ODDITIES by Captain Roscoe Vawcett i His Living From CIRCLE Ed Wynn, "the perfect comes "to the Circle theater for three days starting today in "Follow the Leader." "Follow the Leader" is a farce comedy in which Wynn himself won Talkie Industry BY R. H.

HIPPELHEUSEB. NEW YORK, Dec. 21. () A sister act played the high temple of opera, the Metropolitan, tonight. It was Rosa and Carmela Ponselle, who trilled to operatic renown by way of a Lexington avenue musical hall.

This was the "Met's" first taste of the sister affairs so comomn to the BY CORBIX PATRICK. fi VERY TENTH person in Lmusical comedy and vaudeville stage. these United States might go to a motion picture theater this evening and fame on Broadway when it ran under the title, "Manhattan Mary." In this story of gangdom, Wynn with his floppy hat and oversize shoes is i seen as the cheery chef of gangdom's favorite restaurant. Inadvertently, he becomes a hero in the eyes of the gang and is forced to sustain his i reputation. i Ginger Rogers, favorite of the gangsters, is ambitious for a stage dreamed of some day singing in tha same opera at the Metropolitan with my sister." "Most Glorious Night." "It's the most glorious night of nyr life," added Rosa.

Both Rosa and Carmela have been prima donnas at the "Met" for several years. Into music halls they burst forth from Meriden, -Conn. There the family name was Ponsillo. One night at a Lexington avenue hall, a friend of Antonio Scotti heard them. He persuaded the famed barytone to come around the next night.

Within an hour, Scotti arranged an audition with Gatti-Casazza, the metropolitan impresario. Sopranos were needed that year' good ones. So Rosa was given a con-) tract forthwith. Carmela, a mezzo, made her debut two years later. I But there was no rhythmic stepping of the Stone and Dolly sort.

There was, however, a bit of close harmony albeit somewhat different from the "Topsy and Eva" variety. It was the grandeur of the duets from Ponchielli's "La Gioconda," a tragic tale of the inquisition based on Victor Hugo's "Angelo." For sister Rosa, it was her favorite character of Gioconda, the ballad singer. Carmela sang the role of Laura. "All my life," said Carmela, "I've career. Wynn, urged on by his supporters, has to induce a theatrical i manager to give her a chance.

He ENGLISH Cecil Mack's choir, one of the outstanding features in Lew Leslie's "Rhapsody in Black," coming to play a return engagement- at the English theater on Friday and Saturday (New Year's eve), matinee and night Dec. 30 and 31, will be heard in a series of Sunday concerts throughout the principal cities of the country next spring. CIVIC The announcement comes from the Civic theater that Jane Sky, one of the most popular favorites of Indianapolis theatergoers, has replaced Mary Howard in the cast of "The Birds' Christmas Carol," the special offering of the theater for the holidays. Miss Howard's sudden illness necessitated her giving up the role and the director was required to find some one who could learn the part in a very shcrt time. Miss Sky was called upon because of her faculty for memorizing lines and business quickly.

It is to be presented at the Playhouse of the theater, opening on next Saturday afternoon, Dec. 24, and will continue through Dec. 30, playing afternoon and evening performances. ERIE CRACK TRAIN WRECKED; 3 KILLED CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE. accomplishes this mission by kidnapping the star of the show and MOTION PICTURE THEATERS.

ind seating accommodations. The 'talkie temples of America are equipped to seat one out of every "ten persons in this great population simultaneously. I Get every person in the country going to the movies once a Week and you have solved the depression problem of America's fourth industry. The magnitude of the motion picture industry is scarcely realized by the average patron who thinks of the jheater in terms of admission price. The picture he sees is likely to represent an investment of several hundred thousand dollars and the theater itself, bcausc real estate is considered a relatively permanent value, in the factor which brought important bankers' money into amusement enterprises.

TTioriirps made public hv one of the forcing Ginger as her understudy. A succession of rapid fire comedy moments ensues, with Wynn always blundering into the right situations at the wrong time. Miss Rogers and Stanley Smith interject their romantic story into the action. Lou Holtz, prominent stage comedian, is also a featured member of the cast. Short subjects are "Paramount Sound News," a comedy: "Smash Your Baggage" and a Newman travel reel, "Transportation of World." USUALLV ARE SUPPLIED FOR FILMS OF TPAGIC NATURE-.

THE EXHIBITOR SHOWS THE ONE HE JX. THINKS HIS AUDIENCE WILL. WELL ilOjTiv IIDEXTROUS. LV HE WRITES Xfy l) LEFT HAND (IflTS I IONS HIS NAME) pM 9 THROUGH NOVEL PHOTOGRAPHIC I flj Gg METHODS, IS SHOWN BEING Ill SfctT-T CARRIED BY A 40 FOOT APE m' '34 TO THE TOP OF THE EMPIRE STATE I'-aSsX 1 BUILDING IN "KING KONG" l-2Z fCffrittw. mi.

Th BH IffdtMW, Ill Starts TODAY! 3 ft THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Other Features. APOLLO Mitzi Green, Matt Moore and May Robson in "Little Orphan Annie." INDIANA Carole Lombard, Lyle Talbott and Walter Connolly in "No More Orchids." LYRIC Leo Carrillo and Una.Mer-kel in "Men Are Such Fools." RKO vaudeville. PALACE Charles Laughton, Maureen O' Sullivan and Dorothy Peterson in "Payment Deferred." ED WYNN, popular comedian of stage, screen and radio, is the star of "Follow the Leader," photoplay opening at the Circle today, for an engagement through Saturday. While many writers and directors believe that the truly artistic picture much of that time taking a passenger run. The widow, his only survivor, before her marriage to Mr.

Scott was the wife of another Erie engineer who also was killed. A son by Mr. Scott's first wife, was killed in action in France during the world war. Mr. Swihart, about 45 years old, must end in tragedy, the public as a whole does not subscribe to mat belief.

The average person likes to see a motion picture end nappny regardless of the tragic nature of the plot related therein. Opinion differs, however, in various sections of the country. In certain towns a tragic Now you can see the famous "Texaco Fire Chief" on the screen. if I ending may be used without detriment to the popularity of the mm Dut in nthsr ninroa hnnnv pnHine must be Given the same picture. For this had an Erie service record of approximately twenty-five years.

He formerly was an engineer, but was The most hysterical comic of them all in a delightful comedy romance. neuucea uoana Trip l'. relegated to fireman during slack business. Surviving are the widow www m'OTBW and two daughters, Lois, at home, SATURDAYS o) and Mrs. Raymond JStnnger, Wil mington, Cal.

$5.00 Pittsburgh Lv. IndianapolU6.50pmorll.00pm Lv. PitUburgh, Sunday 11.20pm Hitchhiker SUNDAYS Added Features Comedy Riot "Smash Your Baggraffe" World Travelorna, "Round the World" News events as the Camera records them Paramount News to See Children Today Makhitar Mooradian, 42 years old, $1.40 Richmond $2.00 Dayton major studios reveal the fact that one out of every 400 persons in the United States earns his daily bread in the movie business. The other 399, when they attend the pictures, pay his salary. i)o you wonder that theater men are happier on Christmas day simply because the week before Christmas, one of the two worst of the year for how business, is past than because of the season's usual sentiments? THE INDUSTRY is paying for its mistakes, made too eagerly in the days of the great talkie boom, but the leaders have faith in its ability to weather the storm.

The confidence of such men as David Sarnoff, Owen Young, Gen. James G. Harbord, Milton Aylesworth and Herbert Bayard Bwope, all members of RKO's board of directors, in the fundamental soundness of the United States and the fighting qualities of the people is reflected in "Conquerors," an RKO production previewed at the Apollo theater Tuesday night and opening to the public Friday. This is a propaganda drama of epic proportions in which the growth of America through a series of panics and depressions from 1870 to the present time is traced through 'the lives and fortunes of heroic pioneers. The point, it.

makes in reminding us that, the end of the world was predicted at every serious reversal in the economic progress of the country is reassuring today, s- HOLLYWOOD, which is not too far removed from the rest of the country, is economic minded. Doubtless you have heard vaguely about the new technocracy which is being nffprpd as a cure for what ails us in THE PERFECT $325 Columbut, O. of Los Angeles, will be rewarded today for his hitchhike journey here. ir. Indianapolis am reason hoth happy and unhappy endings sometimes are filmed and the exhibitor may use the one he desires for his clientele.

An ape measuring forty feet tall and with a girth of twelve feet appears in "King Kong." The ape, supposedly a survivor of prehistoric ages, is taken to New York city for exhibition purposes. There, fascinated by the memory of a sight of Fay Wray, it breaks loose and goes in search of her. It climbs tall buildings, peering into windows and when it finds her, climbs with her to the top of the Empire State building. A squadron of army planes is called out to battle the ape and rescue her. Whn Ralph Morgan was a student at Columbia university he was of such slight build that ho usually played girl roles in campus theatrical productions.

Claudia Morgan, his daughter, invariably portrayed male roles in theatricals at a girls' school she attended. WHAT THE OMVTIMEBS ARE DOING NOW. T. Roy Barnes still plays occasional minor roles in films. Enid Bennett, married to Director Fred Niblo and the mother of three children, sometimes plays mother roles On the screen.

June Caprice is prominent in Los Angeles society. She is the -widow of Harry Millard. $2.25 LouiiTille Mooradian will be permitted to in "FOLLOW THE LEADER" with Ginger Rogers, Stanley Smith, Lou Holtz 172,000 Hunting, Fishing Licenses Go to Counties One hundred and seventy-two thousand hunting and fishing licenses for 1933 were placed in the mails this week by the fish and game division of the state conservation department and consigned to county clerks. In each county the clerks aid in distribution of the licenses and in larger counties other agencies, generally sporting goods dealers, help. Forty thousand five hundred licenses were distributed to agents in Marion county.

Approximately three hundred thousand resident licenses are sold annually. They sell for $1 and are in force during the calendar year. Agents and cleKks handling them are allowed 10 cents for each license sold, while 90 cents goes to the fish and game division. The division receives no tax money and is supported from the sale of fishing and hunting licenses. "Little Better," Report on Ethel Barrymore NEW YORK, Dec.

21. Ethel Barrymore, actress, who is convalescing from pneumonia at her home, was reported today as "about the same" as yesterday, "if anything a little better." She developed pneumonia after an attack of influenza three weeks ago. Lv. Indianapolis -Lv. Louiivilla 8.2S am ft.

00 pm spend two hours with his sons, Gabriel, 6 years old, and Vachran, 5 years old, in the Juvenile court room this morning. $1.50 Terre Haute The father explained to the court Lv. Indianapolis 8.27 am Lv. Terr Hatrto 4.42 or 9.25 pm yesterday that he hitch hiked to this WIEK'END EXCURSIONS $5.00 Chicago city to see his sons atter ne naa failed to hear from them for several months. The mother, Mrs.

Azniv See the World's Fair in the Making Nahigian, 2638 Northwestern avenue. On all trains Fridays and Sat remarried after she had receiveo a divorce from Mooradian several months ago. The. former Mrs. Mooradian's attor and STARTING SUNDAY Christmas Day! Ernest Hemingway's Famous Novel now on the screen Two who began in passion's reckless abandon defying a world gone urdays ana Z.JS am train Sunday.

RETURNING Laava Chicaco not latar than Monday following data of aala. ney yesterday objected to the father seeing the children, declaring inai RAILROADS, UNIONS AGREE ON PAY PLAN the father had not paid support money as ordered by the court. loo-radian explained to the court that he LESLIE REAPPOINTS WHITE AND HOGSTON CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE. un ail u-ains rnaaya. oaturaays or Sundays RETURNING Not latar than Monday following data of sala.

Tickats Good in 'Coachaa only. had been, ill and was unable to worn what appears to be an attempt to make an honest woman of Socialism, a name which frightens some per CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE. MOTION PICTURE THEATERS. mad with hate! A Xtnf DEDUCTION IK KEGTJ-LAB ROUND TRIP TABES EACH WEEK-END sons who are more or less in sym pathy with its program. Technocracy is to be the title and the subject of their wage problems separately and motion nicture produced inaepena CITY TICKET OFFICE 116 Monumant Plac Phono Ril.y 9331 Pennsylvania Railroad Sfe7 thus requiring a much longer time, Stalemate Loomed.

is Early last night the parley had ''lllllllllllllllllllllllll appeared headed toward a stale "SOYOUDONTLOVB MEJ-Well, then I'll TO with mate, a thing which the union men would not greatly regret inasmuch make you!" AMUSEMENTS. A YOUTH-FUIj, BURBLING RO-M A TOLD IX A SETTING OF RILLS! as it would mean automatic end of a So Bill kidnap, the boi' daughter and then the tun DEC. 30-31 10 per cent "deduction" and a return to their old wage scale. The principal point of difference at the parley has been over continuance of the one vear deduction agreed Retnrn Engagement Mall Orders Now Heats Dec. 77 gini! Hogston continue to serve without a commission because a reappointment immediately would revive the heated controversies of the 1928 campaign.

Issue in 1928 Campaign. In that campaign Mr. Hogston and other Jackson appointees were made issues and Frank C. Dailey, the Democratic nominee for Governor, promised to "clean out" the Statehouse. Governor Leslie in that campaign also promised new faces in the Statehouse.

But Mr. Hogston was one of the few who openly championed the nomination of Leslie in the 1928 primary. For this reason, and also because much of the "heat" of the 1928 campaign soon died, it was presumed that Governor Leslie let the matter of reappointment slide. The selection of Judge White had been anticipated and there were no applicants for the post. it.

was reported. For more than two years he served in the criminal division of the rourt at. police headquarters. He HELEN HAYES GARY COOPER ADOLPHE MENJOU (2 Qttramount Qidum ently by Bryan a son- or me famous Eddie Foy of vaudeville. Stars and producers read their newspapers.

We hear that some of the stars have pledged themselves not to buy French merchandise until France pays her debt to Uncle Sam. EDDIE CANTOR is one comedian whose gags are not written by joke-smiths and some of his best are enjoyed privately. It seems that he was talking to a group organized by Rachel Crothers for actors' relief work, when, rising eloquently to a climax, he said: "Well see this noble charity through by the help of God and Rachel Crothers." Seated, he turned apologetically to Miss Crothers and added: "I hope you don't mind second billing." ELISSA LAND! is down asjnin with the flu. Robert Montgomery is just up from a spell nf it. John and Lionel Ban ymore Bre ready to rush East if Ethel takes .1 111 9 III WITH THIS ORIGINAL N.

X. CAST OF 109 Nights, BOe to $2. (Ml; Sat. tOs to tl.no; Plus 10 Tai upon last Feb. 1.

Managers have contended the agreement must be extended for six months. The unions, fearing that when this new arrangement expires even greater wage deductions may be asked, held out at first for a year's extension. NAMES 6 TO DRAFT PLATFORM BILLS CONCLUDED FROM FAGE ONE. SMASHING ALL OF THE WORLD'S RECORDS FOR SPEED.LAUejtiSiTHRILLS5 MOTION PICTURE THEATERS. III rv.V: "YWtfM fin rM Vv Lit? then was transferred to tne civn branch in the Courthouse.

Native of Tipton County. Judge White was born on a farm WITH SUNK1ST in Tinton county in 1SR3. He came VANITIES ROY ROGERS OTHER BIG R. K. O.

ACTS a turn for the worse in her illness. Gary Cooper will throw a welcome home party lor Douglas Fairbanks Christmas eve. William Powell and Carole Lombard will hold open house. Clark Gable, sportinc a new sixteen-cylin-der car, explained how economical it is, saying "every time a cylinder misses, I save a quarter." Earl Carroll's "Vanities" is being condensed for a motion picture theater stage. Prisoners at Sing Sing will see "Silver Dollar" Christmas eve.

Paul Muni is becoming reconciled to the loss of his tonsils. a tax of this nature could be construed as carrying out the Democratic platform pledge for an income tax. Standing Committees Cut. Officers of the 1933 House, meeting yesterday with the Governor-elect, decided to reduce the number of to Indianapolis in 1908 and entered the old Indianapolis college of law. He was graduated in 1909 and entered the practice of law with James E.

McDonald. During the war he organized employment offices in Indiana, working under the War Department. He later became assistant Federal director of employment. ON THIS MUGS MADGE EVANS CONRAD NAGEL CLIFF EDWARDS A Metro Goldwyn-Maycr picture A STORY OF SPEEDBOATS, SPEED -THRILLS and SPEED-SWEETHEARTS! standing committees from fifty-nine "Men Are Such Fools" LEO CARRIO.O to thirty-eight. Many of the commit TODAY Last Times X-CLUSIVE Final Showing "PAYMENT DEFEBEED" with Charles LAUGHTON tees were mere fictions, as the day Subsequently he became a deputy prosecuting attorney in charge of the grand jury.

Judge White is a member of the Scottish Rite, Irvington Masonic lodge. Century Club, Loyal Order of Moose and Society of Indiana 1 for their usefulness had passed. Pleas E. Greenlee, secretary of the Governor-elect, announced that the plan for a reduction of committees Tomorrow; I QQ 0 VAL in th WORLD A is designed merely to limber up the Best STAGED SCREEN Program Ever Combined for Your ciimhersnme leeislative machinery. Freddie Rich Awarded Divorce From Dancer NEW YORK, Dec.

21. -(Pi Freddie Rich, music impresario, was awarded a divorce by a Supreme court jury today in his suit against Peggy Lawton Rich, former "Follies" dancer. After deliberating two hours, the Jury decided Mrs. Rich was guilty of misconduct with John L. (Jack) DeRuyter, broker, on April 25 last.

Counsel for Mrs. Rich, after seek-ine unsuccessfully to have the verdict set aside, indicated they would ipppal. cntenammeni i ropuitr vn nvi FINAL TODAY MITZI GREEN In "LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE" Footpad Seizes Purse Containing $25 Necklace Mrs. Margarite Hill, 140.1 Belle-fontaine street, reported to police that as she walked in the 1600 block on College avenue early last night, a Negro knocked her down and fled with her purse which contained a rameo necklace valued at $25 and 90 cpnts in money. Big all-hadlin stage show plus smashing, tense melodrama! This change in committees will De recommended to the rules committee by the officers when the session gets under way.

Committees to be retained are elections; ways and means; judiciary judiciary organization of courts and criminal code; banks and trust funds; building and loans and saving associations; education, penal Our Christmas Gift to on ike creen. on iheStaae STARTING 4 Indianapolis TOMORROW I 9 ftrtiWUi and reformatory institutions: mili Mere he comes in his A ROMAfJCB ASt ary affairs; public expenditures; 4 STAGE SHOWS DAILY 1:053:506:409:30 That Tuneful, Ever Popular, Smart Musical Comedy The Triumphant Hit ol Seven Seasons on the Gay White fees and salaries; public morals; 010 AS iHh I HAT 1 0M I i it i i greatest role riehts and privileges of the inhab i ir ii i- a -w fi I ciurr VK- Naj itants of the state; railroads; corpo ureunouna rares Lowest The dangerous. rations; county and township business: sericulture: benevolent and fascinating lover in "Scarface" hitting a scientific institutions; mileage and accounts: Federal relations, sta tistics and immigration; affairs ol city of Indianapolis; cities and i new high in romance, thrills and excitement! towns phraseology, engrossment and enrollment of bills; atiairs oi INTACT! rV COMPLETE! second-class cities; roads; insurance; originally staged with the sweetheart of GEORGE RAFT the legitimate stage and screen public libraries, buildings and printing; drains, dikes and swamp lands; mines and mining; labor; correction IU Kathryn CRAWFORD NANCY CARROLL Good Every Day Now to Jan. 1. Liberal Return Limit, Jan.

15 Ytr End tripl tk atmeit ficlf prict, on 6ry liound'f fintat butft. Hundreds of birgiim liko titMO Oat wiy ftm food ill month. One Way Round Trip CHICAGO 4.00 5.00 fpUJSe I usual low one rate I and the Irrepressible comedian BOBBY WATSON George Dobbs fibular Prius of the journal of which the speaker will be chairman; natural resources, rivers and waters; congressional apportionment; legislative apportionment; World War memorial and Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument; state medicine and public health; patronage, and rules. jVJi I P.M. Betty Farrington and a cast of 50 Senate leaders will meet Saturday to consider a similar reduction of fl.no i yiai 8.75 i.oo 19.00 I 9.00 I 4.00 I 9.00 I S.M1 16.00 A Paramount Pututt with Law Cody Rotcoo Kama Nol Francis committees in the upper House.

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Condition of Hapgood in nwi iwntmty ararnvrn pitivrv wwww proowcvV V. onsna Continues to Improve Con't Shows 11 to 11:30 HI The condition of Powers Hapgood, flC HUMAN DOCUMENT LJ I EDNA MAY OLIVER state chairman of the Socialist party. 2 LNJ continues to improve steadily, it was reported at St. Vincent's hospital last night. Mr.

Hapgood was injured critically Saturday when a pistol in the hand of a friend was discharged accidentally. The bullet entered Mr. Hapgood abdomen. TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR OUR NEW YEAR'S EVE MIDNITE FROLIC Big Stage and Screen Show Favors for A.