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THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY STAR, DECEMBER 27, 1936. 2 ON LYRIC'S STAGE. IN NEW YEAR FILM. TURN FOR BETTER. Imaginary New Year's Resolution as Several Cinema Celebrities Might Make Them.

New Play by Noted Team Is Diverting No Marriage Now for Bob, Says Barbara An BY SHEILAH GRAHAM. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26. IMAGINARY New Year's resolutions. Katharine Hepburn: "I resolve to be pleasant to the press in 1937 not because I like newspaper people, but because I am appearing in another Broadway play and if it is bad as 'The Lake, I might ba through as an actress." Gary Cooper: "I resolve to be major studio again, because, even worth to Mr.

Samuel Goldwyn the 'hough I won my case. I was out BY SHKILAH GRAHAM. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26. "I WILL NOT marry Robert Taylor," said Barbara fctanwyck to your correspondent emphatically, "and that's the answer to the rumors linking us in matrimony." The Scotch-Irish redhead Is Tav- BV MARK BARRON.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26. SINCE THE DAYS of "the butter and egg man," Broadway has been alternately troubled and amused with playwrights who insist in presenting their humorously eccentric characters. The one prominent entry of this season is "You Can't Take It With You," a play in which Moss Hart and George Kaufman offer a play which isn't such a good one, but which does have plenty of berserk characters that the authors insist xu. --off m.

or work a long time and the mem i trouble and possible financial loss in- lor's No. 1 girl friend, but she just does not want to be married. And she considers marriage a bad bet for the handsome Bob's career. "In two years' time, Bob should marry but not now," she continued. "It would hurt his work.

We've discussed this many times and I've told Bob that, a few years from now, some of the hysterical fan worship A volved in Paramount's suit against Sam for signing me away from them." Carole "I resolve to stop dieting, as I am too thin now. And, anyway, what's the use of making $500,000 a year if I can't eat as much as a $15-a-week stenographer?" Narrow Escape. George Raft: "I resolve to accept the movie stories better and wiser people select for me. I had a pretty narrow shave when I walked out of my Btudio and a salary recently. Next time, they might not take me back." ory oi tne public is verv, very bad." Bene Davis: "I resolve to repeat Jimmy's resolution.

And cease being the 'naughty young lady' that nasty London judge called me." Marlene Dietrich: "I resolve to be a leas expensive studio headache in 1937. In 1936, I was directly and indirectlythe cause of costing Paramount $900,000 on 'Imperial Hotel, from which I walked out because Ernst Lubitsch was dethroned aa head of the production, plus the fact I disliked the clothes I wore. The one picture I completed. 'The Garden of cost Selznick International around $2,000,000, which will take a long time if ever to get back from the public. I also resolve win nave men down Just as it did with Clark Gable, who has now found a sensible level with the film public.

When this haonens to Bob. Norma Shearer: "I resolve to re he will find a nice, sensible girl and settle down with her." Never Again, She Hopes. "How about you?" this columnist asked. "I will never marry again If I can help it," said Barbara. "Once Is are funny.

There are such characters as the maiden aunt who became a playwright because a typewriter was left at her home by mistake, the milkman who had been invited in eight years before and had just stayed there, and a grandfather who thought the high ambition of life was only to visit zoos and college commencements. Curious Characters. Grandpop also absolutely refuses to pay his income tax, not that he isn't an honest fellow, but he just refuses on principle's sake. Too, there is a tenant in the house who spends most of his time in the cellar of this community house attempting to invent new ideas in fireworks. Also, there is a girl who wanders In and out without seeming to have much to do with the plot, but she to endeavor to like American men.

Maybe they are not as crude as I said they were." Leslie Howard: "I resolve to confine my 'Hamlet' ambitions to the boundaries of the screen. I have been away from the legitimate theater too long to compete with John Gielgud, rated the best 'Hamlet' in years." (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) enough. (Miss Stanwyck recently dissolved her seven-year-old marriage with Frank Fay.) I couldn't go through all that again. There are many things worse thsn loneli turn to pictures in 1937. My husband, Irving Thalberg, would have wished it." W.

C. Fields: "I resolve in every way and every day to grow stronger and stronger. Whatever would Paramount do without me?" Ginger Rogers: "I resolve to stop tampering with the color of my hair. I was nicknamed not Clark Gable: "I resolve to keep in good physical shape so that my acting ability will not be blurred with excess poundage. I also resolve that, in the event I marry again, the lady will be an age contemporary, and not older than myself, as was the case with the two women I married." Story Is Growing Old.

HmOriCTTHEATERa. ii mil, mirinriiiiiiffiiiiiiniMfiir'l-- n-i--- -rfinfTft-in-lr ign iriMiiinrrTniriinrTOiiTift aferaM ness marriage to an uncongenial man Is one of them. I've lost all my illusions about love. I'd give a lot to get them back, but I think it's too late. And so I hope no man will everr again inveigle me into accenting him." Meanwhile, Miss Stanwyck Is having a fair measure of fun with boy-frlend-ln-ehlef Taylor whom she met before his sudden jump to fame.

"Success hasn't spoiled him," according to Barbara. "He's simple and unaffected. And very nervous In JOE AND PETE MICHON, who seem to be comedy acrobats in the Lyric's vaudeville. LILY PONS in "That Girl From Paris" is the attraction opening New Year's Day at the Indiana. has an irrepressible ambition to be a top notch ballet dancer.

One whisper of a ballet tune and she whirls Into such dance shennanigans that would make a Russian troupe seem to be hesitant amateurs. All of these mad and engaging people occupy a very sane house In Manhattan, and the only rational person in thi household is Margnt Ste'n-son, the unmarried daughter, who uses this very semblance of sanilv to hold the flimsy plot together. Well she does it, too, and especially so In lie scene when she decides It will be Mer that she turn aside the man ihe thought she might once marry, Practically No riot. There is practically no plot, if any Greta Garbo: "I resolve to re- i frain from mentioning the words 're- tire to a castle in Sweden' unless I really mean them. The gag is beginning to grow whiskers." i jimmy Cagney: "I resolve to al ANOTHER SAMPSON.

Rene Maison Has Figure for Role in Revival of Saint-Saens's Opera After Ten Years. low the producers and directors to choose my movie stories, because public. About a mile from theater previews and restaurants, he starts perspiring. I tell him the same thing that I tell Joan Crawford, who is also scared to death of crowds. 'Why be scsred? The people are murh more scared of Privacy at Last.

i Association with Taylor has rendered Miss Stanwyck a big service, i an actor is too close to the job to know what will look good on the screen. Also that I wiil not sue a SKY IS THE LIMIT. All Sorts of Parties Planned as Stars Look Forward to Holiday in and About Hollywood. AMI SKMENTS. m.

6 etffiGRi fatEC "No one takes any notice of me any more. I don't wear a hat, I don't wear smoked glasses. Everyone can see who I am but no one cares. Directly the fans see Bob, they elbow me aside. We were at Venice a few FREE DANCING bee a Tiim.

Nile Servir hnrxr 10c Till RS1MY AMI SI NDAV NIGHTS Iflr heforp 9 23c after. HATIBDAV MflHT 2Ae ltdlen Free I'titll 9 I'hll Knner and HI Ntiing- Hand Danre Vear's fght 1.1c till After 23r. ur John rsKi.iir. NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (P).

THE METROPOLITAN opera went in for verisimilitude today with quite a narigr. This afternoon it revived Saint-Saras' "Samson ct Dalila" after a ton-year rt-Ht. And it found a Samson who really looked the part. This paraxon is Reno Maison, a little better than nix feet three inches tall and woiRhinfr more than two hundred pounds. CaniHo used to do the role in the pood old days.

Finally the role did him in; his breakdown occurred during a performance of "Sam as- BV MOKIN. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26. W). CHRISTMAS having passed, the movie colony is girding itself for one of the most strenuous New Year's celebrations since the days before the depression.

The sky literally will be the limit. To the skies will go Henry the director, and a group of friends. King, a seasoned aviator, is taking his private ship up on New Year's eve, "We re either going to see the adopted by Ralph and Frank Morgan, clouds under a full moon, or else, tnf acting brothers. weeks ago. No sooner had we stepped out of tho car than Bob was surrounded.

I waited at a cigar stand until It was over. Practically the same thsng happened to Clark Gable and Carole Lombard a few nights later although Carole creates more excitpment with the fans than I do. I don't seem to have what NKW VKAR'H KVK IIAX'K Tlckrl Now nn SSc nt all, except that the playwrights seem to be trying to teach the lesson that work is not compulsory and that the one important thing in life Is the thin.1? that we enjoy doing. Largely it is a matter of falling in love with and falling out of love with the various insane characters In the cast. And there are plenty to go mad about.

Looking back and searching frantically, the only semblance, of a plot seems to be a young man who is in love with a young girl nnd the two are continually seeking for an excuse to get married. Put this simple and ancient story is so Interwoven with comical characters that most, of the evening resolves into a routine of highly amusing moments that Is similar to the old-time vaudeville act. The lines are well acted, especially with the; parts played by Paula True-man, Frank Wilcox, Frank Conlan and Osnnr Po'k. But, best of them all is Henry TraVers, a dry, humor- CRYSTAL DANCE PALACE HI. 02611.

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Later Martinelll assumed the flowing robe and the handsome -wig which Delila takes a snip at. Martinelll effaced no memories of Caruso, who may have been short and fat, hut who had a voice heroic enough even for Samson. if it a clear night, we're going to ous sort of actor who has been doing marvelous performances for the Theater Guild these past ten years and who does here one of his best. jobs. It is finely acted nnd the lines are humorous, so perhaps the audience will ask no more than that from the authors who do not label this a play.

Rather, they call It a farcical comedy, and it is just that without logic. iviHurpf'u ana ner nus-band, John Farrow, scenario writer, recently renovated the swimming pool at their house and have selected they want which is a very great relief." In spite of the anomalous position of being the girl friend of the movie world's most popular boy friend. Miss Stanwyck is making no hard and fast rules anent Mr. Taylor's successor. He does not necessarily have to be a noncelebrity because "apart from making pictures, I've got nothing else to do but wait around." New Year's eve for a swimming party, "barring snow, of course." cruise over the city, watching the celebrations in the street," King said.

He did not give the names of his guests. Second Honeymoon. It will be an airplane trip, too, for Mr. and Mrs. Benny Baker.

The comedian said he proposed to the girl who is now his wife last New Year's eve. "We're' going to have dinner at MOTION MCTI'IIK TIIKATKHH. The Greatest VXl Action Picture Ml- of All Time! KV4ls) He Trained for It. Now the opera has been- revived to provide Maison with an adequate role, and pirtorially st least, he suits It to a Ha even trained for itHn a coal mtiw. It happened thus When the German army began its march across Belgian soil In 1914, Maison was a schoolboy in his native frnmerles.

He had been singing Stars to Go Calling. Something of a surprise is in store for Jack Moss, business manager for Gary Cooper. Moss has just finished building a new home. His unexpected guests, New Y'ear's day, will be Mr. and Mrs.

Cooper, George Raft and Virginia Pine, and Henry Hathaway, the director. George Burns and Gracie Allen pthe same restaurant, and I'm going rnnre She Keeps llusy. Miss Stanwyck has made five pictures during the last year and In reality has little time for waiting around, or for seeing much of her 4-year-old adopted son Dion, pride and joy of the Stanwyck menage since his arrival from a local orphanage at the age of 4 months. "He couldn't bo more my own than If he were my own," said his foster mother. As her bank balance to propose all over again, Baker said.

"Then we've got a piano chartered and will lly to Yuma and back. Y'es, and we may get married all over again." Idaho's famed winter resort, the Sun Valley, will be the playground I plan to be in New York for the last night of the year. Dorothy Lamour has made reservations on a plane bound for St. Paul, where her husband is filling an orchestra en for a nartv of twetvn nr mfr. film I people, with Producer David O.

Selz gagement grows. Miss Stanwyck will adopt nisck playing host. Ha hns taken And Blonde Alice Kaye will cele- the several other children the nrst to a private train. Selznick said brata in tho traditional manner, in a ho a girl. gust list wns not complete but he i ntn-ht club.

Her cuests will include i.renin in tho church, but his voice had broken. And ho did not want to deported to Germany. So ho took a job in tho coal mines at Charlcrol, one of the smokiest towns in Belgium, or anywhere, for that matter. He stayed there through tho war, excepting that on festal or funeral occasions he was allowed to come out. to entertain the wounded soldiers, or sing a mass for the dead.

It was while exercising tho latter function that It was discovered that his voice was unusual. Later he was sent, to Brussels, nnd still later to Pnris for study. He began with lyric tenor roles, singing Kodolfo in "ha Hoheme" at his debut in Geneva, nut presently he was something unique: A French 'If and when I have I'll expects Claudetto Colbert nnd herjjoan Bondeu and Dick Powell, the build an orphanage and supervise di- i w- nusnanri, jr. Joe fressman. ann Riu brothers and Roy Del Kuth lark able and Carole Iombard to "Can't get the Broadway way out of my life," she laughed.

things personally." In partnership with Zeppo Marx. Rarhara recently purchased a ranch in VanNuys for the purpose of breeding thoroughbred horses. There MICHON ne in ine group. New Year's day will see two "bus parties." Luncheon on llus. "GOOD TO THE LAT DUOS For several years, Jeff Lazarus, "CAN SHE TAKB IT" LUNATICS" studio executive, has always char sre forty boarders In the startles the favorite a Shetland pony for little Dion.

(Conyrtfht. by th North American Newspaper Alllanct, Inc.) DEPTNAGEtl anAGIRLS RIPLEY PAYS FIRST VISIT TO FILM LOT HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26. Believe it or not, but Robert Ripley had never been in a Hollywood studio until he visited the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot recently to discuss terms for a series of short subjects. He was the guest of Pete Smith, screen commentator.

neroic tenor who could, and did, sing Wagner. He still does. It was while ho wns creating the leading tenor role of Alfano's "Resurrection" opposite Mary Garden in Taris that that energetic soprano "MIDNIGHT tCKENADB tered a large omnibus and taken forty friends to the Rose Bowl football game with him, serving luncheon on the way. "The heavier the traffic, the better we like it," Lazarus laughed. "Jt gives us more time for luncheon." This year, the idea has been WHITEV rogerts JAUERS PAMJLV FOUND it became interested In him.

Her interest had practical results; she recommended him to the old Chicago Civic. Opera, and he sang with it from UVJ8 to the end of the Insull era in Maison's debut in New York was last winter, when he sang Walt her In "Die Meistersinger." Uast summer he was at the Colon in Buenos Aires. ur ifnun ik. Nr. RING! SILVER CUP DANCE CONTEST TONITE ADM.

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