FEB. 10, 1934 PAGE 8 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES 'COTTON CLUB REVUE' IS STAGE PRESENTATION AT PALACE THEATER June Pursell Returns Negro Show Brings Star to City as Stage Star Cast to City for Week 3s \ L ..>.. V k, Former City Girl Headlines Bill at Lyric Theater: ‘Last T- m MII ni I!P ,0^ ‘Eskimo,’ Epic of Arctic, and Record of Natives Is on Round-Up’ Is Movie Presentation. jjp|raj Screen: ‘Carolina' Is Held Over. Alter an absence of ten years from this, her home city, during which The “Cotton Club Revue,” direct from the Cotton Club in New York time she has garnered nation-wide fame as a singing star of the stage, City, is on the stage of Loew’s Palace theater this week, and on tht acreen and radio, June Pursell returns to fill an engagement for the cur- screen is “Eskimo.” a drama of life and love among the arctic natives. rent week on the stage of the Lyric theater, sharing headline honors with The "Cotton Club Revue" is an all Negro show presenting Mills Blue the renowned dialect comed’an, Senator" Murphy. rhythm band, conducted by Lucky Millinder with Edgar Hayes at the The screen attraction is Zane■ Grey's "The Last Round-Up,” drama piano, and consists of several acts including Nicodemus "Lazybones him- of the old west, inspired by the popular cowboy song of the same title, self.” Four Flash Devils, “Eight Feet of Syncopation.” Alma Smith, •nd based on Grey's novel, ‘ The Border Legicn.” “dynamic soubrette;” Josie Oiver, “Miss Snake-Hips,” and as a special Possessing beauty and abundant talent. Miss Pursell has made good added attraction, George Dewey Washington, the famous international In New York and in Hollywood. singing star. She has sung leading roles in a On the screen, the grandeur of the number of screen musical produc- earth’s white mantle of snow at the boats; blizzards and icy hurricanes tions; has ‘doubled voice" for the north pole, is shown in vistas that at temperatures that defied human world* greatest feminine motion Orchestra to will stir film audiences in “Eskimo,” life; polar bear hunts and native picture stars, and for two years has an epic of the arctic, filmed by spear-fishing, and many more which been one of the most popular of Colonel W. S. Van Dyke. are too numerous to mention. National Broadcasting Company Give Concert Thousands of miles of ice and “Eskimo" was directed by Colonel artists, figuring prominently in many snow provide a background for this W. S. Van Dyke, who was also in of the biggest chain programs on record of a native people. chargp of the making of “White Seas,” the air. Sunday, Feb.2s "Midnight Shadows in the South Dame,” One scene shows the Without a rival as a humorous 1—Lionel Barrymore as a southern gentleman of the old school in now at the Circle. streaking track •Trader Horn," and “Tarzan, the Indianapolis is one the stars in “The Last Round- Sun” a across the monologuist. the loquacious “Sen- “Carolina,” which is now in its second week at the Apollo. 4Monte Blue of of ice fully 200 the figure Ape Man." the for miles with a a a ator Murphy, long an outstanding Cincinnati Symphony Will 2One of the native characters in “’Eskimo,” now on view at the up,” now at Lyric. of native in Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland hand out many delicious laughs a the foreground vaudeville personality, is now scor- , Palace. 5 dwarfed to a tiny speck. Appear at English’s laugh in “Six of a Kind,” now at the Indiana. ing the hit of his career in a dis- 3Sylvia Sidney and Frederic March find time to in “Good Other views show millions of tons 'Carolina' Stays cussion of affairs of the nation and of ice shifting and rearing in the the NRA. This Month. spring "crack up" and endangering Janet Gaynor. Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Additional stage show features in- One of the most important events the lives of Eskimo hunters and Henrietta Crosman clude Reed and La Vere. melodious Young head the cast of Fox Film's on the local musical calendar this fishermen. musical mimes; Marshall Mont- Captain Peter Freuchen’s story of latest release, "Carolina,” which is gomery, the ace of ventriloquists; | season will be the visit of the Cin- life and love among the natives in appearing for the second week upon Joe Christy, dapper funster and his cinnati Symphony orchestra, Eugene this northermost point inhabited by the screen of the Apollo theater. outstanding of ‘‘Provocative Originalities”; Mammy Goossens, conducting, with Walter mankind has been faithfully re- The performance corded. these stars, together with the ro- and Her Log Cabin Boys in “A Gieseking, world famed pianist, as Southern Jubilee,” and Particularly amazing is the moral mance, the comedy and the drama Darktown composer, the jaunty Lyric Streamline Girls, j soloist, playing the master code of these Eskimos, which per- of the film, is said to stamp the Randolph Scott, Monte Blue. Bar- Rachmaninoff's, "Concerto C Minor mits a husband to have more than netv photoplay as a distinct hit. beautiful Fritchie, Fred Kohler and Fuz- orchestra, cne wife, and also to “lend” his Set against a back- gara No. 2.” for piano and on plantations and zy Knight are the wives to his friends on occasion. It ground of tobacco principal players Sunday afternoon, Feb. 25, at Eng- hanging trees, the film in "The Last a Para- ! serves as the root of one of the magnolia Round-Up.” tells the story of a poor northern mount dealing wtih the gla- lish’s. strongest dramatic situations in the picture girl who goes south to raise tobacco gold of California The artistic influence of the Cin- picture. morous rush era j small portion of land owned and Arizona, and immortalizing in cinnati Symphony orchestra is wide- Great spectacles in the picture in- on a the charge, by a decadent but still dignified story song the \ spread. Besides Cincinnati, 125 other clude caribou in which and deeds of hard- southern family. fighting, he-men cities in the United States and Can- more than 4 000 of the horned quick-shooting. ! the walrus The young son of the family falls whose home the saddle and ada have heard the orchestra at beasts go on rampage; was hunts, in which native boats are in love with the girl, notwithstand- whose life was the open range. some time or other in the last twen- ing the fact that his mother ob- ty years. overturned and men injured in at- tempts to escape knife-sharp tusks; jects. He becomes impressed with Yet the Cincinnati symphony is the girl tells him, and learns The natives hunting whales in small what not a “traveling” orchestra. from her the ways and means by March, Sidney Star number of its touring engagements which to rebuild the plantation. very limited, Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney, in any one season is There follows a series of dramatic and it is only because of the short Cast Completed sequences in which the young girl last seen together in “Merrily We distance between Indianapolis and 1—June Pursell of Indianapolis, who has made good on the radio, stage 3 Art Kassel brings his noted dance orchestra to the Indiana Roof Dunne’s tries to win the family over to her Go to Hell” are co-starred again Cincinnati that a Sunday afternoon The cast of Irene and screen, is now headlining the stage show at the Lyric. ballroom tomorrow night only. next film for RKO side, but to no avail. It is when for concert by this famous organization starring in “Good Dame.” now showing 2Joe Christy is another entertainer in the stage show at the 4George Dewey Washington is one of the headliners in “The Cotton Radio Pictures, a domestic the son threatens to leave the fam- was possible. Palace. his mother relents, and the first time in the world at the Lyric. Club Show,” now on the stage at the comedy - drama, “Transient ily that the Many school and Sunday school film comes to stirringly theater, Love,” was completed this a happy Circle with Jack La Rue, orchestras are taking advantage of conclusion. Francis and Kathleen Burke this rare and are order- week when Charles Starrett. Noel opportunity and Louis Calhern were signed Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barry- ing groups in the supporting cast. of seats. Davies, Crosby for featured roles, and Louis more have the principal roles, and The management of the Cincin- Dancing Will reputed give The story, written by William Double Features Continue Mason for a character por- both stars are to the nati orchestra feels that touring best performances of their careers. Lipman, and the dialogue, by Sam in or dis- trayal. which is extended time Ralph Bellamy, Kay John- Robert Young and Henrietta Cros- Heilman, noted humorist, is a down tance is not conducive to the high- in Ambassador man, who always be counted on Be Opened at Vivian Tobin and Con- can stranded chorus quality of artistic performance Playing at Indiana Theater son, to earth tale of a est stance Cummings have the for splendid screen work, are here. joins get upon girl who a carnival to out because of the wear and tear principal spots. Production is The other members of the cast, love the strength temper by The Indiana theater started on naping; and it is through her un- Stepin of town and falls in with and caused Musical Film slated to begin shortly with which include Fetchit, Rich- Indiana Roof a selfish alertness and sacri- Fredric March, wise guy and fast frequent movings and the difficulty its second week of double feature devotion, ard Cromwell, Mona Barrie and fice that the is John Cromwell directing.