FEB. 29, 1936 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 11 'MODERN TIMES' HAILED AS FUNNIEST FILM SINCE CHAPLIN'S LAST Derby, Cane, Federal Players Prepare for Their Presentation of 'Clarence' Laurel and Hardy Sparkle Shoes--Not a in One of Their Best; Thing's Lost Lyric Stage Show Tops,Too Hii. & fXMM . • 'mmm? JlwlP ' US iaMi. .... ¦¦ SB iWBiaMKKSaHHiIMBliiKMBalMBWMi ’hkFvHl.‘W3H K . t ' s&k . ns®* ''’ -Ww mßmEHUsmr'> Paulette Goddard, Newest BBBL TSB S jsBBBBbb .Jam a BP . lz K-7gsssK< ¦¦¦¦ W&el 4 Hi “The Bohemian Girl” Gives Pair Ample Room for Their Heroine, Wins Cheers Antics and They Produce; “Revue Continental” of Reporter. Contains Excellent Talent. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON Stan Laurel stages one of the funniest scenes we have ever seen on & t He hasn't changed a bit. Derby, r m§L Hal k Si f I the screen in “The Bohemian Girl,” in which he is starred with Oliver I If Jp . im**w < m y/|T|lk IB mustache, cane and shoes, they're Hardy at the Lyric this week. ¦V-. % J| Laurel and Hardy, playing a couple of gypsies in the film, have all there in Times,’’ which 9 m- ft .JmF' “Modern i'mL fit f fmm Ms cooked up a barrel of grape wine. Hardy leaves, telling Laurel to bottle la,. Is just about the funnies thing aMUrMr 11 ¦ it. So Laurel runs a rubber hose from the barrel to the table and starts seen “City running he one ¦we've since Lights,’’ the * #lf hl the siphon. With the hose fills after another of the ¦ ~ last Charlie Chaplin film. empties. i The one big improvement in this But he can’t stop the flownig wine, picture is Paulette Goddard. Mr. so he sticks the hose in his mouth. Titled Film Adviser Chaplin's new leading lady, a After fillingseveral bottles and him- sprightly brunet, who bolsters the self, you can imagine the rest. falternig plot with pantomime al- The picture o fers the boys ample No Longer a 'Valet' is their most as artistic as Charlie’s. room for their antics. It By United Press Unlike mast of the screen’s new- best full length feature, with plenty Feb. 29.—Viscount est 1.—A for HOLLYWOOD. “finds” Miss Goddard can’t tap tense moment in a recent of the opera’s music thrown in De Kergoet no longer is a "Varlet.” dance, doesn’t exhibit any striking found asleep in a pile of dry goods. rehearsal of the Federal Players’ relief. Little Darla Hood looks like The French nobleman, technical coiffures, and he goes to Antonio looks just as attrac- Again jail. production of Booth Tarkington’s another Shirley Temple, adviser to a film studio, today dis- tive in rags as she The girl gets WHERE, WHAT, WHEN for the first time in does in ermine. a job as a case danc- Cyrano 1000 Times! Hampden to Moreno is seen closed that for a time he had been APOLLO shows Paul Rouse, Hal The story gets er and when Charlie “Clarence” many months, Jacqueline Wells off to a running is released he, “Ceiling and •a butler because of reduced circum- start too, Zero.”* with Jimmy Cag- Hawkes and Betty Brown, with Charlie as a factory is given a job in the case, as a ney, Pat O'Brien. Stuart Erwin and Anne makes a good beginning as the he- stances and used the name of "Var- worker given the hectic job of tight- singing waiter. His waiting is con- June Travis, at 11:40, 1:38, 3:36, 5:34, concentrating their lines. The roine. 7:32 and 9:30. Reach That Goal at Tour's End on let.” ening numberless on demned by the manager, but he is The story a princess, bolts a mov- CIRCLE play will be given at Keith's for concerns The Viscount six months ago ing track. The monotony gets given a chance as a singer. “Rose with Nelson Eddy by a band of gypsies. Aft- him Marie.” a week starting Monday. kidnaped found himself and strand- and he goes berserk. He is This is the scene which introduces and Jeanette MacDonald at 11, 1:15, er 12 years she finds her father. Left penniless sent to 3.25, 5:30, 7:40 and 9:55. in California. In des- a. hospital and recovers. Chaplin's voice to the screen for the Famed Thespian to Appear at English Theater Next 2. Old-timer Charles Berkell, by her original kidnaper, she is fos- ed Southern INDIANA peration he wrote himself a letter first time. He sings, not words, but ’’ well known stock producer, now tered by Laurel and Hardy, mem- Aha, the Red Leader! “Klondike Annie. with Mae West of that unintelligible sounds, in a skit which and Victor McLaglcn. at 11:50, 1:50, Saturday Afternoon and Evening. bers of the band who give up the recommendation saying 3:50, 5:50, 7:50 and 9:50. directing the Federal group, points Rene Varlet was a butler Out again, he picks up a is the best in the show. gypsy business. capable red LOEW’S When Walter Hampden made his first revival of Edmond Rostand’s out a change in the script to his and “Viscount De Ker- ilag dropped off a truck. A success, he and the girl face signed it Unwit- “Modetn Times.” with Charlie “Cryano de Bergerac,” in which he is to appear at English’s Saturday assistant, Excellent Talent in Show in hand, he becomes happiness together. Then comes Chaplin, at 11. 12:50, 2:43, 4:36, Ricca Scott Titus. goet.” the 8:16, afternoon and evening, March 7, it was necessary for him to lease a job with leader of a striking band of work- the juvenile officers to claim the 6:56. and 10:05. 3—Judging from the expressions Again little Leon Miller, who The letter got him a a LYRIC theater in New York. family in and ers He goes to girl. of Betty Anne wealthy Pasadena Jail. “The Bohemian Girl.” with laurel It was in November, 1923, that he Brown and Alice looks like Eddie Cantor and dances for several months he was a butler Not knowing exactly what is hap- Fundamentals Are Same and Hardy, at 11:25, 2:15, 5:15, 8:05, 10:46. opened his first performance of Arnold, “Clarence” is something adroitly, leads A. B. Marcus’ “Re- Finally he obtained the pening, Charlie thwarts a jail have a New York playhouse of his there. In an old-fashioned chase, Charlie “Continental Revue” on stage. A. "Cyrano,” and he played until the of a comedy. on With studio position and disclosed his break, gets a comfortable cell, with B. Marcus show with Ha Cha San, own was realized when he opened vue Continental” the stage. and next fourth of July. identity. Yadio, soft cushions and a canary, the girl escape, are last seen at 12:56, 3:46, 6:46 and 9:36. Hampden’s Theater with a revival lavish sets, and many girls, this OHIO The success of this offering was es a reward. Happy again, he is shuffling down a iong road, the fa- of “Hamlet,” in which Ethel Barry- show also contains excellent talent. miliar “Annie Oakley,” with Barbara unprecedented in the history of suddenly pardoned. His pleas to Chaplin figure siihouetted Stanwyck, at 10:30, 1:33, 4:25. 7:21, more was seen with him. the Knight sisters, a romantic drama in York, ex- Hose There are ’LI VIR. AVE. be allowed to remain jail go against the early morning sun. 10:17. Also “The Pavoff” with James New This was followed by “Merchant Hunters jM 111 in un- Dunn, at 12:30, 3:22, 6:18, ceeding the run of Constant duo adagio team with something iSulaUlauU dr. 800 wanted. He goes to work All the old tricks of the Chaplin and 9:14. of Venice,” again with Miss Barry- in a Couquelin’s original production of If this isn’t true, you can sue new in their line; Harold Boyd the shipyard, launches the trade are in “Modem Times.” It mor. In the following autumn, came vessel before “Cyrano” in Paris and Richard Clark (call him Nimrod) anemic little comedian, and his Jig it is completed gets is better produced, perfection of the picture’s panto- his production of ‘Caponsacchi,” and fired. better filmed Mansfield in New York. Gable: He tells about tramping Saws, in spotty comedy. Lee Se- Then he girl, than its predecessors, mime, still an entertaining art. ran 272 performances. meets the a street but the The following autumn Mr. Hamp- which for back from a fruitless hunting christ is back again with his ac- Ramin, who steals rather than fundamentals are the some. With Miss Goddard, his most Mr. Hampden then turned from of yet, den in “Cryano” toured the prin- trip and meeting a couple cordion. starve. She has just “lifted” a Pie-tossing, brick-throwing, oil- pleasant heroine Mr. Chaplin is the tragic and romantic to realis- with loaf still master of all surveys the cipal Eastern cities, breaking all little boys loaded down Ben McAtee is the chief comic Picture with fj^ cf bread for her hungry squirting, these and other ludicrous he in tic comedy, appearing as Dr. Stock- rabbits. no no sisters. realm of this of records in theaters in which he ap- They had dogs, with the revue, with Sharon De- Charles tries to take the incidents add to the hilarity of the brand comedy. man in Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the gun, I PENNER OAKIE blame for “Modern peared.