Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 143, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1920 — Page 3
NATURE AND FIRE, LOVE AND DEATH Figure in This Week's Offerings on Screen
The great out-of-doors, a forest Are, monkeys, lions, apes, lore affairs, ambition figure in many nol screen offerings this week. Each movie bouse possesses a novelty today and every taste can be satisfied. ' -|. -|- -|- DORIS MAY h'EEDg FAIR PLAY FROM PRODUCERS. That irresistible comedy pair, Doris May and Douglas Mac Lean. again make their appearances at the Alhambra, thi3 t me in ‘‘The Jailbird.” the peppy story of a youth who longed to be a second get-rlch-qulck WalBllngford.” the usual scheme of things is apparbir<l.“ for Mac Lean is starred alone and Doris May u her of his supportbeing co-starred. Mac-I.ean is stellar material —there is no doubt about ih[ that—but he gained DouglaT Mac Lean. •* popularity in his work with Doris May, and it seems unfair to this dainty actress to be shoved to one side, as it were. Asa consequence “The Jailbird” is so far below the standard of excellence set by “Mary’s Ankle" and other comedy pictures by this pair of screen comedians there is no comparison. Mac Lean plays the part of a crook —a character as hard to imagine him suitable for as Bill Hart in the role of a minister—who starts an oil boom with the avowed intention of cleaning up a little town. Instead, he really develops oil and makes a fortune for himself and the people whom he intended to “bunko.” "The Jailbird” is- a good picture, and It has many a laugh in it. So far as he is able Mac Lean plays his part perfectly, but the shunting to one side of his former co-star weakens what would have otherwise been a tremendous hit. Miss May does not have many opportunities in “The Jailbird” to air those talents which in a short time have endeared her to patrons of the photoplay world, but on the few occasions she has the same brand of acting that ha* characterized her efforts in the past comes to the front. Opinion, an amnsing picture with a few dramatic moments, skilfully directed and photographed. -|- -|. OLIVE THOMAS’ SHADOW IS A SWEET AND DAINTY MEMORY. Although she is gone from the silver screen forever, the memory of Olive Thomas will live and grow more dear in the hearts of theatergoers, as the result of “Everybody's Sweetheart.” a picture as tragic and beautiful as the life of the little star herself. On view at the Colonial. “Everybody’s Sweetheart” is a picture with n nniversal appeal; a photoplay calculated to tug at the heart strings of the most blase patron of the silver sheet. The picture is the story of a little nobody, left in a poorhouse, whose motto of "Keep Smiling” brought Joy to the lives of thousands and finally gave her a reward greater than is the fortune of most people to possess. It would have been Impossible to find a actress better suited to .the part ot “Mary,” the orphan waif, than,. Miss Thomas.
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11 BOTH ARE CUTE SHIRLEY MASON. When Shirley Mason is dolled up in a simple gingham gown and with her pet white kitten, the little film actress is really happy. She also lias a pet Airedale puppy and the kitten,’ pup and Shirley are great pals. Miss Mason can be seen this week at Mister Smith’s in “Girl of My Heart.” Her wonderful personality, genuine merit and ability to bury herself in the part she plays, is sufficient guarantee that ‘‘Everybody's Sweetheart” will stand as a monument to one of the screen's greatest favorites. There is not a laugh in the picture, but the mist it brings to the eyes leaves a greater Impression and a fonder memory than any amount of laughs. -I- -|- -|- KOBEST FIRE “ACTS” IN’ CURWOOD MOVIE. A forest fire is an “actor” in “Nomads of the North,’’ a movie made from a story by James Oliver Curwood and directed by David M. Hartford. These fire scenes are skillfully bandied and the photography is excellent at all times. This movie will appeal to the men becanse it is full of the northern rough stuff and many of the locations used In the movie would make ideal camping spots. The story concerns Raoul Challoner who kills a man during a real fist fight and the efforts of Raoul to escape and find refuge with his wife in the great wilds of the Canadian forest. Raoul and his wfe find contentment in a snug cabin in the wildest looking part of the northern woods for three years until Corporal O'Connor of the Northwest Mounted Police locates the biding place. Raoul, his wife and baby and the corporal start back on a long journey for the purpose of delivering Raoul for trial on a murder charge.
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ALDA TRIUMPHS IN GREAT*CONCERT Pavley-Oukraimky Ballet Scores at English’s
1 Mme. Prances Alda, leading soprano of 1 the Metropolitan Opera House of New York, inaugurated the new Civic Concert series at the Murat Theatre yesterday j afternoon, this being the first visit Mme. • Alda has made to Indianapolis, in sev- ; eral seasons. No more satisfactory singer has ever graced our concert stage. Mme. Alda is n charming artist in i every particular, and a magnificent i singer, a combination not always in evidence in the artists That come our way. Primarily an opera singer, it is in operatic arias and in big dramatic songs that she makes her greatest success and appeal, but she sang her classic songs, a lovely lullaby, a rhythmic swaying negro spiritual, and did some coloratura work all with exquisite taste and Interpretation, aiving. withal an example of perfect singing. She brings to the concert stage all the dramatic training and experience that she has enjoyed, and establishes a friendly intimacy with her audience that creates a wonderfully harmonious atmosphere, and she never overacts or is in
A forest fire starts and during the flaming menace Raoul naves the life of the corporal, who in turn relents and allows llaoul to return with bis wife and baby to their cabin in the forest. It was an accommodating forest fire because the cabin of Raoul was not : touched. A trained bear and a dog do effective work in a goed fight scene, but Lon | Chaney as Raoul is an absolute failure ; during his love scenes. Chaney seems to thiuk that a man must look silly to successfully express symp- | toms of love. j “Nomads of the North” is handsomely I photographed and affords a pleasant visit ' to the Circle any time this week. W. D. H. -t- -I- -IINDIANAPOLIS ACTOR | IN BUCK JONES MOVIE. Jack Rolleus, u former Indianapolis ! stock actor. Is one of the principals i supporting Buck Jones, the Fox star, in i “Sunset Sprague,” now at the Regent, j Others In the cast are Patsy D Forest, Gloria Payton, Noble Johnson, Edwin ! Booth Tilton and Henry J. Herbert. This new Buck Jones movie gives the ? star a chance to appear as a happ.v-go- [ lucky cowboy by the name of Sunset I Sprague, and white he Is hunting a Job I runs irp against a bunch of outlaws, j who give Buck a real job of daring j stunts. The bill includes Clyde Cook in “Kiss ; Me Quick.’’ -I- -|- -II WILD ANIMALS OFFER | THRILLS IN' TARZAN MOVIE. | When the Tarzan books first appeared j the public welcomed them because the stories treated an unusual theme and [ gave the reader a glimpse into forest ano Jungle life. The Tarzan movies have been able to j hold the public interest as securely a* | the books and the latest Tarzan movie, j "The Revenge of Tarzan,” can be de- : scribed as a thriller. j "The screen at the Ohio this week, I where the latest Tarzan movie is on vie*, I reminds one of a Jungle, as lions, j leopards, tigers, chimpanzees, two eij phants and a lot of monkeys take lead | ing parts. In this movie, Tarzan returns to hi* j wild life In the Jungle and one of the j big punch scenes is that devoted to on encounter between Tarzan, bare-banded, with a lion. Gene Pollar is again cast as Tarzan and he looks like a regular son of the
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the least theatrical. Her program was long nnd exacting, consisting of fifteen songs and one operatic aria and is was extended by encores nnd repetition to ten more numbers, Mme. Alda finishing her program apparently as fresh and untired as when she started. Her first group were all Italian and Old English songs and -she added to the group for an ecorne, “I Love the Moon” (Rubens), the first song with dramatic appeal on the program. Her second group were all modern songs splendidly contrasted: Lefver” (Merikanto), big and dramatic and well *uited to her voice nnd style; "Finnish Slumber Song" (Jarneveld), delicately beautiful; “Chanson. Norvegienne” Fourdrain), so clamorously received li was repeated; “The Soldier's Bride” Rachmaninoff), typically Russian; "Uavette From Manon" (Massenet), a dainty dialogue. “If No One Ever Marries Me” (Lehmann) followed this group for an encore. Her one programmed aria, from Mefistofele (Boito), was so magnificently
jungle, as he is six feet three inches tall and looks like a real fighter. The Tarzan movie has appeal to men and women alike because it takes the movie fan from the every day existence to a Jungle where there Is mystery, death, love and suspense. Another scene which is well done that of a fire on a yacht, the escape oi Tarzan and a fight in mid-ocean. Others in the cast are George Romata, | Walter Miller, Armand Cortez, Franklin B. Coates, Karla Schramm and others. On view all week at the Ohio. -I- -I- -!- CONCERNING TOM BANTBCIII IN “‘CRADLE OF COURAGE.” The heavy role of Tierney in William S. Hart's new picture, “The Cradle of Courage,” which is to be found at the Isis the first half of the week, is portrayed by Thomas Santschl, recognized as one of the most capable actors on the screen today. He has appeared in pictures for many years, and it was he, who, with William Farnutn In "The Spoilers." fought what is regarded as the classic of all film fights. Incidentally, he also provides thrills Jby a fistic encounter with Hart hlm--1 self. Ann Little is the leading lady. -I- -ITHE STAGE Alexander, billed as “The Man Who Knows." will open a week’s engagement at English's tonight with an entertainment which is said to be radically different from the regular stage offering. The Murat is dark until Thursday night, when Guy Bates Post opens a three-day engagement in “The Masquerader.” Claude and Fannie Vsher in “The 81de-.4-Wee Home,” Is an added attraction at B. F. Keith’s this week. “Bozo” Snyder, an artist In bis line, is the featured player in "Some Show,” on view all week at the Park. The headliner at the Lyric this week is the Five Chapins, ni”Bical entertainers. Hal Rathbun's “Vanity Girls” are on view this week at the Rialto. The Broadway today is offering anew vaudeville an.l movie program. ILLINOIS CORN CROP BOOSTED. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 25.- The lar* Ct corn crop in five yoars, SOI.OfttOOO buahels, is predicted for Illinois by the bureau of crop estimates. This crop surpasses last r’s yield of an oven 301,U00,0> bushels.
given it received an ovation und the wellbeloved air “One Fine Day” from “Madam Butterfly,” given as an encore, was so well liked t>vo more numbers were added after ,4t: “De Ole Ark’s A Movin'” (Guion), and “The • Star” (Rogers). The last group—five modern songs—were all beautiful -and were received with such acclaim that three were repeated and an extra was added at the close of the program: “There Is No Death” (O’Hara), n beautiful song reminiscent of the tragedies of the world war. “My Little House,” in the last group, was the composition of the accompanist who shnred the applnuse. Seneca Pierce, accompanist, proved himself a pianist and composer of unusual attainments, playing the entire program without notes, meeting every mood of the singer and attaining a perfect ensemble. The solos he contribu*ed were interesting, displaying a facile technique and a poetic interpretative ability. He played tho MacDowell numbers, a Chopin Nocturne and his own "Devil’s Courtship,” a very interesting composition. He added two encores to these; "Waltz" (Collins) and “Moment Musical” (Schubert.) Mr. Merle Armitage, local representative of the Bradford Mills Concert Bureau, under whose the Civic Music Series of concerts is being presented, expressed himself as much pleased with the reception Mme. Alda received. The next concert in the series will be Miss Mary Garden, Dec. 12, and an extra concert by Tetrazziui is announced for Jan. 9.—G. 11. ** * / RUSSIAN BALLET CHARMS ART LOVERS. Art and music came into Us own last night at English’s, when Andreaß Pavley “They WORK while you sleep” I , Do you feel bilious, constipated, headachy, upset, full of cold? Take one it two Cascarets tdtiight for your liver and bowela. Wake tip with head clear, atomerh right, breath sweet and feeTOig fine. No griping, no Inconvenience Children lore Cascarets too. 10. 25. 50 cents.- Advertisement.
and Serge Oukrainsky Appeared with their dancers and the Philharmonic Orchestra in a ballet from "Samson and Delilah,” and a number of strikingly original dances by the two principal dancers and their dainty assistants— Miles. Ledowa, Shermont, Milar, Reinert and Nemeroff. Indianapolis has at least seen a real ballet this season and also witnessed the dance interpreted with abandonment and ease of expression, with a daintiness and a touch of artistic sincerity which raised the entire program to one of sterling worth. Interest naturally centered on the ballet from "Samson and Delilah,” in which Pavley, Oukrainsky and seven splendid female dancers assisted in creating • picture of exotic charm—a picture of loveliness which will linger in the memory of those who were so fortunate to be at English’s. Serge Oukrainsky was at his best in a strange “Siamese Dance,” in which the expressive toes of this unusual interpreter of pantomimic beauty in melody rivaled the movements of his arms.
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Another novelty done in perfect technique was “L’Ephemere,” or the birth of a butterfly, is presented by Mile. Ledowa. The twin! ling toes of Mile. Shermont and the expressive work of Pavley caused the two dancers to repeat a pastorale by Kriesler in answer to a tremendous ovation accorded them. Valse from “Faust” as done by Oukrainsky and Mile. Shermont again “held up” the program and the dancers graciously repeated this masterpiece when Mile. Alda, -.the grand opera star, who occupied a box with her party, assisted in the applause of approval for this number. The final number, a Torch Dance, as presented by the compnny, caused the audience to remain while the dancers graciously repeated this dance of complete abandonment. Parley's “Bacchanale” lacked the crushing strength given this number by Mordkin on former tours, although Pavley won favor in this number last night. There wote numerous other dances and some splendidly presented selections by the Philharmonic Orchestra.
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