Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1921 — Page 6

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VARIETY MARKS NEW OFFERINGS IN FILM HOUSES (Contlnned From Far* Five.) tori* briars to him In his hours of suffering the symbol of their first love. She remembers the dawn of faith In her reincarnation during the Roman centuries when David was Constantine and she was a Christian slave, who, through her power of prayer, converted the pagan world to Christianity. So now In their present reincarnation they are again united. -1- -I- -IMEIGHAN MOVIE REMAINS ANOTHER WEEK AT ISIS. Thomas Melghan'a latest success, "The Easy Road," an adaptation of Blair Hall's story, “Easy Street," will be held over for another week at the Isis. The star appears to marked advantage In the role of the sailor novelist who, alter a long | £~S * .. takes life easy,' neglects his opTho*. Metghan. portnnltles, and, in short, becomes a drone. Domestic differences lead to his wife going to Eu rope. During her absence the novelist continues his cere-free course, and on her return she decides to get a divorce and marry another. Meantime the husband meets a girl wbo bas a wholesome effect on him, and the adventures that come as the result lead to hie regeneration and a reunion with his wife. Lila Lee and Gladys George head the supporting cast, which also Includes Grace Goodall, Arthur Carew, Lara Anson and Viora Daniel. The comedy portion of the program will be supplied by a Hank Mann farce.

AMUSEMENT gr/' r. T' I ■ ■ : r -;' Byou can see it here FIRST p ROADWAY CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE ALL NEW EVERY WEEK t 3-orchesfras-3 I*.'? Music and Entertainment Every Minute |pj if Matinee Every Day 1 500 Good Jr No Stops Seats dJC NO WaitS Saturday, Sunday And Holiday.. EntCrtainerS Going on ail the time NigHtS, 20c and 30c Music v " ; i... . . ... RIALTof^^^RIALTO VAUDEVILLE rrMntN'MC PICTURES 2,4, 6. 8, 10 O'clock L. £i . SVU — ~ 3, 5 , 7,9, 11 O'clock FEATURE PICTURES-VAUDEVILLE SPECIAL ATTRACTION FOR NEXT WEEK ONLY A Play for Every Woman who thinks —for Every Alan who has met life and love face to face Arthur Demining’s Minstrel SOUTHERN MELODIES—BUCK DANCiNG-BONES AND TAMBOURINES EDDIE GILLEN I RICHEY GRAIG NOVELTY JUGGLING j ECCENTRIC COMEDIAN JACK STEWART and COMPANY JUST SWEETHEARTS RIALTO I TOSHES RIALTO

An entire new cycle of songs and instrumental selections will be introduced by the Sherwoods and their singing orchestra. -|- -I- -I“EARTHBOCND" OPENS SUNDAY AT SMITH’S. Basil King's story of life after death. “Earthbound,” comes to Mister Smith's Sun day. it concerns two men, good friends, -uuwm. vbo live by the ruthless creed: j had brought them f jrarfec success and riches C '/> -Ti antll one of them | Opr, JJ'Jfr —^''’l m forced to saori- t W Bce his wife on :L . the altar of that | J •reed. Then he ■jKwM iSI si ’ led Dick Des- X&yllw 4? brough, the man * : S:: he had looked Naomi Childers. upon as his best friand, but Dick, even after death, was not free to progress. His spirit was forced to remain earthbound until he was willing to be guided by the higher creed that “Love Is the great progressive force both In this world and what we call the next. Critics have recognized “Earthbound” as an Impressive production. A capable cast Interprets this story, including such names as Wyndham Standing, Mahlon Hamilton, Alec B. Francis, Naomi Childers, Flora Kevalles and Kate Lester. -|- -|- -I. NAZIMOYA COMES SUNDAY IN LATEST SCREEN DRAMA. Alla Nazlmova comes Sunday to the Colonial In “Billions,” which has been made from the French drama by Jean Jose Frappa and Henri Dupuy Mazuel. The engagement Is for the week. Nazlmova Is seen lh the role of Princess Triloff of Russia who, at the time her husband Is being blown to atoms by a Bolshevist bomb iu Russia, Is living in an uptown art quarter In New York City. Her handsome home is a rendezvous for poets, pianists, painters and socalled advanced thinkers, who make up

the more fashionable Bohemia of the metropolis. The Princess's passlen is poetry and among the younger songsters none has Interested her more than Owen Carey, a young poet, the role enacted by Charles Bryant, although she never had met the poet. Carey lives in a small garret In Greenwich Village and Is content with the poverty as long as he can write his lyrics and subsist on the scanty remuneration that comes to him from the magazines. A friend of Carey's, John Blanchard, has prevailed upon the Princess, now very wealthy as a result of the death of her husband, to pay for the publication of a book of Carey's poems. One day Carey learns that his uncle has died, [ leaving him an immense fortune. It Is then that Carey loses his Identity as a poet and assumes the name of William Krakerfeller, a millionaire. Many unusual incidents follow which brings the story to an unusual climax. -I- -I- -IBLIZZARD, LEGLESS WONDER, IS STRANGE MOVIE CHARACTER. How the blunder of a young doctor In needlessly cutting off both his legs when be was a little boy, so embittered a man, that his life became a cunning campaign of bate and destruction for society, is the theme of “The Penalty,” the new Goldwyn picture by Gouverneur Morris, which comes to the Ohio Sunday for a week’il engagement. “Blizzard” (Lon Chaney) broods always over that terrible moment when, after the accident, he was coming out from under the ether and heard the older surgeon accuse his young assistant of having needlessly wrecked the boy’s life by amputating both his legs. Blizzard has become a power In the underworld of San Francisco. He lives In an alley on the Barbary Coast, Ban Francisco, where he is hatching a gigantic plot to loot the city. He also laid a cunning plan, laid to entrap Barbara Ferris (Claire Adams), daughter of Doctor Ferris (Charles Clary), who is now a great surgeon and whom Blizzard knows as the man who cut off his legs. By a fake telephone message telling Dr. Ferris that Barbara is at his house, ho gets Wllmot (her suitor), there and throws him through a trapdoor Into the cellar. Then he summons Dr. Ferris and makes the amazing proposal that the eminent surgeon amputate Wllmot'a

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lega and graft them onto him (Blizzard). The result Is as startling as the demand of Blizzard. 4- -!- -IJONKS AND KEATON APPEAR ON DOUBLE BILL. A double feature program will be presented at the Regent all cf the week starting Sunday. Buck Jones will be seen In his latest thriller, “T h s M Big Punch,” aud ’"®H 'A well-known > Stt ' ’ if comedian. Is In & fjl “Convict 13.” m 1 "The Big * M Punch” is based VLfl'J on tbe novel by LMm Jules G. Furtb- _ man. The star is | * u PP° l ' te rt by a known 1 .:.x screen players, i Lee, who " :i8 ©SSi&iL vSfcllP* -one of the best known players stage; Barbara Bedford, EleaBack Jones. nore Gilmore, Irene Hunt, Edgar Jones, Jack MacDonald, George Slegmann, Jack Curtis and Al Fremont. The story of “The Big Punch” revolves around a young man who Is arrested for sheep rustling In which he had no part, la convicted and sent to prison for a term of five years. Following his release from prison his efforts to “make good” provide many thrilling incidents. AUTHOR PUTS iinG MONET INTO HIS OWN MOVIE. "Thoughtless Women.” a drama which will be shown at the Alhambra the first half of next week, marks an innovation In screen proa actions. In that the making of the picture was directed by Daniel Carson Goodman, novelist aid author of the story, who also used his own money for the purpose. Mr, Goodman is an advocate of the theory that the “story is the thing,” and he backs his Judgment with his bank account. Ths theme deals with the misguided social aspirations of two women. One of them is wealthy and is bent upon her son making an advantageous matrimonial alliance; the other poor, but eager that

r _, AMU S EMENTS. evening Except Sun. MBI/ A Sun. ant * Ho *' and Holidays fL/ 9 •’Jr J 4 A Afternoons 15-25 c P* Jnoludlng tax. 55 *l* Including tax. eo NITI N UOU 3 IVO If P. MT ENTIRE WEEK, STARTING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28th FIRST INDIANAPOLIS SHOWING “BODYand SOUL” Featuriug ALSCE LAKE STORY— DEALING IN DUAL PERSONALITIES TAR—MOST RECENT WORK, ‘ SHORE ACRES” CENES—IN PARIS’ FAMOUS LATIN QUARTERS HOWN—4 TIMES DAILY—I, 4:30, 8 and 10 P. M. “AKTISTIO 60X0 CLASSIC* 5 ROYAL HARMONY 5 “THE IRISH MINSTREL" EUGENE EMMETT "A COUPLE OF DAFFY DILLS" BRYANT & STEWART “THE HASTY HUMORISTS” CHIC & TINY HARVEY “AERIAL ARTISTS” PAUL & PAULI NE NEW MOVIES OF the STAR PARADE FROM ARRIVAL TO DEPARTURE VA £ig?s LE 3:30,7 &Tpl: MOTION PICTURES. BUCKJONES J7he Big' Punch A Sunshine Drama of the West Showing the Constancy of a Man's Devotion to the Right BUSTER KEATONT “Convict 13” It’s a Whale of a Laugh The House of Thrills ALL rT-~ . . _ 1 jfc next £ C Ki rk S l -fi WEEK 1 Double Bill j " " m

her daughter marry a man that will serve as a stepping stone for her social ambitions. Through chance the youth meets the girl and falls In love with her. The girl’s mother urges their marriage. When It Is consummated the young man’i mother refuses to recognize her son’s wife. She even goes so far aa to lay a trap for the girl which result* In her ! being wrongfully accused of a Jewel I theft. The complication* which follow result In the girl running away from her distasteful environment. Her adventures |in time lead her Into the arms of the I man she really loves, while the thoughtless women who have sought to wreck j lier life In order to achieve their own * Ideals are called upon to pay for their folly In a most satisfactory manner. Alma Rubens is starred In the picture, her support Including Merceltn Esmond, : Lumsden Hare and other players. Tri-State Cattle Body Being Planned At a meeting of representative* from Indiana, Ullnola and Ohio, at the Clayi pool Hotel, yesterday, steps were, taken | toward the organization of a Trlatate | Jersey Cattle Association to Include these | three States. It. D. Canan, recently I elected field representative for the three j States, and who will establish his headi quarters In Indianapolis March 15, presided. The meeting of the tristate committee ! preceded a session of the Indiana Jersey : Cattle Club, at which the cup presented j annually.to the member of the club ownI lng the best butter-fat producing cow of the year, was awarded to Ainsworth Bassett of Syracuae. Legislators to Be Optimists* Guests Member* of the House of Representatives of the Legislature will be guest* of th* Optimists Club at Its weekly {luncheon next Friday. Judge Jams* A. (Collins of Criminal Court, Prosecuting Attorney William P. Evans and Judge T. J. Moll were guest* at th# meeting yesterday. Monday, March 7, will be Optimists day at the Automobile Shaw and the club Is planning to attend in a body. Harry J. Wangelln, Roland L. Mallett and J P. Reid Steele are members of a committee on arrangement*.

Second Week Starts Sunday ”TTto m cAsrrCe* \Q n n Supported o>y Ula Lee, Gladys George And A Superior Cast IN "THE EASY ROAD" The Romance of a Poor Genius who married a Rich Heiress and learned through Ease and Folly what it is that makes Life Worth While Lila Lee , Gladys George and a Superb Cast SPECIAL MUSICAL ATTRACTION ffilßE One Week IPml £!■ I * 3 Seven Days Starting Sunday Only BASIL KING’S FAMOUS DRAMA I Dignity — Power — Passion —Drama A Moving Story of Two Worlds WITH ALL STAR CAST WINDHj Jfi STANDING NAOMI CHILDERS LAWSON BUTT | MAHLON HAMILTON FLORA REVALLI3 ALEC FRANCIS | “Earthbound” marks a startling 1 * development in the art of the 8 motion picture and is considered I by all who have seen it to be the B I supreme achievement of the screen I Also Bra; Cartoon, Special Comedy and Music That Leases - - TTMF.H WAUT ATIS BRTWft QTItCTg KESTJLTS 1 1