Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1921 — Page 7

VERA GORDON’S ‘GREATEST LOVE’ TOPS PICTURES (Continued From Pate Six.) ■r Lily," -which has been on view the last six days. Mister Smith’s also retains “The County Fair” with Wesley Barry in a clever past. Most of the houses announce special musical events.

“THE GREATEST LOVE’* BOOKED AT THE COLONIAL. Vera Gordon's latest movie. ‘‘The Greatest Lova," wll open a week’s engagement at the Colonial Sunday. The story opens in the steerage of a trans-Atlantic liner, showing the coming of a small family from abroad to the "land of liberty.” Miss Gordon is seen in the role of Mamma Lantlnl —buxom, active, kindly and with h face as sweet as her heart Is noble. After arriving in this country the little family goes to an gsast side tenement house in New York, where they live. In willing and working to make the life of her son and daughter transcend jffet own life. Mamma I.antlnt is the true Another, the mother whose life is lived In the lives of her children. The subsequent removal of the little family to a fashionable neighborhood in New York City, later followed by tragedy and humiliation, forms the basis of the story. The picture. It is 6aid, contains some of the most unusual scenes ever presented on the screen. The star Is supported by a east of wellknown players, Including Yvonne Shelton, Ray Deun, Hugh Huntley, William 11. Yooker, Bobby Watson, Donald Hall and others. In addition to the feature attraction the Colonial's program will Include the usual supplementary reels and special musical program also will be. shown by the American Harmonists and Liberty Entertainers.

MARGUERITE CLARK RETURN'S TO THE CIRCLE NEXT WEEK. .Marguerite Clark comes to the Circle Sunday In her latest vehicle, “Scrambled ■Wives,” which has never been seen here la this city. '“Scrambled Wires" has to do with the laughable trials and tribulations of Miss ilary Ladle Smith, who “Just can't make her Ideas behave.” Mary is a charming and lrrespressiUty high-spirited young ISeardlng-school miss who with the other girls of a fashionaole school Indulges In a Halloween prank which includes tying up the doors of the teachers rooms, ana ,a wild orgy of Welsh rabbit and ginger ala. John Chiverick blunders Into tbe festivities and It Is Just Mary's luck to have the teachers discover the young man hidden In Mary's room. Chagrined at. the disgrace of this discovery and her expulsion from school. In sheer desperation she embraces the young men's suggestions that they elope. Fortunately for Mary her father arrives upon the scene Just as they are married, trut not before she has discovered that Jehn Chiverick Is a bungling young jctap with whom she is far from being "Tb love. The marriags Is promptly annulled and Mary has a .year or two in Europe it which to forfit her Indiscretion. By the time she returns John is rarely 'S&rried to a pretty and jealous young lady, and Mary's friends have well-nigh 'forgotten her childish escapade. She falls in with Larry McLeod, a young man whom she had first seen on the eventful morning of her elopement, and for whom she had even since then kept a warm spot in her heart. Larry does not recognize the heroine of that early * adventure, but he loses no time in . Culling in love with the charming gin who is introduced to him as “Mrs. Luclle Smith.” Larry is supposed to £ have no use for grass widows. Luclle fe betrayed into giving him the lmpresSHjp:, that her ex-husband is dead. funny compi -.lions follow whloh to the movie. Toonerville Troi>y Comedy. “The Scheme.” and a Clrclette of are on the program. A special will bt the a; pe.ranee of Egbert Alstyne, a composer of popu.ar Have Told Me So,'' and “So Long assisted by Clem l>acey, barland Miss Luclle Sowyer, soprano. KtlsMSawyer Is an Indianapolis girl.

MAOS PUT NOW A MOVIE JS AXXOCXCED FOB THE ISIS. *Tha Witching Hour," Augustus Thomaa’ Stage play, plctcrlzsd under the ■traction cf William D. Taylor, will be CM attraction next week at the I ala. It aerref to present Elliott Dexter, for Mraral years famous as a leading man ■I Cecil B. De Mill's productions, in a pew role. Illness necessitated Mr. Dexter's retirement from hie screen work for a long period. Those who aaw the play will recall the atory deala Interestingly with the subpoet of mental telepathy, the ability of Singularly gifted persona to read the Minds of others and to. In a measure, foretell what the future holds In store tat them. Brookfield, a gentlemanly gambler, Is endowed with this gift and to sea It to advantage In hla card game. Through a dramatic turn of eTents It perres to expose a man who had Incited the murder of a governor-elect and t( bring to the bar of Justice an Individual -Who had become a powerful menace to ‘the community. The scenes are laid In UEentncky. B In addition to Mr. Dexter other* promunent in the cast are C. H. Oeldart, Ruth Htenlck, Robert Cain, Edward Sutherland, i&lary Alden and Cenevtve BUnn. | Beginning Sunday, Tade Dolan's muHeal entertainers, singers and Instrumentalists will open an extended engagement at the Isis. m -h + + ■a?TDA HAWLEY mPXABS AT ALHAMBRA. Bartholomae's stage success, Klght Long" serves Wanda Hawiey her latest screen vehicle under the of "The Outside Woman.” It will presented at the Alhambra the first Half of next week. atory revolves around a giddy Übtfe ugW whoss love of selling things * man £ ets her lnto a P ? ” k mHEBHH involving the dwell, rs In th eutSgjpHfmabovo. a Jmtlor.-; wife of Spanand an artist with a penPena that the Artec Idol Is by its owner, Dr. FredHi* wife having no Idea doslritTg- t . rid her a partEjßftAriWF-- presence, trades It off for imEHSUBf Shawls. Th method she TSsSSBE^B''' 3 : e:.-l .f :

i escape really ought to have ktlon ns It is of great aid In te plight of the various charI wish to avoid compromising fivley enacts the star role, sore Is her leading man and [cey Is also in the cast. | Gayle Sherwood and their pestra will open an extended | as a special musical attraclAlhambra Sunday. I -I- -l- -I[KTI FAIR" laT SMITH'S. Inty Fair,” adapted from the y by Nell Burgess, will be p’ond week at Mister Smith’s Sunday. A cast. Including ra as Wesley Barry, Helen py and David Butler, Is seen prizatUm of the famous rural pclng drama. Other pictures wn in addition to the feature. PED ULY” AT THE OHIO. Murray movie, ‘‘The Glided uns next week at the Ohio, i *

THE KELLYS WILL ARRIVE SUNDAY To Finish Plans for Their Stock Season

Gregory Kelly and his wife, whose name on the stage is Ruth Gordon, will arrive Sunday from Chicago and upon their arrival will complete the plans for the opening es, their stock season at English's on Monday night, April 11. The

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Rath Gordon and Gregory Kelly, who will open with their stock company at English’s on April 11. opening bill will be the famous “Clarence.” Mr. Kelly announces that he has secured the aervlcea of Vera Fuller Melllsh as a member of his company as well as Harry Grlbble and Frank Bertrand. Miss Mellish la the daughter of Fuller

after doing good business the last six days. This movie is a beautiful picture and gives Miss Murray the first real big chance she has had on the screen. The cast is more than adequate and the directing ts of the Jtest quality. It is a good stor£ and the entire movie will add credit to the growing fame of Miss Murray. •I- -I- -IDOUBLE MOVIE BELL OFFERED AT REGENT. A double feature program will be offered at the Regent all of the week starting Sunday headed by Buck Jones, star of western subjects, in “The OneMan Trail,” and Including Butter Keaton, in a comedy, “The Scarecrow.” A story of a qulck-thlnklng cowboy who finds a sweetheart on the trail of revenge Is “Tho Ouu-Man Trail,” In which Jones Is the star. Buck Is seen in the role of Tom Merrill who, upon his return home, finds that his sister Graee/has eloped with an "olly-tongued” individual named Crenshaw. Buck follows them to bring her back but on the way meets a young woman named Cressy. He falls In love with her, continues his hunt however for bis sister and finally brings her back home, but not before he has had many thrilling adventures. The star Is supported by James Farley, Beatrice Burnham and Helen Kosson. “The scarecrow,” in which Keaton Is the star, also presents several other cumbers of the famous Keaton family. Hospital Meeting at Lafayette April 27 Bpectal to Tho Timex LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 2. Announcement Is mado that representatives of Indiana hospitals will assemble here April 27 and 28 for the purpose of organizing the Indiana State Hospital Association, which will be an auxiliary of the American Hospital Association. Dr. George F Keiper Is chairman of the committee which aent out the cf) l for the convention. £ The State of Indiana hoapltals In operation, with a total capacity of 5,000 patients, and tho object of the association ts to federate all these institutions Into one organization for mutual advantage and to secure greater effectiveness In the care and cure of the •lck.

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Monday, April 4th A STYLE SHOW WITH COMEDY TRIMMINGS. THE CREOLE FASHION PLATE “IN A TENT OF MELODIES.” Gowns that are gorgeous to behold and styles that make the feminine world gasp with pleasure and surprise. ADDED COMEDY' FEATURE LYTELL & MACEY “OLD CRONIES” SPECIAL N. V. A. MATINEE FRIDAY, APRIL 8. Entire Receipts to the Artists.

PADIf MATINEES Sr 30 & 55c SOCIAL FOLLIES With Typical Special Beauty Chorus. This Coupon and 10c with war tax entitle lady to matinee reserve seat.

Mellish, well known in English and American theatrical circles. Her most recent appearances have been in George M. Cohan's “Genius and the Crowd” and "Happy Go iAicky,” which Just finished a successful engagement In Chicago. Mr. Grlbble was a member of Mrs. Patrick Campbell's company. He has also scored a distinct success as a playwr.ght, being the author of “The Outrageous Mrs. Palmer,” which was produced at the Thirty-Ninth Street Theater this season. Frank Bertrand ig an English actor. H< will be remembered as the Scotchman In the “Tailor Made Man.” The complete cast of the Gregory Kell; stock compuny Includes Gregory Kelly Ruth Gordon, Byron Beasley, Vera Fill ler Mellish, Percy Helton, Angela Og den, Willard Barton, Harry Grlbble. Beulah Bondy, Frank Bertrand, Florence Murphy, William Sheafe, Elizabeth Black and Howard Hill.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 2,1921.

DALE WINTER IN ‘IRENE’ MURAT’S BILL FOR WEEK / (Continued From Page Six.)

front of him. Rex does not claim any supernatural powers nor does he do anything that aome other men can not do, but he claims ho can call a question though the writer of it holds it in his hand out In the audience. The Broadway Theater along with the other Lenwood enterprises annonunces anew policy In entertainment. In addition to feature pictures It will otter five acts of vaudeville with a complete chfinge of program twice a week, Sundays mnd Thursdays. The management also announce* that prices have been reduced to a pre-war level. The first feature photoplay under the new policy will be “So Long Letty, for the first half of next week. This Is a Christie Comedy drama adapted from the famous stage hit of the same name which hag been seen In Indianapolis

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Some of the best Christie players are seen in this film, including. T. Hoy Barnes and Colleen Moore. IN THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE (Continued From Fag* Six.) Shakespeare In smaller doses everybody would be happier Including the managers of the shows and the critics. Too much Is more than enough. -I- -I- -IThere seems to be an indication that a number of movie stars will make a grand rush for the footlights next season. The big coin which Theda Bara is reported to have made for herself and A1 Woods In that terrible play, “The Blu* Flames" has given encouragemeut to others. The success of Beverly Bayne and Francis X. Bur.hman in a vaudeville sketch Is also considered a good sign by a bunch of movie actors. it Is stated In the current Variety that Mary Plckford, William 9. Hart, Dougins B’alrbanks and others are headed for the

stage. Pauline Frederick, according to Variety, has signed with A. H. Woods for a speaking reason on the stage next fall. Variety state# that Alma Kubens of "Humoresque” fame Is now studying & spoken role. We trust th#r will have* better vehicles than Theda Bara wished off on the public. -|- -|- -IThe naturalness of the acting done In the movie, “The County Falr,“ deserves more than mere mention. There are several dear old characters Introduced In this movie. They are not sugar-coated characters, but each one In this small town group look like the real goods. Some cf the most enjoyable and'natural work done In this movie is contributed by Wes ley Barry, the freckled-faced boy. His part does not dominate the movie, but the short time his freckled face is on view all interest centers on him. I take pleasure Id recommending this picture so fathers and mothers who desire their children to see clean and Interesting pictures. *1- -I- -IE. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, who have been spending the winter In New York City and Washington, D. C., have

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sailed on the steamship Aquitanla for Cherbourg, France, to spend two months in Paris. Later they will go to the country In England for the summer. Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe will return to New York late In August to begin rehearsals for their bi-annual tour, which opens In Boston on Sept. 27, followed by a limited season In one of the Messrs. Shubert’s theaters In New York City. Their tour will include the principal cities east of the Mississippi River. In addition to the plays presented last season, “Hamlet,” “Twelfth Night" and "The Taming of the Shrew,” "The Merchant of Venice” will be acted with Mr. Sothern as Shylock and Miss Marlowe as Portia.

SEASON ANNOUNCED

Formal announcement Is made today that the fifth season of summer stock of Stuart Walker and his players will begin on Monday night, May 2, at the Murat. This unusually early beginning of the summer season by Mr. Walker and his

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company was made possible because of the unsettled conditions which has characterized road attractions this season. Last year the Stuart Walker Company did not open until May 31 at the Murat. An odd coincidence attends the opening night this season. Mr. Walker celebrates his 500th performance at the Murat Theter on May 2. It Is safe to say that this is the record long run for permanent repertory companies throughout the Middle West. Opening In May, 1917, the Stuart Walker Company, through its distinctive productions, and in the face of tremendous odds, has built up ah enviable clientele among Indianapolis theatergoers. The season of 1921 promises to be bigger and better than any of the previous seasons. The attraction for the opening week is to be/ announced within the next few days. MONEY SPENT FOR MOVIES. Q. How. much money Is spent on movies In s year? L. D. N. A. About $700,000,000 were spent in the United States for admission to motion picture theaters in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920.

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