Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1921 — Page 6
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MARION DAVIES TO BE SEEN IN ROMANTIC PLAY
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will Include romance, farce and feature comedies and a little drama. -I- -I- -|- REIXCARNATIOX IS THEME OF DAVIES MOYTE. The theory of reincarnation which has been discussed time and again, forms the basis of the theme of "Buried Treasure,” a Cosmopolitan picture featuring Marion Davies, which will be the feature at the Ohio for seven days starting Sunday. The story is by F. Britten Austen, and was published in Uearst’s Magazine with great success. The story begins with a prelude showing the supposed antecedents of Pauline Yandertnuellen (Marion Davies) in various epochs, each supposedly having the ume soul as Pauline, and handing it on from generation to generation. The play proper opens at a masquerade party in the mansion of William Vandermuellen. a Wall street capitalist. Pauline is attired as a Spanish senorita and when she gazes in the mirror she feels in a vague way that she sees herself as she appeared in a bygone age. The scene then shifts to two pirate ships where Pauline’s father is seen identical with El Diablo, one of the cruelest of pirates, and all of the other characters appear also as they were formerly. Pauline guides her poor sweetheart to Santa Catalina, where he finds much buried treasure and which enables him to marry her.
BE BE DANIELS PLUS DIAL ROLE AT ALHAMBRA. Bebe Daniels has her first try at a dual role in her new comedy, "Two Weeks With Pay,” which will hold the screen at the Alhambra for the first half of next week. She appears both as a shop girl and as a famous motion picture actress. The fun results from a case of mistaken Identity at a fashionable summer resort. In order to make the most of her vacation period of two weeks, which she is given with pay. Pansy O'Oonnell a pretty salesgirl in a smart shop specializing in finery for women, hies herself to the seashore. Her employer, with an eye to business, had decked her out in the latest styles of his own design. Now it chances that Pansy bears a strong resemblance to Marie La Tour, a cinema beauty, with the result that when the salesgirl arrives at the resort hotel she is immediately mistaken for the screen star. Her protests meet with the assumption that she merely desires to remain incognito, and she is showered with attentions and gifts from tne wealthy guests. One presumptions man, whose advances are rebufTed, recognizes her for what she really Is, and quickly wires the actress that a shop girl Is Impersonating her with great success. The actress arrives at the hotel in a highly indignant state of mind, and straightaway things begin to happen. The fun may be well Imagined by the caliber of the cast which includes Walter Hiers, Polly Moran, Jack Mulhall, George Periolat and many others. Other program attractions will be a Prisma color subject, the Fox news weekly and the Literary Digest. Next week wrill be the final one of the engagement of the Sherwoods and their Binging orchestra at the Alhambra. -I- -I- -I--SEVNETT'B LATEST COMEDT FILM BOOKED AT COLONIAL. Beginning Sunday at the Colonial, Mack Sennett’s latest comedy contribution to the screen will be seen under tha title of “A Small Town Idol.” The opening scenes of Sennett’s com-
edy-drama are set In that kind of a town where the railroad track and a straggling stream give the inhabitants their only idea of motion. Ben Turpin is the hero, Jimmy Finlayson is the “villainous villain,” and Phyllis Haver Is the country maid, who shares heroine honors with Marie
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Prevost, who is seen In later episodes when the plot shifts to a city wherein Turpin, unjustly accused at home, takes refuge and becomes associated with the piquant Marie in a thrilling motion picture production of which she Is the feminine principal and he la the hero In “chaps” such as cowboys wear. On the fame of this film, Ben returns in triumph to his village home. But things have moved rapidly during his absence. The lovely maid is about to marry the wicked villain and a scandal of “tremendous consequence” has “broken out” in the village church. Charlie Murray, the town constable. Is hardly able to quell the rlotlous deportment of the Tillage's citizens. Many complications follow which leads the story to an unusual climax.
HOBART BOSWOKTH STARS IN “A THOUSAND TO ONE." nobart Bosworth Is the star of “A Thousand to One,” a drama of a strong
man's fight, which will be the attraction at the Regent all the week, starting Sunday. Ethel Grey Terry, the popular English actress, appears In the chief feminine role in support of the star and others in the cast include Landers Stevens, Fred Hohler, J. Gordon Russell, Charles West and others. The feature Is based on on Max Brand's celebrated novel, “Fate’s Honey-
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moon,” and contains many thrilling sitnations, many of them taking place on the high seas. What is said to be one of the most realistic pictures of San Francisco's Chinatown ever shown on the screen. Is seen in this feature. Most of the action of the features take place In a mining camp, however. In addition to the feature attraction. Snub Pollard will be seen In anew comedy. •+■ *f- *l* DOROTHY DALTON APPEARS IN THRILLING STORY OF NORTH. Announcement that Dorothy Dalton has in her latest production, “The Idol of the North,“ which comes to the Isis next week, another "Flame of the Yukon.” is In itself sufficient for her admirers to know what to expect of her. It is a thrilling tale of Alaska during the days of the gold rush with Mies Dalton In the role of Colette Brissac, daughter of a French-Canadlan miner, who bad fled to the wilderness to escape arrest for having killed a man. Left without father or mother In a mining camp that had sprung up like magic over eight, a dance kail girl procures her a place in the Aurora Borealis, the main saloon and dance hall of the town. Rapidly acquiring the tricks of the trade, Colette becomes the rage and is the subject of admiring comment because of her success In “trimming” the men. Meanwhile, Martin Bates, s young engineer, arrives in the camp and start* on a career of drunkenness. Realizing that Colette has played them to the limit, the miners force her to marry Bates. After the shock of the experience Is over she determines te make the best of It. end with the task of making a man me hex husband. She has ths Job
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Bryant Washburn, himself as well as his shadow, will be on view next week at the Circle. The star is accompanying his latest movie, “The Roa dto London," which will also be on view at the Circle next week, beginning Sunday. The above picture of Washburn shows the star attempting to manage a grape fruit. The way be Is acting indicates be is taking no chances on the direction the juice will go. Mr. Washburn Is well known in Indianapolis, having made a visit here about four years ago, and the many friends he made at that time will be anxious to renew their friendships, and his new admirers will have an opportunity to meet him in person. He will be seen on the stage In an interesting monolog and will receive his friends on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons in the lounge room between the hours of his afternoon performances. His feature picture was made on a
well in hand when a woman from the East, who had been In love with him, appears on the scene in company with "Lucky" Folsom, a wealthy miner whom she had married. The four have a sensational meeting In the Aurora Borealis, in wheih the dance hall girl comes out victorious. A notable cast of (players are to be seen in support of Miss Dalton, among them being Edwin August, who has been absent from the screen for some time; Riley Hatch, Marguerite Marsh, E. 3. Ratcliffe, Jessie Arnold and Jules Cowles. Other attractions will include a com- ’y, entitled “A Night in the Show,” and Tade Dolan's musical enterainers.
WITH MARION DAVIES Another Ohio Sensation! Tonight—a belle in the sparkle and splendor of a modern New York masquerade. A mysterious trance, and then—captive on an t old-time pirate ship, where mutinous cutthroats brawled and battled for loot. | Two worlds, two ages—yet the same persons in each! A romance of golden adventure, built of a thousand thrills. Also—• \ Comedy News Reel —.—__ Literary Digest Topics I /iM+fLTVQ \
recent trip to England and contains an all English cast, serving to introduce to American theatergoers Miss Joan Morgan, a young English actress. The story concerns a bright young millionaire who finds a titled Englishwoman in distress, and decides to elope with her to avoid haughty relatives from marrying her to a man she does not like. She is perfectly willing to elope, but she is not so sure of her desire to marry the young American. She Just wants him to take her away and chaperone ber at the same time. Pursued by the angry relatives of the young noblewoman, the couple has one adventure after another. In unfolding the story much of London is shown and ou the screen are shown Buckingham palace, Trafalgar Square, PicaUUly Circus, Windsor castle, Westminster abbey, the House of Parliament and several other places of interest in England.
Robbers Hit Bad Lock in Tackling This Man “Trent ’em rough” is the motto of George Cailas, 4.10 North Meridian street, when dealing with hold-up men. Cailas was at Market and West streets at 11 o'clock last night when two hold-up men haled him. One of the men had a revolver. Cailas mussed the wuuld-lie robbers all over the sidewalk and made a “getaway” and then told the police. Cailas had >lO In his pocket, which the meu did not get. The robbers escaped before the police arrived.
MOTION PICTURES.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1921.
In The Land of Make Believe By WALTER D. HICKMAN
The outstanding feature of the current stock season so far is the really effective and polished work of Miss Ruth Gordon, who in private life is Mrs. Gregory Kelly. It is seldom that a woman is able to adjust herself to a ne*w role each week and In so doing make her work one of the outstanding and commendable features of each production. Such an accomplishment takes more than personality, hard study, quick memorizing of lines und “business" as it demands the ability of the actress to sink her personality into the very soul of the part. It would be an easy thing for me to say each week that Miss Gordon was "again" Ruth Gordon and it would mean that she has failed to develope individual characterizations. Os course a certain amount of personality always ‘‘sticks
VAUDEVILLE IN LOCAL HOUSES NEXT WEEK (Continued From Page Five.) ists and gymnastß. Evans Lloyd and Grace Whitchouse are an extra attraction in original “Bits of Travesty," songs, comedy and comic opera. -I- -I- -ITALMADGE MOVIE TOPS RIALTO BILL. Constance Talmadge's latest movie vehicle, "Lessons in Love." will be the feature attraction at the Rialto for the first half of the week. Miss Talmadge in this movie comedy becomes a maid in ber o vn home to determine if the man whom she loves really loves her for herself alone. The vaudeville part of the bill will consist of Harte and Evans, in songs | and dances; Bertie Fowler, in songs and | stories; “Will She Win?” a singing and. dancing skit, with special scenery and a large fast. There wlil be other features on the bill.
ACCIDENT LEADS TO FOUR CHARGES Ralph Davis, 2383 North Illinois street, was arrested late last night at Illinois and Washington streets on numerous charges, after his automobile had struck and knocked down two women. Davis is charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, assault and battery, violating the traffic ordinance, and operating a blind tiger, ne was released on a bond signed by Fred E. Barett. Traffic Policeman Saylor, Motorpollcemau Maas and Patrolman Gauhn made the arrest. Davis got into his automobile In front of the Hotel Lincoln, the police say. and drove into the safety zone at the southwest corner of the street. He is alleged to have knocked down Mrs. Frank Randolph. 1254 King avenue, and her daughter, Margaret. Tha two women were not seriously injured. The police allege Davis had a pint of whisky in his possession.
out” in the finished character portrayal of any performer, but the test comes when self is submerged into the finished character of a play. This Miss Gordon has done with so :h amazing ease and with such satisfactory results that she is one of the strongest magnetic forces at English’s this sum mer. Now let us see what this little woman has done so far this season. First, we had her as the little flapper, Cora Wheeler, in “Clarence.” As Cora she was the typical youngest of the family, who was sure that each man she met was the “man” who should be her soulmate. Her minute of individual triumph in this comedy was not her magnificent and noisy work in the first act, but ia the final second of the play, when her little soul, torn by the thought that Clarence was going to marry Miss Pinney, cried out in farewell, “Oh, Clarence.” That cry, half sob and half a hopeless realization at her loss, served to prepare Indianapolis audiences for greater demonstrations of heavier acting. As Lucille Smith in “Scrambled Wives.” Miss Gordon had a rapid comedy role and one minute hesitation on her
MOTION PICTURES. YdOLPH ZUKOR Presents __ Q eception la Directed by ERNEST L^^TSCht “DECEPTION” is the purple patch that Paramount |" §, has clipped out of history to show the astounding | love-record of Henry VIII, and the roses and thorns * * that bestrewed the path of the ladies he wed. Vx; See Europe’s greatest emotional actress, Hcnny mm *, j Porten, in the role of beautiful Anne Boleyn, the j I s /' girl whose beauty gained her a throne • fH J\.\. See Emil Jannings the star who glittered so * brightly in “Passion.” He is Henry VIII. H Jj--70 00 in the cas^ Think of the most costly and kaleidoscopic photo- llm' l^ play ever produced: “Deception” easily outshines it! J Medieval architecture by the mile, drawbridges, portcullises, K frowning castles, Westminster Abbey, all the pomp, plunder r rl lit flf ffll and ritual of a gaudy age and a ruffled court! ! See “Deception” and realize once again how far Paramount jj r|| -L| Pictures are in advance of the whole screen industry. ~ —three months spent In building —125.000 pieces of walling stone; Ij | —12,000 square yards of canvas; —12,000 square yards of paving U : efts a (paramount picture LOEW’S STATE THEATRE Starting Sunday, May 29th H mack jtennett ii ==| WIT JTIX - PART COMEDY- DRAMA, wm A JMALLTOVN IDOL 1111 fflTi I A GIGANTIC ASSAULT STRONGHOLDS of GLOOM TnjrTmnT 1 /W™*' SEN TURPIN, CHARLIE MURRAY , $
part would have made a “mess" of the whole affair. But it wasn’t messed, not a single bit. The life and pep which Miss Gordon injected into Lucille Smith made this show one o fthe most successful of the Kelly offerings this season from a box office standpoint. Her role in “Seven Keys to Baldpate did not require her to sink her personality to any great extent. In “The Tailor Made Man” Miss Gorden was seen as Tanya Huber. I thought that Miss Gordon had reached the very top of her comedy attainments as Lady Babbie in “The Little Minister,” but it was not until Mr. Kelly produced “Happiness,” this week’s attraction at English’s, that Miss Gordon kicked over the traces, put 99 per cent of her personality in the background and gave to the local stage her most finished work as Jenny, the daughter of Mrs. Wreay, that poor s hopeless mother who rode the street' cars in New York City in hope that she would discover her husband, who suddenly left her years ago. Miss Gordon has two gigantic scenes In “Happiness.” One is the brief second with its cry of anguish on discovering that her mother was dead. It was the quiet restraint and the implied cry of heart anguish in this outburst of sorrow which made this scene a great moment for Miss Gordon. Iler other splendid scene was the little love chat and song with Mr. Kelly in the second act.
Linked with the success of "Happiness” at English's this week is the sterling work of Angela Ogden as Mrs. Wreay. Not only does Miss Ogden Impart the dark shades of suffering to the character by the voice, but she has dressed and made up the character in such a way that Mrs. Wreay will linger for months in the memory of local theatergoers as a marvelous histrionic accomplishment. -I- -I- -IContracts were signed yesterday between the Messrs. Lee and J. ,T. Shubert and A. H. Woods whereby the present Winter Garden production, “The Passing Show of 1921,” starring Eugene and Willie Howard, will he the opening attraction at the new Woods theater, the Apollo, in Chicago on Decoration day (May 30). This show will go direct from New York with the same cast now playing at the Winter Garden. The engagement at the Apollo theater will be for the entire summer. It has been the policy for Winter Garden attractions to play in Chicago every summer since “Whirl of the World” was presented at the Grand Opera House In that city some ten years ago. Indications are that this show will probably open the regular season at the Murat on Labor day. Within the last few weeks an organization has been formed and incorporated for the specific purpose of providing efficient means of production, distribu-
| tlon and exhibition of visual educational ! films throughout the entire country. | Reference is made to the National i Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures, Ino., of ; which Harry Levey is the founder and ! first president. The functions of the I “National” is to stimulate and encourage I the production of educational films and I to establish a chain of exchanges and I subexchanges throughout the country In the interest and service of the already vast army of nontheatrical exhibitors. Exchanges are being established and set in motion in many of the larger cities for the purpose of furnishing efficient service to the churches, colleges, schools, clubs, lodges, homes, manufaettng plants, granges, State fairs and societies in their respective districts. The following cities have been designated as the first in which the “National” will be presented, and already exchanges have been opened and are in active operation in some of them: Albany, Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Des Moines, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Haven, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Pittsburg, Portland, San Francisco, St. Louis, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Washington, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. These exchanges will also provide a complete subsidiary service for innumerable subexchanges in the smaller towns, who will in turn serve the needs of institutions in their immediate communities.