Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1921 — Page 5
M’KAY MORRIS, BLANCHE YURKA IN MURAT CAST Stars to Appear in ‘Smilin’ Through’ With Walker Company. KELLTS —‘ADAM & EVA’ With McKay Morris and Blanche Yurka making their first appearances this season with the Stuart Walker Company at the Murat on Monday night and with the Gregory Kelly stock company presenting a nighly successful comedy, “Adam and Eva,” indications are that there will be lively competition next week on the local stage. The Walker Company will present as the Decoration day week bill "Smilin’ Through,” which is being used by Jane Cowl. Mr. Kelly will use a large and Important cast in the American comedy. "Adam and Eva,” which most dramatic critics included in the lists of the twelve best plays of the last year. -1- -I"ADAM AND ETA” NEXT BILL AT ENGLISH’S. "Adam and Eva,” a comedy which earned a place in the ten best of the last two years, will be the bill of the Gregory Kelly stock company at English’s next week. It pokes fun at several kinds of people. Including the American family as an Institution, makes merry over too much money and also not enough, and generally finds plenty In the life of the times to provide abundant crtmedy fpr an evening's entertainment. The play opens with Eva and her sister wishing they could persuade papa to go away somewhere for a rest, not that they think he needs one, but because they could spend more money if he were not there to complain when the bills came In. It Is the first of the month, and the bills are enormous as usual, and papa Is a bit cross. Sister and sister'.* husband, a good for nothing yo*ng beauty, live on papa, as do an aunt who pretends to take a mother's place, and an uncle who threatens to leave whenever things go wrong, but who would never leave under any circumstances. Eva Is dissatisfied at home, but cannot make up her mind to either of two suitors, one a doctor who lives across the street, the other an English nobleman without a cent. Into this household stalks Adam, an important cog in the machine that supplies Eva’s wants. He has been looking after her father’s interests in South America for two years, and he longs for a home, companionship, perhaps even a wife and children. He sees none of the discord, but only that this is a family, and It looks very attractive to bim. The doctor who wants to marry Eva is coaxed into telling papa that a trip to South America will improve his health, and to the surprise and displeasure of his family, he makes Adam head of the house in his ahsen~e. Adam soon discovers what frauds they all are, but his example soon rights things, and when papa returns, he finds a different set of people from the peevish family he left behind. Gregory Kelly will play Adam. Ruth Gordon will be seen as Eva, the spoiled daughter. Byron Beasley will be seen as the father. Wal’le Clark as Uncle Horace, Angela Ogden as the aunt, who care* for all of Eva’s wants. Others in the cast will be Willard Barton, Wallace Ford, Florence Murphy and Harry Sothern.
FOLK WALKER STARS TO APPEAR I>' SAME PEAT. Asa special attraction for Anto Race Week the Stuart Walker oCmpany will offer ‘•Smilin’ Through,” the Jane Cowl success by Allan Langdon Martin. The week marks the return of Blanche Turka and McKay Morris, two members of the Walker company. Since her last appearance at the Murat, Miss Turka played the leading feminine role in the New York production of “The Americans in France.” Early in the.year, howeTer, she sailed for Europe where she spent the remainder of the winter in Italy. Recently, McKay Morris ended his second season as the sculptor, Demetrlos, In Morris Gest’s Alexandrian spectacle, “Aphrodite.” Although Miss Cowl has been appearing in “Smilin’ Through” for the last two seasons, this beautiful romantic comedy will be seen in this city for the first time on next Monday night. “Smilin’ Through" is divided into three acts and a proiog. There is one setting throughout—a lovely old-world garden, with a charming English Queen Anne house, solid, sedate and restful looking, overgrown with rambler vines and other climbing flowers In bloom. As to the story, a crusty old man has as his ward a delightful wisp of an Irish girl. For years he has bitterly remembered the fact that another man has won the woman whom he loved. Therefore, when he finds that this girl has fallen In love with the son of the man he Is furious and swears that they shall never marry. Then back through the hazy film of years that have passed comes memory visualized. He lives over again the years that he cannot forget and from them learns the lessen that he bad never learned before with the result that, when the young lover returns, he permits them to be happy, and In so doing he finds happiness himself. In addition to Blanche Ynrka and McKay Morris, who will be seen in the parts of the ward and the old man, George Ganl and Regina Wallace appear In the roles of the young hero and the sister. Others of the Stuart Walker company who appear are Aldrich Bowker, Judith I.owry, Julia McMahon, Elizabeth Patterson. George Somnes, John Wray, Robert McGroarty, James Morgan. Helen Burch, Grace Kiechlo, Dorothy McDonald and I.ucille Nickolas. The production Is presented under the personal direction of Stuart Walker, with special settings designed by Frank J. Zimmerer. ALLEGED FFGITIYE HELD. John S. Kelly, 25, 2209 Central avenue, was arrested today on the charges of vagrancy and being a fugitive from justice. Detectives Stone and Everson, who made the arrest, said Kelly is wanted by Sheriff Zack Baskin at Saginaw, Mich., to answer the charges of forgery and embezzlement. AMUSEMENTS.
KEITH’S VOLT'LL BE COOL AND COMFY WHILE ENJOYING THE SHOW COME TWICE A WEEK NEW SHOW MON. AND THCRS. GENEVIEVE MAY & CO. Breezy Dance Offering With ' Bits ot Music and Song KING AND WISE TIME AMD WARD HENRY’S CANINE PETS HARMON Wizard ot the Violin Special Fan Foto Films S Shows Dally—2:3o, l:SO, 9 P. M. SUMMER PRICES
Cowboy Act to Be at Lyric and Fishers at B. F. Keith’s Singers and Dancers Will Appear on Local Vaudeville Stages Next Week.
With Loews giving up its popular vaudeville bills, the variety field for the remainder of the summer will be held by the Lyric with one bill a week, by B. F. Keith’s Theater with two bills and by the same number of bills at the Klalto and the Broadway. These four houses will offer next week bills which were arranged for warm weather audiences. -I- -I- -ILIGHT, BREEZY ACTS BOOKED AT B. F. KEITH'S. The vaudeville menu booked for the first half of the week starting Monday matinee at B. F. Keith’s includes an excellent arr-v of light breezy acts.
Acklund and Mae are travesty artists who will do a little bit of everything in an entertaining way. Doyle and Elaine are a duo of pretty girls who are not averse to blacking up their faces with burnt cork. They offer In a special stage setting depicting a scene on a Southern plantation an act that embraces both the negro sin ging and dancing, in which the young
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Mr. Fisher. women prove they are real delineators of the Southern dusky damsels. Rives and Arnold will contribute a comedy playlet called "A Big Sale.” This is said to be a satire on the average auction sale and is funny and original. Clayton and Lennie will be seen in "The Chappie, the Chap and the Cap,” in which they show their abilities as singers and dancers. John R. Gordson and company will offer a modern Bketch that has to do with present day affairs. For the last half of the week starting Thursday the bill will change to bring Marcelle Hardee, “the personality girl,” In singing and dancing; Mr. and Mrs. Perkins Fisher in the rural sketch, “The Half Way House,” in which Mrs. Fisher is seen as the stranded actress and Mr. Fisher as the proprietor of the village tavern, where the action of the playlet transpires; cliff Clark, comedian, will offer his tunes and topics; Brown, Gardener and Burnett will appear in a novel musical and dancing act, and the Novelle Brothers will combine acrobatics and the playing of musical Instruments. •The motion pictures will Include the first local showing of the films taken at the training quarters of Jack Dempsey, and which show the daily training stunts of the champion preparatory to his coining fight with George Carpentier,
!C??JS?C- COMMENCING Gregory Kelly Stock Company —IN— A Decidedly American Comedy
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The Y. M. 3. Presents the St. Cecilia Players in “WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES” Sunday, May 29, 8:15 P. M. St. Cecilia Hall Union and Palmer Sts. Seats 35c, SOcL 75c
WILD WEST DAYS REPRODUCED AT LYRIC, Cowboys and girls in sn exciting miniature rodeo production, "Cheyenne Days,” will provide the Lyric’s bill with a novelty next week. Headed by Gus Hornbrook, an ex-eowpuncher and the holder of many championship trophies won In competition with some of the best riders and ropers of the western plains, they will give an exhibition of their skill in taming bucking bronchos, and feats of lari it spinning. Another exceptionally attractive dlvertisement will be the Charnoff Gypsy troupe, singers and dancers In a colorful offering called, "Frolicking in a Romany Camp.” Joveta, famous gypsy dancer, is the stellar member of the troupe. , Instrumental selections played on Russian Ballalaika Instruments, and the weird, yet melodious folk songs of the gypsy tribes, form an interesting feature of the act. The Itoyces will introduce a bright comedy skit entitled “The Tag Girl,’’ and Parish and Peru, versatile vaudevllltans who but recently returned from a tour of the European music halls, will appear in anew act. Then there will also be Grove and Henderson, billed as "the piano phiend and
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The Eoycei, who will appear at tha Lyric next week. the jazz girl,” who entertain with songs, dances and piano numbers; Hudson and Jones, farceurs, In a sketch, “The Moth mul the Flame;” Rosa, girl violinist, singer and whistler, and Harry Fisher and company, comedy cyclists. A Monte Bank’s farce “The Bride and Groom;’’ the Paramount magazine and the Pathe review will be shown on the screen. -I- -I- -IEIGHT ACTS BOOKED AT BROADWAY. At the Broadway for the first four days. An pight-a<t bill of new acts will
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921.
‘DECEPIION' OPENS SUNDAY AT LOEW’S
Emil Jannlngs as Henry VIII In "Deception.’*
Beginning Sunday marines, for a limited engagement, “Deception,’’ a foreign made movie, will open at Loew's State Theater, which has abandoned for a time at least 11s vaudeville policy. “Deception” will open the film policy at Loew's Stata Sunday, under tht Paramount banner. The picture was praised by Mae Tlnee In the Chicago Tribune. Dealing with the love romance of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England, "Deception” has a dramatic and appealing story that wlil strike a human chord of sympathy In every American picture audience. The mother love exhibited by this
hold ont for the first half of the week at the Broadway. Adams and Bnrkeno will open the Nhow with a comedy novelty act. Sadnh Bennett, the little Jewish vamp, will do a lot of singing and dancing and some talking. Grace and Elmore the tramp and the lady, have an act out comedy will headline the bill at the Rialto .for the first four days of th coming week. Other acts will be the Spencer of the ordinury. Blllington Ac Company, do a comedy sketch of New Y'ork life after dark. Smith and McGarry are
LAST TWO A r\ f c C THE BIG TIMES TODAY U AUUICO BELASCO SUCCESS
MURAT Beginning Monday Night and Con- ~ , STUART jNfIL / WALKER I COMPANY S BLANCHE YURKA presents McKAY MORRIS g| p The Phenomenal Jane Cowl Success jj SMILIN’ THROUGH 9 A Romantic Comedy in Three Acts and a Prologue || By ALLAN LANGDON MARTIN | First Time /.'••■■MBf ORLOFF ENSEMBLE Indianapolis ' * GEORGE GAUL % V REGINA WALLACE jHM
woman whose beauty won her a throne, has Its direct appeal to the heart and every woman will respond to Its cry. llenny Porte.-, -i famous European screen player, vests the role of Anne Boleyu with a majesty and force hitherto unwitnessed in the silent drama. The part of King Henry Is portrayed by Einil Jannings, whose characterization of Louis XV In “Passion,” made him a sfdlar screen celebrity throughout Europe. The director Is Ernest Lubltsrb. a Bohemian producer, who won International fame by his superb production of •’Passion." The supporting players are thorough artists and more than five thousand persons appear in the production.
singers and dancers. Austin and Crawford are the boys with the pep. Other acts, cabaret singers and a Fatty Arbuckle comedy make up the balance of tha show. -I- -I- -IXEW BILL A T THE RIALTO. “The Wop Cabaret,” a big feature act. that Includes music, singing nnd lots of Sisters and Wilbur In a novelty singing and talking and dancing number. Johncontinued on rage Seven.)
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In The Land oj- Make Believe By WALTER D. HICKMAN
Ben Turpin has arrived at that stage i of the movie game where he can be con- | sidered as a fixed movie asset. Turpin | is Identified with what I term movie burlesque. A movie directory states that Turpin began his carer on the stage with the Sam T. Jack's burlesque company in Chicago and later was for eleven years In vaudeville. The director}- states that Turpin was the first "slapstick” comedian In pictures nnd appeared In several of Charlie Chaplin’s comedies when Chaplin was passing through the pie throwing era of his movie career. A careful consideration of “A Small Town Idol,” which has been on view at a local theater all week, reveals It to be a movie burlesque, many of the scenes being extravaganza In character. Turpin i probably will never lose the tricks of the j profession which he acquired when he was in burlesque. While under the Mack Sennett bann<r, ' Turpin has been generally surrounded j with maidens who appear to the best ad- j vantage in bathing suits and kindred at- i tire. His latest picture to be exhibited In the city gives some food for thought to those who study the screen. It is apparent that Turpin and Sennett are the leaders In movie burlesque or motion picture extravaganza. For instance, Sennett In “A Small Town Idol" places one of his scenes in a movie studio. The girls are dancing aud prancing about in , summer attire which in suitable for ocean wear when Turpin lands at the studio. | The scene being done shows a gay old ruler having a heck of a good time In one of bis places. In that day the men wore armor and helmets. Turpin is given a Roman tunic and a helmet. Just when the female dancers get Into interesting motion, an eye guard of the helmet drops, thus cheating Turpin from seeing some choice wiggles of the dancers. The way Turpin does these scenes results In howls of laughter. It is extravagant fun. It Is burlesque. Now days burlesque, reat burlesque, is not “dirty." To be sure it has “pop” but there Is no dirt. Ben Turpin and Mack Sennett generally know how far to go. Sennett's directors also have a “eye” for picking types of women whose charms photograph well. The women in these Turpin movies reminds one of the use that Flo Ziegfeld makes of his chorus and show girls in the Follies. Turpin at times Is mechanical, but the > effects used by the director In getting the I' fu nover soften the Impression that Turpin Is working along certain set rules. It was Charlie Chaplin's walk which
made him the leading movie comedian. It Is Turpin’s cross-eyes which are aiding him to become of fixed value on the screen. All burlesque comedians are well trained In the “business” of the stage. They know how to read Into the scene, stuff or “business,” which the story writer never dreamed of. Turpin has a rich storehouse of experience to draw from and he puts his experiences to profitable use in his latest comedy. Turpin will never possess the soft, gentle and even pathetic touch which Chaplin has exhibited In his latest comedies. Turpin Is a “slapstick” comedian, and I believe he Is the best of his kind on the screen today. Mack Sennett’s comedies might properly be called The Follies of the Screen. I have just seen a private showing'of Charlie Ray’s latest movie, “Scrap Iron.” Ray puts on boxing gloves in this movie and stages a fight which lasts nearly a whole reel. Ray has staged the best fight scene In "Scrap Iron” which I have ever seen reflected on the screen. It is a much better scrap than any official photographs of any professional fight ever filmed. -!- -I- -IIt Is marvelous the way business stood up at both the Murat and English's this week, In spite of the warm weather. Good bills and competent players wlse(Coctinued on Page Seven.)
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NEXT WEEK YIP—YIP—YIP—WHOOPEE! j “CHEYENNE DAYS” COWBOYS AND GIRLS IN A MINIATURE RODEO ■ Harry Fisher & Cos. I Grove & Henderson The Crazy Cyclist and the I The Piano Phiend and th I Little Soubrette I Jazz Girl CHARNOFF’S GYPSY TROUPE FROLICKING IN A ROMANY CAMP Rosa Parish & Peru The Royces Just the The Acme of. Presenting Musical Girl Versatility “The Tag Girl’* HUDSON & JONES Monte Bank's Farce “THE MOTH AND “THE BRIDE AND t% THE FLAME ‘” GROOM” gMtjS S 1 Path© Review Paramount Magazine rvJrfr^ a TANARUS/ i I
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RAY AND LLOYD WILL APPEAR IN LATEST MOVIES Big Bills for Decoration Day Announced by City Picture Theaters. i COMEDIES UPPERMOST Decoration day week will witness many new and important movies on the screens of the local movie houses. The majority of the bills run to comedy, but there will be a dash of the drama. Much interest centers on Charles Ray's latest picture, “Scrap Iron,” which opens Sunday at the Circle. The big scenes of this movie are a fight in which Ray handles the gloves in a knockout fashion. The feature at the Ohio will be Harold 1 Lloyd in “Among Those Present.” The Alhambra will present Corinne Griffith in “What's Your Reputation Worth?” The Isis will shelter Fatty Arbuckle in “The Traveling Salesman.” “Hush” will be at the Colonial with Clara Kimball Young and “Deception” will be at Loews State. The Regent will offer Douglas Fairbanks In “The Mollycoddle.” All of the movie houses announce special music for next week. -I- -!- -!- HAROLD LLOYD’S LATEST ON VIEW AT THE OHIO. The boy knew that all that stood between him and being a swell, was the lack of glad rags. He was only a bell boy in the Ritz-Waldorf hotel, but when he covered his “buttons” with the swagger top coat of a guest who had checked his wraps, why—he might have been Lord Algernon Abbott Aberdeen Abernathy himself. At least that was what the HardBoiled Party thought, and, as it was very essential, in order to carry out a nefarious scheme, that he produce Lord Algy at the fox hunt of Mrs. O'Brien, he offered to provide the clothes If the boy would play the part of Lord Algy. That is how Harold Lloyd happened to be “Among Those Present.” He thought It was a joke—a masquerade all In fun, and so it was, but the fun was not for Harold, but rather for the audiences at the Ohio where> “Among Those Present” will be shown Sunday and all week. It is the newest Associated Exhibitors’ re’ease of Harold Lloyd, produced by Hal Roach. Among those present in the supporting cast are Mildred Davis, Aggie Herring, Vera White, James Kelly and William Gillespie. The bill also Includes a Paramount picture. "The Call of Youth.” At the Ohio all week. -i- -!- -|- 810 FIGHT SCENE IS IN “SCRAP IRON.” Charles Ray, In the screen version of Charles E. Van Loan's well-known story (Continued on Page Six.)
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