Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1921 — Page 6
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RAY AND LLOYD WILL APPEAR IN LATEST MOVIES (Continued From Faff* Fire.) which ran in the Saturday Evening Post, will be the feature attraction at the Circle Theater, beginning Snuday. The atar is seen as John Steel, one of the moat popular employes of the biggest mill in a Western industrial city. , His skill with his gloves has made him a hero with most of the mill workers, and Midge Flannigan, the belle of the village, la his girl. The on* flaw in John's happiness is the ill health of his widowed mother, and he takes up a correspondence course with a view to advancing himself so that he will have plenty of money to take his mother to a healthier climate. At the request of his mother he gives up boxing, and many of the men, thinking it is because he is cowardly, nickname him •‘Scrap Iron.” They are convinced of this when at the annual picnic at the mills he refuses to hit drunken Bill Dugan, who is annoying Midge. When Battling Burke, a professional pugilist, - knocks Dugan unconscious, Midge deserts John and accepts atten tlona from Burke. John gains an everlasting friend, however, by helping Di. gan home. His book studies get him in wrong with the shop foreman, who gets his chance one noen when John Is returning ■ to work, because of the attention he has been giving his mother. John loses his Job. He fails o find ether work, and as the small savings disappear and his mother's condition becomes worse, he is desperate. He sees an announcement in the paper that Big Tim Riley, manager of a local fight club, Is looking fpr a man to face Battling Burke in the ring. Steele offers himself, and Riley, seeing a good drawing card in the former amateur champion of the town, promises him S2OO if he lasts three rounds with Burke, but not a cent If be is knocked out before that time. “Scrap Iron” goes Into the ring with but one thought—to last three rounds. He takes an unmerciful beating. “Scrap Iron” lasts through three.rounds and starts In the fourth—with his S2OO safe—to hit Burke at least a few times before he goes dut. The surprise of the evening comes when the Infuriated “Scrap Iron” knocks Burke out. Lydia Knott, Vera Steadman and Tom Wilson are seen in support-of the star. A Lehrman comedy, “Wet and Warmer;” a sneolal attraction. “A Day With Jack Dempsey;" a Circlet of News and Topics of the Day complete the program.
ETERNAL TRIANGLE DRAMA LATEST THEME FOR CORINNE. Corinne Griffith has in “What's Tour Reputation Worth?” coming to the Alhambra for the first half of next week a “different” sort of an “eternal triangle" drama for the exploitation of her talents. It Is the story of a girl who sacrificed her good name in order that her employer might make his wife happy. Mi3 Griffith appears as Cara Deene. secretary to Anthony Blake, a man or affairs who is devoted to fcis wife, but whose love and affection Is not reciprocated. He finally determines to give her a divorce in order that she might find happiness with another, and seeking to aid both of them. Cara permits the use of her name in the proceedings. She even spends a week with Blake, properly chaperoned of course, at an old farm place to give the gossips an opportunity to get In their work. When Blake's wife discovers this she makes a sceDe and Blake, for the first time, realties that he actually loves his secretary, seeing In her all that his wife i not. Mrs. Blake changes her mind about the divorce, end Cara, seeking to escape an embarrassing situation, bides away, changes her identity and en--1 favors to start life anew. ?ihe discovers, however, that this is not easily done, once a reputation is shattered, and the outcome of the affair offers an interesting problem for theorists to ponder. The supporting cast is headed by Percy Marmont. v Anew attraction at the Alhambra beginning next week will be the Miami six, wingers and musical entertainers. A Vanity comedy, "Mind your Business." the Literary Digest and the Fox news weekly will be other program features. -I- -!- -!- CLARA KIMBALL VOCN'G APPEARS IN “HI'SH." Clara Kimball Toung, regarded as one of the most beautiful actresses on the screen. Is the star of "Hush,” a dramatic movie, which will be at the Colonial ail the week starting Sunday. “Husk" was written by Sada Cowan, one of tne leading writers of screen plays. Miss Toung Is seen In the role of Vera, wife of Jack Stanford, an adoring lover who has not permitted the convention of
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matrimony to lessen his unbounded affection for her. On the night of their first wedding anniversary Vera appears to be troubled. Jack importunes her to tell him what It is and imploringly assures her that no matter what might have happened before their marriage nothing could dampen his ardor. Ana then she confesses that there has been "another man.” Stanford tells hor that he could forgive anything but that and from that moment many things happen that make “Hush” one of the most intensely dramatic stories ever presented
CLARA KIMBALLTOUNG. on the screen. according to critics who have viewed the feature. Miss Toung also is supported by a cast of well-known screen players, including J. Frank Glendon. Kathryn Williams. Jack Pratt. Bertram Grassby, Gerard Alexander. Beatrice La Tlante and John Underhill. In addition to the feature attraction the Colonial's program also will Include a comedy, the current news review and a special program of music by the American Harmonists and Liberty Entertainers. , -I- -I- -IFATTY ARBPCKLE APPEARS IN “THE TRAVELING MAN.” Roecoe (Fatty) Arbuckle will make merry at the Isis next week In James Forbes’ famous comedy. “The Traveling ! Salesman." It is Just the sort of a story j and the type of character in which the I king of heavyweight comedians appears to best advantage. Arbuckle has the role of Bob Blake, a traveling mtyi, whose good nature makes him a favorite with erery man, woman and child who comes in contact with him. As the result of a Joke on the part of some of his fellow knights of the grip the story opens with Blake being side-tracked at a lonely, out-of-the-way place where he Is i ireed to sleep lu an empty house. * Through chance he stumbles onto a plot whereby an unscrupulous politician is endeavoring to fleece a pretty girl telegraph operator out of a valuable piece of property she has inherited, with the ultimate intention of turning the laud over to a railroad company. Blake champions her cause and after many adventures, thrilling as well as humorous, he saves the day and shatters thf old tradition that nobody loves a fat man. Betty Ross Clark is cast as the girl In the story aud other players include Frank Holland. Wilton Taylor, Lucille Ward, Jim Blackwell and Richard Wayne. A Gaiety comedy, a Kineto novelty film and Tade Dolan's versatile musical entertainers will be subsidary program attractions. -i- -r- -i. DOUG FAIRBANKS ON VIEW AT THE REGENT NEXT WEEK. “The Mollycoddle,” starring Douglas Fairbanks in a role somewhat different from that he usually essays although carrying with it an abundance of thrill ing “stunts." will be the feature attraction at the Regent all the week. What is regarded by many as a thrilling fight, which takes p ace <>u a high cliff r.nd during which the fighters fall through trees and a house, is seen in the feature. Wallace Beery is seen in the role of the villain and Ruth Renick plays opposite the star. Much of the action of the storj takes place in Arizona “Doug." and ‘'the mollycoddle," is supposed to go following his return from England. The star is seen In the role of Richard Marshall, the Fifth, who, in his youth has been transplanted to England, and who is regarded as a “mollycoddle." However, after he returns to America something happens in record time that proves that he is far from being a mollycoddle. In addition to the feature attraction the Regent's program also will Include a comedy.
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wm^ I IlfSssPvf \ '// $ , y'/ HAT New York dramatic critics think of the picture which is credited ntr'* ? /l/ v I -/?aiii e greatest photo <!rama cf the age . ;i|/| 'v. J if&l \ WM "Lives up to all advance promises. May well serve as a pat- "One of the most fascinating and convincing pictures I have '/,\ (' / / Asia ' tern for producers. Will prove extraordinarily popular sue- ever seen. Distinctly unusual and gripping."—New York AmerI\,v I t " // l /'/f v cess.”—New York Journal. ican. 1 1'/ J “One of the greatest pictures that has ever come to Broad- "Those who see it will be entertained- as they have seldom 3 vay. Looked as though there were 1t.0,0 in t-e cast instead of been entertained in a motion picture theater. Rich, colorful, |/ \ *\ 7 - 000 - Tke sort of P ctlire ttat sho ’ ald bc studied by every pro- dramatic."—New York Times.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921.
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