Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1921 — Page 6

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Kellys Start 9th Week Next Monday Night They Will Offer Comedy , ‘A Prince There Was/ at English’s. WALKER CO. IN DRAMA Next week the Gregory Kelly stock company at English's will present a comedy, “A Prince There Was,” and at the Murat Mr. Stuart Walker will depart from his program of comedies and will present a dramatic play, “The World and His Wife.” With one of the stock companies presenting a comedy and the other a dramatic attraction, theater patrons will hare a chance to mix their “stock” diet next week. The present warm weather has done no great damage to either company as many Indianapolis cltiaens deem it their duty to support the efforts if both companies. The Kellys will begin the ninth week of their engagement at English’s on Monday night -1- -1* -I----“A PRENCE THERE WAS" NEXT KELLY BILL AT ENGLISH’S. Commencing next Monday evening, the Gregory Kelly Stock Company enters the ninth week of its engagement at English’s, and will offer for the approval of Indianapolis theater-goers George M Cohan's comedy success, "A Price There Was.” It will be remembered by those who follow the news of theatrical events that Mr. Cohan created a sensation by appearing as the hero in his own play at the Cohan and Harris theater. New York, where it had a continuous run of one year. At the expiration of its New York engagement Mr. Cohan turned the part of “Charles Martin” over to Grant Mitchell, who met with equal success in a long Chicago engagement and en tour. “A Prince There Was” tellß of the bringing back to the realization that life is worth while to Charles Martin, a retired business man who has lost all interest in life. He does not remember the year, day or month and has not wound Ms watch in months. He is sustained by the aid of the continuous use of the highball and continuous travel all over the world, not knowing or caring when or where he goes. He is looked after and cared for by an old family servant who, with the aid of a friend, does everything possible to bring him back to the realization that there is something in life after all. The first act takes place In his apartment at the Plaza Hotel, New York, where a child comes to Intercede in behalf of a struggling authoress. The second act is in the bosrding house in the west thirties where the authoress. Miss Woods, played by Ruth Gordon, brings him back to the fnllnss of life. Gregory Kelly will be seen in the part of Charles Martin and will be supported by Byron Beasley. Wallis Claris Angela Ogden. Harry Sotbern, Alma Haminersley, Wallace Ford and others. I- -I- -IPOWERFTL DRAMATIC PLAY WILL GIVE GACL A BIG CHANCE. Stnart Walker departs from his customary summer policy of giving comedy bills next week at the Murat when he presents “The World and His Wife,” a powerful drama of modern Spain, In three acts. The play is the masterpiece of the great Spanish dramatist. Jose Eebegaray. and it was mainly upon the strength of this work that he was awarded the Noble literature prie in 11W5. Produced for the first time In America by William Faversham and the late Julie Opp. “The World and His Wife” proved to be a sensation. It has been revived at various times since its initial production. __ The drama has as its theme the ter-rfbte-xesuß of idle gossip. There lives In Madrid a noble Spaniard. Julian, and his charming young wife, Teodora. Ernesto, a friend cf the married people, has lately lost his parents and being alone in the world Julian invites him to make his home with them. All goes well until Severe, Julian's brother, hints that Teodora and Ernesto are carrying on a clandestine love affair under the hus-

Keith’s and Lyric to Offer Novelty Acts as Features

Variety Bills at All Ho uses Will Be of the Hot Weather Type .

Both B. F. Keith's and the Lyric will offer vaudeville patrons features which are out of the regular run of variety bills. At the Lyric the Josepsson's troups of “Glima” experts will be an exciting departure from the regular run of vaudeville acta. At Keith's, the feature act will be "A Night In Venice.” New vaudeville acts and movies are announced at the Rialto and Broadway next week. -!- -I- -I----"A NIGHT IN VENICE" TO HEAD B. T. KEITH'S BILL. “A Night In Venice,” an act that Is out of the general run for popular-price vaudeville, will be one of the features on the bill for the first three days of the week at Keith’s, starting Monday matinee. A special stage setting showing a replica of Venice and its wonderful grand canal Is nsed by Aurora and company, who appear In the act In which they offer singing and music. Lane and Erwin are a pair of comedians who offer singing, dancing and a line of up-to-date chatter in which the present day affairs of the Nation are discussed. FolHs and Leroy will contribute a dancing act that is interspersed with songs and stories. Neal Able, known as “The Man With the Mobile Face.” will offer anew line of jokes, as he does imitations of great men past and present. The Arco brothers are a duo of gymnasts who do many hazardous stunts on the flying trapeze. With the new bill that comes Thursday the act of Dewitt, Burns and Torrance, who will present their pretty novelty, “The Awakening of a Toy Shop.” stands out as the headliner. It is Christmas eve and the toys come to life in the little old toy shop. They do some extraordinary acrobatic stunts before they go back to their places on the shelves. The act of Johnson, Baker and Johnson embraces some clever juggling in which the jugglers use everything from an upright piano to a bamboo cane. Courtney and Irwin will be seen In a one-act sketch called “Build Tonr Own Home," It which the trials of a young married tunle who wish to get away from the lent profiteer are shown. Johnny Keane Is a singing comedian, who will offer a new line of jokes and stories. Kshne and Boone, according to the billing, will offer t “merry melange of mirth and melody.” Motion pictures that will change with each show will be Included in both bills.

-|- -fNOYXLTT ACT TO HEAD LYRIC’S BILL. From far off Iceland comes Josepbsson'e troupe of “Glima” experts, who bring to j vaudeville its most thrilling and exciting ! filvertisement and who will top the Lyric's bill next week. “Glima," be It! known, is the Icelandic national sport, and I tt’s quite the most perfect system of phys-

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‘ DECEPTION ’ TO START SECOND WEEK of Engagement st Loeufs State on Sunday

Deep, abiding woman’s love for a fickle king Is the keynote of “Deception,” a remarkable Paramount picture which will begin the second week of its engagement Sunday at Loew’s State. Henny Porten and Emil Jannlngs, two of the most celebrated screen stars of Europe, where the picture was filmed, have the leading roles, those of Anne Boleyn, the queen, and Henry VIII, King of England. Miss Porten vests the role of Anne with impressive majesty and dramatic force, while Mr. Jannlngs, ag the deceitful king and hero of a hundred more or less savory love afTaira, is artistic in the highest degree. Anne's beauty wins her | a throne, but Henry's ardor soon cools I and many scenes of great dramatic power ensue. Throughout her trials following the birth of a daughter, when Bluff King Hal had expected a son and heir, Anne'i love for her lord and daughter sustain*

band’s very nose. The two are innocent but little by little this false information preys on the mind of Julian, and he begins to suspect his wife’s fidelity. The wagging tongues of the busybodies and scandal-mongers soon force Ernesto to leave the house of Julian. He becomes desperate and challenges one of his hecklers to a duel, but Julian takes It upon himself to defend the honor of his wife, and Is mortally wounded. The outcome of this gossip-bred triangle is particularly dramatic. Mr. Walker has cast George Ganl in the role of the young man Ernesto; Blanche Yurka will be seen as Teodora ; George Somnes as Julian, and Aldrich Bowker and Eliabeth Patterson as the troublesome relatives. John Wray and Robert McGroarty also appear. .I. .1. MR. WALKER MAKES AN INTERESTING ANNOUNCEMENT. The Stuart Walker Company will offer “Tea For Three/ the great Belwyn success by Rol Cooper Megrue, during the week of June 12th at the Murat Theater. The play is In three acts ana has five people In the cast. Blanche Yurka and McKay Morris will appear In the leading roles. -I- -!- -IMR. KELLY MAKES TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS. Beginning on Monday, June 13th, the Kelly stock company will present at English’s a farce, “Fair and Warmer.” During that week as a special mat'nee, Mr. Kelly will present, “Romeo and Juliet,” which was announced several weeks ago but was postponed.

ical defense ever devised by man. "Glima” is said to lay Jlu Jltsu In the shade and to make the tactics of boxers and wrestlers appear Insignificant. Josephsson is the Icelandic champion of this sensational irfethod of fighting. He shows its effectiveness by defeating the combined attack of five men; thwarting an armed hold-up man and routing assailants armed with knives. The act was one of the stellar features last year with Ringling Brothers’ Circus. Completing the bill there will be. among others, A1 Fields and company, merrymakers. In a funny skit; the three Moran Sisters, singers and instrumentalists, in a musical melange; Holland and Ray, a comedy pair, who offer a Joyous conglomeration of song and Jest; Sterabler and Sells, presenting an entertaining oddity called ‘‘‘The 100 Yard Dash;” Helen Plngree and Leo Dwyer, talented players, who style their act ‘‘Modern Vaudeville Frolics.” and Klnzo, Japanese juggling comedian, who carries on a line of witty talk quite as handily as he Juggles. “The Night Before,” a Fox film farce, the Paramount magazine and the Pathe review will be shown on the sc-een.

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H KEITH’S 1 BROWN, GARDNER and BARRETT NOVELLE BROS. fcfi MR. A MRS. PERKINS FISHER Cliff Clark —Marcclle Hardle. FIRST FILM SHOWING | JACK DEMPSEY Fun Foto Films—Pathe Newi v Digest Topics | Summer Prices

IRMA SEYDEL, Violinist EDGAR FOWLSTONE, Baritone WM. VON DER ARNDEL, Pianist In Two Recitals Claypool Hotel, Riley Room Indianapolis, Ind. BENEFIT OF CENTRAL W. C T. U. First Concert Monday, June 6, 1921, 8:15 P. M. Second Concert Tue >day, Jane 7, 192 L 8:15 P. M.

her regally and render her impervious to slander, deception and treachery. Although the scenes are laid In England during the reformation, its appeal

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Henny Porten, who plays the role of Anne Boleyn in "Deception,” which begins Its second week at Loew’s State Theater Sunday.

will hold a modern audience as any oid master painting enthuses a lover of art. WOCLIVT BE DARED. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., June 4 Miss Iteba Johnson, employed in a local confectionery, and Raymond Powell, a laborer, were married unexpectedly Friday evening. Powell “took up” a banter by his employer. Zed Atkinson, when the latter told him he would pay for a marriage license if Powell would ge married. Atkinson carried out his agreement.

( Last Two Times Today “SMILIN’ THROUGH” The Stuart Walker Company Presents “ - - - - J William Faversham’s Success THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE A Drama in Three Acts By Jose Echegaray —Within Incomparable Cast George Gaul Blanche Yurka Elizabeth Patterson Aldrich Bowker . George Somnes John Wray Monday Night, 8:30, and all week Matinees Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, 2:30 I Special Entr’ Acte Music by Orloff Ensemble

MURAT THEATRE The Coolest Place in Town

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DANCING-RIVERSIDE PARK New Pavilion Under New Management TONIGHT and Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Night Hereafter Music by Pollard's Celebrated Jazz Orchestra

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1921.

TINNEY, ‘MARTYR to art; occupies COT IN HOSPITAL CHICAGO, June 4 —Speaking again of operationsThere's Frank Tlnney, comedian, lying toes up c i a hospital cot with frowns all over his funny face. “Why aP the gloom?” he was asked. “If your , ash customers ever saw that look on you.’ face you’d have to nail up the box •office.” “How, ob, I ask you. how can a man be funny In here?” he moaned. “I asked for bourbon and my friends sent me dandelions and crocuses.” He pointed to the flowers that banked hla room. “Look at 'em,” he walled. "And smell ’em, too. They take the hospital odoi out of the room and make the place smell like a cut rate funeral staged by a burial association.” Tlnney, who on the stage doubles as a brass band, next pointed to myralds of j toy pianos and trick tin horns. "1 guess they thought the supply of ! golden harps would run out by the time I passed out of this earthly picture to j my—reward,” he muttered. The atar of "Tickle Me” had this to ' say about his hospital treatment: ‘‘The houra are too Irregular here. They wake me up at 6 a. m. and that's when I've been used to going to bed. “They give me a shot In the arm at noon, another at night and then shoot me again at sunrise. “Being different from most people I Insist on talking about my operation. “Is was this way—l’m a martyr to art For art's sake I fell on my knee eightythree times a week in ‘Tickle Me.’ I always got a laugh out of It. but this is the first time I got softening of the bone in my knee. “The doctor said If I didn't have an operation It would spread to all the bones in my body. I didn't mind my knee so much, but wautd to protect my head.” Dr. Max Thorek and nurses at the North American Hospital complain that the Big Tickle and Chief Me of “Tickle Me” balls up the diet sheet by hla had. This Is what they found written over s doctor's signature the other day: "Cocktail* cn the hour. “Pint In the morning; quart at night."

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In The Land oj-' Make Believe B, WALTER D. HICKMAN

There Is much discussion going the rounds concerning what Is called “the European Invasion’’ of the screen. The term “European Invasion” at this point of the controversy Is taken to mean “German made.” We have had “Passion,” which the majority of the critics In this country appear to have termed a wonderful picture. "Deception” opens Sunday its second weak at Loew s State under the Paramount banner. 1 am told that “Gypsy Blood,” which Is really “Carmen,” done by the star of "Passion,” j Is headed toward Indianapolis. I have before me the utterances of Mae Tinee, a recognized movie critic, in the Chicago Tribune of Sunday. May 22. Here is the Mae Tinee article on the “European invasion “Passion" and "Deception,’ two aliens In our midst, are attracting a lot of j comment and conjecture among those j who follow the trend of the cinema. The fact that they are German rilms, ! made during the war, and, undoubtedly j displayed in Germany as propaganda at i that time, Is what has started the ! buzzing regarding them. Their excellence ' from the standpoint of workmanship has j sustained the interest.

I NEXT WEEK I 9 VAUDEVILLE’S MOST THRILLING Dl VERTISEM ENT "i IJOSEPHSON’S TROUPE I I OF ICELANDERS I H IN AN EXHIBITION OF THE SENSATIONAL ICELANDIC j 1 HOLLAND RAY AL. FIELDS & CO. I A Joyous Conglomeration of Mirthful Merrymakers In a I I I Stembler & Sells j KINZO I Pingree & Dwyer v I §9 The 100-Yard Dash | Comedy Juggler | Vodevllle Frolics • 9 i „ Fox Film Farce, “The Night Before" | Paramount Magazine Pathe Review jflLJ*\j9

PfpHHj IMMrti THE pjpr l ' Gregory Kelly Stock Company English’s £?£?, Matinees Wed., Thurs. and Sat Last Two Times Toda’jf, “Adtm and Ev|” 1 - - —■ ■ ■

Both productions were mad# by the TTniversum Film Aktien Gesellschaft, M. B. 11., and were directed by Ernst Lubltch. There can be no doubt that the ! mission of “Passion” was to decry the French before the German people, and that "Deception” was made to do likewise by the English. Which worries us not at all at the present time. We’ve heard aboot Du Barry and Henry VIII. before. But then, neither are we ignorant of the German poet. So that's that. Both are great pictures and we’re glad to see them. American producers, however, are doing considerable worrying over them and other German films, from another angle * and are, we understand, hammering at the doors of Congress with their woes. Protection of our film Industry is being sought. They do say that the invasion of foreign films threatens the livelihood of some 60,000 workers In the picture fields of this country. Mr. William A. Brady, however, says w# don’t so much need protection as sense. Listen to him In the ! Literary Digest: “The demand for the protection of American films la really a demand for the protection of bathos and stupidity. | The real German menace in the motion

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picture field Is the menace of superior Intelligence. And the men who make the (Continued on Page Seven.)

/M Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle

“THE TRAVELING SALESMAN” FROM THE PLAY BY JAMES FORBES A PARAMOUNT PICTURE TADE DOLAN'S MUSICAL ENTERTAINERS

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Circle Theater Marks National Zane Grey Week ‘Man of the Foresf Is Announced as Program for Next Seven Days. ‘SENTIMENTAL TOMMY 9 National Zane Grey week will be observed next week at the Circle theater by the showing of a film version of the author’s story, “The Man of the Forest” Interest also centers upon the showings of “Sentimental Tommy,” with Gareth Hughes cast as Tommy Sandys, an author, at the Ohio next week. “Deception” will be held over next week at the Loew’s State Theater, after doing a satisfactory business for the last six days. Fatty Arbuckle in “The Traveling Salesman” will begin the second week of his engagement at the Isis on Sunday afternoon. “The Good Bad Wife” will be on view the first half of next week at the Alhambra. Jackie Coogan in "Peck’s Bad Boy” will be the offering next week at Mister Smith’s. The Regent will offer “The Fighting Stranger" and the Colonial will present "The Miracle of Manhattan.” (Continued on Page Seven.)

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