Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1921 — Page 7

New Plays Headed This Way Jobyna Howland, the statuesque blond In “The Gold Diggers,” which will be presented at Euglish'a for three days opening Monday night, Dec. 19. in an Interview the other day, set forth as her opinion that response of features was in a great many cases equally as attractive as vivacity. “Expression,” says Miss Howland, is a gift of the gods and repose of feature, or gravity, is what we make it. M e may make our'faces express a great deal, or i we may wear a mask when we are smiling. It is aU voluntary. Many people] looking at the picture of a girl who is. considered pretty, will gasp with incredulity when they see her minus that par- j ticular expression. Many girls explain ; with tears in their eyes; ‘I take a miser-, able picture, because all my looks are in , my facial expression.’ Yet girls can make j their photos attractive if they will. They can force expression out if they exert , their will power and think hard about * the thing In mind. Thought is the chief essential when the features are quiet. A famous moving picture star said to me a . short time age, ’When I first went into the movies, I had my greatest difficulty j making my features look attractive in repose, but I worked over it and finally won out.’ “Be careful to always force a smile N the eyes. The easiest way to do this ■\o think hard of something pleasant: j X have yourself in mind constantly. forces self-consciousness, hut it will soop : become second nature and is really worth while. The eyes and the lips are the most important features to remember, and all details such as arranging the hair, shou.d , be carefully thought out. Unless one has perfect features, to be attractive !■ - j nose sounds difficult, but tt Is within, the power of any one who will try and is j decidedly worth while.” she stated. -!- -IThe “Irene” record speaks for itself. The premier 1u York Sonk place on Nov. IS, 1919. at'the Vanderbilt Theater, in the midst of a season flooded with musical comedy productions. The Vanderbilt Producing Company was anew factor in the theater world, and without prestige, nor was there much preliminary talk regarding the cast, which was headed by Edith Day. But the producers felt that they had a piece possessing enormous popular appeal and that no all-star cast was necessary to make a success. The book by James Montgomery, was based on one of his comedies. The heroine Irene O'Dare, is a shop girl of romantic temperament and with a dear old Irish mother. “Irene” survived all its competitors in New York and ran for two solid years, notwithstanding the fact that the original cast had under-gone much changing. Various road companies, visiting Boston. Philadelphia. Baltimore . Chicago and other cities east of the Mississippi, had a series of record-breaking engagements. The box office receipts were phenomenal everywhere and first engagements resulted in demands for return .engagements. Similar successes were made in London and in Melbourne. Not since “The Merry Widow” days has any musical show achieved such universal anu wholesale success as “Irene.” “Irene" comes to the Murat the entire week of Nov. 21 with matinee Thanksgiving day and Saturday. The cast Is headed by Dale Winter. THE OHIO. The publicity department of Paramount has succeeded, through the cooperation of its London office, in obtaining directlv from Edith M. Hull, author of '“The Sheik.” which, picturized by George Melfoftl. opened Sunday simultaneously at the New York Kivoll and Kinlto theaters, the first real information to lw published concerning the author herself and the novel which today is the best seller among works of fiction. It will l*p recalled that it was some time after the appearance of the hook that the public found out that its author was a woman. Paramount has learned that Mrs. Hull is the wife of an English army officer and has spent much time in traveling in nearly t very civilized and semidvilized country in the world. She writes that she spent an entire winter in Algeria. near the very scenes she describes In "The Sheik.” although she disclaims any personal barrowing experiences that might have served her as “copy” for the book. It was shortly after the outbreak of the war, when she had been left alone in India by her soldier husband, that she conceived the story. “I have been much criticised in America for the so-called ‘cave-man’ methods of my hero,” writes Mrs. Hull. “I don’t wtsh to start a controversy on the subject or to defend the ealions brutality of Ahmed Ben Hassan. His life and upbringing were not those of the man one ordinarily meets with in society. But ! am* old-fashioned enough to believe ttat a woman's best love is given to the in.in whom she can admire and whom in lu r heart she recognizes as her master.” It is this very point of over-mastery, sometimes brutal, sometimes most subtle, which Mr. Melford is said to have brought out strinkingly in the photoplay in which Agnes Ayres and" Rud.dph Valentino are the featured players. Here is drawn most skillfully, it is said, the contrast between the subeonseious effects of the respective methods of Ahmed and the rojjber sheik. Omalr methods to all appearances quite similar and inspired by .te same motives. The role of Omair. incidentally, is played by Walter Long, the never-to-be-forgotten Gus of "The Birth of a Nation.” The Sheik” is set for release Nov. 20, while Nov. 27, opens “The Sheik” week! in which the picture will he played simultaneously in approximately “r,o leading theaters throughout the country. “The Sheik” is underlined at the Ohio for presentation soon. ENGLISH’S. “Welcome Stranger.” one of the most talked of comedies of recent, years, is announced for presentation shortly at

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English's. tfeorge Sidney, whose impersonation of Isidore Solomon Is pronounced one of the most artistic characterizations on the American stage, has the leading part and is supported by an excellent company. the players are David Higgins, who starred for years over the popular priced circuit of theatres in bis owu plays, Edward Snader who followed Denman Thompson in “The Old Homestead,” and Howard Gould, the one time star of "The Prisoner of Zenda,” and other romantic dramas. On Nov. 21-23, Charles Dillingham will present at English's, Barney Bernard in "Two Blocks Away,” a comedy. “The Right Girl,” a musical comedy, comes to English's for three days, beginning, Nov. 28th. B. F. KEITH’S. Manager Eggleston of B. F. Keith s anftounces that for the week of Nov. 28, he arranged to offer Horace Goldin’s original vivisection illusion “Sawing a Woman In Two.” This act must not be confused with any similar illusions as it is different in every respect. There have been many imitation and copy acts made of the Goldin idea but It is generally granted that Mr. Goldin's Is the best from the fact that during the act the young woman who is supposed to be cut in half has her arms anti feet exposed to the audience at ail times and these are held by a committee who is invited to the stage from the audience. The .act opens in a hovel way showing the young woman first on a motion picture screen. Goldin holds a conversation with her and she steps through the screen to the stage where the Illusion is performed. IN THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE (Continued From Page Six.) .reel picture play padded out to the prescribed length, there will be a repertorle of two or more plays on the same program. One play may be in two or three reels, another in four reels, and a third, say, in one real. The division does,- not materially matter. The idea is the thing. And it is a big idea. It is innovation, plus. It Is a stepping forward. In the case of the theatre, where a play is short, a prologue Is offered; In this case, there will not necessarily be i Si prologue, but the shorter story and ] the main feature will be of equal artistic worth, and will, we believe, be in the natpre of two masterpieces. In introducing the first of these “rep- j ertoire films” Mr. Bryant announces Os- j ; car Wilde's “Salome” and Ibsen's “A Doll’s House, both given as a single , program, probahly of seven reels. The j longer of the two will of cours be “A 1 Doll's House," which has bad no greater j interpreter on the stage than Nazlmova. In this announcement is embodied an j idea worthy of special comment. There , are many wonderful stones that would . make gems in the photo-dramatic field ] were they not so short, and did not directors think that in order to “put them ! over” they must be amplified and padded and stretched out to the customary length of what they are pleased to call i “a\ program picture.” So many literary masterpieces are brief. Take, for example. Lord Dun sany’s “A Night 4t An Inn." Oscar Wilde's “Tbe Birthday of the Infanta.” Hnrtetjse Flexner’s “Voices." Stuart Walker's “The Lady of the Weeping Willow Tree" and almost cotyrtless j others of high artistic merit, but of so short a length when measured by our routine motion picture standards. But there are far greater potentialities in the Nasimova idea. The spectacle in the motion picture is becoming stale; I the human interest story Is tbe thing. ! And among the cultured there Is the ever increasing cry for the real literature to be put into the pictures. Why not Nasimova in a group of short literary masterpieces transported to the silver sheet? Tt is a big idea—a significant one. Now.that Naziraova has cut loose from the fetters that bound her to unsuitable stories, she may follow where her tastes lead and where her artistic Judgment may have full rein. Nazimova's ambitious effort with “Saloue” and its widely diverse character study as offered in “A Doll's House,” is looked forward to as the : great achievement of the coming year in ! pictures. Welcome to the first of tbe Nasimova j “repertoire films.” and congratulations to the T'nited Artists, through which orI ganlzation reach the public. SHUBERTS-SEND 1 BIGGEST SHOW TO MURATTHEATER (Continued From Page Six.) fhnd Pearl, Florence Bayfield, Teddy Webb, Kyra, Joe Keno. Rosie Green, the Purcella Brothers. Billie Shaw, far] Judd. Florence Schubert and Clarence Harvey. * * * WATSON SISTERS/ TO TOP KEITH'S SHOW. Fanny and Kitty Watson, who recently forsook Broadway musical prodtic’ions to again appear In vaudeville, will be the headline attraction at It. F. Keith's for the week starting next Monday matinee. These two young women are npj pearing this season in anew skit called “Horsepitality.” In their act they offer a combination of comedy, singing and dancing which they put over in a most original manner. Bert Baker and company will bo seen !in a one-act comedy called “Prevarication.” The comedy, which was written by Mr. Balder, has to do with a husband who- runs Ananias a close second for reckless handling of the truth. How be finally gets out of a peck of trouble i with the aid of a pretty young girl, li.s ! fiancee, makes up the story. In the cast supporting Mr. Baker are Pearl Stevens, Paddy Baker and Charles Raymond. Max Teuber will offer his fantastic

spectacle, “Shadowland.” This act is a combination of inventive genius and terpsichorean novelty. In silhouette created by shadows, Mme. Adele La Luce and a grour of young women execute a program of dances and art studies that are said to be really artistic. Clara Howard, the “musical comedy girl,” will do her to chase away the glooms with songs and stories. Silber and North, in a funny sketch, “Bushfoolery,” will have an important position xm the bill. Edna Pierce and Hazel Goff, musical entertainers, play the saxophone an dcornet. Sharkey, Roth and Witt form a trio of singers, musicians and comedians. For the picture f. ns the program will Include the Pathe News, The Digest Topics and Aesop's Fables in Slang. -I- -|- -i----“LID LIFTERS” AT THE PARK. Lew Talbot wOl present his “Lid Lifters” at the Park next week. Bert Bertrand, Hebrew comedian, is the featured player. Others in the cast include Gertrude Ralston, VI Penney, Dotty Bates, Charles Cole, Albert Dupont and a chorus. The show Is In two acts. -I- -|- -|- AT THE RIALTO. The eight-act program for the Rialto Theater for next week will be headed by Billy Kings and company of eleven. • Ruth Herbert’s • ' trio will offer mu•■C'•• , . sical selections. " Annette Dare. _ a _ : comedienne; the Jr Relwyns, with their own idea of the life of a telejUllfeJ phone office; OrtBPS ville and Frank. T&jjl *rln an - original tT ~ novelty: Bennett | b /'■-*. ail<l Green. in comedy and siug- , ing, will be on i--. \f the bill. Asa MMg&VfeS l ’ second feature. * *i > Briltwood, the - boob, and his harmonica. The bill will be closed by the ParaRuth Herbert. mount Family with song. The Rialto started the eightact policy several weeks ago. and indications are that it will be continued for some time. -i- -! -!- POPBLE BILL BOOKED AT LYRIC NEXT WEEK. “Last Night ” a musical comedy in miniature, which Heasts. of a humorous plot, a chorus of pretty girls and a comedian or so thrown in for good measure, will share the program lienors at the Lyric next week with "Re-Incarna-tion,” a dance drama of past and pres ent, starring Verna Merserau. Miss Merserau Is an American girl who leaped into favor a few ago as a classical dancer. An entire company of terpsichorean experts appears In her support. Her

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act is elaborately staged, special lighting effects playing an-important part in-4ts effectiveness. The bill also will contain the Parker trio in a burlesque on grand opera, called “The Italian Reception;” Octavo, a phenomenal double voiced singer in a,repertoire of well chosen vocal numbers; Martetta Craig and company offering a sketch, “The Girl in the Dark;” Friend and Downing, a pair of funmakers in a . 'rthful skit, “My Friend Abe;” the 1 Tell brothers, an athletic novelty, and, on the screen, the Bray pictograph, a Post Nature Study film and “Stars and Stripes,” a Hall Room Boys farce. ~ I NEWS OF STAGE AND SCREEN Marguerita .Sylva will leave next week for an extended concert tour prior to her return to the stage in a \iew comedy which will be unfolded on Broadway early Ji January. The New York string quartette has been engaged by Frederic Warren as an addition to tbe first program of his present series of ballad concerts to be given at the Selwyn Theater. Hilda Spong, lan Maelaren and Whitford Kane are a trio to which supporting players are to be added for a series of revivals of Shaw's “Candida,” in which Miss Spong has appeared. Richard G. Herndon, tdanager of the Belmont Theater in New York, will reorganize the Theater Parisien this year, presenting the French plays at his theater, where \“The Title” is now being acted. “The Passion Flower,” the powerful Spanish drama in which Nance O’Neil is acting, reached the. Middle West this week, and Miss O’Nell, who has long been | sought for this tour, is once more upon j her native heath. Bessie Barriscale, long a favorite In the films, together with Howard Hickman, director and actor, and Paul Harvey, leading man. will each be seen on Broadway when Miss Barriscale makes her debut in ‘The Skirt,” a comedy by Mr. Hickman. Mae Marsh, the irresistible film star and more recently a star of tbe spoken drama since she appeared with such becoming charm in "Brittle,” is nboilt to j Join the ranks of the authors. She is to bring out anew book on film acting. Langdon McCormick, in association! with others who believe his melodrama, “The Storm.” is one of tbe best and most effective plays on the boards, is planning an elaborate revival of this scenic masterpiece for Broadway early in the New Year. . Barry Macollum, the Irish "Uaracter actor, is making his debut in vaudeville tills season in a playlet, “Lucky Joe.” by W. I). Hepenstail. who aided Whltford Kane in vrlting “Dark Rosaleen.” Mr. Kane, by tbe nay, staged the play for, Mr. Macollutn. Ethel Newcomb, the concert pianiste. | who lately has turned author and written j

one of the most interesting books of the present season in “Leschetizky as I Knew Him,” will appear in concert with Madame Alda, wife of the director.of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Whltford Kane, now acting with his accustomed skill in “Madras House,” Granville Barker’s comedy which is being acted at the Neighborhood Playhouse, may be seen in “The Pigeon” for special Broadway matinees this year. He created his part In London, but has never acted it here. “The Title,” Arnold Bennett's clever satirical comedy, will be produced by Richard Cl. Herndon at the Belmont Theater on Monday evening, Nov. 14. This premiere fcas been deferred oife week in compliment to Bessie Barriscale, another star under Mr. Herndon’s management, who opened in “The Skirt” at the Bijou Theater last Monday evening. The first American appearance of Ruairo Bogislav, the wonderful singer of folk songs, since her return from Europe, will be given at the Belmont Theater in New York Sunday evening, Nov. 27. Madame Bogislav is a nomadic and picturesque artist who has most successfully caught the spirit of the Romany tribes and other Slavic • characters. Madame Clara Clemens, the American mezzo soprano, who is to sing in the im- i portant cities of the East this year, is the only artist who arranges her programs with the idea of presenting a full program of the compositions of one writer. Tatst ypar she won notable success with Brahms, and this year she has selected Hugo Wolf. Her first New York recital is Dec. ID at Aeolian Hall. While waiting for his new comedy to be completed, “Jedge” Maclyn Arbuckle, who has one brother in the motion pictures iu Andrew Arbuckle—and no other —will enact the title role in the film version of Vaughan Raster's “The Prodigal Judge,” to be produced by the Vitagraph. Mr. Arbuckle declares that he lived with the original Judge Slocum Price, the chief character of the setory, when he was in Bowie County, Texas. The American debut of Alexander Sebald, violinist, said by one enthralled Europe”n eritic to "stand alone, there is no second,” in the violin field, will be celebrated at Town Hall, New York, NffV. 14. This marks the entry of Graham Von Winckler & Cos., Chicago Impresarios, in the managerial field of the East. Mr Sebald will play on a Tauscher instrument, which we are Informed tiy experts is the equal of the aged "Strads.” CPNEILL PLAY PRESENTED TO a BROADWAY (Continnod From Page Six> manager has wanted it. It is called “The Madras House,” and it has called forth more discussion, if not greater box receipts, than most plays of the season. Nor is it a financial failure at this writing.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

Official Movies of the World War Due at English 9 s Vividly depicting every major operation in which Americans participated during the world war, the United States Government official world war motion pictures will be shown at English’s Theater for eight days starting tomorrow night. The pictures will be presented here by permission of the Enited Stales Government and are being exhibited’ here under tbe joint auspices of the Bruce Robison and Osric Mills Watkins posts of the American Legion. Proceeds will be used in development Work by the two legion posts. Hundreds of Indianepolis and Indiana men who saw service .n some of the most important battles of the war are seen in the pictures. Robert 11. Tyndall, who served as a colonel commanding the 150th “Rainbow” regiment, field artillery, who saw the pictures in another city some time ago, has indorsed them as “being authentic and true in every detail.” More than 500,000 Americans are.shown in the pictures and every branch of the service

MOTION PICTURES. HAJjI REED ' "£|Hjhe Block ■H Panther’s Cuß wHHP? Lavish — Spectacular— Sensational 'Nr WITH the face of a Madonna and the heart of & ’ ’ panther, lived a woman of wealth and power la Paris. How she compared herself to Faustine, C v td J* Rome’s cruel Empress or bygone days and rose to 'j' dizzy heights only to be dragged into oblivion. Wild scenes of the Apache dances in Paris, quiet English countrysides and barßarous splendor of the ancient arenas of Home. A tremendously abAstfy .'it - ‘ ll £ The cast includes Miss R?ed in four separate and distinct roles; Norman Trevor, Harry Stephenson, Mile. Dazie, Tyronne Power, Earle Foxe, William "tSpe' 1 * * Roselle and l’aula Shay. A picture that cost mota M QWQ

‘H* ENTIRE WEEK Starting SUNDAY nra TOM mm- ] M 1 x “The Rough > Diamond” A romance of modern chivalry which sweeps from ranch HjHAs a dashing soldier of fortune. Ride his horse off a pier into the ocean to *'mMr -K A catch an outgoing steamship. brC/C Careen on horseback through the marble halls of the palace of a South American PresT|l* Fight for life on the roof of a building. ; illX ove ‘‘ prettiest girl in the ADDED ATTRACTION—“SNOOKY,” THE CHIMPANZEE ,i COMEDIAN, IN THE RIOTOUS FARCE,” “TWIN TROUBLES”

is represented. Thrilling battles between aviators, just as they actually happened “over there,” also are shown. The pictures, which are about 6,000 feet In length, were taken by Corporal R. H. Ingleston, who served as official photographer for the “Rainbow” divK sion during the war. Ingleston will speak in connection with the showing of the pictures and also will relate many incidents, some of them extremely humorous, of the battle fields. In addition to the picturis a special program of other features also will be presented, including an elaborate tableau symbolic of America’s part in the war. Another feature of the entertainment will be solo numbers on the accordion by Aumee, regarded as one of the leading players of the accordian in the country. A special program of music and other pictures also will be shown. The war films themselves were taken from about 60.000 feet of films owned by tbe United States Government of the American army in France. The pictures that will be exhibted at English’s are the most interesting among the entire films which the Government has. It also will be the first time that the official motion pictures of tbe war have been presented

in Indianapolis. Corporal Ingleston, who speaks in connection with the films, dwells on the brighter side of life as the men saw it in France during the war. Afternoon and night shows will be given throughout the week, the pictures opening tomorrow night at 8:15 o’clock. There will be no matinee next Sunday. Cheaper Paper Move PA-RIS, Nov. 12.—Swedish and Norwegian paper pulp exporters have received notice from the French paper mills that for deliveries in 1921 existing prices must be reduced at least 30 per cent., and by any further sum necessary to bring the price to not more than 15 per cent, above the price of cellulose at the moment of delivery. 1 . TOSS COIN TO WIN SUIT. SHEFFIELD. England, Nov. 12.—A point of dispute arising in the settlement of a separation claim was settled by the toss of a coin. The question was whether the husband should pay $8.50 or $lO a week to his wife. The wife's counsel won the toss.

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