Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1922 — Page 9

MRS. HART HAS CHIEF ROLE IN SMITH’S MOVIE (Continued From Pago Seven.) temple scenes in Siam and back again. Director DeMilie was unquestionably called on to handle a pretty large order. Some of the animals were, of course, rery easy to get and “direct” in their “acting." But others, especially the crocodiles, provided many interesting and thrilling moments for the production manager. A special wire-inclosed truck Lad to be built for their transportation, and on their arrtval at the studio unusual provisions had to be made for their dttdlng. Jwf Angelina” was the queen of a group eighteen reptiles. She is the largest in this country, being eleven feet long, weighing 825 pounds and approximately 250 years old. A couple of big blue cobras gave zest to the life of those around tie Siamese temple set. But a competent trainer was with them, and the poisonous looking reptiles obeyed their master with the docility of dogs. “Fool's Paradise" is an adaptation of the Leonard Merrick story, “The Laurels and the Lady.” The featured players are Conrad Nagel, as Arthur Phelps, the blind poet: Dorothy Dalton, as Poll Patchouli, Spanish dancer; Mildred Harris, as the French dancer, Rosa Duchene, and Theodore Kosloff, in the role of John Rodriquez. a Mexican gambler. John Davidson and Julia Feye are two other players of importance, while the supporting cast includes Clarence Burton and Guy Oliver. -I- - - -I* SWANSON HAS NEW LEADING MAN NOW Richard Wayne, ,a capable actor who

New Plays I leaded This Way ZIEGFEI.D FOLLIES JUC E SOON AT ENGLISH’S. Follies will begin its annual Wigagement at English’s on Monday night, March 20. This season's “Follies has a libretto by Channing Pollock with additional lines, scenes and iyrics by Gene Buck, H lllard Mack, Ralph Spence, and Bud De Silva. Three different composers have supplied the music, Victor Herbert, Ralph Frlml and Dave Stamper, each having had a hand in wt’iting the score. The scenery is by Joseph Urban and the costumes were designed by James Reynolds. Edward Royce staged the production, with George Marion rehearsing the dialogue; all this being done under the masterful supervision of Ziegfeld himself. The cast of principals this year includes Raymond Hitchcock, Vera Mic'ttiena, Fanny Brice, Ray Dooley. W. I. Fields, Mary Eaton, Florence O’Denishawn. Van and Schenek. Mary Mllburn and John Clarke. There will be the usual array of superb femininity, tch one of whose claim to beauty became so.-ure on selection to be a “Follies” girl. -!- -!- BARRYMORE TO BE >EEN IN “THE CLAW." Lionel Barrymore come, to the Murat March 2.’’,. 2i and 25. under Arthur Hopkins’ management, giving the first performance here of “The Claw,” a play by llcnry Bernstein. This play, under the title of “La Griffe” helped rn make Lncien Guitry a dominant ng u in the French theater and now the H’- footlights here, with Lionel Barryre, the center of the storm. lie is surrounded by the same com I any which has been appearing with him in New York, including Irene Fenwick. In the role of Achille Corteion, the leonine political leader of France. Lionel Barrymore is sai-1 to enjoy the greatest acting epportunity of his career and has risen to the demand. CONCERNING HOOSIER NIGHT (Continued From Page Seven.) 3. No author may submit more than four plays. 4. Authors mar select their own themes anil scenes, but preference will be given to plays dealing with vital issues, pres-ent-day life and local conditions and characterisation. Su-h plays may take the form of comedy, tragedy, farce, satire or symbolic fantasy. 5 All plays must be typewritten and must be mailed to the president of the Little Theater Society. Mrs. William O. Bates. 75*5 Midale Drive, Woodruff Place, Indianapolis, before June 1. 1022, when the competition will close. The author's name and address must not appear on the manuscript, but must be enclosed in a sealed envelope bearing on its outside merely the name of the play. This envelope must contain also postage for the return of the manuscript to the sender These envelopes will not be opened until the committee of awards has made Us decisions. and The committee of awards will consist cf George Somnes. director of the Little Theater: Hewitt H. Howland, of the ~obbs-Merrill Company: Carlton Cuy, di■ctor of the Municipal Theater, and representatives of the Indianapolis daily newspaoers— Lawrence Wheeler of the Star, Welter Whitworth of the News and Waited D. Hickman of the Times. .7. The four plays selected will become the property of the Little Theater Society , which undertakes to pay their authors J 25 for each play chosen and one half of all royalties derived from their subsequent use by other organizations and from their publication by the Bobhs-Mer-rill Company. 8. The committee of awards reserves the right to reject any play it does not deem worthy of production and publication. 9. The Bobh* Merrill Company reserves the cKbt to edit the plays selected for publication in the interest of brevity, clearness and the reader's understanding of stage directions. 10. Production a.id publication of the plays will be made within six months after the awsrd. The names of the successful authors will be announced in the newspapers as soon as the committee reaches its decision. Indiana authors are invited to get busy at once because it is important tbatomany plays be submitted to the judges. Motion Picture DirectorV Ne ghborhood Haustt JL JEWEL THEATRE 1184 SO. WEST ST. Sunday—“ Mother O Mine.” Monday —“Heart of A Child.” Tuesday—- ■ “Good Women.” Wednesday Ankle.” Thursday—“ Three W Musketeers,” a special picture. PROSPECT THEATRE Churchman and Harlan. Sun. and Mon.. Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliot Dexter in “Don't Tell Everything,-'’ Toes., “Heart of a child:’’ Wed., “Good Women;” Thurs., ] “Huckleberry Finn;” Sat., “Dangerous Flowers.’ ■ I LINCOLN THEATRE Cor. S. East and Lincoln Sts, Today, “Life,” star cast; Sunday, j Betty Compson in “At the End of the j World;” Monday, "Adventures of T*r- 1 ran” and Be be Daniels in “Ducks and "> rakes."

for some yetrs has been playing minor roles in Paramount pictures, has reached the goal of leading man, opposite Gloria Swanson in her third Paramount starring vehicle, “Her Husband's Trademark,” at Leew’t State next week. Born in Beatrice, Neb., Mr. Wayne studied to be a musician at the University at Lincoln, and after completing there, went to' Europe for a two years' finishing course. Then he returned to America and for eight years was noted for his work as a co.- cert pianist in eastern musical circles. He also achieved quite a reputation a an orchestra conductor. Mr. Wayne came T est and interested himself in motion picture work. His ability and popula- ty have consistently Improved and he ,H be recalled as the second male lead a recent Ethel Clayton vehicle, “Wef.itn.” His role of Allan Franklin in this new story by Clara Beranger, directed by Sam Wood, is his first role as a fullfledged leading man. Others in the cast are Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield Charles Ogle, Edythe Chapman, and Clarence Burton. -I- -I- -IMTX TRAVELS SOME IN HIS NEW' COMEDY. Tom Mix travels some In his new comedy drama, “Chasing the Moon,” which will be shown at the Isis next week. Os course, he doesn’t go up to the moon, or anything like that, confining his activities tc terra firms, but he does take a hasty jaunt over to Europe, visiting Russia and then Spain in quest of a professor who has the antidote for a poison which Mix thinks he has taken, and while across the waters Mix has a gooo i many “mix-ups” in which he runs true to form. One of these is a battle with Lolsbevist bandits, whom the hero routs in good old Western fashion. The story was written by Edward Sedgwick, his director, and Mix himself.

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hence “Chasing the Moon” was simply tailored to fit the Mix pattern. The picture opens with Mix as a youth of wealth, who, tired of spending it upon luxuries, rushes back to his old cowboy pals on the “T-M Bar” ranch. He takes them all to the city, and throws thetn a wild party la a fashionable cufe. As, luck would have it his fiancee, Jane Norworth, visits the place that night with her brother, a successful chemist, just in time to catch her future husband cutting up high jinks. Next day she breaks the engagement, and while the penitent suitor is in her brother's laboratory he accidentally cuts his hand on a vial that is thought to contain deadly poison. Only one man knows the antidote, a doctor who is on his way to Russia. T' 's explains why Mix takes to traveling. Naturally he has all sorts of adventures in foreign lands, and is finally saved from sure death by his sweetheart, who has relented and followed him across the seas. Eva Noyak is again his leading woman. The program will also contain a comedy and other features. -I- -I- -]- WALLIE’S LATEST IS BASED ON STAGE PLAT. "The World’s Champion,” a fanciful comedy drama of British society and the American prize ring, adapted from the successful stage play, "The Champion,” in which Grant Mitchell appeared here early in the season, will bring Wallace Reid to the Alhambra next week in the role of the prize fighter hero. Mr. Reid proves to be mighty bandy with the padded mitts lu a ring battle that is one of the high lights of the picture, when be has for an opponent no less a personage than Norman Selby (Kid McCoy), formerly of Indianapolis, and himself one-ti.ne middleweight champion of the world. The story '.s about a well-bred young Englishman, the ton of a prosperous Britisher, who aspires to the nobility, and who has so little patlrnce with bis son’s lack of interest in social affairs and aversion

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to study that he orders him out of the house. The young fellow works his passage to America, and here becomes a professional boxer, in time attaining the world's championship. After an absence of seven years he returns to England, where his ring fame quickly brings him moie social favors than his father had ever been able to procure, and where he wins the girl of his heart’s desire in the same whirlwind fashion that had gained him his championship laurels. Prominent among the players are Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr„ Helen Dunbar and Guy Oliver. Subsidiary program attractions will consist of the Literary Digest, a Hall Room Boys farce entitled ’’Soup to Nuts,” and the Fox news weekly. -I- -I- -IHAMPTON COMES TO CIRCLE NEXT WEEK. Hope. Hampton will appear in person at the the first four days of the week in connect on with the showing of her latest film, “Stardust,” adapted from the Fannie Hurst novel of the same name. The story, as prepared by the scenarist, has made one of the real successful photoplays of the year. It is the simple Itory of a sensitive little music-loving girl, reared in a small Western town and married against her better Judgment, to an arrogant, brutal and presumptive youth who makes life a burden for his bride. Certain liberties have been taken with Fannie nurst’s story, but these make for a clearer understanding of the plot and reduce the number of characters involved to the minimum. The cast Includes Thomas Maguire, Mary Foy, Charles Musset, Vivian Ogden, Ashley Buck, Noel Tearle, George Humbert, Gladys Wilson, Charles Wellsley and James Rennie. The story was adapted by Paul Kelly and the production was directed by Ho hart Henley and critics hare praised his work as well-nigh faultless.

FIRST OF SHAW CYCLE NOTABLE STAGE DOCUMENT (Continued From Page Seven.) characters, and the second part of the first cycle skips over a few centuries to present day politicians. "In the Beginning” is subdivided into two sets, the Garden of Eden and an oasis in Mesapatomla a few centuries later. We hear. In the first act, Eve listening to the siren voice of the serpent as the secret of life and rebirth are divulged. By the death of a fawn Adam and Eve are awed by tho mystery of death itself, and as the curtain falls we feel sure that Eve has listened not only attentively, but to a purpose, to the Serpent. In the second act, a few centuries later Cain enters as a blustering, boastful murderer, and here some of the most appealing speeches are made. The second part of this evening is highly—and at times tediously—discursive, the author propounding laboriously his promise that the span of life should be at least three hundred years to the end thßt man may live long enough to accomplish something. There are flashes of wit in the argument between the stage creations of Lloyd Georgy and Asquith. It was mainly a gabfest with nothing to relieve it except the easily recognizable caricatures which are not without moments ol amusement. But in the main it became tedious and tiresome before the act had pnSsed one half of its alloted span. Two more cycle* are to follow on alternate woeks before the entire tome has been staged. The scenery Is more or less impressionistic in the earlier scenes, and starkly real in the last half. Ernita Lascelles, as Eve, read her lines more

effectively than she costumed the character. It bordered on the daring, but was always in good taste. George Gaul, as Adam, contributed one

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of the vital performances of the craning, and Margaret Wycherly, disguised as tha Serpent, spoke clearly and impressively but fell short of expectations. In the

latter scenes it was A. P. Kaye a>i Lloyd George and Moffat Johnson as Asquith who acquitted themselves mos\ creditably. ’

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