Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 302, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1922 — Page 8

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STUART WALKER TO OPEN SIXTH SEASON TUESDAY *Hoiv>rs Are Even* to Be Opening Play at Murat. NEW KEITH POLICY Stuart Walker will open his sixth sui ier season at the Murat Theater on l ,xt Tuesday night by presenting a comedy, "Honors Are Even.” The opening of a Walker season is always an important event in local stage history. This year Mr. Walker’s actiivties will not be confined to Indianapolis alone, as he has a company at the Cox Theater, Cincinnati. The Indianapolis and Cincinati companies win alternate at the Murat Theater. Keith’s theater on Monday will open its summer reason wirh a continuous program of vaudeville and movies, begin-

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Jimmy Duffy, who will be one of the thief offerings at Keith's next week on the first continuous movie and vadevilie bill offered at this house.

nlng at 1 p. m. daily and closing at 11 I o'clock. Frederick Santley and his "Melody j Girls’’ will be the headline off'r;njf at the Lyric next week. The Park after being dark several weeks will offer next week "The Unloved Wife.” Th Rialto next week will present ! "Frivolities of 1921” and a feature movie. 1 -i- -i- -IYVALKFR TO OPEN" SEASON AT MURAT TUESDAY NIGHT. Stuart Walker will open his sixth season at the rat on Tuesday night by presenting "Honors are Even." Mr. Walker's announcement that there would be a number of new players with his company this summer seems certain of fulfillment If the cast of "Honors are Even," the first play of the season, can be regarded as a criterion. Three of the members of this cast have never been seen with the company before, one has played but one performance with it. aud two others have been chiefly absent since the summer of 1920. Chief among the newcomers Is Arthur Albertson, who will play the leading male role. Mr. Albertson has appeared under Mr. Walker's direction before, but never In Indianapolis. Eary this last season he was seen as leadihg* man for Peggy Wood in "Artists’ Life,” which Mr. Walker staged. He has also appeared in "Wait TUI We're Married," which was produced at the Forty-Eighth street Theater last fall, and "A Dangerous Man." a Shubert production which has not yet reached its Broadway presentation. The other two newcomers are Corbet Morris, who will p'.ay an Important character role, and Donald MacDonald, who is cast for (he part of a young cub who is in the throes of a desperate love affair with the heroine of the p'.ay. L'Estrange Miliman made his orjly appearance here with 'he Stuart Walker Company last season in “Job," in which he played the part of Elihu. In "Honors Are Even" he will have an entirely different role, being as near a vUlain as the play contains. Beatrice Maude and Lael Corva (who by the way. was known to us formerly as Lael Davis) each played but one part last summer. Miss Maude will have the ieading feminine role in "Honors Are Even," a role which was created in New York by Lcia Fisher; and Miss Corya will be seen as a young society girl of the dapper type who likes to spend her time any place except at home. Others in the cast who are in no sense icwcomers are Judith Lowry, Julia McMahon, Walter Boulter and Robert McGroarty. -I- -I--NF.IV SHOW POLICY AT KEITH’S THIS SUMMER An innovation for Indianapolis in theatrical circles will be presented next .vecK at B. F. Keiths with the offering of a continuous program of vaudeville acts aDd pictures running from 1 p. in. to 11, and at popmlnr prices. In offering this new idea at Keith's, Manager Roltnre Eggleston has arranged for a bill each week consisting of six regular winter season acts and first run photo plays. The bill booked for next week starting with a matinee Monday will have as •ne of the stellar attractions Jimmy Duffy and company in a musical satire "The Horrors of 1922." In this act Mr. Duffy, who has just left Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics, will be assisted by a group of pretty girls who will appear in some stunning gowns in the various musical numbers Interspersed throughout the act. Robert RelUy and company will offer "Bedeiia O’ Shea," a happy Irish song playlet, eliciting the service* of Maybelie Kennedy and Little Larry. The act is presented In a special stage setting. Taylor, Howard and Them will contribute a different sort of comedy act • ■ailed "Officer Six and Seven Eights.” Taylor is a man, Howard a woman and Them an assortment of smali animals that are said to be highly trained. The LeKays will l>e seen in an artistic aerial novelty in which a series of original feats will be exhibited. A feature of the act is offered by the man when he leaps in the air and makes a one heel catch on a flying trapese. Bierce and Dunn, a pair of comedians, well known in musical comedy and in vaudeville, will offer a rapid fire comedy act that includes some clever songs and snappy patter. A1 Abbott, known as "The Village Songster,” offers a iiumber or rural types generally found In a small town. His act includes ni’lsic and comedy. U ! ii-tur - ■•'iil inclod' 1'.1.-els Wal•dy .of a Min „Mo knew

just what she wanted, and when she got it, she didn’t rant It nt all. The bill will also include the Pathe News weekly, the Topics of the Day and Aesop’s Fables. -I- -I- -!- MUSICAL COMEDY STAR TO HEAD BILL AT LYRIC. The Lyric's bill next week will have Frederick Santley, popular musical comedy stiir, and his "Melody Maids" as the feature act. Mr. Snntley is a "big time” headliner who rose to the heights of stardom via George M. Cohan's revues, and who, more recently was featured in “The Royal Vagabond." "The Poor Little Ritz Girl” and "Two Little Girls in Blue." His "melody maids,” chief among whom is Nell Wood, are singers, dancers and musicians. Prominent, too, in the billing, will be Mile. Antouieta Dvorak, niece of the wellknown Bohemian composer, and author of the "Humoresque.” ’ Mile. Dvorak brings to vaudeville the Gipsy cymbalom a quaint musical instrument, upon which she plays an artistic program of difficult operas from famous composers as well as the good old U. S. A. brand of jazz, ragtime and blues. She is also an accomplished violinist. The Gladiators, a classic in athletic art; John J. Wolvin and company, in a comedy playlet. "Bill Blithen, Lawyer,” which deals with an original style of legal advice tendered by a crusty old at torney, and contains tunny situations galore; Christy and McDonald, in theti song and piano eccentricities; Halley and Noble, who have a clever skit, "Talking for Her"; Sternie and Bloom, a novpi comedy duo, and Sumater and Smith, comedy acrobats, will be among othei acts On the screen a Hallroom Boys farce, "The Dentist,” and the usual entertaining short subjects will bo shown. UNLOVED WIFE” TO BUI AT TIIE PARK. It's back to the good old days of thrilling dramas” for the Bark Theater iext week. "The Unloved Wife" comes for a week's stay. The engagement is unusual for the Park in (he fact that all aatinees will be for ladies only, while at all evening performances “everybody ■ver 16" will be admitted, but at no performance will children be admitted. It will be presented a- the Bark in the -sate way as in other cities without any j ■liminations. Special scenery is carried .'or its proper presentation. IC9ICAL COMEDY * YND MOVIES AT RIALTO. The Rialto next week will present •Frivolities of 1921" and a movie, "The Journey's End.” The "Frivolities” company Includes a ! :rge chorus and a number of principals. "The Journey’s End" Is a Hugo B.allin reduction. The cast includes Mabel laliic, Wyndham Standing, George Bau■roft and others.

s Letty Pepper’ Is Debutante on Broadway Trial Producers Will Try Out New Plays Which Show Promise. OTHER STAGE GOSSIP By DIXIE HINES. NEW’ YORK, April 2S.—Summer has sent Its advance agent to Broadway. This event is usually announced by the arrival of the socalled ‘‘summer shows,” as the musical revues r.re designated. One regular musical comedy—“ Letty Pepper,” with the elongated and funny limbed Charlotte Greenwood — and two new revues, one headed by black-face Eddie Camor and the other by the perennial funmaker, DeWolf Hopper, arrived in advance of the main guard, which will follow shortly. Charlotte Greenwood, possessing two of the funnies; legs on the stage, and abundance of good nature, needs little more fur h"f plays, and in "Letty Pepper" she hasn't much more. Ki.se Stahl once made a success of "Maggie l’epr>er" as a comedy, ar.d this is the same tehlcle with some music added to it Charles Khln wrote it originally, but not even Mr. Klein would recognize It i w. Oliver Morosco and George V. I chart had a share in the revision for the new „t.ir. and young Werner Janssen has written some passable music. But it is Charlotte Greenwood, who is anything bur the right type for Letty. who makes the play bearable. She works so hard, and seems to enjoy It so thoroughly that one cannot chide her for the Incongroue things she does, not her artistic inelegance in other thing*. Jane King. Ps.il Burns. Mary King. Jessie Intropidi. Thomas Walsh, nnllam Bosworth, liu? Raymond, Master Gabriel. Frances Victory, Stewart Wilson and William Balfour acta acceptably the assigned roles. Miss Greenwood has several emotional scenes in this play which were quite as amusing as her most amusing moments with her peculiar pedal extremeties and the longest leg-; that have been exhibit'd on a woman in years. NEB SOCIETIES ORGANIZED TO I’ltODl CE NEW PLAYS A number of ambitious—and at time* meritorious—^"trial producers” have been organized in New York, the latest of which is the I’lav Producing Society, with Ruth Helen Davis as director. Miss Davis is a commanding figure in the world of letters and music, and h<-r organization, beginning with r. private performance of "The White Mask," a mystery play, and following it las' week by the first presentation in the English language of Dostievaky's "The Idiot," has shown a remarkable grasp of the needs of the stage, and In this latter performance. with Estelle Winwood, Reginald Bole, Thurston Hall, Margaret Mower ar.d others, they have contributed one of the most vital plays of the season. There is still some doubt whether this play will prove a commercial success or not, but It hag proven highly artistic. The F’larers' Assembly Is another notable addition to the ambitious and Intelligent niJcvementß of the season. Commencing several weeks ago with a founders association of ton players and one director, they brought to New York Gaitnn Kopcrnak. the vital Russian actress In "Montmartre," which is a pronounced success, and this week they open their second play, retaining their first unlnterrupled. “The Night Call," described as a puzzle in four acts, will have a cast including Helen Lowell, Brandon Hurst, F.lsie lUzer, Nellie Burt, Charles Trowbridge, Dodson Mitchell, Earl Mitchell and others. This is a record of which they may well t/c proud, and the success of this organization will do much to stimulate tike organizations in other producing centers. There is still another organization prepared to enter the field. It will be permanently located at the cozy little Belmont Theater, and Richard G. Herndon, the manager of that playhouse will bo its director. It will perhaps be the m..st Interesting of thorn all, as it will combine the talents of at least four of the leading stage directors of the country wit a like group of native playwrights, anrAdher groups representing the playingMprofession and the drama lovers who are unaffilialod with any of Its

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branches. A permanent company will be established, and plays will be produced at slated intervals. "JUST BECAUSE" NOT TO CLOSE. "Just Because," the melody comedy which has Jane Richardson ar.d Queenie Smith—to name but two of the many attractive members of the cast —will not close as announced, and lovers of clean plays will take heart thereby This piav is one of the merriest and cleanest of the season, and because it was clean it wqs condemned by the critics. They suggested that It would serve as an excellent entertainment for the ladles' seminaries—and it Is, as well as for those who are not of the seminaries and are not of the feminine persuasion. But its continuance in the face of adverse criticism makes one hope that there is a turning of the tide against the salacious farce and In favor of such as "Just Because." Avery Hopwood has aroused considerable interest in the announcement which be made some time since that hereafter he would use London as a producing center for some of his plays. This is the ti-st time nn American writer of such prominence as Mr Hopwood has selected the foreign capital in which to launch his plays. This docs not moan, however, that New York will he denied the opportunity of assisting at the birth of gome because Mr Hopwood is under contract to Mr Woods and YVagenbaU A Kemper aud these producers operate only in this country.

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v/ vrr 2— One of the big scenes from D. W. Griffith’s “Orhpans of the Storm," y-;: i 'X /' - t 3—Gaston Glass and Georgia Woodthrope in a scene from "The Song ,J® ijiVUriWH' ■■ . '!? 4—Here is Tom Mix In an out-of-door scene from “Up and Going,” at ~ • y '***? U \* -* K—A scene from Sheik’s Wife,” to be at Mister Smith’s all next

INDIANA DAILY TIMES

1— Mr, Stuart Walker, founder and director of the Stuart Walker Company, who will open his sixth seaeon at the Murat on Tuesday night by presenting ‘ Honors Are Even,” a comedy. 2 Miss Julia McMahon, who will play the role of Lucille Berkeley in ‘‘Honors Are Even.” 3 Miss Beatrice Maude, who will play the leading role In "Honors Are Even."

In The Land of- Make Believe by WALTER D. HIC K M aUT

A request has been made of this department to select the six best movies of the month. I am not keen over this task, but being in a good mood today I have decided to do as requested. My selection of the six beat photoplays reviewed during April is a purely per- I eonal selectio. You may ogre© or disagree with me if you like. My selection of the six best movies seen | in April on the local screens, is as fol- j Sows; “The Ruling Passion” with George ArliSa because it hit the peak of refined aud beautiful comedy acting. If Mr. Arliss continues lie will be one of the most popular players ,n the scrceu. "Pay Dnv,” with Charles Chaplin because It marked the return of the “old” Chaplin to the screen Not a "smash," but real Chapliu remedy of tie old da vs done with the polish of Chapl n's present artistry. "Foolish Wives,” because of Its mar-

te.-ful direction. Its theme is cheap compared to the manner in which it was produced. 'technically, this movie is nearly perfect. "Smilin’ Through.” with Norma Talmadge, because of the excellency of the cast, and the emotional wori of Miss The whole cast was excellent "The Green Temptation," directed by the late William Desmond Taylor, be cause Betty Compson decided to act and nut to look only pretty, "Fascination," with Mae Murray, because Miss Murray Is learning tj act before the camera. And there you are. -I- -!- Jesse L. I.asky, first vice president of the Fametis Players I.asky Corporation, is of the opinion that "increased production presages the approach of better times in the motion picture btialnea*." In a letter to this department Mr.

Lasky gives bla views and plans as follows: “After a -ireful survey of conditions I am confident that this Increase In production forecasts a return to conditions nearer to normal in the next few months Just as tu re than a year ago curtailment of production indicated that we were trimming our sails for a period of depression, so now our biggest studio program shows we expect a sharp and definite revival In business In the fall. Production is the barometer of this business, and the barometer shows better times ahead. Never before have we had such a large number of companies concentrating on really big pictures. "A glance at the pictures which eithej will tie in production or will go into production during May will show the extent of our confidence. M.-iv 1 u I -,-e Cecil B. De Mllle begin production on his greatest picture to date, 'Manslaughter, which Jeanh* Maepherson has written from Alice Duer Millers story. Thomas Metghan will play the role of the district attorney, Beatrice Joy will play the feminine lead and Lois Wilson, whose splendid work in 'Miss Lulu Best' stamped her as an actrees of rare power, will be seen in the part of the maid. ■'William de Mllle’s picture of ‘Nice People.’ which Clara Beranger adapted from Rachel fro!hers' play, will be in production during May, with a cast in(hiding Wallace Reid. Kobe Daniels, Conrad Nagel, Waiter lliers and Eve Sothern. "Fenrtyn Staniaws will begin his pro-

duction of 'Pink Gods’ during May. This will boa big, special production from Cynthia Stockley's story with Bebe Daniels, James Kirkwood, Anna Q. Nilsson and Adolph Menjou in the cast. "George Fitzmaurice's production of Mary Johnston’s famous novel, ‘To Have and To Hold' will be under way In May, with Betty Compson, Theodore Kosloff, j Bert Lytell, Theodore Roberts and George j Fawcett in the principal parts. "George Melford still begin ‘Burning j Sands,' his companion picture to ‘The j Sheik,' next month, with Milton Sills and j Wand* Hawley in the leading roles arid j a cast including Winter Hall, Robert: Cain, Louise Dresser and Jacqueline Logan. •‘Rudolph Valentino’s first starring picture will still be in production during May. This is ‘Blood and Sand,’ which j June Mathis has adapted from Ibanez's play and novel and which Fred Nlblo, who directed 'The Three Musketeers' is now producing with Lila Lee and Nita Naldi in important roles. "We have long been besieged with requests to star Theodore Roberts in a picture. The admirers of the grand old man of pictures will see him In the great- j est role of his career In ‘The Old Home- : stead,’ which James Cruze will produce from the famous Denman Thompson play. In the cast will be, besides Roberts, T. j Roy Barnes, Charles Ogle and Fritz! | Ridgeway. “ ‘The Cowboy and the Lady.’ with a j cast headed by Mary Miles Minter and other well-known players, will go into ; production under the direction of John j S. Robertson, who directed ‘Footlignts.’ j "Irvin Willat will begin production of j a special picture, ‘The Siren Call,’ with I Dorothy Dalton and Jack Holt in the I leading roles, ably supported by- a strong I cast. —t “ ‘The Ghost Breaker,’ from the well-! known play of a few years ago by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey, will be started in May with Wallace Reid as the star, and Lila Lee heading a strong cast. The picture will be directed b> Alfred E. Green, whose picture, ‘The ' Bachelor Daddy,’ starring Thomas Meighan, lias Just been finished and undoubtedly will prove one of the summer season’s big successes. “.Tack Holt will begin production of “The Man Unconquerable,’ under the direction of Joseph Hanabery. “Agnes Ayres will soon start work in ‘Borderland,’ a picture which will he as different from the usual run of pictures as ‘One Glorious Day’ wag. This is an original story by Beulah Marie DLx, whose famous play, ‘The Road to Yesterday,’ is something in the same atmosphere. The picture will be directed by Paul Powell. "Before the end of May Gloria cwsnson will have returned from her holiday in Europe and will have begun work on the liggest picture of her career, ‘The Impossible Mrs. Bellow,’ under the direction of Sam Wood, who has just finished two other Gloria Swanson pi - ta r es, ‘Beyond the Rocks' and ‘Her Gilded Cage.’ ”

KEITH NEWS

Perhaps the most significant moment in the history of the great vaudeville organization was when a State o’ Maine j youth Just in from a trip with the circus, j stepped up to B. F. Keith’s little "store- i show" on Washington street, in Boston, - :It- autumn of 1885 and asked for a Job, and got it. The Third of a Century Anniversary Week of the B. F. Keith vaudeville circuit, with its hundreds of theaters; its millions of capital, its long list of stars from every branch of the profession, makes a glimpse of its actual beginning particularly interesting. Scores of present-day stars of the legitima'e stage got their early experience in ■ vaudeville, and now that the Keith vaudeville circuit is celebrating its "Third of a Century" Anniversary .Week, the veterans of both the two-a-day and the regular stage are recalling the hardships, dis- j comforts and vicissitudes of both eudi- 1 ences and actors in those old days before j B. F Keith and E. F. Aibee, with their new idea of refined vaudeville, first be- I gan to put In practice their plan to make “service and comfort” for players as v,-ell j as for the public, rf)e motto of thsir theater building and management. - - -!- -|- In the office at the Palace Theater, ! New from which E. F. Aibee. head of the Keith Circuit, directed the eelebra- j (Continued on Page Nine.)

APRIL 29, 1922.

NEW GRIFFITH MOVIE TO BE SEEN AT OHIO Other New Screen Productions Booked in Indianapolis Houses. MUSIC IS FEATURE ’ A movie event of Importance is the beginning of a limited run at the Ohio Theater next week of D. W. Griffith’s “Orphans of the Storm." This is Griffith’s latest picture and it is said to he his most costly screen production. Lillian and Dorothy Gish are featured in the cast. Other movie houses will offer important new screen releases next week. Some well known screen players will appear in them. The movie line-up next week is as follows: Ohio—“ Orphans of the Storm.” Loew’s State—" The Iron Trail.” Alhambra—"ls Matrimony a Failure?” Isis—"Up and Going” with Tom Mix. Circle —"The Song of Life.” Mister Smith’s —"The Sheik’s Wife.”

AT THE PARK

Miss Helen Norwood, who will play one of the chief roles in “The Unlived Wife" at the Park next week.

Special musical programs are announced in all of the houses next ween. -i- -I- -J----BEST LOOKING ACTOR FOUND IN GRIFFITH MOVIE. Joseph Sehildkraut, who plays the leading part in D. W. Griffith's new picture sensation, “Orphans of the Storm.’’ a picturization of "The Two Orphans,” is known as ‘the handsomest man in the world.” He received this distinction from no less an authority than Max Rhinehart, the famous con'inental producer, for whom Mr. Sehildkraut played as a star. Later when he went to Vienna, the Emperor of Austria made him the favorite of that famous court and his famed beauty became a matter of worldwide comment. His mother ascribes the beauty of Jo-, seph Sehildkraut to pre-ca r al influence, as during the months before he was born, she constantly surrounded herself with beautiful pieces of sculpture, pr.intM manly be* tty. She was con-™ Adent herVhild would he a boy. "Orphans of the Storm." a United Artists Corporation release, will be shown ffunday at the Ohio Theater for * limited engagement. “THE IRON TRAIL” BOOKED AT LOEW’S. “The Iron Trail." adapted from a novel by Rex Beach, will be the feature offering at Loew's State next week. The story was adapted for screen purposes by Mr. Beach and he personally selected the cast, approved every location an dassisted materially in the production. The east is headed by Wyndham Standing. Reginald Denny and Alma Tel!, assisted by Thurston IIu!i. Harlan Knight. Betty Carpenter, Lee Beggs and Eualie Jensen.

The great outdoors of the north country is pictured true to life and some of the difficulties of railroad building by the pioneers of the wild country are shown. One of the high spots is the spectacular mob scene between •fit* employes! f the contra tors of the fi st railroad built in Alasaka and the pai<> t’aag* of those who tried to prevent the su eessful construction of the road. For the construction work it was necessary to build practical roadbeds, pia e the ties and rails, and to do this railroad builders were necessary. The Whartoq & Northern Railroad in the Northwest was used for these, scenes. Miles of open country are seen from its roadway and mountain ridges, towering one above the other, form a vista of wild country seldom seen on the screen. It is a picture that will hold attention from , beginning to end, and give thrills that leave a lasting Impression. ( A short feature on the program * *TI •’ Policeman and the Baby.” a comedy ihat -has brought roars of laughter -vh -rever shown. The cast includes William Desmond, Wallace Beery and Elinor Fair. The usual short subjects and special music are also included on -.he bill. COMEDY ON V lEW AT ALHAMBRA NEXT WEEK. “Is Matrimony a Failure?” played by I/eo Ditrlchstein on the stage and brought to the screen by a cast of fun makers including T. Roy Barnes. Lila Lee, Walter fliers. Lois Wilson, Za Stl Pitts. Arthur Hoyt. Lillian Leighton. Tnlly Marshall, Sylvia Ashton, Otis Harlan. Charles Ogle, Sidney Braeey. Adolphe Menjou, Lottie Williams and Dan Mason, with James Cruze directing, will be next week’s attraction at the Alhambra. As suggested by the title the picture is a comedy of matrimonial errors, and, although It ‘‘presents’’ and "discusses" the question in a highly humorous vein, it doesn't attempt to answer It. but closes, as it begins, with a large interrogation poinr. The action takes place in Galesburg, a highly respectable and muchly married community. The husbands have all been caught young and tamed. They walk in a straight and narrow path mapped out. by their wiv n s. Asa result there is much bickering. The story shows Just what would happen if through some '.egai technicality about 50 per cent of the married men of a town suddenly discovered, after having lived half their lives as husbands, they are net really married at all and are as free as the birds of the air As may well be Imagined some extremely funny complications arise when this occurs ia Galesburg. Other program offerings wllit be *a Century comedy entitled, and the Fox news weekly. -|- -!- -|. "THE SHEIK S WIFE” TO BID FOR LOCAL FAVOR. “The Sheik's Wife” will be the feature attraction at Mister Smith’s, beginning Sunday. Emmy I,inn. one of England’s popular actresses, plays the title role. "The Sheik's Wife” is different from any production made in this country. It breathes with th<k atmosphere of desert sands, the camel caravan and spirited Arabian horses. The production is the outcome of a trip made to the desert by (Continued on Pace Nine.)