Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1922 — Page 6
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FILM PRODUCER FINDS MONEY IN KIDDIES’LAUGHS They’re Finding New Ways to Start Tiny Tots’ Merriment. 'OH, DADDY!’ IS MIRTHFUL By JAMES W. DEAN. NEW YORK, July B.—The success ©f many a photoplay has been made by the cry or the laugh of a child. Probably no artifice of the screen has so quick and definite a reaction on the audience as a close-up of a crying babe. Forsooth, a child cannot be beaten or tortured to make it cry just to give a director a tender moment In his film, so many an ingenious device must be resorted to. Little Josephine Adair refused to simulate grief for an episode in “In the Name of the Law." Her mother told her the tragic story of the little girl whom she was Impersonating in the play, but the child 6eemed to sense the make-believe in it aIL Then Emory Johnson, the director, _ quietly secured her pet doll and. going behind the scenes, tore its dress to pieces. Then he told Josephine a dog had destroyed the doll. The desired effect was obtain. The tragedy was real to the tot. -I* + + Some may hold that mental torture of a child is more cruel than physical mistreatment. The loss of a doll through the eyes of a child may ap pear as great as the loss of a child to a mother. But the director restored Josephine Adair’s doll to her and bought anew dress for It. That satisfied the child and compensated her for her tears. After all, the depth of tragedy is proportionate to its indurance. Adult players of the screen are often led to tears through reminder of tragedy in their own lives. + + + The success of a photoplay is also often dependent upon the reaction of the child spectator. That is especially true of comedies. The initial successes of Chaplin and j Arbuckle and Johnny Bunny were due to their appeal to children. When children in the audience laugh, the contagion spreads to their elders. A fair example of that Is furnished by "Oh, Daddy," a recent Mack Sennett comedy. It deals with the tribulations incurred in papering a home, taking care of children and. other little domestic affairs. Designed as a comedy for adults. It falls short in almost every particular to which the adult sense of humor respond?. But when "Oh, Daddy" was shown at the Strand, New York, it created many periods of mirth, each of which was started by a child. -I- -1- + Rupert Hughes tells how his wife collaborates with him in the writing of scenarios. “She tells me what to pu* down and I put it down,” he explains. “She reads it over and tells what to take out and I take it out.” -I- + *!- Camera! Camera! Wanda Hawley, Bertram Grassby and Charles Ogle will support Rudolph Valentino in “The Young Rajah.” A- -F- -IA school in which a woman teaches birds to sing Is shown in a coming Movie Chat. + + + Harriet Hammond is playing opposite Herbert Rawlinson in “The Rainbow Chaser.” H* -I* + “The Long Chance” will be refilmed with Marjorie Daw in a leading role. -!- -I- -I* Hoot Gibson Is making "Misfit Turns Chaperon.” Edna Murphy is his leading woman. -I- I- + Louis Gottschalk has completed the •core for “The Prisoner of Zenda.” He wrote the music for “The Three Musketeers” and “Orphans of the Storm.” -I- -!• -I"The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep,” an Anfierson fairy tale, is being filmed. +.+ + Milford W. Howard, congressman, will appear in the leading role of “The Bishop of the Ozarks.” It was written by him. + •!• + "Wine,” a recent magazine story by William MacHarg, will be filmed. -I- I- -I* Marlon Fairfax and Lloyd Sheldon are writing scenarios for Billie Dove.
Gossip
Cissle Loftua. who Is now appearing in London, will sail soon for America, where she Is going to make a tour of the B. F. Keith vaudeville circuit. -I- •!- Eddie Foy and the little Foys have anew act which they will present In New York In July. -1- I- -IKaryl Norman, the "Creole Fashion Plate," who recently was seen here at Keith’s, is now appearing In New York vaudeville houses after a tour which carried him from coast to coast. *1- -!* + The vaudeville houses here are getting a good play this summer. It 1s not an uncommon sight these days to see the vaudeville houses so crowded that ail available standing room is used. -1- -I- + Valeska Suratt has given up vaudeville for a time and is now appearing in a new Shubert summer 6how In New York. -I- + -!- Lionel Atwill, a legitimate star, has invaded big time vaudeville and is ap pearing in a playlet called “The "White Face Fool." -I* -I- -!- Fanny Brice, who was seen at English's some months ago with “The Follies,’ la now. causing a sensation in New York in vaudeville. She is in her third consecutive week at the Palace. A vaudeville "run” is nearly an unheard of thing.
Movie Heroes Do Odd Things Here Next Week Our movie heroes do strange things next week. Cullen Landis has the Job of “cutting out” the son of an undertaker of a small town who is in love with the same girl that Cullen Is in the movie, “Watch Your Step.” Thomas Meighan as the hero In George Ade’s “Our Leading Citizen” loves fishing, but his townsmen elect him to Congress. That’s one election that the fish appreciated. Our hero in a movie version of Zane Grey's "Wildfire,” filmed under the title of "When Romance Rides,” is overshadowed by the heroine who has a terrible time of it. She is tied to the back of a horse and the animal is dispatched on a mad race down the road. In a movie called “The Bootleggers,” the hero is a prohibition inforcement agent. He looks for spirits only. Our heroes will have a lively time of it next week on the local screen.
-I- •!• -!- Romance for Elmer. Cullen Landis and Patsy Ruth Miller play the leads in “Watch Your Step,” to be at the Circle next week. Story; Elmer Slocum, wealthy city youth, after smashing up his auto while the police are trying to arrest him, escapes and lands in a small Western town. He becomes a grocery clerk and falls in love with Margaret Andrews. His rival is uie son of an undertaker. Elmer blacks the eye of the son of the undertaker. Our hero is arrested. His father arrives from the East and forgives him. So does the police. Elmer and Margaret become husband and wife. Happy ending. Bill Includes Buster Keaton in “My Wife’s Relations"' the Circle Orchestra, playing selections from Pagllaccl; rendering of “They Call It Dancing” on the organ; Circlette of News and Topics of the Day. -I- -I* -IGrey Writes Thriller Zane Grey’s racing story, “Wildfire,” has been made into a movie under the name of “When Romance Rides.” To be at the Ohio next week. Story—William Bostil, Colorado ranch owner, is a lover of race horses and he has a favorite in "Sage King,” which is entered in a fast race. His daughter Lucy has a fast horse in “Wildfire” and she decides to ride her. She wins the race but the villain of the story gets revenge by strapping Lucy on the back of a wild horse. A dog becomes the hero by causing the animal to stop. Sounds like a typical Zane Grey story. The cast Includes Tod Sloan, who was famous as a jockey twenty years ago. Claire Adams, Frank Hayes, Mary Jane Irving, Walter Perkins, Babe London. Charles Arllng and Harry L. Van Meter. Bill includes a news weekly, a comedy and a musical program by the orchestra. + "I* -I* George Ade Plus Tom Meighan George Ade and Thomas Meighan sometime ago decided to “get together.” The result is a movie called, “Our Leading Citizen.” Ade did the writing and Meighan does the acting. At the Apollo next week. Story—Daniel Bentley is a email town lawyer whose hobby is fishing, but he gives up this sport when the World War arrives and made a hero of himself. He returned to the ole fishin’ hole, but the reception committee frightened all the fish away when they attempted to welcome him home as a hero While over there he fell in love with Katherine Fendle, a Red Cross nurse. His home folk nominate Daniel to Congress. When he discovers that he is to be a tool for corporation Interests, he disappears. Efforts to discover him makes up the story. Besides Meighan the cast Includes Lois Wilson, William P. Carleton, Theodore Roberts, Guy Oliver, Lawrence Wheat. James Neill, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle and others. Bill includes a news weekly. Educational comedy and music# -I* -I* -I“The Bootleggers" Arrive. The bootleggers vs. prohibition enforcement agents is the theme of a movie called “The Bootleggers.” which.
In The Land of Make Believe By WALTER D. HICKMAN
The action of the city council in abolishing the Municipal Theater may be regarded as another step of protest against the present city administration policy of giving free stock performances in the public parks. The action of the council is based upon the protests of citizens living near Garfield Park, where the second city-owned theater was opened last Monday. The councilmen who supported the amendment to abolish the city owned theater took the position that the money should be used for public playgrounds for children. In studying the Municipal Theater in Indianapolis it is the opinion of the writer that Carlton Guy and those responsible for the success or failure of the Idea have been too keen in presenting melodramatic thrillers Instead of aiming at an educational as well as an entertaining standard. The writer in this space some weeks ago pointed out the danger of presenting cheap melodramatic entertainments in the public parks. Personally I see great benefits to be obtained from city owned theaters in the parks in the summer time, but it is dangerous to poke down the throats of every tax payer large doses of cheap melodrama. If Mr. Guy would have followed the open air Idea of Ben Greet and had presented the more artistic things of the literary world the alleged protest against the Municipal Theater likely never would have been made by the council or property owners. The portable open air theater could have been used and taken week to week from one park to the other. Another fatal mistake has been that the children have been ignored. I remember on the opening night of the Municipal Theater at Brookslde Park it was explained the cityowned theaters were for adults. There are mafiy delightful plays for children of all ages. Stuart ■Walker has proved that. The Municipal Theater must be representative. It cannot be a melodrama roost. Personally I support the Municipal Theater idea in the parks in the summer time, but the means of expression must be along educational and Instructive lines. + -I- -IIf all the talk be true, George Ade has turned out an honest to goodness American made movie. There are so very few real Yankee spirited stories Written for the screen. This picture is being balled over the country as a
will be at the Isis next week. Thomas F. Fallon wrote the story. The cast includes Paul W. Panzer, serial star; Walter Milles, Jules Cowles, Hazel Flint, Norma Shearer, Jane Allyn and Lucia Backus Seger. The story; Fallon in writing his story injected incidents which he has seen in actual life while dealing with bootleggers on land, sea and the air. The hero is a revenue officer detailed to have charge of the aerial patrol on the Atlantic coast. A pretty orphan girl is made the victim of the leader of the bootleggers. That situation affords the romance of the story. The bill includes a comedy, “A Boy, a Bear and a Dog.” Another “Poor Rich” DURHAM, England, July B.—Owing to heavy taxation, Lord Boyne has decided to abandon historic Brancepeth Castle.
Scientist’s Horrors Would Be Good for ‘Deb’ Flappers
BY RODNEY DUTCHER. United News Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO, July 8. —Flappers who have affected the debutante slouch—and nearly all of them have—would do well to go out to Col. George Fabyan's laboratory and give a look. Colonel Fabyan's “chamber of horrors” would make the most pronounced hunchback stand up straight and repent the error of his ways. Colonel Fabyan. be it known, is a multi-millionaire, who has raised prize peacocks, blooded pups and bossy cows, built a SIOO,OOO laboratory for the study of acoustics, espoused the Baconian theory and reconstructed Grecian baths and Italian gardens. But all these were the most dilettante of pursuits, compared to the colonel's latest life work—to find out what is the matter with the well known female figure, which he claims should bo the acme of grace and beauty, but isn't. In the colonel's newest laboratory, presided over by Miss Mary Todd, a New lork exponent of physical culture. the colonel has collected an exhibit of what the little flaps w'.U grow up into if they persist in ambling along like a question mark. These grisly specimens are spinal columns taken from the skeletons of girls who walked wrong. These
Mrs. Oleson, Candidate, Answers Senator New
By United Prtat CLOQUET, Minn, July B.—The drive against the direct primary system is an attack on democratic government, Anna Dickie Olesen, Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Minnesota, said today. "We have a Government by the people and we call it a democratlo form of Government,” 6he said. "We
visible step in the making of better movies. -I- -I- -IA certain New York theater is serving patrons between acts with cold orangeade. If it goes well in New York, why not here?
rvP / I —Cullen Landis In a scene from “Watch Your Step,” at the Circle I mmm. next week * ffijrW'' “ — A Kenß Just before the big race In "When Romance Rides,” to be \ ig / at the Ohio next week. . 3—Thomas Melyhart as he appears In George Ade’s "Our Leading A J. J| Citizen,” at the Apollo all next week. H MB Tells Why Shoes Shine Firemen Giro Exhibit Up. ® Arthur L. Franklin of tho Blxby Talks on fir® prevention and an m j||||| U 11 Shoo Polish Company wiH teU the exhibition of firemen answering a M members of the Sclentech Club at night alarm were given last night betheir Monday luncheon why shoes for ® 200 persons by the firemen stashine, why they crack, and will Uone ? Rt en f‘™ h ° us * No ’ 17 ’ Madlr,?A MSfM .mSriMSmiF 1 IS ... . . son Ave. and Morris St. solve other mysteries which confront IfefepljL < Wk' ...... _ .. . Gladys Brown. 10. daughter of Mr. SH&'j'. :£ Wt ’' 1 1 alk on least and Mrs. Alonzo Brown, 2822 E. Now $11111155% Carl H. Russ of the Fleishmann York St., was injured when she was ppp'fiVV Company will talk on “Yeast" at the struck by a truck driven by Harry . B, Rotary Club luncheon in the Riley Frazee. 745 Spruce SL The accident Jfr&Bt room ci th ® Claypool Hotel Tuesday occurred at Michigan St. and Middle noon. Drive, Woodruff Place,
IJ&H i—.... .ill i ~it" Mm. .I, —. Ml #§ 2—Beatrice Maude, who will appear next week at the Murat In Stuart Walker’s production of "Seven Chances.” | 3—Jack White of the team of Wood and White, to be at the Lyric - I 4—Mazie Trumbol, at the Rialto next week. f Wg*. j Dramatic Freak Strives L® 1 1k£l for Success on Broadway
were the girls who first affected the famoiis debutante slouch and are now dead and gone, with only their crooked and deformed boqes left ’a point a terrible warning to the girls of today, according to Colonel Fabyan. “Yes," said the Colonel, as he sadly eyed the vertebrae of a gone, dead and departed unfortunate, “I believe it’s my mission to improve the human race; to find out what’s wrong with the human body. These fashionable slouches are the cause of many ills. What will the next generation be If the women of today have hollow chests? I propose to go into this matter of posture and carriage scientifically. for It is of the greatest importance. “Girls grow up without the slightest idea how to walk. They don’t know how to bereathe correctly. Their carriage la not only ridiculous, bu‘ criminal. “We’ve been experimenting with some of the women on the estate and the improvement is marvellous. We have corrected their slouches and they now stand erect, not like an anthropoid ape Just learning how to walk. “Why, the majority of us are Just pitiful contraptions of flesh and bones. The average man or woman doesn't know any more about anatomy than about Einstein’s theory.”
need to become more democratlo and the convention system is autocratic, because It does not give all of the people an opportunity to express their desires." Mrs. Olesen referred to an attack on the primary statement! made by Senator New. “It was not the primary system that defeated Senator New in Indiana and Senator McCumber In North Dakota. It was their records in Washington, including their vote on the Newberry case," she said. "The Newberry case was not the fault of the primary system. It was not the primary that made corruption, but the use of that system by the men involved. I believe the state ment of Senator New implied that there was corruption in the Michigan primaries, but he voted to seat Senator Newberry.”
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On the Local Stage Next Week
FRANK REICHER IN THE NEW THEATER GUILD PLAY, "FROM MORN TO MIDNIGHT." revelation, in terms made familiar by Eugene O'Neill, of the futility and irony of a struggle which life has imposed oa a character. If O’NelH's "Hairy Ape" was the story of a cave man in a blind alley. Kaiser's “From Morn to Midnight" is the story of a neurasthenic on a precipice. The play, which is unfolded in seven scenes with expresslonistic settings, relates the story of a bank cashier in a small German town who attempts to break the chains which hold him down to the petty pace of dally affairs. The final scenes disclose the futility WILL REPLACE OLD CHURCH Office and Store Building on Site at Eleventh and Meridian Sts. A $200,000 office and store building will soon take the place of the old Tabernacle Presbyterian Church at the northeast corner of Eleventh and Meridian Sts. The sale of the church and site to Dr. Thomas O. Gasaway was completed by Emerson W. Challle & Cos., realtors, for $70,000. Wrecking of the church building will start soon. The building will be either three or four stories high.
BY joins’ O’DONNELL. NEW YORK. July B.—A pious hope that “From Morn to Midnight” will duplicate the success of “Llliom,’ undoubtedly accompanies the Theater Guild’s presentation of this expressionists drama by George Kaiser as its final production of the season. Such success, of course, is possible. Types of dramatic entertainment which, a few seasons ago, could have come to life only in little theaters up dark alleys, are now among the best J financial successes of Broadway. “From Mora to Midnight” belongs! in the list of the unusuaL It is a j
of his attempts to gain happiness with money. The play Is splendidly acted throughout with the performances of Frank Reicher, ns the cashier, the outstanding feature.
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THE BIGGEST LAUGHING ACT OF THE YEAR BY ONE OF AMERICA’S FUNNIEST COMEDIANS ROSCOE AILS p’ullmYn This Clever Couple Presents an Act That for Uproarious Comedy Is Unexcelled — A Combination of Musical Comedy Stars—Syncopated Music and Smart Dances. Another Summertime Surprise “ORCHESTRA OF SYNCOPATION” With CHARLES CALVERT An Offering That Includes the Newest Dance Novelties, Jazz Harmony and "Comedy Cut-Ups.” A Sportsman’s Delight GEORGALIA TRIO Rifle and Pistol Experts
Carl Laemmlt^^HHpJHpi mm Walton. ■ ‘ .In ci beautiful screen version of the famous sonp success SECOND HAND ROSE "Directed ,by Lloyd Inarahom UNIVERSAL ATTRACTION
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FRED SCHWARTZ & CO. In the Schwartz Bros. Famous Comedy Creation “THE BROKEN MIRROR” A Sextette of Wonder Girls Direct from the European Mnsic Halls j A Night in Venice Frish, Howard & Toolin i A Bong and Dance Production Melody, Laughter and Song j j Alice Ramsden Beck & Stone J English Character Comedienne Singers With Trimmings fejj Wood & White The Masons 4 Nature’s Two Noblemen Head-to-Head Balancers BILLY WEST, BILLIE RHODES AND JIMMY ADAMS C) In an Uproariously Funny Film Farce, “DON’T BE FOOLISH” Magi
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Walker Will Introduce New Artists Next WeeiL
We are going to meet some Interesting people on the stage next week. Stuart Walker, in presenting “Seven Chances” at the Murat, will Introduce Indianapolis to Mrs. Julia Hoyt, prominent society beauty of New York, and, to Myra Hampton, who was seen last season with Holbrook Blinn in “The Bad Man.” Roscoe Ails and Kate Pullman, with their syncopated orchestra, will hold the center of the stage at B. F. Keith's, beginning Monday afternoon. f Fred Schwartz and company, a European act, are pantomimic comedians who will make their first local appearance next week at the Lyric. Musical comedy players again will be present at the Rialto, where musical comedy entertainments have been established.
-l- -I- -IAnother Megrue Comedy “Seven Chances,” a comedy by Roi | Cooper Megrue, who W'rote "Honors j Are Even” and “Undfer Cover,” will i be next week's bill of the Walker company at the Murat. The story—Jimmie Shannon is left a big fortune by an eccentric uncle on the condition that he marries before his thirtieth birthday, but by some strange legal fluke the strange conditions of the will do not become known to Jimmie until one day before the “fatal” birthday. He devotes the last twenty-four hours trying to persuade some young woman to marry him. A group of seven girls are corralled and he makes feverish haste to select a wife but —well that makes the story. The cast includes Beatrice Maude, Mary Ellis, Julia McMahon, Lucile Nikolas, Jane Thomas, Julia Hoyt, Myra Hampton, Aldrich Bowker, Elizabeth Patterson, John Wray, George Somnes. Walter Poulter, Donald McDonald and Clark Hoover. -I- -I- -I* “Six Wonder Girls” Due. The Six Stellas, a sextette of pretty girls known as the “Six Wonder Girls,” will be one of the headliners at the Lyric next week. The girls are singers, dancers, jugglers, musicians and acrobats.
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°Keith's ACICKICA'j VAUDCVILLE STANDARD
How Does He Do It? HUGH JOHNSON It’s Magic and It’s Clever! “Second Hand Rose’* It's a Comedy-Drama Photo Play with a human Interest story. "Second-Hand Rose" found everything In life second hand, from shoes to hats—she was second hand herself—an Irish waif adopted by a Jewish family. She walked down Second avenue and a lady remarked —“There goes my last year’s coat-” . When "Second-Hand Rose” faced marriage she thought she’d have something new—an adventure with anew thrill—but the man turned out to be a second-hand husband, the bridal gown belonged to his first wife and wedding ring come from a hock shop! Pathe News —Topics of the Day—Aesop’s Fables
JULY 8, 1922
Fred Schwartz & Cos., a European act, will present a comedy act, “The Broken Mirror.” They are pantomimic comedians. "A Night in Venice” is the third headline act. A number of singers, dancers and instrumentalists appear. Frish, Howard ahd Toolin, a trio of harmony singing comedians, who need no introduction to Indianapolis theater-goers, return with anew line of comedy patter and song. , Alice Ramsden, English character comemedienne, also will be on the bill. Others appearing will be Milt Wood and Jack White, comedians; Beck ar.d Stone, known as "Singers With Trimmings,” and the Masons, head-to-head balancers. The movie will be a comedy, "Don't, Bea Fool," with Billy West andJ Jack Adams. dfl -i* -I- -J* m .Mis Tops Keith’s Bill At Keith’s next week, Roscoe Ails, assisted by Kate Pullman and their orchestra, will be the headline offering. Charles Calvert directs the orchestra. Ails and Miss Pullman will appear In several dance numbers. The Georgalis Trio, consisting of two men and a woman, is a shooting (Continued on Page Seven.)