Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1923 — Page 7
JAN. 20, 1023
OEftNTELLSOFHIS ► VISIT WITH BETTY Miss Compson Denies Matrimonial Rumors, By -TAMES VC. DEAN NEW YORK, Jan. 20. —1 dropped Into the Ambassador to pay my respects to Betty Compson before she returned to Hollywood to start work In "The Rustle of Silk.” There she was, writing a letter and right away I thought of the stories I had heard about the young fellow who went all the way to Hawaii when Betty was there filming "The White Flower” last month, and of the reports that she would marry soon. "Now tell me, honest Injun, Betty, are you engaged?” I asked. "I certainly am not engaged and I do not contemplate marriage now,” she answered. But she blushed. “I don’t believe that a woman can hate two careers,” she went on. “And a woman cannot make a good wife while she is pursuing another career. I shall not marry until I know that ■ here shall be only one husband, not three or four. I shall not marry until I meet a man who means the whole of life to me and to whom I shall be everything. “Os course, there are some who can have both a career and a husband, like Mary Bickford. It must be wonderful to live such a life, but Wkll of us are not so forunate.” W Betty Compson Is one of those unistial persons who appear to better : dvantage off the screen than on. Most of the movie players have two j Ist! net personalities and as a rule i heir keener, more attractive selves re evident on the screen. The camera may be unkind to certain types of beauty, but it often Is silently charitable in the matter of reproducing varying degrees of Intelligence. There is a certain piquancy to Betty Compson. a quickening enthusiasm and a frankness of speech and manner which bespeak a lively intellect. She is one of the few stars of the screen who would not lose prestige by Personal appearances. (Many of them have lost prestige by appearing in icrson before audiences. 1 Judged by ordinary standards Betty | Compson is not beautiful. There is something more attractive in the slight irregularity of her features than in the faces of some stars who have doll faces. However, no doll or screen star has more beautiful eyes than Miss Compson. (This is written shortly after seeing her.) Her eyes have trtht peculiar transparency that creates a varying highlight as they move. “The Miracle Man” is naturally 11 a Compson’s favorite picture. Thai lifted her to stardom. She believes -he has Improved greatly as an artist since then. I don’t. Few screen ,gtars are ever ;t s- good in subsequent 1 sE4ims as they were in the one that
II “NO WOMAN IS GOING TO GET MY SON!*’ This was the mandate of a hardened man who taught his son all women were bad. j j A picture with all the strength and zeal of Barthelmess at his best. |lj) A drama of a love which had to fight to live. With Dorothy Gish as the nv|| Limehouse slavey—with the director who made “Tol’able David”—this Nil powerful picture is destined to be one of the greatest pictures of the year. I j Week of January 28 _ .1 “TU H . . f” OVERTURE ! he Hottentot -wagnerianajjlji Taken from william Comer's A Selection of Favorite Melodies -—Comedy—thrm***** Act '° n by Richard Wagner — ORGAN SOLO | Doom Open Sunday I:3ft “DREAMY MELODY* jjj w*nw. Nunn Played by Walter Flandorf
Drama League Launches Go-to-the-Theater Week
By WALTER D. HICKMAN WEEK” will be observed in IndianvJT apolis and in all other cities by the Drama League of America, beginning on next Monday and continuing for remainder of the week. The local organization of the league has approved of Mrs. Leslie Carter and John Drew in “The Circle,” coming to the Murat the first half of next week. The league has purchased 200 seats tor the opening performance of “The Circle” Monday night.
It is proper that the league place its. official approval to “The Circle" as well as praising the two stars. I have seen “The Circle” and do not
hesitate in saying that the comedy as well as the acting, is delightful. I believe that we have a duty, and that is to support the better things of the theater. “The Circle" belongs to that class. Interest
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probably will center upon Mrs. Carter and Mr. Drew. Here we have two of the most Interesting artists before the American public today. Each has a splendid record on the stage. 1 believe that good acting is universally appreciated. You will find only good acting in "The Circle.” Asa comedy it is one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I have seen in many years. Indianapolis is honored in having the two stars and “The Circle” with us for at least part of Go-to-the-The ater week. + + + Stuart Walker will close his com- j pany at Louisville, Ky., tonight. Mr Walker did not receive the necessary support to warrant his continuing his ! company in that city. The newspapers in that city have! been full of reasons for Louisville falling to support Mr. Walker. Some I claim that he made a bad start by j opening his season with “The Charm i gained them stardom. They seem less Inspired once success has come to them. Betty believes that her best work was done in “The Green Tempta tion.” She wants to do melodramatic pictures and thinks “The Woman With Four Faces,” which will follow “The Rustle of Silk” will be her best picture. “Acting for William Desmond Taylor in ‘The Green Temptation' was the most enjoyable work I ever did.” she told me. “It wasn't work. It was everything an actress could ask. If making all pictures were like that 1 would never think of anything but a career. Why, you wouldn't think cf asking me if I were engaged.”
> i School.” Others feel that his casts I did not compare with those assem- ' j bled for Cincinnati and Indianapolis. ; i And other reasons have been advanced. It seems to me that “natural conditions” defeated Mr. Walker In Louisville. In the first place many of Mr. Walker’s regular summer players are engaged on Broadway just. now. j I believe that Mr. Walker’s form of ! entertainment has its greatest api peal in the summer when road shows are not on tour. Air. Walker probably will open his summer engagement at the Murat earlier than usual. He does not fall in Indianapolis or Cincinnati. •| i 1 The death of Wallace Reid removes ■ one of the best as well as one of the ; , most popular players from the screen, ilt has been admitted in public print that he was a vli-lim of drugs. Some | time ago in this department, l stated I that It was my opinion that the public ! would stand by Reid in his fight to j become master of himself again. He i has paid the price. W© probably liked him best in ! "Forever” but th great movie public i will remember him for his work In I ids automobile comedies. The death jof Wallace Reid Is a great loss to the | movie Industry. And there is a big ! lesson back of the causes leading | to his death. I He has given thousands of people [■many happy hours In the theater. I Wallace Reid will not be forgotten. Little Theatre Has New Player In “Sycamore Shadders." a comedy j drama of primitive life In southwest- 1 1 >'rn Indiana, to be produced by the j Little Theatre as its perform j ance, the character of "Fan” Potter, i a role requiring intense emotional ex I pression, has been assigned to Helene j H. Guild, a n,-w accession to Little! i Theatre players. Mrs. Guild has had professional experience, having been a member of New York stock companies Pho was also associated with the famous arna- ! teur organizations of Baltimore, the Vagabond and Stage Craft Players.
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THK INDIANA POLLS TIMES
STATE WORKMEN KEEPROAOSSAFE Highway Commission Forces Busy During Winter, The maintenance department of the State highway commission continues to be engaged in the work of keepI ing State roads safe for gravel during the winter months, the weekly road bulletin of the commission said today. Conditions of two roads running through Indianapolis were given as follows: State road No. 3 (National road. Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Richmond) — Only two detours between Indianapolis and Illinois line. Work in progress j to close these gaps with cinders and I gravel to eliminate detours this win- | ter. Pavement will bo completed in I early spring. State Road No. 6 (Montieello, Indi- | ana polls, Madison) —Detour in wet ! weather through New Marion and Correct to avoid half-mile gap where construction is suspended. Fresh stone north of Osgood. JOHN POWELL AT 1 murat my - American Composer to Make* First Local Appearance, The Cincinnati Symphony Orchea- I tra, Fritz Reiner, conductor, will present on next Thursday night at the Murat the second of the series of orchestra concerts under the direction of the Ono B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. Mr. Reiner is tremendously interested in the younger American com- j posers, especially those who compose 5 series music. He Is enthusiastic over ; the future of the American composer and American music and declares it will not be many years before Ameri- j ca will be producing compositions i that will compare favorably with the j compositions of the more famous masters of the old world. Mr. Reiner Is very much interested j In conducting the work of John j Powell, an American composer-pian-ist, who will play the double role of j soloist and composer of the “Rhap sodie Negre." The career of John ! Powell is acknowledged in language of unassailable facts. After appear- j anoes in Vienna. Paris, ijondori and Berlin, where he made profound Impression, Mr. Powell made his American debut In 1913, and won Imm# dlato recognition from the critics its a virtuoso of outstanding significance. ! Since his debut Mr. Powell has ap-
Famous Singer to Be With National Chorus
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MLLE. ODA SLOBODSKAJA When the Ukranlan National Chorus makes its second appearance In Indianapolis on Thursday night, Feb. 8, at. the Cadle Tabernacle. Mile. Slobodslcaja, formerly of the Imperial Opera at Petrograd, will be the soloist. Max RabinolT has assured the local committee that the opera singer would be assigned the Indianapolis date. pearl'd as soloist with all the foremost Symphony orchestras In this country. This will be his first appearance In Indianapolis. The following Is the complete programme: Overture Fantaate —-“Romeo rt Juliette" Tschaklowaky “Bhapaaodie Negro” . Powell m John Powell ,’Manfred?’ Symphony TeohiUkowaky DWAN INCREASES STAFF Julie Heme, author and scenario writer, has been added to Allan Dwan’s technical staff in an advisory capacity for the production of “The Glimpses of the Moon.” Miss Herne will assist in the direction of a number of purely feminine scenes.
Barbara LaMarr and Hainan Novarro, “Valentino’s Double”
and an all-slat* supporting cast TSHE story is concerned with the fascination of Zareda, a crystal gazer, whose siren-like fascination attracts men into her net. How she attains wealth and power through a marriage with a wealthy Marquis; how she arranges his death to marry her young lover, Ivan; how she meets a terrible end with her lover when her husband finds them together, makes a graphic and dramatic story, \
Usual Prices: FT' Sji &|S |l \ Sunday and Evenings, 25c and 40c. // y, M \ \ Week Day Matinees All Seats, 25c . ItSfidte '})
NORMAL HEALTH CONDITION SHOWN Birth Rate Exceeds Death by 6,6 a 1,000 Here, Normal health conditions are shown in vital statistics of Indianapolis for 192 with a birth rate of 20.6 a 1,000 population, and a- death rate of 14 a 1,000 population. Although the birth rate was low T er and the death rate higher than in 1921, officials class the year as exceptional in regard to health conditions. There were 4,683 deaths, an increase of 565 over 1921, and 6,888 births, a decrease of 112 from 1921. Os the total deaths, 1,324 were of persons 65 years of age or over, and 509 of babies less than 1 year old. j Thore were 376 deaths from all forms of tuberculosis, 113 from influenza and S3O from cancer. WARNS OF MOB VIOLENCE AS EVIL Allen Declares Election Day Is Time for People to Rule, By HENRY J. ALLEN Former Governor of Kansas Copyright, 1923, by United News. CHICAGO, Jan. 20,—Tho time for people to take Government Into their j own hands is on election day when j they chooce their official*. If elected ; officials become recreant, there Is al- | ways the road open to impeachment ; in the courts. In a self-governing State there must be self-control on the part of its citl- < zns. Thr© must be meticulous regard for the constitutional rights of all. The cure for a situation such as ex- j ists In Arkansas is in better laws to | safeguard the lights of the public and I to guarantee impartial Justice to the •
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striker. No outburst of indignation on the part of the public, no matter how righteous that outburst may be, can provide a permanent remedy except through law. The one thing that makes a free government safe is obedience to established order. Mob violence may seem at times to correct an evil con dilion, but it leaves behind an aftermath, out of which come all the evils of disorder and all the encouragement to mob rule. Those who are leading the movement in Arkansas may be morally right, but their method is dangerously wrong. There is a sure and better way through legislation and the courts. Their present attitude is takei in stress of passion. We need the calm and constructive action of a people who are determining not only to put down the present evil but to create such conditions that it cannot recur.
First Half 1 (CjP Next Week ' Dustin Farraini
\\ Jk ’ A thrilling melodrama | .of the great outdoor* tn ***• forests of Call* WW fomln and the flgfct of If t a man against his own I brother fkrr the girl I
A Sherlock Holmes Adventure “THE COPPER BREECHES” Coming Thursday —“Life’s Greatest Question’’
REX INGRAM „ tW pioduCGl* of he i v Horsemen. n os the Apocalypse", fiisoner of Zenda and oilier successful photoplays, Teaches his ciowning ackie cement in TRIFLING WOMEN presenting lewis Stone Barbara laMarr KamonNovarro
JOHN DREW TO TALK AT ROTARY LUNCHEON Club Plans Tenth Anniversary Party Soon. John Drew, noted actor, will speak at the weekly luncheon of the Indianapolis Rotary Club Tuesday in the Riely room of the CLiypool Hotel. Drew will be at the Murat Theater next week. Rotations announced their tenth anniversary party would be held at 7 p m. Tuesday. Feb. 6. The affair wlli be informal for Rotarians and members of their families. A special program is being arranged. Government publications of the various countries are known as "blue books,” “white books” and “books'’ of various other shades from the color of their covers.
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