Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1923 — Page 6
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COMEDIES TO BE CHIEF PLAYS FOR HEMEEK HERE ‘Three Wise Fools' to Be at English's and ‘Banco’ at the Murat, COMEDIES will be the chief offerings for next week at English's and the Murat. The Grand Players’ eighth bill of the season will be a comedy, “Three Wise Pools.” Stuart Walker on Monday night at the Murat will give Indianapolis its first opportunity to see “Banco,” a farce-comedy with Tom Powers and Spring Byington playing the leads. The Rialto next week will feature "Look-Out,” a musical comedy. -]- -I- -I“Three Wise Fools” Is Nest Bill at English’s “Three Wise Fools,” by Austin Strong, will be the attraction at English’s next week, where it will be produced as the eighth bill of the Grand Players in Indianapolis. This is a comedy that has had a long ritn in New York and on the road in this and other countries. There are three characters in the play who are the “three wise fools,” and much of the humor is derived from them. They are old bachelors, whose lives have settled into a routine existence and who have lost their imagination and sense of romance. Into their lives comes suddenly a young girl who was sent to them upon the death of her mother, a former sweetheart of all three of the old men. They expect the girl to be a young child, but find a young and charming young lady for whose development they are to be responsible. The men call in the nephew of one of them to give them some advice, and he immediately fajls in love with the girl. And a love story is added to the comedy. Larry Sullivan, Norman Wendell and Don Merrifield will play the roles of the three bachelors, two of which were taken In the original production by Claude Gillingwater and Harry Davenport. Jean Oliver will appear as the young girl and Eddy Waller will play the nephew of one of the bachelors. Others In the cast are Alice De Lane. Idabelle Arnold, James Le Roy, Jack Martin, Alec Wilton. George Brady and William Hull, who replaces Earl Ross in the company and as stage manager. Matinees will he given tomorrow’, Wednesday and Saturday.
Fourth Walker Bill Will Bea Comedy On Monday night the Stuart Walker Company will appear in the first Indianapolis presentation of Clare Rummer's comedy, “Banco,” a farcecomedy adapted from the French and first produced at the Ritz Theater in New York. The plot of “Banco” has to do with a certain Count Alexandre de Lussac, who has been nicknamed Banco because of his prolonged sessions at baccarat. He sometimes played as long as eighty-four hours at a stretch, and on one of the occasions his wife, tiring of waiting for him, determines to seek a divorce, regardless of the fact that she loves him. She marries again, this time to a dignified and wealthy country gentleman almost twice her age . On the wedding night Banco appears on the scene and starts a fire on the estate to distract the attention of the newly made husband. Thereupon he enters the wife’s room through a window and remains all night playing cards and trying to regain her affections. Tom Powers will appear in the role of Banco and Spring Byington will have the part of the dissatisfied wife.. Others in the cast will include such favorites as Aldrich Bowker, Donald MacDonald. Lucile Nikolas, Corbet Morris, Judith Lowry, LEstrange Millman, Jack King Davis and Elizabeth Ross. -I- -!- -INew Musical Comedy Ihie at the Rialto “Look-Out,” anew musical comedy, will be the chief offering at the Rialto next week. It has many comedy situations. Several new’ members are announced for the cast. There will be a number of vaudeville acts, including the Clark Sisters in songs and dances. De Losse and Alexander In songs and classic dances and Miles Hanson and Little. The bill will also include a movie feature.
rilAI ICU’CALL NEXT WEEK $ Circle 3373 Matinees Tomorrow, Wednesday, Saturday Charles Berkell Presents THE GRAND PLAYERS —WITH—JEAN OLIVER and EDDY WALLER THREEWISE FOOLS By Austin Strong JOHN GOLDEN’S PRODUCTION OF MIRTH, MASTER MINDS AND MYSTERY Nite Prices—2sc, 50c, 7fc } Ta x Matinee Prices—2sc, 35C',-50c \ included
NEW AND OLD FAVORITES DUE HERE
No. I—One1 —One of the Weaver Brothers with a musical saw at the Palace the first half of next week. No. 2—Billy Clark, blackface co-
Guy Accepts Challenge to Make Civic History
By WALTER D. HICKMAN THE MUNICIPAL THEATER has conic to stay in the city of Indianapolis. The second season will open at Brookside Park on Monday night, June 4. with ‘‘Turn to the Flight” as the bill. With the announcement of the tirst bill, one has the right to assume that worth while plays will be presented during the summer.
Last summer. G. Carlton Guy ann others connected with the present city administration, launched the Municipal Theater. There may he a difference of critical opinion on the venture. : but this fact remains—that the clty- ; owned theaters at Brookside arid Garj field Parks were heavily patronized. On several of my visits last summer |at Brookside wo re marie on nights ! when the w’enther was unpleasant, j mostly rain. On all of those oecaI sions the tent was packed with peoj pie and some were standing under i umbrellas at the sides of the tent. The best way to determine the sueI cess of the open-air and city-controlled j theater is by the patronage- given it j bv the taxpayers. My idea of an ideal system of city j park entertainm* nt is one which would alternate dramatic productions with music and neighborhood pageants. I am sure that there is enough talent in the vicinity of the parks o\ the city to provide a splendid neigh borhood pageant. These pageants could bo made into the nature of gala | occasions, picnics and that sort of a ! thing. -I- -I- T I believe thu* the program should ' include concerts, i understand that | the park board is considering placing a novelty band at Garfield Park to i test the need of such entertainment. ■ If that is done the board deserves more praise. Last summer 1 made a plea for one I big municipal week for the open-air j theater. I suggested that Margaret I Anglin might be brought hero for | one week in a classic play and that j the other talent be supplied by the * Municipal Theater from its own ranks tind from local talent. I have always | felt that the Little Theatre Society ; would be glad to cooperate in such an event. Why not give the subject some consideration and find out if park patrons want such an event. St. Louis has its municipal opera. It Is an expensive venture, too much so for Indianapolis at the present time. Opera costs a fortune. If there I is doubt on that subject Ona B. Tali iiot should be consulted. -I- -I- T On the night of Juno 1, the Little
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median, with a musical comedy at the Rialto next week. No. 3 — Alice De Bane with “The Three Wise Fools” at the Grand
Theatre Society will present a Shake sperian Revel in the sunk* n gardens of the Parry estate. A small fee will be charged by the society for this event. Numerous scenes from ten of Shakespeare's plays will be presented in an open air theater. People well known in dramatic circle- of Indianapolis will take the parts. The costume committee for the revel consists of Miss Gladys Arbuckle. Mrs. Helen Adams, Miss Dorothy Blair. Miss Anna 1 l.isselman, Miss Grace Margaret Kiess, Mrs. Alex Sangernebo. Miss Roda Selleek, Miss Mary Turner. Mury Wickard and Miss Marjorie Johnson. Tiiis open air festival is a big undertaking and deserves heavy patronage. Meighan Back at Work Thomas Meighan is back at work again after a month's vacation and is now making “Homeward Bound” at the Paramount I/ms Island Studio. This is an adaptation of Peter B. Kyne's novel, "The Light to Leeward," with Ralph Ince directing. Lila Lee will be Mr. Meighan's leading woman in this sea story. Other members of the cast include Charles Abbe, who was with Mr. Meighan in “Cappv Ricks” and “Back Home and Broke." Hugh Cameron, William T. Carlton, Gits Weinberg, who played in "The Ne’er Do Well;” Cyril Ring and Alva McGill.
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RIALTO ABSOLUTELY CLEAN FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SHOWING ALL NEXT WEEK DICK HATTON in the BLO 0 D TEST A Western Romance of the Great Outdoors. JENK’S MUSICAL MAIDS Presents “LOOK OUT” 14—PEOPLE—14 Big Beauty Chorus VAUDEVILLE AND SPECIAL FEATURES TUES., AMATEURS FRI., COUNTRY STORE
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next w’eek. No. 4—Aldriclj Bowker in "Ban co” at the Murat opening Monday
MUSIC AND DANCE ON PALACE BILL MUSIC AND DANCING will predominate on the bill for the first half of the week at ih>- Palace. The headline attraction will be "Hi Ba Bo." which has been declared one of the most distinctive artistic novelties in vaudeville this season. D. Apollon, a violin vlr tuoso is featured in the act. Artistic dancing will be offered by the Sully Sisters and Ritz. who were sea tured in the Cleveland Operatic Com pany. Others on the bill are: WEAVER BROTHERS—"The An k&nsaw Travelers," who claim to be the original handsaw musicians Com edy of a rural sort and plenty of mel ody will be offered by this well-known team. The Weaver Brothers have just reneotly returned from Ixtndon. where they wore tho hit of the "Peep Shop," the big revue at the Hippodrome. REN NEE ONE—This little Chinaman has a tenor voice of wide range and will present an offerttig that is entirely new to the American stage. He is called "The Mandarin Minstrel,” and is a graduate of American and European schools. NELLIE V. NICHOLS Will offer character drawings In song and story with special material by Vaughn De heath. She will be assisted at the piano by Charles Bates. ROY AND ARTHUR —Will present a juggling oddity called "A Chinese Restaurant.” PHOTOPLAY—Constance Rinney in "A Bill oX Divorcement." The Desley Sisters and Company will headline the bill for the last half of the week with an act called “YouthBeauty and Talent." Others on the bill will be MUlicent Mower in "The Spirit of Melody”: Carleton and Ral lew In “A Feast for Fashionable Fan ciee"; Johnson and Baker, and Ray Snow and Norinne. The photoplay for the last half will be Alice Brady in “The Leopardess."
Continuous |fj?| Mjk |j JjjpH P** Vaudeville Ito 11P.M. Bn rm V EL at 3, 6:50, 9:10 MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY ONLY NELLIE V. NICHOLS LEE and CRANSTON in “SONGS” | n", p , „ Charles Bates- Pianist Just Lovely People MABEL FORD PRESENTS THE MANDOLIN WIZARD 0. APOLL3H ■ “81-BA-BO” WITH MISSE'i RAMONS, VIRGINIA BACON AND PAVLOW ______ j sally SISTERS BEN NEE ONE Lj.mmyr.tz The Mandarin Minstrel I "The Charm of Youth” WEAVER BROS” ARKANSAW TRAVELERS The Original Handsaw Musicians AT WORK PHOTO FEATURE PATHE NEWS andplay UONSTANCE BINNEI FABLES public school no. 55 in A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT” comedy COMING THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY DESLEYS SISTERS & CO. Ml LUCENT MOWER 808 CARLTON & BALLEW JULIE in “The Spirit of Melody” i A Feast for Fashionable Fancies JOHNSON & BAKER SNOW & MARINE in "Traction” In “You Pick ’Em” FEATURE ALICE BRADY in “THE LEOPARDESS”
PRESENT DAY FILM LACKS MATINEE IDOL, SAYS DEAN Silver Screen Boasts of No Outstanding Movie Hero, Critics Claim. By JAMES W. DEAN NEW YORK, May 19.—The screen at present boasts no outstanding “matinee idol.” It has a handful of male stars who each have immense followings—Chaplin. Fairbanks, Lloyd, Barthelrness and a few others. Tiie appeal of each of these is to the mass in general. Os this group Barthelrness is the only one w’ho owes his early popularity to the young ladies, but he has passed beyond that stage. He has grown a little too dignified, a little too earnest. He Is Mr. Barthelrness now. This change is evident in "The Bright Shawl.” Since the passing of the lamented Wally Reid and the deflection of Ruddy Valentine from the cinema ranks there has been no male actor of the screen capable of packing theaters simply because he could make the hearts of young iadies go pllty-pat. No surer index of an actor's popularity can be given than the bestowal of a pet name such as Wally, or Ruddy, or Doug, or Charlie, by the public. Rex Ingram, discoverer of Valentino, has brought forth Ramon Novai ro. He has been well received, but he has established no considerable per- : sonal following. Glenn Hunter May Become an Idol Glenn Hunter, appearing in a few lnconsequental films, is not yet known to the great host of fans, but his work so impressive that the Famous Players-Lasky people gave him a contract at his own terms and are planning to put him before the public in a big way in the hope that Vie will gain a great following. D. W. Griffith, discoverer of Bart bairn ess and tutor of many of our present stars, went to England to get Ivor Novello In the hope of finding another great star. His first picture has not yet been released. Charles de Roche was brought from France in the hope that he would re-< place Valentino in the public estimate. It is generally conceded now that that can never be. Os all the never actors who have been paraded across the screen in the hope that they will engage the atten tion of girls and young women—they are the main support of the movie— Albert Lunt seems to me to be the most promising. He is the most personable actor 1 have seen since Wallaoe Reid's heyday. Lunt is 00-starred with Edith Roberts in "Backbone.” This picture lacks several essentials of good photodrama. It is a tale of backwoods in trigue in which the beautiful daughter
‘Fools’ in Movie With the wrecking of a 7,000poiind steel armored car used in a novel jail-break scene. King Vidor I its finished the "shooting" of "Three Wise Fools,” his screen adaption for Goldwyn of the popular Broadway stage success. Claude Gillingwater plays tho same role in the picture as his stage character. William H. Crane, dean of the Amerfican stage, and Alec Francis com plete the trio of sapient simpletons. Eleanor Boardman. Cinderella of the screen, plays the leading feminine role, and others in the cast are William Haines, John Halnpoils. Craig Riddle Jr Raymond Hatton. Creighton Hale, Brinsley Shaw. Martha Mattox, ZaSu Pitts and Fred Esmelton.
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Famous Rider to Be With Circus
MISS MYRTLE COMPTON AND FAVORITE HORSE.
Os the many famous riders coming with the ILngiing Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus on Monday,
of the wealthy landowner is arrayed against the handsome young man who owns the adjacent property. In the end love smoothes the differences. There is little of romance to the roie Lunt plays, but the boy is attractive. All he needs now Is a little pomade for his hair and a scene with a little passion in it—sheik stuff —and he will be well on his way to mount the idol's altar. When they begin to call him Al, you’ll know he s there. Sam Goldwyn Decide* to .Make Only Few Pictures Lunched ’at Pam Goldw’yn’s house the other day. “From now on I am going to make just three or four pictures a year,” he told me. “When 1 was head of the Goldwyn company we made fifty a year. Ari has little chance to develop when pictures are machine-made. I'm working for quality now’.’’ He went into detail about his plans for the screening of "Potash and Perlmutter.” Barney Bernard and Sam Karr will play their original stage roles Vara Gordon is in tho cast Clarence Badger is directing. If “Potash and Perlmutter” is halt as good as Pam made it sound to me It's going to be one whiz of a picture. Goidwyn will also film "Tiie Eternal City ” George Fltzmaurice is going to Italv soon to start work on the continuity prepared by his wife. Oulda Bergere. Montague Love and Barbara LaMar-- have !>een cast for leading roles. Were you ever in such serious conversation with your dancing partner that sou had only half an ear to the music and suddenly found that you wrro dancing in one spot? Alfred Green worked that situation with good effect in "The Ne'er-Do-Well.' This is Tom Meighan's best picture in months. Historical' Movie Finished Frank E. Woods, w-ho Is supervising the production of “Richard the tion Hearted,” the Associated Authors initial release, has completed camera work on the big historical drama, which features Wallace Beery in the title role. With the assistance of Elmer Harris and Thompson Buchan an, his associates. Mr. Woods is now at work on the cutting and editing of the film. O’Neill’s Success for Movie Bradley King is at work on a screen adaptation of "Anna Christie.” Eugene O’Neill’s famous stage play for which Thomas H. Ince has purchased film rights at a top notch price of sl<lo.Fid John Griffith Wray will di rect the jnew Ince special, which will go into productions within a few weeks.
June 4. one of the best known is Miss Compton, daughter of Cv Compton, leader of the wild west contingent of tne circus.
Why Movies? By DAVID BELASCO I don’t think there should be any rivalry between the stage and the screen. They each have endless possibilities for expressing their story of the human soul and they can each do it from totally different angles. Every artist wishes to tell his or her story to the greatest number of people. That I suppose is the humanitarian motive back of all art. Whut possibilities the pictures give for that! How wonderful it would be if only we had a screen record of the greatest and most glorious of actresses —Sarah Bernhardt, during the early part of her career. Bernhardt as she was in Paris when she first played "Camille.” It was real belief in the Warner Brothers’ sincerity of purpose that made me enthusiastic about having Miss Lenore T'lrie do "Tiger Rose” for the screen. "Tiger Rose" carries a great message and Lenore Ulric with that intense sincerity that is part of her character will be able, I am sure, to teil the story, in pictures.
Ince Fses Newspaper Plant The entire plant of one of Los Angeles’ largest newspapers was turned over to Thomas H. Ince for twenty - four hours for the filming of some of the big scenes in ”H-r Reputation.” a forthcoming luce special built around the power of the press. From Saturday night until Monday morning the Ince Company worked with the staff of the newspaper, who received a substantial bonus for their assistance in filming the picture John Griffith Wray directed. Cody Dresses l T p Lew Cody, who for several months has heen playing old-clothes parts, with the exception of “Rupert of Hentzau.” a costume picture, essays his first dressed-up part of the season in "Lawful Larceny," an Allan Dwan Paramount production which has just heen completed at the Ling Island Studio. In “lawful Larceny” he appears with Hope Hampton, Nita Naldi and Conrad Nagel.
MURAT S WalkerV S Company <BANCQ> A Comedy of One Charming and Two Husbands By f *£§* Clare Kummer Matinees Curtain Wednesday Mat., 2:30 Thursday—-Saturday Eve., 8:30 S Today —lT’S A BOY OPENING NEW RIVERSIDE AMUSEMENT PARK Continued Until Saturday Evening, May 26 Fireworks Each Evening SUNDAY EXCEPTED [T“~”T MANY NEW RIDES '~~7] FREE and FREE AMUSEMENT 7r\f\ ZUO devices Lokj ‘ N. B.—Fire Workat Balloon AscenAon. Parachute Leap, May 30
SATURDAY, MAY 19,1923
MARY, NORMA AND CONSTANCE ARE VOTEDFAVORITES' High School Students Make! Out Lists of Players They Like the Best. MARY PICKFORD, Norma Tat* madge and Constance Talj made are among high school students the most popular motion pio* ture actresses in the United States, according to a report just mad© pub* lie by Clarence Arthur Perry, oh air* man of the national committee to* better films of New York City. It is interesting to not© that for th* first time in the history of th© stag© or screen two sisters—Norma an<s Constance Talmadge share th* heights of popular favor. This dis* closes the fact that Constance Is the best-liked actress classed as a come* dienne in motion pictures. The late Wallace Reid was the fa* write actor, according to the vote both sexes, followed by Rudolph Vais entino and Douglas Fairbanks. With! the boys, Douglas Fairbanks first: Charlie Chaplin was seventh on the list and led all screen comedians, closely followed by Harold Lloyd. Wit 1 the girls. Richard Barthelrness ran next to Rudolph Valentino and Wal I lace Reid, and ahead of Douglas Fair* j banks. These preferences are based upon the returns to a questionnaire whicl was fflled out by 17.000 boys ant 20,000 girls in the high schools oi} seventy-six cities and towns. Alt sections of th© country from Main* to California and from Minnesota t* Texas are represented, the large cities as well as the towns and villages. The questionnaire, submitted in May, 1922, which has taken a ful\ I year to tabulate, covered th© tasted I and habits of young people respecting I attendance at movies more completely j than has heretofore been attempted, I and altogether the study Is the most i comprehensive of its kind that has ever been brought to a successful | conclusion. It has been made possible by the cooperative efforts of the national committee for better films, j the Russell Sage Foundation and As- ! sociation First National Pictures, Inc. Returns Also Show Average Movie Attendance The returns show that high school boys attend the movies on an averI age of 1.24 times a week while tho girls go 1.06 times. Among the boys 83 per cent and of the girls 88 per cent do not attend oftener than twice a week, and those who go oftener j than four times a week reach only 1 twenty-six out of 1.000 hoys and only nine out of the same number of girls. Both sexes attenl slightly more often in the second year of school life than they did the first, but their attendance falls off progressively in tho third and fourth years. As to the kinds of pictures liked the boys uniformly preferred the western and frontier, comedy and detective types of photoplay, while the 1 with equal decisiveness, stated a i erenr© for love stories, comedies and | societv life. Both put tragedies and j serials at the bottom. The boys give fourth and fifth places in their apprectation to love stories and society life —just where the girls rank the frontier and detective screen plays. As the young people grow older there is an interesting change in their tastes. The boys show an Increasing interest in love stories and an almost equal growth in their lik ing for society life, while the lure of the frontier and the detective film-* gradually abates. The girls’ Interest in love stories and society life likewise increases with the years, but not to the same degree. Both sexes (Uontinued on Pag© 7)
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