Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1923 — Page 7

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1923

PICK OF IVIES TO BE ON VIEW HERE NEXT WEEK Movie Version of ‘Girl of Golden West' to Be Featured at Circle, A MOVIE VERSION of David Belasco’s “The Girl of the Golden ■West" will be presented next week at the Circle. Members of the Stuart "Walker Company. who will appear in a stage version of the play next week at the Murat, have been invited to attend Sunday afternoon. The Ohio next week will present Madge Bellamy and Cullen Landis in “Soul of the Beast." It is a Thomas Ince production. Mister Smith's will feature “Daddy Long Legs," with Mary Pickford in the chief role. + -|- + Movie Version of Stage Sensation Due at Circle “The Girl of The. Golden West.” the screen version of the story which has made theatrical history and which Inspired the opera featuring the immortal Caruso, comes to the Circle Sunday. David Belasco wrote the original story and the film adaptation was made by Adelaide Heilbron. Edwin Carewe, who directed “Mighty Lak’ A Rose," is responsible for the direction of this production. “The Girl of The Golden West.” is the story of a girl, the idol of a rough mining camp and owner of the Polka saloon, who finds herself in love with a bandit, Ramerrez, who had planned to rob her saloon—of a sheriff who was a gambler and who recognizes a gambler’s laws —and of a bandit who is started on the straight road by the love of the girl. The production is described as having no mining scenes, no made-up cowboys, no cheap melodrama and nothing but a real, gripping drama of the days of ’49, containing much fast action, thrilling climaxes and plenty of surprise, with all the romance of that period. Sylvia Breamer plays the role which Blanche Bates portrayed with admirable success for several seasons on the legitimate stage, J. Warren Kerrigan is seen as the bandit, the role w’hich Caruso immortalized in the operatic version of the story, and which Charles Riehman played on the stage. Russell Simpson played the sheriff, a role which he also played on the stage, and which Frank Keenan originated in the first legitimate production of the Belasco drama. Others in the cast are Wilfred Lucas, Rosemary Theby, Hector V. Sarno. Nelson McDowell and Jed Prouty. In addition to the feature picture, there will be a two-reel comedy and the Circlette of News. The ISI2 Overture Solonelle concludes the program.

Modem Cinderella Story at Smith’s Next Week Mary Pickford will be seen at Mister Smith’s, beginning Sunday, in “Daddy Long Legs." which has been conceded bv manv to be her most ' • popular picture. In this story Mary is seen first as the little orphan asylum drudge who is sent away to school and later marries her guardian. In her supporting cast are Mahion Hamilton as the guardian, Marshall Neilan as a boyish admirer, and Wesley Barry as Judy’s freckled companion at the asylum. A news reel and comedy complete the program. -I- -I- -IOscar, Trained Elephant, Plays a Chief Movie Role Oscar, the elephant, which is costarred with Madge Eellamy in “Soul of the Beast." Thomas i-L lnce’s big screen novelty just released by Metro, became so attached to Miss Bellamy* during the screening of the production that he used to endeavor to imitate all of her actions. Following her around the lot like a dog, he happened to be on hand one day when she was putting on her make-up. The first time her back was turned, he promptly’ began rummaging in her make-up box. daubing himself with the cold cream and powder that she had used. When she slapped him on the trunk for the damage he had done, he went off in a huff. The next time they’ wanted him for a scene there was a wild hunt. Oscar finally was discovered in the auto-shop at the far end of the Inee lot. He had found a can of axle grease and was luxuriously smearing it over his hide, grunting and stamping his feet in enjoyment at the trick he had put over. Production w’ork was held up for exactly three hours while four men scrubbed and polished Oscar before he could face the camera “au natural” once more. “Soul of the Beast” will be the chief offering at the Ohio next week.

Who Will Be Anna? The question of “Who will play the role of ‘Anna Christie’ in Thomas H. Ince’s forthcoming screen production?” has superseded that of “Who will play 'Ben Hur’?” in film circles. Every actress of note on the ooast is making a bid either openly or through representatives for a chance to play the role on the screen which has made of Pauline Lord one of the outstanding figures of the stage world. The casting of the role is especially difficult in view of the fact that it calls not only for an actress of Scandinavian type, but also one with unlimited dramatic ability. She must be able to rise to the heights that have been achieved by Pauline Lord who created the role on the stxige and whose characterization was declared by dramatic critics to be the finest of the year for 1922, when the play made such a hit on Broadway.

MOVIES OFFER SPECIAL BILL MEMORIAL WEEK

Universities to Offer Photoplay Courses

By WALTEK D. HICKMAN. “Where can 1 take a course in the movies’” That question has been asked this department so often that it is nearly a household expression. Today I received notice from the Authors’ League of America that plans are now under way by several leading universities to offer courses in photoplay science. 1 think many schools have been slow in meetlnjr this demarnL

Hducation.il institutions must yield to the demands of those who patronize schools and universities. I have before me the following communication from the Authors' league of America: “That the day is not far distant when would-be motion picture write, anrf directors and other craftsmen connected with the industry will have

•sotfSlr; THE BEAST A Circus Story that’s a Circus to See Thomas H. Ince’s new screen novelty, “Soul of the Beast,” is one th ‘^ )^ es devotion ever screened. Oscar, accorded that an elephant is more fitted than a horse or a dog 1 for film work.

university courses ope nto them has been uncovered by the arrangements which the Authors' League is making for the International Congress on Motion Picture Arts to be held in New York on June 7 and S. "Columbia University has already started a course under Professor Rowland Rogers. Vale is filming histori-

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No. I—Mary Pickford in "Daddy Igmglegs" at Mister Smith’s next week. No. 3—Russell Simpson as he appears In a movie version of “The Girl of the Golden West” at the Circle next w^ek. No. 3-—Helen Jerome Eddy in “When Love Gomes," movie part of cal subjects, and faculty members l>oth at Harvard and Princeton are studying the subject. Representatives of all of these universities have accepted invitations to be present. "Columbia is to be represented by Professor Rogers, Yale will have Professor Nathaniel W. Stephenson, Harvard will send Professor George Pierce Baker, and Princeton's representative-; will be I>r. Henry Van Dyke and Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons. “Rex Beach, chairman of the committee of arrangements, predicts that a3 xi result, of the Interest aroused by this gathering courses In picturemaking and writing for pictures will become gene.ral throughout th<* coun try. Los Angeles High School Is the first of the secondary schools to take It up. he points out, but others will

the bill at the Palace for the first half of the week. No. 4—Madge Bellamy and a trained elephant are featured In “Soul of the Beast” at the Ohio next week. No. s—Richard Headiick. Jr., in “Environment,'' movie feature xit the Palace *h*> last half of the week. follow rapidly .ls soon as they realize the possibilities and the young men and women of the country become convinced that a great future is open to them in pictures if they begin their preliminary training in this way. “The fact that Adolph Zt kor, Josso L. Laskv of the Famous Players Lasky Corporation are to off- r substantial prizes for the stimulation <<f Study of this subject, are expected to have an import,uit bearing on its future during the coming year.”

| '‘;"i ' lions.'" Now Edwin Carewe (who made “Mighty Lak’ a Rose”) has made plslPi The FINEST MOTION PICTURE YOU Have Ever Seen! A. thrilling love story of the Old West, the West of r' ’49 with its boom days, fight days, gold days, days v of romance. fe rig AS ALL OUTDOORS! CAST OF REAL STARS! JnT u', ; Y y .*>'*' A First National Picture by Wx- ~! in“ i ; DOUGLAS MACLEAN IN “A MAN 7 OF ACTION” une h Another Fast Comedy Drama With the Star of “The Hotteutot.”

‘scat; yells pola TO GLORIA’S PRETTY PEI MOVIE GATS Polish Star Tears Up Scenery When Kittens Meow Loudly, By JACK JUNGMEYER Hollywood, May 26.—Every meow of the Lasky studio cats testifies to the va.nqutshment of Pola Negri in one of many stormy tilts featuring her painful adjustment to the life on the American movie lot. The cat episode, as witnesses relate it, has become a Hollywood epic, with the Polish actress and Gloria Swanson in the leading roles. And it is being used as a. talking point by those who nominate her the most temperamental star in fllmdom. Pola. it seems, developed a deep aversion to felines. Soon after her pyrotechnical advent at the Paramount premises she ordered the studio pets banished, giving for reason a simple "I do not like." Now heretofore there had been, but the vaguest murmurs against her reported whimsies. Her refusal to accept the residence selected by Lasky officials had been meekly “yessed.” Gloria Swanson had more or loss graciously accepted Pola's usurpation o' the best dressing room. The scenario department had moved out obedient to her orders. Director George Fitzmaurtce had merely gnawed his fingernails when Miss Negri periodically quit work, under plea of sickness, during the filming of “Bella Donna." Even her failure, to recognize ladies to whom she'd been Introduced was forgotten, ts not forgiven. Swanson Loves to Hear Meows of Many Cats But banishment of the studio pets—well, that plainly was the cat's meow and called for a showdown! Miss Swanson instantly conceived an extreme fondness for felines. She ordered special milk deliveries for them. Let any one who dared so much as tweak a single whisker on their poor heads! Bombs burst in air. and Paramount prayed while Hollywood tittered —but the cats still wave o’er the Lasky ramparts. The matter of working every day llk<- an ordinary star came up again during the filming of “The Cheat." Just finished. Disagreements with Fitzmauriee frequently resulted in "sickness.“ Tola would go home. Maybe tomorrow she would feel better

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Beriault to Play Role of Shylock

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Arthur J. Beriault, who in the Shakespearean “revels” of the Little Theatre at Golden Hill on the night of June Ist, will present the trial scene from the Merchant of Venice. The cast appearing with Beriault consists of Raymond Miller, as Antonio; Alvin Zinkan as Bassanlo; Robert Gage, as Gratiano; Carl Martin. as the Duke; Ethel Eblin. as Nerissa; Marie Magdalen Beriault. as Portia. The orange juice, Marie The hack, James! At one junction where the script required her to wear a necklace, Pola appeared without it. She “did not like.” Pleading got nowhere. Then Fitzmauriee loosed some four-square talk, threatened to resign and retired to his lair, so the story is told. A Telegram Brought. Peace in Movie Camp A few days later Miss Negri was permitted to see a long wire from one of the Paramount powers In which, it is said, there was casual reference to Valentino's fate. Thereafter “The Cheat” moved along more smoothly, although the director let his assistant finish the picture. * * * Pola's friends failed to help her psychologize America. She might have been spared many painful moments had someone told her that while temperament may still be regarded by the public as a privilege of indisputably great artists it gets emphxitic thumbs down in the movie workshop. Miss Negri's next picture for Paramount -will be “The Spanish Dancer, originally designed for Valentino, and

to be produced by Herbert Brenon Meantime, she's resting at a California beach resort. Gloria Swanson has gone East to do her next, “Zaza.” RALSTON URGES GREAT LAKES TO GULF CANAL Senator Tells Dixie Highway .Association Country' Hust Be Linked. By Times Rperistl CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 26. Construction of the proposed lakes to the gulf ship canal should be the next step in connecting the North and th ■ South, Senator Samuel M. Ralston o ' Indiana said at a banquet of th Dixie Highway Asociation Frida?' night. ‘We hear a great deal nowadays about nationalization and American! zation,” he said. “These ends are no' to be attained by teaching foreign im migrants to speak our language, or by fighting anarchism, although these have their places. We have the task of cemeting the sentiment of the vxirious sections of this vast land of ours in the minds of the constantly changing generations.” Man Not Sure of Home Hollis Dooley, 29, found at Pennsylvania and Maryland Sts., at 5 a m. today, told police he “thought' h-3 Lived in Danville, Ind., but had been working for A. H. De Hart, 4212 Broadway, foreman of the E. G. Spink Construction Company’. He was charged with vagrancy’. MOTION PICTURES

TOMORROW And All Week AT MISTER SMITH’S THEATER Illinois, South of Market A GALA ATTRACTION EVERYBODY’S SWEETHEART "MARY PICKFORD PICTURE SHE § EVER MADE A Revival of “DADDY * LONG LEGS” Directed by MARSHALL NEILAN

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The Funniest, Saddest, Sweetest Story in the World. SO GOOD YOU'LL WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN ADDED ATTRACTION Indianapolis Star “Movie” “SEE INDIANAPOLIS FIRST” The Greatest Local Film Ever Shown! TOMORROW And All Week AT MISTER SMITH’C THEATER Illinois, South of Market *

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