Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1923 — Page 5
SATURDAY. JUXE 23. 1923
VARIETY BILLS NEXT WEEK FILLED WITDJOVELTIES Lyric to Present 'Little Cin- % derella’ and Palace Offers Louise Dore Monday. The vaudeville bills next week will be filled with novelties. The headline attraction at the Lyric will be “Little Cinderella," a musical comedy in two scenes with a chorus and several well-known principals. One of the features on the first half of the week’s bill at the-Palace wall be Louise Dore, pianist. -I- -!• T De Haven and Nice to Be at Lyric Next Week “Little Cinderella,” a musical comedy presented by William Brandell, will be chief among the acts of headline quality to be found at the Lyric next week. It has nothing to do with the fairy tale, but is distinctly modern in every way. Eva Laßue is the stellar member of a cast that includes Ina Mitchell and Truman Stanley. There is a chorus. “Little Cinderella" is staged in two scenes, with song and dance numbers and bright 'specialties interpolated during the action. k The bill wall include: I CHARLEY DEHAVEN AND FRED 'NICE—Two of vaudeville's best known comics, in a laughable absurdity called "Mulligan and Mulligan From the West in the Follies of 1776,” and act said to be as generous in fun as it is intitle. OKLAHOMA FOUR —Cowboys and cowgirls in a cyclonic dance revue. Something new and original in the line of fancy “hoofing.” AFFIE TRANGER AND HIS CALIFORNIA GIRLS An octette of Golden State Beauties, all talented instrumentalists, composing a synqopated orchestra and dispensing their own particular brand of jazz. JACK DORAN A Westerner known as “The Singing Sheriff.” and who comes by his billing honestly for having been a deputy sheriff in Texas where he helped capture the Brownsville bank robbers near San Antonio. PAT AND JULIE LE VOLO—Artistic tight wire performers, who give ah exhibition of skill, which they rightly style “Just Different.” ® BELLCLAIR BROTHERS—WorId renowned hand balancers and equilibristic, introducing their latest daring achievement. “Looping the Loop” while doing a hand stand. ON THE SCREEN—Farce, "A Radio Romeo;” the Literary Digest’s “Fun From the Press” and a Sunshine comedy, "Apple Sauce.”
Comedy and Music on Palace Bills Next V.eek k Comedy and music will have the Fchief place on the two biffs to fee seen at the Palace next week. "Rubeville” is coming to top the show starting Thursday. It is in two scenes and carries a cast of nine people. The audience is supposed to be ushered back stage i na small town opera house where they watch Felix Rush, as stage manager, theater owner, electrician, musician and actor, nearly spoil a melodrama with his blunders. The acts booked for the first three days of the week are: M’DEVITT, KELLY AND QUINN —ln their comedy success, - “The Piano Movers and the Actress.” DORE SISTERS Offering ten minutes of" semi-classics, melodies and popular tunes. One of the sisters plays a violin and the other a piano. GALETTI AND KOKlN—Making merry with the aid of a trained monkey, using songs and dancing to complete the entertainment. MAUREEN ENGLIN—Who sings and displays the latest in gowns. HARRY TSUDA —A comical Japanese who does some thrilling stunts o na large white ball. * ON THE SCREEN—MabeI Ballin in "Married People,” the story of an English romance that nearly turned out a tragedy. Other pictures are the usual news reels, a sport review and an Aesop Fabje. Thursday's bill will include: “DREAMS” —A study in color of some of the world’s most famous paintings, posed by a cast of three. EDDIE NELSON—Blackface funster, singer and dancer of note. | EIGHT BLUE DEMONS—A sensational and whirling acrobatic spectacle staged by eight tumblers. Two other comedy acts and the usual screen features will complete the bill. PHOTOPLAY—VioIa Dana In “Crinoline and Romance,” a southern love story of days long gone by. Warner Brothers Plan New Movie “Babbitt,” Sinclair Lewis’ latest novel, has been included by the Warner Brothers In the production schedule of eighteen pictures for the coming season. The Warner organization have also filmed Mr. Lewis’ “Main St.,” co-starring Florence Vidor and Monte Blue. UNCONSCIOUS FOR WEEK Boy Whose Skull Was Fractured Fails to Rally. Stanley Hibbs of 2147 N. Pennsylvania St-, who was knocked unconscious a week ago when he was struck by a boat at the chutes at Riverside Park, still is in a stupor. Physicians at the Methodist Hospital-say his condition still is critical. His skull is fractured. Woman Screams, Mystery A woman's screams awakened persons in the 2400 block on N. Talbott Ave. late Friday night. Mrs. Max Pollack, 2420 N. Talbott Ave\ told fcpolice it sounded as if the woman was 'ln the alley in rear of her home. Police did not find her. Feed Store Thief Takes Gas By Time* Special MARION, Ind., June 23.—Police today are hunting someone who is starting up an office with equipment stolen from the Steelcraft Company.The fixtures were valued at $260. The Veach feed store, In the same vicinity, was entered and gasoline taken.
EVERYBODY TO BE HAPPY ON STAGE NEXT WEEK
LONDON REVUE 10 BRING ACTOR VERY NEAR TOAUDIENCE Mental Intimacy With Players to Be Experienced by Americans, By JAMES W. DEAN NEW YORK, June 23. The American theatergoer is to experience a mental intimacy with players behind the footlights. Excepting in the instances of only a few vaudeville performers, the footlights erect a subtle, but impassable barrier between those In the audience and those on the stage. The substitution of other lighting effects for the footlights in the past few years has been with the purpose of breaking down that barrier. The follies, the frolics, the scandals and other forms of revue have projected runways into the audience in an endeavor to bring about a greater intimacy between performer and spectator. However, the appeal of this form of entertainment has always been largely physical. Chariot, London's leading producer of revues. Is in New York arranging with the Selvvyns for the presentation of his London Revue of 1924. It will probably open on New Year's Eve. I saw Chariot the other day at the Ritz and baked him to explain the difference between his type of entertainment and the usual American revue.
* / ■ s \VM. BRANDELL PRESENTS EVA LARUE IN g 1 “LITTLE CINDERELLA’* I | A Reminiscent Musical Comedy | Vaudeville’s Most Popular Comics 0 1 Wk Wm DE HAVEN I I AND NICE I • = H“MULLIGAN AND MULLIGAN FRom\hE It i * west IM the FOLUES of 1770,1 [: £HS||9n OKLAHOMA FOUR 1 I Pat anc * "* u *’ e ®- | I JACK DORAN | E Comedy Entertainers E I * " B— California Girls— B |
Niblo Discusses Hams and Art
“Since I began directing "Captain Applejack,’ which portjrays the adventures of a gentlemanly pirate, I have learned that originally the word buccaneer meant a man who smoked hams," said Fred Niblo recently. “If that’s the case,” he continued, “I used to be something of a buccaneer myself. In my early stage days I once directed a small, third-rate stock company, and
’’You can hardly explain the difference In words,” he said, “but it is tremendous. My revues are characterized by the sort of intimate understanding between players and audience such as you do not know in this country. “It isn’t a rough-and-ready Intimacy, but a mental closeness v. hlch is hard to define. I do not depend for success upon spectacular lighting and scenic effects. My scenery is very simple. I seek a proportionate blending of melody, humor, taste and personal charm. “There Is no tremendous chorus, but each girl gives a distinctive individuality to the performance. Gertrude Lawrence and Beatrice Lillie, two principals who will be seen here, have been so closely associated with the sucess of the revues that have become an Integral part of them. “I don't engage an artist and then find a place for her. First I have the place and find the artist to fit It. I rever buy names. What I pay for Is personality, charm and talent. Many of the artists in my revues have won great distinction, but they had no prominence when they came to me.” 0 Great Producer Started Out at S3O a Week. Chariot is a colorful character. He was born in 1882 in Paris and edu-
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believe me I smoked some ‘hams all right, and I cured some 'hams of the belief that they were actors “Captain Applejack" is a Fi> Niblo, production for Louis Ii Mayer, to be released througl Metro. It was adapted by Bes; Meredyth from the famous stag, supoegs by Walter Ilackatt. Rob ert Ellis is art director and Alvir Wyckoff is at the camera.
cated there, but is now a British citizen. Fourteen years ago he came to America to establish an American office for a London theatrical concern. His salary was S3O a week. He spent SIS a week for room and board for himself and wife in a cheap lodging house But he was after experience. After re#tminfe to London he became managing director of the Alhambra and soon became famous for bis revues. From there he went to the Vaudeville Theater, London. He seems to have prospered. At least, ho wasn’t starving to death at the Ritz when I saw him. Another foreign Invasion sponsored by the Selwyns will be that of the Grand Guignol Players, who arrive in October. Two comedies find two thrilling melodramas will be presented in French each evening. The comedies, it is reported, will handle the sex question with distinctly Gallic flavor. “Gold Diggers” On the Screen The leading roles in the plcturization of David Belasco's stage rfuccess, "The Gold Diggers,” will be portrayed by Hope Hampton as Jerry. Louise Fazenda as Mabel. Windham Standing as Steven, Gertrude Short In the role of Topsy and Alex Francis as James Blake. The picture is being directed by Harry Beaumont. -
No. I—Louise Dore. pianist, on the bill opening Monday afternoon at the Palace. No. 3— d~)e Haven and Nice, funmakers, who will make merry at the Lyric next week. No.3—Spring Byington who plays the lead in “The Ruined Lady” at th*' Murat, opening Monday night. No. 4 Ida Belle Arnold who wjll be seen in “The Gold Diggers” at English’s next week. No. s—Medley and Duprey in musical comedy at the Rialto next week.
Tully Completes “Trilby” The Richard Walton Tully production of du Maurier’s “Trilby” is now completed and in the hands of ! the cutting department. No more j wil! Arthur Edmund Carew, Philo MtC’ollough and Wilfred Lucas be forced to don the fantastic hirsute decora tic ns with which they have been forced to glorify their physiognomies during the filming of this class’*. And the temporary* blonde aurora of MeCollough’s manly looks has once moire given w: v to the natural auburn o. his tresses. Oh, yes, and Andrew Lafayette h:ir taken to werying stock lngs again. “Oh, death, where is th> sting?" Jane Murftn Directs Movie Jane Muriln. who, with Justin H. MeUloskey, is directing the picturizatlon of "The Sign,” a play written by Jane Cowl and Mrs Muriln, has a Keen sense of humor. She gets as much enjoyment out of directing humorous scenes as an audience does in seeing them. In fact Vera Reynolds and Tom O'Rrlon, who provide most of the laughs in the production, often wonder if Mrs. Murfln doesn’t repeat a ficeno sometimes just to enjoy the laughable side of it all over again. Hines Completes New Comedy * Johnny Hines has eomp’ted the filming of the George M. Cohen play. "Little Johnny Jones," under the direction of Arthur Rosson. The story centers around the English Derby at Epsom Downs, England, with Hines as the Yankee jockey scheduled to ride Yankee Doodle. Molly Malone is the girl in the case, and George Webb plays the part of the “dirty guv.”
r- p IRQ§| H* ALL WEEK !• S &n &and II Beginning Sunday Matinee Matinees Tomorrow, Wednesday and Saturday A Charles Berkell Presents M I THE GRAND PLAYERS! Wk —IN—WL AVERY HOPWOOD’S SPARKLING COMEDY t “THE GOLD DIGGERS” 1 Wa A BELASCO SUCCESS V GET THE HABIT! SEE THE GRAND PLAYERS EVERY WEEK Mat. Prices; 25c, 35c, 50c. Nite Prices: 25c, 50c, 75c Tax Included. NITES, 8:15 PHONE, Circle 3373 MATS., 2:15
WWailBH wrtpiii Thurs. and Sat. 2:80 and 8:30 BEGINNING MONDAY NIGHT BOUYANT, VIVACIOUS AND EXHILARATING The Ruined Lady Is a three-act guide to matrimony that no jjiodern girl should miss seeing The recent installation of the most modern and elaborate ventilating system, to be found in America supplies the Murat with cool and healthful water-washed air LAS today lES CAPTAIN APPLEJACK
Zukor Offers SIO,OOO Prize Annually for Best Movie
By WALTER D. HICKMAN. ADOLPH ZUKOR, president of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, has informed this department that he offers an annual prize of SIO,OOO for the best movie produced and exhibited in theaters of this country. , It is hoped that new writers will become interested and in this way increase the number of movie authors. The screen needs new and original stories. Many well-known writers have tried their hand at movie writing. Some have succeeded and others have failed. Os the many novelists whose stories have been adapted for the screen, Booth Tarkington’s Penrod stories are the outstanding ones, in my opinion. Writers should attempt to get away frem the beaten paths, and to be successful one must know what the public is interested in from an amusement standpoint. -P-1- -!- Zukor makes the following announcement concerning his annual award: ”1 offer, through the Authors' Ix-ague of America. Inc., a prize of ten thousand dollars (SIO,OOOI, to be awarded annually in cash to the author of the best sto ( ry produced upon the screen and exhibited publicly in a theater during each year, beginning Sept. 1. The term author shall b-> considered as applying to the person or persons so designated in the main title of the positive print of the motion picture production. “The first of these prizes shall be awarded for the best story exhibited upon the screen during the year, beginning Sept. 1. 1925, and if it is convenient, I think it would be better to give the prize to the winner not later than the Christmas day immediately following the expiration of the prize year. % “In offering this prize I place no restriction on how the award shall be 1 made by the Authors’ League, but 1 suggest that the league appoint a I jury which will include in Its member ship the piVsident of the Authors' League, a newspaper editor, a novelist. and a producer actively engaged in the production of motion pictures.” -I- -!• >]■ "Uncle Tom’s Cabin” with an “all star cast." Why not? A stock company on the Pacific coast brought the Duncan Sisters from New York to appear in a musical version of this famous classic. Why wouldn't an all star cast bo an Brilliant Cast for Jackie Jack Coogan, Sr., who recently comI leted his casting for Jackie's next picture—the first under the Metro auspices—" Long Live the King, from Maty- Roberts Rinehart’s novel of the same name, has brought together a brilliant group of people. - Monti’Collins is a noted world traveler; Sam Appel was born in Mexico and has taken part in several of the periodic outbursts of the southern republic; Sidney D’A shrook waH horn t 0 the stage —his father is a famous musical director and his mother an equally famous dancer; George Baxwas born in Africa and has played on tho stages Os many nations; Will Vachin belongs to several generations of theatrical folk and came through the war unscathed In body: Ruth Handforth is an old pupil of D. W. Griffith, and Loretta McDermott ij famous vaudeville headliner. In addition, there is Victor SchesSefnger, who will direct Jackie; C. Gardner Sullivan, who adapted Live the King" to the screen, and Eve Unsell, who wrote the scenario. Frank Good and Robert Martin will handle the camera.
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interesting experiment in Indianapolis? All of our “Uncle Toms” have been of the ten and twenty type or cne or two one night road companies. / If Stuart Walker wants a novelty, why couldn’t he with his expert knowledge of stage effects, light3 and the'like, give us an "Uncle Tom” production as one of his summer novelties. I am not joking. I am serious and I am not casting reflections. That fact I am sure of, I never have seen an adequate presentation of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Think it over. EAST SIDE BANK PUNS NEW HOffi j 550,000 Structure Proposed I at Tacoma and V ... ..igton. Plans for erection < i a $50,000 building for the East Side State bank at Tacoma and Washington Sts. were an- ; nounced today by Harvey Coonse, I president. Announcement was made in connection with the inscorporation of the East Side company, capitalized at $25,000, which will deal in real estate, insurance and bonds. The new company is a subsidiary, organization to the bank and will handle second mortgages. The new building will be one story and devoted entirely to banking purposes. providing quarters also for the East Side company. Directors are: Dr. Mavity J. Spencer, William F. Roepke. William E. Mendenhall, Benjamin F. Soltau, Edward F. Madinger and Charles F. BechtoM. CHILD BECOMES FLAMING TORCH Girl Is Burned WhiJe Playing - With Matches! Evelyn Pittman, colored, 4, of 643 : Bright St., died today at city hos- ■ pital fropi burns on the head, face and ! body. While playing at the home of Mrs. Mllfred Pittman Bullock, 645 Bright I St., with William and Lucille Bullock, the children obtained some matches. | When the mother of the Pittman girl heard screams and saw her daughter run out of a door a mass of flames ; she threw a dress over the child. A ; passing autoist took them to the hospital. Reekvilie Hill Closed I Reelsville hill, famous as one of the : steepest on the National Rd. in InI diana. Is closed forever to traffic with the opening of the cut-off by the State highway commission. The only detour on the National Rd. in Indiana now is between Manhattan and Mt. Meridian, a section east of the Reelsvillo cut-off.
PALACE * 1:00 TO 11:00 P. M. MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY ONLY McDEVITT, KELLY & QUINN “THE PIANO MOVERS AND THE ACTRESS” HARRY TSUDA CAROL & LOUISE DORE n a Brilliant Violinist® and pianist in a Spherical Novelty delightful repertoire of “HE SMILES AS HE THRILLS” “Music That Charms” MAUREEN ENGLIN Scintillating Songstress EXCLUSIVE MOTION PICTURES OF INDIANAPOLIS SHRINERS IN WASHINGTON A MID-SUMMER TREAT ■ ■ ■ ■ EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION FRED ft MABLE GALETTI ©C KOKIN IN A NOVEL COMEDY SURPRISE PHOTO PLAY FEATURE “MARRIED PEOPLE” A WONDER PICTURE WITH A NEW TWIST THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY As Comical as Our Country Cousin RUBEVILLE WITH FELIX RUSH 5 OTHER APTQ | Feature BIG nulO j “CRINOLINE AND ROMANCE”
MMN HOLMES TO APPEAR IN CAST Of‘GOLD DIGGERS’ t Walker to Offer 'Ruined Lady* for First Time in City Monday Night, MISS MARIAN HOLMES, daughter of Ira Holmes. Indianapolis attorney, and Miss Josephine Beverly of this city, will take part next week in the Grand Players' production of “The Gold Diggers.” The Grand Players in presenting the Avery Hopwood comedy, will use the largest cast of their season. Stuart Walker on Monday night at the Murat will present “The Ruined Lady’’ for the first time in this city. Spring Byington will play the lead. The Rialto will offer a musical comedy. "Johnny Get Your Gun” in the Municipal Theater at Garfield Park. The Marimba Entertainers will be at Broqkside Park next week. -!• -I- -IBig Cast Used at English’s In Avery Hopwood’s Comedy “The Gold Diggers,” a three act comedy by Avery Hopwood, will be the offering at English's-by the Grand Players next week. The original production of this comedy was made by David Belasco in New York and the play ran well over a year. The largest cast yet used by the Grand Players will be seen in “The Gold Diggers,” there being more than twenty speaking parts. Jean Oliver, leading woman, will be seen as the leader of a group Os “gold diggers” whose misguided aim in life is to dig all they can out of the pockets of their male admirers without giving anything in return. Eddy Waller assisted by William Hull, directed the staging of the | comedy. In addition to the regular company, two prominent Indianapolis people will have parts in the “Gold Diggers,” being Miss Marian Holmes, daughter of Ira Holmes, attorney, and Miss Josephine Beverley. The cast is as fellows: Violet Bayne Margaret Selkirk Mabe! Monroe Evelyn Watson Sadie Jessie Wilson Trixie Andrews Marian Holmes I Dolly Baxter Josephine Beverley Jerry Lamar Jean Oliver ICissle Gray Dixie Lofte# I Wally Saunders James Le Roy i Topsy St. John.... Ida Belle Arnold Eleanor Montgomery! Alice Mason Stephen Lee Eddy Waller James Blake Larry Sullivan I Tom Newton Syndney R. Richards ‘Barney Barnett Norman Wendel 1 Freddie Turner Allan West ! Fenton Jessup ?. . Harry Carter Mrs. Lamar Helen St Clair ,|_ J. v “Ruined Lady” Next Week's Offering at Murat Theater The Stuart Walker Company will on Monday night appear at the Murat in the first Indianapolis presentation of Frances Nordstrom’? comedy, “The Ruined Lady.” The story has to do with Ann Mortimer and Bill Bruce, who had loved one another for years. At the deativ- of her sister Ann became the adopted mother of her two children and Bill their guardian. For eight years this relationship continued with wedding bells seemingly as far distant as they had been at the beginning. Coming to a sudden realization that she didn't want the existing situation to last forever and that she didn’t particularly relish becoming simply “good old Ann.” she plans an escapade through which she hopes to stir a proposal from Bill.
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