Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1923 — Page 6
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WELL KNOWN STAGE AND SCREEN STARS APPEAR IN FILMS Jane Novak, Frank Keenan, Hoot Gibson, Alice Calhoun and Mix in Movie Bills, FAVORITES of stage and screen will have the leading roles In the movies to be presented in Indianapolis next week. -I- -I- -I- ' Frank Keenan, stage star, will be featured in “Scars of Jealousy” at the Circle next week. Jane Novak will have the chief role in “Divorce” at the Apollo. -I- -I- -I; Alice Calhoun and David Torrence share headline honors in “The Man Next Door,” to be at the Ohio next week- Hoot Gibson will have a character role in “Double Dealing” at the Isis the first half of next week. -I- -I- -IEdwarde Earle in "The Streets of New York” will be the chief offering at Mister Smith’s. The Rialto will offer next week Tom Mix in anew special. -I- -!- -I“Scars of Jealousy” Booked at Circle Frank Keenan, star of stage and screen, is the featured player in “Scars of Jealousy,” the Thomas H. Ince production which comes to the Circle on Sunday. The story concerns Colonel Newland, an aristocratic and high principled gentleman of the South, who disowns his own son because of his dissolute habits, and, in order to increase his son’s chagrin, adopts in his place an ignorant mountain boy of a class known as "Cajans.” who are descendants of noble refugees from France many years ago. The boy’s Intellect develops rapidly, until he becomes the gentleman Colonel Newland had hoped his own son would be. Coddy Jakes, the Cajan, saves the life of Helen Meanix, a friend of the Newland family, when her horse runs away, and wins her respect and admiration. Jakes learns the true story of Newland’s son, and determines to repay his benefactor’s kindness by making a real man of Jeff Newland, which he accomplishes by kidnaping the ne’er-do-well and bearing him off to the mountains, forcing him to live the life which the Cajan lived before Colonel Newland adopted him. In the process, Jakes and Jeff become fast friends. Coddy is accused of the. murder of a revenue officer and is jailed. Newland has a chance to prove his complete reformation, and he and Helen rescue Jakes from an infuriated mob, who are bent on lynching the Cajan for the crime, of which his brother is guilty. Helen declares her love for Coddy Jakes and the Colonel and his son are reconciled. In this story Edward Burns appears as the dissolute Jeff Newland
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LARGE CASTS APPEAR IN NEXT WEEKS MOVIES
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No. I—Edward Earle in a scene from “The Streets of New York,” at Mister Smith's next week. No. 2—Tom Mix in "The Adventures of Tom Mix,” at the Rialto
i and Lloyd Hughes is the Cajan. Mar- ' guerite de la Motte is seen as Helen | Meanix. Sharing honors on the Circle pro- | gram is the J. J. Williamson production, “Wonders of the Sea,” a picture whose scenes are almost entirely taken at the bottom of the ocean in the West Indies. A Circlette of News is on the proj gram and the overture will be Josef : Strauss’ “Wedding Bells.” -I- -I- -I----j Movie Dealing With Divorce j Evil to Be Featured at Apollo Jane Novak's blonde beauty is proi vided an appealing setting in Chester j Bennett's special production, “Divorce,” a drama coming to the Apollo j next week with Miss Novak as the star. The story, written by Andrew Ben- : nison, is said to throw a great deal j of light on the much-mooted divorce question. According to court statisi ticians divorce is increasing In this i country three and one-half times as I much as the population. i The principal characters in the rlrama are Jane Parker and her hus-
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\ next week. No. 3—Jane Novak, Philip De Lacy and John Bowers in ‘ Divorce,’’ at the Apollo. No. 4—Hoot Gibson in a scene
band. Jim. They live happily in an humble cottage home, wrapped in their love for each other and their baby boy, Dick. That either would ever give thought to divorce seems beyond reason. Then prosperity comes their way. Jim is suddenly placed on the high road to wealth. They abandon the cottage for a mansion and become a part of the social whirl, with its gildeu cases and exclusive clubs, Its golf links, afternoon teas and idlers. Jim succumbs to the flattery of another woman and finally demands that Jane give him a divorce. The way In which she meets this situation gives zest to the story and adds greatly to its dramatic value. The picture contains many scenes of great beauty, among them being an ice palace in which a ballet of skaters perform. In the cast are John Bowers, James Corrigan, Edythe Chapman, Margaret Livingston, Freeman Wood. George Fisher and little Philippe DeLacy. “F. O. B.” in which Lloyd Hamilton makes merry, will be the fun feature of the program, which will also include the Fox news weekly.
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from “Double Dealing,” at the Isis the first half of next week. No. s—Marguerite, de la Motte, Edward Burns and Lloyd Hughes in “Scars of Jealousy,” at the Circle.
Musical entertainment will be supplied by Virgil Moore's Apolla orchestra and Lester Huff, oiganist. , , J; -I- -ITwo Special Bills at Isis Next Week Hoot Gibson shows what he can do with a character role in the comedy drama, “Double Dealing,” coming to the Isis the first half of next week. In "Double Dealing" he appears os a small town youth, easy going and slow witted, who inherits a drug store in which business is anything but brisk, and a heavy mortgage. Most of the visits to the drug store are made by Uriah Jobson, who holds the mortgage, and Hoot, with nothing else to do, finds consolation in a book entitled "How to Be Successful.” After he has lost everything but his optimism the dust commences to clear out of his mentality and he awakes to the realization that he is being robbed. From this point on the picture breaks the speed limit for nctlon. Eddie Gribbon, Jack Dillon,
OVERTURE 8 ‘ WEDDING BELLS” BTF JOSEF BTRACBS i: MODEST ALTSCHULER musical dikectoh Orchestra pjay* Sunday, 8-4:46 aad 7-*:45. Dally, 1:80-10:18. The Eighth Wonder of the World! Williamson’s Amazing Picture “WONDERS OF THE SEA” Scenes of unbelievable beauty; scenes of A thrilling screen trip to the bottom of the poignant thrill; scenes of fantastic interest; * ea< amo ng strange growths, fantastic fishes, EE ■ scees ° f last1 "* Impression—all woven to- adveutlire . laden and man-eating mon- ff£ gether in a motion picture novelty which you H will remember forever. sters of the deep. COMING SUNDAY, JUDY 15 I I I L MAGIC—MIRTH—MYSTERY—MAGNIFICENCE J I A Maurice Tourneur Production ®j “THE BRASS BOTTLE” Iw 1 A Fantastic Farce Film with Harry Myers as the Young American led back to A, Haremland by a Jaz*-Genie. jW 4
No. 6—Alice Calhoun in a scene from "The Man Next Door.” at the Ohio. .No. 7—Johnnie Hines in a scene from “Luck.” at the Palace the last half of next week.
Gertrude Claire. Helen Ferguson, Betty Francisco and Otto Hoffman are in the cast. A Monte Banks comedy, ‘ Spooks and Spirits” will also be tl.own. “Gossip,” a drama starring Gladys Walton, will be the attraction Thursday and the rest of the week. Based or Edith Barnard De La no's novel. 'When Carey Came to Town,” it is the story of a girl of the old South, fifty years behind her times, who is suddenly thrown into contact with the jazz edges of the modern world. She doesn’t know what it is all about, and her simplicity provides a striking contrast to that of the people with whom rhe forced to associate. In the cast are Ramsey Wallace. Freeman Woods, Albert Prison, Edith Yorke and Kate Kent. King Raggot directed. The program, will include Leo Maloney in “Wings Os the Storm." •I- -I- -!- New Vitagraph Special Dne at Ohio Sunday "The Man Next Door.” by Emerson
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Meighan and Authors at Work
Thomas Meighan will travel from New York to California and back in the production of his next three Paramount pictures. Xs soon as he has completed Peter B. Kyne's story, “Homeward Bound," which Is now being made at New London, Conn., Mr. Meighan, accompanied by Mrs. Meighan, will go to the Lasky studio In Hollywood to film George Ade’s original story tentatively titled “All Must Marry.” Mr. Meighan will picK up George Ade
Hough, famous writer, whose death occurred a short time ago, will be shown the coming week at the Ohio theater. It is a Vita graph production and was prepared from the original novel by C. Graham Baker, editor of Vitagraph, who wrote the continuity of “Masters of Men.” Victor Schertzinger directed the production. Schertzinger is the director who discovered Charles'Ray, and who directed Mabel Normand, Madge Kennedy and Tom Moore. Leading players in the production are Alice Calhoun, David Torrence, Frank Sheridan, James Morrison, John Steppling. Adele Farrington, Man,' Culver and Bruce Boteler. Colonel Wright, owner of the Circle Arrow Ranch in Wyoming, and Curly, his foreman, have reared Colonel Wright’s motherless daughter Bonnie Bell until she is sixteen, after, which they send her to an Eastern college. She returns a cultured young woman and Colonel Wright realizes that he must give up his ranch and live in the city for his daughter’s sake. They build a home next door to David Wisner, whose wife is the leader of society- There Bonnie learns that all of her father’s millions can not open the doors of society to her. In her loneliness she makes friends with the young gardener next door. Later her bulldog attacks the Wisner’s dog and breaks up a tea party. A spite wall is built between the two properties. Other features will be the latest installment of "Fighting Blood." a news weekly, and music by Schuyler AJward s New Ohio orchestra. • • • Tom Mix’s latest Boolcvd at Rialto Next week the Rialto will present Tom Mix in "The Adventures of Tom Mix” The popular cowboy of the screen appears in a five reel photoplay. replete with thrills, hurricane action, suspense and cowboy exploits, the agent, states. The story starts in an Eastern college and ends on a Western ranch. It is the usual Tom Mix type of love storv filled with action. •I- -I- -!- Old Drama Made Tnto ; A Movie Due at Smith's 1 Burton King's old drama, "The Streets of New York,” has been ' brought to the screen, and will be the attraction at Mister Smith’s beginning j Sunday. ! The story concerns a wealthy man’s
in Chicago on the way west and the author, star and the director, Alfred E. Green, will work In close collaboration in the production of the story at the Lasky studio. Following the production of the Ade story Mr. Feighan will return east to Kennebunkport, Maine, the summer home of Booth Tarkingfcon, where he will work with Mr. Tarkington and a director and scenario writer on an original story which the famous novelist and playwright has just written expressly for Mr. Meighan.
daughter who loves a poor violinist, the son of the man her father had robbed years before. Edwarde Earle, Barbara Castleton, Anders Randolf, Dorothy Mackaill and Leslie King are the principal players in this production, the story of which Is familiar to almost every theatergoer, for “The Streets of New York” has, like “Way Down East,” lived for generations as a stage play. Round 2 of “Fighting Blood,” in which George O’Hara and Clara Horton are featured, and a news reel complete the program. Flynn Exposes His Feet Maurice Flynn has the distinction of being one of the very few motion p'cture actors who ever went through an entire scene with only his feet showing. Lying on a cot in the next room in a log cabin, he allowed his feet to stick out into camera range to create the impression that he was there. It was all a part of a day s work while George Melford was producing “Salomy Jane” for Paramount. with Jacqueline Logan and George Fawcett in the other featured roles. Being Bluebeard Is No Easy Task Sam Wood is convinced Bluebeard must haste had a tough time picking eight wives. Recently he began picking a cast for "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife,” knowing In advance Gloria Swanson would be the eighth. It toon weeks to find the other seven. They had to be distinct types, and before Director Wood had finished interviewing candidates at the Paramount West Coast studio he had a speaking acquaintance with most of the women in Hollywood and vicinity with movie ambitions.
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Tomorrow and All Weel^S^ J MR. SMITH’SV, THEATRE THE SHUTS of NEWYOIK BARBARA CASTLETON f A story laid in Chinatown, the Bowery. I Fifth Avenue, Wall Street, Riverside ■ I Drive and practically every other point of interest in the world’s greatest /rk\ A Drama of Smiles and Tears, Mystery and Romance. f V-w Also Round 2 I “FIGHTING BLOOD” I | KINO G R AMS |
RIALTO PX Management LUIS WI!I HF JACK FIRPO CONQUER DEMPSEY — and — His Latest Western Triumph Adventures of TOM MIX AND A RIALTO COMEDY Feature Music Always a Good Show
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PORTLAND MAN IS SIAM HEAD, James J, Moran Is Honored by Hoosier Attorneys, By Timet Special WEST BADEN, Ind., July' 7.—* James J. Moran, Portland, was elected president of the Indiana Bar Association at the closing sessison of th® convention. L. J. Kirkpatrick, Kokomo, was chosen vice president* George H. Batchelor was re-elected* secretary, and Elias D. Salsbury, In-' dianapolis, was re-elcted treasurer. Willis E. Roe, East Chicago; James M. Ogden, Indianapolis, and FranK Hatfield, Evansville, were elected new members of the board of managers. Refusal to indorse the labor courts industrial dispute commission and recommendation of a study of th® Canadian Industrial commission plan* were features of the session. Judge James A. Collins, Indianapolis; Judge Louis B. Ewbands of th® Indiana Supreme Court, and Elmer Q. Lockyear, Evansville, were speakers.
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ISIS Firs* Half Next Week HOOT GIBSON in double Dealings’ Thrills, Speed, Love, Pep and Laughter MONTE BANKS COMEDY “SPOOKS and SPIRITS” 10c—ALL SEATS—IOc