Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1923 — Page 6
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IMPORTANT MOVIES ARE BOOKED AI LOCAL THEATERS l Best Stage and Screen Artists Have Big Parts in Next Week's Pictures, NEXT WEEK is going to be an important one in Indianapolis movie theaters as the bookers have placed many important production for presefetation. * Many players, recognized for their work both on the stage and screen, have the chief roles in the movies scheduled for next week. The movie line-up is as follows: Apollo—“ The Girl Who Came Back.” Circle—“ Three Wise Pools.” Ohio—“ The Love Piker.” Isis—“ Nobody’s Bride,” first half. Mister Smith’s —“Skid Proof.” Rialto—“The Birth of a Nation." In addition to these features all the movies will offer other films and special music. -I- -1- -V Old Melodrama Featured at ApoDol Next Week Charles E. Blaney's famous stage melodrama, “The Girl Who Came Back,” brought to the screen under the direction of Tom Foreman, will be presented at the Apollo next week. It is a story containing romance, adventure, an exciting battle of wits between a gang of crooks and the police, and action of the sort that provides many thrills. Shela Weiston. an unsophisticated country girl, 'eaves her home to make her way in the city. Unfortunate in her associations she falls in with Ray Underhill, a crook. He persuades her to marry him. On the day of their wedding both are placed under arrest on suspicion of the theft of an authmobile. Both are sentenced to prison. Sheila’s release comes first. Later her husband escapes and before the police effect his capture he enables Sheila to get possession of a considerable sum of money. With this she flees to another country and starts life anew. In a few years she becomes a reigning beauty. Then the shadow of her past com°s to blight her career. The story leads up to an intensely dramatic climax and gives the members of the cast, including Miriam Cooper. Gaston Glass. Kenneth Harlan, Fred Malatesta, Joseph Dowling, Ethel Shannon and Zazu Pitts, ample opportunity for good work. “Before The Public” a Snub Pollard comedy, and a Fox News Weeklywili be subsidiary attractions. Musical features will consist of a program of special selections by Virgil Moore's Apollo orchestra, and organ recitals by Lester Huff. I- -|- “Three Wise Fools” Booked at Circle King Vidor’s production. “Three Wise Fools,” adapted by the director himself from the successful John Golden stage play, which enjoyed a threeyear’s run on the speaking stage, comes to the Circle Sunday. As almost every one knows. it,‘is a story of three olqL bachelors who agree to take charge of the child of the girl who had rejected them all in their youth. They expect that Sidney Fairchild will be a little boy, and when a
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Tomorrow and All Week MR. SMITH’S Your Old Friend, “BUCK” JONES In an Auto Racing Romance ALSO Round 4 —“ FIGHTING BLOOD” Kinograou^Music
GOOD STORIES AND FINE ACTING DUE ON SCREEN NEXT WEEK
No, I—Charles Jones in “Skid Proof” at Mister Smith's next week. No. 2—Glenn Hunter and Mary Astor in “The Second Fiddle” at
beautiful young girl comes to them prepared to take up her home with them, complications ensue rapidly. Each old bachelor vies with the other for the girl’s favor, and all are happy until the girl, through an unfortunate circumstance is accused of aiding three criminals to escape from prison. Reluctantly the three old "Musketeers’’ convinced of Sidney’s guilt, return to their former settled mode of living, before her advent into their lives. The banker's young nephew. Gordon, is the only friend Sidney- has, and he firmly asserts her innocence. When it developed that John Crawshay. the girl's father, fallsly accused of forgery, is the "criminal” whom she. has been helping, and the real forger confesses, it is three penitent old men who come to Sidney for forgiveness. Eleanor Boardman is Sidney Fairchild and William H. Crane, Alec B. Frances and Claude Gillingwater are the three irascible old bachelors. It is interesting to note that Claude Gillingwater has the same part which he created in the stage version of this story.
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the Palace opening Monday afternoon. No.3—Anita Stewart in "The
William Haines, a promising newcomer to the screen, is young Gordon, j and others in the cast are John Sainpolis, who was seen here in support of David Warfield some time ago; Craig Biddle, Jr., Creighton Hale, Martha Mattax, ZaSu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield and Brinsley Shaw. •I- -I- -IAnita Stewart Returns to Ohio Theater Sunday Hope Warner, the fastest of the fast social set. is racing along at top speed in her roadster to escape someone who is pursuing her. A traffic officer halts her mad run. This gives her pursuer time to catch up with her and hand her a fur neckpiece she dropped. Martin Van Huisen, the young man who has recovered her fur, is then forced to pay- both their fines. With this introduction “The Love Piker,” will arrive at the Ohio Sun-
A Thrilling Drama —and the Sweetest Love Story Ever Told It has action* It lias humor/ It has power* It has charm/ THE FAMOUS JOHN GOLDEN STAGE SUCCESS Even More Charming Asa Motion Picture OVERTURE “DIE FLEDERMAUS” (THE BAT) , BY JOHANN BTBAUBS MODEST ALTSCHULER musical director Orchestra plays Sundays, 2 to 4:45 and 7 to 9:45. Week days. 7:30 to 10:15. A SNOOKY COMEDY “A JUNGLE ROMEO” Return to the Screen of the Humanze® Hear DESSA BYRD Playing “ “ANNABELLE” On the Circle Grande Organ lIP*
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Love Piker” at the Ohio next week. No. 4—Herbert Rawlinson in "Nobody's Bride” at the Isis the first half of the week.
day. Anita Stewart is the featured player. The cast Includes such notables as Arthur Hoyt, William Norris, Robert Frazer, Winston Miller and Frederick Truesdell. The picture has been made from the story of the same name by Frank R. Adams which appeared in the Cosmopolitan magazine. As the story progresses Hope finds that Martin is employed by her father as an engineer and soon grows to love him. Her mother is alarmed when Hope announces her engagement to Martin as she planned for Hope to marry Archie Pembroke, a social lion, All goes well with Hope until Martin takes her to meet his father, who lives in the tenement district. "Taking Orders.” a Baby Peggy ccmedy, made by Century Comedies, is w-ith an International news weekly, a subsidiary film subject. Schuyler Alward's new Ohio Orchestra will pro
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No. s—Claude Gillingwater and Eleanor Boardman in ‘‘Three Wise Fools” at the Circle next week.
vide special musical setting to the featured picture. •I- I -ITwo Promising Bills Booked at Isis Next Week. “Nobody's Bride.” a drama, in w-hich Herbert Rawlinson is starred, will be the attraction the first half of next week at the Isis. It contains an odd romance wherein two women, one a crook, the other a society girl, fail in love with the same man. The story-, written byEvelyn Campbell, presents Mr. Raw 1 llnson as Jimmy Nevln, a youth of \ good family and used to all the adi vantages of wealth untij he meets w-ith financial reverses. Then he finds himself minus friends and money and forced to accept the bounty of Mary Darnay. leader of a band of crooks. She plans to raid a fashionable home during a wedding and gets I Jimmy to drive her automobile.
No. 6—Scene from “The Girl Who Came Back” at the Apollo all next week.
Through a strange turn of events the bride-to-be, Doris Standish, decides to run away. She enters Jim ray's machine, begs him to take her to a hiding place, and he. not know lng where else to go. takes her to the Darnay woman's apartment. The tvsl of the plot moves with lightning speed and has many extraordinary situations. Alice Lake. Edna Murphy, Harry Van Meter. Sidney Bracey-. Phillips Smayey and Lillian Langdon are in
Starting K* Sunday s p® Cosmopolitan magazine story by Frank R. ANITA STEWART Adams. The story is full of heart interest, pathos, thrills and plenty of comedy. One of And an All-Star Cast including those luxurious young ladies—always a win- XT . n t r ner! Then she tried the game of love. Alas! William NOITIS— Robert IraZer She was a piker. It took papa’s assistant to . prove that she was a “regular girl,” after all. alsoa^Aßrf£6GY COMEDY j She’* just a little bit of a thing you’ll / J N- ~, ' fIA ' #r* .71 want to cuddle, but Oh! how naughty she j f / j*' lap/S. \) M \ CM be! This Id Judt one big long laugb— I / / ■ \ I \ see It and bring the children! J / 4 HmA \ I Novelty Vocal Number I, - / Curtis McCoy Singing \ j {j Maggie, “Yes Ma’am” Come Right V ir'Xj bVJ I Upstairs.
Circle Music The overture at the Circle Theater next week will be Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” (“The Bat”), composed by Johann Strauss and first produced In 1874. The music is in the popular Viennese style, for dramatic effect it is French. The composer goes from one waltz melody into another in the most bewildering manner, interspersing them with romanzas drinking songs, cardas and an almost endless variety of dance rhythms. It is a charming mixture of Viennese gaiety and drollery, and. like all his operettas. is the very essence of the dance.
the cast. “The Fatal Photo.A a Char lie Murray comedy, will be the fun feature. On Thursday the change of program will offer a Harry Carey Western production, “Crashin' Thru." Carey is seen as a fighting rancher whose very sense of Justice causes him to become surrounded by a great intrigue which includes horse-stealing, killing and the kidnaping of his sweetheart, all chiefly because of the plotting of a beautiful, seductive, halfbreed cabaret dancer. Carey is supported by Vola Vane, Cullen Landis, Myrtle Stedman. Nell Craig and Charles Le Moyne. The program will include a Plum Center comedy “One Horse Play.” -I- ;|- -IHooaier Actor Appears In “Skid Proof” at Smith’s Charles Jones comes to Mister Smith’s Sunday in "Skid Proof. The star is seen as Jack Darwin, a young motor enthusiast, who is well known for his ability at winning cups in auto races. The Transcontinental race, beginning in New Tork. has among its entrants an unscrupulous young man who has allowed himself to be bribed to lose the race. The owner of this car. however, is following the race from an airplane, and when he sees his driver pull up his car and stop, just after having gained a great lead, he descends and forces the driver to drive to a garage. where they meet Jack Darwin, who offers to finish the race. The owner of the car gladly gives Darwin the opportunity, hut Darwin fails as the result of obstacles set in his path by the man who had bribed the first driver. But Jack meets and falls in love with a motion picture actress, who consents to leave the screen and become Mrs. Jack Darwin, so his disappointment at los ing the race is not so keen, as it j brought about the meeting between him and his bride. In this Byron JVlorgan story, Jones is sup per ted by Laura Anson. Peggy Shaw. Earle Metcalf. Jacqueline Gadsdon and Harry Tracey. Round Three of “Fighting Blood,” featuring George O'Hara and Clara
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SATURDAY, JULY 21,1923
Horton, and a news weekly completes the program. -I- -|- -IGriffith Feature to Continue at Rialto D. W.* Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," which has been on view all week at the Rialto, will begin the second week of its engagement Sunday. Certainly no screen spectacle in con | temporary times has for its lay char-" acters such wonderful figures in our native history as the protagonists in this elaboration of the Thomas Dixon novels dealing with the events that lead up to the Civil War, the great battles of that conflict and the thrilling days of the reconstruction period when the South had to be reclaimed from the horde of adventuers who landed there with the back wash of war and caused more suffering than tm> war itself with its bitter disappointments and terrible * sacrifices. Running through it are several love stories and touches of romance which materially heightens the action. In these days of costly production is would be impossible to reproduce “The Birth of a Nation” with its remarkable cast and its great scenes. The public, therefore, is benefited by the shift of times and given an opportunity to Griffith at his best in a master work which would swamp a National Reserve Bank to produce in these days. Among the screen favu'.tes and stars who have prominent parts in this story are: Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Lilian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken. Ralph Lewis, Joseph Henabery. Raoul Walsh, Donald Crips. Howard Gaye, George Siegman, Walter Long aiid Elmer Clifton. Coleman Starts Work on Specials Vincent Coleman has started work on a series of specials in which he will be starred. All of the pictures ■will be made in New York. - MOTION PICTURES
ISIS FIRST HALF NEXT WEEK HERBERT RAWLINSON and ALICE LAKE IN “Nobody’s Bride” A Man, Two Women—and the Strangest Romance Ever Conceived. Chas. Murray Comedy “THE FATAL PHOTO”