Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1923 — Page 6

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LOCAL SCREENS FAVORED IN NEXT WEEKSPROGRAM Photoplays of Wide Appeal Will Cause New Interest in Silent Drama, Eocal movie managers have gone in for big movie game next week. Each house has made an extra effort to book pictures of unusual interest and importance. The Circle will present anew version of the famous stage -iplay, “Trilby,” with Andree Lafayette in the title role. The Apollo enters the realm of baseball next week by presenting a movie vession of William Slavens McNutt's baseball story. “His Good Name.” The movie title is “Trifling With Honor.” Alfred Lunt, a recognized legitimate actor, is now a movie star and the featured player in “Backbone” at the Ohio next week. Mister Smith’s will present William Russell in “Boston Blackie.” At the Isis the first half of the week, the bill will be Hoot Gibson in “Shootin’ for Love.” “The Birth of a Nation” will begin the third week of its engagement at the Rialto Sunday.

•“Trifling With Honor” Dne at Apollo Sunday William Slavens McNutt wrote a classic of the baseball diamond when he created “His Good Name,” which has been brought to the screen under the title “Trifling With Honor,” and which will be shown next week at the Apollo. It is an intensely human and dramatic tale of the sports world. Harry Pollard, the man who “made” the popular “Leather Pushers” series, directed. In the cast are Rockcliffe Fellows, Fritz! Ridgeway, Buddy Messenger, Hayden Stevenson, Emmett King and others. The hero of “Trifling With Honor” is a product of the alley-ways of a great city, known as “The Gas Pipe Kid.” His devious ways of making a living finally result In his being sent to prison. He escapes and in getting anew start in the world utilizes the one good thing he has learned during his incarceration—baseball—to set himself right. A few years finds him at the top of his profession playing under the name of Bat Shugrue, the sensation of baseball circles. But he can’t stand prosperity and it isn’t long until he is in the clutches of a gang of baseball gamblers. They know him to be an escaped convict and give him his choice of throwing the last and deciding game of the pennant winning series, or going back to the penitentiary. His escape from this situation through the aid of Jimmy Hunt, a messenger boy, and the way in which he redeems himself In the eyes of the law and with the girl whom he loves, is accomplished in a manner that makes excellent screen entertainment. Other films will be “Round Five” of the third “Leather Pushers” series, starring Reginald Denny and the Fox news weekly. A program of up-to-the-minute musical innovations will be provided by Virgil Moore’s Apollo orchestra and Lester Huff, organist. •I* I- IFormer Stage Player Is Now a Movie Star Alfred Lunt, the latest arrival in the star ranks of the cinema, is featured the coming week at the Ohio Theater in “Backbone,” a Clarence Euddington Kelland story which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Edith Roberts, another favorite, is shown in the leading feminine role. The supporting company includes James D. Doyle. William B. Mack. Frank Evans, L. E. Le Croix, Charles Lang, Frank Hagney, Marion Abbott, George McQuarrie, J. W. Johnson, Hugh Huntley, WiUiam Walcott and Adolf Millar. The picture has to do with Andre De Mersav, an old Frenchman who lives In St. Croix, Maine, where he rules with feudal control, living with his granddaughter and Bracken, a weak, unscrupulous person. Yvonne, the granddaughter, on returning from a visit to France, finds that her grandfather is dangerousjy ill and that Brackqn refuses her permission to visit him. He has discharged the eervants and hired a number of blackguards to take their places. Yvonne tries to see her grandfather, but the guards prevent her, so she locks to John Thorne, anew arrival, whose Identity has been kept a mystery, for help. Thorne Is on a mission to see Andre, but no one knows this. At first Yvonne trusts Thorpe, but when he purchases property nearby. which Yvonne had wanted, she becomes angry with him. Later the two unite in their fight with Bracken. A thrilling climax which gives the picture its name culminates this grip ping story. Snub Pollard will be seen the coming week in "Where Am I?” In which MOTION PICTURES

First Half Next Week HOOT GIBSON IN “Shooting for Love” His heart, ruined by “shell* shock” on the fields of Flanders, went to pieces at the pop of a toy pistol, and still he went out “Shootin’ for Love.” BILLY RHODES - COMEDY “OLIVER TWISTED” 10c ALL SEATS 10c

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Marie Mosqulnl is co-starred. This comedy, with a news weekly and music by the Ohio Orchestra, are added features. 4 ' -!• -|- -IBill Russell Appears In Movie Showing Prison IJfe. William Russell comes to Mister Smith’s Sunday in "Boston Blackie,” a tale of prison reform from the wellknown story, “The Water Cross,” by Jack Boyle. When one of "Boston BlackieV pals is killed by a form of punishment used to torture prisoners in jail, he arranges to have himself imprisoned as a dangerous convict, in order to investigate the true conditions. Blackie is himself about to be subjected to the most horrible torture. known to prison inmates as “The Water Cross” when through the courage and daring of his sweetheart, Mary Carter, he escapes, and brings

laSES FULL! \ S H UG|U?fBAT* I 1 A MANS HONOR | ONE OF THE MOST ENTHRALLING AND EXCITING DRAMAS IN MONTHS—AN EPIC OF THE GREAT NATIONAL GAME. REGINALD DENNY • in “Round Five” of the Third Leather Pushers Series FOX NEWS WEEKLY VIRGIL MOORE'S APOLLO ORCHESTRA HEAR JACK ROBBINS SING “BARNEY GOOGLE” LESTgfr HUFF—AT THE ORGAN

about the abolishment of all such Inhuman punishments in the jails and prisons, and wins the love of Mary as his reward. Russell is ably assisted by Eva Novak as Mary Carter. Frank Brownlee. Otto Mattleson and Fred Esmelton. Round Four of "Fighting Blood,” with George O'Hara and Clara Horton, as well as Arthuh Rankin, is on the program, and a news weekly completes the program. -I- -I- -lNew Movie Version of “Trilby” Opens at Circle Richard Walton Tully’s production of “Trilby,” from the pen of George Du Maurier, who also wrote “Peter Ibbetson,” cornea to the Circle Theater Sunday with a cast headed by the celebrated young French actress, Andree Lafayette, who was brought here especially for the name part. “Trilby" Is the etory of a little

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No. I—Arthur1 —Arthur Edmund Carewe as Rvengall in “TrSby,” at the Circle next week. No. 2—Eva Novak in "Dollar Devils.” at the Palace the first hats of next week. No. S—Henry B. Walthall in "The Birth of a Nation,” starting Its third week Sunday, at the Rialto. No. 4 -Rock lift e Fellowes in "Trifling With Honor," at the Apo’. lo next week. No. s—Hoot5 —Hoot Gibson In "Shootin' for Love,” at the Isle the first half of next week. No. 6 Alfred Lunt and Edith Roberts in “Backbone.” at the Ohio next week. No. 7 —William Russell and Eva Novak in "Boston Blackie,” at Mis ter Smith’s next week. Parisian artists' model and her great love for an aristocratic young English man, Billee Bacot, who is studying

art in Paris. When their plans for an early wedding are upset by the intervention of Blllee’s parents, who convince Trilby that such a marriage would ruin his career, she decides to

"TRILBY" taken from Da Maurier’s Immortal Story TF recollection of the novel or any of its stage versions '*■ comes to your memory, nothing will keep you from seeing it. TF, on the other hand, the story is one altogether new to X you, you are to be envied the experiences you have in store —in the play of emotion, the keenness of suspense, the element of surprise—in this unusual romance of a strange creature of the Paris studios who, swayed by a sinister influence, swept the entire world to her famous feet. By all means come! YouTl find RICHARD WALTON TULLY has created another masterpiece. DIRECTED BY JAMES YOUNG. A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE OVERTURE “THE BOHEMIAN GIRL” BY BAUm MODEST ALTSCHULER, Musical Director Orchestra plays Sundays, 2 to 4:45 and 7 to 9:45. Week days, 7:30 to 10:15 CIRCLE COMEDY “THE PANIC'S ON” With Mr. and Mrs. Carter DeHaven. i^sgC)

leave the place where she has been so happy. Svengali. an unscrupulous musical I genius, with an uncanny knowledge of | hypnotism, infatuated with the girl,

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persuades her to run away with him, promising her a musical career. Next to her love for Billee, this has been the greatest desire of her life, and because of his mesmeric power over the girl, he is able to carry out his promises. After a fruitless search *for Trilby. Billee and his two good friends, The Laird and Taffy, both of whom are in love with her, they hear of the marvelous singing of a Mile. Svengali. who Is appearing in concert under the direction of her husband. Hoping that Svengali will be able to give them news of Trilby, they attend the concert, and are sure they recognize In the singer the object of their search, but knowing that their Trilby was tone deaf, they are at a loss to know what to do. Suddenly Svengali, who has been directing the performance, is seized with a heart attack and dies, leaving Trilbv without his mesmeric aid, and her voice suddenly changes to the harsh, discordant notes with which the three friends are familiar, and they rush to her She remembers nothing of her musical triumphs, and they bear her off with them. Billee is ecstatic at having found his sweet- 1 heart and they begin plans for their marriage, but Trilby, her health undetermined by the great strain through which she has passed, daily becomes weaker and weaker until her spirit passes on, leaving the three friends to mourn her. Arthur Edmund Carewe Is Svengali. Creighton Hale is Little Billee, Wilfred Lucas Is The Laird. Philo McCullough Is Taffy, and others in the cast are Gertruds Olmstead, Rose Dione, Maurice Cannon. Max Constant and Francis McDonald. The overture will be “La Boheme.” and there will also be a Circle Comedy and the Oirclette of News. -I- -1- -ITwo Well-known Players In Movies at Isis Hoot Gibson's new picture, “Shootin’ for Love,” coming to thg Isis the first half of next week, dramatically reveals that It is possible for a man to be morally brave and yet be the victim of circumstances controlling his physical being which make him a coward in the eyes of his fellow men. The story has its setting in the Texas cattle country’ and involves the experiences of Duke Travis, son of a Texas cattleman, suffering from “shell shock" as the result of his service in the World War. Elaine Hammerstein In “Tho Worn an Game” will be the f°ature of the new program on Thursday and the rest of the week. It is a 'drama of

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high society life wherein Miss Hammerstein proves that women have the right to every weapon at their command in playing the game of love. The story, written by Leighton psmun and Frank Dazey. presents the star as the unwilling dupe of an ambitious mother whose desire that hej| daughter marry wealth is piompte® by her own longings for the advaro tages such a marriage would wring to her. The cast Includes Jere Austin, Ida Darling, Louis Broughton, Blanche Davenport and James Morrison. Charles Murray in “The Pill Pounder” will provide the comedy portion of the program. -I- -I- -!• Third Week of Griffith Feature at Rialto “Three Little Maids From School," eighteen, nineteen and twenty, are the heroines of “The Birth of a Nation,” because their eyes registere on that elusive strip of celluloid known as a film. Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish and Miriam Cooper are the “Three Little Maids.” It was D. W. Griffith w T ho discovered this talented trio. He first gave them a searching eye examination, as carefully as an optician might do. After he had assured himself that their eyes would register he took up, for him. the easy task of teaching them to act. That part was more easy, for after all he did not want them to act, but to be natural. The important thing, is that they got their big chance because their eyes registered. Why it is that some people's eyes “take” better than others can not be explained. It is an elusive thing that the cinema camera requires of its subjects. Poets might rhapsodize over the most beautiful eyes in the W’orld and yet those very eyes might not register on the screen. Many a prominent stage star has been a failure in pictures for very reason. The camera is mere® less. It has no respect for histrionic reputations. It has been said that for an actress to acquire the technique to play Juliet she must be so old that it Is difficult for her to look the part. To be Juliet on the screen one must have youth. The camera will not stand for shams. MOTION PICTURES

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