Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1923 — Page 6
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LOVE STORIES AND MYSTIC PROBLEMS ON LOM.SCREEN ‘Birth of a Nation' Begins Fifth Week of Big Run Sunday at Rialto, r; OVE STORIES and mystery melodrama will hold Imporl tant places on the local screen next week. All local movie managers are making plans for a busy fall and winter season. Since the change of management at the Ohio was perfected some days ago, extensive plans for redecorating and other improvements have been made. An expensive pipe organ has been ordered and will be placed soon. The movie line-up for next week is as follows: Circle—“ Bright Lights of Broadway.” Ohio—" The Fog.” Apollo—“ The Shock.” Isis—" Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande,” first half. Mister Smith’s —“Good-R- Girls.” Rialto—“The Birth of *' on.” -I- -I- -IDramatic Movie Tops New Bill at Circle “Bright Lights of Broadway,” a dramatic story concerning the struggle of a young girl to choose between her two greatest ambitions, will be the featured attraction at the Circle beginning Sunday. A young girl, living in a small town, in love with the son of a local minister, and engaged to marry him, possesses a beautiful voice, which she is confident will bring her success on the stage if she had a chance. While she is singing in church one day Randall Sherill, famous theatrical producer, happens to be passing in his motor car and hears her. He offers her her big chance on the stage if she will attend the rehearsal in New York the next day. Torn between her love for her sweeheart and a desire for a career, she decides to go to New York and appears for the rehearsal, where she is made understudy for the star, who is in love with Sherill. After sayeral weeks Irene takes the place of Connie, the star, and is a success. After the performance Sherill proposes to Irene, and they are married by special license at midnight, and return to the producer's apartment, where Connie, crazed with jealousy, has gone to wait for Sherill.' Young Drake follows Irene to the city and when he finds that Irene Is with Sherill. rushes to the apartment, where he engages in an argument ■with Sherill, who threatens Drake with a revolver, which Is discharged in a scuffle between the two men, hitting Connie, who has been concealed behind some draperies. Sherill accuses Drake of the crime and Irene is powerless to save him, as her testimony as Sherill’s wife cannot be used against her husband. Drake is sentenced to death for murder, and Irene, desperate, goes to Sherill’s apartment, where she forces a confession from her former husband. After a thrilling chase by motor and locomotive, she arrives at the prison In time to save Drake, and the two return home. Irene realizes that her love for Drake is greater than any career, and they look forward to a happy future together. Doris Kenyon is seen as Irene, Harrison Ford is young Drake and Lowell Sherman appears as Sherill. Others in the cast are EfTie Shannon. Edmund Breese and Tyrone Power. , A Circle comedy and Circlette of News complete the pictorial program, and the special music Includes the overture, Rossini’s "Semiramide,” and an organ solo by Miss Dessa Byrd. -I- -!- -IChaney Has Big Chance in "The Shook” A bank bombed at midnight; the heroine of the disaster buried beneath, the debris of falling bricks and timbers; the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 coming Just in time to save the most trying of all situations —those are a few of the exciting. Incidents in "The Shock,” starring Lon Chaney, which will be presented next week at the Apollo. It was screened from William Dudley Pelley’s story "Bittersweet” and directed by Lambert Hillyer. Chaney again has one of his vivid character roles. He is cast as Wilse Dilling, crippled in body and soul, the slave of a woman known as “Queen
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££■ MR. SMITH’S A Rollicking Comedy Drama Tingling With Adventure and „ Spiced With Love ALSO ROUND 7 “FIGHTING BLOOD” Another Interesting Chapter in the H. C. Witwer Series. KINOGRAMS .... MUSIC
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No. I—Doris Kenyon and Lowell Sherman in a scene from "Bright Lights of Broadway" at the Circle next week. No. 2—Mildred Harris in "The Fog” at the Ohio next week. No. 3—-Charles Ray in a scene
Ann” who ruled the drab underworld of San Francisco. She holds a bitter enmity for Mischa Hadley, a banker In a small town some miles away. Plotting to ruin Hadley she sends DlUing to spy upon him and carry out such Instructions as she may give. DlUing meets and falls In love with the banker’s daughter. He determines to save Hadley for the girl’s sake, and makes a heroic sacrifice in his successful efforts to do so. Part of the action takes place in San Francisco’s Chinatown and the notorious Barbary Coast district. The scenes depicting the earthquake are said to be among the most Ingenious ever devised in striving for realism. In the cast are: Virginia Vajli. Jack Mower. William Welsh, Henry Barrows, Christine Mayo. Walter
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ISIS First Half Next Week JACK HOXIE —IN—"DON QUICK SHOT OF TIE 110 GRANDE" Thrills! Love! Romance! Laughter! MONTE BANK’S COMEDY HURRYING AROUND’ 10c All Seats 10c
from "The Girl I Loved” at the Palace the last half of next wefk. No. 4—Jack Hoxle in "Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande” at the Isis the first half of next week. No. 6 —William Russell and Carmel Myers in a scene from “Good-
Long and others. Reginald Denny in “Round Six" of the third “Leather Pushers” series, and the Fox News Weekly will be subsidary attractions. Organ selections by Lester Huff, and music by Virgil Moore’s Apollo Orchestra will be other program features. -!• -I- -IMany Big Names in Cast of “The Fog” Louise Dresser. Mildred Harris, Lou
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A vivid and fast moving story of New York’s Gay White Way—the playground of the workMof a girl seeking a career. A love drama set in the glare of ten million dazzling lights culminating ir* one of the most nerve tingling climaxes ever screened. ENACTED BY A CAST OF EIGHT BROADWAY STARS—LOWELI SHERMAN, DORIS KENYON, HARRISON FORD, EDMUND BREESE, TYRONE POWER, EFFIE SHANNON, CLAIR DOLOREZ, CHARLIE MURRAY. BEAUTY CHORUS OF THE N. Y. HIPPODROME SIXTEEN TILLER GIRLS FROM THE “FOLLIES’* Overture “SEMIRAMIDE” MODEST ALTSCHULER, Musical Director Orchestra plays Sundays from 1:45 to 4:15 and 7:00 to 9:45 Week days, 7:30 to 10:15 Mermaid Comedy Organ Solo “THE BUSHER” MISS DESSA BYRD Suggested by Bluff Lardner’a Storiea Playing “Drifting Back to Draunlaad.** Coming Sunday Aug . 19 Watch for Announcement “THE SPOILERS” OUR SEVENTH BIRTHDAY An All New Production Week of Aug . 26
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Bye, Girls” at Mister Smith'* next week. No. 6—Lon Chaney as Wtllse Dilling In "The Shock” at the Apollo next week. No. 7—Mae Marsh in “The Birth of a Nation” at the Rialto next week
ise Fazenda. Cullen Landis, Ralph Lewis and Frank Currier are but a few of the many star players who appear the coming week at the Ohio Theater in “The Fog." Max Graf’s production of William Dudley Pelley’s story which was adapted to the screen by H. H, Van Loan and directed by Paul PoWell. Others who play important parts in this production of raisunderstanding are Marjorie PrevoSrt, Ann May,
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Ethel Wales, David Butler and Ed ward Phillips. “Bridle-Grooms,” a Hallroom Boys comedy, an International News weekly and a program of special music by the Miami Lucky Seven are added program features. “The Fog” concerns two persons totally unknown to each other who spend their youth and dawning maturity in fog. battling against the ty ranny, Ignorance and obscurity of their situations. Nathan Forge Is a poet who suffers from the brutality of his father while In another town; Madelaine Theddon, an adopted waif, smarts under the whispered remark.? | that she is a girl without a name. Nathan sinks deeper into the fog and In an impulsive moment marries Ia coarse factory girl who later proves untrue while Madelaine flees through ihe fog from one who desires her The fog clears momentarily for Madelaine when she reads a poem of Nathan's, "Girl Without a Name.” But then the fog thickens again when she learns of Nathan's unfortunate marriage. Their ways separate, but
after a course through war-stricken Russia they join again in Japan. Isis to Present Two Features Next Week Jack Hoxie sets a fast pace for speed, thrills and action In his latest production "Don Quickshot of the a
STARTING SUNDAY pfeFOG IyHILDHED HAPBIS-CULLEN LANDIS V LOUISE FRAZENDA-RALPH LEWIS/LOUISE DRESSER-DAVID BUTLER and MARJORIE PEEVOST A tale of romance and adventure, of love defeated and love triumphant, in which a poet battles through the fog of oppression and disillusionment to alove that is true. • PERCY AND FERDIEVOMEDY BRIDLE GROOM*J§i _ I Ws4b MIAMI LUCKY gCTk A^J&^T £ s rs m Mst iMaE^ °°i 11 DKVnMi a \ The Original Mystery GREAT Mind Reader V AUG. 19 Man of India KARA Crystd Gazer
Rio Gra,nde” which will be on view at the Isis the first half of next week. The story Involves the adventures of a cowboy who devotes most of his time to reading Cervantes’ "Don Quixote” and doing imaginative characterizations of the hero of that celebrated legend. When his patient employer finally gets tired and fires him he promptly hits the trail southword seeking to emulate the mighty Don amid surroundings that afford more latitude. That he encounters trouble is of course to be expected, but it Is not until he runs across a pretty girl in distress that his day dreams are dispelled and he gets down to earth as a red-blooded man of fighting quality. The star is supported by Elinor Field. Emmett King. Wiliam A. Steele, Fred C. Jones and Bob McKenzie. The program will include a Monte Banks comedy entitled "Hurrying Around." A romance of love, crooks and a daring sacrifice entitled “Lovebound” will he presented Thursday and the rest of the week. Shirley Mason Is starred in the picture. She appears as the fiance of a district attorney. That the name of her father, repentant for his past, may not be dishonored. she is compelled to assist a desperate criminal in carrying out a well planned diamond swindle. A sequence of interesting plot with a tense dramatic situations follows. George Scarborough wrote the story. The cast contains Albert Roscoe, Richard Tucker. Joseph Girard. Edward Martindale and Kelsey. The comedy feature will be Charles Murray In "So This Is Hamlet.” -I- -I- •!• B'll Russell Is Featured in “Good Bye, Girls” William Russell comes to Mister Smith’s Sunday in a comedy. “Good Bye. Girls,” in which the star is seen as a young writer, Vance McPhee, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His doctor having prescribed a comlete change for him, he goes to his country place to rest, but he finds that there are several trespassers on his estate, one of whom, a charming young woman, establishes herself under his protection. A gang of men are after a certain treasure box in her possession, and threaten McPhee with death unless he gives the girl over to them. She refuse* to explain to Vancg. but asks him to trust her. After many exciting adventures he finds that he is falling in love with the trespasser, who gives her name as Florence Brown, but his hopes are shattered when he sees a man come up to her and embrace her.
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She drives away with this man and McPhee is disconsolate, but she returns the next day and tells him the secret of the box, which contained an invention of her father's, which the crooks were trying to steal. The doctor comes to see his patient and advises McPhee that his health is restored and that the only thing he needs is a wife. After a consultation with Miss Brown, McPhee announces that he will be able to carry out the doctor’s orders. Carmel Myers is seen as Florence Brown, and others in the cast are Tom Wilson and Kate Price. “Round Six” of “Fighting Blood.” featuring George O’Hara, and a News reel complete the program. _ Fifth Week For Griffith Feature Starts Sunday D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” begins it3 fifth continuous week at the Rialto theater Sunday. It covers a wide range of American history and touches only the highest points of interest in the great events that preceded and terminated the Civil War. The force that slavery played in producing this crisis is traced from its inception to its abolition. While the basic theme is historical, 18,000 people fill the stage which has a vast territory for its background, 3,000 horses pass before your view in wild dashes over miles of country roadway. The decisive battles of the Civil War are reproduced in faithful detail and you see these conflicts fought again* just as they were waged over fifty years ago. Cities were built up only to be destroyed to lend force and verity to the dramatic narrative. One enormous battlefield is shown stretching over an area of ten squares miles an upon these plains and trenches 10.000 soldiers clash in a warfare that is as real as if you were an eye witness of the actual occurrence. Holding the great effects in tether is a story as tender and true as love and romance can be pictured. There are tears and smiles, noble sacrifices and heroic deeds of personal valor. Actor Had to Find Bed Nose Actor uses natures make-up! Lou Morrison, who plays Corporal Jonathan Crutch in “The Dangerous Maid,” which is Constance Talmadge’s latest comedy-drama of the Seven teenth Century, is supposed to have a very red nose. Up until last week he' had been putting on a heavy carmine paint. This week he is using no make-up at all. He spent a day at the beach in swimming and was sun-burnt.