Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1923 — Page 5

SATURDAY. OCT. 6, 1923

“COVERED WAGON” IS READY TO OPEN RUN AT ENGLISH’S

Bernard and Carr in Movie o f 'Potash and Perlmutter 1 Due i at Circle —Apollo Holds Lloyd Comedy Over for Second Week —Leah Baird at Ohio, “The Covered Wagon,” a spectacular photoplay with a special orchestra, will open an engagement Sunday night at English’s. This is the first time that this successful feature has been preRented in Indianapolis. This will be the only engagement this season here. • , Leah Baird, movie actress, will appear in person at the Ohio next week in relation to her new feature, “The Destroying Angel.” “Potash and Perlmutter.” movie version, will be at the Circle next week.

The ApoUo holds over' Harold Lloyd in “Why Wo-ry?" for another week. Mister Smith • v. ill offer "Hollywood” and the Isis V.\ll feature "Where is This West?’’ for the first half of the week. “When the Desert Calls" will t>e next offering at the Rialto. “The Covered Wagon" Opens Sunday at English's An event that should be of extreme, interest to theatergoers and book lovers, will be the engagement, beginning Sunday night, at English's of the pieturization of Emerson Hough's story of the winning of the AVest, “The Covered Wagon,” a picture that has created a sensation in every big city, excelling even that of “The Birth of a Nation." and “Way Down East,” and which is now entering its twenty-eighth week at the Criterion Theater, New York.“The Covered Wagon" is a photospectacle of large -dimensions and high pictorial quality, showing the journey westward of the pioneers of the forties and the fifties to Oregon and California bound. The wagonrrain assembler, moves and camps Perils by flood, perils by fire, perils by Indians beset it. It courses tiic prairie under sun and over snow; it bivouacs by river bank and in gully; it halts in straggling fort among freespirited. hard-living scouts. At length, with prayer and hymn, it turns the sod of the promised land. Through this pageant of a people in migration threads "a romantic tale of amorous rivalry and intrigue acted according to movie-ways. The scouts remain the graphic and vital figure.-': the leaders of the wagon-train the unsuspecting heroees. Music that takes in the swing and color of grand opera as arranged by Hugo Reisenfeld, played by -• special symphony orchestra of twenty pieces, accompanies every scene of this picture. After the opening nl„ it there will be two performances dally, at 2:30 and 8:30. All seats will be reserved.

Abe and Mawruss Now Appear in Movie Form Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmut- | ter have gone Into the movies. Their first vehicle is “Potash and j Perlmutter.” a screen version of the stage comedy, by Montague Glass. Barney Bernard and Alexander ! Carr, who created the chief roles on the stage, play the same in the movie ' version, which opens Sunday at the Circle. The story concerns two good friends who enter the clothing business together. Devoted friends, their business life is just one argument after another, but each would be willing to give up his life for the other if necessary for the other's happiness. Abe’s daughter falls in love with one of the pressers in the clothing establishment, a young rtisician who had been rescued from starvation by the partners and given a Job in the shop. The young man is accused of murder and Abe and Mawruss sacrifice every cent of their Joint bank account to prove him innocent, which they are finally able to do, and Abe s consent is won to their marriage. Vera Gordon appears as Abe’s wife, Rosie,’and Hope Sutherland Is Irma * Ytash. De Sacia Mooers, a newcomer the screen, is seen as the head de•i£>. and Martha Mansfield is the < f model. Others In the cast t.ee Kohimar, Leo Donnelly, Edward Durand and Jerry Devine. A Mermaid comedy, “Runnin’ Wild,” a Circle novelty scenic and the Circlette of News completes the pictorial program. The overtume will be “Merry Wives of Windsor,” Nicolai, and there will also be an organ solo played by Dessa Byrd. -I- -I- -ISecond Week for New Lloyd Comedy Begins Sunday “Why'Worry?” Harold Lloyd’s new comedy, will begin the second week of its engagement at the Apollo, beginning Sunday. Lloyd is cast as the hero of this i omantic farce comedy. Our hero seeks rest and seclusion in far-away Paradiso and quickly becomes a soiled and busy young man, occupied in routing out a desperate band of revolutionists, soon discovering what every one else had always known—that he wasn’t sick at all except for a heart trouble which the girl he hoped was incurable. Jobyna Ralston is making her first appearance as Lloyd's leading woman. James Mason, Leo White and Wallace Howe are others In the cast. Subsidiary program features Include the novel film “Is Conan Doyle Right?” an entertaining; and interesting expose of the methods employed by fake spiritualistic mediums in duping a gullible portion of the public; the Fox News Weekly; organ selections by Lester Huff and music by Virgil Moore’s Apollo Orchestra. -I- -I- IMovie Actress Appears In Person at Ohio Leah Baird, motion picture actress, will appear In person at the Ohio next week, where her latest picture, “The Destroying Angel,” will be the major attraction. Miss Baird will speak twice a day at 3 o'clock In the afternoon and at 9 o’clock at night. Miss Baird is the wife of Arthur F. Beck, former Indianapolis man whose parents, still live here. Miss Baird wiU discuss the motion picture playera* life, tell of Hollywood and will comment on some of her experiences in making her latest picture. “The Destroying Angel” is a comedy melodrama, a screen form of the famous thriller by Louis Joseph Vance j and tells of the escapades of a young woman who Is .deserted on her wedding might. Hugh 'Whittaker is a young attorney who has been warned by his physicians that he has but & few months to live. A friend suggests a cruise around the world on his yacht as a possible cure, but Hugh runs away to a small New York village.

I There he finds a young girl whose ' sweetheart has left her at the altar. So that she may return to her family without scandal Hugh marries her. Then he accepts his friend's invitation. In the 'six years that follow Hugh recovers _ his health and makes a vast fortune. Then he sets about to find his wife and happiness. A1 St. John in “The Tailor,” Fun From the Press and a Pathe Review together with music by the Palaisr Garden Orchestra, are among the subsidiary features. -1-1- -ISatire on the West Booked at the Isis “Where Is This West?” is the title of Jack Hoxie’s new comedy drama, something new in the line of cowboy films, which will be shown the first ! half of next week at the Isis. It is a satire built around the affairs I of a poor milkman, reared in the East, who becomes joint owner with a waitress of a larae Western cattle ranch. His life is drab enough before he starts West, but when he gets to the little hamlet near which his ranch is located he has more adventures than were accorded Daniel Boone. Written by George C. Hull. In the qast are Mary Philbin, Joseph Girard, Bob McKenzie, Sicl Jordan, Slim Cole and Bernard Selgel. The comedy feature will be Charlie Murray farce cajled "Wild and Wicked.” On Thursday the mid-week change of program will bring Richard Talmadge in "Putting Over” a ccnqedy drama, relating a story of society j life. The comedy will be a Century ! faf-ce called "Hid On.” | „ -I- -I- *l- - on Movie IJfe Due at Smith’s Sunday "Hollywood,” a farce on movie life with Hope Brown, Luke Cosgrave, Ruby Lafayette and many others, will open an engagement at Mister Smith’s Sunday. The story concerns a young girl in a small town, who is sure that she would be a huge success in the movies and when her grandfather is orfor his health, Angela accompanies him. full of ambition and enthusiasm, as well as confidence that her services will be much In demand as soon producers see her. She is doomed to disappointment, however, as she finds, as one director tells her, "that the woods are full of pretty girls” like herself, none of whom

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GAUTIER BROS. Present “The Animated Toy Shop” One of Vaudeville’s Greatest Novelties Versatile Melody Maids GALLERIHI SISTERS Musidste De Milano ED. Popular Laugh Makers CHARLES WARREN & O’BRIEN “Bits of Eccentricities” MAJOR RHOADES jffSwCi Th Street Urdu, j | STONE & WOOD WdSk ! a Melange of Song and Dance 9:20 o'clock j T.'z:z VERA SABINA War Tax Included. I Odd Steps With Music il If Assisted by Maurice Leon THE McBANNS Fun in a Farmyard EXTRA! ADDED ATTRACTION The Famous Swedish Character Comedian CHAS. LINDHOLM & CO. in the Laughable Farce “THE MAN FROM MINNESOTA” GEORGE O’HARA in “ROUND 3” Second Exdting Series “FIGHTING BLOOD"

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ONLY IMPORTANT MOVIE EVENTS OF WEEK REFLECTED HERE

No. I—Harold Lloyd and giant friend are big enough to be held over at Apollo all next week. No. 2—J. Warren Kerrigan and Lois Wilson as you will see them next week in "The Covered Wagon” at English's.

have any special talent, but- all of whom are anxious to become starq. Her grandfather qulte,accldentally obtains a position as a character man and soon becomes quite famous. When Angela’s grandmother and her aunt come to Hollywood they too are chosen to appear In pictures. The bill will Include the third episode of “Her Dangerous Path ” -!- -!- -|- New Desert Story Booked at Rialto "When the Desert Calls,” directed by Ray C. Smallwood, will open Sunday at the Rialto. The cast Includes Vlolst Ileming

AMUSEMENTS

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No. B —Barney Bernard In a movie version of “Potash and Perlmutter” at the Circle next week. No. 4 —Alexander Carr, partner of Bernard in "Potash and PerlmuKer” at Circle next week. No. s—True Boardman In movie

Robert Frazer, Sheldon Lewis, J. Barney Sherry, Huntley Gordon, Julia Swayne Gordon and others. *v. Unusual indeed is a desert story which begins with hysband and wife happily married and living In a town not far from the Sahara, where he Is a bank cashier, neither realizing the part to be played by the desert In their lives. Ruin comes tp them

HEADED "WITH it WITH JAMES J.MOR.TON -- TU.U.S & LA RUE Vm\n\ \ \ AND THE CONCE-RT LADY ORCHESTRA j gpßß\ \ CHARLES IRWIN . Wff\V THE MODERN COMEDIAN ![■ \ l \\ Jim tnd Betty Morgan JANE DILLON \' Songs Somewhat Different Sketches From Life \ \ MEEHAN & NEWMAN 3 ORIGINAL BLANKS raSa\ ’ Broken Promises Europe’s Premier Jugglers * ADDED COMEDY FEATURE ’ XXMmK \ jack INGUS & WINCHESTER ne cm \ \ “THE MEN OF THE HOUR” J ftilili & PATHS -NEW 3 -TQPICS-PiVBLES WlKjj

BROADWAY E ON SOUTH ILLINOIS ST. Snappy EVERYDAY Peppy BURLESQUE AND VAUDEVILLE Admission 25c and 50c Th " e °T" oho ” *”*

feature at Palace first half of week in “Michael 'O'HaJloran. x No. 6—Jack Hoxie in “Where Is This West?” at the Isis the first half of the week. No. 7 —Scene from “The Desert Call” at the Rialto next week.

through an enemy who wishes te make the wife his helpless victim, and the husband is drawn by this man into a plot which disgraces him. When, by means of an amazing case of mistaken Identity, he is thought to be a suicide, the wife journeys alone into the desert to escape the enemy she still fears. And the husband, receiving word that hie wife

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Ko. B—Lea Baird, movie star, who will make personal appearance at Ohio next week in connection with “The Destroying Angel.” No. 9—Ben Turpin in "Hollywood,” at Mister Smith’s next week.

1 has gone rather than add to trouble for which she blames herself— he too goes Into the desert. Two Fined on Speed Charge Albert Kuhn, 1240 Wright St. and Oren Pullen, 1217 King Ave., were fined $lO each and costs today in city court on speeding uharges.

STt'ABT WALKER rREBE>TB TIME A Srxr Comedy by Arthor Henry.

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week-j especial For Teachers’ Conventio OCT. MATINEES WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY

CADLE TABERNACLE ' SAT. OCT. 27 T* AN ORGANIZATION fW, ' ’ T 0F 100 SOUSA AND HIS BAND Deutoidnt Commander JOHN PHILIP SOUSA, Conductor 3i* Annual tour Ua-TRANS-CONTINENTAL TOUR. THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC Mr AD SOUSA’S NEW MARCHES AND ALL lisas nLA hk || *R Cr\\APOSITIONS ——J Principals of the Sousa Organisation:

Miss Jiora Fauchald Soprano Miss Winifred Bumbrick Harp Miss Kachel Senior Violinist Mr. John Dolan .Cornet Mr. Geo. J. Carey Xylophone Mr. Wm. M. Kunkel , piccolo Mr. Paul O. Gerhard# Oboe

SELWYNS TO SEND ‘PARK AGAIN’ Shriners to Give Theater Party on First Night, "Partners Again,” the latest of the Potash and Perlmutter comedies, comes to the Shubert-Murat for a week’s engagement commencing Monday, Oct. 16. For the third time in the history of these intenely human comedies, the leading roles are being played by Barney Barnard and Alexander Garr, the original Abe and Mawruss. Their lm personation of the always bickering yet never to be separated ex-garment operators, has given them a place among the most popular American stars. Montague Glass, who first conceived melancholy Abe and brawling Mawruss. wrofe this new comedy in collaboration with Jules Eckert Goodman. The Shriners have purchased the house for the night of Monday, Oct. 15, give a large party. NF.W TYPE OF COMEDIAN WITH COLUMBIA SHOW Hamp Plays Swedish Role in “Queens of Paris.” Anew type of comedian will be the center of the fun making at the Capitol next week when I. B. Hamp, portrayer of Swedish roles comes with the “Queens of Paris” company. Hamp is the only comedian in burlesque who affects the Swedish dialect. Heading the vaudeville part of the show are “The Six Rockets,” a team of six young Belgian women who are making their first tour of America with a singing, dancing and acrobatic act. The Frazier trio are another set of specialists with musical in cllnations.

AMUSEMENTS

PRICES Eve., 50c to $1.50 Mat., 50c to SI.OO

Mr. Anthony Maly Coranglals Mr. 8. C. Thompson Bassoon Mr. Joseph EeLuca Euphonium Mr. J. P. Sebneler Trombone Mr. Wm. J. 'jell Sousaphone Mr. Gns Helmecke ....Cymbals fend Bass Crum. r

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