Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 143, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1923 — Page 7
SATURDAY, OCT. 27,1923
LEW TALBOT SENDS SHOWTOOAPITOL 'Wine, Women and Song' Due as Next Burlesque Revue. One of the oldest burlesque organizations will appear at the Capitoi next week when Lewis Talbot brings his “Wine, Women and Song” company. Talbot, who Is well known In Indianapolis and who call himself the “happiness doctor,” announces that everything, but the title is new this year. Bert Bertrand is the featured performer. In the cast are Harry Le Van, chief supporting fun maker, Gertrude Ralston, prima donna: Betty Burroughs, soubrette: Nate Busby, a black-face comedian: Alice Smith and Viola Spaeth, ingenues, and Jimmy Walters, Otto Johnson and A1 Dupe nt. There will be a street parade by the company Monday at noon. Sixty people and a police escort will take part. CHARGED IN BROADWAY THEATERS Some Shows Will be Tried Before Citizen Juries. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Some of the theatrical productions now playing to crowded houses on Broadway have reached such a low moral ebb that even scene shifters are being corrupted, according to complaint made io Charles P. Sumner, secretary of the Association for the Suppression of Vice. He is planning to put several shows cn trial before citizen juries, under agreement that if the plays are adjudged immoral the management will voluntarily withdraw them. Madame Homer Booked No little interest is manifested in the coming of Madame Louise Homer, American prima-donna contralto, who fcas been engaged for her one appearance of Indianapolis by the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers. Madame Homer will be heard at Caleb Mills Hall in song-recital on the evening of Nov. 21. Madame Homer is a Pennsy' inian by birth, the daughter of William P. Beatty, who in 1869 founded the Pennsylvania College for Women. She received the -foundation of her musical training with Alice Gross in Philadelphia, and W. L. Whitney and Sidney Homer in Boston, marrying the latter in 1895. Encouraged by George W. Chadwick and Arthur Foote, she in company with her husband, went to Paris for further study under Fidele Koenig and Lherie. There she first appeared as concert-contralto under d’lndy and in 1898 made her stage debut as Leonora in “La Vraviata” at Vichy. Following this came an immediate engagement at Covent Garden in London, where she sang both Italian and Wagnerian roles, appearing during the season also at La Monnaie In Brussels as many as eighty times. Madame Homer returned to America in 1900 to join the forces of the Metropolitan Opera Company, playing a continuous engagement with them until 1919. Her favorite roles are Amneris, in "Aida;” Orpheus in "Orpheus and Eurydice;" Delilah, in “Samson and Delilah and Fides in “Le Prophete.” Students Busy; So Is Thief While Dr. O. J. Briggs. 233 E. St. Joseph St., was conducting his class in Chiropractory, a thief entered the hall outside the class room and stole three overcoats, one owned by Briggs and the others by students, according to police.
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ISIS FIRST HALF NEXT WEEK HOOT GIBSON “The Ramblin’ Kid” The Biggest and Beet Drama of the West Gibson Ever Made CENTURY COMEDY “BACK TO EARTH” I 10c ALL SEATS 10c
MISTER SMITH’S Tomorrow and All Week ' < \Zke .. COMMON LAW by RCfcERT W. CHAMBERS With CGRINNE GRIFFITH CONWAY TEARLE ELLIOTT DEXTER A STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL MODEL AND HER ARTIST LOVER ALSO “HER DANGEROUS PATH” CHAPTER SIX KI2TOOBAMS
Campfire Girls to Greet Famous Singer u * •. ♦ *. t m AMELITA GALLI-CURCI The ever Increasing number cf ardent admirers of Amelit,a GalliCurci and the hundreds who must seem like old friends to this famous artist, will again greet her Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Murat. This concert will mark the opening of the Indianapolis musical season and is the first concert under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. Mme. Galli-Curci with her husband, Homer Samuels, who is also her accompanist, and Manuel Berehguer, flutist, will arrive in Indianapolis today for the concert tomorrow and will be met at the station by members of the Camp Fire Girls of which she is a merfiber, having been taken into this organization two years ago and given the title of “Cantewaste,” meaning “singring heart.” A decorated leather symbol of the local organization will be given to Mme. Galli-Curci as a souvenir of this occasion by attachment, according to custom to her own ceremonial gown. * When Fritz Reiner, the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the organization which will present the series of three concerts in Indianapolis. Nov. 12, Jam 28. and Mar. 24, arrived from Europe he made some additions which will increase the interest in the first concert, and a great program of orchestra music by the three immortals in music, Bachm, Beethoven and Brahms, will be presented. The following Is the complete program. The program for the first orchestral concert follows: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56 Brahms Violin Concerto E Major Bach Willy Burmester. —lntermission Overture. “Egmont” Beethoven Symphony No. 7 F Major.... Beethoven Call for Barrel Carr Brothers, tailors. 107 E. Sixteenth St., reported to police today that they sent their colored delivery toy to deliver a pair of trousers. The trousers, valued at sls, never reached their destination. Police were asked to arrest the boy.
from theUp'to'the-mnr' MrSi Hie melodrama by^ LINCOLN J. CARTER, WITH CARLES WNES-SHIBLEY VHBttmsVS& A BERNARD IMPERIAL COMEDY, “WHY PAY RENT?” FOX NEWS WEEKLY VIRGIL MOORE’S APOLLO ORCHESTRA LESTER HUFF AT THE ORGAN
Prof. Morris Arranges Sacred Concert Sunday
By THE VISITOR The Tabernacle Prestfytenan Church choir, Thirty-Fourth and Central Ave., will present an evening of music Sunday night on the theme of God’s invitation. The choir will be assisted at both the morning and evening services by Mrs. Maude Elllis Lackens. soprano, of Toledo, Ohio. The program Sunday night follows: Quartet —“O Come Every One that Thlreteth” (Elijah) Mendelssohn Chorus—-Ho' Every One That Thirsteth” Martin Professor Morris and Choir Soprano Solo—“ Come Unto Me” (Messiah) ‘ Mande! Mrs. Uackens. Ladies Chorus—“ Lift Thine Eyes” (Elijah* Mendelssohn Quartet —“Come Thou Traveler Un-_ known” • ■ Noble Chorus —“Seek Him Who Maketh the Seven Stars and Orion” Rodgers Chorus—“Be Not Afraid” (Elijah) . . . . Mendelssohn The choir wishes to announce a concert to be given the evening of Nov. 7 In the Assembly room of the church. The choir is under the direction of Fred Newell Morris. * * * Annual Season of Dramatics to Open Sunday at Sacred Heart The forty-fifth annual season of dramatics at the local Sacred Heart Church will he opened Sunday when the St. Cecilia players will give Justin Huntley McCarthy’s romantic drama “If I Were King” at the St. Cecilia Hall, Union and Palmer Sts. Members of the cast are Clara Schwegel, Anna Schludecker, Marjorie Nordloh, Flora Hermann, Julia Boehm, Inez Nordloh, Joseph Leppert, Edward Eckstein, Norbert Noe, Frank Scherrer, John Rathz, A. Wendling, Lawrence Feltman, Bernard Weimer, Leo Herbert*. Edward Schludecker, Albert Hoereth, Charles Schludecker, Frank McKinney, Walter Metzger and C. Francis Rathz. Charles Lauck is the director. The Sacred Heart High School orchestra will provide the musical numbers. • • • Mother Goose Characters to Appear Here Tuesday In the new Community House of the East Tenth Street M. E. church Tuesday night, the Calendar Circle will present a program during which the children will appear as Mother Goose characters. Storybook land will come to life: Miss Anna Kost will be Mother Goose. Even “Old King Cole” will be present with his court and Fidillers Three. Humpty Dumpty will not be missing and Little Miss Muffett will be present. • * • "RIGHTEOUSNESS VS. WICKEDNESS” wiH be the morning theme of Rev. L. C. E. Fackler at St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church. At night “The Hardest Thing in the World.” The Luther League will give a Halloween party on Tuesday night at the home of M. Knenulem, 1609 E. Michigan St. The ladles will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. B. Those, 2012 Lexington Ave. • • • In the absence of Dr. Edwin Cunningham, Joseph Myers will preach Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at the Central Unlversallst church. , •• * * REV. PAUL W. EDDINGFIELD will preach Sunday morning at the
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Broad Ripple Christian church on “Prison Sunday Reflections” and at night on “Holy, Catholc, Apostolic and Roman Church.” • • • THE REV. GUY V. HARTMAN of the Hall Place M. E. Church announces his Sunday subjects as “Go Forward” and “Ministering to Jesus.” • * * AT GRACE M. E. CHURCH, the Rev. M. B. Hyde will preach Sunday morning on “The Chariot Which Carries to Victory” and at night on "Ensuring Fame.” * * • RALLY DAY will be observed Sunday morning at the Brookside Park U. B. Church. At night, the Rev. Charles P. Martin will speak on “Who Found It Out?” * / • * • H. W. LASHBROOK will preach Sunday at both services at the Brightwo?d Church of Christ. W. T. Lynn wil' preach Sunday morning at the Fleming Garden Church of Christ and in the afternoon at the Fairfield Church. Alva N. Clark will preach at both services Sunday at the Garfield Park Church of Christ. • • • O. A. TRINKLE, pastor of the Englewood Christian Church, will preach Sunday morning on the subject "Why Attend Church." In the evening the topic will be "Slu." Bible school 9:30 a. m. and Christian Endeavor 6:45 p m. • • • “What Is Your Life?” will be the theme of the morning sermon of Homer Dale, minister, at Hillside Christian Church tomorrow morning. "The Cleansing Blood” will be the subject of the evening sermon. • • • DR. E. A. ROBERTSON of the East Park M. E. Church will preach Sunday morning on "Jesus, A World Figure." At night Dr. John Kerr will speak on “What I Saw and Heard In Europe Last Summer.” • • • AT ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Dr. Lewis Brown wIU preach Sunday morning on “Are Churches for Gossip or Reverence In Worship?” At night "Roger Williams and the Baptists.” • • • EVANGELICAL MEETINGS now in progress at the Barth Place M. E. Church are attracting large crowds. On Sunday morning and evening Evangelist C. Fenwick Reid will preach. At 8 p. m. he will preach to men only. • • • THE REV. CHARLES H. GUNSOLUS will preach Sunday night at the Brightwood Congregational Church on "Go Thou and Do Likewise.” There will be a pumpkin pie social and Hal-
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“Clinging Vine” Due at English’s
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PEGGY WOOD
Manager A. F. Miller of English’s announced today that Peggy Wood in “The Clinging Vine” has been booked for a two-day engagement beginning Tuesday night, Nov. 6.
loween entertainment at the church on Monday night. • • • DR. FRANK S. C. WICKS of All Souls Unitarian Church announces the following order of service at 11 a. m. Sunday: Andante (Mendelssohn); prayer and chorus renzi (Wagner); Hmyn 386; fourth service; covenant; anthem; words of aspiration; responsive reading, twenty-eighth selection; Scripture; Hymn 55; notices and offerings; Berceuse from Josoelyn (Godard); address, "Love Thy Neighbor;” Hymn 839; benediction; postlude; march in C (Valenti). *• • • DR. JOHN GARRETSON of New York, special agent of the Presbyterian board of education, speaks in the Fourth Presbyterian Church Sunday at 11 on “At Work in the Heart of Mormonism.” Having served a number of years in Utah, he Is fully conversant with the situation. It is said. This address is a part of Statewide campaign by this board. • • • T. A. Hall will preach at the Bethany Christian Church Sunday morning on the subject “The Missionary Program in Prophecy." Evening subject "Search the Scriptures.” Woman Robbed in Theater Mrs. W. A. Hollyflold, Newcastle, Ind.. reported to police that a beaded purse, a wedding ring, $6 and a ticket to Newcastle were taken from her while In the Lyric Theater. A young woman was seen leaving the theater with the purse.
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ROUNDING ROUND THEATERS With Walter D. Hickman
A r “"“ PPROVAL of photoplays while they are being exhibited in this v city by the Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays Is a splendid thing. Often the critical view started by those who see the movies for the daily papers do not agree. At times we do not agree on '.he mechanics of the photoplay. I welcome the opportunity to reflect In this department the recommendations of the Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays. This organization is doing splendid servico In pointing out worth-while movies while being exhibited In this city, V I -IeAKRY KOCH of the Ohio Theater pulled a good one on the night that Lloyd George was here. This week, the Ohio has been rbserving Navy week. On Monday night a Navy band and sailors j marched through the buslne*F d’-;r;ct announcing the attraction at the Ohio. Many people thought Lloyd George was going to the Ohio. Koch admits that he forgot all about George being in the city. “I was thinking only of m ymovie,” he said. ■* I -I!T“T]ELSON TROWBRIDGE of the \ Murat tells me that “Spice of at the Murat for a week’s engagement next month. George Brice, Brendel and Burke, and Sam Herron are In the cast. -I- -I- + fTT] RANK CRUICKSHANK is here I H In Interest of the Shubert’s L_ “Passing Show,” booked at the Murat. Frank has made many visits to this city. He generally announces the arrival of the biggest of the Shubert musical shows. He carries with him about 500 pictures of members of his troop. + + -I* | ON’T mind being of personal | J service to readers of The l_Z_J Times, but I am warning those in advance that I am not going to help anybody to get seats for •'Sally,” at English's. Every time a capacity show arrives here I am swamped the last minute by those who ask me to ise my influence to buy the best seats for them. It can't be done. So please pardon me. I am only human, you krow. Get your own. War Vote Hold-Up Victims Two hold up men. at the point of a revolver, ordered Thomas Berry and Charles Reed, both living at the Disabled Veterans' Home, 16 E. Michigan ; St., to hold up their hand* as they were entering the home Friday night. Berry was robbed of SB. Thirty-five cents in Reod’s pocket was overlooked. Police have no trace.
BOVINE FAMILY TREEINOANGER Owner Fights to Preserve Lineage of Jersey's. Blue-blooded cattle, late citizens of the Isle of Jersey, although ranked high in King George's k.ngdom, are not worth a whoop in Indianapol.s if refused admittance to the best bovine circles in America. That’s what Arthur Jordan avers in a suit for mandatory injunction and SIO,OOO damages against Aipheus P. Walker, 3034 N. Pennsylvania St. Jordan alleges that Walker refuses to aid him in having the thirty-one head of Jersey cattle, recently imported, registered with the American Jersey Cattle Club. Walker went to the Isle of Jersey and purchased the cattle for Jordan for $21,000. In the meantime numerous progeny are being born into the cold world without benefit of a family tree, and
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are worth no more than any old Hoosler Bossy's wobbly calf, it is charged. The British aristocrats bear such, fancy titles as Raleigh’s Financial Pansy, You’ll Do Eva, Eminent’s Jersey Skater, General Cowslip's Crocus, Sea Lad’s Seaweed, The Cid’s Western Star, Dorothy Perkins Rose and Maiden’s Glory Pomona. Tuberculosis Meeting Thursday Plans for sale of 1923 tuberculosis seals will be discussed at a meeting of anti-tuberculosis workers of the State at the Lincoln Thursday. Talks will be made by J. W. Pecker of the Illinois Tuberculosis Society, Theodora Werle of Lansing, Mich.; Murray A Auerbach, executive secretary of tha Indiana association, and B. G. Patterson of Columbus, O. The “Musical Burglar” Again Burglars jimmied the rear window of the Friendly Inn restaurant, 117 S. Illinois'St., and, according to a report of Mrs. Billie Ware, proprietress, stole about forty phonograph records. The cash register was not touched, but money from the pay phone was taken. Police say the robbers have a key for the phone boxes.
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