Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1923 — Page 6

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FIIKI FAVORITES TO' PLAY CHIEF ROLES ON LOCAL SCREEN Tom Meighan, John Gilbert, Mae Marsh, Russell and Hart Among Stars, O r ~~\ LD TIME film favorites -will play the lead* In movies to be reflected on the local screen next week. Thomas Mefehan will be seen at tho Circle in George Ade's latest movie story. “Woman Proof.” Tom has been missing from the local screen for several months. John Gilbert will play the lead in Booth Tarklngton’s “Cameo Kirby" at the Apollo next week. Harry Leon Wilson aided Tarkington in the stage version of the piece. Mae Marsh will be seen at the Ohio in “Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thlng.” She has been a stranger for many months. William Russell will be featured In “When Odds Are Even” at the Isis the first half of the week. Bill Hart, another movie stranger, will he seen at Mister Smith’s in “The Bargain." The movie at the Lincoln Square will be “The Midxlght Alarm.” + JL J. Ado'S Latest 3lov!e Doe at Circle Sunday George Ade has written “Woman Proof,” another satirical comedy for Thomas Meighan, and the screen version of this story will be the attraction at the Circle, beginning Sunday. "Woman Proof” concerns the will of a father who stipulates In It that both his sons and his two daughters must marry before the lapse of a period of five years before they shall

Noted Soloists to Sing With People’s Chorus

Ten thousand people will have an opportunity to hear Handel’s oratorio, “The Messiah," ,sung at Cadle Tabernacle next Wednesday night. Tickets to the number of 10,000 have been issued and Harry Nicoli, business manager of the People’s Chorus. believes they will all be sold. Up to. the night of the concert tickets may be had at the Indianapolis Talking Machine Cos.. Circle Talking Machine Cos.. Pearson Piano Cos., aiid the Fuller-Ryde Music Cos. Mrs. Florence Lewis, publicity chairman of the People's Chorus, says “The Messiah” is sung in Boston each Christinas at' prices reaching -*1 and upward. In fixing a nominal admission for the local concert it is the aim of the chorus to enable as many people as possible to enjoy the oratorio. Prof. E. B. Birge, director of the chorus, is pleased With the prospects for a sue eessful concert. If this one is a success it is proposed to give another in the spring. The following popular soloists will he heard in “The Messiah” Wednesday night: Mrs Frances Johnson, soprano; Miss Norma Mueller, contralto; George W Kadel, tenor; Fred Newell Morris, bass. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. with Mrs. William E. Du-

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inherit his estate, valued at several million dollars. One brother and the two sisters have no difficulty in finding mates, but one member of the family is completely unimpressed with women and uninterested in matrimony. The other members of the family are In despair, because they will forfeit their inheritances if Tom cannot be persuaded to marry. When they have afeout given up hope Tom falls in love with a young college girl, Louise Halliday. Milo Bleecji, the girl’s guardian, who is also guardian of the Roekwood millions, realizes that In the event of Tom’s marriage he shall lose his position .and the attendant income of $20,00u a year, and goes to the girl to break up the engagement. By making Toni’s proposal seem like a cold-blooded business deal he effects a break between the sweethearts. In seeking to escape from each other they accidentally meet on shipboard, where they are reconciled and married at sea. , At the some time they send a radiogram to the Rockwoods on shore, suggesting that they marry immediately, so all are married a few hours before the date set in the will for the forfeiture \of the Roekwood millions. Lila Lee appears opposite the star. Robert Agnew, Mary Astor, Vera Reynolds, Louise Dresser, John Saainpolis, Charles A. Sellon and Martha Maddox complete the cast. The Circle Orchestra will play “Pique Dame” as the overture, and the program will also Include a tworel Circle comedy and the Circlette of News. + -I* I“Cameo Kirby” Tops Film BE lat Apoflo With Its scenes and story laid in that picturesque period of the history of the South known as ante-bellum days, when rich Southern plantation owners traveling on the river steamers that traversed the Mississippi from Cairo to New Orleans staked all they possessed on the turn of a card, and gambling was a passion Indulged in by all of them, “Cameo Kirby" produced on the screen by William Fox from the play by Booth Tarkington

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thie at the pipe organ and Mrs. Dorothy Knight Greene at the piano, will give an unusual volume of instrumentation.

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and Harry Leon Wilson will he the attrhotion next week at the Apollo. On the stage “Cameo Kirby” served such stars as Dustin Farnum and Nat Goodwin. In the picture John Gilbert has the title role, that of a dashing young gambler, the “black sheep” of an aristocratic Southern family, who plied his profession along the Mississippi witli the reputation of always “playing square” and who was nicknamed “Cameo” because of his fondness for cameo stones. Kirby uses methods considered unethical to protect Colonel Randall, a plantation owner, from Aha schemes of a card shark. He accomplishes his purpose only to have it frustarted when the planter, believing himself ruined, ends his life. Complications follow which cause Kffby to become a fugitive from justice charged with murder. By chance he becomes infatuated with Randall’s daughter. Unaware of his identity she falls In love with him. In support of Mr. Gilbert are Gertrude Olmsted, Alan Hale, Jean Arthur, Eric Mayne, Richard Tucker, Phillips Smalley. William E. Lawrence and others”. The program will include an "Our Gang” comedy, “No Noise,” enacted by Hal Roach's clever company of juvenile funmakers, the Fo* news weekly, organ selections by Ruth Noller and music by Virgil Moore's Apollo orchestra. -I- -IMany Big People Take Part In Ohio Movie England and Ireland are used as settings for Mae Marsh's “Paddy-Ttae-Next- I?est-Thing" her Graham Wilcox Production which begins a week’s en

whYr? THE CROWDS CONTINUOUS 1 m //j *<• time A BIT 0F brOADWAY\! TRANSPLANTED TO INDIANAPOLIS f-3 Revue f *M vaudeville's most •iaL • - GORGEOUS MUSICAL COMEOY SPECTACtE ( Max Hoffman Jr.' A CAST OF INTERNATIONAL FAVORITES AND A CHORUS ™ OF THE FAMOUS NEW YORK ARTISTS MODELS NOODLES FAGAN and ELSIE “A FOOL THERE IS" Watssn & St. Alva I Weber & Elliott ' A Phoney Episode | Nonsensical Nonsense THE RIOS I Wilfred Dußois A Novelty Surprise I Jong’Leur Distingue Tom Marker and Carrie Schenck “The Rube and the Actress” Round Eight, 2nd serie* “Fighting Blood” Sunshine Comedy Pathe Review j# I>Jai4 SBRiN6 The KiooiesTo Meet ! SANTA CLAUSE i ON THE MEZZANINE FLOOR V' N ,TUESDAY AND EVERY AFTER fht) s>'*\ NOON THEREATTER UNTIL L'fVL V ' * / . XMAS SAY J \ {'HELL HAVE SOMETHING FOt >V X A EACH.OF THEM/

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No. I—Guy Bates Post in “Gold Madness,” opening Thursday afternoon as the film feaure at the Palace. No. 2—Thomas Meighan (Isn’t this a great picture?) in “Woman Proof," opening Sunday afternoon at the Circle. No, 3—Mae Marsh In “Paddy-the-Next-Best Thing,” at the Ohio next week. gagemer.t at the Ohio beginning to morrow. This is the first picture made, by Miss Marsh in two years. The picture is based on the famous novel .oy Gertrude Page. Sir Simeon Stuart, titled English, a colonel during the World War plays a major role in the picture. Tho Due Do Thierry, descendant of the long line from which the famous battlefield Chateau Thierry takes its name, Is another of the nobility in the picture. , George K. Arthur, popular young English actor known as "Kipps” from the play by H. G. Wells in which he appeared, has the leading male role. Others are Haidee Wright, Darby Foster, Lillian Douglas, Nina Boucicaijlt, Marie Wright, Tom Coventry Mildred Evelyn. Bernard Vaughaa and Marie Ault. “Pudly” has to do with Paddy Adair who plays a son to' her father the doiighty old General D. Adair, who though not having a Son takes his daughter as the next-best-thlng. Paddy is a tom boy who helps Jack O'Hara court Eileen, Paddy's sister. Eileen love* Lawrence Blake who professes to love Paddy. When O’ Hara finds that Eileen spurns him.

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No. 4—William Russell In a scene “When Odds Are Even,” at the Isis the first half of next week. No. s—Webster,5 —Webster, “The Master Mind,” In person at the Lincoln Square all next week. No. 6—William S. Hart In “The Bargain,” at Mister Smith's next week. No. 7 —John Gilbert in a scene from “Cameo Kirby,” at the Apollo, opening Sunday afternoon.

he leaves England. After the death of her father Paddy goes to London. Lester Huff will be heard In his original version of "No, No, Nora.” Other music will be provided by the New Ohio Theater Orchestra. A1 St. John in “Full Speed Ahead" and a pathe news weekly are other features. •I- I -I' “When Odd* Are Even” to He at Isis First Half William Russell ls N to be seen at the Isis the first half of next week in "When Odds Are Even.” a melodrama in which much of the action takes place aboard a huge ocean liner. An ancient fall-schooner also comes In as a frame for some highly dramatic episodes. The picture embraces a romantic story of the race of two rival mining companies to a precious opal mine in the Antipodes. Another of Mock Sennett's bathing beauties, Dorothy De Vore, who has graduated to stardom, has tho role of the heroine. In the cast are Lloyd Whitlock, Allen Caven and Frank Beal. The story was written by Dorothy Tost. “Round Figures," a CenAMUSEMENTB.

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tury farce, will bo the fun feature of the program. • "Soqth Sea Love” is the title of a drama written by Frederick and Fanny Hatton, which will be shown Thursday and the rest of the week with Shirley Mason as the star. The story relates the tempestuous love affairs of a young Spanish girl reared in the tropical islands, and who, after many colorful adventures, finds that she really cares for a man she had jilted and scorned as unworthy. “The Sleep Walker,” a Billy Rhodes comedy, will be an added attraction. -i- -r- -iMovie and Mystic Tops New Bill at Uneoln Square Opening Sunday at the Lincoln Square will he a movie feature, “The Midnight Alarm" and Webster, who is billed as a "seer.” Webster in Ills so called mind reading and question answering act, jS aided by Catherine Clark and Miriam Smith who will dance any selection “thought of” by members of the audience. Webster, billed as "The Man Who Knows” will he at the Lincoln Square all next week. ¥ -|- -!- Bill Hart Again Carrie* a Gun in “The Bargain" William S. Hart will he the attraction at Smith’s on Sunday. He will be seen in “The Bargain.” one of the i most successful of his earlier produc- | tlons.

gilbert GERTRUDE OLMSTED- JEAN ARTHUR/ From the Greed Stage Success by BOOTH TARKINGTON ~HARRY LEON WILSON A Roulette of Life Along the „ Romantic Mississippi CAMEO KIRIIY brings the inuiilc of the paddles as an old stern wheeler plies from Cairo to New Orleans; a yellow moon over the clay banks, negro deck hands strnmming banjos and singing quaint melodies on the lower deck; In the rahin a poker game beneath sickly lights from swinging oil lamps—a shot in the dark—a dead man.' And down in New Orleans a woman waitir <3 y Ruth Holler, Organist Trgil Moore’s Apollo Orchestra

In “The Bargain” Hart is seen as Jim Stokes, a two-gun outlaw of the ojd West.* Despite a double guard put on a stage coach when the shex--iff receives warning that Stokes is in the neighborhood, the baudit successfully holds up the stage and escapes with the express money. He is ambushed later, however, and although desperately wounded, succeeds fn eluding the posse. He is found unconscious by an old prospector and taker! to his hut. where the eld man’s daughter nurses him back co health. Stokes finds himself falling in love with the girl, and de-

“The Messiah” Presented by People’s CHORUS—3OO Voices Under Direction of EDWARD BAILEY BIRGE Wed. Eve., Dec. 19, at 8:15 o’Clock SOLOISTS: Mrs. Frances Johnson, soprano Miss Norma Mueller, contralto George W. Kadel, tenor Fred Newell Morris, bass Mrs. William E. Duthie, organist Mrs. Dorothy Knight Greene, pianist Indianapolis .Symphony Orchestra CADLE TABERNACLE Admission 25 Cents Seats now selling at Indianapolis Talking Machine Cos., Pearson Piano Company, Fuller-Ryde Music Cos., Circle Talking Machine Cos.

IThe Greatest Amusement Bargain in Indianapolis j**m**™*b iuc-zuc 10c-20c LINCOLN SQUARE u™ Formerly THE RIALTO, Continuous 1 to 11 pi m. #Air' I\vw 1 \vwu and Engagement Extraordinary WEBSTER “TfiE MASTER MIND” A Demonstration of Occult anil Psychic Power that Will Hold You Spellbound. LOVE He falls You AU / FINANCE 9 Questions! Q SPECIAL. MATINEE. LADIES ONLY. FRIDAY 10 A. M. KNIGHT & KNIGHT I • BRADLEY & EARLE The Musical Hicks from Plum A Talkalogue of Peppy Patter ('enter ' Smothered in T.aughs A THRITLI.ING HTMAN DRAMA OF I.IFE ES 0 u p 7. y “THE MIDNIGHT ALARM” jyr WILL MAKE VOX GRASP THE ARYIS OK YOLK CHAIR LET’S ALL GO

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cides to send back the stolen money and begin his life anew. At his wedding two of the guests recognize him as a bandit for whom a large reward has been offered, and j when he rides into the little town to give back the money he finds the sheriff waiting for him. Through some difficulties into which the sheriff finds himself, Stokes bargains wisp him for his freedom and wins it. He returns to his bride, confessesyhis past to her, and togethex* they cross the border and start anew life together. Clara Williams is the girl.

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