Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1923 — Page 6

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PICK OF SEASON’S FILMS BOOKED FOR CHRISTMAS WEEK Movie Houses Add Special Attractions for Big Holiday Bills, OYIKLAND will be a gay old yl place Christmas week. I lf *1 Never in the history of Indianapolis have local movie managers made such big plans for holiday week. The Circle has booked Blanche Sweet in “The Meanest Man in the World” in addition to special musical features. Douglas Mac Lean in “Going Up” will be the comedy feature at the Ohio. There will be special orchestra music. The Apollo will add to the pleasure of the week by presenting Charles Jones in “Hell's Hole.” Charles Lines, singing comedian, will be on the bill. Jack Hoxie in “The Red Warning” will be on view at the Isis the first half of next week. Mister Smith's will offer “Little Old New York.” At the Lincoln Square the program will include movies and Webter, crystal seer. “Meanest Man in World” at Circle Christmas Week “The Meanest Man in the World.” the George M. Cohan stage success in which Cohan himself appeared for more than a year on Broadway, has been adapted to the screen, and will be the Christmas week attraction at the Circle theater. “The Meanest Man in the World” concerns a sympathetic, soft-hearted young lawyer who simply can’t succeed because he can’t be mean. He can't say no to anything or anybody, and his career almost goes on the rocks when he gets a client, Frederick Leggett, who sends him to Hudsonville. a small town in New York, to collect an overdue note from J. Hudson, a grocer. When he arrives in lludsonville Richard Clarke finds the “J." stands for Jane, a charming and very attractive young girl. Clarke. Instead of collecting the note, learns that Miss Hudson is about to be swindled cut of

| wee k ||sJi MactEANf Ik J k A Whizzing Whopper of a Screen Comedy • BASED ON “THE AVIATOR" BY JAB. H. MONTGOMERY ; Douglas Mac Lean in “Going Up” makes you laugh until you cry. He carries you high and far on his plane of fun. He was an 4k I ace at making love, but a deuce when it 3; came to flying. l|L oi / 55! \ f \ / 6: ) PATHE NEWS S\ k , n o • / l : AND J —' :th£NH£ , -s v \oonJSS - A Stan Laurel Comedy LESTER HUFF \DOWN j “ROUGHEST Playing Novelty Sole \

some very valuable oil lands by Leggett and the town banker. He quarrels with Leggett and becomes Jane's champion, remaining in Hudsonville to see that the girl is protected from the scheming business men who want to obtain possession of her land. Ilow the attorney protects her interests. how the oil well finally produces oil, and how he finally wins the heart of the girl with whom he had planned to start his career of “meanness.” all go to make up the drama. The cast is headed by Bert Lytell. Blanche Sweet is Jane Hudson, and others are Bryant Washburn, Lincoln Stedman, Helen Lynch, Carl Stockdale. Ward Crane, Forrest Robinson and Maryon Aye. A novel revue ■will be presented as a special attraction for the holiday week. Dorothy Seegar, lyric soprano, j late of “Blossom Time;” Bobbie Tremaine, well known dancer, and ericks and Howard appear in this revue. Dessa Byrd, playing the Netherland Folk Song (Hymn of Thanksgiving); a Circlette of News and a Circle comedy cartoon, “Felix Wins Out.” complete the program. -I- -I- -I- . Mac Lean's Latest Movie . Booked at Ohio Next Week The bill at the Ohio next week will feature a comedy, “Going Up." Douglas Mac Lean’s latest farce. A Pathe News Weekly, music by Lester Huff at the new concert organ and the new Ohio Orchestra are added features. “Going Up” is the encore picture adaptation of the story by James H. Montgomery and from the Broadway musical success by Otto Harbach and Louis A. Hirsh. In the supporting cast assisting Mac Lean are Hallam Cooley, Francis McDonald, Marjorie Daw, Arthur Stuart Hull, Hughie Mack, Wade Boteler, John Steppling Mervyn Le Roy, Edna Murphy and Lillian Langdon. Robert Street is the author of “Going Up.” Because his book tells of the thrills of an aviator’s life. Street is mistaken for an accomplished aviator. When he goes to a summer hotel the guests insist that he show his skill. At the same hotel, Jules Gaillard. French ace, is also a guest. The outcome of the matter Is that an exhibition match is arranged between the two. Because Street has fallen In love with a girl who Insists on marrying an aviator, Street resolves to try his luck in the air and enters the contest. The picture works up to a climax showing street’s experience as an aviator. -I- -I- -ISpectacular Photoplay Opens Sunday at Apollo One of the biggest and most spectacular scenes depicting a catastrophe

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No. I—Charles Jones ready for action In "Hell's Hole," at the Apollo all next week. No. 2 —Colleen Moore in “Broken Hearts of Broadway,” at the Palace the first half of next week.

of ’ nature ever staged beforo the camera provides a sensational climax in ‘‘Hell's Hole,” a melodramatic photoplay written George Scarborough, In which Charles Jones is starred and which will be shown at the Apollo next week. Jones lives up to his reputation as a dare-devil performer of thrilling stunts and interpreter of western characters in the role of Tod Ivlusgrave, an itinerate cowboy who meets Dell Hawkins, an old pal. In a ques-

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No. 3 —Douglas Mac Lean and Marjorie Daw in “Going Up." at the Ohio all next week. No. 4 —Blanche Sweet in "The Meanest Man in the World,” at the Circle next weelt.

tlonable Spanish dance hall. Hawkins engages in a lllrtatlon with a vivid

BROADWAY OPENS TOMORROW MATINEE, DEC. 23, WITH TRAVELING ROAD ATTRACTIONS OF THE MUTUAL BURLESQUE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY New Show, New Costumes, New Scenery, New Faces Every Week NEXT WEEK "OH JOY” FAST, SNAPPY and PEPPY WITH Billy (Grogran) Spencer of Krausmeyer's Alley Fame AND A YOUTHFUL, JOLLY CHORUS of HONEY GIRLS

1 s l-v 1 X-inas j§t 1 TUES. AND WEDNESDAY S& f ITS A HAPPY HOLIDAY BILL HEADED Off THE RURAL \ MUSICAL COMEDY.. \ VN! r LONESOME;; TOWN Ks Wx FEATURING v S L ir TORY WILSON SS? J 1 E.XANDER GIRLS ■ OLIVER SCOTT jriM ; &PHENS * A adway'-^^^C DERCrVAL.-” I SAY, OLD THING, IF YOU WAS TO AWAKEN TH^D^AM'' OVER., WHAT WOULD YOU SOONER MISS'?" Y/MV YOURSELF, WHY OF COURSE I WOULD SOONER MiFS THE EAT6 * |g w

No. s—Jack Hoxie In “The Red Warning," at the Isis the first half of next week. No. 6—Here Is the feminine representative of Howard and Frederick, at the Circle Christmas week.

Spanish beauty and a free-for-all fight results.

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No. 7—Marion Davies in “Little Old New York,” at Mister Smith’s next week. % No. B—Webster,8 —Webster, "crystal seer,” at the Lincoln Square all next week.

Tod and Dell escape and evade their pursuers by boarding an outgoing

train. Dell robs the train, getting away with a large sum of money and manages to throw the guilt on Tod’s shoulders. Captured and sent to prison Tod escapes in time to prevent Dell’s marriage to Dorothy Owens, a western heiress, and luring Dell and the girl to a deserted mountain cabin prepares to exact the toll of justice, when the avalanche occurs and the three are burled beneath tons of rock and dirt, facing death in a terrifying form. The cast includes Ruth Clifford, Maurice Flynn, Kathleen Key, Hardee Kirkland and Eugene Pallette. The production was directed by Emmett J. Flynn. Among other features will be a Spat Family comedy, “Roughing It,” the Fox news weekly, Charles Lines, popular singing comedian, who returns to the Apollo with anew repertoire of song hits; music by Virgil Moore’s orchestra and organ selections by Ruth Noller. •I- -I- -I--"lJttle Old New York” Due at Smith’s Sunday Marion Davies In the screen adaptation of Rida Johnson Young’s story, “Little Old New York,” is the Christmas week attraction ut Mister Smith’s. The story concerns the arrival in New York in 1810 of Patricia O’Day and her father from Irelamd. Her brother Pat has died on the voyage over and her father insists on her masquerading as her brother in order to inherit a fortune left by a wealthy uncle. Patrftcla falls In love with Larry Delavan, step son of the uncle, who believes he is going to inherit the fortune. Much of the comedy as well as the pathos of the story growns out of her relations with Larry, who uAtil almost the end of the story believes her to be the youthful lad she pretends to be.

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Because of the unusual length of the featured attraction ’the usual news reel and comedv will be eliminated. -I- -I- -!-. Hoxie and Rawlinson Top Movie Bills at Isis Ja<{j| Hoxie is starred in "The Red ■Warning,” a Wes'em melodrama coming to the Isis the first half of next week, and in which the chase and capture of a desperate band of catLlß| rustlers Is the big punch of the picture. Hoxie has the role of Phil Haver, a young prospector who falls in love with the daughter of David Ainslee, a cattleman who had been ruined by the depredations of tii£ rustlers. The cast includes EJinor Field, FVed Kohler, William Welsh, Ben Corbett, and others. A Century comedy, "A Regular Boy,” will be added. "The Clean-Up,” comedy drama in which Herbert Rawlinson Is the star, will be the attraction the last half of the week starting Thursday. -I- -I- -!- Webster Is Held Over Next Week at Lincoln Square Webster, “The Master Mine'.,” has been held over for another week. The crystal seer goes into his second week at the Lincoln Square. Mr. Webster has created much talk and accomplished so many wonders during hig demonstrations of thought transference, mental telepathy or whatever one may choose to label his added and unexplained faculty, that the management has been successful in holding Webster for another full week, his engagement elsewhere having been canceled. Webster answers questions of every nature, and during his performances last week he unraveled many mysteries. The bill will Include movies and other features.

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