Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1924 — Page 6

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CORINNE GRIFFITH FEATURED IN‘BLACK OXEN’ PRODUCTION Will Rogers Will Be Seen in New Movie at Apollo All Next Week, * I CORINNE GRIFFITH will bet seen as Mary Zattiany, the j chief character in a movie j version of Gertrude Atherton’s best j selling novel, “Black Oxen.” “Black Oxen" opens a week engage-; ment at the Circle Sunday afternoon. “The Temple of Venus.” a Fox j melodrama, will be the chief offering at the Apollo next week in addition j to Will Rogers in “Uncensored ' Movies.” The Ohio next week will present I Claire Windsor in “The Acquittal,” a j mystery thriller. “Six Days" will be I seen at Mister Smith’s. The Isis for the first half of the' week will offer Hoot Gibson in “Hook : and Ladder.” The movie feature at I the Lincoln Square will be “The j Spoilers.” -|- -!- -!- DARING SUBJECT DISCUSSED IN ATHERTON’S NEW NOVEL The film adaptation of Gertrude i Atherton’s much discussed novel, “Black Oxen,” comes to the Circle Sunday. The story concerns Mary Zattiany, who returns to America after an ab- < sence of thirty-four years, to transact j some business, and then hopes to be I rble to return to her home in Europe without meeting any of her old friend.--. At the opera one evening Lee , Clavering, popular young newspaper columnist, sees a striking woman j alone, and when he sees her each night in the same seat, unescorted,! his curiosity is aroused, inasmuch as I none of his friends know her, and he I follows her home. Quite accidentally he meets her and a friendship deepens between j hem until they find themselves in love , with each other. Mary promises to | explain the mystery about herself, and invites Clavering to her home to din- j ner. Then it is that She tells him that j she is 58 years old. and that the secret 1 of her youth is a glandular operation j which she has undergone before her 1 departure from Europe. In spite of the vast difference in ! their ages. Clavering begs for an | early wedding, and Mary consents, i How fate arranges their destinies is dramatically told in the storyCorinne Griffith and Conway Tearle ere the featured players. Anew- j comer to the screen. Clara Bow', is l seen as Janet Oglethorpe, a young flapper in love with Clavering, and others in the cast are Alan Hale, Clarissa Selwyn. Lincoln Etedman. Claire MacDowell and Tom Guise. •I- -I- -IBATHING BEAUTIES APPEAR IN NEW STYLE OF MELODRAMA Modem melodrama, combined with--and bits of mythology, is the novelty offered in “The Temple of Venus,” a William Fox production to be found at the Apollo next week. Much of the action was photographed on Santa Crux ’lsland, one of the beauty spots of the Pacific. The natural settings are enhanced by the j charm of a huge flock of California’s prettiest bathing girls. The plot compares the life of a girl born and reared on the island with that of a New York society debutante. Fate brings the two together as rivals in the game of love. Each girl has a cross to bear, and in the long run each plays the game about as fairly asylt could be played, indicating that tliete may not be such a vast difference between girls, after all. The cast contains William Walling, Mary Philbln, David Butler, Phyllis Haver, Alive Day and Leon Barry. “Uncensored Movies.” Will Rogers’

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latest comedy, will be the fun feature of the program. As Lem Skagwillow, sent to Hollywood by the Cleaner Screen League to investigate moral conditions, Rogers has a laughable time appearing as no less than six different celebrities. In order he impersonates William y. Hart, one of D. W. Griffith’s heroes; Tom Mix. Rudolph Valentino and lastly himself. The Fox news weekly, new songs sung by Charles B. Lines, milslc by Virgil Moore's Apollo orchestra and organ selections by Ruth Noller will be subsidiary entertainment attractions. -I- -I- -!- MYSTERY THRILLER TO OFEX AT OHIO FOR WEEK “The Acquittal.” a mystery thriller, will open a week’s engagement Sunday afternoon at the Ohio. Norman Kerry and Claire Windsor are the leading players. Kerry will be remembered as the star of “Merry-Go-Round.” Others In the cast are Richard Travers, Charles Wellesley, Barbara Bedford, Frederick Vroom, Ben Deelv, Emmett King, Dot Farley, Harry Mestayer and Hayden Stevenson. Kenneth Winthrop is on trial for the murder of his foster father, Andrew Prentice. Robert Armstrong, who has aided the prosecution by numerous bits of evidence. Is a bitter enemy of the Winthrops, though having been in love with Madeline, Winthrop's wife. The Winthrops visited Prentice the night of his murder and left at 11:30 1 o'clock, they declare. Their taxi driver says it was midnight when they left, because he remembered having seen a clock point to midnight in a butcher’s shop. This is disproved later when the butcher’s clock turns out to be scales. Winthrop is acquitted and is considered vindicated when a letter Prentice wrote to Armstrong the night of the murder is received by Madeline. “Slow and Sure,” an A1 St. John | comedy; a Pathe news weekly and 1 music by Lester Huff and the Ohio : Theater Orchestra are other features. -I- -j- + NEW KIND OF HOOT ; GIBSON MOVIE BOOKED Romance and adventure in the life of a firefighter are portrayed by Hoot Gibson in “Hook and Ladder, ' a melodrama which will be presented at the Isis the first half of next week. In this picture Hoot abandons the chaps

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No. 1. Hoot Gibson in "Hook and Ladder,” at the Isis the first half of next week. No. 2. Corinne Griffith, star of “Black Oxen,” opening Sunday at Circle. No. 3. Will Rogers in "Uncensored Movies” at the Apol.'o next week. No. 4. Claire Windsor in "The Acquittal” at the Ohio all next week. No. 5. A scene from “Six Days” at Mister Smith’s next week. No. 6. Constance Talmadge and

and apparel of a cowboy to don the helmet and rubber coat of a fireman. As Ace Cooper, driver of the chief's car, Hoot is given the opportunity to rescue that worthy's daughter from the flames of a burning building. He also does his bit toward breaking op a vicious political gang. Mildred June, Frank Beal, Edward Davis and Philo McCullough are in the east. The fun feature will be a Century comedy, “Down to the Ships to See.” Played by an all-star cast, '’Crooked Alley.” a dramatization of one of the famous “Boston Blackle” stories will be the attraction Thursday and the rest of the week. -I- -I- •!• MODERN MELODRAMA BOOKED AT SMITH’S NEXT WEEK “Six Days.” said to be an original story by Elinor Glyn, will bo the film feature at Mister Smith’s next week. The story comes under the head of modem melodrama. The cast includes. Corinne Griffith, Maude George. Myrtle Stedman. Claude King and others. The bill Includes a comedy and a news reel. •I- -|- -ILINOOLN SQUARE TO OFFER BEACH’S "THE SPOILERS” For the first half of the week, the movie feature at the Lincoln Square will be Rex Beach’s "The Spoilers." This is a film version of the wellknown story. The variety acts for the first half include the Four Hawaiian Princes j and two other acts. Another Carter Melodrama for Movlon Lincoln J. ‘Carter was famous In his day for melodramas and one of the most famous that he ever wrote, "The Tornado,” has l>een purchased by Universal and will be made Into a big screen thriller with an all-star cast.

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Wilson Ilanimel in “The Dangerous Maid” at the Palace the last half of next week.

rwri ¥CU*C COMING LillVlLlljn U WEEK OF JAN. 13TH VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS PRESENT “POWDER RIVER” OFFICIAL WAR DEPARTMENT FILMS OF THE WORLD WAR FOUR GREAT BATTLES CANTIGNY ST. MIHIEL CHATEAU THIERRY ARGONNE Beginning Sunday evening, Jan. 13th, two shows daily. Reserved Seat Sale Opens Thursday PRICE8 —Matinee, except Saturday, 50c, 35c, 25c. Evening and Saturday Matinee, SI.OO, 75c, 50c, Tax Exempt.

Special Engagement of Corinne Arbuckle and Her Royal Canadian Band Ten Instrumentalists De Luxe in a Surprising Musical Program BiUieWeS and the EclairTwins MIRTH, MODES and MELODIES

Time Table of Lyric Shows Afternoon 2 and 4:45 o’Clock ** * * Evening 7 and 9:20 o’Clock / Pric es: Afternoon 15c and 25c Evening 25c and 40c War Tax Included

EXTRA! Added Attraction ‘‘Why Elephants Leave Home” The Most Amazing Motion Picture Achievement of the Age—lntimate Views of the Life and Habits of Giant Pachyderms In Their Wild State —Filmed in the Heart of Africa. Sid Smith Comedy “Lucky Rube” Dancing in the Lyric Ball Room Afternoon and Evening

No. 7. One of the Haw'aJian entertainers at the Lincoln Square the first half of next week.

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Mons. Grant Gardner Direct From the Canary Islands Carroll and Gorman Syncopated Harmony Comedians Johnny Clark & Cos. A Comedy Athletic Novelty, Entitled “Plenty” Four Queens of Syncopation Songs of the Minute Hill’s Comedy Circus Aristocrats of the Animal Kingdom

MYSTERY DRAMA DUEJTJURAT ‘Cat and Canary’ at Last to Be Offered Here, “The Cat and the Canary.” will come to the Shubert-Murat for a

a Picture from Gertrude Atherton ' S Sensational Novel \ The Strangest Adventure That Ever Befell a Woman in an Unguessed World of Love — | The Moil Faecinetiag Society Ronwnee II Overture “OBERON” by G I M. Von Weber 1

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week, beginning Monday. Jan. 21. The company will be the same as the one whicli had the credit of a thirty-six weeks' run at the Princess Theater, Chicago, last season. Willard’s thriller had two seasons in New York, and is now out to visit the other high spots in the country. It has already been presented m England, Australia and the Orient, the latter region having been visited by T. Daniel Frawley’s traveling repertoire company. “The Cat and the Canary’ was originally planned as a playiet for a Lambs’ gambol. Mrs. Willard saw a three-act play in it, and

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her husband expanded it Into an international hit. \ Movie Stars Form D. vj. Griffith Club Blanche Sweet and Carmel Myers have begun the formation of a D. W. Griffith Alumni Club. Mary Pick ford, the Gish sisters, Norma and Constance Talmadge, Bessie Love, Colleen Moore and' several other stars of today have been asked to join the organization, formed to honor the man who is responsible for the success of more motion picture players than any other individual.