Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1924 — Page 7
SATURDAY, FEB. 23,1924
LEVIATHAN BAND TO TOP NEW BILL AT KEITH’S MONDAY Lyric Presents Musical Comedy, While Palace Has Fun Bills, HILE many local people may \V not see the famous U. S. S. __U Leviathan or take a trip on the world’s largest steamship, they will be afforded the opportunity of hearing the orchestra that will furnish the music on the maiden voyage and all subsequent trips of this gigantic floating palace. This orchestra which was trained and is under the management of Paul Whitman, will top the vaudeville bill at B. F. Keith’s next week in an elaborate act produced by Robert H. Burnside of the New York Hippodrome. Special features will be offered in the act by Morton Downey and a saxophone sextette- The tour of the band is under the auspices of the United States shipping board. The bill includes: JOE MORRIS AND FLO CAMP BELL will offer their comedy, "The Avi-Ate-Her-” This skit has to do with an aerial courtship. 808 HALL—Called “The Extempo raneous Chap," Hall asks the audience for a tune and then proceeds to make up verse about everybody and everything. FLORENCE BRADY is billed as the girl with miles of smiles. She is a jax* singer who will offer a group of new hits. THE ROYAL GASCOIGNES—Jug glers and equilibrists. They combine both In a clever act in which they are assisted by Teddy, the balancing dog. KELLY AND MOON offer a sketch which is a satire on the sheik and flapper called “Money Talks." Singing and dancing are prominent features of the act. AN ARTISTIC TREAT—A posing
Two Great Pianists Appear in Concert * Tx*- ' .< - .f' ' # >'l* ' '' ' ' * |H .< <■' M's ' m> % MME. LHEVINNE On Sunday afternoon, March 9, at 3 o’clock, at the Murat, Ona B. Talbot will present Josef and Mme. Lhevinne in a two-piano recital. act which will be offered by Margaret Stewart and William Downing, assisted by Beulah Stewart. The program also will include the Paths News Weekly. Topics of the day and Aesop’s Fables. -I- -I- *l- - TO BE FOUND AT PALACE NEXT WEEK Both bills to be seen at the Palace next week will be heavily loaded with comedy acts. The acts to be seen on the Monday program will line up as follows: WATKIN’S CIRCUS Starring Yogi, the horse with the human interpret. This act boast besides three trained ponies, seven dogs, and a trio of girls who sing and dance. TRENNELL TRIO A novelty featuring “Mile Fifi,” who distributes with wth a lavish hand, while the girl and her partner put over a lot of hokum and dancing. BOLGER AND NORMAN—Two boys who style themselves "The Bar.joker and the Fiddler, 1 ’ offering music and comedy. EDWIN GEORGE—Offering “A Comedy of Errors,” in which he muffs a number cf Juggling tricks and other ways entertains. ANDERSON AND BURT—Presenting "Dizzy Heights," a comedy sketch with a musical tie-up that has to do with a newly rich couple who seeks to attain the beet of society. “Don’t Marry for Money,” starring House Peters, Aileen Pringle, George Nichols, Hank Mann, Christine Mayo and Cyril Chadwick, will be the screen attraction the first half of the week. Zane Grey's latest stoiy, “The Call of the Canyon,” will be the attraction the last half of the week. It is a Paramount picture. The cast includes Richard Dlx, Lois Wilson, Marjorie Daw and Noah Berry. The short reels are the Pathe News, Screen Topics, an Aesop Fable and
The City Walther League Announces World-Famous St. Olaf Lutheran Choir to Appear in Concert at MURAT THEATRE Sunday Afternoon, April 6 Admission, SI.OO, 51.50, $2.00 Local Committee—Ed Stablhut, 1410 E. Vermont. Phone, Web. 4506 J. EL Botzger, 1142 Laurel St Drexel 0451.
MOV7ES H£RE l<U/ YOU
No. I—Lillian Gish in "The White Sister.’’ at English's, opening Sunday night. No. 2—Aileen Pringle, in “Name
Mermaid comedies, “Call the Wagon" j and the last half, “Seven League , Boots.” -I- -I' -I* VARIETY MUSICAL COMEDY TO HEADLINE AT LYRIC “A Moonlight Marriage,” a vaudeville musical comedy, will be found at j the Lyric next week. Lavishly staged, it is noted for a number of innovations, chief among ! them being the much talked of “Rad- 1 ium” number. A dazzling array of j costumes and gorgeous settings grave j the production. Among the song hits are "While We Were Dancing," “If j Only One Remembered’’ and “Wedding ! Bells.” The cast is composed of, singers, dancers and specialty artists headed by Ched Freeborn and Billy Barrows. The bill will include: BILLY “SWEDE" HALL AND COMPANY —Billy is popular as a character comedian. Assisted by Jolly Jenny Coburn he appears In a travesty called “Hilda.” in which he impersonates a Swedish maid in a big hotel. THREE WHITE KUHNS—A musical trio long prominent as vaudeville and cabaret stars. They offer a program of up-to-the-minute syncopated and jazz selections dispensed in a classy way. PAUL AND GEORGIE HALL— Two entertainers who have a skit composed character types ar l music. Miss Hall is the youngest girl baritone singer before the public. PROSPER AND MARET—Known as “The College Athletes” these young chaps amaze with their routine of sensational acrobatics and spectacular equilibrlstic feats. CROMWELL AND COMPANY— Another European juggling act. ON THE SCREEN—Bray Pictograph, “A Mysterious Case;” comedy, “School Pals;’’ novelty sports film, “Taking a Chance,” and the Pathe Review.
Children to Be Made to Laugh The fascination that mystery and magic exert for the average human, old and young, find, in Thurston —who opens his annual engagement at English's lor one week, beginning Monday evening, March 10, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday, a striking illustration. One never tires of it. His patrons, once drawn into the circle of his art, stick to him, so that little boys who vrete Thurstonized some years ago remain “put” after reaching the age of so-called responsibility. This famous conjuror and wor.der-worker, whose illusions and mystical creations grow more baffling and enthralling from year to year, is a rare attraction to the smal' boy and the small girl, who often are crowded out of good Seats by just as eager audiences of graybeards and older folks.
MOTION PICTURES ISIS FIRCT HALF NEXT WEEK DICK HATTON AND NEVA GERBER IN “IN THE WEST” Wherein the Law of Retribution Exacts Its Toll HAL ROACH COMEDY “A PERFECT LADY” 10c—ALL SEATS—IOc
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the Man.’’ at the Ohio next week. No. 3—Scene from “Down to the Sea in Ships,” at the Circle, opening Sunday.
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WALTER D. HICKMAN OMEDY, the genuine article, C seems to be in real demand by all classes of theater patron? This demand i3 found in patrons of the legitimate theater, the movies, vaudeville and burlesque. Big time vaudeville is in need of first-class comedy acts. Have noticed that the so-called continuous vaudeville houses present more wealth in comedy actl than the average big time vaudeville bill possesses. Vaudeville patrons ate fond of comedy. It has a definite place on a \ariety program. The "girls" no
/WOVictor Seastroms production of the famous novel "The Master’of Man”irp Sir Hall Caine fea{urimi\ ® w™ / /SSih Conrad Nagel Mae Busch Aileen Pringle Tmk Patsyßuth Miller j and Hobart Boswortu J§t 'J?' W WAS SHE TO BUME? I Bl'f \\ l blind love and a man’s honor has been made into U t6lk' otl ° n b PiC t. Ur * maßterpiece that world is \jr| H[wfi ' Spat Family Comedy, “Help One Another” %S§lii§ \ j*feji ms IIiCTTB Ultrr Playing —“The LKMIjIi nUii Small Town Band”
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No. 4—Neva Gerber, in “In the West,” at the Isis the first half of the week. No. s—Richard Dlx and Lois Wil-
longer remain the big drawing card in burlesque, but it is the comedian who makes or breaks the burlesque shew of today. Musical revues are using more and more comedy material, generally expressed in a travesty using headline names in the cast. The same is true in the movie field. The general cry all over the country is for more comedy and for more short reels. We have an example this week in the local theater where a short comedy reel is receiving more talk than an expensive feature. A Chicago critic recently Btated in his department that Chicago is off of the sad shows. It seems that this is true right here in Indianapolis. •I- -I- -IOna B. Talbot has returned from New York ready to accomplish three big things: First, to pack the Murat for Duse on March 29; second, to aid in making National Music Week in Indianapolis a big success and third, to pave the way for a successful stock
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eon, In “The Call of the Canyon,” at the Palace, opening Monday. No. 6 —Tom Mix, in “Mile-a-Min-ute Romeo,” at the Apollo.
season at the Murat. It is going to take tons of work to make the Duse engagement break even, but Mrs. Talbot feels encouraged by the w T ay In dianapolis people as well as those living in other cities are obtaining seats by mail for Duse. -I- -I- -IManager Roberts of the Capitol, a Columbia Wheel burlesque theater, means business when he orders elimination of “objectionable” material. Roberts knows that clean entertainment is the only kind that pays in the long run. A theater to live in this country must appeal to mothers and fathers, the young and the old. The old "tlue” days of burlesque have gone forever. All kinds of entertainment have cleaned up. The public has ordered it. Roberts insists that his shows must be clean and entertaining. If he stands for nothing more than that, this house manager has made himself felt in this city.
MUSICAL COMEDY OPENS THURSDAY NIGHIAIMIM 'Lady in Ermine’ Booked for a Week’s Run in March, “Sally, Irene and Mary” comes to the Murat next Thursday night for three days and a matinee on Saturday. Combining the grace and dancing of “Sally,” the love and romance- of “Mary” and the sweetness of "Irene,’ tells the story of the musical comedy “Sally, Irene and Mary,” by Eddie Downing and Cyrus Wood. The scenes begin on the East Side, where the three girls are the budding daughters of a trio of Irish families. Theatrical men happen by and see the “gang” engaged in dancing to the music of a hand organ, with the result that “Sally, “Irene" and “Mary” are engaged as chorus girls. Members of the cast are Eddie Featherstone, Jose Claflin, Estaire Kaye, Marjorie Lane, Beth Stanley, Katherine Ward. Maida Reade. Frank Cornell. Harriett Rose. Kenneth Richards. Joseph Wagstaff, Tom Morrison, Atherton, Eddie Sells, Sallie Stembler, John Mellon, George Williams, Sam Ford, and a chorus. The Shriners will have a theater party the opening night at the Murat. The Shriners invite the public. + .|. “LADY IN ERMINE” COMES TO MURAT WITH BIG CAST "The Lady in Ermine” will be seen at the Shubert-Murat for a week, commencing March 10. “The Lady in Ermine” was an international success on the continent and had long runs in London, Paris
’Ptmnio the Sea in Ships The Picture You "ve Read About Back of one of the sweetest love stories ever . unfolded, a romance breathing all of the quaint customs of the most famous whaling city in the world, is picturized one of the most thrilling incidents ever photographed with a 90-ton whale as the principal actor and the hand of chance directing as fierce a battle between man and mammal as the long history of whaling has ever known. You'll Enjoy Every Minute Overture Selections from “FAUST” Played by the Circle Orchestra • BAKALEINIKOFF CONDUCTING A Mermaid Comedy •‘AGGRAVATIN’ PAPA” WITH JIMMIE ADAMS An Organ Solo DESSA BYRD AT THE CIRCLE GRANDE ORGAN V\\ CIRCLETTE OF NEWS
Ziegfeld Sends His / ‘Follies* to English*s
ELSA PETERSON Among the many players of importance to be seen in Ziegfeld’s "Follies,” opening at English’s on Monday night, March 17, will be Miss Peterson, prima donna.
and Vienna. Its continental success was duplicated in New York last season, where it was seen at the Ambassador for one year. It comes here direct from Chicago with the distinguished New York company of singers and dancers. The featured members of the cast are Nancy Gibbs, prima donna; Walter Woolf, baritone; Zella Russell, Harry K. Morton, Rollo Grimes, Shirley Sherman, Clarence Harvey, Gladys Walton, Detmar Poppen, Timothy Daley, Isabelle Rodriguez and one of the largest ensembles on the stage today. There are sixty in this New York Winter Garden company.
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STOCK SEASON TO OPEN SUNDAY HERE 'Balloon Girl’ to Be First Biil , at Lincoln Square. The Lincoln Players .stock company, open their engagement at the Lincoln Square Theater Sunday afternoon with a rural comedy drama, “The Balloon Girl." This play is said to be very much on the order of “Polly of the Circus," as it concerns the working of a circus in a small town. Charles Mercer, manager of the company, says he has a capable cast and is sure he will offer the good stodk productions at popular prices. “The Balloon Girl” will be offered all next week, twice dally. Elks to Give Indoor Circus Tha Seven Tip Tops, whirlwind acrobatic tumblers will “do their stuff” at the Elks Indoor Circue at Tomlinson Hall the week of March 8. They do cartwheels, back and front flips, ground and aerial somersaults and feats of pyramid building. For two years the Seven Tip Tops were featured at the New York Hippodrome when that edifice was dedeicated to sp ctacular circus productions. hey were with the Sells-FlOto circus, and only recently returned from Australia, where they were the athletic stars of the “Tivoli Revues,” In Sidney and Melbourne. Many Other circus acts of the best quality will appear In the Elks Circus, which is to be staged by the Joe Bren Producing Company, one of the biggest indoor circus organizations in existence.
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