Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1924 — Page 6

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MOVIES PROMISE USBiG THRILLS AND TEARS NEXT WEEK Film Managers Book Leading New Releases for Local Showings, | x - | EXT week movies will be thrillI j ing and interesting from a draL U matic standpoint. The Amer can Legion next week will present “The Whipping Boss’’ at the Apollo. It drives home a lesson in favor of prison reform. “Why Men Leave Home” will be the problem presented at the Circle all next week. Many important people will be seen in the cast of “The Great Highway’’ at the Ohio next week. Mister Smith's will present "Painted People.” For the first half of the week, the Isis will offer "The Wolf Man.” -I. LEWIS STONE PLAYS I.EAD IN PROBLEM SUBJECT John M. Stahl, the producer of “The Dangerous Age.” has made another drama of middle-aged romance. "Why Men Leave Home.” adapted from the stage play of the same name, and Lewis Stone, who played the leading -role in the earlier picture, is again featured in this attraction, which will be shown at the Circle Theater tieginning Sunday. The story concerns John Emerscn. successful middle aged business man. who marries Irene Sutton, a charming young woman, and plays the devoted has, and to her until business cares and an ambitious secretary cause him to neglect her. Jean Ralston, the secretary, falls in love A-ith Emerson and begins her game of conquest, eventually bringing her employer to the point where he imagines himself to be madly in Jove with her. John tak“s the girl out to dinner during his wife’s absence, and when his explanation to the wife does not convince her. a quarrel ensues whir-h results in a divorce, followed by John’s immediate marriage to Jean. Not knowing of the second marriage Grandma Sutton induces John to come to the place, and also invites Irene to her home. After their arrival. with the aid of the family physician. Mrs. Sutton has the p.ace quarantined and John and Irene reaiize how much they mean to each other. Complications arise. Helene Chadwick is seen as the wife, and Alma Bennett, recently seen at the Circle' in “Lilies of the Field,” is the secretary. Others in the cast are Mary Carr. Hedda Hopper. William V. Mong. Lila Leslie and Sidney Bracy. There will be a Circle com edy, the Circlette of News, Fun From the Press and the overture. “Midsummer.” played by the Circle Orchestra. Bakaleinioff conducting. -!- -I- -!- AMERICAN LEGION FILM * OPEN SUN'DAI \T APOLLO “The Whipping Boss.” coming to the Apollo next week, is a photo ex pose of conditions that existed in certain logging and lumber camps worked by convict leased labor in the South. Pascd on th* sensational Tabert case, it is hailed as “a picture that will arcuse the nation ” and is beine presented thror.ehout the country under the auspices of the American Region. Jack Boyle and A. W. Caideway wrote the stocy of “The W hipping Boss.” It embraces an entertaining romance along with its realistic portrayal of a system of human slavery of a most brutal character. The principal characters are Jim Fairfax, a clean-cut young chap who

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CHIEF MOVIE EVENTS ON LOCAL SCREEN NEXT WEEK

No. I—Barbara1 —Barbara Bedford in “Tho Whipping Boss,” an American Legion picture, opening Sunday for the week at the Apollo. Nt. 2—Lewis Stone and Helen

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JEAN OLIVER Miss Jean Oliver, who made a host of friends in Indianapolis last year, will again be the leading woman of Charles Berkell’s Grand Players, which will open their second summer season of dramatice stock productions at English’s Sunday night, April 20.

with several others is arrested in a lumber town and lacking the money to pay his fine is sent- to serve a sentence of ninety days in a logging camp where he is made the victim of

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Chadwick in “Why Men ' Leave Home,” at the Circle next week. No. 3—Betty Compson and Richard Dix In “The Stranger,” at the Palace, opening Thursday.

a merciless whipping boss; Captain Dick Forrest, commander of the loca.l Legion post, who, with his buddies, lti bitterly opposed to the system, the miserable conditions In the camp, and the free use of the lash there; “Jackknife” Woodwaxd, owner of the lum her properties, and his daughter Grace, in love with Captain Forrest. Uoyd Hughes and Barbara Bedford head the cast which contains Eddie Phillips, Wade Boteler, J. P. McGowan. Lydta Knott, Clarence H. Geldert and others. "Postage Due” a Stan Laurel comedy, the Fox news weekly, Charles B. Lines, singing nexv songs, organ selections by Ruth Ncller, and music by Virgil Moore's Apollo orchestra will be other program divert issments

Support Pledged Vaudeville artists are becoming very much interested in arrangements for N. V. A. week, which will be observed nationally April 20-27, and they have held a number of meetings recently to make for participating In tho ceremonies. One of the largest of theee took place at B. F. Keith’s New York Hippodrome last week when Pat Rooney, Marlon Bent. Victor Moore, Emma Littlefield. Arthur Deagon. Waldron, Andrew Downie, the Four Camerons, Charles Sargent, John Marvin and the other performers associated on the program all agreed to do everything In their power to assure the success of the week, regardless of where they are playing at the time.

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No. 4—John Gilbert In a scene from “The Wolf Man,” at the Isis the first half of next week. No. s—Anita Stewart and T. Roy

MANY FAMOUS PEOPLE WILL BE IN OHIO MOVIE The biggest assemblage of national celebrities ever gathered for a motion picture are found in “The Great White Way,” the featured photoplay at the Ohio theater the coming week. The most popular and highest paid newspaper workers of the world contributed their services toward making the picture. In addition to literary people, cartoonists, sportsmen, promoters, Florenz Zlegfeld Jr., and the

CONTINUOUS 1 TO 11 P. M. PALACE COMMENCING MONDAY TheENCHANTERS WITH MAE SWIFT and MURIEL GREEN “GLORIFYING SYNCOPATION” > EADIE & RAMSDEN WARREN & O’BRIEN Smile, and Originate. Eectnlrie Fun,tcrl BILLIE BURKE’S “TANGO SHOES” VAUDEVILLE’S NEWEST NOVELTY, INTRODUCED BY BERT COLE COLE & JAXON “The Minstrel and The Maid” A DARING PHOTO PLAY OF NEW YORK'S “NIGHT LIFE” ‘BROADWAY BROKE’ AGAIN WE SAY “DARING/' BUT IT’S ALL TRUE AND YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW THE TRUTH OF THE WORLD’B MOST FAMOUS PLAYGROUND. —THE HUGE CAST INCLUDES—MARY CARR. PERCY MARMONT, QLADY9 LESLIE, MACLYN ARBUCKLE, HENRIETTA CROSSMAN AND A HOST OF OTHERS.

BROADWAY SNAPPY, PEPPY, GINGERY BURLESQUE ALL THIS WEEK “FROLICS OF 1924” AND CLEO MILES “The Girl and The Band” BURLESQUE IS BURLESQUE THE WORLD OVER

Barnes in "The Great White Way,” at the Ohio next week. No. 6—Colleen Moore in “Painted People,” at Mister Smith’s next week.

■ entire chorus of the "Follies' 1 are seen in the picture. The :caat Includes the following Anita Stewart, Oscar Shaw, Tom Lewis, Harry Watson, Arthur Brisbane, Olln Howland. Dore Davidson. Hal Forde. Stanley Forde, Ned Way burn, Tex Rickard. Irvin S. C-obb, H. C. Wltwer, Harry Hershfleld, Damon Runyan, “Bugs Baer, George McManus. Nell Brinkley, Hall Coffman, J. W. McOurk, Winsor McCay, Billy De Beck. Fay King. Earle Sande, Kid Broad, Pete Hartley, Johnny Galla-

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gher, Johnny Hennessey, Billy Gould, Frank Wonderley, Joe Humphreys, Jerry Peterson and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. The story of “The Great White Way’’ tells of Joe Cain, a fighter, who finds that the newspapers are not giving him enough publicity. He employs a press agent who is secretly in the employ of a famous Broadway dancer, Mabel Vandegrift. The press agent has them join into a plan of his making without their knowing it. Music will be provided by Lester Huff at the organ. The Charles Davis orchestra with Ed East singing original numbers will, with a comedy and a news weekly, conclude the program. -I- -!- -ICOLLEEN’S FIRST FILM AS STAR HERE NEXT WEEK Colleen Moore's first starring production, “painted People,” will be the attraction at Mister Smith’s beginning Sunday. “Painted People,” adapted

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WT Lloyd Hughes, Barbara Bedford || a Startling Expose of the Convict Leasing System Based on the Presented Under the Auspices of the American Legion f laurel (bmejv j wfo I Bj Charles B. Lines, Singing New Songs—Ruth Noller at the Organ Sj

from Richard Connell’s well-known story, is a romance of a boy and girl who set out to make themselves worthy of wealthier sweethearts, to find, after they ha<j become successful as a playwright arid an actress, that their idols have feet of clay and that In reality they had made themselves successful because of each other. Cast includes Ben Lyon, Charlotte Merriam, Charles Murray, Anna Q. Nilsson, June Elvldge, Mary Carr, Mary Alden, and Russell Simpson. A comedy and news reel complete the program. -I- -I- -ISTRANGE THEME TO BE HANDLED AT ISIS Though the subject of dual identity has long been a favorite one with dramatists the theme was never dealt with in a more unusual manner than it has been treated by Frederick and Fanny Hatton is writing “The Wolf Man” in which John Gilbert will be

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seen At the Isis the first half of next week. Gilbert portrays a wealthy young Londoner, scion of a noble family,' and gentleman extraordinary who under certain circumstances and conditions is transformed into an entirely different individual. The story carries its action from the most exclusive club in London to the timber country of northern Quebec. In the cast are Alma Francis, Norma Shearer, Eugene Pallette, Max Montisole, Charles Wellesley, Mary Warren and Ebba Mona. A Billy Rhoades comedy “Some Nurse” will be the fun feature. “Love Letters” a social drama of modern life carrying the moral that maidens who dip their pens too hastily in the lovers’ inkwell may have occasion to regret their letter writing propensities when they are later engaged to seme one else, will be the attraction Thursday and the rest of the week. Shirley Mason is the star.