Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1924 — Page 6
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IMPORTANT FILMS INCLUDED ON NEW MOVIE MENU HERE All Managers Attempt to Book Photoplays of Merit, NEW movie releases of importance have been booked by Indianapqlis movie theater managers for next week. The , 'ircle will present Conway Tearle in “The White Moth.” The Apollo will heve “King of Wild Horses,” a novelty film. The Ohio will feature “The Breaking Point.” a mystery movie. The Tsis for the first ha,lf of the week will offer “Just Off Broadway.” Mister Smith's will present Douglas Fairbanks in “The Mollycoddle.” I* I- I“THE WHITE MOTH” TO OPEN AT THE CIRCLE Barbara La Marr and Conway Tearle will be the attraction at the Circle beginning Sunday in “The M hite Moth,” adapted from the story by Izola Forrester. The story concerns Mary Reid, an American girl who goes to Paris to study music. When she fails as a musician she turns to the stage and becomes a reigning favorite. Her followers call her The White Moth because her most popular dance is called “The Dance of the White Moth.” She falls in love with Douglas Vantine, a young American millionaire, engaged to another girl. Douglas’ older brother, Robert, wordly and cynical, determines to save his brother from what he thinks would be ufortunate marriage, and to this end he marries the White Moth himself, forestalling tils brother’s marriage. as he had planned, but bringing to himself and Mary much unhappiness before they find that they really do love each other. Barbara La Marr appears in the role of the White Moth, and Conway Tearle is Robert Vantine. Ben Lyon is seen as the younger brother and Edna Murphy is his sweetheart. Others in the cast of this production, which was made by Maurice Tourneur and said to have been done in a very lavish manber, are .Kathleen Kirkham, Josie Sedgwick and William Orlamund. Other features of the program will be the Clrclette of News, a Robert Bruce scenic and the Circle comedy. For the overture this week Bakaleinikoff has compiled a group of Victor Herbert’s favorite selee'ions. and will present them as a tribute to one of the most popular musical composers of all times, whose passing last week is universally mourned by music lovers.
MYSTERY STORY TO RE SEEN AT OHIO THEATER More than the ordinary number of features are on the bill at the Ohio Theater the coming week. Mary Roberts Rinehart’s mystery story. “The Bi-eaking Point,’’ Stan Laurel in “Zeb vs. Paprica,” a news weekly and music by Lester Huff at the organ and by Johnny Jackson's Eight Southern Sorenadcrs are included in the billing. "The Breaking Point” -s a story by one of America’s gifted writers. It includes in its cast Nita Naldi, Patsy Ruth Milier, George Fawcett, Matt Moore, John Merkel, Theodor von Eltz, Edith Chapman, Cyril Ring, W. B. Clarke, Edward Kipling, Milt Brown, Charles A. Stevenson and Xaida Faro. Herbert Brenon is the director. The story tells of Judson Clark, a reckless millionaire who is infatuated with Beverly Carlisle, an actress who he invites to his ■Wyoming ranch. They are accompanied by Beverly’s foster-brother, Fred Gregory and her worthless husband, William Lucas. At the same time Dr. David Livingstone is called to Wyoming by the death of his brother. The Doctor and Gregory meet on the Doctor’s ranch, where Gregory learns he is the illegitimate son of Judson Clark, senior. He rushes back to the Clark ranch and finds Judson and Lucas intoxicated. The lamp is knocked down and when It is relighted Lucas is found shot. -!- -I- -I"KING OF WILD HORSES” BOOKED AT APOLLO Those who are longing for something new and novel in the realm of screen entertainment will find it at the Apollo next week in Hal Roach’s dramatic innovation, "The King of Wild Horses,” in which Rex. a magnificent black stallion, said to be the most valuable horse in the world, makes his debut as a film star in one of the most spectacular and unique photoplays ever conceived. The work of Rex is a literal revelation in animal sagacity. He appears, in this story by Mr. Roach, as the leader of a pack of wild horses roaming through the mountain fastnesses of a southwestern State. The black maintains his leadership by. fighting off other stallions who seek to usurp his throne. One of these fights supplies the big thrill of the production. Untamed, powerful and fleet of foot he had never felt the hand of man, nor known the feel of a rope around his neck. Many had tried to capture him and failed. Spurred by admiration for the brute, Billy Blair, a cowboy, decides to make the horse his own. Billy had never known defeat—neither had the Black. The chase of man after beast, up dangerous trails, through a maze of caverns, across chasms, and through a Jng forest fire, contains the most remarkable scenes of a horse in action ever filmed. The story, however, is not alone concerned with the horse, though he plays an important part in the working out of the plot, in which intrigue and romance is woven. In the cast are Edna Murphy, Leon Barry, Sidney DeGrey, Charles Parrott and Pat Hartigan. Fred Jackson, who directed Jack London’s dog story, "Tine Call of the Wild,” put
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No. I—Nita Naldi and Matt Moore in “The Breaking Point,” at the Ohio next week. No. 2 —Barbara La Marr and Conway Tearle in a scene from
horses and actors through their paces. Other program features will consist of an Our Gang comedy, "Commencement Day,” in which the kiddies make merry on the last day of school; the Fox news weekly ar. and musical entertainment by Virgil Moore’s Apollo Orchestra. -i- -I- -!- GIIJIERT FEATURED IN ISIS MOVIE * In “Just Off Broadway” coming to the Isis the first half of next week John Gilbert appears as a United States secret service officer en trusted with the task of breaking up I a gang of international counterfeit- ! ers. Thrills, adventure and intrigj * predominate throughout, with ro i mantic interest being supplied by c. chorus girl who is unwittingly an associate of the crooks, and thereby under suspicion herself. Frederick and Fanny Hatton wrote the story. The cast contains MarianSXixon, Trilby Clark, Ben Hendricks Jr., and Pierre Gendron. A Pathe comedy, “Up And At ’Em,” and a Grantland Rice Sportlight, “Billing Winners” will be other films. A cowboy sheriff who finds himself with a strenuous job on his hands looking after a new’ parson, who. It chances is a woman, young and pretty, in the lawless Western town of Tombstone, is the chief figure in “Galloping Gallagher” starring Fred Thompson, world’s champion all around athlete, which will be the attraction Thursday and the rest of the week. There is plenty of action all the way with Thompson introducing a number of new athletic stunts. He is supported by Hazel Keener, Frank Hagney, Nelson McDowell, “Shorty” Hendricks and Andy Morris. A Billy West comedy entitled “Pay Up” will complete the program. -I- -I- -IA FAIRBANKS’ MOVIE BOOKED AT SMITH’S The featured attraction at Mister Smith’s next week will be an old release of Douglas Fairbanks. It is “The Mollycoddle,” a light comedy which he made before he went in for his “Robin Hood” and other spectacular productions. It is a swift moving comedy. STOCK COMPANIES PRESENT COMEDIES (Continued From Page 5) musical comedy hit, which will be offered by the Aborn Opera Company at B. F. Keith’s for the week starting Sunday night, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday, is the fact that it is absolutely American in its theme. The plot begins in a mixed paint factory in Omaha, but quickly moves to the gay surroundings of a country home in the East. The romance of this play could only happen in America, and to Americans. The heroine, for Instance, formerly played by Peggy Wood, is a successful business girl, who has made a fortune mixing paints. She is so busy extending her interests and exploiting her products /that she forgets about looks, or clothes, or men, except as business associates. When she gets out of the office and out of her tailored suits, she is like a fish out of water. Being a regular girl, she decides to wan masculine admiration. She seeks advice from her grandmother. On the advice from her “flapper” grandparent, who has had her hair
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“The White Moth,” next week's attraction at the Circle. No. 3 —Evelyn Brent and Monte Blue in “Loving Lies,” opening Thursday at the Pajace.
cut in the latest bob and whose gowns are the last word in smartness, she becomes a clinging vine type of girl and her reward is marriage to the man she loves. Loretta Sheridan will be seen in the Peggy Wood role. The part of the lover will be enacted by Charles Massinger. Lee Daley, Eleanor Edson, Joseph Monahan, fcric Titus, George Shields, Celia Turrill. Sol Solomon and other favorites, including the big chorus, will be seen and heard to advantage. V -|- -|* PINERO PEAV AT THE MURAT AI.L NEXT WEEK Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's “His House in Order,” which scored a great success in London, England, and which John Drew used as a starring vehicle in this country for three seasons, will be the offering of the Murat Players next week. Nina, the heroine of the play, is
Murat WCE * of june 9th. EVERY HITE-Mft[T-WEDTHUM-SflT/ TTuratPlayers present-- J%/ SIR ARTHUR, |A| WING PJNERO ATT-t ADRAMA J’M IJTj 3^^ IN4ACTJ „ 4|4-Pni CJJU < 1 A * I LiiLiilj ‘IMm. matinee. DANCING IN THE LOBBY pwjta* BETWEEN ACTS AND AFTER THE SHOIN TUESDAY-AMERICAN LEGION NIGHT
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No. 4 —John Gilbert in a scene from “Just Off Broadway,” at the Isis, Opening Sunday. No. s—Douglass—Douglas Fairbanks in
the second wife of Filmer Jesson a Puritan legislator whose rigidly Calvanistic moral code has not prevented him. even in the lifetime of his wife, from making love to the governess of her son. His subsequent marriage with the partner in his offence has been a mistake. A bright-eyed, careless, rather madcap little minx, Nina, shocks all (he proprieties and it is as much t with keeping her in order as the house that Filmer Jesson*, h■„>. r bus band, brings into the place as his housekeeper, his deceased wife's sister, Geraldine Ridgeley. It is apparently in a mood of penitenee, and as an attempt at expiation for his breach of conjugal l'alth, that Filmer presents to the adjacent borough, for which he is a member of Parliament, a public park, as a species of souvenir of his deceased wife. The occasion is to
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“The Mollycoddle,” at Mister Smith's all next week. No 6 —A scene from “The King of Wild Horses,” at the Apollo next week.
be commemorated by a kind of funereal pomp. To honor it the house includes as visitors the dead wife's father. Sir | Daniel Ridgeley; loidy Ridgeley, her mother, and their detestable son Ridgeley;‘Hilary Jesson, the host's brother, the minister to one ts the South American republics; and a Major Maurewarde, a friend. In order to complete the dramatic n a rsonae we nust include the dead wife, in whose honor j the function is held, and who, j though unseen, is felt to “animate” I the whoie. Every species of insult: and oppression is exercised upon j Nina by nor husband and the relatives of the dead woman. The cf st next week will include, ; Dana Dtsboro, Harold Vermilye, , Jessamine Newcombe. Claude Kim ball, Marjorie Vonnegut, Richard Thornton. Thomas Williams, Duncan Pen warden, Genevieve Addlem.m. Ethel Pownw, Elliot Cabot, Donald ; Campbell and W. E. Watts,
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WALTER D. HICKMAN HAT par’s do Miss Jean Oliver Vx/ of the Berkell Players and * * Miss Jessamine Newcombe, of the Murat Players like to play best? Have been asked that question and so I started out,to find the answer. Miss Newcombe likes to play women roles created by Bernard Shaw the best. Miss Oliver, on the other hand, has decided she likes be,st the role to which her audience reacts. “I consider a training in stock and repertoire as being indispensable in furthering the success of any actor or actress," Miss Newcombe told me. “It is in this line of work that we are brought in contact with all class of plays and in their reproduction experience the feelings of almost every human emotion. I have played nearly all of Bernard Shaw’s, Wilde sand Arthur Pinero’s women and I admit that I love Shaw's women parts the best as there'ls greater joy in depicting his characters than those of any other author. I have played ‘The Woman of No Importance’ four times in three successive years. This is my favorite Shaw play.” Miss Oliver at English’s arrives at her favorite part by studying the reaction of the character upon the audience. "Except for the elemental pleasures of eating and sleeping, all others must be shared with others,” Miss Oliver told me. “The joy of seeing #lovely things, of hearing exquisite music, the knowledge of a secert, laughter and happiness must all be divided with someone else before we can possess it completely. This is true with the parts I play. My pleasure in characterizing Hedda Gabler or Anna Christie may possess me utterly, but if the audience to whom I present these characters do not care for the ladies, then such characters would lose their fascination for me because the saying holds good, ‘Pleasure must be shared.' The same way with the Poilyannas and all the sweet heroines I have played. Their virtues
THE GREATEST PHOTO DRAMATIC NOVELTY EVER CONCEIVED! Hal /BMHorses / \ A Picture That Stirs the Emotions Introducing Rex the most magnificent animal that ever enacted a story of love and hate, loyalty and devotion—Edna Murphy, Leon Bary and an unrivaled cast OUR GANG COMEDY “COMMENCEMENT DAY” •§*§*i*B*fr<i* FOX NEWS WEEKLY
EARL GORDON, APOLLO’S NEW ORGANIST, IN RECITAL
VIRGIL MOORE’S APOLLO ORCHESTRA
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MAXINE HEIRONIMOUS Among the pupils who will take part in a dance recital at Hollenbeck Hall, Y. W. C. A., next Saturday night will be little Miss Heironimous, 4 years old, of 102 Miley Ave. have been simplicity and truth, but when an audience accords them approval, then I know I have touched a responsive chord, a mass sympathy that is distinct happiness and satisfaction to me. The intellect is paramount we say, the feeling is deeper than that and instinctively we humans love light, sunshine and honesty and we w’ant to find these qualities in the heroines in the books we read and the plays we see.” * * Stuart Walker at the Cox Theater in Cincinnati this week is presenting “If I Were King ’ which requires one of the largest casts ever assembled for repertoire purposes. Am told that Walker is loing absolute capacity with this b g play. He also has a company in Dayton, Ohio.
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BEVUE, NAZZARRO VAUDEFEATURES (Continued From Page 5) surdity, “Do You Follow Me,” a mixture of cross-fire dialogue, songs and bits of dancing. MARGARET AND GADDEE— Two girls with a melody innovation called "Musical Moments,” in which they offer a program of piano and violin selections. BROWN COMEDY FOUR A quartette of comedians appearing in “School Frolics,” a reminder of school days, with the pupils keeping the teacher on euard everv minute against their mischievous pranks. BOOTH AND NINA—A variety offering combining sensational bicycle exploits, fun and banjo melodies. CHARLIE PALEY AND PARTNER —Pantomimic comedy acrobats, stars of the circus world, in an assortment of funny falls and some whirlwind feats of tumbling. ON THE SCREEN —Mack Sennett comedy, “The Cat’s Meow,” featuring Harry Langdon, the latest edition of Kinograms and the serial, “The Telephone Girl.” Logan Signs Regal Contract Jacqueline Logan, who is appearing with Charles Ray in “Smith,” the first picture in which Ray has appeared since he signed an agreement to return to the banner of Thomas H. Ince has put over such a successful characterization in her role that she has been signed by Regal productions for a series of four pictures. Miss Logan’s first Regal picture for Hodkinson release will be “The House of Youth.” Maude Radford Warren’s novel of the girl of today which is numbered among the best sellers of the past year. With a continuity by C. Gardner Sullivan and Ralph Ince to direct, Miss Logan begins her starring career under the most favorable auspices.