Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1924 — Page 6

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MOVIE MANAGERS FLOOD CITY MO ■MOVIES All Photoplay Theaters Book Important New Releases, Ms” IOVIE managers of this city apparently decided to see who could book the biggest movie for next week. The Ohio next week will offer a screen version of David Relasco’s stage success, “Daddies,” with Harry Myers and Claude Gillingwater in the cast. "For Sale,” a dramatic domestic story with Claire Windsor, will hold first position at the Circle. The Apollo has gone to foreign shores for its feature and will present “The Blizzard,” a dramatic winner made in Europe. “Fighting Jim Grant.” with Lester Cuneo will be the chief event at the Isis for the first half of next week. Mister Smith's will present Douglas Fairbanks in “The Nut,’ one of his earlier releases. Opening Sunday at the Lincoln Square will be "On the Banks cf the Wabash,” with Mary Carr. -I- -I* -IBELASCO STAGE SUCCESS BOOKED AT THE OHIO “Daddies,” David Belasco's stage success, has been made into a motion picture and is to be shown the coming week at the Ohio Theater. The picture is directed by William A. Seiter from the scenario by Julian Josephson. It is an authentic version of the original play by John L. Hobble. The picture was produced by Warner Brothers. Other features Include a news weekly and the Spat Family comedy “Radio Mad.” Music is provided by the Gabe Waters' Southland Orchestra and by Lester Huff at the organ, who will present his original solo, “The Small Town Band Gives a Concert.” Chief in the cast of “Daddies,” are Harry Myers. Claude Gillingwater, Craufurd Kent, Claire Adams, Wil- 1 lard Louis, Boyce Combs, Otto Hoffman and Mae Marsh. The story tells of the common hatred for which holds together the club composed of Bob Audrey, James Crockett, Henry Allen, Nicholson Waiter and William Rivers. The five continue on good terms until Rivers pro- j poses to Bob's sister, Bobette. Because of his weakness for the -women, Rivers forfeits five thousand dollars. To escape his mother’s urge to marry, Bob decides to compromise and adopt an orphan. Mrs. Audrey a clever strategist, induces each of the remaining four to adopt orphans and becomes “daddies.” Each agrees , are happy until the arrival *the orphans.

EARL HUDSON WRITES SPECIAL STORY FOR SCREEN “For Sale," an original story written by Earl Hudson, will be the attraction at the Circle beginning Sunday. The story concerns the Bates family, society leaders, whose daughter, Eleanor, has promised to marry Allan Penfield, a young attorney, when he has made good financially. Her father tells her that his fortune is gone, that he has used funds belonging to Joseph Hudiey, a social climber, and that the only way to save them is for her to marry Cabot Stanton, a young man about town with plenty of funds to straighten out her father’s affairs. She accepts Stanton’s proposal, and she loses all trace of Allan. Hudiey learning of the true situation, suggests to Mr. Bates that he try to win Eleanor, and in the event that he is successful he will cancel the father’s obligations. He takes the Bates family to Paris

AMUSEMENTS ENGLISH^ BERKELL PLAYERS IN “The Alarm Clock” Averv Kopwood’s Sensational Comedy Hit Matinees Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday PRlCES—Afternoon: 25c, 35c, 50c. Night: 25c, 50c, 68c, 90c. NOTE—In compliance with the new tax law, U. S. government war tax is now charged on 6fc and 90c seat tickets only. Reservations May Be Made for the Entire Season. Phone Cl rcle 3373, Week July 13th—“MARY’S ANKLE”

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and here In an underworld case Eleanor again meets Penfield, and the old love returns. Returning to America, plans are made for Eleanor’s immediate marriage to Hudley. but Penfield returns and Eleanor realizes that she cannot go through with a marriage to a man she doesn’t love. She attempts suicide but Penfield saves her, and Hudley, realizing the depth of her love for his rival, releases her, adjusts her father’s financial condition, and leaves the two lovers free to marry. In this dramatic story, which was directed by George Archinbaud, Claire Windsor is seen as Eleanor Bates, Adolphe Manjou is Joseph Hudley and Robert Ellis is the successful suitor, Allan Penfield. Tully Marshall and Mary Can- are Mr. and Mrs. Bates, and Jerome Patrick is Cabot Stanton. Others in the cast are Vera Reynolds, Frank Elliot. Christine Mayo and Phillips Smalley. -J- -|- -|- FOREIGN MADE MOVIE TO OPEN AT APOLIiO Hundreds of wild reindeer milling in a mad stampede during a terrific snow storm, sweeping everything before them in their blind rush in which many of them were killed and trampled under the razor edged hoofs of the herd is a sensational bit of realism incorporated in “The Pbzzard” a spectacular drama with a romantic flavor coming *o the Apollo next week. This portion of the picture was filmed by a cameraman with a party of scientists in northern Sweden, and is the real thing in every detail. “The Blizzard” is adapted from “The Story of a Country House,’’ by Selma Lagerlof, winner of the Nobel prize for literature. It was made in Europe with a cast of thbest of the old world screen star.among them being Einar Hanssor Mary Johnson, known as the “Mai ' Pickford of Europe,” Paulin* Brunius. Teckla Ahlander. Adolpl Olachansky and Stine. Berg, ril celebrated Swedish artists. It wn directed by Mauritz Stiller. The story tells of a youth who in herited hfs grandfather's musicn talent as well as that old In dividual’s lackadaisical love of the open road. Seeking to replenish his waning fortune the boy ventures Into the far North to round up a great herd of reindeer frem which the country’ folk get meat, milk and hides. During a blizzard the herd stampedes. So awful is his experience that the boy’s mind is shattered and he becomes a harmless. pitiful half wit. Back in his own country- an incident occurs that restores his mentality, and an in teresting love affair with a little circus player follows. Other program features will be a Will Roger's comedy, “Don't Park

No. I—Claire Windsor in a scene from “For Sale” at the Circle next week. No. 2—A scene from "Daddies,” opening Sunday afternoon at the Ohio. No. 3—Douguas Fairbanks in "The Nut” at Mister Smith's all next week. No. 4—Priscilla Dean In "White

Here," the Fox news weekly, organ selections by Earl Gordon and musical entertainment by Virgil Moore's Apollo orchestra. .1. .1. J. TWO MORE BILLS ANNOUNCED AT ISIS The Isis program for the first half of next week will have as its feature "Fighting Jim Grant,” a Western melodrama in which Lester Cuneo and Alma Deer appear. Cuneo is cast as a cowboy who had promised his mother he would never fight. His failure to resent insult brands him a coward. Not until his weetheart is endangered through the plotting of two strangers who claim to be relatives of her dead father does Jim break his pledge. Then he proves to be a veritable buzz saw In action. Cuneo jumps his horse across an eighteenfoot chasm in one scene In the picture. A Pat he omedy ar.d a Grantland Rice Sportlight will also be shown. “The Lone Chance.” starring John Gilbert, will be presented Thursday and the rest of the wee* It is a picturizatlon of one of Fred Jackson's stories In the cast lire Evelyn Br*nt, John Miljan, Edward. Tilton, Frank Beal and Harry Todd. Not Wanted,” a Billy West comedy, will be the fun feature. FAIRBANKS TO BE FKN AT SMITH’S Douglas Fairbanks will be the at:action at Mister Smith's all next week, beginning Sundyay in “The Nat." an original screen story writ ■n by Kenneth Davenport. In this story the star is seen as ■i• >liby is invention. He is deeply In r v '-* with a girl who lives on the 'ioor above him In a Greenwich Village apartment house. He spends all his time inventing ways of pleasing her, an<l also invents ways of getting out of difficulties his inventions get him into. Complications develop when he undertakes to obtain permission for her to use the home of a number of wealthy people in a philanthropies project through which she hopes to make bette-r citizens of New York's slum children. However, he straightens things out eventually and wins the girl. Marguerite De la Motte appears opposite the star in this production, and Barbara La Marr, William Lowery, Sidney de Grey are also in the supporting cast. A Harold Lloyd

MOT I P_ N ? j CTU RES A REAL SHOW FOR YOUR MONEY MR. DOUGLAS |mr"l M FAIRBANKS * “THE NUT” J, X ALSO X H ro * HAROLD LLOYD F,,K H 3 1 1 SC“ PISTOLS for BREAKFAST” 1 JC ’S

GOVERNOR BRANCH has advocated the movement to erect a Memorial in honor of Paul Dresser, author of “On the Banks of the Wabash,” and the LINCOLN SQUARE THEATRE at Illinois and Washington Streets Has Been Chosen to Present the PAUL DRESSER MEMORIAL BENEFIT ENGAGEMENT OF “ON THE BANKS OF THE WABASH” The Wonderful Picture Produced by Vitagraph, in Co-operation With the Paul Dresser Memorial Association, to Raise Funds for the Dresser Memorial ONE WEEK STARTING TOMORROW All Hoosiers Should See This Wonderful Film, Inspired by Our Popular State Song. It’s a Hoosier Picture of Hoosier Life, Presented by a Great Cast, Including Mary Carr, Mary McLaren, Madge Evans and James Morrison IT’S JONTINUOUS FROM 10 A. M. TO 11 P. M.—LET’S GO, EVERYBODY

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Tiger” opening at the Palace Thursday afternoon. No. s—Mary Carr in "On the Banks of the Wabash” at the Lincoln Square all next week. No. 6—John Gilbert in "The Lone Chance” opening Thursday at the Isis. No. 7 —Einar Hansson, foreign star. In "The Blizzard” at the Apollo next week.

comedy- and a news reel complete the program. / “ON BANKS OF WABASH” OPENS AT LINCOLN SQUARE ! Sunday marks the beginning of a film at the Lincoln Square that should appeal to Hoosier people. It is “On the Banks of the Wabash,” an Indiana home story- inspired by the famous song of Paul Dresser. This film Is being presented at the Lincoln Square under the auspices of and for the benefit of the Paul Dresser Memorial Association. Prominent members of th* Indiana. Society of N-w York City were greatly- enthused over "On the Banks of the Wabash” at its Broadway presentation, their statement that it immortalizes tor all time the heautiful sentiment In the poem an 1 that no greater tribute could be paid the Hoosler State warrants ihe merits of the picture "On the Banks of the Wabash" is played by an all star cast headed by Mary Carr. James Morrison, Madge Evans and Mary McLaren. Music Pupils of Karl Then Krommherz will give a recital on nex- Wednesday night at the Crospy Auditorium, public library, assisted by Fred Klemle. violin. Am ng the numbers on the program will be ' The Butterfly,” "The Last Hope” and a Ch qua composition. Frommherz is a teach er of the Progressive Series Studios of this city The Cooperative Piano Teachers' Association Recital will be given on Monday night at Miss Jasper's studio, pa? S. East St., assisted by the Ktirz trio. The pupils appearing Include Dorothy ("havers. Opal Pier son, Alta Keeler, Frances Wallace, Dorothy- Wallntan, Madonna Fethers ton, Julia Stark. Josephine Pearsy, Mrs. Zena Marks and Bertha Jasper. New Paramount Release The Paramount film version of William J. Locke's story, “The Mountebank,” is to be released under the title "The Side-Show- of Life," according to announcement by Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president of production of Famous Play-ers-Lasky. The picture was pro duc.ed by Herbert Brciioti with Ernest Torrence and Anna Q. Nilsson in the featured roles.

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enth Heaven” on Broadway, will open his summer engagement with ! the Murat Players on Monday night !ai thi Murat in “The Copperhead.’’ This drama by Augustus Thomas is based on a story by the well-known Indiana author, Frederick Landis. The scene is laid in southern Illinois and Is a stirring story of the Civil War period. The play, in two epochs of two acts each, tells the heart-grip-ping story of Milt Shanks’ sacrifice of friends and family for his country and takes Its name, “The Copperhead" from the organization of southern sympathizers whose badge was a copper button. It is a great play, a stirring story, an 1 George Gaul will be seen in the stellar part of Milt Shanks, played by Lionel Barrymore In the New York production. Other members of the Murat company will be seen In the other parts. "The Copperhead” was a success when it was first produced. It gives Gaul a big dramatic opportunity. "ABIE" STARTS FIFTH WEEK AT THE ( APITOL On Sunday night "Abie’s Irish Rose” starts its fifth week at the Capitol. This week has been the biggest week in Its profitable run here. Isaac' Cohen . . R Waters Mrs Imi-.- Cohen Belle Poganv Dr Jacob Samuels . Frederick Forrester Solomon bevy Leo liuyt AmbraLam Levy (His Son).Geo N Nolan Rosemary Murphy Pegs' y Parry Putrleti Murphy .Billy Fay lather Whalen John F Webber Tr.'.inie-.'irer Marsaret Gross Brulen .ids Maids Adele Humbert Khba Cortang. Rita Collins. Katherine Muller. \t th s stag" of its history, the cast is given .as follows: At th* Capitol all week. Janis to Return Home Elsie Janis. who is appearing in London at the Queen’s Theater in a new revue called “At Home," a piece of her own making, plans to return to New York about Sept. 1. Immediately upon her arrival the itinerant star will, in accordance with plans she completed before sailing for the other side, take over a Broadway Theater, give it her own name and become an actress-manager in the fullest sense of the term. She will write, direct and produce her own play and manage the theater in which she plays. MOTION PICTURES

First Half Next Week Lester Cuneo All Seats “Fighting IQg All the Time Grant” PATHE COMEDY

MDGETSANDWILL STANTON TO TOP j VARIETY BILLS I Palace and Lyric Book Big Acts to Head Programs. Singer's Midgets will be seen at the Palace the first half of next week. The company is composed of fifteen persons who range in height from 23 to 42 inches, in weight from 35 to 51 pounds, and in age from 19to 42. '•*" The parents of these little people are normal persons living in foreign lands. Just ten years ago Charles Singer opened Midget Town in a Viennese pleasure park. He advertised for those small persons and soon he had 150 on hand. From these he selected the best and took them abroad, where they offered their various acts. Some of the troupe are musicians, students, singers, dancers, boxers and magicians. The present offering of the Midgets consists of ten big acts “Alice in Toy-land” is the title, ’ and with unheard-of speed the actors I stage a dance in Spain, demonstrate the art of self-defense, which j is a burlesque on the Dempsey-Car-j pentier bout; Prince Ludwig plays the xylophone, and several members are comedians. The final scene depicts a visit of the troupe to the tomb of King Tut. In the company are the three diminutive Royals, the three Hoy Sisters, Earle Knapp, Paul Paulus, Prince Ludwig, Johnny Lappe Prince and King Creo, and Billy Hart, manager. Bill includes. BRENT HAYNES—A master of | the banjo, who offers a repertoire I that is most general in its appeal. PETE KNOX AND BELLE IN- | MAN —Present the “Collector,” a j blackface comedy skit, with songs and piano selections mixed with hu- . in or. “Jealous Husbands” is the picture and deals with the tangled affairs .f flirtatious wives and jeal- | <>us husbands. Earle Williams, Jane Novak and Bull Montana are in the least. Bathe News, a comedy and I an Aesop Fable complete the bill. -|- .j. -|. WILL STANTON WILL TOP NEW LYRIC BILL Will Stanton and company, in “A Cabaret Cocktail,” will be the fun feature of next week's bill at the Lyric, sharing the headline honors with Maureen Engiin. Stanton is famed for his “drunk” impersonation. and the assortment of falls and j bumps which he assimilates at each : performance. He is assisted in his 1 act by Rosalind May, Frank Grace. Ethel Stanley and Muriel Seagle. Miss Engiin is one of America's most popular singing comediennes whose time is mostly taken up as a recording artist for various phonograph

I I HE A I | i HOUSE'I BY SELMA LAGERLCF, WINNER, OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. g Introducing Mary Johnson, “the Mary Pickford of Europe,” Einar Hansson and a cast of internationally || PRONOUNCED ONE OF THE FINEST PRODUCTIONS OF i|| THE YEAR BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW

Heavy Clothes If in Cyrano de Bergerac’s day the custom had been to wear Palm Beach or khaki in hot weather, Walter Hampden would not have been compelled to close his long run in the Rostant heroic comedy at the National Theater, New Y'ork, on June 28. Demand for Mr. Hampden as the great-nosed poet-lover duellist of Cardinal Richelieu’s time is such that the play easily could run right on into next season, but, if he had continued the engagement, he and his company- probably would be melted away before autumn because of the heavy, padded velvet costumes, which, this month past, have made the actors feel each night as if they had been in a Turkish bath. “Cyx-ano” is one play in which special summer costumes are impossible. Still, Mr. Hampden has no reason to complain, nor does he complain, for "Cyrano” with its 217 performances in New York has broken three American records; (1) Cyrano's own record; (2) the record for revivals; (3) the record for romantic costume plays—all of which is glory enough for one season.

companies. She will offer a program of her latest song hits, together with several “blues” selections of her own composition. The bill will include: WHIRL OF SONG AND DANCE An elaborate miniature revue, in which Roy Zermain. Francis Ferrar and Marie Walter are principals. FRIEND AND SPARLlNG—Comedians, in a breezy comedy skit, entitled “A Letter From Home.” ANDRE AND LA ZELIERE— Two girls from the Follies Bergere, Paris, presenting a cycle of dance creations enhanced by beautiful costumes and special stage settings. CAIN SlSTEßS—Versatile musical entertainers, who play piano, banjo, double xy-lophones and sing harmony songs. MACK AND STANTON—A pair of clever funmakers, who have a livelyroutine of songs, talk and eccentric Stepping. THE MAXELLOS—Five of the world’s greatest risley artists in a remarkable exhibition of upsidedown acrobatics. ONE THE SCREEN—Stan Laurel comedy-, “Wide Open Spaces,” the latest edition of Kinograms and the serial, “The Telephone Girl." Who Will Play the Bird “The Bird of Paradise,” the stage play which has enjoyed unequalled popularity- for the past decade and a half, and which Richard Walton Tully, the author, is to make into a First National picture this summer, was inspired by Tully's life-long familiarity with Hawaiian customs and conditions on the islands. Much of his boyhood was spent in the South Seas. As yet. Tully has not announced his selection of the girl who will portray the leading role, that of Luana, in his screen production.

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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1924

CRITIC ADMITS HE LIKES FILMHOKUM Jungmeyer Finds Fun in Hamilton Movie. By JACK JUNGMEYER .V FA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, July s.—“ The SelfMade Failure,” featuring Lloyd Hamilton and Ben Alexander, is a collation of most of the old gags and hoary hokum at which folks have laughed since pictures first began to move. But after some of the high meat and rare confections we’ve been served lately by solemn screen chefs, this old-fashioned hash concocted by J. K. McDonald, producer, is most toothsome. The comedy, first to give Lloyd Hamilton seven reels of ludicrous leeway, toys with hick-town melodrama based on mistaken Identity. Hamilton is a sentimental, whimsical tramp into whose keeping a dying crony has placed his son, Ben Alexander. The tramp is accepted by the manager of a sulphur springs resort as a long-expected masseur upon whom further patronage depends. He and his ward become personages in the tow-n, stumble into guilty secrets of the hotel proprietor who has robbed a poor old lady of her property, and blunder to happiness for all who deserve it, including themselves, after some threescore hearty laughs (counted at a preview).

Just a Dog Part of the burden of retribution upon villainy falls to the dog, Cameo, a splendid runner in the chores of righteousness. All the stock characters of homespun comedy are on hand to help or hinder the worthy but ragged hero in his commendable endeavors — a nice old grandma, a poet, a sweet, innocent girl, the town constable, a tough customer, the sinister schemer, the beauteous siren. Nothing highbrow here to choke back a fellow's risibles. Just plain hokum, predigested. The kind of fun any one may read who runs. The piece comes to riotous peak when a passel of bathing beauties frorp the big city dedicate the new sulphur plunge—to the avid appreciation of the male wheelchair brigade, many of whom fall into the pool in their excitement. And if there are in Hollywood a more ravishing lot of nymphs than are presented ip “The Self-Made Failure,” my eyesight can no longer be depended on. Hamilton has never been more whimsically comic. Others in the cast ar-=‘ Patsy Ruth Miller, Matt Moore, Sam De Grasse, Mary Carr, Dan Mason and Chuck Reisner—as fine aggregation as ever joined hands to do "a simple picture of entertainment," as Producer McDonald modestly acclaims it.