Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1924 — Page 5

SATURDAY,/IUG. 16, 1924

VALENTINO OPENS PARAMOUNT’S SEASON AT THE OHIO

Tarkington’s ‘Monsieur Beaucaire’ Selected as First of Big Features for Fall Presentation Here —Problem Movies to Be Prominent Next Week, Big time fall season of photoplays will get underway at the Ohio Sunday when Rudolph Valentino opens in Booth Tarkington’s “Monsieur Beaueaire.” This is a Paramount picture and marks the beginning of the showing of the important new Famous Players-Lasky photoplays at tfee Ohio. Next week the Circle will feature Colleen Moore in “Flirting With Love.’”

Mister Smith’s will offer Blanche Sweet in “Those Who Dance,” a problem movie. At the Isis for the first half of the week will be Hoot Gibson in “The Sawdust Trail.” The Apollo will present an English cast in “This Freedom.” VALENTINO RETURNS TO THE LOCAL SCREEN Rudolph Valentino makes his return to the screen after an absence of two years in “Monsieur Beaucaire,” Paramount’s production of the Booth Tarkington’s storyThe picture is to be shown at tjie Ohio Theater the coming week together with a news weekly and music by Virgil Moore's entertainers. “Monsieur Beaucaire” is said to be the most gorgeous motion picture ever made and has been accorded 1 lavish praise by all critics and all who have seen it. In keeping with its magnificence of production, Lester Huff, organist of the Ohio Theater, has prepared a special musical score to be used as accompaniment. The picture was produced by Sidney Alcott, sdenarized by Forrest Halsey and photographed by Harry Flschbeck. Besides Valentino, the cast includes the following players: Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson. Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman, Paulette Du Val. John Davidson, Oswald Torke, Flora Finch, Lewis Waller, lan MacLaren. F*rank Shannon. Templar Powell. H. Cooper Cliffe, Downing Clark. Yvonne Hughes. Harry Lee and Florence O'Denishawn. the dancer. “Monsieur Beaucaire" is a story of love, honor and dishonor of the dissolute court of Louis XV and concerns itself with Princess Henriette, fresh and innocent from a convent, who comes to the court and meets the dashing cavalier, the Dud de Charres, favorite of the king. Learning that the Due is only one of the many flirting dandies. Henriette at first repulses him, but later finds she loves him. Mffie. Pampadour, with whom the Dus has quarreled, maliciously suggests to the king that he force Henriette and the Due to marry each other. The king agrees, but the Due refuses to obey and is forced to flee, fighting his way across the channel to England for safety. Posing as Monsieur Beaucaire, barber of the French ambassador, the Due invades Bath, the seaside resort of English society, where he falls in love with Mary Carlisle, the “belle of Bath.” ... + + “THIS FREEDOM” TO OPEN SUNDAY AT APOLLO. A. S. M. Hutchinson’s “This Freedom.” the novel that followed his "If Winter Comes,” has been brought to the screen as a special production, filmed in England, and will be the attraction next week at the Apollo. It was directed by Denison Clift and enacted by a brilliant, company of English players, headed by Fay Compton and Clive Brook.

“This Freedom” treats in a dramatic fashion with the problem of modern woman—love versus career. Every woman, young, old, married and unmarried, will find in it something vital, poignant and commanding. The chief character. Rosalie Occleve, believed in being independent. earning her own living and carving a name for herself. So she continued to fill a responsible position with a big banking firm, though married and the mother of three children, two sons and a daughter, who grew up without her care. In time ruin overtook the “well organized” household —and with it came the overthrow of Rosalie’s happiness and all her scheme of life. The eldest son was arrested charged with being a swindler, her daughter's life was blasted following a mad pursuit after pleasure, and the (youngest son left home for Canada. Her husband was a sad and broken man. Then Rosalie knew and realized at what a great price she had obtained “this freedom.” The program will include an Our Gang comedy. “It’s a Bear,” the Fox news weekly, Benson’s Melody Sfntertainers. and organ selections by Earl Gordon. • • • COLLEEN MOORE HAS A DIFFERENT FIRM ROLE At the Circle starting tomorrow will be shown Colleen Moore and Conway Tearle in quite a different type of picture than this duo have as yet appeared tin. “Flirting With Love” is a First National picture from Leßoy Scott's novel, “Counterfeit.” Bob and Gale Sherwood and their co-entertainers are being held over for another week. This makes the fourth week of this group of Indianapolis favorites. They have been busy all week readying an entirely new offering which is no't so much trouble to them as It might be to other entertainers for this clever band have appeared for as many as forty consecutive weeks in one theater giving a complete chatige of program each week. In "Flirting With Love," Colleen Moore shows us that she can do other parts that merely the “flapper” here she partrays a role which at times is highly emotional and In these tensely dramatic scenes she is not found wanting. The story with the stage as a background is plausible and yet unique. It deals with the romance of an actress, a highly temperamental stage player, who pretends to lose her memoty that she might get into the home of man responsible for censoring her successful show. Later she feigns dual personality, and it is in this assumed charac'e*-

'The Swan 1

Before his departure for Hollywood this week, Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, in charge of production, announced that Ferenc Molnar’s play, “The Swan,” would be produced at the Long Island studio next month with Elsie Ferguson in the role made famous last season by Eva La Gallienne at the Cort Theater. The picture will be directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, who arrived in New York last week after having directed Pola Negri in two productions. ‘ ‘The Swan,’ ” said Mr. Lasky, "will mark the return of Miss \Ferguson to the screen after an absence of nearly two years. Following her successes in ‘Outcast,’ her last Paramount picture, Miss Ferguson has been starring in stage productions until such time as we could find a story which was suitable to her talent. Both Miss Ferguson and myself feel that in ‘The Swan’ we have a vehicle which will give the star an opportunity to appear at her best.”

in which Miss Moore demonstrates her versatility. She is called upon to play really two parts in one—that of herself temperamental, nervous and high strung, and also the character of her “other personality,” demure shy and different. ' Miss Mbore is co-featured with Conway Tearle. -I- -I- -! BOOZE EXPOSE FILM BOOKED AT SMITH'S The attraction Mister Smith’s starting tomorrow is the melodramatic offering, “Those Who Dance,” an Ince production featuring Blanche Sweet. It is a timely picture, having to do with the liquor traffic and some very interesting and amazing details of this important American problem are unreeled in an interesting manner. The story briefly has to do with Mat Arnold, a country boy, who on coming to the city for employment becomes entangled with a notorious band of lawbreakers. He is falsely accused of killing a revenue enforcement officer and is saved in the nick of time by the untiring efforts of his sister and a young detective who has become interested in him. The events leading up to his arrest and ultimate freedom are handled in an entertaining manner. The leading players in support of Miss Sweet are Warner Baxter, Bessie Love, Warner Baxter and Mathew Betz. A comedy and other short subjects are also shown. -!• + -I* HOOT GIBSON JOINS A CIRCUS IN HIS LATEST Hoot Gibson steps out as a Mrous performer in "The Sawdust Trail” to be shown at the Isis the first half of next week. The piece de resistance of the picture is a "Wild West” show. Hoot’s appearance as a college scapegrace who, bored with trying to outwit traffic cops, and the false gaiety of cabaret parties joins the show and learns to ride bucking bronchos. He does a thriller on top of the rickity old stage coach in the Indian battle. Then —he makes love to a “hard boiled” cowgirl xvho goes after him with boxing gloves, and turns a modern Petruchio to tame her, by AMUSEMENTS

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Bring the Family Out for a Day of Pleasure Swim in the Pool. Ride the Ski. Visit the Dance Garden. Royal Palm Orchestra. Dancing Every Night Except Monday and Friday. New Features on the Midway.

BIG TIME MOVIE SEASON WILL BE USHERED INS LINDA Y

No. k—Fay Compton in a dramatic scene from ‘‘This Freedom” opening Sunday at the Apollo. No. 2 —Rudolph Valentino and

Strings 'Em

MIGUEL GALVAN > The man who plays a banjo, mandoline and guitar with the Sherwoods at the Circje is Miguel Galvan. He gets melody out of strings. The second week of a return engagement of the Sherwoods at the Circle begins Sunday. getting her into a racing auto for the most strenuous and exciting race ever filmed. Thrills and laughs alternate throughout the stoiy. Gibson's support Includes Josie Sedgwick. David Torrence. G. Raymond Nye, Charles K. French, W. T. MeCulley and Pat Harmon. A Pathe comedy, “Sweet Daddy,” will be the fun feature. In. “The Call Os The Mate,” starring William Fairbanks, which will be presented Thursday and the rest of the week, a cowboy tames the wildest horse on the Western plains and wins a pretty girl against her will and bitter parental opposition by the simple expedient of whistling a little tune. The comedy will be a Bobby Dunn farce entitled, “All Is Lost.” Thousands of boys between the ages of 15 and 18 leave England for Australia every year to do farm work. AMUSEMENTS

H. H ASH. AND BELMOST AV. GROUNDS. fIHB AFTERNOON - NIGHT M TUES. AUG goo PEOPLE EjjftJH! ph *2? ABENIC to rmi ftlDEiti MENAGERIE 210 ISShS AhHMALS trained •1 , 1 EGO HORSES CLOWN* 43 200 ~ JiAHUif'Vl'i jungle EtIPM&STS actors The Goritla, John Daniel, 2d BOORS OPEN AT 1 AND 7 P. M. PERFORMANCES AT 2 * 8 P. M. Prices (Admitting to the Circus, Menagerie and General Admission Seats) Adults 75c. Children under 12 years, 50c. Tax included. Grand Stand and Reserved Seats at Addi. tional Cost According to ocation. Downtown Ticket Sale at llucier's Pharmacy, Pennsylvania and Washington Sts.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

one of the many beautiful women in “Monsieur Beaucaire” at the Ohio all next week. No. 3—Colleen Moore and Con-

Rounding Round Theaters Wi th WALTER D. HICKMAN This city will have two theaters offering burlesque during the 1924-25 season. The Columbia Wheel season is already underway at the Capitol. Plans are made for the opening soon of the Broadway as the home of Mutual Wheel Burlesque. FVed Block and Charles P. Salisbury of the Mutual interests were here this week. The following statement was issued: “Emphasizing its assurance of early activity in preparing for next season, the Mutual Burlesque Association, owning or controlling thirty-six theaters in principal cities of the country, has dispatched F'red Block, a director of the corporation and Charles p. Salisbury, special representative, on a tour that will comprehend a visit to every city on the circuit. The Mutual wheel’ socalled. will provide as many shows as there are theaters, and the thirtysix are now in active rehearsal preparing for opening on or about Aug. 23. It is the avowed Intention of this association to present modern

ENGLISH’S FAREWELL WEEK BERKELL PLAYERS IN WILLARD MACK'S DELIGHTFUL COMEDY Broadway and Buttermilk Matinees: Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday AFTERNOON—2Sc, 35c, 50c. NIGHT—2Sc, PIcII r\ 60c - Wo. 90c - TAX CHARGED ON 68c AND i JLYIVIjIJ • 90c SEAT TICKETS ONLY. PHONE Circle 3373

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COMING MONDAY 27TH DIVISION BOYS Present “GETTING IT OVER” Vaudeville’s Most Unique Revue The Nobility of Vaudeville ■ Baron” EMERSON 8 “ c " unt " BALDWIN .... “What Fools These Mortals Be” Direct From Italy MEDINI TRIO Some Oddities on the Unsupported Ladder ■ ■& Frank Kay BROWN & LAVELLE Offer “IZZATSO” — ' Fascinating Dainty Danseuse “VALDA” Formerly of Metropolitan Opera House, New York City In A Variety of Artistic Dances Lynn Burno at Piano Photo Feature “UNSEEN HANDS” With WALLACE BEERY in His Greatest Screen Role

way Tearle in “Flirting With Love" at the Circle, opening Sunday. No. 4—Lila Lee and James Kirk-

j burlesque in its highest and hap- • piest form, and the list of prom!i nent comedians, vopalists and dani cers upon its roster would seem aa- | surance of ample talent to provide ! it. Some well-known comedians in i this type of entertainment will head | the companies, including A1 Reeves, ; Lew Kelly, Sam Howe, George Murphy, Pat White, Harry Bentley I and Harry Fields. Each of the shows are being equipped with costumes, scenic and electrical effects entirely new. The spirit of friendly riva’.ry obtaining among the managers will surely be brisk, since the association Announces bonuses aggregating about $85,000 in graduated amounts to the ten shows showing the largest gross receipts on the season.” • * • Have received the following news from the office of Winthrop Ames, New York: “When the actors engaged by Winthrop Ames for his forthcoming production of ‘Old Man Minick," assembled at the Booth Theater for the first rehearsal the other day they receded the shock of their lives. Walking upon the stage, which naturally they expected to find bare, they found themselves suddenly in the Minick living-room, with the dining-room, kitchen, halls and other apartments surrounding it. In other words, the scenic investiture was already completed before rehearsals

AMUSEMENTS

wood in “Wandering Husbands.” opening Thursday as the movie feature of the Palace bill. No. 5 —A scene from “The Saw-

had even started. There was not a chair, not a rug, not a picture that was not in its place. Fhirther, Ames had already directed ‘lighting rehearsals.’ and every detail of stage mechanism had been carefully worked out. Only those who have experienced the turmoils of drees rehearsals during which flurried stage hands attempt to assemble scenery which they have never beheld before, while electricians scurry hither and thither turning spots on here and floods off there can appreciate what this Innovation means to the actor. This is undoubtedly the first time in the history of American theatricals where the scenic environment of a new production has been completely

AMUSEMENTS SWHEREJHE^ sID ALL WEEK OW CYCLONE Wild I Babe Healy lley Chorus lAL I’S Hounds

gfUfregaigIk Hoscoe . /fap&iKk. (FATTY) in person Welcome Return of the Famous PALO AND PALET “Les Bouffons Musical” “LOVE FABLES" I ARMSTRONG & SMITH A Romance in Song and Dance I In Their Ever Mirthful Comedy Skit, with Alma Brahm and Dorothy Morton | “The SIO,OOO Ankle” RACE & EDGE BARTO & MELVIN A Laughing Hit, "London Fog” j America's Foremost Athletes 4 GIRTON GIRLS 4 ■ Tomboys on Wheels Befc Turpin in “Romeo”—Kmognramg—Serial, “The Telephone Girl” ] Dancing In the Lyric Ballroom Afternoon and Evening.

dust Trail” at the Isis the first half of the week. No. 6—Blanche Sweet in “Those Who Dance” at Mister Smith’s all next week.

assembled before rehearsals themselves have started. Right from the start, the actors can live in the proper atmosphere, knowing exactly where entrances, chairs and proper ties are, and as soon as the company is anywhere near letter perfect Ames plans to allow them to re hearse in costume and make-up, thus aiding the feeling that each rehearse 1 is in reality a performance.” • • • Another ‘‘most beautiful woman in Paris" has been found. She is Amazar, who has arrived to appear in the next edition of the Greenwich Village Follies.® She is a grand opera artist.

BERKELLPLAYERS SIART FINAL WEEK Comedy New to City Will Be Given at English’s, Next week will be “Farewell week” of the summer season of the Berk ell players at English’s. “Broadway and Buttermilk,” a comedy by Willard Mack, will be the offering instead of “Scrambled Wives,” originally announced, the change being made by Manager Charles Berkell because the latter play would not require the full strength of the company, and then, too, it has been given a previous stock production here. “Broadway and Buttermilk'” is not a farce. It is a straight comedy, with a rural atmosphere. \ The action takes place in a little country town where Mma. Nadine and Tom Burrows, both typical New Yorkers, chance to meet- Mmt Nadine comes to the country seeking rest, recreation and relief from the strenuous activities of the metropolis. She proceeds to capture the hearts of all the town boys, and amuse3 herself by carrying on several flirtations. When Burrows, traveling for a tinware concern, puts up at Mrs. Denby's boarding house he too succumbs to the chargs of the fair visitor. In a humorous fashion Dan Ctrpld engineers a matrimonial handicap with complications piling up thick and fast, and in which three weddings occur instead of one, to the accompaniment of a great deal of good fun. Blanche Ring starred in the New York production of "Broadway and Buttermilk.” Jean Oliver and Eddy Waller will have the leading roles. The cast will include Idabelle Arnold, Larry Sullivan. Herbert Dobbins, Mary Hill, Robert Fay, Alexander Campbell, Myrtle Stringer, Sherold Page, Henrietta Floyd and William V. HuIL

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