Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1924 — Page 6

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ARBUGKLE WILL BE ON NEW BILE ATJHE LYRIC Valda Booked at Palace for Three Days, Starting Monday Afternoon. The Lyric will have Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle and Palo and Palet, French clowns, as headliners next week. Arbuckle is making a vaudeville tour as a monoiogist. He was in musical comedy and vaudeville before he entered the movies. Palo and Palet, “Les Bouffons Musical” are considered the most versatile musical artists before the public. They play some fifteen different instruments and switch from one to another in a bewildering fashion without ever a break in the melody they are playing. And they have the faculty too, of injecting a lot of fun into their work without the least apparent effort. The bill will include: FOUR GIRTON GlßLS—Australian bicyclists who give a speedy exhibition of trick riding interspersed with original comedy antics. “LOVE FABLES” —A miniature musical comedy described as a romance of song and dance with Alma Brahm and Dorothy Morton heading the cast. ARMSTRONG AND SMITH —Favorite entertainers whose merry song and dance skit, “The SIO,OOO Ankle,” will be presented. RACE AND EDGE—Two gifted fun makers who have a unique laughing vehicle for their talents called “London - Fog.' BARTO AND MELVIN —Premier American gympasts and equilibrists Introducing a routine of thrilling and sensational athletic achievements. ON THE SCREEN—Ben Turpin comedy, “Romeo.” Kinograms and the serial "The Telephone GlrL”

PALACE PLANS TWO MORE NOVELTY BILLS Three men, who once wore the khaki uniforms of Uncle Sam’s Army and who were a part of the 27th Division, with three women, present “Getting It Over,” one of vaudeville's unique revues, at the Palace Theater the first half of next week. The act is composed of singing numbers and dancing. The show includes: EMERSON AND BALDWIN' — Called “Baron” an d “Count” of vaudeville, in their “What Fools These Mortals Be.” BROWN AND LA VELLE—In their “Izzatso?” comedy skit of xylophone playing, singing and talking. A novelty 10-cent store number is In the offering also. “VALDA” —A dancer, who was formerly with the Metropolitan Opera House of New York City. In her “Variety of Artistic Dances" she is assisted by Lynn Burne at the piano. One other act is yet to be booked. A skeleton that can dance, an ostrich that gayly waves his plumes In the face of the audience and a monkey who supplies much comedy are some of Schichtl's Royal V onderettes that appear the latter half of the week. These wonderettes are the latest sensation in vaudeville and are making a hit in all big cities. Lucille Ballantine vitalizes through the medium of dance and song the dream of one of her assistants. In this she appears as a spider jn the midst of a web of silver threads. With her are Sidney Boyd. Elton Helfrick, Arthur Mahon and David Gordon. A member of the legitimate stage .6 Barney Gilmore, who recently had the role of the judge in the famous play, “Lightnin’.” He, with James Collins and Mina Shirley, offers a comedy skit, “Two Pals and a Gal,” that is full of Irish humor. “We Three Girls.” Margie Viel. Patricia Rossitu and Bernice Batson are seen in a song and dance offering. On the screen are: “Unseen Hands,” with Wallace Beery, Fontain La Rue. Jack Rollins and Cleo Madison, the first half of the week, and “Wandering Husbands” the last part, with James Kirkwood and Lila Lee. Pathe News, a comedy and an Aesop Fable are the short reels. O’Brien to Make New Film “The ‘Follies' Girl.” starring Margaret Livingston, now in productlon under the direction of Cullen Tate, is the story of an Irish showgirl, Patricia O’Brien, commonly known as “Pat.” Being about the Irish, this story is rich in sentiment and humor. The laugh follows fast on the heels of the tear. There is much loving and laughing, much anger and “showin’ 'em not to get fresh with the Irish.” Moore to Do “So Big'’ Colleen Moore has been spending the past two weeks in preparation for her characterization in "So Big,” which will be her next and initial starring picture for First National. The picturization will follow the story closely, running through the entire life of a woman from a very young girl to old age. Miss Moore will play four distinct periods in the life of every woman, and every day sets her before the camera testing her different makeup for each role. The story is by Edna Ferber and the picture will be made under the direction of Charles Brabin.

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No. I—Larry Sullivan, who will have a merry role in “Broadway and Buttermilk,” final bill of the Berkell Players at English’s this summer. Opens Sunday night for the week. Photo by Dexheimer.

INCE BEGINS BUSY SEASON IN CULVER CITY Noted Director Makes More Film Productions Than Formerly, NPRECEDENTED activity marks the summer days—and , nights—at T 1 omas H. I nee studios in Culver City, where it is announced that this season's productions will exceed by far those of any previous period in I nee's career. In order to care for the large number of companies at work, anew stage, 72x180, and giving 52,000 square feet of additional space, has just been completed at a total cost of $115,000. Ten bungalow- dressing rooms have been added to those already in use. new rooms are handsomely equipped, with built-in makeup tables, baths and all the luxuries of a star’s abode on the “lot.” Two Thomas H. Ince companies are now at work upon First National pictures. “Christine of the Hungry Heart,” adapted from the Kathleen Norris novel by Bradley King, is being directed by George Archainbaud. A distinguished cast, headed by Florence Vidor in the title role is interpreting this drama of the woman of today. Olive Brook, brought by Mr. Ince from London expressly for this production, is but one of three leading men in the picture. The others are lan Keith, late of Lionel Barrymore's “Laugh, Clown, Laugh," and Warner Baxter, under contract to Mr. Ince by reason of his capital work in “Those Who Dance.” Walter Hiers, Lillian Lawrence and Dorothy Brock complete the roster of principals, with Harry Sharp at the camera. “Or. Xye” in Preparation Lambert Hillyer is directing Thomas 11. Ince’s production of “Doctor Nye” for First National. The director and C. Gardner Sullivan are responsible for the adaptation of Joseph C. Lincoln's popular novel. Percy Marmont assumes the leading role while Doris Kenyon, by courtesy of First National Pictures, plays opposite. Claude Gillingvvater, Malcolm MacGregor, Lucille Ricksen, David Torrence, Vivia Ogden, Ruby Lafayette and Dan Mason are other principals. Karl Struss is the cinematographer. Meanw-hile, Ince is pushing work on his epic of empire building, “The Last Frontier," based on Courtney Ryley Cooper’s book. The mass scenes, involvinf thousands of cowboys, Indians and buffalo have been edited by Mr. Ince and now the producer is casting players for the main sequences, with the choice of a director soon to be decided upon. Charles Ray has completed his first Thomas H. Ince-Pathe picture, “Dynamite Smith," directed by Ralph Ince, and Is ready to start the second of the series. Activity among the outside or “rent” companies is no less than among Mr. Ince’s own enterprises. Mrs. Wallace Reid has completed preliminaries and is about to begin work on her new picture, "Broken Laws,” written for her by Adela Rogers St. Johns, for release by F. B. O. Her director is R. Williams Neill. New Regal Movies Regal Productions, Inc., start production next week on “The ‘Follies’ Girl,” in which Margaret Livingston will make her debut as a star. Cullen Tate will direct. A Hunt Stromberg Production,

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No. 2 —Babe Heaiy, soubrette, in “Runnin” Wild,” Columbia Wheel burlesque show at the Capitol next week. No. 3—Barto and Melvin will be

Wedding Bells Wedding bells rang at Universal City last week. Josef Svvickard, playing with Mary Philbin in "Miss Vanity,” and Margaret Campbell, remembered for her work in “Sporting Youth” and “The Dangerous Blonde,” and now working in “The Lightning Lover” in support of Reginald Denny, are planning a honeymoon trip immediately upon completion of their respective pictures.

“A Case in Cairo,” starring Priscilla Dean, is under way, with Chet Withey directing, while two other Stromberg pictures. "A S ren ol Seville, with Miss Dean as the star, and “Roaring Rails,” starring Harry Carey, are being edited by the pro ducer. Strongheart, the wonder dog, under the direction of Larry Trimble, has joined the notables on the Ince lot. ■ Keith’s Fall Variety Plans Justine Johnstone, international I actress, will soon make her Keith debut in a sketch which she is ! bringing with her from London and I which served Gertrude Lawrence in the “Nine O’clock Revue” last season. Lewis and Gordon will direct Miss Johnstone by arrangement with her husband, Walter Wanger, gentral production manager for Famous Players-Lasky. Sophie Tucker, playing at the Palace. New York, last week took for herself the fitting and appropriate title of “Madame.” It was Madame Tucker’s first appearance in New York in some time, and she was given a rousing welcome by Tin Pan Alley, of which she is a chief exponent and where she is a general favorite. After having tried with fair-to-middling success a sketch of her own, Madge Kennedy, who seems to have developed the vaudeville fever, will head the western company presenting “Five Minutes From the Station,” a playlet which as done in the East by Henry Hull and Edna Hibbard has fast threatened to become a variety classic. Alan Edwards, who played with Miss Kennedy in I‘Poppy,” will be her leading man. Harry Fox has prepared anew vaudeville potpourri of songs and chatter in which he has just opened on the Keith circuit at the Palace Theater, New York. H. B. Warner is to appear in the Keith theaters in “A Box of Cigars,” a sketch by L. K. Devendorf. Another personage of the legitimate theater shortly to seek the sweet financial havens of the varieties is Clara Joel, a dramatic actress under contract to A. H. Woods. -I- -I- -IOpening at the New- York Hippodrome in the fa)) and thereafter playing in the Keith Theaters over the country wljl be Annette Kellermon in anew act with eight diving girls. At the Hippodrome the entire organization will be enlisted in support of the act. -I- -I- -IJohnny Burke, one of Keith vaudeville’s favorite comedians, wifi have the Frank Tinney role in the “Music Box Revue” on tour this coming season. -I- -I- -IEddie Polo, an American film actor who has been appearing in the English music halls, will come to the Keith circuit in the same sketch he used overseas, "The Cowboy and the Cabaret.” MOTION PICTURES

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among those present at the Lyric next week. No. 4—Valda, dancer, opening at the Palace Monday afternoon for three days.

DALEY PRESENTS ‘RUNNIN’ WILD’ Edythe Bates Tops Cast of New Capitol Show. The increasing clientele of women who daily attend the matinees at the Capitol, have an optical treat promised for next week when Ed. E. Daley’s new edition of “Runnin’ Wild” will be the attraction. All of the women principals, Edythe Bates, prima donna: Babe Heaiy, soubrette; Mildred Holmes, ingenue, and Audrey McVey, dancer and entertainer, have been outfitted by Daley with a wardrobe that comes under the head of regal. Each of the leads has a half dozen 1 or more complete changes and the changes are indeed complete from silken stockings to the feathered head-dress. Some of the very latest Parisian modes will be flashed and there < more than one set of costumes worn by the eighteen pretty i choristers that should appeal to the I women. Regardless of the charm of the women there must be comedians to make a burlesque offering complete and in this particular “Runnin' Wild” will not be lacking. There will be, as the leading funster, Billy Foster, well known and popular; John O. Grant, “straight” man, and Sam Micals to assist Foster in the merriment. Twenty-Two New Gowns! Three new wardrobe trunks supplemented Corinne Griffith’s luggage on her return from a two weeks' stay in New York. The trunks contained twenty-two gowns purchased for Miss Griffith’s new First National film, “Wilderness,” w - hich is soon to go into production. Included in Corinne’s new wardrope acquisitions are a number of teas and evening gowns for social occasions, but in the main they are traveling costumes, riding habits and gowns for the scenes of “Wilderness,” which are laid in New' Orleans. Canada and the South Seas. MOTION PICTURES

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Central Ave. M.E. Sunday School to Observe Picture Day on Sept. 7

By the Visitor The Central Avenue M. E. Sunday school will observe “Picture Day” on Sunday morning, Sept. 7. On, this day each member is requested to bring a small unframed picture which may be bought for r few pennies. These pictures will be sent to the hospitals, to homes where there is illness, to some mission school in this country or in foreign fields. This thoughtful act probably will result in the collection of several hundred prints which will brighten up the walls of the shut-ins. On Sunday, Aug. 24, the Rev. L. C. E. Fackler of St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church, plan: a confirmation day service. At noon, the entire church membership will be taken in autos to Garfield Park where a basket lunch will be served. * * * Another Vacation Thought of Dr. Wicks Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks of Ail Souls Unitarian Church advances thought on the topic of “Faith” in the current issue of the Indianapolis Unitarian Bulletin. He says: “We need to rescue that word faith from its misuse and restore it to its native purity. It has been made to stand for the unreasoning acceptance of a belief, mere credul

ity; it has been made to cover myth and miracle; the acceptance of va scheme of salvation repugnant to the moral sense; even belief in a Jonah story. In the name of faith the ignorance of childhood has been extolled and the researches of science anathamatized. “Science is the great teacher of faith. It confronts the world with the faith that it is intelligible; that what has been true will be true; that a law of nature once discovered will never be revoked; that matter is indestructible and force persists. None of these things can be proved. They must be accepted on faith, but a faith that never runs counter to reason. “So religious faith assures us that the universe is friendly to us when we obey its laws; that goodness insures the best kind of a life; that we may supplant our fears with hope; that we may look with undaunted eye upon the passing of earthly scenes.” ♦ * * DR. M. B. HYDE of the Grace M. E. Church will preach Sunday afternoon on “Saints in Ceasar’s Household” and at night on “The Lord Whose Name Is Jealous.” • * * REV. PAUL W. EDDINGFIELD will preach Sunday morning at "Conversion of Sergius Poulus” and

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SATURDAY, AUG. 16, 1924

Broad Ripple Christian Church on at night on “Blindness of the World.” * * • REV. VERNON W. COUILLARD will preside at the 11 a. m. service Sunday at the First Church. He will speak on “Christ's Generous Invitation and Munificent Promise.” At night he will preach on “Will a Man Rob God?” at the Community Moravian Church. * Y * REV. L. C. E. FACKLER of St. Mathews Evangelical Lutheran Church will speak Sunday morning on “Making Investments.” The Willing Workers will meet Tuesday at the home of Nanita Chanders, 1230 Hoyt Ave. * * AT ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH, Dr. Frank T. Hovis will preach Sunday morning on “Repentance.” At night he will give an illustrated sermon on “Man, God’s Partner.” Vinson H. Manifold will address the men at 9:30 a. m. Sunday. * * * Dr. J. B. Parsons, superintendent of the White River Conference, will preach at the First United Brethren Church Sunday morning. Subject, “The Apostle Paul for the Present Age.” • • • REV. E. P. JEWETT of the Morris Street M. E. Church will preach Sunday mqrning on “The Scriptural Idea of Life” and at night, “The Divine and the Human in Christian Character.” Mrs. Charlotte Herr will addsess the Epworth League at 6Ao p. m. on “The Circuit Rider.”