Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1924 — Page 6

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HISTORICAL AND PROBLEM FILMS ARE BOOKED HERE ‘Tarnish,’ ‘Unguarded Women’ and 'Covered Wagon’ Due, IayrIOVTES on the local screen JiVl| week will be of a serious nature as the stories are historical and domestic in theme. On Sunday the Ohio will present “The Covered Wagon" for the first time at popular prices here. The Circle will present "Tarnish," a dramatic domestic problem. “Unguarded Women” will be revealed at the Apollo next week. Mister Smith’s will offer “The Desert Outlaw” all week. The Isis will present "The Fighting Sap” for the first half of the week. I- I- I“TARXISH” TO OPEN SUNDAY AT CIRCLE “Tarnish.” screen version of Gilbert Emery’s Broadway stage success, will be the attraction at the Circle beginning Sunday.' The story concerns the Tevis family of whom Letitia the only child, is the sole support. She is employed in a law office where Emmett Carr is a premising young attorney. “Tishy” and Emmett find themselves very much in love with each other and on Christmas Eve they become engaged. “Tishy’s” father, a middle-aged philanderer, is intrusted with SSOO, which her mother has received from the estate of a relative for the payment of a debt, but he becomes involved In an affair wfch Nettie Dark, a manicurist, who obtains the monev from him. Upon his return home he tells his wife and daughter that he has been robbed, but “Tishy” suspects the truth. She goes to Nettie's apartment, where she finds the girl in the arms of Emmett Carr. His protestations and explanations that he had known Nettie before he met “Tishy.” and that Nettie had sent for him. saying that she was seriously ill, are scorned by “Tishy,” who leaves the apartment after telling Emmett she never wants to see him again. How Emmett reinstates himself in “Tishy’s” favor and happiness once more settles down on the Tevis household is told In this story, the production of which was directed by George Fitzmaurice. May MacAvoy .Marie Prevost and Ronald Colman head the cast, which also includes Norman Kerry and Harry Myers Albert Gran and Mrs. Russ Whytali, who originated the roles of the father and mother in the stage play, will have their same parts in the screen version. The Circlette of News, the Circle comedy and the overture played by the Circle Orchestra, with Rakaleinikoff conducting, will complete the program. t j. _f. OHTO WILL PRESENT “THE COVERED WAGON” “The Covered Wagon” hailed as the utmost in screen productions will be the featured photoplay attraction at the Ohio Theater the coming week. The picture is adapted from the stor\ r by Emerson Hough, the most famous historical writer of the West in American letters and was directed by James Cruze. one of the most capable directors, as well as actors of the American screen. Thousands of players were required in the stupendously mammoth scenes. The picture serves to reintroduce J. Warren Kerrigan, one of the favorites of the screen of several years ago; Lois Wilson, Allan Hale, Tuliy Marshall. Charles Ogle, Ethel Wales, Ernest Torrence. Guy Oliver and John, youthful actor, lean the cast in support of Kerrigan. "The Covered Wagon,” a picture which every American should see, tells of the wagon trains which blazed the trails to the West. Two such trains combine for the long and dangerous journey to Oregon. Molly Wingate, the fiancee of Sam Woodhull, a scoundrel, meets Will Banion, a guide and scout, whom she learns to love. Tie two become attached to each other. Complications arise when the trains are attacked by Indians. Woodhull, wishing to get Banion out of the way, tries to kill him. Lester Huff, organist, has prepared an interesting musical setting for the picture.

DRAMATIC MOVIE HOOKED AT APOLLO The Apollo will present “Unguarded Women,” In which Bebe Daniels, Hlchard Dix and Mary Astor share the stellar honors next week. It is Alan Croslard’s first production under the Paramount banner. Crosland, it will be remembered, made “Enemies Os Women,' 1 “The Face in the Fog,’’ "Three weeks” end other pictures of di*t' action. And in “Unguarded Women" he !s said to have surpfssed all his previous achievements. Adapted from Lucy Stone Terrill's story “Face,” it is a man’s picture —but the sort that has a special appeal to women because it deals with loyalty and sacrifice. Douglas Albright, around whom the story revolves, is a man who won many laurels during the World War for his acts of heroism. But the honors bestowed upon him and the medals he carries do not prevent his soul from being seared by a terrible memory—the memory of a friend who had died for him because of his one moment of cowardice on the battle-field. The time comes when for the sake of his memory of this friend he has to give up his own hopes of happiness and the girl whom he loves. Sent to China on a business mission Albright finds the young widow of his dead comrade drinking the dregs of a miserable life in the white colony of a Chinese city. He blames himself for her situation, and believ<H that only he can i;avy& her. There in the picturesque, cotorful Orient, a stmng. tense and dramatic

DRAMA TIC MO VIES LISTED FOR NEXT WEEK

Vera Signs Vera Reynolds, Cecil B. De Mille’s newest screen find, has been placed under a long term contract by Paramount, according to an announcement made by Jesse L. Lasky. The contract is in recognition of her work in the leading feminine role in DeMille's newest production. "Feet of Clay,” the editing of which has just been completed. Previous to this she had appeared in such Paramount pictures as “Icebound,” "Shadows of Paris,” “The Spanish Dancer,” and “Prodigal Daughters,” but in "Feet of Clay,” she was given her first big opportunity. Those who have been privileged to review this production predict that she will score a sensational success when it is released.

struggle takes place—the age old struggle between love and duty. Walter McGrail, Frank Ixtsee. Helen Lidroth, Harry Mestayer, Donald Hall and Joe King appear in support of Miss Daniels. Dix and Miss Astor. The program will include Clyde Cook in an Imperial comedy. "The Pinhead,” the Fox news weekly, organ selections by Earl Gordon and Emil Seidel’s Or chestra, anew musical organization which will hold forth at the Apollo. -I- •!• •!* NEW BUCK JONES PICTURE AT SMITH’S A Vincennes (Ind.) boy who has risen to prominence as a delineator o£ Western roles, is the featured player In “The Desert Outlaw," which is to be the major attraction at Smith's theater the coming week. This player is Buck Jones, the hero of a score or more popular features. The story and scenario of this picture were written by Charles Kenyon while Edmund Mortimer was director. The supporting cast includes Evelyn Brent. I)e Witt Jennings, William Haynes, Claude Patton, William Gould and Bob Klein. “The Desert Outlaw” is a story of cowboy trails which tells of Tom Halloway, a bandit who has told his sister who is returning fmm the East, that he is a prosperous ranch owner. May, his sister, returns only to find her brother an outlaw who is sought by the sheriff. Sam Langdon, a cowboy, saves her from death when the horses on her stage coach run away, and the two become .attached to each other. A sheriff's posse in pursuit of her father come upon May and Sam. To protect her father May burns Sam's letters of identification and he becomes the object of the sheriff’s suspicions. Meanwhile it is discovered that Mad McTavish, a religious fanatic, had been murdered and Sam is suspicioned. The usual supplementary subjects will be shown, together with a news weekly. •!• -!• -!- “FIGHTING SAP” ON VIEW AT THE ISIS Foiling a band of criminals who hope to capitalize on the discovery of a rich, new vein of ore in an aban doned mine, is the task assjgned to Fred Thompson, athlete and screen star, in “The Fighting Sap,” to be shown at the Isis the first half of next week. Thompson is cast as Craig, the studious son of Charles Richmond, an eastern capitalist, who owns the mining property, and who sends Craig to investigate reporis that have reached him concerning it. The young man’s findings lead to prompt and immediate action in which all sorts of adventures and a romantic love affair are Involved. In the cast are Hazel Keener, Wilfred Lucas, Frank Hagney and Thompson’s famous horse, “Silver King.” The program will contain a comedy called “Lost Control,” in which Hairy McCoy is the chief funmaker. “Thursday the usual mid-week change will bring Lester Cuneo in “Lone Hand Tex.” with Cueno in the role of a two-1 fisted, fighting individual who, disguised as a bughunting college professor. Invades a small western town for the purpose of breaking up a gang of bandits that have terrorized the community, and who gets a lot of fun as well as thrills and excitement out of the job. The comedy will be a farce entitled “Hayseed,” in which Jimmy Ashe is featured. Plans Made for Big Production laemmle Mountain, the most prominent point in Universal City, is being tunneled by an army of 200 workmen with twelve boring machines. This will be used for "The Phantom of the Opera,” which Rupert Julian is preparing. AMUSEMENTS

CAPITOL THEATRE Columbia Bnr!o*qn* AH Till* Week “STEP THIS WAY” With I. B. HAMP Bi(r Beanty Chorus and a Cast Worth While. Ladies Every Day, Matinee Daily.

No, I—Lois1 —Lois Wilson and J. Warren Kerrigan in “The Covered Wagon," opening Sunday at the Ohio. No. 2 May MacAvoy and Ronald Colman in “Tarnish" at the Circle next week. No. 3—Andree Lafayette in “Why Get Married?” at the Palace beginning Thursday.

GLADYS DELMAR AND BOYS TO SYNCOPATE AT LYRIC ‘Golden Gate Revue' Will To p New Bill Opening at Palace Sunday for Four Days. Gladys Delmar and boys, a sextette of syncopating entertainers, will top the new bill next week at the Lyric. On the same bill will be The Real Four, a quartet composed of Indianapolis singers. Also the Lyric will present the second episode of the Jack Dempsey serial, “Fight and Win.” On Sunday, for four days, “The Golden Gate Revue” will be the chief feature.

Under anew- schedule the Palace will change bills weekly on Sunday and Thursday afternoons. -I- -I- L NEW VARIETY FEATURES FOl ND ON LYRIC BILL Foremost among the features of the Lyric's bill next week will lie Gladys Delmar and boys, a sextentte of syncopation specialists, singers, dancers and instrumentalists who recently invaded vaudeville after a year on Broadway with a big revue production. The bill wgl include: “THE REAL FOUR”—An Indian a polls uartette of harmony vocalists consisting of W. E. Brant. Jack Anthony. Charles K. Harris and Victor Dannacher, all of whom have been in vaudeville, minstrelsy and musical comedy. JOSEPH E. BARNARD & CO Players from the legitimate stage in a comedy sketch by Willard Mack, noted piaywrightfl entitled "Who Is She?" Tlv plot is based on a humorous incident of domesticity, and contains many laughable situations. KENNEDY AND KRAMMER— Classy “hoofers” in a rapid-fire as sortment of hard shoe tap dances. EVANS AND PEARL—A pair of mirthful entertainers who cal! their mixture of comedy, patter and song, “Vaudeville A La Carte.” LEIGHTON AND DUB ALL—Coo>edians, singers and dancers who h -e something out of the ordinary in le fun line JOHN S. BLONDV & CO.—Stai c the circus world presenting an "n----paralleled routine of acrobatics, balancing and risky feats. LEON'S PONIES—A well-trainej group of Shetland* in military drills and evolutions, aided by Mike, an unridable mule whose antics are good for many laughs. ON THE SCREEN—Second episode of the Jack Dempsey "Fight and Win” film series; ICmo grams, and an Imperial monkey comedy. “Inbad the Sailor.” I- I' -IWESTERN REVUE TOPS NEW SHOW AT PALACE “The Golden Gate Revue.” like its

SPlaying Traveling Road the Mutual Burlesque Association EVERY DAY NEXT WEEK FRANK HAR COURT AND HIS OWN SHOW Sizzling, Jazzy, Snappy and Peppy Popular Prices to Fit the Purse 30c—50c few i 75c BURLESQUE Is BURLESQUE the WirM Over

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No. 4 —Buck Jones in “Tlio Desert Outlaw” at Mister Smith's next week. No. 6—Bebe Daniels in "Unguarded Women” at the Apollo, beginning Sunday. No. 6—Fred Thompson in “The Fighting Sap" at the Isis beginning Sunday for four days.

namesake, the Golden Gate, whose beauty belongs to the West, should prove attractive when it opens its engagement tit. the Palace Sunday for the first half of next week. Exre and Floyd Butler. Jack Katz, Jack Stewart, Daisy and Jessis Kennlson are the actors in this production. The bill includes: JIM REYNOLDS—A comedian

A New Sills

MILTON SILLS When you see “The Sea Hawk” you will run across anew Milton Sills, meaning that the character he plays is differert to those with which he has hoen associated. "The Sea Hawk" opens Sunday, Sept 14. at the Circle.

AMUSEMENTS

So Big’ One of Colleen Moore’s earliest ambitions was to become a schoolmam. Fate disappointed that ambition by making her a famous film star. At last however, the girlish dream has come true. —Colleen is teaching school. In her latest First National drama, “So Big.” Miss Moore is the prim type of pedagogue of a generation past. “So Big" is a.i adaptation of Edna Ferber’s bestseller novel, the action of which takes place around Chicago more than three decades ago. “So Big" is being directed by Charles Brrfbin, with a famous supporting cast including Ben Lyons, Wallace Beery, Gladys Brockwell, Jean Hersholt, Alan Hale, Ford Sterling, Cissy Fitzgerald and Charlotte Merriam. It will reach the screen underthe supervision of Earl Hudson.

whose merriment is all found in “A Loose Leaf From the Ledger )f Fun.” “TEDDY”—A full grown grizzly who invites all comers to wrestle with him. He is guaranteed not to j crush any one in his vise-like grip. JADA TRIO—The live-wire b- ys who once were in the United States Navy, and who were entertainers for the sailor lads with their orginal songs. JOE BENNETT COMPANY—A comedian whose antics in his ' Telephone Tangle" are sure to create laughter. Out in the kitchen with frierd wife, hubby, and a few- rolling pins is the way Travers and Douglas describe their act, “Come Into the Kitchen." which will be shown the last half of the week. Edgar Allen Woolf wrote the skit, and it is acted out. by George Wilson and Louis Thiel. JVing the most didlI'cult feats of dancing on bpr toes Laretta Gray Iras he-n called the “Giil with the lion Toes." In her present revue Miss Gr ,y is assisted by Archie Rock, Tina Tweedie, Dorothy Meyers, Jane Decker and Adelaide Mayo, who are bucks, Ru.-stun. 1 acrobatic, eccentric dancers, res pec I lively. "On the High *C’" is the perch of Force and Williams in t'v r musical comedy. Two other acts i of the comedy nature are yet to be booked. MOTION PICTURES

First Half Next Week FRED THOMPSON A " Seats “ THE 1 FIGHTING All the Time SAP Harry M’Coy Comedy “LOST CONTROL”

Rounding Round Theaters With WALTER D. HICKMAN rr"T"] AVE been asked by the Authors’ Advisory Board, repreJ senting the Authors’ League of America. Inc., and the Motion Picture Industry, to ask the readers of this department to send me the names of the best three pictures they have seen between Sept. 1, 1923, and Sept. 1, 1924. To aid in this I will be glad to receive the opinion of readers of The Times. The following, explaining the reason for making this request, was received from Eric Schuter, secretary of the league: The Authors' league of America, which was designated by Adolph Zukor. president of the Famous Play-ers-Lasky Corporation, to select the judge who will ntime the winner of the SIO,OOO prize offered/ by him “to the author whose story or play makes the best picture," has announced the personnel of that board. The members are: Ellis Parker Butler, president of the Authors’ League of America, Inc. Frederick Roy Martin, General Manager of the Association Press. Edward Childs Carpenter, President of the American Dramatists’ Society.

Charles Dana Gibson, famous American artist. Elmer Rice, playwright and scenario writer. Allan Dwan, motion picture director. Mary Roberts Rinehart, novelist. Robert E. Sherwood, motion picture reviewer. George Barr Baker, who was chairman of the International Congress of Motion Picture Arts held last summer. This offer by Mr. Zukor of a $lO,000 nnnuftl prize was announced at the First International Congress, which was held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in June of last year. The offer was made through the Authors' League, under th auspices of which the congress was held, and the prize will be awarded "to the author, either America r.or foreign, whose story or play makes the best picture to be produce,! upon the screen and publicly exhibited in a theater during theyear beginning Sept. 1, 1923." fn requesting the Authors’ League to select the judses. Mr. Zukor suggested that the board include the pres dent of the Authors’ League, a new-paper editor, a novelist, a dram-

From the Stage Success of the Same Name ij With a Two Years Record on Broadway i 1 ; It Is a Dramatic Blending of Power, Pathos, Love and Laughter I A PRESENT DAY AMERICAN DRAMA OF A MAN’S PAST IN A WOMAN’S PRESENT An Unusual Story Told in a Different Way THE CAST INCLUDES fl I MAY Me AVO Y—RONALD COLEMAN HARRY MYERS—MARIE PREVOST !?| NORMAN KERRY others I] A George Fitzmaurice Production 111 OVERTURE” I §f] CIRCLE SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA Bp] PLAYING “OPERATIC ODDS AND ENDS” j ARRANGED AND CONDUCTED BY II BAKALEINIKOFF | |i A CIRCLE COMEDY PRESENTATION * ANIMATED CIRCLE NEWS 11 H||' I , A CIRCLE CARTOON j y§*^SEAHAWI^d lHiM_ ATODRseamanßicgg ||

New Orchestra EMIL SEIDEL EARL GORDON The Apollo Theater will have a new musical feature beginning next week with Emil Seidel and his orchestra. Seidel, an Indianapolis man, is well known in musical circles as a pianist, director and composer. For a number of years he has been identified with various Indianapolis theater orchestras. He was with George White’s “Scandals" in New York City and also played under the direction of Paul Whiteman in Whiteman’s Case de Paris Orchestra. atist and a motion picture producer. The first year ended Aug. 31, 1924. To give the jury time to judge the picture and select the winner it is

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announced by the Authors’ League that the award will be made during the Christmas holidays. Following are the rules formulated by the Authors’ League of America for the guidance of th° judges: £ 1. The term “author” shall to the person or persons so designated in the main title of the positive print of the motion picture production. 2. The author must have been alive when the filming of the story- was begun. 3. The production must have been made by an American company. 4. The committee of award in judging exhibited films will consider as its standard the effectiveness of the picture as public entertainment. An indication of the interest which has been aroused by this contest is given by the flood of letters already received. Thousands of letters have been sent in from all parts of the country and scores of pictures have been nominated. • * * Capt. Havill of Franklin. Ind., sent me his copy of ‘Looking Backward Thirty--Three Weeks With a Circus,” by Doc Waddell. This book of the experiences of Waddell as press agent for John Robinson’s Ten Big Shows nearly twenty years ago. is interesting at this time, because Doc has been here this week as press representative of the Wolfe Shows at the State Fair. It is really- a circus album, as it contains pictures of the great and near-great in circus life years ago. Doc records his ex periencs for each day- of the thirtythree weeks that he was with the circus. The hook contains the pictures of the Rev. W. H. Sheak, circus chaplain: Lewis Pine Bird, Indian Winnie Van. wife of Ed Van a bareback rider: Miss Mary Jacob who was considered a circus in her day; Mrs. James Hatch, circus ballet artist, and many others. This book brings back the good old days. Vidor Begins Work on ‘Mirage’ Florence Vidor has begun work on her first starring picture for F*rodueers Distributing Corporation. It is “The Mirage,” C. Gardner Sullivan's adaptation of Edgar Sehvyn's play- of that name, which is being directed by George Archainbaud. Florence Reed starred in the piece at the Selwyn Theater, New York, and attracted much attention by rea son of her daring characterization of the heroine. Cortez Added to Film Cast Ricardo Cortez has been added to the cast of “A Drama of the Night,” the latest James Cruze production for Paramount. He will play- one of the featured roles, others in the cast including Louise Dreser, Kathlyn Williams, Virginia Lee Corbin and Pierre Condron.