Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 115, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1924 — Page 6
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‘SEA HAWK’ ENTERS BIG SECOND WEEK AT CIRCLE Dramatic Movies Make Bid for Serious Consideration on New Photoplay Bills, “The Sea Hawk,’' after breaking all records-at the Circle, begins the second week of its engagement on Sunday. It is admitted that never in the history of the theater has public interest been directed with so much favorable force as is being done for “The Sea Hawk.” Next week the Ohio will present anew Paramount picture, ‘The Enemy Sex,” with Betty Compson. Cast includes Huntley Gordon.
The Apollo will feature Blanche Sweet in “Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” which was made famous on the stage by Mrs. Fiske. “Monsieur Beaucaire” will be next week's offering at Mister Smith's. For the first half of the week, the Isis will offer Dick Talmadge in “In Fast Company.’’ The Alamo and Regent will piesent the first chapters of the new serial, “Into the Net.” “The Lost Battalion” will be at the Lincoln Square. -M- -!* •ENEMY SEX” WILL OPEN AT THE OHIO Irvin S. Cobb, novelist, and Grantland Rice, a writer and authority on sports, have collaborated on a novel motion picture comedy entitled “One Third Off," which comes to the Ohio Theater the coming week together with "The Enemy Sex” featuring Betty Compson. A news weekly is also on the program. The musical program will include an organ solo “The Little Old Clock on the Mantle," by Lester Huff, and a sprightly collection of popular melodies by the Charles Davis orchestra, which comes to the Ohio Theater the coming week for an indefinite engagement. “The Enemy Sex” is based on a story by Owen Johnson author o? “The Salamander” and a number of other best sellers. James Cruze the producer of “The Covered Wagon," is also the producer of this picture. The supporting cast includes. Huntley Gordon. Percy Marmont, Sheldon Lewis. Kathiyn Williams. De Witt Jennings. Will H. Turner. Dot Farley. Ed Faust and Pauline Bush. “The Enemy Sex” Is a comedy drama of New York life as it is seen by a girl who comes up from the country armed with wit and beauty. It shoes New- York’s gay night life, chorus girls, dancing, merriment, humor, drama and suspense and tells of five men who all try to win the love of Dodo Baxter, the girl who ts looking for a career. Dodo falls in love with one of the number only to find he is married. Then she learns to love another young fellow who is drinking himself to death. After a wild ride in a racing automobile. Dodo and the drunken youth, narrowly escape death and Dodo exacts a promise from the young man, not to drink anymore. .!. J. SECOND BIG WEEK ASSURED AT CIRC LE Frank Lloyd’s production. “The Sea Hawk," adapted from Rafael Sabatlnl’s romance of the same name, will be the attraction at the Circle Theater again all next wecK. in spite of 'he fixed policy of that theater to change programs every week. During the eight years of its ex istence. this is but the third time that the management has deemed a production worthy of a second week’s showing, and in order to give the theater goers of Indianapolis and vicinity an opportunity to see ihi*photopiay, it will be shown for the entire week. Sabatini's character, “The Sea Hawk,” is first heard of in the story as Sir Oliver Tresillian. a wealthy Englishman living with his younger brother, Lionel, on the vast Tresil ban estates in the 16th Century. Oliver is betrothed to Rosamund Godolphin. whose guardian anbrother, Peter, have done everything AMUSEMENTS
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in their power to prevent the engagement. Lionel Tresillian and Peter quarrel over a village girl in whom they are both interested, and Peter attacks Lionel while he is riding on a lonely country road at night. They fight a duel and Peter is killed, but, according to the English law, which holds that a duel without witnesses, constitutes murder, and Lional realizes his position. Horror-stricken he returns home, where he confesses to Oliver. Because of the enmity between Oliver and Peter, Oliver is accused of the murder, but convinces the jury that he is innocent. Lionel, fearing that Oliver may divulge the truth, arranges with a renegade pirate captain, Jasper . Leigh, to have the older brother j kidnaped and carried out to sea. : Once aboard ship Leigh tells Oliver i of Lionel's duplicity and Oliver pi epares lo return home. Before they reach England, however, they are attacked by a Spanish galleon and Leigh and Oliver are made galley slaves. And then real adventure. -(• -I- -IBLANCHE SWEET PLAYS IJIAD IN APOLLO MOVIE Considered one of the greatest of modern love stories, “Tess of the D'Urbervilles,” directed by Marshall Netfan. with Blanche Sweet in the title role, will be the attraction at the Apollo next week. Conrad Nagel, Gfhrge Fawcett. Stuart Holmes. Victory Bateman, Courtenay Foote and Joseph J. Dowling are in the cast. Written by Thomas Hardy, the story relates the career of Tess Durbeyfleld. a young English girl, daughter of John Durbeyfield, a shiftless man of little worth, who learns that the Durbeyflelds are really descendants of the ancient family of D'Urberville. long since gone to seed under the carelessness of poverty. With rustic cunning he plans to take advantage of the news to get his family into the good graces of Alec Stone, a hard drinking, hard riding squire who has bought the historic D'CrberviUe estates and taken the D’CrberviUe name. Durbeyfield sends his eldest daughter, Tess. to the D’CrberviUe mansion to apply for work, and Alec, struck by her fresh, young beauty, welcomes 'her to employment as a housemaid | Csing force when she repels hit j eager advances he compels her to j flee back home—disgraced. I The subsequent happenings, in which Tess is the chief figure, are fraught with dramatic intensity, tern i pered only by her romance with 'young Angel Clare, leading up to a tragic climax ip which Tess proves the truth of the old axiom, ’’blood will tell.” The exterior scenes were "shot” in England In the heart of the beautiful Wessex farm country, and at Stonehenge, th famous group of stone altars that have survived from the time of the Druids. Other program features wilj Include the Fox news weekly, a Mack Sennett comedy, “Lizzies of the Fold”: organ selections by Earl Gor AMUSEMENTS CAPITOL THEATRE Columbia Hurlfaque Ml Thf* Week Ladlfs, Every bay, 23c. Uw Talbot Offer* WINE. WOMAN AND SONG Mother*, Bring* the Children to Our Playground.
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don and musical entertainment by Emil Seidel and his orchestra. •I- -I- -I--BEAI’CAIRE’ OPENS SUNDAY AT SMITH’S “Monsieur Beaucaire,” story- and play by Booth Tarkirigton. is shown in its motion picture version at Mister Smith's the coming week. The picture reintroduces Rudolph Valentino after an absence of two years and is declared by critics and all who have seen it as one of the most lavish and beautiful costume pictures of all times. Assisting Valentino in this panoramo of intrigue, adventure and romance are Lois Wilson, Bebe Daniels. Lowell Sherman, Doris Kenyon and many other celebrities of the cinema. "Monsieur Beaucaire” tells of the intrigues and love affairs of the court of/the KayFrench king, the Duke of Chartres, his favorite, comes into disfavor and is forced to flee the country after falling in love with the young princess, fresh from the convent. In England he takes the character of Monsieur Beaucaire, barber to the French ambassador. The customary’ minor film sub jects will be shown in conjunction with the featured photoplay-. I- *!• -I* W FLU KNOWN PLAYERS SUPPORT DIUK TALMADGE Richard Talmadge is surrounded ,
’ .-_- ISl _s- TI -?. N -, P - l - CTU - S - li heart of all humanity §! V has thrilled to- ('• I " TESS of the J 8 DURBERVILLES I * <# SEE THIS THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF MODERN TIMES SUPERBLY PRODUCED BY 1 Marshall Neilan with. Blanche Sweet H CONRAD, NAGEL VICTORY BATEMAN f*j GEORGE FAWCETT JOSEPH J.DOWLING m M COURTENAY FOOTE - in the Castd •""*’• ♦ I $ r. MACK SENNETT COMEDY * g I LIZZIES (/THE FIELD 1 y* * * * * |?| M MOTION PICTURE SONG NOVELTY f§ “Cover Me Up With Sunshine of Virginia” INTRODUCED BY CHARLES B. LINES Ij ■iH * * * * H Emil Seidel and His Orchestra j 4 >vj * * * # |ijsi
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No. I—Frank1 —Frank Cufrier and .unton Sills in “The Sea Hawk,” which starts Its second week at the Circle Sunday-. No. 2—-Blanche Sweet and Conrad Nagel in “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” at the Apollo all next week. No. 3—Rudolph Valentino in “Monsieur Beaucaire" at Mister Smith's. No. 4—Betty Compson in "The
by a cast of stellar players in his new action drama, “In Fast Company,” to be shown at the Isis the first half of next week. They include Mildred Harris, Sheldon Lewis, Charles Clary. Douglass Gerrard, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Snitz Edwards and Jack Herrick. “In Fast Company” is the lively tale of the adventures of I’erry Whitman Jr., the black sheep of an aristocratic and wealthy family-, who is expelled from college because of his pranks, takes a whirl at prize fighting, falls In love with tin actress, who turns out to be a missing heiress to millions, and has the time of his life defending her against the designs of a band of (-rooks. A Buddy Messenger faree. “Budding Youth.” will be the comedy. Thursday the midweek change of program will present Kenneth McDonald anew stunt artist, in “Yankee I’ep.'' a speedy comedy-drama, adapted from R. N. Bradbury's story. “The Mystery CssMe." The scenes
Enemy bex” at the Ohio next week. No. 5—A sceie from "The Lost Battalion” at the Lincoln Square next -week. No. 6—Dick Talmadge In “In Fast Company’’’ at the Isis the first half of next week. No. 7—Ben Alexander and Lloyd Hamilton in “A Self Made Failure” at,the F’alace the first half of the week.
are laid along the Mexican border, the plot having to do with the love affair of a young American and a pretty heiress, the daughter of a haughty Spanish don. “Once a Boob,” a Bobby Durfi comedy, will he added. ~. .|. NEW SFRIAL OPENS \T TWO THEATERS | With the story of "Into the Net,” the Pathe serial featuring Edna Murphy and Jack Mulhall and commencing with the showing of the 'first chapter at the AUamo and Regent Sunday, written by Richard E. Enright, commissioner of police of New York City and the world's most famous police chief, something new in serial plot, action, suspense and thrills Is promised. “Into the Net” is a story of New York, tearing aside the veil from the seething whirlpool of wickedness, showing a great city as it is seen in the eyes of the police. The
type of criminal disclosed in "Into the Net” ia the human vulture who is accepted in the homes of the best and wealthiest families. Chapter one, entitled "The Shadow of the Web,” shows how the hero's sister, Madge Clayton, becomes the prey of this sinister gang. She is abducted while shopping, and, as she is the nineteenth heiress missing within a short period of time, the police suspect all these kidnappings are the work of the same gang, and they put into action the tremendous task of recovering the missing and capturing the crooks. Playing important roles in support of Edna Murphy and Jack Mulhall are Constance Bennett, Frank Lackteen, Gradley Barker, Frances Landau, Harry- Semels, Thomas Goodwin and others. George B. Seitz directed “Into the Net” from the continuity by Frank Leon Smith. It will be the policy of the Alamo and Regent to play episodes of this serial on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays. -I- -!- -I“LOST BVTTALION” DUE AT LINCOLN SQUARE On Sunday “The Lost Battalion,”
MOTION PICTURES HAGER CROWDS LIKE THIS AIE LAST WEEK JK IEMK ucwds " = I ONE MORE WEEK
What Indianapolis Critics Said: "* • • One of the biggest pictures of the vear and should not be missed.” R. ADDISON ADAMS, “S/or.” “* * * One is amazed at the time and money and energy that must have gone into the making of such a spectacle.” WALTER WHITWORTH, “News. ” “I know that it cost fortunes * * * Here is a picture that will become as much a national institution as ‘The Covered Wagon' or ‘Birth of a Nation’ * * * one of the really great pictures.” WALTER D. HICKMAN, “Times.” Atmospheric Introduction and Special Musical Setting arranged by C. Bakaleinikotff. COME TO EARLY SHOWS—AVOID CROWDS DOORS OPEN SUNDAY 12:30—DAILY 12.00 TO BEST ENJOY “THE SEA HAWK ” WE SUGGEST YOU PLAN TO ARRIVE FOR THE BEGINNING OF SHOW SUNDAY 1:05—3:10—5:15—7:20—9:30 DAILY 12:10—2:30—4:45—7:00—9:15 SHOWN AT QUR REGULAR PRICES
a. romance of the war, will open a week’s engagement at the Lincoln Square. The cast is composed of wellknown stars, with Gaston Glass play--ing the lead as a pampered son of a millionaire and the humorous situations he finds himself in as a “buck private,” together with the antics of Tammany Young, comedian. try-ing to de-cootieize himself, keeps the audience in a continual gust of laughter. Blanche Davenport portray-s the mothers of the Nation during those trying day-s of six years ago. Sidney D’Albrook as the way-ward son redeems himself in the eyes of every one by his heroic act in aiding a wounded buddy, proving that even a crook may have a heart of gold. Helen Fergeson as the stenograjher and Jack McLean as office clerk cause more than one wife in the audience to slyly squeeze her war hero hubby’s hand, and they giggle as the struggle of those two to keep company under the dominating observation ol a boarding house landlady brings memories to the difficulty of their own courtship.
In Big Movie ... „ - 00 DOUGLAS FAIKBA.Mva Yes, this is the way that Doug Fairbanks looks in “The Thief of Bagdad,” a feature movie presented as a road show, coming to English's the week of Oct. 5.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, 1924
NEW BURLESQUE REVUEDUE HERE 'Red Pepper Revue 1 to Open Week’s Engagement, i “Red Pepper Revue” coming to ! the Capitol commencing tomorrow | matinee, establishes a record with j 285 changes of costume. Several of these gowns are imported creations, designed and executed in Paris by a famous Parisian costumer. The wardrobe is so gorgeous and expensive that two ladies skilled in thi3 work are carried along to do nothing but take care of the gowns. All dressing rooms on the entire lower floor will be required to hang two of the costume sets. Arthur Page Is the principal comedian, and the supplemental cast carries the names of such players as Jack T. Edwards, Ralph Singer, William E. Browning, Ed and Morton Beck. Then, too, there will be Warden and La Coste, Mable Haley-, Mable Best, Ruth Rosemond and Jimmy Holly. Mothers may bring their children for a romp in a children’s play ground. A trained nurse is in eiiarge, while the mothers see the i show. Two Pictures Make Record Vitagraph has just enjoyed the distinction of having two big pictures on Broadway, New York, at the same I time. During one of the weeks of ! the premier run of ‘Captain Blood” ' “The Clean Heart” also was being | shown. Thus two celebrated English | novelists, Rafael Sabatinl and A. S. M. Hutchinson, were represented. Four Players Visit New York Four well-known players have just arrived in New York for work in Paramount pictures. They are Bessie Love and Eiieen Percy, who are to appear in Thomas Meighan’s picture, “Tongues of Flame”: Adolph? Menjou. who is to support Elsie Ferguson in “The Swan,” and Ricardo Cortez, who is to have a featured role opposite Bebe Daniels in “Argentine Love.”