Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 121, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1924 — Page 7
SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1924
NOR WORTH ON FIRST BILL OF SEASON AT B.F. KEITH’S Both Lyric and Palace Will Offer Strong Novelty Acts All Next Week. With Jaek Norworth heading the bill, B. F. Keith’s will open its 1924-25 season on next Sunday afternoon. Miss Bobbie Gordone, Marcelle, Frank Fisher and other well known names in vaudeville will be found on the bill. The Lyric will have its usual arge number of acts next week incuding the McCarthy Sisters. At the Palace the first half of the week, Chuck Haas, a cowbov. will be one of the featured acts.
With Keith's opening all vaude ville houses will be in full swing next week. BIG NAMES ON FIRST BILL AT KEITH’S Commencing with a matinee Sunday instead of on Monday, as has been the policy for the past few seasons, B. F. Keith's will open its regular winter season of vaudeville tomorrow’. ' The featured number of the eightact bill will be Jack Norworth, player of both musical comedy and vaudeville. Norworth will offer an original singing act in which he w’ill present some of his own songs. He will be assisted at the piano by Dorothy Adelphi. The bill will include: MARCELLE AND HIS UNIQUE PARTNER. The partner is a trained sealion. which is as near human as it is possible for an animal to be. He goes through a routine of tricks with unusual intelligence. HELENE COYNE AND HENRI FRENCH. Dancers who will offer “Music of Motion.” It is a harmonious combination of music and dance steps offered in an elaborate stage setting. Maxim Maurice is musical director of the act. GRACIE DEAGON AND JACK MACK have forsaken the vaudeville playlette in which they distinguished themselves for several seasons, to appear In an act which they term "An Original Smart Comedy Offering.” FRANK FTSHER AND ELDRIE GILMORE—TitIed their skit "Her Bashful Romeo.” Miss Gilmore portrays an exceedingly sophisticated modern Juliet while Fisher makes his Romeo a boob, and the conflict supplies an unusual opportunity for bright patter and song. MISS BOBBIE GORDONE—WiII offer a series of posings in which replicas of works of the old masters are shown. THREE DENOISE SISTERS—A trio of pretty misses who have an unique athletic offering in which a combination of beauty, grace and agility are shown. TONY RUSSELL AND ERNIE MARCONI —Present a musical comedy skit entitled "Little Bits of Big Hits.” It is an oddity combining fun and real music. Bill includes Patho News, Topics and Fables. INTERESTING ACTS BOOKED AT PALACE . ® % ’The bill for the Palace the first half of the week is one of variety, for. heralded by the crack of his whip. Chuck Haas, California’s comedian cowboy, plunges the patrons into anew adventure and then leaves them to the mercies of Stanislaw and Grace, a dancing team, in "The Gypsy Wanderers.” and a comedy skit. “The Wreckers." Bill includes: STANISLAW AND GRACE—Who with the six English Rockets impersonate gypsies and carry out a program of whirlwind dances in their “Gypsy Wanderers.” CHUCK HAAS—A second Will Rogers, who should delight the audience with the use of the lasso and other western stunts. “THE WRECKERS”—A sidesplitting comedy-drama, which is said to drive away the blues. EDWARDS AND DEAN—Who have a good time on their "Golden Wedding Night” by singing ail the latest popular =ongs. COSCIA AND VERDI—A team of musicians, who with their violin and cello render all kinds of music in an act called “Stringing Comedy.” Playing important parts in a roundup on a Texas ranch is quite different from leading an actor's life, but that is the thing done by Mahon and Cholet, “Two Boys From Texas.” who appear the asT half °f the week. Josefsson, an Icelander, tells the story of the American advance into the West by his sketch. "The pioneers.” Indians and other former dangers figure in this. Belle Montana is seen in "Her First Stage Appearance,” with a -company of comedians. There is "More Power to ’Em,” assert the Tiller sisters when questioned as to their comedy songs. An act for children of all ages is the cat and dog novelty offered by Dashington to prove the harmony between the two. On the screen: Jack Holt and Dorothy Dalton in "The Lone Wolf” the first half and "Pagan Passions.” with Wyndham Standing and Rosemary Theby, the last half. -|- -|- -{- MUSICAL REVIEW TOPS NEXT BILL AT LYRIC Next week the Lyric will have the James Miller Musical Revue, a quintet of all-star instrumentalists, as its headline attraction. This revue differs from the average In that it combines standard classical compositions in a program with jazz and popular melodies and has as the solo artist Jean Miller, celebrated cometist. formerly with the famous
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Seventh Regiment Band of New York. The bill will include: SKIPPER. STEPPER & REEVES —A trio of funsters in the 1924 edition of their ever-popular "College Campus Capers.” McCARTY SISTERS—"Those harmony girls” from the New York production, the “Music Box Revue,” introducing a group of new comedy and novelty songs in inimitable style. MAXINE AND BOBBY—"One Man and Some Dog,” the latter being heralded as the most intelligent canine actor on the vaudeville stage. “TAKE IT EASY”—An uproariously funny farce comedy presented by a clever company of versatile funmakers, who tickle the risibilities in a unique way. MOREY AND CORWIN—Two clever chaps who have an original offering called “Fun in Songlar.d.” LLOYD AND ESTES—In a comedy surprise. GERTIE FALLS—An athletic girl, who gives a daring and artistic demonstration of gymnastic ability in midair. ON THE SCREEN—Second of the Richard Harding Davis “Van Bibber" stories, “The Hunt;" Kinograms and an Our Gang comedy, “Sundown Limited.” I “ Rounding Round Theaters With WALTER D. HICKMAN mNTEREST in the Little Theatre movement has passed I the stage of being a fad, as j the entire crusade has settled dowr ; as a real community builder. This ; is true not only in Indianapolis hut; in many American cities. The Little Theater has come to stay. The more important magazines are giv- j ing much space to it. The season of the Indianapolis Little Theatre will open on Wednesday night, Oct. 15, at the Masonic Tern-1 pie with the presentation of "The ! Torchbearers.” George Somnes is directing. The society here is now trying to get its own home. It should have it. and I believe that now is the time to arouse public and individual interest to such a point that a permanent home is secured. Max Ehrmann, poet of Terre Haute, has this to say about the Little Theatre: "The Little Theatre is, in its way, as important as the church in a community. It gives the people beautiful and artistic things that the public could not otherwise have: for beautiful and artistic things are not often commercially successful. Likewise, it offers opportunity for talent. A few years ago the Indianapolis Little Theatre produced one of my plays. No company could have done it better. In a world so full of commercialism, everything is needed that will give inspiration, beauty, and thought to life. The Little Theatre does this and I know no in-
from tub novbu bv if] ? mi l CHARIES< ” S 1 M i X l Ijfljfl A deep, swift-moving, thrilling story of modern conditions; of ,® ! | 111 If people who are neither rich nor poor, but who are struggling in an , OV i If intense fight for a decent existence; of men and women whose lives $ ir' II depend upon salaries.. It’s a photoplay tliat HITS HOME! x 1 J jH // Mae Busch, Hobart Bosworth, Robert Frazer, Wanda Hawley, Eugenie J 111 [ ‘fl j Besserer, Myrtle Stedman, Pat O’Malley and Ward Crane in the cast. H I / V M ! > Arthur Stone Comedy— “SHOULD LMLORDS LIVE?” S / ! I FOX NEWS WEEKLY |\ / fy I EMIL SEbDEL and His Orchestra— EAßL GORDON, Organ Selections
THEM MEET OF MISSIONARY SOCIETY PLANNED / Dr, Stanley Jones of India and Others Will Be on Program, BRANCH meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missioni___J ary Society will be held at Ceneral Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Central Ave. and Twelfth St„ Oct. 7-8-9. Among the prominent speakers will be Dr. E. Stanley Jones of India: Dr. M. S. Rice of Detroit,’ Mich; Bishop F. J. Leete of Indianapolis area: Mrs. Mary Ninde Gamewell, China: Mrs. O. N. Townsend of Zanesville, Ohio; Mrs. Gertrude Voightlander Tweedie, a number of missionaries who are living in the Indianapolis area. * * * METHODIST CHURCH ISSUES NEW MISSIONARY APPEAL Constantly falling income for the benevolent work of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the possibility of curtailment for missionary work at home and abroad, resulted in the issue today of a telegram to bishops and editors of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which says that the world service receipts to Aug. 31 were $1,679,000 below last year’s receipts. Dr. R. J. Wade, executive secretary, and Orrin W. Auman, treasurer, of the world service commission. in the telegram say: “The receipts for benevolent purposes from the four and a half million members of’ the Methodist Episcopal Church showed a shortage for June, July and August of $785,000, or more than 45 per cent.” The telegram states that the receipts at the church’s headquarters in t'hicago from fourteen large and small conferences "reported to date are 30 per cent below last year." If this decrease of receipts continues, the commission warns in the communication that "it will compel vestment for the things of the spirit that Indianapolis could make .that likely would bring such large returns. Such a theater would he the center of dramatic things for the entire State. It would bring many pilgrim play wrightt,. actors and person on amusement bent —to Indianapolis. To do all this the Little Theatre, first of all, should be wellhoused in its own playhouse. It is impossible to calculate the effect for the enlargement .and encblement of life, that the Little Theatre has. Indianapolis should have almost, the best one In the land and this means that It must have a first class play house of its own. lam sure that the people of Indianapolis will stand by this undertaking.” -I- -I- -IHave often been asked to recommend a book regarding the American stage. I can do it now. It is: Otis Skinner’s “Footlights and Spotlights.” published by BobbsMcrril Company, Indianapolis. .|. J. .j. It seems that few people agree on the chances of “Applesauce" getting over In Chicago and New York. During some of the visits of people to my desk this week there has been a discussion of this new comedy. Most people that. I have talked with Ihte the second act the best. In my review I took the position that the first net was the only thing that the comedy had to hold to with the exception of the cast. T am still of the opinion that the applesauce idea is too thin to spread over three acts.
WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON A Story That We Should Tell to Many Others
The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for Sunday. Sept. 28: Review of the Quarters Lessons on the Opening Period of Christ's Ministry. By WM. E. GILROY, D.D., Eitor-in-Chicf of The Congregationalism tyi HERE should we go for the yy best story of the iife of Jesus? J Nowhere but to the New Testament itself. Here, in what we call the "Gospels,” is at once the simplest, most authoritative and most beautiful story of all. There may be helps in the reading of that story. Also the Gospel records do not give us the complete story of Jesus, for that story will never be completed until the love and power of the Great Redeemer have fulfilled their purpose in earth and heaven. An eminent English preacher has Called the life of Jesus “the incomplete biography,” and every story of the divine influence as the life of Jesus is made manifest in the hearts of men, and in what they accomplish through the living Christ, is a chapter in that incomplete, and continuing, biograph^. That is a fine thought. But none the less we begin the earthly life of Jestis in the New Testament, and it is with the simple story in the Gospels that we shall end. So these lessons of the quarter begin for us the most wonderful of all biographies. To know Jesus is the most important thing in the the closing of at least 25 per cent of mission schools, hospitals and churches, and the dismissal of at least 5,000 of the 20,000 native workers and the. recall of 300 of the 1,158 missionaries.” The alarming decrease also threatens to undermine the home mission work on rural and frontier fields and seriously curtail temperance and other reform work, as well as the church educational program. • • • THE REV. PAUL TV. EDDINGFIELD of the Broad Ripple Christian Church will preach Sunday morning on "Paul Among Barbarians" and at night "The Secret of Failure.” • • • AT GRACE M. E. CHURCH Sunday morning, Dr. M. B. Hyde will take as his subject "The True Method and Motive in Evangelism " At night "The Gospel in Full View.” “COMFORTABLE RELIGION" is the announced 10:55 a. m theme of Dr. Edwin Cunningham of the Central Universalist Church. THE REV. G. TV. PEARCE of South Bend, Ind., will preach at both services Sunday at the St. PaiU Reformed Church. Miss Helen Von TViller is instructing a chorus which will sing at both services. • * * The Vesper musical services for the autumn and winter will he resumed at the Second Presbyterian Church Sunday afternoon at 4.45 o'clock. Sunday's pr f gram follows: Organ Meditation IVelude —Elevation in E Saint Stem Anthem—Festival Cantata Domino in c Dudlv Buck Anthem —"Saviour Again to Thy Dear Name We Rais'-' Chadwick Organ Interlude—" Evensong” .. East hope Martin Solo—" The Rainbow' Arthur Voorhii E E Stidham. Anthem— Sweet Saviour. Bless Us E re We Go Gilchrist Organ Posthide —"Prayer" Salome DR E. A ROBERTSON of Barth Place M E. Church will preach in the morning on “Wanted; A Spiritual Renaissance” and at night on "What Are You Worth?” AT EMERSON AVE. BAPTIST CHURCH, Sunday will he observed as promotion day in the Sunday school and as Laymen’s day in the church. The men of the church plan to attend the morning service in a body. The pastor, Paul Judson Morris, will speak on "The Layman
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world, and there is no better way of knowing Jesus than to go about with Him as He goes about doing good, and to listen to His teachings as they fall from His lips. We shall not pay so much attention then -to what people say about Him, for we shall know Him for ourselves. Nobody can read the marvelous story of the Gospels day after day without having His life made nobler and without feeling that all of life itself has been made richer for the coming of the Babe of Bethlehem.
and His Church.” At the evening service the theme will be, "The Lost Boy.” • • • THE REV. E. F. PREVO will preach at the Riverside Park M. E. Church Sunday morning on “Will The Church Fail Christ.” His subject for the evening service is, "He Is Able." • • • THE REV. H. R M’CLANAHAN, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, announces his Subjects as: “The Light of Life" and “Locomotion and Science.” • • • DR. FRANK S. C. WICKS of All Soul's Unitarian Church, annonuces the following order of service at 11 a. m.: Prelude —Chopin; Andante— Bee. thoven; Hymn 336; fourth service; covenant; anthem; words of aspiration; responsive reading—twentyeighth selection: Scripture; Hymn 111; notices and offerings; Kamennol Ostrow —Rubins:-in; address; Hymn 116: benediction; postiude; Festive March —Henry Smart. • • * SUNDAY MORNING at the Hillside Christian Church the pastor. Homer Dale, will preach on "The Lost Power." At the evening service his theme will he "The Plus Sign in the Christian Life." At the children's service he will speak on "Mirrors in Daily Life." Promotion day will be observed in the Bible school. Presentation of diplomas and appropriate services will be a part of the order of the hour. • • REV. FRANK PI EL of Courtland. Ind.. will make the principal address Sunday morning at St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church during an observance of a Mission Festival. At 7:3ii p. in. an illustrated lecture jon "Native Life in India" will he given. On Tuesday, the Rev. L. <’. Fackler, pastor, and nine delegates will attend a missionary conference at Holland, Ind. • • • NEW JERSEY ST. METHODIST CHURCH, corner New Jersey and New York Sts.. H. R. Borneman, pastor, preaching at 10 30 a. m. on |“A Real Homely Old Testament Text.” * • • DR. EDWARD HAINES KISTj LKR will speak in the Fairview | Presbyterian Church Sunday at 11 |on “Meet Jesus Christ:" and on
How beautifully the stories of the lessons of the past quarter fit into all the experiences of life! Birthpangs, poverty, trial and temptation, have all been sanctified in human experience through the story of Jesus of Nazareth. Here, too, we have the story of the first disciples. It tells us how we too may become disciples by just putting Jesus first in our lives — for that is really what it means to "leave all and follow Him.” To some who put Jesus first He gave the privilege of actually going
Thursday at 8 on "Christ’s Prayer lor the Spirit of Unity.” * \ AT SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH, the pastor, the Rev. H. R. Waldo, will speak In the morning on "Genuine Messengers,” and at night on "The Banquet Ready.” Special instrumental and vocal music at both services. • • • TO ALLOW TIME for members to attend the dedication of anew mission church in Terre Haute in the afternoon the First English Lutheran Church will have services Sunday morning at 10:30. Dr. W. C. Davis will preach on "A Divided Allegiance.” • • * AT HALL PLACE M. E. CHURCH the Rev. Guy V. Hartman will preach Sunday morning on "The Honor of Old Age." and at night. “What Do I Owe Others?" MORNING WORSHIP At Ebenezer Evangelical Lutheran Church at 10:45. Sermon by the pastor. Rev. Earl Cable. Thorne: “Christian Stewardship.” Evening semises begin Oct. 5, at 7:45. Prayer meeting and choir practice Thursday evening at 7:45. MOTION PICTURES
SUNDAY AND ALL WEEK T FIT i Theater Open From v 10 A. M. to 11 P. M. I \sa Sunday, 1 to 11 P. )L .jmiiPi ; i T T ERE is a real V/ IISiP W il “he-man” uv story of the Far , U North—an epic of ' [ Alaska. \ Tom Meighan as the son of a goldII 3 ‘ y J/ / rush pioneer in the title rde of Jameg \ \ I Oliver CurwoocTs \ '/story which j x —/ | ) / thrilled the million I \ / or more readers of \ / the Cosmopolitan j magazine in which \v / Estelle Taylor is / the girl and 7 v J there's a great s supporting cast. MEXGHAN © W LESTER HUFF’S ORGAN SOLQ “The Land of the Sky Blue Water” and “Prelude’^—Rachmaninoff SPAT FAMILY COMEDY—“SOUTH OF THE NORTH POLE” / CHARLIE DAVIS ORCHESTRA £Uk
about with Him, hut others He told to go back home and live among their neighbors and friends the new Lfe that they had found. Often that is harder to do than to go on a pilgrimage or a mission. Here in these lessons is the story of those who succeeded and of those who failed. Nicodemus, the learned and liberal-minded Pharisee, apparently went away unconvinced after his night’s visit to Jesus, for we heard no more about him for almost two years. But the Samaritan woman, with an evil reputation and in some respects a bad character, apparently at once believed, aYid she went off and brought out the men of the
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Few of the war pictures have had more convincing combat scenes than “The Lost Battalion . , . the former soldiers go through their action in the film with a quiet ferocity that leaves little doubt as to the authenticity of the picture.—lndianapolis News.
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city who told Jesus that they ’believed, not because of what th woman had said, but because they had seen and heard him for themselves. That is a fine teaching of these lessons—they tell how anybody can ready find Jesus of Nazareth and know Him as He is without wanting to go out and tell about Him to others. This is what we need more than anything else today—to become so impressed with this Gospel story that we shall simply be compelled to go and tell it to others. If we hava not felt this as we have studied the quarter’s lessons their deepest meaning has been missed.
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The whole town is talking about “The Lost Battalion” . . . the entire cast seems to have put their very souls into their parts . . . the “Famous Lost Battalion” are living again in the picture, the greatest adventure of their life-time.-—lndianapolis Star.
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