Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1924 — Page 6

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‘PETER PAN ' AND ‘SO BIG 9 TOP NEW PHOTOPLA Y LIST Buster Keaton to Be Seen at Apollo in 'Navigator' and Valentino at Smith's. Movieland next week will be a most interesting place, as some of the biggest of the new pictures will be on view New Year’s week. “So !>ig,” with Colleen Moore, will be the chief offering at the Circle. “Peter Pan,” with Betty Bronson, will be the big delight at the Ohio. Mister Smith’s next week will feature Rudolph Valentino in “A Sainted Devil.” For the first half of the week the Isis will offer “Laughing At Danger.”

Special musical programs and presentations are announced at many of the movie theaters. -I- -!- -ICOLLEEX MOORE TAKES CHIEF ROLE AT CIKCI.E Colleen Moore, will be the New Year's week attraction at the Circle theater in the screen version of Edna Ferber’s widely read novel, •‘So Big.” In “So Big,” Miss Moore makes her debut as a star, and Is said to have done the greatest work of her career. The story, based on life in the old Dutch settlement near Chicago in the latter, part of the past century*, takes her away from the frivolous flapper roles with which she has been recently associated, and presents her as the wife of a stolid Dutch farmer, roiling amidst the cabbages and radishes of a truck garden. A baby son Is all that makes her life worth while, and. as she toils, she visualizes the time when he will become “so-o-o big” in this world of affairs. The story permits the mother to all but realize her life's ambition, for her young son, grown to manhood, stands at the portals of fame as an architect, but as he does so. a woman enters his life, a wealthy married woman who attempts to persuade him to elope with her. How the mother saves him from the

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folly of an elopement and brings happiness to him is told in this absorbing screen drama, which was directed by Charles Brabin. In the cast supporting Miss Moore in this production are Ben Lyon. John Bowers, Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling. Sim DeGrasse, Gladys Brockwell, Rosemary Theby, Phyllis Haver, Charlotte Merriam and Henery Herbert. The overture will be played by the Circle Concert Orchestra under the direction of Bakaleinikoff, and there will also be an organ solo, “How I Love That Girl,” played by Dessa Byrd. There will also be the Circlette of News and the usual short film novelties. “PETER PAN” OPENS SUNDAY AT OHIO “Peter Pan." the Herbert Brenon screen production of the story by J. M. Barrie, the great English writer, will be seen New Year's week at the Ohio Theater. Barrie will be remembered as the author of "Sentimental Tommy” and : "The Little Minister.” The picture is one of the most delightful modem : fairy tales, was made under the su- , pervision of the famous English j writer and includes in its cast the 1 following players: Betty Bronson, i Ernest Torrence. Cyril Chadwick. : Virginia Brown Faire, Anna May Wong, Ester Ralston, George Ali.

AMUSEMENTS

‘lnnocent Eyes' “Innocent Eyes,” presented by Lee and J. J. Shubert, will open a week’s engagement soon at the Murat Theater, after an all summer run at the New York Winter Garden. Vannessi, whose “Hula-Hula” and "Peacock Strut” dances brought her fame in San Francisco, and Lew Hearn, popular in many musical comedies, head the large company, which also includes Ned Norworth, John V. Lowe, Charles Howard, Frank Dobson, Marjory Leach, Francis Nannime, Charles Mac, Grace Bowman, Mabel Carruthers, Franklyn Byron, Mae Calme, James Phillips, Dolores Ferris, Cleo Pergain, Walter Bradbury and Dot McNulty. There are sixteen American dancers whose team work is exceptional and a big chorus of Winter Garden girls.

Mary Brian. Philippe de Lacey and Jack Murphy. A specially augmented program will be featured in conjunction with the major photo play attraction. A Spat Family comedy, “Deaf, Dumb and Daffy,” and a Pathe News Week; ly, complete the film program. Lester Huff, organist, will be heard in his original compositions, entitled “New* Year’s Resolutions.” The Charles Davis Orchestra, with Cy Milder's soloists, will be heard in a program of popular song hits. The story of “Peter Pan” opens in the Darling nursery. Nana, the dog nurse, takes care of the three children, Wendy, John and Michael. The dog incurs the anger of Mr. Darling and is banished to the yard. Mrs. Darling tries to change her husband’s mind by telling him of a mysterious boy whom she has seen in tne room anil who made her ner- ' vous concerning the safety of the children. Mij. Darling laughs oq the idea. That night the elder Darlings go to a neighbor's for dinnner. While they are away the mysterious boy, Peter Pan. returns. He awakens the children, tells them of the wonders of the Never Never I gLnd and teaches them to fly. The barking of Nana alarms the Darlings and they rush to the neighbor’s window in time to see four small figures flying gracefully away over the church steeple. -!• -!• -IBUSTER KEATON IS ON MEW AT \POLI.O “The Navigator," Buster Keaton's latest comedy, which incidentally is the biggest production Keaton has ever tnude, and also one of the most imposing screen vehicles ever conceived for laughing purposes only, will be the chief attraction of the Apollo's “All Fun" program for New Year’s week. Jean Havez, Clyde Bruckman and Joseph Mitchell, a trio of well known humorists combined on the story, a hilarious tale of the deep blue sea with Buster In the role of the sap of an old and wealthy family tree, who, though being hedged about from childhood with a ! corps of well trained servants, Ls

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No. I.—Betty Bronson as “Peter Pan” at the Ohio all next week.

not even capable of winding his own watch. When the girl he loves gives him the icy mitten he decides to take an ocean trip as a sedative for his nerves. He gets on the wrong liner and by chance the girl also comes aboard. Then they are cut adrift by some foreign revolutionists, and thus the two innocents are left without a crew to run a great ocean steamer. The fun that Keaton extracts from this situation is endless. He gets into all the trouble possible, and there seems to be plenty of such opportunities on board a ship. Kathryn McGuire. Frederick Vroom, Noble Johnson, Clarence Burton and 11. M. Clugston are in the cast. Donald Crisp directed. The program will contain an Our Gang comedy “The Mysterious Mystery," the Fox news weekly, organ selections bv Earl Gordon and musical entertainment by Emil Seidel and his orchestra. •I- •!■ DICK TALMA 1 MIE MAY MOVIE ON MEW AT IMS While engaged in making a scene of "Laughing at Danger,” which will be shown at the Isis the first half of next week Richard Talmadgo frac-

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No. 2.—Buster Keaton in “The Navigator,” opening at the Apollo

tured r vertebrae of his neck, and for days was forced to go about with his neck and head encased in a cast. Nevertheless after an interval he was able to complete the picture In which he eclipses ali his previous efforts both in point of dangerous work and acting ability, thereby proving conclusively that a little thing like a broken neck is nothing in the life of this agile young star and stunt actor. In his support are Eva Novak, Joseph J. Girard, Stanhope Whcatcroft and Joe Harrington. The comedy will be a Century farce entitled “Dancing Daisies.” William Desmond in “The Measure of ,l Mm” will be the feature of the program Thursday anil the rest of the week. J- J. -I. “A SVINT ED DEVIL” IS ON VIEW AT SMITH’S Rudolph Valentino will be seen New Year's week at Mister Smith’s in a “Sainted Devil." The picture. Ids latest production, feature* four of the screen’s best “vamps." They are: Nita Nalili. Helen D'Algy, Louise Legrange and Dagmor Godowsky. The program will also Include a news weekly and a comedy and music by the Frande Cremona.

Sunday for the week. No. 3. —Rudolph Valentino In “A Sainted Devil” at Mister Smith’s No. 4.—Elaine Tlammersfein in

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“The Foolish Virgin” at the Palace the la-st half of the week. No. 6. —Colleen Moore In “So Big” at the Circle all next week.

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‘HAPPY DAYS’ TO BE NEXT CAPITOL BILL Jack LaMont Heads Burlesque Cast, “Happy Days,” one of the biggest productions of the Ann of Fox & Krause burlesque shows, w*ill be the next attraction at the Capitol, beginning Sunday matinee. It is headed by Jack LaMont, who scored a hit at the Capitol last week. Chubby Drisdale, L. P. Wall* the two ingenues, Minnie Fitzgerald and Blanche Burnette, Don Trant, straight man: Frank O’Rourke, juvenile, and Mabel Moss and Tom Williams complete the cast, also the Caipto! beauty chorus of twentytwo girls. New scenery and costumes.

What’s New on Keith Circuit

Elonal Atwill will return to vaudeville soon, following the closing of “The Outsider” on tour. “The Experiences of an Understudy” will be the title and basis of a one-act sketch which Virginia Millman, who has been understudy for Jane Cowl for several seasons, will do in Keith vaudeville. Channing Pollock’s mystery melodrama will shortly he seen in Keith J vaudeville in a tabloid form, with" Charlotte Walke.r, legitimate and. picture player, heading the cast. Lilly Morris, a favorite comedienne of the English music halls, arrived in New York last week for a tour of the Keith Theaters.