Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1925 — Page 6
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NAT NAZARRO WILL TOP NEW BILL AT LYRIC Ranee Gray Players to Give Comedy Drama at Palace. N 1 A": NAZARRO, whose versatility long: ago boosted him Into the headline class among vaudevillians, comes to the Lyric next week with his two dusky assistants, Buck and Bubbles, in a new act called ‘Variety of Varieties,” Buck and Bubbles have been with Nazarro for some time. They hail from Indianapolis, ana incidentally make their first professional stage appearance at the Lyric back In 1918. Buck is a dancer, and Bubbles, a piano playing progidy so diminutive in statue that he has to stand up, will coaxing melody from the ivory keys. Nazarro is an acrobatic, musician and comedian with the knack of doing many things and doing all of them well. The bill will include: FRED LINDSAY AND COMPANY —An interesting assortment of Australian sports and pastimes are exhibited by Lindsay, who is internationally famous as a soldier, author, globe trotter and big game hunter. He has a very entertaing vaudeville innovation in which he filled extended engagements at the London Coliseum and the Alhambra in Paris, before coming to the United States. CLIFFORD AND KRAMER—A clever duo appearing in a merry fun skit entitled “The Swede’s Flirtation." RAYMOND WILBERT—GoIf fans will find much to entertain them in the act of Wilbert, an expert, who demonstrates many trick shots with remarkable skill and accuracy, while at the same time delivering a line of humorous chatter anent the ancient and honorable Scotch game. ROWLAND AND MEEHAN Irish songs and Irish fun are dispensed by these two merry "Tads” In their new act, “A Bit of the Auld Sod.” LELAND AND ST. CLAlß—lntroducing a melange of comedy songs, talk and eccentric dancing styled “The Reason and the Nut.” FANTINO SISTERS AND COMPANY —Stars of the circus world appearing in a spectacular, elaborate, fantastical aerial revue. ON THE SCREEN—An A1 St. John comedy, “The Darn Mule”: Kinograms and an episode of “The Pace Makers” series. -|. -|. -|. . • RANCE GRAY PLAYERS TO PRESENT “QUICKSAND” Ranee Gray will introduce Mabel May. and Ben Laughlin, two new members of his company who are replacing Anita Tully and Gene Bergman, in important roles in the two-act comedy drama, "Quicksand,” which is playing the Palace Theater the first half of next week. The plot of the play hag to do with the theory that every one ite an honest thief. Alice Delane and Adrian Sllsworth are the other two in the cast. On the bill arei “CHILDHOOD DAYS”—A satire on school days put across by A1 .Wallace, Walter Vernon, Harvey Gudneau, Jack Reid, Fay and Mae Sherman and Evelyn Hunter, who takes character roles in the rendition of songs, school fights, recitations and arguments with the teacher. CLAUDE AND MARION—Are “Still Arguing” over a series of nonsensical questions with a few comedy songs thrown in. THE TAKETAS—Who are three wirewalkers, foot jugglers and perch balancers straight from Nippon, where they were great favorites of the Mikado. WYOMING DUO—Composed of Ruth Gordon and Budd Carlell, spins ropes'cracks whips, sings and dances in its “Varieties of the West.” “A Western Romeo” is the twoact drama dealing with two separate love stories which Ranee Gray will offer the last half of the week. The plot centers around an orphan girl who runs a ranch, assisted by a Mexican cowboy and a squaw. An easterner comes West and falls in love with the girl. Comedy is injected into the offering with the love scenes between the Mexican and the squaw because neither one can understand the other. “Broomstick Elliott and Babe Le Tour have a skit known as “My Daddy,” in which they sing, dance and talk Jack McAuliffe, the only undefeated lightweight champion of the world, appears in “Reminiscences of the Square Circle.” The Bento brothers perform “The Utmost in Equilibrism” in their offering. On the screen are: Willard Louis and Irene Rich in “The Man Without a conscience,” the first half and Alma Rubens in “Is Love Everything” the last half. KOKOMO GIRL HONORED Mildred Stahl Wins Fellowship of Voters’ League. Miss Mildred Stahl, of Kokomo, Ind., has been awarded the fellowship of the National League of Women Voters, established for the “study of the American Indian problem, the successive policies of the Government, and the contemporary administration of Indian affairs,” league officers announced Saturday. Miss Stahl will begin her studies next September at the Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government in Washington. The amount of the fellowship is SI,OOO. Miss Stahl is a graduate of Indiana University and received her master’s degree from Smith College.
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CHILE NITRATE WORKS SEIZED Employes Run Riot in AntiRed Drive. Bn United Pres v SANTIAGO, Chile, June 6.—Following their storming of plant buildings, nitrate workers are in control of the Chilean Nitrate Companies at Coruna and Pontevedra and have forced some other plants to suspend work, according to advices from Inquique early today. The storming of plants came as a climax to last week’s agitation in the nitrate fields, where authorities started a cleanup of communistic elements. Yesterday workers killed two policemen, wounded one clerk and plundered the buildings.
Shubert News '
Vera Hoppe, a sister of Willie Hoppe, the famous billiard champion, is now playing an important role In the Offenbach ope >tta, "The Love Song,” which is nofr in its twenty-fifth weok at the Century Theater in New York. • • • Gertrude Hoffman and her eighteen American girls who have been dancing at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, arrived in New York last week to begin rehearsals for the 1925 edition of tho famous revue, “Artists and Models,” which will have its Broadway premiere early in August. * * * The revival of “The Mikado” at the Forty-Fourth St. Theater apparently has settled into an all-sum-mer engagement. The fiftieth performance was passed last week and the opera is still attracting capacity audiences at every performance. * • • Margot Kelly, the young English actress who is playing the title role in “The Love of Lulu,” at the Ambassador Theater in New York, has applied for her first United States citizenship papers. * • * Tne Messrs. Sauberts’ latest musical comedy, "June Days,” was presented at the Shubert Detroit Opera House on Sunday night (May 24) and on the following Sunday night will be presented at the Garrick Theater in Chicago, where it is scheduled to remain for the balance of the summer. Elizabeth Hines and Roy Royare featured in the cast. * * * Two companies of “The Fall Guy” and two companies of “Is Zat So?” New York’s leading comedy hits, will be sent on tour of the principal cities of the country next season. * • * Lionel Barrymore Is now appearing in “Man or Dev.l,” a play by Jerome K. Jerome, at the Broad-
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“THE GREAT HOOSIER PLAYGROUND” Indiana’s Favorite Picnic and Fun Center CROWDS THAT TEST THE CAPACITY OP THE PARK SPEAK FOR THE INCREASING POPULARITY OP THIS DESERVEDLY POPULAR AMUSEMENT RESORT AND RECREATION SPOT FOR THE ENTIRE FAtyOLY. ONE OF THE MANY NEW FEATURES IS THE OPEN AIR THEATER—NEW ACTS EACH WEEK. STARTING SUNDAY THE BILL WILL INCLUDE: THE GREAT VULCANO WHO BALANCES A REGULATION MOTORCYCLE WITH HIS TEETH AND HEAD, WHICH IS DRIVEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN AT FULL SPEED. FUN FOR THE KIDDIES WILL BE FURNISHED BY Roberti’s Animals WHO DO WONDERFUL TRICKS AT THE BIDDING OF THEIR rrJKTTY MISTRESS. DANCE GARDEN—CONNIE'S ORCHESTRA THE WEATHER IB FINE FOR SWIMMING. THE BIG WHITE POOL IS THE PLACE FOR A REFRESHING DIP—PURE FILTERED WATER, CONSTANTLY CHANGING.
No. I—Al Wilson will be seen in “So This Is London” at English's all next week, opening Sunday night. No. 2—Ben Laughlin with the Ranee Gray Players at the Palace all next week. No. 3 —One of the Volcanoes at Broad Ripple Park all next week. No. 4—Rowland and Meehan will be on view at the Lyric, opening Sunday afternoon.
In Outdoor Event
Fritzi Ridgeway
Fritzi Ridgeway, movie star and in private life Mrs. Constantin Bakaleinikoff, wife of the director of the Circle Theater Orchestra, will take part in the Outdoor Vaudeville and Dance to be given Tuesday night by the Little Theatre Society in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hartley Sherwood. Miss Ridgeway will appear in dramatic monologue. Others on the program will include Raymond Ball, tenor; Lester Horton and Victor Mussawir and company in dances; Mrs. Lillian Adam Flicklnger, soprano and Murray Wickard in impersonations.
hurst Theater In New York. Mr. Barrymore’s supporting cast includes McKay Morris, Egon Breecher, Ruth Findlay, Marion Ballou, Georgiana Tilden, Isabelle Winlocke, Herbert Standing and others. The new piece received favorable notices from the critics. EXERCISES AT SCHOOL Eighth Grade Graduates at No! - 35 to Get Certificates. Closing exercises will be held at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday for the 8A class at Garfield School, No. 35, it was announced today. Special musical numbers will be given by pupils. Miss Flora E. Drake, assistant superintendent of public schools, will give an address and present certificates.
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FLAG DAY TO BE OBSERVED Patriotic Societies Will Give Parties. Two parties will be held at 30 p.m. Saturday, June 13, in observance of Flag Day, June 14. The Old Glory Society of Caroline Scott Harison Chapter of D. A. R. will have a picnic at the home of Mrs. U. G. Baker, 5693 N. Meridian St. A. C. Everingham, Hutsonville, 111., will speak. Miss Lorinda Cottingham will give violin numbers. The party of the Hamilton-Berry Chapter, Service Star Legion, will be at the home of Mrs. Margaret E. Over, 3246 N. Pennsylvania St. Mrs. Frank* Nessler, president, and past presidents will give greetings., Orville Bray, tenor, and a male uartot. will sing. Michael E. Foley will talk. Mary Elizeabth Pell will dance and give readings. Mrs. Herbert Schlegel will speak.
Lake Winona
The Equitable Life Assurance Company of New York is sending its agents and cashiers to a three weeks summer school this summer, and has selected Winona Lake, Indiana as one of the twenty training schools in the United t Sates. Beginning June 1, and ending June 20, with a monster picnic Os all the Equitable Insurance men and their families that are in this section, the various insurance representatives of this company will learn the principles of business and salesmanship psychology, the elements of insurance mathematics, a history of the achievements of the company with daily laboratory work in the routine details of insurance office management and policy writing, v It is understood that one of the vice president of the company will visit the school at Winona, while Frank L. Jones, agency manager at 345 Consolidated Bldg., Indianapolis will have the direction of the session and the organization of the various school and social activities.
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KE gay Lothario might have been a great boy ** with the ladies-—but he worked mighty hard to make ’em fall. This Denny person had ’em wrapped all around his neck, and couldn’t scare ’em off with a shotgun. You’re in for the laughing festival of your young life when you see this hilarious cocktail of love ana laughter. PATHE NEWS AESOP FABLE AMERICAN HARMONISTS THE DELIGHTFUL SINGING ORCHESTRA FRANK OWENS—The Popular Tenor '‘CHEATIN’’ VIRGIL MONKS —Pianist, Jazzic and Classic LARRY GOMERDINGER—XyIophonist—De Luxe COLONIAL I A DELIGHTFULLY COOL THEATER PICK O’ THE PICTURES—MUSIC THAT CHARMS
MAIN STREET IS RIVAL OF DEAR CLP BROADWAY Provinces of This Country Go in for Many Summer Shows. By the NEA Play Jury EW YORK, June 6.—Just two plays opened on Broadway ..J in one week’s time, while from other cities all over the country come reports of dozens and scores of new performances. The meaning of this is that in summer, the stronghold of the American drama Is not in the metropolis but in the so-called “provinces.” New York drifts along in the languor of the dull season, while the rest of the country goes to see stock companies composed of competent Broadway players. More than 100 cities have stock companies playing this summer, according to a compilation Just made here. Thpy include auch cities as Washington, Detroit, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Union Hill and New Brunswick, N. J., Salem, Mass., Salt Lake City, Oakland. Cal., and Indianapolis. The most popular plays for stock companies, according to demand so far are “The Best People,” “Meet the Wife," “Just Married,” “The Fool,” "Corba,” Kikl,” “The Nervous Wreck.” and the old favorite “Llghtnln.* ” The foregoing, of course, is no warning for visitors to stay at home until fall. There are plenty of theaters open In New York, several of them with plays especially designed for hot weather entertainment. Before the expiring Season has completely passed out, the advance guard of the new season will be opening. The new Lionel Barrymore play. “Man or Devil,” written by Jerome K. Jerome, is the most interesting vehicle the star has had in what, for him, was a rather unsatisfactory season. It is a fantastic yarn and a grand gallery of old portraits from the Holland of 300 years ago. The author has been reading Faust. The first act the meanness of the old miser, Nicholas Snyders, played by Barrymore. Just before the curtain a mysterious peddler makes him a weird proposition. Nicholas' may drink a glass of the peddler's wine with anyone he chooses, and the souls of the two will be exchanged. The miser chooses a fine young sea captain, Jan, for the experiment. Next we see Snyders suddenly turned lovable, and Jan become a dour skinflint. At the end Nicholas arranges a re-exchange, in order that Jan may marry the pretty blonde Christina and make her happy. The first act seems long. Nc where does the play sweep one headlong with its dramatic power. But it provides an evening’s good entertainment and gives Barrymore a decent opportunity to show his great gifts as a character actor. There are many good character parts in the play. A memorable performance la that of 11-year-old Georgina Tilden, who is winsome and competent. Among the child’s past performances, one is told. Is a
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Movies Go Back to Good Old Days
The screen is going back to romance, realism and thrilling action, “Sex stuff” Is out of style. In the next two years the American theater-goer will witness a gradual reversi6n to the old-time melodrama, tempered and refined to meet modern customs. | This program of motion picture productions was outlined in Hollywood yesterday by Joseph M. Schenck, producer of pictures starring Norma and Constance Talmadge and Buster Keaton, following a number of conferences with other members of the Motion Picture Producers Association, the Will Hays organization of which Schenck is president. He prophesied the beginning of an era of World War dramas which probably will virtually 'monopolize the screen two years from now. The era of burning sex dramas has
To Sing Here
Ila Friermood
One of the soloists to be heard when the Oratorio Society presents "Elijah” at Caleb Mills Hall on next Wednesday night, will be Mrs. Friermood, contralto.
classic apprenticeship as Topsy in "Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” % * • • How the philandering Julie Bancroft keeps husband, childhood sweetheart and "sugar pap&” in a juggled state ia the basis of anew comedy, “Old Man Out,” at the Booth. The cast is distinguished, with Alma Tell as the unstable wife and A. E. Anson, Lee Baker, and James Crane in the leading male roles. The comedy Is of the light, frothy, “sophisticated” school, with a heroine who cheats right and left and still has a husband awaiting her in the last act. Critical consensus predicts a short life and a merrj one.
A thrilling picturization of Jane Cowl’s sensational stage success, with Bebe in the role of a girl who learns, during an hour crowded with soul-stirring adventure, that marriage is more than a ring and a few words by the minister. IMPERIAL COMEDY — “PAPA’S DARLING” FOX NEWS WEEKLY xz xx SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT DORSEY, KAEHN AND PELLETIER FAVORITE - VOCAL ENTERTAINERS EMIL SEIDEL lad Nit ORCHESTRA p— EARL GORDON it UN ORGAN
ended, Mr. Schenck said. While the eternal triangle will always be a topic of dramatic Interest, the reign of the vampire is over and the screen will lose much of the sex frankness which has alarmed certain portions of the populace. Costume dramas have had their day and will appear no more in this motion picture era, Schenck predicted, although many romantic stories written In costume periods will be modernized and brought down to date. The romance will be retained; the costumes discs rded. He cited George Barr McCutcheon’s colorful “Graustark” as an example. This story Is being made with Norma Talmadge as star, but all the costumes have been eliminated and the story will be presented In a modern garb. There is also a bright future for writers of original screen stories, Mr. Schenck said, citing that Constance Talmadge is now engaged in making “Her Sister From Paris,’ an original from the pen of Hans Kraly, and that Buster Keaton is preparing to begin work on "Brown Eyes,” another original. W.C.T.U. Notes The Francis Willard W. C. T. U. will meet at the Indianapolis home for Aged Women. Capitol Ave. and Eighteenth St., Tuesday from 2 to 4 p. m. A special program has been arranged and Flower Mission day will be observed. Mrs. Eva Johnson, 8514 E.- Tenth St., will be hostess for Brookside Union Thursday *at 2 p. m. Members are to bring flowers. Mrs. E. A. Kemp will talk on “Social Morality” and Mrs. Dotia Daugherty, county Flower Mission superintendent, will talk on her department. The Sarah A. Swain Union will hold its regular Flower Mission and donation day at Faith Home, 938 Fletcher Ave., Tuesday at 2 p. m. MUST GET WITNESSES Auto Driver Face* Six Charges— Appeals From City Court. Clarence W. Belt, 1609 N. Illinois St., who was partially tried Friday afternoon on two of six charges, all city court appeals, pending in Criminal Court, was given one week by Judge James A. Collins to produce witnesses to prove he was not driving his automobile during an accident several months ago. Hattie Fitzpatrick Wilson, colored. 1403 Alvord St., was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced thirty days in jail on a blind*, tiger charge. Judge Collins upheld Judgment of city court from which she' appealed. WATER MAIN EXTENSION Water mains will be extended soon to afford protection for University Heights, the board of works voted at its meeting Friday. This improvement has been contemplated for some time, William H. Freeman, board member said.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, lU2d
CITIZENS SEEK TO HAVE CITY CLEAR ALLEY Mr. Fixit Asked to Assist id Removal of Old Shed. Send letter to Mr Fixit at The Indianapolis Times if you have difficult/ in obtaining assistance from city officials. He will further any matter In which you are interested. He la The Times representative at the city hall. EHE problem of an alley shed lh the last stages of decrepitude was presented to Mr. Fixit today, involving research into the files of the board of works. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Will you please give your attention to a run down shed that stands In the middle of our alley in the rear of 2631 E. Eighteenth St.? As this shed blocks the alley and no traffic can pass, sanitary wagons neglect these properties. It is also in such a run-down condition as to warrant removal, being propped up by boards, and any heavy wind would no doubt blow it down. The neighborhood has taken precautions in the way of getting a petition for the removal. At one time every one was assessed a certain amount, which was later returned. without any cause being I know that all are trying to beautify their yards and this blockade is a hindrance. ~ Hoping you will be able to convince the board of works that this matter needs Immediate attention, NEIGHBORHOOD OF BROOK WAY DRIVE. j Elmer Williams, secretary ofl the hoard of works, said opening this alley was authorized late in 1923, but 6 the board rescinded its action, January 7, 1924. A suggestion was made that you property owners present another petition to'the board. There Is a rumor that one petition of this nature already is in circulation. Dear Mr. Fixit: Will you please see what you can do to have some bad holes on Fourteenth St., between Capitol and Pennsylvania St. fixe*!? Respectfully A. The department of Improved streets will send an inspector to this district within a few days, Otto J. Smelcer, head of that department promised. MADE GENERAL AGENT W. C. Downing, general superintendent Indianapolis division Pennsylvania railroad, has been given the additional duty as general agent of the road in this territory, it was announced today. Famous Names In Film Cast Reported additions to the cast of "The /Wanderer,” the great spectacle picture of the Prodigal Son, .are Sojin, famous Oriental heavy who gave a notable portrayal of villainy in “East of Suez;” Lionel Braham and Duke Kakanamoku, the swimmer.