Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1925 — Page 6

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BEG NAMES ON HEW BILLS IN tffIUPE HOUSES Britt Wood, Peggy Hoffman and Gibson Sisters Booked. B* "1 EFORE several vividly colored drops depicting scenes along the Rio Grande..The Mexican Serenaders play their stringed instruments and render music of troubadour days of old Mexico at the Palace theater the first half of next week. On the bill are: MEEHAN AND NEWMAN—Who use “Broken Promises’’ to arouse laughs. Songs, dances, acrobatics, comedy, and instrumental playing contribute to the act. BENNETT AND LEE—Man and woman who assume the roles of a professional theatrical teacher and a pupil who wants to break into theatricals. Comedy patter runs throughout the try-outs. PEGGY HOFFMAN—“BIue Singer" making a return engagement tothe theater as a singer, offering “Tuneful Tales.” ACHILLES—With Julius Newman in “Old Greek Pastimes” presents a display of physical endurance. Newman is the comic. A versatile black face quintet will usher in the last half of the week's entertainment billed as “The Alamo Club.” Billy and Walter Markwith, Chick Young, Art Brown, and Jack Quinn offer a singing, ’ dancing, and musical act. “Shadowland” is also on the bill. The Bennet Twins are sisters who form a singing and dancing pair. Wise and ■ Janese have a comedy skit billed ' “Oh Henry” which deals with a balky Ford in which a couple is trying to retur nfrom a dance. “Inspiration” provides the vehicle for the talents of Pease, Nelson, and Dawsoq. One the screen are. “Eve's Secret” with Betty Compson and Jack Hold the first half and Glenn Tyon in ‘‘The White Sheep” the last half. * * * BRITT WOOD RETURNS TO LYRIC “MODES AND MODELS” coming to the Lyric next week is heralded as a spectacular art revue. Josephine Conover, Anna Shadowka, Jack Barrett and a large group of professional art and style models appear in the offering, depicting the evolution of dress from the time of Eva to the present day. It is staged on a lavish scale, both from a standpoint of lighting and scenic investure and in the matter of costuming. The bill will include: SAM HYAMS AND CLARA LOUISE EVANS—Entertainers who have long enjoyed an enviable reputation around the variety circuits, and who present anew comedy skit embracing songs and characteristic dances called “The Quakeress.” BRITT WOOD—Southern comedian and harmonica expert who returns for a special engagement, his second visit to the Lyric within a year. No matter how often he comes Britt is always sure of a hearty welcome for his brand of fun making, story telling, singing, and dancing and when it comes to extracting melody from a mouth organ Britt is in a class entirely by himself. HAZEL HASLAN AND COMPANY—Miss Haslam is a New York commedienne who has invaded vaudeville with a comedy sketch “The Girl In The Bath,” built upon anew idea. CLIFFORD AND PURTELLE—“The Boob And The Prlma Donna” in a mixture of comedy and song. BENTEL AND GOULD—Youthful vaudevillians who have a novelty in “Dan Xylo Bits” consisting of singing, dancing and xylophone selections. GIBSON SlSTEßS—Exponents of their own original style of toe dancing, buck and wing steps and acrobatic dancing. ON THE SCREEN—Mack Sennett all star comedy “Good Morning Nurse,” Grantland Rice Sportlight, “Sporting Judgement,” Kinograms and a Pathe come dy, “Riders Os The Kitchen.”

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Ruth Chatterton is rehearsing in New York in anew play entitled “The Man With a Load of Mischief.” It will be tried out in Newark before being seen in New York. The author is Ashley Dukes, Ralph Forbes, McKay Morris and Bertha Mann are in the cast. -I- -I- -ILionel Barrymore has closed his engagement in “Man or Devil” at the Broadhurst. He will be seen in anew play in the early fall. •I- -I- H* Fifty-eight members of the ensemble of “The Love Song,” “The Student Prince” and “The Mikado’ have enrolled in a special singing school which is being operated by the Messrs. Shubert at the Century Theatre under the personal direction of Harrison Brockbank, who plays the role of Napoleon 111 in “The Love Song.” -I- 'l' + Jack Haskell, well-known English dance director, has been engaged by the Messrs. Shubert to stage the dances in the newest edition of "Artists and Modeis” now in rehearsal. Mr. Haskell is one of London’s youngest dance directors and has to his credit the English presentation of “Sally,” “The Cabaret Girl,” “Fun at the Phair,” and “Zig-Zag.” -I- ‘l* -IJames Gleason, cc-author of “Is Zat So?” and “The Fall Guy” announces that he will present his son Russell, on Broadway in a comedy next season. The play will be tried out this summer by the Player’s Guild in Milwaukee. -I- ’l' -I’ Isabelle Rodriguez, Spanish dancer who Is featured in “The Love Song,” the Offenbach operetta, at the Century Theatre, will sail shortly for her native city, Barcelona, fer her first vacation in eight years. Duning here visit home she will study new dances and buy anew wardrobe for her dance interpretations when she returns to New York in the fall. -I- -I- •!• _ Harry Wagstaff Gribble, author of “March Hares.” and represented in Chicago at present by his skits in the "Artists and Models” revue, and by his book in "June Days,” has been assigned by the revue, now in rehearsal. -!- -I- *!• Forty ye<*.rs ago, In June, 1885, word was received from London that D'Oyiy Carte was contemplating a presentation of “The Mikado” in Amer.ca with the original London company. “The Mikado” was then a sensational success at the Savoy Theatre, London having opeptsd there on March 14, 1885. Now, forty years later, a revival of “The Mikado” at the Fourty-Fourth St. theater, is one of New York’s outstanding hits. -I- -I- -IAnew method of making theaters cool and comfortable has been installed at the Winter Garden, where

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A colorful surrounding has been given the bathing beach at Broad Ripple Park by the placing of a large number of gaily colored beach umbrellas round the big white pool to protect the bathers from the sun. The kiddies have been taken care of by the placing of sand shovels and buckets in the sand piles at the children’s end ’of the pool, where the water is shalllow enough for them to wade and play in. The free attractions at the openair theater for the week starting Sunday afternoon will be Jim Hardy, who Is known as “The King of the High Wire,” and Sauer's pigs, a group of small porkers with a higher education. The act presented by Hardy i3 said to be a real sensation. He performs on a tight wire suspended beWillie Howard is starring in “Sky High." The process is known as ii.o Shipley System and employs ice to cool the temperature instead of air blasts, thus acquiring coolness without producing draughts. •I- -I- -IThe one hundredth performance of “The Fall Guy,” the comedy of American life in which Ernest Truex plays the title role, took place at the Eltinge last week.

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week in the afternoon and night. No. 3—Tbe Gibson Sisters, dancers, will be at the Lyric all next week. No. 4—Something new in musical lines will be introduced by the Alamo Club at the Palace, beginning Thursday.

tween two poles some sixty feet high. Hardy is said to be the only living wire walker who crossed Niagara Falls On a wire. His other achievements were walking a wire across Genesee Gorge and Montmorency Falls in Canada. A ton of apparatus is carried by Harcfy for the presentation of his act. Preparations are being made at the park for the fortcoming York Rite picnic, which will be held on Saturday, Aug. 1. This outing is for Blue Lodge Masons and their families in Marion and adjoining counties, and it is estimated that at least 60,000 persons will atttend the affair. LLOYD FINISHES NEW ONE Frank Lloyd has finished photography on “Winds of Chance,” adapted from Rex Beach’s thrilling story of Alaskan adventure, after four months of active work. The picture is expected to rank with Mr. Lloyd’s previous big success, "The Sea Hawk.” The cast includes Ben Lyon, Anna Q. Nilsson, Victor McLaglen, Dana, Hobart Bos worth, Claude Gllllngwater, Tully Marshall and ‘Dorothy Sebastian. First National is planning an early premiere in New York for “Winds of Chance.”

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Doug’s Latest Douglas Fairbanks’ latest film production, “Don Q. Son of Zorro,” will have a Broadway premiere at the Globe Theater, New York, on June 15th. Hap ry D. Buckley, acting general manager and Mark Larkin, personal representative of the Fairbanks organization, recently arrived in New York, to make arangements for the initial showing of the picture, which is expected to extend through the summer. Buckley was in charge of the New York showing of “The Thief of Bagdad." as well as all road show engagements. He plans several novel presentation ideas, which wPI make the premiere of "Don Q” an even greater event than that of the Bagdad feature.

ADOLPHE REVEALS A SECRET During the making of “Are Parents People” at the Paramount Western studio, Adolphe Menjou revealed a secret to Betty Bronson. He is training a brace of Sealyham terriers to act for the screen. Menjou is a dog fancier and spends much of his leisure time with his intelligent little pets. FIRST NATIONAL SIGNS HINES In "The Live Wire.” -which will be Johnny Hines’ initial starring vehicle for First National release, the comedian will be seen as a circus star, a tight-wlre artist, "a gentleman of the road,” and finally as a lamp salesman.

PAULINE LORO SAYS SUCCESS NOT EVERYTHING Star of Great Fame Claims She Misses Lots of Fun. By George Britt NEA Service Writer "5~T| EW YORK. June 13.—“1 don’t seem to get the fun I should out of my work.” This is the answer of Pauline Lord to a question as to what there is left to wish for after one has grasped the fluttering prize of success. Miss Lord’s work his season in “They Knew What They Wanted,” as in "Anna Christie” and other past successes, has placed her in the top rank of American actresses. She possesses confident ability and opportunity and the affection of thousands. Yet she visions happiness still beyond her grasp and is not so certain that she knows what she wants. “I want to play more and to enjoy life more as I go along,” she says. “The theater doesn’t shed any particular benediction on my spirit. What I like best, I think, is to get out into the country, eiher motoring or prowling around on foot. It seems to me the person who should get the greatest delight from his job would be a naturalist, a sort of John Burroughs." One knows the talk about nature <s not a pose when he hears it from this shy. slight young woman with the tawny hair, black eyebrows and brilliant brown eyes. She is not an effusive and platitudinous good fellow. Personality Reaching and groping for the unattalned, which is a touching element in many of her best roles, is very much a part of her own personality. When the man phrased his proverb, “the wistful shall inherit the earth," he might have been thinking about Pauline Lord. Her lack of theatrlealism and of zest for acting might be rationalized into an explanation of how she became a great actress. Instead of an easy facility, she had a spur of ambition to drive her intelligence on beyond mediocrity. Her real life is away from the theater. She is not one of those stage folk who delight in sitting around after the show, talking it over. Usually she is the last member of the company to ar-

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rive in the evening, and the first to go home. “Maybe I should have a heartier love for the theater Itself If I had been brought up in it by a family of actors as so many are," she says. “My father ran away as a boy and went into vaudeville. Later he went into business. He settled down. That was my only theatrical connection of course, I went on the stage rather young, when I was fifteen, in Nat Goodwin's Company. “Much earlier than that I was interested in it, and felt that was where I should go. Quite recently I was pleased when a beautiful woman, an actress, came and said, ‘I have been so keen to meet you. Because yon are from my own home town in California, and I have been watching you through all these years.’ I remerriber vividly how I admired this actress from a distance when I was a little girl because she was an actress and how I got up early one morning to see her come in on the train Hard Work "Acting is hard work, to be done as well as I can, with all the power I have, and to be got over with. Sometimes I go on the I stage feeling tired and thinking ‘Tonight I will save my strength.’ Gradually 1 find myself giving all I have, really creating a living character, without thought of just making an appearance for the people across the footlights. The stage does make that sort of appeal to me, but it is not a thrilling and satisfying appeal that fills all my thoughts and my dreams. “The stage has been kind to my efforts. And Just now I have the good fortune so have another play which appeals to me. and to which I can give myself with interest and sincerity. It is available for me when we have finished with “They Knew What They Wanted.” I think sometimes, however, that what I want in life can be grasped only if I leave the theater.” • • • New Plays “Trelawny of the Wells,” the Players’ Club annual one-week revival. An imposing production of this Pinero "comedietta.” The cast is all-star. John Drew, Laurette Taylor, O. P. Heggie and Mrs. Thomas W’hiffen and a dozen other fine players. Under their handling, the old play Is alive, appealing and unfaded. “Spooks”—Grant Mitchell labor* industriously in this mystery farce, but cannot elevate it beyond secondary classification. Conventional tangle of weird and terrifying shocks, with various stock figures wisecracking for comic effect. “Charley’s Aunt" —An antique revived with many lines of age. Done wdth Victorian sentiment, mannerism and phraseology and played with gusto.

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HURL BRICK AT WOMAN PASTOR Mysterious Attack Made Noblesville Church. Bu Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. June 18.— Police wero without clews today as to the mysterious attack made on Mrs. Carrie Mltchens, while preaching Friday night at the Wesleyan Methodist Church. A brick was hurled through a window, knocking Mrs. Hitchens down. Investigation showed that the person who threw the brick, placed a box near the window so he could be high enough to hurl the missile through the glass. FIRE THREATENS TOWN Houses Dynamited to Stop Flames at Blandburg, Po. Bu United Press ALTOONA, Pa., June 18—The mining village of Blandburg near here, was threatened with destruction early today by fire which destroyed a hotel and a number of houses entailing a loss of over $60,000. Calls for help were sent to nmrby towns. Several dwellings were dynamited in an effort to stop the fire. $106,000 BACK TAXES Bu United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., June H. J. Baker, attorney for the ford H. Falrhank estate tors, has paid into the county treasurer’s office aproximatoly $106,000 in back taxes due on the estate. ENDS LIFE IN CHURCH Bu Times Bpeoial ELICHART, Ind., June 18.—James O’Brien of Chicago committed suicide by hanging himself In the organ motor room of the St. Vincent’s Catholic Church here. EAGLES PICK MARION Bn Times Special MADISON, Ind., June 13.—Marion, Ind., was selected for the 1926 convention and Charles T. Vaugh was elected president at the concluding session of Indiana Eagles here. DEDICATE CHURCH Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., June 13.—Ten thous sand visitors are expected here Sunday for the dedication of the St. Michael Greek Catholic Church here.