Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1926 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JAN. 2,1926

LOCAL PASTORS URGE LARGE , CHURCH GOING ‘Start New Year Right by Going to Church’—The Rev. Lines. mNDIANAPOLIS pastors are urging all people to start the New Year right by going to church Sunday at least for one service. The members. families and friends of the Indianapolis Lion's and the Mercator Club will be special guests of the Central Universalist Church, Fifteenth and N. New Jersey Sts., at the 11 o’clock Sunday morning service. The pastor, the Rev. Fred A. Line, a member of the Lion’s Club, will preach on the subject, "Knockers and Boosters.” The Lion’s Club male quartet will provide one of the musical numbers and the entire club will sing the state song. A cordial invitation Is extended to the public to attend this service. ‘‘Start the New Year right by going to church 3bme here on New Years’ Sunday,” Rev. Line said. ‘‘Central Universalist Church wishes you a Prosperous and Happy New Year,” the pastor states. * * * THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S BIBLE CLASS of the Calvary Baptist I Church of Brightwood held their monthly business meeting night at the home of r Mr. and Mrs. Harry Newton, 2312 Parker Ave. A nominating committee was appointed for the election of officers in February. • • • THE PULPIT of the North M. E. Church, Maple Rd. Blvd. and Illinois St., will be occupied Sunday morning 10:45 by Dr. G. A. Hiller, and In the evening by Rev. W-. M. Whitsltt, former distrist superintendent of the Methodist Church, both of Indianapolis Special music by quartet and soloists. • • • THE SERMON SUBJECT of Elden H. Mills, pastor of First Friends Church, will be '‘Words That Live.” Vesper service at 5 p. m., Dale Alexander, leader. High school young people service 5 p. m., James Carson, leader.

REV. L. C. E. FACKLER of St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church will preach in the morning on "Christ Appeared Also for the Gentiles," and at night ‘‘The Childhood of Christ,” another sermci of the series on "The Life of Christ.” The vestry will meet Tuesday night at the home of E. F. Herther, 1632 Spruce St. • • • B. L. ALLEN will preach Sunday morning on “Life,” and at night, “The Glory Made More Glorious.” He will preach at 3 p. m. Sunday at 3839 Fletcher Ave. • • • THE FOLLOWING musical program will be presented at the vesper service of the Second Presbyterian Church Sunday afternoon at 4:45 o’clock. Organ Meditation Prelude—“ Scherzo from “Grand Sonata In E flat’’ Dudley Buck Anthem—“ Hail to the Lord's Annotated” Mark Andrews Anthem—“ There Is a Sate and Secret Place” Marston Solo-—“ Not Understood". .A. H. Houghton Mr. Frank B. Nuabaum. Organ Interlude—" Pastoral In F”.... J. S. Bach Anthem—“ Lord, Lead Us SUIT’ Dickinson Poetlude Organ Recital will follow the Charles F. Hansen la organist. * • • ‘THE EFFECT OF THE COMING OF JESUS, as Foretold by Symeon,” will be the morning sermon theme cf the Rev. E. F. Brcvo, pastor of the Riverside Park Methodist Episcopal Church. In the evening he will preach on “Spared for Another Year.” * * • AT ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH, the Rev. Elmer Jones will preach In the morning on "In Remembrance of Me” and at night on “The Law of God.” Vinson H. Manifold will address tha Other Fellows’ Bible Class. • • • DR. EDWARD HAINES KISTLER will preach two New Year sermons Sunday in Falrview Presbyterian Church. At the 10:45 morning worship the theme will be "Beginning With a Benediction”; at 7 p. m., “Is the World Growing Better?” The quartet willl sing In the morning. Miss R. Maude Delbridge is the evening soloist. CARDINAL IS BETTER /?i/ United Press BRUSSELS. Jan. 2.—Cardinal Mercier, who was operated on a few days ago for a stomach ulcer, was slightly Improved today. MOTION" PICTURES

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ROUNDING ROUND THF with WALTER 1 fIM 1 and HICKMAN OULD -rather look toward the future than dream about the |W| past, so we will consider a few of the January bookings for this cjty. A. F. Miller at English’s starts out the new year with an imposing and interesting list of January attractions. With the Music Box Revue closing tonight after a most profitable engagement after it got over the slump caused by the extreme cold weather, English’s next week will shelter “Rose Marie.”

One of the important' dramatic engagements of the season will begin when O'Neil’s “Desire Under the Elms” opens at English’s on Monday night, Jan. 11. It is probable that “Aloma of the South Seas" will be here for the week of Jan. 18. The Greenwich Village Follies, now In Chicago, will open at English’s on Monday, Jan. 25. The Shuberts are sending “Artists and Models” to this city at English's for the week of Feb. 1. Here is an Interesting list of new bookings. The O’Nell play of course towers over all of them. Here Is realistic drama, hard, cruel, plain and honest. It challenges deep thought and common sense reckoning with some of the plain sex things of life. * • • Those who are Interested in the continuance of summer stock at English’s will welcome the news that Charles Berkell and his company next summer again will be present at English’s. Berkell was her this week in conference with Mr. Miller of English’s to sing the final papers. Berkell probably will bring Eduthe Elliott again as his leading woman. • • • The following Important bit of news has been sent to this department: Declaring that it proposes to “stimulate a more Intelligent interest in the literary and dramatic value of American Historical romance,” and to “foster and finance the publication of American novels by American authors,” a group designating itself The Writers’ Guild announced today that it had applied to the Secretary of State for articles of incorporation. The incorporators are Mrs. Charles Stinchfield of Detroit, Mich., and Pasadena, Cal., Mrs. E. Ward of 27 E. Sixty-Second St., New York, and Willis Vernon (Jtole of 50 Washington Square, New York. Edward N C. Denaple, secretary-treasurer of the Guild, has established business headquarters at 80 Lafayette St.,

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this city, where its first work soon will go on the presses. "Writers of merit, and publishers as well, seem to be overlooking,the vast store of literary material that has accumulated during the historical life of America,” said Mrs. Ward. “The significance of the great pioneer movements, the chlvalrie romance of the frontiers, the drama with which each chapter of American history abounds, have been almost entirely neglected, except as they lie burled between the lines of our histories, and even these are far from authentic or complete. “The romance of old world history has been told and s retold, rehashed, rehearsed and exploited. It has dominated the literature of America until the American reading public, and American writers also, appear ignorant or indifferent to the wealth of romance and drama lying at their own feet, waiting to be assembled into literature and appreciated.” It is the purpose of the Writers’ Guild, according to Mrs. Ward, to encourage American talent to found a national literature. The Guild will serve as an outlet for the works of novelists and dramatists, for whom the assurance of production or publication of meritorious works will be an incentive which, it was asserted, is not now held forth by so-called “old line” publishers. Several historical novels already are under consideration by the Guilds’ committee of judges. It was indicated today that the first book published would be a romance of the early nineteenth century, when Cincinnati was “Queen City of the West," and that the plot, first laid in Ohio, would carry down the Mississippi, into Te:.as and through the most lurid nhaees of that State’s early history in the days of Santa Anna and the Alamo. Viola Dana, has completed the leading feminine role in Marshall Nedlan’s production, “Wild Oats Lone.”

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OPERA SEASON IN CHICAGO NEARS ITS END Great Line of Artists to Be Heard in Many Great Operas. ITH the close of the Chicago W season bf grand opera only three weeks off, the Chicago Civic Opera Company is presenting magnificent last performances of operas on a scale more • elaborate and perfect, if possible, than that which marked their productions during the earlier weeks of the season. Two world premieres of works in English have been presented and accepted by the Chicago public as worthy of the high standards set by the Chicago Company, and both —“Namiko San,” by Aldo Franchetti, and “A Light From St. Agnes” by W. Frankie Harllng—although of widely different musical composition and character, have more than fulfilled the expectations of their respective composers and audiences. “Resurrection,” given for the first time In America, on New Year’s Eve with Mary Garden in the leading role, followed closely on these. Besides attracting a large audience the work, which is based on Tolstoi’s famous book of the same name, was received favorably, indicating future demands for its reappearance. All these may safely be regarded as having established a permanent place In the repertoire of the company. The current week will be brought to a close Saturday night (Jan. 2) with a gala performance at popular prices—the last presentation of "Madame Butterfly" to be made this year. The cast will embrace Mason, Pavolska, Mackett, Remini and Mojica Polacco will conduct. Popular Matinee Sunday afternoon (Jaq. 3) will Introduce the second popular priced “suburban matinee” of the year—a double bill, too, for generous measure. The classic of childhood, “Hansel and Gretel," will be sung by Shdar, Pavloska, Lenska, Claessons, Preston, Conductor St. Leger, after which an elaborate ballet, “La Fete a Robinson,” will be staged by Serge Oukrainsky and the P&vley-Oukrain-sky ballet. The composer, Gabriel Grovlez, will conduct. Following these special features the tenth week of the Chicago civic

opera season will settle down to Its routine with a repetition on Monday evening of "A' Light From St. Agnes” as the first half of a double bill. The work will be sung in English by the original east —Raisu, Lamo.it and Baklanoff; Conductor (composer) W. Franke Harling—and will be followed by “The Daughter of the Regiment.” The latter, a novelty that has not been heard in. Chicago in many years. It was prepared for presentation on Christmas eve, but the illness of Giacema Rimini necessitated deferring the performance. In addition u> Rimini the cast will include Dal Monte and Hackett. Morapzoni will conduct. , ' Tuesday evening brings the first performance of the year of the wistful, pathetic, poetic and altogether delightful “Pclleas and Mellsande,” w'th Garden, Freund, Claessens, Mojica, Baklanoff and Kipnis. Polacco will conduct. Mason in Cast Wednesday evening "Herodiade” will be sung for the last time this season. The east for the ponderous and spectacular opera will Include Mason, Van Gordon, Ansseau and Bonelli. Conductor, Grovles. Wagnerian enthusiasts and lovers of opera in English will find much in common in the appeal presented by “Lohengrin,” to be sung Thursday evening in English. The leading holes will be assumed by Fltzlu, Lenska. Lamont, Baklanoff and Kipnis. The conductor will be Weber. Friday evening will bring the farewell performance of the picturesque, romantic and spectacular lyric drama of the French revolution, “Andrea Chenier.” The work will be sung by Claudia Muzie, Van Gordon, Marshall Mojica, Formichi and Trevisan. Polacco will conduct. Saturday afternoon will permit of a second hearing of ‘‘Resurrection," which had its American premiere on New Year’s eve under peculiarly propitious circumstances. The original cast, including Garden, Ansseau, Baklanoff and Conductor Moranzonl, will be heard on this occasion.

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Talbot Date SHE Inspired young Russian violinist, pianist and ’cellist, Leo, Jan and Mischel Cherniavsky, respectively will be here on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 14, in the second Ona B. Talbot Intime Concert in the ballroom of the Columbia Club. They have brought into the field of music something that has never before been discernible, this elusive something. If analyzed, It is a combination of qualities that have not recently been displayed by visiting virtuosi. Their unconventionality is not so much a rebellion against the interpretive cor.ventions as a spontaneous expression resulting from deep and concentrated thought, emotional exercise and unflagging practice of technique. No great artists have proved themselves less slavish in following preconceived notions of how the great masters’ works should be interpreted. Among many intelligent musical people the history and traditions of Interpretations of great works have been so reverenced that the Cherniavskys work sometimes comes to them as a kind of shock, but it is one of those shocks that is essential to awaken the dormant Intellectuality and emotions of those who have permitted themselves to be moulded Into set forms so far as Interpretation goes. The world of reality must realize that no standard can be set for tomorrow: that ever the imagination must reach out further, getting nearer and nearer to the original concerts of the great old mastersNo interpreter can ever claim perfection in his work, and the Cherniavskys have that Illumination, mentally and spiritually, which perceive that the interpretations of today are comparatively primitive to what they must be in the future; and they have refused to allow their extraordinary perceptive faculties to become obscured by the conceptions of their predecessors.

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Marie Morris as Abbio Putman / Eugene O’Neill’s “Desire Under the Eims,” which comes to The English Opera House, week beginning Monday, Jan. 11, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday, aroused so much discussion when it was produced in New York that District Attorney Banton finally selected a play jury of twelve men and women to attend the play and pass upon it. They voted in favor of the drama and ruled that not a line be changed, and a band of writers, educators, and thinkers defended O’Neill’s fidelity to truth and realism, stripping bare all the artifices of life. The distinguished cast to be seen In Indianapolis Is headed by Mary Morris, the original “Abble Putman,” and others are Robert Harrison, James Melghan, Allen Nagle, Victor Kllian, Arthur Mack, and R. Bruce Eaton.

~ ———’—■——“ ‘Artists and Models' Due Outstanding features of the new “Artists and Models,” coming to English's, week of Feb. 1, are “The Living 'Palette,” the “Promenade Walk," the “Midnight Color Ball,” the French Fan, the Spanish castle. "The Living Statues,” the golf scene, the Greenwich Village studio, the New Hampshire wood, the rose baJ let, and the con jdy skit, “Truth in China.” There are two acts and thirtyfour scenes in this revue, which Is the second pf an annual series produced under the direction of the Messrs. Shubert. It ran all last seaton in New York, and is now on a our of the prlnclpcf eltles. Prominent in the cast are Grace layes, the jazz songstress: Fred Hilebrand, the comedian; Luelta lovera, the Spanish dancer; Nancy Gibbs, the prima donna; Alex Morrison, the trick golf champion; Frank Gaby, the ventriloquist; De Haven and Nice, the travesty dancers; Dave Seed, Ralph Austin, Ann Toddlngs, Charles Massinger, Marie Stoddard and many others.

Valentino Busy "The Sons of The Sheik ’ will be Rudolph Valentino's next starrln • photoplay. Joseph M. Schenck, mentor of Valentino’s photoplays, yesterday announced he had purchased for the star the sceren rights to the new novel of love and adventure from the pen of E. M. Hull. Simultaneously he dispatched cables to the star, who is now in Europe, urging him to return to Hollywood as soon as possible. It is expected that Valentino will canool much of his tour and will be back in the United States next month. Production of the photoplay is scheduled to begin not later than Feb. 15.

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