Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1926 — Page 6

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‘SEA HORSES’ WITH FLORENCE VIDOR AT APOLLO

The Stili Alarm’ Opens at Colonial Sunday for Week. fpUIE STILL ALARM,” 1 1 lan adaptation-of the old stage play from the pen of Joseph Arthur, one of the most poi.rd of Indiana playwrights of a score of years ago, and Which was one of the most sensational successes of the speaking stage of the “meller-dram-mer” period, comes to the Colonial all next week. William Russell and Ilelene Chadwick are the featured players. The others in the largo cast which include forty of the most famous fire fighters of the Pacific Coast, are Edna Marian, Richard Travers, John T. Murray, Edward Hearn, and Hot Earley. Director Edward Laemmle had the assistance of Eire Chief Scott of Eos Angeles and Eire Chief Murphy Os San Francisco in the filming of the stupendous fire scenes, among the big thrills of the picture. The picture shows fire fighting of both today and a period of twenty years ago and the runs of the horsedrawn vehicles to one fire and of the latter day auto equipped machines to the second big fire is most interesting in showing the different methods. The biggest thrill of the picture is offered in the escape of a fire company and the hero and the villain from one burning building along an eight inch stone ledge high In the air, is said to make one sit on the edge of his seat with tense excitement until the men teach safety. The story is rich in melodramatic material being one of the staunch and underpaid American fire fighters, The hero, Dick Ray, a fireman, Is betrayed by a politician, a boarder In his home, who elopes with his wife. The erring woman could not withstand the temptor with his offers of finery she desired, her husband's salary would not permit. The eve of the elopement found Dick Fay rescuing a woman and her babe from a burning apartment, but the woman died and he adopted the child. Grown to womanhood, the girl was sought in marriage by a young fireman. How she was entrapped by the same man who had ruined her father’s life and how she was saved by the former wife and the retribution that befell the villian furnish some most tensely thrilling sequences. The supplemental screen features include a snappy comedy “So This is Paris,’’ in which Neely Edwards is the star; an Aesop fable, “The Merry Blacksmith,” and the current International News. Floyd Thompson’s American Harmonists in addition to their program of varied music will present an all solo number, “Ills Little Black Moustache,” one of the latest New York hits. Julia Niebergall will be heard in pianologues. Charleston contests for adults on Friday night ancl for juveniles on

VAUDEVILIf'S POPULAR STAR Wmpi MISS PATRICOLA Ij \ ’ Scintillating Melodlet In a Cycle of Character Songs p C 4' J Glorifying the Charm of Youth and Onlee R t M MADELYN & HOYT MEREDITH I Fnipoiled I/ittle Aristocrats of Dauceland Vm ) Famous Farceurs in a Hilarious Hit henry b. toomer & Esther day I ffiiL W®J Offer "A VERY BAD COLD", " 1 Music, Mirth and Melody DUNION & GEGNA Visit a Vaudeville The Wandering Musicians II 0 Theater /.* 2 . J NV A WFFK *| v Following the Straight and Narrow Path I "* .April 4to 11 THE FOUR ORTONS Augraented Shows } Featuring the “DUKE OF DUCK” t Special Programs fl . a a— """T . (p — Added Singing and Dancing Feature Real Jubilee Bills ■■ in rishir is% a m ■ inaiH Cit' ■mss’ 1 >r WHITING & BURT s * I vt‘ __ B In Several Song Scenes and Dances 5F ** #,Bted Virginia Mae Eddie Weber Conducting |y Sjmßb a Extraordinary Screen Offering .tiVfK Lionel Barrymore & Clyde Cook | fw 7 \il * n a R° Comedy “Wife Tamers" p §|j hfliM' M| Pathe News Topics Aesop’s Fables f| jgjjjMWjgg . <■ -- -, • ■ ■ • - : -■■Vfy.-r? ■ T MBaßsHr l 0 z^sßl

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Another Sheik Instead of “The Son of the Sheik,” “Son of the Sheik” Is the officially determined title of Rudolph Valentino’s new picture for United Artists Corporation release. The star has begun work on It at Hollywood, in a production presented by John IV. Considine, Jr., with Vilma Banky playing the leading feminine role and George Fitzmaurice directing. The story is by E. M. Hull, author of “The Sheik,” in which Valentino created a furore a few years ago. In the new film the hero is one of two sons of the original sheik.

Saturday afternoon will be added attractions. „j. ,|. lON CHANEY HEADS BIG MOVIE CAST “The Black Bird,’’ a mystery thriller of London’s Limehouse district, is to be seen the coming week at the Circle with Lon Chaney, "King of character,” in the leading roles. “The Black Bird,” was both written and directed by Tod Browning and has the services of a superior cast made up of some of the most celebrated players of the screen among whom are Renee Adoree, Owen Moore, Doris Lloyd, Andy McLennan, 'William Weston, Eric Mayne, Sidney Bracy, Ernie S. Adams and Polly Moran. In “The Black Bird,” Chaney plays the role of a notorious character in Limehouse known as “Tho Black Bird,” who leads a double life. At times he becomes a cripple by twisting his limbs and assuming the part of “The Bishop,” a keeper of a Llmehouse rescue mission. ' While in the role of the pestilence of Limehouse, Chaney falls in love with Fifl a music hall girl, and one night promises her the diamond collar worn by a slummer. In the slumming party there Is “West End Eddy,” an aristocratic crook, who has also promised Flfl the collar. But still another crook steals the

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collar only to have it taken from him by Eddy. Chaney, as the Black Bird, then steals it from Eddy, only, to learn that Fifi has decided to marry Eddy. Flfl and Eddy next appear at the mission and ask The Bishop to perform the marriage ceremony. How “The Black Bird" atones for his crimes, and Eddy and Flfl find happiness together, Is told in this absorbing story which was written especially for Mr. Chaney. One of the features of the week’s program will be the presentation of another of the James A. Fitz Patrick Music Master Cinema Overtures, “The Life of Verdi.” with a score of the best known of the famous composer's works played by the Circle Concert Orchestra under the direction of Bakalelnikoff. There will also he the Circle News; a Circle Comedy, “Whoa, Emma’ featuring Jimmie Adams, an dan organ solo played by Dessa Byrd. •!• -!■ -I‘SEA HORSES’ IS DUE AT APOLLO In addition to sharing the stellar honors with Jack Holt In Allan Dwan’s spectacular production “Sea Horses,” to be presented at the Apollo next week, Florence Vidor has the distinction of being the only woman in the cast which includes William Powell, George Bancroft, Mack Swain, Frank Campeau, Allan Simpson, George Nichols, Dick La Reno and Frank Austin. “Sea Horses,” adapted from Francis Brett Young's novel of the same name, offers something different in the way of scenery, settings, atmosphere and backgrounds. The major part of the action takes place in nn isolated port on the Fast African coast, thoujfh many of the earlier scenes are laid on board n big ocean freighter. Containing romance. drama and suspense, the picture sets anew mark for realism and thrills, the high spots including a, rip-roaring storm at sea, and a tropical tornado on land. The story centers around a lovely and charming English woman, who, with her little daughter, sets sail on an ocean freighter bound for East Africa, where she hopes to find

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N'o. I—Some more weird makeup in used by Lon Chaney in “The Blackbird,” at the Circle next week. N'o. 2—Claire Windsor and Conrad Nagel will be among the interesting people in the cast of “Dance Madness,” at the Ohio next week. N'o. 3—Edna Murphy and James Kirkwood have important roles in “The Police Patrol,” at the Palace the last half of the week. N'o. 4—Lionel Barrymore and Gertrude Astor will be seen in “The Wife Tamer” at Keith’s next week. No. Here is the way Florence Vidor will look in “Sea Horses,” at the Apollo next week. No. 6—Norman Kerry will be in the cast of "Under Western Skies," at the Isis the first half of next week. N'o. 7—. V scene with Joseph Arthur’s “The Still Alarm,” at the Colonial next week.

her husband who had deserted her a year after their marriage. Her presence on board the ship has an electrifying effect on the officers and the rough crew. The burly mate and the youthful third officer eventually come to blows over her, and even the captain finds himself yielding to her unconscious charms. What happens when she finds her husband has degenerated into a dirty, drunken beach comber, and the development of her subsequent romance with the sea captain forms the'largest and most part of the picture. The program will Include a Mack Sennett comedy, “Circus Today,” the For news weekly, Earl Gordon, organist, a saxophone solo, "Na-

I Sunday ■ ' a I. Charleston! J I ROBERT f-neVriKht into I W / ATUONRAD NAGEL J KM V '^^- WINDS ?F I ft L maw rlest picture romance you’ve Y ever laid your eyes on! This one Is the whirlwind comedy sensation of the year—* madcap tale of modern marriage that starts at sixty miles an hour and grows faster to the end! IMPERIAL COMEDY— * 1 OFFICER OF THE DAY” CHARLIE DAVIS’ GOOFUS BAND PLAYING A NOVELTY OVERTURE ”1 FOUND A NEW BABY” CHARLIE DAVIS ORCHESTRA RUTH NOLLER, Organist

dine” played by Gale Stout, and Emil Seidel and his orchestra. -I- -I- -I(‘LAIRE WINDSOR TO BE SEEN AT OHIO Claire Windsor and Conrad Nagel make their first appearance together in Robert Z. Leonard’s production of “Dance Madness,” the featured photoplay attraction to be shown at the Ohio Theater during the coming week. In this picture tho two players have departed from their usual type of performances and have developed almost entirely new screen personalities. The picture is an intimate. sophisticated farce-comedy, the locales of which include Europe, Africa and America. “Dance Madness” tells the rather hectic life of a newly married couple honeymooning in Paris. Comedy holds the upper hand in public favor this year, and the plot has been played for every possible laugh. The story was written by S. Jay Kaufman, well-known New York columnist and fiction writer, and adapted to the screen by Alice D. G. Miller and Frederica Sagor. The supporting cast includes Hedda Hopper, Douglas Gilmore and Mario Carillo. Claire Windsor appears as May, a young wife being neglected by Roger, her husband, for the sake of other women, among them one Valentina, a popular dancer on the Parisian stage. May visits the siren and, in this unusual story, obtains her cooperation in teaching the philandering husband a lesson. Valentia loans the young wife her mask and costume, and therefore the husband courts his wife in the be-

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The Leaders The ten dramatic plays that have run longest in New York are Channing Pollock’s “The Enemy,” “Is Zat So?” “The Butter and Egg Man," "Cradle Snatchers,” “The Jazz Singer.” "The Green llat,” "Craig’s Wife,” “Easy Come, Easy Go,” “Young Woodley,” and —of course—“ Abie’s Irish Rose.”

lief that he is obtaining favor with the dancer. The dancer's husband, who is also in the plot against Roger, professes anger and jealousy and arrives at Roger's home one evening to search for his wife. May, masked as the dancer, hides from both men, but allows her husband to discover her when the dancer's husband has gone. Conscience-stricken, Roger attempts to persuade the pseudodancer to return to her husband, and at this point May accidentally drops the mask. An Imperial comedy, “Officer of the Day,” and a news weekly will complete Ihe fllrr attractions. Cy Milders and Eddie Paige, soloists, are featured with the Charles Davis Orchestra and Miss Ruth Noller will play at the Ohio organ. •I- -I- -ITWO MORE BILLS ANNOUNCED AT ISIS Norman Kerry' is starred in “Under Western Skies.” a melodrama which will be presented at the Isis the first half of next week. It Is a

Lon Chaney to Be Seen at Circle in ‘The Black Bird.’ story of u rich youth, Robert Erakino, who befriends a group of western rodeo Stars stranded in New York, journeys back to Oregon with them, becomes a common laborer in the wheat fields, and soon finds himself pitted against his father and a crowd of eastern capitalists who seek to force the ranchers to sell out at a low price. The picture abounds in action, with the annual Pendleton round up supplying many of tho exciting scenes. Anne Cornwall, Ward Crane, George Fawcett, Kathleen Ivey and i other are In the supporting cast. | A Bobby Vernon comedy, “High Gear,” will also he shown. On Thursday the new program for the last half of the week will consist of a drama of the prize ring entiled "The New Champion,” starring William Fairbanks and a Billy Dooley comedy, * The Goofy Gab." In “The New Champion" Fairbanks has the role of a young blacksmith who turns boxer, and battles his way to the heavyweight chain J pionship of the world. A romance 1 is cleverly Interwoven, and there !is a sizzling fistic scrap between | Fairbanks and A1 Kauffman, one | time a contender for the champion- | ship crown himself. In the cast | are Edith Roberts, Lotus Thompson, I Lloyd Whitlock and Frank Hagney. NOTED DANCER PREPARES ACT Gamhnrelli, former premiere danseuse at the Capitol Theater, New York, Is preparing an act for KeithAlbee vaudeville. She will he assisted by four girls and a pianist.

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WITH EDNA MARIAN, RICHARD TRAVERS, JOHN T. MURRAY, EDWARD HEARN, DOT FARLEY I The Last Word in Melodrama J WERE*S a romantic story of the Fire Depart ] ■* ment, intermingled with the tragedy of a de\ serted husband, a runaway wife and an unscrul pulous man whose villainy reached doubly intM the life of the heroic Fireman—a gorgeous fasM ion show and a production that will amaze with its realism. Supplemental Screen Faffl NEELY EDWARDS ■ rre Comedy ‘SO THIS IS P up AESOP FABLE, “THE INTERNATIONALS MERRY BLACKSMITH” NEWS EVENTSVI FLOYD THOMPSON’S American Harmonif^^H THE ORCHESTRA OF SOLOISTS Presenting “His Little Black JULIA MKBKKCAI.L, PI \ N< H < M,, Charleston Contests POLOffl jg PICK O' THE PICTURES MUSIC!

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THEATRE GUILD TO STAGE HEW COMEDY IN CIT^ 'From a Clear Sky' Will Be Given at Masonic Temple. The first production of anew In Uiana piny by nn Indiana wilier on any stage will he undertaken at the Masonic Temple on the night Os Thursday, April T3. The Indiana play reading commit tee, with Mrs. \V. O, Bates and Bert Merling at the head, have been read lng scores of Indiana written plays, and the number of worthwhile dra mntie writings has evoked great enthusiasm In the Guild, whose nlni Is primarily to give the embryonic lloosier playwright a real opportunity for overcoming that almost insurmountable nightmare of the unknown dramatist, a stage production. Three plays particularly are do serving of production, and these Indiana plays will see the light of birth through the altruistic ambition of the local Guild to insure the new lloosier dramatists a sincere stag ing of their creative work. The first of this tyro of Indiana plays to he produced will be a fr.rce comedy written by Augusta Stevenson, entitled “From a t'lear Sky." The technical working group of the Guild lias already started On the lighting and setting for play. The premier will be given on the Thursday evening of April 16 of this Indiana play by an Indiana author. FAYFRSHAM IN TWO A DAY William Faversham, legitimate actor, Is appearing In Keith Albee vaudeville in anew dramatic sketch.

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