Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1926 — Page 6
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RESENER GOES INTO CONDUCTING STAND AT THE CIRCLE
Raymond Griffith to Be Seen in ‘Wet Paint’ at the Ohio Next Week —Ibanez’s‘Torrent’ to Open Sunday at Apollo for a Week. \Y/)ITH a leave of’absence granted to Constantin Bakaleiuikoff W g 0 to Los Angeles* Cal., as guest conductor of the million dollar theater, Edward Resener, associate conductor, Sunday becomes director of the Circle Theater orchestra. Bakaleinikoff left Friday for tIV Pacific Coast and on his departure Resener became director of the orchestra. He will complete the season as director.
Ace Berry, manager of the Circle, I states the Circle will follow its regu- j lar summer policy by bringing to j the city some of the more famous j orchestras and jazz band organizations. Richard Barthelmess will be the attraction at the Circle, beginning ; Sunday in “Ranson's Polly,” a story of a young officer at a western Army outpost during the Indian wars along about 1885. The story is based on the celebrated novel by Richard Harding Davis and presents Mr. Barthelmess in the ltfde of Lieutenant Ranson, a. role made famous on the stage by Robert Edeson some years ago. This is the second Edeson stage
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play which has been selected by Mr. Barthelmess for his own use, the other one being "Classmates.” The story concerns the surprising adventures that befall this young officer, when, bored and eager for excitement, he holds up a stagecoach with a pair of blunt scissors as his only weapon.' One of the most interesting scenes in the production presents an actual military court-martial. This is said to oe the first time that a court-martial in full detail has ever been presented on the screen. A staff of Army experts, headed by Col. C. C. Smith, famous Indian
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fighter, and Col. George L. Byram, were in charge of these scenes and also acted as technical and military advfsers during the filming of the battle scenes. Miss Dorothy Mackaill is seen opposite. the star in the role of the daughter of a western pioneer. Others in the cast are Anders Randolph, William Norton Bailey, Brooks Benedict and Pauline Neff. The overture for the week will be Von Suppe’s “Morning, Noon and Night,’’ played "by the Circle Concert Orchestra under the direction of Edward Resener, and another interesting musical feature on the program will be a James A. Fitzpatrick Famous Melodies subject, “Song of Scotland,” also played by the orchestra under Mr. Resener’s direction. A Circle comedy, the Circle News and a novelty film will complete the program. J. .1. .}. GRIFFITH TO BE SEEN IN “WET PAINT" “Wet Paint,” the latest picture starring the silk-hatted comedian, Raymond Griffith, in the leading role, -will be the main photoplay attraction at the Ohio for the coming week. Bryan Washburn, Helene Costello, Natalie Kingston and Henry Kolker are members of the notable cast which has been assembled in support of the star, and a fine company, which includes more than fifty of Hollywood’s fairest, is seen in addition to the featured players. Arthur Rosson directed the picture from an original story written for the star by Reginald Morris and adapted by Lloyd Corrigan. Raymond Griffith is shown as a wealthy bachelor, who is in love with a very rich beautiful girl, Helene Costello. One night when he proposes to her, she requests him to say it again, and louder. He does and she calls in a crowd of friends, who have been hiding, and asks them to pay their betting debt. Ray is angry and deeply hurt, but he laughs, though it isn’t easy. Then he announces that he is through with Miss Costbllo and will marry the first girl he meets. In his endeavors to get away from anything that wears ‘a skirt he has
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No. I—Jacquelinel—Jacqueline Logan will be seen in “Wages for Wives,” at the Colonial next week. No. 2 —Tom Mix will be seen in a feature movie, his latest, at the Lyric next week, and also at the Isis in another feature, "My Own Pal,” the first half of the week. No. 3 —Raymond Griffith with his high hat is seen in this scene from “Wet Paint,” to be at the Ohio next week.
thrilling experiences with nearly a dozen beautiful women. Returning home early one morning, he finds his key won’t tit the lock, so he gets a policeman to help him pry open a window and boost him through. Once in the house, he learns it is not his own, and to his horror discovers in it a woman whom he had met that day in company with her husband, a large, muscular person with a jealous and mean disposition. Griffith and the married woman spend considerable time trying to escape one another and a dozen times do they barely avoid collisions. Finally, however, he talks himself out of the jam, and is united to his first sweetheart. An Imperial comedy/ “A Rare Bird,” and a news weekly will make up the program of. supplementary film attractions. Miss Ruth Noller, organist, will offer a novel organ solo played on the Ohio organ. -I- -I- -I‘TORRENT’ TO OPEN SUNDAY AT APOLLO Vicente Ibanez • wrote "Torrent.” a drama of love and romance in modern Spain which will be presented at the Appollo next week. Richard Cortez ar.d Greta Carbo are co-starred in the picture which was directed by Monta Bell. Miss Carbo, Swedish star an<J noted European beauty, makes her American debut inthis .production Critics whtj have seen her work abroad are warm in their praise of her personality and talent, hence no little interest has been aroused in her coming to these shores. “Torrent” is the story of a girl's ambition, love and self-sacrifice. The heroine is Leonora, daughter of a poor physician in a little Spanish village. The prossessor of a
No. 4—Richard Barthelmess in a scene from “Ranson’s Folly", at the Circle next w r eek. No. s—George Hackthome will be seen at the Palace the last half of next week in “His Master’s Voice.” No. 6 —Greta Garbo, anew screen sensation, will play the lead in “The Torrent,” at the Apollo next week.
beautiful voice she longs for an operatic career. Rafael son of a wealthy widow who owns the house in which Leonora and her father live, falls in love with her. His mother frowns upon the match and the doctor takes the girl to Paris to train her for the stage. Leonora soon scores a big success, but because of the attentions paid her by various prominent men she Is made the victim, of scaandal. Returning to her old home she again meets Rafael, their love affair Is resumed, and the great tragedy of her life comes to pass. A thrilling and spectacular feature of the picture is a mighty flood in which, the raging waters sweep an entire town to restruetion. In the supporting cast are Gertrude Olmstoad, Edward Connelly, Lucien Littlefield, Mhrfha Mattox. C'ulJy Marshall, Mack Swain. Arthur Edmund Carew, Lillian Leighton aand Mario Carillo. The program will include an A1 St. John comedy, “Hold Your Hat.” the Fox news weekly, Emil Seidel and His Orchestra introducing “How To Get Gertie,” and Lester Hu(T presenting "The Second Meeting Os The Appollo Organ Club.” -!• -IMIX DOES MANY STUNTS AT ISIS An opportunity for heroic stunts in an entirely new field is provided Tom Mix in ”My Own Pal,” to be on view at the Isis the first half of next week. In this picture Tom trades his big hat for a mounted policeman's cap and does duty as a fighting cop. \ The mid-week change on Thursday will bring Elaine Hammerstein in “The Checkered Flag” a love story of the auto speedway. Thrills, romance and speed are the chief ingredients of the plot. Miss Hammerstein is supported by Wallace McDonald, Lionel Belmore, Robert Ober, Peggy O’Neil and Lee Shumway. “Lickety Split," a Lige Conley comedy will also be shown. -I- -I- -ITONY RUNS WILD” AT LYRIC NEXT WEEK Tom Mix subordinates himself to give stellar honors to his famous horse in his new production, “Tony Runs Wild,” which will be shown at the Lyric next week as a special photoplay feature in conjunction with the usual vaudeville bill. "Tony Runs Wild” is a story of Arizona, the scenes and action being laid along the beautiful and picturesque Apache trail, one of the most rugged sections of the Southwest. Some of the scenes were taken inside the ancient cliff dwellings, homes of a race that vanished from America centuries ago. Tony is pictured as the leader of a band of wild horses. He is captured, tamed and then released. At the climax of the story, in the final scene, he answers his master’s call and leads his wild mates In a rush that saves the fiero and heroine from being shot to death by desperadoes. In the cast are Jacqueline Logan, Lawford Davidson, Duke Lee, Vivian Oakland, Edward Martindale, Marlon Harlan, Raymond Wells, Jack Padjan, Arthur Morrison and Martin Faust. •!• -!- -!- “WAGES FOR WIVES” BOOKED AT COLONIAL, “Wages for WTves,” the screen version of John Goldens’ stage sucMOTION PICTURES
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cess, "Chicken Feed,” comes to the Colonial tomorrow for a week’s showing. Jacqueline Logon and Creighton Hale are the featured players of a splendid cast of comedians lnclud-
can -Slides and Selnir Water Wheel. Visit the Greatest and Only Wild Animal Zoo in the State. This Is a Free Attraction and One That the Entire Family Will Enjoy. Come Out to Nature’s Beauty Spot and Enjoy Yourself. Arrange to Spend Decoration Day Here—Many Special Features Added Attraction Sunday—Daredevil Huggins Balloon Ascension—Triple Parachute Leap
— a frank insight into the heart j s* \ °f a beauty—unfolded / ( —,JpL \ against the brilliant background/ AT V r i jrnr/ Os continental life and gayety. / yy - k / Ibanez, master novelist, nevir ' Y wrote a more fascinating love / yI J M°ota Rell Production I>W /ICT AL ST - J° HN COMEDY j “HOLD YOUR HAT” , FCTnEWS'WEEKLY A?. W-S EMIL SEIDEL AND HIS ORCHESTRA y / INTRODUCING 44 HOW TO GET GERTIE ” 4 <fX\ LESTER HUFF V OFFERING “THE SECOND MEETING OF THE APOLLO ORGAN CLUB”
ing Zazu Pitta, Claude Gillingwater, Margaret Livingston, Margaret Seddon, David Butler and Dan Mason. The picture is a comedy drama based on the moot question of
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whether the wives should be paid for their household services or no*, and Is said to be filled with hundreds of lack-provoking situations, with character* so that one will read Ily recognize their next door neigh bors among them. The argument, upon which the story Is based, arises on she day of Nell Bailey’* wedding, when her father discovers her mother has held out on the premium payments to provide Nell's trousseau—and her mother discovers that her father has borrowed on the policy itself to invest in nono-too-certaln bonds. Nell leads the revolt of the wives when her newly-acquired husband fails to agree with her. She estab fishes them at a farmhouse In the country, prevents them from communicating with their respective spouses and waits results. In the meantime the husbands are getting very tired of shifting for themselves. Danny, the bridegroom Is forever hunting for a mean* of declaring a truce of reaching some sort of an agreement. The others reach the point where they ar* will lng to arbitrate —wh*en the wives re turn and find them in the company of the village vamp. About that time It looks as if the comedy would have a sad, dramatic ending—but old Mr. Trevi*. the sta tlon agent, who is the walking news paper of the community, saves the situation. The supplemental features wilt Include a comedy, “That’s Mv Baby.” in which Neely Edwards t featured; an Aesop Fable, “The Rig Retreat,” and tho International News. Floyd Thompson’s American Harmonists will present another novelty program of singing and Instrumental numbers with solo* by Frank Owens, Bob Jones and Vlr gil Monks.