Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1926 — Page 6

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NEGRI TOPS CAST OF A FILM NIFTY, ‘GOOD AND NA UGHTY

Jack Pickford Has Big Chance in ‘Brown of Harvard’ at J the Ohio Next Week—Circle to Offer Anna Q. Nilsson in ‘Miss Nobody’ and Harry Stoddard’s Orchestra. “Good and Naughty,,” Malcolm St. Clair’s screen production based on Avery Hopwood’s successful stage comedy, “Naughty Cinderella,” will he presented at the Apollo next yreek with I’ola Negri starring in a comedy role supported by a cast that includes Tom Moore, Ford Sterling, Stuart Holmes, Marie Mosquini, Warner Richmond and Miss Uul’ont.

Miss Negri, though long known i f s queen of tragedy, recently Surprised her admirers by demonsi rating that she is also adroit in seiious-eomedy portrayals, and never hag she been given a better opportunity than this picture offers. Poia has the role of Germaine Morris, a working girl, who though secretly in loVe with her employer, Gerald Gray, is so neglectful of her personal appearance that Gray never ftwards her so much as a second glance. Not until lie gets into a dilemma which follows his clandestine affair with the wife of a millionaire, does Germaine throw off her guise of an ugly duckling, revealing herself as a dazzling creature worthy of any man’s attention. Gray awakens with startling suddenness to an interest in the girl, and the complications that follow bring about a series of hilarious situations. The action takes place at Palm Beach, Fla., and in New York City, and the social rating of the characters ranges from the smart set of the metropolis to the 'pugilistic blue book, wherein is en[graved the name of “Bad News" Smith. Other program features will consist of a comedy. “Shore Shy.” the Fox news weekly, an organ solo by !Lester Huff entitled “In Our Apart'ment House,” and "Tonight's My .Night With? My Baby,” a comedy 'selection sung by Ralph .Duncan and ;I>olly Gray of Emil Seidel's orchestra. -]- -I- -!- '.TACK PICKFORD TOPS (CAST OF COLLEGE PLAY Jack Pickford, Mary Brian and IWilliam Haines are east in featured jroles of “Brown of Harvard,” a tale of modern college life adapted from the original stage play written (by Rida Johnson Young, which will !be the featured photoplay attraction to be shown at the Ohio Theatjfr for the coming week. The cast assembled in support of jthe stars includes Francis X. Bushman Jr., Mary Alden, David Torjrence, Edward Connelly, Quinn Williams and Ernest Gillen. A large portion of the scenes in the picture

On the Screen All Next Week APOLLO —“Good, and Naughty,” with Pola' Negri. OHlO—Jack Pickford and William Haines ■in “Brown of Harvard.” i Q. Nilsson in “Miss Nobody.” COLONIAL “The Dove Thief,” with Norman Kerry. ISlS—Buck Jones in “The Gentle Cyclone” the first half of the week. UPTOWN—Harry Dangdon in “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” opens Sunday.

.■were takeh in and around Harvard M Jack Conway, the director. A. ■TP. Younger did the screen adapt<ing. The story tells of Tom Brown, a Wealthy young egotist, who goes to (Harvard to take part in athletics land increase his reputation as a IDon Juan. He makes himself the 'idol of a group of boys, especially of Doolittle, his roommate. • The story takes him through two .years of college, and an affair with the daughter of a college professor. iThe picture includes a freshman crew race and a football game between Yale and Harvard, many of the scenes having been photographed last fall at the actual -gjatne. William Haines is cast in the role Jot a typical modern college youth. On the surface he is flippant, conscious of his good looks, and his way with the women, but withall mentally clean and with a keen sense of honor. Mary Brian plays the part of a fflrl reared in Cambridge, but old,fashioned in spite of it. On account iof her long proximity to Harvard she understands every boy who tries •flo make love to her, and knows how ‘tV> handle each one without being /varcome by his flattery. \ A- Helen and Warren comedy, ‘A flamily Picnic,” and a news weekly will compose the program of gbpplementary attractions. Miss Jtuth Noller and Tama Lyke, organists, will entertain with a program 0 f selections played on the Ohio organ and the attraction on the stage for the week will be Joe Wong trio. “MISS NOBODY” WILL BK FEATURE AT CIRCLE “Miss Nobody,” one of the most unusual pictures of the year, sea-

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Loftus Returns Cissie Loftus, English impersonator. who has become an established favorite in American vaudeville, sails from England, where/she has been vacationing, next week, and opens a tour of the Iveith-Al-bee circuit in Atlantic City the week of July 5. During b<w visit home she appetjred at a Command performance for the King and Queen. Rich Hayes, the comedy juggler. well known in America, also appeared at this performance and will return to Iveith-Albee vaudeville later in the season.

turing Anna Q. Nilsson, will be shown at the Circle Theater the comihg week, together with the presentation of Harry Stoddard and his famous Streets of New York Orchestra, one of the cleverest musical organizations in the country. Besides these featured attractions the Circle program Will also include a Hair Cartoon, a comedy, a news weekly and the Circle Studios presentation, "The Little Brown Rug,” a novel Robert Bruce divertisement. Harry Stoddard's Streets of New York Orchestra, is the second band on the Circle's third syncopation season. It was heard here last year, hut has changed entirely for next! week’s presentation. Mr. Stoddard's band is known for its Symphonic arrangements of popular tunes, its beautiful scenic and lighting investure, and for the excellent musicians which comprise it. In “Miss Nobody,” ATwia Q. Nilsson plays another male role, but this time takes the part of a tramp. “Miss Nobody” is the First National version of Tiffany Wells’ story, “Shebo,” directed by Lambert Hillyer with the editorial direction of Wid Gunning. The assisting cast includes Walter Pidgeon, who Was last seen at the Circle in “Old Loves and New,” Louise Fazenda. Arthur Stone, Mitchell Lewis, Clyde Cook, Anders Randolf, Claire du Brey, Jed Prout.v, Caroline Rankin, George Nichols, Oleta Otis, James Gordon and Fred Warren. “Miss Nobody” tells Os Barbara Brown, a child of wealtli who is suddenly thrown penniless upon the world when her father dies and his

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All of the directors of the Circlfe Theater Company are dreaming of about a million and a half dollars In beauty. Meaning that the Indiana Theater to be built on W. Washington St. will be the most beautiful and modern theater in the State, according to A. L. Block, president of the Circle Theater Company, which will operate and build the new theater, in addition to the present Circle and the new Uptown.

FREE ACT EARL WRIGHT I HOPS & FLOPS CLOWN ACT BUMPS & JUMPS SPILLS & THRILLS I 3 FUNNY CLOWNS June 27th to July 3d, InclunlTe. Free Adminelon to Uate Until 8 p. m., Except Sunday Riverside Amusement Park

MANY INTERESTING MOVIES ON VIEW NEXT WEEK

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Paramount Buys Paramount has bought the screen rights to Frederick Lonsdale’s play, “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney,” in which Ina Claire has been starring at the Fulton Theater for the last year. No plans are ready yet for the production of this picture.

immense fortune is lost. To escape the unpleasant attentions of a disagreeable acquaintance, she dons boy’s clothing. The next day she is picked up by a tramp who thinks her a boy and she is piled into a boxcar togethey with a gang of hoboes. From that time on she is accepted as one of them, although their leader, Bravo, recognizes a signet ring on her hand, but says nothing. Later Bravo buys a box of feminize attire and presents it to Barbara. -I- -I- -|* “THE LOVE THTEF” DI E AT THE COLONIAL ' Norman Kerry in “The Love Thief” is the Colonial’s offering for next week. It is said to be an elaborate picture with gorgeous settings an magnificent costuming with the locale a mythical kingdom in Europe, and generally an exhilarating offering of romance and the kind of love that laughs at blacksmiths. Mr. Kerry, as a handsome prince, who is besought as fiancee for the princess of a neighboring kingdom, presents a character of a love thief who breaks hearts as easily as locks. He wins the hearts of many fair maidens, tags them with an identification mark so that he will not flirt with the same girl twice, wins them and shuns them and finally by accident makes love to and tags the princess he really hoped to shun, finds himself arduously in love with her and even agrees to give up his kingdom and take a military drubbing for his one real lose. * Greta’S Nissen, the Scandinavian screen beauty, is cast as his leading support and the love making between the two will thrill the most hardened old lovers as well as new lovers as the plot of the story is unfolded and the two carry on their flirtations to the point that they upset al! calculations of their seheming relatives of each side. Others In the cast are Marc McDermott, Cissy Fitzgerald. Oscar Beregi, Carrie Daumery, Clarence Thompson and Charles Puffy. The short reel screen fare will in-

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No. I—Anna Q. Nilsson and An- ! ders Randary in “Miss Nobody,” at the Circle all next week. No. 2—Pola Negri will be seen in "Good and Naughty,” at the .Apollo all next week. No. J—Jack Pickford and AVilliani

elude an Arthur Lake comedy, “Papa's Mamma”; an Aesop Fable, "The Jungle Jugglers,” and an International News reel replete with current topics, including additional scenes of the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago. The musical entertainment will consist of novelty singing and instrumental numbers by Floyd Thompson’s merry gang of entertainers, with solos by Frank Owens, Bob Jones and Virgil Monks. -I- -I- -ILYRIC TO HAVE BIG MOVIE NEXT WEEK Asa special photoplay feature in addition to the usual vaudeville bill, the Lyric will present next week Hal Roach’s latest production starring Rex, king of wild horses. “The Devil Horse,” which, though as dramatically as potent, is said to be far more spectacular than Rex’s previous pictures, "The King of Wild Horses” and “Black Cyclone.” First meeting cruelty and tragedy at the hands of Indians, in "The Devil Horse,” Rex is a wild creature who grows up with a hatred for the Indian smell. Whenever it comes to his nostrils his heart is filled with fury and the desire to stamp it out.

* HAKVARir JACK PICKFORD • MARY" BRIAJtf • MARY ALDEN -FRANCIS X.BUSHivIAN.Jr. and WILLIAM HAINES (ashymQrown) YOUTH! LOVEJ THRILL! DRAMA! Real college life 1 You’ll go wild over this film—the greatest picture of football ever flashed on>the screen! Actual scenes from great games! 1 HELEN and WARREN Comedy. "A FAMILY PICNIC” OW OTO BTAOB JQ£ WONG TRIO nr A JfOVELTY PRESENTATION

Haines In “Brown ni Harvard,” at the Ohio next week. No. 4—Buck Jones will hate the chief role in “The Gentle Cyclone,” at the Isis. No. s—Norman Kerry in a scene sssfrom “The Love Thief,” at the Co-

So many Indians have been attacked by him and killed by his terrible hoofs that, to them, he Is a supernatural creature —perhaps an invention of the white man to torment and slay them. So they secretly plan warfare against the white people at Fort Baldwin, to whom Prowling Wolf, a young chief of the Spotted Horse tribe, offers a treacherous friendship. It is also his plan to take for his squaw the daughter of the commanding officer of the fort. Prowling Wolf and his braves plot well, and everything would have gone in their favor but for the Devil Horse who turns four-footed avenger. The human characters in the story are pertraced by Yakima Canutt, Gladys McConneil, Robert Kortnian. Roy Clements and Fred Jackman Jr. ; .1. .!. -|. BUCK JONES' LATEST TO BE SEEN AT ISIS The Isis will have Buck Jones in “The Gentle Cyclone” as the feature attraction the first half of next week. The picture, a novel comedy drama, presents Jones in the unsual role of a pacfilst—but one who is willing to use his fists,

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lonial, starting Sunday afternoon, t No. 6—Dolores Costello in “The Bride of the Storm,“ the first half of the week at the Palace. NO. 7—Harry Langdon in “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” opening at the l ptown Sunday.

if he has to, in order to enforce | peace and quietude. The mid-week change on Thurs- ! day will bring Art Acord in “the | Scrapping Kid,” together with an j educational comedy entitled "Light ; Housekeeping ” In “The Scrapping i Kid” Acord appears as Bill Brad- | ley, a bachelor ranch owner who I adopts three youngsters, and then in a strange manner his entire household becomes involved in the affairs of a trio of mail robbers. Velma Connor and Edmund Cobb are in the cast. -I- -!- -!- HARRY LANGDON’S COMEDY AT UPTOWN Harry Langdon’s first production for First National Pictures and also his first full length picture, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” is to be shown at the Uptown Theater Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Harry has the part of an ambitious young man who engages in a cross-country hike to win the heart of the girl he loves and to lift the customary mortgage from the paternal home. A comedy, news weekly and novelty subject are added attractions. "The Cohens and the Kellys,” the "Abie's Irish Rose" of the screen, will be featured on Wednesday and

Sherman Sails Lowell Sherman, the movie and dramatic star, has sailed for Europe with his new bride, Pauline Garon. Upon returning from his honeymoon, Sherman will re-enter Keith-Albee vaudeville, using as his vehicle a condensed version of "Lawful Larceny,” the dramatic hit in which" he scored heavily a few seasons ago.

Thursday. It is the funniest picture of this type that has been translated to the screen. “Mile Modiste,” Corinne Griffith's latest starring vehicle for First National, will round out the week, being shown on Friday and Saturday. It is the film version of the Victor Herbert operetta and includes in the casta in support of Miss Griffith, Norman Kerry and Willard Louis.

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With a Great AllStar Cajt including GRETA ,*** NISSEN Marc McDermott Cissy Fitzgerald Oscar Beregi jjL Charles Puffy i^Vv\y IT WILL MAKE ( i Vi)/ i OLD BLOOD u RUN YOUNG jBZ x VJB AND 8 YOUNG BLOOD MSB RUN HOT A Lesson In Loving You’ll Ne’er Forget! He flirted so much he had to put identification tags on the girls, so he wouldn’t repeat. It’# an idea, boy#. But don’t let the tagged ones get together. Just one of the hilarious touches that lifts this out of the class of all other love pictures. Resplendent with gorgeous settings. SHORT REEL FEATURES THAT DELIGHT ARTHUR LAVE I A*#OF FABI.B INTKRNATIOJfAI. "PAPA’I MAMMA'* I ffNOl E J 1 CKiJLEBS I .NEWS STRNT# Thompson's AMERICAN HARMONISTS Entertainers Soloist*—Frank Oweni, Bob ionn, Virgil Monks—Soloist* ALWAYS COOL AJTD COMFORTABLE

JUNE 26, 1026

I ARTISTS TO PENT BIG ACT ATTHEPALACE Headline Offering at Lyric Next Week Will Be ‘Nove'ty Five.’ A sextette of entertainers are presenting all kinds of vaudeville) amusement, including songs, comedy, music and the coming dance craze in “Whirl of Syncopation,” which headlines the Palace Theater bill the first half of the week. Santo Gebhla is the champion long distance Charlestoner, who gives a few of his own steps. This la th< hoy who also Introduces the new dance eruze, “Black Bottom." The Butler sisters are hnrmony singers and saxophonists. Price and Francine are a dancing tenm which acts as Russians and wooden soldiers. Altogether the “Whirl of Syncopation” is said to be one new thing after the other. The bill includes* JVARMAND AND HUNTING—- ! Comedians and singers, whose "Flvo Minutes From the Station" fs alesI son to aspiring employes in how to get better jobs. Hunting Jnvltes the boss home for dinner and the result Is nlmost tragic. BENDER AND ARMSTRONG—"Just ft Couple of Good Men Gone Wrong,” who chatter ai)d sing their own compositions. ARMSTRONG AND BLONDE LI. —“A Couple From Hollywood." two play the piano, strum n banjo, harmonize on original songs and popular numbers and give eccentric steps. HERBERT AND BOLT TRIO— Feuturlng “Slow Motion Athletics,” (Turn to Page 7) DANCE Miami Lucky “7” Starts Playing Sunday, June 27th, At DAY’S CASINO Cor. Southeastern & Emerson Aves. F ree Admission lOc a Dance Special Queen’s Voting Contest Starts June 20tb and cloaca July 9th at Day'a Casino. Beautiful dlHinond ring award cd to winner. Now on display at Jullua C. Walk & Son'a window, 5 JC. Walh .ngton St. Special balloon dance* on Thursday, July l and 8.

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