Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1926 — Page 6

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MEROFF’S HIGH HATTERS DUE AT CIRCLE NEXT WEEK

Cullen Landis Will Top Cast of 'Midnight Flyer’ at the Colonial —Lon Chaney Has Dramatic Chance in 'Road to’Mandalay’ at Apollo. Milton Sills, who typifies the strong man of the screen, is seen again in a role of the same type in “Puppets,” which comes to the Circle next week, together with Ben Meroff’s famous High Hatters, a musical organization. In addition to the featured subjects, other attractions on the program will be a Hair Cartoon, the Circle’s studio presentation, “The Brown Rug,” with a musical interpretation by the Circle string quartet, a comedy and the Circle animated news weekly.

Ben Meroff’s High Hatters is one of the peppiest jazz bands now before the public. Ben Meroff, the leader and star of the band is likewise one of the most versatile of performers, playing every instrument in the orchestra, dancing, singing and entertaining in all of his own. Gene Gori, a talented violinist, is a headliner with the act. In “Puppets,” Sills has one of his most picturesque roles, that of an Italian puppet master. The picture was directed by George under the production management of A1 Rockett, and was adapted from the famous play success by Frahces Lightner. Chief in support of Sills in this production are Gertrude Olmstead, Francis McDonald, Mathilde Comont, Lucien Prival, William Ricciardi and Kick Thompson. “Puppets,T tells of Nicki Riccoboni, who owns and operates a puppet theater in New York's lower east side. When Angela, his sweetheart, loses her job in a drug store, Nieki has her sing in his theater during the performances. When the World War breaks out Nicki returns to fight for Italy, first thrusting a knife in the wall, telling his companions that if the knife remains, he will return for Angela.. During the war Nicki becomes stone deaf and is captured by the enemy after which a report is sent out that he is dead. Bruno, one of the workers at the theater, falls in love with Angela, and Nicki turns up at the crucial moment. He can not hear Bruno making love to Angela. ~.V.; -I- -|- -IRAILROAD MELODRAMA BOOKED AT THE COLONIAL Cullen Landis and Dorothy Devore are co-starred in “The Midnight Flyer,” a love romance of the rails, which is the Colonial’s attraction next week. This production is based on two stories by Arthur Guy Empey and the plethora of sensational material is said to have been knitted into a taut, interesting and gripping whole. In the assisting cast are BuddyPost, Charles Mails, Frankie Darro, Claire McDowell, Barbara Tennant, . Elmo Billings and A1 Ethier. Characterization has by no means been neglected in developing the story, and the quaipt, unusual types of the Virginia mountaineers, conspiring in their ignorance against the qoming of the hated ‘railroaders,” are said to have been beautifully done. The supplemental features will include a comedy, “Mixed Doubles,” in which Charles Puffy is starred; an Aesop Fable, “Chop Suey and

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RIVERSIDE Free Acts Every Night and Sunday Afternoon Fireworks Display Night of July 3rd. JULY 4th PROGRAM Mammoth display of fireworks day and night. .Fifteen set pieces. The Australian Birds, Western Cowboy act. Wayman King, the East Indian sword swallower. Free beef barbecue sandwiches. See the baby monkey, only six days old. Six baby foxes just arrived. Many other animals in the free zoo. COME EARLY AND STAY LATE

Hays Signs The board of directors of the Motion Picture Producers and distributors of America, Inc., has announced that a contract has been tendered to Will H. Hays to serve as president of the association for a period of ten years from 1926 and that Mr. Hays has accepted the offer. The latter is now on his way to California for his semiannual visit to the studios on the coast. He became president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America early in 1922, leaving a post in the cabinet of President Harding to assume leadership in the motion picture industry.

Noodles,” and the International News Reel of current events. Floyd Thompson’s band of entertainers, the American Harmonists, will be heard in noveTtv musical numbers. -!- -I- -IJLOX CHANEY FEATURED IN “ROAD TO MANDALAY” Lon Chaney is starred in “The Road to Mandalay,” a Tod Browning production coming to the Apollo next week. Browning, in addition to directing the making of the picture also collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz in writing the story. “The Road to Mandalay is a vivid drama of Singapore, Mandalay and Bengal Bay in which grim tragedy, gaunt realism, breathless suspense and one of the most delightful love stories ever depicted on the screen combine to enhance the entertainment value. Chaney has the role of “Singapore Joe” a sinister individual who wields vast power among the denizens of the Oriental underworld. He wears one of the strangest disguises that he has ever donned. Chaney is supported by Lois Moran, Henry B. Walthall, Owen Moore, John George, Rose Langdon, and the noted Japanese actor. Kamiyama Sojin. Maylays, hal?casts, mulattoes, and Orientals mingled in one of the strangest assemblages gathered, even at a film studio, for the making of the picture. The program will include a Jimmy Archer comgdy entitled “Creeps,” the Fox news weekly, Emil Seidel and his orchestra, featuring “Too Bad,” and Lester Huff, organist.

MANY INTERESTING MOVIES ON VIEW NEXT WEEK

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playing “Poet and Peasant” overture. .' -I- -I- -I----“BORN TO THE \V£ST” DUE AT THE OHIO Jack Holt in “Born to the West,” the picture version of Zane Grey’s novel, produced amid the wild, natural beauty of Western crags and canyons, will be the attraction at the Ohio theater for the corning week. The stars principal feminine support is Margaret Morris, and others included in the cast are Raymond Hatton, Arlette Marchal, George Siegman, Bruce Gordon, William A. Carroll, Tom Kennedy, Richard Neill and Edith Yorke. Lucien Hubbard did the screen adapting for the picture which is the first directorial effort/ of John Waters. The story opens in Colorado in the year 1875 with two school boys engaged in a terrific fight over a girl. Both emerge from the fray with marks they> carry from school through life, marks which seem eVer to remind them of the enmity that must exist to the end. Their trail in after years crosses many times and in many place but neither gives nor takes quarter. The sequences carry on through dance hall scenes and holdups in the gold mining country, finally com-

Realrßuffalo Buffalo scenes for “The Last Frontier,” a Metropolitan Pictures special in which William Boyd, Marguerite De La Motte, Jack Hoxie and J. Farrell MacDonald have the featured roles, were filmed in House Rock Valley, Ariz., where the largest existing herd of bison in America may be found.

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On the Screen All Next Week CIRCLE—MiIton Sills in “Puppets.” COLONIAL—“The Midnight Flyer,” with Cullen Landis. APOLLO—Lon Chaney in “The Road to Mandalay.” OHIO —“Born to the West,” with Raymond Hatton. ISIS —Jack Hoxie in “The Fighting Peacemaker,” the first half of the week. THE yPTOWN William Boyd in “The Volga starting Sunday for three days.

ing .to a smashing climax in several heartgripping scenes. Jack Holt is cast as "Colorado,” a cowpuncher whose horse’s hoofs have covered every trail in the west, from the heat of the pan. handle to the snows cf Montana: a cowboy who has lived the rough lifo of saddle and gun. His boy and manhood enemy is played by Bruce Gordon, and Margaret Morris plays the part of the childhood sweetheart of Holt. Comedy relief is furnished by Raymond Hatton who is cast in the role of Tack Holt’s comical buddy. An O. Henry comedy, “Penny Lick Loves,” and a news weekly will make up the program of supplementary film attractions. Miss Ruth Noller, organist, will offer an organ solo played on the Ohio organ, and there will be a stage presentation. •I- -I- -IJACK HOXIE IS FEATURED AT ISIS “The Fighting Peacemaker," a drama, starring Jack Hoxie, will be the chief attraction at the Isis the first half of next week. The story is based on the ancient hatred of cattlemen and sheep men for each other. In Hoxie’s Bupport are Lola Todd, Ted Oliver, William A. Steele, Robert McKenzie, Clark Comstock, Tom Grimes, Bert De Marc, Frank Rice

\j\ BIG ENTERTAINMENT TIME! /sfiGs \x/ i IjArj’ L I CULLEN LANDIsI DOROTHY DEVORE—BARBARA TENNANT ATOW comes to our screen a love drama of the roaring rails—of racing engines-—of struggling souls fighting a strange destiny—of courageous youth facing its bitterest test—of young love aglow in the flaming crucible of fate. A gorgeous melodrama it is—with a heart—a soul—a fine story . SHORT REEL FEATURE DELIGHTS Chas. Puffy in Fable , International “Mixed Doubles” Ch^.. and New, Fldyd Thompson’s Merry Bunch .American Harmonists Soloiats —Frank Owtiis, Bob Jones, Virgil Monks ALWAYS COOL AND COMFORTABLE! CHAftH? j • *' 1 * ” * ■

No. I—Raymond Hatton as lie appears in "Born to the West,” at the Ohio next week. No. 2—William Boyd will be seen in “Tlie Volga Boatman,” starting Sunday for three days at the Uptown. No>3—Bebe Daniels and Ricardo Cortez will be seen in “Volcano,” at the Palace the first half of the week. No. 4—Gertrude Olmstead and Milton sills in a scene from “Puppets,” at the Circle next week. No. s—Cullen Landis is cast as a railroad man in “The Midnight Flyer,” at the Colonial next week. No. 6—Lois Moran has one of the important roles in “The Road to Mandalay,” at the Apollo all next week.

and Floyd Criswell. The action alternates between thrills, romance and comedy. Other films will be a Bray Pictograph, "The Ostrich Plumes,” and a Grantland Rice Sportlight, “Clever Feet.” Thursday the midweek change of program will bring George Walsh in “The Test of Donald Norton,” a drama of the Canadian northwest. Walsh appears in the role of a young Indian fur trapper, who becomes the pivoffd figure of the story which deals with the rivalry of two great fur trading companies, and an interesting love affair.V Walsh has the support of Eugenia Gilbert, Tyrone Power. Virginia True Boardman and Evelyn Selbie. The program will Include a short Western subject entitled “Let Loose.” -I- -I* -I- 1 THE UPTOWN LISTS ITS MOVifcS NEXT WEEK | “The Volga Boatman,” one of the outstanding productions of the year, will be shown at the Uptown, College Ave. at Forty-Second St., next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It is a Cecil B. DeMille picture. William Boyd takes the leading role, as a down-trodden peasant, who arises to affluence during the Russian revolution. Elinor Fair plays the part of the aristocratic heroine, who lives through one of the most chaotic periods in Russian history. A juvenile comedy. “Baby Be Good.”

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a news weekly and an Aesop Fable are added. Reginald Denny the vigorous comedian, will be seen In “What Happened to Jones,” on Wednesday and Thursday. It is a farce comedy done in Denny's best manner. A Clyde Cook comedy, “Scared Stiff," and a Marvel of Motion subject will also bo shown.* Hoot Gibson, one of the leading exponents of the Vestern pictures, is starred in "Chip of the Flying U," which rounds out the week's prog! am, to be played on Friday and Saturday. Alberta Vaughn is starred in ‘Plane Jane,” which together with a news weekly, and a Bray cartoon will complete the program.

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III! \EA Service HOLLYWOOD, July 3.—Ben Turpin, Mack Sennett's famous crosseyed comedian, is chuckling at the sheepish discomfiture of a crowd of Hollywood sidewalk knights who mistook him for a straying nymph during recent filming of a French and Persian film farce. In the story Ben was robbed of his clothes by a fleeing harem princess. He in turn had donned her scanty attire to make his own getaway. And thus he sidled along the boulevard and into the startled gaze of the unsuspecting boys. They followed with interest, for even in Hollywood harem girls in georgette, pearls and lacy pantalettes are none too common. Fol-

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a The Man of 1000 Faces m ■§ w E[lfl mß now pi° €S the screen his most | Jm jffi amazing character! JIMMY ARCHER COMEDY —FOX NEWS WEEKLY Lester Huff Organ Solo —“Poet and Peasant” Overture EMIL SEIDEL AND HIS ORCHESTRA

lowed until Ben maneuvered them toward the spotlights and focused upon the knights a general horselaugh. • * Corinne Griffith, beautiful lady o’ films, has purchased the famous steam yacht Edris, in the cabin of which tho late owner, Thomas 11. Ince, was stricken with his fatal illness. The imperturbable Miss Griffith thus defies the “hoodoo” which prevented many superstitious niovio folk from purchasing at bargain price the vessel once dedicated to lavish entertainment. MYSTERY PLAY FOR MOVIES Immediately upon his arrival at Universal (Tty, Paul Leni began preliminary work on the direction of “The Cat and tho Canary," the John Willard stage success which has just been purchased for films.

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WARNERS TO MAKE PATSY MILLER A BIG FILM STAR ; Little Movie Player Comes Into Her Own by Good Work. By Jack .lungineyer SEA Service IVrilrr HOLLYWOOD. July 3.—Sloeeyed and sharp-witted Patsy Ruth Miller, who has just been elevated to stardom by Warner Brothers, exemplifies the triumph of steady plugging and dependability amidst the more flashy gyrations of the film depart-, ment. Mho demonstrates that the race is not always to the swift ami the spectuoulHr. Critics, presumably reflecting' the public, have neither raved about Patsy Ruth nor lambasted her. She moves serenely In the middle ground, working faithfully, nildlng steadll.v to her following, making money for her employers and exerting a stabilizing Influence upon the younger set of screen players. Not So Many of These The film world is by no means overpopulated with persons having such a list of practical merits. Patsy Ruth's progress is all the more remarkable in that it haa not been dedicated prlmurlly by that need of livelihood which brings many youngsters to the screen. Sheer ambition, without the need of money has spurred her on. Supported by a family of means, she nevertheless has worked as hard and steudlly ns anyone driven by necessity. During the last tw<> years she probably has spent more hours before the camera than any other girl In the Industry. Her annual vacations have amounted to less than ten days. Not by Work Alone But work nlone Is no sure sesanit} to success in Hollywood. Social (Turn to Page “)

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