Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1926 — Page 5
JULY 24, 1926
McKAY MORRIS TO OPEN AT KEITH’S IN ‘THE OUTSIDER f _
Berkell to Present His Players in ‘My Son’ at English’s Next Week—Walker Lists Three Great Bills Before His Stock Season Closes Here. “The Outsider,’’ “The Swan” and “Icebound” are three interesting productions lined up by Stuart Walker for presentation at Keith’s theater during the coming three weeks. / The first two plays will be new here, while “Icebound” has been seen here previously in stock at the Murat. McKay Morris, Mr. Walkfer announces, will be seen here in “The Outsider,” George Gaul will do “Icebound” and both Mr. Gaul and Mr. Morris will appear in “The Swan.”
Ann Davis, leading woman of the Cincinnati branch of the Stuart Walker* organization, will appear here in “The Outsider" and “The (Swan.” She was a member of the original New York cast of “The Outsider,” playing the lead for a year with Lionel Atwill, noted English actor. Morris will have the Atwill role here next week aftd according to the verdict of the Cincinnati press at the time the play was presented in that city come weeks ago, he makes a more affable and appealing figure than was.his predecessor. The story of the play concerns a practitioner who is denied admittance to the British Royal College of Surgeons. He does not hold a diploma and is consequently regarded with suspicion by the legally ordained operators. ■ This “quack" doctor has confidence in himself and the fighting instinct is strong within his breast. Professional ostracism is not a deterrent. He seeks the daughter of a prominent surgeon and offers to cure her of a. deformity that all regularly ordained surgeons, including her illustrious father, have declared incurable. The subsequent action of the play concerns the period of preparation for the ordeal, the blossoming of a romance between the girl and the young doctor and the happy conclusion of the entanglements-, which threaten disaster to all concerned. In addition to Mr. Morris and Miss Davis the cast of “The Outsider" will Include France Bendtsen, Aldrich Bowker, Paul Wright, Boyd Agin, Regina Stanfiel, Elizabeth Taylor and Ben Smith. -I- -I- A RERHEM. WILE PRESENT "MY SON" AT ENGLISH’S The Berkell Players at English's will offer for the week’s theater fare, starting Sunday night, a comedy drama written by Martha Stanley, entitled "My Son." It is a play which deals with the age-old theme of mother love, and the author has developed it among the New Englanders and Portuguese settlers of Cape Cod. Miss Stanley has taken a little widowed Portuguese mother who keeps a store in
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Bu Time* Burr ini HOLLYWOOD, July 24—Hod Grange, celebrated juggernaut of the football field who has come to Hollywood to make a picture tentatively titled ‘ The Halfback,” is learning that reticence is no cardi nal virtue in this push-your-self-along town. Those associated with the redoubtable Red, If not .he himself, apparently relied upon his past exploits to keep him in the limelight here. No publicity campaign was organized. No brass band met him at the station. The movie capital is scarcely aware of his presence. Hollywood's talkea-about-people, as the newcomer soon learns, buy their notices and laudations at so much per week from shrewd and Indefatigable press agents. These are the middle men in the traffic of film fame. Without them Hollywood may Hi arbor even a Grange unsung and all but unrecognized. i ** * / - / Ts Dixie Russell, former wife of Joseph B. Russell, picture actor, doesn't mount to the pinnacle of success it will not be his fault, who says as much in a. letter which sounds a strange note for a movie man. The letter: “Listen, my dear —You are a business woman and are getting on in the world. I am just a poor picture actor, and I will never become great. You will mount the ladder of success, and I will hang about your neck like a millstone. Therefore I depart. Get a divorce.” k She did. I* * * NDW YORK—The demand for “prize babies” for film use appears to be unusually great just now. Helen Rowland, a three-year-old “perfect child,” recently ended a film engagement and now Nancy Kelley, aged four and a half, is with Betty Bronson at First National, working in “Paradise.” The little Miss Bronson is much seen about Broadway these nights, but so completely changed is her Peter Pannislrness when she adopts fur evening wraps that she attended several first nights of Broadway shows without attracting the usual mob. The tale is told that she rode in a crowded subway to the Bronx studio without being recognized. * * * Speaking of the “goddess of shimmy,” an amusing story is told of hold she came by her screen name. As fandom probably knows, Gilda Gray started life wltl> the picturesque name of her Hungarian parents. After her first experiment in marriage and at the romantic beginning of her rise to fame, she came wandering into New York) ,< looking for theatrical engagements. She met Sophie T.ucker, than whom there is none wiser in the ways of the theater. Sophie happened to be reading the most recent story from the pen of Elinor Glyn. The heroine of the tale happened to be named “Gilda.” Sophie and the timorous newcomer fell to talking. “Great heavens, you can never anywhere with your name,” exHiaimed Sophie. "Now why don’t I’ou get a real name, like—” At this moment Sophie’s eye fell upon the name of the story heroine. "Here's Just the name for you— Gilda.” And Gilda it has been ever since.
What the Screen Offers Next Week CIRCLE—Johnny Hines in “The Brown Derby.” OHIO —Patsy Ruth Miller in “Why Girls Go Back Home." APOLLO—Charles Ray in “Paris." * COLONIAL —Dark all next week for redecoration and repairs, opening Sunday Aug. 1. UPTOWN “The Plastic Age," with Clara Bow. ISIS—IfThe Taxi -Mystery," the first half of the tjteek.
a sequestered fishing village in the cpvc on the coast of Massachusetts, and imposes upon her the supreme sacrifice which gives the play its fascinating appeal. The mother, Ana Silva, is passionately devoted to her son, a youth she had hoped would .grow up like his father, but the boy, American born, does not like the sea as did the father, and chooses a more esthetic form of livelihood. He is an excellent dancer and teaches his art to fashionable people among whom Is a yellow-haired flapper who fascinates him to the extent that he casts aside „his little Portuguese sweetheart, Rosa Pina. Ana deplores the fact that Braugllo Is responding to influences outside their home, and pleads with him to give up his American sweetheart and return to Rosa. Braugllo, however, is too infatuated with the reckless and mercenary Betty Smith, as well as the free life which his association with Americans affords in contradistinction to the tame life his own people live, and he plunges deeper into the situation by appropriating a handsome necklace belonging to Betty’s mother expecting to cash in on it, that he might go with Betty to New York, where they hoped to become Broadway stars. His is found out, and the untirirtglove of the disappointed mother is put to an excruciating test, for the experience means the choosing between two lovers. Ana is loved by two ardent suitors. One is a Portuguese whose lovemaking contains all the warmth and sen sous-beauty with which a Latin woman's heart is thrilled. The other is a Yankee whose heart beat with human kindness, and whose arms reached out In protection for the wayward boy. It was a tragic moment for Ana, and her ehergy and sacrifice in saving her son brings the play to a thrilling climax. The cast will be as follows: Harry Bob Fay Ellery Parker .T. F. Marlow Ezra Baker Herbert Dobbins Brnusrlio Silva Robert. St. Clair Capt. Joe Bamby Dick Elliott Betty Smith Bernice Marsolalg Ana Silva Edvthe Elliott Rosa Pina/ .Tycs I.a Rue Hattie Smith Mildml Haatinya Felipe Vargas Milton Byron FIRST NATIONL AUGUST FILMS For the month of August, First National will offer moviegoers the following: Colleen Moore fri “It Must Be Love,” a delicatessen romance; Richard Barthelmess In “The Amateur Gentleman;” Ken Maynard in "Senor Dare-Devil;” Ailpen Pringle and Ben Lyon In “The Great Deception,” and Lloyd Hughes and lolores del Rio in “Pals First.”
PALACE CONTINUOUS-ONE TO ELEVEN SUN., MON., TUES. and WED. FROM THE FAR WEST COMES BABE EGAN’S HOLLYWOOD REDHEADS 9 9 9 9 ■ ■ ■ ■ TOM MAHONEY IN THE HES VS. THE SHES DAVIS & McCOY BITS OF BOOBOLOGY SEALO THE SEAL WITH THE MASTER MIND KARTER’S KOMEDIANS ' IN “THE THIEF OF BADGAGS” PHOTOPLAY FEATURE EDMUND LOWE & MADGE BELLAMY “BLACK PARADISE” ROMANCE - THRILLS - COMEDY - MYSTERY MATS. * EVES. 1 f OOOs G E°ATs2Oc 1 ,000s g £ts3oc
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A thrill maker is buried in a grave at Goshen, Ind. The body of Lincoln J. Carter occupies that grave. Before the movies came, Lincoln J. Carter was the man who produced more any other man connected with the stage., He was a nationally known character because his companies, plays and scenic effects were known on all Main streets of America.
Carter made a fortune and lost It. I understand that the last years of his life were unpleasant ones. Ho attempted to sell some of his stage effects to the movies, but he was not always successful. At one time he was considered the wealthiest playwright in tljis country, hut his money passed away, but not his fahje. One of his big winning thrillers was “The Fast Mall.” Ho was a master at creating thrilling effects. You may recall "The Eleventh Hour” if you are old enough. The youth of today does not know Carter, but we "old timers.” who went io the gallery to see the Carter will understand why I am paying the memory of this man a tribute. It was Lincoln J. Carter through his productions being sent onto Main streets of Illinois years ago, that caused me to love and try to understand the theater. That was thirty years ago when Carter was doing his big stuff. So I sympathize hardships that he had along financial lines in tjte last years of his life, because he deserved happiness and freedom of care In the last years. He made millions happy In his day. He was alone In his unhappiness at the end of the journey. Such is life. -I- -I- -IAm tremendously interested In an editorial appearing in the July 17 issue of The New York Review under the head of "As to Little Theatres.” It is so Interesting to me, although I agree with only part of the
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contents, that I take the liberty of producing It in full: i. SIT-St ‘k* or u c, ? J questions of the day not, he Little Theatre move non*. a It la called, is a menace to the commercial theater of America. It is a that Jlttle theatres backed by churches. If.jJement houses and evnn municipalities, nit!? i r j aran, '''' s n 4 subscription lists which Include many of the "best peo--5,? the conununlty are sprlnruiK up it” it Is also a fact that many or the new generation of staire aspirn<J etors are Joining little theatre groups in preference seeking positions on the commercial stage. , h"se fact* cannot be disputed. It is also a fact that the Little Theatre mo\ emeru thus far has not developed anything of much importance In the way of , a * ,a LJ >r *, director for the regu?r theater There Is no doubt that there Is a valuable function for the Little Thaitrw movement to perform for the theater as a whole, and there is no reason whv It should not work In harmony with the rotnmercial theater and fulfill that destlnv. but fh.rTElVJl.‘i* <, ? ln,r ,hat - 11 npe*rs that the Little Theatre movement is animated bjf a spirit of <rltlclam and antagonism toward the established theater This is quije easily explained. The regular theater tiill of fare has not given the people of the country what they want. Its menu is dictated not by the producers, but by ehe cosmopolitan public of New York. 9''er oO per cent un-American and foreign in its tastes It is not to be expected that what will please such a polyglot audience as Broadway draws wilt always please the 100 per cent American audiences In a midwestern town. Not even the plays produced for more or less altruistic purposes B* the .art theaters here, the Theatre wuHd. the Actors, the Provlneetown id the Stagers, have proved.to be drawing cards on tour in all cast%. This is the reason why the Little Theatre movement has eqme into being and lias grown so formidable. The issue presented is not going to he solved in a day. a week or even in years. If the little Theatre movement prospers snd turns out plays that please the people.
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ENGLISH'S!™™ Week Starting Sunday, July 25th BERKELL PLAYERS ' , V WITH EDYTHE ELLIOTT And MILTON BYRON Presenting “My Son” A COMEDY yD RAMA BY MARTHA STANLEY
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No. 1- Mis* Edjihe Elliott will be s£n in “My Son,” at English’s next week, starting Sunday night.. No. 2—Babe Egan and her Red-' heads will top the new bill opening Sunday afternoon ill the Palace, No. 3—Johnny Elliott will be present in “Have It M.v Way,” at the Lyric all next week. No. 4—Mcjvay Morris will be seen in “The Outsider,” at Keith’s all next. week. wg -those plavs will inevitably find their way to the commercial stage in time. The artarty drama fostered by many little theatre groups can never become a popular commercial type. As matters stand the Little Theatre movement represents the attitude of people whose ideas would never get a chanc in theaters run upon sensible Dusiness lines It will never amount to much if it caters only to a small class. To rival the rommeroial theater or to be any real uplift to our drama it must satisfy the masses, or solve the same problem that faces tne commercial producer. The next five years will tell the story. , So ends the editorial. I have faith, the greatest faith in the future of the Little Theatre movement and as It is reflected in this city of Indianapolis. Have always made the plea that such societies should not he closed affairs but that the public should be given a chance to support the organization as well as see the plays. The Little Theatre of Indianapolis now has the beginnings of It* own home. And it is a great little home right now but the directors see the vision of making it larger and better. The Little Theatre must keep away from the strictly commercial viewpoint hut it must be wisely directed because a successful enterprise must he self-supporting. That shows and proves that many people are interested in It. If New York producers would get better acquainted with the work of the Little Theatre Society of Indianapolis there would be a better understanding of the real purpose of such societies. And such societies make general play going a real pleasure because it Is backed with understanding. -I- A A I have been informed that it Is the plan of Charles Berkell to continue
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Connie Again Constance Talmadge’s next picture, "The Duchess of Buffalo,” Is scheduled for the screen around the first of September. The plot has to do with stage fife iri pre-war Russia, and introduces Constance as a young American girl who has made good as a dancer before the Russian footlights. It was during the filming of this picture that she married Capt. Alastair Mackintosh.
at English’s until Sept. 11, although it mayj>e possible for him to remain here through the entiro month of September. It is necesaary for him to open on Sept. 19 In Davenport, lowa, for a fall and winter season. On Sept. 29, Berkell will open another company at Waterloo, lowaj The plays definitely decided upon tot presentation by the Berkell Players at English’s for the remainder of the season are_ "My Son.” “The Lady Next Door," "The feridal Suite,”
—WHERE THE S? ALL THE TIME—GO/ M 9 lA> 11P.M. % Special Engagement v minty MARIE “VENUS OF THE AIR” In Her New and Novel Offering - “HEALTH HINTS” , • • 1 i HARRY ZOUP NED WELCH & NORTON “TWO EGGS” h I \ 1 \ First Appearance in America FELOVIS Celebrated European Juggler DANCING FRANKS ELLIOTT & DENN | TED LEWIS Dance Divertisements ' I Comedy Capers I A Bit Different FIVE MUSICAL CHAPINS World Famous Saxophonists '
ON THE SCREEN: CHARLIE CHASE COMEDY - “LONG FLIV THE KING”—KINOGRAMS “JERRY THE GIANT”
"Love of Su Shong,” “The Family Upstairs” and "Some Baby.” Berkell has informed me that he will return to English’s next spring as soon as the regular season at English’s closes. This means that both Stuart Walker and Berkell will be back with us next year. NEW MOVIE IN PRODUCTION Gerald Beaumont's story “Even Stephen” will appear on the screen shortly under the title of “The Charleston Kid.” The screen version will go into production at First National’s New York studio Aug. 19, under A1 Rockett’s management. Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall will have the leading roles, with Louise Brooks and "William Collier Jr., In second leads. BARTHELMESS AT SEA Richard Barthelmess is now enjoying a sailing trip to San Diego and lower California, having just completed work on "The Amateur Gentleman,” an Inspiration picture adapted from the novel by Jeffrey Farnol.
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COLONIAL WILL CLOSE ONEWEEK -FOR NEW DRESS s Bingham and Cohen Adopt New Presentation Policy , Here. k Redecoration plans and the rearrangement of the stage of the Colonial Theater for the presentation of various types of acts in conjunction with motion picture feature attractions causes the announcement from Bingham & Cohen that the Colonial will close the house for one week, starting Sunday. The house will be reopened in its new dress on Sunday. Aug. 1. The policy that has been adopted ail over the country by the highclass motion picture theatens, that of an added stage attraction, will be followed at the Colonial the coming season and the management promises the same careful selection of performers and attractions it has exercised in the past in its choice of motion picture productions. Especial attention will be paid to the musical offerings by Floyd Thompson and his entertainers, the American harmonists. Novelty effects in music, both vocal and instrumental, will be chosen and the feature numbers will be presented in anew manner. Big Films Booked The picture attractions for the new season' have been chosen from the very best productions of three of the largest independent producers of the screen —William Fox, Universal and Warner Brothers — it is announced. From the William Fox attractions of twenty-six or morffl>features, six will be shown. “Three Bad Men," which has been more than a year in the making and said to he built on a more gigantic scale than “The Iron Horse,” and far and away a greater audience picture; "One Increasing Purpose,” adapted from the novel by H. O. Wells; "The Auctioneer," in which David Warfield made such a notable success for years: "Fig Leaves,” a gorgeous fashioii production made in natural colors; "Is Zat So?”, adapted from the stage success that is second only to "Abie’s Irish Rose” for its New York run, and “The Lily,” adapted from another Broadway success, are the others of Fox group. Among the selections from Universal’s pictures are "The Flaming Frontier,” already a success among picture patrons and an offering of great historic interest (Turn to Page 7)