Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1926 — Page 6

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INDIANA LIFE IS REFLECTED IN NEW COMEDY AT APOLLO

Circle Arranges One of Its Big Bills of Season for Next Week With Four Feature Events Pauline Frederick Tops Cast at Ohio. { Indiana life, the faithful portrayal of an American country home where the father is the king without being a despot, is one of the! outstanding features of Gene Stratton Porter’s comedy drama, “Laddijj,” which will be shown at the Apollo next week. “Laddie'’ was directed by J. Leo Meehan, the author’s son-in-law, and her grandniece, Gene Stratton, is one of the im-

portant members of the cast. Cast includes John Bowers, Bess ( Flowers, Fannyv Mldgeley, Eugenia Gilbert, Eulalie Jensen, Aggie Herring, David Torrence, John Fox Jr., Jack Luden and Arthur Clayton. The story presents the son of an Indiana farmer falling in love with a girl who was a stranger to his fnmily; who had come with her father and mother from England to get away from a disgrace the father had thought that his son had heaped upon them. Thereafter the fortunes of the families become strangely involved. The young Englishman had gone to Chicago, where by chance he meets and falls in love wth a music student, the hero’s sister. Shortly after the young man goes to England to clear his name. His letters to his sweetheart never reacp their destination. On his retifrn to this country the young man enters upon a search for the girl. The ensuing situations are charged with drama leading up to a climax such as Gene Stratton Porter, one of the most widely known of Hoosier writers, knew how to construct so forcefully. The program will contain a Glen Tryon comedy, “Along Came Auntie”; the Fox News Weekly, and special musical contributions by Emil Seidel and his orchestra, and Lester Huff, organist. BIG SHOW PLANNED AT CIRCLE NEXT WEEK Llyod Hughes in “Pals First,” and one of the most attractive presentations that has been shown on any stage, are scheduled for the coming week at the Circle. The Yale Collegians will be the chief attraction on the stage, one of the finest musical organizations the Circle has presented this year. Vess Ossman, world famous banjoist, and Miss Helen Grey, premier dancer, are seen in a skit, “Bits of Musical Comedy,” by Howard Johnson. Mrs. Ossman was heard at the Circle last year. Additional attractions include the Circle Studio presentation, "Typical Tropical Skies,” with a musical interpretation by the Circle ensemble, under the direction of Edward Resener, Mrs. Resener being heard in a violin obligato. An organ solo by Dessa Byrd, a Circle comedy and the Animated Circle News are additional attractive divertisements. Supporting Lloyd Hughes is Dolores Del Rio, a beautiful Mexican actress; Alec B. Francis, always a delightful performer; George Cooper, the new screen comedy find; Edward Earle, one of the earliest "heavies” of the films, and Hamilton Morse. The picture was directed with great finesse by Edwin Carewe, and was adapted/by Olga Printzlau from the novel by Francis Porrg Eliot and the play by Leo Wilsdn Dodd. “Pals First” is a story of two tramps, a young Southerner, a beautiful Southern belle and a series of complications which give rise to one of the most absorbing tales of the screen. ** A young Southerner misses his train connections, takes a freight train, is robbed, joins a pair of jovial, loveable tramps, becomes one of their company and then surprises them bj\jshowing his close resemblance to the scion of a wealthy Southern family. He pretends to be the lost son of the family, is accepted and finally even wins the sweetheart of the lost ■son, without attracting suspicion. Oq the day of the wedding comes the denouement. The Yale Collegians are a group of young undergraduates of Yale who ate making their flrfet transcontinental tour under the auspices of Yale. •I- -I- -!- PAULINE FREDERICK TOPS CAST OF OHIO riCTFRE “Her Honor, the Governor,” will be the featured photoplay attraction to be shown at the Ohio for the coming week with Pauline Frederick starred in the title role and Tom Santschi cast as the leading male star.

Miss Frederick, whose appearances before the camera have been Infrequent during the last few years, is said to make a dramatic return to the screen in this picture, which was filmed shortly after conclusion of her triumphal tour of Australia. The story of “Her Honor, the Governor,” was written by Hyatt Daab and Weed Dickinson, had the star in mincF for the leading role while sketching the character. It is a vivid dramatization of the woman in politics anct'builds up'to a remarkable dramatic situation which affords the star a splendid oujortunity to display her extraordinary talents in the emotional intensity for which she is particularly i\pted. Pauline Frederick appears in the picture as a woman Governor whose son is convicted of murder. Tom Santschl, a 9 veteran of the silver screen, who has been playing in "heavy” roles for several years, plays opposite the star as the hero of this picture. He appears as the sympathetic friend and adviser of Her Honor, and eventually wins her. As an added film attraction the Ohio will offer a super short length comedy, “Mighty Pike a Moose,” featuring Charles Chase. On the stage Britt will offer a program of pleasing selections pluyed on *the harmonica. Miss Ruth Noller and Earl Gordon, organists, will play numbers on the Ohio organ. A Pathe News Weekly will complete the Him program. -I- -|- -h NEW MIX MOVIE DI E AT THE ISIS Tom Mix co-stars with hi* famous horse, Tony, and, in fact, gives Tony a little the best of the spotlight in “Tony Runs Wild,” to Se shown at the Isis the" first half of next week.

May Signs May Robson will make her screen debut in “Pals in Paradise,” according to an announcement from the Metropolitan Studio A where preparations are under* way to film this Peter B. Kyne story. The famous stage star .will appear in a role of the type in which hits so long been a great footlight favorite. Miss Robson wals signed by De Mille recently and it was intimated that she would appear in her original role in “The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary,” when it was brought to the screen.

Tony plays the role of leader of a band of wild horses. The scenes are laid along the beautiful Apache trail! including exteriors and interiors of the ancient cliff dwellings, homes of a long vanished race. The final scenes of the picture are laid in the celebrated Box Canyon. Mix and his equine pal are given an opportunity to appear in new feats of strength and skill and to add thrills that are new even for this versatile pair. The program will contain a comedy entitled “Dancing Daddies.” Art Acord, in “The Terror,” a western melodrama, will be presented Thursday and the rest of the week, together with a comedy entitled "On Edge.” In “The Terror,” Acord has the role of a Texas ranger who is mistaken for a notorious outlaw and has a thrilling time amid strange surroundings. Velma Connors and Edmund Cobb are prominent in Acord’s support. •I- -I- -I“THE LOVE THIEF” TO OPEN AT THE UPTOWN Norman Kerry, one of the handsomest stars of the screen, is featured at the Uptown, Colleg.s Ave. at Forty-Second St., in "The Lave Thief,” which will be shown on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Greta Nissen, new Swedish player, is seen chiefly in the supporting cast, which also includes Marc McDermott, Cissy Fitzgerald, Nigel Barrie and Charles Puffy. “A Bachelor’s Babies,” a news weekly and a Fable are additional subjects for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Belle Bennett, Lois Moran and Ben Lyon are featured in “The Reckless Lady,” showing on Wednesday and Thursday. It is a story of society life. Bill Dooley is starred in “A Goofy Gob,”-the comedy attraction. A Lyman Howe “Magical Movies” subject also is shown. William S. Hart is featured in “Tumbleweeds,” the first picture he has made in a number of years, and probably one of the very best he has ever assayed. An Alberta Vaughn comedy, “Smoldering Tires," and a news and Bray cartoon are shown in addition. COLONIAL TO REOPEN SUNDAY WITH SEW POLICY Olive Border the screen’s newest dramatic star, in the film adaptation of Gene\Wright’u novel, “Yellow Fingers,” a romance of the South Pacilc Isles; Bartram and Saxton, “The Kentuckians,” two of vaudevilles brilliants troubadors and special novelty numbers by the Floyd Thompson’s American Harmonists will constitute the Colonial’s

IMS WINDER PAW. NOR THE PRIDE IF IDE STATE. OTTEtt I lEDHKHNE Mill OF EXCLOSIVE SODDEN HDISEDENIS Modern Woodmen of America Outing One Big Week Starting Tomorrow Special Features Each Day—Everybody Welcome B B Oar big pool with its ever changing K U aWIC B Hwl P ,lrf ’ *lUcrcd witter haw been endorsed VUI I M WWW I IVI by the board of health. WVV I lei Week Sun. Aug. 8—“ Hello Girls Revue”—22 People at Open-Air Theater. 2 Bathing Beauty Parade i GREAT AND A REAL *nn Fashion Show Parade SisUu IX front of grand stand CASH Thurs. Eve., Aug. 19 PRIZES ' 0 ■J In With A. A. U. - Swimming Meet. All business firms invited—FßEE. The following have accepted and will be repre- all sented in both events: firms L. S. Ayres & Cos., Wm. H. Block Cos., INVITED Rink’s Cloak House, Selig’s Store, Real Silk Hosiery Mills SJOO Ind’pTs Glove Cos., G. & J. Tire Cos., CASH American Red Cross and Others. prizes

MANY INTERESTING MOVIES ON VIEW NEXT WEEK

Betty for Variety Betty Blythe, the film star f who has been playing vaudeville in the English music halls this spring and summer, fs to open as a "single” on the KeithAlbee Circuit the first of next month. This will mark her vaudeville debut in this country.

reopening ottering starting tomorrow. The theater has been attractively redecorated in its interior and the stage has been arranged for the production of any type of entertainment the management selects and each week different types of acts will be Used in presentations and general entertainment. “Yejlow Fingers” in which Miss Bordfen is presented in her first starring venture, is a mystery tale of the tropics. The story tells of a half caste girl who is raised to womanhood under the guardianship of a young sea captain “Brute” Shane, which character is played by Ralph Ince the noted director. Little Sanla had been reared in ignorance of her condition of a half caste and she proceeds to fall in love with her guardian. When white women came to the island because of shipwreck the sea captain turned to one of these for a wife, and wheh little Sania overheard her guardian's explanation to the white woman of her sphere, she became intensely Jealous, and all of the tenseness of her scorned love was awakened. Others in the cast are Claire Adams, Edward Piel, Otto Mattleson, Nigel Deßruler, Armand Kallz, John Wallace, Charles Newton, Josephine Crowell and May Foster. The supplemental screen features will include a comedy, “The Thirteenth Man,” in which Charles Puffy is the star; an Aesop'Fable, “The Dough Boys,” and the Colonial-In-ternational News of current events. Bartram and Saxton offer a novelty singing act that has proved highly entertaining to their hearers over various vaudevillel circuits, and they will introduce some new features here. Floyd Thompson’s entertainers start their ninth season in Indianapolis. Frank Owens, Bob Jones and Virgil Monks are continued as the soloists. They will be heard in two featured singing and instrumental numbers each week.

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MARSHALL NEILAN TO DIRECT FILM OF THEATER LIFE Although Movie Is Without a Name, Production Is Considered. A story of the stage, of Greenwich village and of all of the glamor and interest with which each is injected is the background of Marshall Nellan’s coming production for Paramount. Though the story is still without a name, director Nellan and his scenario writer, Benjamin Glazier have practically completed the screen version and it will be in shape to go into production Jn a few days. Nellan, who \is thoroughly acquainted with the New York theater and with the Greenwich Village colony there, has long wanted to write a story placed in that atmosphere/ The idea used as the basis for the one he has written is taken from a real life episode. f The heroine of the real story wes identically the same type as Betty

Were obi ©urWay THREE DISTINCT STYLES OF ENTERTAINMENTS ON THE SCREEN RALPH INCE-CLAIM ARMAND KALIZ-OnO MATIESON—MAY FOSTER Gene Wright's Romantic Novel of Adventure in the South Sea Isles — An exotio lave etery of a beautiful half-cante girl, reared te belleive she was white. The wilderness was Ur paradise until ether wemen happened along—then her dramatic battle for love. The thrills are Intense. SHORT-REEL ¥cr¥eN MELANGE CHAS. PUFFY In INTERNATIONAL AESOP FABLE“The Thirteenth Man" NEWS EVENTS “The Dough Bayt” ON OUR STAGE SARTRAM AND SAXTON-“TJie Kentuckians” One of Ynudevllle’s Classiest Singing Acts OUR MUSICAL FEATURE floyd Thompson s American Harmonists Soloists FRANK OWENS, 808 JONES, VIRGIL MONKS Twa Distinctive Musical Offerings Every Week Always Cool and Comfortable!

No. I—Lloyd Hughes will be among the prominent people present In the oast of “Pals First,” at the Circle next week. No. 2—Pauline Frederick has a dramatic opportunity in “Her Honor the Governor,” at the Ohio. No. 3—Olive Harden will be seen in “Yellow Fingers,” at the Colonial, starting Sunday afternoon. No. 4—. loan Renee and George O’Brien in. “Silver Treasure,” at the Palace the first half of the week. No. s—Greta Nissen has the lead In “The Ive Thief,” at the Uptown for tliree days, starting Sunday. No. 6—Bess Flowers and John Fox, Jr., in “Laddie,” at the Apollo all next week. No. 7—Tom Mix will he seen In “Tony Runs Wild,” at the Isis the first half of next week. Bronson, so it is quite fitting tFTat this diminutive star should be cadt In the starring role. The cast is a large one with many tremendously Important roles. So far none pt the players who are to support Miss Bronson have been chosen. * TALMADGE WITH UNIVERSAL Although no cast has been assigned as yet, Richard Talmadge, who will come under the Universal banner on Aug. 1, has selected Irvin Willat as his director. The first picture to be made will be from the magazine story, “The Black Rider,” by Max Brand, the title of which will undoubtedly be changed before production starts. *

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What Keith Actors Are Doing j

Wallace Eddinger, popular |tage star, is to enter Keith-Albee vaudeville shortly is a dramatic sketch. The title of hisP vehicle is “Things Could Be Worse,” and Edwin Burke is the author. Albert Lewis is sponsoring the production and the cast will include Isabel Withers, Edwin Stanley and William Nelson. -T- -|. -|. Dorothy Mackaye, who until recently was a principal in “The Song of the Flame,” has joined Ray Raymond for a tour of the Keith-Albee circuit In comedy and songs. -J- -I- -IOne of the advantages of oeing in the vaudeville profession is that you can spend a profitable vacation abroad In the English music halls. Amohg the popular American entertainers who are now making the Britishers sit up and take notice are Newell and Most. Albert Whelen, “Herb” Williams, A1 Robins, Stewart and Olive, Fay Courtney and Madeline Randolph. All of these are returning to America in the fall to resume their tours of the eKith-Albee circuit. •I- ‘l’ -ITed Healev, late of the Earl Carroll “Vanities,” has returned from Hollywood, where he starred in several screen comedies. He 'Will appear at an early date in the KeithAlbee houses with anew comedy act, assisted by Betty Healey.

I . . '■! 1| | pals first pals last pals always !!! 1 H Three pals—who win show you what it means to j J have a real buddy—through dark nights—foodless gj ? days—good luck—bad sheriffs—pals In everything y —well, everything except LOVE. S Yon wiU feel a personal interest in every trifling de- i tail of this tale—so deliciously funny—a little sad 7 A sometimes—but SO HUMAN. t LLOYD HUGHES'S finest and beautiful DOLORES DEL RIO j 1 % A First National Picture i - ■ A Ju. A. Fitzpatrick presents A KoKo Cartoon j “Songs of Ireland” “Out of the Inkwell” R CIRCLE ENSEMBLE ANIMATED CIRCLE NEWS K i ON THE CIRCLE STAGE ' & £ {3 If YALE COLLEGIANS^ j Mi. 13 UNDERGRADUATES ON FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL TOUR \ K f j SWEET REFRAINS FROM OLD ELI’S CAMPU6 V VESS OSSMAN AND GREY helen World Famous Ban jo Ist Premier Dancer j J

• Bert Fitzglbbon, popular Keith-Al-bee entertainer, has changed his single into a two-act, having taken Laura Pierpont as his partner. Jack Delaney, the newly crowned light-heavyweight champion, is considering a vaudeville engagement. Jack made his stage debut at the Keith-Albee Hippodrome last May as the feature of -Mark. A. Luescher’s “Sport Carnival.” •I- -I- -!- Fowler and Tamara are to leave George White's “Scandals” this week to open on the Keith-Albee circuit under the booking direction of M. S. Bentham. They are now working on some new steps which will feature their vaudeville specialty. •I- -I- -IMr. and Mrs. Norman Phillips, assisted by their young and talented son, Norman Jr., have opened & Keith-Albee engagement in “A Family Revue of 1926,” written for them by William K. Wells. -I- -I- -ILes Copeland, recently back from Europe, is to appear shortly in Keith-Albee vaudeville In a double blackface act. William Taylor is his partner and Albert Lewis is the producer. -I- -I- -IToto, most popular of the two-a-day mimics, has sailed on the Hamburg to fill a short engagement in Berlin. He will in September to resume his Keith-Albee tour.

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JULY 31, 1926'

VENUS TO BE THE' IDOL OF BATHING BEAUTIES HERE Interest Centers on Contest to Be Held at Broad Ripple Park. If you had in your employ 1,500 young ladies, would you be able to select the most perfect form in the lot, and how would you go about it? This is a question which is confronting the Employes Mutual Benefit Association of the Real. Hosiery Mills for J. A. Goodman, president of the company, has accepted entry In the bathing beauty and fashion parades which will be given at Broad Ripple, Thursday evening, August 19, during the National A. A. U. swimming meet, and he has asked Mr. Zinkin, manager of the employment department, to go ahead and arrange the details. Obviously there could be no standard set ftf measurements unless the young ladies were all of the same height and age, in which eveiiL measurements approximating standard could be worked out. But that spt of rules would not fit applicants varying in height and in years for a girl of 18, who is five feet four inches, could be as well proportioned and equally eligible to win a prize as the girl of 19 and who stands five feet six in her hosiery. In order to assist in selecting the young ladies to represent the firm, Myra Richards, Indiana noted sculptress, and member of the ludges committee to make awards and designate winners in the contest, was appealed to. “There is no set standard of rules governing the measurements of the female form.” states Myra “We frequently find almost perfect proportions in the human form wiih girls of 15, as well as those several years older. Naturally when we have girls of varying height we must adjust our measurements and strike an average accordingly.” Continuing, Mrs. Richards states that, “the only measurements we have that enable us tb form comparisons with the present day (Turn to Page 7) GILPIN READY TO WORK Charles Gilpin, known throughout the United States for his work in “The Emperor Jones” has arrived at Universal City, where he will start immediately in Harry PollardV production of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”