Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1926 — Page 6

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VALENTINO, MEIGHAN, SILLS AND RICH FEATURED HERD

Irene Rich Said to Have Big Dramatic Chance in ‘Silken Shackles’ at th'e Coloni al—‘Son of the Sheik’ Remains at the Ohio. Coming to the Circle, Sunday, is First, National’s special, “Men of Steel,’’ wlijch was written by Milton Sills from a suggestion he received in R. G. Kirk’s story, “Fnited States Flavor.” The production was eight months in the making and the cooperation of the United States Steel Corporation was obtained for the filming of a greater part of the picture.

The great Ensley Mills of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company were turned over to First National for the photographing of the steel mill scenes and the open red iron ore mines of the same company were placed at the disposal of the company. The entire cast spent several weeks In Tennessee and in Birmingham, Ala., "on location.’’ The story briefly concerns Jan Bokak, big, irnorant laborer in the iron mines, who is engaged to marry Mary Berwick. On the night of their betrothal Mary’s brother is found murdered and another brother is suspected of the murder. Jan, in an effort to shield Mary, confesses the crime and escapes to the steel mills, where he becomes a leader among the workers and rapidly rises to a position of prominence through the efforts of the owner of the mills. How Jans becomes engaged to Clare, the daughter of the wealthy owner, how disaster comes to Jan, and Mary again enters his life, is told in this dramatic and ;U>sorbing story, the production of which was directed by George Archinbaud. Doris KeTlyon heads the* cast in the role of Mary Berwick, and others appearing in prominent parts are May Allison, Victor Mac Laglen, Georgee Fawcett, Frank Currier, John Kolb and Taylor Graves. •i- -iMEIC,HAN’S LATEST TO BI?S\T THE APOLLO. Thomas Meighman fans who have been demanding their favorite in a worthwhile dramatic production will find their wish "come true" when they see Meighan in “Tin Gods” at the Apollo next week. Adapted from the play by William Anthony McGuire, and directed by Allan Dwan, "Tin Gods” gives the star the best chance he has had in ■■a long, long time to show his real histrionic ability. Two popular leading women, Renee Adoree, heroine of "The Big Parade,” and Aileen Pringle, fairy princess of a hundred plots, head the supporting cast, which also includes William Powell, Hale Hamilton, John Harrington, Joe King and Robert E. O'Connor. In "Tin Gods” Meighan is introv duced as the husband of a politically ambitious woman who ruins his love by her lack of interest in their home. Due to her neglect their child is killed, and the husband, convinced that their married life is a failure, leaves for South America to follow his profession of construction engineering. Among strangers, he takes to drink, forgetting home, friends and job. A dancing girl places him under her care when he succumbs to tropical fever. Gradually she shows him the mistake he has made. Then his at the construction camp where he is stationed, determined to win him back, and subsequent happenings are fraught with tense dramatic interest. William Powell, Hale Hamilton, John Harrington, Joe King and Robert E. O’Connor 'complete Meighan’s support. A Mack Sennett comedy, "Her Actor Friend,” starring Altco Day, and the Fox news weekly will be other films. Musical features will include Lester Huff, at the organ, and a special arrangement of “Hi Ho the Merrio,” played by Emil Seidel and his orchestra. •I- -I- -IUPTOWN LISTS ITS PICTURES FOR WEEK Three First National pictui--- -ire scheduled for the Uptown ’ *r, College Ave. at Forty-Second ... for the coming week. The first is "The Wise Guy,” the story of a gospel “salesman,” with James Kirkzwood in the leading role. It will be shown on Sunday and Tuesday. Frank Lloyd of "The Sea Hawk" fame directed the feature, which includes in its cast Mary Astor, Mary Carr, Betty Compson, George Marion, and George Cooper. The picture tells of a patent medicine salesman, who finds that he has the power to sway audiences by his eloquence. lie uses this knowledge to gather crowds to listen to the gospel tvhile his accomplices pick the pockets %f the gullible. Harry Langdon, the new star which has risen to the highest point In the sky of comedy, is starred in “Saturday Afternoon,” a three-reel feature, as an added attraction with “The Wise Guy,” A Fable, and a News Weekly are included on the bill. “The Wilderness Woman,” a funny story featuring Eileen Pringle and Chester Conklin, one of the funniest character actors of the screen, comes to the Uptown on Wednesday and Thursday. The story has to do with a funny prospector and his daughter, who with a big bank roll and a baby bear try to shake Broadway. Lloyd Hamilton in “Nothing Matters;” a comedy, and a hair cartoon are additional program subjects. Johnny Hines is featured in "The Brown Derby,” which will round out the week at the Uptown, being scheduled for Friday and Saturday. A Juvenile comedy, "Excess Baggage,” a News Weekly, and a Grantland Rice sport light subject are also included. .. .|. -|. ’ MELODRAMA TO RE ON VIEW AT ISIS The difficulties in which young Danny O’Neil himself his pursuit of an oil\stock promoter lands him in the oilvfields Polishes a background for rhe acMn in "Flaming Wateru,” a ImelodAnatie romanoecif the oil fields lhown

at the Isis the first half of next week. The promoter has cheated Danny’s mother out of her widow’s mite, and the son wants to settle the score, lie not only does this but strikes oil himself in the bargain. A burning river of oil which the hero swims in order to rescue his mother and his sweetheart from being engulfed in the fiery flood is one of the big spectacular scenes In the picture. In the cast are Malcolm McGregor, Pauline Garon, Mary Carr,, John Miljan and Mayme Kelso. The program will include a Bobby Vernon farce, "Broken Chimes.” Billy Sullivan is starred in "Fighting Fate,” a thrilling story of the prize ring, which will be the attraction Thursday and the rest of the week, supplemented by a laue Conley comedy, “Cheap Skate.” \Romance and the chance of a lifetime—an opportunity to battle the champion of his class—come to Sullivan as Damon Squires, an aspiring young pugilist, when he strands In a small town far away from home. ! -I- -IVALENTINO PICTURE HELD OVER AT OHIO Because of the really big business done by Rudolph Valentino In “The Son of the Sheik," this picture will be held over all next week at the Ohio. It is understood that this picture is breaking all box office records at this house. ■!- -I- -IIRENE RICH IN SMART OFFERING AT COLONIAL Irene Rich, smartly gowned, becomingly bobbed of hair and coquettish of glance, starring in “Silken Shackles,” will be the Colonial’s State fair week attraction, starting tomorrow. Huntley Gordon and -Victor Varconi are the two male leads in the production, which is said to be one of the most elaborate in which Miss Rich has been seen on the screen. Ed Davis and Company, in a singing and dancing revue, will be the stage presentation. The company will present a potpourri of peppy

Arrange To Spend Labor Day Sept. 6 at RIVERSIDE (ALL RIDES sc) THIS DAY ONLY Balloon ascension 3p. m. Three Daredevil Grudggins try for world’s record in triple parachute leap. Fun frolic on carnival night. Those in costume admitted free. Riverside Amusement Park Just for Fun

MUTUAL BURLESQUE THEATRE FORMERLY BROADWAY UNDER DIRECTION OF MUTUAL BURLESQUE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK

STATE FAIR WEEK ATTRACTION PEACHES SHEBA OF SHIMMY AND THB MONTE CARLO JAZZ BAND WITH THAT EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD SHOW “LAFFIN THRU” WITH A HILARIOUS, n | | WINSOME SNAPPY, I )K1 IS F DANCING MOVING I H 11 V/ • GIRLS Prancing on the Illuminated Runway CHARLESTON CONTEST ope nL L X C N°.gh e t stants

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numbers, including the late song hits and attractive dancing numbers reputed to be different, and all in beautiful costumes and a special stage setting. Floyd Thompson’s American Harmonists will be heard in the musical unit of the show, with solo numbers by Frank Owens and Bob Jones, featured with a big ensemble singing offering. The story of "Silken Shackles” Is an original one, written for Miss Rich by Walter Morusco and Philip Klein, and concerns the romantic wanderings of a beautiful and coquettish wife of an American business man on a foreign mission and how the husband effected a cure of her flirtatious habit. Many comedy scenes add to the effectiveness of the picture and Miss Rich Is said to have surpassed in loveliness the gowns she wore in “Lady Windermer's Fan.” Huntley Gordon plays the husband, and contrary to the rules of other pictures in which he and Miss Rich have been cast as husband and wife, he is no longer the desert-

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er bpt the deserted mate. Robert Sehable is seen as a friend of the husband, and Victor Varconi as the Hungarian violinist, the ardent suitor of the wife. Evelyn Selhie find Kalla Pasha play the Varconi, whom he has pictured ns luxurious and cultured people and who are in reality of the peasant class. “Bert Marfiugh plays Lord Fairchild, another admirer of the fair Denise. The supplemental screen features .will be a comedy, “Wives and Women,” starring Charles PufTy; an Aesop Fable, "A Buggy Ride," nr.d the current International News of pictorial events.

Will Make You Gasp for Breath — Shivers Will Run Up and Down Your Spine— An Awe Inspiring Spectacle— AIRPLANE CRASH Most Hazardous Feat Ever Attempted by a Human Being. Plano Is' driven nt tvrrtflc -pood between (wo let telephone poles, both wings are broken off and piano is sent crashing through regulation bungalow. Broad Ripple Park as

AMUSEMENTS

No. I—Clara Row and Perry Marmont in “ Mantrap,” a Paramount feature, will be seen soon at the Ohio. No. 2—Milton Sills is said to have the big opportunity of his career in the First, National feature, “Men of Steel” at the Circle all next week. No. 3—Thomas Meighan as he appears in •Tin Gods” at the Apollo all next weeje. No. 4—ln a dramatic role of emotional opport unity will he seen Irene Rich in “Silken Shackles" at the Couonial all next week. No. s—Mary Carr wjll be seen in a mother role in “Flaming

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Waters” at the Isis the first half of next week. No. f—James Kirkwood and Mary Astor in “The Wise Guy,” opening at the Uptown Sunday.

SECOND WEEK!

Held Over for One More Week IX7E have been unable to accoitimo- " * date the crowds and wish to give every one an opportunity to see the latest and last picture of “the screen’s greatest lover.”

RUDOLPH VALENTINO In “The Son of THE SHEIK” ♦

Time Schedulei Featured Picture: 10:00 A. M., 11:40 A. M., 1:20, 3:00, 4:40, 6:20, 8:00 and 9:40 P. M. Sunday First Showing, 1:20; Doors Open 12:45. Week Days, First Showing, 10 A. M.; Doors Open 9:45 A. M.

NOTE — “Mantrap,” announced elsewhere in this paper as showing week of Sept sth, will be shown at a later date.

No. 7—Hetty Rronson and Ricardo Cortez in “The Cat's Pajamas” at the Palace the first half of the week starting Sunday afternoon.

MOTION PICTURES

SEPT. 4, 1926

EXECUTIVES OF MISSIONARIES TO MEETINOCTOBER Wife of Bishop Announces Fall Session of Woman’s Society. The general <Pc*cutlve meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Societay of the Methodist Episcopal will convene at Peoria, 111., Oct. 15-31, according to an announcement made today by Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, president, Detroit, Mich. The meeting will be held in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Rev. W. E. Shaw Is pastor. Mrs. Nicholson announced the following tentative program: On Oct. 15 and 16 at 10 a. m., the candidate committee will meet to examine and consider young women candidates for missionary work abroad. , Oct. 17, at 3 j?. m., there will be a sacred service of prayer anA preparation for students and mil sionaries. Oct. 18, at 0 a. iw and on Oet. 23, the Foreign Department will meet. On Oct. 20 and 23, the Home Department will be in session. On Sunday, Oct. 24, missionaries from all over the world will speak in the various Protestant churches in the city. At 6 p. m. Sunday, ttiere will he a fellowship service of missionaries. On Oct. 25 and 26 the executive (Turn to Page 7)