Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1926 — Page 6
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‘STELLA DALLAS, ’ ‘THE LILY’AND ‘PARADISE’ ARE DUE ' 7 v 1
Belle Bennett Is Honored by Playing Leading Roles in Two Big Pictures Here Next Week —W. C. Fields to Be Seen in New Comedy <aX Apollo. '‘Stella Dallas/’ a Henry King production adapted from the remarkable novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, comes to the Ohio th jater as the attraction for the coming week. Its action revolves around a central character, “Stella,” whose love-ljfe offers an eventful romance fired by her zest for the better things of life, and tinged with the pathos of her helpless errors.
In ldcale the picture searches out' the typical American homes In town an& country, reproducing those spots of beauty and Interest visualized in the novel. Stella Dallas graphically portrsfys Stella, a mill workdr In a small town, whose heart longs for romance. She is attracted to Stephen Dallas, a young man also employed in the mill/ but who comes from a more refined social sphere. They fall in love, are married and their union is blessed by a strange and beautiful child, Laurel. Not realizing how tongues ♦rag, Stella, In her lighthearted way, starts a harmless flirtation with Ed Munn, a loud and vulgar riding master. Because of their different natures, Stella and her husband become estranged. Main St. gossips about her and spurns her. But when her child) Laurel, is snubbed by the other school children on the great event of her eighth birthday party Stella packs iierself and Laurel off to a fashionable summer resort to try and forget. But no matter how Stella attempts by painting and primping to be "quality,’’ society doesn’t take her up. Some giddy boys and girls mock her gay and garish garb in the presence of Laurel. Flushed with shame, and her mother leave the hotel. Laurel not even saying good-by to Richard Grosvenor, her first sweetheart. Back in town, Stella determines to grant her husband a divorce, providing he marries his old boyhood sweetheart, Mrs. Morrison. She thinks that, perhaps, she will find some fleeting joy and love in making her daughter happy. Laurel, howeveiv refuses to sepa-
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COMING BEN-HUR BT OKNBRAL USW W ALLACE; DIRECTED BY FRED NIBLO With Roman Kovurro, Betty Bran Han, May MoAvoy, FrHnnti X. Buhmiia, Frank Currier and Carmel Myers. , A MM#-(oWwjo Production In Arrangement with A. L. Krlmgw, C. H. . | and F. Ziegfeld Jr.
rate from her .mother and live with her father and Mrs. Morrison, bo Stella decides to alienate the affections of Laurel from her by marrying Ed Mun, whom she knows her child detests. Befle Bennett, picked as the sev-enty-third applicant for the part, is considered to be Stella Dallas to the life. Ronald Colman is Stephen Dallas, the romantic youth of good family. Alice Joyce is the kindly, understanding Mrs. Morrison. Jean lTersholt lives the role of Ed Munn, the wise-cracking, show-off riding master. Lois Moran, the unmodernized and unsophisticated child wonder, is the strange and beautiful Laurel. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is said to make a perfect Richard Grosvenor, the carefree college boy, Laurel’s sweetheart. Other features on the program will include musical numbers by Charlie Davis and his gang, who are continuing on their trip around the world. “Bolsheviki” will be the musical setting for the coming week. Bob Gordon will play a special musical score to accompany the feature picture. -I- -I- -I' MILTON SILLS IS FEATURED IN “PARADISE” Milton Sills comes to the Circle on Sunday in the screen adaptation of Cosmo Hamilton’s novel, “Paradise.” a society drama which shifts 'its locale from London to an island in the South Seas. Sills is cast in the role of a dissolute young nobleman who has been cut off from his family because of his mode for living. He meets a young dancer from
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No. I— Kathryn W*erry will be seen In “Womanpower,” opening at the Palace Thursday afternoon. No. 2—Belle Bennett in a scene, from “Th* lily” at tlie Colonial next week. No. 3—Ronald Column and Lois
the music halls who is about to commit suicide, and for the first time in his life falls in love, and when he proposes the girl accepts him. Shortly after their marriage the war breaks out and Tony joins his regiment, returning with a citation for valor, which practically restores him in favor in the,eyes of his family. -• His father gives him a deed to Paradise, an island in the South Seas, provided Tony can find it and establish his claim to the land. Bill Quex, villainous caretakerj of the island, is desirous of keeping it for himself, and the balance of the story the conflict between Tony and Quex, the efforts, of former friend to win Chrisaie away from him, and the dramatic climax which establishes Tony and his wife as the owners of their Paradise. The production of this story was directed by Irvan Willat, and the cast supporting Mr. Sills js headed by Betty Bronson. Other players are Charlie Murray, Kate Price, Noah Beery, Lloyd Whitlock, Claude King and Char’es Brooke. Other features of-,interest on the program for the week are the overture, .played by the Circle. Concert Orchestra, under the direction of Stolarevßky; the Circle News; the
] BENNETT | Richard Tucker—James Marcus ' -j C j Should a woman forswear The onelovt of her life ? / Hosed on the Stage Success adapted and presented by Darid Masco DENIED LOVE herself, she fights like a tigress to JjAuß insure happiness for her younger sister. Here’s a drama that plumbs the depths of a beautiful imtfTO woman’s soul—a story which Yeveals the texture of exquisite femininity—a recital which will beat at the hearts of all who see it. | & ON OUR STAGE Short Reel Features ARTHUR in America’s Foremost Exponent of Rythm * “Wanted: A Bride” RAY MARSH AESOP FABLE “Teasing the Xylophone” “Home, Sweet Home” -- international news Floyd Thompson's Singing Troubadors
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.THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES.
Moran In “Stella Dallas” at the Oliio next week. 4—Jack Daugherty in “The Runaway Express” will be the chief event at tlie Isis the first half of the week. No.' s—-Betty Bronson and Milton SilLs In "Paradise” at the Circle all next w r cek.
Today in the Theaters ENGLISH’S—“The Passing Show of 1926.” KEITH’S—WiII Mahoney. LYRlC—.lames J. Corbett and Bobby Barry. • PALACE —Kay Sisters in their revue. CIRCLE —"Mare Nostrum.” COIjONIAL—”3 Bad Men ’ APOLLO —“The Temptress ” OHIO —“The Campus Flirt.” ISlS—“Flames.” UPTOWN—“OId Loves and New.” MU’rUAL— “Hello Pareo.”
Circle Chat, played to the tune of “For My Sweetheart;” an organalog, “A Musical Dinner,” by Miss Dessa Byrd, and a Circle comedy. -I- -I- -ICOMINIAL OFFER BENNETT IN "THE LILY” “The Lily.” adapted from David Belaeo’s stage ( lay in which Belle Bennett is starred, will be the Colonial’s attraction for one week starting tomorrow. The stage presentation will be a novelty musical offering by Ray
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No. 6—VV. C. Fields has Yh* lead in “So’s Your Old Man” at the Apollo, starting Sunday afternoon. No. 7—Olive Borden and George O’Brien In “Fig Leaves” at th© Uptown for three days, starting Sunday.
Marsh, in an act called “Teasing tht Xylophone.” Floyd Thompson’s Singing Troubadors featuring Bob Jones. Jack Berry and Jack Russco, have arranged surprise program. According to preview critics, Miss Bennetf does the greatest screen work of her career in “The Lily” and she hits been surrounded by a most pretentious cast of assisting players, including lan Keith, a protege of Be las co. Richard Tucker, James Marcus, Reata Hoyt, John Sainpolis, Tom Ricketts. Vera Lewis, Betty Francisco and Lydia Yeamans Titus. The settings are said to he of a magnificent order. Replicas of celebrated French homes were built and the furnishings include some of the most costly paintings and tapestries ever used for motion picture purposes. Two of particular note being the Chateau *if Count de Maigny with its majestic stairway and great stone pillars with immense fireplaces and exquisite furnishings and the other the home of the artists w r ith itq gorgeous winding stairway. The story. laid in France, presents Miss Bennett is Odette, the lovely daughter of the greedy Count de Maigny, a widower, who has been the curse of his daughter’s life because he refused her permission to marry based on selfishness and his own desires to carry on the life of
a roue which carries him to the brink of bankruptcy. Odette has a younge sister, who has a love affair with an artist, a married man to gain a divorce and whose love affair is about to l>e blighted because of the greedy father. Seeing her sister’s happiness about to be blasted, 3he denounces her father and announces she will throw’ ail her love to her sister. How the tangled lives are straightened out leads to a big climax. ' The supplemental screen features include an Arthur Lake comedy “Wanted —A Bride.” an Aesop Fable, “Home Sweet Home” and the current intenational news reel. -I- I I W. C. FIELDS HAS LEAD IN NEW PLAY One small town Inventor, plus a nagging wife and a haughty, though unhappy, European princess are the character around which the plot revolves in the second \Y. C. Felds comedy production. “So’s Your Old Man.” to be found at tho Apollo next week. Julian Street wrote the story.
'STELLA DALLAS WITH A GREAT CAST Ronald Col man fmf J I Belle Bennett ! I J Alice Joyce Ll j&I /Lois Moran. Hersholt ~ kCHTImI Doudas FairbanksJt BXNUU MJAt “STELLA DALLAS”—The kind of girl that makes Main street talk! “STELLA DALLAS” tells the story of a woman’s heart—is the lens through which the love life of every woman is X-rayed. It is i a photographic recital of sacrifice that will tug at the emotions of every mother, every father, every daughter; for there is a Stella in every community. 808 GORDON ORGMdWjJ I his €ir Tl ? aroufK * toe world M m bolsheviki'
When it was published under the title “Mr. Bisbee’s Princess,” it was awarded the O. Henry. Memorial Prize for the best short story of 1925. The task of transferring it the screen was entrusted to Gregory La Cav'at who, t'is said, has made a most mirthful job of Fields appears as Samuel Bisbee, who has the distinction of being both an inventor and a hen-pecked husband. When his Mire will let him Bisbee devotees his time to devising an unbreakable windshield for automobiles. His efforts to dodge his warring spouse and to sell his invention result in a continuous parade of laughable adventures with Bisbee always getting the worst of it until, by ctyance, he becomes the confident of the Princess Lescaboura, traveling in this country for reasons of her rrwn. Burdened with domestic woe the princess recognizes a fellow sufferer in the down-trodden Bisbee, an * incident that proves to be the turning point of his career. The supporting cast contains Alice Joyce, Charles Rogers, Kittens ' (Turn to J’agc 7)
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‘BIG PARADE’TO , COME AGAIN TO ’ INDIANAPOLIS ' \ A. F. Miller Announces That Big Movie Is Given Date. “The Big Parade” will play a return engagement for one week at English’s, beginning Sunday, Oct ,31, with Its own touring orchastra and complete New York presentation. It has been witnessed by more than four million Americans since its memorable opening late in 1925. The production is in its second year at the Astor Theater, New York, and holds the distinction of having broken all picture-run records at the Gjv.rri’ck Theater, Chicago; the Aldine Theater, Philadelphia; the Shu-bent-Detrolt Opera House, Detroit; the Hanna Theater, Cleveland, and the Majestic Theater, Boston. I/i addition to its numerous great American runs, it has been most successfully produced in the Eurofl pear: capitals, and witnessed packed and enthusastic audiences in long engagements in Canada. Truly “The Big Parade”—now in the second season of its road show ing with continued capacity business —ls the miracle picture of the cen tury. This screen version by King Vidor of Laurence Stalling’s story establishes John Gilbert as the greatest drawing card on the screen and Re nee Adoree as a youthful character player of the first prominence In the film world. Another equally high mark has been set by the music especially written for this picture by David Mendoza and William Axt of the Capitol Theater, New York. ORCHESTRA IN VARIETY Roger Wolfe Kahn and his orches tra will play a short engagement in Keith-Albeo vaudeville before young Kahn opens his night club.