Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1926 — Page 5

'OV. 13, 1926

i ARDATH ; NICOLA AND ‘ROSEMONT REVELLERS’ HERE

Vaudeville Theaters Next Week to Make Bid for Favor by Offering Many Novelty Attractions With NationWide Reputations for Merit. With a carload of paraphernalia and a big company of assistants Nicola, the magician extraordinary, will top the bill to be seen at B. F. Keith’s starting tomorrow afternoon. Nicola, who has just returned to this country after twentysix years In Europe, is said to be the only white man to beat the fakirs of the far East at their own game of magift.

Nicola offers a progranj of almost tinbellevable feats, including the living pin cushion in which a young woman is placed in a steel cabinet and apparently dozens of steel Spikes driven through her body, the “Elastic Woman” sees Nicola stretching ft young woman’3 arms and legs to fell sorts of lengths and positions, fftnd he offers a challenge escape act pn the stage. There are three cells. Another young woman Is placed Alternately in each of these cell3. A nonpartisan committee from the audience surrounds the cells. Yet the girl vanishes In another at the bidding of Nicole,. The climax of the act is the sensational trunk mystery, ft description of which is impossible. The bill will include: FRED ALLEN AND BURT YORK—“The Efficiency Men.” These two comics not only offer their own act, but announce the other acts on the bill and clown throughout the Whole show. HELEN COYNE AND HENRI

10th ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL CONCERT Mendelssohn choir Elmer Andrew Steffen, Conductor. 126 Trained Voices. X r Assisted by Madame mtgmk ROSA RAISA dramatic soprano, Chicago A opera co. §Et aHpon. Nov. 22 p'm NEW ARMORY AUDITORIUM X/N. Penna. & Walnut Sts. Public Seat Sale Opens Mon., Nov. 15, at FULLER-RYDE MUSIC CO., 27 E. Ohio St.

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FRENCH—In “Music of Motion,” are dancers who describe their act as a terpsichorean melody. The act is offered in a beautiful stage setting. Hal Sanders is the pianist for the act. THE SIX GALESNOS—Foreign athletes, will contribute a springboard and risley act that is said to border on the sensational. AL COOGAN AND MARY CASEY —For many seasons popular with local Keith audiences, return in a new act, “The Shrinking Violet,” In which songs travesty and dances are the prominent features. MR. FINK AND MR. SMITH— Billled as “The Sons of Humorous Parents.” They are delineators of hokum comedy. DAN BOUDINI AND ADELE BERNARD Ultra accordionists. They will offer a program that includes jazz, harmony and classical music. The bill will include the Pathe

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No. I.—Ramon Novarro and May McAvoy in a sc.eno from “Itcn-Hur,” which starts Its second week Sunday afternoon at English’s. No. 2.—Nicola, magician, will

news, topics of the day and Aesop's fables. •I- I- IYRDATII TO OPEN AT PALACE SUNDAY Sunday, the long heralded event that is to mark a change in the entertainment tcireles of Indianapolis will take place at the Palace Theater. Fred Ardath and his Merry Wags will open their engagement with their “Welcome Fred,” a piece of entertainment which is said to be entirely new to local theatergoers. This act augments the usual acts of vaudeville and the feature picture. On Broadway Ardath is known as the master of ceremonies at different supper clubs and has many stage successes after his name. He was Ed Wynn's right hand man in “The Perfect Fool,” which played this city some time Ego. He his played 160 weeks as a headliner for a vaudeville circuit. Not only does he deal with comedy, but he handles hie orchestra and produces all kinds of airs. With him

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top events at Keith’s next week. No. 3.—Bradley and Hennessy with “Rosemont Revellers” at the Lyrtc all next week. No. 4.—Fred Ardath will open his engagement at the Palaee Sunday afternoon.

aro twenty entertainers all of whom have been chosen from New York's leading orchestras and stage productions. Miss Claire Manson, a Marion, Indiana girl, is the feminine lead in the act. Ardath has written In conjunction with Chauncey Gray a song “My Indiana Home” which is dedicated to her. Another song, “I’ve Lost My Dog,” written by Jerry Buckley and Introduced to the public by Ardath through the courtesy of Ray Miller, director of Brunswick's recording orchestra, is 1n the act. Chauncey Gray introduces his Versatile Four as a feature In “Welcome Fred.” Ardath also carries with him a lantern which he says he brought from his father’s barn out in Oakland, Cal. He has the lantern Insured for SIO,OOO and would not part with It for anything a though it is a mere tin object. The bill Includes: ALEXANDER AND SANTOS—In “A Variety Divertlsement,” which

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scatters dances, songs, and music around. PRINCETON AND YALE Whose “Kelly’s Sink” is a travesty on a night,club. Princeton has the role of master of ceremonies and Miss Yale sings and chatters. FAUNTLEROY AND VAN—“The Oklahoma Slickers,” whose new brand of fun is said to afford many merry moments. 4 Fred Ardath and his Merry Wags will inject new comedy into their act the last half of the week. Those acts which are appearing with Ardath are Fred Ireland with his song and dance revue "Let's Go,” said to be a sensation; Meyers and Nolan with their "Lyrics and Laughter,” and Hart, Wagner, and Lela with "Those Days Are Over.” On tho screen are: "Midnight Lovers” with Anna Q. Nilsson and Lewis Stone, a romance between a society and an aviator during war times, the first half and “Whispering Wires'* with Anita Stewart and Edmund Burns the last half. This picture is claimed to an unusual mystery film, which Is taken frern the stage hit. Pathe News, a comedy, topics of the day, and an Aesop Fable are the reels. •I- -I- -ITWREE HEADLINERS DUE AT THE LYRIC The Lyric will have a triple head-

line hill of eight vaudeville acts next week, the foremost being the “Rose mont Revelers,” described as “a merry-go-round of song and dance,” with Bradley and Hennessy In a repertoire of dance and character creations: Alfred Brwore and Grace Fenimore Cooper, a danseuse, who bears tho name of her famous ancestor, James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist. The act was

ffclUtXv ■ Theater Beauti fulf . Now (dtnw Hie Wonrfprlhow of thpjpason 1 AMUSES-ASTOUNDS-P\JXZLES-I3EW\LUERS JSSR •JHE MOST AM All NO MYSTIC OF ALL- TIMES jSSpm) 'J’Ae On/{/ White ft an to 6eat The Fair/'rS o /The Far Fast at Their Own Game moc a s THIS GALAXY OF SATELLITES FROM VAUDEVILLE'S FIRMAMENT INCLUDES 1 I THAT POPULAR PAIR OF FAMOUS FUNSTERS “A LA HOKUM” FRED ALLEN & BERT YORKE 1 “THE EFFICIENCY MEN” U FUNLAND’S FAMOUS FARCEURERS They Put The "U” In Fun And Kept It There AL-COOGAN & CASEY-MARY MR. FINK & MR. SMITH lj IN "THE SHRINKING VIOLET” SONS OF HUMOROUS PARENTS VAUDEVILLE’S RENOWNED EXPONENTS OF TERPSICHORE HELEN COYNE & HENRI FRENCH I PRESENT “ MUSIC OF MOTION ” L A MELANGE OF MUSIC AND MELODY Our POPULAR FILM FEATURES INCLUDE F BOUDINI & BERNARD PATHE NEWS—TOPICS—FABLES ULTRA ACCORDIONISTS INTERESTING, CLEVER AND FUHNY 1 OFFERING A THOUSAND THRILLS—EUROPE’S ACROBATIC WONDERS I THE SIX GALENOS IN “AN ATHLETIC TOUCHDOWN” EXTRA ADDED CLOWN FEATURES BY ALLEN & YORKE I WEEK NOV. 21 PAT ROONEY, MARION BENT AND PAT ROONEY III —ROONEYISMS OF 1926-27 ||

Oil A Merry Go-Round Os J f Song Q Dance \ I RoSSMOMT / - r 1 TSmiiiLi, i i m with il BRADLEY & HENNESSY, GRACE FENIMORE lIP B ff|L COOPER AND COMPANY B R Written and Staged by Walter L. Rosemont 4 I 1 RICE & WERNER J? jg IN THEIR NEW LAUGH ODDITY. “ON THE 1 B SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT I B JEANNE il l ALEXANREA I p* Famous “Rose Girl of Radio,” Who Re- flj W turns to Indianapolis to Sing Before Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Roumania. ff SWARTZ S CLIFFORD If * MUSICAL COMEDY FAVORITES B OXFORD TRIO, KINZO If BASKET BALL ON CYCLES SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT Bjß EXTRA ADDED FEATURE S K > NORTHWEST MOUNTED f 1 i POLICE BAND §W Canada's Crack Musical Organization fly Wf M under the Direction of Eddie Elliott S/ m BEN TURPIN COMEDY , “HAREM KNIGHT ’ W jf jfi KINOGRAMS, BILL GRIMM SERIES St S

staged by Walter *L. Rosemont, Broadway Impresario. , The bill will Include: RICE ANDN WERNER —Popular comedy duo in their latest blackface skit, a laugh innovation, called "On the Scaffold.” JEANNE ALEXANDER —“The Rose Girl of Radio,” who sang with Ray Miller’s orchestra at the recent radio exposition, and who will he one of the artists selected to entertain at the banquet to be ten-

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dered Queen Marie of Roumania at* the Columbia Club Wednesday night of next week. NORTHWEST MOUNTED I’OLICE BAND—A crack Canadian organization which will be the musical feature of tho. bill, offering a dfr versified program of the latest instrumental selections. SWARTZ AND CLIFFORD—MIJj' sical comedy, favorites in a brajaH (Turn to Page 7