Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1927 — Page 7

JAN, 15, 1927

THE PALACE AND KEITH’S TO HAVE ALL FUN BILLS Three Alexander Sisters to Top Eight Acts at the Lyric. The Keith-Albee circuit is celebrating "Comedy Week” with bills that run mostly to fun. At the local Keith Theater, the bill that will be seen for the coming week, starting tVith a matinee Sunday is one designed for laughing purposes only. “All Over Town Revue” a parade of fun, song, dance and novelties with Rew Seymour and Jessie Hcdfcard in the principal roles will be the featured offering of the bill. In this act they will have the assistance of Peggy Daugherty and William V. Powers. The bill will include: HARRY HOLMES Popularly known in vaudeville as "The Pessimist” is a fun dispenser with a line that has made him one of the biggest favorites in the two a day field. AL SHAW AND SAMMY LEE-*-Former features with Ed Wynn’s "Grab Bag” company are a pair of droll comics. They offer a bright line of chatter and comedy bit3 that are sure-fire laugh producers. MARGARET PADULA—Assisted by Monroe Purcell will offer their “Ivory Novelties,” in which songs and piano playing are offered in an original manner. JAMES KELSO AND BELLS DE MONDE —Will present what they on 11 "A Revue for Two,” which is a combination of smart songs and dance numbers. BEULAH STEWART—Has won fame as an artist’s model with the assistance of and May Day "will present a series of classical poses styled as “Paris an Art." FRANK JEROME AND EVELYN —Will add more fun to the bill in their act "A Breeze From Broadway,” which is said to be something new in songs and fun. The bill will include: The Pathe News Weekly,, Topics of the Day, and Aesop’s Fables. EIGHT NOVELTY ACTS LISTED AT THE LYRIC ' " An eight act vaudeville bill containing many vaudeville novelties is 1 promised at the Lyric next week. Feature honors will go to the Three Alexander Sisters, noted for their i beauty, personal charm, tWeir' talent j as singers and- their grace in dancing. They recently returned from Europe, where they scored a great success in Cochran's. Revue at the Alhambra. Added headliners will be George Lane and Byrd Byron, well-known farceurs, who have a brand new comedy skit entitled "On A Side Street,” packed with humorous chatter interpersd with comedy' songs. The bill will include: ELCOTA AND BEATRICE BYRNE—America’s greatest xylophonist a.id a petite dancer in an offering which provides wide scope for El Cota’s laughable musical eccentricities. DE HAVEN AND NICE—A versatile team of funmakers in a mirthful hodge podge of variety. GEORGIA HOWARD—“The Dancing Violinist,” a veritable bundle of nervous energy, supplemented by rare musical gifts. WATTS AND HAWLEY—Proffer-

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This week Metro-Gold wyn -May er enter, ained Fire Chief Hutseil, (he hat I alien chiefs of Indianapolis and firemen and ehiefs from other Indiana rities at a private showing of “The Fire Brigade” at the Zaring Egyptian Theater. The picture shows Chief Hutseil and the others in front of the thosier.

ing a unique comedy and song innovation. \ SERLANY TROUPE—A quartet of Hollanders in an exhibition of "Art and Strength," the most remarkable importation of its kind from foreign shores in a long, long time. CLEMONS BELLING —Europe’s most famous arena clown in "Circus Pastimes,” introducing a well-trained group of dogs and ponies, together with several odd scenic devices. ON THE SCREEN—A Hal Roach comedy, “Forty-Five Minutes From Hollywood”; Kinograms, a Grantland Rice Sportlight, "Sporting Knack,” and an Imperial comedy - entitled "Big Business." COMEDY BILLS TO BE ON VIEW AT PALACE Entertainment of all kinds with an emphasis on the domedy is to be found on the bill opening at the Palace theater the first half of next week when Johnny Hines In his newest picture, "Stepping Along,* and the Welder Sisters in their "Classy Demi-Tasse Revue” top the honors. The feature film is claimed to be funnier than Hines’ “Brow'n Derby” or ’’The Live Wire.” Hines has the role of a newsboy in the Bowery of New York. He has high political ambitions and due to his dancing and popularity in his neighborhood wins the favor of the political boss and gets his position. Mary Brian is the leading lady who wants to go on the stage. Four men support the Welder Sisters in an offering of songs, dances and fun. Bill includes: AGNES BURR AND MABEL ELAlNE—Comedians singers and dancers. The former was a star of “Some Baby,” musical show; the latter a co-star with Mclntyre and Heath. HARRINGTON REYNOLDS Leading man in "No No Nanette” in Australia, who just < omes from there in his “Adventure In Business,” an original satire dealing with a young Englishman’s advent into the business world by means of a haberdashery, willed him. English humor infests the sketch. A young i lady enters..the store and the funny situations occur. CURTIS AND LAWRENCE—In "Is that the Custom,” a skit introducing a United States Customs officer and a traveler who have many an argument of song and chatter. DE WITT, BURNS AND TOR-" RENCE —Whose "Awakening of the Toys” presents a doll shop come to life on Christmas eve. "A Night in China” Is an Oriental flavored musical comedy with seven principals w.ho deal with catchy music, characteristic dancing, and comedy in plenty the last half of the week. Dorothy Curtis is the featured player and is assisted by the Roma Duo. A act that works with the headliner is that of Joe Morris and Winn Shaw. Tfifeir act “The Mosquito Trust” was written for them by Otto Johnson wfco has written skits for Mclntyre and Heath. Ray Conlin is a "Sub Vocal Comedian” with his ventriloquist act. Frank Ledent and partner are having “A Festival at Bagdad” and give a juggling act that is said to be unusual. One snore act is on the bill. Cn the screen are; "Stepping Along” with Johnny Hines and Mary Brian the first half and "Pals iiv Paradise” with John' Bowers and Marguerite de la Motte the last half. Pathe News, a comedy, topics of the day and an Aesop Fable j complete the bill. •FANIS RETURNS TO VAUDE Elsie Janis. that Inimitable impersonator of famous characters of the stage is returning to Keith-Albee vaudeville the week of March 13. Miss Janis is now on a concert tour and closes her tour in the South during the second week of March and will open the following week at Keith's, Washington, playing the Palace, New York, the week following.

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WPf" \ I NAZIMOVA Many stars of the legitimate stage and screen have found their wav into vaudeville, where they appear with a great success, and this happens to be the case of Mme. Nazlmova, who comes as the headliner of the bill to be seen at B. F. Keith's for the week of Jan. 23. Mme. Nazlmova, whose work on the stage and screen has made her famous the world over, readily accepted a vaudeville offer from the Keith-Albeec ircuit for a few weeks’ engagement in some of their principal houses, which Included the local theater. She will appear in anew one-act dramatic play, “A Woman of the Earth,” written for her by Edgar Allen Woolf.

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LLOYD IN NEW FILM AT APOLLO fContinued From Page 6) j of the Alaskan goldrush. Is featured ; at the Uptown on Wednesday and Thursday. Seena Owen, Arnold | Gary and Mathew Betz play the leading roles in “The Flame of the Yukon.” “Golf Widows,” the imperial comedy and the novelty subject “Skyland.” "The Runaway Express." with Jack Daugherty in the leading role, comes to the Uptown Theater on Friday and Saturday m It is a picture of thrills and action. The remainder of the program includes the Andy Gump comedy, “Dumb Luck," a News weekly and a cartoon. NEW YORK MELODRAMA ROOKED AT ISIS Throbbing with the warmth and color of Avenue A, and vivid with the conflict of Bolshevism and Americanism in the hectic period before the entrance of the United States into the World War, “Rose of the Tenements," to be presented at the Isis the first half of next week is a melodrama of New' York life adapted from John Moroso’s novel, “The Stumbling Herd” and screened under the supervision of Phil Rosen,, the man who directed "Abraham Lincoln.” Shirley Mason and Johnny Harron are co-starred in the picture. The supporting cast includes Evelyn Selbie, Sidney Franklin, James Gordon, Frank McGlynn, Jr., Kalla Pasha and others. A comedy entitled "Madam Dynamite” and a

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Grantland Rice Sportlight, "Big and "Little,” will hA added features. "The Timid Terror,” p. comedy drama to be shown Thursday and the rest of the week relates a series of strange adventures that befall a poor yowig man who desires to own a car in order that he may thus impress the girl he loves. Suddenly and most unexpectedly he inherits and automobile which, upon inspection proves to be a taxi cab. The comedy finally winds up in a thrilling climax after which there is time for the romance to solve its all important problem. George O’Hara has the stellar role. Other players are Doris Hill, Rex Lease, Edith Yorke, George Nichols and Dot Earley. A Pathe Review and an Imparial comedy, “Golf Widows,” will complete the program. NEW POLICY CONTINUES AT COLONIAL THEATER f "Finger Printing,” the screen version of Arthur Somers Roche’s mystery comedy novel of the same name in which Louis Frazenda is given I her first starring vehicle and she appears in one of her famous slavery characterizations, will be the Colonial’s photoplay attraction of the musical comedy-feature picture policy next week. ! Arthur Rauk’s Sunshine Revue | next week will be continued a second week and w’Ul present "A Duke for a Night,” a musical skit in which Tom Collins is starred. The revue numbers will be completely changed as well as the chorus numbers and there will be an entire new wardrobe and new scenic effects making complete new stage offering. t Floyd Thompson’s gang will be heard in two specialty offering in addition to interpreting the picture. Billy Cullen, the "blues” singer of the Harmony Kings, will present a new program of songs accompanied by his colleagues and will also sing request numbers during the progress of the entertainment offered by Mr. Hauk and his splendid company. The story of “Finger Prints” deals with a hand of criminals who stole $5,000,000 in a mall robbery and were caught and convicted, but the money not recovered. Upon one man who knows the hiding place of the booty the detectives worked and learned the whereabouts to be in a mystery house and here the mystery element liberally sprinkled with comedy thickens, and while the backbone of the story i'C straight melodrama of unexpected thrills, the interest is hightened by the uproariously funny situations brought about by a girl detective portrayed by Miss Fazenda. She enters the mystery house disguised as a stupid servant and is finally Instrumental in turning the tables upon a bunch'" of crooks and spiritualists who glide through the many paneled rooms and secret passages to' the suspense and amusement of the spectators, The supporting cast of players to the new star includes John L Murray the vaudeville headliner who made a hit in

the comedy part of “Bardsiy the Magnificent.” Helene Costello, the brunet sister of Dolores; George Nichols, Martha Mattox, Franklin Pangborn, William Demarest, Robert Perry, Jerry Miley, Warner Richmond, Myrna Loy and Lewis Harvey. The usual supplemental film features will be given, including the International News and an Aesop Fable. VILLAGE FOLLIES DUE AT ENGLISH’S (Continued From Page 5) the immense amount of royalties paid Michael Arlen made, "and continues to make, “The Green Hat”

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an attraction of outstahding interest in the annals of the footlights. The story of the girl who loved where and when she pleased, who chose her lovers for the moment and discarded them when they no longer interested her, is hardly a narrative for the narrow-minded. One must he generous frailties of human nature, and particularly of the farilties of women, to sit< before the unfolding of Iris March’s life as Arlen has written it and not grow impatient. If you agree that she had the right to take love where she found it you will like Iris March; if you disagree with her purposes and her methods, you will hate her. But like or hate will be fascinated during the course of the story’s telling in its four powerful, ironic acts. The cast, headed by Katherine Cornell, will be identical with that which presented “The Green Hat” on Broadway fc>r a solid year.

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While George Arliss, who i: having such a magnificent success on the Pacific Coast in Winthroi Ames’ production of John Gals worthy’s “Old English,” has starre< in such films as “Disraeli,” “Th< Devil,” “The Man Who Played God,' “The Ruling Passion,” and “Th Green Goddess.” he had never seel Hollywood, most famous of movi cities, until his present visit to Lo Angeles to act Galsworthy's grea old sinner. Alt of the Arliss picture were made in New York City. Hi last film was “The Green Goddess. When he went to London to presen that play he was forced to abandoi his cinema appearances, but tap es pects to be seen on the screen agaii after his present tour is ended.