Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1927 — Page 6

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JOHN GILBERT IS A MODERN ROMEO IN THE APOLLO MOVIE

Adolph Menjou Will B.e Seen in ‘Blondes or Brunettes’ at the Ohio Next Week—Corinne Griffith Has Lead in Circle Photoplay Feature. One of the world’s best screen charmers, being made violent !©ve to by the champion Romeos of two nations —this is the unique combination to be found in “Flesh And the Devil,” filmed by Clarence Brown from Herman Sudermann’s “The Unlying Past,” to be presented at the Apollo next weok. John Gilbert is starred in the picture, and with Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson forms a strange triangle.

The story is based on sociological conditions in Europe, hanging on traditions of love and marriage, and with Miss Garbo in the role of a modern Circe whose beauty and charm lures men to ruin. Gilbert plays one of her'lovers and Hanson the other —who marries her to participate in one of the most powerful dramatic situations ever portrayed on the screen. For the most part the scenes are laid in Germany. A thrilling duel, a number of gripping episodes, including a daring church scene wherein the old pastor denounces the lovers from his pulpit, and other high lights intensify the production. In addition to the star and featured players the cast includes such favorites as Barbara Kent, George Fawcett, Eugenie Besserer, Marc MacDermott, Marcelle Corday and William Orlamond. Other program features will be a Newlywed’s comedy, “Snookum's Playmate”; the Fox News Weekly, Sidney Jerome, popular Indianapolis comedian, introducing original comedy songs; musical divertisement by Kmil Seidel and his orchestra, and an organ novelty, ‘’ln My Home Towns,” by Lester Huff. - - MENJOU TOPS COMEDY CAST ‘‘Blonde or Brunette,” adapted for the screen from the Parisian stage success, “An Angel Passes,'' by Jacques Bousquet and Henri Falk, will be the featured photoplay attraction at the Ohio Theater for the coming week. It is a spicy farce in which the eternal triangle, that perennially popular motif of the drama, is adroitly made fun of by no less a personage than the ultra-debonair Adolphe Menjou, with Greta Nissen and Arlette Marchal .as his chief assistants. It was directed by Richard Rosson. "Blonde or Brunette” presents Menjou in a characterization that thoroughly fits the story, locale and setting. Asa prosperous young French attorney, Menjou, at the opening of the tale, suddenly rebels against the transformation of his home into a veritable roadhouse by jazz-mad acquaintances. He decides to get rid of them and settle down, so he marries a baby-

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Engages Artist Richard Barthelmess, First National star, recently engaged William Van Dresser, noted American artist, to make a portrait of his little daughter, Mary Hay Barthelmess. The portrait has been completed and now adorns the living room of liis Beverly Hills home. It is done in “sanguine,” a soft, reddish tone crayon used for centuries by Titian, da Viqei, and other masters.

doll blonde, fresh from the country; but he doesn't stay settled for long. Paris effects a transformation on his bride and soon his house is more crowded than ever with the very kind of people he has been trying to escape. He turns for solace to a sedate brunette, who, for the purposes of the story, is as somber as her coloring. It takes two divorces, three marriages, the combined efforts of the in-laws, a detective and a quick-witted grandmother to square the triangle, but Adolphe finally makes his choice. In addition to the featured players the cast includes Mary Carr, Emile Chautard, Paul Weigel, Henry Sedley, Andre Lanoy and Henri Menjou. Charlie Davis and his gang will be featured in a stage attraction, “Hawaiian Echoes,” and Bob Gordon will play at the Ohio organ. The program of supplementary film attractions will include a Buster Brown comedy, "Buster’s Dark Mystery,” and a Pathe News events. CORINNE TOPS CAST OF ROMANTIC MARIE Corinne Griffith comes to the Circle Sunday in “The Lady in Ermine,” the dramatic adaptation of the celebrated European stage success which was written by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernest Welisch. The story concerns Countess Mudiana Murillo and her young husband, who is forced to leave his bride on their wedding day to join his regiment to combat the invading Austrians. Following his denature the castle is seized by the enemy and the gen-

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eral becomes deeply infatuated with the mistress of the estate. When the counf hears from a messenger of the capture of his castle he obtains permission to return in disguise to protect his wife. His presence is discovered and he is brought before the general, whom he tells he is a poor silhouette cutter. The Austrians penetrate his disguise. however, and orders hint to be shot as a spy in the morning. How the legend surrounding a life-size portait of the countess' great-grandmother enters the story at this point, and how the life of the young husband is saved, is told In this dramatic story, the production of which was directed by James Flood. Einar Hanson Is the star’s leading man and others of prominence appearing in the supporting cast are

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. % W M Three Complete Changes of Program Each Week SUNDAY, MONDAY and TUESDAY Jack Hoxie in “ROUGH AND READY” EDI CATIOXAL COMEDY, “WIFE WHY” WEDNESDAY AND THIRSDAY Billy Sullivan in “THE WINNER” E D U A R S ’ ’ ’ FRIDAY AND SATURDAY “THE LONE WOLF RETURNS” A I.OUIS JOSEPH VANCE STORY STARRING BERT LYTELL AND BILLIE DOVE ■fl A EDUCATIONAL COMEDY, “MIDNIGHT FOLLIES" ya lOC ALL SEATS 10C

Francis X. Bushman, Ward Crane, Jane Keckley and Charles Sellon. The overture for the week is “An Evening‘With the Radio," conceived and directed by Stolarevsky and played by the Circle Concert Orchestra, and Dessa Byrd, playing “Blame It on the Waltz" as an organ solo. Other features of the program are the third of the Collegian series, featuring George Lewis and Dorothy Gulliver, and the Circle News. SMART COMEDY DI E AT COLONIAL Irene Rich in "Don't Tell the Wife," the screen version of Sardou's famous French stage farce, “Cyprienne." will lie the Colonial's feature photoplay attraction next week. The star is supported by a cast of players, including Hustly Gordon, Lilyun Tashman, William Demarest and Otis Harlan. Marshall Walker's Whiz Bang Revue is held over a second week anil will present an entirely new musical farce, "Oriental Rose," as this feature of the theater's policy. There will be new'chorus numbers prettily costumed and now specialties by the principals, Blanche Walker. John Sneed, Joe Mack and Harrison Kimball, and the production will lie presented in new scenery and effects. . “Don't Tell the Wife” comes heralded as one of the most fasein iting vehicles in which Miss Rich lias appeared. It is a humorous •utire with the fragrance of refreshingly risque French farce. It is said to be deft witli intimate touches of human drama, coinpll- • ited by tiie strained marital relations of a seven years’ wedded couple who seek relief from the humdrum routine of connubial bliss by journeys along forbidden paths. The troubles are started with the invitation to a young couple to a week-end party, the seventh anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Cartier. The

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No. 1 —t'orinnp Griffith and Francis X. Bushman in a scene from “The Lady in Ermine" at the Circle next week. No. 2 —Adolphe Menjou and Greta Nissen in a loving .scene from Blonde or Brunette” at the Ohio. No. 3—lrene Rich will be seen in “Don’t Tell the Wife” at the Colonial, starting Sunday. No. 4—. lack Hoxie will be seen in “Rough and Ready” at the Isis, for three days starting Sunday. No. s—Harrison Ford as lie appears in “Tiie Nervous Wreck" at the Palace, the first half of the week. No. fi—John Gilbert will be seen in “Flesh and the Devil” at the Apollo next week. No. 7—Bert Lytell will be seen in “The Lone Wolf Returns" at the Uptown for three days, starting Sunday.

young woman proves a woeful flirt and enmeshes the husband in her wiles. The wife’s suspicions aroused she attempts to catch the pair at a masque ball. Warned by a friendly magistrate the husband and his paramour leave the ball and the husband r- turns home and a family row ensues, he attempting to prove himself the injured party. Divorce is threatened and the magistrate friend pulls n fake ceremony and then further complications ensue interpolated with many screaming situations until happiness is finally brought about In an unusual climax. The usual supplementary films will be given. Floyd Thompson and His Gang will be heard in two specialties as well as playing the musical show.

ISIS CHANGES ITS SCHEDULE The Isis announces anew policy that will provide hereafter for three complete changes of program each week. For the first three days of next week Jack Hoxie will be seen In a drama of the rugged Wyoming cattle country, entitled "Rough and Ready," in which Hoxie has the support of Edna Gregory, .Marin Sais, Jack Pratt ami Monte Montague. The star appears in the role of a cowboy who Inclines to chivalry and gallantry, traits that serve him in good stead when he- falls in love with the daughter of his employer and learns that he has a rival In a rich easterner who turns out to be an unscrupulous cad. A comedy, called "Wife Shy,” will also be shown. “The Winner," a comedy drama starring Billy Sullivan, will be on view Wednesday and Thursday, supplemented by a comedy, “The Jolly Tars.” In “The Winner” Sullivan appears as Scotty MacTavish, son of a wealthy builder of railroad locomotives, who engages in a romance with Patsy Thorne, daughter of the

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Fri. and gat. “Great K. & A. Train Robbery"

Wed. and Thurs. “THE MIDNIGHT KISS"

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superintendent of the MacTavish shops. Thrills are supplied by a runaway locomotive, and a fistic encounter between Scotty and the shop bully, "Slugger” Martin. Among the players are Lucille Hutton and Tom O’Brien. Adapted from the novel by Louis Joseph Vance, "The Lone Wolf Returns,” to be presented Friday and Saturday, again brings to the screen i tlie fascinating figure of Michael | Lanyard, International crook, now ! reformed and who, for the sake of | love and honor, engages in a single- | handed battle with a highly organ- ! izod band of criminals operating in i New York. Bert Lytell and Billie ] liove are co-starred in the picture, j and are supported by Gwen Lee, Freeman Wood, Gustav von Seyffer- | titz and Alphonse Ethier. The proI grom will contain an Educational j corned}', "Midnight Follies.” UPTOWN OUTLINES ITS NEW PICTURES "The l.W|e Wolf Returns,” a pic- | ture basetr on the story by Louis ! Joseph Vance, is to be shown at the i Uptown theatre. College avenue at | Forty-second street, on Sunday, Moni day and Tuesday. It is one of the big pictures of the past year and is filled with significant interest. It is the story of a gentleman crook who "returns” to his profession after many years of honest liv-

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ing. How he saves the name of his friends at the expense cf his reputation makes one of the most enthralling stories of pictures. A Bobby Vernon comedy, "Wife Shy,” a news weekly and a fable are additional. "The Midnight Sun,” featuring Janet Gaynor and Richard Walling, is featured in "The Midnight Kiss,” at the Uptown on Wednesday and Thursday. It is a screen adaptation of the John Golden play "Pigs.” “Raggedy Rose,” featuring Mabel Normand, and a Kelly Color are also shown. Tom Mix and Tony, his wonder horse, are starred in “The Great K. & A. Train Robbery,” on Friday and Saturday. "Buster’s Prize Winner,” a comedy, a news weekly and a Bray cartoon are other week-end features.

MOVIES OF RAILROADS Moving pictures on trains would eliminate much of the tedium of travel in the opinion of H. L. Mencken, editor of The American Mercury, who recently completed a tour of the country. Some trains and many ships already have motion picture service. Pictures are shown in the club car of President Coolidge’s train whenever he travels and the time will probably come when trains are operated as “moving moving pictures."

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LinLE THEATRE TO PRESENT ‘THE ; LIAR' IN 011 George Somnes Directs Big Undertaking for Society. The Little Theatre Society of Indianapolis will present "Tiie Liar.” a comedy in three acts by Carlo Goldon, Italy’s greatest comic writer, on the nights of Feb. 2, 3, 4 and 5, under the direction of George Somnes at the Playhouse, Nineteenth and Alabama Sta This play is a diverting evening’s amusement. The web of the plot is of airy mesh, concerning itself chiefly with the predicaments in which Lelio, a Venetian fop, and "the greatest liar in the world," finds himself entangled during a short period of twenty-four hours by his talent for prevarication. Making love to the fair Rosaura, daughter of a Bolognese doctor, he brings upon himself the wrath of Ottavio, her admiring suitor, and having represented himself first a nobleman of wealth and shortfllP after changed his role to that of. a poor but honorable suitor, he also arouses the wrath of the puzzled but infatuated Rosaura, when his lies are discovered. His fertile imagination supplies himself with a convenient wife and with equal ease does away with her when she proves inconvenient and when the entanglements to which Jie has committed himself prove too many for even his ingenious wit to extricate himself, he swears to lie no more. But as an afterthought and being quite incorrigible he makes the reservation, “unless he be hard put to it, when he will save himself with some witty invention." First Produced The play was first presented in Mantua, Italy, in May, 1750. Goldoni, in his memoirs gives as his"' reason for writing it his desire to portray a liar in a role “less vicious than comic," the conventional liar of the comedy stage then being a villain of lowest type with the usual accompaniments of deep revenge and solemn retribution, True to his instinct for “painting folly and stupidity lh diverting colors” and giving gaiety and life and meaning to seemingly unimportant trifles, ho has made this a hilarCTura fcp Page 7)