Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1927 — Page 6

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CHANEY OPENS IN ‘TELL IT TO THE MARINES’ AT APOLLO

John Gilbert Plays Chief Role jn 'The Show’ at the Ohio —Circle Will Present The Winning of Barbara Worth/ by Harold Bell Wright, Next. Week.

Filmed with the co-operation of the United States Government, George Hill’s great spectacle, “Tell It To the Marines,” •tarring Lon Chaney, to be presented at the Apollo next week, is hailed as the true story of Marine Corps service; an epic screened with the surge of war and the thunder of big guns for its settings.

E. Richard Schayer wrote the story which deviates from the daily routine of the men who are always “First to Fight” only so far as was necessary to incorporate an interesting, thrilling romance—the love affair of “Private ‘Skeet’ Burns,” a new recruit, and “Norma Dale,” a winsome nurse. Critics have declared that Chaney does the best work of his career in his characterization of “Sergeant O’Hara,” grizzled veteran of the “Devil Dogs.” It is the strong-armed treatment accorded the youthful Burns by the rough and ready sergeant, hero of a dozen battles, that makes a man and a marine out of the former after his metal had been put to test through the white heat of the fires ft temptation. The scenes range from the Marine base at San Diego to the Philippines, and thence to China, where the marines are shown in action against g,' brigade of Chinese bandits. A tropical typhoon, the most terrible of all storms, is one of the many vivid episodes of the picture, which includes, too, the practice maneuvers of an entire battle fleet. In the cast supporting the star are "William t Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Eddie i Gribbon, Carmel Myers, Warner Oland, Mitchell Lewis, Frank Curlier and Maurice Kains. Other program features will be a Bray Pictograph, “Alice at the Radio,” Kinograms, Dick Powell, vocal soloist, a novel interpretation of a popular song,-“Take In the Sun and Hang Out the Moon,” by Emil Seidel and His Orchestra, an organ Innovation by Lester Huff entitled “A March Review.” JOHN GILBERT PLAYS BOLE IN “THE SHOW” “The Show,” in which John Gilbert ;and Renee Adoree, the combination :tbat scored one of the screen successes of history in “The Big Pa- | i&de,” are together for the first time [since, will be the photoplay featured -at the Ohio theater for the coming [week. Tod Browning, director of | “The tJnholy Three,” and “The Road Mandalay,” directed the story .from Waldemar Young’s adaptation of the Charley Tenny Jackson novel. The featured stars play the ceniital characters in a strange rotnance laid in a mysterious sideshow -on the outskirts of the “invisible -city”—a sideshow of illusions, magician’s tricks and strange grotesque, with a “decapitation” illusion which Gilbert has his head cut off jjl a “Salome” travesty as a central /feature. The settings, including the grotesque sideshows, with their floattog living heads, mermaids, “spider Women” and other startling Illusions are realistic to the extreme, whole blocks of reproductions of quaint Budapest streets and other incidentals being used in the gripping Jnyatery story. John Gilbert Is shown.as a young feangster, who, among his other activities, works In the illusion show. His other adventures include being embroiled in a political intrigue, being vamped by a strange and exotic charmer, and finally winning a beautiful girl, all of which . happens against a background of magic, Aystery and the darkness of an underworld in Europe- Miss Adoree is cast as a Salome dancer in the production, with Lionel Barrymore as “The Greek,” a sinister gangster leader, and Edward Connelly as the old blind man who eventually brings about the astounding climax. Charlie Davis and his musical gang will be the stage attraction in an offering called “In Sweden.” Bob Gordon will play at the organ. The program of supplementary Jilmfe will

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Second Church of Christ, Scientist, , of Indianapolis Announces a Free Lecture on Christian Science by William Duncan Kilpatrick, C. 5. B. of Detroit, Michigan Member of The Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts To be given in Murat Theatre Sunday Afternoon, February Twenty-Seventh at Three o’clock * Nineteen Hundred Twenty-Seven The Public is cordially invited to be present Radiocast by Station W. F. B. M. 268 Meters

‘Rosie’ Douglas Gilmore, Bebe Daniels’ leading man, in her latest Paramount comedy, has been" given an important part in Clara Bow’s new starring vehicle, “Rough House Rosie.” This is Gilmore's second picture under his new Paramount contract. His first work with Miss Daniels in “Kiss in a Taxi” is said to have revealed him as one of the most promising of the younger actors.

include an O. Henry comedy, “Roses and Rises,” and a Pathe news. “BARBARA WORTH” IS DUE AT THE •CIRCLE The Circle Theater’s attraction, beginning Sunday, will be "The Winning of Barbara Worth,” the film adaptation of Harold Bell Wright’s Widely read novel, tvith Ronald Colman in the principal roles. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by Henry King, "The Winning of Barbara Worth” presents Miss Banky in the role of Barbara Worth, adopted daughter of Jefferson Worth, a banker who plans to reclaim the great desert with a irrigation project. To secivre additional capital Worth enlists the cooperation of Janies Greenfield, eastern capitalist, and his foster son, Willard Holmes. Greenfield’s idea of the West and the desert is a place to make money, and this idea is shared by H.-'.nes until he meets Barbara and falliA in love with her. / Through her he comes to a reali-

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zatioh of the beauty and enchantment of the desert. Angered by the cheap and dangerous methods emby Greenfield, the two friends of Jefferson Worth who are in charge of construction protest to Greenfield and are Immediately discharged, and Holtnes placed in charge. Worth j.hen moves away from Kingston, the first desert city, and establishes “Barba.” With him go his friends and hundreds of settlers who have been nearly ruined by the avaricious Greenfield, but to whom Worth promises free land and fair play. a How Greenfield cuts off Worth’s financial aid, how Holmes finds out his father’s true purposes, and goes to the aid of Worth, making a desperate ride the mountains wtlh a pay roll which Greenfield had tried to stop and which had incited the settlers to the point of near riot, is told in this absorbing story, which ends with the marriage of Barbara and Holmes. Charles Lane, Paul Mac Allister, Gary Cooper, Clyde Cook, Erwin Connelly and E. J. Ratcliffe are the principal players in support of the stars. *i Other features of the program are the Circle news; the overture, played by the Circle Concert Orchestra under the direction of Stolarevsky; an organ solo by Dessa Byrd, and a Circle comedy presentation. ISIS LISTS ITS NEW MOVIES NEXT WEEK Yellowstone Park provided a wonderful scenic background for the filming of "The Canyon of Light,” starring Tom Mix, to be shown at the Isis the first half of next week. Mix and his horse Tony are in action full tilt throughout the stirring story in which Mix is first introduced as a dispatch bearer on the fighting front in France during the World War. The scene then shifts to the Western part of the United States, and it was for the subsequent sequences that Yellowstone Park was selected by Mix and director Ben Stoloff. The plot deals with the affairs of a band of vigilantes formed to break up a gang of desperadoes that had terrorized the community with a free hand while the best clement among the citizens was away to war. Dorothy Dwan, Carl Miller, Ralph Slipperly, Barry Norton, William Walling Sr., Duke Lee and Carmelita Geraghty are in the cast. The fun feature will be an Andy Gump farce entitled “Rooms for Rent.” For the las: half of the week, starting Thursday, the program will consist of “Collegiate” starring Alberta Vaughn, and a Harold Lloyd comedy, “Ring Up the Curtain.” Jean Dupont wrote “Collegiate” especially for the piquant Alberta, who has the role of a co-ed very much in love with a boy working his way through colleger Thrilling, exciting scenes vie with delightful bits of character delineation full of the spirit of Young America. A surprising climax is reached in the midst of a big football game. “Collegiate,” was directed by Dell Andrews, the man who make the series “The Go Getters,” in which Miss Vaughn first attracted attention and built up a loyal following.

FAVORITE PLAT RULER AT UPTOWN. The oldest as well as the youngest star of the screen are starred In pictures at the Uptown Theater, College avenue at 'Forty-second street, the coming week. Francis X. Buschman a motion picture star from the first, plays with Billie Dove in “The Marriage Clause,’’ on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The picture is based on the Saturday Evening Post story “Technic,” and has to do with the rise of a young girl as a star of the stage. Her patron sinks aa she rises and becomes embittered when he thinks that the girl has become untrue to him. . “Funny Face,” a Big Boy comedy, a news weekly and a fable are additional subjects. Richard Barthelmess is starred in. “The White Black Sheep,” a First National picture featured at the Uptown oh Wednesday and Thursday. It tells of a son of a British officer who becomes lost in Algiers and saves his name by coming to the rescue of an English garrison to save it from marauding nomads. An "Our Gang” comedy and a novelty, "Top City,” are also shown. Ken Maynard, First National’s' newest star plays the leading role in "The Unknown Cavalier,” a story of thrills and action, at the Uptown on Friday and Saturday. It Is the third picture by this new star of the outdoors, and Is one of the best of that type now produced. A Buster Brown comedy and a Bray cartoon are also shown. SHE LOVES TO SKATE First in her list- of off-screen diversions, Lois Paramount player, lists the sport of ice skating.

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The Stage and Screen

By Shelly Pierce t'nited Press Staff Corresoondcnt NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Cleaning up the New York stage has revealed some sidelights which show that the purity idea has found favor with Several groups who generally have no particular interest in the uplift drama. Yale undergraduates were not sorry when they learned: that “The Virgin Man” was one of the objects of ’the recent police raid. It seems that the youths from New Haven have been considerably “kidded” when they made their week-end visits to New York recently on account of the play. A Yale Student is one of the central figures in the drama. Incidentally, it is said that the naughtiness of “The Virgin Man” hadn’t been attracting particular attention before the arrest of the members of the cast and that it was about to close for lack of patron"age. Florists have a grievance against “The Captive,” another victim of night stick censorship. In the play, 'violets symbolize the intimacy of two women, which forms the basis of the Edouard Bourdet drama. As•sociation of the flowers with the distasteful idea has made feminine customers reluctant to buy them. “The Scarlet Lily,” a recent Broadway arrival, was termed “a play of the day after ‘The • Big Parade’ Now there is anew mm production which is styled “the inswer to ‘The Big Parade’ The new movie Is “Mademoiselle from Armentieres,” a British production of the Gaumont Company. It is the story of a little French girl and a British soldier. The same company has also made “Mons,” a year war picture of the famous retreat of the British army. Both pictures will be distributed in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A spring tryout is to be given the dramatization of Anita Loos’ serial, “While Girls So South.” Miss Loos is making a play of the story with the aid of John Emerson, her husband. Edgard Selwyn will handle the production when he gets back from Lon'don, where he will soon present “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” Filming of Lon Chaney’s newest film, “The Unknown,” is under way. It is an original story by Tod Browning, who is directing, and deals with an armless circus performer. Joan Crawford and Norman Kerry have roles in the film. HOWES TO PLAY WITH CLARA Red Howes ‘ will be Clara Bow’s leading man in her next Paramount starring picture, “Rough House Rosie,” from a Saturday Evening Post story by Nunnally Johnson. Howes attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration upon his graduation from Utah University. Instead of undertaking a career in the world of business, however, he went on the New York stage and then followed work in pictures. y EMIL WORKS FOR HOURS Two hours of patient effort are required for Emil Jannings to apply the make-up he uses in his first Paramount starring vehicle, “The Way of All Flesh.” A full beard is the most difficult feature of the characterization and the great continental actor, refusing to sacrifice appearance for the sake of time, applies the hirsute adornment tuft by tuft to his chin and cheeks.

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No. I*—Ronald Colman and Vilina Banky will be seen in “The Winning of Barbara Worth,” at the Circle all next week. No. 2—John Gilbert and Renee Adoree will be seen in “The Show,” at the Ohio next week. No. 3—Billie Dove has the leading role in “The Marriage Clause,” at the Uptown, Sunday for two days. No- 4—Tom Mix opens Sunday at the Isis in "The Canyon of Light.” No. s—Madge Bellamy will be seen at the Palace, starting Thursday afternoon, in "Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl.” No. 6—Monte Blue, Indianapolis movie star, lias the leading role in “Wolf’s Clothing,” which will be,presented in this city soon. No. 7—Lon Chaney wears his own face in “Tell It To The Marines,” at the Apollo next week, starting Sunday.

Skinner to Visit English’s

Otis Skinner and his players will appear at English’s March 14, 15, 16, in “The Honor of the Family.” In Mr. Skinner’s appearance, essaying the role of Colonel Philippe Bridau, in “The Honor of the Family,” he has proven that this type of play and characterization can always return to profitable business. He has never been ‘seen in anything that has given his refined and scholarly art a more ittractive setting than the role in the Balzacean comedy. Mr. Skinner’s performance is so admirable, giving pleasure aifd well exemplifying the advantages of experience, observance of instructive example, and the earnest endeavor in the exercise. His Bridau is an' unusually interesting stage personality, a blustering sort of soldier, who, however, has the virtue of courage to sustain It, and who is presented in a series of unusually graphic and dramatic stiuatlons. The Charles Frohman office has surrounded Mr. Skinner with a distinguished company, Jessie Royce Landis is the leading lady in whom Mr. Skinner admits he has‘a powerful foil for the unsympathetic part of Flora, who is slowly depriving old man Rouget of his wealth until thwarted by Philippe and only relinquishes the fight after a severe struggle. The old uncle as played by Robert Harrison is another commendable piece of characterization.

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Little Theatre to Visit Franklin

The Little Theatre Society will present J. Kenyon Nicholson’s play, “Two Weeks Off,” which was recently given here with marked success, in Franklin, Ind., on the night of Thursday, March 10. The performance is being given under the auspices of the Franklin chapter of th,e American Association of University Women at the Artcraft Theater. Members of the cast who took part in the original play here will go with the play to the neighboring city. Leading parti were taken by Mary Ennis, Margaret Hamilton, Booth Turkington Jameson and Julian Fix. Seven others complete the cast. Among the Franklin women who on the committee in charge of the production are Miss Rachel Ogle, also a member of the local Little Theatre Society; Miss Elsa Petersen, -deap of college women; Mrs. W. M. Fetherngill; Miss Mary Williamson, student and member of the college dramatic society, and Mrs. Charles Farmer, secretary of the Franklin chapter of A. A. U. W. “CASEY *AT THE BAT” FDR FILMS. Doris Hill, featured as a member of the Floradora Sextette in Paramount’s “Casey at the Bat,” which starred Wallace Beery, Is now dancing her way through another picture, “Rough House Rosie,” star-

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ring Clara Bow. Doris plays Ruth, Clara’s demure little friend, and is one of the “six roqgh necks” in a lively cabaret dance sequence. SOME NECK WEIGHT HERE A necklace weighing fifteen and one-half pounds and \ containing more than 1,000 large sized beads is worn by Jocelyn Lee, Paramount featured player in Florence Vidor’s newest starring vehicle, "Afraid to Love.” BETTY GETS GOOD PART Botty Jewel, young Paramount featured player, today was assigned to the leading feminine role opposite Gary Cooper in the latter's first western starring vehicle, “Arizona Bound.”

In Variety Tyrone Power, famous dramatic actor and star of no less than a score of Broadway successes, is another of the legitimate stars leaning to vaudeville. Mr. Power is at present rehearsing a new act tha’t will open in the next week and be. seen at the larger New York taeaters shortly after.

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MANY NEW PLAYS 1 OPEN IN NEW YORK AND SOI CLOSE The American Laboratory Theater Presents ‘Granite/ By Dixie Hines NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—There are still enough actors out of jail to give a fair showing of new plays xm Broadway. Last week the managers allowed the Police Department ,to furnish most of the entertainment. The cast of three plays, with managers, stage directors, producers end what not were arrested, and this gave us a thrill. A play that has been prowling about the back alleys outside of New York was abandoned, due to the fast that the police threatened to aaiza the entire crew if they attempted to operate along the Rialto. It was an* other contribution to the stage indecency which has brought about, a precarious condition. It is now believed that the special committee, consisting of managers,, players, playwrights und press I agents, will be able to handle the situation, and besides improving, tl)8 character of Broadway plays, it will give our friends in the hinterland a better crop of plays too. One play that appeuled to way was "Granite,” by Clemence Dane, produced away off the bed,ten path by what is known as the American Laboratory TheaterThe play is a tense drama-tragedy with the scene laid on an Island off the coast of England. A wife, ftlill young enough to be attractive and not without a dream of ronutnpo which is unsatisfied by her matter of fact, masterful and grinding htjpband, meets his younger brother when lie comes to visit thejn. Her suppressed affection goes, out to him, and she follows the policy of Faust and offers a prayer to ttje devil to help her retain him. A derelict, washed up by the sea, apparently half-witted, seems to be the answer, and faithful to his promise to protect her if she would give him shelter, kills the husband when he mistreats her. She is thereupon wedded to tho brother, but later her Jealousy As aroused when he appears to.look with favor upon a serving girl, apfl when she violently protests he lays rude hands upon her, meeting tljc same fate as her first husband. Them (Turn to Page 7)