Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1927 — Page 7

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BERRY FIXES THE , VITAPHONE DATE ‘OPENING IN CITY * Sunday, March '6, Will Be an Important Day at Circle. Vitaphone, the instrument which gyiickronizes sound with motion pictures, is coming to the Circle the week of March 6, it has been definitely announced by Ace Berry, general manager. Vitaphone is regarded as the most revolutionizing development in entertainment since the in vention of the motion picture machine. t Vitaphone has brought so life the ambition of countless inventors who have always thought it impossible to produce pictures which would also convey sound. However, lest there bb'a mistaken conception of Vitaphone, the sound is not reproduced from the motion picture film. Vitaphone reproduces sound separately from the picture. Vitaphone presents the motion picture synchronised with the sound which is reproduced by separate mechanism, and a series of complicated electrical contrivances unequalled in the world for their flawless precision. More Improvements While Vitaphone is the latest dekvelopment at present of synchronized pictures, other' revelations of even greater consequence may be expected and what the next few years will produce is almost staggering to the imagination. - Theaters presenting Vitaphone today, in two years will be equipped to present what we today consider miracles, Vitaphone engineers predict. ' Vitaphone has .been installed at the Circle Theater at a cost in excess of $50,000. Three weeks were required to complete the installation of more than a box-car load of the finest precision instruments fashioned by man. Work was done entirely at night under the direction of two engineers of national reputation. To render the motion picture screen audible has been the ambition of countless inventors, and when Vitaphone was introduced by the Vitaphone Corporation and Warner Brothers, the thirty years’ silence of the screen was broken. No Limitation There are no limits to the possibilities of Vitaphone. Through its use Vitaphone brings the greatest musicians, the greatest actors, the greatest comedians of the day, to the inhabitants of the smaller towns and hamlets of the country. Small towns never having the opportunity to see gifted singers and instrumentalists,, as well as the fine symphony orchestras, now can have these artists brought to them by Vitaphone. .-Among the famous artists assembled by Vitaphone are the following: .jilrngi Ernestine Schuman-Heink, A1 poison, Marion Talley, Giovanni Martinelli, Mischa Elman, Willie and Eugene Howard, Elsie 4anis, Jack Smith, Rosa Raisa, Margaret Matzenauer, Charles Hackett, Beniamino Gigli, Reinald Werrenzath, Jeanne Gordon, Mary Lewis, Guiseppi de Luca, Giacomo Rimini, Harold Bauer, Efren Zimbalist, Henry Hadley, Vincent Lopez, Bruce Hairnsfather, Roy Smeck, the Four Aristocrats, DeWolf Hopper, Van 4nd Shenk, Margaret McKee, Dixie Jubilee Singers, the Russian singers, And scores upon scores of other talented folk. , RGIDnUND THE THEATERS Wv * (Continued From Page 5) * —to.. ■ ■ ■■ ■ fcnfet the Broadway cast plays all ju-etijid us. A. F. Miller, at English’s, has done touch to improve show conditions jiere. i know that he has refused to pi.ay road show casts whgn the priginal cast was playing a nearby city. -- 1 Mr. Miller is more than keeping faith with the Indianapolis theatergoer. We all that there are pot enough attractions on tour to keep his theater open every week of Jhe season. > I know that Mr. Miller has kept his house dark for a week this season because he refused to book a turkey show. I believe in giving pre<J}t where :t is due.

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CHOIR ILL SING AT THE MURAT (Continued From Page 4) in a driving rain to pay her homage Miss Giannini gave four recitals in Berlin, two in Breslau, and one each in Hamburg, Hanover aifd Stettin. She 1 appeared twice ns soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra. in Berlin under Wilhelm Furtwaengler, twice with the Gurzenich Orchestra in Cologne, and again under Mr. Furtwaengler in Liepzic with the Gewandhaus. At the Berlin Opera she appeared twice in the role of Aida, at the Hamburg Opera twice as Aida and once as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. In Hamburg the reviewers proclaimed that she had reached the heights of the absolute in her art, and recommended her to their native singers as a model to follow. The . Hamburg Echo wrote of her performance of the role of Santuzza, “Miss Giannini has given us anew standard of artistic perfection by wifleh to judge future characterizations • of this role, a standard which will seldom be appro achedT” Already the reports from her first appearance this season in America transcend everything' that has been said before. From Indianapolis comes a typical one: “As perfect as it is possible for the human voice to be. Saturated with the yi chest of colors, thrilling in quality, It never loses its high state of perfectability. Nothing seems beyond the artist’s capabilities —one can find no flaw. If a song can be said to ‘live,’ it ‘lives' pre-eminently when Giannini sings it.” Born in Philadelphia, Miss Giannini received her musical education from her parents, both of whom are musicians, her father a tenor who associated with Adelina Patti in many performances of opera. Her later training was received from Mme. Marcella Sembrich in New York. Therefore her name can be added to the constantly growing list of native-born artists whose schooling has been gained entirely in America.Carl Frye pupil of Ferdinand Schaefer of the Indiana CoYlege of Music and Fine Arts will play for the Church Luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, March 2. Dr. Ralmond E. Mitchell will preside at the luncheon. > CLIVE AND NORMAN Clive Brook and Norman Trevor, friends in England many years ago, have been thrown together again at the Paramount West Coast studio, where both are supporting Florence Vidor in that star’s latest vehicle, "Afraid to Love.” .

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'ADDING MACHINE’ TOBEBILLATTHE LITTLEJEATRE George Somnes Directing Big Cast in Important Play. “Tile Adding Machine,” a play by Elmer L. Rice, will be presented for the first time in Indianapolis by the Little Theatre Society at their playhouse, Nineteenth and Alabama Sts., on Tuesday, March 1. This will also be the first time that a play of the expressionistic type has been presented in this city. The expressionistic type of play enables the audience to see the dra■matic action that is taking place In the jntnds of the characters rather than dramatic physical action, as is The rule in the theater. In other words, what one sees is the mental processes of the characters. Mr. Rice has called his leading character Mr. Zero. He typifies thousands of people in this country, men caught in a net of petty office routine doirtg all they are fitted for mechanically, spending their days on office stools, their recreation the neighboring movie house, their learning what they glean from the newspapers. They plod through a limited present to a future which offers only blankness, these Zeroes of the world. We see Mr. Zero first at home. He is about to retire and his movements are accompanied by the nagging of Mrs. Zero. It is a glimpse of the entire home life of the Zeros. Later the scene shows Mr. Zero in his office, perched on a high stool before his ledgers. His mind is wandering from his task. He has been for twenty-five years in service of this firm and as a reward he is to have a raised salary. But his thoughts are thrown into a turmoil by the entrance of the boss and his announcement that because the store management has decided to Ihstall adding machines the services of Mr- Zero will be no longer needed. Here Zero’s thoughts leap into active intelligence and he kills his boss. The following scenes show him on trial. Then passtfig on into an unknown world. But he finds that he cannot stay in this world as the requisites are imagination and understanding and these have not been given to him in his former life. So he goes to work at an adding machine from which after years of labor he will be released to return to the material world and begin all over again. / Mr. Rice has presented the character of Mr. Zero and> his problems with an uncanny perception that is at once bitter and sympathetic. Mr. George Somnes, without adhering slavishly to the production of the New York Theatre Guild, has followed it to a great extent, endeavoring in setting and arrangement to make the context and development of the play clear to the audience and enabling them to see Mr. Zero’s problems through his own eyes. The cast is as follows: Zero Walter Vonnegut Mrs. Zero Elanor Hester Daisy Leora Weimer Bose John B. Reynolds Mr. One Horace Grossman Mrs. One Mrs. Roland Allen Jr. Mr. Two 1.... Harold Meeker Mrs. Two Mrs. R.ose Cruzan Mr. Three Raymond Holtzman Mrs. Three Mrs. Harry Pihl Mr. Four Kenneth Strawn Mrs. Four Charlotte Howe Mr. Five • Luther Allen Mrs. Five .....Mrs. Lucy Sahakian Mr. Six Nell Flrestine Mrs. Six Mrs. Lehman Dunning Policeman Paul Hodges Judy Ruth Todd Young Man Harold Meeker Shrdlu- Maleom Kelly Charles Walther Lieber Joe Charles Dosch PRINCE IS GUEST Prince William of Sweden was the personal guest of Maj. Edward Bowes last Friday evening at the Capitol Theater in New York, where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Flesh and the Devil” is playing to capacity audiences. The reasons were Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson, both Swedish importations.

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Miss Leora Weimer, will appear in th Theatre production of “The Adding Machine," at the Playhouse, March 1,2, 3,4, 5. MANY NEW PLAYS OPEN INNEW YORK (Continued From Page 6) the nameless one, the derelict, usurps the position himself as master of the house, and the girl finds that, like Faust, she must pay. The players are not all professional, but they act skilfully and effectively, and the play has strongly entrenched itself among the successes of the season. “Off Key” On View “Off Key,” by Arthur Caesar, was presented with Florence Eldridge, Lucilo Watson, Kennetli Hunter, Albert Hackett, Katherine Revner, McKay Morris and others. It is about whether a wife should tell her husband of her past life or not. This couple lived happily together until a former lover of the wife appears and she discloses to her husband that the friend had at one time been closely identified with her life. Until this confession had been made the husband professed liberal views, and believed implicitly iq a single standard of morality. When he learns his wife’s secret he changes, becomes suspicious of each and altogether Is an objectionable parlor companion. This in general is the theme, and IP is acted much better than it is written. It proves’entertaining and at times gripping, and appears to be one of the contenders for the palm of popularity. A strange thing is “Stigma,” by Dorothy Manley and Donald Duff, acted at the Cherry Lane Theater. The acting may be passed by as of no consequence, all except the role

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To Continue Helen MacKellar will continue In vaudeville and leave the legitimate drama to the attention of the police Roger Wolfe Kahn and his orchestra, together with the floor sliowTrom his Le Perroquet de Paris Club, will be seen in Keith-Albee vaudeville.

acted by Joanna Roos. Miss Roos does all she can with it, but the whole scheme is preposterous and qfiite wild. A professor has a young wife, a self-confessed graduate of an insane asylum, who is in love with a* young ecriolar. The student, on the other hand, has been showing decided partiality for a mulatto servant. This ought to be enough. vUp Broadway A revival of “Twelfth Night,” with Wliitford Kane acting the role of Sir Toby Belch, is to be staged in Chicago next week and be brought to New York later • . . The American Theater Association, with a membership of 1,000, will present “Adventure,” a clever English comedy, on Easter Monday . . . Mona Bruns, who started out to act a minor role in “The Love Thief,” entered the leading role last week, sharing feature honors with Frank M. Thomas . . . Edwin Franko Goldman and the GoldmaiT Band will broadcast an hour every Friday night over the most extensive radio hook up of the Reason. The summer season of concerts with this band will begin in June. . . . Edna May, formerly known as Edna May Spooner, returns to the stage this week in ‘ Babbling Brooks” at the Edyth Totten Theater. .. . And Edyth Totten herself, the manager of the only playhouse named after a woman and owned by one, will also return to the stage after a long absence in “Babbling Brooke’s". . . Charlotte Wynters, the blonde acfress, has just recovered from a hospital seige. . . Lucille LaVerne has gone to California to act in pictures. Thea Morovska, an international singer of unusual songs. Is to give a series of recitals in New York during March and April* She was a prime favorite in Paris and other. European centers for the past few seasons. NOW SHE IS UGLY For the first time in her life Florence Vidor has made herself appear deliberately unattractive for a motion picture. In several scenes for her newest Paramount starring vehicle, “Afraid to Love,” she wears glasses, does her hair in an unattractive knot on top of her head and is cross-eyed.

Good News Margaret Young, popular singing comedienne, will be seen in the Keith-Albee local houses soon following a year's absence spent in retirement.

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LOOKING OVER THOSE FILM FOLK AWAYOUT WEST Tom Mix Really Rides in His Very Own Automobile. t By I):ui Thomas VK\ Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 26. Just wandering about: Leslie Fenton coming out of the new Wilkes Theater ... he recently gave up cinema work temporarily to play the leading role in the stage play “An American Tragedy” . . . and lie’s making good. Barbara Bedford looking very sweet . . . the Chaplin studio, serted except for a few employes who I can’t find anything to do ... so; they congregate in the studio and j “chew the rag” . . . and their pay i goes on just the same. Vera Veronina, Russian actress.' who recently arrived in Hollywood | in search of some of our good Ameri- j can cinema gold ... I wonder it this continual invasion of foreign • players will never stop . . . are they j so far superior tq our Yankee talent j . . . Jean Hersnolt driving anew ■ car . . Monty Banks talking to | Lyla Lichtig. Tom Mix and Buck Jones riding j in Tom's sedan . . *they would look j more at home on horses . . . Mix is j the highest salaried actor in filmland j ... a few may make more money j but it is because they are under I theij>e own producers . . • but, the ' movie cowboy is perfectly satisfied | with his $15,000 every week . . .1 Marceline Day and her sister, Alice, j coming out of a shoe store . . . Ben Turpin wearing the loudest overcoat that has been seen on the Boule j vard for several years . . . Babe I Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson . . . the bambino is Miss Nilsson’s leading man now . . . and probably the most famous one she has ever had. Hollywood today takes off its hat to Sam Katz. Although only 34 years old, Katz has become one of the out-1 standing figures in cinema and j theatrical circles. He came to this country from Europe as a poor boyIn Chicago he joined forces with Barney Balaban. Starting with a small theater on the North Side they expanded their holdings until they controlled i Chicago’s finest cinema houses. A year ago they amalgamated their interests with the Famous Players-Lasky theater chain. As another step upward, Katz has just been named a director of th* Famous Flayers-Lasky corporation The Fox corporation reports th; after fifty girls had been given screen tests, Janet Gaynor was fin:’, ly chosen to# portray Diane in “7t'.i Heaven” with no test at all. That s not so remarkable when you learn

Really Talks Toto, the famous clown, back in Keith-Albee vaudeville after two months abroad, one spent in Paris, the other in Germany, has now signed contracts to appear in the Christmas pantomimes in London next December. Toto is presenting anew edition of his “Revue ala Minute” an edition notable chiefly for the fact that during its course Toto speaks for the first time in his career.

she is under contract and must be kept busy all the time. Raymond Hatton is back at wofk again—playing a small role in “Fash-

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from the famous novel by Harold Bell Wright with Ronald Colman and Yilm a Banky 9 A mighty story of a majestic theme —one of the most forceful pictures of the year. Men accomplished miracles for women like Barbara Worth ... for \ her, men conquered the menace of the desert and made it fertile for humanity ... for her, men risked their lives and fortunes... for her, men strived and dared! Ist. A. FltzPntrlrk Presents “SONGS OF CENTRAL EUROPE'* / played by CIRCLE ORCHESTRA STOLAREVSKY Conducting Orgnnologue “WHEN TWILIGHT COMES” DESSA BYRD CIRCLE COMEDY Animated Circle News NOTE- Inasmuch as engineers are utilizing our entire stage for the installation VltAPHow we are omitting a stage presentation this week.

NEXT ATTRACTION yiTAPKon* and “McFADDEN’S FLATS” Laugh Riot of the Yeas with Charlie Murray and Chester Conklin PRESENTING to Indianapolis the L most miraculous development since the invention of the motion picture itself! VlTAPiw** Is Thrilling the Worldl

lons for Women.” Hatton wa* on his way to stardom but his head commenced to swell and he slid down thp hill again. He worked well With Wally Beery and would still be teamed with the comedian, but he deliberately balked on several occasions. Studio officials were forced to spank him and put him in his proper place. Now he has a long ( climb to make all over again. FLORENCE “MARRIES” AGAIN Florence Vidor was married today in Hollywood! The nuptials took place in tho Paramount West Coast studio, where she la now at work upon her newest starring vehicle, “Afraid to Love.” Tho marriage, of course was for the photoplay and the leading man, Clive Brook, obligingly became the husband.

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