Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 285, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1927 — Page 6

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VITAPHONE WILL MAKE ITS DEBUT AT THE CIRCLE SUNDAY

Conrad Nagel to Be Seen in 'Heaven on Earth’ at the Ohio Next Week—Lon Chaney Movie Goes Into Second Week at the Apollo Sunday. Sunday will mark tlie beginning of anew era in entertainment in Indianapolis when Vitaphone, the instrument which synchronizes sound and motion pictures, makes it debut in Indianapolis at the Circle theater. Vitaphone has been installed in the Circle over a period covering four weeks and has required the services of engineers and a trained crew of electricians.

Approximately $50,000 was expended to bring to the Circle and to install Vitaphone. A full carload of instruments has been used in making the installation. Just as motion pictures when first introduced thirty years ago established anew type of entertainment, Vitaphone, today will bring to the amusement loving American public the greatest development ever conceived and developed in this field. Today the Circle theater, the eighth in the world with Vitaphone retaliation, is, as much a curiosity is the first picture theaters were rears ago, yet it is pointed out that Vitaphone ultimately will be installed in some phase of its present being, in every motion picture house in the world. The opening Vitaphone presentation at the Circle will be opened by Will H. Hayjh, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. A1 Jolabn, America’s leading blackface cpmedian and entertainer, will be tire first Vitaphone headliner. Jolsoa will be seen and heard doing the 'Comedy and singing the songs which lfave made him a national favorite. Roy Smeck, the wizard Italian tenor, of the Metropolitan Opera Company,' and lauded as the successor to Enrico Caruso, the greatest of all time, will be presented 'singing he role of “Canio” in “II •Pagliacci,”-by Leoncavello. Each week the Circle will present the greatest artists of the day through Vitaphone. Those who will later be heard at the Circle are: Van and Schenck, Vincent Lopez, George Jessel, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Mme. Schumann-Heink and a score of others. Charlie Murray and Chester Conklin are featured in “McFadden’s Flats,” the former in the role of Dan McFaddan, a hodcarrying Irishman, and Conklin as a penurious Scotch barber, his friendly enemy. These two spend their lives wrangling with each other, though they are devoted friends. McFatfden is about to realize the ambition of his life, which has been to own an apartment building bearing his name, when the bank recalls the loan which has made the building possible. Though Jock and Sandy are sworn enemies at this time, Jock goes to the banker and secretly finances the completion of the construction work. The sudden acquisition of prosperity has the usual reaction, and Mrs. McFarran insists that their daughter, Mary Ellen, in love with Jock’s son, Sandy, be sent away to school, from which she returns with ideas' far superior to those of her father and mother, and has little time or regard for Sandy. How Dan finds out that Sandy has been his good friend through two close approaches to bankruptcy and how Dan forms a partnership which ensures their future security and the happiness of young Sandy and Mary Ellen, is told in this delightful comedy, the production of which was directed by Richard Wallace. In the supporting cast are the fol-

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1927 Edition “JERRY AND HER BABY GRANDS” in ‘New Bits o’ Dream Music’ Geraldine Valliere, Directress With Mollie Klinger and Florence Kingsley, Assisted by their EIGHT LITTLE PARISIAN PALS Premier Baby Grand Pianos Used Exclusively.

THE KITAROS Superlative Degree of Japanese Dexterity

DIRECT FROM EUROPE WILLIE SOLAR THE INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINER In His Own Original Offering

MANN HOLLINER& ALBERT NICHOLS Lyricist and Composer Try Some of Their Own Songs

Pathe News Aesop’s Fables Topics of the Day An Artistic Singing and Dancing Presentation PEARL—VIOLET JESSIE HAMIUTONS & FORDYCE in "PLAYTIME ” BY TOM HOWARD THE WEEK OF MARCH 14TH IS VAUDEVILLE CENTENNIAL WEEK

lowing well known players: Aggie Herring, Edna Murphy, Larry Kent, Dorothy Dwan, Cissie Fitzgerald, Freeman Wood ami Dewitt Jennings. . The Circle Concert Orchestra, under the direction of Stolarevsky, will play a specially arranged musical setting to the picture. The Circle News completes the program. “HEAVEN ON EARTH’’ BOOKED AT OHIO Renee Adoree and Conrad Nagel are the featured players in ‘ Heaven on Earth,” a romantic drama of France of ten years ago, which will be shown as the main photoplay attraction at the Ohio theater for the coming week. It was made under the direction of Phil Rosen from a film adaptation written by Marion Orth and Harvey Gates. Conrad Nagel, who has confined his characterizations to Englishmen and Americans for years, plays the first Frenchman of his career in this picture, in which he is cast in the role of a young French vagabond. “Heaven on Earth” is the story of Edmond Durand, whose life is mapped out for him from the time of his birth. His career, his business, even his love affairs are planned for him by the time he is six years old, so that by the time he is twenty-six he has escaped every adventure, and never endured any hardship, except perhaps the hardship of missing the things than an ordinary, healthy youth experiences, and their attendant emotions. Renee Adoree, it is said, takes her audience through a veritable avalanche of emotion, from comedy to tragedy, blending and shading each scene with an understading that betrays the real artiste In her. Conrad Nagel, as “Durand,” the man who revolts against the near imprisonment by fate, paints the soul struggle of a man \yho has been brought up with everything already done for him, and the result of his being sud- j denly thrust into a world that do?*not understand him. Gwen Lee, one of the most decorative of the younger screen players, is seen as Nagel’s fiance, and Antonio D’Algy plays a young French lieutenant. Marcia Manon, Julia Swayne Gordon and Pat Hardigar. complete the cast. Charlie Davis and his musical gang will be featured in an offering called “Palm Beach Nights,” and Bcb Gordon will play at the organ. An Andy Gump comedy, “Lots of Grief,” and a Pathe news will be included in the film program. LON CHANEY GOES INTO ITS SECOND WEEK “Tell It to the Marines,” starring Lon Chaney, which has been piling up a box office record at the Apollo this week, will continue as the attraction next week. Directed by Geoi'ge Hall and filmed with the cooperation of the United States Government, this “Epic of the

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THE ONLY ATTRACTION OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD

‘Devil Dogs’ ” ranks as one of the best achievements of the screen. Chaney, creator of weird characters, weaves an even greater illusion than these in his portrayal of “Sergeant O’Hara,” hard-boiled veteran of the service who takes It upon himself to make a man and a marine of “Private ‘Skeet’ Burns,” played by William Haines, and who succeeds even beyond his fondest hopes. Eleanor Boardman makes an attractive heroine as “Norma Dale,” a navy nurse, and Carmel Myers Is a creature of exotic charm as a South Sea island vamp. Maurice Kains, Warner Oland, Frank Currier and Mitchell Lewis are also in the cast. Battleships of the Pacific fleet with guns thundering their mighty salvos: thrilling battles on an Oriental plain: sensational attacks on a Chinese village with Chinese troops in action, and a reproduction of a typhoon, most terrible of all tropical storms, are among the intensely interesting high Rights of the picture, which, despite the interest evinced by Uncle Sam in this depiction of life in the Marine Corps, is first and foremost a story of adventure and romance extraordinary. A Bray Pictograph, “Alice at the Radio,” Kinograms, Dick Powell, popular tenor, an organ novelty, “March Review,” played by Lester Huff, and an original interpretation of “Take In the Sun and Hang Out the Moon” by Emil Seidel and his Orchestra are other program divertisements. CHANGE OF MOVIE POLICY AT UPTOWN A change in policy at the Uptown theater presenting four photoplays each week Instead of but three has been inaugurated, beginning with the coming Sunday. “Summer Bachelors,” a spicy story of gay young girls and bachelors for the summertime only when their wives are away, opens the new policy at the Uptown, the picture being scheduled for Sunday and Monday.

LAVEgtN & CROSS “.nilius and Brutus” The Noblest Romans of Them All

PHIL ALICE RICH & ADAIR “The Flower Vender”

MANY INTERESTING MOVIES ON VIEW NEXT WEEK

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The picture Is based on a story by \Varner k Fabian, author of “Flaming Youth.” Madge Bellamy and many other stars, including Walter Catlett, the famous comic of the legitimate stage, are in the large cast. “Hoot Mon,” is the comedy which is shown together with the news weekly and a fable. “The Great Deception,” a thrilling hair-raising story of secret service operatives who fly over the enemy lines disguised as enemy secret service men, comes to the Uptown on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ben Lyon, First National’s leading Juvenile star, and Aileen Pringle are starred. “Thanks for the Boat Ride," is the comedy, while the novelty is “Dancing Around the World.” “Pals in Paradise,” a splendid picture with John Bowers and Marguerite de la Motte in the. leading roles, is scheduled for Thursday an Friday at the Uptown. "Howdy Duke,” a Lupino Lane comedy, a news weekly and a Grantland Rice sportlight are additional subjects. Tom Mix, peer of Western stars, is the leading player in “The Canyon of Light,” at the Uptown on Saturday. He shares the honors with his famous equine pal, Tony. An Andy Gump comedy and a Bray cartoon are also shown. ISIS LISTS ITS PICTURES FOR NEXT WEEK Old and hackneyed themes were discarded by Hoot Gibson and his

NAGEL RENEE MW? . ADOREE Hr N Q HEAVEKok EARTH The charm of Paris, the color of gypsy life, the thrills of war—with the romance of a scion of wealth with a saucy gypsy beauty. ANDY GUMP COMEDY I 808 GORDON “LOTS OF GRIEF” | AT THE ORGAN 'CIUHII m/U AND HIS GANG Palm Beach Nights

No. I—Conrad Nagel plays one of the leads In “Heaven On Earth,” at the Ohio next week. No. 2—Madge Bellamy will be seen in her bathing suit in "Summer Bachelors,” at the Uptown Sunday and Monday. No. 3 —Charlie Murray and Chester Conklin have a barbershop scene in "McFadden’s Flats,” at the Circle next week. No. 4—Hoot Gibson will be seen in “The Denver Dude*” opening Sunday at the Isis. No. s—Marie Prevost plays the chief role in “Man Bait,” opening Sunday at the Palace for the first half of the week. No. 6—Eleanor Boardman Is the good looking nurse in “Tell It to The Marines. This movie goes into its second week at the Apollo Sunday, associates in making “The Denver Dude,” a comedy drama that is said to inaugurate anew style in Westehn pictures which will be on view at the Isis the first half of next week. “The Denver Dude” contains more laughable episodes and dramatic action than any picture in which Gibson has ever starred. Its story is original, refreshing and entirely away from the beaten path followed by most producers of Western films. The cast in support of the redoubtable Hoot is a large and adequate one. ‘‘The Vulgar Yachtman.” a hilarious travesty on “The Volga

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Boatman,” will complete the program. For the last half of the week starting Thursday, the attraction will be a spectacular melodrama of the Northwest entitled “The Ice Flood,” in which Viola Dana and Kenneth Harlan are co-starred. The picture was adapted from Johnstone McCulley’s vivid story “The Brute Breaker.” Harlan is cast as “Jack DeQuincey,” a college athlete who undertakes to rid his father’s Vast lumber camp of undesirable characters. Miss Dana has the role of “Marie O’Neill,” daughter of the camp superintendent. Others In the cast are Frank Hagney, DeWltt Jennings, Fred Kohler and little Billy Kent Schaeffer. Thrilling hand-to-hand battles between the hero and the lumber camp bullies, and a sensational rescue of the heroine from death beneath ice packs in a flooded river are features of “The Ice Flood.” A Van Bibber comedy, "The Tennis Wizard,” will be added.

Little Theatre

The Little Theatre Society presented two one-act plays before the Woman’s Department Club of Greensburg, Ind., Thursday evening, March

3. ”E. &O. E.,” by Eliot CrawshayWilliams, was played by Mrs. James McDlll Farris, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Norman Green, Parker Wheatley and Julian Fix; and those who appeared in “Oh, Mother,” dramatized by Mrs. Charles McNaull, were Misses Ruth Welsenberger, Mary Osborne, Thelma Clark, Mrs. Bessie Fix, Edward Green, Joe Foy and Arthur Anderson.

ClvoUa, HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND CHXNBY M LEATHERNECKS gd jL,&Bk 9IH W ” ' Eleanor Boardman, William Haines, Carmel Myers and a wonder cast A mighty spectacle you'll never forget. A flaming dram* o romance and adventure filmed with the co-operation of the United States government. BRAY PICTOGRAPH KINOGRAMS DICK POWELL NEW SONGS LESTER HUFF ORGAN NOVELTY < \ “A MARCH REVIEW” EMIL SEIDEL AND HIS ORCHESTRA Featuring The popular hit: “TAKE IN THE SUN AND HANG , OUT THE MOON” •

MARCH 5, 1927

BROADRIPPLETO INTEREST GOLF ms IN CITY Local Park to Install a Pitching and Putting Course. Lovers of golf who wish to improve their game without being compelled to visit the crowded courses this summer can do so at Broad Ripple Park, where a pitching and putting course and a green for clock golf will be Installed by Harry Schopp, professional at South Grove. According to Mr. Schopp every golfer knows that as his short game Improves so surely does his score approach nearer to par. To record a 27 on a nine-holf pitching and putting course would be equal to a score of 36 on the regular course. Mr. Schopp ventures that even the astute Colonel Bogey will find the pitching and putting course a worth battle ground. The clock golf will be played on a green twenty feet in diameter with, twelve starting points for the play* ers to putt from. The game Is to hole out In as few strokes as possible. The game to be with regulation golf balls and putters. These courses will be built on the additional twenty acres recently acquired by the park company and which will be turned Into an athletic ground to be known as the RilryHerschcll Field in honor of Janies Whitcomb Riley and William Herschell, the two Indiana poets. The entire course will be lighted at night by huge Cahail flood lights so the players can play both in the daytime and at night.

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