Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1927 — Page 7

MARCH 12,1927

B.F. KEITH’S AND PALACE OBSERVE THE CENTENNIAL Sissle and Blake Will Top New Bill at the Lyric. Asa culmination of a series of Special “weeks,” B. P. Keith’s Theaters throughout the country will celebrate Centennial week, beginning March 13, commemorating vaudeville’s one-hundredth anniversary. Beginning in the New York Lafayette theater in 1826 with twelve tight rope walkers, jugglers, and clowns, vaudeville has grown and advanced until today it is made up of more than 12,000 artists, playing in 700 theaters to a daily audience of 1,000000 people. Headlining this special celebration the Indianapolis Keith’s theater is offering a triple star program made up of Jack Norworth, Renee Roberts and Jay Velie. and Ann Suter. Bill includes: JACK NORWORTH AND DOROTHY ADELPHI —Present “Naggers,” Gus Weinburg, a treatise on modern domesticity, first presented at one of the Lamb’s Gombols and then as a part of the Zeigfeld follies. Following "Naggers” Mr. Norworth will sing a group of songs. RENEE ROBERTS AND JAY VELIE—WiII give a series of interpretive dances, novel in their American origin. In the supporting company are Violet Bache, Loise Blackbourne, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Miss Roberts conceived the idea of dances with American themes, and has just returned from the west, where her idea was first presented. SISSLE AND BLAKE RETURN TO LYRIC Coming to the Lyric Theater next week for a special return engagement, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, the stars of “Shuffle Along” and other big musical shows, will present an all new program of their melodious syncopation creations. Comedians, song writers and composers, they are the possessors of a distinctive style of entertaining ability that has placed them among the outstanding box office drawing cards in vaudeville. Sissle i3 the singer of the team, and Blake a wizard at the piano. The bill will include: “SEMINARY SCANDALS”—A hilarious farce comedy based on an episode in a girls’ school, featuring the personable comedienne. Miss Tommy Allen, who is surrounded by a bevy of attractive and talented misses. JEANNE HOUSTON AND COMPANY —One of Broadway's favorite dancers. Miss Houston and her assistants, present a delectable mixture of comedy and terpsichorean achievements in an act called “Dance Eccentricities.” PERMANE AND SHELLEY— Two quaint vaudevillians in a laughable surprise oddtiy styled “PulleyPulley.” GREENE AND PARKER—Blackface funsters in a merry skit sparkling with original/ humor, entitled “At The Depot.” CAIN SlSTEßS—Versatile musical maids who are known as America’s 'best girl xylophonists. Their numbers are confined wholly to the popular tunes of the day. HARRY HOWARD AND COMPANY —In “Snow Flakes,” a me-

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lange of comedy, singing and dancing. MANGEAN MOSCOE TROUPE— Demonstrating acrobatic and tumbling feats of a spectacular quality. ON THE SCREEN—An Andy Gump comedy, “Close Call,” Kinograrfis, a Grantland Rice Sportlight, “The Front Line,” and a Newlyweds comedy, “The Newlyweds Build.” SPECIAL EVENTS DUE AT PALACE Setting their song, dance and comedy offering before a unique background of rhinestones, Calm and Gale will present their “Rhinestone Revue” at the Palace theater the first half of next week, as the special feature of the Vaudeville Centennial bill. This flash ast has the assistance of Jean de Mar, Elinor Faron and Lillian Fields, all talented in the art of terpsichore. Co-headliners with the vaudeville is the film “The Masked Woman,” which stars Anna Q. Nilsson, Einar Hanson supports her in the story of how a woman risks her reputation to save a man she doesn't love from suicide. Bill includes: STANELLI AND DOUGLAS— j “Fiddle Fanatics,” who show themselves to be comedians as wellies musicians. They play the violin and piano offering liubenstein’s “Melody in F” and “The Volga Boatman” among their selections. SWOR BROTHERS—Minstrel favorites Who return to- the city with their ever popular humor, songs and tilk. GRACE AYER AND BILLY—In These entertainers will not disclose the secret of their act until the first curtain. , HARRISON'S MERRY MAKERS

—A troupe of animals: ponies, dogs, BYuce, the baboon, and Dynamite, the unridable mule. Sophie Tucker presents her son, Bert Ttcker, in "The Kitchen Kabaret," with the Three Gamble boys and Ann and Jean the last of the week. This act was written especially for Bert Tucker by Ballard MacDonald, the author of LeMaire’s Affairs. Mr. Tucker dances and sings. The Three Gamble Boys play saxophones, cornets, clarinet, drums and the banjo. Neil Mack and a young woman deal with “Matrimonial Post-Mortems” and discuss what might have happened if they had not married. Elsie Williams and company ask the eternal question “Who Was to Blame?” Marion Gibney is a character impersonator who disguises herself as a housewife and other persons. Ed and May Ernie have “Three Feet of Comedy." On the screen are: “The Masked Woman,” with Anna Q. Nilsson and Einar Hanson the first half and “Jewels of Desire, with Priscilla Dean and John Bowers the last half. Pathe News, a comedy and an Aesop Fable are the included reels.

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Is Noah Beery due to become a comedian even as his brother Wallace is? This is the question now that Noah, heretofore generally cast as the hardest kind of B scoundrel, is playing a comedy villain in “Evening Clothes,” Adolphe Menjou s next starring vehicle tor Paramount. Noah has an off-screen face more suited to beningn roles than his brother, it is generally conceded, but

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his big successes have been scored in blood-curdling villain parts like his Sergeant Lejaune in “Beau Geste,” and he has rather specialized in them. He has always liked the idea, however, of a fling at comedy, so he declares himself very happy in the new part. SHE SPEAKS NO ENGLISH Vera Veronina, Paramount’s latest screen importation, speaks Russian (her native language), German and French, but no English.

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MAENNERCHOR TO PRESENT CONCERT (Continued From Page 4) classes of Adolph Schellschmldt, Elsie Adams, violin, Cosette Hutchinson, cello, and Arabella Chambers, piano. EORGE PERKINS RAYMOND, tenor, who has been wj making such gigantic strides as a recitalist during the past and present seasons, is further advancing himself through the sphere of oratorio. It is a remarkable achievement for this young artist to have gained so strong a foothold in an overcrowded field in the short space of three years. Each season finds him in greater demand for concert work and for oratorio. He has been called upon for half a dozen standard works, beginning last season with "Elijah” in Cleveland; “Creation.” in Plattsburg, N. Y.. and ’’Dream of Gerontious,” at Wooster, Ohio, and has Just been engaged for “The Crucifixion,” in Orange, N. J. (Grace Episcopal Church), Good Friday evening, April 15. Oratorio provides Mr. Raymond with a channel of musical expression that coincides well with his artistic nature, sound education and wide experience. On March 9 he was soloist with the Chamlnade Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., and on March 28 he will be soloist with the Athenaeum Club in Indianapolis. In April he will sing in Chicago at the biennial celebration of the Federation of Musical Clubs. A tour of the South is being arranged for October and November, his return from Europe. SHE fifth annual concert under the auspices of the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers will be given Fri-

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day night. March 18. at Caleb Mills Hall. Louis Graveure, Belgian baritone, will be the soloist with the teachers’ chorus. Ernest G. Hesser is director of the chorus. EWO well known artists will be the soloists Sunday night on the Atwater Kent radio hour, 8:15 p. m.. Central Standard time. Mme. Mario Narelle. soprano, a,nd Allen McQuhae, tenor, will be the artists. Program follows: "Kathleen Mavoumeen” Grnueh "Thf Low-back Car’ 1 Old Irish “Believe Me If All Those Endearine Younz Charms” i... .Old Irish “The Connemara Shore” ........ Fisher “Kitty O'Toole” Protheroe Mr. McQuhae. “The Green Hills of Ireland”.,. .Del Riean •‘Road to Ballysheo” Elliot “Ktllamey" Balfe “Supposin’ ” Trevalsa “The Dear Little Shamrock” Cherry Mme. Narelle. “I Hear You Callinir Me" Marshall “The Minstral Boy” Moore "The Medina of the Waters" Mooro “Far-away Bells” Gordon "Irish Names” Anonymous Mr. MeQuhac. “I Saw From the Beach" Moore “Cruiskcen Lawn” . Old Irish “Colleen Aroon” . . Strickland “Kitty of Coleraine” Lover ‘ Roseen Dhu" Bunuing Mme. Narelle. Duets—(a l “Off in the Stilly Night’’ Moore (b) “Love's Young Dream ’ Moore Mme. Narelle and Me. McQuhae. rt~| NCE upon a time there was a IfJ princess and she had eyes as I blue as the sky and hail* the color of gold. It was a long while back that you read about that lovely creature in your Grimm and Anderson fairy tales. And since then you have become dtstillusioned and discovered that blue eyes are generally faded and that golden hair is due to the peroxide bottle. But on Sunday afternoon. Match 20, at the Murat Theater, under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine arts Enterprises you will see the reincarnation of the fairy princess in the person of Maria Jeritza, the Viennese soprano of the Metropolitan, who is considered the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage, today. Watch, and you will

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discover that the charm of Jeritza lies as much in the radiant happiness of her expression as in the loveliness of her coloring and the grace of her lithe figure. \ The secret of smile, the prima donna will tell you, Is that she is doing what she loves to do, that her profession Is her hobby. Jeritza Isn’t a singer feecauso it is the' only thing she can do Welland she has no other choice. On the contrary, ever since the beginning of her vocal career, she has been besieged with offers to abandon opera and go on the “legltlmato” stage. During her ♦Yirst year at the Volksoper in Vienna, the director of the celebrated Burg Theater came to her and said: “Give up opera, come to the Burg Theater, and devote yourself to straight drama, and within a year I guarantee that you will be the most celebrated actress in Europe.” Max Reinhardt, the great regisseur, was another, who begged herself to devote her to the speaking thea{er. And Franz Lehar, the famous Viennese composer* of light opera, foresaw a brilliant future for her as a singing comedienne. But Jeritza declined all temptations. She persisted with opera and her reward was swift. Today she Is the leading soprano at the Metropolitan Opera House. In thtee seasons she has filled that unique place In the public affection which everyone thought the death of Caruso had left permanently vacant, j MILDRED RECEIVES A GIFT A brace of Sealyhant terriers Is the gift of Adolpho Menjou, Paramount star, to Mildred Davis, now playing a featured rolo in "Too Many Crooks.” The acquisition of the two animals brings Miss Davis’ quota of dogs to thirty-two. The Soalyham family took the first ribbon at the recent New York dog show.

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D.v Dan Campbell United l're Staff Corrnoonient HOLLYWOOD, March 12.—The rise of Ben Lyon is a mystery to Hollywood, not for any lack of histrionic skill, but rather because lie baa failed utterly to distinguish himself along th* customary lines. A survey ot Ben’s motion picture career reveals that: He has never fooled the studio gatenmn with trick makeups. Ho has never received a funny Japanese tan letter. He has never lost his dog or Oven owned one. He has never received an offor to star in pictures made by an unheardof foreign company. He has never been reported ongaged to Tatsy Ruth Miller or Clsra Bow. In the belief that, with modern camera methods, it can be made an even more magnificent and spectacular production, Richard A. Rowland, general manager of First National, recently purchnsod the screen rights to “The Miracle.” I'he Morris Guest-Mas Rhlnehardt stage spectacle will be filmed this spring under the personal supervision of John McCormick. The world’s smallest motion picture camera will supply one of the Interesting feature of the Motion Picture Exposition which will be hold here, March 7 to 12. Ths tiny camera Is tho invention of a Los Angeles man.It is a vest-pocket edition, weighs only fourteen ounces and is only four inches long, yet It Is said to faithfully photograph any object that can bo put on regulation motion picture film. “The Mysterious Island,” which bids fair to establish a long-distance filming record equal to that of “BenHur,” will resume production again this summer, in the Bahamas.