Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1927 — Page 5

JUNE 25,1927

JEAN OLIVER

McKay Morris to Play Lead in Owen Davis’ Prize Winning Drama, 'lcebound,’ at Keith’s, Starting Monday Night tor the Entire Week. “Smilin’ Through,” a comedy-drama by Allan Langdon Martin which broughht world renown to Jane Cowl as an actress, will open at English’s Sunday night with all of the Berkell players in the production. Miss Jean Oliver, leading woman with the Berkell company for three seasons, will follow Miss Cowl in the role of Moonyeen Clare. —• It is scarcely necessary to narrate the story of this sensational piece tvhich has been produced here both in pictures and on the stage. It has also been sung in song until it would

seem entirely unnecessary to mention only its name when speaking of it as.a forthcoming attraction. But from the fact that it has been so long-lived, one deduces that it will stand repeating again. - Moonyeen Clare was betrothed to John Carteret. On the evening of their wedding she is fatally wounded with a bullet intended for her sweetheart by a rival. Fifty years later a daughter of Moonyeen’s dead sister who has been adopted by John Carteret, falls in love with Kenneth Wayne, son of Jeremiah Wayne the murderer of Moonyeen. Naturally Carteret is opposed to the match, due to his hatred for young Wayne's father. In order to dissuade the girl he relates to her the happenings of his youth, and there is a flash-back of fifty years. When Moonyeen is dying sh£ tells John that she will come back to him “Smilin’ Through” the mists that separate the life here and the hereafter. In later years when her niece is forbidden hy John to marry the man she loves, Moonyeen’s spirit struggles to appear to him and speak the words that would lift his dominant hand from the niece. But he cannot hear her because of his selfishness and hardness of heart. Two or three times Moonyeen’s spirit appears, with its message of hope, but John does not hear until he finally forgives young Wayne for his father’s crime. With the final curtain therefore, the lovers are united. The play opens with a short prologue. The first act is comedy in a lighter vein. The bickerirgs between Cartferet and his friend, Dr. Owens, over a game of dflminoes, and Kathleen Dungannon (the niece) Irish wit, keep the scene at a lively pitch. The balance of the play is a combination of humor and sentiment. It is not a depressing story, although tears are induced by several sweetly sympathetic situations. “Smilin’ Tnrough” offers Miss Oliver an ideal role; and one which type every actor is looking for. M’KAY MORRIS IN "ICEBOUND” “Icebound,” a powerful, absorbing play of New England life by Owen Davis, author of “Lazybones” and numerous other works, will be the Stuart Walker company attraction at Keith’s theater for one week beginning Monday night. | “Icebound” was one of the ten best plays of the-New York season of 1922-23, and, in addition, it was awarded the Pulitzer prize, given annually for the best American playwritten by an American and treatling of a recognized phase of American life. Stuart Walker, who has at his command enough actors to organize three or four complete companies, announces that for the presentation of “Icebound” he will introduce his fourth leading man of the season thus far. Gavin Gordon, it will be recalled, was the first leading man that Walker gave ,to Indianapolis this summer. H was followed by George Gaul and Elliott Nugent. And now, for ‘Toebound,” comes McKay Morris, distinguished romantic actor who appeared at the Murat in 1923 in “Peter Ibbetson” and at Keith's last

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Week of I JEAN OLIVER June 2 6th \ MILTON BYRON “SMILIN’ THROUGH’’ JANE COWL’S GREAT ROMANTIC DRAMA BY ALLAN LANGDOX MARTIN At Played One Year at “Republic Theater,” x New York City Nightly at 8:15. Lower Floor, 90c—Entire Balcony, 50c— Gallery (Not Reserved), 25c Gov. Tax on. 90c Seats Only. MATINEES—WED., THURS., SAT. AT 2:15 Lower Floor, 50c—Entire Balcony, 35c—Gallery, 25c mm % M 111 mam mm mjr BEGINNING JU LY 3RD NEXT WEEK ‘/loose ankles”

summer in “The Outsider” and “The Swan.” Vivian Tobin will be succeeded as leading woman by Ann Davis, remembered for her exceptional work here a few weeks ago in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” and “The Enemy.” Miss Tobin will play a two week’s engagement in Cincinnati and will return here with George Gaul in the all-star revival of “Kismgt” that is planned for the week of July 11. The supporting cast in “Icebound” will include Aldrich Bowker, Helen Emert, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Douglass, Judith Lowry, Pauline Breustedt, John Storey, Albert West and others. The play has been staged by George Somnes. The Delta Gamma fraternity will hold a theater party at the Tuesday night performance of “Icebound.”

News About Movie Folk

BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Cal., June 25. Here and there about make-believe town: Two sputtering kleigs . . . and William Sieter swearing because they ruin his lighting effects. Hoot Gibson racing down a studio street.. .while a group of visitors gasp. . . . Studio Inn, an ordinary looking restaurant with a camouflage name . . . It has practically no motion picture patronage, being headquarters for one of those free sightseeing buses that “show you the studios.” . . . They do drive by some of them—and then try to sell you real estate in some new sub-division. Clara Bow looking like a college girl right out of a picture bookno co-ed ever looked so collegiate. J>To wonder her pictures make so much money. Who wouldn’t go to see Clara?... Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton going into Madam Helene’s. She is just about movie town’s smartest business woman. Charges Jesse James'prices for her food, and makes ’em come for more. Everyone swears at her prices, but the place is filled every day. . . . Sally. Rand and Barbara Kent going fito Grauman’s new Chinese theatej. They’re as different as day and nfght, and yet are as chummy as the' Gold Dust twins. There go two of the college boys who were brought out here by First National as leading men prospects. Wonder, what they think of the “wild” hamlet by this time? The Lasky ranch, which really isn’t a ranch at all, is an ideal location site for movie companies, and is strewn with sets of oil natures. It is not uncommon to find six or eight companies working there at the same time.

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The new Indiana Theater certainly is having a wonderful first week. - / Ace Berry with his good showmanship arranged a sliding price scale which has won the admiration of the entire city, it seems.

I base that remark on the enormous crowds which attend even the 11 a. m. opening* each day. The business as well as the policy is being watched all over the country. I am sure that the gross for the week at the Indiana will be the biggest ever made at a box office of a movie theater in this city in a single w T eek. An actor can find time to write a play. That statement is proven by

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ROUND With WALTER D . HICKMAN

the fact that Robert St. Clair of the Berkell Players has written a three act mystery play. And one good thing is that Berkell plans to produce this play for the first time on any stage at English's in the near future. The Theatre Guild is to be congratulated op their forthcoming presentation of Hiawatha in one of the city parks. Lester Horton will be seen as Hiawatha. Many special dance numbers have been arranged. Have received a letter from a man who signed himself a “traveling man” and he states that the ushers in the Indianapolis theaters that he has visited “are the most polite and courteous in the country.” I with him. Has Made Six New Pictures Vera Voronina. Russian actress now working in Hollywood in Paramount pictures has played in only six pictures in her life.

‘lcebound' Helen Emert, local girl, will have one of the important roles in Stuart Walker’s production of “Icebound” at Keith's naxt week. During the past winter Miss Emert appeared with the ington (W. Va.) branch of tne Stuart Walker company and during most of the current summer season she has appeared with the Cincinnati company.

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No. I—Bernice Marsolais will be seen in "Smilin' Thru” at English’s starting Sunday night. No. 2—Helen and Mae Murray will be among the important people at the Palace the last half of the week. No. 3—Fauntleroy and Van in “The Unforgetable Act” will be present at the Lyric next week. No. 4—Helen Emert will be seen in “Icebound” with McKay Morris at Keith’s next week, starting Monday night. Sets New Record in Film With a fully equipped film laboratory capable of handling ten thousand feet of film per day established at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, the Paramount Famous Lacky Corporation established anew record for motion picture production on location during the filming of “Wings.”

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Indiana to Have Revue

Charley Calvert, the master of ceremonies in Boris Petroff’s “Sports Revue,” at the Indiana next week, literally boxed his way to a stage career. Ten years ago he started as a card boy back stage. Gradually the lure of the footlights caught him and he decided to become an actor. Eddie Leonard taught him his first dance steps and encouraged him in his upward climb. Then the war caine, but he did not forget his early ambition. He took on important role in "You Know Me Al,” W’hich was produced by the troupe of A E. F. boys in France. He also boxed during the* w r ar and for a short time held the Divisional welterweight title. After the war he returned to the stage to continue a very promising career. He has appeared with such international artists as Eva Tanguay and Sophie Tucker. For three years he has been connected with the Paramount organization and is now under the management of Publix Theatres Corporation. One of his most entertaining specialties is the imitation of a jazz band. Paramount Busy in Germany “The Mysterious Cry” and “Peaks of are now being made in the Ufa Studio in Berlin for Paramount.

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Gun Squad to Picnic Next Week Summer Frolic Will Be Given at Broad Ripple. What will be known as "Summer Frolics of 1927 ” will be held at Broad Ripple Park Thursday June 30, and will be sponsored by the Gun Squad. Drum and Bugle Corps, and the Patrol from the Murat Temple. So fbr there is a touc<k>f mystery connected with the affair as those in charge say they have several surprises in store for everybody who attends. The frolic is open to the public and one of the biggest fan days of the year is promised. Those who will have charge of the frolic include Harry A. Pell captain, Joseph T. Head, first lieutenant, Jesse J. McClure, drum major. A. E Hermann asst, drum major, of the Gun Squad, and Edgar Hart, captain, Vernon G. Shelier, first lieutenant and Arthur C. Kimber, second lieutenant. The public is invitfcd to fill their baskets and come out to the park early and be ready to get in on the fun. One of the most popular spots is the big swimming pool where hundreds of swimmers and divers disport themselves both afternoon and evening in the pure water from the park's new filtering plant. The swimmers are safeguarded by competent guards who are on duty at all times. The guards are in charge of Lou Cooper and Priscella Lockwood, both Red Cross guards. Along the big midway, which at night is ablaze with varied colored lights, there are all sorts of pleasure devices. They include "Blue Beard's Palace,” the Moonlight Dance Garden, with Cohee's Orchestra; Skee Ball Alleys, the largest in the State: automatic baseball, the Ski, Tumble Bug, Custer Cars, Chute the Chutes, Ferris Wheel. Mississippi Flood, Rifle Range. Doll Racks, Kiddie Aeroplane. Miniature Railway, Miniature Electric Cars, the Scooter, Dodgem, and others. The big grove, with its community kitchens, where dinners may be cooked in the open, is an appealing feature with outing parties. Those who do not care for this can get excellent chicken and t steak dinners in the new case which adjoins the dance garden. The park's big free zoo never fails to attract large crowds who get a close-up of the many fine specimens of the jungles. Great sport is had by the kiddies

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Plays Here Vincent Lopez, bandltland.s distinctive virtuoso, together with his Casa Lopez orchestra, will be heard for the first time in Indianapolis at the Circle next week. A favorite over radio, a fa- / mous night club proprietor as well as entertainer, and a Vitapphone star, Vincent Lopes brings a sparkling rhythmic melody to the stage.

at the monkey cage, where the two dozen or more small Simian com* edians keep their auditors laughin' at their comical antl'A. PONY AND MONKEY CIRCUS AT RIVERSIDE * Pursel’s\ one-ring dog, pony and monkey circus, featuring Peter Pan, the “smartest pony in the world,” will open as a free attraction at the Riverside amusement park tomorrow afternoon, with a performance also in the evening. The circus will exhibit each afternoon and evening all of next week at the park, and the performances will be free in every sense of the term, at there is no admission charge to thdj park this summer. ’ Dodo, the educated monk, who has been a vaudeville attraction for several years, is another feature of the show, while clever trained dogsj perform stunts of wire walking ana acrobatic feats. m Little “Lindy,” the baby monkcß is the center of interest nowada® in the big Riverside monkey hoiiß and the section of the zoo in wluH the tiny fellow and his mother i.H confined is constantly surrounded tS a crowd of park visitors, the dcß of black bears being "Llndy’s” onljl rival as an attraction. I Preparations are now under waß at Riverside for an elaborate celeM bration of the 4th of July at th park and many organizations hava signified their intention of spending that day at the Thirtieth street fun) resort. - c / Chandler to Be Featured Lane Chandler, the latest Paramount “discovery” will be featured in a series of western pictures just as soon as suitable stories cap be obtained. Paramount has obtained his signature to a long-term contract and regards him as potential star material. Hollywood Is Producing Center With the exception of the newsreel and half a dozen subjects. th entire Paramount program of 297 pictures is to be produced In Hollywood. Fields to Re in a Comedy W. C. Fields, former ZiegiqUMJclj lies pantomimist and Chcstrrwß lin, he of the walrus mustache be a Paramount comedy team^^R

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