Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1927 — Page 5

JULY 23,1927

WALKER TO PRESENT A THRILLER, ‘THE GORILLA’,' HERE

Vivian Tobin Will Be the Only Woman in the Cast of Mystery Play—Berkell Will Offer His Players in “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em”. With only one woman in the cast ,but .many men, “The Gorilla,” a mystery thriller, will be presented at Keith's next week, starting Monday night, by Stuart Walker. Vivian Tobin, the heroine who must suffer many thrills, will be the only woman in the play. There are seven men in the

play and a “gorilla.” Sundry newspaper reviewers have remarked that there is more mystery in “The Gorilla” than in a combination of all the other mystery •plays produced within the past ten •years. That is a large and expansive statement, but it acquires some validity when it is remarked that more than half the characters in a rather large cast turn out to be not what they were upon their first introduction to the audience. And sometimes it seems that even those characters ,trho maintain their original -identity from first to last are not always to be trusted. Most of the comedy in the play is furnished by two dull-witted detectives, one of whom sums up the whole situation of the piece when he says: “I’ve followed every clew and I’ve shot at everything I’ve seen, but I can’t make anything out of it.” | “The Gorilla” was written and "produced on the strength of the quite plausible assumption that people are beginning to weary of mystery plays. Accordingly, Mr., Spence, the author, has put into his piece all the stock characters of the familiar “thriller”—the blundering police detectives, the comedy Negro, the aged uncle and the super-sleuth from Scotland Yard, who falls in love with the harassed heroine. The play is a travesty from start to finish and much glorious fun is had at the expense, of the seriously earnest mystery type of play. It is likewise the shootingest, -shoutingest melange of thrills, chills and yells ever concoted. It is, in brief, a “thriller” run amuck. The cast that George Somnes, director. has assembled for the play will include Vivian Tobin, the only feminine member of the cast; Gavin Gordon, Larry Fletcher, Aldrich Bowker, John Storey, Ernest Cossart, Harry Ellerbe, Eric Kalkurst, and, quite naturally, the gorilla. PRESENT BROADWAY HIT AT ENGLISH’S Starting tomorrow night the Berkell Players at English’s will present for their week’s bill “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em,” a farce-comedy which is now running full blast at the Times Square Theater in New •York. Theatrical history has been made by this unusual occurrence, for seldom is'a play released for stock production while it is running hon the legitimate stage. I All of the members of the Berkell

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Red-Heads Three red-heads are now working at the Paramount studio, Clara Bow is starring in “Hula ” Jocelyn Lee is playing Shanghai Rose in Richard Dix’s “Shanghai Bound.” Doris Hill has the feminine lead with Chester Conklin and George Bancroft in “Tell It to Sweeney.”

company will be in the cast of the performance here, with Miss Jean Oliver and Milton Byron in the leading roles. Harvey Schlueter, scenic artist, will build the settings. The action of this comedy takes place in a boarding house where are housed a number of employes of a department store. Two of their members, two orphaned sisters, are an enterprising couple of girls who endeavor to keep things moving in their otherwise prosaic lives by organizing a "home talent” show. One of the girls, Janie, the younger of the two, has been left in care of her elder sister as a dying wish of their mother. The elder sister keeps hopping to keep her out of difficulties since she has developed a flair for “cutting up.” “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em” is a quick-moving* vehicle, mainly comedy, but with generous touches of farce, and a light dip into burlesque. It has now passed its two hundredth performance in New York, which indicates its popularity. Following close upon the .heels of this *play is Edgar Selwyn’s comedy success, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”

Showmanship, Has Real Value

In a recent address at the gathering of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America at Columbus, Ohio, S. L. Rothafel head of the Roxy Theater in New York emphasized the value of showman ship in the motion picture business, telling how to build up a spirit of good will through the radio, and touched on the subject of what he termed “judicious extravagance” as a means to insure entertainment of a varied and artistic order. “Physchology, judicious, and sincerity extravagance are the cardinal principles of showmanship,” said Roxy. “Too many exhibitors have stood still, because of their tendency to practice economy. You can talk all you like about chain competition and the like, but the real showman, the man, who spends money not only well but wisely, who establishes his individuality giving the theater a definite personality, will never be driven out. “Good will is the strongest asset oof any business. There are many ways to create good will besides pror ducing and exhibiting good pictures. I have found the radio to be the strongest factor in building good will for my organization.” It was upon these principles that Roxy built his theater and broke all previous motion picture records. His house seats over 6,000 persons and he asserted that he could use 1,000 more seats nicely. Do You Remember This? “The Squaw Man” was the first picture made by what is now the Paramount Company. Dustin Farnum was the star and Cecil B. De Mille directed. It was a Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play production.

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Tons of Ice to Cool the Indiana New Refrigerating Plant Cost SIOO,OOO to Install.

The SIOO,OOO refrigerating plant, the greatest cooling system in the middle West, has now been completed and the Indiana will be able to maintain an even temperature of 70 degrees throughout the hottest summer weather, Ace Beery, general manager of the Indiana, has announced. Each day the refrigerating system manufactures 350 tons of ice, enough ice to keep thousands of households in ice all summer, but that is the amount of ice necessary to maintain comfortable temperatures at the Indiana. For two months workmen have been installing this plant. Experts in theater ventilating and cooling have combined their talents in producing the Indiana refrigerating system. Regardless of the fluctuation of outside temperatures, the temperature maintained in the Indiana will be constantly at 70 degrees. The air is taken from a height of approximately seventy-five feet above the street level and -is forced through the cooling and washing plant and then released in the ceiling of the auditorium. The cool air is forced down and finds its way through the hundreds of “mushrooms” placed under the seats. This is the ideal method of ventilating a theater it has been demonstrated in the greatest of the newt theaters of the nation. Scores of workmen have been busily engaged more than a month previous to the opening of the Indiana to have the cooling plant in condition for the opening of the house. Unforeseen difficulties presented themselves and the inauguration of the cooling system unfortunately was deferred. Every assurance for the perfect entertainment and perfect harmonious surrounding for its presentation, has now been provided Indiana theater audiences.

Romance

Romance stalks in many strange places. This is verified by Everette Du Boise, who operates the big Chutes the Chutes at Broad Ripple Park. According to Du Boise since he has been in charge of the ride no less than four couples have been married as a result of meeting at the chutes. It is the long dark,tunnel that appeals to the lovers and the operator is lenient with the speed of the boats on their way through the long winding passageway. Not long ago a wedding party had a dinner in the park’s new case and spent the greater part of the evening on the chutes. Du Boise said he took enough rice out of the bottom of one of the boats to supply an ordinary family for a week. Du Boise has already chistened one of the boats “the honeymoon express.”

With Douglas Carlotta Monti, a dancing girl in Douglas Fairbanks’ “The Gaucho,” was attending Lincoln High School and working after school hours in a medical clinic, and dancing evenings at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, when she received an offer to appear in Douglas Fairbanks’ “The Gaucho,” at S2O a day.

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No. I—William Hull besides directing “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em,” at English’s next week, finds time to play one of the important roles.

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One of the oustanding features at the new Indiana is the success of Mikhail Stolarevsky in directing the Indiana Symphonic Orchestra in worth-while orchestral production asAvell as arranging the music for the photoplays.

West Directs ‘Dove’ Film

Roland West will direct Norma Talmadge in her first United Artists picture, “The Dove.’’ For a long time after Joseph Schenck bought the script from David Belasco, the cinema world wondered who would direct this important first picture. West was the logical choice. For many years he has been associated with Joseph M. Schenck. He directed Norma Talmadge in one of the most successful of her pictiyres, “De Luxe Annie,” and he is considered one of the most imaginative dramatic directors now working. A Picture With Two Stars Jesse L. Lasky has announced that the first Paramount picture co-starring Chester Conklin and W. C. Fields will be “The Side Show,” from a story written by Percy Heath, the scenarist, and Donald Davis, son of Owen Davis. Many Chinese In Movie More than 200 Chinese played as Yangtse River pirates in the fight scenes of Richard Dix's new Paramount picture, “Shanghai Bound.” Author Prepares Continuity John Monk Saunders, author of “The Legion of the Condemned,” is himself preparing the continuity. Gary Cooper is slated to play the lead in this Paramount picture.

‘Tempest’ It develops John Barrymore’s new picture for United Artists, which wili be released under the title of “Tempest,” is a modern story of Russia in the time of the Revolution. It is expected to furnish Barrymore with an exceptionally strong and colorful role.

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No. 2—Hazel Haslam will be among the important ones present at the Lyric all next week. No. 3—Grace Nile will have an

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Have been asked many times just what causes the movie stars, some of them, to either become failures or just be forgotten by the public. ThisTs a most interesting question and one that is asked many times. In the current issue of Photoplay Magazine, Agnes Smith relates the result of her study of the situation. Because I have faith in her serious deductions, I am reproducing the information sent me by the Photoplay Magazine as follows:

What becomes of them—the movie stars who shine for a year or two. | then disappear? Where do they go? ! And why? Agnes Smith, chronicler of screenland life’, has been checking up or. that vanished host whose names have faded from the lights and billboards—the Nazimovas, Clara Kimball Young, J. Warren Kerrigams I et al. She’s found where they go, to i many destinations and ports of oblivion. And why? Well, that’s a matter for specification, and, in the August issue of Photoplay Magazine she specifies the seven ways, aside from simple marriage and retirement, by which the stars can and do erase themselves speedily from the public consciousness. They are: 1. By getting mixed up in a crime or moral scandal. 2. By overworking temperament and overrating self-importance. 3. For an actress, by marrying a man antagonistic to a screen career. 4. By overplaying their type. 5. By accepting stardom before | they’ve developed a star’s ability. 6. By taking too much time between pictures. 7. By making plain, medicore pictures. “Fatty” Arbuckle she points out as a prime example of one who took the first way out, with Mary Miles Minter and others, more or less peri sonally to blame, following his lead, j their names erased by the adverse | publicity that engulfed them. L Alla Nazimova, she say 6, is the | outstanding victim of too much tem-

Bonis’ Broken Nose to Stay

BY DAN THOMAS HOLLYWOOD, Cal., July 23 I There is quite a history behind ! Louis Wolheim’s broken nose. This bent and twisted f icial adornment, by the way, has made him one of filmdom’s most prominent actors and the nose plays an important part in “Two Arabian Knights,” a film just finished, and one of the few really good pictures of the last six months. Wolheim broke his nose while playing football in college. Several years later he listened to the pleadings of his friends, took SI,OO0 —the only SI,OOO he had in the world—and went to a plastic surgeon to have it remodeled. Being more than pleased with the result, he gathered his friends for a celebration in a New York chop house. “While we were eating and drinking—those were the days before prohibition—an actor entered the place, looked at me, and made a dirty crack about my nose,” says Wolheim. “One thing led to another and soon every one in the place was taking part in a free-for-all fight. When it was over, my nose was broken And I | didn’t have another sl,ooo* to have jit rebuilt. And I never will now —it means too much money to me.'* Kny one who thinks that Molly O’Day and her sister, Sally O’Neil, aren’t just as Irish as their names should look over their family history. Their mother was an Irish

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perament among the forgotten stars. The exotic, bobbed-haired lady couldn’t get along with producers, directors or fellow players. Now she’s in vaudeville in England. Those who overplayed their type are many, and are not themselves to blame So much as a fickle public/ For instance, she cites William S. Hart. The public loved that strong, silent look. Then suddenly it decided it had had enough of it. It adored Louise Glaum in those spidery costumes. Then adoration turned to indifference. Theda Bara was encouraged to become wilder and funnier. When Miss Bara obliged, the public laughed. And by the same ruote went Leah Baird, Virginia Pearson apd Rosemary Theby. Katherine MacDonald, Lila Lee and the little blonde Miss Dupont are offered as samples of those who were thrust into stardom before they were prepared for it. Yesterday they were broadly advertised, today they are unmentioned. Geraldine Farrar is presented as one whose movie career was killed by poor pictures, and in the same category are put Wanda Hawley, Anita Stewart and Clara Kimball Young. Then others Just quit, because they wanted to quit. J. Warren Kerrigan, for instance, who in several years has only made one appearance, in “The Covered Wagon,” and Pearl White, who prefers quiet living in France to risking her neck in more aerials.

opera singer who left the to marry an Irish judge. And four of their brothers have starred on former Notre Dame football elevens — which in itself is proof enough. An exact replica of a Manhattan street can now be found in Harold Lloyd’s Hollywood ranch. The street got there because Lloyd found that it was cheaper to bring a New York street to Hollywood than it was to take his movie company to New York.

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No. 4—Gavin Gordoh will be in cast of “The Gorilla” at Keith’s, starting Monday night.

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Guess how Idabelle Arnold, one of the real favorites of the Berkell Players,, learns anew part. She studies it in bed. And that’s the truth. La Cava to Direct Richard Dix Gregory La Cava is slated to direct the next Richard Dix picture for Paramount.

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Coogan to Make Debut as An AdulL ‘Little Jackie' Is No More, So Say the Film Experts, BY DAN THOMAS. NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Cal., July 23 “Where is little Jackie?” asked a visitor on the Jackie Coogan set. 1 "Right over there,” replied an assistant director, pointing toward a very mannish-looking youth in the blue uniform df a bell-hop. "Oh, it can’t be,” exclaimed tha fair visitor. But it was. Jackie is a child no longer. He is an honest-to-gosh grown up boy of 13, and when ofß the set he has the usual interests of boys of that age. Everyone who sees Jackie marvels at his advancement during the last f year. The young actor has made movia history by remaining a star despite his growth and he is now well into production 'on "Buttons.” There is nothing childish about his role either. He plays the part of a bell-hop on an ocean liner. During the voyage, the ship is blown up by a torpedo. and as it sinks, Jackie saves the captain who has remained behind to go down with his vessel. • The “kid’s” training along athletic lines stands him in good stead for this production, in which he will be required to do considerable swimming. Jackie right now, is as strong a swimmer as most boys I of 19. It seems strange to think of “little” Jackie Coogan being supported by a cast Including Lars Hanson, l Gertrude Olmstead. Roy D’Arcy, 1 Paul Hurst and Polly Moran. “Buttons" will definitely take Jackie out of the child class. There was a lot of shouting about him being grown up when he had his hair ■ cut regular boy fashion last year, but now he is beginning to act older 1 and his face resembles that of an j older boy. Glyn Returns From Europe f Elinor Glyn has returned from ! London and Paris. After a brief visit here she will return to Hollywood to supervise her next Paramount picture "Make Them Love You." This picture will reveal the secrets of love and beauty. Negri To Be Starred Rowland V. Lee is scheduled to direct the Paramount picture starring Pola Negri, “Rachel,” following her "Sun Kissed."

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