Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1927 — Page 6

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COON-SANDERS’ KANSAS CITY NIGHT HAWKS DUE HERE

Lew Cody, Rene Adoree to Be Seen in 'On Ze Boulevard’ at the Apollo—The Indiana Books Raymond Griffith in ‘Time to Love.’ Coon-Sanders original Kansas City Night Hawks, known as the orchestra that made radio famous, and one of the principal events on the fourth syncopation season program, shares honors with “Lonesome Ladies,” a screen tale of wandering men and wondering women, at the Circle theater the coming week. ' /

Since the early days of the radio when it was among the first orchestras to achieve fame as entertainers, the Kansas City Night Hawk aggregation has been a radio and record favorite. In popularity this band rules with the greatest brought to the Circle this season. The program next week will be different than it has ever presented before, novelty sharing first place with harmony. “Lonesome Ladies,” is the First National production which brings Lewis Stone in the leading role. Anna Q. Nilsson, Jane Winton, Doris Lloyd, Fritzie Ridgeway and Edward Martindel have been assembled in support. Fritzie Ridgeway has recently returned to pictures. She is well known to Indianapolis audiences. Constantin Bakaleinikoff, former musical director at the Circle, is her husband. In “Lonesome Ladies” stone plays the part of a sedate and satisfied married architect. A widow, a former sweetheart of his, comes to his office to have plans drawn for a home she is building, hoping to inveigle him into an intrigue. The architect attempts to avoid her. That night the architect tries to explain the situation to his wife to prevent a misunderstanding. The wife has gone to sleep and the story goes unheard. The widow has finally gotten the architect to accept a dinner invitation to her apartment, and all goes well until the architect’s secretary, who has a secret and jealous love for the architect, tells his wife. This brings about a situation which develops into an unusual climax. “Flashing Blades,” the latest and most engrossing chapter of “The Collegians,” is being shown as the chief subsidiary attraction. It brings to a close the first series of w’hat has probably been the most popular series of short subjects ever made.

An Aesop fable, animated Circle news and Circle chats are other subjects. MERRY COMEDY DUE AT APOLLO “On Ze Boulevard” to be presented at the Apollo next week, is a frothy' French comedy made under the direction of Harry Millarde of “The Taxi Dancer” fame, and introduces Lew Cody and Renee Adoree as co-stars, supported by Roy D’Arcy, Dorothy Sebastian and Anton Vaverka. The story by F. Hugh Herbert and Florence Ryerson, is a whimsical tale of Paris enlivened by a potpourri of comic complications, laughable trivialities, clever acting, pretty' women, much frippery and a deal of enjoyment. . Cody has the role of Gaston, a waiter who inherits a fortune. Miss Adoree plays the part of Musette, a restaurant cashier. Emboldened by his new found wealth, Gaston buys an outlay of fashionable clothes and blithely sets forth upon a career as a boulevardier. His first flirtation gets him tangled up in the affairs of a blond actand. he is challenged to a duel by a jealous rival. So many mixups develop in such rapid fire order that Gaston seems to be hopelessly involved until Musette, who really loves him, comes to his rescue which is only effected by the quick use of her ready woman’s wits. The farce has been set in lavish surroundings all typical of Gay Paree. Hal Roach’s juvenile stars who makee up “Our Gang” find new fields for mirthful adventure in “Chicken Feed,” a comedy which, with the Fox news weekly will complete the filml. The program will include Jack Tilson, an Indianapolis singer who has achieved great popularity via radio during his absence on tour the past two years, Earl Gordon, organist and the Apollo Merry Makers offering musical novelties. “TIME TO LOVE” BOOKED AT INDIANA Raymond Griffith, the High Hat comedian of the screen, comes to the Indiana tomorrow in his latest laugh provoker, “Time to Love,” while the attraction on the stage is the Publix presentation “Kid Days.” High in the air is a captive balloon. Below on the ground are artillerymen blazing away at it with anti-aircraft guns. And in the basket of the balloon, helpless and panic-stricken, sit a young gentleman in high hat and his, ahem—unmentionables —and a beautiful girl in wedding veil and her—you know what we mean. That’s the alarming situation that forms the climax of "Time to Love,” Raymond Griffith’s starring comedy. The gentleman in the basket, of course, is Raymond Griffith. The beautiful blonde is Vera Voronina, new Russian screen discovfy, who plays her first leading role in American pictures. Events leading up to the hilarious climax of “Time to Love” are just as laugh provoking. Griffith portrays a Frenchman who falls in love with 3 young countess who believes

Jolson Busy Having completed his stage engagements for the season, A1 Jolson began work this week on his first scenes in “The Jazz Singer,” a Warner Bros. Extended Run Production which marks his debut as a film star. Director Alan Crosland who recently returned to the coast after shooting exteriors in New York, now has the whole lineup of principals at work including not only Jolson, but May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Cantor Josef Rosenblatt, Eugenie Besserer, William Demarest and Bobby Gordon.

Shirley Busy Shirley Dorman, newest of Paramount’s contract player, x-eceived her third film assignment wfthin a month when this week she was named for an important supporting role in Florence Vidor’s “One Woman to Another.” She has been in moition pictures less than a year and has been with Paramount only two months. She started in “Tell It to Sweeney,” was next assigned to an important part in “The City Gone Wild,” Thomas Meighan’s current production which James Cruze directed.

in spiritualism. He finds his best friend loves her too, and believes she loves the other fellow. So Griffith agrees to be "killed” in a fake duel, promising never to return. However, when he falls on the field of honor, Ray discovers that she really loves him. Honor-bound not to come back he evades the promise by appearing as a spirit. The deception is discovered and he is turned over to the gendarmes. By escaping, he returns again, just in time to flee with the girl. Their escape leads to the balloon basket. William Puwell plays “the other man” dast?/aly Marquis de Daddo. Frank Tuttle, maker of “Kid Boots” directed “Time to Love,” an original story by Alfred Savoir. Oscard’s “Kid Days” as may be inferred from the title, is just a rollicking, frolicing divertisement presented by a cast distinguished by its extreme youthfulness. The settings, designed by Herman Rosse, suggest a street in Kidland and the action is said to be refreshing in the extreme. Oscard will be recalled as the producer of ‘wfoonlight,” “Barnyard Follies,” “Southern Memories,’! “Spanish Nights,” and the more recent “The Maid of the Mist,” among other Publix presentations. Included in the list of talented performers to be seen are Gypsy Byrne, Frances Dewey and A1 Gold, Eddy & Delores and The Three DeCrescents. The Indiana Symphonic Orchestra will play a Selection of Friml's Favorites including “Love Call,” “Sometime,” “Sympathy,” “March of the Vagabond,” and “Somebody” under the direction of Stolarevsky. Harold Ramsey will play Supp's “Poet and Peasant” as his organ offering. There will be one of the KoKo Song Car-Tunes with a clever animation of “The Good Old Summer Time” a delightful scenic picture and the Indiana News of the World. “MONTE CRISTO” DUE AT OHIO John Gilbert, by Virtue of popular request, is coming back to the Ohio theater next week in “Monte Cristo.” Gilbert playing the’ title role is the hero of the multiple adventure borne by the famous Alexander Dumos character and has a cast of stars to support him. The story of the Count of Monte Cristo is so well known that to retell it is only the occasion to explain what portion of the contents has been picturized. Director Emmett J. Flynn is said to have captured the most dramatic portions of the long romantic tale. Edmond Dantes is a young, bouyant sailor who returns from a long voyage to marry the charming Mercedes, beloved also by his rival, Fernand. Fernand and anothef enemy, Danglers, conspire against Dantes and he is arrested on his wedding day and tossed into a dungeon where he languishes for fourteen years. How Dantes escapes from prison and avenges himself on Fernand, Danglers and DeVillefort, the prosecutor, form some of the dramatic sequences. • The supporting cast includes Estelle Taylor, wife of Jack Dempsey, ex-heavyweight champion, Renee Adoree of “The Big Parada” fame, Robert McKim, George Seigman, Virginia Faire and Ralph Cloninger. “She’s My Cousin” is the title of the comedy that will be shown while the picture program will be completed by a first run Pathe news reel. gluth Noller, Ohio organist, will be heard again next week, offering a number of musical specialties. NEW MOVIE LISTED AT ISIS “The Fighting Three” to be on view at the Isis the first half of next week, is a somewhat different Western comedy drama for the reason that instead of chasing cattle rustlers and bandits, the hero, Sheriff Jack Conway, played by Jack Hoxie, is engaged in chasing a fly-by-night theatrical troupe that has left a trail of unpaid bills in its wake. The sheriff falls in love with the pretty ingenue; with the “barnstormers,” discovers that she is really the heiress to a big fortune, and before he realizes it is involved in a terrific battle against a determined villain, to protect the girl and her interests. The mid-week change on Thursday will bring George O’Hara in “Ladies Beware,” a thrilling crook drama. O’Hara appears as a debonair mystery man—a swaggering Beau Brummel of today, but known to the police as a clever, dangerous criminal whose numbers some of the wealthiest society leaders of two continents. The plot contains many unusual angles including, the spectacle of two crooks pitted in a game to outwit each other and a reform crook who gets the best of both of them. In O’Hara’s support are Nola Luxford, Florence Wix, Kathleen Myers, Mario Carillo and Allen Brooks. Entertaining short films will be subsidiary features.

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George Jessel Wants to Retire and Produce His Own Shows

BY DAN THOMAS NEA Srrvic? Writer HOLLYWOOD. Calif., July 30. —George Jessel started out selling papers at the stage door at the age of nine. Since then he has filled every kind of a job connected with the stage. And because of his success, the movies have lured him westward with their ever ready money bags. Jessel might be cited as an example of a man who has risen to immediate cinema stardom, for he started as a star. He was never fen extra. He started out on the stage at the age of nine because his father died and he had to do something to earn a living. When he was

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Jazz Singer George Jessel on parade. A caricature by Don Woo ton, NEA and Indianapolis Times. about 20 he tried his hand at writing plays and songs. Several of his plays have made money, “The Jazz Singer” being most successful. It is 'interesting to hear Jessel’s Views on the vitaphone—the invention which really gave him his start in pictures. “I believe the vitaphone has about had its run,” he declares. “It is so make-believe. It is impossible to make the public believe anything is real when they see the image on the screen and

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in Four Million Gallons of pure filtered water, which changes completely every fifteen hours. Red Cross Guards. Children Dime Days every Tuesday and Thursday. Boy’s and girl’s bicycle given away on these days. ZOO Bring the children to visit our free zoo. It is a treat they won’t forget. MIDWAY ' Our big midway is a real Coney Island with its new and wholesome fun devices. ACRES FREE PARKING SPACE Come Out Early Stay Late Then Home at the End of “A PERFECT DAY”

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hear the voice coming from some other part of the theater. The secret of success in the motion picture industry has been that the public believes what it sees on the screen. The vitaphone will in time dispell such a belief.” Jessel Is now rushing work on “Ginsberg the Great,” his second feature picture, so that he can get back to New York for a winter stage engagement. The story is supposed to have been written around George and actually comes pretty close to telling of his early day struggles when he was just a nobody. “In about five years from now lam going to quit acting—if the public doesn’t make me stop before,” he says. “Then I am going to product plays and movies the way I want to. Perhaps I will act in one of my own pictures and make it right. I don’t like this idea of hurrying through a picture as fast as possible, althougn I know it must be done in a large studio. "I want to take eight or ten days on one gag if necessary instead if doing four gags every day.” Long Street in Movie A street a block long copied from a section of Soho, slum district of London, has been reproduced in all details on the Paramount lot at Hollywood as part of the background for Emil Jannings* second Paramount production temporarily titled "Hitting for Heaven.” Jannings is at present making scenes on the street, called “Harmony Row,” under direction of Mauritz Stiller...

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No. I—Lewis Stone will be seen in “Lonesome Ladies” at the Circle next week. No. 2—Raymond Griffith will be seen in “Time to Love” at the Indiana, starting Sunday. No. 3—John Gilbert will be seen in the chief role of “Monte Cristo” at the Ohio next week. No. 4—Jack Hoxie In “The Fighting Three” at the Isis the first half of this week. No. s—Renee Adoree as she appears in "On Ze Boulevard” at the Apollo, starting Sunday.

FIGHT OVER TURQUOISE Mine War Looms in Alleged Claim Jumping Case. TONOPAH. Nev., July 30.—Revival of the days of ’49 were feared as a fight between owners of a turquoise mine and “claim jumpers" smouldered. All manner of weapons, including guns, have been used in the fray so far without serious injury to any of the participants. The mine was said to have produced SIO,OOO worth of stones last year.

Color Classics Tiffany productions announce that seven of their scheduled twenty-four color classics photographed in natural colors for release for the coming year, are now completed. They are “King of “Sports,” "Memories.” “Love in the Jungle,” “Scar Face,” .“The Man Who Married the Moon,” "Footing the Bill” and “Me and My Pal.” They are all in the course of editing and titling.

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Real Money For the first time the Fratellini Brothers, Europe’s greatest clowns, are paying attention to an offer to visit the United States. M. S. Bentham has offered them $3,000 a week for an American tour. At present they are the stars of the Cirque d’ Hiver in Paris and are accounted the best white-faced draws abroad.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS GIVEN ROUTE TO OUTING Lodge Men From Here to Travel 66 Miles to Park. The automobile routes to the triState outing of the Knights of Columbus. to be held at Muscatatuck State Park, Jennings County, near North Vernon, Sunday, were given out today for members’ guidance. The park is located on Indiana State Road No. 7. near the intersection of United States Road No. 50. It is within easy driving distance of Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville and other intermediate places. The distances are: From Indianapolis. sixty-six miles via U. S Road 31 to Columbus, then State Road 7 to place of outing From Cincinnati, sixty-eight miles via U. S. Road 50 to place of outing. From Louisville, 62 miles via U. S. Road 31 north to U. S. Road 50., thence east.

Scenery Made in Switzerland The exteriors of “The Last Waltz” | the Ufa-Faramount picture, were l made in Switzerland.

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On Sunday night at Parker's Cinderella at Riverside, Vincent Lopez and his orchestra will give a concert and will furnish dance music.

LEWIS STONE^j^S "LONESOME J LADIES Y | A tale of the Dangerous Age—when husband and wife begin to think they are lonesome —when husbands wander and wives wonder. Here is Lewis Stone, suave, sophist icated, debonair—a sedate architect, lured from his fireside by the ever-sttractive widow. His wife suspects the worst,and leaves him only to find that ladies need never bs lonesome long. You can draw your own conclusions of what happens in the funniest domestic comedy of the season. COON-SANDERS Original Kansas City NIGHT HAWKS The Victor Recording Orchestra That Made Radio Famous The most eminent entertainers of the ether bring their celebrated melodies to delight lovers of popular music. * Such supreme byncopation. "Flashing Blades*' The latest chapter of “The Collegians” Newa — Chat —Fable

HOUSE OPENS Daily.. 11a.m. Sunday. 1 p.m.

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St. Julians Will Be At Riverside Aerial Team to Be on View All Week in New Stunts, With the St. Julians, an aerial team, giving their initial performance tomorrow afternoon of a week of free vaudeville and with the appearance of the famous Vincent Lopez orchestra in the ballroom tomorrow night. Riverside opens another notable week of entertainment for its patrons. The free vaudeville at Riverside is a big drawing card, and great crowds have assembled each evening in front of the elevated stage in-the center of the park to witness the performances. Tonight marks the close of the engagement of Madam Egener and her remarkable troupe of educated geese. The St. Julians—Millie and Ross —are said to present a sensational trapeze, bar and balancing ladder act and the feminine member of the team is rated one of the strongest women in the show business, having been featured with the Rlngling circus for several seasons. The novel { act is said to carry a large amount of apparatus. Free admission to Riverside and the fact that it is open from noon to midnight every day in the week have resulted in constantly Increasing crowds each afternoon at tha West Thirtieth street fun resort, many family parties and social clubs coming to the park in the afternoon, eating their lunches in the piemo grounds and remaining for the vaudeville, dancing and skating in tha evaning. Parents are finding Riverside an ideal and safe playground for their very small children, and the section called “Kiddie Park” set aside for the tiny tads, is always thronged with laughing and happy youngsters playing on the slides and teeters between visits to the dens of the big black bears, the monkeys or the alligators, in the free zoo.

Promoted A well deserved promotion in the studio staff of Warner Bros, was announced this week when it became known that Ross Lederman. assistant director on such releases as “The First Auto,” and "The Heart of Maryland,” had been raised to the status of director. His first megaphone assignment will be Rin-Tin-Tin's next starring picture, “A Dog of the Regiment,” to be started the first week in August. __

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