Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1927 — Page 7

r Atfe. 13, 1927

GEORGE GAUL WILL BE SEEN IN ‘THE WOLF’ AT KEITH’S

I’dabelle Arnold Is Honored by Being GiverTLeading Role in ‘Pollyanna’ All Next Week at English’s, . Starting Sunday Night, “The Wolf,” “Charm,” with Elizabeth Patterson; “In Love With Love,” and a revival of “Beggar on Horseback,” are the remaining attractions of the Stuart Walker company season at Keith’s theater. The company will close its tenth summer season in this city on Sunday night, Sept. 11, with the final performance

-of “Beggar on Horseback.”

“The Wolf,” which will be seen at Keith v . for one week, starting on Monday night, is a graphic story of the Canadian Hudson Bay country. In “The Wolf” Eugene Walker, the author, was the Columbus of anew field of drama. It was brought out after playwrights of all degrees had dipped their pens into vast avenues of exploration, at a time when it was thought there were few more worlds to conquer in the matter of locale, color, atmosphere and theme. There had been a flood of western dramas, filled with action virility of the wild plains and hills; there had been dainty offerings from the drawing-room; there had been society plays and problem plays, and search was turning to tne other side, bringing forth brain children from the ingenuity of translators and adapters. • At this psychological moment, r-’hen the world was crying out for omething new, something with a fresh ttirill, a different slant on life and the things of life, Eugene Walter, wrote “The W.01f.” It is a story of love—the new love sprung into life—the love of baser birth vanquished—the love of a manly man, quick to the defense of innocence, asserting itself in the wooded fastnesses of a far* country. Next week will be the last opportunity that local theatergoers will, have of seeing George Gaul and Vivian Tobin, as both of these popular players return to New York following their engagement here in "The Wolf.” Vivian Tobin will have the only feminine role in the play, and the cast, in addition to Mr. Gaul, will include Larry Fletcher, Eric Kalkurst, Aldrich Bowker, Jacob Storey and others. ' “The Wolf,” it will be recalled, was done by the Stuart Walker Company at the Murat Theater about five years ago, and George Gaul Is said to have achieved his ‘ greatest success as Jules Beaubein, the stalwarth French - Canadian AMUSEMENTS

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RIVERSIDE —FREE AMUSEMENT PARK—-◄-SUNDAY AFTERNOON-► THREE SENSATIONAL FREE ACTS' CAPTAIN JAMES GALEN DOREMUS GOUGH In a Death-Defying Strongest Man in 100-Foot High the World Daredevil HUGGINS Last performance of Galen Gough Sunday night. Captain Doremus will leap from his tower each night next week. Free Admission —Free Parking —Free Checking ' Free Vaudeville 1

A PAGEANT OF PULCHRITUDE! —Will Be presented by—

MME. THEO HEWES Famous local danseuse, and a bevy of her most beautiful and talented cohorts In a bewildering array of solo and ensemble numbers. Virtually a parade of ou 1 auty, and talent. To be presented on spec Ini stage in front of grand stand Thursday Aug. 18, Mm eClal ,, fMhlr6 ° f NiUonal A - A - V. SWIMMING MRET. Music by Benson’s Orchestra. Vaudeville Acts and other Big Features.

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Selected • Frances Peralta, dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, has been selected to sing the principal role in Deems .Tailor’s American opera, “The King’s Henchman,” which created a sensation at the Metropolitan last season. A special company will tour the principal cities from coast to coast beginning early in the fall. Miss Peralta is now on the Pacific Coast as prima donna v with the San Francisco and Los Angeles Opera Companies. This opera is scheduled to be presented in Indianapolis.

woodsman of the play. The play closes with one of the most thrilling fight scenes ever put on a stage. MISS ARNOLD TO BE SEEN IN LEAD The Berkell Players at English’s will present “Pollyanna” as their theater fare for next week, starting tomorrow night. As this tender lit'tle comedy is so well known, it is scarcely necessary to narrate the story here. It proved to be a best seller when its author, Eleanor Porter first gave, it to the literary world. Following this, Pollyanna clubs were formed, mothers named their babies after it, "and it became such an acceptable piece of work that it has become a permanent institution of the stage, Idabelle Arnold, ingenue with the Berkell Players for several past seasons, will rise next week to the starring role. As Pollyanna, the little glad girl who believes that, the “right-hearted are the glad-heart-ed,” she will endeavor to further win the plaudits of her admiring patronage. It might be said here that Miss Arnold has been engaged by Manager Berkell for the winter season at the Colbnial Theater. "Pollyanna” is one of those inspiring, healthful stage pieces which sends an audience away with an uplifted thought and a lighter heart. It is a masterpiece of whimsey, fanciful and picturesque. It is so constructed that it delights both old and young. It pictures life as a long, singing harmony when the heart is glad, and one looks only for the good in people and things. It ;might be termed a play with a silent sermon, and yet it is not a preachment, it merely portrays a character whose life was a psalm of gratitude and joy. “Pollyanna” was arranged for the stage by Catherine Chisolm Cushing. It has enjoyed long runs in the iarger cities,- and has been played by many road companies, as well as by numerous stock companies. It will be seen throughout the week with on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons. Miss Arnold especially invites all children of school age to the afternoon performances. C lining soon is Edgar Selwyn’s popular comedy, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

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ROUNDING THEATERS

It is with much pleasure that I tell you that the Little Theater Society of Indiana has definitely decided to continue its fine effort to induce Indiana playwrights to write new plays. . This organization today announces three cash prizes for the best one-act plays submitted and produced at the playhouse next season. I was asked to serve as a member of a committee to draw‘up the rules for this one-act play contest and an effort was made by the committee to make the rules as broad as possible. The rules finally accepted under which the play contest will be conducted are as follows:

1. The contest shall be known as the Little Theatre Society of Indiana Play Contest. 2. The contest shall be limited to residents or former residents of Indiana. 3. Plays submitted shall consist of one act, using one setting, and shall be no longer than forty-five minutes playing time. 4. Manuscripts must be original and must not have been produced dv professionals. 5. If contestants wish their plays returned, self-addressed, stamped envelopes must be inclosed. The Little Theatre Society will not be responsible for loss oi manuscripts. 6. Manuscripts shall beqfcne the property of the Little Theatre Society, the author to share in the royalties if the play is produced by other than the Little Theatre Society. 7. Manuscripts will be received from the present time until January 1, 1928. Any manuscript deemed worthy by the committee will be produced by the Littie Theatre Society during the coming season. Such productions will start as soon as suitable manuscripts are received. 8. At the close of the contest, a committee of judges will select from the plays produced, three prize winning plays, and will make the following awards: First jjriz\ SSO; second prize, 30; third prize, 9. If the production of a plav reoulres special properties or sets beyond the resources of the Little Theatre Society, all such must be provided by the author. 10. Manuscripts should be addressed to the Little Theatre Play Contest Committee. at the Playhouse, Alabama and Nineteenth Sts. William Doepperman, assistant manager at the Circle, has gone on his vacation. I know not where, but if it is Canada I hope he will not send me a postal card of views of “certain “institutions” now doing a full business in that country. Henry Behrens, decorator who was responsible for the splendid interior decorations at the Indiana, found time week to take a few days off by motoring to Cleveland and other near by points. In speaking of the Indiana, I am reminded that the new Indiana ballroom, which will be opened around Sept. 1, will be one of the ten wonders of Indiana. Bern Gets Vacation Paul Bern, general assistant to Irving Thalberg at the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studios, has been granted a two-montfis leave of absence from his duties in Culver City and plans to leave Los Angeles in a few days for a trip to Etirope.

WHERE THE, CROWDS GO/

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EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION! JULES FUERST & COMPANY “THE MAN ON THE BLOCKS”

—ON THE SCREEN-"-IMPERIAL COMEDY KINOGRAMS WHIRLWIND COMEDY VAUDEVILLE STARTS AT 2'oo-4-20-?00&9=20 O'CLOCK' DAILY PIPE ORGAN RECITAL BY LESTER HUFF -STARTS 12=40 °°?s?£g n

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ROUND With WALTER D. HICKMAN

New Organist

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Maurice Cook Maurice Cook, who'comes to the Indiana Theater as the feature organist, is a Californian who started study of piano at the age of 8, and when but 12 years of age studied organ. He later entered the “show business” via various musical shows and vaudeville acts including Dunbar's “White Hussars;” toured as musical director with many of the road show” motion pictures notably “The Birth of a Nation,” “Romona,”_and many others. Cook played the Kinema Theater at' Los Angeles for two years, then going in succession to the consoles of great organs at Seattle, Minneapolis and Duluth. ,

AMUSEMENTS

• WARD & DIAMOND Premier Minstrel Star and Dancing Harpist FREITAS HAWAIIANS “A Night in Hawaii” GONNE & ALBERTS “On Their Way tt/School” WARD & WILSON “Stop, Laugh and Listen”

No. I—George Gaul will make his farewell appearances of the season at Keith’s next week in “The Wolf,” starting Monday night. No. 2—Nicholas will be among

Dancers to Be on New Lyric Bill ‘Revue D’Art,’ With Nine Dance Numbers, Chief _ Event Next Week, Nine big dance numbers are featured in the “Revue D’Art” to be presented at the Lyric next week by Nicholas and company, a group of famous terplschorean stars. Among them are the Misses Neva. Adele, Ruth and Sylvia and Messrs Nicholas, John DePrez and- Vic Victor. The revue is staged in three colorful, impressive scenes that provide rich background for the kaleidoscopic action. The bill will include: HI TOM WARD AND CHARLIE DIAMOND—Two “old timers,” who retain their pep and talent and are offering the best act of their long carers bhir.d th footlights. Ward is a noted minstrel star, and Diamond is the original dancing harpist. MARKWITH BROTHERS AND EDDY EDDY—A quintet of fun makers, musical artists and agile steppers in a hodge podge &t merriment styled “Something of This and Something of That.” JEROME AND WlSE—Popular blackface comics, who dispense merriment in a lively “Darktown” skit. GONNE AND ALBERT—In a comedy sketch “On the Way to School,” which contains a lot of clever laugh material reminiscent of childhood days. FEIRITAS HAWAIIANS Singers, dancers and instrumentalists in a novel vaudeville presentation entitled ‘A Night in Hawaiia.” JULES FUERST AND COMPANY—Gymnastic experts in a remarkable performance with an assortment of small blocks. LESTER HUFF—Daily pipe organ recital starting at 12:40 o’clock, noon. ON THE SCREEN—An Imperial comedy “Mum’s the Word,” Kinograms and a Whirlwind farce, “Nothin’ Doin.’”

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the important people present at the Lyric next week. No. 3—ldabelle Arnold will be seen in the chief role in “Pollyana” at English’s, starting Sunday night.

‘Wings’

Bu United Pros NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—“ The air age,” heralded by trans-Atlantic fliers in the last few weeks and recognized by Commerce and War Department officials in Washington who each day are receiving letters from would-be Ameiican aviators, has brought forth “Wings,” a motion picture showing war as it is waged above the clouds. “Wings” opens tonight at the Criterion Theater in New York, the result of a year and a half research and film work in which the United States Army has given full cooperation to the Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky organization which produced it. Fliers from Self ridge Field, Mich.; Crissy Field, Cal.; Lingley Field, Va., and outlying air stations, all ordered to Kelly Field, Tex., by Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War, had a part in making “Wings.” At the height of the mimic St. Michiel drive, which was put on before the cameras at Camp Stanley, Tex., it was estimated that $16,000,000 worth of Government equipment, including planes,.tanks and other Implements of war, was spread out before the eyes. Twenty-one cameramen, set up to snap every angle of a terrifying pageant of war, recorded “Wings’Wor the movies.

*j— —— I’Tweive Miles Out' An amazing tale of ships that pass in the {7 night, and the drama that stalks their decks. Rum runners, hi-jackers, fighting, love mak- j ing—Gilbert’s most thrilling picture since / “The Rig Parade.” // ERNEST TORRENCE, JOAN CRAWFORD :i And a Brilliant Cast—Directed by Ijj/j JACK CONWAY " fjM Whirlwind Comedy jin j Fox News Weekly / . jj A • Return of // / EMIL SEIDEL /// 2 With the / •li APOLLO MERRYMAKERS /// Earl Gordon, Organist /

Up and Down Gay Broadway

Dudley Buck, the noted vocpl teacher, has organized the Dudley Buck Singers for a concert tour through the East... Alfredo San Malo, a noted violinist from South America, sailing last week for France, will return to begin a concert tour, commencing at Carnegie Hall in New York. This musical star is said to be the finest violinist in that country to the south of us... Ralph Coljfnan has turned actor instead of playwright and has a part—or is it three or four parts? —in "Secret Service smith.”... Whitford Kane, who has been the guest star at the Goodman Theater in Chicago and later the Garden Theater in St. Louis, has closed his season. He goes to California and then resumes in Chicago, where a number of distinguished plays are to be revived, j. Julia Parker, who has been dancing at the motion picture theaters of the better class, will reurn to musical comedy next season.. .Margaret Severn, dancer extraordinary, will return to vaudeville next season. Miss Severn is the dancer who created that picturesque and interesting benda mask dance, and this is to be continued in her vast repertoire.. .Olive Marshall will be the Goldman Band soloist during the four weeks this noted organizatino is to play at Atlantic City... Lotta Madden, one of the best known and most popular sopranos, singing with the Goldman Band, was stung by a kissing bug and wears a face as big as the world. That is why radio audiences have not heard her recently.

•BERKELLig| PlMf\sj cMGLISH’S-AII Week-V Starting Sunday Night, Aug. 14th—8:15 | f ‘POLLYANNA’! U WITH 1 I) IDABELLE ARNOLD T Nightly at 8:15. Lower Floor, GaUery (Not Reserved), 25c. Gov. Tax on 90c Seats Only. MATINEES—WED., THURS., SAT. AT 2:15 Lower Floor, 50c—Entire Balcony, 30c—Gallery, 25c WEEK AUGUST~22 " The Whole Town's Talking

MOTION PICTURES

Big Acts on , Riverside Program Amusement Park Offeraj Triple Headline Attractions, The Riverside free amusement park announces a big program o£ free attractions for Sunday afternoon. Three acts, all of a sensational nature, have been engaged to entertain the visitors to the W, Thirtieth St. fun spot. All of the present week the performances of Galen Gough, strong man, have astonished thousands off* park visitors each evening, and tty* popular demand the modern Hercules is being held over for two additional demonstrations in the aft--ernoon and evening Sunday, climaxing each act by allowing an auto| truck, loaded with people, to bd| driven over his body. Asa conclusion of the afternoon’ak show, Riverside’s balloon stunt man# Daredevil Huggins, will leap from* the clouds in five successive para- , chute jumps from his balloon. An .1 unfortunate and unavoidable dent to the aeronaut's balloon lasts 1 Sunday caused many thousands taT| be disappointed, as the ascension! could not be made, and for this rea-.~ son the Riverside management 14bringing Huggins back this Sunday', with the assurance that there wiljj positively be an ascension on sched#® uled time, which will be earlier thaqfl usual.

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