Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 111, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1927 — Page 6

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Lew CODY AND AILEEN PRINGLE FORM NEW COMEDY TEAM

Beau Geste’ Opens Today fbr Weeks Engagement at the Circle; Clara Bow to Be Seen as 'Hula' at the Apollo Theater, Starting Sunday, • t’—o second week of the new idea Publix stage policy Ht the Indiana Theater, opening today, the screen offering is ■Adam and Evil,” featuring Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle Hid on the stage the Publix presentation of “Banjomania” Hnd Charlie Davis with his Indiana stage band. The showing of ‘‘Adam and Evil” will disclose anew Breen comedy team in the persons of Lew Cody an(j> Aileen

Hringlc. ■ Ccdy has the role of a philander■g husband who accounts for such ■ his escapedcs as reach his wife’s by blaming a twin brother for own acts. Until the actual arHval of the twin brother, who has delayed, it is necessary that Body enact the two roles in order to Hlay his wife’s suspicions. The aiBction of Robert Z. Leonard is superb. “Adam and Evil’’ as one of the most hilarious comedies is Bit to be missed. ■ Probably tue fastest moving and Bzziest stage show that has yet Ben routed over the Publix circuit [ Jtck Partington's production Blanjomania." ■ Among the specialty artists who Bpear in the production are White Bid Manning, formerly featured ■ilh the Ziegfeld Follies. They reBntly returned to this country from ■ sensational tour of Europe during ■hich time they were featured for ■x months in the Kit Kat Club in Bndon and also for six months at Be Apollo Theater, Paris. ■ The Thompson Sisters, Lottie and ■ancy, well known on the big time Budeville circuits, are two beautiful and With Morgan Bd Stone, two boys who also banjo, ■imprise a quartet in this line of Btertainment that one would have B go far to equal. ■ Margaret Bell is the premiere Bncer in the production and forBerly was featured for more than ■ year with the Duncan Sisters in ■Topsy and Eva." ■.Jerry and Dorothy Byron, two ■realists, are known to thousands of Kdio fans as the Sunshine Girls for ieir broadcasting over Station tEAP. They also scored a brilliant iccess recently in the Broadway roduction “Bye, Bye Bonnie.” Charlie Davis and his orchestra ill be present. The Indiana Grand Barton Organ ill be played by Maurice, who now lquires, musically, “Are You With te or Against Me?” The Indiana ews showing recent world events 1 motion and an ingenious color ovelty film will conclude the show. - I OROTHY GISH TO BE V OHIO MOVIE Dorothy Gish in “Madame Pompdour,” a story of the eighteenth sntury, featuring Antonio Moreno, i the new attraction starting today t the Ohio theater. In the role of “Madame Pompaour,” Dorothy Gish is seen as the 'Oman who played with nations

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FREE AMUSEMENT PARK SUNDAY AFTERNOON Woman Balloonist ( MLLE. ETHEL PRITCHETT) TRIPLE PARACHUTE LEAP THE MAIDEN AIR CRUISE OF THE NEW BALLOON “THE SPIRIT OF INDIANAPOLIS” The big complete park, right here In the pioneer fun resort that lm blazed the trail to Happyland through it* all-the-week-around policy of free 'admission, free narking and free cheeking, will remain open until October, regardless or the action of out-of-town parks.

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Expensive Cast “Countess Maritza,” the Emmerich Kalman operetta which ran more than a year at the Shubert Theater, New York, is now rehearsing, preparatory to an engagement commencing Sunday, Sept. 25, at St. Louis. From St. Louis the production goes to the Dallas (Texas) fair,, after which it will continue on tour. The entire original bast has been retained, including Walter Woolf, Odette Myrtil, Harry K. Morton, Gladys Baxter, Marjorie Peterson, Clarence Tallman, ifugh Chilvers, William Craig, George Hobbs. Ernestyn Jeanne and others.

and wreaked havoc with the hearts of men. Apparently born to be a favorite this famous character raised herself from the obscurity of a common Parisian home to a position on the right hand of the French throne. Men lavished favors on her. Generals bowed to her slightest whim. Nations listened to her every word. Becoming the sweetheart of Louis XV, King of Ftance, she caused a war which cost the lives of thousands and the loss of Canada to France. And when she was about to lose "he favor of the king she won it back by methods such as only a woman like Pompadour could have devised. \ To quote Elinor Glyn, Madame Pompadour certainly must have had "It!” How else can her uncanny control of men and affairs be explained? What else could have Inspired a man who had sworn to hate her, upon meeting her to lay his heart at her feet? It is principally about this incident in her life that this beautiful and Intriguing story of “inside” court life has been built. The Universal Trio will be held over for another week with a complete change of songs. Jo Alexander, organist will be h'eard in the first of a series of organ solos In connection with a “scrim” presentation adapted to the number. These so-called “scrim” presentations are something entirely new to Indianapolis audiences. The program at the Ohio will be

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rounded out with a comedy and M-G-jVI news weekly. “BEAU GESTE” OPENS TODAY AT THE CIRCLE Herbert Brennon’s production of “Beau Geste,” the screen version of Percival Wren’s widely-read novel, comes to the Circle Theater today, with Ronald Colman featured in the title role. The magnificent broad sweep of this powerful drama of the French Foreign Legion has never before been surpassed, nor has there ever been a finer theme than the devotion of three brothers and their unflinching sacrifice for each other. The story opens with the showing of a detachment of the Foreign Legion on its way across the African desert to relieve a fort which has been attacked by Arabs. Arriving, the commander of the relieving force finds no trace of the Arabs, and his glass reveals a soldier standing at every embrasure in the walls, ready to fire on the enemy. A bugle call elicits no re-

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sponse. Not a man stirs and the gates remain closed. The major approaches the walls .and discovers the alert sentries to be dead. This opens a mystery which deepens and quickens as the story progresses, reaching to England and there involving three of the main characters, the Brothers Geste, Michael “Beau,” Digby and John. Director Herbert Brenon and 3,000 men in addition to the principals in this story, spent three months on the Great American desert, thirty miles from any hibitation, for the filming of the exterior scenes, and more than three months were spent in the studio making the Interiors. A cast of stellar piayers was chosen by Brenon to support Ronald Golman. Neil Hamilton is Digby, Ralph Forbes is John, and Alice Joyce is seen in the role of Lady Brandon, the aunt of the three boys and the owner of the famous sapphire which is at the bottom of the mystery which begins the story. Other players of importance are Mary Brian, William Powell, Noah Beery, Paul MacAllioier and Victor MacLaglen. The Circle concert orchestra under the direction of Stolajcvsky is playing an especially arranged musical setting for “Beau Geste.” The orchestral overture and the Circle News complete the program.

CLARA BOW TO BE SEEN AT THE APOLLO The stellar attraction at the Apollo for the week starting tomorrow will be Clara Bow In “Hula,” her and said to be her best starring vehicle. Laid In the Hawaiian Islands, against a background of beauty and strange mixture of high, but “fast living” society life in which an American girl is growing up, the tale is one of a thousand enjoyable kinks. Clara Bow appears as “Hula.” a child who loves the out of doors rather than the set which surrounds her devoted but somewhat dissolute father. She has been brought up by an uncle, whose ideas on life differ from those of “Old Bill” Calhoun, Clara’s parent. “Hula” clings to her uncle until Anthony Haldane, an English engineer, played by Clive Brock, enters the scene. How “Hula” runs the gamut of trouble and complications in obtaining her true love makes the basis for a splendid screen story. Supporting Miss Bow are Arlette Marchal, Arnold Kent, Albert Gran and Agostlno Borgato. Other film features will include a

No. 1. Antonio Moreno will be seen in the cast supporting Dorothy Gish in "Madame Pompadour” at the Ohio starting today. No. 2- Aileen Pringle and Lew Cody will be seen in “Adam and Evil” at the Indiana, starting today. No. 3. Neil Hamilton, Ronald Colman and Ralph Forbes will be seen In “Beau Geste” at the Circle, starting today. No. 4. Fred Thompson will be seen in “Arizona Nights” at the Isis the first half of the week. No- 5. Wallace Beery will be seen in “Firemen Save My Child” at the Rivoli Sunday and Monday. No. 6. Clara Bow will have the chief role in “Hula” at the Apollo all next week starting Sunday. comedy reel. ‘Smith’s Pony” and a Fox news reel. Daily organ recitals will be given by Ray Winnings with vocal solos by Cliff Williams. BILLS ANNOUNCED AT NEW THEATER The new Rivoli Theater, E. Tenth and N. Dearborn Sts. will present to its patrons Sunday and Monday “Fireman Save My Child,” in which Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton are the featured players. When this picture was first exhibited in Indianapolis at the Apollo Theater that house played to capacity business and all patrons were delighted with this comedy riot. In .addition the Rivoli will present a two-reel comedy, news weekly and organ novelty. Tuesday arid Wednesday the attraction will be Laura La Plante in “Beware of Widows,” a Universal Jewel picture. Thursday and Friday “Servi e for Ladies,” featuring Adolphe Menjou, will be the Paramount feature attraction.

NEW FEATURES DUE AT THE ISIS For the first half of next week, starting tomorrow and including Wednesday, the feature attraction will be Fred Thompson, the wellknown players of western types, in a drama of love and thrills, ‘An Arizona Night.” The program will also Include a Fox comedy film, "Just a Husband,” and part two of the “Scrappin’ Fool,” featuring Bob Curwood. Starting Thursday and for the balance of the week the program will change to bring as the stellar offering, "The Modern Youth.” The story has to do with a mysterious criminal who styles himself “The Jackal” and who takes pleasure in pinning a note on the breasts of his murder victims with his name, "The Jackall,” attached. He goes good until he meets up with a French soldier of fortune and an American devil-dog, then his fortune changes and he finds himself the victim of his own machinations. Supplementing “The Modern Youth” will be Part Two Os the "Scrappin’ Fool,” featuring Bob Curwood. and a Fox comedy film, “Just a Husband.”

In Vaudeville

Dave,Apollon will open his new musical next act this week starting a tour of fifty weeks in the KeithAlbee and Orpheum theatres.... Helen Carlson, the “Viking Venus of Vaudeville,’ ’has returned from a holiday in Sweden and will be at the Palace soon Elton Rich and Girls is anew act being booked by Harry Weber,...Exelyn Law, late dancing star of the Ziegfeld Follies and Ned Waybum’s most famous dancing protege, will open in vaudeville next week with her own act directed by Charles Morrison....El Brendel, the Swedish . character comedian, is readying his new act, “The Poor Swede”.

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FRED THOMPSON ’ , / IN Arizona Nights Second Episode “PERILS OF THE JUNGLE” Fox Comedy "MUM’S THE WORD” 15c ALL SEATS 15c

Many Visit Broad Ripple

Lieuts. Walter R. Peck, Harry Goldberge and Lawrence Genaro of Schopn field entertained more than fifteen thousand people with their daring stunts and flying over the bathing ppol and picnic grove at Broad Ripple Park last Sunday. The ’“Human Eagle,” who was scheduled to make a triplicate parachute drop, met with an accident the latter part of the week and it was necessary for him to cancel his engagement. The last week has been one of the busiest of the year at the large swimming pool and with the continued hot weather Jim Mgkin promises that the pool will remain open as long as the weather will permit swimming Skating is gaining in popularity as the days get short and Roy Byers w'ill continue to operate the rink all winter; iarge furnaces will be installed and the building sealed for cold weather. The Dance Garde: 1 will also be enclosed and a. heating system in-, stalled so that dances and basketball games may be played. >. On Sunday, Sept. 18, fliers Jrom Schoen Field will attempt to make anew world’s official parachute drop from an aeroplane.

May Be Right

Monty Banks, film comedy star, is quite certain that he has just met the biggest-hearted chap in the world. The Individual In question overheard a discussion between Monty and Herman Raymaker, who is directing the comedian in “An Ace in the Hole,”i the picture he is now making. The talk between the director and star concerned a sequence of the story in which Banks

Iyzft, STARTS ’ THRO' FRIDAY •p. TODAY gg If 1 fi; LEW CODY and AILEEN PRINGLE 8 | k Love, laughs, thrills in a modern Garden j£ Ijy of Eden! The great new laugh team in the funniest W llflli n'of of marital mixups you*ve ever seen! I I,! PUBLIX PRESENTS ipy ! Banio Mania* witit CHARLIE DAVIS a h ™ INDIANA STAGE BAND All the Old Favorites—Many New Ones WHITE & MANNING Thompson Sisters—Morgan & Stone—Byron Sisters Margaret Ball—Exotic Ensemble DEVISED AND STAGED'EY JACK PARTINGTON . MAURICE barton I NEWS—NOVELTY

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Charles Columbus is to share honors with Florence O’Denishawn, noted dancer, on opening of the Keith winter bill Sunday afternoon, Sept. 18.

descends from an airplane to earth as n passenger on a parachute. Approaching Monty the stranger informed him that he had “picked up”^three parachutes, just as good as new, any one of which he would sell the Banks company at a low price. “And Mr. Banks,” the world’s champion salesman concluded his oration to Monty, "I guarantee these parachutes. If one happens to be no good and you don’t land all right, I’ll glhdly give you another free of charge.

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Looking at Plays on Broadway New, Season Does Not Get Promising Start in New York, BY FRANK LEA SHORT NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Time was when October was considered the proper month for the beginning of the theatrical season. Step by step New York’s opening nights were set back into September, and still more recently into August. Asa rule, however, the August productions are made by the less cautious among the managers, with the result that a majority of the season’s “first crop” of plays usually falls by the wayside. New York’s weather conditions during the month of August added to the problem, and although the weather bureau’s reporting the coldest local August ever recorded, together with the steady downpour of rain, may not have actually affected the quality of several attractions offered, truth compels us to state that some of them have given the impression that they have been so influenced —not quite mildewed, perhaps, but at least very, very damp. What promisedsto be a very interesting event was the opening night of Rosalie Stewart’s first revue entitled “A La Carte.” It was anticipated that George Kelly and Miss Stewart—author and producer of “The Torchbearers,” “The Show Off” and “Craig’s Wife”—would have something unusual and fine to say in terms of the revue. It turned out to be a number of not too wellchosen acts from vaudeville, strung together and transplanted into some agreeable settings designed by Livingston Platt. There is, however, some excellent dancing. “Blood Money” at the Hudson Theater is good entertainment for those who like that sort. It has a little more sense to it than its predecessors, “The Bat,” “The Cat and the Canary,” “Whispering Wires” and tie others, but it is in that general class. “Her First Affairs” at the Bayes Theater, with Aline MacMahon in the leading role, is the most earnest of the recent Gustav Blum presentations. The subject matter of of the present day flapper in delving into whit she thinks is anew (and consequently her own) discovery of “the mystery of life.” There is a good deal of wise and profound discussion of the subject of sex, v just as though that subject were among the season’s novelties and never heard of before. “Tenth Avenue” is a crook play with the capable William Boyd (who gave that unforgettable performance of the hard-boiled top sergeant in “What Price Glory?”) in the leading role. Although the play itself is not out of the ordinary, the comedy and dramatic situations are so well balanced and so well acted that Tenth Ave. offers a very pleasant evening's entertainment.