Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1927 — Page 6

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BARTHELMESS TO TOP CAST OF ‘DROP KICK’ AT CIRCLE

Charlie Davis and His Stage Band Appears in 'Dancing Brides,’ a Revue at the Indiana —Barrymore to Be Seen in ‘Thirteenth Hour,’ 161 ICHARD BARTHELMESS is appearing at the Circle, bej i\.| ginning today, in “The Drop Kick,” a story of college- life adapted from “Glitter,” a successful novel by Katherine Brush, which appeared as a serial in College Humor not so long ago. star is seen as Jock Ilamill, football hero and idol of Shoreham College. The story deals with the trials and tribulations of the boy, who, to protect the memory of a dead friend,

allows his companions to think he is a cad, and is thus plunged from his pedestal and shunned by his former friends. How he fights his way back again to the respect and admiration of the crowd and wins the girl he loves, is told in this interesting story. With dramatic action, comedy, the thrills of a great football game and the fast fun of college life, “The Drop Kick,” is said to be one of the most fortunate vehicles Barthelmess has ever had. He is supported by a cast including Barbara Kent, Dorothy Revier, Alberta Vaughn, Hedda Hopper, Brooks Benedict, James Bradbury Jr., Eugene Strong, and many others. The football teams of Stanford and the University of Southern California appear in the football game, and the ten national college stars recently chosen by First National in a nation-wide search for new talent, are also seen. John Morris of Purdue University is among the ten. The production was directed by Millard Webb. The overture for the week is “Hit the Deck,” by Vincent Youmands, piayed 'by- the Circle Concert Orchestra under the direction of Edward Resener, with Frank Nusbaum as soloist. Dessa Byrd plays an organ solo, “The College Glee Club,” and the special stage attraction for the week is the appearance of the Misses Higge and Copper, two charming young dancers. The Circle News; a Vitaphone presentation; Topics of tb Day and a Circle Comedy complete the program. a a “AMERICAN BEAUTY” AT INDIANA TODAY At the Indiana today Charlie Davis and his stage band in a John Murray Anderson production, “Dancing Brides,” share honors with Billie Dove in First National’s "American Beauty.” Lloyd Hughes will be seen as leading man with the charming star, Billie Dove, for the- third time in six months in “American Beauty.” Asa typically American girl, With the not unusual ambition to marry a millionaire, but at the same time with a troubling affection for a youth in her own circumstances, the character played by Miss Dove is a very real One. “American Beauty,” based on the short story of the same name by Wallace Irwin, was adapted to the screen and produced by Carey Wilson and directed by Richard Wallace. In support of these players are Walter McGrail, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Prival, A1 St. John, Edythe Chapman, Alice White, Yola d’Avril and others. Another singing and dancing revue is "Dancing Brides,” presented in the usual John Murray Anderson manner. Three episodes or periods of brides are pictured in song and dance, each period distinguished by the dance of the day, notably the first sequence, “The Waltz Bride,” then "The Ballet Bride,” lastly “The Jazz Bride.” Charlotte Woodruff sings the prima donna rol?. Jule and Josie Walton present several novelty dances, j

Mass Meeting 34TH ANNIVERSARY WHEELER CITY MISSION MONDAY—NOV. 21—7:30 P. M. At The First Baptist Church MERIDIAN AT VERMONT J. Arthur Schlichter, of Philadelphia “From Name and Fariie to Rags and Shame” SACRED CONCERT MURAT CHANTERS HOOVER ORCHESTRA JOHN W. TROY of Winona Lake MISSION SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN ALL SEATS FREE COME!

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Carl Arrives Carl Laemmle, president of Universal, has arrived at Universal City to take charge personally of production during the winter. All of Universal’s stars and executives, and many from other companies, met him at the station.

Edith and Dick Baratow in another team of dancing favorites. Milo will entertain in a manner quite unique and different. The Lenora dancers offer several beautiful ensembles arranged by Lenora and Senia Gluck. Charlie Davis and his band have prepared two numbers, “My Blue Heaven” and "Mississippi Mud.” Maurice is playing “A Thanksgiving Festival” as his organ offering, and the Indiana news of the world, with anew novelty subject, will complete the program. a a a BARRYMORE TOPS CAST AT THE APOLLO Thrills, chills, suspense arid mystery abound in “The Thirteenth Hour,’* a drama In which Lionel Barrymore and Jacquelin Gadson have the leading roles and which will be presented at the Apollo next week. Chester M. Franklin and Douglas Furber, the latter a noted English playwright, wrote the story especially for screen purposes. • It is a dramatic tale of adventures, robbery, intrigue and murder and a romance which aids in the brilliant solution of the puzzle. Barrymore has the part of a mysterious professor, a sort of a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” character. It is easily one of the greatest roles of his career either on the screen or the stage. He has the support of an excellent cast with Miss Gadson as the heroine, Charles Delaney as a young detective who is aided in his work by his marvelous dog, Napoleon; Polly Moran, one of the funniest of cinema comediennes, and Fred Kelsey. Opening with a mysterious murder the story moves along at a fast pace to the final surprising climax. A haunted house is the locale of most of the action which includes many hair breadth escapes, exciting situations, weird, baffling incidents and tense scenes piling up suspense to the end. The picture is also unique in that it is the first production in the history of the screen to be made without a single exterior daylight scene. A Smith comedy, “Smith’s Cousin,” the Fox news weekly, organ selections by Ray Winnings, songs by Thurston Spangler, and musical novelties by Emile Seidel’s Apollo Merrymakers will be other program attractions. a a a DANIELS LATEST ON VIEW AT OHIO The present day flapper will be given an opportunity of witnessing anew bundle of tricks when Bebe Daniels, Paramount star, comes to the Ohio theater this

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afternoon for a week’s stay in her latest comedy “She’s A Sheik.” According to fiction sheiks always carry their fair consorts far off into the desert. But in “She’s A Sheik,” Babe wrecks all rules of fiction when, as the granddaugMer of an Arabian sheik, she kidnaps the man she loves and carries him far into the desert to- her lair as the only means of getting him away from *the blonde whom he persisted in following around. Richard Arlen is the lad who gets kidnapped and Josephine Dunn the blonde. William Powell contributes another of his inimitable characterizations as a Sahara Arab. Clarence Badger, Paramount’s crackerjack megaphonist, directed “She’s A Sheik” while J. Roy Hunt, photographer of “Beau Geste” found himself once more out on the familiar sands of the desert. Further credit is due John McDermott, author of “Senorita” and Lloyd Corrigan, scenarist of “The Campus Flirt,” for their efforts on the script of“ She's A Sheik.” Jack Duffy, Christie comedian, will be seen in “Sacred Pink” an added comedy attraction while an Metro-.Goldwyn-Mayer news reel will also be shown. Connie and his band will again be at the places in the Ohio orchestra pit offering a program of popular tunes while Jimmy Hatton, Ohio soloist, will be heard in his usual number of selections. a a a ALL WEEK POLICY DUE AT ISIS That heroic band of men, the Texas Rangers, whose deeds and exploits have long been extolled in sorjg and story, figure prominently in the latest Tom Mix production, “Outlaws of Red River,” the attraction at the Isis today and all next week. It is the type of a picture in which Mix first rose to fame and in which he is at his best. He is cast as Tom Morley, a member of the Rangers whose' daring has earned him the sobriquet of the “Phantom Falcon.” The plot concerns the activities of a gang of desperate bandits who are brought to justice largely through the individual efforts of Morley. Mix and his horse, Tony, are given plenty to do, and they respond to the opportunity with a series of thrilling and spectacular stunts of the typical Mix brand. Marjorie Daw, Lee Shumway, Virginia Marshall, Arthur Clayton, -Duke Lee and Francis McDonald are in the cast. The story was written by Gerald Beaumont. The Isis program includes a cartoon comedy, "Alice's Auto Race,” and the first episode of anew serial, “The Isle of Sunken Gold,” starring Anita Stewart and featuring "Duke” Kahanamoku, famous Hawaiian swimmer and the mysterious “missing link,” known as the “Devil Ape of Bombo.” The first episode Is called “The Ship of Fire.” The serial is in ten episodes of exciting adventures in the south seas. Use Old Missions Several old California missions, erected in the eighteenth century and still kept in repair, were used as settings for scenes of Richard Dix’s picture, “The Gay Defender," laid against the background of the famous gold rush of 1849. New China Film “Streets of Sanghai,” an original story of life in the Oriental city with a background of intense dramatic action, is now in the course of filming under the direction of Louis J. Gasiner. AMUSEMENTS

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1 — Richard Barthelmess is seen in “The Drop Kick,” opening today at the Circle. 2 Polly Moran will'be seen In “The Thirteenth Hour,” opening Sunday at the Apollo. 3 Tom Mix opens today in “Outlaws of Red River” at the Isis. 4 Bebe Daniels opens today at the Ohio in “She’s a Sheik.’* 5 Billie Dove has the leading role in “The American Beauty,” opening today at the Indiana.

Mary Lewis Will Have Her Own Recital of Songs With Mendessohn Choir at the Murat Theater

SHE public sale of seats for the eleventh annual fall concert of the Mendelssohn Choir will open next Monday at the office of the choir, 27 E. Ohio St. The concert will be one of the outstanding N musical events of this season and will be given Monday evening, Nov. 28, at the Murat. Miss Mary Lewis, prima donna soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will be the guest artist. She will present her own recital of songs besides singing with the choir in the rendition of Franz Schubert’s “Omnipotence,” a majestic and sacred composition written in eight parts in which the entire choir of 125 voices will take part. An unusually diversified choral program will be presented under the baton of Elmer Andrew Steffen. Six choral numbers, sacred and secular, will be sung by the combined choirs of men and women. In three of these numbers the baritone section will be heard in obligato parts. The women’s choir of seventy-five voices will sing the Ave Maria in F by Nicola Montani. Perhaps the most interesting choral number will be the "Hallelujah Chorus” from Beethoven’s “Mount of Olives,” which has been chosen for presentation this year to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the death of Beethoven. The Mendelssohn Choir’s most difficult accomplishment is singing “a cap pel. l a”—without accompaniment. Three numbers will be sung in this style, in which the full richness and purity of the voices will be heard. These numbers will be “The Turtle Dove,” by Williams, and “A Spotless Rose,” a Christmas carol, with words of fourteenth century origin, and a Latin Motet, “Emitte Sancte Spiritus,” by Schuetky, one of the best examples of this style of sacred music ever written. a a a IISS LEONE KINDER of the faculty of the Metropolitan School of Music will have charge of the program at a dinner given by Mrs. Charles Titus, at her home in Wilkinson, for the Hancock County Medical Association. Assisting Miss Kinder will be Cath-

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erine Clifford, violinist; Virginia Lleyenberger, cellist; Norma Justice, reader, and Mrs. Emma Crossley, soprano, also of the Metropolitan. a a a Charlotte Berryman, pupil of Gladys Smead of the dramatic department of the Metropolitan School of Music will give a group of readings at school No. 78, Friday evening, for a meeting of the teachers and officers. a a a Willard MacGregor, artis-teacher of the Metropolitan School of Music, will go to St. Louis Monday, where he will give a concert for the St. Louis Musicians Club. ana Martha Rundel, violinist; Susan Woodbury, cellist, and Helen Kenedy. pianist, of the Metropolitan School of Music, have been engaged to furnish the music at the Home Lawn Sanatorium, Martinsville, Ind. •a a a Miss Dorothy Feo is in charge of the program to be given at a tea, in honor of the faculty of Butler University, at the home of Miss Dorothy Hutter, Sunday afternoon. A trio composed of Lois Axline, cello; Dorothy Fee, flute, and Addle Axline, piano, will play a group of numbers. Pauline Hedges, violinist, wJ’l eive se/eral solos during the afternoon. The musicians are all students of Metropolitan School of Music. a a a The Alpha Sigma Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha. Sinfonia Fraternity, in the Metropolitan School of Music, has elected Edward Nell Jr. an honorary member of the fraternity. Nell is the leading man in the “Vagabond King” company that has been playing here the past week. a a 1 a ' M-— IRS. Glenn Friermood of the faculty of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will sing the “Song of the Volga Boatman” and “Berceuse” by Gretqhininoff on the “Songs of the Nations” program at the Women’s Department Club on Mondiy, Nov. 21. Mrs. Frances Johnson of the faculty of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will sing French songs. a a a Ocie Higgins, pupil of Glenn Friermood, will sing the. Inidan songs “Far Off I Hear A Lover’s

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Flute” and “From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water” by Cadman. Mrs. Ann Hunter, pupil of Mrs. Johnson will sing on the same program. a m a Ocie Higgins, student of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will give the recital for the Hetton Art Institute on Sunday, Nov. 27. Glenn Friermood, her teacher, will accompany Miss Higgins. mam The Junior Music Club of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts has chosen Bach for its next monthly meeting on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 26, at 2:30 p. m. Members of the club will have papers on Bach and the fuge and minuet will be demonstrated. A social hour will follow the program. a a a There is no more popular concert singer in the world today than Tito Schipa, who will be heard at Murat, Sunday, Dec. 4. He has won the title of foremost lyric tenor of the age, but it is not alone the beauty of his voice that delights—in his programs he gives people the songs they love. Those songs range from the gay and carefree Neopolitan ones of his native Italy, to noted arias that gained him fame in opera, but always the listener may be sure that every number -will be a fresh delight. In the matter of selecting these numbers Schipa's taste is as unerring as his art. Few know, however, what it means to him to add some feature to his programs. Take, for instance, one single popular song success of his. Originally It was composed as a piano solo by Liszt, Schipa heard it one day in a record played exclusively by the famous pianist, Josef Lhevinne. Instantly he thought, “This is a song to sing. I love it and so will my audiences.” Taking a suitable poem to Professor Attrocchi of Chicago he had him make aspecial English arrangement of it. After that Schipa, himself, worked long on it, changing a word here and there to suit the music's rhythm or make it still better for the singing voice. The result was “Love Dream,” which

captures audiences everywhere, and has yet to be heard when it was not encored. Then, too, Schipa has American songs in his programs, for he knows that people love to heard those songs in their own idiom and language, and that the appeal will be doubly strong. Hdwever, only when he finds songs that he really loves himself, does he consider singing them. And even then, he first sings them to Madame Schipa, his wife, and finally to his managers Evans and Salter to get a combined verdict. If that verdict is “Yes” the song goes in the program; if “No,” it goes into the discard. Schipa’s voice enthralls; he sings to his hearer’s heart. The combination is irresistible; his every program is doubled by encores. He will be presented here by Ona B. Talbot . a a a Miss Alice Cooper who has offered a scholarship in dramatic art, announces that the tryouts for this scholarship will end Wednesday, Nov. 30. * .

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Ibsen Play to Be Given Here Soon ‘An Enemy of the People” Announced by Little Theatre, City politics have a far reaching effect. The recent situation in Indianapolis has brought a vast lot of unpleasantness to the public, but some good may come from even the worst of muddles. This is proved by the fact that the play advisory committee of the Little Theatre has announced that the second production of the season will be Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the - People.” <*> The plot of the play is beautifully simple in a typically Ibsen manner. Dr. Thomas Stockman is medical advisor of the Baths that form the principal source of income to the little Norwegian sea-coast town. In the course of his duties he discovers that the Baths and healing waters are being polluted by ineffectual sewage and water systems.' When he attempts to persuade the town council and the burgomaster, who is his brother, that the water pipes must be relaid he runs afoul of the prejudices and ignorance of both the wealthy and the middle classes who prefer to gloss over the pollution with lies rather than loan the money necessary to correct the sewage system. The action is more dramatic than is customary in an Ibsen play and rises to a powerful climax in the mass meeting of the citizens (Act. IV). Here the good doctor discovers that worse even than the pollution of the town water supply is the underlying corruption of the parties in power and the criminally fearful attitude of the common people who form the majority. “An Enemy of-the People” is now being played at the Hampden Theater in New York to crowded houses. Its force is aptly described by Meredith Nicholson, who writes. “I saw Hampden’s splendid production of ‘An Enemy of the People’ last night; listened on the edge of my chair.” *

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