Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1927 — Page 5

DEC. 5, 1927,

CHARLIE DAVIS IS AT HIS VERY BEST ‘Shadowland’ Has the Honor of Being the Best Publix Presentation Yet Seen at the Indiana Theater This Season. By WALTER D. HICKMAN Hot melody and then the soothin’ kind are played this week with such tantalizing perfection by Charlie Davis and the Indiana stage orchestra that this leader and his men crash in with their biggest hit of the season. k Am telling you that the audience was actually cheering Davis and members of his orchestra at the last show at the Indiana last night.

Never have I seen such an ovation as they gave this master of the stage goings-on when I was present. There were many reasons for this and all the credit goes to Davis and

his men. They use anew dressed up version of “Tiger Rag” and what they do to this hot piece of jazz groans is beyond description. The panic was so great that Davis allowed Dick Powell to bring up the storm of aplause by singing “Blue Heaven.” And before that, Davis introduced a brand new number, “Beautiful,”

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which is full of those sweet orchestral tricks that makes it a gorgeous musical gingerbread as done by Davis and his men. Davis has done something to his orchestra. He must have added some new talent or his men are becoming a solid unit, splendidly individualized, but all the time under the control of the conductor. And in speaking of hits “Shadowland,” the Publix presentation this week, is easily the snappiest and most novel stage revue yet seen at the Indiana. There is going to be a lot of talk over the floating piano. And when they get all steamed up about the novelty, they will get their breath and begin talking about the Foster girls and their work in an aerial ballet. Here is a four-buck revue stuff and no kidding. Just exactly what I would expect in either the Greenwich Village Follies or the other Follies. And by the way, John Murray Anderson staged “Shadowland.” And the revue has the good singing of £ :11a Power: the doll dance of Idren , the knockout souse dance

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o 2 Roy Rogers and lots of other things. Maurice at the organ is giving us a chance to get acquainted with a new ballad, "Can’t You Hear Me Say ‘I Love You.’” It has a soothing and pretty melody and the lyrics are far from silly. They even sound good. You will be singing and playing this one before many hours. It will get in the air. All of my raving over the music at the Indiana this week does not detract from the movie, “The Crystal Cup” with Jack Mulhall and Dorothy MacKail. Here is a serious attempt to bring in a satisfactory manner to the screen one of the brain children of Gertrude Atherton. It is especially well acted with a modern touch by Miss MacKail. She will interest you and also give you something to think about. She solves this question—Can a woman hate men and get away with it? At the Indiana. SISTERS MUST MARRY IN THIS ULTRA FAMILY She said that she was married to “John Smith,” who was heading an airplane expedition into Nicarague so that her sisters could get married. Sound impossible? It’s in “Slightly Used,” at the Ohio. Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) wouldn’t marry, so her sisters couldn’t, but the sisters, Helen ana Grace, were in love, so they nagged at Cynthia until she did something drastic. She came home one evening and informed the family that

she was married to ,Maj. John Smith. A letter which was never intended to be mailed found its way to the major. Later when he found that he was dead because Cynthia found some one wno would marry her it was too much for him. So he came to the Martin house as Major Adams, a friend of John. Conrad Nagel as

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Major Smith does a droll bit of comedy that, as far as I know, is sometiling new to him. He demonstrates how poor John met his death. It is the outstanding bit in the film. Aunt Lydia was the old maid of the family so Cynthia took her into

Verdict of the Movies OHlO—Conrad Nagel gets anew angle on comedy in “Slightly Used,” which is a story of a girl who had a husband and hadn’t. APOLLO—“Honeymoon Hate” gives Florence Vidor a chance to show how a spoiled little rich girl can act when she wants to make her new husband jealous. CIRCLE—Akka, a chimpanzee, is the real star of “The Missing Link.” INDIANA—CarIie Davis and orchestra never appeared to better advantage than they are doing this week. They are a positive sensation and deserve the honor along with "Shadowland,” the best novelty revue that Publix has sent here.

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her confidence. Eugenue Bessesser does some good work as Aunt Lydia. She is the one who discovers who the major really is. Nagel does consistently good work throughout the story. He makes a wonderful appearing aviator, and makes an ass of himself by continually butting in on the tete-a-tetes of Cynthia. Then finally he corners her in her bedroom and tells who he is. He says that as he is her husband 3he will have to do as he says. It is clever. This is comedy that is light and moves fast. The situations are absurd, but not so wholely impossible. It is a joke that is carried beyond the funny stage for the girl. In the position of one who is shocked by the suddenness of the blow of having heard from a husband which she never had, May McAvoy is good. A fog of bewilderment seems to have fallen around her and she makes her work seem to be unconscious. "Slightly Used” is the marriage problem of the modem girl and aviator themes mixed. It makes good comedy, however, for there is a new twist given the idea. Comedies and news reels with Connie and his band complete the program. At the Oh.o. (By the Observer). ,r a a Love in Venice on View at Apollo. ' “Honeymoon Hate” now playing at the Apollo is a picture of love in Venice. It deals with Gall Grant,

the daughter of an American steel manufacturer and Frince Dantarini, whose family and house have suffered from the war. Gail, so she says is a girl who get!, whatever shs wants, no matter what the cost, and she wanted a piecs of tapestry to cut into a cloak. But Dantarini wouldn’t sell it so the girl, to get even with

him employs him as her guide. The prince falls in love with her but here the action is at fault, for it seems that Gail is angry with the prince in the afternoon and in the evening agrees to marry him. Then, too, according to all tradition of the films the prince should be a very romantic sort of person, but Dantarini is more matter-of-fact than the go-getter American lover. Tullio Carminati as Prince Dantarini fails in his effort to show emotion, except when he is worried that his wife cares for a fellow who has followed her all over Europe. This is his real bit of acting. The daughter of the steel king demands her own way and gets it. In this part Florence Vidor is good. She makes Gall a spoiled girl and puts life into her acting. She is the one who arranges the marriage and she is the one who tries to make the motto on the prince’s ring belie itself. The picture has a scenic value, for many of the scenes show the canals for which the city is famous. However, the majority of the “shots” are taken in the castle of the prince find in the hotel where Gail lived when she met the prince. “Honeymoon Hate” is one of these

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“marry in haste and repent at leisure” kind of pictures with the repent part suppressed to a negligible degree. It is just fair movie. News reels and comedies complete the program. Emil Seidel’s orchestra is featuring anew tune. At the Apollo.—(By the Observer.) a a a YOU MUST COME OVER AND MEET AKKA Anew revue in New York has the expert services of a comedy mule, and a trick mule at thatNow, you would never suppose for one minute that the movies would let the stage put one over on the silver sheet. I should say not. Proof is to be found in “The Missing Link,” and although Syd Chaplin is announced in the billing as the star, it is Akka, a chimpanzee, who is the real comedian in this movie. This chimpanzee is a comedy wonder, and Akka has a lot to do. The picture really does not get started until Akka begins to steal homemade candy in the kitchen, and the fun starts when Akka resents the efforts of Ruth Hiatt to make love to Syd Chaplin. Here is some of the funniest low comedy I have witnessed in many a day. Hokum, yes, but even “hoke” can have the comedy wallop. This one scene really makes up for only a fair story, but “The Missing Link” doesn’t need much of a story when Akka was around. And I am one who will shout it from the housetops that Akka knows his business. (And Akka may wire me any second that he isn’t a he, but a very proper comedienne, who can make even funnier faces than Marie Dressier.” Akka has an unusual “nose” for comedy and he must have had a gay old time of it when he was chasing Chaplin through one door and through another. Really, this chimpaneze is a wonder and actually carries the real comedy burdens of this photoplay on his shoulders. "The Missing Link,” is a novelty comedy and as such it has a good entertaining wallop. Must be classed as a freak, but it is a good one at chat. On the stage is Boyce Coombe, billed as “A Cycle of Unusual Songs.” And I am telling the whole world that the billing is true. How any singer of songs can do at song telling how bad a guy feels and when he has sea sickness is beyiond

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SCHIPA PROVES HE IS MASTER ON CONCERUTAGE Frederick Longas Will Be Remembered for His Piano. Sometimes it is difficult to Jump from the operatic stage to concert engagements. Not so with Tito Schipa, now a me. Kindly, Oh, kindly take out this number. Coombe has a winner in his story about the man who starts sneezing while attempting to tell a funny story at a party. Bill includes an orchestral overture; a Vitaphone presentation; a news reel and other events. At the Circle. a a a Other theaters today offer: “My Maryland” at English’s; Caranas and Barker at the Lyric; the Diana Dancers at Keith’s; Don and Mazie Dixon at the Colonial; “Galloping Fury” at the Isis; “Naughty Nifties” at the Mutual, and “Streets of Sorrow” at the Bandbox

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reigning sensation as a lyric tenor with the Chicago Civic Opera. Here is a voice of wonderful beauty and exacting purity. Here Is a personality which has excluded all fireworks but just the voice and the brains back of it. Here is a singer who creates with ease a purity of tone and an understanding of the work of the composer which few have ever possessed in such a big measure. The ovation accorded Schipa at the Murat Sunday afternoon took on such size that many were yelling their approval of the singer. It Is seldom that we see such a demonstration as was accorded Schipa yesterday afternoon. There were many reasons for this. It seemed to me that there was such joy in everything that the tenor did that this pleasure went over the footlights into the auditorium. We had at this concert a fine example of what is human as well as beautiful in an acknowledged great artist. Sharing this spirit of both artistry and love for-the work of melody was Fred Longas, pianist. Both Schipa and Longas were delighted in the beauty of the labor of song which is a glorious mission to both of these men. It is seldom that an assisting artist such as Longas creates such a profound impression. There was such cooperation between both men that this concert became of one quality—a satisfying Journey into the land of big melody.

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catch a 5 o’clock train to Chicago, but that did not prevent him from giivng a lengthy concern. Again another triumph for the concert management of Ona B. Talbot. For great singing such as Schipa gave us yesterday there should have been a more than capacity house. (Reviewed by Walter D. Hickman.)

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