Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1927 — Page 5

DEC. 24, 1927.

GRACE GEORGE TO OPEN MONDAY IN ‘THE ROAD TO ROME’

McKay Morris, a Favorite With Stuart Walker Company During the Summer Will Be Seen as Hannibal . Next Week at English’s, C' RACE GEORGE will open a week’s engagement at English’s vJ Monday, Dec, 26, in the highly successful new comedy, I he to Rome,” by a newcomer to the legitimate stage, . Robert Emmet Sherwood. Miss George, in explaining why she elected to appear in Mr. Sherwood \s initjal contribution to the stage, says she became enchanted with the play because of the delightful manner

in which Sherwood has handled his scenes, and because it is extremely different from anything she has done before. While it concerns an episode in the life of Hannibal the Great, it is not a period play in the usual sense. The scenery and costumes are oi Hannibal’s time, but the point cf view and treatment is thoroughly modern. Sherwood, the author, is barely 30 years old; he has been the editor of Life for over two years. His editorial job, however, is only one of the many which he manages to handle with equal brilliance. For some time he has been writing a weekly syndicated article on motion pictures for prominent newspapers throughout the country ,as well as making month# contributions about the cinema to McCall’s Magazine, Photoplay, Screenland and several other movie fan monthlies, Miss George’s supporting cast, which is an exceptionally large one, includes McKay Morris, J. M. Kerrigan, Edward Hi Wever, Philip Foster, Francis Compton, Evelyn Carter Carrington and some twentyfive other principal players in one of the largest dramatic companies ever seen on tour. u n ‘GAY PAREE’ TO BE HERE SOON “Gay Paree” will open a week’s engagement at the English on Monday night, Jan. 2. Matinees will be given on Wednesday and Saturday. Headed by Charles (Chic) Sale, the featured player during the long ■ runs of the show at the New York Winter Garden and Four Cohans Theater, Chicago, the cast is to number over 150 persons. The presence of Sale would indicate that the comedy department is as Gallic as Paris, 111., or Versailles, Ky. <t Assisting the droll Impersonator of bucolic types are Rita Gould, Douglas Leavitt, Frank Gaby, Alice Boulden, Ben Holmes, Jennie Beach, Ruth Lockwood, Irene Cornell, Kelo ■Brothers, Esther Sterling, t Paul Davin, William Montgomery, Eric

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First Prize At the International Film Exposition, held in Warsaw in October, 260 films were shown to a jury of forty Poles, embracing artistic, literary and business circles of polani. Douglas Fairbanks’ “The Thief of Bagdad’’ was unanimously selected as the finest of the 260 exhibited films, and, accordingly, it received the first award.

Titus and a large and comely feminine contingent. * * “THE MADCAP” IS BOOKED HERE “The Madcap,” which is announced by English’s for Jan. 19, 20 and 21, will bring Mitzi back to Indianapolis with what this popular musical star considers the best part of . her career. The little comedienne has always been fortunate in her vehicles from the day when she came to this country as the child star of “Sari,” “Pom Pom,” “Lady Billy,” “The Magic Ring” and “Naughty Riquette” have all added to Mitzi’s popularity with those who love her singing and dancing and her inimitable sense of humor and high spirits. Now “The Madcap,” derived from the brilliantly successful “Green Fruit,” which had a great European success, gives her the part of a sophisticated young flapper who pretends to be a 12-year-old girl in order to aid her mother in impressing a rich suitor as not being over 29. The role offers Mitzi every opportunity to display her abilities as a singing and dancing comedienne, and she improves them to the full, to the satisfaction of both the star and the audiences of “The Madcap.” Cast Selection Made Ethel Grey Terry has been selected to play the role of Mrs. Skinner opposite Bryant Washburn in “Skinner’s Big Idea.”

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Asa feature of the Christmas week program, the Apollo will present, in addition to “Two Flaming Youths,” a comedy production starring W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin. “Young Hollywood,” a comedy made by the Children of the Stars, a company of youngsters whose fathers are all cinema favorites. The picture is released as a Pathe special. The above photo

Some New Events in Hollywood

BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 24.—The director who can't always direct but he’s always at home at a typewriter —Mel Brown. “Whenever directing gets too tough, I put my megaphone on a shelf and go write a story for some other director,” says Brown. He hasn’t a bad idea at that. Directors have just about had their run of being the “big guys” in filmland. It’s just about the writers’ turn now. The public is demanding better, but not bigger, stories, thus increasing the importance of the scriveners. Brown wrote screen stories before he started directing and has a great reputation as a scenarist. Here’s something entirely new in the way of studio gateman stories. A few days ago an old Ford rattled to a dead stop right In front'of Uni-

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shows Ehrich Von Stroheim, Jr. in a scene with Barbara Denny, daughter of Reginald Denny. The cast includes Billy Reid, son of the late Wallace Reid; Mary Jo Desmond, daughter of William Desmond; Tim Holt, son of Jack Holt; George Bosworth, son of Hobart Bosworth; Eileen OMalley, daughter of Pat O’Malley, and Mike McCoy, son of Tim McCoy.

versal’s auto gate. The gateman walked up to the aged driver and told him he would have to move on. "We can’t,” explained a worn looking little woman in the front seat with her husband. "We are out of gas and have no money.” “Wait here a few minutes,” said the gateman. In fifteen minutes he returned with a can of gas and $56 he had collected from studio employes. And still they say Hollywood is heartless. Fred Niblo told me the other day that one of his ambitions is s o produce a film without a scene longer than ten feet. Such a change in filming methods certainly would speed up the action. But there will have to be vast improvements in picture technique first. Under present day production methods a film with 10-foot scenes would be choppy. Gossip flew the rounds in Hollywood a few days ago that Joan Meredith, pretty film actress, had eloped with Whitney Williams, Los Angeles newspaper man. But again the gossipers were wrong. It all started when a party went to Fullerton to preview Mary Pickford’s new film, “My Best Girl.” During the course of the evening Joan and Whitney announced that they were going to San Diego after the show to be married. They carried out their act so well that two reporters in the party drove to San Diego hoping to surprise the couple and be on hand for the big event. What started out/to be a big publicity stunt ended in a near war between the Edvtfn Carewe and A1 Rogell companies at Inspiration Point, Utah. Both companies claimed the same location and their respective press agents hatched the thought that it would be a great stunt to pull a fake battle to see who kept the spot—there being only a few hundred miles of beautiful scenery in the vicinity. Things went along all right until Molly O’Day planned a peace conference inviting the entire Carewe company except Dolores Del Rio, giving to the press the statement that she had not invited Dolores because she thought the Mexican beauty was largely responsible for the trouble. That was carrying things a bit too far and Dolores’ husband, Jaime, demanded a public apology from Miss O’Day. That was where the publicity men stepped out. See End of Labors W. C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Louise Fazenda, Mack Swain, Doris Hill, Grant Withers, Tom Kennedy, Babe London, Kalla Pasha and the rest of the big featured cast making “Tillie’s Punctured Romance,” have almost completed their labors. Within a few more days the film is expected to go to the cutting room. Sterling Back at Work Ford Sterling, who was disabled for several weeks by the explosion of a gas furnace in his home, has recovered completely and. returned to the studio for his old role in the Richard Dix starring picture, originally titled “The Traveling Salesman,” now rechristened “Sporting Goods.”

1— Grace George will be seen in “The Road to Rome,” opening Monday night at English’s for the week. 2 Hawks and Mack will be found on the new bill starting Sunday matinee at the Lyric. 3 Charles (Chic) Sales will be th^chief name in “Gay Paree,” opening Monday night, Jan. 2, at English’s. 4 Zelda Santley will be in headline position on the bill opening Sunday afternoon at B. F. Keith’s.

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The Indianapolis Civic Opera Association will make its debut within the next few days by presenting “The Prince of Pi.'sen.” This organization marks another mile post in the musical development of this city. We have had for a number of years the Mendelssohn Choir, the Maennerchor, the Matinee Musicale and other groups devoted to choral

singing and other activities. This city has needed a civic opera association and this need was understood by a group of public spirited men and women who love music. The directors of the association are Jane Burroughs, Mary Traub Busch, Gertrude Conti, Edward LaShelle. Fred Newell Morris and Arnold Spencer. The active members are as foUows: Herbert Jenkins. 1631 N. Alabama St.: Stanley Baker. 2222 Central Ave.; Hugh Mason. 330 N. Keystone Ave.: Irving Knight. 854 N. Tacoma Ave.: Kennth Shirley. 3168 Pell Creek Blvd.; William Franklin. 1135 Eugene St.; H. B. Richardson, 520 E. Eleventh St.: Arthur J. Beriault. 1325 N. Alabama St.: Paul Boots. 551 N. Rural St.; Russell Barton. 2401 Central Ave.; Vaughn L. Cornish. 244 N. Temple Ave.; Delmas W. Cox. 2711 Burton Ave.; Hoy Donaldson. 2316 Park Ave.: Joe Fov, 825 E. Twenty-Seventh St.: Charles Norman Green. 2650 Sutherland Ave.; Vincent Haines, 330 N. Keystone Ave.; Ernst Heberlein. 755 N Emerson Ave.: George W. Henke. American Central Life Bldg.; W. B-omley House. 11l W. Twenty-Eighth St.: Merritt Howard. Thirtieth and Illinois Sts.: Joseph C. Kendall. 131 Johnson St.: Fred Ktemle, 2329 Central Ave.: Irving Knight. 854 N. Tacoma Ave.: Robert Ledig. 3240 Pa r k Ave. Slerman Mott Jr.. 3102 Ruckle St : Carl Slersdale. 2320 Broadway; William Robinson. 2515 E. Riverside Dr.: Harlev T. Rockwell. 5727 Boma Ave.: Catherine Allen, 2901 N. Delaware St.: Ethelwynne Arnholter, 1316 La Salle St.; Gertrude A. Rhem. 1111 N. Alabama St.; Margaret Barlet. 3527 Evergreen Court: Catherine Ballev, Public Library; Bee Binford, 718 E. Thirty-Fourth St.; D'-othv M. P""tholomew, 943 E. Morris St.; L-no r e Bshon. 2COB Central Ave.: Valerie P. Bryant. 5925 Col’ege Ave.; Juliette Denlon Coppock. 5238 College Ave.; Juliette Daulon Copprv-k. 5238 College Ave.: Alice F. Emerson. 913 E. Eleventh St.; Helen M. Hartman. 5040 Pleasant Run Parkwav: Margaret Gallagher. 21 N. De Quincy St.: Harriot Jaehne. 5928 College Ave.: Kathryn D. Ludlow, 1220 Park Ave.; Rosemary A. Lawlow. 846 Tecums-h PL: Tarnetis Lash, 2412 N. New Jersey St.: Patra M. Kennedy. 621 N. Emerson Ave.: Bula Mee Kealing. 28 N. La Salle St.; Mary C. Koch. 5030 Pleasant Run Parkway; Edna J McQulllin. 915 Parker St.; Mary Helm Lewis. 5850 Lowell Ave. Irene Lillis. 27 N. Walcott: Esther P. Lefkovits. 3969 Carrollton Ave.: Mrs. Meme Lelsel, 3855 Park Ave.; Mary E. Miller, 4428 Guilford Ave.: Dorothy Mode, 3929 Ruckle; Helen Montant. 3245 N. Illinois; Emerson F. Novlll. 1040 N. Goodlet Ave.; Mary Nardo. 1335 N. Alabama St.; Fern Elizabeth Norris. 722 N. Euclid: Cecelia OMahony. 2619 N. Alabama St.; Mary O’Gara. 101 N. Traub; Alice Reid. 716 E. Twenty-Seventh St.; Dorotha D. Smith. 4360 Guilford Ave.: Maybelle Roberts. 2050 N. New Jersey; Margaret Stagg. 37 N. Bolton: Otilda Sutter, 301 N. State Bt.; Marion Thomas. 1138 N. Tacoma: Helen Von Wilier. 710 N. Belmont Ave.; Ernestine Walker. 590 W. Drive. Woodruff Place; Frances Batt Wallace, 3540 N. Pennsylvania St.: Elizabeth Ward. 2930 Ruck’e; Leora Weimar. 4017 S.2State St.; Helen E. Wlebke, 144 Hampton St.: Garret M. Lewis. 5850 Lowell Ave.; Carl Lauber, 541 W. TwentyEighth Bt.: August Jacob. 238 S. Arlington Ave.; Fred W. Hummel, 35 W. Michigan St.: William Franklin, 1135 Eugene St.: Edmund B-adley. 606 E. Morris. E'den H. Mills. 2054 N. New Jersey; Henri Lolsel. 3855 Park Ave.: Jack Miller. 2001 N. Delaware St.: Ella Lawrle. 1533 Union St.; Katherine Brandt. 809 N. Keystone Ave.; Mary Bishop. 2608 Central Ave.; Bonnie Blue Brown: Duncan MacDougall, 3540 N. Keystone Ave. I am ready to give my sincere approval of this movement and will do all that I can to help make a success of this association. Here is a civic movement that deserves support. Among the Christmas cards this department received includes those from Rae Samuels, Thurston, the

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magician; William Fields, former manager for the. Stuart Walker Company at Keith's; Milton Byron, leading man of the Berkell Players, and many others. Select Title Writer Herman Mankiewicz will write the titles for the new picture, “The Last Command,” starring Emil Jannings, with Evelyn Brent and William Powell in the cast.

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A Christmas Eve frolic has been arranged at the Indiana ballroom and it should be named Sweethearts’ night, because Manager Perlberg in his billing says “Make Merry Under the Mistletoe and Frolic Roiui’ the Tree.” This will be Saturday evening, Dec. 24. On top of this a Christmas day fete has been planned with a merry time for all. A Kriss Kringle ball has been plannen for Monday night, Dec. 26, where once again the world’s greatest creator of dance fetes has planned a ball which will outrival many others in this magnificent dance palace. Also he has arranged a special matinee the same day for all the young kiddies and the young old kiddies and their mothers and fathers. It is billed as the Santa Claus matinee.

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Broadway Is Gloomy Just Now Twenty New Plays Wil, Be Seen Soon in New York, BY DIXIE HINES NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—As surel; as conies Christmas comes also the old wheeze about the three wors weeks of the theatrical season, the week before Christmas, Holy wee! and the week in Milwaukee. Sometimes Cincinnati is selectee’ and again it is Louisville, dependin. entirely upon the personal viewpoint but judging by recent statistics, Nev, York is not much better off. There are approximately eightj first class theatres in this town, witl a few others yet to be heard from and although there are a score 01 dark theatres, mostly of the smallei type, yet this is something new tc us. The Hammerstein and the Alvir are new playhouses of the first class and they both are getting along fairly well, but New York is runnin; true to form, and of the sixty-five or seventy plays now in production those that are successful are highly successful, while the others have a hard time struggling along. With all the discouragements, however, each week shows new names amongst the potential and probable producers. This week, for instance, twenty new plays are scheduled to be produced on Broadway, more plays than most of* the first class cities of the country get in a year. Whoever it was that conceived the idea of dramatizing Mark Twain’s “Joan of Arc” and placing his daughter, Clara Clments, in the title part, deserves a medal or some other recognition. This play is to be presented early next month for a limited tour, and a later engagement in New York. Mark Twain wrote many books—a recent edition contains thirty-two volumes—but “Joan of Arc” is perhaps the greatest book he ever wrote. At any rate, he seemed to think so. He says in his own handwriting in his biography that he spent twCTve years in collecting the material and two years in writing it “No other book was so prepared.’’ he adds. “They did not need It an did not get it.”