Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1928 — Page 6

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‘THE JAZZ SINGER’ WITH AL JOLSON OPENS AT CIRCLE

PoJa Negri Visits Unknown Admirer’s Orange Grove and Gets Into Trouble in ‘The Secret Hour,' Which Opens at the Apollo Saturday, THE Circle theater will present A1 Jolson in “The Jazz Singer” as the attraction for the week beginning today. The picturization of Samson Raphaelson’s comedy-drama, which continues to be an attraction on the legitimate stage, marks the debut of A1 Jolson, conceded to be the greatest entertainer on the American stage, as a screen actor. Os the production of “The Jazz Singer” it is said that no

effort has been spared to make it the finest in every way, and the picture was in production for more than six months. The story of the rise of the son of the cantor who deserted his home to become a jazz singer and at last was torn between the desire of his father that he succeed him in the synagogue, and his own desire to shine on Broadway, is well known. Alan Crosland, who directed the picture, is said to have treated the story in exactly the spirit in which it was conceived. That Jolson is the logical exponent of the story of the picture is clear from the fact that the story of his own life parallels it in many places. Chief in the star's support is May McAvoy, in the role of Mary Dale, and others appearing with him are Warner Oland, Otto Lederer, Eugenie Besserer Cantor Josef Rosen-' blatt, Anders Randolf, William Demarest, Richard Tucker, Bobby Gordon and Nat Carr. Os special interest is the announcement that the musical setting for the production will be furnished by Vitaphone, with Jolson singing “Dirty Hands, Dirty Face,” “April Showers,” “Blue Skies,” “Toot, Toot, Tootsie,” “Mother, I Still Have You” and “Kol Nidre.” Other features of the program will be the Circle News and a novelty film, ‘“The $24 Island.” tt tt a LOOKING OVER THE APOLLO PROGRAM Pola Negri's new production, “The Secret Hour,” opening at the Apollo today, is heralded as a different type of picture than those in which the exotic Pola has appeared of late. It is romance set against the background of the orange grove country —romance plus comedy, pathos and drama. Roland V. Lee wrote the story and directed the making of the picture. Jean Hersholt and Kenneth Thompson head the star’s support, other players including Christian J. Frank, George Kuwa and George Periolat. * Two suitors lay seige to the heart of Miss Negri. One, evidently believing in the old adage, "All’s fair in love and war,” practices a bit of deception to advance his interests, but it reacts with startling result. Miss Negri is cast as a pretty waitress, tired of daily drudgery, who welcomes the love letters of an unknown admirer, and finally succumbs to his plea that she visit his orange ranch to meet him with a view to matrimony. Her visit is fraught with adventure culminating in the age-old love triangle. A comedy, "Love’s First Flight,” the Fox news weekly. Benny Benson singing the popular song hits, “Everywhere You Go” and “Beautiful;” Ray Winings, organist, and musical entertainment by Emil Seidel and his Apollo Merrymakers complete the program. tt tt tt RUSSIAN THEME FOR INDIANA The greatest motion picture event of the year will take place the coming week at the Indiana Theater where Emil Jannings will be featured in “The Last Command” heralded by critics and audiences alike, as the supreme cinema achievement of the world's greatest dramatic actor. “Russian Revels” and the Charlie Davis stage band, are co-featured with the photoplay, introducing one of the revues staged and devised by Jack Partington, one of the Publix producers. Other featured will be

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Maurice who has selected another novelty for the orcfhn, and the Indiana News. “The Last Command,” gives Jannings the greatest opportunity of his life tc present a characterization which will live as long as the cinema. He is given the role of a broken, defeated Russian general, once she most powerful figure in the Czar's army. Through revolution and other misfortune, his lot is changed and he becomes an extra in Hollywood’s vast army of movie ambitions. Here he is given a role, that of a Russian general, who is defeated by the revolutionists, a role which he actually experienced in real life. The irony of the situation gives Jannings the opportunity which only he is capable of presenting—another ambitious and lasting character for the cinema. The picture has for its ending one of the most amazing of climaxes. The Jack Partington Revue is bristling with talent and color, being featured by the popular musician and stage master of Indianapolis, Charlie Davis and his Indiana stage band. Charlie is featuring two clever numbers, one, “Russian Fantasy” and the other the popular song, “How I Love My Volga Boatman.” The Berkoffs are starred in the revue. Louis and Frieda Berkoff are two talented dancers. Strange as it may seem, the three Ormonde Sisters, Nora, Carrie and Daisy, are Scotch, yet they add their tricky dance steps to the.“ Russian Revels.” The eight Berkoff girls are making their first appearance at the Indiana. The Don Vocal Quartet is composed of four brilliant Russians, who once had the honor to sing for the King of England in Windsor Chapel. Stella Stepanoff, one of the star dancers of the revue, is the wife of Theodore Stepanoff, former partner of Pavlowa. Mathew Vodney is the Ukrainian character comedian whose antics enliven the revue. tt tt tt HATTON-BEERY TEAM AT THE OHIO When Messrs. Raymond Hatton and Wallace Beery get together on a screen production there is but one thing to express—comedy—and according to announcements “Wive Savers,” their latest picture which arrives at the Ohio today for a week's engagement, lives up to those expectations. This is the famous team's fifth comedy. Starting off in a Brooklyn restaurant with Beery as a head waiter and Hatton as one of his underlings, the situations evolved have barrels of laughs waiting to be tapped. Next they are. seen in the Swiss Alps as a part of the great A. E. F. after the signing of the Armistice, but with Hatton as a pert second lieutenant and Beery the disgruntled kitchen mechanic. It is said the way Hatton conceives plots to humiliate his erstwhile boss is a constant source of laughs. Tom Kennedy, who has played the villian in preceding BeeryHatton comedies again does his stuff in “Wife Savers.” Za Su Pitts is seen as Lizzie Click, the home talent girl of Beery's affections, while Ford Sterling gives one of his inimitable comedy characterizations, Sally Blane adds the romance. Os course, it works out that neither Beery. Hatton nor Kennedy get the girl in the end, but it is said that in squaring the love triangle one of the best comedies of the year has been produced. Ralph Cedar directed its production. Comedy will hold the upper hand on the new program as a shorter one, “Dizzy Sights,” featuring Billy Dooley will also be sho rn. A M-G-M news reel rounds out the picture offering. Connie and his band and Jimmy Hatton, soloist, have arranged the musical entertainment which they will offer at each showing of the feature picture.

Booked Here

The Winthrop Ames’ Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, now in the third week of its engagement at the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, will terminate its run in that city the week of Jan. 30, when “lolanthe,” “The Pirates of Penzance” and “Mikado” will be repeated. Mr. Ames’ company will then visit Baltimore, Newark, Brooklyn and Washington, each for an engagement of one week, when the three operas will be sung, before beginning the Western section of the transcontinental tour which will include this city and other large communities of the country covering a period of nearly a year. Philadelphia was the first city listed for a visitation of this organization following the New York engagement which embraced a period of sixty-five weeks when the three Gilbert and Sullivan operas were given to unprecedented business, “lolanthe” being the initial production made by Mr. Ames. It would seem that no finer tribute could have been paid these super-Englishmen, Gilbert and Sullivan, than to have their comic opera classics .revived under the roof of the old Philadelphia Walnut Street Theater, the. oldest theater of the country, and the popularity of the Philadelphia engagement is evidence that the theatergoers of the Quaker City were quick to sense the rare combination. As Mr. Ames’ players and singers have been received by full houses,, it is Hot possible to report which of the three operas has been the r avorite.

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1— Emil Jannings is said to be at his best in “The Last Command,” opening at the Indiana today. 2 Pola Negri in a scene from “The Secret Hour” at the Apollo, starting today.

George Enesco and St. Olaf Lutheran Choir to Give Important Concerts in City Sunday Afternoon

George enesco. violinist, will give a recital Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Academy of Music, under the auspices of the Indianapolis Maennerchor. Enesco has long been regarded in Europe as one of the few great outstanding figures. Enesco made his first visit to America in 1923, appearing with the Philadelphia orchestra in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Pottsville; with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, New York, Brooklyn; and with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; and in recital in various cities. Everywhere he ivas received by large and enthusiastic audiences, quick to recognize the remarkable quality of his musicianship.

He returned to America for the season of 1923-24, appearing twice with the New York State Symphony Orchestra, live times with the New York Symphony, twice with the Cleveland Symphony, and twice again with the Philadelphia Orchestra, in addition to many recitals. On all of these occasions he confirmed the supreme success of his previous season in America. Asa result, he was specially engaged for the Pittsfield Festival of September, 1924, which necessitated a special journey from Roumania to Pittsfield and return. Os the Pittsfield Festival, his performances were the outstanding successes. The months of January, February, March and April. Enesco returns for his third consecutive American season, which includes his first visit to the Pacific Coast. His program follows: —i—- “ Sonata in E Minor’’ Vcracini Ritornello. Allegro. Menuetto-Gavotta. Oiga. - II - “Baal Schera” Ernest Bloch Contrition. Improvisation. Rejoicing. —lll “Sarabande ct Tambourin in D“.. .Leclair “Caprice Viennois” Kreisler Habanera in A Minor" Sarasate —lV—“Sonata" (Kreutzeri Beethoven Sanford Schlussel will be at the piano. tt tt tt AN event of extraordinary importance to every music-lover in Indianapolis and vicinity is premised in the coming of the famous St. Oiaf Lutheran Choir, which has been engaged to give a concert Sunday at 3 o'clock at the Murat. This organization, composed of sixty carefully selected voices from the student body at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., has repeatedly toured the country from east to west, winning the highest praise from the music critics of leading newspapers in Boston, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Its coming here is in response to urgent requests from many to whom its fame has spread. The choir has been trained and its concerts are conducted by Dr. F. Melius Christiansen, whose choral ideals were absorbed in the classes directed by Cantor Gustav Schreck at the University of Leiprig, 'who for many years also was the leader of the celebrated Thomas Church Choir. Sixty young men and women form the choir, and the unanimity of critical opinion concerning their merit is one of the most astonishing things in America’s musical life. Professor Christiansen retains only such voices as are free from unsteadiness and disposition to breathiness, and the result is perfection of balance, precision of attack and release and flawless intonation. It is difficult to convey to those who have not heard this singing group the likeness and control of the body of tone, for the sixty voices are exactly like one voice multiplied by sixty. o a a Amelita Galli-Curci will be again heard in the Murat Theater on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19, in one of the Sunday afternoon concerts under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. Her radio debut on Jan. 27, has caused the greatest enthusiasm from the thousands in Indiana, who heard her beautiful voice, and has created a keen desire to see this wonder woman and to hear more of her great gift of song. Assisting Mme. Galli-Curci will be Homer Samuels, distinguished pianist and husband of Galli-Curci. The following Sunday afternoon in the Murat Theater Feodor Chaliapin, greatest of living bassos will give a recital of songs. Assisting Mr. Chaliapin will be the eminent Russian pianist Max 9abinowilch, who will be remembered as adding distinction to the last appearance of the late Isadora Duncan. Feodor Chaliapin, has been thirty-seven years before the public. “Ah!” he says, I should give $50,000 to be able for one year to lie back and sleep and think and dream and do nothing, knowing that nothing was expected of me! Oh! for such a rest! But the time has not come And perhaps in my heart of hearts I do not want it to come just yet. Think of it! For thirty-seven years I have sung and played the works of great masters without a spell in which to breathe and say ‘I am a simple fellow; let me idle and be simple.’ Seventy or eighty times in each of those years I have given great per-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

3AI Jolson in blackface as he appears in “The Jazz Singer" at the Circle, starting today. 4 Wallace Beery in “The Wife Savers,” opening today at the Ohio.

Here s News Arrangements are being rapidly completed by Watterson R. Rothacker, who produced "The Lost World” in 1925, to film a sequel to this picture which is still an international box office attraction.

formances! Each performance is not, as some imagine, a showing-off of myself, an animal-likc listening to the echo of my own voice; it * an examination before searching, relentless critics—the most relentless of all my own conscience! A struggle always to satisfy that knowledge which I believe I have of what is right, of what the great masters meant. In London, in Paris, Berlin, or Russia, it is all the same. Minute care in detail, checking a natural indolence, spurring myself towards that standard below which there is no art! “And yet, it would be hard to retire! I love it all too much. Vast crowds affect me as the din of war affects an old charger, I throw up my head and seem to scent the dust of conflict—it is, conflict with myself. ‘Come, Feodor,’ I call inwardly to myself, ‘come, sing! God his been good to you!’ My temperament is from within—and nothing but a cold can depress me; even that does not quench me!” On Sunday afternoon, March 25. Ossip Gabrilowitch, pianist and Jacoues Thibaud, violinist, will be heard in co-artist recital. April 1 will bring Ignace Jan Paderewski to Indianapolis for a concert and April 8 Jascha Heifetz, violinist, will be heard after an absence of many seasons. The thirJ. and last of the symphony concerts will present on Monday evening, April 16. the. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conductor, with the Dayton Westminster Choir, John Finley Williamson, conductor, in a great festival of orchestral and choral music. it tt THE monthly faculty meeting and luncheon of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will be held on Monday, Feb. 13, at noon. A recital by advanced students of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, open to the public, will be given Monday evening, Feb. 13, at 8:15. Appearing on the program are the Woman’s Gleen Club, and Mary Helen Brook Marie Lenahan Havden Frye Louisa Steeg Hilda Burrichter Dorothy Steec Wayne Berry Marjorie Fleury Mary Cochran Thelma Rubush Harold Bean They are pupils of Eleanore Beauchamp. Bcmar Cramer, Mrs. Eugene Fife, Glenn Friermood and Ferdinand Schaefer.

Mrs. Eugene Fife, of the dramatic department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will read a play before the Kokomo Department Club at a club luncheon on Saturday, Feb. 18. tt tt it MISS OLIVE KILER will present students in a violin recital Thursday evening, Feb. 9, at 8:15 o’clock. Miss Eugenia Magician, a pupil of Glenn Friermood, will assist on the program. The violinists on the program will be: Lulu Schilling Frederick Holilt Robert Houser Iris Carroll Mildred Kennedy Opal Jefteris George Geckler Russell Burkle Russell Timmons Lois Ann Hodgin The public is cordially invited. a tt ■QALMER CHRISTIAN, noted organist, will appear in concert at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church Monday evening, Feb. 20. Mr. Christian is dean of the department of organ music at the University of Michigan. He comes under the combined auspices of the Organist Guild and the choir of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. It has been two years since a noted organist has visited Indianapolis, and Christian's coming will afford an opportunity for lovers of organ music to hear a great artist perform on the wonderful Cassavant organ, the largest in the State. Mrs. Frances Batt Wallace, so-

Indian Band Miss Bon John, a director of the Bon John Girls’ Jazz Band, is rehearsing anew girl orchestra composed of Iroquois dian girls which she will pre--1 next season.

prano, and Fred W. Hummel, tenor, pupils of Fred Newell Morris, have been engaged as soloists by the North M. E. Church. tt it a AN advanced students recital will be given at the Metropolitan j School of Music Saturday afternoon ! Feb. 11, at 3 o’clock. The program | will include string trios, clarinet, i violin, piano, voice and cornet solos. A play “In a Valentine Box,” given by pupils of Miss Glays Smead, will follov/. Those taking part will be: Mabel Zetlorberßer Emeline Joseph Ethelmae Sprague Carl Grouleff Ramona Wilson Virginia Leyenberger Vera Pauline Nlcols William Hancock Dolores Forkner Pauline Seiner Dorris Fuller Mr3. A. W. Macy Georgia Bauman Mrs. A. Earl Miller Eugene Kerr Zelma Flora Eleanore Murphy Ar.lta Scott Characters in the play: Marjorie Ann York Dorothy Shale, Gertrude Osborne Eloise Ruse Florence M. Harrison Kathryn Bertsch Margaret L. Kayser Anna Marie Rice Sara Eva Baker Ruth Bert Sch Marion Sturm Marian Chaplin Pupils of Earle How’e Jones, assisted by pupils of Miss Neil and Mr. Swarthout. will appear in recital Tuesday night in the auditorijum of the central building of the Metropolitan School of Music. tt a tt THE Marott Trio will give a re- ; cital Sunday afternoon at 2:30 I o clock at the Marott Hotel. Program ! follows: “Martha” Flotow Trio. "Abcndleid" Fiv&dor Nache/. Intermezzo (From the Opera • Gogescas"i Oranados-Sassado Consuclo Couchman Rcitig "When Twilight Comes" Tandler “Among Mv Souvenirs" . ...Horatis Nichols Florence Parkin Welch. “Still As the Night” . Bohm I “Moment Musicalc" Schubert Trio. "Le Puis Le Jour” trom “Louise".... Charpentier “Ml* Fellow" Dichinont “Mine Be the Lips" H. A. Beach Florence Parkin Welch. “Fidders Three" Johnstone Trio. f tt tt tt THE Indianapolis Alumnae Club of Mu Phi Epsilon will present their annual program of sacred music at Woodruff Place Baptist Church, Michigan St., opposite West Drive, o:i Sunday afternoon, Feb. I 12. at 3 o'clock. The concert is open lo.Vi’e public without fee. Program follows: Organ—“ Prelude on a Traditions! Melody" Milligan Nell Kemper McMurtrey. “He Shall Feed Hts Floe!;." “Come Unto Him" (Messiah, i Handel Norma Mueller. Asel Spellman Stitt. Mezzo-Soprano—"For the Lord Is Mindful of His Own” (St. Pauli.. Mendelssohn Charlotte Lieber. Violin, Piano and Organ “Kam-menoi-Ostrow Rubinstein Mrs. Harold West. Mrs. Edenharter, Mrs. McMurtrey. Soprano—"And a Highway Shall Be There" (Isaiahi Willard Patton Jane Johnson Burroughs. Contralto —"Eve Hath Not Seen" (Holy Cityi Gaul Miss Mueller. Duet—“l Waited for the Lord" 'St. Paul> Mendelssohn Mrs. Burroughs, Miss Lieber. Organ—“AHegro Appassionato” (Fifth Sonata) Ouilmant Mrs. McMurtrey. The accompanists will be Mrs. Frank Edenharter and Mrs. McMurtrey.

THE piano students of Francis H. Topirjillcr, assisted by Miss Aileen Klai'oer, dramatic reader, will give a recital Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 8 p. m' in the First Nazarene Church at State Ave. and E. Washington St. The following will take part: Kenneth Lime Cloda Christy Ruth Stein Helen Armes Dorothy Dcsch Rosemary Burkhart Margaret Abel Ella Kull Margaret Zelglcr Margaret Spall Helen L. Perkins Neva StifT a b a A PROGRAM cf modern music will be given by the Matinee Musicale at 3 o’clock. Friday, Feb. 16. at the Masonic Temple. Program and artists taking part are as follows: Petite Suite De Concert "La Caprice de Nannettc" "Damande Et Response" "La Tarantelle Fretillante" S. Coleridge-Tavlor Andante Cos. 95 Henry Hadley Jalousie (Tango Tsiganei Jakob Gade The Turner Trio—Alma Miller Lentz, violin; Okalr Lieber. cello; Caroline Ayres Turner, piano "To the Sun" Curran "Tears of God" Mov/rey "We'll to the Woods and Gather May" Griffes "The Cry of Rachel". . Marv Turner Salter Selma An;ie Zahl, Geraldine Troltcr at the piano. "Sonatine Rave! Moderc Menuet Anime "The Submerged Cathedral" Debussy "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair”...Debussy "Reflections in the Water" Debussy Allegro Barbara" Bartok Marie Zorn “Nocturne" Curran Violin obligato. Alma Miller Lentz "Th''ough the Silent Night”. .Rachmaninoff "Daffodil” Densmore Mrs. Arnold Spencer. Mrs. Kiser at the piano "Fest Musik” Holy "Gavotte" Poenitz Mrs. Franc Willhite Webber, Mrs. Ruth Ranier Nessler Program arranged by Mrs. S. L. Kiser. Elected VVampas Star Lupe Velez, Mexican actress has been elected a Wampas Baby Star, an honor which thirteen of the most promising young actresses share each year.

Foot Winners Announced Monday

The Cinderella Contest entries are closed, but so many small-footed women stepped out in response to Carrie’s challenge that it will be impossible to decide the winners before Monday afternoon, w’hen the names will be published in The Times. As at the Prince's ball, the hour of midnight Friday was the last chance for Indianapolis Cinderellas to win the shoes of their choice by entering The Indianapolis Times Cinderella Contest, The contest, which was conducted by The Times and by B. F. Keith's Theater, was to prove to Carrie, of the team of Carrie and Eddie, featured dancers with The Petite Revue, that while her tiny feet entitle her to be called the dancing Cinderella, there are women in Indianapolis who have feet just as small. But in Indianapolis they are more substantially rewarded, for the twenty-five “runners up” in the contest will receive two passes each to Keith's for the week of Feb. 5, while the possessor of the smallest feet will be given her choice of any $lB pair of I. Miller shoe.:, one of the finest brands of footwear to .be found in Indianapolis. It was hoped that all winners could be determined by Saturday at noon, but the number of contestants who have entered make this impossible and it will take unni Monday morning to determine the final twenty-six. These names will be published Monday in The Times and those

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whose names are in tne list will be asked to call at Keith’s at 8 o’clock Monday evening to receive their tickets and to determine the smallest feet in Indianapolis, to the owner cf which the prize shoes will be given.

Policy Change

Indiana ballroom announces a change of policy as well as management. The change in policy is to be brought about through demand of the patrons of the ballroom asking for an additionalwaltz night. So, Friday night, which was heretofore formerly Collegiate night, will be known as waltz night as awel! as Wednesday night; Collegiate night will be moved up to Saturday night and Syncopation night to Sunday night. The weekly calendar of the Indiana ballroom now stands: Tuesday evening as instruction night, when Miss Louise Purcell Powell, assisted by 150 competent instructors, give free dancing lessons for the price of admission for an evening's entertainment. Wednesday night is waltz night. Thursday night is party night when the features of the weekly calendar will appear for Friday night, as well as being waltz night. Saturday night will be collegiate night and Sunday night will be syncopation night.

MOTION PICTURES

FEB. 4, 1928

Three New Plays Fail in Ea s t Producers Pay When They Do Not Please Public Taste, BY DIXIE HIiVES NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—During the past week three plays brought their local engagement to a sudden arid precipitate close. One of them was “The Patriot,” a play imported by Gilbert Miller and produced with considerable skill and good taste, and acted excellently by as fine a cast as Broadway has seen. The public turned thumbs down, and the producer decided to close forthwith. Another play, “Mirrors” by title, was net such a good play, but it was selected, cast, directed and produced by Albert Lewis, an astute theatrical manager and he, tco, lias discovered that he missed his guess by a mile. Carl Reed, an infrequent producer of plays, brought to New York cne by Owen Davis called “Carry On,” tut with all Mr. Davis was able to do it carried cn but a week. Here are three plays, each by a producer with some claim to experience, and each a total loss after an expenditure cf what may be conservatively estimated as $25,000 for the cheapest and $75,009 for tho most expensive. This little prelude is presented with the idea of showing the public ' an expensive preposition play p ducing is, and how absolutely impossible it is to gauge in advance what will be successful. We bid adieu to Max Rheinhardfc and his group cf players from Berlin and Vienna this* week. They have been quite successful when measured by their artistic achievements, but probably the engagement is a financial loss. Mr. Rheinhardt has been highly complimented for his skill in the handling of large groups of players, including the wildest and most turbulent mobs. Nothing he has done during this engagement, however, is comparable with “The Miracle,” which he staged two years ago. His company has some fine players singularly fine players —and each performance has stamped this fact upon the attention of the public.