Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1928 — Page 6

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CHANEY IS STAR OF ‘THE BIG CITY’ AT CIRCLE TODAY

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert Featured in "Love” at the Palace—“ The High School Hero,” Is Movie Feature at the Indiana Theater,

LON CHANEY, tlie man of a thousand faces, again presents liis ability to delineate character in “The Big City,” to be shown the coming week at the Circle, starting today. It is a story of the underworld in which Chaney is given the opportunity to add another role to his impressive array of parts. Among the many additional features will be the overture, “An Irish Rhapsody." played by the Circle orchestra under the direction of Ed Rescuer.

Dessa Byrd presents an organ sing-song entitled “It's AH in Fun.” Other film subjects are the Circle news, the comedy ancl an Aesop fable. Chief among the stars who appear in support of Chaney are Marceline Day, James Murray, Betty Compson, Mathew Betz and many others of note. “The Big City” is a tale of that modern creation, the gangster. Chuck Collins is a gang leader and crook who hides his activities behind the deers of a Harlem cabaret. C”r!y and Helen a - e his two aides who lure patrons into the cabaret to oe robbed. Red. a rival gangster, plans to raid Chuck's cabaret, but Chuck foils this plait by permitting the robbery to take place and escaping ■with the proceeds. Sunshine, a young girl who works in a costume chop operated by Chuck as anothef b’inti to shield his criminal activities, is arrested in connection with the robbery. When Chuck falls in love with her his accomplice, Helen, becomes jealous and betrays him to Rod. From then on it is a battle cf wits between the two rival gangsters. n tt tt MANY STARS IN APOLLO FILM FEATURE Crooks and lovers, melodrama and comedy, thrills and laughter all combine to make “Partners in Crime,” a comedy vehicle for Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. The new picture is the attraction at the Apollo, starting today. “Partners In Crime” is something

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: absolutely new in team comedies. It 1 introduces Beery and Hatton in ! straight comedy characterizations, . minus all clowning and without ludicrous costumes. Beery takes the j part of a slow-thinking detective, while Hatton has a dual role. He is r newspaper reporter and “Knife” Reagan, terror of the underworld. The comedians are supported by an excellent cast, prominent among the players being Mary Brian, William Powell, Jack Luden. Arthur Hcusman and Joseph W. Girard. The film was directed by Frank Straycr, who directed Beery and Hatton in "Now We're in the Air." The story opens with a city terrorized by luiderworld gangsters. An ambitious young attorney declares war on the crooks and gets himself kidnapped for his trouble. Beery and Hatton, for reasons of a rather romantic nature, rush to the rescue. There are gang fights, hand-to-hand encounters and then one of the most thrilling and laughable climaxes imaginable. Other program features are a Hal Roach comedy, “Flying Elephants.” the Fox news weekly and Ray Winings, ! organist. tt tt it "LOVE” TOPS NEW BILL AT PALACE John Gilbert and Greta Garbo,' who as a team scored a sensational success in “Flesh and the Devil,”; and whose real life romance imme- I cuately fallowing furnished gessip for film fans the world over, appear again before the camera for the first time since, in “Love,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's specacular fllmization of “Anna Karenina,” Tolstoy's

AMUSEMENTS

I Sally Phipps in “High School Hero," which opens today at the Indiana. 2 Raymond Hatton, who will be seen with Wallace Beery at the Apollo starting today in “Partners in Crime." 3 A scene from “The Chinese Parrot.” with Marion Nixon and Edmund Burao in the cast. To be seen at the Cmio, starting today.

Mrs. Houdini Mrs. Harry Houdini is presenting the late Harry Houdini s “Freezing A Man Alive” as the sensational feature of an illusion entertainment which she is now offering in vaudeville.

classic of Russia, which is now playing at Locw's Palace theater. The new picture, one cf the most gorgeous of film romances, presents both these popular stars in roles that perhaps fit them better than any ethers that could be imagined Gilbert, splendidly uniformed is seen as the debonair and romantic Count Vronsky, a role that recalls his great hit in “The Merry Widow.” Miss Garbo plays Anna, who sacrifices all for love, only to be dogged by a strange and sinister doom. Edmund Goulding directed “Love,” which is staged on a lavish scale. The cast is notable, including George Fawcett, Brandon Hurst, Emily Fitzroy and Phillips De Lacy. Spectacular reproductions of Russian castles, a great cathedral, a thrilling series of maneuvers cf the Russian officers and other elaborate detail form the background for this vivid story cf the love between a young count and the heroine of this passionate play. The picture, ’’Love,” is one of the most pretentious productions cf the new season, and as well one of the most interesting screen dramas of years. Any one who has seen John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in their previous pic- ! tures will surely want to be at Loew’s Palace this week to see them in "Love.” “SLarland” is the name of the j stage show, which is another Palace production to come direct to this city from the Capitol in New ] York. Teddy Joyce, master of ceremo- ; nies, starts his third week with an- j other of his series of dances and surprises. Bert Rome and Henry Dunn, known as “The Singing Fashion Plates,” are on the Palace bill. The usual Palace stage show, with the Cris-s Cross Girls in a scries of dances and the overture. "Operatic Gems,” with Emil Seidel conducting the Palace concert orchestra and Lester Huff at the pipe organ complete the bill. tt M tt COLLEGE LIFE ON VIEW AT INDIANA Charlie Davis takes his audiences and his Indiana stage band back to high school days in “G'amups Jazz,” the stage presentation featured on the Indiana stage the coming week, in conjunction with the showing of a high school picture entitled “The High School Hero.” Charlie takes his boys back to boyhood days and the scenes of Indiana’s favorite high school sports of basketball. The revue, “Campus Jazz,” was staged and devised by Boris Petroff, and features the Albertina Rasch Girls, besides a host of other luminaries. “High School Hero” is the snappy, sparkling story of the high school romance and basketball careers of two youths who both are courting the same girl. The picture brings to the screen for the first time America’s greatest dash man, Charlie Paddock, the ideal of every high

LaShelle

One of the features of the St. Patrick’s Day celebration Saturday night at Tomlinson Hall will be the Edward LaShelle Glee Club. The entire program is given under the auspices of the Ancient Order of Hiberians of Marion County. In addition to LaShelle, members of the club are Cornelius Sheridan, Hugh Mason, Maxwell Fentz, Frank Delaney, Edmund Bradley, Vincent Haines. Paul Smith, Carl Lauber, Chet Gough, Lee Sundt and Eugene Doerr. AMUSEMENTS

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school boy. It also introduces to Indiana patrons two new juvenile stars in Nick Stuart and John Darrow. Sally Phipps, William Bailey and Wade Boteler arc among the excellent artists who appear in the assisting cast. The picture tells of the two boys who both “rush” the same girl. Together with an enmity which has existed between the boys’ parents for many years the rivalry in sport makes them bitter enemies. An exciting and novel climax finds the boys on the eve of the great game of the season. Among others presented in the stage revue with Charlie Davis and the Indiana stage band are Bert Frohman and Sid Gary, singing comedians, both popular musical comedy stars. A1 and Gussic Blum, whose hilariously funny dance is an outstanding feature of t he show, formerely worked for six months in Grauman's Egyptian. Helen Yorke, prima donna, has the unique distinction of opening five large Publix theatei-s. Bayes and Speck are two comedians, who appeared with the stage production “The Spider.” They are billed as “Assassins of Sorrow.’ Maurice at the organ and the Indiana (News are other features of the Indiana program. b a * “CHINESE PARROT” ON VIEW AT OHIO Marion Nixon, Hobart Bosworth amd Edmund Burns are the stars o; “The Chinese Parrot,” a picture filled with wiord thrills and thrilling action, which comes to the Ohio toda3% in conjunction with Conr.ie and his orchestra. “The Chinese Parrot,” is from the pen of Earl Biggers, popular Saturday Evenin',’ Post writer. “The Chinese Parrot," is a fascinating tale laid in Hawiia. San Francisco and the Mojave desert. It concerns a tale of jewel theft, of a woman who Jilts her lover for a wealthy man. The lever swears that one day he will come back and buy her again.

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Twenty years later the woman has become a widow and in financial straights brings her jewels to a wealthy man whom she docs not! know. Tire purchaser turns out to be her lover of former days who has since become opulant. Instead of finding j interest in her Jewels, the resentful lover is attracted by the woman's daughter. A climax unusual in the annals cf films brings this thrilling i picture to a close. Connie and his band, with Jimmie Hatton, soloist, have another program of peppy melodies. Writes Titles Garrett Granham is writing the titles for “Lady Be Good,” the comedy drama featuring Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall.

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JUST WATCH OUT! ! ! The two greatest laugh-stealers of the age are in town. They’ll get your giggles when you see them turned out for love-making in an underworld of thrills. They’ve got a corner on all the fun. Hal Roach Elephants*' Fox News Weekly Ray Winings

-I—Lon Chanye, "the man of a thousand faces." in one of his latest pictures to he seen at the Circle starting today. “The Big City” is the name cf it and is a thrilling story of the underworld. s—John Gilbert and Greta Garbo, who will be seen in “Love,” at Locw's Palace, Commencing today.

Small Cast

While Harold Lloyd's latest endeavor “Speedy” could almost be called the picture of a million extras,” the bespectacled comedian has one of the smallest casts of supporting players he ever has engaged for a picture. The extras arc the population of Manhattan.

On Writing Staff Ernest Howard Culbertson, John Kirkland and Harlan Thompson, all former newspaper men with later play writing experience have been signed to write stories for the pictures.

AMUSEMENTS

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Audience ' Votes on Winner Miss Patricola Will Top New Show at B, F, Keith's, ■QATIiONS of the Lyric will be called upon next week to decide a question that is as paramount in America today as the tariff question was in IC9G, when Brown County, Indiana, will meet Broadway in a contest to decide which is America's music supreme. The decision of the audience will determine which they will accept as dictator of their musical taste., —Henry Ford, the mechanic, or Paul Whiteman, the great exponent of jazz. A contest has been arranged between Doc and Dinah Bisel, Broun County fiddlers of the “old-time” type popularized by Mr. Ford, and a jazz orchestra from Broadway, with Dick Noye, the happy announcer from Station JOY as mediator in the contest. Doc is a strumming mandolinisl, and Dinah, his wife, is the most i versatile musician in Brown County, [ having mastered the banjo and harmonica and other musical instruments. The Broadway orchestra Is composed of musicians who have entertained thousands in the night life (Turn to Rage 7)

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