Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1928 — Page 9

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CIRCLE WILL HAVE A NEW POLICY SOON Theater Will Close Down After Shows on Sunday Night for About Two Weeks So as to Make Way for Many Improvements in This House. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WITH the theater growth of Indianapolis in the last year, one of the features is the change in the policy of entertainment. The stage presentation band policy has become such a favorite that the leading houses have installed it. And now comes the statement that the Circle will close down for about two weeks on Sunday night, following the final showings of ‘ The Noose.”

This temporary closing is brought about because the Circle must make many improvements and alterations for its new stage and band presentation policy. The theater will reopen on Saturday, April 14, with its new policy. I have received the following data upon the new policy from the Circle management: Sunday’s performances will be the last under the auspices of the policy which has' prevailed at the Circle for many years. When the theater opens again it will be with the latest type of entertainment, with a master of ceremonies, and entertainer of known distinction of musical comedy, vaudeville and picture house fame, and with many other entertainers. The master of ceremonies will have a large company at his disposal. It will include a stage band, sixteen dancing girls, singers and entire production staff. Through its recent affiliation with the SkourasPublix Theaters, the Circle will be able to offer elaborate stage shows. Charles C. Dahl, general stage designer for Skouras Brothers Enter-

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prises of St. Louis, has been brought to Indianapolis to put the Circle stage in shape for the shows which are coming. Marjorie Alton, director of productions, formerly of the Greenwich Village Follies, has been secured for the Circle. The entire stage equipment of the Circle has been modernized. Completely re-equipped it will be possible to produce shows never before attempted at this house. The entire lower floor will be carpeted and the projection room will be moved from the first floor to the rear of the balcony. Indianapolis music lovers have inquired anxiously regarding the future of the Circle Concert Orchestra. It will be retained intact. With the closing of the Circle, it will bring to a close that period of motion picture entertainment which has been identified almost exclusively with the Circle and the houses which were modelled after it. % When the Circle opened twelve years ago, it was the third large picture theater in America. The Strand, operated by the Mark Strand Company in New York, was first while the Rialto, which already

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had Samuel (Roxy) Rothapfel, was the second house. The three theaters were opened within six months of each other, so consequently the Circle opening has long been identified as one of the biggest occasions of the industry. The closing tomorrow night likewise is a big occasion as it draws definitely to a close the first cycle of the cinema. Many famous men have been connected in some active capacity with the Circle. Its history is bright with the glory of such names as “Roxy,” once guest conductor; Leopold Spitalny, likewise guest conductor, and S. Barrett McCormick, first managing director. McCormick has frequently been credited with the origination and development of the stage presentations. At one time the greatest men in the show business came to the Circle to observe its operations. Many other famous musicians who have been presented at the Circle are Max Weil, Ernest Schmidt, Ernesto Natiello, Rudolf Kafka, Modest Altschuler, Constantin Bakaleinikoff and Mikhail Stolarevsky. Ace Berry, a showman of many years’ experience, who toured the world for seven years with Anna Eva L ay, was manager of the Circle for live years, to become general | manager of the Indiana, Circle and > Ohio Theaters, following the com-! pletion of the Indiana. a o a GREAT PLAY AND CAST HERE SATURDAY Pauline Lord, whom the Theatre j Guild last year recognized as America’s foremost actress, has always wanted to play comedy just as Ty Cobb has always wanted to be a pitcher. When, on tomorrow night, at the only performance to be given, she starts George C. Tyler’s all-star revival of “She Stoops to Conquer’’ off right by speaking David Garrick’s famous prologue before the curtain of the Shubert-Murat, she will be

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nearer comedy than she has ever been in her life before. Garrick’s sparkling couplets bear little relation to her past roles, and it will be a very happy and somewhat thrilled tragedienne who dons knee breeches and a powdered wig in one of those masculine masquerades that the eighteenth century liked so well. To think back over Pauline Lord’s active past is to chronicle a stage life of woe and tribulation. Her fluttering hands, puzzled voice, and hapless poses marked her out from the beginning for trouble on the stage as the sparks fly upward. The role in which she first came to marked critical notice was that of the little waif in “The Deluge,” the only woman in the crowd of men expecting momentarily to be overwhelmed by a flood. As Dagmar in "Samson and Delilah’’ she had to crawl in abject terror from the wrath of Jacob BenAmi’s Samson. More and more, as tragic roles came to her, she wanted lightness, particularly since the confesses that she cannot act until she feels restless and unhappy. And those later roles, in Vhich she took New York by storm, grew blacker and deeper. When Arthur Hopkins first starred her and sent his fir t night audience staggering out into Broadway, stunned by the magnificence of her performance, it was as the tortured heroine of Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie.” Sidney Howard’s “They Knew What They Wanted” was little relief. Its ending, while not definitely tragic, can scarcely be described as happy, and in the role of Amy, the dishwasher who has married an old man after a courtship by mail, there was little to whistle about. Even the two plays in which New York has seen her this season —“Spellbound” and “Salvation”— pictured her in the first case as an unconscious murderess, and m the second as a sincere evangelist who finds that she has done nothing more admirable than deceive herself and three ’or four million people into the bargain. “Sir Henry Irving and Edwin both disported themselves in ctmedy to considerable ’ effect,” says Miss Lord with feeling. This is the day of women’s rights. It may be that “She Stoops to Conquer” with its gay and witty prologue will break her luck. n a a LOOKING OVER NEW KEITII SHOW Today the old-time songs and dances and even costumes seem sil y and are the butt of many jokes, both on the stage and off. Think of the whiskers that grandpa wore when he “went a courting” and the herse and buggy. Then he said good night at 9 o’clock. His grandson just gets started at that hour. Both the old and the new are presented in the musical skit of Billy and Elsa Newell. A little fun is poked at the old-time customs and you see just how they looked, or at least the way the album shows them. Then these two go to the other extreme and present the same situation in very modern dress. This skit is uncommonly good with the old-time dances and jokes and some dances of a jnore modern character. Both the actors were very good when I saw the act, and they had good comedy in it. “Ivory Novelties” is just what the name suggests. Marguerite Padula and company have an act that is

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composed mostly of piano duets. The music used is of the popular strains. Monroe Purcell plays as a solo his conception of the St. Louis Blues. I am glad that he announced what it was as there were so many frills to it that I had a hard time trying to distinguish the melody. Both Purcell and Miss Padula are good pianists, but they are ordinary singers. The Cait Brothers have a tap dancing act. They are both good dancers and have some things are different from the usual run of such dancing. One of them, I don’t know which chides the audience for not keeping silent. There are times and occasions when this will not work, but this man has a great deal of humor in his “Quiet, Please.” The O’Brien Sextette has some musical ideas that are worth while. The act opens with three saxophones and two banjos playing on the stage before you. Then as the curtain goes up they switch to “ukes” and guitars. Some good effects here. These men had several chorus’ with only the banjo and drum accompaniment. One of the numbers was whistled finale for the act the six men appeared with such instruments as a jug, a washboard, a guitar, a uke played with a violin bow and kindred instruments. A clever musical act. Opening the bill was Jack and Jessie Gibson ridirfg one wheel “bicycles.” Later in the act they rode very high wheels. All through the act they had a lot of humor and good natured joking. At Keith’s today and Saturday. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: “The King of Kings” at English’s; Billy Sharp at the Lyric; “The Circus” at the Palace; “Something Always Happens” at the Apollo; “Hay Fever” at the Playhouse; “The Noose” at the Circle, “Come To My House” at the Ohio; “The Heart of a Follies Girl” at the Indiana, and burlesque at the Mutual. BUILDS HUGE AIRPORT East St. Louis to Open New Flying Field April 8. TV/ Vnltcd Prrmt ST. LOUIS, March 30.—The East St. Louis Airport, now under construction, will be ready to open April 8. Contracts have been let for the first hangar, office and classroom building and the airport case. Other contracts will be let within the next few days. Clyde Bray ton. a flier at LambertSt. Louis Flying Field with a record of 900 hours in the air without accident, has been appointed field manager and chief pilot. There will be six or seven new airplanes from Lambert Field at the new field and about twenty-five more machines now under construction will bo available in sixty days. Veteran Jeweler Dies /!;/ Times Special GOSHEN, Ind., March 30. Funeral services were held today for John Harrison Lott, 84, Civil War veteran and for fifty-eight years a jeweler here. He retired from active business life Jan. 1, this year.

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