Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1928 — Page 7

MARCH 31, 1928.

OPERA CLASS TO GIVE DRESS PERFORMANCE Irvington M. E. Church Class Will Sponsor Presentation. The costume performance prepared by the Bel Canto opera class, sponsored by the Pliilathea class of the Irvington M. E. Church, will take .place April 20, at 7:45. Mrs. F. R. Taylor is president of the Philathea class, which class is interested in various charity enterprises. Frank Marlowe of the Berkell Players has been appointed stage manager to assist Miss Gertrude Conte, director. In the cave scene the leading part, the Spirit of Evil will be taken by Miss Gertrude Conte, the Spirit of Happiness by Miss Adelaide Conte. Miss Rheta Gardner is the violinist impersonating Franz von Vecsey and Miss Alice Cooper is Mother Art. Mrs. H. Hopkins, a winner in the vocal contest opened by Miss Gertrude Conte last November, has a solo part in this cave scene. The prisoners of the Spirit of Evil are as follows: Elizabeth Achenbach, Lillian Ball, Mrs. Mary Barrett, Theima Buhmiller, Helen Clark, Mrs. Leola Clainpitt (scholorship winner), Mariam Daniels, Mrs. V. Dawson (scholarship winner), Barbara Dawson, Katherine Gish, Martha Killion, Olga Krause, Mable LeFevre, Helen Newlin, Mrs. Fern Norris, Dorothy Saltman, Mrs. N. Rotz, Mary Sebold. Mrs. Sheier, Mildred Williamson, Genevieve Yundt, Betty Randayy, Frieda Jones and Marjory Hennis. Officials and employes of the Hare Chevrolet Company will be guests of the Christian Men Builders’ Inc., at the Third Christian Church Sunday mornng. Merle Sidener, the tea Cher, will take as his subject, “Crucified.” The program, including special music, will be broadcast over station WFBM from 9:30 to 10:45 a. m. Th} Rev. Fred A. Line will preach the fifth of a series of special Lenten sermons at Central Universalist Church, Fifteenth and New Jersey Sts., Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. His subject will be “The Things That Matter Most.” Mr. Franklin will sings “The Palms.” There will be other special music. Dr. O. W. Fifer, superintendent of the Indianapolis district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will be the special Palm Sunday morning preacher at the Fifty-First Street M. E. Church. His subject will be “Tears Triumphant.” In the evening service the pastor, J. Floyd Seelig, will have as his subject, “Judas Iscariot, the Betrayer.” Special services will be held each evening this week, except Saturday. The Woman’s auxiliary to the Episcopal Church of the Advent will meet Monday, April 2 at 2:30 p. m. *n the parish house. Mrs. David Allerdick will be the speaker. The Rev. Christian O. Weber, of the First Moravian Episcopal Church will give as his morning theme, “Hosanna in the Highest to Our King.” The Passion Week Manual will be read at the evening service and every evening during the week with the exception of Saturday. The new pipe organ recently purchased by the Beville Avenue Evangelical Church will be. dedicated next Sunday, with D. G. B. Kimmel, president of the Evangelical Theological *?3eminary at Neperville, 111., officiating. Dr. Kimmel will preach at both the morning and evening services Sunday. “Pathfinders for Christ” and "Facing Toward Jerusalem” will be the morning and evening sermon subjects Sunday of Homer Dale pastor of the Hillside Christian Church. Christ Church choir of fifty men and boys will present Maunder's cantata, “Olivet to Calvary” Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The cantata is given under the direction of Cheston L. Heath, organisr and choirmaster. The soloists wiil be: Mathilda C. Heuser, soprano; E. V. Alexander, tenor, and Paul Leslie Raymond, basso. “Does America Need a King?” will he the subject of Rev. Edmund Kerlin’s sermon at 10:45 a. m. at flic First Evangelical Church. At the 7:45 p. m. “Peoples’ Service,’ Mr. Kerlin’s subject will be “A Palm Sunday Evangelistic Message.” The music will be under direction of the Rev. George D. Reep and Mrs. Reep ,of Ohio. Pre-Easter services continue every night in the week except Saturady at 7:45. At the Second Moravian Episcopal Church, cornei' Thirty-Fourth and Hovey Sts., a large class of new members will be received at the morning service and the pastor, the Rev. Vernon W. Couillard, will speak cn “The Mind of Christ.” His evening theme will be “The Inevitable Question.” Allen K. Trout, pastor cl the Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, announces the following sermon topics for Sunday services both morning and evening: “Whom Shall We Honor?” and “The Kingdom of God in Eternity.” The largest class of adults ever to be received wiil be received Sunday at 10:45 o'clock. This service will be a special Palm Sunday service and the decorations will be with palms and the choir will render Palm Sunday anthems while the pastor will preach a Palm Sunday sermon. Special Holy Week services will \ given during the week. On Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock the pastor will preach upon the theme, “Paying the Price to Make Mer. Free” while on Thursday evening the sermon subject will be “The Body and Blood of Christ,” while Holy Communion will be celebrated. The Friday night service will be ■ i’WJied over to the choir. 'Hie Good Friday Noon Day serv.ce will be held at the First Luth- . cran Church. Rev. J. Earl Spaid, pastor, from 12 to 3 p. m., when all the United Lutheran pastors will participate. The Rev. Floyd VanKcuren, rector

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of Christ Episcopal Church, will have a celebration of the Holy Communion on Sunday morning at 8 o’clock. The rite of confirmation will be administered ay the Rt. Rev. Joseph M. Francis, D. D., Bishop of Indianapolis, at the 10:45 service. The Boy Choir will sing Maunder’s anthem “On the Way to Jerusalem.” At the 7:30 evening service, the choir consisting of sixty boys and men, under the direction of Cheston L. Heath, M. A., will sing the Palm Sunday cantata “Olivet to Calvary.” Bishop Francis will preach at the Lenten Noonday services Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. There will be a celebration of the Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday at 11 o’clock. The rector will conduct the three hour service on Good Friday from noon until 3 o'clock, consisting of hymns, prayers and addresses from Christ's last words on the cross. At the St. Matthew Lutheran Church the Rev. L. C. E. Fackler will preach Sunday morning on “My Promise to God.” In the evening the sermon will be the sixth Lenten service, “The Cross—Our Only Glory.” Tuesday evening the vestry will meet at the parsonage. At 8 o’clock Friday evening there will be a Good Friday service, “The Cross— The Symbol of Judgment.” Dr. F. S. C. Wicks, pastor of the All Souls Unitarian Church, announces the following as the order of service to begin at 11 o’clock Sunday mornings: Prelude—Dudley Buck Serenade—Widor Hymn 336 Service Page 32 Covenant Anthem, ‘ Palm Brandue'’ Words cf Aspiration Responsive Reading—Selection Page S3 Scripture Hymn No. 200 (Tune 401 > Notices and Offering Rustle of Spring—Sinding Address—" Was Jesus a Success" Hymn No. 202 (Tune 162 1 Benediction Postlude Grand March—"Aida”—Verdi The following is the order of preEaster services of the Downey Avenue Christian Church a: ; announced by the pastor, the Rev. Bert R. Johnson: This Sunday morning—"The Triautnphant Entry": evening services at 7:30 p. in.: Sunday night—‘The Anointing in Bethany”: Monday--" The Midnight Vigil": Tuesday—" The Authority of Jesus": Wednesday “The Towel and the Basin": Thursday—* Gethsemane”: Friday—2 and 3 p. m.. union prayer service; evening the r-ut'ta. "The Seven Last Words of Christ” by the choir; “How the Cross Saves” the sermon; Easter morning—" The Victory”; evening Easter pageant by young people; "He Saved Others. Himself He Could Not Save", sermon. At the Emmanual Baptist Church the morning sermon will be “The Path to the Throne.” In the evening the pastor the Rev. H. B. Hagen, will preach on “The Cross.” The Rev. Fred Hughes, pastor of the Church of the United Faith announces services for Sunday, Monday, Wednesday a ltd Friday nights at 7:30 o’clock. The morning sermon of the

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Brightwood M. E. Church will be “Our Sin Bearer.” In the evening I lie sermon is to be “An Evangelistic Appeal” as announced by the' pastor, the Rev. Victor B. Hargitt. At the Lir.wood Christian Cnurch the pastor, Rev. Homer C. Boblitt, will preach on “Gethsemane,” and in the evening will use “Good Gifts” as his sermon. “Walking With God” is to be the morning sermon of the Rev. Joseph G. Moore, pastor of the Capitol M. E. Church. In the evening the sermon will be “Christ the King.” The service will continue each evening through Passion week. At the Crooked Creek Baptist Church the morning sermon will be "Sin of the Throne, the King Retreating.” In the evening the sermon is to be “The First Mile and Second Mile Religion.’ The following is the program of evening at the North M. E. Church as announced by the pastor to begin at10:45 a. m.: Organ Prelude “Largo” (New World Svmphonvl Anton Dvorak Anthpm —"Palas and Flowers” .. J. Faurc Offertory—" The Processional to Calvary” John Stainer •Solo • Jerusalem” Parker Postlude—" Alleluia" Th. Dubois In the evening the service will be as follows beginning at 7:45: Organ Prelude "Communion in Y. Minor" Ed. Batiste Antehm—“Calvary” Rodney-Shepherd Offertory—"Traumerei" Schumann Solo -' The Holy City" Adams Postlude—“ Andante in C" .... E. Stilas SOLOISTS Mrs. Walter E. Wallace. Soprano Mrs. Frank H. Nelson, Contralto Fred Hummel. Tenor W. J. Condrey, Barytone The service at the Ijij-st English Lutheran Church, April 6, will be divided into seven parts beginning at 12 noon and lasting until 3 p. m. The service is as follows: PART I 12:00—12:25 p. m. Organ Prelude “Passion Chorale" <1 Sacred Head Once Wounded! Reger The Versicles —Page o—Common Service Bool; The Psalm 6. Page 187; The Gloria Patri. Page 11 Hvmn No. 97 The Kvrie and Collects The Scripture Lessons , „ Hvmn No. 84 (Part I- Second Setting) Address—" Father. Forgive Them” The Rev. W. C. Donaldson Organ Meditation—“A Lenten Supplicatton" Dittrich PART II 12:25—12:50 p. m. Hvmn No. 62 The Kvrie and Collects The Scripture Lessons Hymn No 84 iPart ll—Second Setting! Address—-" Today Shalt Thou Be With Me" The Rev. R. H. Benting Organ Meditation—" Andante” ....Gritton PART 111 12:50—1:15 p. m. Hvmn No. 71 The Kvrie and Collects The Scripture Lessons _ Hvmn No. 84 (Part lll—Second Setting Address "Behold Thy Son -Thy Mother” The Rev. Allen K. Trout o:gan Meditation—“Preghiera". Ravanllo PART IV 1:15—1:40 p. m. Hvmn No. 333 i The Kvrie and Collects The Scripture Lessons Hi inn No. 84 (Part IV—Second Setting) Address “Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" The Rev. A. E. Rcnn. D. D. Organ Meditation — Gethsemane". .Mailing PART V 1:40—2:05 p. m. Hvmn No. 348 The Kvrie and Collects Psalm 130. Page 237 (Read Responsively) The Scripture Lessons Hvmn No. 84 (Part V—Second Setting) Address—“l Thirst” The Rev. 3. Luther Seng Organ Meditation—" Good Friday Spell' Vretblad PART VI 2:05—2.30 p. m. Hvmn No. 77 The Kvrie and Collects Psalm 69. Page 215 (Read Responsively) The Scripture Lessons , _ Hvmn No. 84 (Part VI Second Setting! Address —"It Is Finished" The Rev. Knox Roberts Organ Meditation "Stabat Mater Dolorosa Lemaigre PART VII 2:30—3:00 p. m. Hvmn No. 544 The Agnus Del—Page 25. The Collect The Scripture Lessons The Nicene Creed. Page 16 Hymn No. 84 (Part Vll—Second Settingl Address—"lnto Thv Hands" The Rev.* J. Earl Spaid Organ Meditation—“Religioso" Galtermann The Nunc Dimit is, Page 44 The Lord's Prayer The Salutation and Collect for Peace Thv- Benedicainus The Benediction Silent Prayer Organ Postlude—“ Processional to Calvary” (Crucifixion) Sta’ncr The Rev. A. L. Brandenberg, pastor of the Mt. Olive M. E. Church announces that he will use “The Pre-Coronation Celebration” as his morning subject. In the evening the sermon will be on “The Devine

Choir Leaders Take Notice On next Saturday, The Indianapolis Times will publish the Easter musical programs of local churches. The Church Editor requests that all pastors and choir directors send their programs to The Times as early as possible next week. This will assure publication.

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Spotlight Revue Tops Keith Bill ; Charles T. Aldrich Will • Head Program for Last Half, George Choos brings his “Spotlight Revue” to Keith’s to headline the first half of the week’s bill. The bill will include: MACK AND ROSSITER—These two entertainers get a sprinkling of songs off their chests while putting on the skit “A Modern Occurance.” JARVIS AND HARRISON A comedy team that will have rivals in another act headed by Baird and Hewitt. RAY VAUGHN—“King of Syncopation,” opens the bill. Twenty “Tiny Tots” from the Elite Dancing School will put on an extra act which is to include acrobatic numbers. Clog dancing by four little misses will vie with steps by a group of 4-year-olds. Tiny Jo Ann Jackson will contribute popular song numbers. The film feature for the first four days in “Cheating Cheaters,” starring Betty Compson and Kenneth Harlan. This is a melodramatic crook play. The bill for the last half of the week includes: CHARLES T. ALDRlCH—Presenting “Protean Surprises.” Aidrich has just returned from abroad and is said to have some new feats. NORTON AND HEALY—In a clever skit called “Maybe I’m Wrong.” THE UPHAM WHITNEY REVUE —With Jeanne Upham in “Color, Grace and Youth.” INEZ AND DE WYN—Offering “An Art Classic” in "Adagio.” The latter is said to be the form of terpsichorean art in which these two are adept. BUSSEY AND CASE—In a novel comedy offering. They dance, sing and juggle all at the same time. EDWARD AND LEROY—Juvenile singers who have broadcasted over WFBM. The featured motion picture will be “Honor First,” starring John Gilbert, assisted by Renee Adorce. a tt b NOTED ORCHESTRA BOOKED AT LYRIC Probably the best known broadcasting orchestra in the world, the B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord OrHuman Sacrifice.” Through next week the pre-Easter services will continue with sermons each evening. At the Robindale M. E. Church there will be pre-Easter services each evening with the Rev. C. T. Renner, S. L. Welker, Louis Frazier, John Hanger, D. W. Mcßurney and Joe Thompson assisting the pastor, the Rev. Nathan Schoolfield. A splendid Palm Sunday service will be given in the Fairview Presbyterian Church at the morning worship. The quartet of the church, under direction of Mrs. F. T. Edenharter, organist and choir master, will sing Dudley Guck’s “The Story of the Cross,” a paschal cantata of great beauty. The quartet consists of Mrs. Ruth Sterling Devin, soprano; Miss Mildred Schmedel, alto: DcWitt S. Morgan, tenor, and J. Russell Paxton, bass. The Girls’ choir of the church, twenty voices, under direction of Mrs. Harold Devereaux Robinson, will assist. For organ numbers, Mrs. Edenharter will play Frysinger’s “Gethsemane” and "Meditation,” and the “Toccato” by Dußois. At the 7:45 evening worship, Mrs. Devin will sing LaForgc’s “Before Thy Cross” and Lutkin’s “Into the Woods My Master Went.” Dr. Edward Haines Kistler’s evening theme will be “In the Garden, or the Meaning of the Gethsemane.” This church will also join Central North District Good Friday service, 1 to 3, in the Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church. -

chestra, which achieved fame in its concerts from Radio Station WEAF, New York, has abandoned the radio studio and microphone temporarily and is appearing on a tour for the Music Corporation of America. This orchestra will come to the Lyric Theater for a week’s engagement, starting tomorrow afternoon. With the orchestra on its present tour is the radio man of mystery, the “Silver Mask Tenor,” who sings with a mask covering the upper part- of his face and whose identity has never been discovered. The “Silver Mask Tenor” is an Irish singer, possessing a lyric voice. He sang over the radio during the Tuesday concerts of the Silvertown aggregation. Included in the selections they will play are many of the numbers which they have popularized over the radio. They do not endeavor to compete with “jazz" bands, nor do they play anything of what the “Tin Pan Alley” boys call “hot stuff.” Each member of the orchestra is a soloist of exceptional ability. The orchestra is directed by Frank Pinero. The bill will include: MARIO AND R.OSlTA—Present Don Albert and his Argentine rerue of character dances and native songs, featuring the sensational whirlpool Apache. This is a colorful South American show in fitting scenery and costumed as it should be. An Argentine orchestra playing the accompaniment for the tango dancers makes this offering a delightful extravaganza from the Far South. THREE ORONTOS—Wizards of equilibrium, presenting America's only double perch offering. EDMONDS AND FANCHON— Wop comic and his partner, who offer a routine of cross-fire talk intersperse;! with songs and dances in their act called “Moosica.” WILSON AND KEPPELL—“The Bus Boys,” two lively steppers with an original novelty. WARD AND RAYMOND—In some laughter-provoking nonsense, entitled "The Mythologists.” GRAY FAMlLY—Presenting a miniature musical revue. ON THE SCREEN—Charlie Chase comedy, “Aching Youths.” kinoGets Invitation Alice White has been invited to attend the annual prom of Notre Dame University at South Bend, Ind. _

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Lloyd to be at Indiana Soon

The latest comedy of Harold Lloyd's will come to the Indiana 'inemer soon. “Speedy”, the picture, has many of its scenes laid in New York City where Harold, among other things, drives “Only the One” as seen in the accompaning picture.

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The International l niforni Sunday School Leson for April. Jesus the Suffering Messiah. Mark S:2i-3. BY \VM. E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of The Congreßationalist WE are apt in this modern world to forget that in race and heredity, heritage and environment, Jesus was a Jew. The prophetic message of Old Testament writings and times found its highest expression in the hope of a Messiah who should redeem Israel and bring to triumphant expression in the Kingdom of God on earth the plans and purposes ol God concerning His people. Dream of Deliverer In many minds at the time of I Christ's coming this hope had be--1 come almost wholly materialized in | the dream of a deliverer who should [ free Israel from the yoke of Rome, and establish an earthly kingdom |in which Israel should have a primary place among the nations, it was the disappointment of this hope that more than anything else apparently led to the reaction of hostility against Jesus which ended in His death on the cross—this and the fact that Jesus assumed to teach a religion upon His own authority, a thing that the olficial guardians of autho-ity have resented against the free prophets of every age. Just at what stage in the earthly life of Jesus Christ did the con- | sciousness arise that He was to ful- ! fill the prophecies concerning the i Messiah? Just how did the strong ! conviction arise that He had been I born for this end and purpose? This we do not know, but if there |is anything made plain the New j Testament it is the very definite j way in which even from the very beginning of His public ministry Jesus asserts His Mcssiahship. When He speaks .n His own city of Nazareth and reads the language !cf the Old Testament, describing j the mission of the Messiah, telling how He is to preach the gospel to the poor, to set at liberty the I captive, to give sight to the blind, etc.. He rouses His own townsmen to j wrath, as He S3ys, “This day is this ! Scripture fulfilled in your cars.” Significance of Claim If Jesus had made that claim of j Messiaship in the spirit of one who j was seeking to glorify Himself or I under the impulse of seme strange

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psychological hallucination—things that were present apparently in the mind of others who made claim to the Messiahsliip—there would have been litle occasion to consider those claims seriously, or to be studying them today, hundreds of years afterwards. What gave the claim of Jesus to the Mcssiahship its significance, and what has justified that claim in His earthly life and in His place and influence in the world is the way in which Jesus accepted all the obligations and responsibilities of Mcssiahship. He became convinced that Mesiahship meant suffering and sacrifice, that the Messiah was not one who was going to come and save the world through winning honor to himself and through ruling with earthly pomp and authority. Accepting the Cross It was not easy even for our Master to accept the cross. He would not have been truly human, that is, there would have been no real incarnation, if it had been easy. Jesus revealed the fullness of His humanity in the way in which He prayed even to the very last that the cup might pass. But He revealed also the power of His divinity when, despite His human shrinking and weakness. He went all the way in fulfilling the will of God. Hence He has become not the Messiah of the group or of a race, but the Savior of the world, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, through His sorrows and the revelation of His love bringing men to salvation. Signs Bucking Horse “Funeral Wagon,” said to be one of the meanest bucking horses in the West, has just been signed for a part in the next Zane Grey picture “The Vanishing Pioneer” in which Jack Holt has the star role. Sally Blane is the leading woman.

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Musical Show Is Real Hit 'Sunny Days’ Wins Lot of Favor on Gay Broadway, BY DIXIE HINES. NEW YORK, March 31,-Music predominated in the new offerings last week, what with “Happy,” the comedy for which Frank Grey v'rote music that lingers once again entering the list, and the Shubert’s showing “Sunny Days” and Jones <fc Green bringing clever and manifold Joe Cook back to Broadway in “Rain or Shine.” We do not take into account the revue called “Parisiana” which, according to those less fortunate than this scribe who denied himself the chance to see it, is rather a hectic and unsavory affair. “Happy” had too many clever ideas to have been completely lost to this town, although it was compelled to give up its cosy home at one of the theaters which “went movie” for the time being. Now that it is at Daly’s Theater, within sight of Central Park, and Charlie Williams, the new comedian is something that will be remembered, and so will the rest of the cast and the dancing and the music. “Sunny Days” is a musical version of that naughty but nice farce comedy. “A Kiss in the Taxi.” The book and lyrics are by Clifford Grey and William Cary Duncan, and the music by Jean Schwartz, Frank McIntyre. Jeannette MacDonald. Billy B. Van, Carl Randall and others are in the cast, and the Shubert’s have spotted it at the cosy Imperial Theater. Hassard Short made the production, and it has been done well. There are good musical numbers, well and effectively staged, and there is the usual fast working and good looking chorus without which no Shubert show is complete. The story has sufficient piquancy to make it delectable, and altogether “Sunny Days” has made such a pleasing impression that we shall be disappointed if it does not remain with us for some time to come. Another Shubert offering of the, | past week was “The Silent House.’’ 1 an imported mystery play. Here is | bunk glorified. One cannot go into ecstasies over the playwrighting, but one can go into ecstasies of thrills over the weird and strange effects that are usejj to rustle up our gooso flesh, and no stone is left unturned to squeeze every atom of thrill anS excitement out ot a play about a house that has a deep and dark mystery. The owner met sudden death, and his nephew is his beneficiary. Some unknown enemy seeks his death as well, and wherever the poor fellow turns he escapes barely with his life. There are devilish devices scattered i about the stage, and one almost feared for him to sit down lest the I chair explode and blow him up.

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