Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 320, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1928 — Page 5

MAY 5, 1928_

STUART WALKER OPENS HIS SEASON MONDAY AT KEITH’S

George Gaul, Marie Adels Play Leads in ‘Why Marry?’ —Milton Byron to Be Seen as Nifty Miller in ‘The Barker’ at English’s, MONDAY night, the tenth season of repertory of the Stuart Walker Company gets under way with the three-act Pulitzer prize comedy, “Why Marry?” The curtain rises at S:o0. Plans for a typical Stuart Walker night arc all completed. The leading roles in this first, production will be taken by George Gaul. Marie Adels, Larry Fletcher, Regina Stanfiel, Judith Lowry, Aldrich and William lngersol.

All of them are New York stars and are known in Indianapolis except Miss Adels, who is Walter Hampden’s leading lady. Six of the seven leading players of the Theatre Guild are with the Stuart Walker Company and will he seen at Keith's during the summer season. Among those who will appear here are Elliot Cabot. Elliot Nugent, McKay Morris, Blanche Yurka, Vivian Tobin, Regina Stanfiel, George Gaul, Larry Fletcher, Marie Adels, Beulah Bondi, Gavin Gordon, John Wray, Jack Storey, Ernest Cossart, Elizabeth Patterson, Elizabeth Taylor, Pauline Breustedt, Muriel Kirkland, George Alison, Margaret Douglass, William Ingersoll. Walter Vonnegut and a host of others. “The Jest,” by Sem Benelli, the play in whi.ch John and Lionel Barrymore reached the peak of their geniuses, is the production Mr. Walker offers the second week, beginning Monday night. May 14, “The Jest" is a play of the sexes and has one of the most beautiful love themes ever attempted on any stage. “Saturday's Children.” by Maxwell Anderson, which had over a year's run in New York and considered one of the best plays produced there in the past two seasons, will be the Stuart Walker production for the third week, beginning Monday night. May 21. There will be performances every night of the Stuart Walker players ! and two matinees. Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Marie Adels, has been Walter Hampden's leading lady for two seasons. She has contracted to appear with : Mr. Walker’s repertory companies j for ten weeks only. tt a a “THE BARKER” TO OPEN AT ENGLISH'S The happy romantic memories of the old-time carnival show, where! confetti, snake charmers, dancing Hula girls and ginger ale held high one’s interest in the human side of. life, will be found at English's next; week. This touch of nature is painted in “The Barker” which the Berkel!' Players will present for their second j show of the season, beginning Sunday night at English's. When J. Kenyon Nicholson, native Hoosicr, gave this show to the stage. 1

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In Picture Winnie Jones. 17-year-old daughter of Philetus Jones, Mormon leader in Rockville, Utah, will appear in important bits in the western picture. "The Vanishing Pioneer,’’ which just completed important sequences on a location trip to the town.

!he probably little dreamed in his fi.rst playwriting efforts that his i product would be rated as one of the best melodramas produced in i ten years. It was immediately seized upon by Edgar Selwyn who first produced it in New York in a solid year's run. Later it took Chicago by storm and now it is appearing in stock where nominal prices will permit all to see it. The author, formerly a native of Crawfordsvillc and later of this city, will witness the Bcrkcll presentation next week. Other Crawfordsvillians arc planning also to come in to the city to share with their former comrade the glory which he has carried, for they know that his first knowledge of carnival life was gleamed from the big tops which used to spread their broad wings over the circus grounds of their own little city. Where, perhaps. he even lifted the tent's edge and crawled under to see the funny antics of the clowns. “The Barker” is a gripping story of the people who form a little band of performers in a traveling carnival. It is built around their loves, their laughter and their hatred. The talk of the play is real circus dialog. It has two main scenes which will carry its audience back to the old Midway of twenty years ago. Milton Byron will portray Nifty Miller, manager and barker for the shows. Edythe Elliott will appeal a$ the Hula girl whose shredded wheat dancing will appear as vivid as that cn the baech of Waikiki. All of the members cf the present cast will be seen in excellent roles, while some minor parts will be played by local people. Clast as Support Edmund Burns, William V. Mong and Blue Washington has been signed to support Lois Wilson in ' Ransom.”

AMUSEMENTS

Park to Open at Nights Riverside Management Announces Opening Date, STARTING tonight. Riverside •amusement park will be open every evening throughout the summer, it was announced today by the management. Beginning next Saturday, which is the formal opening date for Riverside, the park will be open both afternoon and evening. Although the extremely cool weather of the past few weeks has prevented Riverside from keeping open continuously, it has afforded opportunity for the big force of carpenters and painters to practically complete the many new features. Funland, the castle-like building in the north end of the park, is proving an object of intense interest to carly-seascn visitors. Entrance is had through massive prison-like gates. Hundreds of surprises greet the patron as he threads the mysterious and cavernous passageways. Halfway through his journey the traveler in Funiand emerges into daylight on a broad balcony high up on the sides of the building, from whence is obtained a view of the landscaped courtyaTd with its flowers and fountains. BROAD RIPPLE HAS NEW FUN EVENTS Broad Ripple Park has installed many new fun events for the coming season, one of them being the Palace of Illusions, where one enters through an imposing portal to become bewildered and highly amused by the mysterious happenings in the inner recesses. This is one of the many new fun attractions. Another is Fairlyland Station, where the passengers take passage for a trip through a maze of wonders. All of the old favorites will be in operation along with the new ones when the park opens its season Sunday, May 27. These include the Ski, the long and thrilling coaster ride, the Tumble Bug. the Whip. Blue Beard's Castle, Ferris Wheel. Sea Plane, Shoot-the-Chutes, skating rink, dance garden, -where you dine and dance, scooters. Custer cars, Kentucky Derby. Skee ball and others. At the bathing beach, where the huge filtering plant insures pure drinking water to swim in, many elaborate changes have been made. One of the most enjoyable features being the installing of white sand from Lake Michigan around the entire pool. An imposing structure has been erected to cover the entire filtration plant. Shrubbery and mature trees have been set out along “Joy Lane" as the midway will be known this season.

Film News

BY GEORGE H. BEALE tailed Press Staff Correspondent Hollywood, May s.—Mary Pickforcl and her illustrious husband. Douglas Fairbanks, have > gone to Europe, leaving behind them trail of denials centering on the possible retirement of “America’s Sweetheart.” Before he left Hollywood, Doug gave out the statement that he believed his wife would make at least two pictures before she left the screen forever. United Artists joined in the protest that followed printed stories of Miss Pickford’s retirement. But the screen colony things that the pioneer woman star will never be seen on the sefeen again. Close friends cf the former “Bilferaph Mary” state that unless she changes her mind while abroad she will not make any more pictures. A minority opinion holds that she will play in one more film and in that one her leading man will be Douglas Fairbanks. Doug and Mary in the same picture could break box-office records. In line with retirements, It is reported that William S. Hart is getting restless as the proprietor of a modern ranch and is almost ready to come back to the kleigs. Despite his long absence from film work he probably is still rated as the best two-gun man Hollywood has produced. Ruth Roland has postponed her real estate dealings long enough to make a series of serials. She has been in retirement almost three years. Mary McLaren spent fifteen months as the wife of a British army officer in India, eighteen months recuperating from illnesses caused by the privations of life at an isolated camp and is now ready to return to the screen. First she plans to divorce Col. G. H. Young, and then return to the first love. D. W. Griffith made “The Battle of the Sexes” in 1913 at an estimated cost of $2,500. The picture was one of the most successful ever in the matter of returns and it netted almost $500,000. Lillian Gish and Owen Moore starred. Griffith will make the same picture for United Artists this year. This time he expects to spend $400,000 to place it on the screen. Jean Hersholt and Phyllis Haver will be featured. Preparing to open the first full university course in the technics of motion picture production. Professor W. R. MacDonald of the University of South California, has been preparing a survey at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Jesse Lasky estimates it would cost him SB,OOO to buy tickets for the motion picture productions he has seen in the past fifteen years. He sees four pictures a week on an average, he says.

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Dusty Rcadcs The soloist with the Emil Seidel orchestra a. Loews Palace is i Dusty Reeder, who is veil known both on the stage and over radio.

Charm Hunt

In her search for something to ward off the accident curse that seems to have followed her during the greater pari of her career, Bebe Daniels is offering a prize. If a woman is the owner of the charm Miss Daniels selects she will give that woman a fine gown. If a man is the winner he will get from Bebe j a finger ring of her own design. 1

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I—Georg? Gr.ul. vh o.vtll he seen in “Why Marry?” the opening play (hat the Stuart Walker Company willjivc at Keith’s, starting Monday evenuig. 2 Nc*'l Kirk will be seen in one of the headline acts at the Lyric, starting Sunday. 3 "The Barker” will he (he second play of the Bcrkcll riayers, with Edythe Elliott in the leading female part, beginning Sunday night.

ROUNDING THEATERS

iv tew YORK managers arc now attaching more importance than ever In to the rto*k comprnicg in the other cities. There arc many reasons fer this because legitimate road conditions have not ben what they should be in recent years. t The stock company is now doing a most important mission in keeping the stage alive in many cities not only in the winter but in the summer.

Lester A1 Smith, president of the Theatrical Stock Managers' Association in New York, writes me the following letter: 39ree d..v v lion vou nrp not too fit', tip with subjects to write shout why no: Mat* our views on the rapid growth r' Uir irimfcer of dramatic stork com-pani'-s throughout the continent? You mat or may not know that thee ate loda’ In operation over ISO stocks. Iv far the largest number In history. Th- ICO companies are divided bet wen about 140 cities as omc communities have two or more, such as Chicago, Los *. . Boston. San Francisco and Toronto. . , , A’.l these companies present plays or good quality, all are filled with Equity casts, and r cry one is an outpost of the spoken drama. In many cases the drama would he entirely missing were it not for Hie local i • irie.it company. Tile New York pmdticcr., o aim that the drama is unprontah> outside of tlje largest, cities, the took managers seem to prove otherwise. What do vou think about it? Smith then attached a statement written by himself which goes into detail about the stock situation as well e.s the "road" as follows: Not. so long ego touring companies seni out tv New ork producers provided tiie major portion of dramatic (are for most peopie Today, however, for many reasons, ti e "road" shows reach onlv the largest cities, hut the gap caused by their defection has been admir ablve filled by resident dramatic stock companies. Os these there are today over 160 in operation. All of them presenting plays of good Quality, with cast composed of Actor's Equitv Association members. Some veals ago stock was t? some extent a summer attraction. but it is now a staple year-round busines, with nearly a mi lion patrons weekly. nramn lovers throughout the Unitrn

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States and Canada are able to see the lines. New York plays at moderate prices through the enterprise of the stock managers, and stock is last becoming the favorite family recreation. The ICOcompanies are divided but ween about 140 cities, as some communities have two or more companies, such as Boston. San Francisco, Chicago. Los Angeles and Toronto. The motive of this article is to point out that Hie drama is in a flourishing condition everywhere, and is appreciated br hundreds of thousands of people besides those living in New York. Chicago and Philadelphia And the credit for this must, to a large extent, be given to tlm manv stock companies. Os course the readers of this department know very vied what I think about stock in this city. I believe that it is as much a civic essential as good roads or good city government. For years Stuart Walker has carried the name of Indianapolis all over, the country because of his excellent productions both at the Murat and Keith’s. He has brought many of the foremost men and women of the stage as members of his companies. Charles Bcrkcll at English’s "has AMUSEMENTS

IP "• ■ ■ ; | OPENS TtNTH ifiOiANAPOUS SEASON I I fefc Wliy MaFFy?” ™™ Y J jig nv JESSE f.YM’H MiI,I.IAMS Ui BY* WITH THE GUEATEST CAST OF STARS EVER ASSEMBLED HERE jl Bv LNFLIDING y‘ K\ George Haul * ;' <lo,s Larry Fletcher fi SB llegina Stantte. ‘ wiiilnm AldHch Uowker J RfAk Hear the Stuart Walker [.layers oxer WFUM Minfla.x eiening between 0:1*0 and 7. JV

j N py|| y pp ' [burlesque theatre ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY! SHE’S RED HOT—DOLLY LEWIS S T S WOW! “OPAL” AND HOW? SHE’S jus b t ad to ° ESTER LANG ■9 6

MERRY WHIRL AND “OH, BABY,” WHAT A WHIRL! Here is ihe Artist and Model, Vanities, Passing Show of Burlesque, Speedier than the Hispano. AHD HOT FORGETTING THE GINGER CHORUS GF IS FLUTTERING FLAPPERS

Back Again

Frank Fay, who almost established himself as a comedy institution at the Palace. New York, where he appeared last, summer for a "run" cf ten weeks, is back in vaudeville billed as "The Aristocratic Vagabond.”

; proven his worth ns a producer of plays of wide appeal. He stands as a marvelous example of getting the right contact with his audiences. He believes in making his audiences i feel at home and as lie said on the opening night of the present seai son: "Just write us a letter, tell j us what you want to see and we will do it.” Indianapolis is probably the most j fortunate city in this country when j it comes to the stock situation. To Extend Tour Tom Mix, the movie star, who is appearing in vaudeville with his famous horse, Tony, in a riding rootin', toolin', sheetin’ novelty presI entatien, will extend his tour.

:■■ i jiLSKuiIKNT PARK Spesa From Now Om As (lie Mammoth Pleasure Resort goes on Us regular summer schedule you are rordia <ty invited to come out and see the many new features and enjoy the hospitality of THE CAPITAL CITY OF FUNLAND

WITH THE

Ballet to Top Bill at Lyric Day and Aileen Featured in Lead Variety Offering. THE "Ballet Caprice." presented by George Choos, featuring Day and Aileen. will be the headline attraction at the Lyric next week. Ballet Caprice is one of George Choos’ big productions and is given in seven scenes, with a large group of talent employed to carry out the beautiful dancing and comedy scenes. Supporting Day and Aileen are W. Wania. John Joyce. Maybrey Hokanson, Dorin Keegan and Florcna Simonson. Sharing headline honors with the Ballet Caprice is the Ziegfeld Follies “Shadowgraph.” a funny laughing illusion as originally presented in the Ziegfeld "Follies.” Glasses are supplied for this act tho illusions arc puzzling as well as thrilling. ROWLAND AND JOYCE—Two comedy purveyors presenting a skit: entitled "The Eighteenth Hole.’* This is a golf burlesque which skits the royal and ancient game to perfection—each participant shooting' \ jests in the direction of the audi- | cnce. LES JARDYS—Present a novelty , act entitled "The Human Fan.” Tha 1 act closes with a novel trick, a man whirling a lady around and around from the top of a perch at great speed, attaining a maximum of , forty-five revolutions per minute, thus creating a veritable “Human 1 Fan.” NEIL KlßK—"Tire Scotch Comedian With a Voice,” with a monolog and a repertoire of Lauderish songs, i MACK AND TIVOLI—In a cleverly devised act, “Divorce,” the sub- | ject of which is of interest to ail : suffering husbands. 1 NOLA AND WYNN ST. CLAIR— Present a comedy skit entitled “Tha 1 Same Old Story.” ON THE SCREEN—Our Gang I comedy, “Yale vs. Harvard;” an Ed- ; gar Guest poetic jewel, “Sea Dreams,” a Universal comedy, | “Money, Money,” and Kinograms. For Vaudeville Tour Vi'ma Pataky, celebrated light I opera prima donna of Hungary, lias j arrived in this country to tour vaudeville stages.

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