Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1928 — Page 5

MAY 26, 1928.

MYSTERY COMEDY TO BE OFFERING OF BERKELL PLAYERS

’The Unseen Way' to Open Sunday Night; 'Crime' Will y 4 Be the Stuart Walker Company Play at Keith's, * Starting Monday, A Ml STERY play, said to have all the shivers necessary, will he the vehicle for the Berkell players at English’s beginning Sunday night. “The Unseen Way’’ will be the name of this mystery comedy. Milton Byron, the leading man, is cast as a Hindu mystic, who saunters from a mysterious past into a mj’sterious present. The plot of the story is built around tlife efforts of a gang of

crooks to float several millions of dollars in counterfeit money. As a mystery story should not be revealed for fear of disillusioning the audience, suffice it to say that this vehicle is a splendid treat. This is the fifth week of the Berkell season, and Manager Berkell lias arranged for this type of play for the week of the auto classic. It is now a matter of history that mystery stories head the list of reading material for most men and many women. Coming soon is “Tommy,” the successful play which played here this winter at high prices. The following is the cast of characters and the synopsis of scenes of “The Unseen Way:” Marie Bernice Marsolais Mattson Larry Sullivan Alice Edvthe Elliott Bobby Blake Robert St. Clair Betty Brewster Idabelle Arnold Dr. "Feodor Merski Wm. Worswick Mrs. George B. Holt Mildred Hastings Billy Fernald Bob Fay George B. Holt Harry Foxworth Amir Din Milton Byron A Chauffuer Wiliam V. Hull Synopsis of Scences. Aet I—Between 5 and fi o’clock in the evening. "Where the Road Is Made I Lose My Way." Act 2—Between 8 and 9 o’clock the same evening, "In the Wide Water, in the Blue Sky. There Is No Line of a Track.” Act 3—Between 10 and 11 o’clock the same night. "I Ask My Heart If It Carries the Wisdom of 'The Unseen Way'.” The entire action of the play happens in and about the lounging room of Mr. Holt's residence, near the village of Auburndale, L. I„ New York. The time is the present—the evening, one of the spring season. Note —The request is madejjf those who ; mav witness this play, that they will not divulge the “Who” or the "How” of the j story that is told. nun “CRIME” TO BE WALKER PLAY Not so many months ago the coun-! try was thrilled at the activities of! a band of criminals under the guidance of a sinister young man ■ called “The Candy Kid.” It was j this and similar stories that impelled Sam Shipman and John B. | Hymer to produce “Crime.” “Crime” will be the offering of j the Stuart Walker Company play- | ers at Keith’s all next week. The story of “Crime” deals with j a clever band of criminals under the ! expert guidance of Gene Fenmore, a master criminal and, withal, a charming sort of person. Fenmore insists that the members of his gang must always avoid murder or any violence that may lead to death. Certain of the band, however, have different views on the subject. Fate throws two young people— j

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\ GALA PROGRAM DAY AND EVENING—A LEGION OF FEATURES OPENS SUNDAY DARE DEVIL HUGGINSj EL DIABLO! BASEBALL Triple-Eight Drop | 80-Ft. Fire Dive | Silver Flash vs. Spencer, Ind. -GET IN THE MOVIES~ The Palace Theatre cameraman will “shoot” the crowds at the park to- - morrow. The film will later be shown at the Palace theatre. Get in the movies.

May Tour John Galsworthy’s “Escape” has proven so successful on its brief spring tour that Winthrop Ames is now considering sending it on the road again next % fall, with a well-known star in the leading role. “Escape” ends its present season in Washington, D. C., on May 1.

a boy and a girl who have been robbed by one of the Fenmore gang of the money with which they had planned to be married —into the gang. The one woman in the mob resents Gene Fenmore’s interest in this young girl and this really starts the trouble that almost wrecks the youthful couple’s happiness. The operations of the criminals under Fenmore’s direction is another angle of the play that almost sends the youngsters up the river. In the end, however, the guilty parties are punished and the young lovers find themselves back on the straight and narrow path with the future bright before them. The leading roles will be taken by Gavin Gordon, Muriel Kirkland, Harry Ellerbee and Eugene Powers. The curtain will rise at the opening of “Crime” Monday night at 8:30.

All Talking

The amazing development of Vitaphone culminated this week in an announcement from Warner Bros, that they will shortly produce the first motion picture to have complete dialogue and sound effect throughout. The vehicle selected for this revolutionizing step in film making is Edgar Wallace's play, “The Terror,” which has just been purchased. In “The Terror” Vitaphone will eliminate written words of every kind even to production credits and the introduction of the cast. In Comedy Series Alberta Vaughn has been signed for a series of H. C. Witwer two-reel comedies, ewelve in number, in which she is to be co-featured with A1 Cooke. May Picture A release for the mont* of May will be a comedy entitled “Pay As You Enter” in which Louise Fazenda and Clyde Cooke are co-stars.

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I Parks Will Have Gala Offerings Broad Ripple Has Been Transformed for Opening, With everything in a spic and span condition, Broad Ripple Park will open its summer season tomorrow in a most fitting manner, and in keeping with the general atmosphere that prevails at the park this season with the transformation that has changed the resort into a veritable wonderland. There will be a chance of those visiting the park tomorrow of seeing themselves in the movies, as a camera man will be on hand to “shoot” the crowds, concessions, amusement devices and high lights of the park. This film will later be shown at the Palace Theater. Taking the films will be under the direction of the Cobum Company, local movie producers. A program that will run throughout the day and far into the evening will include a hazardous balloon ascension and triple eight execution of “Daredevil” Huggins, the dean of local “sky pilots.” In the evening the headliner will be El Diablo, who will do an eighty, foot dive through a mass of flames. Aquatic events at the big bathing pool will be featured. A baseball game on the Riley-Herschell field between the team representing Spencer, Ind„ and the local Silver Flash nine will be played in the afternoon. Dancers may step to their heart's content free of charge in the beautiful “Danse Garden” to the music played by Holland’s Golden Orioles. Music will also be furnished by the hugh Victrola said to be the largest of tis kind ever manufactured and the only one of its kind in Indiana. The day’s events will be brought to a close by an elaborate display of fireworks i nthe evening. RIVERSIDE °HAS ANNIVERSARY The silver anniversary of Riverside ' amusement park will be celebrated! this week end, marking the twenty-fifth year of the W. Thirtieth St. fun spot’s existence, and special features will be presented in honor of the event. The third appearance of the “Patent Leather Kid,” Beau Brummel parachute leaper, will occur Sunday afternoon, when the fashion-plate 1 dare-devil of the air will attempt another five-parachute leap from his balloon, “The Spirit of Riverside.” The “Kid,” known in private life as Claude Shafer, announces he will toss a hundred books of Riverside passes from his balloon immediately after leaving the ground Sunday afternoon Another feature of the anniversary celebration will be a showing of the famous Stutz car which won the Pike's Peak hill climb last September. This auto. • which competed against the world’s beset motors and won in the gruelling climb above the clouds, is being shown in various cities over the country, and the Riverside irtanagement has arranged to display it on the new elevated stage in the center of the park, starting this afternoon and continuing until after the Speedway race. The peculiar construction of this i noted car makes it an object of in- ] terest wherever it is shown and it is j thought local motorists and race vis- j itors will relish the chance to get a j close-up of the motor. Indianapolis and Indiana folk are well acquainted with the fact that there is no admission charge to Riverside amusement park, but for i the information of race visitors the management is calling attention to the free features of the fun resort, which include, besides the free admission, the services of free checking, free auto parking, free rest rooms and free attractions.

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I—Harry Hoxworth will be seen in “The Unseen Way,” the new Berkell offering, opening at English’s Monday night.

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Dolores Costello

“Glorious Betsy,” the second Vitaphone talking motion picture drama, *soon to be presented at the Apollo, stars Dolores Costello, with Conrad Nagel featured in the cast. These two players were paired to splendid advantage in “Tenderloin,” the first Vitaphone talking picture play, their success being so pronounced in handling dialogue that they were immediately selected by Warner Brothers for the principal roles in “Glorious Betsy,” the emotional story of the historic love affair between Betsy Patterson, belle of Baltimore, and Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. The spoken word predominates even more in "Glorious Betsy than it did in “Tenderloin.”

At the Apollo

Vitaphone and Movicland vaudeville acts opening at the Apollo today promise a great deal of novel divertisement. "Voices of Italy" is the Movieland feature. It provides audiences with an opportunity to both see and hear Benito Mussolini, the Napoleonic premier of Italy. Vitaphone acts are offered by the Cruse brothers, "rube” musical and singing comedians known as "The Missouri Sheiks” and The Pullman Porters, Kings of Harmony, a quartet of negro singers and fun makers. Leading Man Lawrence Gray will be Colleen Moore's leading man for her next production, "Oh Kay,”

RIVERSIDE lnvites You to Its SILVER ANNIVERSARY

Twenty-five year* ago Riverside Amusement Park came Into being, a small number of fun devices on Thirtieth St. just east of the old White River bridge forming the first amusement park in the city of Indianapolis. Riverside has grown up with modern Indianapolis and it is a far cry from the little group of amusement enterprises of a quarter of a century ago to the mammoth up-to-date Riverside of today, where Indianapolis and a large part of Indiana finds its clean, wholesome, healthy and hilarious fun and recreation.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON The Patent Leather Kid (Claude Shafer) WILL TAKE ANOTHER CHANCE IN FATE’S LOTTERY AND Tumble From the Sky This fashion-plate Beau Brummel of the Clouds will ascend a mite high ovsr the park swinging beneath his monster balloon, “The Spirit of Riverside." He will then attempt to reach the earth in five reckless leaps, using tiny parachutes that scarcely impede his headlong, crashing dive back to Indianapolis. The Kid’s clever.

For Auto Hace Fans— The famous Stutz car which won the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb As now on exhibition on the elevated stage in the center of the park until after the Speedway Race.

ROUNDING THEATERS

THEATRICAL business is changing so much that certain forms of entertainment are taking on nearly nation wide appeal. Some years back, the stock company in the smaller cities was not looked upon as possessing much class. Then Stuart .Walker and others came along and proved to the country that a stock or repertoire company can create actors who will become stars of national importance and at the same time use the services of established New York players.

Dixie Hines of New York writes these interesting lines regarding the stock situation on Broadway: “New York is enjoying a stock company where recently released Broadway plays are being creditably presented at a cost of one dollar for the best seats, his past week a revival of that charming and amusing comedy, ‘ln Love With Love,’ was given, a youthful, attractive and talented young actress named Miriam Meahan being the principal player in the proceedings. Other plays are to follow if patronage justifies, and certainly at a dollar it is the best theatrical buy New York has known for some time. “The several repertoire companies,

Now at Circle

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Dick Powell

Dick Powell is the new master of ceremonies at the Circle Theater. Powell was one of the featured soloists with Charlie Davis’ stage band at the Indiana. This tenor is known through his records, radio appearances and on the stage. Powell is appearing in Spices of 1928,” the Circle stage show and will introduce other performers.

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2—Robert Reilly will be among the important ones present on the bill opening Sunday afternoon at the Lyric.

those now in vogue and others scheduled to function next season, have awakened keen interest among local playgoers, o the long list of English language companies is now added one in a foreign tongue, the Yiddish Art Theatre under Maurice Schwartz. Mr. Schwartz has always gained unusual support from Eng-lish-speaking playgoers largely because his productions have been delightfully done, and the plays have beenchosen with great care from the repertoires of the leading Continental theatres. It is planned to enlist 50,000 playgoers for this enterprise, and many of them will be from the English stage.” Indianapolis knows the value of the stock company. Stuart Walker and Charles Berkell are the leaders here in the history of successful stock. The passing of road shows will place the stock company in a more stronger position than ever. Right now, a move is on foot to determine if Indianapolis wanes a permanent all-year stock company. Stuart Walker is considering this. Have received the following: “Winthrop Ames is the sort of manager who says: ‘Let’s do it now and never mind the consequences’ “, George Arliss told a reporter of the Boston Globe. “If Mr. Ames were not that kind. I probably would not be playing Shylock now. No one can know, until he has experienced it, what a pleasure it is to have such a man for a producer. He literally does not care if he loses $50,000 on a production, if the production pleases him. I am thankful, however, that no money has been lost on this present venture. In fact, ‘The Merchant of Venice’ has broken the records of three different, cities, including Philadelphia, where we played in the famous old Walnut Street Theater.” Mr. Arliss closed his spring tour in Boston on May 19. On October 1. he will begin a tour to the Pacific Coast in “The Merchant of Venice.”

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3—Gavin Gordon has khe leading male role in the Stuart Walker production of “Crime,” opening Monday night at Keith’s.

ROUND With WALTER D. HICKMAN

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Rocky Holland Rocky Holland and his band are now furnishing the dance music at the Broad Ripple Park Dance Gardens. Leading Woman Nora Lane has been selected as leading woman for Fred Thomson in “Kit Carson.’

Irufti (QHiel WEEK OF cflbUon ij MAY 27th BEHKELI PLAYERS PRESENTING • A MAZE OF CHILLS AND THRILLS “•THE UNSEEN WAY” A MYSTERY COMEDY BY DEWITT NEWING Nightly at 8:15 I Wats. Wed., Thins” Sat. Lower Floor, 99c CENTRAL Lover Floor, 50c i STANDARD IVtlconv 55c Balcony, 50c TIME ivucony, .toe Gallery, 23c ij Gallery, -5c !in iisqugi in iiimii ii Inn miwiiii ■ ■Mil iii ii -niT a— —r i SPECIAL DECORATION DAY MATINEE WED., 2:15 WEEKOF I “TOMMY” JUNE 3rd I AN AMERICAN COMEDY

Lyric Has Tabloid Revue Act Siems, - Card Manipulator,; Is Also on the Bill at Variety House, JUST back from a tour in their new tabloid musical comedy and dance revue, Robert Reilly, Irish tenor, and his Kilkenny Queens will be the headline attraction at tahe Lyric next week. The offering is a hodge podge of music and dancing. The Kilkenny Queens are said to be a comedy quartet of singers and dancers, with Mollie and Little Larry. The bill will include: SIEMS—An expert of legerdmain, Siems is said to have performed in every capital from Pekin to Paris, from London to Washington and is adept at the manipulation of e&rffsM’GILL AND BEATTY—In a comedy entitled “Vigo.” EXPOSITION JUBILEE FOUR— A colored quartet who will sing Southern melodies of the past and present. ETA I LOOK HOY—In “Fantasia Chinese,” introducing the original Chinese flapper. Etai Look Hoy is a Chinese female impersonator and is assisted by Lida Hoy and Henry Mora at the piano. JACK AND JERRY WALLER— Two young people in a collegiate show in which they sing, dance and play various musical instruments and have some new stories. Their act is entitled “Jest With Us.” BRUNO WEISE AND COMPANY —European importation novelty offering a fast routine of balancing and music interspersed with comedy. ON THE SCREEN—A Fox Comedy, “Jank and Jilted”; a color classic, “Girls of Today”; and educational film, “Flight to Paris,” and Kinograms News Reel.

All the Katz’

Allen Katz and his Kittens whose musical purring have been a sensation in the West and Southwest have arrived in New York City where they have been signed for vaudeville. One of Katz’s hobbies which will probably be permitted to stage in the various cities on his tour, is, Alley Cat contests. Uses Wig For the first time in many months, Mary Astor covers her auburn tresses with a wig—and a white one at that—for certain scenes in “Heart to Heart,” wherein she and .Lloyd Hughes are featured.

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