Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1928 — Page 6

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JANNINGS’ ‘STREET OF SIN’ OPENS AT INDIANA THEATER

Dolores Del Rio to Be Seen in ‘Ramona’ at Loew’s Palace, Starting Today—Dick Powell Will Head Circle Bill, EMIL JANNINGS, the character actor at" motion pictures, is the star of “The Street of Sin,” his latest production. The picture is shown together with “Sun Shades,” the John Murray Anderson stage show in which Charlie Davis and his band are featured. Stuart Barrie, world's premier solo organist, has another novelty entitled “A Musical Story,” conceived and arranged by himself.

“The Street of Sin” is said to be greater than* 1 Faust,” “Variety,” “The Last Laugh,” “The Last Command,” and “The ’Way of All Flesh.-” Jannings portrays ~ the role of a *‘Limey,” an Englishman known as “Basher Bill,” an ex-prize fighter. In a melodramatic setting in East Limehpuse, London't slum, Bill rules the district with his fists. Into this atmosphere comes a girl who represents the exact opposite of Bill. Mauritz Stiller, who directed Pola Negri in her two greatest pictures, wielded the megaphone in this picture. Fay Wray, George Gotsonaros and Olga Baklanova are in the cast. Jce Jackson, pantomimist, in his tramp bicycle act, heads Charlie Davis’ stage shew, “Sun Shades.” George Griffin, lyric tenor, and Rosette, toe dancer, and the Three Wainwright Sisters, harmony singers, add both color and melody to the program. Max and his “gang” are an acrobatic act with, trained icx terriers. The Foster Girls are seen in another novel series of dance routines, featuring their trapeze number in which the entire company dances on trapezes. a a a "•RAMONA” TO BE AT LOEWS PALACE Dolores Del Rio's first starring vehicle after recognition of her work an ''Resurrection'’ and “What Price Glory,” opens today at Loew’s Palace The title of the picture is “Ramona,” and is adapted from the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson. Edwin Carewe, the director, has abided by the story—so vital a matter in this case—by not changing one thing or detail in the story. “Ramona” is a tale of early California—the days of the mission Indians—their trials and their tribulations. And "Ramona” came into being during that period. The story has a love interest in the tale of the half-breed Indian girl who is in love with two men, one Indian and one Spanish. Warner Baxter plays Alessandro, the Indian. Roland Drew has the part of Don Felipe, the Spaniard. 1 Vera Lewis is the sinister , menace to the story. There are said to be five dramatic elements to the story. The elopement of Ramona with Alessandro, the death of' their baby, the massacre of defenseless Indians by a band of outlaws, the murder of Alessandro and the restoration of Ramona’s memory. “Ramona” has a theme song of the. same name now in the height of its popularity and the novel is in its ninety-second edition. Mort Harris provides a show having Spanish atmosphere titled “In Old Madrid.” The settings are the creation of Arthur Knorr. In the cast are Kendall Copps, Helen Swan, Frank Corbett, the Hoosier Rockets, Dusty Roades. the Palace stage, orchestra. Emil Seidel as master of ceremonies and others. An overture, the news reel and a Lester Huff organ solo complete the show. a a a DICK POWELL LEADS CIRCLE SHOW The'program at the Circle, beginning today, will inc’uue the stage show, “Spices of 1928.” in which Dick Powell, the master of ceremonies, is featured. Billie Dove will be the star of the feature picture, “The Yellow Lily.” Powell was one of the featured soloists with Charlie Davis’ stage band at the Indiana. The tenor is known through his records and radio appearances as well as his appearance on the Indiana stage. Ed Resener, conductor of the Circle orchestra, is offering as the overture, “Schubert Melodies,” n symposium of the most known compositions by Germany’s writer 1 of lieder. Dessa Byrd will provide an organ interlude during the overture. “Spices of 1928,” with the Circle Comets, a drilled dancing ensemble, opening the show with an original descriptive dance conceived by Marjorie Alton. Toots Novello, an acrobatic clown, presents his dance routine. Crandall and Marley are two “hoofers”

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Hard Job Changing costume for “The Divine Lady” is no simple task, as Corinne Griffith, can testify. The gowns of the early nineteenth century were quite intricate affairs but excepionally lovely.

who will give their burlesque swan dance. Mirth Mack, songstress and comedienne, occupies a niche in the proceedings. Ford, Marshall and Jones are three dancers. Billy Meyers, , tenor, has been added to the Circle’s staff of entertainers. Clive Brook, Gustav von Seyffertitz and Nicholas Soussanin are chief in the cast supporting Billie Dove in “The Yellow Lily.” It tells of a ruthless heart-breaker who has left a trail of love affairs behind him. He attempts his gallantry upon an unsuspecting country miss and meets his first opposition. SYD CHAPLIN AT THE APOLLO Winchell Smith’s stage play “The Fortune Hunter,” filmed under the direction of Charles F. Reisner, with Syd Chaplin as its star, is tthe attraction at the Apollo starting today, and provides Chaplin with an opportunity to garner fresh laurels as a fun maker. Incidentally Reisner is the man who directed all of Syd’s previous hits. He was long associated with Charlie Chaplan as co-director and actor. All the mirth and humanity'of the stage play is said to be -found in the picture which unfolds the story of a young go-getter, down as to luck, who is inspired by a mercenary pal to seek riches via the marriage route.- With this in mind the youth, Nat Duncan, played by Chaplin, invades a Vermont village determined to lay siege to the heart of the wealthiest heiress. Nat gets a job in the drug store and poses as a model young man. Soon he is being wooed by all the belles and near-belles, among them the boarding house mistress and the fat waitress. His triumphal march also includes the winning of the town banker's beautiful and bejeweled daughter. Then his pal arrives on the scene, a robbery is committed and the dapper fortune hunter becomes enmeshed in the complications that follow. Chaplin is supported by an excellent cast headed by Helen Costello. Other players include Clara Horton, Duke Martin, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Kruger and' Louise Carver. The program contains a Movietone special, * “Voices of Italy,” in which Mussolini, dynamic Italian premier, is seen and heard, and Vitaphone vaudeville Acts by Cruse Brothers, “rube” musical comedians, and the Pullman Porters, “Kings ofHarmony.” a a a OHIO TO HAVE DOUBLE BILL Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Monte Blue, Betty Bronson, George K. Arthur, William Russell and George Stone are the stars in the two features being shown on this week’s program at the Ohio Theater. “Wickedness Preferred,” is one of the series of Lew Cody-Aileen Pringle comedies, which deals with an author who would like to be as wicked as the characters he writes about in his books. His wife is less romantic in that respect and the complications which insue after such a situation make much of the entertainment of the picture. Monte Blue and Betty Bronson are the stars of “Brass Knuckles,” a tale of a crook who isn’t as crooked as he thinks. It shows his regeneration through his love for a girl who has sought his protection. The usual shorter subjects are also included on the program. AT FOUNTAIN SQUARE THEATER Greta Garbo and Lars Hansen will be the stars in the “The Devine Woman,” to be at the Fountain Square Theater, Sunday and Monday. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday “The Legion of the Condemned,” with Gary Cooper and Fay Wray heading th-i cast, will be shown. “Ford and Glenn, Juniors,” will be in the cast of the stage show at this time. On Friday and Saturday, William Haines and Alice Day will be seen

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1— Dolores Del Rio is seen in the leading role in “Ramona,” at Loew’s State, start- —Syd Chaplin in a scene from “The Fortune Hunter.” opening today at the Apollo, ing today. I—Billie Dove is seen in "The Yellow Lily,” now on view at the Circle. 2 Emil Jannings as he appears in “The Street of Sin,” ouening today at the Indiana. s—Betty Bronson as she appears in “Brass Knuckles,” now at the Ohio.

Bel Canto Club and Other Organizations of Indianapolis Plan Interesting Programs

THE Bel Canto Club will hold its May meeting. Sunday, May 27, at. 3 o'clock, at the home of Miss Esther Lefkovits, 3969 Carrollton Ave. The guest artists on the program will be Dorothea Hogle, pianist; William Hogle, whistler, and Richard Colmer, violiinst.

The program In charge of Miss Gertrude Conte is as follows: Piano—' Rondo Cappriccioso".. Mendelssohn Dorothea Hogle Vocal — My Heart at Thy Sneer, Voice" from "Samson and Delilah "..Saint-Saens Mabel LeFerre Violin — "Love Song" Franklin “Ave Maria" Rach-Gounod Richard Colmer Vocal—"Afia Antica" Giordani Esther Lefflovits Vocal—“ Aria" from "Mignon" Thomas Mrs. E. Clampitt Lecture— What Becomes of Sounds" by the famous violinist. Letizia Caico Mabel LcFevre Music Notes Mildred Williamson Vocal—“ The Last Rose of Summer Moore Genevieve Yundt Report of the Bel Canto Opera Class Activities Gertrude Conte “From the Land of the Sky Blue Waters” Cadman

in “The Smart Set.” Pat Lane and his merry Mad Gang, as well as anew orchestra, will be at every presentation on the stage and at the Sunday matinee. a a a PROBLEM MOVIE AT THE COLONIAL “The Port of Missings Girls,” said to be a problem movie, will be shown attlie Colonial starting today. It is said that the picture takes the case of one Ruth King, the daughter of a well-to-do family and shews the results of her straying away from her home. The picture attempts to answer the question of what happens to the 75,000 girls that are reported missing every year in the United States. Ruth King is rescued from her dangers by a kindly young bootlegger. Barbara Bedford has the leading female role and that of the bootlegger is taken by Malcoln McGregor. Others in the cast are Wynham Standing, Hedda Hopper, Natalie Kingston, George Irving, Rosemary Theby, Charles Gerard, Bodil Rosing, Amber Norman and Edith Yorke.

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Moment Musical" Schubert William Houle The Bel Canto Club will have its annual picnic on the first Sunday in June with the A. S. F. Club, also of the Irvington School of Music, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Hogle. , a a a WTLMA DAVIS of the dramatic art department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present her pupils in a recital on Monday evening. May 28. Those on the program are: Billie Jean Sylvester. Betty Lou Shaw, Betty Jo laughner. Evelyn Koehler. Imoeene and Margaret Laughner. Dorothy June B’nton. Margaret and Helen Ruth Berry. Pauline Glidewell. Mildred Wilson. Madonna Hessler, Hester Sutton, Marie Thomas. Bomar Cramer, artist piano teacher of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present Virginia Lucas in a recital on Tuesday evening. May 29. Miss Lucas will give the following program: "Siciliana” Respigh Sonata A Major Scarlatti "Sonata Op No 3" Beethoven Prpillons Op. 2" Schumann "The White Peacock" Griftes "Jeaux d'Eau" Ravel Tango Turtna "Triana" Albcnlz Louise Pursell Powell of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present her pupils in a spring dancing recital on Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2, at 8:45 p. m., at the Little Theatre Playhouse. Those who will take part in the program are: Baby Ballet—Dorothy Hartman. Jean Ludwig, Gloria Strashun. Geraldine Shanessey, Betty Jane Miller. Barbara Jean Jones. Nadine Crosby, Jenny Lind Duncan. Baraba Clifton. Rose Mary Selga. Leona Mae Collins, Betty Ann Glatter, Janet Gregory. "Tiller Routine”—Marjorie Robbins, Louise Hanley. Fredrlcla Goodman. Cathleen Horton. Shirley Barnett. Marguerite Atkins. Jane Strashun, Estelle Ruth Cohen. Dutch Bullet—Janet Malarky, Sally Williams, Ruth Traugott. Betty Spickelmler, Helen Asher. Shirley Howell, Marlon Horton, Phyllis Greenburg. Jane Crosby, Cathleen Horton, Marjorie Robbins. Wooden Soldiers—Barbara Spencer. Harriet Shelhorn. Caroline Jaeger. Joyce Lindsay. Patsy Lou Nichols. June Haltom, Doris Brown. Nancy Wolfe. Bettv Cocking. Mar-

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garet Mae Ernst. Trances Harrington. Bel! Hops—Helene Sternberger. Catherine Goodwine. Marjorie Sternfcls, Leah Whaley. Oneta Frankiin. Dorothy Jackson. Oriental Ballet—Grctchcn Seidel. Margaret Campbell. Marian Seeds. Ruth Rich. Helen Thrasher, Etta Louise Robertson. Gertrude Soeurt. lone Tu'lis. Margaret Monks, Leslie and Dorothy Wilshire. Japanese Dancers—Suzam e Nolin, Patsy Jean Rhodes. Jean Taylor, Joan Craig. Marian Wilcox. Ruth Ann Lett. Virginia I,ou Free. Joephlne Mangold. Marian Dreiss and Virginia Davis. Solo Dancers—Bobby Lipton. Mariorie Sternfels. Jane and Nadine Crosby, William Cowley, Bettv Woolling. Marv Elizabeth Mvers, Estelle Ruth Cohen. Dorothy McCleaster. Jane Harding. Helene Sternberger, Catherine Leppert. Leah Whaley. Oneta Franklin. Dorothy Jackson. Louise Hanley, Barbara Clifton and Jean Evelyn Ludwig. Edna Croan of the piano department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present her pupils in an evening recital, or Friday evening, June 1. Those taking part are as follows: Mary Kershner. Bettv Brocg. Elizabeth Drum. Roberta Wiese, Patricia Fli k, Katherine Lainmert. Lucile Noland. Bt rbara Downs. Gerald Eaton. Hugo Pfennit g. Fay Van Arendonk, Carl Withner, Rc,emary Moore. Marian Barnes, Tom Elrod, Gilbert Smith. Robert Croan. Irving Mendenhall. Ruth Baltmah. Virginia Hitchcock, Esther Kelgeson. Katherine Robinson. Rita Johnson, Shirley Bartlett and Thetis Townsley. The semi-monthly students recital wiii be held on Saturday afternoon, June 2. The program is in charge of Myia Clippinger. Those taknig part are: Helen Emily Walls, Lois Shapiro. Lillian Brady. Warren Hoy. Emogcne Ftousch. Jasemlne Bush. Bettie Alpha Bloom. Jean Knowlton. Tula Smyrnis. Marjorie Cronin. Marian Wilson Billie Jean Sylvester. Bettv Lou Shaw. Imogene Laughner. Margaret. Laughner, Dorothy Jfine Benton. Margaret

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t Another Big Ail Vitaphone Production Today*' UPROARIOUS AMNTU&CSOFAMSE GUV WHO CAME TO GET 4NO STAVED TO 6IVt""SYD"m MEVEft BETTEft ad CtopUn g me meant to madrv the richest girl TO jO&J' BE FOUND-BUT FATE HAD OTHER PUMSMIME HUNIER SVD CHAPLIN-TRIUMPHS AS THE STAC-BRILLIANTLY SUPPORTED BY THE LOVELY SISTER OF DOLORES " Helena Costello EXTRA M special E —EXTRA s S.-.“ MUSSOLINI Dynamic Italian Premier, in “VOICES OF ITALY” %•** * , • VITAPHONE ACTS CRUSE BROTHERS I PULLMAN PORTERS “The Missouri Sheiks’’ • “Rings of Harmony” ABMillO BA . R ™- TSALL SEATS .... 25c

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Tat Lane For his stage name, A! Leane, dancer, has taken the name of Pat Lane because his feet go pit-ter-patter on the stage. He is now head of the stage show at the Fountain Square. He recently returned from a London engagement, but his home is in Indianapolis and lie is proud of that fact. Prentice, Martha Johnson. Virginia Davis and Melvin Brown. They are pupils of Eleanor Saunders, May Gorsuch. Iva Duckwall, Helen Sommers, Wilma Davis Hine, Gertrude Whelan and Lucile Yow. ana THE pupils of Frances Beik of the dramatic art department will give their graduation recital

at the Central building of the Metropolitan School of Music Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. There will be three playlets. They arc as follows : ( “Sonata No. 1" IF Majori Grieg "Allegro con Drlo" "Allegretto u asi Andantinp" “Allegro Mol'o Vivace" “Tes Yeaux” (Your Eyesi Rabey "Fruhlings nacht” (Spring Nighti Schumann "Rimmanlo" 'Serenade .Tosellt "On Wings of Song" Mendelssohn-Achron "Sicilicnne and Rigrudon" Francoeur-Kretslcr j “Nocturne" Lili Boulanger ! Concert March" . . Krcutzcr-Saar "1 Heard You Singing" Coates "A Symphony in Yellow Grides "The House That Jack Built" Homer! "Concerto" iG Minor' Bruch! Allegro Moderato ' "Adagio” “Finale" a a a THE piano students of Francis H. Topmiller. assisted by Miss Ruth \ Stein, dramatic reader, will be presented in a recital Sunday, May 27,! at 3 p. m„ in the Beville Avenue Evangelical Church. Those who will play are: Paul Bogard, Bernard Burckhart. P.obert Amick, Phyllis Smith. Dorothy Garritson. Billie Hatfield. Virginia Rose. Catherine Means, Lucille Clark. Dorotny Carter, Donald dark, Clay Hall, Harriet Cracraft. Katherine Quinn. Anna Marie Quinn, j Sarah Jane Wyatt, Dorothy Carlsen. Ber- j nice Williams. Ruth Virginia Williams, Glenn Pride. Frederick Johnson. Rosemary i Burkhart. Harry Carr. Mildred Twiet- i meyer. Juanetla Morris, Doris Goodman, | Jewel Van Sant. a a a THE date of the musicale to be held by Zeta chapter of Sigma Alpha lota, national musical fraternity, which was to have been May 25, has been changed to Friday evening, June 1. This is the last musicale of the season and will be attended by recent initiates, both active members and patronesses. A feature of the program will be a talk by Mrs. Frank Cregcr on (Turn to Page 7)

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NO W PL A YING The picture supreme DCLO^^^ *RAMON?^ with Warner Baxter United Artists Picture “Ramona” is in the air everywherc. Don’t fail to see “2 C ! .‘7.,’1, this great picture. “;* c \ lO h 1 • •)0c Evenings and special Sundays presentation Children Always 2oc “RAMONA" Falace Concert Orchestra Emil Seidel conducting; LESTER HUFF AT THE ORGAN *in old mad rid* WITH SUNSHINE SAMMY in person, formerly of “Our Lang” comedies, Kendall Capps, Frank Corbett, Helen Swan, Iloosier Rockets, Palace Stage Orchestra, EMIL SEIDEL conducting. lICVT CUT t'ILJIA GRAY IN I*KKSO.N AM) ON THE ntAI DAL SCREEN’ IN ‘ THE DEVIL DANCER’’

MAY 26, .1923

High Hatters Considered Amateurish George C. Tyler Revives ‘She Stoops to ' .jtf Conquer,’ By DIXIE HINES NEW YORK, May 26.—1f all the dark theaters on Broadway I could foregather, they might easily pull the biggest whoopee party of I the sea; on. Except for a couple of first-rate plays, those that have arrived during- hte part fortnight have been poor things inoeed. There was, for instance, that queer combination of amateurishness, puerility and utter junk called “The High Hatters." It is something that would rate high among the pointless plays of the season, and most roundly was it roasted by the gentlemen of tne press. The next night Strindberg's masterful tragedy, “The Father,” was presented. A man named Whittier “'as the chief actor, adaptor and producer, and Mr. Whittier easily wins the leather medal as being the worst actor ever seen on Broadway in a 1 leading role. Not even the power of the play, nor the skill of several members of the cast could save Mr. Whittier and his quaint and queer ideas of how the role should be player. Both plays doubtless will gently fold up and pass away to the bourne w hence bad plays go. A revival of that delightful old English comedy, "She Stoops to Conquer,” was among the strangers to return last week. George C, j Tyler is the producer, and he has ! engaged a cast of notable players ! that include Mrs. Leslie Carter, Lyn Harding, Glenn Hunter, O. P. Heg- ! gie, Patricia Collingc, Fay Bainter, ; Horace Braham. Lawrence D'Orsay, | Marie Carrolll and a host of others i who have been brought into a dcj lightful combination, and at the Erj langer Theater will bring a real ! treat to those who still cherish the i old plays that delighted our fore(Turn to Page 71

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, Now Showing AGAIN—'J Mighty Films! A riotous coined)! Lew Cody—Aileen l’ringle in “Wicleiness Preferreil" I Up preferred to he ns picked | ns the hook's lie'wrote! —‘2nd I'enturr.— (dipping henrt-draiim! .Monte I*l no Hetty llronsou “Brass Knuckles” A crook whose nrrrd showed him the wny to uo > *t wifi lit! Kiddies 13c Always