Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1928 — Page 6
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WALKER AND BERKELL WILL OFFER POWERFUL BILLS
George Gaul and Marie Adels Have Leading Roles in The Firebrand’—Edythe Eliott Will Have Big Part at English's Next Week, "DEGINNING Monday night and continuing through the week ■*-*the Stuart Walker company presents “The Firebrand,” a comedy of high romance on the life and loves and sword swaggering career of Benventuo Cellini. George Gaul, Marie Adels and Larry Fletcher are cast by Mr. Walker in the leading roles. “The Firebrand” is not a dull historical document, but a swift, pacing play filled with laughter and love. When it played
in New York, Joseph Schildkraut played the role which George Gaul will have. Because of motiop picture contracts 3childkra.it was compelled to leave She cast after giving 287 consecutive performances at the Morosco Theater. For two weeks scenic artists for the Stuart Walker Company and property men have been delving into period data concerning the lime of the play. Nearly a score of seamstresses have been at work on preparing ihe costumes and their value would almost purchase a modern mode! home. “The Firebrand” tells a robust story of Italian love, well adorned with laughter which virtually amounts to a laugh every line of the dialogue, and seasoned with dramatic touches that never fail to evoke a strong emotional response “The Firebrand” is a difflcu.t play but so was “The Jest’ ’which was given at Keith’s the second week of the present Stuart Walker season. Rehearsals for “The Firebrand” have been under way fo’* some time. “The Dover Road.” love comedy by A. A. Milne, author of "Mr. Pim Passes By,” “The Ivory Door”! and “The Romantic Age” will be seen for the last time Sunday night. It concerns the antics of a certain Mr. Latimer, an amiable eccentric who lives in a lonely mansion a little way off the road to Dover, which is the road all eloping couples take on their way to Paris or the south of France. It is a fast moving comedy with George Gaul, Marie Adels, Larry Fletcher, Carlotta Irwin, Harry Ellerbe and a cast of supporting stars. Mr. Walker is to produce here “Her Cardboard Lover” the Jeanne Eagels’ success, “Broadway” as produced in New York by Jed Harris and said to be the fastest play of cabaret life ever staged, "The Play’s The Thing” Franz Molnar’s greatest success and several other plays of the first magnitude. “The Firebrand” will be one of the last plays in which George Gaul will be seen here for some time. He will go to Cincinnati where another repertory company of Walker’s is playing. m m a STRONG PLAY DUE AT ENGLISH’S ‘ , \ Those who read “Stella Dallas,” when it appeared in a national magazine a few ye,ars ago, will remember it as one of the great love stories of the time. The Berkell Players will present it for their offering next week with the advance information that no play of the current season will offer the depth of feeling, the strength of theme, and the genuineness cf entertaining value that this splendid vehicle offers. It reveals one of the greatest love stories which envelops the life of a woman that has ever been told. This is said in all truth, for the woman, Stella Dallas, not unusual in type, yet set in a vivid life picture, is presented as a great human figure with sacrifices to be made which try her soul. The romance of the story not only concerns the infatuation between a lass and his lassie, but a deeper love that bleeds when touched by the rents of marital misfortunes. The tale of the sacrifices of mother love is sufficient to hold any audience in satisfying suspense, if no other element were present. However, the play has its comedy, and a rare type of mirth. The woman of the story is one
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James D. Kennedy, manager of the Apollo, announces that early bookings will include Warner Brothers latest talking drama, ‘‘The Lion and the Mouse” famous stage success from the pen of Charles Klein. The story is exciting, intensely dramatic and is said to contain about 40 per cent spoken dialogue. May McAvoy and Lionel Barrymoore head the cast in which William Collier, Jr., is featured.
of those kind of feminine representatives whose life of poverty and as a worker in a mill town has made her coarse and cheap. She is not an ‘‘abandoned” woman, but merely loud and uncouth, and who has been dragged through many muddied springs. Even so, she feels above the average of her associates and aspires to a marriage outside and above the common run of town boys. Therefore,, when Stephen Dallas a New Yorker who is suffering the miseries of a fallen family fortune comes to the little village seeking social oblivion, and innocently betrays his inherent refinement. Stella sets her sails in his direction. She is pretty, vivacious, and skilled in the art of attracting admirers, and Stephen finds her an oasis in his desert of loneliness. After a while they marry, but soon Stella's crudeness wears a deep gully in their home relations. Stephen goes to New York where he meets his former sweetheart who | is now a widow, and then comes the j painful awakening of the woman, i Shall she give up her husband to I this woman? Shall she give him ; her child that the girl may enjoy ' a better environment? Or should j she just fade out of the picture with a heartache? What she did do makes the great dramatic climax of the play. Edythe Elliott will interpret Stella, the role in which the great Belle Bennett starred. Idabelle Arnold will be seen as the daughter i The play opens Sunday night
'Tough' Film
George Bancroft will be starred In four pictures, twe of which have been selected. T.ie first is “The Docks of New York.” The second picture is “Swag,” written by Rena Vale. Evelyn Brent will appear opposite Bancroft in this story.
AMUSEMENTS
A Musical Comedy at the Lyric Eccentric Comedian Is in Cast of Lead Act, / • i A MINIATURE musical comedy entitled “Miles and Smiles," will be presented by Harry Cooper and Ed Lalor as the headline attraction at the Lyric next week With these two is a company of three women who take the leading feminine roles and parts of chorus girls. Mr. Cooper is an eccentric comedian and he has surrounded himself with a company of singers and dancers. Mr. Lalor sings and dances and proves a foil for the brand of comedy practiced by Cooper. The bill will include: TED MARCEL—Chirp roller skating comedian who talks while he rolls and seemingly punctuates his remarks with thuds on tljc floor. THREE OLYMPIANS Three men, adherents of physical culture, doing feats of strength and equilibrism. It is said to be the only act of its kind in the world. EDISON AND GREGORY—Two nut comics who battle with trick horns and inner tubes; in fact they get music from such homely instruments as vacum cleaners, bicycle tires, etc. They title their offering “When We Work We Play.” MCCARTHY AND STERNAD— Two comedians who carry synthetic pulpits and gavels in order to stage a debate on the merits of the Volstead law and the demerits of overnight liquor. DANCERS A LA CARTE—A group of girls, led by a young lady and her boy friend, aided and abetted by a hoofer and a troupe of devotees to terpsichore. Harry Swan, Helen Lucille and Warren Harriman are in the commanding spots. SAHIB MALACCA AND COMPANY—Offering in their act “Three Arabian Knights.” ON THE SCREEN—Pathe Sportlight, “Bask Time”; Pathe News and a Fox Comedy, “A Cow’s Husband.”
To Take Rest
Charlie Murray will take a real vacation upon completing “The Head Man.” He will visit his boyhood home in Indiana, with side trips to Florida and New York. Mrs. Murray will accompany the comedian. —— ! In Air Film Richard Arlen has drawn a desirable future assignment in “Dirigible,” a production based upon the Zeppelin type of airship, which William Wellman will direct this summer. On Short Vacation Evelyn Brent, highly popular leading woman in such pictures as “Underworld,” “The Last Command” and the forthcoming “His Tiger Lady,” is in New York on a short vacation trip. Writes Film Version J. T. O’Donohoe, screen author of "What Price Glory?”, “The Noose” and other successes, has been assigned to write the adaptation of "Show Girl,” which is to be Alice White’s feature vehicle.
BROAD RIPPLE INDIANA’S FAVORITE AMUSEMENT PARK Children Frea—Free Parking—Free Zoo EXTRA—SUNDAY ONLY—EXTRA A thriller that out-thrills all previous hair-raising stunts and causes your heart to miss a beat and chills to do a marathon up and down your spine THE GAP 0’ DEATH Presented by the Man Who Laughs at Fate and Disregards All Laws of Gravitation EL DIABLO i DON’T MISS THE ENTRANCING WONDERS OF JOY LANE HERE YOU WILL FIND MORE FEATURES THAN A CIRCUS HOLD YOUR PICNIC IN THE BIG GROVE FREE DANCING Every Nitc in the Moonlight Dance Garden Music by Holland’s Golden Orioles SWIM IN DRINKING WATER New Water Devices—You Are Safe Here! HEAR THE ELABORATE PROGRAM BY THE MUSICAL MIRACLE World’s Most Astounding Musical Novelty BOXINGFIREWORKS
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I—Valerie Cossart will be seen in “The Firebrand,” opening Monday night at Keith’s, as the next Stuart Walker opening.
In Park Act
June Mansfield
Beginning with a performance tonight, the Frank Mansfield troupe of fancy rifle shots will give performances this week-end on the elevated stage in the center of Riverside Amusement Park. Other performances will be given Sunday afternoon and evening by the troupe, which is composed of Frank, June and Marie Mansfield. The matinee Sunday afternoon will be given just before the balloon ascension and five-parachute leap of “The Patent Leather Kid.”
Doug Sails
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks sail from New York for Europe on May 5 on the Italian Steamship Saturnla. Co-Starred Tom Ricketts and Ivy Harris have been assigned to the cast of “Just Married,” which will be the first costarring vehicle of James Hall and Ruth Taylor.
AMUSEMENTS
2—Three Olympians will be one of the unusual acts on the vaudeville bill starting Sunday afternoon at the Lyric.
ROUNDING THEATERS
THE fourth annual Literary Field day will be held at Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind., on Aug. 4. For several years, I have been honored by being one of the judges in the one act play contest which is open to all undergraduate students
of Indiana colleges. This year I have been selected to act as a judge again. George Somnes, director of the Stuart Walker company at Keith’s and producing director of the Little Theatre, has been honored as another judge. He has accepted. The third Judge is the acting head of the department of literature and drama at Culver. The plays have been received at my desk and the judges are making very effort to prevent any delay in the selection of the winning plays. The first prize carries a cash award of $75 and also includes its production at Culver on Aug. 4. The second prize is SSO and the third is $25. One condition is that the play may be produced in twenty-five to thirty minutes and that there will be no scene change, The idea of this contest is to increase interest in play writing among undergraduate students colleges in this State. Tnis is indeed a most worthy undertaking on the part of Culver. ana Indianapolis is furnishing many orchestras for summer resorts at this time. The latest to get a good engagement Is Chick Meyers and his orchestra. This orchestra recently filled an engagement, at the Fountain Square Theater. They will play at Bruce Lake all summer. a a a Theaters must live in the summer just as in winter. It is by patronage that keeps the theater going. I call attention to this fact because Indianapolis is most fortunate this summer in having a wealth of theater entertainment. We are a hundred times better off than the average city of our size. The truth is we stack up mighty well with. Chicago. Remember that tne movie theaters having stage presentations are giving just as elaborate stage revues this summer as In winter. I know I am completely right in mak-
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ROUND With WALTER D. HICKMAN
An Honor? George Jessel, who has just completed his first starring role in “The Ghetto,” has had a race horse named after him.
ing this statement. And this fact is most complimentary to Loew’s Palace, the Indiana and the Circle. Several of the neighborhood houses are having stage band presentations. The Fountain Square is featuring a stage show this summer. And when we consider stock, this city is right among the leaders. Charles Berkell and Stuart Walker are bringing many of the established New York hits to this city Berkel tells me that he has secured the rights of “Abie’s Irish Rose” for his company. Donn Wermuth of Keith’s tells me that Walker will soon present “Broadway” and “The Baby Cyclone" as well as “The Cardboard Lover.” Theaters are offering real entertainment this summer in Indianapolis and they deserve patronage. Theaters must live just like individuals. • a a a I have been receiving quite a number of letters from readers of this department asking me personal questions regarding actors now in this city. Such as: Is so and so married? If so, to whom? How old is so and so? I can answer these questions only when the question is accompanied by a self-addressed return envelope with stamp. I con-, sider such questions personal and so I will answer them personally when I can obtain the information. Buy Stage Play “Saturday’s Children,” the play by Maxwell Anderson, has been bought for motion pictures. It will serve as one of Corinne Griffith’s stellar productions under her new contract with this company.
AMUSEMENTS
3—Bob Fay will be seen in the Berkell production of “Stella Dallas,” opening Sunday night at English’s.
In Stage Show
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Helen Wehrle
In Emil Seidel’s stage show at the Palace this week, one of the good looking and talented entertainers is Helen Wehrle.
A Novelty
The latest novelty to appear upon vaudeville’s rostrum is what is known as “Music from the Ether,” a discovery of Prof. Leon Theremin. The young Russian professor produces tunes by merely waving his hands around in the vicinity of a small apparatus of his own invention. Will Direct Rowland V. Lee has been assigned to direct George Bancroft in “The Wolf of Wall Street, ” which will be produced following Bancroft’s “The Docks of New York.”
.JUNE 23,1928
Big Act to Be Given at ParE El Diablo Will Thrill Patrons' at Broad Ripple Park, ONE of the many free attractions that will be presented at Broad Ripple Park Sunday will ba El Diablo, who was seen at tha park earlier in the season in a fire dive. He was then booked for a return engagement but this time he wfil present anew thriller called "The Gap of Death.” From the top of an incline bull 8 to a dizzy height in front of the open air theater, El Diablo will ride an ordinary bicycle down at a terrific speed and will try to leap a fifty foot gap at the bottom. Another special attraction for the benefit of the kiddies will be a group of clowns in various makeups who will do their stuff along “Joy Lane.” The management announces a special program by the Auditorium Orthophonic, the huge Victrola which furnishes music for various sections of the park by means of hookups direct from the machine which is situated in a special enclosure at the open air theater. With warm weather, the'bathing beach has come into its own and bathers are getting much enjoyment out of the many new water, devices that have been installed this season. A special place for the kiddies where they may splash about and play In the sand has been arranged In the east end of the pool. Swimming and diving stunts will be put on by local aquatic stars Sunday. News Along Broadway “Kidding Kidders” by Stepheni Champlin produced by Hilmas Productions, Inc. Billed as a satirical farce, but a mystery to this reviewer, the mystery being how so jumbled and incoherent an attempt could reach Broadway. Neil Pratt, a Leon Errol-like comedian does very well as the drunk who visits the studio of a girl artist and in his attempt to be playful is shot or shot at. Police pronounce him dead, and as they escort the girl away he escapes through a window. The remainder of the play is devoted to whoopla and borrowed jokes in an effort to satirize njystery melodramas. “The Skull,” a mystery thriller by Bernard J. McOwen and Harry E. Humphries, comes to us with the faint suggestion of “The Bat,” and others of like calibre. Its ancient mystery tricks, its deserted church at night time, its hidden doors, and the fact that the villain of the piece left a small skull behind whenever he had trifled with an incidental murder or two gives a bit of enjoyment if one is not too exacting. “Dawn,” depicting the heroism and execution of the British war nurse Edith Cavell, is to be exhibited by Arch Selwyn beginning May 15. Sewlyn arrived in New York last Monday with several new prints of the film and with a musical score which is being used with the picture so successfully throughout Great Britain.
AMUSEMENTS
RIVER SIDE Free Amusement Park BALLOON Ascension and Five Parachute Leaps by the THE PATENT LEATHER KID Sunday Afternoon World’s Champion RIFLE SHOTS The Mansfield Troupe in an Exhibition on the Elevated Stage Tonight, Tomorrow Afternoon and Night PLAY In the Capital City of Funland. The mammoth amusement resort, now in Its twenty-fifth year as an Indianapolis Institution, Is attracting attention all over the country, its .policy of free admlrslon at all times to both children and adults and its complete equipment of all the best and most modern fun devices having gained Riverside a high place In the outdoor amusement field.