Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1928 — Page 6

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BERKELL OFFERS INDIANAPOLIS NEW /MYSTERY PLAY

Picnics Going on at Park Railroaders Will Frolic All Day Sunday at Riverside,

NUMEROUS casualties to balloon jumpers, reported in press dispatches from all over the country in the last few weeks, have directed attention of the public to this hazardous profession, and particularly to those daring men and wamen who laugh in tne face of Fate and continually add new thrills to their trips into the sky suspended from huge hot-air balloons, from which they tumble earthward, trusting to the tiny pack of parachutes they carry to successively open and bring them safely back to terra firma. At Riverside amusement park Sunday afternoon Miss Ethel Pritchett, an Indianapolis girl, will attempt a triple parachute leap with packed .“chutes” similar to those used by Eyerett Via, the local boy who was killed at Seymour last Sunday when a parachute failed -to open. Miss Pritchett is employed by the Ruth Balloon Company, of which Via was a member. Sunday evening “Careless Jim” Boremus will attempt a ninety-foot high dive at Riverside from a tower into a net. Both attractions are free and are provided for the entertainment 6f the park’s guests. This afternoon and tonight the Fairbanks-Morse employes are holding their annual outing at the park, while Sunday afternoon the employes of the Peoria & Eastern Railroad will frolic at the resort. Two special trains of thirty-two coaches start from Peoria, 111., tomorrow morning at 6 o’clock and pick up railroad workers from fortysix towns on the system, bringing them right to the park, the trains being routed onto the spur track of a lumber company on W. Thirtieth St. The thousands of railroaders and their families will leave for the return trip to their homes early in the evening. Ha jf: ' r :'

Huge Sets in Dock Picture

A studio set as large as an ordinary city block is the scene of operations for George Bancroft and his company engaged on making “The Docks of New York.” The set represents the Manhattan water front. It follows photographs and data collected in the metropolis last spring by Josef von Sternberg, the director when he spent . several weeks studying the atmosphere and In Principal Role Olive Borden plays one of the principal roles in “The Albany Boat.”

ENGLISH’S™* BERKELL PLAYERS PRESENTING I "“THE. \ SEVENTH GUEST” 1 SEASON’S BEST MYSTERY COMEDY BY INNIS OSBORN ft A. J. AUBREY Nightly 8:30 —Mat. Wed., Thur., Sat., 2:15 Nites 25c, 50c, 99c—Mats. 25c, 35c, 50c WEEK “MADAME X” OF A drama in a Prologue and 3 Acts Adapted ■ 111 V OO from the French of Alexander Besson by John JULY C.C. ' V' Raphael. m ♦ RIVERSIDE FREE AMUSEMENT PARK Presents Sunday Afternoon THREE PARACHUTE LEAPS BY MISS ETHEL PRITCHETT The Death-Defying Aerial Antics of This Local, Lass Have Caused Countless Thousands to Shudder as She Tumbles About In Her Tiny, Flimsy Parachutes a Mile High Over the Park; SEE HER SUNDAY IT MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE! Extra Free Attraction CARELESS JIM DOREMUS IN A 90-FOOT LEAP FOR LIFE VISIT RIVERSIDE “JUST FOR FUN” FREE ADMISSION TO THE WHOLE FAMILY

80 ACRES ' 80 ACRES Beautiful Walnut Gardens BALLOON ASCENSION Triple Parachute Drop Monkey Parachute Drop— 2,soo Feet in Air RUBE BAND Base Ball, Mooresville vs. Indianapolis. Swim fn pure well water, concrete pool. Dance to Konjollan nineptoce band. Chicken dinners, ponies for kiddies. Many other amusements. Bring your baskets and picnic.

The Seventh Guest/ a Presentation Dealing With a Haunted House, Opens at English’s Sunday; The Baby Cyclone’ is Walker Vehicle, OF all the types of plays which Charles Berkell provides for his players to put across the footlights, none are quite so popular with the majority as is a rousing good mystery show. Even the members of his company get as much real fun out of them, as do the patrons, so Mr. Berkell says. Perhaps it is because the average person dikes to “discover” something, and a mystery thriller furnishes plenty of this element, for always

Will Dance

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Ruthanne Kersting Sunday at Broad Ripple park, Ruthanne Kersting and her ballet will dance.

Plays Judge Frazier Coulter is playing the role of judge in "The First Kiss,” the picture co-starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, which has been in production on the teastern shore of Maryland. Musical Act A rather elaborate musical comedy act called “The College Flirt,” with Tommy Mann in the leading role, is to open July 8 at the State Lake Theater, Chicago, for a long vaudeville tour. Edits Film Robert Kearn is now editing “The Grain of Dust,” suggested by the David Graham Phillips novel of the same name.

AMUSEMENTS

ahead tht re is something not yet unfold’d. The bill for next week, starting tomorrow night, is said to contain about as much real “mystery” as any play of this order. It is “The Seventh Guest,” ~ three-act play which proved a hit _i:n played in New York and Chicago. It* will require a full cast to produce it, and every role provides its actor with plenty to do. The play has to do with a haunted house and the manner in which its occupants, spooks, if you please, continue to frighten away every guest which enters. On the evening in question a club of young people decide to outdo the spooks and they go prepared to thwart their nocturnal maneuvers. At least they think they are prepared, but when these sly creatures begin their spooky antics, the guests are not so sure of their fortitude, and proceed to wilt before what they think is the Grim Reaper, for no avenue of escape seems possible now that they are in the clutches of these supernatural creatures. Those who enjoy the fascination of unraveling a mystery story, will find in this play an ideal opportunity to sharpen his wits. The final ending brings such an unusual discovery that it takes a very keen mind to forecast the ending. In the crowd of young people there are three men and three women, and yet when they get to the haunted house which has for seven years been empty, there is a seventh guest. Everywhere they turn there is evidence that someone else is just ahead, or somewhere near, but who this someone is, is the question of the story. The play is a laugh and a thrill from beginning to end. Coming soon is “The Bird of Paradise,” the great play of tropical love. nun STUART WALKER TO PLAY “BABY CYCLONE” “The Baby Cyclone,” direct from a season’s run in New York City, will be the production offered by The Stuart Walker Company all next i week, beginning Monday night. It is; George M. Cohan’s fastest and funniest play. It is the first time seen in Indianapolis. Gavin Gordon, Muriel Kirkland. Eugene Powers, Elizabeth Taylor and George Alison are cast in the leading roles. Grant Mitchell played the stellar role itt the original Broadway production. All the trouble in “The Baby Cyclone” is a Pekinese pup. He causes it; it literally revolves, at top speed about him. He is the personification of the nth degree of trouble. And the more trouble there is, the funnier it becomes from the audiences’ standpoint. A husband, tired of seeing his wife baby the dog, sells him to the fiancee of another man. The same thing happens. She thinks no one is so wonderful, not even her husband-to-be is just quite as wonderful. And so each man tries to shift the dog. And the more shifting done the more fun there is. “The Baby Cyclone” is a veritable cyclone of merriment. “Her Cardboard Lover,” now the Stuart Walker Company attraction at Keith’s, will be seen for the last time Sunday night. “Her Cardboard Lover” concerns' a young French divorcee who has won her case on infidelity. Still she loves her exhusband. She hires a young man to be her protector. His duties involve him in subterfuges, pajama parties. It served as the starring vehicle for Jeanne Eagels two years. Leslie Howard had the leading male role. It is being this week by Gavin Gordon. Among the plays to be seen here soon include "Nightstick,” a mystery melodrama of New York’s unseen world. Bootleggers, young college boys and a delicate love theme make this one of the best plays produced on Broadway last winter. It was written by John Wray and Elliot Nugent. Judith Lowry, who was with the Stuart Walker company at the beginning of the season, was seen last winter in the original cast. “Breadway” will be seen here soon also. It Tyas produced In New York by Jed Harris and broke box office records. “The Play’s the Tiling,” conceded to be Franz M tlnar’s greatest success, is also to be produced by Mr. Walker.

At Winona

Will Rogers, the ambassador without portfolio, who has rocked two continents with laughter by his penetrating with and devastating sense of the ridiculous, will appear at Winona Lake on July 26 for one evening only, under auspices of the Winona Assembly. Rogers has had a varied career, which began on a ranch in Oklahoma, and has led him across the world as a vaudeville performer, a cowboy in a rodeo in Madison Square Garden, a monologist, mayor of Beverley Hills, Cal., and unofficial ambassador to the world at large from the United States. His appearance in Winona is part of * a comprehensive torn: he is making of the United States for the fourth time in as many years. __ Another Ready Following the completion of “The Divine Lady,” Corinne Griffith will start “Outcast.”

JOHNNY -rGINGER BEER

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I—The Berkell Players will present “The Seventh Guest,” beginning Sunday night at English’s. Milton Byron has the leading male role.

In Opera

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Marta Wittkouska

When “Carmen” is presented for three nights in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Zoo next week, Marta Wittkouska will sing the title rate. Two Beauties j.'j" Florence Allen, who has an important role in “George Washington Cohen,” starring George Jessel, won a Chicago beauty contest, while Corliss Palmer, who plays the other feminine lead, w T on a magazine beauty contest. v ßuild France Parisian cases, typical middleclass homes of the French capital, trenches, dugouts and shell holes in (ftie war zone are all combined in “Out of the Ruins,'’ Richard Barthelmess” picture now being made. Titles “Hot News” George Marion, Ir., ace of Hollywood title writers, has been assigned to title “Hot News,” Bebe Daniels’ next release,'which now is in the editing stage. Vacation Over Esther Ralston has just returned to the studio fro ma vacation trip to Honolulu.

Presents A CiIOOKGi: M. COHAN COMEDY “THE BABY CYCLONE” With Gavin Gordon-Muriel Kirkland-Elizabeth Taylor, Eugene Powers —Jack Storey— George Alison Coming Week of July Twenty-third NIGHTSTICK T£he Recent Broadway Melodramatic Success A Masterpiece of Stage Writing—An Epic of Entertainment Last Time Sunday Ca?dto©an?2B Lover” 500 Seats AH Times, $ .23 I New Rates for Theater Parties 488 Seats AH Times, 1.00 Will Be Given Charitable Organ--318 Seats AH Times, 1.50 I Izations. Call Riley 0557. THII~CO~OLEST spot in town ~~

BROA9 RIPPLE PARK Indiana’s Most Popular Amusement Resort “EVERY DAY IS FUN DAY” 60—Beautiful Acres of Sunshine and Joy—6o SWIM-DANCE In Pure Drinking Water Free Moonlight Dance Garden You Are Safe Here Arbuckle’s Union Orchestra Extra Free Attraction Sunday RUTHANNE KERSTING BALLET 18 Juvenile Dancers Music by the Musical Miracle CHILDREN FREE FREE FREE FREE PARKING DANCING ZOO Get the Crowd Together—Spend a Day in Wonderland Dog Daces 3lomlay-Friday—Boxing Every Thursday .. . Fireworks Every Saturday

Z —Raymond Hitchcock, Broadway’s famous comedian, comes to the Lyric for a week starting Sunday. Here is a picture of the musical comedy star and his dog.

ROUNDING THEATERS

SUCCESS may be just around the corner for many people on the stage and one of the latest to And it on Broadway is Miss Alney Alba. You will recall that this young woman came to Indianapolis last summer as leading woman of the Berkell Players for the last seven or eight weeks of the season.

I had heard nothing more about her until I began reading the reviews of anew corned by Don Mullally, called “Wanted,” produced last week in New York. The New York crtics admitted that Miss Alba was unknown on Breadway, that she was a newcomer, but that her work in “Wanted” has made her a success. So it seems that if a person, keeps at it long enough, success is just around the corner. I was in Cincinnati at the Zoo this week to hear "Jvlartha.” Was able to stay until the opera was about two-thirds over. During the intermission . I saw the ice show, which is one of the most unique entertainments in the Middle West. Judging by the way "Martha” was presented, the leads are stronger than usual and the ensemble better trained than in other seasons. Manager Miller of the opera makes the following statement regarding the opera for next week at the Zoo in Cincinnati: "The fifth week of the ten-week opera season at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden will open Sunday, July 15, with ‘Tannhauser’ and ‘Carmen’ as the attractions for the week. ‘Tannhauser’ will be presented Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights, and ‘Carmen’ Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. “Forrest Lamont will be heard in the role of Tannhauser. Charlotte Ryan, soprano, who comes to the Zoo Opera Company from the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, has the role of Elizabeth: and Fred Patton, baritone, also of the Metropolitan, will be heard as Wolfram. Others in the cast will be Herbert Gould, Albert Mahler, Barre Hill, Fenton Pugh, Natale Cervi, Vera Curtis, Lydia Dozier, Idella Banker, Violet Summer, Selma Bojalad and Helen Nugent. “Ralph Errolle has the role of Don Jose in ‘Carmen,’ and Marta Wittkowska will appear as the audacious cigaret girl. The cast also includes Fred Patton. Barre Hill,

AMUSEMENTS

ROUND With WALTER D. HICKMAN

Natale Cervil, Albert Mahler, Herbert Gould, Louis John Johen and a number of other favorites. “During the week of July 22 ‘The Jewess’ and ‘Die Walkuere’ will be presented.” I received many letters this week from people who went to Keith’s to see “Her Cardboard Lover” on my recommendation. One man, signing himself "Traveling Man,” warned me that if this show was not good I could expect to “be shot at sunrise” because he was giving up a good fishing trip Wednesday afternoon to see the show. It must have been all right because I have heard no gun play. It is all in the spirft of fun. Barrymore’s Newest John Barrymore’s next picture will be “Conquest,” the tentative title of an original story by Ems; Lubitsch, who also will direct the special.

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3—George Alison will have a prominent part in the Stuart Walker production, “The Baby Cyclone,” to begin Monday night at Keith’s.

At Circle

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Keo Taki Yoki In the cast of Dick Powell’s new revue, “Jazzmania,” opening today at the Circle, Keo Taki Yoki is among the prominent artists present.

AMUSEMENTS

-JULY 14, 1928

Hitchcock Will Top New Bill Famous Comedian Will. Open Sunday at Lyric, Raymond hltchcock, in person, will come to the Lyrio Sunday as the headline attraction. He is billed as Broadway’s famous comedian and in Indianapolis is hailed as a favorite fun-maker. He employs the smile that has mads his face prominent before footlights during the last quartercentury and lfis artistry in handling words is something that writes his name in headline letters. Hitchcock presents his act in hiS own inimitable style and is assisted by two winsome - girls. As he has been identified for years with big musical comedy productions it will be the first time that theatergoers of Indianapolis have ever been able to see him at popular prices. He is in vaudeville for but a brief tour during the summer season prior to beginning rehearsals in the new ’company of “Show Boat,” Florenz Ziegfeld is organizing. SANTRY AND NORTON ANQ THEIR COEDS—The international* ly famed dance team whose terpsichorean executions are technically perfect come to the Lyric with Rutli Anderson’s Coed Band. Miss Anderson, a very versatile young lady who seems to have mastered almost every instrument in the jazz realm, is the leader of this group of talented musicians. THE LITTLZJOHNS—Present a spectacular juggling and dancing act. The pair—a man and womando their clever turns and pirouettes in a veritable “bower of jewels’* which flash and scintillate under the kaleidoscope glare of spotlights shooting from all parts of the house, GEHAN AND GARRETSON—A cheery team of funmakers composed of a pianist and an operatic baritone —both being possessed with that vaudeville fundamental, personality, HENRY ROGERS REVUE—A refined revue of talent displayed by Mr. Rogers, a tenor violinist; Florine, the little prize-winning Scotch dancer and a speedy hoofer. j BURNS AND WEST—Present The Runaway Train—a black face comedy act with plenty of burlesque business and hokum humor. URSAL MARCH AND COMPANY —Present a comedy skit, “Good Night Nurse.” ON THE SCREEN—Charles Chase Comedy, “The Lighter That Failed,’ " Color Classic, and Pathe News, Patsy Is Starred V Patsy Ruth Miller is to be starred in “Beautiful, but Dumb.”