Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1928 — Page 7

JULY 14, 1928_

JOHN GILBERT IN ‘THE COSSACKS’ WILL OPEN AT PALACE

Renee Adoree in ' Story of the Russian Steppes; Esther Ralston Has Lead in Companionate Marriage Film at the Circle, JOHN GILBERT has another role, different from the hero of “Twelve Miles Out” or the -Yankee boy in “The Big Parade.” This time he is cast as a swashbuckling, braggadocio Cossack soldier, who has the soul of a poet. Gilbert is Lukashka in “The Cossacks,” now playing at the Palace Theater. It is said that a whole town was built for this drama of the Russian steppes. Beside the central theme of the

love of a boy and a girl is the love of a father and son. Renee Adoree is the girl, as she v/as in “The Big Parade,” and battles, and such are said to run through this picture as they did through the play of the World War. The story is by Prances Marion and was directed by George Hill. Feats of horsemanship are performed by Cossacks brought from Europe for the picture. Earnest Tor • rence has the character role of the brutal old Cossack chief who loves his son. Mary Alden plays the mother and Dale Fuller the mother of the girl. Paul Hurst is the Cossack lieutenant and Yorke Sherwood has a comedy part. Joseph Mari is cast as a Cossack chief and Nail Neely and Josephine Bprio are in the cast. Harry Fox begins his second week at the Palace as master of ceremonies in “Spices of 1928,” the stage show. The Berry Brothers, Ponce Sisters, Lillian Morton and Fuzy Knight are on the bill Dusty Rhoades is featured, as is Emil Sidel and his orchestra, and Lester Huff at the organ. Short Subjec' .nd newsreels complete the bill. # # # “HALF A BRIDE” IS INDIANA FILM Companionate marriage, the most discussed of modern current problems, forms the basis of “Half a Bride,” in which Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper are featured at the Indiana Theater. starting to.iay. II is the picture which serves -to show the rightness or the wrongness of marriage without love. R. H. Burnside, anew producer for Publix, devised and staged 'Kat Kaberet,” in which Charlie Davis and his band are featured. "Kat Kaberet,” opens with a parade of Krazy Kats in which a troupe of Albertine Rasch girls take part. Felix and Maria are two cat impersonators, namely Bert Nagle and Omar Hassan. Two youngsters with prodigious voices are Hearst Brothers. The Patterson twins are two English lassies, dahcers. Kerenoff and Mai ree are an adagio team which was seen several years ago at the Circle Theater. Their real names are Charles V E. Krenn of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Marie Arrowsmith of Chicago. Roy Walmm, a whistler, reputed to have taught King Edward to whistle, is another attraction with "Kat Kaberet.” “Half a Bride” tells of a headstrong girl who announces her intention of trying companionate marriage. Her plan is frustrated by her father and the captain of her father’s yacht. In an attempt to escape from the yacht the girl sets out in a small launch. The captain tries to overcome her and reaches her just as a squall comes up. They next find themselves on an uninhabited desert island, where the story unfolds in modem and primitive fashion. Stuart Barrie at the organ will present “A Popular ..Request Concert.” B B B APOLLO HOLDS “TALKIE” OVER Blazing the way for pictures to follow in which the spoken word will predominate throughout, “The Lion and the Mouse,” Vitaphone production with 40 per cent of the footage embellished by dialogue, will hold over for another week at the Apollo, giving Indianapolis theater goers a foretaste of the things that are heralded to emanate shortly from the realm of movieland, now being revolutionized by ‘ talkies.” May McAvoy and Lionel Barrymore are co-starred in “The Lion and the Mouse,” a revival of Charles Klein’s celebrated stage success Barrymore dominates 'the picture especially in the numerous scenes wherein he has lines to speak. However, Miss McAvoy and the supporting cast, including William Collier. Jr., Alec B. Francis, Emmett Corrigan and Jack Ackroyd, are all heard as well as seen. The story, an enthralling one, recounts the ways and means by which a clever girl known as the “mouse” breaks the bonds of greed that bind a certain "lion” of the business world, in the end managing to free her father, a distinguished jurist, from charges of dishonesty cast upon him by the lion, to change the lion to the proverbial meekness of a lamb, and to win his son in marriage. The picture was directed by Lloyd Bacon. laude G. Bowers, gatling gun orator of Democracy, a former Indianapolis man, is seen and heard in/action at the recent Democ’ atic national convention via Movietone news reels, embracing intensely interesting events of the ‘big snow” in Houston. Gladys Brockwell, motion picture favorite; Freda and Palace, singers and musicians, and Myers and Ears®, comedians, offer Vitaphone presentations. Blitt CIRCLE TO HAVE COLLEGE PICTURE "Jazzmania” is Dick Powell’s stage show at the Circle Theater, beginning today. It is presented in conjunction with “Hold ’Em, Yale,” a college romance of love and daring, grit and achievement screened against the colorful background of Yale University. Featured in “Jazmania” is Dick

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Announces Features for Sunday Balloon Ascensions at Wal--1 nut Gardens Are Booked, O. E. Ruth (Mile-High) will make a regular balloon ascension at Walnut Gardens, Sunday, in which he w’ill make a triple parachute drop. As an added feature, “Billy,” the trained monkey of Walnut Gardens, will make a drop in a parachute from 2,500 feet in the air. A “Rube Band” will make its appearance Sunday, walking over the grounds entertaining visitors. A baseball team from Mooresville will play a team from Indianapolis on the baseball diamond. The Konjolian nine-piece orchestra will play for dancers. Several picnics have been booked for the future to be held at Walnut Gardens, among which are the Indianapolis Telephone Company, July 21; Prest-O-Lite Company, Aug. 4; Atlantic and Pacific Stores. Aug. 5, and the Amalgamated Garment Workers, Aug. 11. The Kiefer-Stewart company will hold their annual picnic tomorrow at Walnut Gardens and reservations have been made for chicken dinners for two hundred officials and employes of the company and their families.

Powell, Star in Mystery

“The Canary Murder Case,” one of the season's best sellers in wuich Philo Vance solves the mystery of Margaret Odell’s death, w r lll introduce William Powell as a star. Louise Brooks and James Hall have been added to the cast, winch already includes Ruth Taylor. Miss Brooks is to play the role of the Canary, otherwise Margaret Odell, Broadway butterfly, whose death presents one of New York's most baffling mysteries. * Powell singing # another song. A variety of acts including singers, dancers of various descriptions, take part in the show. One of the acts offereed is Keo Takl and Kaki, two Oriental blues singers. There are Orientals who are said to sing modern American “hot blues” songs in an occidental fashion. May Wynne, a tap dancer; Lang and Voelk, harmony singers, and Fink and Ayres, who make up a skating act, are others. Ed Resener has arranged another overture, whiie Dessa Byrd will be featured at the organ. Rod La Rocque plays the role of a wild untamed Argentinian in “Hold ’Em Yale.” Jaime is a young scape-grace whose father hopes to reform him by sending him to Yale Finally, forced to accede to his father’s wishes, Jaime reaches New Haven, where practical Jokers put him in the police patrol, making him think that the patrol is the students’ bus. A detective mistakes him for a criminal. Jaime escapes, but only to be pursued throughou/. the remainder of the picture by the detective. A gay romance with the daughter of a professor is maintained. Jeanette Loss, anew blonde actress, plays opposite La Rocyue. Hugh Allan. Tom Kennedy, Lawrence Grant and Joseph Cawthorne are other members of the cast.

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Jannings to Play Czar Paul

Great figures of Russian history have emerged from the shadows, to re-live in a picture. Revivified for Emil Jannings next starring picture, “The Patriot,” which Ernst Lubitsch will direct, such mighty names as Czar Paul the First, Count Pahlen, Mile. Lappoukhine and the Countess Ostermann, forgotten for a century, are now in everyday use among the players and technical staff. “Napoleon overshadowed nearly all the men of his day but there were other mighty soldiers and statesmen who have never received their due because of the great Frenchman,” says Lubitsch. "We are going to bring back some of

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these people and make them live with such vividness that audiences will look upon them as a familiar characters, human, well remembered people.” Jannings himself s the Czar Paul, the emperor who lved n such constant fear of hs subjects that he built a fortress-palace to keep himself safe. Florence Vidor is cast in the role of the Countess Osterman; Lewi.\ Stone plays Count Pahlen, the man who fostered the conspiracy which lead to the assassination of Paul; Vera Veronina portrays Mile. Lapoukhine, the Czar's favorite and Tullio Carminati appears as one of the conspirators in the plot against the emperor.

3 Reading from left to right are Mirs Dale, Jack Ackrcytl and William Co’licr a*, they appear in “The Lion and the Meuse” at the Apollo. This talking picture is held ever a week 4—“ Half a Bride" is the Indiara pietnre starting torlpy. Esther Ralst-n and Gary Cccrej* arc seen in a picture from the film.

New Events in Movies

Burning up the wires from Universal City comes the news that Laura La Plante is going to play Magnolia In “Show Boat.” Harry Pollard will undoubtedly cover her beautiful blonde tresses with a wig. Tests in dark hair have revealed an altogether unsuspected side to Laura’s admitted beauty. Hoot Gibson, who has just completed the finest western picture of his life. “Clearing the Trail,” will arrive in Chicago Thursday morning as the honoor guest of the Chicago rodeo. While there he will shoot scenes for his forthcoming picture, “King of the Rodeo,” by B. M. Bowers. With the addition of the name of Bert Roach, the cast of “Th® i Last Warning” is complete, and Paul Leni is quite relieved that it j is so. Roach makes the twelfth player. The others are Laura La Plante, John Boles, Roy D'Arcy. Mack Swain, Burr Mclntosh, Margaret Livingstone. Carrie Daumery. Slim Summerville, Montagu Love. D'Arcy Corrigan and Torbcn Meyer Reginald Denny’s latest picture, “The Night Bird,” by Frederick and Fanny Hatton, has been completed and is now' in the cutting room a*. Universal City. Its cast includes Betsy Lee, Sam Hardy. Michael Visaroff, Harvey Clark, Corliss Palmer, Alphonse Martel, Jocelyn Lee and George Bookasta. The synchronization of “Uncle Tom s Cabin” will be completed by July 15, the Fox-Case Corporation utilizing the full Roxy Orchestra under the leadership of Erno Rapes I and the Dixie Jubilee Singers. ■ ■" Charlie a “Cop” Charlie Murray will again be “one of the finest" in “Do Your Duty,” his new picture. Use Island as Base Catalina Island is still the base of operations for “The Divine Lady,” Corinne Griffith's picture.

OUR NEW COOLING SYSTEM IS /& NOW IN OPERATION. COME AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. /|||S y fGpK hSußHrr! C with r S RENEE ADOREE Here Is anew .John Gilbert! An M. G. M. picture, vibrant C / wltb love, thrills and excitement. / / Prices—ll-1, 25c; 1-6, 85c. Evenings, } S 50c. Children always 25c. C OgOTj S "SPICES OF 1928” J y Mort Harris has provided anew Idea in stage shows for Harry’s, , ( second week with a gr?at cast of favorites. / / ® m ll Seidel and I Nnmerous nove i t les. I Lester Huff at the ) C Concert Orchestra. | I Organ. l

Vaudeville at Apollo

Gladys Brcckweil will ce heard m "nouywooa Bcunu ' p.t the Avol’o starting today. This is one of the Vitaphone acts that wifi be seen and heard in conjunction with “The Lion and the Mov.se.”

Three Foreign Actors Signed

Three new actors, a Frenchman, j a Russian and an Englishman will j appear in pictures during the forthcoming season as a result of the trip abroad from which Jesse L. Lasky just' returned. They are Maurice Chevalier, reigning favorite of Paris music halls and light comedian extraordinaire; Paul Guertzman, 15-year-old Russian refugee, unknown, who broke open the door of opportunity by his persistence, courage and pantomimic talent, and John Loder,

‘Talkie’ Team in New Picture

Howard Bretherton will direct Dolores Costello in her next Vitaphone feature. “The Redeeming Sin” has been selected as the title for the picture, which is adapted from a story by L. V. Jefferson. The scenario is by Harvey Gates. Conrad Nagel will again play the male lead opposite Miss Costello.

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a former British cavalry officer, whom Mr. Lanky hails as one of the real screen discoveries of the year. Mr. Lasky announced his acquisitions upon stepping off his ship. The Russian toy. resplendcntly happy in his new suit of clothes, came over with Mr. Lasky and will be sent to Hollywood immediately to join the stock company. Both Chevalier and Loder have signed contracts. The Frenchman is due to sail for America about Oct. 1. while the Englishman is due to sail in July, as soon as he completes work upon which he now is engaged in his owh country. Name Changed “Hard Rock” is the new title for Milton Sills’ next starring vehicle previously called “The Wrecking Boss." Thelma Todd will have the leading feminine role. A Railroader Milton Sills will be a railroad man in “Hard Rock." in which he will be starred with Thelmr. Todd as his leading woman.

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Big Show Opens on Broadway] White’s ‘Scandals’ Is Now' Getting Big Patronage, , BY DIXIE lIINES NEW YORK, July 14.—A group of diaphanous damsels cavorting under the trade name of George White’s “Scandals” and a comedy of a little southern girl, who .comes to New York, and runs into a series of misadventures that eventually take her in a patrol wagon to the police station were the theatrical offering 1 * of the past week. These are the lean days of the theater, with very little **. the offing that is enticing until some time next month. The most unsatisfactory thing in the world is to try and rsyir.v a “Scandals” or a ‘Follies” or a “Vanities.” They are all concocted of the same materiel—girl:, and more girlr, with murie and dancing and color and life. Sometimes the g'rls are prettier than at other times. Sometimes the music is livelier and the costumes mere attractive, but in the main they are all the same. So the “Scandals" arc tin r®rr.e this year as before. And it is r foregone conclusion that they will be with us all th° reason, just ro< Mr, Shu’eert's “Greenwich ViHogo Fcliies" will be, and, when Earl Car roll has pre-r.t' l his “Vanities” they, too, will be an indefinite v cr. . Makes li t The ccinody, “Wanted." by Don Mullally that come to Wallark’s Theater is another so’-t of ei. crtairment. I-lere is a typical Ocn Mullally r’vsw. clean, snappy, rr ht. witty and entertaining. The title is derived from o general alarm that, has gcr.e out for llv® capture of a certain young weman wanted for burglary. It rounds serious, hut in reality was just the cii’mlnatlen cf a misadventure which took a pretty little southern gi'.'i and he" maid mto a sumptuously appointed Park Ave. a car.‘■men’s rh~n she did not beieng there. The meid in the apartment L ime from "down hen:?.” end when the heard that th s little girl v/as aicne in New York and penniless, the persuaded her to reme over to the apartment pnd use it during the cumntr- durln" the absence ox the real errors. Tins is clone, ana of ccurr" th® rnr 1 owners came home vnr':rce~d I ,y and th's loci to a lot cl trouble for the girl, including the ,-rrslcicn that she had stolen cert®'n levels that belonged to the earners r.n 1 that were missing, Th® po’ic® found the girl, the .‘“•rc’ry wr.s lccaitd hut not m the p"session c' the girl. Also there w\r> found e handsome young man who wrs about to p’m a honeymoon v.b'h the beautiful little culrr.it rs the curtain was about ta fall. A pretty e'rl named Alnev Alba had the leading role. She is new tc ITew York but proved herself full cf talent, charm and beauty. Ken Cartier was the young man, Frank Andrews a lovable old Southern major, and the rest of the cast aided and abetted in a tielightful evening.

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