Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1928 — Page 4

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LITTLE THEATRE PREPARES TO OPEN THE NEW SEASON

George Somnes, Noted Director, Is Now in Germany for a Conference With Max Reinhardt and Will Return Here in October, THE opening of The Playhouse, Nineteenth and N. Alabama Sts., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, heralds the fourteenth dramatic season of the Indianapolis Little Theatre. Miss Jane Ogborn, who was appointed executive secretary for the 1928-23 season by the board of directors, will begin her duties on that date. Miss Ogborn has announced that The Playhouse will be open from 9 o’clock until 5 o’clock each day, and that she will be pleased to have members and any one interested call at The Playhouse during those times. Miss Ogborn appeared frequently in Little Theatre productions last winter and in several Stuart Walker performances this summer. She was a. member of the cast of “The Dust of the Road,” which won the Cumnock cup at the national theater tournament, held at Northwestern University last May.

The play was produced by the Thespian Dramatic Club of Butler University, from which Miss Ogborn graduated last June. George Somnes, who has been director of the Indianapolis Little Theater during the past eight seasons, is en route to Berlin, where he •will spend a few days with Max Reinhardt. Mr. Somnes will return to the Playhouse about Oct. 15 to open rehearsals for the first production of the coming season. Eleven Capacity Audiences The Playhouse has housed the productions and other activities of the Little Theater since its completion in the fall of 1926. According to Mortimer C. Furscott, president, the growth of the organization has been more outstanding during these last three years than during any other part of its history, in regard to the number enrolled on the membership list, as well as in regard to the professional quality of the plays produced, the capacity houses to which these performances have been played, the increasing field of activities assumed by the Little Theater each year, and the live interest and enthusiasm manifested by an unusually large group of active workers. Good Growth Formerly one performance only Was scheduled for each offering until the organization moved into its own home, The Playhouse, in the fall of 1926, when three performances became necessary to take care of the increased audiences. At the beginning of last season, however, the plays were given on five different evenings, running from Tuesday through Friday. Three extra performances of the last two offerings had to be scheduled, however, due to the popularity of the bills, making a total of eight performances per play. "Hay Fever,” the well known Noel Coward comedy, with which the season was closed last spring, was played to a total audience of 1,760. ‘‘Right You Are If You Think You Are,” Pirandello’s mental drama, which was an outstanding production because of the character acting by practically the entire cast, played to 1,650 persons. Last season’s offerings also included “The Enchanted Cottage” by Arthur Wing Pinero, “An Enemy of the People,” by Henrik Ibsen, “Androcles and the Lion,” by George Bernard Shaw, and “John Ferguson,” bv St. John Ervine. WILL WORK AGAIN Arnold Kent, young Italian playex who came to Hollywood in 1925, has signed a contract with Paramount to continue as a featured player. His next part will be that of Geoffrey Hammond in “The Letter.”

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The Indiana State Bathing Beauty Contest will be held Sunday afternoon and night at Walnut Gardens. Beautiful girls from Indianapolis as well many other cities and towns of the State have been entered in the contest. Miss Myra Bosworth of Richmond, Ind., will represent her city. Others entered are Anna Ruth Rinehart, Shelbyville; Nina Zumbrunen, Mishawaka; Catherine Philips, Elkhart; Theresa Rapperger, El wood; Edwina Juday, Goshen and many others. The first prize is a Chevrolet coach and other prizes.

To Return “Divorce Bound,” originally scheduled to begin at once with the return of Florence Vidor to the Paramount studio, has been postponed to give the right-of-way in production to “Unconquered,” in which Richard Dix and Miss Vidor will be seen together. With “Moran of the Marines,” Dix’s present vehicle, nearing completion, “Unconquered” should soon be before the cameras at the Paramount plant. Malcolm St. Clair is to direct.

Siamese Twins Due at Lyric ‘Broken Toys,’ With King and Brown on Bill, ALTHOUGH they are known the world over as “San Antonio's Siamese Twins,” Daisy and Violet Hilton, who come to the Lyric next week as the headline attraction, were not born in America, but in Brighton, England. Their mother died immediately after their birth and the father was killed in an accident a few months later. The name under which they are so widely known is derived from the American city to which they were brought by their adopted parents, San Antonio. It was there they spent the first fifteen years of their lives. An enormous interest is attracted to their vaudeville appearance, yet the countless admirers of these two charming and talented 17-year-old girls find in their presentation more than a curiosity or “freak” attraction. Theirs is an offering of genuine talent and entertainment in music, song and dance, it is claimed. The bill will include: “BROKEN TOYS”—A novel oddity with Harry King and George Brown, two agile clowns who feature themselves as very lively toys in a shop of children’s playthings. A novelly conceived and excellently carried out method of displaying humorous acrobatics. TELAAK AND DEAN—A team of funsters in a comedy offering “Calling.” SILKS AND SATINS—A star of “Blossom Time,” “No, No, Nanette,” “The Dancing Honeymoon” and "Keep Cool,” supported by four beautiful young ladies and a talented pianiste, present one of the most gorgeously costumed pageants of song and dance which has graced the vaudeville stage during the present season. BURNS TWlNS—Offer an entertaining melange of song and dance and assisting the Hilton Sisters in their offerings. FLAPPER FRESHIES—A musical satire on the coming girl’s school. This seminary skit with six young pupiis and an instructor in a school prophecy which is peppy and provides the kind of entertainment that gives everybody a very good time indeed. I. J. Irving, one of the featured members of the company was with the current edition of the Greenwich Village Follies. TAK WAH CHAN Presents “Chinese Oddities.” ON THE SCREEN—Smith Family comedy, “Smith’s Restaurant;” cartoon and Pathe News. JANNINGS SIGNS CONTRACT Emil Jannings paused in his work on “Sins of the Fathers” the other day long enough to sign a contract to appear in Paramount pictures Jannings has made four pictures in America for Paramount, “The Way of All Flesh,” “The Last Command,” “The Street of Sin” and “The Patriot,” the latter just released amid critical cheers at a Broadway premiere. IN AIR MOVIE Richard Dix, Ruth Elder and the Paramount unit film in “Moran of the Marines” are now on location at Chatsworth, about thirty miles from Hollywood, where airport sequences are being made. WITH PARAMOUNT AGAIN George Manker Watters, author of “Burlesque,” has signed anew contract to write for Paramount “The Sawdust Paradise,” starring Esther Ralston is Watters’ first scenario effort. AMUSEMENTS

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were born joined together. They will headline the bill opening Sunday afternoon at the Lyric. 3—Ann Gorio plays the lead in “Girls in Blue,” burlesque show, opening Sunday afternoon at the Mutual.

ROUNDING THEATERS

THE current issue of Variety, probably the best known theatrical weekly of its type, lists the policy for the various Keith theaters. The local Keith housee is not mentioned in the list, but it is known that William Hough, local Keith manager, is busy getting his theater ready for an early opening of vaudeville.

Variety states that the Keith Circuit will start the season with thirty-two weeks of two-a-day vaudeville and pictures, “but only nine of those weeks will consist of two-a-day straight vaudeville. It is stated in Variety that the rest will be vaude-film policy with continuous shows on Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Variety gives the policy for thir-ty-two Keith houses as follows: Two-a-Dav Vaude: Seven Days Weekly Globe. Atlantic City. Keith’s, Memorial. Bostou. Brighton, Brighton Beach. ?alace, Chicago. ilyou. Coney Island. Imperial. Montreal. Palace. New York. Davis. Pittsburgh. Orpheum. Los Angeles. Two--Dav Vaude; Grind Week-Ends Keith’s. Washington. Albee. Brooklyn. Palace. Cleveland. . . _ . Two-a-Day Vaudfilm: Grind Week-Ends Riverside. New York. Eightv-Pirst Street. New York. Greenpolnt. Brooklyn. Madison, Brooklyn. Prospect. Brooklyn. Strand. Far Rockaway. Orpheum. Kansas City. Palace. Milwaukee. Chester. New York. Coliseum. New York. Fordham, New York. Franklin. New York. Hamilton. New York. Regent. New York. Royal. New York. Davis. Pittsburgh. Orpheum. San Francisco. Orpheum.. Seattle. Capitol. Union City. N. J. Orpheum. Vancouver. This list does not include all of tv ' Keith houses. Manager Hough i not made a definite announcen i concerning the local policy with the exception that his theater will be a vaudeville theater this season. Sweeping changes in the policy of the Circle theater were announced today by the management. Beginning today at the Circle is twelfth anniversary week with Dick Powell as master of ceremonies and Ed. Resener as conductor of the Circle Concert orchestra. On the following week, Dick Powell will stage his farewell week as master of ceremonies at the Circle. This also will be Ed. Resener’s farewell as director of

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the Circle orchestra. On Sept. 15, the Circle will start its season of sight-sound pictures and the talkers with “Lilac Time,” a sightsound picture. This policy will do away with the concert orchestra. Dessa Byrd, famous for her work on the pipe organ, will be retained at the Circle and she of course will be more prominent than ever. Ed. Resener goes to the Indiana in two weeks’ time as conductor of an augmented pit orchestra. This in no way interferes with Charlie Davis, who remains as master of ceremonies. In other words, the management of the Circle and Indiana will center all of its stage presentations with a master of ceremonies at the Indiana. For feature movies, the Indiana will be able to draw from five great firms —Fox, Universal, First National, Paramount and Pathe. The Circle will present some of the biggest pictures of the season, including “Lilac Time.” “The Barker,” “Show Girl,” "Mother Machree,” “King of Kings,” “Patript,” and “The Divine Lady.”

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Balloon Stunts at Riverside Hazel Bruce to Make a Trip in the Clouds Sunday, * npWO balloon ascensions and nine parachute leaps will feature the free attractions- at Riverside amusement park Sunday and Monday, the holiday being brought to a fitting close the night of Labor day by a gorgeous display of fireworks. Sunday afternoon at Riverside, Hazel Bruce, local girl, will make her first trip alone into the sky suspended from the Riverside balloon, and will attempt to “ride” the huge hot air bag to a record height before stepping out into space with her bundle of parachutes for a multiple leap to the earth a mile or so below. On the afternoon of Labor day, iviiss Bruce again will ascend at Riverside, but on this occasion she will be accompanied by Ethel Pritchett, and the two girls will stage a thrilling race back to earth. Monday night’s fireworks display, it is promised, will be one of the most elaborate and expensive ever shown in Indianapolis. Expert pyrotechnists from the factory will be on hand to supervise the firing of the display, which will be set off in the center of the amusement park under the supervision of city firemen under the direction of Bernard Lynch of the fire prevention bureau. Preparations have been made to entertain large crowds at Riverside all of next week, the big West Thirtieth street fun resort being popular with State fair visitors, many of whom have been making a visit to Riverside a part of their ainual trip to the fair for twenty years. STAR HAS BIRTHDAY Charles Rogers, young Paramount star, just celebrated his twentyfourth birthday with his mother in the home he has rented daring her stay in Hollywood. Work on sound and dialog sequences for “Varsity,” Rogers’ first starring vehicle, is now nearly complete. “Just TwentyOne,” his next picture, will begin soon under Richard Wallace as director.

Ain't True Mary Brian today denied persistent rumors that she Is engaged to marry “Bis” Hoffman, captain of the Leland Stanford football team. The presence together of the Paramount player and Hoffman at several parties in the film capitol lead to the report of their engagement. Mary’s denial was emphatic.

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