Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1928 — Page 6

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WORLD FAMED MUSICIANS WILL BE BROUGHT TO THIS CITY

Ona B, Talbot, the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers, the Maennerchor and the Mendelssohn Choir Engage Artists, . . v * * WITH Oria B. Talbot making an official announcement today of her complete bookings for the new season, Indianapolis is assured of one of its most interesting seasons Mrs. Talbot this time is bringing to the city several artists new to us but who are internationally known. In addition to her Sunday afternoon popular artist concerts, she will bring three noted orchestras to this city. ; ‘ The music season of 1928-29 according to the prospectus just issued by the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises will be replete with events of distinction and worthwhileness.

Ten concerts are the scheduled number under this management“to include the seventh annual series of orchestra concerts of the Indianapolis Symphony Society. Five Sunday afternoon concerts presenting artists of international distinction. Roland Hayes, tenor, in recital and the presenting phenomena of a phenomenal age, “Music from the Ether,” demonstrated by its inventor, Leon Theremin, who has gained the sobriquet “Russia’s Edison.” The musical calendar is as follows : MONDAY EVENING SERIES Nov. 12—New York Philharmonic, William Mengelberg, conductor. Feb. 11—Minneapolis. Symphony Orchestra. Henri Vegrugghen. conductor. April B—Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, conductor. SUNDAY AFTERNOON SERIEB Oct. 28—Paul Koschanski. violinist. Jan. 20—Sophie Braslau. contralto, „ March ,11—Emeiip De Gorgoza. baritone. April' 21—Rudolph Ganz, pianist. May B—Philadelphia String Simfonietta. And also: ‘ Nov. 28 ", (Evening)—“Music From the Fther.” Leon Theremin. Dec. 4 (Evening)—Roland Hayes, tenor. In reviewing the contents of the “Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Review” for the coming season, we find that the Indianapolis Symphony Society is entering its seventh season of continuous and earnest effort to give to Indianapolis and Indiana symphony orchestra music as the basic principle for building of a musical community. During the six seasons past every orchestra of renown has been heard in Indianapolis, with but one or two exceptions. This has only been accomplished by the practical and moral support of the group of men and women comprising the guarantors to the orchestra fund, guarantors of season 'tickets, as it is a well-known and undisputed fact orchestras do not pay for themselves. The cost of bringing the finest orchestral organizations of America to Indianapolis is such that it requires every seat in the Murat, a capacity so 1,900, to be sold for each concert, to pay the cost of presentation. There is no reason to suppose that in the State of Indiana there are not„ many .more than 1,900 persons interested 'in symphonic music. The three Monday evenings set aside during the coming season for the development’; Os this branch of the Fine Arts deserves the enthusiastic support of every one. One thousand season tickets subscribed is all that is necessary. With the consolidation of the Philharmonic "Society and Symphony Society of New York, the season Will be the most brilliant in the history Os the oldest orchestra in the United States. Under the baton of Willem Mengelberg, with a personnel augmented to 110 men draw from the best mgpibers. Ql , each orchestra, the Philharmonic *.Symphony Society now bears the same relation to the musical life of-New York City as the ‘ Metropolitan Museum of Art bears to those interested in the graphic and plastic arts. Indianapolis is again one of the favored few to hear the supreme orchestra of America, on its oneweek fall tour, on Monday evening Nov. 12,, marking the opening concert of the ’seventh annual season of thq Symphony Society,- ’Onft'-'B.-Talbot, managing director.. . in perusing the prospectus just issued of the Ona B. Talbot fine Arts Enterprises we read “Amazing

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OTm B.*mtBOT—FINE ARTS ENTERPRISES FOUNDED BY ONA BBYANX TALBOT, 1006 SUBSCRIPTION SERIES 1928-29 10--CONGERTS--10 tt ORCHESTRAS —5 SUNDAY CONCERTS Theremin “music from the ether” ROLAND HAYES 'SEASON PRICES—TEN CONCERTS Main Floor, $27.50, $24.50, $ 18.50, $ 13.50, $ 12. Balcony, $22.50, sl9, $ 16.50, $ 14. NOTE—Season ticket sale closes Oct. 20. Buy season tickets NOW and save money. All single ticke t will be advanced in price after season ticket sale closes. Inclose self-addressed stamped envelope for return of tickets ONA B. TALBOT OFFICE 916 Hume-Mansw Bldg. The STEINWAY is the official Piano o£ these concerts

COLONIAL NEW YORK AND ILLINOIS STS. At Jack Kane's Big A. 4 “GIRL f 1 REVUE’ f 25—PEOPLE—25 MOSTLY GIRLS NEW SHOW EVERY SUN. IWeek Day MIDNIGHT SHOW Nights, Sun. Matinees EVERY SAT. NIGHT 4.Jb & Holidays 10C This Theatre Engages |Q-25C Any Seat Union Employes 1 u . u

Offer for Five Popular Sunday Afternoon Concerts—l,ooo seats—Five Dollars.” In explanation of this announcement we read- further—“ For many years the artists engaged have been those whose names spell magic in the world of music. Some have spread their* magic to the great public, who eagerly sought admission to see and hear—“ Sold Out Houses” was the result. Others with even greater magic, when heard, did not bring “Sold Out Houses.” But magical names must be paid for just the same. And. now that we have seen and heard them all, are we not read and eager to listen to music for music’s sake. So truly are we convinced of this that we are popularizing the Sunday afternoon series of concerts in price only, the artistic standard maintained throughout our years of musical activity will remain the same. The novelty number offered by the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises in their season announcement is “Music from the Ether,” a concert demonstration produced by free movement of hands in air. Leon Theremin, inventor of this phenomena, came to America on the wings of success. His demonstrations at Philharmonic Hall in Berlin, the Grand Opera in Paris and at Albert Hall, London, have resounded throughout the civilized world. At a recent Stadium concert In New York, more than fifteen thousand people sat spellbound, and witnessed the nearest approach to a miracle, according to the New York critics, so much so that the vast audience was almost too astounded to applaud. For they were hearing music without instruments, a voice without a voice; music not transmitted not reproduced, but music elicited by the passes of a conjuror’s hand out of the creative silences of the thing that we make only a little more mysterious by calling ether. a a a MENDELSSOHN CHOIR TO HAVE TWO CONCERTS The bringing of John Charles Thomas and Edith Mason, two vocal artists of international fame, by the Mendelssohn Choir this season, has launched this organization into full activity under the direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen, conductor. John Charles Thomas, one of the most noted American baritones, is the first artist to whom the Mendelssohn Choir has honored with a return engagement. Mr. Thomas appeared with the choir in this city several years agp, and it will be remembered that nis brilliant singing thoroughly captivated his audience. Mr. Thomas will be the guest artist of the Mendelssohn Choir in its fall concert at the Murat Theater Monday evening, Nov. 19, and will be the first mid-western appearance of this artist since his return from Europe, where he has been concerning. In the numbers which Mr. Thomas will sing in this city on Nov. 19 will be a group of Schubert songs and the concert will be in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Schubert, one of the greatest masters of song composition. The choral program, now in preparation by the choir, is one of the heavies ever undertaken and will include eight compositions, three

1— Vcrbrugghen, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, who has been „ ... , booked by Ona B. Talbot this season for a concert. -2 Sophie Braslau, contralto, is another artist that Mrs. Talbot will bring here this winter.

of which will be from the works of Schubert. Among these will be the Erl King, which is seldom sung, and a choral number. , Russian music will dominate the balance of the program which will include other composition by Handel, Bairstow, Elgar and Buzzi Peccla. Edith Mason, who will be the guest artist for the spring concert, is the prlma donna soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera, and she has achieved many notable triumphs in her long carrer in opera and on the concert stage. a a a TEACHERS TO HAVE PROGRAMS The Federation of Public School Teachers will have two concerts this coming season at Caleb Mills Hall. Louise Homer will appear on Friday night, Nov. 9, and the English Singers of London on Friday, March 8. No musical attraction in recent years has received such unqualified praise from the press as the English Singers, the unique ensemble of six vocalliists who will give a recital here on March 8 at Caleb Mills Hall. This group of singers has such a vogue in New York City that they gave last season six sold-out recitals to the general public and filled in addition thereto over eighty engagements with clubs and musical societies throughout the United States. An example of the sort of superlative praise bestowed upon the English Singers may be gotten from the following; Writing for the New York Times, the critic Olin Downes said: “A concert by the English Singers is for a listener a unique and unforgettable experience, a contact with a beauty that is rare and haunting, and interpretations that in their particular kind are unparalleled on the American concert stage.” Lawrence Gilman, the able critic of {he New York Herald-Tribune, added to this by stating: “It would be difficult to overpraise the triumphant skill, the unfaltering taste, the insight, the delicate imaginative justice of the Singers. Their command of mood, of nuance, of rhythm, of expressive and characterizing color, leaves one in retrospect with nothing to speak of them but delighted eulogy. They conquered their hearers—as they always do,” a a a GREAT SEASON FOR THE MAENNERCHOR The Indianapolis Maennerchor at the Academy of Music will have a wonderful season. The Maennerchor season will be as follows: Nov. 28—Schubert memorial concert, male chorus and Mme. Gertude Rappel. Dec. 9—Flonzaley quartet. Jan. 6—Hans Klndler. cellist. Jan. 20—Heinrich Schlusnuss, baritone. Feb. 3—Joseph Szlftettl. violinist. Feb. 17—Klnderfest. Feb. 28—Male chorus and Dusol ; na Giannlni. March 10—Flonzaleys and Georgas Enesco Farewell concert. April 14—Elly Ney. pianist. May 13—Male chorus and Hulda Lashanska, soprano. Return to Studio Headed by Jack Holt, 150 actors, cowboys and technical workers, who have been in Arizona on location for several weeks making scenes for Zane Grey’s “Avalanche,” returned to the Paramount studios last week. AMUSEMENTS

MUTUAL BURLESQUE THEATRE ♦ 134 South Illinois Street Direction Mutual Burlesque Association of New York YIOLA ELLIOT (THE LITTLE VENUS) AND HER FRENCH MODELS The Youngest, Prettiest, Peppiest Chorus in Burlesque And “THE RED DANCE”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ROUNDING ROUND THFATFR9 With WALTER 1 1 IL>rs.O D HICKMAN

THINGS are getting busy as well as interesting in the theater field in this city. Plenty is happening. One of the events of the week is the promotion of William Hough, manager of Keith’s here, to the position of manager of Keith's Hippodrome at Cleveland, Ohio. / Hough left here last night to start his duties as manager in Cleveland. Gus Showalter was placed in charge of the Keith house here. No definite date has been fixed for the local opening. A. F. Miller of English’s has returned to the city with the following

good news—that “Simba,” the great aimal and explorer movie, will open the Murat o.n Oct. 7 and that on Oct. 15 at the Murat the first road show of the season will open at the Murat. The attraction will be “A Night in Spain,” which recently closed a long run in Chicago. Mr. Miller states that no definite announcement is forthcoming concerning English’s opening date. a a a Received a telegram from Boston stating that Jane Thurston, daughter of Thurston, famous magician, made her stage debut Monday night at the Colonial Theater, where her father is appearing. The telegram states that she made a hit with her song, “My Dad Is a Hocus Pocus Man.” She also assists her father in magic in the second part of the show. She will be a co-star with her father like the team of Fred and Dorothy Stone. a a a The Mutual Burlesque Circuit is to be congratulated upon giving 50 per cent of its Thursday matinee re ;eipts in all of its theaters, including the Indianapolis house, to the Red Cross for aid of the Florida sufferers. This was a fine move. Sincere and splendid. a a a Ernst Heberlein in a letter, to me this week makes the following splendid suggestion: “May I, as a reader of your columns, suggest a small service that I am sure would be appreciated by your other readers? The new sound effect movies often use song and other musical themes during certain parts of the pictures. Could you not list these, that is, the most prominent ones, for us? I think the selection the ‘Two Guitars’ was the theme used in the picture the 'Two Lovers’ at the Palace last week, but I don’t know what the name of the rollicking drinking song used during the early ‘lnn’ scenes. Such themes as these run through people’s brains and the title would settle many a brainstorm. The sound movies are doing great missionary work for classical music. A jazz song will not accompany a love scene no matter how ‘hot’ either one is.”

DAY’S CASINO Corner Emerson and Southeastern Aves.. Indianapolis TONIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT SEPT. 29th AND 30th PERSONAL APPEARANCE INDIANA BATHING BEAUTIES With Miss I.eonette Pickett, Miss Venus of Indiana of 1928 In a GRAND BEAUTY REVIEW Park Plan Dancing AVtth Koss Holler’s Orchestra General Admission, 23c

3—Edith Mason, soprano, will be one of the guest artists to be heard with the Mendelssohn Choir this season. 4—Louise Homer will be brought here this winter for a recital by the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers. ___

At Lyric

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Lola Mcnzeli The premier dancer with the SolmonofT act at the Lyric, starting Sunday, will be Lola Menzeli. New Featured Player Phillips Holmes, the Princeton youth, who broke into motion pictures while Charles Rogers was on location there making “Varsity” and who is now a featured Paramount player, has been assigned to his first role under his contract. He will appear in support of Adolphe Menjou in “His Private Life.” The star’s wife, Kathryn Carver, appears as his leading lady and in addition to Holmes the only others thus far chosen for the cast are Margaret Livingston and Paul Guerzman, the 15-year-old Russian prodigy brought back from Paris recently by Jesse L. Lasky. Frank Tuttle, who picked Holmes from the campus of old Nassau, to play a part in “Varsity,” will also direct him in his second film venture. Holmes Is the son of Taylor Ho.mes, well known stage actor, and all his previous experience was gained with the Princeton Triangle Club.

‘Simba’ to Open at the Murat Noted Movies of Great Explorer Will Be Shown, ACCORDING to an announcement made today by Ad Miller, manager of the Murat, “Simba,” heralded as the greatest of all wild animal pictures, filmed in the African jungles by Mr. and Mrs. Mertin Johnson, under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, will be brought to Indianapolis for a period of one w’eek, under the sponsorship of a committee composed of leading citizens of Indianapolis “Simba” is the film record of four years of actual experience in the great African wilderness, and according to reports, the encounters with wild beasts experienced by the Martin Johnsons and reflected on the screen outhrills the biggest of the Hollywood-staged thriller With “Simba” will come the newest of motion picture sound devices. The “Dulcetone,” which will play the musical accompaniment to the pictures and deliver the descriptive talks by the explorer. This picture will come to Indianapolis direct from a long run in New York City at the Earl Carroll Theater, opening at the Murat Sunday afternoon, Oct. 7.

At Casino

Seven of the prize winning beauties from the Indiana State beauty contest held at Walnut Gardens recently will appear Saturday and Sunday at Day's Casino in revue. There also will be dancing. Russ Haller’s orchestra will furnish the music. Miss Leonette Picket, winner of the contest, will appear. She Makes Good Leone Lane has gained the opportunity coveted by the 100,000 or more girls who have sought to win fame in Hollywood. Miss Lane, who has played In several two reel comedies, was signed by Paramount as a featured player. She is the daughter of Mrs. Hallie M. Lane of Boston.

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At Colonial

Jack Kane will offer a brand new bill next week at the Colonial. It is a revue with all new costumes, scenery, songs, dances and girls. This is a stock company of twen-ty-five people and they have arranged to stay at the Colonial all season, presenting a change of program each week. There are also feature pictures run in conjunction with the musical show, which is presented four times daily. Every Saturday night Kane is giving a midnight show called “Midnite Follies.” It is something different. Now an Actor Frank Tuttle, now directing Adolphe Menjou in “His Private Life,” followed the precedent set by William A. Wellman, who usually manages to act in his' own pictures, by playing a role before the cameras yesterday.

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A Musical Act Tops l The Lyricj Eddie Klein's Band Will Bel Chief Vaudeville Feature, EDDIE KLEIN’S Sax-Hounds will be the headline attraction on the Lyric vaudeville program next week. They are billed as the “Marvelous Meldoy-Makers.” Another act on the program of headline calibre is that of Nick Basil and Company, who present an act based on the trials and tribulalations of a “Movie Tone” director. The scene is laid in a movie tone studio and shows a rehearsal in progress during the action ol which many ludicrous situations are met with. The comedy is handled by Nick Basil and he is assisted by th<fl Three Kittens and Sylvester Dick! and Billy Tate. i

McCALL AND KELLER—Two! comedy crooks in a clever criminal! vehicle especially devised by Georgal Beatty to carry the cute personality! and laughter-making genius of Miss Keller, a winsome little lady for whom there is a great future. She is supported by Mr. McCall and another boy friend in this one. EDDIE SELWYN—In “Tin Alley” impersonates various staM celebrities and gives a serious <fl new and old songs. S FRANCIS AND DAY—In an acn titled “Misrepresentation of tation” offer a clever mixture fifl comedy and music and play strinß instruments. LYDELL AND HUGHES— PresefIP “A Friend of Fathers,” one of the funniest comedy skits said to have played the theater in some time. MIDNIGHT STEPPERS—Pathe comedy, “The Girl From Nowhere,” a Color Classic, “Gold,” a Curiosity Film and a Pathe News ReeL Lasky Looks ’Em Over Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president in charge *' ”-oduction for Paramount, who wood for several the company’s 1 ing activities, York last week.

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