Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1929 — Page 7

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SINGER’S MIDGETS WILL OPEN TODAY AT THE INDIANA

Monte Blue Tops Cast of ‘Conquest’ at the Apollo—Navy Planes Play Prominent Part in ‘The Flying Fleet’ at the Palace Theater. SINGER'S Midgets in "Miniatures of 1929" is the Publix stage presentation at the Indiana, starting today, while “The Crash,” starring Milton Sills, is the feature picture. Another high-light of the bill is an overture by Ed Resener and his orchestra. The midgets are particularly impressive In this new production and much of their success is due to the colorful setting in which they appear. It is said by the Indiana management that this alone ran into’a.cost of approximately $40,000. Among other features which help these tiny people in their entertainment are live elephants and other animals which per-

form with them on the stage. In fact, one of the big features is the little "strong man," who lifts a pony from the floor. They also offer a jazz band, dancing teams, and most everything else that one would expect at one of the regular bills. This is Milton Sills’ first appearance in Indianapolis since "The Barker” was shown at the Circle several weeks ago. Co-starred with him in this new production is Thelma Todd, new-comer to the film lots who was selected as one of the “1929 Wampus Stars.’* T’-e picture opens with her in the role of a chorus girl with a traveling show. As the result of an accident her trains stops in a small town and she falls in love with the boss of a wrecking crew. Her subsequent trials and tribulations in attempting to “acclimate” herself in the small to-.vn supply very good entertainment. “Versatility,” Ed Resener’s overture, is composed of musical hits of different classifications and is well received. There also is the regular news reel. MONTE BLUE TOPS MOVIE CAST Monte Blue, Indianapolis motion picture star, heads the cast appearing in “Conquest,” a Vitaphone 100 per cent talking picture which opens at the Apollo today, and which, by reason of its unusual story combined with the fact that all the players speak their parts throughout, has quickly taken rank as one of the most unique screen productions of all time. A thrilling tale of loVe and adventure, "Conquest” is based on Mary Imlay Taylor’s novel, “The Candle in the Wind.” It was directed by Roy Del Ruth, and the cast includes such sterling players as H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Edmund Breese and Tully Marshall. Blue and Warner have the roles of two daring aviator-explorers who hope to conquer the icy wastes of the Antarctic in an aerial dash to the South Pole. Both are in love with the daughter of the wealthy banker who agrees to finance their project. A great tri-motored plane carries them forth on their adventurous quest, but they come to grief when it crashes in the frozen Antarctic regions. One is seriously injured, the other, impelled by fear, treacherously deserts his companion, leaving him. as he believes, to die. Working his way back to civilization the survivor marries the girl. What happens when the man thought dead miraculously returns; how a second polar dash is launched, and how it develops into tragedy, uncovers a vast panorama of absorbing action made all the more impressive by Vitaphone’s reproduction of all accompanying sounds. Harry Wayman’s Debutantes, an all girls’ band, and Shaw and Lee, principal comedians of “The Five o’clock Girl,” New York musical hit, in a skit called "The Beau Biummels,” constitute the Vitaphone acts. The program is completed by Movietone News reels. tt tt tt "MOTHER MACHREE” NOW AT CIRCLE William Fox’s production of '•Mother Machree” is the feature picture being shown at the Circle cheater this week. In the stellar roles are Belle Bennett, Victor McLaglen, Neil Hamilton and Ethel Clayton. The picture is very much as one ,vho is familiar with the song would : xpect. It is a story of an Irish mother’s love and of the sacrfices which she made for her son. Actual scenes taken in Ireland open the picture where Belle Bennett as Mother Machree is seen with her husband, a young son, and a very happy though humble Irish home. The husband and father, who is a fisherman, is lost at sea in a storm which is well depicted. Sound effects here are particularly impressive. After a short while the mother decides that America is the only place where her boy can “become a

MOTION PICTURES ISIS THEATRE SUNDAY AND MONDAY ALSO UIKST EPISODE OF “THE VANISHING WEST” ADMISSION—IS CENTS -'ran ; LAST TIMES TODAY “KING OF KINGS" WITH SOUND MUSIC TOMORROW AND MONDAY JOHN 6ILBERT —GRETA GARBO “A WOMAN of AFFAIRS” AVINUC aUANE Last Time* Today “The Midnight Taxi” —VITAPHONE—

Long Run A1 Jolson in “The Singing Fool” has entered his eighteenth week on Broadway at the Winter Garden, still holding a firm lead as the most popular amusement attraction in New York, including both motion pictures and legitimate plays. The country at large has confirmed New York’s appraisal of this Warner Bros, production. It has now registered more than a hundred new box-office records where it has been shown with Vitaphone and the popularity of the silent version is also phenomenal.

gentleman” and make a success of himself. Asa result she sails for the states, but after arriving finds that the task of getting a job which pays enough to educate her son is not so easy. Immediately fate begins to frdwn on her and she is compelled to make what seems to her to be the supreme sacrifice in order to assure her son of an education. In the end, however, a happy combination of circumstances brings about a climax which is as good as one could expect after what went before. Neil Hamilton plays the part of the son in later years, while Victor McLaglen is seen as an itinerant entertainer. Both Irene Franklin and Byran Foy are seen in talking novelties and a sound news reel is the other feature of the bill. tt u NOVARROIN CAST OF PALACE FILM Navy planes in thrilling gyrations and sensational feats in the clouds, a glorious love story told to an acconpaniments of the throw of hundreds of planes in a great adventure, all are in “The Flying Fleet,” Ramon Novarro’s new starring film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which will open at the Palace theater on Saturday, with sound synchronization. The play is a vivid and intimate “inside” view of life with the aviators in the navy, flying in battle practice, and aboard the great airplane carrier ships. The thrills include some of the most desperate tricks of the air, by the navy’s famous “suicide squadron.” A wreck and rescue at sea in a transoceanic Alight is another remarkable bit of photography. Through the thrills runs a love story, and the record of a steadfast friendship of a group of young officers, who graduated together from Annapolis and follow the lanes of the air. Novarro as “Tommy,” the young naval flyer, has a role that fits him as cleverly as the neatly tailored uniforms, and his flying scenes are remarkable. Novarro had to learn to fly for the picture, and did so expertly enough to give a good account of himself with the seasoned aviators of the navy. Anita Page, the most discussed young actress of the past year, is the heroine of the story, and Gardner James, Eddie Nugent, Ralph Graves, Carroll Nye and Sumner Ketchell are the pals in the academy. The story was scenarized by Richard Schayer. The surrounding film novelties comprising the program will include new Metro Movietone acts, bringing to the screen the wizard of the mandolin, Bernardo De Pace, and the London Empire theater reel, starring John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Conrad Nagel, Marion Davies, William Haines, Norma Shearer, Ernest Torrence, Lewis Stone, Buster Keaton and George K. Arthur. This subject was made especially for the opening of Loew’s London theater, in London, England. Lester Huff at the organ console, Fox Movietone News and the Palace World Visions will complete the bill.

Big Merger

Culminating a series of billion dollar mergers anew motion picture com- any was born here this week. It was christened RKO Productions, Inc., and with its birth FBO Productions passed out of existence. Today, over the portals of the studio at Melrose and Gower streets, painters are effacing the last traces of the old trade name, and in its place is rising the new triangle of RKO. The new corporation was born with a silver spoon in its mouth, in a manner of speaking, for it is the child of the union of two financial giants. Radio Corporation of America and the greater KeithOrpheum theaters. “Faker” Completed Another Columbia production, “The Faker,” an unusupl drama of pseudo-spiritualism, has been completed and will reach the screen this month. The new film strikes an entirely novel note in screen entertainment. Uncanny astral effects, bizarre settings, weird make-up and several innovations in both camera and lighting technique have been introduced to enhance the eerie undertone of the story.

Matinee On account of repeated requests for an extra performance, the Freiburg Players and Ona B. Talbott have agreed to an extra matinee performance of “The Passion Play” Sunday afternoon at the Murat theater. Seats will be on sale at the box office.

1. Lois Wilson in “Conquest,” opening today at the Apollo. 2. Ramon Navarro in a scene from “The Flying Fleet,” to be seen at Loew’s Palace today.

COMMUNITY CENTER TO PRESENT GLASS Baritone' and Noted Violinist Will Appear in Concerts in Indianapolis Sunday Afternoon and Night. THE Indianapolis Hadassah chapter will present Myro Glass, barytone, and Willard MacGregor, pianist, in recital at Kirschbaum communty center Sunday night. At 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon, the Indianapolis Maennerchor will present Szigeti, Hungarian violinist, in recital at the Academy of Music. In returning for his fourth American tour, in January, 1929, Joseph Szigeti comes back to a country which has learned in three seasons to rank him with the few living violinists of true musical distinction.

Szigeti is not like any other violinist now before the public, and it is safe to add that there has never been a counterpart of Szigeti. He is, first of all, a musician, and his musicianship is expressed by consummate mastery of his instrument. He has been unwilling to make the usual concessions, such as playing unworthy music and indulging in spectacular but unmusical tricks, and his reward has been the instant esteem of all fellow musicians and of his listeners. In his three seasons in the United States, Szigeti has played times with the Philadelphia orrL - tra, six times with the New York Philharmonic, five times with the Chicago Symphony, four times with the Cincinnati Symphony, twice with the New York, Boston, St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis and Detroit Symphonies, and once with the Friends of Music in New York, the Beethoven Symphony and the Omaha and Baltimore orchestras. n u o STUDENT ORCHESTRA TO PLAY FRIDAY The student orchestra of Indiana Central college will give a concert in the college auditorium, Friday, Feb. 15. Nathan Davis is conductor of the orchestra. Besides the orchestral numbers the Boys’ Glee Club, directed by Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, and the Girls Glee Club directed by Mrs. Sherman Davis will sing. Robert Eshlemasn, piano student of Miss Grace Hutchings will be soloist. and Miss Anna Dale, student of Elmer Marshall, will give several dramatic readings. The program will be open to the public free of charge.

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COMMUNITY CENTER PROGRAM The program of Myro Glass and Willard MacGregor to be given Sunday night at Kirschbaum Center will be as follows: ‘‘Der Asia’’ (Hebrew) Rubinstein “Standehen” (Hebrewi Schubert. “Voi Che! Del Dio Vivente (Hebrew).. i Halevy (Cardinal Aria from Opera. “La Juive”) —H— Prelude and Fugue A Minor.. . .Bach Liszt Nochturne E Major Chopin Scherzo B Minor... Chopin William MacGregor. —Ill—“For You Alone” (English l Cochl “SI vous l’avlez compris" (French). .Denza Aria from Opera “Don Carlos” (Italian) Verdi —lV—“Halleluyah” (Hebrew). “Du Aleya Weist” (Yiddish).. .Palestinian “Machtzavah” (Hebrew) ... .Pioneer Songs —V— Petrarch Sonnet E Major Liszt General Lavine Debussy Fireworks Debussy Triana Albeniz Willard MacGregor. —Vl—“Wingonlied” (Yiddish) Roskin “Auf’n Emigranten Schiff” (Yiddish).. Golub “Moishelach on Shlojmeloch” (words bv Blalk) Brounoff “Der Eisenbahn” (Yiddish).. .Shack-Cohen “Foldkinder” Engel Mrs. Simon Kiser, accompanist. tt u a EVENTS AT COLLEGE OF MUSIC On Tuesday evening, Feb. 5, the first lecture-recital in the series on “Brahms”, will be held at the Metropolitan School of Music at 8:15 o’clock. Introductory remarks will be made by Andrew Haigh, artist piano teacher of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. Mrs. Lenore Coffin will talk on the life and wQrks of Brahms and

3. Neil Hamilton, Belle Bennet and Constance Howard, opening today at the Circle in “Mother Machree.” 4. Thelma Todd and Milton Sills in a closeup from “The Crash,” at the Indiana starting today.

the following program will be presented. Violin and Piano—“ Sonata D Minor.” Hugh McGibeny, Willard MacGregor. Song—“Teachery,” “A Thought Like Music,” “Eternal Love.” Edward La Shelle. Rhapsodie, Op.. 79 No. 2. Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 2. Cappricio, Op. 76 No. 2. RhMsodie, Op. 119 No. 4. Andrew C. Haigh. A program by teachers and advanced students of the Indiana Col’.ege of Music and Fine Arts will be given for the Brookside Civic League at the community house in Brookside park, on Monday evening, Feb. 4, at 8 o’clock. Frances Robbins, Ruth Gant, Helen Thoms, Mary Rosalind Parr, Christine Roush, Carl Frye and a double quintet of brasses. Inez Shirley will accompany Helen Thoms. " t The student recital of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, which was scheduled for Feb. 2 at the Metropolitan School of Music, has been postponed until Saturday, Feb. 9. On Monday, Feb. 4, Elmer Marshall, teacher of public speaking at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will give a miscellaneous program for the Parent-Teacher Association of New Bethel. On Feb. 9 Mr. Marshall will appear on the Johnson county institute program at Franklin, Ind. fie will read “Hoosier Schoolmaster” on one session and “Abie’s Irish Rose” in the afternoon. tt u a CLUB TO GIVE CONCERT The A. S. F. Club of the Irvington School of Music will hold its monthly program Sunday at 2:45

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p, m. This program is open and free to the public. Guest artists will be Annar Louise Burkert, organist, Mrs. Edith Gemmer, reader, and Mrs. Gertrude Hinshaw, vocalist. Out of town artist assisting on the program will be Armeda Hall of Marion. ‘voice—“Who Is Sylvia” Schubert Mrs. Zelma See Piano—“ Fifth Nocturne” Godard Mrs. Blanche Smyers Reading—“ Lochinvar” Katherine Ross Organ—“ Sonata” Rogers Choral Scherzo Adagio Loccata •Anna Louise Burkert Voice—Norwegian Folk Song. Dorothy Saltsman Piano—“ Venetian Serenade” Brown Dorothy Fu Ton Organ—“ Serenade” Drige Florence Hinsl aw , Voice—“ False Prophet” Scott Ruth Rowe Piano—“ Rondo Brilliant” Von Weber E Minor Waltz : Chopin Armeda Hall Organ—“ Gloria in Exceiis” Mozart Grace Eaton Selection on the Saw. Mr. Albighfc Readings—- “ Victory:” “The Spirit of Love Speaks.” “Love’s Expression.” Mrs. Edith Gemmer. Organ—“ Fanfare” Lemmens Dorothea Hogle Voice—Selected Mrs. Gertrude Hinshaw Organ—“ Torchlight March” Clark Frances Wooden Whistling—“lndian Love Lyrics” ..Finden William Hogle Piano—“Valse” Op. 18 Chopin Edna Hansing Organ—“ Overture” from “Zampa” Mildred Smith ' n tt The third term opens at the Irvington Schoo} of Music, Monday, Feb. 4. A children’s class in theory under Mrs. Royalty will be started Saturday, Feb. 9 at 30 o’clock. A scholarship in pipe organ is offered by Adelaide Conte, the application for entering contest should be in by Feb. 25. A term of free instruction will be given to the one who shows to be deserving and has the most talent in that instrument.

New Players

Jean Hersholt, Ricardo Cortez, Lina Basquette, Rex Lease, Rosa Rosanova and Martha Franklin c,re the latest screen players of prominence to join the talking stars. Columbia is presenting this sextet in important roles in the dialog sequences of “The Younger Generation,” a production which will be the company’s first talkie to reach the screen. Each of the six players has had extensive stage experience. Jean Hersholt and Rosa Rosanova started as child actors. Lease was a vaudeville headliner at the age of 6, Lina Basquette made her debut as a child dancer and reached the stage via Ziegfeld. Cortez played in stock. Director Changed On the assignment of “Evidence” to the direction of William Wyler, the Mary Nolan subject, “Come Across,” previously scheduled for Wyler,(has been given to Ray Taylor. “Come Across,” which is an adaptation by Peter Milne of William Dudley Pelley’s novel, “The Stolen Lady,” will be Taylor’s first feature. It was given him by Carl Laemmle as a recognition of his nine years of directing of chapter plays, westerns and thrill picturs at Universal City.

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Broadway Favorite Is Here Harry Ellsworth Will Top New Bill at the Lyric. A WELL-KNOWN favorite on Broadway, Harry Ellsworth, considered to be one of the most agile and accomplished Russian dancers at present before the public, brings his talented company of. singers and dancers to the Lyric theater next week as the headline vaudeville attraction. The whole act is colorfully costumed and superbly set and is enr titled “A Radio Sight Revue,” being a prophecy of a television show and. presented by science’s latest invention. The bill will include: George Shelton and Company—lu. an extraordinary smilitude entitled "Keep Moving.” In his piece of. “hokery” he is supported by Frank. Flyn as the bewildered Irish cop and Addie Clifford as a “hot” blues singer. Marietta Trio—An European attraction who number startling acrobatic, balancing and dancing among their talents. Story and Lee—Rose Lee, one of Mack Sennett’s Bathing Beauties with Rex Story, a young man who was brought to this country by Charlie Chaplin, will present qcomedy hoke act entitled “Top Silly for Words.” At the Metropolitan A comedy skit written by Eugene Conrad will be the offering of Adelina Roatiria, William Barrette, and Dick Millet;, It is a comedy act introducing bits, of grand opera. Naio and Romeo—Will present aitartistic musical novelty "Musical Echos.” On the Screen—Few pictures have more popular appeal in every part of the country than those which depict the glamorous and colorful life of the nomads who live and. work under the “big top” in a traveling* circus. There seems to be something about circus life, judging from the success which is accorded its depiction on the screen, which has a big pull on people of all ages, even though many old*'' sters insist that they go to th£ 1 sawdust ring shows “just because the children enjoy it.” Os this type, "The Circus Kid,” the FBO special production, will be the feature photoplay attraction for the week. Directed by George B. Seitz, a veteran with many successful screen productions to his credit, itfc fast and thrilling action presents a complete circus performance that includes the famous riding act of “Poodles” Hanneford, ace of bareback riders and clowns, and his troupe, long a star feature with Barnum & Bailey, Ringling Brothers and other big shows. In addition there are trained lions ip a caged arena, clowns, riders and all the rest of it. The engrossing story which is woven around the circus people is presented by a cast featuring Joe Brown and Frankie Darro.