Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1929 — Page 7

-’EC. 9, 1929_

‘BELLAMY TRIAL’ WILL OPEN TODAY AT LOEW’S PALACE

Fanny Brice at Apollo: George Jessel Opens at Indiana; ‘Abie's Irish Rose’ at Circle; Vitaphone Now at Ritz. WHO hilled Mlmi Bellamy? “ The answer will be provided by Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer when the talking and sound picture. ‘The Bellamy Trial" comes to the Palace theater on Sunday as a feature mystery drama production. With Leatrice Jcy in the leading role as the beautiful murder defendant, the murder drama is played by a cast that represents one of the greatest assemblages of screen talent ever to appear in one production. There arc .seventeen principal players and during the filming of the huge courtroom scenes .some eighty persons were under weekly contracts and several hundred extra players were used.

Introduced to the screen in a most novel manner by Monta Bell, who wrote and directed the screen play from the sensational magazine serial by Frnaces Noyes Hart, the mystery drama maintains a thrilling tempo of suspense that is dispelled only in the final footage that reveals the real murderer. As the woman on trial Miss Joy brings to the screen an impressively sincere character delineation that reaps for her new honors as a freelance star. George Barraud plays opposite her as the loyal husband who stands by his wife in the face of terrible accusations. Kenneth fliompson is the man defendant, the husband of the woman whose slaying provides the motivation for the plot. With the preponderance of evidence against them, the defendants listen to the prosecutor demand their lives to expiate the crime of which they are accused. An eleventh-hour development saves them from a conviction but the murder remains unsolved until the last reel dramatic thrill shows all the amateur detectives in the audience how-' very w rongly they suspected perfectly innocent persons in the cast. In the cast with Miss Joy, Barra ud and Thompson are Margaret Livingston. Betty Bronson, Margaret Scddon. Edward Nugent. Cosmo Kyrle Bellew, Charles B. Middleton, Charles H. Mailcs. Jacquelin Gadson, Polly Ann Young. Kala Pasha, Dan Mason, Polly Moran, William Tooker. Jack Raymond and Robert Dudley. Another feature to be seen and heard on the talking screen is a rendition of the “Gettysburg Address” w r hich was delivered at the close of the Civil war by our martyred President, Abraham Lincoln. George Billings portrays the character of Lincoln to such perfection. that he has been termed the living image of the great emancipator. George Lyons, better known as the “Singing Harpist” will appear in a Metro Movietone presentation in which he will offer a medly of tunes and songs. Rounding out the program will be the Fox Movietone News, a Laurel and Hardy comedy, organ solo by Lester Huff, and the Palace World Visions. tt n- - BRICE IN “MY MAN” AT APOLLO Fannie Brice, inimitable comedienne and international stage favorite makes her bow as a star of the talking screen in “My Man” a Vitaphone all talking production, opening at the Apollo today. Mark Canfield wrote the story especially for Miss Brice. It was inspirted by the song of the same title which the comedienne made famous in revues and in vaudeville. “My Man” is a comedy drama — the story of a girl employed in a theatrical costume factory who bears the burden of home-maker for a brazen younger sister and a small brother. Falling in love with a man she befriends, she suffers the sting of wounded pride and affection when she learns that he is enmeshed in the schemes of her heartless sister. Then, for the sake of her brother, she becomes a professional singer, and. putting her shattered romance behind her, j scales the heights to fame. The picture reveals Miss Brice as : an actress capable of nanning the ; gamut of human emotions with j consummate skill. It also affords. an opportunity for talents as a fun | maker and for the introduction of j a number of her song hits includ- i ing “My Man,” “Floradora Baby,” "I’m An Indian.” “If You Want the I Rainbow' You Must Have the Rain” and “Id Rather Be Blue Thinking of You Than Be Happy With Some-

34th ■ tul Illinois Streets >OW PRESENTING THE GREATEST OF SOI NO AND TALK PRODUCTIONS I | Week Starting Sunday SEE AND HEAR „\kPsl. Al Jolson . \ Fool ||lH; < BETTY BRONSONW JOSEPHINE OUNN j Biggest Hit of All Time! | *4Pip| EVERYDAY j •mXBg -: ; i° To 8 O'CLOCK V * "Y t Adults, 25c < All Grade, High -I J School and Butler 1 Students, 15c || 4 P ( ,o *‘^ a - v Performances ) 1| | All Seats 25c I YOU’LL FIND THE HITS AT THE RITZ!

body Else.” She also recites “Mrs. Cohen at the Beach.” Ip the supporting cast are Guinn Williams. Edna Murphy, Andre de Segurola, Richard Tucker. Arthur Hoyt, ClarI issa Selwynne and Ann Brody. Completing the program there is Chic Sale in a Movietone all talk- | ing comedy, “Marching On” in which I Sale portrays a' Civil war veteran. Vitaphone acts by Eddie Melson and company and Irene Stone, and Movietone News reels. tt n n INDIANA OFFERS GEORGE JESSEL George Jessel's “Lucky Boy” | opened as the feature screen attraction at the Indiana theater today, j while Charlie Davis and his band offer “Bubbles on the Air” as the stage presentation. There also is | an exhibit of the latest models of j radio manufacturers on the mezs zanine floor. Jessel is heard singing the theme song, “My Mother’s Eyes,” on four different occasions and is heard talking, “wise-cracking,” and singingother numbers. The story has to do with a stagestruck youth who prefers the theater to watch tinkering. His early j failures and bitter disappointments ! lead him to the conclusion that he | should leave home until he makes ! good. This, he does, carrying with | him a vivid memory of his mother and her faith. It is the incentive for him to struggle onward and I finally reach the top in his chosen profession. There also is a story of romance threaded throughout the picture. “Bubbles on the Air” is a Publix presentation devised by C. A. Niggermeyer. In it are the Gatanos, Martie Martell, Ross and Edwards, Gene Sheldon and Marta Kay. Charlie Davis and his band have a radio novelty. | The radio theme predominates throughout the offering and there also is a special radio sound reel. a it “ABIE’S IRISH ROSE” ON CIRCLE SCREEN “Abie's Irish Rose,” as depicted i by Paramount in sound, is the feaj ture attraction at the Circle thc- ■ ater this week. Nancy Carroll, Charles Rogers and j Jean Hersholt are seen in leading I roles. Miss Carroll is seen as the ' Irish daughter. Rogers plays the part of the Jewish son, and Hersholt is in the role of the Jewish father. Paramount’s version of Anne Nichols’ record-breaking stage play is said to have a mighty good chance of establishing new screen box office records, just as the stage play did in Newi York, where it ran for more than five years. It is estimated that in excess of eighteen million people have seen the stage show since it started on its unpreI cedented run. The story is one which almost j every theater-goer knows. An Irish I daughter becomes infatuated with a Jewish son. The love is returned | by him and the two are confronted i with problems arising because of their creeds. Parents of both are vigorous in their objection to a marriage, with resulting situations which keep interest high at all times until the very end. Finally, through the aid of the youth’s love, a rabbi and a priest, the two families are united and forget their dissensions. There also are talking novelties and a sound news reel on the bill. n n ts VITAPHONE NOW AT RITZ THEATER. Starting Sunday the Ritz theater, Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets, under the direction of R. R. Bair, will inaugurate a new' policy pre-

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1— Fanny Brice and Andre dc Segurola in a scene fretn “My Man,” a talking film irf which Miss Brice sings many of the songs she has ma:’c famous. Opening today at the Apollo. 2 Leatrice Joy ancl Kenneth Thompson in a thrilling "a aback from “The Bellamy Trial,” opening today at Loew’s Palace.

senting Vitaphone and Movietone sound and talk production, the first attraction being A1 Jolson in “The Singing Fool,” which will be held for the entire w'eek. A dramatic story of night life in New' York, “The Singing Fool” g'ves Jolson the role of a singing waiter in an obscure case, who is madly in love with a pretty cabaret entertainer. She ignores him until his voice and songs attract the attention of a big theatrical manager, and, almost overnight, he becomes the rage of Broadway. The girl marries him. and he becomes the proud father of a charming boy. Success showers-its blessings abundantly, and the “singing fool” apparently has the world at his feet. Then tragedy enters his life. His wife proves faithless and his beloved boy is taken from him by death. Plunged to the depths of despair he Is forced to face life anew', ancl the manner through which lie overcomes all obstacles and again scales the heights makes a story of intense appeal. Betty Bronson. Josephine Dunn and little David Lee head the cast in support of the star. During the course of the picture Jolson introduces a number of new and old song hits that he has popularized, and reveals himself as a remarkably versatile actor as well as a comedian and inimitable singer. Matinee performances will be given every day from 2:30 until 6 o’clock. The Ritz, iias been entirely re-seated, and many improvements have been added. Net Related Tom London, who has an important role in “Queen of the North Woods,” anew Pathe serial being directed by Spencer Bennet, declares he has just given his millionth negative answer to the question. “Are you related to Jack London?” Interviews Among the recent “screen interviews” recorded by the Pathe Sound News are those with Will Durant, famous philosopher; George Ade, popular humorist; and Mabel Willebrandt, assistant attorney-general who has been so much in the limelight of late.

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At Ritz

A1 .Jolson With completion of Vitaphone and Movietone installations at the Ritz, A1 Jolson in “The SingingFool” will be the first talking attraction.

Blanche Yurka

In addition to Blanche Yurka, Ralph Roeaer and Linda Watkins, the Actors’ theater revival of Ibsen's “Hedda Gabler” will have in its cast Claire Townshend, Genevieve Mitchell and Reginald Goode. Miss Yurka is directing the play, which will have its premiere during the w'eek of Jan, 3 at the Forty-ninth Street .heater. Now in New York Paul Leni, who has been in New' York for the opening of his latest production, “The Last Warning,” at the Colony Theater, has returned to Universal City with Mrs. Leni. His next production* will be “The Bargain in the Kremlin.” by Sir Philip Gibbs. Joseph Schildkraut will star in it.

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3 Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Nancy Carroll and Camillus Prctal in Ann Nicholas’ great success, “Abie’s Irish Rose,” here for a nine-day run at the Circle. 4—George Jessel and Margaret Quimby in “Lucky Boy,” feature attraction at the Indiana starting today.

Sunday School Lesson

The International Uniform Sunday School lotion for Feb. 1(1. Repentance and Faith. Acts 2:32-39; Luke 15:11-21. BY WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of The Uonsreßationalist THE alternative title of this lesson for young people and adults is “The Way of Forgiveness.” Combining these lessons titles we have the proposition in accord with the essential teaching of scriptures that the way to forgiveness is the way cf repentance and faith. The man who has no faith has no real sense of values. He can not dscern rightly the things that are to be forgiven or the spirit and meaning of forgiveness itself. The man in whose life there is no place for repentance can hardly be expected to understand the meaning of repentance in others or the forgiveness which any gracious man, mindful of his own faults, is ready to accord to his fellows. Divine grace in forgiveness is the glorified aspect of this quality of human sympathy and understanding. Or, perhaps, we should put it the other way round and say that human sympathy and understanding, especially as they become expressed in a forgiving attitude toward our fellow' men, are the earthly counterpart of heavenly grace. New Attitude The experience that founded the Christian church was an experience of repentence. It established at once the new' attitude of heart and mind in which anew structure of love and fellowship was possible. It W'as the note of repentence that was sounded in the days of preparation. The cry of John the Baptist as he came from the wilderness w'as, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” The first manifestation of the teaching ot Jesus w'as in the winning of sinners. It w'as seeking these, he declared, that he had specially come, and his appearand invitation found response as many sinful and discouraged souls turned to him with new hope and devotion. :

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The picture of the woman who i w'as a sinner bathing the feet of Jesus and drying them with the bail’s of her head is one that touches the very heart of this gospel of love and of repentence. The stern Pharisee, Simon, even though he was large-spirited enough to invite Jesus as his guest, could not quite understand so beautfiully human a manifestation of grace, and its response. But it is only as one does come to such understanding that lie becomes truly Christian. Paul and Peter in their preaching in the early church both emphasized this deep fact of repentence as the gateway to the Christian life. It was the goodness of God that led men to repentance. Forgiveness Forgiveness, as we have indicated, is the divine counterpart of repentance. It implies that there is something to repent of and something to forgive. It is well that in our lesson we have the ultimate truth concerning sin, repentance and forgiveness presented in the symbolism of the great parable of the prodigal son. It is worth while to remember that Jesus chose this story of human fatherhood to present the greatest message concerning God. here could there be a truer witness of the divine indwelling in man than that in this use of human agency to portray the highest truth? Alongside that familiar parable may w'e not place, also, the great passage in the Lord’s Prayer in which Jesus has similarly linked forever the law of God’s forgiveness and the highest law for man’s life in relation to his fellowmen? Did he not teach us to pray, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors”? Thereby reminding us that as we appeal to God for forgiveness we are ourselves making the law by which w’e would be judged that we invoke the law that we apply in our own lives. How' many of us come to Godd

in that spirit? Is it nto true that more often we expect some marvel of forgiveness from God entirely different from any forgiveness that we are willing to accord these who have wronged us? Finishes Camera Work Robert Florey, young French director who just finished camera work on the all-talking melodrama, “The Hole in the Wall,” at Paramount’s Long Island studio, has signed a three-year contract with Paramount. His next assignment will be “The Cocoanuts” with the lour Marx Brothers. Florey was brought here from Hollywood by Monta Bell, studio production executive. Bell having been impressed by some of Florey’s short novelty films, including his “Life of a Hollywood Extra,” produced at a cost of only $97. Returns to Studio George Marion, Jr., writer of humorous movie subtitles, has returned to the Paramount Hollywood studio after a vacation trip in Europe, a’id is sharpening his wits for his next titling assignment “Innocents of Paris,” in which Maurice Chevalier, famous French music hall star, will make his bow to American audiiences. Joins Staff Harold Shumate has joined the staff of writers at First National studios. He is doing an original story for Milton Sills, as yet untitled. It will follow “Dark Streets,” Sills’ next picture. MOTION PICTURES

fß3nsoEflßi!!rS fal Loews Palace ji Irail ■ Come Early and Cel Seals for the Outstanding I TRIAL of the CENTURY! P The most amazing court room drama ever filmed! ( The BELLAMY TRIAL” H With an All-Star Cast Featuring V LEATRSCE JOY and BETTY BRONSON % METRO MAV r wr l ADAPTED FROM THE BOOH U G Sav\' > A AlUlklWfjr BV FRAMES NOTES lIAItI ■ M.AIER PICTCRE Extra Added Movietone Features 1 I h a" “GETTYSBURG ADDRESS” ] B HEAR THE FAMOUS MEMORIAE SPEECH OF OCR ■ MARTYRED PRESIDENT—ABRAHAM LINCOLN M 1 GEORGE LYONS —The Singing Harpist 1 SEE - FOX MOVIETONE NEWS—HEAR 4 m LAUREL AND HARDY j PALACE WORLD VISIONS <fl I a “TWO TARS” LESTER HUFF I A Hnllickiii* IhAdllnt At Hie Mighty Organ fl Iffc Itei ie'i rn Mam anwertba ie Mtf

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Burlesque Attraction at Mutual Flossie de Vere Stars in Offering for Week. IN “Parisian Flappers,” starting Sunday at the Mutual, Harry Morrisy has assembled a company of skillful burlesquers, according to all advance reports. Flossie DeVere is the star and “stars” are something rare in traveling burlesque. To become a slatone must be considered to possess an uncommon amount of attractiveness, from a box-office standpoint, and be gifted with rare talents. The second honors in billing burlesque entertainers is to “feature” them and the featured member of “Parisian Flappers” is Frank Anderson. a tramp comedian. Having disposed of the star and the featured ones, wlio can not alone give an entertainment, there remains to be given information concerning the rest of the cast w'hich, in the case of “Parisian Flappers,” includes Harry Less, associate comedian: Dick Richards, leading man: Grace Lockwood, dancer, and Jackie Ryan, juvenile. Finally, and to round out an exceedingly interesting contribution to all traveling burlesque, there must be made mention of the chorus of singing and dancing girls who lend activities and physical “scenery” to make the offering complete.

Cast Grows

The cast of Columbia’s “The Younger Generation” is still growing. Julanne Johnston, Martha Franklin and Julia Swayne Gordon were added this week to a prominent group that already includes Jean Hersholt. Ricardo Cortez, Lina Bt.squette. Rex Lease and Rosa Rosanova. Edward Molner, Leon Ramon and Virginia Marshall. Julanne first came into prominence as Douglas Fairbanks’ leading lady in “The Thief of Bagdad ” Both Miss Gordon and Miss Franklin are character actresses of note. All three players have had stage experience, an item of importance, as “The Younger Generation” is being produced with dialogue sequences and will probably be Columbia’s first “talkie’ to reach the screen. Frank R. Capra is directing. Newspaper Man Casey Robinson, who will direct Pathe’s nekt talking picture, “Listen, Baby,” is the latest addition to the list of directors who formerly were newspaper men. After graduating from Cornell university Robinson did reportorial work in New York and Denver before turning his attention to the theater. MOTION PICTURES AVENUE SQUARE B Last Times Today “GOOD TIME CHARLEY” I—VITAPHONE— j