Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1929 — Page 7

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THE DESERT SONG’ STARTS FINAL WEEK AT THE APOLLO

‘Alibi/ an All-Talker, Showing UrouK Life. Opens Today at Loew's Palace —Maurice Chevalier, French Actor, Is Chief Event at the Circle.

C GREATLY enlarging the field of entertainment in motion and talkI ing pictures and proving that musical and singing show? lose none of their original charm when transferred to the 'Teen. “The Desert Song,” Vita phone presentation of the international operatic s*age hit. enters upon its second and final week at the Apollo today. The first production of its kind to come to the talking screen, “The Desert Song” is complete in dialogue, songs, dances and inspiring choruses with Sigmund Romberg's enchanting musical score superbly played by the Vitaphone symphony orchestra. Based on life in and around a French garrison in the Moroccan desert, it tells the story of the love affair and the thrilling, spectacular

adventures of Pierre Birabeau, son of the French commander, who so vmpathizes with the natives in rheir ill treatment that, disguised as the Red Shadow, he becomes leader of a band of tribesmen who undertake to exact justice from their oppressors. The cast is headed by John Boles tenor, who plays and sings the role of Red Shadow, which he enacted on the stage, and Carlotta King lyric soprano. Others prominent are Myrna Loy. Louise Fazenda. Johnny Arthur John Miljan, Edward Martindel Robert E. Guzman. Marie Wells Jack Pratt. Otto Hoffman and Del Elliott. There is also an admirable chorus of 100 men and women especially chosen for their singing ability. The program includes Ben Bernie and his orchestra and Frank Whitman. dancing violinist, in Vitaphone acts, and Movietone news reels. BBS

CHEVALIER IS NOW AT CIRCLE Maurice Chevalier is appearing at the Circle today in “Innocents of Paris.” a Paramount all-talking feature making the French actor’s first appearance in pictures. The film portrays a romantic comedy drama, thereby giving the former star of the Folies Bergere, Paris, opportunity to introduce himself to American audiences. Chevalier is supported by a stage rast including Sylvie Beecher. Russell Simpson. Mr. and Mrs. George Fawcett. John Miljan and Margaret Livingston. Although the story is one with a plot, it is completely submerged by the Frenchman's personality and singing. He first is cast as a junk man of the Paris Flea Market, Shortly after the picture starts he is seen rescuing a small boy from tlje Seine, but the child’s mother is drowned. On returning the boy to his grandfather, the junk man. who chooses to term himself a collector of “antiques,” sees the girl and immediately falls in love. Through his desire for her he determines to capitalize on his voice and obtains a trial before a producer. He succeeds, but this very fact at times threatens to mark an end to his romance —to the love for which he was fighting. At the close, however, everybody is happy. “■Louise,” written especially for Chevalier and for this picture, is the chief song. XS C **

“ALIBI” STARTS TODAY AT PALACE Marking a forward step in the new art of talking and sound pictures, ‘‘Alibi,” United Artists alltalking thriller, opens today at the Palace. “Alibi,” produced and directed by Roland West, who has to his credit such successes as “The Bat,” “The Unknown Purple,” "The Monster, and "The Dove,” is based on the stage play, “Nightstick. ’ which enjoyed long runs in New York, Los Angeles and other cities. In making “Alibi,” the first alltalking thriller to come out of the huge United Artists studios in Hollywood, West was particularly well equipped for the job, for he enjoyed years of experience as a stage actor, playwright and producer bebore he pioneered in the films. In “Alibi” he also had the advantage of using the world’s most modern talking picture plant, recently completed on the United Artists lot, turn a cast of stage favorites. •Alibi,” adapted for the screen by C Gardner Sullivan, is a story of crooks, police, gay night life and Jove. Although heralded as a melodrama. the picture contains some of the biggest laughs of the year, and h\m gives the world a couple ol new musical hits. Among the players in Alibi are Chester Morris, former New York stage star, whose performance in the first picture may make him a screen star overnight: Eleanor Griffith, another New York star who has neeer before appeared on the screen; Pat O’Malley, Mae Busch, Harry' Stubbs. Regis Tooney, Purnell B. Pratt, Kerman Cripps, Irma Harrison. James Bradbury Jr.. A1 Hill. De Witt Jennings and Elmer Ballard. Also to be seen will be anew Mcr>> Movie cr.c presentation, ir.- \ r ndu'-Ssg Ph’l Spitalnv and his band, assisted by the Penn Trio, eight Chester Hale girls. Paul sisters and A1 Wahlman. who will act as master of ceremonies. The Fox Movietone News. M. G. M News Review. Charles Chase in his newest comedy “Ruby Lips.' and Lester HufT at the organ console, presenting “The Dream Train.” a novelty organlogue in which Hun will be seen as the engineer of a mighty monarch of the rails, will round’out the bill. a a

NF.W Mt’LHALL MOVIE AT INDIANA Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill are at it again in "Two Weeks Off" at the Indiana this week. In this screen feature, the voices of these two are presented together for the first time. "Harvest Time" is the Publix stage unit offered by Charlie Davis and members of his band. •Two Weeks Off" is a light, comedy drama reeking with the kind of fun that this inimitable pair offer when they are given an opportunity to do their stunts together, and that's quite often. Miss Mackaill takes the part of a shop girl back of a bathing suit counter while Mulhall is a plumber of no mean ability when it

to fixing things. Tnese two meet one another at a beach resort where they both went for a vacation. Through a mistake. Mulhall, is thought to be and is introduced as a prominent motion picture star. This causes him to become an immediate favorite of the playground and everything runs along lovely until he is found out and his actual identity revealed at a gathering. The picture is one of the fastest shown here in some time, so far as action goes, and these two provide an excellent performance. In the stage program are such performers as the Stanley Twins, the Varstiy Four, Ted Marks and a ballet by a troupe, of Gould girls. Charlie Davis and his band also have some specialties which are beinr received in an enthusiastic manner. Milton Rlosser has been held over at the organ for another week and his popularity apparently is increasing with time.

ALICE WHITE IS NOW AT OHIO Alice White opens at the new Ohio today in her first talking production. ‘ Hot Stuff.” The bill also includes the third release of “The Collegians,” talking, in addition to several Vitaphone acts. “Hot Stuff” has proven to be an ideal vehicle for Miss White to ably portray those characteristics which enabled her to make such a meteoric rise from the role of a stenographer to a motion picture actress of first rank. With Miss White in “Hot Stuff” are William Bakewell, Louise Fazenda. Dooris Dawson, and a number of young performers who made their bow to the screen in this production. The story opens with the star in high school, just before her graduation exercises. After finishing here she desired to obtain a higher education and started a move which would enable her to enter a junior college. In this she succeeded and when she is matriculated the story starts in earnest. Besides “The Collegians," the Vitaphone subjects on the bill are some of the best that have been booked for the Ohio.

NEW EVENTS NOW AT COLONIAL Cliff Broughton, the producer who gave Helen Foster to the film fans, has brought his protege to the front again in Mrs. Wallace Reid's new picture called “Linda,” shown in the city for the first time at the Colonial next week. “Linda” tells the story of a little backwoods waif with an innate craving for the finer things of life. Linda, married off by her father to the boss of a logging camp, believes she has discovered that her husband has another wife, and accepts the good offices of a young society girl who has been spending the summer in the lumber camps, and travels to the city. There she is educated in the social niceties, falls in love with a young doctor, but has her dream of love shattered when she learns that her mountain husband still loves her and wants her. Warner Baxter as the doctor. Noah Beery as the crude but loveable husband. Mitchell Lewis, Lillian Brockwell and Monty O'Grady are in the cast. On the stage the Colonial Players will offer another of their farcecomedies. entitled “The Queen in Jail.” Several new members have been added to the cast.

ana WAR STORY NOW AT BANDBOX A film of unusual interest comes to the Bandbox for a week commencing Sunday when "U Boath 9” will be shown. The picture is a story written around the adventures and exploits of the noted German submarine raider the U-9. A staff photographer accompanied the U-9 on all its voyages and raids

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1 Chester Morris and Eleanor Griffith as they appear in a scene from “Alibi,” starting today at Loew's Palace2—Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill seem to have a nice time in “Two Weeks Off." Now at the Indiana.

New Movies Are Placed in Production First National Reports Greatest Activity in Years. sixteen productions now W in work at First NationalVita phone studios in Burbank, many others preparing to start, and with famous Broadway stage stars about to depart for Hollywood to join the screen stars already there, all records for activity in the history of the Burbank plant are beVg shattered. Many hundreds of extras are trouping in through the casting office these days, being outfitted in “cafeteria style” in the big modern wardrobe before going onto the highly colorful sets scattered throughout the big stages and over the ninety-nine-acre “lot” at the First National plant, Companies are working day and night in '‘order to take full advantage of the Vitaphone facilities, which have been enlarged four times since the dialogue pictures were started here, to meet increased production activity. Colleen Moore has been using hundreds of extras in the New York street scenes for “Smiling Irish and the films taken were filmed by the German government. They have now assembled these scenes, weaving around it a story. A German widow with two sons marries an Englishman and becomes a citizen of England. A son is born to them and the three boys grow to manhood. With the coming of the war the two older sons leave to take up arms for the Fatherland while the younger half-brother enters the British army. The mother, whose sons are now enemies, prays for the return of all but they meet in battle and the youngest returns alone. 808 NEW MOVIES AT THE GRANADA Charles < Buddy) Rogers and Nancy Carroll are teamed again on “Close Harmony,” Paramount’s alltalking picture showing Sunday, Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Granada. Buddy has the role of an ambitious orchestra leader who jazz-tunes his way into a big movie palace job and also into the heart of Nancy who Is cast as the song and dance headliner in the theater where Buddy and his band get their tryout. Cary Cooper and Louis Wolheim are the 'stars in “The Wolf Song,” a story of the romantic lives of the "mountain men” of 1840, showing at the Granada Thursday and Frida dy. Bebe Daniels is a blundering “cub” and accidentally stumbles on the story that gives her paper the “big scoop” in “What A Night.” the Granada’s feature for Saturday.

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Nagel Plays Another Crook Role

Conrad Nagel and Lois Wilson Today at the Lyric. Conrad Nagel and Lois Wilson open an engagement in a part talker called, “Kid Gloves.” This picture will be the feature of the movie part of the new bill.

Eyes,” her first talking picture, which William A. Seiter is directing, with James Hall as her leading man. Sailors of all types are swarming over a dozen craft- for scenes in a story of the Sargasso sea which Irvin Willat is directing, with Virginia Valli, Jason Robards and Noah Beery heading the cast. English “country gentlemen” are dashing over the hills near the studios chasing synthetic foxes for “Her Private Life,” starring Billie Dove. Alexander Korda directs; Walter Pidgecn is her leading man. Gay flappers and their jazzbos are making merry for “Fast Life,” the drama of modern youth which has Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in the leading roles. John Francis Dillon is directing. Mountain types are being used in the opening scenes of “The Great Divide.” featuring Dorothy Mackaill and adapted from the famous stage play of that name. Reginald Barker is directing and lan Keith plays the . male lead. Urban types are used in “Dark Streets,” featuring Jack Mulhall, a i story of the underworld in which Jack plays the first dual talking ! role, portraying a crook and a cop. Frank Lloyd is directing. Pictures now being edited and titled for the silent versions are: i “Drag,” starring Richard Barthelmess; “The Girl in the Glass Cage.” featuring Loretta Young; “Twin Beds,” featuring Jack Mulhall; ; “Hard to Get.” featuring Dorothy Mackaill; “The Careless Age,” feaj turing Loretta Young, Carmel Myers and Douglass Fairbanks, Jr.;

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3 A pettinr scene from "Hot Stuff" as done by William Bakewetl and Alice White. Now at the Ohio. _ . _ . .. , 4 John Boles and o a rlotta King in a love duet from “Desert Song, now in its second week at the Apollo. 5 Maurice Chevalier in “Innocents of Paris,” now at the Circle.

and “Broadway Babies,” starring Alice White.

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Bebe to Be ‘Rio Rita’

! Bebe Daniels and John Boles will | play leads in “Rio Rita” when Radio Pictures puts Ziegfeld's musical comedy hit onto film. Casting of the two roles, among the most coveted of the year, was announced by William Le Baron, vice-president in charge of producI tion, just prior to his departure for New York, where he will confer with RKO executives on the remainder of the 1929-30 program which was launched here this week as “The Viennese Charmer” and “Companionate” went onto the sound stages. Big Supporting Cast Dolores Costello, star of “The Glad Rag Doll,” has a supporting : cast that includes Ralph Graves, i Audrey Ferris, Albert Gran, Arthur Rankin, Maude Turner Gordon, Tom Ricketts. Dale Fuller, Claude Gillingwater, Andre Beranger and | others.

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Colleen Does Some Jumping Colleen Moore has become extremely alert in dodging automobiles. She has been really jumping out of their way for two days in street scenes for “Smiling Irish Eyes,” her First National-Vitaphone picture. So far they haven’t bumped yet. Still to Be Found A retired bartender w ? as hired to mix synthetic cocktails for the jazz party scenes in “Fast Life.” cofeaturing Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. at First NationalVitaphone studios. Yes, they can still be found in Hollywood.

ga& a ||F| OPPOSITE TRACTION TERMINAL pASUsJuX WEEK MAY 19 By Special Arrangements with the German Government FIRST TIME SHOWN IN AMERICA A Powerful Drama of the Famous BOAT S§ The Authentic Pictures of this Terror of the Seas and its Exploits TRUTHFUL AND ROMANTIC Every Man, Woman and Child Will Remember this Devi! of the Sea and Should See the Actual Scenes of Its Work. The Most Beautiful Love Story Ever Filmed. The Most Daring Expose in History TOPILAR PRICES. CONTIM OI S !) A. M. TO 11 P. M.

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Star Has a Strange Hobby; Miss Walter Has No FacF but She Just Loves r ; Rehearsals. ‘•xjAVE Ia hobby? Well you Jtl your life I have —on that *£* have assidiouslv pursued all my life. For fear you'd never guess what is, I’ll tell you right off. It’s theater!” So spoke Marie Louise Walker.' leading woman of the Berkell Players at English’s in response to the question. “Now I suppose,” continued MissWalker, “if I were to run true to ’ form I would be expected to say thatmy hobby is golf, or horseback rid - ing. or tennis, or swimming. But It • doesn't happen to be any one ofthese athletic divertisements, because while I like athletic sports. 1., never went in for any of them. “During several of my childhootf years my parents had a ranch m Wyoming. 1 learned to ride horseback there, and greatly enjoyed it, but I must confess that I haven't been on a horse since I left the . movies. “When I was engaged in motion, picture work with the Metro at>d Artcraft companies I was in one or . two productions in which I was required to ride horseback, but I nsver found time to take it up as a hobby. . “To me rehearsals are never bore- j some, and the performance of a • play is never work in the accepted sense of the word. It is always a pleasureable occupation.” -s Miss Walker has made much experience in the theater. She has played in productions on Broadway in support of such stars as Henry., Miller and Blanche Bates, Thomas Ross, Frank McGlinn and others.

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