Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1929 — Page 7

Jl'N'-E 22. 1920.

BANCROFT FEATURED IN SECOND ALL-TALKER AT CIRCLE!

Indiana Is Now Celebrating Second Birthday Party With an Elaborate Anniversary Program of Music, Comedy and Movies. GEORGE BANCROFT appears in :-:s second all-talking picture at the Circle tor the com;nr week, -arting today. Bancroft's voice is a pa; - of the man him-elf. d'ep, resonant and capable of expressing a wide range of emotions. Richard Arlen is co-Natured with Fav Wray in the picture, which was directed by Josep: Vor. Sternber? rr. ker of "Underworld.” In "Thunderbolt” Bancroft displays the part of a hard-fighting gang boss in love with Fay Wray. Miss Wray repulses him and turns to Richard Arlen. They fall ,n lr> and Arlen contracts the hatred of Bancroft.

Bancroft swears he will kill young Arlen. That is t.'ie big climactic situation. Will he kill the youth? Will he send Arlen to the chair? Will Bancroft go to the chair? Tense, breathless drama and a love that keeps the heart beating fast. Harlem, that Negro dir-'rict where sensational sepkers of Broadway go to dance shoulder to shoulder with the inhabitants of the black metropolis to the beat of the stacatto jazz forms the background of a part of the picture. Others in the cast are Tally Marshall as the warden in Sir.? Sing; Eugenie Besserer. Arlen.s mother; Fred Kohler, one of the members of death row, and Mike Dor.lin. who was once slugging ace of the New York Giants. Dale Young will be heard at the Circle organ this week, while Dessa Bvrd is playing at the Indiana in their special anniver . show. A Paramount talkinc com c y and Vitaphone short subjects arc also included on the bill. a b a INDIANA HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY The Indiana is having its second birthday party and. according to the management, the anniversary program is one of these mighty spectacular shows which comes to Indianapolis only once fir a year. Booked especially as the feature scieen attraction, is Alice White in "Broadway Babies.” It is her first all-talking picture. Charlie Davis’ stage presentation has been appropriately named "Second Birthday Revue.” A special overture has been arranged by Ed Resener, which he will conduct, and Dessa Byrd will accompany at the Indiana organ. "Broadway Babies” was adapted from the stage revue ‘ Broadway Musketeers.” These three "babies” are Alice White, Sally Eilers and Marion (Peanuts) Byron. Miss White and her two fellow actresses portray the three girls of the story in snappy style. Their adventures along the Great White Way make up a plot that is both thrilling and entertaining. The staccato bark of the gangsters’ guns mingles with the lilting melodies of a Broadway nr.isical show and the thump of hoofers’ heels and toes in the night clubs. "Broadway Babies” is an alldialogue singing and dancing picture and was directed by Mervyn Leßoy. The song hits of tire pic- ■ ture include "Broadway Baby Dolls,” "Wishing and Waiting for Love” and "Jig, Jig, Jigaloo.” Charlie Davis is supported in the Birthday Revue by a group cl talented stage stars, including Ci.illino and Fortunello. famous Italian clowns, the Tommy Atkin- Sextet , and Nell O'Day. Llora Hoffman, prima dona, and the famous Garn-by-Hale girls and ofehe Hoffman will also be heard .n the overture. an a MUSICAL TALKER NOV.’ AT APOLLO • The Time, The Place and The Girl,” one of the greatest of American musical comedy hits, now a lavish Vitaphone talking and singing screen production with a stellar cast headed by Grant Withers, Betty Compson and Gertrude Olmsted, is the featured attraction at the Apollo starting todav. Howard Bretherton directed the screen version, the charm of which is enhanced by the tuneful music, catchy songs and smart dialog, which made the show by Frank R. Adams. Will Hough and Joseph E. Howard such a favorite with theatergoers. "The Time. The Place and The Girl” is the story of a college football hero, who sets forth as a bond salesman to wrest a fortune from the world at large, but encounters complications in the way of a romance with a pretty stenographer and a host of flirtatious wives, one of whom comes perilously near to causing his downfall. There is fun on the college campus. a thrilling football game, the first, by the way. presented on the rcreen to the accompaniment of talk and the thunderous roar of the crowds; scenes in Wall Street and in the most fashionable part, of Long Island. The cast, in addition to Withers, Miss Compson and Miss Olmstead includes James R Kirkwood. Vivian Oaklanc. Gretchen Hartman. Irene Haisman, Bert Roach and Gerald King. Pretty co-eds. college boys galore, financial baron* and social butterfly* add color and interest to the background. Vitaphone acts are contributed b" Mai Hallett and his Way Down East orchestra, offering their own arrangement of popular instrumental hits, and Art.iur and Morton Havel, singing comedians. Movietone news reels complete the nrogram •TDLE RICH" NOW AT PALACE Although for thirty years. Edythe Chapman and James Neill have been married and have played on the stage and screen, they never once played together until Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast them in the mother and father roles of "The Idle Rich,” William de Mille's alltalking picture which will open at the Palace today with Conrad Nagel. Bessie Love and Delia Hvams in the featured part*. These two stage and screen veterans are finally brought together by de Mille, wno has known them for a lifetime and was aware of their sentimental desire to appear on the screen, at least once, as husband and wife. Both Miss Chapman and Neill have played parents to virtually

every star in pictures in their sixteen years experience before the camera and in "The Idle Rich” they add two more cinematic children to heir large and illustrious family, the two new ones being Miss Love and Miss Hyams. You know, we just got to feel like mother and father to these - ... ters,” Miss Chapman said. We have seen them all start out as ju. kids and blossom into fine men and women, famous stars who rise ;r „a slim-salaried classes to the ranks of millionaires. We have m en through the same heartaenes and struggles as they have to face and understand them perhaps bette. than they understand themj selves.” The new film, which tells the story of a middie-class American ; family, flat dwellers in a big city, ,s rich in human interest. It is filled with hilarious laughter, cenj tors about a tender romance, and - has enough heart throbs to cause a j few tears. Leila Hyams and Conrad Nagel tilay the lovers. Amusing and delightful humor is furnished by Besie Love in the role of a gold-dig-ging flapper. Others in the cast are Robert Ober, Paul Kruger and Kenneth Gibson. New productions of Metro Movietone vaudeville, to be shown in addition to the featured film attraction. will include Ed and Lou Miller, famous in vaudeville as the “Brothers in Harmony,” who will sing a variety of popular songs. The Miller brothers also have been featured in Ziegfelds Follies and several Shubert revues. Yvette fiugel, the American prima donna whose beautiful lyric soprano voice is well known to concert and operatic audiences, will also be seen and heard on the screen, in a rendition oi several vocal melodies. Hal Roach’s “Our Gang” Rascals will provide the laughs, via the newest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy, “Wiggle Your Ears.” The Fox Movietone News, Lester Huff presenting another of his popular novelty organiogues, and the M. G. M. News Review will round out the program. a a b MACKAILL FEATURED AT OHIO “Two Weeks Off’’ with Dorothy j Mackaill and Jack Mulhall in t.rr J feature roles, is the screen attri-c----cion at. the New Ohio theater start- j ing today. Miss Mackaill and Jack Mull - .all j make- their first appearance togetaer j in a talking picture in “Two Weeks i Off.” It is a fast-moving comedy j romance which gives the two ad- ] mirable opportunities for exhibiting j those fun-making qualities for j which they are so noted. She is seen in the role of a shop ! 'in back of a bathing suit counter. Hr is a plumber. That, however, is | only in ordinary life for when the j two meet at a beach resort the erst- j while pipe fitter has turned out to i be a celebrated movie star—or so j think his associates. While in the height of his glory.! and just when he has won the girl, j (Miss Mackaill} whom he has admired for so long, he is revealed and hi? dreams crash with a dull thud. In the end. however, everything turns out- as it should in a'comedy drama and all is well. Included on the bill are three Vitaphone short subjects, an alltalking comedy and a Pathe news reel. •

In Africa

The “advanced guard” of Metro-Goldwyn-Maver’s picture unit filming “Trader Horn” in Africa has 1 crossed Lake Albert on its first extended location trip away from Nairobi, where base headquarters was established on May 6. According to a wire from W. S. Van Dyke, director oi the company, the object of the present brigade of camera - humers is to obtain atmosphere sequences and search for the best locations in the Belgian Congo for future activities. It is estimated that two thousand miles of jungle country may be traversed before the expedition returns to Nairobi. Automobiles were used for the first "leg” of the the present trip, but now lorries and other native conveyances provide the only mode of transportation while the party will travel on foot a good part of the way. To Play in “Virginian Wilbur Higby. who plays the role of Woodenshoes in the Pacific coast company of "The Front Page,” today was assigned the part of Doctor Mcßride in “The Virginian.” Paramount's new all-dialogue film from the novel of Owen Wister. This selection completes the notable cast of stage and screen stars for the first audible film interpretation of the famous noyel. Gary Cooper. Richard Arlen. Walter Huston, Chester Conklin. E. H. Calvert. Eugene Pallette and Mary Brian all have important roles. Outdoor sequences of "The Virginian” have been filmed in Sonora. Northern California, with authentic ranch atmosphere enhancing the vivid color of the storyVictor Fleming is directing.

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1 Vivian Oakland has one of the leading roles in “The Time, The Place and the Girl,” now at the Apollo. 2 George Bancroft has another talking role in “Thunderbolt,” now at the Circle. 3 Conrad Nagle in a scene from “The Idle Rich” now at Loew’s Palace.

Barrymore to Go on a Long Tour Star Will Take Big Cast in Two Plays to the Coast. T EE SHUBERT has just completed arrangements for Miss Ethel Barrymore, the foremost actress on the American stage, to make a transcontinental tour, directly following the closing of her present season in her own theater m New York. She will appear in the two pro- ! ductions in which she has been seen in New York this year, “The Love J Duel,” a Hungarian play by Lili Hatvany, and “The Kingdom of ; God,” a Spanish drama by G. Mar- i tinez Sierra, which give her two j roles of extraordinary range and j unique contrast. There is no more popular actress j in America than Miss Barrymore. One of the reasons for this is that I she never has failed to make exten- j sive tours in most of the plays in ; which she has acted, for she believes | the road is as important as is New , York. She last was seen in the j west in Somerset Maugham’s “The ! Constant Wife.” Helen and H. Granville Barker translated and adapted “The Kingdom of God” for the English-speak-ing stage. Sierra is one of the leading Spanish dramatists. Miss Eva Le Gallienne produced his “The | Cradle Song” in America. In “The Kingdom of God” Miss Barrymore is seen as Sister Gracia,; appearing in the first ant as a girl of j nineteen, in the second as a woman i of twenty-nine and in the last act as a woman of seventy. “The Love Duel” was arranged for the stage for Miss Barrymore by Zoe Atkins. As opposed to Sister Gracia of the Sierra drama, here the actress plays a woman of the world, a brilliant, beautiful creature. The duel of love begins when she meets a man who is as irresistible to her sex as she is to his. Miss Akins herself is a successful dramatist. She wrote “Declassee,” which Miss Barrymore once acted. The Barrymore company of fifty players will travel two thousand miles from New York to open their coasi-to-coast tour in Colorado Springs, Colo, on Monday night July 8.

Will Go West Soon Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who arrived in New York unexpectedly last week, plan f to remain in the city about two weeks before returning to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio.

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Sunday School Lesson

The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for June 23. The Habit of Thankfulness. Psalm 103:1-13. BY WM. E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of The ConKregaiiona2ist THE fact that our lesson is taken from the Psalms illustrates how ancient is the habit of thankfulness. Thankfulness is a natural experience in the life of man just as perhaps fear and resentment may be natural responses to the incidents and environments of life. A beautiful day, the glow of warmth and sunshine, a refreshing or needful rain in time of drouth, some happy discovery that enriches one’s life—all these things bring a natural disposition to thank someone. It may be nothing more than a vague sense of gratitude to the powers that be, but it is an expression of man’s optimism which is likely to be the dominant characteristics of man except in times when the woes of life assail him very acutely. Intelligent thanksgiving that springs from the heart as an expression of devout religious feeling differs from this natural spirit of thanksgiving only in the fact that it is dominated by intelligence and is definite in its direction. A mere glow of gratitude toward vague powers that affect one’s life is something very much less than the response of a thoughtful and intelligent personality toward some higher personality or spirit. This was the nature of the thankfulness expressed in the Psalms, which were the great lyrical poems or hymns of the Hebrew race. The writers of these Psalms were conscious of the fact that they were living in a spiritual universe. The powers of nature around them were personified, but only because they found in these powers the expression of a great creative spirit. The heavens declared for them the glory of God and the firmament showed His handiwork. They heard His voice in the thunder; they found His awe revealed in the lightning; but above all things they felt the permanency of His presence in the beauty of nature and in the various gifts of His providence for the maintenance, preservation and blessing of human life. As such thankfulness of devout souls was a development from that general sence of gratitude in the human heart, so Christian thankfulness is a fuller and richer development of the psalmist’s experience. The psalmist did not always see the reason for thankfulness under adverse conditions there came a consciousness of God’s will as being worked out through pain as well as through pleasure, through adversity as well as through prosperity, and through trial as well as through comfort. Thus it was that in the life of a man like Paul thankfulness was

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closely related with both faith and courage. Ae he believed that there was a divine will guiding his life he thanked God even when that life was shaped by experience of suffering and persecution. There is, of course, here in our lesson the genn of this idea that God is a father of loving kindness toward His children, who regards them with pity and with love, whose chiding and anger are redemptive forces, and whose plans tows and His children are all full of mercy and grace. The very phrases of this lesson are beautiful, and no consideration or teaching of it will be adequate that fails to take into account the beauty of its figures. More than most lessons it needs consideration sentence by sentence to bring out the full richness of its meaning. There is something rythmically beautiful in the Psalms as a whole, and it is necessary as we read it to remember that it was a poem written to be sung or chanted. It would be well as we read and consider it if we could attune our souls to the voices of angelic choirs chanting this as the praise of God, and in praise of the right attitude of the human heart. Thankfulness is really a condition of all truly great living. It means responsiveness of soul, and where there is no responsiveness of the soul to higher things.there can be for him, whose attitude is one of little enrichment of the soul. The man who feels that life has nothing cynicism and resentment, of grumbling about his fate, and of general ill-will toward the universe, inevitably cramps and limits his world. He" has only the narrow environment of a sordid and disgruntled soul, that has no room to grow and that ultimately becomes even the more embittered by the narrowness which it has created for itself. The spirit of thankfulness is something that must be cultivated and one of the best means of its cultivation is communion with thankful spirits who have been great and inspired in their expressions of praise. It would be interesting in connection with this ancient hymn of thankfulness to consider some of the other great expressions of thankfulness that are recorded in the Scriptures and in the broader records of human history in literature,

i —Alice White. Sally Eilers and Marion Byron as they appear in “Broadway Babies,” now at the Indiana. s —Jack Ilolt and Dorothy Revier in “The Donovan Affair,” now at the Lyric. B—Dorothy Mackaill has the lead in "Two Weeks Off,” now at the Ohio.

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P|gCE FCX MOVIETONE NEWS

Paramount Has a Big Schedule Work Is Overlapping on Many Productions in East. PRODUCTIONS are following one another faster and faster at Paramount’s Long Island studio I these days. Final scenes of Jeanne Eagels’! [ “Jealousy” were completed recently, j I with work already in progress on i | “The Lady Lies,” featuring Walter j Huston, Claudette Colbert and, Charles Ruggles. Now that picture j is swinging into its big scenes and I the studio is bustling with prepara-! tions for the big musical show, “Glorifying the American Girl,” now in the early stages of production. In addition to Mary Eaton, who will have the choice role of the girl who is glorified, tlje cast will include Dan Healy from “Good Boy,” Edward Crandall from “Heavy Traffic” and “Young Woodley,” Sarah Edwards from “The Merry Malones” and Olive O’Shea, practically unknown young artist’s model who appeared at the studio in a couple of short subjects and then made the Cniderella leap to an outstanding part, second only to j Miss Eaton. Miss Shea won a beauty prize at i the A. M. P. A. costume ball early j in March, attracted the attention j of the studio at that time and now j is presented with an opportunity, to reach the highest prizes of show-, dom. John W. Harkrider, who designed the costumes for “Showboat,” “Whoopee” and other recent Ziegfeld productions, will costume “Glorifying” and also will stage some of the big pageantry in the picture. Millard Webb, director of “Gentlemen of the Press,” will direct the production, assisted by Fred A. Fleck and Frank Cavett. George Folsey will have charge of the cameras and Ralph B. Austrian will be sound supervisor. Director Hobart Henley, meanwhile, is carrying “The Lady Lies” along at top speed. Following his | work .in this picture, Walter Huston is expected to go to the Para- j mount studio in Hollywood for an- j

Greetings Colleen Moore, Richard Barthelmess, Billie Dove, Corinne Griffith and Alice White, First National Pictures stars, recently sent radio messages to Commander Byrd, expressing the wish for safety and success on his south pole explorations.

other picture. The two children, Patricia Deering and Tom Brown, are acting like veteran troupers and justifying the enthusiasm felt upon their discovery. Tito Scliipa, the great tenor, and James Barton, by this time a familiar figure around the studio, made pictures during the week under supervision of Larry Kent, general manager of short subject production. Schipa recorded a group of songs, partly concert numbers, others being operatic arias which he presented in costume. • He was directed by Joseph Santley. Barton did a dramatic sketch, being supported in the cast by William A. Lemuels, with whom also he collaborated in the authorship. He was directed by S. Jay Kaufman. Both these short features were photographed by Joseph Ruttenberg. David M. Dow, official secretary for Australia in the United States, holding a position corresponding somewhat to that of a consul-gen-eral, made a short address in talking films for release in Australia. It was intended for the opening of the new State theater in Sidney, said to be the most costly and beautiful picture theater in the world outside the United States. He was directed by Ernest Maas.

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Some More Air Thrills Arranged' Riverside Again Presents Ethel Pritchett in Jumps. ANOTHER Sunday afternoon of aerial thrills is planned for I * Riverside amusement park tomorrow, with Ethel Pritchett, known-’ to balloon fans as “Miss Riverside,” ascending over the fun spot for a ! series of parachute leaps. The sensational stunts of airmen and air-women a‘ Riverside each Sunday aroused immense interest and have served to pack the big t playground almost to capacity at every performance of the daring i aviators. For tomorrow’s ascension a special surprise novelty will be introduced by Miss Pritchett that promises to add to the hazards of the air journey. . * Held over for another week, Slivers Freeman, the world's thinnest clown, will be on hand to entertain vthe Riverside patrons. Silvers has become a familiar sight on Indianapolis streets during the last two weeks as he guided his "collegiate’’ flivver through traffic, and in his daily and nightly appearances at Riverside he has become a regular Pied Piper of Hamelin, great crowds of children trailing at his heels as he wanders aboift ... the park cutting ludicrous capers. Tomorrow afternon the funny f low wil act as master of ceremonies at the balloon ascension. The beautiful new Riverside skating rink has been welcomed by local' devotees of the roller sport and ik • filled nightly with skaters. Rink men from other dries who have ; come here to inspect the new floor " are unanimous in declaring the '• Riverside rink the finest in the midrib ! die west, and hundreds of recruits rr : to the sport are reported by the v. management. \ The pony track, the fun castle,; Japanese poker gamo. Kentucky - Derby, rifle range, Canals of Venice, thriller, flash, mill chutes, twisters,' whip, aerial swing, skeeball alleys," Pennyland, Kiddieland and dozens-7 of other Riverside features, includ- - 1 ing the zoo of bears and monkeys are attracting the largest crowds in I the park’s history. YVycherly to Be in Cast '.Nri Margaret Wycherly, New York "’ ' stage actress who has just been / placed under contract by Metro- „ ; Goldwyn-Mayer, will have a featured part in the talking plcturi-’’' zation of “The Thirteenth Chairi ,rr! This film version of the play by 1 Bayard Veiller, who wrote “Th© Trial of Mary Dungan,” is scheduled i to go into production soon

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