Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1929 — Page 7

CNF 29, 1929.

JAMES CRUZE POKES FUN AT HOLLYWOOD IN ‘A MAN’S MAN

Laura LaPlante and John Boles Have the Chief Roles in “Scandal,” Which Opens Today at the Circle Theater for the Week. • a MAN'S MAN." a James Cruzc satire on "Hollywooditls,” with Wiliiam Haines a.s star and Josephine Dunn as heroine, presents the 'same combination that made “Excess Baggage" unusually entertainment, in another hilarious romance coming to the Palace today. This new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production is a sound synchronized film. It Is as well, an intensely human story of Hollywood in which the characters are not of the screen but of other walks in life, set against the tinseled glamor of the "movies.” Adapted from Patrick Kearney’s New York stage success, the story

tells of a boy with a correspondence school complex and a girl with a “movie bug.” He is a soda cleik, but wants to join the Eks and do big things, while she wants to be a second Greta Garbo, and when they marry things begin to happen. The cast includes Stem Hardy, who scored as the gangster chief in •Diamond Handcuffs.” as the villain: an assistant director, who almost wrecks the married life of the young couple by playing on the vanity of the movie-struck bride. Mae Busch is as the hardboiled Hollywood extra girl in the story, who takes the bride under | her protection. Scenes showing famous stars en- , tering Grauman's famous Chinese i Theater for the brilliant Hollywood j premiere of "White Shadows in the J South Seas,” are among the typical ) Hollywood scenes. . Another scene shows n Hollywood \ f crowd at the beanch in Venice. The j final punch is a realistic fistic en- | fcounter between Haines and Hardy, j The Metro Movietone presenta- i tions also to be seen and heard on , ’he program will include a powerful drama, written and directed by William C. De Mille, and titled "The Man Higher Up.” The east Includes Hobart Eos worth and Kobert Edeson, and is a story | of a doctor, who. in revenge for j , the loss of his sweetheart in youth. | : slowly tortured the man responsible : for her death. The entire subject is an all talk- j ing one. and the scenes are laid in j the doctor's office. The other Metro ' Movietone act brings back that happy-go-lucky talking songster.; Bob Nelson, long a favorite on the 1 vaudeville stage. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Color Classic, "The Light of India.” produced entirely in technicolor, Fox Movietone News. Lester Huff at the organ, and the M. G. M. News Review will complete the bill. a a tt “SCANDAL” IS NOW AT CIRC LF. "Scandal,” dialogue picture open- j ing at the Circle today, has as it’s j stars, Laura LaPlante, who made a ! big success in "Show Boat” and j John Boles, featured in "The Desert Song.” Wesley Ruggles directed it from j the magazine story. "The Haunted Lady.” by Adela Rogers St. Johns, j The plot concerns the mix-ups in 1 which a young society matron, played by Miss La Plante, finds herself. when a sweetheart from her j obscure past appears to haunt, taunt and tempt her. She fears scandal j worse than death. So does the man she married. She finally is faced with a choice between a srandal and i the wrecking of her home, or seeing i a man go to prison unjusty. How ' she faces this decision brings the ; story to an exciting and tense climax. Included 1r the cast are Jane j Winton. Fddir Phillips. Nancy Dover i and Julia Swavne Gordon. The picture was photographed at Santa Barbara. Cal., with many of that resort's millionaire colony enacting "extra'' roles. An Oswald sound cartoon Is on the bill this week. Dessa Byrd lias returned to the Circle organ after playing at. the Indiana last week during the anniversary show. a tt it "BLACK WATCH” OPENS AT APOLLO Packed with thrilling action, romance. Oriental intrigue and exciting adventure. "The Black Watch," opened at the Apollo today and stars Victor McLaglen. famed for his portrayal of red-blooded fighting \ men. in his first talking role. “The Black Watch.” directed by *• John Ford, is a Movietone 100 per’'.rent dialogue production adapted i.hrom Talbot Mundy's story of brood- . ing India, "King of the Khyber Kgß.ifles.”' \ The star Is surrounded by a ca : genat include- Myrna Loy. David r'vfollins. Lumsdcn Hare. Roy D Arcy. iiiicheil Lewis. Cyril Chadwick. §l|-aneis Ford. Waiter Long. David Vrrence. Richard Travers and Pat gwJcLaglen plays Captain King. jJ’yfitlsh govern men* secret service ■ysrnt, the type of a man who is as | ;jch at home gracing a drawing Emm, as he is engaging in hazard-

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ous adventure. King is sent to India to block a native uprising headed by Yasmani, a mysterious half-caste girl whom the tribesmen worship as a goddess. Before his mission is concluded he too, succumbs to her lure. A fight for life on the brink of a precipice ber -eon King and a native wrestler; a terrific battle between the captain and a handful of supporters with Yasmani’s army, and many other tense, dramatic '•pisode serve to keep action at a feverish pitch. "Night Club Revue,” a sparkling presentation featuring Roy Sedley. musical comedy comedian, assisted by Beth Miller, Billy Smith and a orchestra of versatile musical specialists, and Eleanor Painter, lyric soprano, are the Vitaphone acts. Movietone news reels complete the program. a a a NEW DIX r FILM AT INDIANA Richard Dix and Esther Ralston arc featured in "The Wheel Os Life.” now at the Indiana as the week's new screen attraction. It was directed by Victor Schertzinger and adapted for the screen by .John Farrow. Charlie Davis and his band are presenting on the stage "What Price Comedy” with Sammy Cohen., comic star of "What Price Glory.” "The Wheel of Life” opens in London where Dix. as a furloughed captain from a British military post in India, meets a beautiful girl, Esther Ralston, with whom he falls in love without knowing her identity. Later he arrives at the Indian command where he meets the girl again only to find that she is the wife of his commanding officer. The romantic couple foreswear their love and Dix gets a transfer to Tibet. While there he is dispatched to do battle with a tribe of native tribesmen v.ho have threatened to surround a group of British travelers embattled in a Lama monastery. Upon arriving Dix discovers that Esther is one of the endangered travelers. The battle with the tribesmen rages and the colonials are faced with death when reinforcements arrive and save the day. Charlie Davis and the band are presenting a group of popular musical numbers, and a cast of stage stars, including Sammy Cohen, Maxine Hamilton, clever little singer; the Stone-Vernon Foursome, and a chorus of the famous Bamby-Hale girls, who assist in the show. The Indiana this week is also presenting an all-talking comedy. “Cold Shivers.” which will he shown at every de luxe performance. tt tt a ARLEN MOVIE NOW AT OHIO The Mew Ohio has this week as it's feature attraction which opens today. Richard Arlen and Mary Brian in “The Man I Love,” an alltalking Paramount picture. In it, Arlen plays the part of Dum-Dum Brooks, a fighter who falls in love with Mary Brian. They are married and go to New York when Alien hopes to get better matches. In New York, he wins a contract and the admiration of Baclanova. wealthy society woman who succeeds in taking Arlen away from Mary Brian just for anew experience. Two comedy men. Harry Green and Jack Oackie provide a continual ripple of laughter. They are remembered for their work in “Close Harmony.” The rest of the cast which includes Pat O'Malley. Leslie Fenton. Charles Sullivan and William Vincent, fill their parts well. “The Collegians.” a collegiate short subject, and a talking news reel included cn rhe bill with three Vitarthonc short subject'.

Baby Star Doris Dawson. \V am e,r Brothers player, who is one ol this season's newly elected Wanipas baby stars, will be featured in the 1929-30 program which is about to go into production at the Warner studio. J. L. Warner considers the versatile little actress one of the most promising personalities among the company's contract players-and cites her recent performance in the Warner production. ‘The Little Wildcat." as an exceptional piece of work.

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J —Richard Dix has the lead in “The Wheel of Life” now at the Indiana. 3—William Haines in a scene from "A Man’s Man’* now at Loew's Palace. 3—Monte Blue has a leading speaking part in "No Defense” which is now o n view at the Lyric.

At the Apollo

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Eleanor Painter

Eleanor Painter. Lyric soprano, who is one of the Vitaphone features on the new program opening at the Apollo today, is an American girl who has become an international star in grand and light opera. She is a protegee of Mile. Schu-mann-Heink, who induced her to < go to Europe for study. After a year abroad she was singing in the largest opera house in Berlin. Returning to the United States, she was engaged to sing the leading role in “The Lilac Domino.” Subsequently she was starred in “Princess Pa’." "The Nightingale,” “The Last Waltz” and with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Will Make Two Roeln - ' Toni Howard, veteran comedian of the stage who will be remembered for his fun making in "Rain or Shine.” has.been engaged by Paramount to make a two- reel talking picture at the company's Long Island studio. He will be seen and heard in his own sketch "Two Hold Up.” which Fred Allen of “The Little Show” company adapted for the screen. Supporting Mr. Howard in this short feature will be his daughter, Ruth Howard. Frank Alworth. Herb Miller, Jules Stone and Charles Fang, who played an important role in “The Letter.” Jeanne Eagels' first talking picture for Paramount. Joseph Santley will direct the production. which will have all the elements cf a feature picture with the exception of length.

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Pickfords Start Work on Movie Plan Completed for the Costumes for Big Drama. THE business of selecting costumes for "Taming oi the Shrew,” the first costarring vehicle for Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, has been brought to a close after a four weeks’ period of competition on the part of four of the motion picture capital's outstanding dsigners. And, as a result, a special corps of workers, laboring in day and night shifts, is rapidly turning out the garments to be worn by principals and extras appearing in a large street scene next week, which is scheduled as the opening "shot” of the picture. The unique method of holding open competition to obtain ideas for costumes was introduced by Miss Pickford and Mr. Fairfanks as being the most satisfactory manner in which the best thoughts oi specialists could be utilized in the matter of colorful costumes. The designs were judged on merits of authenticity combined with appeal. In all, a total of 153 sketches were submitted by the artists, and of these seventy-one were suggested as designs to be worn by the two stars and five featured players of “The Taming of the Shrew” company. The balance of the sketches pertained to the roles of minor players and. the extras. A committee, consisting of Miss Pickford. Director Sam Taylor. Constance Collier, famous Broadway star, who is acting in a technical capacity on the production - ; Art Director William Menzies. Karl Struss, chief cinematographer, and a member of the wardrobe department. selected the winning costumes. More than 500 extras will wear the garments in the opening “shot” which depicts life in the Italian city of Padua during the fifteenth century. Starts Third Movie Ken Maynard is starting this week his third production for the series of eight features in which he is to be starred by Universal on itr--1929-30 program. The picture, tentatively titled “The Golden Bridle,” is bains' directed by Harry J. Brown.

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THE INDEOTAPOLIS TIMES

4 Laura La Plante is as beautiful as ever in “Scandal” which the above photograph proves. The movie is now on view at the Circle. 5 Myrna Loy and Roy D’Arcy have two of the leads in “The Black Watch” now at Loew’s Palace. 6 Richard Arlen is seen in “The Man I Love” which opened today at the Ohio.

Sunday School Lesson

The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for June 30. God's True Prophets. Review of the lesons on the Prophets and Rings of Judah's Decline. Devotional reading: JWatt. 20:20-22; 25-28. BY WILLIAM E GILROY. D. D. Editor of The Congregaticnalist EVERY student of history is aware of great eras in which some vital interest in the souls of men came to powerful and unusual expression. One speaks, for instance, of the Renaissance, of the Augustan age, of the age of Pericles. and in various other ways unusual in epochs in human life and expression are marked off with distinction. Among the greatest of such epochs was the prophetic era in the life of Israel, and that era attained its height in the period that we have been studying in the course of these lessons. It was a period in which the interest and message of the prophet coincided with world events and particularly with these events as they affected the life of the little community in Palestine of which the prophets were a part. Only a Small Group It is constantly necessary to remind ourselves that Israel and Judah occupied a relatively small part of the earth's surface, and a comparatively small space in the histtory of the world so far as secular history is concerned. These people of Palestine were numerically a small group, in a small country, which was a sort of buffer state between great empires. On the north and on the south, on the east and on the west, these empires contended through successive ages for world rivalry and power. The messages of the prophets took on a larger and more important world aspect because these messages were given under circumstances in which all these rivalries and empires were centered. Hence it is that the prophets deal not only with episodes in the life of a small people, but that their prophecies strike at the very root of human ambition and tragedy. If the imperial leaders and rivals ot that ancient day thought at all about these prophets, or even knew of their message, they must have held them in contempt. One can imagine the scornful attitude of the ambitious ruler or military leader, confident in the power of his vast armies, as he contemplated a dreamer or preacher whose chief belief was the still, small voice of prophecy. Yet. as one views that ancient world now, it is to behold the wreck of great and mighty empires. The age that knew these empires is remembered chiefly today because of the living voices of these prophets of Israel and Judah, despised in their own time. Here is a vast and glorious ideal-

ism that lifts the souls of men into interests ar.d ambitions that are eternai in their scope and nature. They still express for the world, persistent in its military rivalries, the ideal of peace and righteousness end truth. But these prophetic voices to which we have been listening go even deeper than world concern. They bring us into the realm of the ultimate relationship of the soul to God and to the universe in which fne soul's life is lived. They strike into the very heart of human experience. of trial and disappointment, of sorrow as well as of joy, of keen and bitter tragedy as well as of outward success and triumph, and they bring to humanity in its groping and striving the sense of the eternal purpose of a great creator and upholder of the universe, t father of mercy and grace, whose plans arc worked out through •uffering and sorrow as well as through sunshine and joy. They prepare us in a way that men have clearly perceived for the fuller and richer philosophy of the cross of Christ a philosphy that is not theoretical, but that is enshrined in the supreme example of life and devotion in all history. The Messages Still Live One misses the glory and meaning of lessons like this unless they become an occasion of communion. V/e do not know the prophets until we live with them. We do not begin to take their message fully . into our lives until they cease to be figures simply of an ancient past and become living personalities I speaking to us in the experiences 1 of today. One can detect in the Quarters ' lessons something of a progression and a climax. The fullness of i prophecy came in the casting away of Israel in the experiences of the exile where a people that had failed to sense the glory of their heritage came through experiences of trial to sense the glory and value of the spiritual Zion. Would that we could in our modern world feel the sense of God's | call and choice! Would that our ! modern environment might become for us a real Zion, that the deeper i notes of patriotism and brotherhood, of righteousness and devotion to ! truth might become not mere forj malities or responsibilities but glori- ; ous and rich privileges, coming to [us as a heritage out of the past from a God who is our ever living Father, near us to guide and ! strengthen, us in the present!

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Makes Whoopee

Charles Timblln The new bill opening today at the Lyric includes the comedy services of Charles (Slim) Timblin, blackface comedian.

A Substitute

William Powell was selected by Paramount to replace Sam Hardy for the leading role in “Behind the Makeup.” the picturization of “The Feeder,” the story by George M. Watters in which Hal Skelly and Esther Ralston have important roles.

Work finished

Daniel Haynes, who has the male lead, and Harry Gray, eighty-six year-old ex-slave, who has a featured part, in ' Hallelujah.” arrived back from the coast last week. Final work on the production is being completed and Vidor, after supervising the editing of the film, is expected to come East himself.

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Players to Present a Big Comedy Church Actors Plan to Close the Season Soon. AS the final offering of an unusually late season, the Sutherland Players under the direc--1 tion of Norman Green are to pre- : sent the favorite Nugent comedy, Kempy," on Tuesday and Werines* j day nights, July 2 and 3. at the j Sutherland Presbyterian churchj Twenty-eighth and Bellefontaine streets. Norman Green has selected “Kempy” as the closing bill of his fourth annual season of the Sutherland Players, the previous plays of the year including “Pollyanna.” "Paying the Fiddler,” “The Four Darlings.” “Two Jumps Ahead." and l as the regular religious drama of | the year. ’The Prodigal Son,” using 1 the same manuscript as was used, by the St. Mary’s Theater Company i of Boston. This young group of players, unj der Green's direction, has gained l considerable attention throughout, the state, particularly because of itsproduction of “The Rock," which it, has presented in Muncie, Dunkirk, Elwood and Gary, Ind. They have also played during this last winter at P’t. Benjamin Harrison under the auspices of the Service Club. Among its other outstanding productions are “Daddy Long Legs.” j “The Gypsy Trail.” Tolstoy’s “What. Men Live By.” Judas Iscariot and j St. Claudia. “Kempy” will be presented by the ■ Sutherland Players on July 2 and 3 i with the following cast: Ruth Bence, by Helen Way: “Dad” Bence by Russell Young: “Ma” Bonce, by I Fannie K. Fort: Jane Wade. Bernice Mitchell Young: Katherine Bence, . by Lora Frances Lackey; Ben Wade, by Claude Ward; “Kempy” Janies, by Clamor Fleddenjohn; and “Duke” Merrill, by Norman Green.

Sophie Tucker in Talkie Bow

Sophie Tucker, “red hot mamma” of the variety stage, has always been blessed with perseverance. This attribute started her on the stage. i Her first engagement as an entertainer was in the German Village Case in New York. Here shA worked all night, until 7 o'clock each morning. But by 9 she had started her round of the theatrical bookingagents, and finally was able to secure a try-out at Proctor's 125th Street theater in blackface! Now she is making her debut in another field of entertainment, having consistently remained out of films until the recent perfection of the talking picture. But since Vitaphone gave her an opportunity to sing the type of songs for which she has become famous, the attractive Sophie is at work at Warner Brothms's Hollywood studio as star of Honky Took,” an all-talking picture of a New York night club.

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