Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1929 — Page 7

AUG. .17, 1929.

COLLEEN MOORE’S FIRST TALKER OPENS AT THE CIRCLE

Greta Garbo Makes Bid for Vampire Favor in “The Single Standard,” Which Opens a Week’s Engagement Today at Loew’s Palace. THE long awaited First National Vitaphone production. “Smiling Irish Eyes,” in which Colleen Moore makes her first appearance in screen talking pctures, opens today at the Circle. Fresh from its New York run, where it was exhibited for weeks at $2, “Smiling Irish Eyes” is to be shown at the Circle at the regular popular prices. This picture, an all-talking and singing special, has been acclaimed as Miss Moore’s finest production, and in view of the fact that it offers the opportunity for her followers to hear her voice for the first time, it

should prove very popular. James Hall is Miss Moore’s leading man in this Irish romance, most of which was filmed in exterior settings. The background for the greater portion of the story is in the Killarney district of Ireland, while there are episodes in New York as well. The songs, “Smiling Irish Eyes” and “A Wee Bit of Love,” are introduced in this Vitaphone picture. Miss Moore revealing unexpected talent as a vocalist by singing them in a delightful voice. These melodies take an important part in the story, which was scenarized by Tom J. Geraghty. "Smiling Irish Eyes” was produced by John McCormick and directed by William Seiter. The Circle is presenting an unusual novelty on the program this week. Dessa Byrd is offering a production organ solo in which she is assisted by a group of Louise Powell's kiddies. She has entitled it “My Little Show,” and during the organ solo the juvenile performers appear on ♦ he stage enacting their clever routines. Fred Ardath and the Palm Beach Four are to be heard in Vitaphone acts and a talking news reel complete the program. ana GARBO’S LATEST ON VIEW AT PALACE For once an author is enthusiastic over the screen characterization of a novel heroine. Adela Rogers St. John, who wrote “The Single Standard” in which Greta Garbo is starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, has pronounced her “100 per cent perfect” in the glamorous role. “I think Miss Garbo is the most capable actress in motion pictures today.” Miss St. John said. “Although I have never met her personally, I have always been a great admirer of her work upon the screen and I was delighted to find that she fit so ideally into the characterization I created in the book.” Miss St. John, whose stirring book comes today to the Palace in picturized form, with a synchronized sound score, began her career in Los Angeles as a newspaper woman and covered many of the Pacific coast’s most notorious criminal cases. Her forceful ability and experience won her a nation-wide reputation and she turned to fiction with extraordinary success. “Skyrocket” was her first novelized story, and she followed this with “The Free Soul” and “The Single Standard.” Hundreds of short stories and feature articles in national publications carry her name. Nils Asther and Johnny Mack Brown share leading man honors in the new picture which John S. Robertson directed from Josephine Lovett's adaptation of the book. The supporting cast includes Dorothy Sebastian, Kathlyn Williams, Lane Chandler. Robert Castle and others of note. The balance of the program offers another of Hal Roach’s humorous comedies, “Dad's Day,” an all-talking laughfest wherein many funny doings and sayings are enjoyed. The Metro Movietone acts include the Revellers, a male quintet of harmonizing voices, and the Eight Victor Artists in their hilarious sketch, “At the Club.” The cast of the Eight Victor Artists includes Henry Burr, Monroe Silver. Billy Murray, James Stanley, Frank Banta. Carl Mathieu. Sam Herman and Stanley Baughman. The M. G. M. Intemtional Newsreel, Lester Huff at the organ console and Fox Movietone News round out the bill. nan MACKAILL FEATURED IN INDIANA SHOW ' jrcthy Mackaill in a picture wl ;h is said to be filled with fun and delicious satire and love and a number of other things, called “Hard to Get.” is now playing at the Indiana. “Circus Cabaret,” the stage presentation, offers Charlie Davis and his orchestra playing two outstanding band numbers. “Hard to Get" is said to be splendid entertainment and it is important because of the fact that it is Dorothy Mackaill’s first independent fil'd since her cinematic separation f >m Jack Mulhall. who used to ap.•ar with her in so many First Na-rional-Vitaphone offerings The man who is making love to Miss Mackaill in “Hard to Get" is another Irish lad, Charles Delaney. Louise Fazenda. Jack Oakie, James Finlayson, Edmund Burns and Clarissa Selwynne are in the supporting cast. William Beaudine directed this rollicking comedy, which deals with a shapely manikin on a manhunt ih the jungles of Fifth avenue, New York. She is out to land a millionaire and falls for a garage mechanic. Charlie Davis and his orchestra are presented in “Circus Cabaret,” a Publix produettion, devised and staged by C. A. Niggemeyer. with great stage favorites, including Walzer and Dyer, inimitable comedians; Walter and Betty Reddidck. world’s peppiest dancers: Finka nd Ayers, roller skaters: Vera Van. the sweetheart of song, and the Foster Girls, champion trapeze artists and aerialists. surrounded by an alll-star bill of Publix entertainment. a a a APOLLO HOLDS OVER “ON WITH THE SHOW” “On With the Show,” the first all natural color talking, singing, dancing picture, is held over for another week, starting today at the Apollo. “On With the Show." with its music, dancing, songs and gorgeous colon of settings and costumes and

people on the stage, is really stunning. It is as if one were sitting in a theater seeing a musical comedy, with the added privilege of going backstage with the players where the real comedy takes place. In the cast are Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Ethel Waters, Sam Hardy, Sally O’Neill, Louise Fazenda. Lee Moran, Fairbanks Twins and other well-known stars. The usual short reels and the Movietone news completes the bill. a a a “NOAH’S ARK” NOW AT THE OHIO “Noah’s Ark’’ opens today at the New Ohio for a week’s engagement. This spectacle, which includes more than ten thousand in the cast, was over three years in the making. The play covers the most dramatic moments in the span of fifty centuries. The modern story has to do with the period of the World war and the ancient sequences portraying scenes of the building of the Tower of Babel—vast orgies before heathen gods—the word-devastat-ing flood—and the building of the Ark. Michael Curtiz directed this picture. Dolores Costello is starred with George O’Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Guinn Williams, Nigel de Brulier, Myrna Loy and William V. Mong. The story of "Noah’s Ark” was written by Darryl Francis Zanuck. This week the Ohio has some unusual short features including an all-talking George LeMaire comedy, “Go Easy Doctor;” George Broadhurst. and company, the drunken sailor that went over big at the Circle theater and Tal Henry and his orchestra. Big Revue To Go on Long Tour ‘Pleasure Bound’ Is in Great Demand in Chicago. ‘“PLEASURE BOUND,” that popular Shubert revue, is at the height of its Chicago engagement, where it is winning great favor with its cast of stars headed by Jack Pearl, Phil Baker, Aileen Stanley and Shaw and Lee. At the conclusion of its long run in the Windy City, which is still nowhere in sight, “Pleasure Bound” will be seen in Kansas City, St- Louis and other important cities. Known as ‘The Victrola Girl,” Aileen Stanley has as wide a repertoire of songs as probably any performer now before the public. “For my numbers in ‘Pleasure Bound,’ my difficulty was in selecting those numbers I enjoy giving and which would not retard the speed of the revue,” declares Miss Stanley. “In singing for the records I can take my time, with no cares at all about the tempo, and in concert work the situation is much the same. “But for a revue. I found it necessary to use numbers which are what a musical person might term in rhythm with the action, which in ‘Pleasure Bound’ moves at a very fast pace.” Miss Stanley's vaudeville tours have been highly successful and during a recent trip aboard she secured international fame as an individual singer of unusual songs.

Contest Announced

The Irvington School of Music is going to hold another essay contest. this time the subject to be “What Good Is There in Music, What Good Is it Going to Do Me, and What Do I Get Out of it? The prizes will be: First. $5 In cash and $5 in lessons; second, $5 in lessons. These lessons are to be taken at the school and may be on any subject.

Good Act Karyl Norman, “the Creole Fashion Plate.” who has been a feature of vaudeville for many years, is this season presenting a particularly brilliant and colorful offering. He is on the coast at present.

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1 — Colleen Moore has her first talking part in “Smiling Irish Eyes,” opening today at the Circle. 2 Audrey Ferris and William Collier Jr., in a scene from “Beware of Bachelors,” now at the Lyric.

Three Players Who Are in ‘On With the Show'

I—Joe E. Brown is one of the chief funmakers in “On With the Show,” which is now in its second week at the Apollo.

John Will Talk in Movies

Henri Clive, one of America’s leading portrait artists, will be seen and heard in John Barrymore’s first Vitaphone talking picture for Warner Bros., “General Crack.” During the action of the story, the audience will be able to watch Mr. Clive painting a life-size portrait of Armida, the Mexican actress, who

Near Here Ben Turpin, of the weird eyes, is on comedy bent at Youngstown and South Bend this week. There is no doubt that he is as great a success in RKO theaters as he has been in the movies. He is so naturally a comedian that it is impossible for him to be at all serious. He is a funny little man with a ponderous lot of ideas that always seem to have a comedy slant whether he means them to or not.

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also has an important role in the Barrymore production. f The role played by Mr. Clive in this Vitaphone version of George Preedy’s novel, is that of court painter during the reign of Emperor Leopold II of Austria. Natheaux Added to Cast Louis Natheaux has been added to the cast of William de Mille’s new production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a story of the war in which a German mother (played by Louise Dresser) has a featured role. Zita Johann and Basil Rathbone, New York stage players, are also in the cast of this talking film, not yet titled. Traveltalk Series Booked Publix has booked James A. Fitzpatrick’s Tra-#Jtalk series for the entire circuit on the strength of its successful premiere at the Newman theater, Kansas City, Mo.

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2 Wheeler Oakman is the villain of >the piece, but he gets his before the show is over. 3 Sam Hardy is the manager of the show, which starts with lots of trouble.

She Will Impersonate Marion Davies’ inimitable impersonations will be heard as well as seen in a clowning sequence for “Marianne,” here first Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer talkie feature. In one of the numbers, Miss Davies, a French peasant girl, will imitate Maurice Chevalier, straw hat, cane and loose hips.

“Luckee Girl,” that popular musical comedy which enjoyed successful engagements in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities last season, is being made ready for a long road tour to begin on Sept. 9 in Utica. Billy House, who was unknown to musical comedy audiences before his appearance n “Luckee Girl” and who achieved a distinct hit in the leading role, will continue to head the company.

3 Dolores Costello in a scene from “Noath’s Ark,” now at the Ohio. 4 Greta Garbo in a homely scene from “The Single Standard,” now at Loew’s Palace. 5 Ethel Waters in “On With the Show,” now in its second week at the Apollo. Apollo. 6—Dorothy Mackaill has the lead in “Hard to Get.” now at the Indiana.

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Sunday School Lesson

The Internationa! Uniform Sunday School Lesson for Aug. 18. Historical Sisniflcance of the Return. Ezra 1:16; Psa. 126:1-6. BY WM. E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of The Conßregationalist WE have seen how the two kingdoms of Israel fell before eastern conquerors, the northern kingdom in 722 B. C„ under the Assyrian invasion, when the "ten tribes were carried off and dispersed so that they became “lost” and the kingdom was never restored; the southern kingdom under a similar Babylonian invasion in 586 B. C., when the people were, carried off to Babylon. In this case, however, the people preserved something of the continuity of their life in exile. We have been studying the remarkable prophecies that developed out of that period, and now we come to the strange and dramatic situation of a people restored to their historic home returning from Babylon to Jerusalem. Cyrus, one of the greatest conquerors and rulers in all history beginning as king of a province in 559 B. C.. in 20 years’ time had made himself master of the Eastern world, conquering Babylonia in 539. He displayed unusual qualities in that ancient world of ruthless warfare, for he showed humanity to the conquered, and a strategy and constructiveness equal to his military aggressiveness in welding the conquered peoples into an empire. It was in harmony with this general policy that a year after his conquest of Babylon he planned the re-colonization of Palestine by the very people whom his predecessors had carried off from their own land. It was a joyful event for the heroic remnant of Israel, who had sought in exile to keep alive their zeal and enthusiasm for the spiritual Zion. The return from the captivity came in fulfillment of what Jei'emiah and Ezekiel had foretold. The announcement of Cyrus’ purpose came, therefore, to a people fully prepared for it spiritually, and the return to their own land was something more than an opportunity for the re-establishment of their homes. The event became marked with passionate spiritual enthusiasm. If a new national hope did not surge in the hearts of the exiles there arose at least anew consciousness of their call and their mission—a new sense cf unity in their destiny as a people of God. Our lesson is divided into two parts; the first section from the Book of Ezra presents the facts and circumstances; the second section from the 126t'n Psalm, which is called the Song of Ascent, glorifies

he event in poetry. One has an excellent opportunity here to see the difference between mere historic record on the one hand, and song and poetry on the other hand. We should miss the true significance of these events if we had not this paean of joy. It is a very beautiful song of pilgrimage—a song of the going up of those who went to Jerusalem or to the temple. It is also one that may be very properly adopted by all those who would ascend in their lives toward New Testament Zion and toward some higher experience in the fellowship of the Christian life and in progress toward God. No analysis or exposition can make this Psalmist’s interpretation of the great event more vivid than it is. There is in it a note of ecstasy in which the whole being exults. Those who have been in exile and heaviness are suddenly conquered by an emotionalism that fills their mouths with laughter and their tongues with singing. Surrounding nations are called upon to witness all that has happened to them. The end of their captivity is comparable to streams pouring into a desolate and desert region. Though they have sown in tears, they are reaping in joy. It is a triumphant picture which in a few brief lines suggests the glory of re-establish-ing Zion. Is it any wonder that the Hebrew Scriptures have had such profound effect upon the world when one realizes out of what inspiration and enthusiasm they have come? Would not any people be capable of greatness in character and in influence where the homeland represented something holy and where religion and citizenship were united in passion for the common weal? It is an experience that we might well strive to emulate here in modern America. There is much in our democratic institutions and ideals to quicken such passionate enthusiasm of faith and zeal. Our countrv may be to us simply our dwelling place, or it may be to us the homeland of a spiritual ideal established in justice, mercy, righteousness and truth. . When America is for us merely a homeland which we think of in selfishness as our abode and as the MOTION PICTURES

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Film Fans Like Her Very Much Dolores Del Rio Gets Big Ovation From All Audiences. A DVICES from Washington. D. C.. are to the effect that Dolores Del Rio has registered a tre-. mendOus hit with the very critical audiences of the capital city, home of America’s most famous folk. During a week at the Columbia theater, where her latest United Artists picture, “Evangeline," was playing, the star was not only forced to make extra stage appearances to satisfy the e owds, but also to appear in the theater lobby where hundreds waited for hours to see her. / In its premiere at New Orleans, “Evangeline” broke all existing records at the Saenger theater and in five days at the Loew’s Penn Theater in Pittsburgh, the combination of picture and star broke all previous six-day records by a good margin. Miss Del Rio will visit Minneapolis, Seattle and San Francisco on her way back to Hollywood. She will begin her first United Artists talking picture as soon as Edwin Carewe returns from Europe and selects one of five stories suggested for the star's next vehicle. To Be in Big Cast James Murray and Wheeler Oskman have been signed to support Mary Nolan in “The Shanghai Lady,” by John Colton. This alltalking adaptation of his stage play will go in production at Universal City next week under the direction of John Robertson. place of our interests to the exclusion of all higher matters—peace, justice and right—we may be sure that the very seeds of destruction are in our establishment, for self-, ishness always defeats itself. It Is in the thought of America as a modern Zion with profound spiritual devotion to all the high things that it represents that we, like these captives returning to Jerusalem, may find the hope of a large and permanent destiny in the Divine plan.

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