Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1929 — Page 6

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ADELA VERNE, NOTED PIANIST, TOPS BILL AT THE LYRIC

Harry Fields, Known as “Hello Jake,” is tmc Chief Comedian with “Sugar Babies,” Which Opens Sunday Afternoon at the Mutual. STATE FAIR visitors are promised a bill of KRO vaudeville acts and an entertaining talking picture by the Lyric management. The bill, which opens today and runs through next Friday, contains four diversified vaudeville attractions of which three are said to be outstanding. These three are Adela Verne, Nat C. Haines and company and Large and Morgner. Adela Verne, claimed to be one of the foremost of women pianists, heads the list. Miss Verne, who recently came from her native clime in England to do concert work In America, heard the call of the varieties

and this*season is presenting her marvelous musical talents to vaudeville audiences. She is a pupil or rather a protege of the famous Paderewski and a sister of MathiJde Verne, also an exceptional pianist. Her vaudeville routine is one that will appeal to all music lovers. Nat. C. Haines and company offer a vaudeville sketch which contains a real plot and a vital story. It is called “Hello Mama” and has been classed as one of the funniest vaude\ille skits ever sent on tour. The supporting company includes such artists as Vira, Rial, Helen Gero, Clair Louise Evans, Ted Kent and Joe McCallion. To reveal the nature of the plot would only take away from the enjoyment that this skit offers. Large and Morgner, present an act that is totally different, and yet quite remarkable. They do gymnastic feats of daring with rare fibffl and dexterity. Sensational air stunts furnish a fc*nner nost of thrills in the new Columbia talking picture, “The Flying Marine,” which is to be seen and heard on the Lyric screen this Week. In addition to the dramatic action Cf the aerial background which in itself contributes real entertainment, it projects a poignant drama of the love of two brothers for the same girl. This situation results in intense conflict which the leading characters, Ben Lyon, Shirley Mason and tfason Robards, portray. The plot underlying “The flying Marine” is a tremendous human interest story of brotherly love and sacrccce. Carried away by the romarve* surrounding the younger brother, an aviator, played by Ben Lyon, Moolv, the role assumed by Shirley Mason, promises to be his ■wife. Before long she discovers him to be irresponsible and that it is the older brother Mitch, enacted by Jason Robarts, that she really loves. The picture, from this point on, races rapidly on. to a smashing and breath-taking climax. The surrounding program of film subjects includes the news reel, Aesop’s Fabler, and a scenic. Musical accompaniment will be furnished the silent films and vaudeville bill by the Lyric orchestra. “SUGAR BABIES” OPEN AT THE MUTUAL Although one of the pennantwinning attractions for the past six years on the Mutual Burlesque circuit. the happily-named “Sugar Babies.” coming Sunday at the Mutual, will be seen in an almost entirely new edition. Harry <Hello Jake) Fields is the eomedian-in-command, one of the stage's best known Hebrew character delineators. Assisting Fields Is a large and competent coterie of supporting players, among whom are Mabel Spencer, prima donna: Patricia Kelly, ingenue with a flair for tapdancing: Dainty Dottle Reed, a soubrette; Jean Gardner, dancing soubrette; Harry C. Van, straight man; Frank Scannell. the company’s juvenile: Jimmie Hill, who extracts laughter as the fun foil for chief comedian Fields, and Jock Mac Lean, known as “The Musical

RIVERSIDE SUNDAY AND LABOR DAY ETHEL PRITCHETT World's Champion MULTIPLE PARACHUTE JUMPER TWO BIG DAYS OF FUN AND THRILLS FREE ADMISSION FREE PICNIC GROVE FREE CHECKING FREE ZOO FREE PARKING FREE ATTRACTIONS

B J TH MT /st DIRECTION OF MUTUAL BURLESQUE ASSN, OF NEW YORK NOW COMES HARRY (HELLO JAKE) FIELDS With the Best Show of All His Career SUGAR BABIES BUBBLING OVER WITH FAST COMEDY AND BEAUTIFUL GIRLS TINTED RUNWAY o - , IS THE BLUES SINGING a NORA Ford Shimmy Girl

Jack Is Back Jack Dempsey heads the imposing list of new attractions booked this past week by George a. Godfrey, chief of the R-K-O booking department. The popular ex-champion will start his tour at the PalaceOrpheum in Chicago the week of Aug. 31. Incidentally, it is reported that Estelle Taylor, who is Mrs. Dempsey, outside the ring, is also to appear in P-K-O theater shortly in a new one-act sketch now being prepared by the production department.

, Scotchman,” whose playing on various instruments is entertaining and a most unique act for burlesque, i The “Sugar Babies” boast e chorus group. The Gypsy Trail and ; a colorful western sequence are I among the scenic headlights of the j production. Orchestra to Open Ballroom Bernie Young Presents His Band for an Engagement. BERNIE YOUNG and his Creole orchestra, band featuring Orren Patterson, eccentric dancer, will open a two week’s engagement at the Indiana roof ballroom tonight, inaugurating the grand fall opening of the roof. The Creole orchestra, a Nergo musical aggregation, is an entertaining band featuring novelties and spei cialties. According to Tom Devine, managei of the roof, the policy of en--1 gaging traveling dance bands will continue this coming season, due to it’s popularity with dancers. The policy of nightly features will likewise be the same as those of last year, namely Sunday night, syncopation night; Monday night, rental night: Tuesday night, instruction night,; Wednesday night, waltz night: Thursday night, party night; Friday night, collegiate night or j “let’s go night,” and Saturday night, | carnival night. A number of rentals and parties j are already planned for the coming season and Devine is offering all organizations interested in either the. rental or the party plan his cooperation and assurance of both a social and financial success. Akins Lands Big Job Zop Akins, the famous playwright, has joined the Paramount writing I staff at the Hollywood studios. For j the screen she will adapt the Timi othy Shea, popular novel, “Sarah and | Son,” anew and important production with Ruth Chatterton in the ' leading role.

AMUSEMENTS

Tournament To Be Held At Church First Annual Religious Drama Meet Is Announced. jP 1 NTRIES in the first annual Rellgious Drama tournament, to be fostered by the Sutherland Play- : ers on the week end of Nov. 8 and 9, at the Sutherland Presby- ; terian church, Twenty-eighth and | Bellefontaine streets, will be acI cepted up to and including Oct. 15, | it is announced by Virginia Brackett Gmen, chairman of the tournament and scenic and costume director of the players. Considerable interest has already been manifested in the preliminary announcements of the tournament, which were issued last week to all local dramatic, church - centered groups. Preliminary entries have already been made by the I: vington Mummers of the Irvington Presbyterian church; the Capital Players of the Capitol Avenue Methodist Episcopal church: First Baptist church; Traub Memorial church; West Washington Presbyterian church, and Calvary United Brethren church. The initial nine or ten entries will comprise the tournament schedule, for only three plays of not more than forty-five minutes playing length can be presented at one performance. If the plays entered do not last this specified number of minutes, more plays can be produced in the tournament. Positions for the Friday night, Saturday afternoon and Saturday night performance will be drawn by the committee and announced later. All three sessions of the tournament will be open to the public. Several judges, well-qualified and competent in the grading of play production, will be announced later, and will view and grade the plays and players independently of each other. Awards to be offered by the Sutherland Players who, of course, are not competing in the tournament, will be presented at the close of the Saturday night performance. The production, receiving the highest number of grade points, will receive a suitable trophy and a cash prize of $25. As second prize, $15.00 in cash will be awarded. The prize-winning play will be presented at the Sunday evening service of the Sutherland Presbyterian church, on Sunday, Nov. 10. In sponsoring this first annual religious drama tournament, the Sutherland Players are recognizing the recent trend of church-centered dramatics, and are providing a medium for all such groups in the city to exchange ideas, relating to religious drama production, and in utilizing limited facilities therefor. The last several years have seen the attention of the public focused upon the value of religious dramatics as a regular activity in the program of the church and throughout the state, many play-producing groups having been organized right in the church. The Sutherland Players have played four successful seasDns, each including six secular plays and one outstanding dramatic revival. Their fifth consecutive season will be opened the last of September with A. E. Thomas’ “Just Suppose,” and also in September a revival of “The Prodigal Son” will be presented.

The tournament committee, headed by Mrs. Green as chairman, announces that competing groups in the tournament may use as scenic equipment only the neutral-toned draperies, provided by the players, and that the electrical equipment of the players will be available to the participating groups also. The minimum of properties are to be used and are to be furnished by the visiting players, as well as any incidental music needed. The director and stage director of each group must arrange with Mrs. Green as soon as possible concerning the necessary properties and the handling thereof. Signs Another Contract The newest favorite of movie fans, the inimitable F.egis Toomey, whose excellent sleuth work in “Alibi” signed today another Paramount contract as the result of two recent roles in “The Love Doctor” and “Illusion.”

AMUSEMENTS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

I—Recognized as agreat pianist, Adela. Verne opens today a week's engagement at the Lyric. This fine artist is the first of the better super-headliners to be billed at this theater.

Sophie Tucker Is Still a Mighty Red-Hot Mama

Here is Sophie Tucker in two scenes from “Honky T onk,” her first all-singing and talking movie. It opens today at the Apollo and this should be one of the events of the new season. The big cities are wild over Sophie.

ROUNDING ROUND THFA T F R With WALTER 1 0. HICKMAN

TO increase the activities of the Indianapolis Civic theater, it is now planned to organize the Actors and Workers Guild of the Civic theater. This is really an organization within the major organization and it will outline helpful work that the members may do.

“Regarding the coming season,” George Bailey, financial chairman of the building fund committee of Civic theater, said “we shall extend our season from six months to nine months, producing at least nine plays. We shall have an enlarged childrens’ program. Gladys Somnes on his present trip, is spending time in New York formulating plans for j the coming season and fighting for more reasonable royalties in the most desirable plays. “Our enlarged stage, modern dressing rooms, more ample electrical and other equipment, will enable us to give a greater variety %f plays, appealing to more different tastes and therefore a larger audience. Since our organization has more money available, we are able to pay higher royalties demanded for the more desirable and latest plays. “Mr. Furscott told me today that he has just signed a contract to enlarge oiir stage, provide fireproof back stage and adequate dressing rooms and more commodious working space for those working on scenery, costumes, etc. The contract includes redecorating the lobby and plastering the walls of the auditorium and the ceiling hiding the steel beams. Also the ladies’ room will be redecorated and equipped. “The outside front will be restuccoed. The walks in front of the building will be repaired so that those attending will not have to step in the mud. A beautiful new curtain will be provided. “We have workers who are familiar with what we wish to accomplish and we have a really great director and now due to your efforts this summer we are to have for this season more facilities and more resources than ever before. “And if so much can be accomplished in such a short time, is it not reasonable to suppose that Indianapolis will have one of the AMUSEMENTS

COLONIAL Illinois and u- York Week Starting Tomorrow The Fastest Show in the CityReal Live BURLESQUE With a Splendid Cast and CHORUS on RUNWAY ELABORATE—NEW—XOVF.L PRETTY GIRLS—FINNY COMEDIANS SP P , “Vanity Parade'* C- C. . “Peacock Strot” A Riot of Color and Harmony On the Screen The Talking Featnre MORTON DOWN El in ‘‘MOTHER’S BOY” MATINEE. 10c NITKS, SAT., HOLIDAY MAT.. Me MIDNITE SHOW 11 P. M. SAT.

greatest civic theaters in this country? “Mr. Somnes has suggested and the board of directors has approved a plan for the organization of an actors’ and workers’ guild of the civic theater. Our larger membership. which has grown more than 1.000 members since our recent campaign, makes it necessary that we have an organization v ithin an organization, or in other words, a group of people who are more than merely members of the civic theater. “The Actors and Workers Guild should be actually people who are willing to work and produce, not simply spectators. There is a great deal to be done by this proposed Actors and Workers Guild. Os course we must have actors, we must look after costumes, people to design and paint scenery and others to procure properties. “The telephone and motor corps

BROAD RIPPLE SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT! AFTERNOON AND EVENING SUNDAY and LABOR DAY LEE and LEROY THE WHOOPEE BOYS In a Big Time Comedy Bicycle Act Extraordinary! DINC and DONG Late of K.-O. Circuit, in a Sensational Acrobatic Farrel Act—a Pleasing Novelty. SWIMMING At Usual. In the FI KF>T WATER IV TOWN. Pool Will be Open to Swimmers Indefinitely .

TWO BIG DAYS! WALNUT GARDENS Sunday , Sept. Ist — 3o-Mile Race One 15-Mile Model T Ford Race One 15-Mile Free-for-All Junker Car* One Half-Mile Ford Model T in Reverse Race Balloon Ascension. Mile High Rath. Featared In front of the Beautiful Dance Pavilion. Labor Day , Sept. 2d — 3o-Mile Race One 10-Mile Model T Ford Race One 10-Mile Race Free-for-All Junker Car* One 10-Mile Stock Car Race BALLOON ASCENSION Magnificent Display of Beautiful Fire Works in the Evening LEAVE INDIANAPOLIS —To reach Walnut Gardens go out Kentucky Avp. to Road 67, follow arrows, Paved Rond all the way. Ualnot Gardens Speedway is loeated 13 MUes Southwest of Indianapolis near Camby.

2 —Rita Owen is among the prominent ones present In "Roof Garden Revels,” now at the Indiana. 8--Mabel Spencer ha* much to do in “Sugar Babies,” opening Sunday afternoon at the Mutual.

must be kept functioning on a larger scale. Ushers will be needed and assistants for the production of childrens plays. All this work must be done and more. An organization of workers is needed so that they will keep in closer touch with each other and with the needs of the Civic Theater so that they can assist the director and the board of directors in their work. “This must be an organization on which the board of directors and the director can absolutely depend at all times. “Mr. Somnes has repeatedly stated that the success of plays depends as much on the internal organization as upon good actors, good directing and good equipment.” Went to the Same School Nancy Carroll and Jack Oakie, both of whom are featured in “Sweetie,” Paramount? musical romance of campus life, went to school together in New York. Here is a Merry Mess Two triangles overlap in “Behind the Makeup,” Paramount picture. Hal Skelly, William Powell and Fay Wray form one triangle, while Kay Francis, Powell and Miss Wray i form the other.

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Colonial Comedians Top Cast New Faces Will Be Seen in "Fair Vanities,’ a New Revue, “Fair Vanities” opens Sunday at the Colonial. The producers are offering this as the first of the regular theatrical season and have secured a number of new performers, costumes and scenic effects for this attraction. Two new comedians have been added to the list of funmakers. George (Baldy) Hill and Sleepy Chapman are the new members, and these, together with Jimmy (No Push) Bova and Frank Martin, present the'comedy. One of the chorus numbers will be the “Vanity Parade.” Paul Reno, Mildred Wood. Hazel Smith, Daisy Due and the Colonial chorus round out the cast. “Mother’s Boy,” written by Gene Markey, is the story of a young tenement dweller in New York, who begins his career as a delivery boy in a delicatessen store. His singing attracts the attention of a poor violinist, who undertakes to train him for an operatic career. Owing to a theft committed by his rascally brother, he quits his home under a cloud, and W'hile his doting mother grieves for him, he carves out his career and wins.

AMUSEMENTS F" INDIANAPOLIS ONLY VAUDEVILLE THE A TOE /■ MEETS YOU l INN ONE OF THE SEASONS GfiEATFSr SLUMS 7 1 LA, I NEVER BEFORE HAS THE LYRIC STAGE BEEN SHOWERED - K I VITH SUCH BRILLIANT KEITH VAUDEVILLE STAR S' ft I IT'S MORE THAN A SHOW.' IT'S AN EXPERIENCE/ SALSO a newTALKING picture thriller/ Ww BEN LYON I rvl Shipley mason I f aho JASON ROBARDS Tender Sweetheart Roman*-- M a—"< V Against BacUgrnond Mr 'VUV LEAVE HOME *1 I A all TALK *.t* SUE CAROL I BIG SURPRISE VAUOCVILLE 3HOW_

AUG. 31,^

Midway to Be Feature at the Fair D, D. Murphy Shows Offer Many Novel Events Here. THE D. D. Murphy Shows, which will furnish the midway attractions and features for the Indiana State fair this year, has had a meteoric success. Building a tent, show of vast *lz from practically nothing is the taslc the Murphy management has accomplished. Ten years ago David D. 'Murphy and L. M. Rrophv bought, a merry-go-round and placed it in an amusement park in St. Louis, their home town. It. was merely in the nature of a. “side issue.” as neither was a practical road showman. It made money. Tire following year they bought, a ride known as “Over-1 heJumps.” It. was equally successful. Then the D. D. Murphy Show was born. It started out. in 1921 as a four-box rax outfit, with three rides, two tiny shows and a. dozen legitimate concessions. In 1924 it. was a fifteen-car railroad show with five riding devices and its own specially constructed train. Today it. requires forty extra iengin circus cars oa transport the organization. There are twenty-one paid shows on the midway, fourteen "ma.lor" riding devices, four laughable “funhouses” and a military band. In addition. the show carries a trio o£ “kiddie” rides for the special pleasure of the little tots. There are 635 people on the company’s pay roll. The rommissary department serves an average of 2,000 meals and lunrhes daily. The D. D. Murphy Shows had an initial slogan. “Cleanliness and Novelty.” To it, they have strictly adhered and their growth and success is the result.

Big Names

Ted Lewis and his band are featured in’ the portion of the Vitaphone special, “Show of Shows.” which was filmed this week at the Warner studio. The presentation consists of a pirate's den background. Ten well known screen villains appear in the same sequence, namely Noah Beery, Tully Marshall, Wheeler Oakman, Bull Montana, Kalla Pasha, Johnny Arthur, Anders Randolf, Ottto Maticsen, Jack Curtis and Philo McCollough. Actresses featured in this sketch include Carmel Myers, Ruth Clifford. Sally Filers, Viola Dana. Shirley Mason. Ethylne Claire, Francis Lee and Julanne Johnston. And It Comes to This An ancient and almost forgotten art., that of the armorer, has been revived for Paramount's natural color romance, “The Vagabond King,” five hundred suits of armor, with full righting accesories of sword, spear and shield, are required for battle scenes of the Dennis King •starring picture. Part of the needed equipment is being made in the studio prop shop. Photographic copies of authentic prints in “The Album Historique” are providing the working models of the fighting equipment in vogue in France during th® reign of Louis XI.