Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1929 — Page 7

SEPT. 14,1929

‘COCK-EYED WORLD’ OPENS TODAY AT APOLLO THEATER

Movie Version of Longfellow’s ‘Evangeline’ Tops Bill at the Palace—Huston Featured in ‘The Lady Lies’ at the Circle All Week. 810 and imprasslve elements are always essential if a motion picture, as a rule, is to reach the scale of being an impressively worth while production. Fox Movietone officials realized this when they determined to produce an all-talking picture about the battles and loves of two hardboiled marines. Asa result, “The Cock-Eyed World," written by that same capable pair, Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson, who wrote “What Price Glory,” which open today at the Apollo achieves first rank among the talkies of the season, it is claimed.

The ca*t, headed by Victor McLaglen. Edmund Lowe and Lily Damir* fa one the important reasons for this picture’s success. McLaglen and Lowe trre again piaying tbeir roles of “Flagg 1 ’ and •Quirt." McLaglen made an outstanding success of his part in that BroadwAy special. “The Black Watch,’’ “Captain Lash,” “Strong Boy,” and other Fox specials. Lowe’s work in “In Old Arizona” and other features was also outstanding, while Lily Damita, one of France's finest beauties, a former star of the “Follies Bergere,” scored repeated hits in a number of big American productions. Other big elements not to be neglected in enumerating the salient facts about “The Cock-Eyed World" are the song hits wrtten especially for this picture, “80 Long,” now a marching song for the marines; “Elenita.” sung by Miss Damita, and "So Dear to Me,” beautifully rendered by Bobby Burns. Seven orchestras are other appealing reasons: Two United States navy bands, one from Mare Island, Vallejo, Cal., and another from the marine base at San Diego; a Russian Balalaikai orchestra of twelve soloists; the famous Mexican band of Auga Caliente; also Jose Aris' Spanish string band serenaders; the "hottest’’ jazz orchestra in California for the special Coney Island sequence, and the United States naval barracks orchestra. A number of the most capable scenic artists in the country were selected to design the huge sets. An eptire tropical town was constructed and hundreds of Central Americans were used as extras to maintain the true atmosphere of this interesting story. The same held true when the entire Russian colony of Los Angeles was “conscripted" for the Russian episode which includes a picturesque inn. Coney Island with all Its glitter and bauble was also conceived for one of the most colorful situations in the picture. Lovely Lily is the tropical girl; Jean Bary the Coney Island heartbreaker. while Lelia Karnelly is the intriguing Russian charmer who cause the two hard boiled leathernecks to battle each other. Other notable troupers in this picture which Raoul Walsh directed are El Brendel, Joe Brown, Ivan Linow and Bobby Burns. Billy K. ; Wells wrote the dialog. a a • HUSTON HEADS CAST AT THE CIRCLE Walter Huston and Charles Ruggles, last seen here in “Gentlemen of the Press,” have the leading male roles in “"Hie Lady Lies,” w?ith j Claudette Colbert. It is a Para- ! mount New show World all-talking j production. Miss Colbert has been acclaimed by many to be the most beautiful actress on Broadway. “The Lady Lies" opens today at the j Circle. The itory presents Walter Hus- J ton as a young widower with two children to raise. He meets a lovely lady, played by Miss Colbert, while buying his daughter, who is away to school, a birthday present. Their friendship becomes very intimate. When his daughter and her brother, 16, come home for a visit, they learn of this woman whom they brand as an underworld creature and an adventuress. They refuse to accept her as their father's friend and, being children who usually had their own say. demanded their father to give her up or them. The play then presents a battle between the lady and the children for his heart. “The Lady Lies” has been adapted from John Meehan’s well-known play of the same name by Garret Fort and was directed by Hobart Henley. The dialog was staged by John Meehan himself. The Circle presents as its supplementary program this week an alltalking comedy and two Vitaphone short features. “The End of the World” is the title of the comedy and the talking acts include the Varsity Four' and Duffy and Gleason. Completing the bill is a talking news reel. asm “STREET GIRL” TOPS BILL AT INDIANA “Street Girl.” featuring Betty Compson and Jack Oakie. is nowplaying at the Indiana theater. It To Play Big Role According to an announcement released today at Paramount’s Hollywood studios Beryl Mercer, who created the role of Mrs. Dowey when it was presented at the Empire theater in New York, will play the part in “Medals,” Gary Cooper's first starring vehicle. She made her first appearance in motion pictures several years ago when she supported Richard Dix in “The Christian,” and has been on the stage for more than forty-three years. “Medals” is an adaptation from the New York and London stage success, "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals."

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I is Miss Compson's first all-talking picture for Radio Pictures and in it | she is heard several times playing the violin. The stage production this week offers Charlie Davis and his orchestra in “The Surprise Party,” supported by a cast of Public performers. Her talent on the violin launched Betty Compson on a theatrical career when she was a school girl in Salt Lake City, Utah. That same talent stood her in good stead when she was assigned to play the femine lead In “Street I Girl.” Miss Compson introduces the theme song in a violin solo. It is "My Dream Memory,” which already has caught the fancy of some of the dance orchestras through the country. Another number in the picture is “Loveable and Sweet,” played by the small band of four musicians who play in a cheap New York east side case Through scheming of the girl they are given a chance in a better case and prove so popular it isn’t long until they own their own night club. Jack Oakie plays the role of the smart clarinet player and equals his work In “Fast Company,” seen at the Indiana a short time ago. Others in the cast are John Haron, New Sparks and Guy Buccola. Zelaye, musician and comedian, and son of the ex-president of Nicaragua., is the headline attraction in the stage show this week. Others in the cast are Andrew and Louise Carr, dancers; Nell Jewel, prima donna; Paul Russell, tenor, and the Gluek-Sorel girls. Dessa Bryd will be heard at the Indiana console presenting a community singing organ solo. A Paramount news reel completes the bill. a a a “EVANGELINE” OPEN AT PALACE Based on one of the most colorful and tensely dramatic episodes of our history, “Evangeline,” with Dolores Del Rio starring as the maid of Acadia, comes to the Palace Theater on Saturday. Perhaps one of the most, widely read tales ever published. “Evangeline” has been adapted to the screen by Finis Fox j and produced and directed by Ed- I win Carewe with a view of humanizing and vitalizing a story of fetching interest. Costing nearly a million dollars for historical accuracy and pretentious settings, “Evangeline” comes to the screen as a dynamic romantic-tragedy; a story which is in fact, an epic, and presents the popular Miss Del Rio in a role that demands more of her versatility than even the memorable “Ramona.” In building this photoplay, Mr. Carewe has taken full advantage of the many oportunities the story offers for stirring, human drama and tender, youthful romance and against a background of sheer beauty and primitive reality, the film creator has directed the enactment of a courageous adventure with but few parallels. “Evangeline” was more than six

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months In production. An entire city had to be built for some brief scenes. Two, three-masted English frigates of the late eighteenth century type had to be built for the scenes marking the deportation of the Acadians, a single chapter of the film requiring nearly two months to picturize. The rocky shores of Acadia and the subtropical bayous of southern Louisiana are shown. More than 10,000 people have, participated in the action of the play, and Miss Del Rio has had in her support such popular screen players as Roland Drew, who supported her in “Ramona,” enacting the character of Gabriel, for whose love Evangeline gave most, of her lifetime; Donald Reed, recently seen with Billie Dove and Colleen Moore, cast as Baptiste, rival of Gabriel for Evangeline's hand and Alec B. Francis, who plays Father Felician, the guiding shepherd of the Acadians in their distress. Paul McAllister recently seen as Noah, in “Noah’s Ark.” plays Benedict Bellefontaine. Evangeline’s father. James Marcus, veteran character actor, plays Basil, the smithy, father of Gabriel. George Marion is seen as Rene La Blanc the notary and Bobby Mack assumes the character of Michael the fiddler. Lee Shumway is Colonel Winslow and Lou Payne is the autocratic Governor-general, whose forceful deportation of the Acadians is a presumption of authority. The balance of the film bill offers Harry Langdon in his first all talking 'comedy, ‘‘Hotter Than Hot,” in which he far surpasses any comic antics done in his silent efforts. Duci De Kerekjarto, celebrated violin virtuoso, will offer several numbers in a Metro Movietone act, while the M. G. M. International News Review, a Krazy Cat cartoon

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Victor McLaglen and Lily Damita have a gay time of it in “The Cock-Eyed World,” opening today at the Apollo,

comedy, the Fox Movietone News, and Lester Huff at the organ console round out the bill. * a a “HARD TO GET” NOW AT THE OHIO The New Ohio opens its new week today with Dorothy Mackaill’s first all-talking starring production, “Hard to Get,” a First NationalVitaphone jicture, directed by William Beaudine. In the past we have always seen Dorothy Mackaill “teamed” with some other star. Now she is “one of her own" in “Hard to Get.” The story concerns the adventures of a New York mannikin who each morning on her way from her parents’ little flat to an exclusive modiste shop, hunts for a rich man on Fifth avenue. She Anally chooses a poor one. Charles Delaney is the leading man. A comedy quartet consisting of Louise Fazenda, James Finlayson, Jack Oakie and Margaret Beaudine, supply roars of laughter and a very likeable, human touch to contrast with that exclusive modiste shop and its beautiful models. Ed-

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BETTY COMPSON

THIS WEEK To see and hear the most bewitching musical drama, ever screened...A gay Broadway Cinderella and the world’s fastest cracking comedy combination in this delightful romance of a girl w r ho fiddled and danced her way into the hearts of men and then lost all with a carefree kiss! It’s Radio Picture’s First ’ r KING DANCING \LL LAFFING Era Sensation

“Street Girl”

Featuring BETTY COMPSON A Jov-Fired Child of Midnight JACK OAKIE Screen’s Fastest Crackin’ Comedian GUS ARNHEIM and His Cocoanut Grove Band DORIS EATON and Ravishing Beauty Chorus of 100 And On the Stage CHARLIE DAVIS In a Fast-Moving Publix Show /THE SURPRISE PARTY” With ZELAYA, Comedian and Musician, and son of the Late President of Nicaragua!

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3—Dorothy Mackaill has the lead in “Hard to Get” now at the Ohio.

Noted Pianist at Indiana

A fiery Latin to his finger tips, Zelaya is stirring Publix audiences into controversies over the perennial question—Jazz versus Classical music. It requires a good deal of courage to carry the battle into the stronghold of the jazz enthusiasts, and if applause is a criterion, Zelaya, through sheer force of personality, and good piano playing, has succeeded in holding sway over the thousands who come to the theater to hear their favorite jazz pieces. Very often Zelaya finds that he is scheduled to appear on the stage directly after an audience ha 6 enjoyed and applauded a popular jazz band, or heard a favorite son sing the jazz hit of the day. In mund Burns and Clarissa Selwyne are also in the cast. Thp New Ohio is presenting a supplementary program of Vitaphone talking short subjects. They include Neal Sisler. the Rangen, and Bud Harris nad Frank Radcliff.

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ARE YOU ONE OF 60 LUCKY PERSONS WHO WILL ENJOY THE GREATEST SHOW IN TOWN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES? Ts your name is listed in one of the USED CAR ADS, Page 14 and 15 TODAY, you will be given two tickets to the INDIANA THEATRE

4—Dolores De Rio plays the chief role in “Evangeline” now at Loew’s Palace,

I spite of this handicap, Zelaya man--1 ages to wi|i the audience with his | wit and logic. He believes that jazz has a drug- | like hold on the minds of the peo- j pie, and he sugar-coats the essential principles of his theory with piano renditions of popular ballads i and semi-classical pieces. To prove his point, Zelaya plays a | song like “Ramona” in the stacca- ! to, jazzy fashion, and then plays it dreamily and with tender emotion- j a.l feeling. The audience has never failed to respond enthusiastically. Zelaya, therefore, finds favor with, all types of audiences in his performance at the Indiana, in the Publix stage show, “The Surprise Party,” produced by Frank Cambria. Holmes Signs Contract Taylor Holmes is the latest star signed to appear in the Christie talking plays for Paramount, and will start work immediately in “He Did His Best,” a two-reel comedy

LOOK FOR YOUR NAME One name is listed in each USED CAR AD, PAGES 14 and 15 of Today’s Times. These names were picked at random fro mthe City Directory. If you find your name listed there, take the ad to the dealer who ran it and he will give you two tickets, good to the Indiana, to see “Street Girl” and Charlie Davis’ “Surprise Party”! Let’s Go!

s—Claudette Colbert of legitimate stage fame has the lead in “The Lady Lies” now at the Circle.

play by Wilson Collison. Holmes will have an unusually strong cast, with Carmel Myers playing one of the chief feminine roles and Kathryn McGuire the other. Also in the cast is Harry Woods, who played the heavy with Louise Fazenda in Christie’s “Faro Nell, or in Old Californy,” just completed.

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Riverside Park Will Keep Open Amusement Center Will Attract Guests Today ar<4 Sunday. RIVERSIDE amusement park will be running “lull blast" tonight and Sunday afternoon and night, it is announced by the management, which statement means that every single one of the hundreds of fun devices will be in operation. On its fall schedule, the big park will be open each Saturday night and Sunday afternoon and night until cold weather sets in, and the children’s playground will be open every afternoon. With the coming of the cooler weather, a visit to Riverside especially enjoyable, the zest of Indian summer in the air adding to the fun and thrills of the trip around the big fun resort. The big black bears and the scora of funny monkeys in the Riverside, zoo. with the departure of the hot, and sultry season, are full of pep. and ready to entertain the week-end crowds with their amusing antics The ponies on the Riverside track, are full of vim and are putting their hearts into their pleasing work of carrying the youngsters around the inclosure. Down on Kewpie Alley the dozens of fascinating games are ready tor' the fall visitors.

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