Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1929 — Page 7

SEPT. 28, 1929.

BILLE DOVE HAS LEAD IN ‘HER PRIVATE LIFE’ AT CIRCLE

The Palace Holds Over ‘The Hollywood Revue’ for Second Week and Apollo Retains ‘The Cock-Eyed World’ for a Third Week of Fine Run. BILLIE DOVE, known as the screen's most beautiful actress, v.til be seen in ‘'Her Private Life,' which opens today at the Circle theater. It is a First National-Vitaphone all-talking production and Miss Dove is said to demonstrate that she is also one of the screen’s most talented emotional stars. “Her Private Life” is a story of dramatic intensity, and Is said to call for artistry upon the part of the star. Miss Dove appears as an English noblewoman, aristocratic, proud and extravagant. She incurs the displeasure of her drunken husband by her defense of a young man accused of cheating at cards. She is divorced and goes to America, where she is seen pawning her last jewel to buy food.

The unexpected ending provides a further dramatic punch, and through the whole story, Miss Dove is said to fairly live the role she is portraying. Walter Pidgeon plays opposite Miss Dove for the first time. He was a former stage actor and is heard singing the theme song, “Love Is Like a Rose,” in the picture. Montagu Love enacts the drunken husband, and others of the cast are Holmes Herbert, Thelma Todd, Roland Young and Zasu Pitts. “Her Private Life” was adapted from the novel by Zoe Akins and directed by Alexander Korda, the Hungarian director. The program of short talking subjects this week include an alltalking comedy entitled “The Spy.” Two Vitaphone acts offer Bobby Folsom and Mact- and Purdy. A talking news i completes the bill. a a a PALACE TO HOLD OVER “REVUE” The greatest cast of celebrities ever aSsembled on any stage or before any motion picture camera are to be seen in “The Hollywood Revue,” now in its second week at the Palace theater as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s big special musical extravaganza Marion Davies makes her bow as a song-and-dance comedienne in the revue as “Tommy Atkins on Parade” with a male ensemble of six-footers as a dancing bodyguard. Norma Shearer and John Gilbert co-star in a modernized “Romeo and Juliet” skit and Bessie Love again wins honors with her inimitable clowning and acrobatic dancing as well as participating in novel song numbers with Polly Moran and Marie Dressier. Cliff (Ukulele Ike) Edwards wins fresh laurels as a screen artist and Karl Dane and George K Arthur lend voice to the festive film. Jack Benny, vaudeville Star, acts as master-of-ceremonies and introduces Conrad Nagel as a singer. Anita Page shares the act with Conrad, and Charles King of “Broadway Melody” fame again croons lyrical ballads. Stan Laurel nd Oliver Hardy join the show as magicians and the Brox Sisters again burst into song. Gus Edwards sings one of his original numbers with an appropriate chorus. Joan Crawford does a neat song and dance turn with the Rounders lending a tuneful background. The Albertina Rasch ballet is charming in a technicolor scene and the Nattova Company thrills with a daring adagio. William Haines and Buster Keaton add merriment with featured skits and Gwen Lee is included in the elaborate cast of funmakers. Charles (Chuck) Reisner directed. a a a DIX FEATURED AT THE INDIANA Richard Dix in his latest alltalking farce comedy production, “The Love Doctor” is now playing at the Indiana theater. It is his third all-dialogue picture and is said to be the best of the trio. “Over the Top” is the stage offering this week. It is a spectacular production with Charlie Davis and his band and Johnny Burke, famous Mack Sennett comedian in person. “The Love Doctor” is the type of

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picture that Dix is said to do so well and also the kind in which he lias met with the greatest success. He is seen as a young doctor who has an elaborate office, shiny instruments, but no patients, but he is determined that marriage shall not hinder his career. He has successfully avoided all attempts to get him to the altar, yet there are two girls in love with him. One is June Collyer. whom he has hired for an office nurse. The other is Miriam Seegar, youthful Indiana beauty, a fickle little debutante. Dix's first patient is Morgan Farley. Unable to diagnose his ailment, Dix stumbles on the fact that Farley is madly in love with Miriam. Dix sees that Farley's nervous condition is really serious and sends him off to the country with advice to forget Miriam entirely. June Coll • yer, believing her absence will make Dix’s heart grow r fonder, volunteers to go. Her plan works. Soon Dix is spending his week-ends in the country with the excuse of looking after Farley. Dix and June are canoeing when he tells her that Miriam has followed him. She tips the canoe over, Dix saves her and they take shelter in Farley’s fishing shack. Miriam and a friend find them in a compromising yet innocent lack of attire. Dix is convinced that he is in love, though determined to put off the decision as long as possible. The way he handles the situations that follow provides a great climax for the picture. “Over the Top” has the services if Bernie Brothers, Doris Roehe. Don Rowman and the Publix Singing Ensemble assisting Johnny Burke. Ed Resener is offering an overture of “Victor Herbert Favorites.” 808 MYSTERY THRILLER NOW AT THE OHIO S. S. Dine’s thrilling murder mystrey, “The Greene Murder Case,” nas been made into an all-talking motion picture and opens today at the New' Ohio for a week’s return engagement. An entire mansion was built for the scene of “The Green? Murder Case” and supplies the chief locale of the picture. The three crime cracksters of the “Canary Murder Case” have the same roles in this production. William Pow'ell as Philo Vance. Eugene Pallette again as Sergeant. Heeath and E. H. Calvert again as the district attorneys. It is based on a book that broke circulation figures of Scribners’ magazine when it was published in serial form, a book that has already been translated Into seven foreign languages, a book that is one of a series of tremendously popular murder mysteries written by S. S. Van Dine, that student of criminology. Frank Tuttle directed. The supporting cast includes Jean Arthur. Florence Eldridge, Morgan Farley and many other stage-trained actors. The supplementary program for the week includes two Vitaphone acts. They are the Plantation Trio, Harry Fox. and Dooley and Sales. An all-talking comedy, “The End of the IVorld,” completes the bill. B B B THIRD WEEK FOR "COCK EYED WORLD” Business has been so fine at the Apollo that the management has decided to hold over “The Cock Eyed World” for a third week. This picture has been breaking box office records at this house.

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Connie and His Band Will Play Will Open An Engagement At the Indiana Ballroom. WITH the newest fox-trots and “sways” finding overabundant popularity with Indianapolis dancers, and the fall dancing season now in full swing, the Indiana Roof ballroom management, in keeping abreast of its reputation of “getting the good dance bands”—announces the engagement of a musical aggregation w'hich is known throughout Hoosierdom and the middle w'est— Indianapolis’ own Connie and his band. Succeeding Dewey Wright and his famous Arabians, who have made many friends 1 ' since their opening, Connie and his boys will commence their engagement at the Roof tonight. For the past three months they have b?n playing at Lake Tippecanoe, where they achieved unusual popularity during the summer. Demands in dance music vary as do all other demands of the public—today dance lovers expect a little something more than just a music' 1 accompaniment to their newest sways and steps. In fact they demand a certain amount of entertainment with their wax-floor artistry, and for that reason the “en- 1 tertaining” type band has come into being. Those who are acquainted with Connie's brand of entertainment know that he will more than come up to their expectations of an up-to-the-minute dance orchestra. Connie has a “bag full” of new tricks, and novelties and he has injected in popular proportion originality, comedy and novelty into his band's varied numbers. Two dancing feet accompanied by Connie’s melody and rhythm will bring miles of happiness. If there Is a single doubt in your mind, try it.

New Events

Roddy Hughes, who plays the baron in John Drinkwater’s comedy, “Eird in Hand,” which moves from the Morosco theater to the Ethel Barrymore theater, New York, on Sept. 9, Is writing his impressions of the American theater for a prominent publication. Jill Esmond Moore, leading woman in John Drinkwater’s comedy, ‘‘Bird in Hand,” now at the Morosco theater, New York, is negotiating with a prominent company for the talking motion picture rights of several plays written by her father, the late H. V. Esmond. Among his best-known works are “When We Were Twenty-One,” “Eliza Comes to Stay,” and "The Sentimentalist.” • Billy House, who heads the cast of “Luckee Girl.” which starts a long tour in Buffalo, on Sspt. 9, was a popular figure ih the vaudeville theaters of the west before coming to New York, where he scored a success at the Palace theater. This led to his selection for his present role.

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Weekly Sunday School Lesson

The International Uniform Sr.ndav School Lesson for Sept. 29. God’s Providence in the Exile and the Restoration. Devotional reading:: 1 Tim. 4:12-16. BY WM. E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of The Congregationaiist PROVISION for a review of the quarter’s lessons has been an eminently wise arrangement on the part of the international committee which has selected the uniform lessons. It serves to emphasize the connecting link between the lessons of the quarter which are chosen with reference to a definite theme, plan and purpose, and it provides a fitting place for a summary of the teachings in their full effect and import. Without such a review the lesson teachings would tend to be fragmentary. The review gives an opportunity of seeing the studies in lective a®d in all their relationships. ..he general theme of this last quarter’s lessons has been the prophetic teaching and leadership in Judah, during the period of the exile to Babylon, and the restoration of Jewish life in its Palestinian homeland. These lessons have had a definite historical background in world happenings in an ancient empire, in the struggle for power between great military leader* and in the change of dynsaties with the fortunes of battle. Great names apoear in these lessons—names that are of vital significance in the world’s general history.' And the culminating event associated with the lessons, the return of the exiled Jews to their homeland, has to do with the emergence to power of Cyrus, who combined with unusual military capacity the breadth and tolerance of a great administrator —a combination of qualities not always in evidence. We are reminded in these lessons of the way in which the heroic and prophetic figures of Hebrew life, probably little known and regarded in the world when these events were actually happening, are intermingled in the Biblical record and in permanent influences upon the world with the great figures of secular history. It is an evidence of the morel force of these leaders that they stand today as people of greater significance and importance than the foremost and best known men of their own time. This is in itself a striking illustration of the ultimate strength of

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moral arid spiritual reality. Paul, at a later date, reminded us that we must not despise small hings, that God has indeed chosen things that are weak and despised, and “the things that are nought to bring to nought the things that are.” That fact has had many manifestations in history. A poet unknown and disregarded in his day is accorded an honored place in the literature of his country by future generations. A saint whom some ruler threw into prison, or sent to the stake, becomes the only occasion for that ruler being remembered in history. A woman simply ministering to Jesus out of her deep affection, and

He Returns

Mario Sabec

Mario Sabec has just returned home from Milan, Italy, where he has been studying voice under the opera singer, Mrs. Laura Silva Puccetti for the past two years. Before he was a pupil of Franklin Taylor and Edward Nell of the Metropolitan School of Music. He appeared on the stage many times here and abroad. Sabec is giving a concert Sunday, Sept. 29, at 8 p. m. at the school auditorium at 902 North Holmes avenue.

I lavishly bestowing upon him pre- | cious ointment, becomes the occasion of recalling that deed wherever the Gospel is spoken. So in the backgrounds of world happenings in ancient empires it is the Daniels, the Ezras, the Nehemiahs, the Haggais, the Zachariahs, the Zerubbabels who are most worthy of note. Another thing that emerges strongly in the record of these lessons is the power of religious literature, especially where that literature is interpreted and enforced by wise and competent instruction. Great literature and great teaching go hand in hand. The one reinforces the other, and ihe one helps to create the other. Those who have studied these lessons during the last quarter ought to carry with them the very vivid and dramatic picture of the whole people of the restored colony, men, women and children, “all who could understand,” being gathered together for instruction in the law. In a people thus devoted to the i highest ideals as these have been | expressed by its law-givers, its ! prophets, and its saintly leaders, | there lies the hope of constructive | power. One can build upon such | a foundation genuine prosperity and a sound national life. The work that these Hebrews had to do was done under exceedingly difficult conditions and in the midst of much of that peril and interference which somehow almost has characterized the condition of the Jew. But in many respects the Hebrew’s Handicaps and difficulties, his sacrifices and his sufferings, became the occasion of his glorious contribution j to the world. The whole world has benefited | from what the Hebrew leaders ac- ! complished, and under more favorable conditions, especially with the opportunities for nation building that are before us here in America, one senses tlfe glory of what could be achieved by a people, in its leaders as well as in its rank and file, emulating an example of these Hebrew leaders and people building their life anew in the restored Jerusalem. It is the Ideals that we have been

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Amusement Park Will Be Open Riverside Plans to Keep Running Today and Sunday. RIVERSIDE amusement park will throw open its gates to the public Sunday afternoon and evening, it is announced, and all the rides and other features will be in full ope/ation. The park will continue to open each week-end as long as weather permits, according to A. W. Colter, manager, who states there will be no curtailment of any of the fun or thrill devices, and that the big fun resort is now in midsummer form. The new skating rink at Riverside will be open every night in the year. Since the immense roller floor was opened to the public this summer the crowds have been growing constantly, and the rink is in demand by local clubs and societies for parties several nights each week. Good music is provided and the best of order maintained at all times. The beautiful lighting effects have added much to the pleasure of skating at Riverside, the globe of a thousand mirrors being especially attractive. This is an immense ball, covered with mirrors and suspended high over the skating floor. The sphere is slowly turned by motor, and colored spot lights directed on it send a maze of kaleidoscopic rainbow hues shimmering over the entire interior of the big rink. Skeeball, archery and other sports are gaining a big following at the park, and will be available Sunday along with the diversions in Kewpie Alley and the big coaster rides and other fun devices. considering that paved the way to national security and greatness. What one feels, essentially, despite the outward loss in history, is the permanency and reality of what the leaders in Israel accomplished.

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A National Event to Be Observed Lyric Theater Plans to Have a Very Unique Program. Yj ADIOLA week, a national event which is being celebrated in all the RKO vaudeville theaters throughout the country, will be observed here by the Lyric, starting foday. It will usher in what the management of the Lyric announces as “Greater RKO entertainments season.” To inaugurate the "Greater RKO entertainment season,” “The Hottentot,” one of the screen's funniest all-talking comedy dramas, has been booked for the week, starting today. Four excellent RKO vaudeville acts are headed by Oliva and her seals. “The Hottentot” was one of the funniest plays that ever hit Broadway. It was done by one of the prime favorites of the Gr:*at White Way—Willie Collier—ln collaboration with Victor Mapes. The talking screen has now been greatly benefited by having it adapted to its uses. “The Hottentot” as an all-talkie is said to have a tremendous advani tage over the stage in presentation, I inasmuch as all the outdoor settings and the big steeplechase race j course, which is the big punch of j the piece, are all now a living reality. Vitaphone not only gives all the sounds attendant upon the ludicrous story, but all the words spoken by the cast, which is said to be an exceptional one. Edward Everett Horton, who has | played the leading role many times j on the stage, is Sam Harrington, a j timid gentleman who knows that his I crly chance of winning the hand of | the horse loving Betty Fairfax is in keeping up the myth that he himself is a seasoned and courageous rider. His tremors as he beholds the fiery prancings of Hottentot, his increasing horror as the day of the steeplechase nears, his awkward desperation as he mounts the snorting beast, and is hurtled away down the track to the applause 0/ the crowds, his acceptance of the gloating admiration of Betty, his bedraggled, gasping acceptance of the cup and the laurels of a hero-of-the-turf, are said to be among the finest bits of comedy ever screened. Pasty Ruth Miller is the girl. Edmund Breese, Edward Earle and Otto Huffman round out the cast. Four RKO vaudeville acts will be featured on the Lyric stage. Among the acts are Captain Adams’ presentation of Odiva and her human seals; Joe Whitehead and Marie Alvere, and “The Enchanted Forest.” act of Odiva and seals. Is heralded as one of the most unusual of its particular kind. It is as instructive as it is entertaining and undoubtedly wall be gazed upon by many envious feminine eyes. To many, the mention of “seal” is symbolic with the aristocrat of habiliment that adorns the fair sex. It Is safe to say that the hides of Capta'n Adams' pets will never be transformed into fur coats. Many are the talents of his pets—some are acrobatic, some can dance, and some even sing. Together with Odiva they offer a series of fancy diving and swimming in a large glass tank that are exceptional.