Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1929 — Page 6

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“DRACULA,” VAMPIRE MYSTERY, IS DUE AT ENGLISH’S

English Cast Will Be Seen in a Thriller That Is a Hit: Balieff Will Bring His New ‘Chauve-Souris’ for a Week’s Engagement Here. THE theatergoer in search of a thrill should be among those present on the opening night of Horace Liveright's mystery play, "Dracula, ’ at English's Monday, for never in the history’ of the theater has a play come to town with advance reports so positive that Dracula’’ will cause the most hardened of the "now show me" kind to shudder and shiver in their seats. For four years this play has been thrilling Engla>l and is still playing. It was the outstanding hit in New >ork the past dramatic season •at the Fulton theater, where the capacity audiences found the two hours of horror, surprises and thrills very entertaining.

Imagine "Dracula," a restless, roaming spirit that in human form infested the countryside from midnight until dawn and casting forth the ominous warning of his coming and leaving terror and moan-, ing mortals in his wake, he fastens nls pale lips to the throats of sensitive girls and draws them to him with menac.ng hypnotism to a frightful doom. The American version of “Dracula" was made for Liveright by John Balderson. from Bram Stoker’s novel of the same name which has been read by two generations of story readers, and Is still listed as one of the largest sellers, though it is more than thirty years since it was first published. The engagement will close night. a a a “CHAUVE-SOURIS” IS BOOKED HERE Morris Gest will bring Nikita Balieff and his ever popular Chauve-Souris to the English Opera House on Monday, Oct. 21, for an engagement of one week. Gay, bright and cheerful as ever, a galaxy of mockery, merriment and exciting color, there will not be a single number—except perhaps an encore of the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"—ever given here before. As in the past, Balieff's program alternates between the sad and the gay, in song and dance, and clever revues that are universal in their appeal. Imaginative settings, colorful, simple and most striking, retain a lovable freshness. Stirring folk-songs, burlesque and horseplay in plenty, make for infinite and joyous variety. In fact, such a sparkling concoction of gay colors and fantasy, of lilting music and rollicking dances, comes But seldom—a veritable triumph of music and pantomime over language. But, of course, the animated gem | of Chauve-Souris is at all times Ba- j lieff, moon-faced, droll, the master j shewman. subtle in every detail of \ dress and deportment, as he steps ! out before the curtain to make his witty announcements in gracefully j absurd and picturesquely broken English. Balieff's Chauve-Souris has long since broken all records for visiting artists from overseas. The first engagement in New York began in February. 1922. and extended .unbroken for sixty-five weeks until , Mav, 1923. Since then Balieff has returned j again and again under the direction j of Morris Gest. This will be his j sixth trip to America, and he will ; be seen here in an entirely new pro- j gram, his seventh new creation! The company Just arrived from , Paris preliminary to a great trans- : continental tour of thirty weeks from coast to coast.

New Revue at Colonial

Taking a lot of new song numbers, some original comedy bits, numerous stage settings and costumes, producer Lee H. Burke has created "Joyland Vamps,” the offering for the Colonial the coming week. Jimmy Bova and Billy Wilson handle the comedy lines. Mildred Wood and Hazel Smith, have something new to offer in the way of runway numbers. Paul Reno, Dutch Moon. Daisy Due. Opal Davis and the Colonial runway chorus, each have a prominent part in the performance. The all-talking feature "The House of Secrets" will be offered on the Colonial screen. As can be suspected from the title this feature is a mystery, from the pen of Sydney Horler. The story embraces the hetic happenings in an ancient London mansion during a night when the lawful heir of the home, accompanied by a New York detective, break In to investigate. The place is occupied by a doctor and his voung daughter. The heir previously smitten with the girl’s charms, runs into more than a peck of troubles.

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New Events in Music

“From investigation and observation, it is my conclusion that perhaps not a city in this country en- | joys the advantages of the finest in musical art unless protected by the j financial support of a group of pub- ! lie-spirited citizens, with the excep- ! tion of Indianapolis," Ona B. Talbot declares. For twenty-five years Mrs. Tal- ! bot has brought here the finest productions of the musical world, in I organizat ons and individuals. The present season is no exception. The ; Five Evening Subscribed Concerts | represent star attractions of the I first magnitude, with guarantee cone tracts amounting to more than $20,000. Musical calendar follows: Oct. 31—Boston symphony orchestra. Serge KKoussevitzkv. conductor. Nov. 25 Dancers, twelve children from Moscow. Jan. 27—La Argentina, Spain's greatest dancer. Feb. 24.—German Grand Opera Company, one performance. March 3 —Chicago Symphony orchestra, Frederick Stock, conductor. The Isadora Duncan Dancers opened their New York season with four performances last week, with the same measure of success gained in their sensational season last year. New York newspapers records hundreds turned away. They will immediately start their coast to coast tour, which includes Indianapolis. La Argentina, the reigning sensation of last season arrived in New York last Tuesday on S. S. France for her second American tour, which opens in New York Monday. She is said to have brought thirty pieces of baggage, eight of which were hampers containing her georgeous costumes. It is a well remembered fact that in New York last season many paid as much as SSO for a single seat to see this "queen of the dance.” A contract guaranteeing $6,000 for one performance of German Grand opera is part of the responsibility of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. a a a JORDAN CONSERVATORY RECITALS TO START First of the Saturday recitals of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will be held in the Odeon, 106 East North street, Oct. 19, at 2:30. Betty Amos, Josephine Van Fleet, Mildred Haas, Irene Ulrey, Robert Hill, William Hebert, Mary Aldea, Charlene Cummins, Martha Jane Howard, Fred Ault, Margaret White, Miriam Stuart, Grant Hesser, Riley Stuart, Morris Gold, Mary Louise Milbourne, Byron Hollett, Virginia Wilking, Denzel Goff, Violet Alber;, Mary Eleanor McCoy, Louise Brandt and Mary Louise Mitchell will give the program. They are pupils of Leslie Peck, Allie Eggleton, Leone Kinder Rickman, Marie Zorn, Florence Keepers Lewis, Otis Pruitt, Frances Wishard, Lucile Wagner, Grace Flagg, Donn Watson, Thomas* Poggiani, Bernice Van Sickle, Frances Beik and Georgianna Rockwell. Conservatory officials announce that Mr. Velsey, sculptor, has opened his studio in the building at 1116 North Delaware street, where adult classes in carving and modeling are held each morning from Monday, including Friday. Classes for adults and children will be held Saturday morning and afternoon, with a life class Wednesday morning. Irene Noerr, contralto, and William Moon, barytone, pupils of B. F. Swarthout of the conservatory have ; been engaged in the quartet of the i Church of the Redeemer. X. j Wilma Davis Hine of the conservatory has been made continuity writer for the Lynch & Wilson advertising agency of Kokomo. Mrs. Hine created the characters. "Ray and Glow" appearing over statidh WLS, Chicago. She also broadcasts over station WOWO, Ft. Wayne. Tuesday at 6:30 p. m. and will present her pupils over this station, in original sketches each week for a neriod of eight •weeks. James Reed, tenor; Erma Day, soprano, and Elizabeth Beckman, pianist, gave a program for the Parent-Teacher meeting at School 27 Wednesday afternoon. They are students of Frieda Heider of the conservatory. Inez Loyd and Ramona Wilson were accompanists.

AMUSEMENTS

1 Joan Colburn and Raymond Huntley in a scene from “Dracula," the vampire mystery play, which opens Monday night at English's for three days.

Opera Will Be Given at Murat American Singers Will Take All-Important Roles. MUSIC lovers, particularly those who follow the opera, will welcome the news that the American Opera Company will appear in this city iof three nights, Oct. 28, 29 and 30. playing an engagement at the Murat. It is planned to make this city a permanent annual member city in the chain of more htan a score of communities which have this noted company each season. Anew type of opera, cobmniing all the grandeur and majesty of grand operat of the foreign school, and including the most modern type of production and staging, the American Opera presentations have set an ifiternational standard in their few seasons of existence. On their international tour last season they were the artistic sensation of the United States and Canada, and have jumped in size from a small company to one of the world’s largest and most important groups, within the space of three years. Their productions are sung in modern and understandable English, and critics have stated invariably that for the first time in America the English language has been thoroughly understood by the audiences which have heard these slim young artists. / Vladmir Rosing, artistic director and founder of the famous company. will come here when the company arrives by special train on its second international tour. A large symphony orchestra, under the direction of Isaac Van Grove, recently conductor for Mary Garden and the Chicago Civic and Cincinnati Opera Companies, will be another feature of the season here. Popular prices, below those charged for foreign grand opera presentations, will be in force, that all the public may afford to see and hear the most unusual school of grand opera. More than one hundred artists comprise the company’s personnel.

New Stars

Every week brings new stars to Warner Bros, super-special, “Show of Slows,” which will eclipse in its array of talent any production ever undertaken at a motion picture studio. Richard Barthelmess has been added to the cast and other first rank players signed within the last few days include Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Mulhall, Grant Withers, William Bakewell, Gertrude Olmstead, Edna Murphy and Jacqueline Logan. The stellar total for this elaborate musical revue has already passed seventy-five and will reach 100 big names before the production is completed.

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2 Nikita Balieff, who will bring his famous Chauve-Souris to English’s for the week of Oct. 21. 3 Glenn and Jenkio* are among the entertainers on the new bill starting today at the Lyric.

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ican Guild of Organists will open the season with a dinner and serv-ice-recital at Christ church on Monday night, Oct. 21. The guests will be the De Pauw sub-chapter and prospective new members in the guild. The dinner will be served in Christ church parish house at 6 o’clock, followed by a business meeting. At 8:15 o’clock a service-recital will be given in the church by Christ church choir. Van Denman Thompson, head of the organ department of De Pauw, will be guest artist. This will be the first of a series of service-recitals to be given in the various churches of the city to which the public is invited. Helen Has Chief Role Pathe’s minstrel story, “The Grand Parade,” fcm the original play by Howard Emmett Rogers, was put into production yesterday, with Fred Newmeyer directing. Helen Twelvetrees and Fred Scott have the leading roles, while Richard Carle, Marie Astaire, Russell Powell, Bud Jamieson and Tom Mahoney are in the cast. Edmund Goulding wrote the scenario and the dialogue and Frank Reicher is stage director. AI to Start Work Again A1 Jolson shortly will begin work on his fourth Vitaphone production for Warner Brothers. It is called “Mammy,” based on Irving Berlin's play, “Mr. Bones.” Song numbers are also by this composer.

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AMUSEMENTS

Meighan’s First AllTalker Here The Argyle Case’ Opens Today at Lyric Theater. A TRIPLE feature program of RKO vaudeville as the stage show and Thomas Meighan in his first talking is what Lyric patrons have in store for them starting today and continuing through next Friday. Thomas Meighan, for years one of the most popular stars of stage and screen, makes his talking picture debut in “The Argyle Case,” anew Warner Brothers Vitaphone production. He portrays the role of a master detective, who, by means of deductive reasoning, weeds out from a group of suspected persons the one who is guilty of the murder of wealthy John Argyle. The well constructed drama which was adapted to the talking screen from one of the most absorbing detective plays in the history of the American stage, is said to provide many situations of peculiar strength —thrills abound, and there is constantly the element of surprise—the suspense is sustained and not until the final fadeout is the mystery solved. There is robust comedy, too, and love interest, to take away to intensity of the grimness. Meighan’s supporting cast includes players, all of whom have seen stage

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4—Mildred Franklin is among Ihc entertainers in “Hello Parec," which opens Sunday matinee at the Mutual. 5 Bobby Jackson, guest master of ceremonies, who is present this week at the Indiana.

experience. Included in the cast are Lila Lee, H. B. Warner, John Darrow, Sasu Pitts, Bert Roach, Wilbur Mack. Douglas Gerrard and Gladys Brockwell. The Lee Gail Ensemble, Glenn and Jenkins and the Loos Brothers are the three underscored features of the vaudeville program. The newest dancing ensemble is brought into being by Lee, Gail, said to be one of the foremost of the younger adagio dancers of the modern school. Seven artists describe the Lee Gail ensemble, which includes a wealth of unusual specialties, both terpsichorean and vocal. Beauty, grace and refineness in which different phases of dancing are exemplified constitute the offering of Lee Gail ensemble. Glenn and Jenkins are said to be among the foremost colored comedians in vaudeville today. Their present act, called “Working for the Railroad,” is heralded one of the best travesties to be found in the theater. The trials, tribulations and pleasures of the railroad porters are unfolded by Glenn and Jenkins in their act by a series of songs, dances and a goodly share of comedy dialogue. Glenn and Jenkins, besides being vaudeville bill-toppers, are also musical comedy stars and have made several best-seller phonograph records. The Loos Brothers are harmony singers who have the knack, artistry and showmanship to sell a popular song of the minute in an entirely new and novel manner. Ernie and Billy as they are better known, hail from the radio stations of Chicago,

ENGLISH’S VolT Mon.. Get. 14 f Jk j M iPllk THE MOST EXCITING m J J 9 W ImkAMAzm bewjlWITH THE NEW YORK, LONDON AND CHICAGO CAST —ENGLISH’S Week of Oct. 21 st Matinee Saturday MORRIS GEST takes great pleasure in announcing - THE GREATEST OF MUSICAL SHOWS / BALIEFFS CHAUVE SOURIS MEW INTERNATIONAL R&VUEDirect Front Pdris Tlexv'york. There is only one Chauve-Souris, one Balieff, only one Morris Gest . _ „ ~ Burns Mantle, New York Daily A etc*. The Chauve-Souris has preserved the raw, gay vigor that seems so contagious the first time it flashed in our theatre. , J. Brooks Atkinson, yew York Times, If any one exists who has never seen the ChauveSouris, he should go at once. Robert Littap, New York Evening Post. MATT tl Fop. Wed. Mat 50c to $2.00 SKATS 1 Nl* its Saturday Mat 75c to $2.50 rruimc ORDERS llUll Evenings SI.OO to $3.00 IHLKX

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where they have been staff artists for several years. Their keen vocal ability and distinctive style in which ** their numbers are rendered have won for them the title of the new “Van and Schenck of vaudeville.” The show will be rounded out by one other Keith vaudeville act and a goodly program of film short subjects, including a news weekly and Aesop’s Fables. Dolores to Start East Dolores del Rio will leave Hollywood nfext week, for New York, She .will shop for gowns to be worn In | her first all-talking picture, "The j Bad One;’’ be guest of honor at the ! opening of the new Kings theater in Brooklyn with "Evangeline” as the | feature, and renew acquaintance I with New York City, which was not I visited during her personal appeari ance tour of eastern and southern I cities.

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