Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1929 — Page 7

OCT. 12, 1929

BUDDY ROGERS HAS A BIG ROLE IN ‘ILLUSION’ AT INDIANA

''The Unholy Night,’ With Ernest Torrence in a Highly Dramatic Part, Opens an Engagement Today at Loew’s Palace Theater. -TLLUBION.' Buddy Rogers' and Nancy Carrolls latest all-talking and X singing production, is now showing at the Indiana as the feature screen attraction for this week. “Radio Romance" is the stage offering and is Bobby Jacksons final show as master of ceremonies at this thea*er. The original story of “Illusion ' by Arthur Train, one of America’s forcr-ost novelists, ran U- serial form in “The Ladies’ Home Journal" beginning January, 19?9. The novel was then published in book form and classed as a big seller. The story tells cf Buddy Rogprs and Nancy Carroll who grew up together in a circus: they are partners in a magician act. Nancy loves Buddy, but he is more interested in June Collyer. society heiress. His charm and handsome appearance make him a favorite in society.

It is a story of contrasts, the t world of society contrasted with the world of troupers, the stage.. Rogers soon llearns that his loy-; alty belongs with the people of his | youth—show people. Nancy Carroll is the delectable j vodvil entertainer who sees her j chances of romance with Buddy go glimmering, apparently, when he plunges into the gay life of the four hundred. Nancy Carroll and Buddy Rogers both sing and dance in this pic- j ture. There are three songs, “Levee ! Love,” a Negro spiritual type of j song; “Illusion,” the main number j of the film, and “Revolutionary Rhythm," a hot strut number which | Bets special treatment in a night club sequence. “Radio Romance." with Bobby | Jackson conducting the Charlie Da- I vis band, has a supporting cast of Publix entertainers which includes' Ross and Edwards, Paul and Ferral, Laura Lane, Larry Adler and the Dave Gould Girls. Ed Resener in the pit with the band and Dessa Byrd at the organ j are offering a novel presentation entitled "Organ vs. Orchestra.” MYSTERY PLAY” OPENS AT PALACE Stage tricks of Kellar, Herrmann and other famous magicians, ani lesser known tricks of the “spiritualistic mediums,” whom the police are usually pursuing in large cities, were drawn upon to make mystery for the screen, in Lionel Barrymore’s new production, “The Unholy Night,” coming to the Palace today as an all-talking production. In this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer filmization of Ben Hecht’s mystery story, a complete spiritualistic “seance” was filmed, with actual “mediums” recruited from the business, staging materializations of ghosts, bell ringing, and the rest of their illusions before the camera. Improvements in these illusions, through the adaptation of the famous “Kellar Blue Room.” a famous myster of the stage, and the Herrmann ghost illusions, were injecte 1 to make one of the strangest scenes ever filmed in a motion picture. Barrymore, the director, during his days on the stage, knew both Kellar and Herrmann well, and, when he decited to stage a seance. | at once thought of their celebrated I illusions. The new story is a vivid drama j of a London mystery, in which a j group of officers are menaced by j an uncanny, invisible enemy. Scotland Yard, in solving the mystery, j pursues the mysterious “Green i Ghost,” nemesis cf the .officers, through many strange adventures, and the seance is an astounding denouement. Mysterious attacks under cover of the fog, sinister | shadows and weird apportions iu a , haunted manor house and other startling details keep the audience agog with excitement. The cast is an elaborate one. Ern- i est Torrence is seen as the uncanny Dr Ballou, delver into the brains of men, and Dorothy Sebastian ap- ; pears as Esra, strange mystery woman. born in Turkey and mistress of hypnotism and other uncanny arts of the east. Other important members of the cest are Roland Young, John Loder. Phillip Sfrangc, Gera’d Barry. , Richard Tucker, Richard Travers. John Roche. Lionel Be’more. John Miljan. Boris Karloff. Claude Fleming. Clarence Geddert Sojin, the oriental actor; while Polly j >loran, George Cooper and Sydney Jarvis furnish the comedy relief as maid, valet and butler. Edwin Justus Mayer wrote the dialogue for the new production, basing it on the original Hccht story of “The Doomed Regiment.” The balance of the program will include Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in their latest talking comedy. “Berth Marks:" Phil Spitalny's Band Revue in anew Metro Movietone act. the Hearst Metrotone news, Lester Huff organlogue. a a a TWO BLACK CROW’S AT THE CIRCLE The two funny men whose humor directlv opposes the gospel of pen and push are coming to the Circle theater, opening today. The Two Black Crows. Moran and Mack, those lazy, drawling upholders of the doctrine of “Why Bring That up-” have made their first nil-talk-ing picture. It is a Paramount production and quite appropriately named “Why Bring That Up. ’ The reason it's brought up here is that probably no more interesting theatrical event has happened latelv than the starring of Moran and Mack on the talking screen. From phonograph records and over the radio, Moran and Mack have convulsed these United States: but it will be the first time the majority of th epeople will see what the “head man” and his pal actually look like. The story of “Why Bring That Up?” written by Octaves Roy Cohen, is said to parallel the reel lives of the two men. Moran and Mack both -.-lay “straight” in tne picture, that is they appear without their minstrel make-up. Os course, how-make-up. because it isn't likely that ever they do appear at times in “Why Bring That Up" would seem actually to star the Two Black Crows. But the story takes Moran and Mack from the time they are down and outers until they are shining successes—from the time they are down and out because they have a firm belief that their particular kind of comedy will be successful until the time when their long friendship is nearly wrecked because of a woman. Evelyn Brent has the part of the scheming woman, who plays on Moran's susceptibility in an attempt to fleece him and his partner, too, of

their life's earnings. Miss Brent has had a rapid rise to stardom in the talking pictures, her progress having been steadily forward since hrr first N success in “Interference.” “Why Bring That Up?” was directed by George Abbott, famous director from the New York stage. It is his first effort for the talking screen, so that the talking picture represents a debut for him as well as for Moran and Mack, the Two Black Crows. a a a “STREET GIRL” OPENS AT OHIO “Street Girl.” starring Betty Coir.pson and Jack Oakie, opens today at the New Ohio theater. It is Miss Compson's first ail-talking picture for Radio Pictures and has been heralded as one of the best of the year. Miss Compson plays the role of Fieddie Joyzelle, a violinist, who is befriended by Johnny Haron, playing Mike and his pals of the Four Seasons orchetra. She repays them by obtaining an engagement in a popular Hungarian restaurant. There she plays for Prince Nicholr.us of Aregon, on tour of America, and he kisses her while the crowd applauds. Despite sensational success which the publicity brings, Mike becomes madly jealous in his belief that Freddie loves the prince. He quits the orchestra and confronts the prince in his quarters with the accusation that he has led Freddie to love him with no hope of marriage. The prince, in a tensely dramatic scene, proves that Freddie loves only Mike and returns to his native land, leaving the young lovers to their happiness. Jack Oakie has the part of the ccmic clarinet player in the band. The short talking features for this week include Pat Rooney in “Sweethearts,” a Sportlight review and a sound cartoon, “The Opry House.” ana APOLLO HOLDS OYER JOLSON MOVIE “Say It With Songs,” A1 Jolson’s latest all talking, all singing Vitaphone picture, will be held over for another week starting today at the Apollo theater. Davey Lee, the 4-year-old wonder star, will be in his support in this picture. A1 Jolson has sung to many distinguished audiences, but he never has had a more worshipful one than when he sang his new songs to Davey Lee during the filming of “Say It With Songs.” It comes to few children in history to have the world’s foremost and highest-priced entertainer on his knees singing for their particular benefit, but ttut is not what impressed Davey. To this unspoiled baby wonder, a year ago unknown and now loved by millions, it was not A1 Jolson, the star, who was singing to him and the microphone, but only his kind “Uncle Al.” It is part of the appeal of this famous pair that Davey stands in no awe of Jolson. It would be difficult to get the natural reactions and the spontaneous affection between the two if Davey realized just how fate has favored him. And there is another reason. Jolson, who discovered Davey, loves the boy as he might love a son, ani there is real understanding between them. In the supporting cast is Marian Nixon, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thompson and Fred Kohler. The usual Vitaphone presentations and the Movietone news will complete the bill.

‘Applause ’

“Applause,” the talking picture directed by Rouben Mamoulian, vouthful wizard of the Theater Guild, which has evoked much advance praise from the Paramount Long Island studio, will have its world premier at the Criterion theater, New York, on Oct. 1. The picture, adapted from Beth Brown’s novel about a burlesque queen and her child, is reported to introduce several notable innovations in the technique of the new motion picture art. Mamoulian, who produced on the stage “Porgy,” “Marco's Millions” and “Wings Over Europe” is credited with having brought to screen directing a more radical improvement than any man since the early days of D. W. Griffth. The camera was constantly in motion during the making of “Applause.” thus achieving a realism. .Helen Morgan, late star of Ziegfeld's "Showboat” and now starring in “Sweet Adeline,” will make her debut as a motion picture actress. She plays the role of the burlesque queen, wearing a blond wig for the occasion. It is a heavy dramatic role and her work is said to reveal anew Helen Morgan. The supporting cast includes Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron. Henry Wadsworth. Dorothy Camming, Roy Hargrave and L N. Weber.

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1— F —ct e? 'hr chief roles in the mystery play, “The Unholy Night,” which opens today at the Falace. 2 Kct.y Compson is seen in “Street Girl" now at the Ohio. 3Ai Jolson starts the second week of his engagement in “Say It With Songs” at the Apollo.

Mrs. Fiske to Have a New Play Famous Star Will Start Rehearsals Soon in East. MRS. FISKE’S new play, originally announced by A. L. Erlanger and George C. Tyler under the working title of “Mixed Jury,” will be presented under the new title i of “Ladies of the Jury.” The play is the work of Fred Ballard, whose “Believe Me, Xantippe” and “Young America” are pleasantly remembered. "Ladies of the Jury” is a comedy satirizing the jury system. It opens in Baltimore for a week on Sept. 80, plays Atlantic City the ensuing week and has its Broadway premiere on Oct. 14 at the Avon Theater. Harison Grey Fiske is staging the play. Mrs. Fiske is surrounded with a company of actors of high merit. The cast includes Wilton Lackaye, who makes his first appearance after an illness of three years, Dudley Hawley, George Farren, Germaine Giroux, George Tawde, Hallie Manning, Eunice Osborn, Marie Hunt, Claire Grenville, Elsie Kene, June Mullin, Vanda Curci, Bardis Lawrence, J. H. Stoddart, Vincent James, Walter Kinsella, C. W. Van Voorhis, William Lorenz, Al Roberts, Virginia Murray. “Sweet Land of Liberty,” the new drama by Philip Dunning, author of “Broadway” and “Night Hostess,” will be opened by Messrs. Erlanger and Tyler in Newark on Sept. 16 and brought into the Liberty Theater, j New York oil Sept. 23. “Sweet Land of # Liberty” Is written in the unusual form of two acts, a fact which elicited, the following comment from the author: “In what are sometimes referred to as the good old days when there were only seventeen amendments to our Constitution,” says Mr. Dunning, “two or more intermissions were the accepted part of all drama fare. “In our opinion the usefulness of intermissions' disappeared to a great degree with the arrival of the eighteenth amendment. In keeping with the spirit o the constitutional amendment, attention is therefore respectfully directed to the fact that this play has been staged with but one intermission.” “Houseparty,” anew play of college life by Kenneth P. Britton and Roy Hargrave, the first ErlangerTyler offering of the season, opened last Monday night at the

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Will Dance

Ktevialiflfl La Argentina On Monday night, Jan. 27, La Argentina, famous Spanish dancer, will appear in a dance recital at the Murat under the direction of Ona B. Talbot.

Return to New York

Walter Woolf, popular Broadway star of the operetta stage, is due to return to New York this week from Hollywood, where he has spent several months at the Warner Studio playing the lead in “Golden Dawn.” This all-natural-color Vitaphone production is now completed, its direction being the work of Ray Enright and Larry Ceballos. It is adapted from the musical romance by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein, second, and features in its supporting cast Vivienne Segal, Noah Beery, Marion Byron, Julanne Johnston, Lupino Lane, Sojin, Edward Martindel, Nina Quartaro and others. Theme Song Selected “Little Cavalier” is the theme song for Pauline Frederick in her next Vitaphone starring picture for Warner Brothers’ “Evidence.” Knickerbocker Theater and was enthusiastically received. “Houseparty” is the work of two young Williams College graduates. The scenes are laid in Williams College and the action takes place in a fraternity house on the Williams campus. Roy Hargrave, one of the authors, plays the leading role.

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The International Uniform Sunday School I.esaun for Or*. 13. T-mneranee Essential to the Highest L'slY.lness. Daniel 1:8-20. BY WM. E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of The Congregationalist THE general title for this lesson is “Keeping Fit for the Sake of Others.” i The social aspect of temperance ' or of total abstinence is one that l is very strong emphasized at the present time. It is, in fact, that aspect which is the most important, foi while whatever affects the individual is not to be diregarded, the : effect of drunkenness on the drunk- : ard himself is a smaller factor than j the ruin and habit that his drunki enness may bring to the lives of ; others. In these days of highpowered maj chines, when every automobile drii ver is potentially and in reality an l engineer, drunkenness is altogether a relative term. For many years, even before prohibition became the law of the land or before total abstinence had become a general practice, it was recognized that the driver of a locomotive engine must be virtually an abstainer. The safety of thousands of lives depending upon his efficiency and judgment and his possession of the full use of all his faculties, made this so necessary that most railroad companies made a rule concerning the matter. They did not leave it to chance or to the Individual’s' own idealism. It is becoming generally recognized today that one who might not be in the ordinary sense of the term “drunk,” may be none the less unfitted for driving an automobile in a busy city when he has had even a little liquor. Social concern and obligation put this whole matter in a different light from that of the mere effect upon the individual himself, and Professor Irving Fisher of Yale university has contended that a man who has had only one drink is “one drink drunk.” Total abstinence for a certainty has never injured anybody. Even if an individual might claim that he has found any benefit in the moderate use of liquor, his sacrificing of that benefit by practicing total abstinence has assuredly meant no social loss.

4 Moran and Mack in a scene from “Why Bring That Up” now at the Circle. 5 Thomas Meighan and H. B. Warner as they appear in “‘The Argyle Case,” an alltalker, now ai the Lyric. 6 Buddy Rogers and June Collyer as they appear in “Illusion” at the Indiana.

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Society in every way and manner would be far better off if the drinking of alcohol as a beverage were to become entirely wiped out from the life of humanity. Even the one who questions the effect and influence of prohibition, or any other practical effort to curb the evils of the traffic, would hardly take the position of saying that liquor drinking and the liquor traffic should be retained if he had the choice of effectively wiping out the whole thing. The examples of the past are instructive and Inspiring, and among them all Daniel stands out as a conspicuous figure, strong, well-discip-lined, thoroughly equipped for life’s work and for the hour of opportunity. not only an abstainer from all that might weaken and destroy his capacity and Influence, but, also, temperate with regard to things in themselves not harmful. A youth thus equipped with a manly sense of Independence and sufficiency for the thing that he is called to do stands in splendid contrast to the ycuth sowing his wild oats or “letting himself go,” as the phrase is in the life of today. What a good many of these enthusiasts for letting themselves go fail to take note of- is that a strong well-disciplined young man like Daniel is quite as much expressing hjmself as a youth to whom liberty has become license. A young man like Daniel, also, finds something

To Florida

Lupe Velez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland, Al St. John and Director Henry King will go to Tampa, Fla., during the first week of September, for location scenes of the all-talking picturization of “Out of the Night.” That Is the Rida Johnson Young novel about a girl who Is descended from Sir Henry Morgan, the pirate, and whose melodramatic adventures with knife-tossing gentry make for plenty of oral and visual fireworks. Lupe Velez now will be seen in a role even more spirited than anything she has had; the boy friends believe that a cut on the wrist is very nice, but a slit in the throat lasts forever.

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to express that is of real worth and value to the world. It is time that we searched with more drastic criticism into the pretensions of much of the careless and dissolute living of today. The sort of life that claims to be an expression of freedom is often in reality not free, but characterized by slavery to appetite and habit and the results of wrong ideals. There is no real freedom for man in character apart from self-mastery. It is easier than most young folks think to become the victim of circumstances, and to become thoroughly enmeshed in the network of wrong ideals and wrong habits, even while one is all the time assuming that he is discovering and exercising a freedom which his more restrained elders have in his judgment never had

Jj SHY.cAiwu*r!l “ Boy, see that crowd of people!’’ *"* / “Well, what causes \ “Wo causes that —they | all want to see us!” | * Atwo '*^ BI4CK CUCWS MORAN m r MACK 1 | in our first screen appearance \ 44 Why Bring That Up? 51 J \ Paramount Aft-Talking Special With s J . \ EVELYN BRENT AND HARRY GREEN / J k \ Seven DcLuxe Shows Daily l / M m. \ (Doors Open Week Days, 9 :ii P. M.) J A \ During week day, the feature, will start as follows: 10:10 / ■ft \ a. m., 12:11) noon, 2:10 p. m,. 4:10 p. m., 0:10 p. # \ m,, 8:10 p, m. and 10:10 and. m. / JPM Ik CIRCLE .dfl! Betty Jack |j COMPSON OAKIE If It la that all-fun mnsloomedy— ll |\ “STREET GIRL” /I. It's the s*me New Show World release thAt VMtal A f 8 . e.C t aeusAtioß at the tndia/ia a few abort weeks a*o! I ■ EXTRA ATTRACTIONS! . I> : 3! PAT ROONEY tfatin*, taJkin*, dserin* Is “SWEETHEARTS. B and three other *re*t sets! _-^ ►

Paree to Open at Mutual Mildred Franklin Tops Cast of Buriesque Show. "TTELLOPAREE.” a burlesque A show announced at the Mutual starting Sunday for the coming attraction, needs no introduction to burlesque patrons. As might be surmised, “Hello Paree” returns all dressed up In Sunday clothes with a proper regard for the prevailing style, as dictated by modernistic conception. The same forward notions prevade the various schemes employed for giving the acts a decidedly novel twist. For the purpose of insuring the best results of unadulterated fun, with the very latest type of song and dance trimmings, it was necessary to enroll a large number of gjec/1 performers, as will be seen by the program which contains the names of such well known artists as Lee Hickman, and Mildred Franklin, both of whom are featured. The balance of the company Is made up of Eleanore Abble. Bernadette Smith. Milt Davis, Alan Bard. Dorothy K. Fuller, Billy Woodall. Eddie Miles and other equally clever. . William Kent Is Signed William Kent, noted musical comedy star, has been engaged for “The King of Jazz Revue,” starring Paul Whiteman. John Murray Anderson has also engaged the Russell Markert Dancers for this revue.

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