Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1929 — Page 7

OCT. 19, 1929.

GLORIA SWANSON’S FIRST ALL-TALKER NOW AT PALACE

Moran and Mack, Known as the ‘Two Black Crows,’ Are Held Over for a Second Week in ‘Why Bring That Up?’ at the Circle Theater.

C GLORIA SWANSON’ breaks her cinematic silence and speaks from the I screen for the first time when “The Trespasser,'' her initial alldialogue United Artists picture, which opens at the Palace tooay. Miss Swanson reveals a stage voice that is a boon to jaded critics. Her tones are rich and mell-modulated. and quite in keeping with the role of the lady of refinement that she essays in “The Trespasser,” it is claimed. Another revelation is Miss Swanson's soprano singing voice. That she well might have succeeded on the concert stage is indicated in her singing of the two numbers that give lyrical heights to the feature, it is also claimed. One of the pieces is Toselli’s “Serenade.” a standard work

The other, "Love,” was composed especially for Miss Swanson by Edmund Goulding, author and director of “The Trespasser.” With a background laid in the fashionable Lake Shore Drive district of Chicago, this production enable Miss Swanson to appear in a role as millions of tltCater-goers love to see her—as the gorgeouslygowned American lady. In writing and directing "The Trespasser,” Edmund Goulding has worked out anew technique in talking pictures. He tells his story simply and naturally—but packs it full of drama at every turn, with the result that the entire cast follows Miss Swanson's example in giving noteworthy portrayals. Those who contribute to the dialog of “The Trespasser" include Robert Ames, the leading man; Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Wathall. Wally Albright, William Holden, Blanche Friderici, Kay Hammond, Mary Forbes and Marcella Corday. The surrounding film program will include Charlie Chase in his newest all talking comedy, “Crazy Feet,” a Metro Movietone presentation titled “Bits of Broadway,” the Hearst Metrotone talking newsreel, a Krazy Kat Cartoon Novelty, and Lester Huff at the organ console. u tt a COLLEGE MOVIE NOW AT INDIANA “The Sophomore,” taken from the popular serial story, "Joe College,” with Eddie Quiiian in the leading roie, is now f playing at the Indiana theater as the feature screen attraction for this week. “Pirates of Melody” is the stage presentation this week and has the presence of Bobby Jackson as master of ceremonies for the third week of his stay at this theater. Eddie Quillan, who used to appear In Mack Sennett pie-throwing comedies, but who graduated from this institution when he appeared in the “Godless Girl." is seen ai; the sophomore. He is of the ideal, wise-cracking college boy type, an exaggerated college boy, to be sure, but nevertheless the kind we are accustomed to see in real life as well as on the screen. His wit is spontaneous and natural. Sally O'Neil is seen jn the leading feminine part and her voice is said to add pep and personality to her performance. She is heard singing the theme song. “Little by Little," in one of the prom sequences. Jeanette Loss has an important: part in the story. She will be remembered in “Hold ’Em. Yale." Stanley Smith, a recruit from the legitimate stage, has an important male role. Others in the cast are Lew Ayres, Marilyn Morgan, Russell Gleason and Dorothy Ward. In “Pirates of Melody” Bobby .Tackson is supported by Smith and Hadley. Jimmy Dunn. Jue Fong and

Limits Tour

Ethel Barrymore, who is now appearing: in Chicago in G. Martinez Sierra's “The Kingdom of God" and Lili Hatvam's "The Love Duel," will end her tour early in December, despite the fact that there still remain several important cities where she has not played these two dramas which have proven so prosperous at the box office. Her reason for curtailing her tour, an unusual thing with her, as she likes the road, is that she is contracted to produce Daniel Reed s dramatization of Julia Peterkin's "Scarlet Sister Mary" in New York after the holidays, and before she does this she wants to spend several days in South Carolina, studying the Gullah Negroes, who furnished Mrs. Peterkin with her characters and her story. Mary herself is an actual person and lives there. The actress plans to take as many of her company w?th her as can be accommodated at the plantation.

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U/Ai l/ro THEATRE f HI 4% 1 SB INDIANA AYE. ■ Pal 1m 1 V Ml I AT WEST STREET Tilt I I AVHOI SF FOR Ml. INDIAN tI'OUS—FOLLOW THE CROWD 7 Days, Commencing Monday, Oct. 21st ON THE STAGE You have seen the rest, now see the best — JOE CARMONCHE—CLEO MITCHEL “Shake Your Feet” vsr” ON THE SCREEN -SARBO RICHARD DIX £*k, life” -FOUR DAYS— ■ Sun., Mon., Tue., Wed. Three Day*— Thniw., Fri., Sat. MIDNITE SHOW EVERY SATURDAY

the- Farrar Trio. Ar an extra attraction tonight is Washington high school night. The football team will be introduced at the first show tonight, the school yell leader will lead in a cheer and the Charlie Davis band will play the school pep song. Tuesday night is for Short- ; ridge Wednesday night is Cathedral and Manual on Thursday night. a a o ROGERS’ MOVIE OPENS AT THE APOLLO Frequently it has been asserted j that Will Rogers is the best known personality in the United States. Scarcely less widely known is Frank Borzage, who directed “They Had to See Paris,” in which Rogers portrays the leading role in this his first all talking Fox Movietone comedy drama, which will be the attraction ! at the Apollo this week starting today. Rogers’ name appears daily on the front pages of more than 200 newspapers and on Sunday 100 more may be added to that figure. Borzage is, perhaps, the foremost director of motion pictures in America. Twice he has w T on the Photoplay magazine award for the best picture of the year. Rogers in this picture enacts the role of Pike Peters, the happy and contented owner of a garage in Clearwater, Okla., until his oil well comes in and he is made rich, his real troubles begin when his wife insists on going abroad. Father, mother, son and daughter make the trip in grand style, the events that follow are as laughable as they are costly and keeps the family in a state of constant excitement. MORAN AND MACK CONTINUE AT CIRCLE Moran and Mack, the Two Black Crows, are now' adding to their phonograph and radio fame by making their first screen appearance in Paramount’s all-talking comedy production “Why Bring That Up?” which is going into its second week’s run at the Circle theater today. It is a rapid fire story of the vaudeville stage introducing many of the numbers that they have recorded. In addition of these they present many new' Moranisms and Mackites. “Why Bring That Up” is from the original story of Octavus Roy Cohen, the famous author of Negro stories. In the picture you see Moran and Mack, the forming of the famous team—their struggle for recognition and you climb with them to success. They show you just how they make up their funny patter and best of all you see them in real life as well as black face, doing their ribcracking dialect. Moran and Mack, the Two Black Crows, have the backing of an elaborate musical show, in the final scenes of their opus. A dazzling array of stage talent. In the leading feminine role is Evelyn Brent, playing the part of a scheming vampire w’ho tries to take the boys to the cleaners and almost succeeds in breaking up the act. Harry Green, who made such a hit as the theatrical manager in “Close Harmony,” is cast as the manager of the Tw t o Black Crows in “Why Bring That Up?” George Abbott directed. An all-talking Paramount skit, ! “Humorous Flights,” a song cartoon and a talking news reel complete the program for this week. HUSTON HEADS C AST AT OHIO / Walter Huston arid Charles Rug- | gles, last seen here in “Gentlemen of the Press” and “The Laay Lies,”

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1— Eddie Quiiian and Sally O’Neil have the chief roles in “The Sophomore," now at the Indiana. 2 fee Tracy and Mae Clarke have most human roles in “Big Time,” now the movie feature at the Lyric.

Due Soon

Phil Baker Phil Baker and his accordian will be present when “Pleasure Bound” comes to English’s for the week of Oct. 28.

return to the new Ohio today in the latter for a week’s engagement. The feminine lead is taken by Claudette Colbert, who has been acclaimed as Broadway’s most beautiful actress. The story presents Walter Huston as a young widower with two children to raise. He meets a lovely lady, played by Miss Colvert, 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 way, 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 Garrett Fort and was directed by Hobart Henley. The dialog was staged by John Meehan himself. Rudy Vallee, popular radio idol is on the New Ohio program this ; week in a short feature entitled “Radio Rhythm.” A song cartoon, “Dixie,” and another talking act completes the bill. Famous Estate Used The beautiful Busch Gardens in Pasadena, one of the most famous > estates in western America, is beitig utilized by Warner Bros, for the location scenes in their Vitaphone production, “Hold Everything.”

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New Events in Music

, “All things have a beginning.” It would not be right to tell the story of the Boston Women’s Symphony orchestra without first speaking about the head of this famous organization, Ethel Leginska. Mine. Leginska, who will conduct the orchestra at Caleb Mills haH on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 10. was born in Hull, England, and went to Germany for her pianistic education later becoming a favored pupil ol the great Leschetizky in Vienna. She returned to England to start her sensational career. From the first she won a veritable triumph one that has taken her all over Europe and America until her name and fame have become internationally know'n. Leginska stands supreme as a master pianist, a talented, modern composer of rare intelligence and distinction, also, she has established herself as the first woman conductor of importance, by her works with the principal major symphony orchestras of Europe and America. It is as an orchestral conductor that Leginska is achieving her greatest successes. Her key to power is an evanescent, creative ability which individualizes each work. Leginska gives out so much of herself that she invariably arouses all that is intellectual and emotional in the great audiences held spellbound by her art. She will be presented here by the Matinee Musicale. an* BENEFIT CONCERT TO BE GIVEN SOON Annual benefit concert of Marion County Chapter, War Mothers will be at 8:15 Thursday night, Oct. 24, at the Women's Department Club, Seventeenth and Meridian streets. The program will be given by Mrs. Jqne Johnson Burroughs, soprano; Mrs. Marguerite Baihle Steinhart, pianist; Miss Leora Weimar, dramatic reader, and the Indiana Central college male quartet, composed of Paul Sickafoos, first tenor; Herman Rider, second tenor; Robert Cosselman, baritone, and Walter HausI wald, bass. Mrs. Burroughs is head of the S music department of Indiana Central college, and winner of the young artists contest sponsored recently by Indiana Federation of Music Clubs. The male quartet is under her direction. Mrs. Steinhart is well known to Indianapolis as a brilliant and effective concert pianist. Miss Weimar is head of the department of

3 Moran and Mack are now in the second week at the Circle in "Why Bring That Up?” 4 Glpria Swanson in her first all-talker. “The Trespasser,” now at Loews Palace. 5 Claudette Colbert is seen in “The Lady Lies,” now at the Ohio. 6 Will Rogers has the lead in “They Had to See Paris,” which opens today at the Apollo.

public speaking of Indiana Central college. The following program will be given: Male Quartet. ‘ How Can I Leave Thee’’ Folk Sour “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" Folk Song “Sweet Genevieve” Folk Song Indiana Central College Male quartet. Voice — •V ifori" Min Core”. .Caprrissimi (1650* “Se tu M’ami” Pergolesi < 1710< ' ViSi D Arte” (Tosca i Puccini Jane Johnson Burroughs, soprano. Piano— _ “Bonrree 2nd Violin Sonata Bach “Prelude and Fugue” Bach "En Automme” Moszowski Marguerite Baihle Steinhart. Readings— , _ “Little David” Roarke Bradford “Home Work” Edna Means Leora Weimar. Voice— _ “The Sweetest Flower That Blows “Pierrot” Rybner “Love Was With Me Yesterday" Golde Jane Johnson Burroughs. Male Quartet — “The Boyr of the Old Brigade” Parks “Winter Song” Bullard Male Quartet. Piano— _ _ , “Concert Etude P. Scliloger “Ftude No. 3“ Chopin “Etude en Forme de Valse”. .Saint-Saens Marguerite Baihle Steinhart. Voice— , , “Do You Know Mv Garden” Wood “To an Invalid” Golde “joy” Watts Jane Johnson Burroughs. The concert is open to the public for an admittance fee. Mrs. Steinhart will be accompanist for Mrs. Burroughs. tt tt tt NEW EVENTS AT CONSERVATORY A Halloween recital by pupils of Hazel Lamkin and Wilma Davis Hine of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will be given Tuesday night, Oct. 22, at 8 o’clock at the Odeon, 106 East North street. Shirley White, Ralph Regan, Elizabeth Jane Leggitt, Jack Bussell, Wilma Foxworthy, Max Metzler, Peggy Beaman, Betty Lou Miller, Mary Jean Sefton, Helen Frances Turner, Lula Linkenhelt, Mary Eve lyn Richardson, Charles Wilbur Hulett, Betty Mae Robinson, Shirley Corman, Eleanor Pitzschler, and Marysue Spilman are pupils of Hazel Lamkin. Mariyynn Wasson, John Blackwell, Mary Jean Sefton, Betty Jane Johnson. Wanda Jean and Leander Goodwin are pupils of Wilma Davis Hine. Marian Wilson and Marian Dunkin will act as hostesses for the recital. Fanchon Fattig, pupil of Bernice Van Sickle of the dramatic art department of the Jordan conservatory, gave a reading for the Cervus Club on a program at the county infirmary Friday. She also will give a reading at thd musicale tea of the mothers’

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chorus of public school 81 Thursday, Oct. 24. Pupils of Miss Van Sickle gave readings on the program of the Girls’ Glee Club of Washington ! high school Tuesday. I Miss Frieda Klink, contralto, and | Carle ton Gauld, bass, former pupils !of Glenn Friermood of the conj servatory, again are in this country I for a limited stay. Miss Klink was i an Indianapolis girl and has been I singing in opera in Graetz, Austria. 1 Mr. Gauld of Crawfordsville has i been at Cannes and Deauville, : France. ! Miss Ocie Higgins and Thomas V. I Broadstreet are in New York study- ; ing with Oscar Seagle. Harold Bean is the tenor of the i ~ '“ond Presbyterian church quartet. Mrs. C. F. Cox and Stephen Badger, tenor, are singing at the Meridian Street Methodist church. Miss Beatrice tea tty is the soprano at the Maple Road Methodist church. Kathryn Bowlby. contralto, is singing at the Third Christian church.

At Colonial

COLONIAL patrons will see an entire new cast, starting Sunday. when “Hot Stuff" will be presented. The new company includes p, number of well-known burlesque and musical comedy performers. A former popular soubrette, Miss Archer, returns after a year’s absence. Bozo Mickie Fleming and Ray Cook have been engaged to take care of the comedy. Florence King, prima donna, who recently closed with one of the wheel burlesque at- ! tractions; Joe De Lano, a juvenile ! straight, and Leslie Barry are also 1 numbered in the new list of principals. The chorus has been enlarged. In “The Flying Marine” the Columbia production synchronized with dialogue and music which will be I the screen attraction for the week. I Ben Lyon, in the featured role of a daredevil stunt pilot, performs a j spectacular stunt which has gone ! down in aviation as one of the ‘ riskiest.

Orchestra to Battle Sunday Indiana Ballroom Will Have a Unique Event. THE Indiana Roof ballroom’s bill for next Sunday night features | a battle of music, Henry Thies and S his Victor Recording orchestra vs. Connie and his orchestra. Indianapolis dancers will be glad of this opportunity to hear and dance to the music of two of their favorite radio orchestras. Radio listeners who have made 1 Thies and his orchestra a habit during the past five years while they j have been broadcasting over Station WLW. Cincinnati, arc familiar with i the unusual brand of harmony ; which has caused them to be classed as one of the finest orchestras in the nation today. While Connie and his band found favor with dancers who have been dancing to their rhythm during the past three weeks and radio listeners who have been listening to their nightly broadcast over station WFBM from the Roof ballroom. Charlie Dammeron, famous ballad singer of the Thies aggregation, who also has his place in the hearts of radio listeners, will be featured dur- ; ing the evening, singing both his ; old and new song hits, j Sunday night’s program will come I as the result of the efforts of Tom Devine, manager of the ballroom, to give Indiana ballroom dancers the best available dance music.

. EXTRA ! For the benefit of tremendous crowd* who _Y. _ * have been unable to ire MORAN and MACK. Mri'fiwiwhe SSTairhw two black crows in -why bring leaiwaAßAgiai Aoi;k<U>W vhat I P,” vc are bavin* a midnight ehow < j r°h tPletß at 11 :M toCrowd* were ton hi* for ■■■—-. every me to see thi- super- ty*", AgMffI|MDBK3BWr, I P so we HAD to ■//>" ' hold It over another seven •• w"* L MORAn'^/fefe4 (/“•mack mlrOi Premier Funsters as / “THK TWO BLACK CHOWS” GREEN They’re rookin' the whole town with their slde-spUtttn’ Jokes—TNft ffl *mtt and there’* a tear or two In the true story of their lives! IV ji ALL - TALKING! WB

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Tom Brown Tops Bill at Lyric Times’ Golden Rule Safety Club Movie Is a Feature. npOM BROWN and original Six Biown Brothers head the stage show opening at the Lyric today; "Big Time.” an all-talking feature picture, will be seen and heard on the screen; Forward Pass," The Times’ Golden Rule Safety Club movie, is another stellar event on the screen program. There is probably not a more popular sextette in in show business than the Six Brown Brothers, who. a few years ago, were featured in the Charles Dillingham shows, "Chin Chin,” “Jack O'Lantern” gnd “Tip Top.” Among the other three Radio Keith Orpheum vaudeville attractions on this stage program is to be ! be found Billy Kelly and Warren ’ Jackson well versed big time artists presenting their breezy comedy ! playlet called “Oh May.” Miss : Dolores Griffin, a comely young miss j with a pair of nimble feet and good j voice, assists the duo. E. and Jay McCrea, a pair of athi letic artists, offer a gymnastic nov- ! elty labeled “Up She Goes.” Lee Tracy, who won his spurs on the legitimate stage in the w’ellknown success, “Broadway,” has the title role in the all-talking picture, “Big Time 1 .” Mae Clark, also recruited from the ranks of the stage celebrities, appears in the leading j feminine role.. j The story is said to be an ab~ I sorbing one, quite different from the usual back stage stories, brimi ful of human interest, and embrac- ! ing a wealth of comedy furnished by Daphne Pollard and Stepin Fetchit, colored comedian of movie fame. The plot revolves around a small time hoofer whose ambition and ego lead him to forsake his wife for another woman. Meanwhile his son is born, and years after the youngster brings about a happy reunion of the family when father and mother meet in a Hollyi wood motion picture studio. Os special interest to all Indianapolis persons is the added feature, “Forward Pass.” The Times Golden Rule Safety Club movie, which is to be shown this week. A cast of all local school children who are members of The Times Golden Rule Safety Club are featured in the picture, which was taken in its entirety in this city. It is a sort of local Our Gang production in which a kiddies’ football game is the main event. These scenes were taken in Wash- ! ir.gton baseball park during a game between the Panthers and Bearcats 1 football teams.

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