Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 150, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1929 — Page 9

TOY. 2, 1929.

‘BROADWAY’ WITH GLENN TRYON OPENS AT THE CIRCLE

Elliott Nugent and Robert Montgomery Make Talkie Debuts in ‘So This Is College’ at the Palace Today Tor a Week’s Engagement. ''P'HE Circle opens its new week today with the one and only "Broad--1 way." the all-dialogue Universal super-production of the sensationally successful New York play with Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Myma Kennedy and many others. Besides bringing to the screen the intensely dramatic cross-section of American night life which proved so absorbing on the stage, the photoplay version of "Broadway” has increased the fascinatingly compiling atmosphere which surrounded it. Here is shown the Great White Way in all its gaiety, complete with its every emotional sensation from he pop of the cork to the crack of the pistol shot.

The largest set ever built for a lotion picture was erected for Broadway,” The story of "Broadway” contrasts the romance of a boy and a girl, entertainers in the New York night club, against the staccato drama of the underworld. The love of Roy Lane and Billie Moore, played by Glenn Tryon and Myrna Kennedy, is threatened by Ihe sinister shadow of Steve Crandall,* the "liquor king,” played by Robert Ellis, and they find themselves drawn into the vortex of gangster warfare because of Crandall's desire for the beautiful revue girl. How Pearl, the “belle of Broadway,” avenges the murder of her gangster sweetheart, and how Dan McCorn, the "white” cop of the night club belt, plays straight, forms the thrilling climax which delighted New York for ninety consecutive weeks. powerful role is'enacted by Evelyn Brent, and both Thomas Jackson and Paul Porcasi, who play the detective and the night club proprietor, respectively, create for the screen the same characterizations which they played throughout the New York stage run. Besides the leading players already enumerated, the cast of "Broadway” includes Otis Harlan, one of the most beloved character actors: Marion Lord as Lil, “queen of the night clubs”; Leslie Fenton as “Scar” Edwards, Betty Francisco as Maizie and the "Broadway Revue,” perhaps the most beautiful chorus ever assembled, even in Hollywood. Many of the night club scenes were taken in full color, bringing out the beauty of the mammoth setting. B B B STUART WALKER FAVORITE IN MOVIE Outside of the huge staff of camera men. sound technicians and MOTION PICTURES

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stage crews, a number of music composers, orchestration arrangefs, dance masters, football experts and university advisers were necessary for the screening of “So This Ls College,” the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talking-singing-clancing feature which opens today at the Palace. Although most of the ten song hits were composed by Martin Broones, any of the lyrics came from the pens of A1 Boasberg, Fred Fisher and Charlotte Greenwood. Brones’ numbers are the peppy "Campus Capers,” "College Days,” “I Don't Want Your Kisses,” "Gorgeous” and “Friends Until the End,” while Greer and Klages contributed the whoopee song. "Sophomore Prom.” Sammy Lee of Ziegfeld Follies fame and George Cunningham, who put on the dance numbers in "Good News” and "The Broadway Melody,” got together on concocting the "Campus Capers” number, which is winning wide popularity throughout the country. Delmer Daves, former Stanfard class president and co-author of the original story from which the picture was filmed, acted as class president in the fraternity house scenes and also supervised technical details of set construction and glee club activities. Sam Wood, director, used the Trojan campus for many of his outdoor sound locations and the Los Angeles coliseum, jammed with 100.000 spectators, was the authentic background for the big football battle.

Virtually all of the extra players !in the film were college students ! from universities in and around Los Angeles. It is inwtesting also that j the cheering sections filmed and recorded were the real rooting clubs from U. S. C. and Stanford and the huge night bonfire rally was shot under conditions of real collegiate atmosphere. ♦Elliott Nugent and Robert Montgomery, Broadway stage juveniles, make their talkie debuts in the new M-G-M production, and Sally Starr, the leading lady, also makes her first screen appearance. Cliff Edwards plays a comedy and singing role in the feature. A highly entertaining and artistic film novelty comprising part of the program brings Charles King in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s first Colortone Revue, “Climbing the Golden Stairs." King will be remembered for his work in “The Broadway Melody,” and again sings and dances in this technicolor miniature musical comedy offering. Another interesting subject is on Auto Review, “Memoirs of Baseball,” in which the national pastime is gone over from start until the MOTION PICTURES

1— Glenn Tryon, Myrna Kennedy and Evelyn Brent as they appear in “Broadway,” now at the Circle. 2 Elliott Nugent and Sally Starr have this pleasant scene in “So This Is College,” at the Palace.

recent championship games which were recently played. The balance of the bill includes the Hearst Metrotone News, termed the world’s talking newspaper, and Lester Huff at the organ console, presenting a novelty organlogue of college hits, titled "Campus Cutups.” tt tt u THREE FEATURES AT THE INDIANA The Indiana is offering three big feature attractions on their program this week. Gene, Ford* and Glenn, popular WLW radio favorites, headline the bill iij an act of song and comedy. Assisting in the comedy are those well-known characters, Jake and Lena. "Woman Trap,” the all-talking Paramount picture taken from the stage play "Brothers,” is the feature screen attraction. Evelyn Brent, Hal Skelly and Chester Morris are featured. Bobby Jackson is to, be seen for the last times this week in his farewell show, “Vacation Days.” “Woman Trap” is said to have a plot tha| is real, vivid ar.d human. It is a melodrama of human relationships. It tells the story of two brothers —one w T ho loves the law and enforces it, the other it, cne a policeman and the other a crook. Climax follows climax as "traditions” of the screen are ruthlessly cast aside. There is no “boy-and-girl” romance, but a deep unrelenting love between man and woman. It is a picture said to be cruel in its dramatic sharpness, swift as a whip, and with a dramatic blow just as stinging. There is humanity about “Woman Trap” that makes it a great picture Characters are colorful, yet real. A beautiful romance unfolds, but is net allowed to flower until deep tradgedy strips two hearts bare. The conflict is not only man

Sklt-flllS ♦ Atfu. iJplfl R,OT! mpst'* :. '’’’flr /'"'ET ready for more laughs than mmask TANTALIZING O you’ve ever laughed! Be prepared TUNES! for more song hits than you’ve heard mMjSM "l Don’t Want Your Kisses. since the screen started to sing! An if l Can't Have Your Love" entertainment has come that packs its A**r iBl -Cam^Capcrs’’ thrilling story of college life with the > „ true stuff of today s youth! ’ \ with ELLIOTT NUGENT : WfipOlf ’’Until the End ROBERT MONTGOMERY “Sophomore Prom " CLIFF EDWARDS —SALLY STARR I i SOMETHING TO J I 1 H m CHEER ABOUT! IjA L-O-E-W-’-S NOW PLAYING! P-A-L-A-C-E

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against man. but a woman enraged seeking revenge on the man she really loves. “Vacation Days” surrounds Bobby Jackson in his final show with a big cast of Publix entertainers, headed by Senator Murphy, America’s foremost political humorist. Others assisting are Hamilton, soloist; Zastro and White, with Sunny Schuck, Bernice Marshall

and the Wisner sisters, billed as speed, pep and personality. Sixteen farmerettes in the persons of the Dave Gould girls have several chorus routines. tt a m APOLLO HOLDS OVER “GOLD DIGGERS” "Gold Diggers of Broadway” will be held over for the second week starting today at the Apollo theater. In brief, “Gold Diggers of Broadway” is one of the most amusing and gorgeous of entertainments everseen on either screen or stage. Its appeal is universal; it sends its audiences away delighted and happy, humming the tuneful strains they have heard from the screen. Never was dialogue more snappy, pithy and humorous, nor delivered with more skill. Roy Del Ruth’s direction is excellent and Larry Ceballos has surpassed himself in the stage ensemble. Put “Gold Diggers of Broadway” at the top of the list of the screen offerings that you really must see. In the cast are Conway Tearle, Nancy Welford, Nich Lucas, Ann Pennington, Lee Moran, Helen Foster, Lilyan Tashman, Winnie Lightner and many other well known stage and screen stars. The usual Vitaphone acts and the Fox Movietone news will complete the bill. tt a tt BUDDY ROGERS MOVIE AT OHIO “Illusion,” Buddy Rogers’ and Nancy Carroll s . latest all-talking and singing production opens today at the New Ohio as the feature attraction for the week. The original story of “Illusion,” by Arthur Train, one of America’s foremost novelists, ran in serial form

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3 Ann Pennington in “The Gold Diggers of Broadway,” in its second week at Apollo. 4 Marion Nixon and Grant Withers in “In the Headlines,” now at the Lyric. 5 Buddy Rogers has the lead in “Illusion,” now at the Ohio. 6 Evelyn Brent has the lead in “Woman Trap,” now at the Indiana.

in The Ladies Home Journal beginning January, 1929. The novel was then published in book form and classed as a big seller. The story tells of Buddy Rogers and Nancy Carx-01l 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 makes him a favorite in society. It is a story of contrasts, the world of society contrasted with the world of troupers, the stage. Rogers soon learns that his loyalty belongs with the people of his youth, show people. Nancy Carroll is the delectable vodvil entertainer who sees her chances of romance with Buddy go glimmering, apparently, when he plunges into the gay life of the four hundred. Buddy Rogers and Nancy Carroll both sing and dance in this picture. | There are three songs, “Levee Love,” | a Negro spiritual type of song; “Illusion,” the main number of the film, and “Revolutionary Rhythm,” a hot strut number which gets special treatment in a night club sequence. Talking short subjects will complete the program for this week. MOTION PICTURES

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At the Apollo

Jo-ie Heather Josie Heather, the Scotch comedienne and star of the musical comedy and variety stages, will be seen and heard in the Vitaphone presentation program at the Apollo theater this week, starting today, in a group of her character songs written especially for her.

MOTION PICTURES Be nino'tg the very first to see and hear the most imitated play ever written! ALL - TALKING ! f|' It’s the picture which' has given f- jj W It's the ONE and ONLY " J | BROADWAY I With St.llv - 1 bH “WOMAN m . , , that these gP !Op three super-at-E an fm m tract ion*, now Paramount Hit With playing will set HAL SHELL Y an all-time atBVELYN BRENT and tendance record CHESTER MORRIS t th In(l , Rna i See the gripping climax to this bold at th,! lmmnß ’ story of a bolder love and sacrifice! AT.L-TA L K I X G ' You’ve always wanted to see these coleI I brated WLW radio stars--Here's your I B ,-fiance! | GENE. FORD land CLEHN y Bringing to you first-hand their melodies f Au and fun In — / Bobby Jackson's farewell presentation f “VACATION DAYS ” / Lome \ mA / Kd} \ A Publix stage show bringing / Lor Prompt I to you that inimitable — / SertLuf I 1 Senator Murphy /at Thi> j .. . America's frenv>st political hu- X. t l!l| LL LNIT / morist, and a veritable galaxy of the < / X country’s leading rntcrta'ners! f

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Dancers to Appear at the Murat Ona B. Talbot Will Bring the Duncan Group Here. The fine art of dancing as interpreted by the Isadora Duncan dancers, the second attraction to be presented by the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises at the Murat Monday evening, Nov. 25, arid La Argentina, the third attraction in this series. Monday evening, Jan. 27, has aroused enthusiasm and a renewal of interest in t.bi form of fine art all over the country. Both of these attractions have been the reigning successes in New York this season, and are sure to attract large audiences to the Murat when they present their programs here. Some of the New York reviews are as follows: New York Times We are in the midst of a great wave of Duneanlsm at the present moment in American, dictated presumably by the desire to memorialize Isadore. New York Times The eleven Russian children are disarmingly beautiful and spirited. Their youth and simplicity escape all the pitfalls of anemia and preciousness which (heir elders have not always succeeded in avoiding, and their complete sincerity contains no hint of solemnity. Even the little group of Schubert's waltzes, in themselves inconsequential except for the fact that they were created by Isadora, are lifted beyond banality by the freshness of these young artists’ performance. New York Evening Post—The revolutionary group, in which the performers sang as they danced, reached a highdramatic level of intense emotion and strong rhythm which was at times thrilling. The favorite of the afternoon wil the smallest of the "protegees.’- Manya, a girl of about 13. Her light elfin grace and joyful ebandon brought out a murmur of approval. New York Herald-Tribune—The gospel of the Duncans Is interpretive dancing I carried to the point where It is essentially recreative. In a large degree, the present delegation attains to these ideals; Like their famous mistress, many of these girls are heavily built and opulently developed, without the lithe natural grace of person and trimness of limb to which the American eye is accustomed on the dance platform. But they had in their artistic makeup other more priceless gifts; a splendid vitality of understanding and a complete grasp of symbolic thought translation. a jovous freedom and abandonment to rhythm and movement, a thorouch discipline of mind and muslcle .