Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1930 — Page 7

APRIL 5, 1930.

ARLISS OPENS TODAY IN ‘GREEN GODDESS’AT THE APOLLO

William Haines Has the Lead in ‘The Girl Said No’ Now at the Palace —‘Vagabond King’ Is Held Over for Second Week at the Circle.

THERE is an almost unknown comer of northeastern India, skirting the impassable Himalaya mountains, where a si-ange goddess known as Kaii. is worshiped. It is this tiny and all but forgotten country and this weird religion that is the oa'i' for the dramatic story of “The Green Goddess,” which Georcf> Arils-- has made into a Vitaphone all-talking picture for Warner Brother: and which opened at the Apollo today Very little is known of the worship of Kali except that sacrifices are still made up .1 her altars. Goats are most commonly used but enough trangers have entered that wild country' and never returned to

di e < redence to the belief that sometimes more grew.ome offerings ar<" ir.aor to the paean Kali. It is a land where anything can and does happen. Only one pass Ls known over the rm of the world ruled by Mount Everest, and that is usable only in the summer, and even then is wild and dangerous. The natives arc left largely to themselves and save for their distrust and fanatical hatred of strangers are thought to be a contented and peaceable people. It Is this native hatred that imperils the English group in the story of ‘‘The Green Goddess,’ and nearly costs the lives of them all. No more thrilling story has ever been told on stag** or screen and with a Vitaphone all of the dramatic qualities can be incorporated for the first time. Mr. Arliss, a splendid actor, has an unusually fine voice, as was displayed in “Disraeli. - ’ and is one of the most Important, additions to the list of talking picture stars. The supporting cast includes such notables as Alice Joyce, H. B. Warner and Ralph Forbes. A1 Green directed. Julien Josephson wrote the Vitaphone version of "The Green Goddess" from the original by the well-known playwright. William Archer. Vitaphone acts including Lytell and Fant in "Two of a Kind" and "Vengeance” with Warner Richman. and Fox Movietone News comprise the short subjects of the program. ana NEW HAINES MOVIE AT PALACE "Loews Spring Carnival's” hit No. 2, which opens today at the Palace, will be William Haines’ newest alltalking picture. “The Girl Said No, in which the comedian has the role of a boy fresh from college who tries to crash the portals of New York s financial market. Information is that the new picture, which was adapted by A. P. Younger from an original story bv Sarah Y. Mason, is a sequel to the latter’s “Brown of Harvard.” which first brought Haines into the limelight as one of the screen’s most successful comedians. The dialogue was written by Charles MacArthur. co-author of the dramatic hit. "The Front Page," and comedy interpolations were applied by Robert Hopkins. Prominent in Haines’ supporting cast are Leila Hyams, who played opposite him in "Alias Jimmy Valentine,” the well-known comedy pair of Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, Francis X. Bushman Jr., who continues the role of Haines’ nemesis which he created in "Brown of Harvard”; Clara Blandick. William Janney. Junior Coghlan. Phyllis Crane and William V. Mong. The plot of "The Girl Said No” Is concerned with the hilarious career of a young man following his graduation from college and entry into the business world. The smartalec wise-cracks himself not only out of a number of jobs, but also out of a romance wtih a secretary in a Wall Street brokerage office with whom he has fallen desperately in love. It is only the crisis brought about by the death of his father which makes our hero realize the boob he Is and he promptly sets himself to the task of supporting his mother, sister and brothers and regaining the confidence of his beloved, who has just about reconciled herself to marrying the man who had always been his stumbling block in college and is that again in business.

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How this somewhat startling reformation is brought about with a subsequent kidnaping of the heroine at the threshold of her marriage to the villain, is reported to make up a fresh and extremely amusing comedy. On the same program, an ‘ Our Gang' kid’s all-talking comedy, ‘‘When the Wind Blows," an interesting issue of Hearst Metotone News, and screen novelties will be shown. nun NEW DRAMA NOW AT INDIANA Ruth Chatterton, remembered for her finely drawn portrayals in “Madame X,” “The Doctor’s Secret” and "The Laughing Lady,” plays the leading role in Paramount’s alltalking dramatization of Timothy Shea’s best selling novel. "Sarah and Son" now playing at the Indiana theater. On the stage. Paul Spor is leading the Charlie Davis orchestra in several arrangements of popular tunes, in the Publix unit "Tip Toppers Revue.” In support of Ruth Chatterton in “Sarah and Son” is Fredric March, also a recruit of the legitimate stage, who has played important roles on the screen in "Paris Bound,” "The Wild Party,” and "The Marriage Playground.” "Sarah and Son” is said to be a stirring story of mother love, imaginatively directed by Dorothy Arzner, and splendidly played by Miss Chatterton. In some ways Miss Chatterton’s portrayal is said to be reminiscent of her poignant character study in "Madame X” for it possesses that stirringt throbbing quality which so distinguished her delineation of that character. Fredric March, too, is said to give a remarkable performance as the young attorney who falls in love with Miss Chatterton. Others in the cast are Fuller Mellish Jr., Gilbert Emery and Phillippe de Lacy, the famous boy actor. On the stage Paul Spor is supported in "Tip Toppers Revue” by a cast of Publix entertainers, including Norton and Haley, "They’re Funny That Way”; the Stanley twins, "alike as two peas in the pod"; Dorothy and Harry Dixon, two comedy tangoists; Helen Nafe, watch her strut her toes, and the Fred Evans ensemble, high hatters of jazz. A Paramount talking news reel is on the bill. Dessa Byrd will be heard at the organ. a a a “VAGABOND KING HELD OVER AT CIRCLE Paramount's latest release, “The Vagabond King,” photographed entirely in technicolor, is now showing for the second week at the Circle theatre. Dennis King is making his debut on the audible screen. Fortunately enough, he sings the role in which he originally sky-rocketed to fame. And that • role, as most every one knows, is that of the vagabond, Francois Villon, the lovable, carefree hero of the colorful Rudolph Friml operetta, "The Vagabond King.” which so delighted audiences during its extended New York Casino engagement several seasons ago. Dennis King's leading lady is Jeanette MacDonald, the screen’s newest beauty, who scored with

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1— George Arliss again plays a melodrama tic role in “The Green Goddess.’ This time, niovie-talkie version of this show. .At the Apollo. 2 Patsy Ruth Miller is seen in “Wide Open,” the movie feature now at the Lyric. 3 William Haines in a scene from a farce comedy now- at the Palace. It is new.

Maurice Chevalier in “The Love Parade.” Another role is played by Lillian Roth, the former “blues” | singer, who is said to surprise in j the tragic role of Huguette. Others cast in this production are O. P. Heggie and Warner Oland. "The Vagabond King” includes the famous Friml music. Again the thundering chorus of “Song of the Vagabonds ” and the romantic melody of “Only a Rose” is heard. Ludwig Berger, the noted foreign director, directed “The Vagabond King.” The featured short reel during this week is Charles Ruggles, the famous “drunk” of “The Lady Lies,” in “The Family Next Door.” an u BARRYMORE MOVIE ON VIEW’ AT OHIO Nicknames usually find their beginning in some physical eccentricity or as the result of some novel incident, but the name “General Crack,” the title of John Barrymore’s first all-talking picture at the Ohio, had an original source. The Barrymore hero, a> the rightful heir to a dukedom, bore the high-sounding name of Christian Rudolph Augustus Christopher Ketlar. The first letter of each name combined spells “Crack.” A militaryleader of signal ability, he is known throughout eighteenth century Europe as General Crack, the idol of soldiers and women and the fear of royalty. Marian Nixon and Armida have the leadixig feminine roles in support of Barrymore in “General Crack,” with Hobart Bosworth, Lowell Sherman, Jacqueline Logan and Phillippe de Lacy. The supplementary program this week will include talking short features and a talking news reel.

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Chester Morris, who seems destined to be connected with “Alibi" as long as Henry B. (Little Colonel) Walthall has been associated with “The Birth of a Nation," is preparing now to return to the fold of Roland West and United Artists after a year’s profitable straying in green pastures. “Love in Chicago,” by Charles Walt, is to be the next West picture, and Mr, Walt has just arrived in Hollywood. He isn’t really Mr. Walt, that being a nom de plume, but who he is he chooses to keep secret for his owji reasons. He will write the adaptation of his own novel for Mr. West’s audible firm, and meanwhile Hollywood may be expected to debate whether he is Ambrose Bierce or the missing Charlie Ross. It is known that he is a member of a prominent Chicago family, and it is also told that he is working on his adaptation, with West, in seclusion. West has made only seven pictures in fourteen years. “Lost Souls,” “De Luxe Annie.” “The Unknown Purple." “The Bat,” “The Monster,” “The Dove” and “Alibi.” In New Role Livia Marracci, the young and beautiful American soprano, who has appeared in two Vitaphone Varieties. assisting the great tenor, Giovanni Martinelli, has been engaged for a role in Lew Leslie’s “International Revue,” now in rehearsal. Jans and Whalen, who made “Two Good Boys Gone Wrong” for the Vitaphone Corporation, are also to be in “The International Revue.” Just a Natural Star Claudette Colbert, talented Paraj mount actress, has the unique disj tinction of never having had to leave her home city. New York, to seek screen popularity. All of the pictures she has appeared in so far have been produced at Paramount’s Long Island studio.

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WALKER THEATER Indiana A venae at West St. —On the Stage— CLARA SMITH singing and dancing in her latest bit “BLACK BOTTOM REVUE” So—PEOPLE—3S —Feature Picture— William B. vd in “Officer O'Brim” Today and Sunday Dent Forget the Midnight Frolic Saturday Night

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MONDAY evening, April 7, Otis | Pruitt, teacher in the piano department of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, will present his pupils in a recital at the Odeon, 106 East North street. Eleanor Ross, Louise Beechey, Maxine Rigsbee, George Carothers, Margarite Billo, Irene Morgan, Doris Slavens, Marian Lurie, Ralph Ross, Hilda Korff, Floyd Ross and Dallas Smith will give the program of solos and concertos and tw r o piano numbers. On Monday evening, April 7, a violin ensemble of Donn Watson’s violin class of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory will play for the Par-ent-Teachers Association of Carmel. Byron Hollett, Violet Albers, Morris Gold, Irma Mae Steele, Reba Bunt, Emil Mertz, Cornelia. Cochrane. Angelina Saneff, with Mary Mottman at the piano comprise the ensemble. At the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music on Tuesday, April 8, two pupils of Mario Zorn, Jeanette Arnold and Myra Orr, will hold a recital at the Odeon, 106 East North street. Miss Arnold will give a Bouree by Bach, Melodie of Gluck-Sgambati, Toccato by Paradies, the entire Carnaval by Schumann, Evening in Sevilla of Walter Niemann and Sparks by Moszkowski. Miss Orr will play a Beethoven Sonata, Waltz in E minor by Chopin, Old Vienna by Godowsky and Seguidilla by Albeniz. Florence Keepers Lewis of the piano department of Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will present her pupils in a recital at the north branch, 3411 North Pennsylvania street, Friday evening, April 11, at 8. Thomas and Jane Wynne, Betty Jean Griffith, Ruthellen Goodman, Billy Carter, Betty Bates, Marie Louise Gorman. Mary Louise Cramer, Marietta Lamoreux, Lois Simpson. Nancy White, Martha Jean Soehner. Mary Finkle and Annette Sutton will give the program, and will be assisted by Jeanette Pogg and Fanchon Fattig in dramatic art, pupils of Bernice Van Sickle. F. Elmer Marshall, teached of publis speaking in the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, will read for the Kiwanis Club of Logansport on Tuesday. His program will be miscellaneous. On Wednesday Mr. Marshall will give a program of readings for the

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iunior high school pupils of Milford. Sylvia Florence Madiel, pupil in dramatic art, will give a group of readings for the social hour of the First Baptist church, Sunday evening, April 6. Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity will entertain active and alumnae members of the Mu Phi Epsilon Fraternity on Tuesday evening, April 8. The guest party will be given at the conservatory, 1204 North Delaware street. Earle Howe Jones, member of the piano faculty of the Arthur Jordon Conservatory of Music, will be guest artist of the Mooresville Musical Club, Monday evening, April 7, at the home of Mrs. Merriman. Mr. Jones will be assisted by Mary Martha Wolf, vocalist, pupil of Edward Nell. a a a FACULTY RECITAL WILL BE GIVEN A faculty recital will be broadcast from the Odeon, 103 East North street, over WFBM on April 12 from 3:30 to 4:30 p. m. by the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. The following is the program: ’’lntermezzo. C major” Brahms “On Wings of Song".. .Mendelssohn-Liszt “Sonata” Scarlatti Marie Zorn. “A Southern Girl” Ruth Draper Norma Justice Antibus. “Scherzo” Saint-Saens Luctle Wagner, Marie Zorn. “Inmer leiser wird mein Schlummer” Brahms “Awakening” Golde Lillian A. Flickinger. “Nocturne” Paderewski “Cracovienne Fantastique" ... .Paderewski Fairv Hendricks. “Pastorale” Corolli-Godowskv “Wind on the Plains” Debussy Frances Wishard. “Sonata. F major" Haendel Georgia Bauman. “Will o’ The Wisp" Sauer Mrs. Arthur G. Monninger. “Cradle Song” Brahms-Grainger “Imps” Sturkow-Ryder “Tremolo Eiude” Gottschalk Earle Howe Jones, On April 12, a public performance program will be given at the Odeon at 2:15 p. m. promptly. Those taking part are Charles Davis, Esther Mae Ashton, Marion

Use Own Crest Alexander Korda’s own coat-of-arms is used in certain scenes of “The Yellow Lily,” which he is directing. Billie Dove is star.

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'unkin, Jean Ann Jones, Florence j "stwoocl, Marysue Spillman. Betty r.e Graham. Mary Louise Mitch- ; ", Marjorie Kaser, Velva* Shirey, ■ Angeline Vernon, Kathryn May 1 Schneider, Donald Gwinn, Charlotte ! Dunn, Lois Jennings, Mary Lou Over, Sylvia Florence Madiel, Mildred Kerner, John Scherer, Prificess Finney. David Seim, Nancy White and Helen Katherine Eldridge. They are pupils of Gertrude Whelan, Georgianna Rockwell, Hazel Larnkin, Florence Keepers Lewis, Justine Stotsenburg, William Schwenger, May A. Kolmer, Henry Marshall, Leone Kinder Rickman, Lucile Wagner and H. Otis Pruitt. a a a STRING ORCHESTRA TO PLAY HERE SUNDAY The Hugh McGibney string orchestra of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory will appear in concert at the John Herron Art Institute Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The program follows: Overture—''Liodoiska” Cherubini ‘ Emperor Variations” Haydn Two Mexican Folk Songs—- “ The Swallow” Findley “Remembrance” Seliza “Minuett’ Beethoven Violin Quartet— „ “Erotokan” Greig “Nobody Knows the Trouble I See White “Waltz” Brahms “Tango" Albeniz Harriett Payne, Georgia Bauman, Lorinda Cottingham. Margarite Biilo. ■ Serenade” Tschaiskowsky Andante, Allegro, Moderato. “Elegie.” Tema Russo. Lee Has New Job Rowland V. Lee. who directed such successes as “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu,” has signed anew agreement whereby Paramount will have his exclusive services for an extended term. Lee has just completed George Bancroft’s new picture, “Ladies Love Brutes,” and is now engaged in directing “The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu,” a sequel to the former story of the Chinese master mind. Guild Influence in Movie As one of the features of “The * King of Jazz,” John Murray Ander--1 son is adapting the scene of Asa’s I Death, much as it was done in the Theatre Guild production. Joseph Schildkraut will play the numbeis, which was the high spot of his performance in “Peer Gynt.” Elsie Completes Her Work Elsie Janis and Jack King have completed several new numbers for Paramount’s film frolic, “Paramount on Parade.”

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Edgar Norton, screen-famous for his portrayal of the master of court ceremony in “The Love Parade,” has been cast for an important role in George Bancroft’s newest starring picture for Paramount, “Ladies Love Brutes.” Geneva Mitchell, former Ziegfeld Follies girl, and Leon Errol’s leading woman in “Louie, the 14th,” Is the fifth of Charles (Buddy! Rogers’ leading women in his new starring picture for Paramount, “Safety in Numbers.” Other feminine leads are Kathryn Crawford, Carole Lombard, Virginia Bruce and Josephine Dunn. William Powell has it all figured out—in seven talking films he has spoken 11,491 words. Two thrilling airplane crashes mark Charles Rogers’ next “Young Eagles.” Jeanette MacDonald wears a hula skirt in “Let’s Go Native,” and Skeets Gallagher is king of a desert isle. Richard Wallace, who once was an assistant undertaker, directed Moran and Mack’s next, “Two Black Crows in the A. E. F.” Gary Cooper and Mary Brian are married in a military ceremony for “Only the Brave,” a Paramount romance of the Civil war. Eugene Pallette, the screen’s favorite “dumb detective,” again is playing Sergeant Heath in “The Benson Murder Case.” Previously he played the role in the “Canary” and “Greene” murder cases. Helen Kane, the girl who “boop. boopa dooped” her wav to stage and phonograph record fame, is to be presented by Paramount as “Dangerous Nan McGrew.” Harry' Green, dialect comedian, has been cast as Richard Arlen’s cowboy pal in “The Light of the Western Stars.” Paramount outdoors talking picture.

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Waltz Is Now Very Popular Lyric Ballroom Has Tw Nights for Old Dance. THE trend of the modem mus. to the slow and rhythmic kini has been a great factor in the increasing popularity of the w’tz especially w ith local dancers at the Lyric bnllritm. Two waltz nights have been featured in the Lyric ballroom each week instead of one as in the past, due to the demand of the dancers. So with this in mind E. W. Mush- | rush, the ballroom manages, announces that next week is to tx “Waltz week" in the Lyric uaurvom. Curtis Thompson and his orches- | tra have arranged special programs ! of mostly waltz tunes for the w’eek, | including tonight, and Sunday. “The Merry Widow Waltz” is to be made an event on Monday night This dance step is the most popular with the younger dancers. Tuesday night sees a revival of the “flat-foot waltz.” once one of the most popular ballroom steps oyer conceived. Another old-timer is “the rye waltz,” which promises to be a gala affair in the ballroom on Wednesday night. The “hesitation waltz,” as beautiful as any, and more recent, is scheduled for Thursday evening. The grand finale of the "Waltz week” comes Friday night when the “free style waltz” is the event. Special prizes for competitive dancing on these nights have been planned and will be given the best dancers of the various waltz steps. Dancing in the Lyric ballroom is an added feature for theater patrons, which entitles each person purchasing a theater ticket to free admittance to the ballroom. General dancing begins each evening at 8:30. A special ballroom ] price is also effective for those who wish only to dance. Work Starts on “Border Legion” With Richard Arlen. Fay Wray and Jack Holt in the featured roles, the all-talking production of Zane Grey’s story. “The Border Legion,” has just gone into production at the Paramount studios in Hollywood. Otto Brewer and Edwin Knopf, codirectors of “The Light of Western Stars,” are teamed again with this film. The picture marks Jack Holt’s return to westerns in which he won early fame. Cast tfl Be Announced Tom Reed has completed the continuity for “Lasca,” by Frank Desprez. Universal made this production once before, with Frank Mayo and Edith Roberts. The cast for the new talking production has not as yet been announced.

An Idea The motion picture version oi how a stage play is produced is occupying the attention of Director Richard Wallace.

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