Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1930 — Page 6

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LYRIC PLANS SPEEDWAY BILL FOR MANY VISITORS HERE

Monte Blue and Betty Compson With Myrna Loy Are the Big Names in “Isle of Escape.” a New Adventure —the Dixie Four Present on Bill. A SPECIAL program of stage and screen entertainment has been prepared by the management of the Lyric theater for the SpeedWay race week event. “Isle of Escape,'* anew all-talking Vitaphone production in which four of the living screen’s most popular stars are featured and a triple headliner RKO vaudeville stage show comprise the program. Monte Blue, Betty Compson. Noah Beery and Myrna Loy are the four featured players in the picture play, “Isle of Escape." The story concerns the terrific stiuggle of a handful of white men and women on a sin-swept South Sea island, to outwit bands of savage

natives who have no regard for conventions and laws of the whites. The South Sea locale of the production is said to have been reproduced with fidelity. The audience is taken in to the white settlements in remote outposts of “the islands.” and also into cannibal villages of head-hunting savages, where there are scenes of great excitement; and throughout the film the action H reported to set a swift pace. Howard Bretherton directed the production which was based on the novel by the same name and written by Jack McLaren. Marshall Montgomery, hailed as “America's foremost ventriloquist," heads the list of stage features. Montgomery and company, including Lucille De Haven and troupe of puppets, present what they style a “Nautical Oddity” called "At Four Bells.” The Dixie Four, a foursome of versatile singers and dancers, are next in mention. They are har- j monis. of the first order who mingle I fun and steps with their excellent | vocalizing. A fantasy of acrobatic feats and I dance steps is the forte of the Six | Franklins, a troupe of skilled | athletes and tumblers who are to be j third stellar feature of the stage | show. One other RKO vaudeville stage ; attraction and the usual short films 1 are included in the remainder of the show. “Anywhere by Air,” an all-sound and talking film specially presented j by the Curtiss-Wright Aviation Corporation, with reference to the modem efTect and popularity of flying, is to be an added feature of the screen program.

Sunday School Lesson

The International L'niform Sunday School Lesson for May tl. Christian Preparedness. Matt. 25:1-13. BY WM. E. GILROY, I>. T>. Editor of The ConKrceationalist “tjREPAREDNESS” is a subject X of which we have heard a great deal in recent years and concerning which there has been very much difference of opinion. In relation to the safety of the state and the maintenance of military strength as a means of safety, there has been wide difference of opinion. There are those who share Napoleon’s cynical idea that “God is on the side of the great battalions” —an idea that brought ultimate disaster in Napoleon's career and that for the most part has brought disaster to every people in hsitory who have trusted to the word. There are those who believe tat preparedness in the state and \fiety is rooted deeper in the promotion of friendship and in the development of those sound ideals and virtues without which there can not be a great and true society. Prepared for Anything Here in our lesson, however, we are reminded that preparedness has a personal and spiritual significance. There is a sense in which there is a sound philosophy of preparedness without reference to the thing for which one is to be prepared. There is in life a general slackness and inefficiency that would be fatal to any enterprise and that is essentially the denial of strength of character, quite independently of the ends to which character may be directed. There is a moral discipline of life upon which all success in any achievement depends, and without preparedness there is no guaranty that one can meet situations of difficulty as they arise. As with most of his teaching, Jesus enforced this matter not by theory but by a very effective illustration, an illustration that has become ingrained in literature and in our thought—the wise and foolish virgins going forth to meet the bridegroom facing this great occasion so differently where one might have supposed that the occasion itself would have ensured the fullest preparation. It is easy to emphasize the foolishness of the foolish virgins, to wonder how r they could have perpetrated anything so ridiculous, and yet the man or woman who has been • stranded some distance from a mirg station in these automobile days can not scoff at the foolish virgins. Perhaps we should discover exactly the sort of teaching that Jesus meant to emphasize if we realize that the Illustration that he usea applied to his own day just as the illustration of an automobilist who had passed many filling stations, only to run out of oil in a crisis, might illustrate the matter today. Preparation is a matter of forehandednefs. It is a matter of discipline and calculation. If it involved no thought, there would be nothing special to prepare for. It is almost impossible to discuss a lesson like this without dealing almost entirely in platitudes and commonplaces, yet these platitudes and commonplaces relate to the most important yand ordinary circumstances of life, lioss and even tragedy are constantly associated

MUTUAL Only Standard Burlesque in the City SPECIAL MIDNIGHT SHOW -i§. NORA FORD Shimmy Shaking Babies -SPEED GIRLS MIDNITE SHOW TONIGHT AT 11:30

Dance and Go to the Speedway Lyric Ballroom Will Let Guests Frolic Until Dawn. ONE of the big features of interest for patrons of the Lyric ballroom and Speedway race visitors will be the “All Night Party” which will be held on Thursday night in the ballroom. Special events and funmaking novelties are being secured in an effort to entertain all most royally on this “Dance ’Till Dawn" affair. Another special feature for the week will be ‘Tie Night” which is scheduled for Tuesday. The Butter Crust Pie Company is throwing a party and is serving its pies and refreshments to the dancers on this evening. The usual schedule of dancing continues at the ballroom. Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights being given over to waltzing. Curtis Thompson and his ballroom orchestra are preparing many special arrangements and musical novelties for the week.

not so much with evil intention as with sheer slackness and failure to do things at the proper time and in the proper way. Nothing is clearer than the fact that the foolish virgins meant no disrespect to the wedding occasion. No one was more surprised than themselves at their lack of oil in their lamps, and they took the easy way out of trying to share with the wise and well prepared virgins. Unpreparedness has a way of leaning on, and to that extent penalizing, those who are efficient and prepared. The world is full of those who not only neglect their own duty, but hamper and limit others in the fulfillment of their task. Our weaknesses help to destroy the strength of others. The hopeless discomfiture of the foolish virgins illustrates the irrevocable nature of human dereliction. There are things that, left undone at the proper time, can never be done. One need not read into this story any denial of God’s prerogative of mercy, here or hereafter, but the plain fact is emphasized that even repentance can never restore a situation that once lost is irrevocably lost. The soul may survive and recover, but it can never fully recover what was the soul’s full privilege.

Yes, It’s Marie

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Here is the way Marie Dressier looks while talking over the telephone in “Bought Short.” Marie has the comedy sendees of Polly Moran and everything points to a national fun sensation. This movie has been booked at Loew s Palace. It will be shown here soon. Another Writer Goes West Marie Baumer, author of “Penny Arcade” and “Town Boy,” stage plays, has arrived in Hollywood from New York to join the writing staff at the Paramount studios. Her first assignment has not yet been announced.

AMUSEMENTS

Recitals Announced Next Week Schools of Music Plan Big Events for Students ! in City. FRANCES WISHARD and Edwin Jones of the piano and violin faculty 4>f the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will present a group of students in a recital at the North unit, 3411 North Pennsylvania ! street, on Monday evening. May 26, at 8 o’clock. Pupils taking part are Joan McCord, Bobby Clifford, Mary Let Boggs. Dorothy Ann Fisher. Lee Clifford Jr., Elizabeth Kissel. Emmy Lou Posson, William Wells, Victor La Mar, Betty Lou Phillips, Lois Nicolai, Jerome Ettinger, Marjr Alberta Gates, Ruth Sutter, Charles Aldea, Betty Macy, Man' Aldea, Betty Kreutzinger, James Keene, Margaret Conner, Ann Aufderheide, Lois Morton, Marylee P. Porter and Jane King. On Saturday evening, Wilma bavis Hine presented her pupils in a dramatic art recital at the Odeon. Winona and Billie McClintic, Imogene, Margaret and Betty Jo Laughner, Margaret Fischer, Camilla and Patty Todd Wright, Geraldine Staley, Charlotte Smartz, Majetta Jean Stewart, Marilyn Wasson, John Joseph Blackwell, Betty Lo Schorn, Betty Jean Johnson, Eleanor McClintic, Lenora Brown and Leander Goodwin took part. They were assisted by Suzanne and Jack Bolin, Martha Jane Thompson, Jane and Nadine Crosby, pupils of Louise Powell in a variety of dances. A violin quartet, Jean Chenoweth, Alonzo Brown, William Schneider and Wayne Van Osdol, pupils of Stanley Norris of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music faculty, played on Friday at Carmel, Ind.. at the home of Helen Talge Brown for the chorale section of the Matinee Musicale. nun DRAMA DEPARTMENT TO HAVE A PROGRAM Frances Beik of the dramatic art department of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will present thirteen graduate pupils in three evening programs, at the Odeon. The first will be given Tuesday the 27th when Katherine Elwood, Rae Cawdell, Harold Cravs, Ross Rissler, Mary Elizabeth Trabue, Evelyn Folfard, Gordon Bringle, James Kittle, Betty Compton and Kenneth Lemons will present: “Evening Dress Indispensable,” “Stuff O’ Dreams” and “The Florist’s Shop.” The Butler Women’s Glees Club of sixty voices, directed by Franklin Taylor of the Arthur Jordan Con- ; servatory of Music and accompanied ! by Virginia Harbaugh, gave a conl cert on Friday evening at the j Methodist Episcopal church of j Brightwood. Mary E. Wilhite of the faculty of ‘ the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of I Music will present her pupils in an | organ recital at the Broadway Methodist church on Wednesday evening, May 23. They will be assisted by Lorinda Cottingham, violinist. Mary Margaret Hirschman, Martha Davis, Elizabeth Lupton, Constance Davy, Gaynell Lashbrook, Dorothy Dean and Maude Barker will give the program. The second graduation recital of pupils of Frances Beik will be given ! on Saturday evening, May 31, at the | Odeon. I Ruth Wagner, Janet Morris, j Frances Starr, Mary Elizabeth | Trabue, William Cragen, William Sines, Harold Crays, Lillyon Snyder, Maxine McKay, Gordon Dringle, Evelyn Wolfard, Marian Fehrenbach will present Booth Tarkington's “Clarence;” Edword Sheldon’s “Romance” and “Jazz and Minuet.” On Monday night, June 2, a group of students of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will give two scenes from Weber’s opera, “Freisehutz” (The Free Shot). Lillia Adam Flickinger will direct the vocal part and Adolph Schellschmidt will conduct the orchestra part which the Schellschmidt ensemble will play. Elizabeth Haerie will play the role •of Agatha; Eugenia Magdison, that of Aeunchen, and Raymond Hahl i will do Max, the lover, i Carolyn Coffin, Katherine Carlisle, , Laura Fiscus and Vera Sudbrock i are the bridesmaids. Recital is open : to the public. n a k ORGAN RECITAL IS ANNOUNCED Mrs. Pearl Greulich, teacher of I organ for Indiana Central college, will present three pupils in a public recital Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the first United Brethren i church, corner Park- avenue and Walnut street. The organists are Miss Frances Elizabeth Wallace, Miss Eleanor Johnson, and Fred Koehm. They will be assisted by Paul Sickafoose, tenor, pupil of Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, head of the music department of the college. Sickafoose recently won the Lawrence Tibbett cup in the contest connected with the showing of the j “Rogue Song.” He will include in j his numbers two songs composed i by Mrs. Burroughs, j The program will be as follows: Maestoso " Macdowell “Retrosnection" .. Hogan ••PreliHie and Fugue In E Minor" Bach Frances Elizabeth Wallace "Puna" McGill A Dream' Bartlett Paul Sickafoose "Melodie Religieuse” Shellev j “Allegro Poffiooso" Lacev “Sea Gardens” Cooke “Night Song" Stults Fred W. Koehm “Wondrin’ Whv "..Jane Johnson Burroughs “Wancer Thirst” .Jane Johnson Burroughs Paul Sickafoose “Berceuse” Janefelt “Hymn of Triumnn" Harris “Postiude in G Flat” Rinck Eleanor Johnson Miss Wallace will be the accompanist.

New Name Paramount Publix Corporation, is the new official title of Paraipount Famous Lasky Corporation. The change became effective today, following ratification at the recent meeting on April IS of the stockholders, to whom the new title was recommended by the board of directors.

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1— Rudolph Reuter will be one of the artists on the Civic Music series program at Caleb Mills hall next season. 2 Two members of the Sox Franklins, now the chief variety event

Devine Has a Speedway/ Dance Idea Indiana Ballroom to Be Scene of Novel Event Thursday. A N announcement coming from the office of the Indiana Roof ballrocm v states that McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, nationally known colored radio and recording orchestra, have been engaged for one night to encounter Chic Myers and his orchestra in a battle of music on the Indiana Roof next Thursday evening. The battle of music will be the outstanding feature on the Indiana Roof’s annual Speedway bail. A miniature 500-mile auto race is planned as an appropriate entertainment feature on the evening’s program, and will be operated upon the same principle as the dprby stunt with which Tom Devine, Roof manager, has been entertaining the ballroom patrons during the past two weeks. Miniature automobiles will be substituted for the horses used in the derby race. The ballroom management also announced a Pictorial night, planned and sponsored by the E. B. Nicholson Studios, Monument Circle, to be held in the ballroom next Wednesday evening. The announcement stated that photographs valued at S3OO would be given away as door- gifts and that any person entering the ballroom on Wednesday would be eligible as a winner. The roof management will continue with its new summer policy of dancing on Saturday,. Sunday, Wednesday and Friday nights. According to Devine, only the intervention of a holiday program similar to next Thursday’s Speedway dance will cause a diversion from the summer policy.

At the Circle

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Alexander Gray

One of the chief singers in “Song of the Flame” is Alexander Gray. Now at the Circle.

NOW SHOWING 68-Ton WHALE 55-Feet Exhibited on Special Railroad Car ENCASED IN KENTUCKY AT GLASS OLIVER AYE. Largest Sea Monster Ever Captured Lectures 9 A. M. to 11 P. M. —ILLUMINATED NIGHTS—WE APOLOGIZE The night crowds have been very large and in order to give everybody an opportunity to appreciate the exhibit it was necessary to handle the crowds a little more slowly. WE SUGGEST You Bring the Kiddies in Mornings and Afternoons to Avoid the Large Night Crowds ADMISSION—ADULTS, 25c . . CHILDREN, 10c

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THEATERS

WITH Stuart Walker in cunierence with people interested in dramatic stock for Indianapolis during the fall and winter season, there is proof that at least people are interested in the stock situatiton in this city. Walker was in Indianapolis this week in conference with C. Roltare Eggleston and the owners of English’s theater. No definite announcement was made regarding what Walker said. It has been known to the writer that ap effort has been in progress for several months to bring Walker back to Indianapolis next fall at the same time that he opens in Cincinnati. *

I know that when I acted upon requests of readers of this department who seriously desire stock productions and began to take a poll whether Charles Berkcll would be supported, I received hundreds of letters from readers. Just this week, I received more letters from people stating they were willing and ready to sign and nay up for season seats in advance. I honestly believe that there is a field for stock during the winter. Hot legitimate theaters without cooling systems can not compete with the splendidly cooled movie theaters in this city in the summer. I hope that Stuart Walker can be assured of sufficient support to open a season at English's in the fall. Nothing definite has been given out either by Walker or Berkell. nun I certainly got a great kick going out with Roltare Eggleston to the undertakers exhibit at the state fairgrounds this week. Eggleston went out with two girl entertainers that he had booked to play the accordians and sing. It sure was a strange sight to see these beautilully dressed girls in short skirts going around the coffins and tho like on exhibit singing “Happ* Days” and other peppy tunes of the day. The girls admitted that it was all rather creepy but they wtv. there to sing and play and they did. ts a tt 0 A question is asked: “What did you like best at the Civic Theater this season?’’ My answer is “The Racket” as it is the best done production that the Civic has given in ihe last five years. It is bully theater and has been well attended. It deserved capacity at every performance. Next to “Ten Nights in a Barroom,” it probably did the biggest gross business of the season. it a a Another question: “Who is going to show ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ in this city?” Ido not know, ft is my impression that it has not been definitely sold to any theater in this city as yet. Even as you read this, it might be different.

He Signs

The Theatre Guild has signed Franchot Tone to be a member of its acting company. He is one of the younger actors and has acted, for a large part of the current season with the Guild companies. He was with Katherine Cornell in “The Age of Innocence,” and earlier this season in “Cross Roads.” From that he went into the production of “Red Rust,” made by the Theatre Guild Studio, later succeeded Douglass. Montgomery in “Meteor” apd is at present playing in “Hotel Universe.”

AMUSEMENTS

at the Lyric. 3—Nicholae Sokoloff will bring his famous Cleveland Symphony orchestra to Indianapolis next season as a Civic Music Association event.

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Joe Steiner, upper, and Tommie Mcriarty.

Two members of the Junior Melody boys are Joe Steiner, 12, banjoist, and Tommie Moriarty, . 12, pianist. A program will be I presented by the orchestra Sunday morning at the state reforatory at Pendleton. George L. Stork is director.

AMUSEMENTS

tm©NIAL Illinois & New York St*. STARTING TODAY 44 —■ BUTTONS FARES _ (Sh IRSI PRESENTS SINGING— V J® DANCING— JT LAUGHING SHOW— — — l a*ter ‘hail any car on the track. FOLLIES” Win. II —■——!—l— I SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW IN BUBLESQUE WITH . BUTTON FARES HELEN MORGAN—IRISH—MAXj INK—ANDY ANDERSON AND A ! SPLENDID CAST. mum i— ■■in—imu*— RUNWAY CHORUS ALL-TALKING FEATURE. “TROOPERS THREE” MIDNITE SHOWS SAT. & THURB. MAT. 2Qc. NIGHTS SOC.

Germans to Give Play on Sunday The Liederkranz of This • City to Repeat a Drama. THE dramatic section of the Indianapolis Liederkranz is to give a German play entitled, “Es War in Heidelberg,” Sunday afternoon, May 25, at 2:30 o’clock. At a previous performance before a large audience in February of this year, this modern comedy-drama earned a sweeping victory. The direction is in the hands of Paul Thau. The cast is as follows: Justus Waldorf, factory owner Julius Matrhul Melanie, his wife Mrs. Paul Kulke Werner, ins stepson Fritz Hessmer Annalics his stepdaughter. Mrs. E. Michel Hans Teltow. the nephew. Arthur Gaertner Armgard Lauterbach. an heiress Mrs. Arthur Gaertner Johann Schwalbe, butler Paul Thau Antonie Mueller, laundress Mrs. Otto Matschke Resi. her daughter.. . .Miss Helene Neuman Sound, a student Adolph Blckel Bachus. a student Adolph Wldmer The Indianapolis hall is located at 1421 East Washington street. The society was founded in 1872. Adolph Widmer is president. Goulding Writes Another Edmund Goulding, who recently directed Nancy Carroll in her own story, “The Devil’s Holiday,” is writing another original story which he will direct at the Paramount studios in Hollywood.

AMUSEMENTS

EXTRA! “ANYWHERE BY AIR,” *SS r ca^jj^]y 1111, ShhmptMmf/ mnr Come to this languorous isle in WijjEN the South Seas, far beyond the IdftAU j Pul® convention, where two SjngSk/ ~ lovers play out their destiny in g.BA "aT a sensational drama of elemental Li *Wt *lj emotions. Here is drama in the raw > iM f * stark gripping—breath-taking. B AQTtf* m ■ Filmed against fascinating and Hi V W realistio backgrounds. Isßb I —OnThsStai/f— | ML MARSHALL MOOTGOMSWr If |CT)Y, AMERICA'S FOREVJST VBN7RILOQUIST,n f'— A NAUTICAL ODC'TY *AT FOUR BELLS" f T?J j|4& FOUR /J&PI if SIX FRANKLINS j / ,fj ,J M f/ ’ J ACROBATIC FEATS AND DANCE STEPS J§ jM /WlTl IJ] HARRY RAPPE Funster” jjjj gDANCEEXfgyLYRICBAiUOOM

RIVERSIDE AMUSEMENT PARK FREE RIDES TONIGHT It’s Riverside’s Annual Treat From 8 until 9 o’clock this evening the big rides and other fun devices will be operated without charge. GORGEOUS FIREWORKS TONIGHT BALLOON ASCENSION SUNDAY

MAY 24, 1930

Riverside Will Give Free Fete Two-Day Celebration Will Mark Opening of Amusement Park. TJ IVERSIDE amusement park will hold its annual free party tc’-'jht, and ' om 8 uni.il 9 o'clock, the big coaster rides and other fun devices will be operated without cost to the park's patrons. For many years this unique feature has been eagerly looked forward to as the season opens, not only by the children, but by grownups as well, as a mad scramble ensues among the youngsters to see how many times they can “make the rounds” of the amusement features in the time allotted. And as a fitting dessert to the feast of fun tonight, there will be a gorgeous display of fireworks in the center of the big amusement park, with expert pyrotechnists in charge. There will be beautiful set pieces and hundreds of aerial bombs scattering their varicolored stars in the heavens. Tonight’s party will be* the start of a two-day celebration to mark the official opening of Riverside, Sunday afternoon, Lorel Starkey, girl balloonist, will ascend and attempt a multiple parachute leap from the sky. , Archie W. Colter, manager of Riverside, announces the park is now in midsummer form. The many features have been completed, among them the picnic pavilion and the new aerial platform, the pretzel, the tilt-a-whirt and scores of new and novel games in Kewpie Alley. Buchanan Goes Paramount ifkck Buchanan, musical comedy and screen star, has reached Hollywood preparatory to making his bow in a Paramount picture in which he will be directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Buchanan, who recently ended a successful Broadway engagement in the revue, “Wake Up and Dream,” will have Jeannette MacDonald playing opposite him.

AMUSEMENTS

Horse Show and King Bros. I-X-L Rodeo Directed by Vaughn Richardson Cowboy*! Cowgirl*! Indians! World Champion Rider*l Benefit of Junior League Charities 50c~Admission—50c May 20-25 Nights, 7:45; Afternoon*, 2:15 Matinee Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday Coliseum State Fairgrounds A $2 show for 50c—Bring the kids.