Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1930 — Page 7

MAY 24, 1930.

NORMA SHEARER OPENS IN ‘THE DIVORCEE’ AT PALACE

“Song of the Flame.” Made from a Fine Stage Play, Is the Chief Offering at the Circle Theater for the Week —“Ingagi” Still at Ohio. WORD coir.es from the West coast to the effect that Norma Shearer s newest all-talking picture, “The Divorcee," directed by Robert Z. Leonard, is the most pretentious production given Miss Shearer since the actress was elevated to stardom. “The Divorcee.” starting today at Loew's Palace, was adapted by Nick Grinde and Zelda Sears story by Ursula Parrott, the continuity and dialogue being supervised by John Meehan. An important supporting cast was selected for the production, including Chester Moiris. Conrad Nagel. Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge, Helene Millard. Robert Elliott, Mary Doran, Tyler Brooke, Helen Joh.n-

sod. Zelda Scars and George Irving. Information is that the picture presents the most sophisticated treatment of the question of divorce and the loose moral code characteristic of modern society yet seen on the screen. Miss Shearer has the role of a woman who seeks to equal her husband's infidelity by matching his conduct. It is said a tremendous amount of money was expended on scenes and costuming for this picture, the locale shifting from New York to a mountain resort and then to Paris and including on the way a yachting sequence, which alone was said to have cost a fortune. Inasmuch as the characters of the story are represented as being members of America's millionaire class, it was necessary to construct sets appropriate to the homes, amusement places and other environments in which such persons gathered, the report being that in no other picture has there been so lavish a display of smart interiors and striking costumes. A further interesting item in connection with “The Divorcee" is revealed in the report that it will contain an all-colored revue directed by Sammy Lee, former Ziegfeld dance coach. According to Lee, the cast for the revue, which will be staged in a Harlem “black and tan” cafet setting, was picked from professional talent working in the San Francisco “darktown” district. Robert Z. Leonard was assigned direction of “The Divorcee” following completion of “In Gay Madrid,” a forthcoming Ramon Novarro picture. His most recent production was “Marianne,” in which Marion Davies was starred. What is regarded as the most laughable and entertaining comedy yet turned out by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy will also be a feature on the program, when their latest “Brats.” will be seen and heard at the Palace. s The Hearst Metrotone News Review, and a Grantland Rice Sportlight will complete the bill. an a “SONG OF THE FLAME” AT THE CIRCLE “Song of he Flame,” said to be one of Hollywood’s greatest spectacle pictures made since the advent of sound films, is now playing at the Circle theater. It is a First National production, made entirely in Technicolor. Alan Crosland directed. “Song of the Flame” is said to have offered many problems because of its great production size. Thousands of persons had to be handled beneath the microphones and the strong lights needed for Technicolor photography. Some of the color scenes had to be made at night and under unusually difficult lighting conditions, it is said. • Music had to be brought in with proper motivation to fit the new film technique. Singers must break into song because of a reason, not just because the song w r ? called for in the script. These were only a few of the pioneering problems met and overcome by Crosland in bringing this spectacle which cost $1,000,000 and took over six months to film, to the screen. “Song of the Flame” features Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire, Noah Beery, Alice Gentle, Inez Courtney and Bert Roach. Lester Huff is presenting an interesting solo during this week. The short subject prog rn includes Lew Mayor in “Gym Jams.” “The Cleaners” and Taylor Holmes in “Dad Knows Best.” A Paramount sound news reel completes the bill. tt tt u JOLSON HELD OVER AT APOLLO A1 Jolson is appearing for the second week at the Apollo in a picture quite different from any of the star's earlier triumphs. In “Mammy,” he plays the part of A1 Fullep, an end-man in a minstrel show who loves the daughter of the owner of the troupe and has more or less serious squabbles on that score. Both story and songs of the picture were written by Irving Berlin. In the latter, Berlin and Jolson collaborated. Jolson’s renditions of these songs is said to be satisfying, but it has been remarked that they elicit laughter instead of tears. He does not forget to give bits of his old favorites. The support was selected by Jolson personally, and includes Lois Moran as Nora Meadows, who not only makes the hearts of the min-

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strel men beat faster, but can set a whole town agog by donning the garb of a minstrel man and taking’ part in the big parade. All the color and glitter of the costumes are caught by Technicolor, which is u. id in many sequences. Louira, Dresser is cast as Jolson’s “mammy” and Lowell Sherman is interlocutor of the show and rival for the hand of the fair Nora. Others in the cast are Tully Marshall and Hobart Bosworth. Vita phone acts. Screen Oddities and Fox Movietone News are included on the program. i non DR. FU RETURNS TO INDIANA SCREEN Readers of Sax Rohmer’s mystery stories and persons who have never read him, it is said, will be pleased with Paramount's second reproduction of one of his thrilling tales, “The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu,” which is now playing at the Indiana theater. On the stage this week Sammy Cohen, famous screen comic, is appearing in person in the Publix stage presentation, “Puttin’ on the Dog.” “In “The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu” is said to be Rohmer’s famous pen characters, living and breathing in the medium of the all-talking screen. The thrilling glamor that permeates all hi stories is said to be faithfully reproduced by a cast of competent artists. Warner Oland, who played the title role in “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu,” again performs as the insidious peril of the East in “The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu.” He is engaged in a renewed battle of wits with O. P. Heggie as Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard. Jean Arthur is again seen and heard as the winsome Lia Eltham, ward of the Oriental doctor, and Neil Hamilton repeats in the role of Dr. Jack Petrie, the young Britisher who has been marked for vengeance at the hands of Dr. Fu. “Puttin’ on the Dog” surrounds Sammy Cohen with a cast of stage celebrities, including Doris Roche, Bobby Baldwin, George Ali, Barbarina and Pal, Jud Brady’s Collies and the Fred Evans girls. Dessa Byrd this week is presenting a production organlogue in which she tells a story with popular song hits. A Paramout sound news reel completes the program. n u a “INGAGI” STAYS AT THE OHIO “Ingagi,” a motion picture dealing with wild game hunting in Africa, is now playing its third week at the Ohio theater. Many pictures of this sort have been made, but “Ingagi,” which is said to be native for gorilla, is said to have a thrill for every few feet of film. It is a running record of the exploits of Sir Hubert Winstead and Captain Daniel Swayne. With their safari, they penetrated to the district above Lake Kivu and there, amidst the fastnesses of Mt. Mikeno and Mt. Visoke, they came upon the objects of their search—gorillas. They went further and are said to have found what may be the fabled “missing link” creatures half-human, half-ape, apparently a strange ape-like child, women halfwild, things that are read of in traveler’s tales. Two all-talking comedies are an the same bill this week. They are “A Million Me’s” and “Belle of the Night.” A talking news reel completes the program Ed Gets Big Contract Edward Sloman, who came to the Paramount studios a few months ago as a free-lance director to make “The Kibitzer,” has been given a long-term contract by that company.

Just So Long Gowns with sw-eeping trains are again in the fashionable limelight, but they are not Chic in the public places for dining and dancing, according to Travis Banton, creator of Paramount fashions. The dance frock may be long, but it should miss the floor by a mere Inch or so to enable the wearer to step gracefully and easily about.

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1 Warner Oland again is the evil Fu in “The Return of Fu Manchu,” now at the Indiana. 2—-George Bancroft looks like this in “Ladies Love Brutes,” which will be shown at some time in the future at the Ohio following the run of “Ingagi.” 3 Norma Shearer has the chief role in “Divorcee,” which opens today at the Palace.

j Dr. O. W. Fifer to Be Principal Speaker Sunday at Home-Coming Services at Barth Place M. E.

THE Barth Place Methodist Episcopal church will observe Sunday as home-coming day. Dr. O. W. Fifer, district superintendent of the Indianapolis district, will deliver the sermon at the morning hour of‘worship at 10:45. A basket dinner will be held in the church dining room. At 2:30 in the afternoon Dr. L. C. Bentley, superintendent of the Kokomo district, north Indiana Conference, and former superintendent of the Indianapolis district, will deliver a special message. At 7:30 in the evening the Rev. D. W. Noble, retired minister of tho Indiana conference, and twice pastor of Barth Place church, will preach. A history of the church will, be given by Mrs. Della Hill. Special music will be furnished by a young people's chorus, men’s quartet; also by Mr. Ryan, who was superintendent of Barth Place Sunday school thirty years ago, and by the Rev. Stanley Hendricks, educational director at Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, and Mrs. Hendricks. An old-fashioned love feast will be one of the features of the afternoon service.. Former members and pastors are invited to attend. a u a MEMORIAL IiAY SERVICE ANNOUNCED At the Hillside Christian church, special Memorial day services were be held. The pastor, Homer Dale, will preach on “Footprints on the Sands of Time.” Soldiers of all wars will be in attendance and at least two organizations will attend in a body. The minister is himself a Spanish war veteran. The theme of the evening sermon will be “The Cost of Pentecost.” a a tt PASTOR TO PREACH ON “THE PENTECOST” At the First Moravian Episcopal church, Twenty-second street and Broadway, the pastr, the Rev. F. P. Stocker, will preac ',t the services at 11 a. m. and 7: p. m. The subject of the morn.net sermon will be “Peter, the Pentecost Preacher," and the evening theme will be “Pentecost and personal Salvation.” These sermons are part of a series preparatory to the approaching 1900th anni-ersary of Pentecost. u a a THE REV. KEUREN TO TALK SUNDAY The Rev. Floyd Vah Keuren, rector *f Christ church, Monument circle, will preach at the 10:45 a. m. service on Sunday, the fifth Sunday after Easter. The other services will be a quiet celebration of the holy communion at 8 a. m. and church school at 9:30 a. m. There will also be a church hour kindergarten for small children while parents are attending the 10:45 service. The annual diocesan meeting of the Girls’ Friendly Society will be held at Christ church beginning with registration at 5 p. m. this evening, followed by the opening service at 5:30 p. m„ dinner at 6 p. m. and the business meeting at 7 p. m. , Immediately following the business meeting, Miss Winifred Dunkle, G. p. S, field secretary for the Fifth province, will make an address. On Sunday morning at 8 a. m., there will be a corporate communion

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of the G. F. S. followed by breakfast at the Columbia Club at 8:45 a. m. The meeting will close with G. F. S. members and delegates attending the 10:45 a. m. service in a body. tt CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SUBJECT ANNOUNCED “Soul and Body” is the subject of the lesson-sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, May 25. Among the citations which comprise the lesson-sermon is the following from the Bible: This I say then. Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye can not do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit (Gal. 5: 16- , 18, 25). The lesson-sermon also includes the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health Witto Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity and" the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace. tt n o GROCERY EMPLOYES TO BE SPECIAL GUESTS The employes of the Standard Grocery Company will be the special guests of the Men’s Bible class o$ the West Park Christian church, Sunday morning at 9:30. Howard M. Meyer, prominent llocal attorney and active worker in Bible school and religious work, will address the class. Meyer spoke last Sunday and at the close of h.s speech, the men liked him so well they voted to have him return again at his convenience. As the regular teacher, H. V. Racquet, was going to be out of the city he promised to speak next Sunday. Special music will be in charge of Mrs. Carl Roberts. Leroy Mellett will lead the class singing and Mrs. Oscar Beganz will be at the piano. All west side men are cordially invited to attend. j MUSICAL PROGRAM j TO BE GIVEN AT CHURCH j A “special request” musical pro- | gram will be given at the Central ! Christian church, Delaware and j Walnut streets, Sunday evening at [7:45 o’clock. j The program will be given by ! members of the quartet and chorus, I under the direction of Harold iE. Winslow. Members cf the quar-

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4 Betty Compson and Monte Blue in “Isle of Escape, ’ now the movie feature at the Lyric. 5 Bernice Clair gives her lovely personality to “Song of the Flame,” now at the Circle. 6AI Jolson continues in “Mammy” at the Apollo for the week.

tet are Mrs. Florence Parkin Welch, soprano; Miss Caroline Gauld, contralto: Mr. F. L. Gibbons, tenor, and Mr. Winslow, baritone. The organist'is Mrs. Amy Cleary Morrison. The program is as follows: Anthem—“ God That Madest Earth and Heaven” Matthews Anthem—" Christ When a Child” a Legend .. r Tschailkowsky Quartet—“ Evening Hymn”.... Rheinberger Anthem —"The Silent Sea” Neidlinger Anthem—" Souls of the Righteous”..Node Anthem —“O, Holy, Holy Lord” Dett Anthem —“Going Home" (“Largo" from "The New World Symphony”) Dvorak A portion of the oratorio "The prodigal son.” By Arthur Sullivan. “Love Not the World” Contralto solo. Miss Caroline Gauld. • O That Thou Hadst Hearkened" Soprano recitative and aria, Mrs. Florence Parkin Welch. “Come Ye Children” Tenor recitative and aria, F. L. Gibbons, “The Lord Is Nigh" Quartet. "Thou, O Lord, Art Our Father" Chorus. tt tt tt CHURCH SERVICE ANNOUNCED NEW TYPE Anew type of service will be introduced at the popular Sunday evening service of the Sutherland Presbyterian church in the form of a hymn fellowship hour. The old and familiar hymns of the church will be discussed, after which the congregation, quartet and a visitng soloist, Mrs. Fred Knodel, will sing hymns and their variations. Some of the hymns that will be used are ‘ Lead Kindly Light,” “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,’’ “O That Will Be Glory,” “In the Secret of His Presence,” “Jesus Lover of My Soul,” “The Ninety and Nine,” “Now the Day Is Over, ’ “God Be With You,” “Sunset and Evening Star” and many others. This hymn festival will begin at 7 o’clock. At the morning service the Rev. Florizel A. Pfleiderer will discuss the theme “Salvation.” The Indianapolis Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church will meet Monday morning at 10 a. m. with the Rev. M. W. Clair of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, making the chief address. At the Brightwood Methodist Episcopal church, Dr. Preston Hyde of India will talking in the morning. At night, the Rev. Victor B. Hargitt, pastor, will preach. At the Bellaire Methodist Episcopal church, the Rev. Walter B. Grimes will speak Sunday morning on “The Family and the Church.” At night, “What Can God Do in Your Daily'Life?” an evangelistic sermon. A revival campaign at the Missionary Tabernacle will close Sunday with an all-day meeting. A Sunday school rally will be held at 9:30 a. m. At 10:45 a. m., the Rev. Otto H. Nater will speak on “Our

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Inheritance.” Dr. Monroe Vayhinger, evangelist, will speak at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. A young people’s meeting will be held at 6:30 p. m. with Miss Helen Abrams in charge. At the Community Christian church, the Rev. A. V. Noble will speak Sunday on “The Source of Progress” and “To Whom Shall We Go.” “The Call of the Hills” is the morning theme of the Rev. F. T. Taylor of the East Park Methodist Episcopal church. At night, a young people’s service will be held. “The Holy Spirit Hindered” and “Pentecost and Personal Salvation” are the announced themes of the Rev. William. Talbott J#nes of the Edwin Ray Methodist Episcopal church. At the Centenary Christian church, the Rev. Clarence E. Wagner speaks Sunday on “What Mean You by This Service?” and “Whatever, Wherever and Whenever.” “The Pentecost Message” is the morning theme of the Rev. Joseph A. Mears at the First United Presbyterian church. Young People’s meeting at 6:30 p. m. “Our Father’s God,” a Memorial day sermon, morning theme at the Grace Methodist Episcopal church by the Rev. B. Brooks Shake. At night, “The Preacher of Pentecost.” At the Downey Avenue Christian church, the Rev. B. R. Johnson preaches in the morning on “Pentecost and the Holy Spirit,’’ and at night, “God and the Summer Time.” At the Indianapolis Gospel Tabernacle, farewell services will be conducted by the Rev. Charles Kingston at 11 a. m., 3 and 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Mr. Kingston is leaving Indianapolis to take up evangelistic work in England. At the Garden Baptist church, the Rev. Clyde L. Gibbens announces as his subject, “David, the Model User of God’s Word,” and “Seven Attitudes of the Christian Life.” At St. Philips Episcopal church, holy eucharist will be observed at 7:30 a. At 11 a. m. choral eucharist and sermon, “The Modern Pharisees,” by the Vicar, the Rev. Melbourne B. Mitchell. At the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, the Rev. E. P. Jewett will speak in the morning cn “The Testimony of Experience.” a tt a \ READY TO ENLARGE THE CHURCH Following the regular 11 a. m. services at the All Souls Unitarian church, a brief program, the first blow will be struck in the razing of the old dwelling south of the church so as to make way for the new church addition. Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks announces

the following order of service at 11 a. m.: Prelude "The Knights" Volkmann “Overture to Lohengrin" Wagner Hvmn 336 Third Service Covenant Anthem Words of Aspiration Responsive Reading—2sth Selection Scripture Hvmn * Notices and Offering "Aria. Stradella” Flotow Address —“A Religion for Today” Hymn Benediction Postlude “Albumblatt" Wagner The Rev. L. B. Moseley, pastor of the Emerson Avenue Baptist church, will speak Sunday morning on “The Path of the Righteous.” His evening subject will be “A Proof of Christ That Speaketh in Me.” At Calvary United Brethren church, State and Hoyt avenues, the Rev. L. P. Cooper, will preach on the subject, “The Christ of Pentecost,” at a combined service next Sunday morning at 9:30. The Sunday school classes will study the lesson following the sermon. The Rev. Milford Barrick will preach at the night service at 7:45 on “A Stranger on the Shore.” Mr. Barrick will sing two baritone solos, and will also address the adult group at the Christian Endeavor hour at 6:45. At the Second Moravian Episcopal church, corner Thirty-fourth and Hovfey streets, the pastor, the Rev. Vernon W. Couillard, will preach at the morning service on the theme, “Peter, the Pentecost Preacher," and at the evening service on “Pentecost and Personal Salvation.” The Rev. L. C. E. Fackler. pastor of St. Matthew Lutheran church, East New York at Oxford streets, announces for the theme of his Sunday morning sermon: “God’s Word Shall Not Return Void.” In the evening his sermon subject will be, “He Ascended Into Heaven.” On Tuesday evening, May 27, Miss Pearl Sindlinger will be hostess to the Dorcas Girls, The seniors of Indiana Central college will have charge of the Sunday evening service at 7:30. Everitt Bish, the class president, will preside. The seniors will occupy the choir in graduating costume. One of the members, Randolph Copeland, will preach the sermon. The pastor, the Rev. George L. Stine, will preach Sunday morning at 10:30 on “Prepared Stones.” At the ' Northwood Christian church, the subject of Dr. Grafton’s Sunday morning sermon is “The Gift of Power.” At the Brookside United Erethren church the every member canvass will be launched at the morning worship service and the pastor will speak on the theme, “How Much Owest Thou Unto My Lord.” A memorial service will be held in the evening and the pastor will speak on the theme, “Will We Know Our Loved Ones In Heaven?”

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Corey Is Head of College Dancer Takes Over Hewes School of Dancing Here. ANP exceptional interest to Indi- '*-' anapolis is the announcement that the Hewes College of of Fine Arts, an institution of some twenty years’ standing, will hereafter be known as the Corey College of Fine Arts, with Arthur Corey as the director and Raymon S. Drexler s business manager. While the organ, piano, violin, voice and allied departments arc being retained intact, the studios of dancing and artistic research are being completely reconstructed to new policies and methods. The Corey-Drexler agreement covers a period of ten years and stipulates the erection of a suitable edifice within five years which shall include a concert hall of ample proportions and equipped with ultramodern lighting facilities. The present school embraces a theatrical producing department and has already opened its first unit of Corey Dancers at Terre Haute. The well-known Corey collection of rare volumes on the dance and music is now maintained at the Corey residence studio, *1924 Talbot avenue, where the books are open to all for consultation and study. Arthur Corey has offered three scholarships of one year each to the dancers of Indianapolis. The first of these has been awarded to Miss Myrna Celete and the second has just been given to Miss Florence McShane. The third is still i open and examinations are being held regularly at the main studios to determine the eligibility of contestants. In spite of his youth, Arthur Corey has appeared as stellar dancer in such Broadway musical extravaganzas as “Up In the Clouds,” Earl Carroll's “Vanities,”* “Spice of 1922,” “It’s Up to You,” “Sparkles of 1926” and others, and I has made several headline tours over the Radio-Keith-Orpheum circuits with his own spectacular acts. He has operated schools of dancing and the allied arts at Chicago and in Indianapolis before, and slumbersf lumbers among his more successul pupils, Miss Polly Walker, star of the musical ftlmplay “Hit the Deck,” Louise Brooks, Lois Syrell, Dorothy Rae and many other celebrities of the stage and screen. While Corey’s methods of instruction are reputed to be entirely his own, his work is based upon the studies of Tarasoff, Pavley, Oukrainsky, Fokine, Abbott, Ceccetti, Albertierri, Denishawn and others, and his acrobatic knowledge was secured under the personal guidance of the famous Michael.

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The Civic theater, under the direction of George Somnes, will present a one-act play, “The Death of Titian,” by Hugo Von Hoffmannthal, at the John Herron Art Institute Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The cast is composed of Alnnon Coble-, Albert Deluse, Isaac Keen, Duane McKinney. Kenneth Rothschild, Theodore Sedam, Mary Florence Fletcher, Anna Lee Howell and : Mae Jarvis. The play is given in connection ; with the exhibition of stage sets j which is being shown at the institute during May. There is no admission charge and the public is invited. The exhibition of foreign handicrafts, which is composed of articles loaned by the foreign residents of Indianapolis, is of unusual interest. A reception will be given Tuesday evening, May 27, for the exhibitors and their friends and members of the Art Association.

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