Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10
DOWN EAST AT
POPULAR PRICES
TOPLAY LOEW'S
Richard BarthelmesS Will Be
Seen in Two Screen
Productions.
DRAMA TOPS THE LIST


Richard Barthelmess will play the
leading roles in two of the important
movie offerings at local theaters next
week.
Barthelmess will be seen in the
leading role of movie version of
the stage morality play, Expert
ence" at the Circle and at Loew's
State he will share honors with Lii
liam Gieh in Way Down East
At the Ohio next week Lila Lee viii
be seen in After the Show and Bebe
Daniels will exhibit her comedy talents
in "One Wild Week at the Alhambra.
Dustin Farnum viii be at the Isis on
view in The Primal Law" Singer
Nidgets will frOlic on the screen at Mis-
ter Smiths in skirts"
The Colonial viii present The Old
Nestr and the Regent will feature BucR
Jones in Get Your Man"
.spAe movies, as whole, tend to be OF
Pa dramatic nature instead comedy.
GRIFFITH'S BIG MOVIE
NOW AT POPULAR PRICES.
indianapolis, among the first cities TO
see D. W. Griffiths Way Down East
when presented at prices topping 81, viii
also be the first to view it at popular
prices. This great film starts an linden
mite run at Loew's State Theater tomo'-
row, in continuous showings from 1 TO
IL p. m, and will remain at the play
house as long as public interest de-
mands il.
way Down East" is said to represent
the Griffith art at its apex. Twelve
thousand feet of film remain from the
great ''footage" originally taken and ia
the three hours of the unfolding of the
story there will be shown one of the
most realistic snowstOrms ever photo
graphed and a real breaking up Of ice
on the Connecticut River in New Eng
land
Griffith has followed closely the stage
play by Lottie Blair Parker and Joseph
r. Grismer however, with Celebrations OF
some of the characters and scenes. A
fortune was spent upon the rights OF
the play, and subsequently the producer
Iavished money on the actual preparatiOn
of the production.
The cast that he engaged includes
some of those who were in the play
years ago, going back far as the
original production, and of these Burr
Mcintosh and Viva Ogden will be re-
called In the leading role is Lillian
affecting and artistic presentation Of the
part Of the deceived girl. Then there is
Richard Barthelmess. who is one Of tho
greatest favOrites among young actors
U-of ability. Mary Hay recently became
Mrs Barthelmess; Mrs. Morgan Belmont,
woman Of social eminence lin Ne v
York: Lowell Sherman. Creighton Hale,
Kate Bruce. Edgar Nelson. George New
lille. Porter Strong, Josephine Bernard.
Mrs. David Landau, Patricia Fruen- Flor
ence Short, Emily FitzrOy and Myrtle
Sutch are in the cast.
!
MORALITY MOVIE
OPENS AT THE CIRCLE.
Beginning Sunday the feature attrac-
ton at the Circle will be George Fitz-
maurice's screen production of the we'll
known stage play by George V. Hobart,
Experience" with Richard Barthelmess
as Youth" and Marjorie Daw as Love. -
The story, with which almost every
one is familiar tells how Youth leaves
home. after bidding Love and Hope a
sad farewell. and starts off to the city
with Ambition to meet Experience In
the city he encounters Pleasure, and is
dazzIed by her brilliancy. so much so
that when Opportunity appears he has
no time for him, and Opportunity waits
for no man.
At the Primrose Path. Pleasure intro
duces Youth to Beauty. Wealth, Fash
Ion and Intoxication. Youths mother
dies and Love sends him a telegram ask
ing him to come home, but Temptation,
with whom Youth is fascinated, inter
cepts the message. Youths money soon
vanishes, and his friends desert him.
Chance offers Youth an opportunity to
repIenish his fortune at the gaming
table, and Youth is ruined. He obtains
work as a waiter in a dance hall and is
discharged on an accusation of Theft.
Disguised and III, he falls a prey tC
FCfce and Habit who teach him the use
fcf drugs. He then meets Crime, who per
&uades him to rob the house of Wealth
hut on the way be hears singing In a
nhurch, which recalls TO his mind his