Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-25
COMEDY WEEK
SCHEDULED AT
MOVIE HOUSES
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MOVIE HOUSES
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Reid and Agnes Ayres Will begin the
second week of their engagement at the
Isis in TOO Much Speed"
Loew's State will offer a little heavier
brand Of entertainment by presenting
Elsie Ferguson in sacred and Profane
Love" The Alhambra Will offer Tom
Mix in "A Ridin' Romeo"
Y owen Moore in a Divorce of Con-
sanience," will be the offering at the Co
l4nial next week and at the Regent
Ffanklyn Farnum viii be seen in The
Struggle"
MACLEAN's LATEST
BOOKED AT THE OHIO.
Opening Sunday at the Ohio will be
douglas MacLean in his latest comedy,
called zone A Minute" MacLean Is
cast as Jimmy knight.
Jimmy knight, a yourG lawyer
without a practice, inherits a drug store
from his father. When he returns to
Cenuerville TO take over his property, he
finds the store greatly run down. He
loves Miriam, the beautiful daughter of
Silas 2. Rogers, his business rival who
heads a syndicate which threatens to put
Jimmy out of business by opening a
fine store opposite.
Jimmy is about to sell when he recalls
Miriam's statement to him that she Liked
only such men as OFercame obstacles.
he refuses TO sell and on reading 2. I.
Bainum's famous saying there's fool
bO.n every minute" he decides to put
out a patent medicine and advertise it ex-
tensively. Thus knights 80" reaches
the market and causes tremendous sen
sation when several miraculous cure are
accomplished.
The syndicate causes Jimmy's arrest
for violating the pure food and drug act,
and at the trial Jimmy is his own eoun-
sci. The judge is taken suddenly Ill
and Jimmy gives him a dose or two Of
knights 99a with the result that the
Judge is cured and Jimmy acquitted.
The syndicate thereupon begs Jimmy to
reveal the fifth ingredient OF his decoc-
ton, the four others being known to
them. and he complies. The citizens or
the town, convinced of his greatness as
townsman, elect him mayor and Miriam
becomes his bride.
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CIRCLE CHANGES BILL ON
SATURDAYS INSTEAD OF SUNDAYS.
Mr.. and Mrs Carter De Haven in The
Girl In The Taxi" is the feature at
traction at the OltCle besAAAAAS Nou0S =
Instead of on Sunday as is the usual
policy.
The story centers around BERTHE
Stewart, whose father fears his son IS
becoming a mOllycOddle. But BERTHE
pawns his fathers best clothes, and in
order to avoid meeting his parent hides
In a waiting taxicab.- In a few minutes
he finds himself being whirled away with
a strange but beautiful girl sitting be
side him. The Stewart household is
the meeting place of some people who
have nothing TO do but bemoan their Tor
tunes, i'll or otherwise.
Berries uncle, Percy Peters, comes to
visit them with his chronic cough, and
a Mrs Smith, wife of a perfume manu-
facturer, also comes to see Mr.. Stewart,
Sr. who bestows upon her a medal for
building a hospital for sick animals. It
Is at the impromptu medal bestOwal that
Berthe recognizes in Mrs. Smith the girl
with whom he had had the taxi ride. He
thereupOn makes an engagement to meet
her at the Cafe de Paix.
Considerable CONSERVATION ensues when
Mr.. Stewart and a DIT. Paul also visit
the Cafe de Paix, as does Percy Peters
But the situation becomes acute for Ber-
tie when Major Smith arrives to keep
an appointment with the Governors
STAFF. The waiter, Alexis. wise in the
ways Of married women meeting young
bachelors, serves the guests present
Much to Bertie's surprise his father is
more than pleased to learn that his son
Is not a mollycoddle And just when the
parental blessings are to be heaped on
BERTHE, Major Smith discovers his wife.
In the melee which follows the pO-
Heeman discovers that his own wife is
at the cafe with another man. Affairs
become more complicated the next morn
ing when the men Of the Stewart house
hold discover that Mrs. Stewart has en-
ployed Alexis as the new butler. and
: events move very swiftly to the close Of
the amusing farce comedy. which was
adapted from the stage play Of the same
name A prominent cast appears in sup
port Of the stars, including GRACE Gu
pard. one Of the best known serial queens
of the "early days" and King Baggot,
well known figure in the movies.
There viii be q bonneville Trolley
comedy and a Lyman Howe picture, "A
Ride With a Runaway Train" which has
just played a return engagement at the
Capitol Theater, New York.
A Circlette Of News and a Topics OF
the Day complete the program.
This program will be shown for the
last times on Friday. the bill changing
every Saturday under the new policy.
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ELSIE FERGUSON APPEARS
IN DRAMA at LOEW'S SUNDAY.
Miss Elsie Ferguson will be seen at
Loew's next week in her latest screen
play, SACRED and Profane Love-" which
she used a season or two ago as le-
climate vehicle on Broadway.
William D. Taylor has selected his cast
with a full appreciation of the produc-
tons importance. Playing the leading
male role Of Emilio Diaz is Conrad Nagel,
the one-time Broadway matinee idol
whose recent appearances in Paramount
photoplays have carried him to the up
per rungs Of cinema success.
Mr.. Nagel appeared on the New York
stage in Experience" The Man Who
Came Back" and Forever After" and
In William A Brady's screen production,
Little Women" which was released as
a ACKNOWLEDGEMENT special. His ap-
pearanees in Paramount pictures have in
Guided 1.-The Fighting Chance" Mid
summer Madness and What Every
Woman Knows the last two being. VIII
liam De Mile productions.
No less talented a player than Thomas
Holding. leading man for Olga PetrOva
and a score of other stars, has been ch0-
sen for the difficult role of Ispeniove. the
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