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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-19
Like Movies

"The new developments which are
reasonable to expect open up great
possibilities for artists who have
radio personalities. Only few years
ago people who predicted million
dollar salaries for picture stars were
called crazy. Those big salaries were
made possible because pictures could
be shown in hundreds Of cities at
once.
with radio. the possibilities are
enlarged to still greater degree,
with the places where the perform
ance can be heard and seen stimuli
taneously increased thousands OF
times"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-19
For Panel Bushings

Panel bushings for variorieter and
other shafts can be made with valve
stems from old inner tubes of an
auto tire. Tray are threaded and
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themselves to this rev use.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-19

New York City now leads the
country with twelve broadcasting
stations. Philadelphia is second with
eleven broadcasters; Los Angeles has
zen; Chicago nine; Seattle, New Or
1sEeans and st. Louis each have eight
stations. N
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-19

The French line cargo carrier,
Jacques Cartier. has been equipped
with a 400-watt short wave trans
hitting set to be used in connection
with experiments to be undertaken
in the field.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-19

A grocer in FL Paso has a sign dis
played in his store as follows:
Don't be impatient; you will soon
receive the same careful attention
that is being given to the one ahead
of you"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-19
CHADL|NPRED|CTS
HIGH SALARIES FOR.
, RADIO ARTISTS.
Brother Charlie Sees 0ppor-
tunit yfor Air En-
tertainers.
BIZ NEA Service

BIZ NEA Service
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 49,
Only few years, and radio con-
cert artists win be drawing down
$4,000 for single broadcast.ng per-
Torrance.
sgd Chaplin, brother Of Charlie.
earned quite a reputation in 1916,
when he negotiated the first big
movie salary, that OF $4,000 a week
for his brother. Now he forecasts
another highfiyer In salaries, as soon
as a radio singer has the courage to
ask for it.
Enormous strides are being made
in perfecting radio whereby recep-
ton OF radio numbers may be con-
trolled to secure revenue from per-
sons who listen in," says Chaplin.
Might Run Show
Radio could even step into prac-
teal control OF the amusement bust
ness Of the world II projections are
made in the apparatus whereby pho
Biography is combined with sounds
50 that the auditors may also see
be artists they are listening to-
Synchrom sed receiving sets may
be installed By the big national radio
broadcasters on the order Of a pay
station telephone so that a million
or go subscribers can, by dropping
quarter in the slot, hear the con-
certs of the great artists,
Thus, If a million auditors pay
a quarter each, the gross revenue
for one performance could be a quar-
ter of million dollars. Twenty per
cent to the artist-or s50,000-would
not be an unreasonable amount to
pay for the box-ofiice talent thus
broadcast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-19

scribe the rules governing the broad
casting.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
New Hung arian Drama.

ssTHE SAPPHIRE RING" which is
scheduled for presentation in
Washington this week. is the work OF
the Hungarian playwright Laszlo La
katos-indeed, the first OF his plays TO
reach the American public. 1t has
been given a fine production by
George Choos including a cast that
already has won for it the praise
due a finished product. Washington,
therefore, will see it at its best, with
the players thoroughly familiar with
their respective roles and with its
machinery we'll oiled and running
smoothly 1t is heralded from abroad,
where it is now running. as a SEN
sational success
The story is woven around the
mysterious disappearance of Jew
eled ring. which causes Maj. karoyl
a wealthy man of Budapest, to sus-
pect that his wife, krista is faithless.
He has asked her to wear the ring
at a ball in the evening. Her failure
to do so. in addition to fresh scratches
upon her arm and hand, arouses his
suspicion and he brutally proceeds to
compel her to confess how she lost
the ring. Although the audience is
aware that it was stolen by a house
maid, Krista thinks that she wore it
that afternoon and lost it under con-
ditions which she explains to her
husband and which in way compro-
mise her.
The second act of the play is in the
nature of what is called in motion
picture parlance "cut back" for the
purpose of presenting on the stage
Krista's story of what had occurred.
For several years an unimpeachable
matron, she had repulsed the ad-
Evening star., 1925-04-05
National" The Best
PEOPLE,

"The Best People" a comedy that
was one of the early successes of the
season in New York, comes to the Ma
tional Theater tomorrow night for
the week 1t was written by David
Gray. a ma agazine writer of repute,
and Avery Hopwood, and the Charles
Frohman Co. is its sponsor.
Despite the fact that it is almost
farcial, there is said to be an under
lying bit of philosophy in the play,
dealing with the much discussed
problem of what to do about the
tendency of the younger generation
to break over the traces of discipline
and restraint. The authors apparent
ly take the view that perhaps the
grown-ups are largely to blame
themselves and that parents might
do better IL they were not so set in
their own ideas and tried to under
stand the point of view Of the other
fellow. The purpose of the authors
is said to be so carefully masked with
humor that never Is there q dull mo-
ment and no external evidence Of
preachment.
The Charles Frohman interests
have assembled cast including
Florence Johns, Charles Richman and
Margaret Dale as the featured men,
bers. Miss Johns has made the hit"
OF her career in the slang singing
chorus girl, Millie, and seldom does
she speak a line without evoking
shouts of laughter. Charles Rich
man plays the staid business man,
and Miss Dale, statuesQue and beau
tiful, ought to be an ideal Mrs. Bron-
son, patrician to her fingertips and
the butterfly wife of a wealthy man.
Others are Pat Collins, Hope Brown,
Helen Jackson, William Valentine,
George Graham, Gavin Muir, Sue Van
Duzer, Jack Moore and Charles
Adams
Evening star., 1925-04-05
A Modest But Varied Career

II Ellen STRANSkY, the only wom-
an in the cast of White Cargo"
is making her first appearance as a
although she has a stage career of
IA years.
Until few weeks ago Miss
Stransky would consider nothing but
bfg-time vaudeville and musical
comedy enga gements. She responded
to the plays of the great American
dramatists only as a spectator
Perhaps her early stage training
had something to do with it, But
whether 1T had or not, she deserted
her seat in high school to do splits
in one of Gus Edwards acts She be-
came the prima donna of the act in
three weeks. Later she appeared with
Charles RuEgles in vaudeville
sketch called Naughty Diana" in
Bobby Higgins act and Richard
Carries vaudeville, also in the musical
comedy Good Morning, Judge" and
in Ed Wynn's show, over the Top"
Motion picture fans may discover
a strong resemblance between Helen
Stransky and the come1y miss who
used to goad Max Fleischer's clown
in the "Out of the Inkwelr' COM edies
Leon Gordon, the author of White
drama via the role of Tondeleyo. and
Earl Carroll, the producer, vows she
shall not desert it as long as it is in
his power to make it attractive to her
and to audiences who may see both.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Greenwich Village Follies
April l9.

The new ttifth) annual edition of
the celebrated Greenwich Village
F'ollies comes to Polis Theater Sun
day night. April 19. for weeks en-
gagement. This latest version, de-
and successful show yet presented
in the smart and sophisticated series.
was devised and staged by John Muir
ray Anderson and produced in Sep
tember, 1928. SO prolonged were its
runs that. in its first year. it appear
ed only in New York, Boston and
Philadelphia. During the current
season it has been engaged in spec
tacular tour of the principal cities
of the East and Middle West. 1t will
be presented here with the same
company.
This Greenwich Village Follies has
fun in abundance. burlesque. travesty,
witty and pointed sketches, carica-
ture, pantomime and buffoonery
adroitly interIaced with many song
and dance numbers.
Prominent in the company is
Daphne Pollard, Tom Howard, Joe
Lyons. John Wells and Buster West.
Irene Delroy, William and Joe Man
dell, Martha Graham, the Briants.
Julia Silvers, Al Sexton. De Lima and
Marr, Barrie Oliver and Billye Wes-
ton. and so come1y girls who make
up the artists model group and form
decorative background for the
comicalities of the featured players.
Evening star., 1925-04-05

Helen Gahagan. seen recently in
Chains" and "Lech heschna," is
cast as the woman"
The theft of sapphire ring by a
lady's maid forces her mistress to
confess to her husband an indiscre-
tion which she believes is respon
sible for the disappearance of the
ring, The subsequent discovery of
the maids theft and the return of
the ring are capitalized by the lady
for the purpose OF a retraction of
her confession. Her, husband is not
convinced. There is a scene, of course.
lies and much verbal fencing, The
husband seems not yet convinced. but
every definite argument with which
he attempts to Justify his suspicious
Is ably undermined, and he is forced,
not too much against his will. finally,
to accept his wife's protestations of
her loyalty and her love for him.
Frank Conroy plays the role of the
husband and Kenneth Mackenna fhe
third member of the triangle. DR..
Erno Nemoth. Mildred Florence.
MiIano Tilden, Elizabeth Holman and
MARCEL Rousseau also are in the cast.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Keith 's-Trini, Spanish

Trini, a beautiful Spanish dancer,
will headline a bill replete with va
riety at B. F. keith's Theater this
week in an act of dance, song and COM
edy, dressed in a gorgeous produc-
ton and supported by Hurtado's Roy
al Marimba Orchestra of Seville and
Warren Jackson and Dario Borzani.
This is said to be the most elaborate
and preteRtious offering of it's kind
in vaudeville.
William Gaxton returns with an ex-
cellent company in novel one-act
play called Kisses" written by the
well known S. Jay Kaufman.
Roy Cummings will follow in a
hodge-podge of stories, fun and songs,
called "One Afternoon" He is assist
ed by Irene Shaw.
Others will include Jimmy Lucas,
author of many popular songs of the
past and present, and who is said
also to have a brisk, amusing line of
patter, in a skit called Vampires and
Fools" in which he is assisted by
Geraldine Herbert: Arthur Hartley
"One Night by j. Arnold and Ken
meth Keith, built along serious lines,
but containing much fun; Mary Gau-
tiers pony. Bob, that is said to
demonstrate that a horse can think
and understand; two excellent ec-
centric dancers Wallace and Cappo;
ELY. Americas leading lady juggler.
together with .Aesop's Fa ables. Topics
of the Day and the Pathe News Pic
torial.
Evening star., 1925-04-05

vances of young doctor On that
afternoon. however, she had gone TO
his apartment. but before her pur-
pose becomes manifest the doctor is
suddenly called away. While waiting
his return, a. she promised, young
woman enters to reach a settlement
of some sort with the doctor, by
whom, it appears. she has been dis
carded. After telling her story the
girl leaves. The doctor returns and
at the outset of his colloquy with
Krista a burly ruffian enters, an
nounces that he is a friend of the
discarded girl and that his purpose
frankly is blackmail. There is con-
fiict between the men, the lights go
out and the audience is left to infer
that krista receives the telltale
scratches at this time. when also she
loses her ring.
The husband then summons the
young doctor and attempts to put
him through what amounts to sub
tie third degree examination. during
which the doctor proves as clever as
the husband. The maid, meanwhile,
confesses her theft and returns the
ring. thus further mystifying the
husband. Here, however, the reci-
tai of the plot should end unless the
pleasure of those who are to see the
play is to be marred.
American theatrical circles are
showing much interest in The Sap
phire Ring" not only because It has
established a fame both here and
abroad as tense dramatic comedy
that grips the interest, but also II is
the first work of this Hungarian
playwright to reach America-and
new playwrights with a success are
always eagerly sought out.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Strand-"A Vaudeville
Surprise.

At the Strand Theater this week,
beginning today. the headline at
traction is Franklin D'Amore, with
Mickey LopeTl and Ethel Trusdale, in
"A Vaudeville Surprise" melange
of songs dances, hand-to-hand bal
ancing and instrumental selections
performed in a novel manner. AS an
added attraction Alex Gerber offers
The Co Eds" an to-the-minute
revue starring Gale Beverly. with
company including Rose Shelby
Sidney and Alfred Refs, Bernie Dos
sit and Fred Berd. Another featured
number brings Arthur Angel and his
partner. Violet Fuller, in a skit en-
titled Music and Chatter" Others
are Harry Sykes. blackface comedian.
in African opera" and Maude Ellet
and company in Girls of Altitude"
a thrilling astral exhibition.
The screen attraction brings Shir-
ley Mason in film of stage life
called The Star Dust Trail" in which
she is cast as a cabaret dancer who
later becomes a musical comedy star.
Bryant Washburn plays the leading
man role and the cast includes Rich
ard Tucker, inertia Sterling, Shannon
Day and Thomas r. Mill. Frederick
and Fanny Hatton wrote the story.
Grief in Bagdad." a Sunshine COM
edy; the latest Fox News and orches-
trail numbers complete the bill.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Fate of the Librettist.

EVERYBODY knows what a fan is
not the kind that makes the
black-eyed ladies of Spain so devas-
tating to the soul of man, but he who
ardently champions anything in espe-
cial, from base ball to Stravinski,
from Sunkist oranges to Gilbert and
Sullivan operas.
Gilbert Sullivan fans are an eSclu-
sive lot. who have a superior kind of
pity for the vulgar, who are content
with a revue when "Ruddigore' and
Princess Ida" gather dust on the
shelves. In recent years there have
been rumblings in that quarter. Gill
bert heretofore, has been the adored
and sacred partner: Sullivan has been
the accepted and endured member of
the firm. but it appears that Gilbert
begins to wear" while Sullivan
smiles at the passage of the years as
does beautiful wine carefully cell
Jared.
Is this part of the penalty libret
lists must pay?
Next to Shakespeare plays and the
Bible, Gilbert probably has been more
quoted than other writing employing
the English language. Yet we read
in the London newspapers that he no
Evening star., 1925-04-05

comment on his own attraction wins
more than ordinary Difference
When he mentions Helen Gahagan
as member OF the cast and gives
his word of honor that she has a
role which suits her to a nicely in
a play employing finesse to the ex-
clusion OF direct suggestion. he in
spires not merely hopes, but conf
dence. Anyhow, so much industry
on the part OF an advance represent
ative "a functionary whom Charlie
Hoyt once described as a man who
dropped in the day after the open
ing to see whether everything
passed off pleasantly should have
support. He writes: This is not
just another new show, here for a
try-out. The play is at the present
time the reigning sensation of Buda-
pest, Vienna and Berlin, having TO
its credit over 500 performances in
these important European capitals.
The organization appearing here has
just finished a preliminary engage
ment of three weeks in America
Both the company and the play and
the adaptation will have lived
through the So-called experimental
ages and will be offered as a COM
plete and finished product" It may
be the fortune of The Sapphire
Ring to prove the talisman that
breakes the hoodoo and gives the
Belasco Theater an opportunity. be-
fore the season closes, to assert it
self as the scene of a genuine the
atrical triumph.
A remarkable engagement was
played by the St. Patrick Players,
demonstrating that local organiza-
ton can command consideration on
equal terms with New York COM
panies. 1t is an unusual achieve
ment, one requiring artistic courage
as we'll as dramatic ability and ex-
ceptional industry.
The prolonged stay of Rain" at
the President Thcater showed an ac-
curacy of judgment the more re-
markable because the play has so
recently been seen by a company of
greater renown. white Cargo" will
hold the theater open as its success
sor. 1t belongs to the class OF drama
which uses ruthless methods in a
determination to harrow the sensi-
bilities of an audience.
X x X
1t is interesting to note that in
stead of Charlie" we now see
Charles Chaplin, although Jackie
Coogan still preserves his youthful
informality and does not insist on
being billed as John" The motion
pictures advance in dignity with be-
coming strides, even at the risk of
tempting us to take our laughter a
trihe seriously.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
St. Johns Getting Ready.

THOUGHTS of deligh tful river trips
on the steamer st. Johns down
the Potomac during the Summer
months are coming to the surface
Manw new improvements are now
being made to the steamer st. Johns;
entire new decks have been laid over
the boat, both warehouses are new,
the forward steps leading from the
lower to the upper deck have been
changed to a stairway less steep, the
steamers engine has been overhauled
and put in first class condition, and
all is in readiness for the big Summer
season just ahead. The boat has been
repainted and redecorated through
out
Booking charters are now open for
the coming season, and the first trip
will be the Board Of Trade excursion
to Quantico May %. The regular sea-
son will begin Friday, May 2s.
Evening star., 1925-04-05

longer is the darling of the enthu-
siasts; that Sullivan has supplanted
him. and where once the lines were
spouted by the fans with half rever-
ence and half delight, now Sullivan's
melodies are hummed with smack
ing of the lips.
Henry B. Smith wrote many sue
ceSsful librettos. but after he had
been at his trade a few years the
more advanced critics deplored his
prolific pen. Eventually Smith had to
hide himself under a nom de theater.
as managers feared the mere an
nouncement that he had done the
book would be sufficient to condemn
il in some places before it was heard.
He only came out from under cover
with The Love Song"
Harold Atterldge composed the
many New York Winter Garden pro-
ductions for a dozen years. Anne Z.
Caldwell has been a faithful friend
to Fred Stone for a decade or more.
But her past successes are now liza
bility to her. Yet Hassard Short chose
among 10 other librettists Atteridge
and Caldwell to contribute to the Ritz
Revue, believing their experienced
talents were invaluable in making
his first independent production.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
In the Spotlight

by Kate Horton. Augustin Duncan
and Louise Closer Hale have been
engaged for important roles in this
play.
Willie Howard, in SKY High" at
the Winter Garden, replacing Al Jol
son in Big Boy" Is said to be play
ing to capacity houses at each per
formsnce, and the piece probably will
remain at the Winter Garden through
out the Summer, until replaced in the
early Fall by the Passing Show of
1925"
The new Lionel Barrymore play,
TAPS" by Franz Adam Beyerlein.
had its out-of-town premiere in New
Haven. Conn. Irene Fenwick is the
featured member of Mr.. Barrymores
cast, which includes Mckay Morris,
Ulrich Haupt, Richard Standing.
Frederick Macklyn, Egon Breecher
Edwin Maxwell, Thurlow Bergen and
Robert Thorne. The piece was staged
by Lawrence Marston.
After four years in legitimate pro-
ductions, William Gaxton once again
holds forth in Keith-Albee vaudeville.
Last season he played with the
which he played in the New York and
the road companies of the Music Box"
His Auctioneer of that production
was one of the high spots on the
program.
Walker Whiteside, who has just
completed an engagement OF three
months in Chicago in his new play
OF the Orient, "Sakura," will be seen
in New York following a brief tour
OF the Middle Western and Eastern
cities. The play is by Atherton
Brownell, who wrote under the pen
name of Justin Theron, and is based
on Sidney McCall's novel, The
Breath of the Gods"
Alexander Leftwich. casting direc-
tor for the Shuberts, will soon begin
casting the new operetta, The Naga-
bonds, based the life of the
French poet Villon, which will be
produced this season. Walton Woolf.
now playing with Fay Banter in
The Dream Girl" will sing the lead
ing male role.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
N. V. A. Night at the Swanee,

TUESDAY night. April IA. a special
gala night will be celebrated in the
Swanee ballroom in the Earle Theater
Building, with Meyer Davis and the
Earle Theater management vying to
make their end of the "doings" the
biggest and best ever staged in Wash
ington
Davis is to present a dance COM
bination of musicians selected from
the best of his many artists for the
early portions of the evening, while
at the stroke of midnight from the
Earle Theater are promised the big
gest surprises
Messrs. Brylawski and Hand of the
Earle and Mr.. Davis are asking for
WashinCton,s cooperation in making
this the greatest of all the parties
staged on n. v. A. night
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Ethel Barrymore Announced.
FOLLOWING triumphal enea ee-

FOLLOWING triumphal engage
ments at the Cort Theater, New
York, and the Blackston Theater,
Chicago, Ethel Barrymore, in The
Second Mrs. Tanqueray," one of the
best vehicles that star has ever ap-
peared in, is announced to appear at
the National Theater the week open
ing April 20. The occasion will mark
Miss Barrymore's first Washington
performance in more than two years.
Arthur Hopkins, who has directed
Miss Barrymore's theatrical appear
ances for several seasons, sponsors
her revival of this famous Sir Arthur
Wing Pinero play. Mr.. Hopkins has
provided an excellent supporting
company, and the play with attrac-
tive settings from designs of Clara
Fargo Thomas.
Miss Barrymores leading man is
Henry Daniel: Lionel Pape has the
role of Gayle Drummle; Helen Rob
bins plays the part of Ellean Tan
queray, and other important roles
are portrayed by James Wheatley.
William Kershaw and J. Colvil Dunn.
Adolph Link, veteran German actor.
rs at work on the translation of an
Austrian mountain play, transferring
ene locale to Kentucky.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Earle-'The Four Husbands

Ned Weyburn's production, The
Four Husbands. a miniature revue,
Will lead the vaudeville attractions
at the Earle Theater this week. Flor
rie Millership of the Millership Sis
ters is its featured player.
other good things in vaudeville in
clude Pearson, Newport and Pearson.
in Rhythm" a dancing oddity: Ade-
lyn Jason and Helen Harrigan. two
girls who sing sweetly; THE Fall of
Eve" playlet presented by a cast
of capable players sponsored by j..
Gordon Bostock, and Arthur F4agefs
exceptional organ solos, with the
Earle News and a two-reeI comedy.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Gayety-"Wine. Woman
and Sono"

Wine, Woman and Song" with
everything new but the title, is this
weeks attraction at the Gayety
Theater. Five comedians, four prin-
cipal girls, "a choristers, and a work
ing staff of eight electricians and
stage mechanics will join their ef
forts in what is said to be a model
exemplii~ alton of Columbia Bur-
lesoue.
The comedians, one of the features
of the show, Bert Bertrand, Harry S.
La Van, Nate Busby, Edgar Rand and
Charles Cole, constitute a battery of
fun makers that should take a lot of
beating even in such fast company as
Columbia Burlesque.
Gertrude Ralston, Dotty Bates and
Agnes Dempsey are the girls who
lead the numbers and introduce sing
ing and dancing specialties at the
head of the feminine contingent,
which includes "a choristers