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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-20

reached in Lost at the Front"
which is coming to the Ohio The
alter tomorrow.
Murray, beloved by amusement
fans since the Murray and Mack"
and keystone Kop" days, has his
greatest chance in this World War
comedy picture. which was produced
by First National
The same is true Of George Sid
ney of Potash and Perlmutter"
fame. Their costarring roles in
Lost at the Front" are said to be
outstanding in importance.
The photoplay, which is presented
by John Mccormick and produced
by Frank Griffin, was directed by
the famous young comedy. director,
Del Lord 1t is claimed to be some
thing entirely new in the way OF
comedies dealing with the World
War. using locale new in pictures,
the Russo German front. This pro-
duction is elaborate, according to
advance reports, with its scenes
spectacular as we'll as mirth provok-
ing.
Murray enacts the role Of an
Irish policeman in New York, who,
too old to enlist in the American
army, joins that of Russia. Sidney
as the New York saloon keeper,
August" is Murray's best friend.
He is drafted by the Germans. They
meet on the front, fight everyone in
several different uniforms each, and
are hard at it right up until the
armistice is signed.
The Battalion of Death" the or
ganization of Russian women that
fought so valiantly, is said to figure
prominently in the picture. Natalie
Kingston has the feminine lead,
while others in the cast are Max
Asher and John Kolb. Miss King
ston enacts the part Of Olga, a
beautiful Russian sculptress.
Another of the popular Smith
family comedies produced by Mack
-Sennett will be shown. 1t is en-
titled Smiths Candy Shop" A
Metro Goldwyn News reel will COM
plete the picture offering.
Ruth Noller will again offer the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-20
Gloria Is
Making a
New Movie
Sadie Thompson Is Now
Being Directed on an
Island,

CATALINA ISLAND ISTHMUS.
Aug. 20.-With a company of $50
persons on location here, Gloria
Swanson and Director Raoul Walsh
are in the midst Of shooting ex-
teriors for Sadie Thompson" Miss
Swanson's second independent pro-
duction as an owner-member OF
United Artists.
The Sadie Thompson" company
is one of the most colorful ever as
sembled on the island, including,
in addition to the principal support
ing players, an entire company of
marines, whose camp is conducted
in strict conformity with the
regulations and traditions of the
service, and large party of Samoan
natives. Many of the marines in
the group are former soldiers of
the sea-" who have actually seen
service in the South Seas.
While the major portion Of Miss
Swanson's location work is confined
to a wharf sequence, the beach has
been fringed with cocoanut palms
and huge set laid out in the back
ground, with native huts, marine
barracks and numerous other
structures combining to create the
atmosphere of Pago Pago, the locale
Of w. Somerset Maugham's story,
Miss Thompson" on which the
picture is based.
The Sadie Thompson" company
will remain on the island a week or
more and then return to the United
Artists studio iii Hollywood to COM
plete filming of the picture, which
is expected to set new high mark
in Miss Swanson's career.
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MOTION PICTURES
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Policemen in Cast of The Spider

which promises to rank we'll among
the successes of the season which
is just now getting under way. It
would be unfair to cheat the public
of the thrills in store for them by
citing instances of such thrills pro-
vided in 1.-THE Spider" But it can
be said that the man who snoozeS
in the theater will have little op-
portunity to indulge himself in this
pastime if he attends performance
of this play. While Broadway halls
it as its greatest novelty of the year
the jaded New York businessman
and the woman society tired ap-
preciates it as an intensely interest
ing piece Of stagecraft.
John Halliday is the star of the
play. An eastern company of "The
Spider" opens in Baltimore Aug. "A
while another production of the
play has begun an indefinite run in
Chicago.
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By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.--A burly
policeman comes up to you while
you are smoking your between-the-
acts cigaret.
Get back to your seats, folks"
he orders as he fiourishes his night
stick. And you settle down to an
other series Of thrills produced by
"The Spider" New York's mystery
play which has passed its twentieth
week here and which will be repre-
scented shortly by road companies
touring the nations biggest cities.
THE Spider" is hailed as some
thing new in the world of Broadway.
The audience is practically part of
the cast and the tirnid lady who
sits next to the murderer, in an or
chestra seat, is guaranteed thrill
such as probably never knew before.
Imagine occupying an orchestra
seat, calmly enjoying a Broadway
show, and suddenly to have your
blood turned cold by a shrill scream
on your right. Imagine being
warned from the stage that the
Inspector of Detectives forbids you
to leave your seat, and that you
will remain In the theater all night
if need be, until the person who
committed a murder is detected.
That is all part of 1.-THE Spider, 4"
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SEVERAL BIG
EVENTS AT INDIANA

1.-THE Poor Nut" featuring Jack
Mulhall and Charlie Murray, and a
Publix presentation, Nonstop to
Mars" will be among the chief
events at the Indiana next week.
THE Poor Nut" was written by
j. G. and Elliott Nugent. The lat
ter played the title role in the New
York production and also recently
in the Stuart Walker production
here,
Smith decided that, as it is a COL
lege picture, college men should
predominant on his producing staff.
Paul Scofield was selected to write
the adaptation. Richard Wallace
was chosen as the director. Henry
Hobart was selected as supervisor,
and an entire university, the Uni
versity of Arizona, was secured as a
location.
1.-THE Poor Nut" is the story of
a young collegian who suffers from
an "inferiority" complex until a
sweet young girl student snaps him
out of it and he becomes the idol
OF the college. 1t is characterized
by good, clean fun.
Publix are sending as their pre-
sentation for the week very timely
revue inspired by the many recent
long distance airplane trips. Frank
Cambria has produced it on lavish
scale and labeled it NONSTOP to
Mars" The plane Liberty" is
fitting up at the airport readying for
a trip to Mars. In rapid succession
are shown the takeoff scenes "Up in
the clouds and nearing Mars" They
finally land on the strange planet
and meet the inhabitants. Much
merry fun, music, singing and dane
ing arc featured.
= The cast includes Boyd Senter,
the king of Syncopation, Jack Rus
sell, Arthur Ball Ferral and Paul
Devices, Norma Senta, Alfhild
Grimm, Elsie Dallas, Sonia Glucks,
Strange Group and the Aviatrices.
The overture this week is being
conducted by Edward Resener, as
sistant conductor and concert
master 1t is "Sakutala" by Gold
mark with an Oriental coloring and
charm, which is as individual as it
is attractive.
Maurice Cook at the Barton or
gan will offer his novelty THE One
Man Band"
Also included on the bill is the
Indiana news Of the world and a
pretty subject in beautiful color
photography.
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musical program from the Ohio
organ.
NEW FEATURES
LISTED AT ISIS
Bob Custer and Anne Sheridan,
who have the principal roles In
"Galloping Thunder" the Western
drama to be shown at the Isis the
first half of next week. perform the
hazardous feat of leaping from the
top of a railroad car into river
as one of the spectacular incidents
of this picture.
The plot hinges upon the theft OF
an entire car load of gold. Custer
appears as. Kincaid Currier, a ranch
foreman, in love with the daughter
of his employer. He has a rival In
Dallas Savage, a suave crook. The
latter engir. GERS the hold-up OF a
train carrying shipment Of gold
bullion.
Kincaid endeavors to recover the
loot and becomes the storm center
of a veritable whirlwind of thrill
ing action.
Breed of Courage" a drama in
which Ranger the dog star has the
lead, THE Man Tanner Western
comedy drama starring Edmond
Cobb, and cartoon comedy, Three
Bad Eggs" will constitute the pro-
gram for the last half of the week,
starting Wednesday.
In Breed of Courage" Ranger is
surrounded by q cast that includes
Ethan Laidlaw and Stanton Peck.
The scenes are laid in the Cumber-
land mountain regions, the story
dealing with the return of a girl
from school TO claim lands that had
been left her by her parents.
In addition to the lands she finds
that she has inherited a bitter feud
ID that she has only her big po-
ice dog for protection.
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Broadway
Reviews

NEW YORK. Aug. 2o.-Already the
earliest of the fall pictures are be-
ing announced for premiers at the
Broadway motion picture houses.
Wings" the Paramount epic Of the
air, is now at the Criterion. THE
Garden of Allah" by Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer, also is scheduled for
its first New York showing prob
ably before the end of August. An
other feature announced as in TIE
making by Metro Goldwyn-Mayer is
1.-THE Big Ditch" story of the max
ing of the Panama Cso4i. by Law
renee StaIlings, author of THE Big
Parada." All three ss' pointed to
by motion picture wosl.. as events
which will hold the Broa6Scy public
for considerable seasons.
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Meighan's support includes Mari
eta Millner, a leading woman re-
Gently imported to this country from
Vienna, Cullen Lands, Philo Nc
Cullough, Gertrude Claire, Cum
boat" Smith, one-time runner-up for
the worlds heavyweight boxing
championship, and "Spec" ODon-
nell.
Completing the Apollo program
there will be a comedy, 1.-THE VAN
ishing Villain" the Fox news Week
ly, Charles B. Lines, singing come
dian who is back home again after
a long and successful tour in vaude-
vile; Emil Seidel and his Apollo
Merry Makers, and Earl Gordon,
organist.
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'qrhe Big Parade" is a simple
story, simply told. 1t concerns jim
Apperson, easy going and charming
young son of a wealthy capitalist,
who enlists at the outbreak of the
war at the insistence of his fiancee.
He becomes deeply attached to
his two buddies, Slim, former
riveteer, and Bull, who, prior to his
enlistment, has been a Bowery BAR
tender. While stationed behind
the lines, Jim falls in love with a
Young French peasant girl, Melisande
are separated. Following his injury
during an engagement in which
both Slim and Pull are killed, he is
taken to a HOSPITAL, from which ne
energies at the end of the war.
Going back to the town in which
Melisande had lived, he finds that
the place has been bombarded and
no one knows anything OF the girl.
Heartproken, he returns to America,
but finds that he is unable to forget
the girl, and when he learns that
his fiancee is in love with his stay
at-home brother, he goes back to
France, where after months OF
searching he finds his Melisande.
Supporting Gilbert and Miss
Adoree in the production are Karl
Dane and Tom O'Brien as Jim's two
buddies;; Claire Adams. Claire Nc
Dowell, Hobart Bosworth, Rista
Marstini and Robert Ober.
Since its first presentation late
In 1925, 1.-THE Big Parade" has been
seen by more than 100000 people
in the United States, in addition to
the thousands of people who have
seen the picture in the European
capitals in Canada and in Australia.
Tommy Christian and his orches-
ira, known as the youngest band on
Broadway, will be the stage attrac-
ton for the week. They are we'll
known as radio and record artists as
we'll as stage entertainers headlining
on the Keith circuit.
The Circle News completes the
program.
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know" said Governor A. T. Fuller
of Massachusetts, recently after wit
Messing THE King of Kings" "be-
cause of its reverent and dramatic
manner of showing in pictures the
last years of the life Of the Master"
Various road companies, composed
of big orchestras, will take the sue
cessful photoplay to many parts of
the country during the fall and the
early months in 1928.
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The book was:
"A tale OF a wild
Disreputable goose
Gents prefer BLONDES

Now the trouble besett.ng the Par
amount company, WHICH expects to
present the film version Of this ia
nous best selling novel, is that of
finding a suitable blonde who will
film well as Lorelei Lee, heroine of
the piece. Gents Prefer Blondes"
however, will appear before many
months as a. film, the company
promises. for it is confident that just
at the psychological moment the
right blonde will appear.
ut is unlike other photoplay
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-20
THE BIG PARADE TO OPEN AT CIRCLE FOR A WEEK
Thomas Meghan VIII Be Seen in iWe're All Gamblers"
the Apo|Io-Several New Features viii Be.
Offered at the Indiana Theater,

That monumental screen epc "The Big Parade comes
to the Circle tomorrow with John Gilbert and Renee Adoree
the principal roles of the production which directed
by King Vidor from the story by Lawrence Stangs well
known playwright novelist and journalist and veteran of the
WoId War
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TWO FAVORITES
IN OHIO EEATIfnr

The high spot in the careers of
two of the stage and screens great
est comedians, George Sidney and
Charlie Murray, is said to be
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
England's Literary
Stars In Squabble
Over Young Writers

LONDON, March IL P)-Past and
present, represented by Chesterton,
Swinbourne, Arnold Bennett and
Shakespeare, figure in the literary
news of England.
Bennett started row in literary
circles when he declared England s
younger writer's are too lazy to
produce worthwhile stuff, and urged
them to go to work. Desmond Coke,
who is neither young nor old, re-
torted that Bennett might have pro-
duced better work if he had not
written so much.
Speaking to the Delphian Coterie,
G. K. Chesterton said he wished to
contradict two legends about himself.
"The first is that 1 believe that
the middle ages were a sort of
golden age,'' he said, 'and the second
is that I have very violent and
unjust prejudice against Jews. A
great many of my very intimate
friends are Jews and great many
of my favorite companions are Jews.
A great many of my favorite villains
are medieval people,"
Discovery of a long poem written
by Swinbourne when he was 21 years
old, in completion of the unfinished
fragment of Hyperion by Keats,
and the theory that William Shakes
peare modelled Falstaff upon his own
father, John Shakespeare, are the
echoes from the past
The youthful Swinburnian effort
never was published, but has been
edited by Georges Lafourcade, a pro-
fessor of the Institute Francois in
London, and will appear soon with a
new critical essay on Swinbourne.
Delving into record of Stratf ford
onAvon, B. H. Newdigate found that
in 1880, when John Shakespeare
was alderman, the Stratford town
council in it's periodical gatherings
consumed large quantity of liquor,
that John was accused of tax evasion,
and that he was afraid to go to
church for fear of being served with
process for debt.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13

game committee.
Graham's committee has codified the
fish and game laws and offered the
result to the legislature in the form of
a bill. Proposed changes include the
reduction of a bag limit, shortening of
open seasons, protection of small fur
bearing animals and elimination of the
professional trapper.
Deer and wild turkey still abound
in McCurtain county, Dyer's home, and
it is his wish to perpetuate the bene-
fits of the great outdoors for his de-
scendants.
ut is an instinct in US Indians to
kid only the game we can eat,'' Dyer
said. IF that practice is carried out
game never will become extinct.
"a boy who grows up with a gun
and dogs will have a clean mind, and
if all boys could be taught to love the
outdoors there would be no crime prob
lem
Dyer, who is nearly full-blood
Choctaw, was a football star at the
University of Oklahoma in 1915. This
is his second term in the legislature.
Graham, who is 60 years old, is a
farmer and ranchman. He is vice
president of the Society of Oklahoma
Indians.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
ROYALTY MAKES PLANS
FOR EASTER VACATION

LONDON, March 10 lP)-King George
and Queen Mary will spend their
Easter vacation at Windsor Castle
and expect to stay there a week
or two longer than usual During
their stay an impressive ceremony
will be held in st. Georges chapel,
the magnificent home of the Knights
of the Garter, where restoration work
that has been going forward for the
past six years is now nearing COM
pletion.
1t is proposed to hold special
commemoration service for the
knights of the order, if possible on
Easter Sunday, for the reopening.
The knights on this occasion will
not wear their full regalia, but only
their ribands and stars. The gather
ing is expected to comprise almost
every one of the 26 British knights
of the order. Some of the foreign
sovereigns who wear this premier
decoration of England also are ex-
pected to be present Among these
are the kings of Spain, the Belgians,
Sweden and Norway.
The king will entertain the garter
knights at lunch.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
RAW MEAT AS CURE
ALL NOW In FRANCE

PARIS March 12 R-Raw wheat
as a cure for all ills is the latest
craze Of intellectual Parisians.
Andre Laphin, writer on diet
etics started it in a series of articles
in Comoedia, the theatrical and
artistic daily newspaper, extolling
the beneficial effects of munching
a teaspoon full of terminating wheat
before lunchean every day
Wheat, he declares, contains in IN
unusual degree the vitamins lacking
in other articles of food, particularly
the nerve stimulating B variety.
Many well known persons followed
his advice and profess to have OBJ
tained immense benefit
And now fashionable doctors are
prescribing it for their patients and
the principal restaurants are arrang
ing to serve the magic teaspoon full
as a hors doeuvre.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
RARE VIEW EXPOSED
WHEN FOG is LIFTED

LONDON, March 12 (P-Hundreds
of ships of all sizes and nationalities
were recently blockaded for five days
by impenetrable fog in the English
channel, and when the grey blanket
finally lifted a panorama of shipping
such as never before seen from the
English coast greeted people in Deal
and other channel ports.
The long procession of ships through
the 20 mile neck of water between
England and France became some
thing like a carnival AS the vessels
weighed anchor there was a din of
Changing ships bells and shrieking
sirens. Whole crews burst into songs
of many lands from sheer joy of
seeing the sun again.
No such excitement has been seen
in the English channel since last
summer, when shoals of American,
English, French and German channel
swimmers infested it.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
MEAT NOW BREAD TO
FIT SMALL OVENS

LONDON, March 12 Capitalization
has become so compact that English
cattle are now being bred to produce
joints small enough to fit the small
ovens of flats. The good old days
of joints and roasts Of great weight
are gone forever.
Changes have gradually taken place
in the breed of cattle of smaller
proportions, and the Smithfield club,
which for more than a century has
been the guardian on Englands beef,
has decided that the new classifi-
cation for it's 1928 show shall be
10 to 12 months old for baby classes
and two years three months for
adult" cattle. These give a mod
crate weight of dead meat with cor
respondingly small joints as com
pared with the huge carcasses ex-
hfbited years ago at the annual show.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
Quarter Of Salary
To Pay for Bobbing

BERLIN, March 12 (P)-Two hundred
working girls and matrons are up
in arms in Tannrode, Thuringia. over
an attempt to introduce the bobbed
head forcibly At the local electric
works a bulletin unexpectedly APP
peared to the effect that the women
must have their hair bobbed or run
the risk of being fired.
The women objected not so much
to the idea of bobbed hair as to
the expense of achieving and keeping
it up. They pointed out that they
are earning but four to five cents
per hour which means weekly
wage of about 50. The barbers
charge for womans haircut is so
cents, or one-fourth of weeks
wage, and the cost of keeping up the
bob, they figured, amounts to about
81 cents per week.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13

"No Breakfast Complete Without
The Dispatch"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
FRANCE SEEKS MEANS
TO STIR BIRTH RATE

PARIS, March 12 P-Respect-
ability for unmarried mothers and
easier marriage laws are advocated
by many as necessary remedies for
Frances population problem.
Children born out of wedlock, all
agree, should not suffer for their
parents disregard of social conven-
tions. The men make as good soldiers
and the women as good wives and
mothers, supporters of these ideas
contend. In any case, they believe
the French must be encouraged to
have children, and lay sermons and
10 per cent tax reductions have failed
of their object.
One suggestion is that marriage
formalities should be as simple as
in the United States. The French
now must publish the banns at the
city hall three successive Sundays
before the wedding, fulfill trouble
some other formalities and the par
ents consent is essential if the man
is under 25 or the woman under 81.
Illegitimacy is high, in Paris
especially. The necessity for a
marriage ceremony is increasingly
disregarded for many reasons that
are stronger here than in the United
States. Often, when there are chill
dren, the parents marry, but it takes
courage for them to let it be known
they We're not married before.
The free union or sort of COM
mon law marriage does not figure
in statistics but many thousands live
in that state in France, authorities
say.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 12 tP.-
Two descendants of mighty race of
hunters, using the modern weapon of
legislation, are leading a fight in
Oklahoma to protect wild life from de-
struction.
Indians are directing the fish and
game conservation programs in both
houses of the Oklahoma legislature.
Senator Gid Graham of Nowata, a
Cherokee, is chairman of the senate
fish and game committee, and James
Dyer of McCurtain county, Choctaw,
is vice chairman of the house fish and
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
WATERS DEMANDING
Is PER CENT IN TIPS

BERLIN, March 12 P-Waiters
in Berlin are demanding more pay.
The union has presented demands
for rs per cent tips instead of the
prevailing 10 per cent, which is auto
matically added on to the bill in
all restaurants and coffee houses.
The additional burden, it is pro-
posed, shall be borne by the proprie-
tors, since it is feared that the public
might protest an increase in the
service charge.
The walters also want an eight
hour day instead of the prevailing
eight and one-half hours, and Is
per cent increase in wages for over
time.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
ENGLISH CELLIST GETS
APPLAUSE In GERMANY

BERLIN, March 12. R)-Beatrice
Harrison, an English cellist, brought
new note into the traditional con-
cert program of Berlin by rendering,
for the first time in Germany, Ed
ward Elgar's cello concerto to the
accompaniment of the Philharmonic
orchestra.
Elgar is comparatively little known
in Germany and Miss Harrisons S
number attracted all the leading
critics to the concert, where the
work as well as the soloist were
warmly applauded.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-13
CHILDREN GIVEN DAY
OFF TO GO SKATING

BERLIN, March 12 P)-To give
school children chance to profit
by the few days skating allotted to
Berliners by reason of this years
mild winter, a number of principals
have taken it upon themselves to
apply one of the regulations of the
board of education. That statute
empowers them in exceptional cir
cumstances" temporarily to interrupt
instruction in certain classes or in
the entire school up to one day.