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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26
UPTOWN LISTS IT'S
MOVIES FOR NEXT WEEK

Vera Reynolds, popular star, plays
the leading role in Corporal Kate, "
which comes to the Uptown theater,
College Ave, at Forty-second ST., on
Sunday and Monday, March 81 and
%. 1t is a story of woman's part
in the war and is a thrilling drama
tic comedy version of the usual
World War story.
Break Away" is the comedy
which is shown with the news week
ly and fable.
"Just Another Blonde" with Jack
Mulhall and Dorothy Mackail, is
scheduled for showing at the Uptown
on Tuesday and Wednesday. 1t is
story of thrills. THE Old Flame"
is the comedy which is shown with
the novelty, Belgium Today"
"Sweet Rosie O'Grady," laughable.
yet with a tug at the heart-strings,
comes to the Uptown on Thursday
and Friday. Cullen Lands and
Shirley Mason play the leading
roles. "Roses and Ruses," is the
comedy attraction which is featured
with the News and cartoon.
Milton Sills, the popular First Ma.
tional leading man, comes to the Up
town on Saturday in THE Silent
Lover" a glamorous story of the
desert and the foreign legion. A
Gump comedy is also shown.
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BIG DANCE REVUE
BOOKED AT THE LYRIC

The Lyric will have a lavishly
staged presentation, the Deluxe
Revue of 1927" as the headline at
traction of the vaudeville bill next
week. The act was staged by Fred
erick V. Bowers, noted song writer
and musical comedy star. Bowers
is featured in the cast.
Other principals are Edna Esmer-
aida. the Cole Brothers, Ivan Len
off. and the Wiel Sisters. Songs and
dances are the chief ingredients. sup
planted by a clever element of com
edy. Bowers is the composer of more
than 1000 songs of the popular
variety.
The bill will include
DOWNING AND DOWNING
Dan, The Cheerful Pessimist' and
his pal, Harry. who have combined
their talents in an act that is the
current laugh sensation of vaude-
VILE.
KERR AND ENSIGN-The Non
Skid Kidders' who do a little Of
everything proving their versatility
in a hilarious fashion.
THE JESTERS"-A group Of fun
makers featuring Harry Seymour
and Val Irving, presenting a series
of mirthful "Black-Out" skits be-
sprinkled with songs and dances.
All SAN JOE AND HIS BAND
An Oriental musical novelty intro
duced by musicians who offer a pro-
gram unique in its conception.
DREXLER-FOX TRIO-Indian-
apolis vaudeyillians consisting of
Raymond DreXler. violinist, Joe Fox,
concertina expert and Florence Nc
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DOUBLE HEADLINE
BILL ON VIEW AT CIRCLE

Van and Schenck, the pennant win
ming battery of songland, and Col
leen Moore, share honors on the bill
presented at the Circle theater the
coming week.
Van and Schenck are heard via
Vitaphone singing their famous
songs in their own inimitable man.
ner. They are but two of scores of
famous artists and entertainers who
will be presented from week to week
at the Circle via Vitaphone.
Pauline Alpert, pianist of distinc-
ton, is heard in What Price Piano"
a Vitaphone presentation. The third
Vitaphone subject WI be Margaret
McKee," famous whistling soprano.
"Orchids and Ermine" is the fea-
ture in which Colleen Moore is star
red. 1t is her funniest picture and
was directed by Alfred Santell, whose
past pictures have met with tremen-
dous approval. Ralph Spence, one
of the most adroit writers in pictures,
produced the subtitles, which are
among the funniest ever shown with
a motion picture. Jack Mulhall plays
opposite the star. Others are Sam
Hardy, Gwen Lee, Jed Prouty, He'd
da Pepper and John Kob.
Based on an original story by Carey
Wilson, Orchids and Ermine" pur-
ports to typify the American girl.
Colleen is shown as an ambitious
but lowly telephone operator who
through her simplicity in dress and
demeanor, wins the position of tele-
phone operator in fashionable New
York hotel.
When a wealthy oil operator and
his valet arrive in New York Col
leen falls in love with the wealthy
oil man, thinking that he is the
valet. Meanwhile tile valet has been
forced by the oil man to impersonate
him and the valet receives the adula'
ton of the hero worshippers.
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MEMORIES" WILL
OPEN AT THE PALACE

Leon Enrol III his latest photoplay
"The Lunatic at Large" comes 10
the Palace theater the first half of
next week and is featured with
Memories" 4 five-scene sketch pre-.
scented by Masters and Grayce.
Memories is the sketch which
tells the struggles two ambitious
vaudeville performers Of thirty-five
years ago had before their dreams
were realized. These dreams were
10 play in Tony Pastors theater, the
goal Of all variety performers long
ago. The scenes in the act are laid
in cheap restaurant. a theatrical
booking agents office, a cheap board
ing house room, the stage of Tony
Pastors theater, and the library of
the couples modern home. Song
and dance are used to elaborate the
piece.
Bill includes:
HELEN STAPLES-Tiny prima
donna who sings popular and semi
classical songs.
LLOYD AND PRYCE-Comedian
in ''Nonsensica1 Moments" revealing
songs and patter.
VAN AND BELLE-Boomera
throwers who are also imitators of
birds and animals. Bill includes one
more act
For the last half of the week
George n. Brown, champion walker
of the world. will demonstrate how
he attained his title. He has a tread
mill and uses it to walk the mile as
it should be walked. His record for
the mile is ) minutes, A seconds.
THE Vaudeville Doctor" is Johnny
Yule who uses the sketch to present
his four girls who sing harmony
songs and do eccentric dances.
Walsh and Ellis are showing what
youth and experience have produced
in their song and talk act, "Ours Is a
Nice House, Ours Is" Hewitt and
Hall are "Songland's Favorite Sons. -
The Tomas company have an I'M
usual bit entitled From the Bottom
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BASEBALL STORY DUE
AT THE OHIO SUNDAY

The Metro-Goldwyn Mayer baseball
picture, "Slide, Kelly, Slide,' which
comes to the Ohio theater tomorrow,
has William Haines in the featured
role as the redoubtable Kelly, is
unique. In the first place, the direc-
tor, Edward Sedgwick, filmed the
last world series, took its crucial
plays and wove them into dramatic
background for his story. Thou
sands of yelling fans with the ma
TONS two foremost teams at death
grips from the beginning or postu-
late of the picture
In this is woven an intimate story
of American baseball. The story is
of a young 'busher" who learns to
pitch, makes the big team, becomes
a star, gets the 'swell'' head ana
then learns the greatest lesson of
his life. 1t is just life itself told
among the surge and thunder of the
great American game,
William Haines, who played the
hero of Brown of Harvard" was
the logical man for Kelly. His
whimsical humor and intimate por-
trayal do much to make the picture
what it is, while Sally O'Neil, who
plays opposite Haines, furnishes the
love interest and makes a. very
piquant heroine.
Harry Carey, of Western fame, is
seen in one of the remarkable roles
of the picture as the veteran
catcher, preceptor and patron of the
boy from the country team, 1t is a
sympathetic role that calls for the
most skilful acting. Carey makes it
living thing. Karl Dane as the
lanky pitcher has a role that will be
remembered almost as long as his
Slim in the Big Parade" Eileen
Sedgwick and Dane do an inimitable
piece of comedy.
Dorothy Sebastian, Paul Kelly,
Warner Richmond, Quinn Williams
and Junior Coghlan all have roles
that fill admirably. Among the pro-
fessional ball players in the picture
the best actors are Bob and Irish"
Meusel and Tony Lazzeri of the Yam
KEGS, who were enlisted as members
of the cast.
"Kiddie Land is the title of the
title of the musical sketch to be Of
fered throughout the week by Char
lie Davis and his gang while a
comedy Plumbers Daughter" fea-
turing Alice Day, will conclude the
program.
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No. 1-Charles Ray is said to
have staged a wonderful come
back in popularity because of his
work in THE Fire Brigade" open
ing at the Apollo Sunday.
No. 2-WiIliam Haines and sal
~ 0'NeiI i'm a little scene from
"Slide, Kelly. Slide" at the Ohio
all next week.
No. Buck Jones i'm THE
Whispering Sage" at the Isis,
opening Sunday for three days.
No. i-LeOn Enrol. stage comic,
will be seen in a movie. THE Lun-
attic at Large" at the Palace for
the first half of the week.
No. 5--Colleen Moore in a scene
from Orchids and Ermine." at the
Circle all next week.
No. 6-JacN MulhalI will be seen
in Just Another Blonde" on
Tuesday and Wednesday at the
Uptown.
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VARIETY HOUSES
WILL HAVE BIC
BILLS NEXT WEEK
Venita Gould, Bowers and
Memories Due Here
Sunday.

Dancing is made the important
feature on the bill at B. T. Keith's
next week, when Ledova. dancer
from Europe, will present her act of
dance fantasy.
Assisting her are Leon Varkas,
Joseph Napolltano and a gypsy quin-
tette.
The remainder of the bill is as
follows
VENITA Impressions"
an act clarifying mimicry. In Miss
Gould's act some of the best.known
people of the modern stage are seen
in her impersonations of AL Joson,
Belle Baker, Julian Eltinge, George
Cohan and many others.
BLACKJACK EDDIE ROSS-Is
bringing his African harp and MON
ologic line of humor and song to en-
terrain the patrons of the two-a-day
He has been a member of nearly
every important minstrel organiza-
ton of his time and has also met
with success in his single entertain
ing.
JAMES DIAMOND AND SYBIL
BEENNAN-P THE Faker. 4"
sketch by Edwin Burke. dealing
with mans opinion of woman. Mr.
Diamond takes the part of the faker.
who expounds the theory that
woman leads and man follows. AS
he talks his words are acted out by
the characters involved, Miss Bren-
nan portrays the examples Mr.. Dia-
| mond cites.
DAN STANLEY AND AL
BIRNES-Present bits from the Lon
don Looking Glass Revue" of which
they are part. They are eccentric
dancers, mixing humor with their
stepping.
CARL SCHICHTL-With his royal
wonderettes presents one of the I'M
usual acts on the bill. BY means of
an intricate system of wires he con-
trolls a company of wooden puppets,
making their antics peculiarly hui
man.
ERNASTINE EWING-Of the Ia
cal Elite dancing school, is bringing
eighteen of her tiny tots to the stage
to give a dance revue consisting Of
the Black Bottom, eccentric, soft
shoe and acrobatic dancing. The
stars of the act are Lucille Grebe,
Borene Barrows, Joann Jackson,
Pearl Elaine Richardson, Micky
Lapp and Keith Jackson.
THE ST. ONCE TRIO-Open the
bill with their originator "Fiip-Flap-
Somersault- Toe -Toe-Catch," an
aerial gymnastic act. They are
called "those different athletes" and
have worked out an assortment of
spectacular and daring feats. AS
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obsessed with an overwhelming de-
sire to revenge himself for the mys-
ferrous murder of his brother. Look
ing to this end he invades a settle.
ment of the Basques located in the
picturesque country of the Pacific
Southwest. There he finds romance
and adventure as we'll as the sinister
thing he seeks.
There is not a dull moment as the
plot unfolds, and Jones has abun-
dant opportunity to hit his stride in
whirlwind action. His support in
cludes Natalie Joyce, Emile Chau-
tard, Carl Miller. Joseph Girard,
Enrique Acosta and Hazel Keener.
A comedy, "Galloping Ghosts" will
be the fun feature.
Wednesday and for the rest of the
week 81 double program will be pre-
sented, the attractions being "Obey
the Law" a thrilling crook drama
starring Bert Lytell, and Salvation
Jane" romantic drama in which
Viola Dana is starred. Max MARGIN,
noted playwright, wrote the story
from which "Obey the Law" was
filmed. Lytell appears as a superior
sort of prince in the realm of the
underworld; the sort, who, in other
days, would have rivaled Robin
Hood.
There is a well connected plot and
the story moves to a definite conclu-
sion without false hero worship or
maudlin sentimentality. Eugenic
Gilbert, Edna Murphy, Hedda Hop
per, Larry Kent, Sarah Padden and
Paul Panzer are in the cast. A COM
edy, alice at the Carnival" will
also be shown.
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Dean in Variety

Priscilla Dean, motion picture star
is to be seen in a new comedy sketch
by Willard Mack titled out
smarted." The script has been for
warded to Miss Dean on the west
in rehearsal by Harry Weber, who
is handling the star out near Holly
wood. She will start east over the
Orpheum circuit. Jack Holt, famous
western star who recently severed
his connections with Paramount, is
another vaudeville possibility.
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Charles Ray and May McAvoy
have the leading roles, and Raw
comes back into his own as a star
of the first magnitude by his excel
lent work as Terry O'Neill, a young
smoke eater who in face of ire
mendous odds grimly upholds the
traditions of the fire department.
Miss McAvory supplies the rom
antic flavor as Helen Corwin, daugh-
ter OF a millionaire, who falls in love
with the dashing, intrepid Terry.
Prominent in the big supporting cast
are Tom O'Brien, Holmes Herbert,
Eugene Besserer, Warner P. Rich
mond, Bert Woodruff, Viva Ogden,
Dewitt Jennings, Dan Mason and
Erwin Connolly.
Containing a never.e ending array of
exciting, .pulse-stirring incidents and
episodes, the climax is reached in
great fire scene showing the destruc-
ton of a flve-story building housing
a number of orphans. 1t is in this
scene that Ray makes a sensational
leap from the top Of the BURNING
building into a nine-foot net held by
fifteen firemen on the ground below.
A Bray Photograph, 1.-THE Rug
Fiend," the Fox news weekly, songs
by two radio broadcosting favorites,
Sammy Epstein from station WBBM,
Chicago, and Elmer Mcdonald, "The
Voice of st. Louis" organ selections
by Ray Winnings, and a novel in
of a Fireman" by Emil Seidel and his
orchestra will be other program fea-
lures.
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to the Top" and reveals the COM
pany Of eight on stills varying in
height from three to eighteen feet.
Tumbling, acrobatics, dances and i'm
personatons are found in the act.
On the screen are;
Leon Enrol and Dorothy Mackail
in The Lunatic at Large the first
half. and Ralph Ince and Dorothy
Revier in The Better Way" the last
half of the week. Pathe News, a
comedy. an Aesop fable and topics Of
the day are also shown.
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Shane. dancer in an artistic me-
LANCE Of instrumental selections and
terpsichorean divrtissements.
HYLAND'S BIRDS - Feathered
performers in a wonderful exhibition
very different from anything Of its
kind heretofore presented on the
stage.
on THE SERENA Mack Sen
nett comedy. Peaches and Plumb
ers,' Kilograms, a Grantland Rice
Soortlight, Frost and Time" and a
Universal comedy, And George
Did"
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Colleen Moore Will Be Seen in Orchids and Ermne at the
Circle Next Week-'SIide, Kelly, Slide With
William HaineS, Due at the Ohio.

Dramazng the life Of humble fire fighter in spec
tacular thrilling and romantic manner The Fire Brigade
be presented at the Apollo week. pronounced one of the
greatest screen achievements in recent years
This picture filmed from original story by Kate Corbaey
Hunt Stromberg Neutrality-suspicious. production which
does for the peacetime heroes the remen what The Big
Parade did for the soldiers and what e 1t The Marines
did for the members of the Marine Corps
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New Date

The Florence Austral concert I'M
der the auspices of the Maennercher,
in which she will be assisted by her
husband, John Amadio, Flutist. has
been postponed to Sunday afternoon,
April "A. Nine. Austral became i'll
last week with a severe attack OF
laryngitis and was obliged to cancel
her concert engagement of Sunday
March 20. with the Maennerchor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-26

Edward Olson of TT. Wayne, who
will play the role of BILLY" Saund-
ers in the revival Of "StrOngheart"
which will be presented by The In
dianapOIis Theatre Guild at the
Emmerich Manual Training High
School Auditorium. In this char
acter Olson carries much of the
comedy of this football play and
his slsngy romance will be found
delightful. This is MIR. Olson's first
appearance before an Indianapolis
audience.
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SUMMER SPECIAL ANNOUNCED

Every year Universal issues a big
summer special. This years will be
Men of Daring frontier days
story on the order of "The Flaming
Frontier" 1.-THE Iron Horse" and
1.-THE Covered Wagon"
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'POOdleS'
in Film

"Poodles Hanneford has
completed his first twe-reeI
Observation-Disclosures comedy
under his new contract. The
picture has been titled "Circus
Capers." The famous circus
clown and bareback rider APP
pears in many of his famous
circus tricks and riding stunts
in this comedy, which was
directed by James Jones under
the supervision of Jack White.
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PAUL AND FLORENCE

Paul LEM just insists on having
an old Vitagraph player in his cast.
In 1.-THE Cat and the Canary" he had
Flora Finch. In "The Chinese Par
rot" he has just engaged Florence
Turner to play the role of Sally Fill
more.
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NEW PLAYS ARE y
NOT So GOOD ON
GAY BROADWAY
Clara Lipman Has Failure in
That French Lady in
New York.
Bv Dixie Hines

NEW YORK, March 26.-Clar
Lipman, formerly a popular star i
musical comedy, has come back I
the stage in That French Lady,
by Samuel Shipman and Ne
Twomey.
Louis Mann likewise is in th,
play, and he received a cordial recel
ton on the opening night. But Clar
Lipman has been absent from tn
stage for too long a time, and he
return was a happy and auspiciou
one.
The play is not so good. 1t Is SCI
OF continuation of Friendly En-
mics" the enemies in this opus I'"in
Mr.. Mann as a German and Is
Lipman as a French woman.
Mann seldom leaves the stage
while he is on it the atmosphe
filled with broken German.
sionally the pigeon French of
Lipman manages to rise abov :
confusion, but mainly Mr.. Mann H'
eruption, and when Louis Mann "
eruption there is enough cru
to make a dozen plays of. It
that Mr.. Mann has son who
back from Paris accompanied
middle aged widow, Nine. de P
Mr.. Mann hates F'rencl
French women and everything
is French, so he starts off inst
the lady right off the bat. For
reason which probably is suffi
he permits her to remain in his
that he may continue his ms
diatribe, and the lady remains
she may becomingly retaliate Of
many and Germans.
So we have it for three act
then we learn that Mann's
married to the daughter OF
French woman, and the young
has presented her young hu
with a rag baby which so worl
on the emotions of Mr.. Mann I'll
forgives everything.
New York has everything
a stock company, and now if
NJ. Thomas and Mona Bruins al
engaged i'm the art of spoofin
we may even have that this
They plan to do plays that are
ished by the older generation
that have never been seen b
| flapper period. j
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COMPLETE GIBSON PROGRAM

To complete the Hoot Gibson pro-
gram for the present year Del
Andrews has just been engaged by
Universal to direct the Peter b.
Kyne story, Bread Upon the
Waters" which will be released as
"a Hero on Horseback"
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ANOTHER ELM FOR REX

Universal has just chosen a name
for it's first wild horse picture star
ring Rex. 1t will call it wild
Beauty" Henry MacRae is just
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BUCK JONES is
FEATURED AT ISIS

Buck Jones, starring in Whisper
ing Sage" a drama to be shown at
the Isis the first three days of next
week, plays the part of a cowboy
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finishing what he declares will be
the greatest picture of his long di-
rectoral experience.
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MOTION PICTURES
New Britain herald., 1927-04-07
ADMITS Staying
Three PERSONS
Police Say Act Was Committed
toPreYent Elopement

BlEeaeld, ". Va, April 7 Up
Henry Griffith. 40, Of Richlands,
Va, was in Russell county. Va, Jail
at Lebanon today while police were
checking his alleged confession that
4 nocturnal flight planned by his
wife and two friends drove him to
triple Staying.
Sheriff Harry II. Couch, OF Russell
county, said that Griffith. a father
Of eish. children, had confessed to
| the staying of his wife. Mrs. Mollie
Griffith and Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew
OF Jellico, Tenn, friends with whom
she had planned to leave the vicinity
| The bodies of the three We're
| found in Clinch river, three miles
from Swords Creek, Va, Tuesday
afternoon by telegraph !incman.
and remained unidentified until yes
tcrday when Griffith was taken to
Lebanon and there identified them.
Ne maintained for two hours that
he knew nothing Of the crime. Later
it was said he confessed that at 2
o'clock on the morning Of March 81
he had shot them and thrown the
bodies in the river.
Griifith's story as told by the
sheriff was that three weeks ago,
Grinith's wife left her home after
they had ouarrelled and that
Griffith later learned she was stay
ing with the I.awsons. Griffith told
tho sheriff he had found out that
the three were preparing to leave
the neighborhood at night and he
set out in search OF them. He was
said TO have related that he met the
victims II miles from his homo
along the railroad tracks on a bluff
overlooking Clinch river and there
asked his wife to return home with
him. Her refusal, the alleged con-
fcssion said, was supplemented by
the statement from Lawson that she
would not return.
Sheriff Couch said Griffith told
him he had then shot Lawson who
ran and fell down over the bluff to
the river, and that Griffith had
turned to the women. dragging
them to the bluff and throwing them
over into the stream.
When they were discovered Tues
day, a bullet wound was found in
each OF the bodies. Authorities had
expressed the belief that they had
been in the water for about 10 days.
Only five men have ever held the
rank of general In the American
Washington, Grant, sherman.
Sheridan and Pcrshing.
New Britain herald., 1927-04-07
NEWINGTON NEWS

Arthur O. Ames. clerk o, the
Maple Hill fire district. yesterday
received communication from the
New England Underwriters asso-
citation. stating that the district has
been placed in Class i. This means
same as the old rate previous to the
recent Increase.
The report which follows an IN
spection OF the system several
months ago by a representative of
the association. Is gratifying to the
commissioners inasmuch as there arc
no recommendation for changes In
The system. The pressure available
is from 65 to 80 pounds. and the
hydrants have been spaced correct
~ TO give the proper protection.
The present insurance rate for
the district Is $50 for a house with
combustible roof. The rate, in
Glass r. in which the district Is now
listed. is SLIP. The rate for a
house with non-combustiblo roof Is
81.
A list OF recommendation Is
given in the report which, IL carried
out will place the district in class
y. The rate for this class for a
house with combustible roof is 81
cents. The recommendation sug-
gested by the Undcrwriters' asso-
citation which would place the dis
trIct in higher class are az fol-
lows:
l. The formation OF a volunteer
FIRE department. .. All appoint
ments TO the fire department must
be made by the chief and there must
be certain requirements "a list OF