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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
Skinner to
Visit English's

Otis Skinner and his players will
appear at English's March IA, Is, 16,
in THE Honor of the Family"
In Mr.. SINNERS appearance, es-
saying the role Of Colonel Philippe
Bridau, in THE Honor of the
Family" he has proven that this
type of play and characterization
can always return to profitable bust
ness. He has never oeen seen in
anything that has given his refined
and scholarly art more attractive
setting than the role in the Balzacean
comedy.
Mr.. SINNERS performance is so
admirable, giving pleasure ard well
exemplifying the advantages of ex-
perience, observance of instructive
example, and the earnest endeavor in
the exercise. His Bridau is an I'M
usually interesting stage personality,
a clustering sort of soldier, who,
however, has the virtue of courage
to sustain it, and who is presented in
a series of unusually graphic and
dramatic situations.
The Charles Frohman office has
surrounded Mr.. Skinner with a dis
tinguished company. Jessie Royce
Lands is the leading lady in whom
Mr.. Skinner admits he has a power
full foil for the unsympathetic part
of Flora, who is slowly depriving
old man Rouget of his wealth until
thwarted by Philippe and only re-
linquishes the fight after a severe
struggle. The old uncle as played
by Robert Harrison is another COM
mendable piece of Characterization.
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include an o. Henry comedy, "Roses
and Rises" and Pathe news.
BARBARA WORTH" rs
DUE AT THE CIRCLE

The Circle Theater's attraction,
beginning Sunday, will be "The
Winning of Barbara Worth" the
film adaptation of Harold Bell
Wright's widely read novel, with
Ronald Colman in the principal
roles.
Produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and
directed by Henry King, THE Win
ming of Barbara Worth" presents
Miss Banky in the role Of Barbara
Worth, adopted daughter of Jeffer-
son Worth, a desert banker who
plans to reclaim the great desert
with a vast irrigation project.
To secure additional capital Worth
enlists the cooperation of James
Greenfield, eastern capitalist, and
his foster son, Willard Holmes.
Greenfield's idea of the West and
the desert is place to make money,
and this idea is shared by Holmes
until he meets Barbara and falls in
love with her.
Through her he comes to a reali-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26

The Little Theatre Society will
present ]. Kenyon Nicholson's play,
Two Weeks Off," which was recent
ly given here with marked success,
in Franklin, Ind, on the night Of
Thursday, March 10.
The performance is being given
under the auspices of the Franklin
chapter of the American Association
of University Women at the Art
craft Theater. Members of the cast
who took part in the original play
here will go with the play to the
neighboring city. Leading parts were
taken by Mary Ennis, Margaret
Hamilton, Booth Harrington jane
son and Julian Fix. Seven others
complete the cast.
Among the Franklin women who
are on the committee in charge of
the production are Miss Rachel Ogle,
also a member of the local Little
Theatre Society; Miss Elsa Petersen,
-deap of college women; Mrs. w. M.
Fetherngill; Miss Mary Williamson,
student and member of the college
dramatic society, and Mrs. Charles
Farmer, secretary of the Franklin
chapter of A. A. u. w.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26

No. 1-ROnald Colman> and VII
ma Banlxy will be seen in "The
Winning of Barbara WORTH" mt
the Circle all next week.
No. 2-John Gilbert and Renee
AdOree will be seen i'm 1.-THE Show"
at the Ohio next week.
No. 3-Billie Dove has the lead
ing role in "The Marriage Clause"
at the Uptown, Sunday for two
days.
No. Atom Mix opens Sunday
at the Isis i'm "The Canyon of
Light"
No. 5-Madge BelIamy will be
seen at the Palace, starting Thurs
day afternoon, i'm Bertha, the
Sewing Machine Girl"
No. 6-MOnte Blue, indianapolis
movie star, has the leading role
in "WOlf's Clothing" which will
be, presented i'm this city soon.
No. LION CLANCY wears mis-
own face i'm "Tell 1t To The
Marines" at the Apollo next week,
starting Sunday.
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zation Of the beauty and enchant-
ment Of the desert. Angered by the
cheap and dangerous methods en-
ployed by Greenfield, the two friends
of Jefferson Worth who are in
charge of construction protest to
Greenfield and are Immediately dis
charged, and Holmes placed in
charge.
Worth then moves away from
Kingston, the first desert city, and
establishes i.Barba." With him go
his friends and hundreds of settlers
who have been nearly ruined by the
avaricious Greenfield, but to whom
Worth promises free land and fair
play.
How Greenfield cuts off Worth's
financial aid, how Holmes finds out
his fathers true purposes, and goes
to the aid Of Worth, making des-
perate ride across the mountains
with a pay roll which Greenfield had
tried to stop and which had melted
the settlers to the point Of near riot,
is told in this absorbing story, which
ends with the marriage of Barbara
and Holmes.
Charles Lane. Paul MacAllister,
Gary Cooper, Clyde Cook, Erwin
Connolly and e. j. Radcliffe are the
principal players in support Of the
stars. -
Other features of the program are
the Circle news; the overture, played
by the Circle Concert Orchestra un-
der the direction of Stolarevsky; an
organ. solo by Dessa Byrd, and a
Circle comedy presentation.
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JOHN GILBERT PLAYS
ROLE IN "TIIE SHOW"

"The Show" in which John Gilbert
and Renee Adoree, the combination
that scored one of the screen sue
}cesses of history in "The Big Pa
rade," are together for the first time
since, will be the photoplay featured
lat the Ohio theater for the coming
week. Tod Browning, director of
ss'The Unholy Three" and 1.-THE Road
Ito Mandalay," directed the story
from Waldemar Young's adaptation
of the Charley Tenny Jackson novel.
y The featured stars play the cen
ltral characters in a strange ro-
nance laid in a. mysterious sideshow
Jon the outskirts of the tinvisible
fcity'--a sideshow of illusions, ma
xgician's tricks and strange gro
Stesque, with a. "decapitation" illusion
S4n which Gilbert has his head cut off
in q "Salome" travesty as a central
Feature. The settings, including the
grotesque sideshows, with their float
/ ing living heads, mermaids, spider
women and other startling Illusions
are realistic to the extreme, whole
blocks of reproductions of quaint
Budapest streets and other Incl
dentals being. used in the gripping
mystery story.
John Gilbert is shown.as a young
gangster, who, among his other ac-
ftivities, works in the illusion show.
His other adventures include being
embroiled in q political intrigue, be-
ing vamped by a strange and exotic
charmer, and finally winning a beau
3tiful girl, all of which happens
against a background of magic,
mystery and the darkness of an
underworld in Europe. Miss Adoree
is cast as a Salome dancer in the
production, with Lionel Barrymore
as "The Creek" sinister gangster
leader, and Edward Connolly as the
gold blind man who eventually brings
about the astounding climax.
Charlie Davis and his musical gang
will be the stage attraction in an
offering called "In Sweden" Bob
Gordon will play at the organ. The
program Of supplementary films will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
FAvORITE PLAY
RULER AT UPTOWN.

The oldest as well as the Youngest
star of the screen are starred in
pictures at the Uptown Theater, Col
lege avenue at Forty-second street,
the coming week.
Francis x. Buschman a motion pic
ture star from the first. plays with
Billie Dove in 1.-The Marriage
Clause" on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday. The picture is based on
the Saturday Evening Post story
"Technic,' and has to do with the
rise of young girl as a star Of the
stage. Her patron sinks as she
rises and becomes embittered when
he thinks that the girl has become
untrue to him.
Funny Face" a Big Boy comedy
a news weekly and a fable are addi
4 tional subjects.
Richard Barthelmess is starred ii
1.-THE White Black Sheep" Eirs
National picture featured at the Up
town on Wednesday and Thursday
1t tells Of a son Of a British Officer
who becomes lost IN Algiers ant
saves his name by coming to the
rescue Of an English garrison to say.
it from marauding nomads. An "Oul
Gang" comedy and a novelty, "ToI
| City," are also shown.
Ken Maynard, First NATIONAL.
newest star plays the leading rol'
in 1.-THE Unknown Cavalier" {
story Of thrills and action, at the
Uptown on Friday and Saturday. L
IS the third picture by this new stat
Of the outdoors, and Is one Of the
best Of that type now produced. "A
Buster Brown comedy and a Bray
cartoon are also shown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
The Stage
and Screen
BY Shelly Pierce
United Press Staff correspo ndent

United Press staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Cleaning
up the New York stage has re-
vealed some sidelights which show
that the purity idea has found favor
with several groups who generally
have no particular interest in the
uplift o, the drama.
Yale undergraduates were not sor-
ry when they learned that 1.-THE Vir-
gin Man. was one Of the objects
Of the recent police raid. 1t seems
that the youths from New Haven
have been considerably 'kidded''
when they made their weekend
visits to New York recently on ac-
count of the play. A Yale Student
is one Of the central figures in the
drama. incidentally, it is said that
the naughtiness of 1.-THE Virgin Man"
hadn't been attracting particular at
tention before the arrest of the men,
bers of the cast and that it was
about to close for lack of patron
age. d.
Florists have a grievance against
1.-THE Captive" another victim of
night stick censorship. In the play,
Fviolets symbolic the intimacy of
| two women, which forms the basis
of the Edouard Bourdet drama. AS
association of the flowers. with the dis
tasteful idea has made feminine
customers reluctant to buy them.
'The Scarlet Lily" a recent Broad
way arrival, was termed "a play of
the day after The Big Parade %.
Now there is new nm production
which is styled "the answer to The
Big Parade The new movie is
''Mademoiselle from Armentieres," a
British production of the Gaumont
Company. 1t Is the story of lit
tie French girl and British soldier.
The same company has also made
Mons" a year war picture of the
| famous retreat of the British army.
Both pictures will be distributed in
the United States by Metro.G oldwyn-
Mayer.
A spring tryout is to be given the
dramatization of Anita Loos' serial,
while Girls So South" Miss Loos is
making a play of the story with the
aid of John Emerson, her husband.
Edgard Selwyn will handle the pro-
duction when he gets back from Lon
-don, where he will soon present
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
Filming of Lon Chaney's newest
film, 1.-THE Unknown" is under way.
1t is an original story by Tod Brown
ing, who is directing, and deals with
an armless circus performer. Joan
Crawford and Norman Kerry have
roles in the film.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
MANY NEW PLAYS :
OPEN |NNEW YORK
AND SOME CLOSE
The American Laboratory
Theater Presents &C
Granite .''''-
BY Dixie Hines

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-There are
still enough actors out of Jail to
give a fair showing of new plays on
Broadway. Last week the managers
allowed the Police Department to
furnish most of the entertainment,
The cast of three plays, with man.
ayers, stage directors, producers and
what not were arrested, and this
gave us thrill >.'
A play that has been prowling
about the back alleys outside Of New
York was abandoned, due to the fact
that the police threatened to seize
the entire crew If they attempted. to
operate along the Rialto. 1t was an.
other contribution to the stage in
decency which has brought about a
precarious condition.
1t is now believed that the special
committee, consisting of managers,
players, playwrights and press
agents, will be able to handle the
situation, and besides improving the
character of Broadway plays, it will
give our friends in the hinterland q
better crop of plays too. az
One play that appealed to Broad,
way was Granite" by Clemence
Dane, produced away off the beaten
path by what is known as the Amerl-
can Laboratory Theater. -. r.
The play is a tense drama-tragedy
with the scene laid on an island off
the coast of England. A wife, .stiIl
young enough to be attractive and
not without a dream Of romance
which is unsatisfied by her matter
of fact, masterful and grinding hus-
band, meets his younger brother
when he comes to visit them.
Her suppressed affection goes, out
to him, and she follows the policy
OF Faust and offers a prayer to the
devil to help her retain him. A dere-
lict, washed up by the sea, apparent
ly half.witted, seems to be the am
swer, and faithful to his promise to
protect her If she would give him
shelter, kills the husband when he
mistreats her. .s,,,,,,.
She is thereupon welded TO the
brother, but later her jealousy is
aroused when he appears to look
with favor upon a serving girl, and
when she violently protests he lays
rude hands upon her, meeting the
same fate as her first husband. Then
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
ISIS LISTS ITS
NEW MOVIES NEXT WEEK

Yellowstone Park provided won
derful scenic background for the
filming of "The Canyon of Light, -
starring Tom Mix, to be shown at
the Isis the first half Of next week.
Mix and his horse Tony are in action
full tilt throughout the stirring story
in which Mix is first introduced as
dispatch bearer on the fighting
front in France during the World
War.
The scene then shifts to the
Western part Of the United States,
and it was for the subsequent
sequences that Yellowstone Park
was selected by Mix and director
Ben Stoloff. The plot deals with the
affairs of band of vigilantes formed
to break up a gang Of desperadoes
that had terrorized the community
with free hand while the best
element among the citizens was
away to war. Dorothy Dwan, Carl
Miller, Ralph Slippery, Barry Nor.
ton, William Walling ST., Duke Lee
and Carmelita Geraghty are in the
cast. The fun feature will be an
Andy Gunp farce entitled Rooms
for Rent"
For the last half Of the week,
starting Thursday, the program will
consist of collegiate" starring
Alberta Vaughn, and Harold Lloyd
comedy, ring Up the Curtain"
Jean Dupont wrote Collegiate
especially for the piquant Alberta,
who has the role of coed very
much in love with boy working his
way through colleges Thrilling, ex-
citing scenes vie with delightful bits
Of character delineation full Of the
spirit Of Young America. "A surpris-
ing climax is reached in the midst
Of big football game. Collegiate, {"
was directed by Dell Andrews, the
man who make the series "The Go
Getters," in which Miss Vaughn first
attracted attention and built UP a
loyal following.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
HowEs TO PLAY WITH CLARA

Red Howes will be Clara Bows
leading man in her next Paramount
starring picture, Trough House
Rosie" from Saturday Evening
Post story by Nunnally Johnson.
Howes attended the Harvard Grad
uate School of Business Administra-
ton upon his graduation from Utah
University. Instead of undertaking
a career in the world of business,
however, he went on the New York
stage and then followed work in pic
lures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
EMIL WORKS FOR HOURS

Two hours Of patient effort are re-
quired for Emil Jannings to apply
the makeup he uses in his first
Paramount starring vehicle, "The
Way Of All Flesh" A full beard is
the most difficult feature of the
Characterization and the great con-
tinental actor, refusing to sacrifice
appearance for the sake Of time, ap-
plies the hirsute adornment tuft by
tuft to his chin and cheeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26

e. Richard Schayer wrote the
story which deviates from the daily
routine of the men who are always
'.First to Fight" only so far as was
necessary to incorporate an interest
ing, thrilling romance-the love af-
fair of ''Private 'Skeet' Burns" a
new recruit, and Norma Dale" a
winsome nurse. Critics have de-
clared that CLANCY does the best
work of his career in his characteri-
zation of Sergeant O'Hara," griz-
zled veteran of the Devil Dogs"
1t is the strong armed treatment
accorded the youthful Burns by the
rough and ready sergeant, hero of
q dozen battles, that makes a man
and marine out of the former after
his metal had been put to- test
through the white heat of the fires
Of temptation.
The scenes range from the Marine
base at San Diego to the Philippines,
and thence to China, where the ma
eines are shown in; action against
( B brigade of Chinese bandits.
4 A tropical typhoon, the most ter.
fIble of all storms, is one of the many
I vivid episodes of the picture, which
includes, too, the practice. maneu-
vers of an entire battle fleet. In the
Feast supporting the star are William
Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Eddie
Gribbon, Carmel Myers, Warner
GLAND, Mitchell Lewis, Frank Cur
rier and Maurice Kains.
Other program features will be a
Bray Photograph, "Alice at the
Radio" Kilograms, Dick Powell,
vocal soloist, a novel Interpretation
Of a popular song, Take In the Sun
and Hang Out the Moon" by Emil
Seidel and His Orchestra, an organ
innovation by Lester Huff entitled
"a March Review"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
In Variety

Tyrone Power, famous dramat-
ic actor and star of no less than
a score of Broadway successes,
is another of the legitimate
stars leaning to vaudeville. Mr..
Power is at present rehearsing a
new act that will open in the
next week and be seen at the
larger New York theaters short
ly after.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
SOME NECK WEIGHT HERE

A necklace weighing fifteen and
one-half pounds and containing
more than 1000 large sized beads
is worn by Jocelyn Lee. Paramount
featured player in Florence Vidor's
newest starring vehicle, Afraid to
Love"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26

Douglas Gilmore, Bebe Dan
iels' leading man, in her latest
Paramount comedy, has BEEN
given an important part in Clara
Bows new starring vehicle,
Rough House Rosie This is
Gilmore's second picture un.
der his new Paramount con-
tract. His first work with Miss
Daniels in kiss in a Taxi" is
said to have revealed him as
one Of the most promising of
the younger actors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
CASEY AT THE BAT" FOR
FILMS

Doris Hill, featured as member
of the Floradora Sextette in Para
mounts Casey at the Bat" which
starred Wallace Berry, is now dane
ing her way through another pic
ture, Rough House Rosie" star
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
John Gilbert Plays Chief Role in The Show at the Ohio
Circle Will Present The Winning of Barbara
WORTH by Harold Bell Wright, Next. Week.

Filmed with the cooperation Of the United States Govern
men George Hill great spectacle TelIt TO the Marines,
starring Lon CLANCY be presented at the Apollo next week.
hailed the true story of Marine Corps services epic
with the surge and the thunder of big
IL k4innn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
BETTY GETS GOOD PART

Betty Jewel, young Paramount
featured player, today was assigned
to the leading feminine role oppo-
site Gary Cooper in the latter's first
western starring vehicle, Arizona
Bound"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
Little Theatre to Visit Franklin

ring Clara Bow. Doris plays Ruth,
Claras demure little friend, and is
one of the six rough necks" in a
lively cabaret dance sequence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
SHE LOVES TO SKATE

First in her list of off-screen di-
versions, Lois Moran. Paramount
player, lists the sport Of ice skating.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26

The last orchestral concert of the
Ona B. Talbot season will be given
on Monday night, April Is, at the
Murat by the Cincinnati Symphony
Mith Fritz Reiner conducting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-18
Hickman'S Report.

Hickman tells his own story, as
follows:
Il arrived in Kotzebue August q,
1925. on the first boat of the season.
Was met at the landing by the out
going operator, three white traders
and white missionary and 200 natives,
the entire population Of the village.
Nv first duty was to convince one OF
the Eskimo, who had been in Jail III
Nome for six months and returned 10
kotZebue several months previous,
that. | was not the representative OF
Uncle sam from whom he could col
lcct six months salary for chOppin9
wood carrying water. coal, ashes ana
cleaning floors in Uncle Sam s house
at Nome. The poor fellow never knew
he was being punished for stealing,
hut thought he had in some way been
the lucky man picked up for the JAM
tors position in Uncle Sans house at
Nome. and was still expecting the six
months salary if he could just find the
right official to collect from.
II was offered the position Of post
master upon my arrival. but declined
the honor when / found upon inquiry
that some months the postmaster
earned the munificent sum of 30 cents.
For absolute peace and quiet kotzebue
takes the prize In the Winter the
natives all go trapping, leaving only
a few old men and women and myri-
ads Of children in the village. Along
in April they come in and get the old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-18
AIR SPEAK MAN, MYSTIFIES
ESKIMOS WITH RADIO STUNTS
Sergt. HiCkman'S Departure
From Arctic Mourned by
ErStWhiIe Companions.
Army Man Called Upon for
Reports of Missing Persons
and Other Data.

Stan Sorgt. Frank Hickman, l. $.
Stgnal Corps. has come back TO civil
zation after spending more than two
Years IS the radio operator at the
Govcrnmcnt station at kotzehuo,
Alaska. 50 miles north of the Arctic
circle. And with him has come
raw title from Eskimo land, where
Hickman was known as "Na-Woc-ti,
dit. which in English is the air
speak man
Scrgt. Hickman, who has just been
relieved at kotzebue and has taken
over the Army's radio station at FAR
banks. Alaska, is al years old and is
married and has one child, who com
priSed three of the small group of
whites in kotZebue. Born in Webster
Grove. Mo, he was a sergeant during
the World War. serving with Com
panv \. l17th Field Signal Battalion,
of the famous Rainbow Division.
lie has just sent a report to the
chief signal officer of The Army Of
his services in I\otzebue, which gives
AN eloquent picture of the romantic
side Of radio operating at the outskirts
Of civilization The marvel of talking
through the air probably never VIII D"
understood by the natives of the Arctic
Circle.