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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
OHIO HAS NEW
DRAMATIC FEATURE.

ParamOuntha S dramatized a new
and poignant tsory from the pen of
the widely known author, Cow
erneur Morris, and is presenting it
on the screen under the title of
" Anybody's Woman" 1t opened Fri
day at the Ohio theater.
The picture reunited two talented
players, Ruth Chatterton and Olive
Brook, in their first co-starring pic
ture since THE Laughing Lady,
Ruth Chatterton portrays the role
Fancy Gray, hard-boiled burlesque
chorister of doubtful reputation, who
under strange circumstances, be-
comes acquaintedw it'll Neil Dunlap
(Olive Brook, brilliant attorney,
and marries him while he is under
the influence of liquor
When he awakens the following
morning he discovers that he has a
wife of whom he is ashamed. From
this point to the climax, Pansy
fights determinedly to win the love
of the man she had married. The
outcome is well conceived and cap
ably acted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
MuShruSh
Increases
His Staff
Thompson and His Band
Will Remain at the
Lyric.
EREE dance instruction on Tues-

EREE dance instruction on Tues
Il day and Friday nights are prov-
ing quite popular at the Lyric BALI
room where E. w. Mushrush, dance
manager, holds forth.
Due to the large classes which at
tended these lessons last week,
Mushrush announces that he has
engaged six more instructors for the
coming week.
He also states that he will start
classes for the Chicago Stomp" a
new step which has caught the
fancy of most dancers.
Curtis Thompson and his Rhythm
orchestra are to be retained in the
ballroom for an indefinite period.
This year he is featuring more pop
ular movie music as well as the slow
dreamy tunes.
Three waltz nights each week, OIL
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
nights will also continue. Old folks
who have always loved this dance
are becoming more in evidence in
the ballroom on these nights. The
younger dancers have also voiced
their desire for the return of the
waltz.
Dancing in the Lyric ballroom is
an added feature of the Lyric the
alter entertainment where patrons
may enjoy three hours of dancing
each evening without extra cost.
Dancing begins at $50 nightly and
continues until 11:30 A special
ballroom price is in effect for those
who wish only to attend the ball
rom
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Musicale
WillOpen
Season
Reception Will Be Given
Soon for Mrs. Robert
Brakeman.

TINE indianapolis Matinee Musi-
a Gale will open its flfty-thi
season, which promises to be one OF
unusual interest, with a musicale
and reception in honor of its pres
ident, Mrs. Robert Brakeman, who
is beginning her third term in Of
flee.
The meeting will be held at the
Heron Art Institute on Wednes-
day, Oct. II, at p. m.
Mrs. Charles N. Williams, chair
man of the social committee, is in
charge. The guest-artist for the
afternoon is Florence Springer
Starr of BlufTton, Ind. Her &C
companist will be Mrs. S. K. Ruick.
Although the indianapolis Mat
inee Musicale has the honor of spon-
soring the Indianapolis Civic Music
Association Concert Series" it will
as usual have its own artist series,
which will consist of the Marianne
Kneisel string quartet, Jan. 9, and
Frieda Klink, vocalist, March 6. The
choral section will also present a
guest artist, who will be announced
later.
Members will be admitted to these
concerts ireland the public for a
nominal fee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04

AS his weekly band specially,
Charlie Davis is presenting a spe-
cial arrangement Of a new tune
called Here Comes the Sun" In
addition, clarinet choir" from the
orchestra is Offering a novelty num-
Ter
Girl Of the Golden West" Is
waldemar Young's adaptation Of
David Belasco's most famous stage
play of the same name.
It was originally produced on the.
stage In 1905 with Blanche Bates
and the late Frank Keenan, in the
principal roles. James Krkwood
and Lowell Sherman had other roles
then in the stage version.
In it's screen form, Miss Harding
inpersonates Minnie, the proprie-
tress of the Polka saloon in a small
western mining town during the gold
rush Of i349
A Paramount sound news reel is
shown. Dessa Byrd is at the organ.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04

original by Hungary's best loved
dramatist. Sometimes he beats
Julie, played by Rose Hobart in the
picture, but he never finds time to
confess that he truly loves her and
is only unkind to her simply because
he can not stand to see her cry.
The moral of the story, if Molnar
really intended to convey one, is
found in "Liliom's" dying speech
while resting in jules arms: NO
bodys right, but they all think
they're right-a lot they know!'
Featured with Charles Farrell and
Rose Hobart are Estelle Taylor and
H. B. Warner.
Short subjects including the
screen version of the famous foot
ball series by Knute Rockne and his
Notre Dame team round out the
programs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Buster Keaton Goes to War in Comedy Way in Dough
Boys Which Opens Weeks Engagement at
the PaIace-Cooper Heads Circle Cast

recently starred Holiday"
ed Of Girl Of the Golden West the First National
Vitaphone which S the Indiana.
the have supporting
husband Hendricks
Cooper Johnny Arthur
directed.
headed and his the
Pubx presentation Visiting Publx performers
Pansy human horse Beinof and Euaie adago
dancing team Margaret Mckee Billy the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04

EdAEnOd.
The romantic interest is carried
through the picture by Joan Peers
and William Collier Jr.
One of the spectacular climatic
punches of the picture comes in the
riot staged by the circus audience
and performers which eliminates in
q stampede of the wild animals and
burning of the entire circus.
Six acts of RKO vaudeville makes
UP the stage show. Paxton, billed
as the man with the'camera mind is
one of the stars. He is not a mind
reader, but instead boasts of a most
uncanny memory which he demon
strates with a great deal of enter
tanning qualities.
M. Marinoff and His Russian
Canine Actors, have a genuine treat
for the kiddies.
Jean and Hazel Kennedy, two
little girls from musical comedy
provide a touch of singing, dancing
ala Broadway.
Jack Adams and His Little SYM
phony Revue brings to the show a
sparkling extravaganza of music,
song, and dance.
Bruno Weise and Company are a
troupe of European Acrobats and
equilibrists who serve their difficult
featS with dash of comedy.
Bob and Margie Du Pont, are
comedy purveyors labelling their Of
fering "a Study in Nonsense
A talking comedy, News reel and
other short films complete the bill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Tom Devine
Says Dance
Wins Favor
Ballroom Manager Claims
There Is New Style
in Stepping.

A STATISTICAL report made up
1 n from the records of the Indi-
ana roof ballroom, according to Tom
Devine, its manager, shows an in
crease of rs per cent in the num-
Der of Indianapolis dancers since
the establishment of the roof ball
room in 1927.
He says this increase might be
traceable to better dancig facilities,
to the change in dance styles, or to
both.
However, he does say that the
first noticeable increase in the dane
ing crowds came with the advent
of the camel glide, which he con-
siders the step preliminary to the
return of the fox trot and waltz,
known in the ballroom as straight
dances.
Devine states another noted in
crease has been felt this season,
during which the number of people
of collegiate age as well as a few
of their seniors who attempted the
hop for the last few seasons.
Speaking about the chop" Devine
said: 1T was primarily a selfish
dance, as it excluded many persons
from dancing circles who had al
ways looked upon dancing as their
most pleasing social pastime.'
He also said: 1.-The change in
dance styles has made little or no
change in the type Of music in de-
mand. although a more rhythmic
smoothness will be noticed as time
gos on. Dancers still demand blues
and 'hot-sweet numbers, which is
contrary to the opinion of most
critics who consider these symbols
of the so-called jazz-age an after
war fad of the younger generation
Al Sky and his musical stars con-
tinue on the Roof as the orchestral
feature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
They Traced

Amos N Andy have gone the
complete social rounds of hollywood,
Beverly Hills. Maiibu Beach and
other film colonies during the film
ing OF their first talkie, Check and
Double Check" at RKO Radio
Pictures studio. Now they are
getting to the outlying districts. The
other night they we're guests at the
ranch OF william s Hart, near
Eanaas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
KEATON'S LATEST
OPENS AT PALACE

Football between the trenches
dynamite blasts for the dinner bell
the gentle art of razzing the camp
cook, and gold amid dugouts-these
we're some of the recreations of a
motion picture company marooned
on a plain, miles from roads, for
the duration of a film war.
Buster Keaton, with his company
of nearly a thousand men put in
two weeks in such a plight. Housed
in army tents, with an army cook
serving as commissary, they lived a
regular army life during the filming
of the trench and battle sequences
Of Dough Boys" new Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer comedy of army life,
starting today at the Palace
The new picture is a comedy OF
army life, with Keaton playing a
nlillionaire's SON, who enlistS for the
war and has hundreds of cOmical
adventures at the front. Sally Eli
ers plays the heroine and Cliff Ed
wards, Edward Brophy, Frank
Mayo, Victor POteI, Pity katZ, Ar
mold Korff and others are in the
cast. Sedgwick, the director. is re-
sponsible for Free and Easy" Spite
Marriage and other Keaton sue
cesses.
Little difficulty was experienced in
obtaining authentic military at
mcsphere for the picture, inasmuch
as the extras were ex-service men
who knew trench life from the
ground up, while Keaton himself
had served as a doughboy overseas
during the World war.
Though comedy, Dough Boys" has
a background of authentic war
scenes filmed with absolute realism
to afford a contrast to the comedy
antics.
Short subjects comprising the bal
ance of the program include the
Hearst Netratone News, a Walt
--DTsncy Silly Symphony cartoon, a
Grantland Rice spotlight and a de-
piction Of the life of Chopin, great
music composer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
COOPER HAS LEAD
IN "THE SPOILERS"

Gary Cooper has the leading role
in THE Spoilers" the Paramount
all-talking production which opened
Friday at the Circle.
Chief among the players who APP
pear in the large supporting cast
are Kay Johnson, Betty CompSon,
William (stage) Boyd, Harry Green,
Slim Summerville, James Kirkwood.
Lloyd Ingraham, Oscar APPEL, Jack
Holmes, George Irving and Knute
Ericsson. Bartlett Cormack, author
of THE Racket" prepared the
screen play.
The plot deals with the efforts of
the Nome gold miners to protect
their claims from the despoliation
of Inscriptions administrators of
the civil statutes in Alaska at the
beginning of the twentieth century.
The Office holders, while pretend
ing to establish clear titles tc the
claims, Systematically gain posses
sion of the rich and most productive
ines by appointing their bench
as receivers for the mines un-
he courts can make a ruling.
he officials operate the golc
S during the period of tempo
receivership, obtaining for.
5 from the Sluices daily.
CAafed by numerous delays, tn,
lghtful owners of the mines be-
come angry. rebel. and take pos.
session of their properties by re.
sorting to mob violence. Thii
brings about the climax, a high
light of which is the memorable
fight scene. Gary Cooper and vii
liam Boyd are the opponents in TIT
new film.
The Circle program also con
tains "A Home Again Song Fest.
an organ solo by Dale Young, ;
|, talking comedy starring Harry Crib
Noon, and a news reel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
MANY Mourn for Stills

The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences held memorial
services in memory Of Milton Stills,
who had been a member of the
executive committee Of that organ
ization. The church was crowded
with fans who mourned the famous
actors passing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Indy Would Not Listen

Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh has
turned down another offer from the
picture people to either act in or
write an aviation story. This latest
approach. was made by MGM and
the flying colonel refused a cool
$500 900 for his services.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04

This class will be confined to
forty women, because the Ruth
Page studio at the Page estate will
not accommodate more.
This time of health dancing is
now sweeping Europe and is being
introduced in this country by Frau
Iein Lies Fox.
IF sufficient men are interested
in this type of dancing" Mrs. Page
told me. "a class for them may be
arranged
Have received the following state
ment from the Civic theater:
George somnes. who returned to In
dianapoHs last week. after summer AZ
cane Cod. Mass. as director of the Cape
Cod PLAYERS. has spent practically all OF
his time since at the st. Vincents hos
pital.
He was released a few days ago but
since his doctors have ordered several aa-
ditional weeks of recuperation and rest
if is probable now that the opening nlght
date Of the Civic Theater will have to be
Dostnoned from oct. q until the following
Monday night.
Mr.. somnes has expressed his optimism
over the success of the approaching 1881
81 season to John Kautz. business man
ager. and is we'll pleased with the financial
structure and management Of the Play
house during the past summer and fall.
The annual season ticket sales cam
paign. which was opened "Wednesday 1or
a ten-day period has already resulted IN
securing over 500 new subscribers to tne
season book plan and is being efficiently
conducted by threefold division Of ~orA-
ers-the Actors and Workers Guild Oh tne
civic Theater. the Group MEMBERSHIP
Committee. and by the Junior League OIL
Indianapolis. ...~
when the first production Of the winter
will 90 on the boards Of the Civic theateF
in few weeks. it will marx the ope1IllE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
1t Started as a Joke

Considered at first to be a joke,
a movement is now on foot to force
Will Rogers to present Sir Thomas
Upton with a yacht and loving cup.
The wisecracker was taken at his
word by Jimmie Walker, mayor of
New York, who is now accepting
dollar subscriptions to carry it out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
"LILIOM" OPENS
at THE APOLLO

A famous author once wrote that
women should be loved-not under
stood" And ''Liliom," the chief
character in Franz Molnar'S i'm
mortal drama of the same name.
which Fox Movieton made into an
audible screen drama now showing
at the Apollo Theater, followed the
advice OF this writer. for he dearly
loved Julie" his sanity girl bride,
but never attempted to understand
her.
Charles Farrelfs portrayal of this
internationally loved character,
under the direction of Frank
Borzage, brings out all the
whimsicalities write ninto the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
ANN HARDING HAS CHIEF ROLE IN GIRL OF GOLDEN WEST
Joe Cook Brings Rain or Shine His Greatest Stage SUI
cess, to the Talking SCreen-LyiC Has Another
SK-Act Variety Bill

d which broke all records for
attendance been into film by Coumt
the Lyric weestartng today
who starred in the stage version plays his original
on
written Gleason
Broadway stage
who has been termed by critics the comda
chief
which includes Howard Chaser and Louie
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Bert and Robert in rehearsal

Bert Wheeler and Robert Woclsey
are now in the rehearsal stage for
their next starring picture, Hook,
Line and Sinker," for RKO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
to
Play Very
Big Role
Stage Star Selected tC
Play in Columbia
Feature.
VXTALTER HUSTON.

"a /
w stage star and one of the
audible screens most important re-
cruits from The legitimate, has been
awarded the leading masculine role
in Columbia's THE Criminal Code, Fl"
the perturbation of the stage sue
cess of the same name. Howard
Hawks will direct this production
which is listed among the COM
pany's Extended Run Giants.
Huston's unusual character de-
ineations have won for him some
of the most difficult roles both on
the stage and screen. AS the district
attorney in THE Criminal Code"
he will have one of the choicest film
parts of the year, in a production
which was one Of Broadway's most
sensational plays last season.
Coming from vaudeville and
stock, Houston was starred on
Broadway in such hits as MIR.
Pitt" Desire Under the Films"
THE Barker" and Elmer the
Great
His first screen role-in Gentle
men of the Press" with in
Simultaneous success and was fol-
lowed by outstanding performances
in THE Lady Lies, - THE Virginian'
and Abraham Lincoln"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04

Announcement has been made
that Ferdinand Schaefer, for
years identified with music in
this city. has organized a new
indianapolis Symphony orchestra.
1t is made up of well-known mu-
sicians of the city. Rehearsals are
being conducted so as to assure an
early concert.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
ROUNDING ROUND
TNTTT A ET%T q With WALTER
FLA / ~ IN y D. HICKMAN

TRAULEN LIES FOX head Of The Mary Wgman school Munich
which trained Geog Kreuzbg
and others is the house guest OF Mrs Lafayette Page woodstock
drive.
coming city pleasure
because Monday she will en-weeks gmnastic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Laurel and Hardy Start Another

Laurel and Hardy have started
work on another two-reel comedy
to be called Another Fine Mess"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04

Fay to Play Opposite Richard
Paramount has assigned Fay Wray
to play opposite Richard Arlen in
North of Sc"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Blackface MinstrelSy.

Emmett were practicing an act, one
with a fiddle and the other with
banjo, at their boarding house, when
Frank Bowers dropped in on them.
For awhile he listened to the music and
then joined in with the bones, or clap
pers," as they were called in those days.
He was followed by Dick Pelham, who,
with the help OF a tambourine, COM
pleted the musical quartet. And thus
formed, they gave their first public
performance as THE Virginia Min
StreIS" in Bartlett's billiard room.
This black-faced quartet made such
a stir that they were engaged as an at
traction for the Bowery Auditorium,
after which they played at various New
York theaterS, went to Boston for an
engagement, and eventually diSbanded
in London, where they had made sue
ceSsful appearances.
1.-The Virginia Minstrels" were fol-
lowed by "Christie's MinStrels," Buck
ley's Serenaders," "Hooley's MinStrelS"
and THE Virginia Serenaders," the en-
Sembles of which did not number more
than a dozen performers.
Eventually, however, the ranks were
swelled when Christie and Hooley COM
bined forces and toured the country in
the early sixties. After them came
THE San Franchises" "CarncroSs &
Dixie's MinStrels," Lester & Aliens"
Barlow, Wilson 81 Rankin's," and
finally Thatcher, Primrose g. West, l."
"Clevelands," "Corton's," Hi Henry's,"
Honey Boy Evans "Dockstader's" and
"Cohan 81 Harris Minstrels."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Drifting Backward.

ZONES another Of those tit-for-tat
games with the talkies trying to get
on the stage instead Of the stage rush
ing to the talkies.
In this case one might mention that
Gloria Swanson has more than an eye
on the possibilities Of the New York
footlightS and that Jed Harris has
finally captured the much-sought-afteI
Lillian GiSh for his Tehekov play.
Then there are Irene Rich, who is
trying to find refuge behind genuine
Broadway wings; Lily Damita, who re-
mains with much credit in Suns o
Guns; Herbert Rawlinson, who hac
much to do with "City Hail." and Betty
Blythe who is knocking them dead some
where in House Aflre"
Apart from these more scintillating
theSpians, it is said that when q film
actor gets out of q job on the coast
he betakes himself to the Los Angeles
stock company which helps him to &C.
quire peace of mind and knowledge of
how to speak the English language.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Chauve-Souris to Quit.

the most emphatic success ever scored
on our stage by q company appearing
In . foreign language. In eight years
Balieff has made six trips to America,
has played seven seasons and has pre-
scented seven wholly new programs.
Opening at the Forty-ninth Street
Theater on February 3, 1922, Baliefis
"Chauve- Souris" moved to the Century
Roof on June S for its second bill. A
third entirely new program was re-
vealed at the Century Roof in october
and q fourth on January 4, 1928, when
the newly arrived members Of the Mos
COW Art Theater were guests OF honor
prior to their own premiere four days
later. Continually until May, Balieff s
"Chauve-Souris" set up the phenomenal
record Of IS unbroken weeks, q record
which has never been touched since
then by any similar organization.
In the intervening seasons, Balieff S
"Chauve-Souris' has played New York
engagements again at the Forty ninth
Street Theater, at Jolson's Fifty-Ninth
Street Theater and at the Cosmopolitan
Theater. In addition 1t has made three
long tours and one or two short ones,
two Of the long tours carrying the
company to California and back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

NTIKITA BALTEFF has announced
~ that his Chauve- Souris viii dis
continue the road tour Of the Publix
Theaters circuit which had been booked
for him and his company up to the end
of May. The Russian director and the
management of the Publix Theaters
have come to a mutual and friendly
agreement for the cancellation OF the
remaining contracts based on the reali-
zation by both parties to the contract
that the intimate nature OF Chauve-
Souris was hopelessly lost in the enor-
nous reaches of the large theaters on
this circuit.
Large public response greeted the
Russian when they appeared Tor the
first time in eight seasons In this coun-
try at popular prices in New Haven
and Boston. Engagements OF one week
each followed at the Paramount in New
York and at the Brooklyn Paramount.
The route was TO have carried the COM
pany to Newark and as far West as
Chicago and Kansas City.
When Balieff sails for Europe at the
end of this week, however. he Is not
saying good-by to the America which
has given him the most loyal and
munificent support of any country In
which he has ever played. AS evidence
of this fact, he is taking out his flrst
American citizenship papers before his
departure. After a period Of rest and
regeneration from the tour, which car
ried him to the Pacific Coast and back
this Winter, Balieff will make an ex-
haustive survey of the fresh and youth
full artistic talents in Paris, Berlin
Vienna, Budapest and the other Euro
pean capitals, Hooking toward the re-
cruiting of a new company based on g
wholly novel idea of theatrical enter
tainment. The exact details of this new
project are not yet determined, but he
expects to return to America next sea-
son with the results of his Spring anc
Summer in Europe.
Baheff's return to America, therefore
will probably coincide very nearly witt
the tenth anniversary of the rebirth Of
his theater in the Western World II
Paris in December, 1920, after hiatu.
brought about by his long and difflcult
flight through the Near East from
Moscow. Brought first to the United
States by Morris Gest on the heels o.
his triumphs in Paris and London
Balieff and his "Chauve-Souris" achieved