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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31

tious good humor, her sparkling eyes
ready to seize the first opportunity
for a laugh, her vivacious person.
atty the life of every gathering she
happens to be Inc
She is never i'll at ease, never at
a loss for a reply to any remark.
She is perfectly at home with all
kinds of people-flappers, juvenile
nlirthmakerS, matrons, executives,
extras-anybody. Perhaps the great
secret of her popularity is her alb
solute naturalness of manner.
One of the most significant
things about Marie Dressler's per-
sonaI triumph in the movies" is
that nobody seems to be jealous
of her. Most other stars have won
their laurels at the expense of
countless chickering's, jealousies and
bad feeling, but every one appears
to take an individual interest in
Marie's welfare.
She and Polly Moran, her part
ner in Caught Short" and other
comedies, are said to receive more
invitations to parties than any one
else in Hollywood.
They have to turn down most of
these because they haven't found
out how to be in several places at
the same time.
When Joe Weber, the famous dia-
lectician of the Weber and Fields
team, moved out to the M-G-M lot
to appear in the big revue, 1.-The
March of Time" he encountered
Marie DreSsler on the lot the first
day.
We'll Marie" he said, you aren't
quite SO thin, but you're four times
as funny"
Maybe I've lost my sex appeal"
replied the coincidence, "but as long
as people still want to laugh I
should worry"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
Ne7V EUentS
at Studio

TEAN ARTHUR, heroine of the
y recently completed picture, 1.-THE
Return of DR.. Flu Manchu," has
been signed to a new contract by
the Paramount Publix Corporation.
Regis Toomey has been added to
the cast of Gary Cooper's new star
ring picture, in the role of CooperS
happy-go- lucky buddy" The pro-
duction will be directed by Rowland
v. Lee and will have June Collyer
as it's leading lady.
Frederick Lonsdale, popular Eng
lish playwright, is at work in Holly
wood on Paramount picture for
the talking screen. He will write
the new co-starring vehicle for Ruth
Chatterton and Give Brook, "New
Morals"
Kay johnson has been assigned to
principal feminine role in 'The
Spoilers" in which Gary Cooper
will be starred by Paramount. Harry
Green and Slim Summerville have
been chosen for comedy parts in
this production.
AS part OF an Industrial survey
of the United States, which he is
making for Poland, Count Topaz de
Lakopolonski and his wife have just
inspected the motion picture plant
of the Paramount studios in Holly
wood.
zelma O'Neal, musical comedy
coincidence who gained Broadway
stage fame overnight with her per-
formance of the Varsity Drag in
Good News" and who just COM
pleted role in Paramount's "Fol-
low Thru" is on her way to Europe
for vacation.
Nancy Carroll is in New York
preparing to begin work on her first
talking vehicle in the east. 1t will
be Laughter" to be directed by
Harry D'Arrast, from his own orig
inal story. Frederic March will play
opposite her.
Hal Thompson, popular musical
comedy juvenile, has been chosen
by the Paramount New York studio
to play opposite Lillian Roth in the
current perturbation of Animal
Crackers" starring the Four Marx
Brothers.
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It is reported from the coast that
Miss Dressler will be starred by
Metro -Goldwyn Mayer in her next
picture, the title OF which may be
Dark Star"
This action OF Metro Goodwin
Mayer officials is the result Of a
growing popular demand. and was
directly prompted by the actress
widely acclaimed Characterization as
old Marthy in Anna Christie"
During the last few months
Marie Dressler has been one of the
most eagerly sought-after actresses
in Hollywood. Her new comedy
with Polly Moran, Caught Short"
socn to be presented at Loews
Palace theater, depicting two
boarding house keepers caught in
the recent Wall Street crash, has
drawn eulogistic praise from pre-
viewers.
After doing a song and dance
number in The March of Time"
and her tragicomic impersonation
in Anna Christie" Miss Dressler
played in THE Girl Said No." and
was given the part of the chloric
Mrs. Boucicault in Norma Shearer's
latest film, Let Us Be Gay" Again
and again she has proved her YER
satility in diversified character roles.
Early followers of the movies"
remember Marie Dressler in the
Mack Sennett picture TITLES
Punctured Romance" produced some
fifteen years ago. She appeared in
several other comedies, but pro-
ducers did not supply her with the
first-clasS material that was neces-
sary for her success, and she left
Hollywood to do some vaudeville
work and to write her book, The
Story of an Ugly Duckiing."
She seemed to drift into the back
ground as an odd timer" who had
had her share of the theatrical
spotlight and was no longer wanted.
Then four years ago Miss Dressler
was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer.
Her new reception by film fans
was a most enthusiastic one, and
she began to forge toward the top.
With the arrival of talking pictures
her excellent speaking voice and
sense Of vocal characterization
proved great assets in her march
to the cinema pinnacle.
Marie DresSler is proud of her
thirty EIGHT years of experience on
the stage. She was born in Co.
bourg, Canada. and never attended
school, but was given the equiva-
lent of a grammar school education
by her mother.
She says she learned geography
by travelling all over the United
States and Canada with her parents
in a vaudeville act She worked in
a circus for while, and says she
won her chance in a musical comedy
chorus because she was an ugly
duckling" and not just a good
looking, carbon-copy chorus model
shes regular fellow" re-
marked a studio assistant director
of Marie DresSler. He was not try
ing to be funny. He meant what
he said. Marie Dressler falls into
just that category.
According to her intimates, she
is dignified and we'll poised off the
set, yet always filled with an infec-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
Submarine
Featured
at Lyric
Men Without Women Is
a Movie With No
Wemetl.

uERALDED as one of the most
L 4 dramatic talking pictures. John
Ford's production Men without
Women" will be presented at the
Lyric for one week starting today.
This thrilling story of men who
go down to the sea in submarines
Is said to possess many striking
novelties in theme and treatment
as well as being one of the first all
talking films of this most danger
Gus field Of nautical adventure.
There are no women in the cast.
and the main part of the narrative
deals with a group of sixteen sur
vivors of the collision between their
underSea craft and a laundering
steamer, trapped in their iron prison
at the bottom of the China sea.
Kenneth McKenna and Frank AL
bertson, two of the most promis-
ing actors developed by the advent
of vocal films and who have reap
peared in number of Fox pro-
auctions, enact the leading roles.
The supporting cast includes Paul
Page, j. Farrell Macdonald, War
rem Hymer Walter McGrail, Roy
Stewart and Stuart Irwin.
The pictures only feminine char
acter never appears on the screen,
and is never ever named. yet she
is the handspring which motivates
the unique climax of the film.
Primrose Semon, a poppy, dyna-
mic little comedienne, heads the
stage show consisting of four RKO
vaudeville acts.
This titian-haired clown, offers a
rapid-fire routine Of songs, dances
and comedy chatter.
The Four O'Connors, father. two
sons and a daughter, who are known
as Variety Entertainers" offer the
second comedy novelty on the stage
bill. The father and enc son are
cross-f1re comics. Dad and his other
son are exceptional acrobats. Both
of the sons sing and dance.
Clark Morrell and Rubin Beck
with, who as single entertainers have
made themselves popular with vau-
deville fans throughout the country,
have combined their talents to offer
as the third stellar stage feature,
"Characterizations.7
The bill will be completed by one
other vaudeville specially.
A Pathe News weekly, talking
comedy and scenic film rounds out
the entire program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
Something NeqO

How does your thumbprint sound?
AS an experiment, Cecil B. De
Mile, producer, director for Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer, recently had sew
eral Of his Dynamite" cast place
their thumbprints on the Sound
track of this picture.
1t is well-known that sound is
reproduced by light forced through
a narrow Sound track" on the film.
Naturally the reproduction is gov
erned by what is on the sound
track If ar extraneous image, even
as lightly printed as a thumb mark,
appears on this strip, it will be re-
produced as an extra noise
The results of the experiments
were that the thumbprints of De
Mile, Conrad Nagel, Kay johnson
and others all had just as distinct
a sound" personality as the prints
themselves
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
Too Black
Cr0z0S ENLARGE

Perhaps it is the fact that the
stars of the production are known
as Two Black Crows that a variety
of trained animal actors are being
used in Moran and Mack's second
Paramount starring picture, ANY
body's War"
AT any rate the cast includes;
Buzzo, a trained bee.
Mutt, dog actor, which appears as
Deep Stuff"
Six trained mules.
Eight trained pigeons.
A comedy Daschund.
Twenty-six other performing dogs.
All of the animals, fowls and in
sects have special matchmaking
scenes with Moran and Mack.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
DOGS VIII Act Again

Having achieved several triumphs
in their tWo-reel comedies, the
troupe of trained dogs which APP
peared in Hot Dog" and college
Hounds" will next be seen in a
comedy sequence of 1.-THE March of
Time" Metro Goldwyn-M Mayer re-
vue now in preparation. In "The
March of Time" the canine unit will
present a sketch called AREN'T
Husbands Saps?" and Raquel Torres
will act as mistress of ceremonies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31

Nelson Trowbridge, manager of
the ShUbert at Cincinnati, writes
me that the Dramatic League comes
to Cincinnati at his theater, start
ing in october.
These league plays include "Dr
Harmer's Holiday This one by
Pinero. The second is listed as
"a Symphony in Two Flats" by
Ivor Novello. And one of them will
be a new Eugene O'Neill play.
Cincinnati show patrons went out
and guaranteed these fine attrac-
lions. They have already subscribed
for their seats.
In addition to that Stuart Walker
is guaranteed another season in
Cincinnati without loss.
Are we terribly asleep in Indian
apolis?
I have received an interesting let
ter from Mrs. Florence j. Cooksey,
1925 East New York street regard
ing the movies.
I do not subscribe to all that Mrs.
Cooksey writes but her opinion is
so interesting that am publishing
the letter in full as follows:
am not regular attendant of
the movie"
I enjoy a good show, that is, if
I like the actors or the show is
what seems to me worth while.
Through the insistance of my
daughter who has been my COM
panion in attendance during the
last few weeks we have seen several
of the so called better shows"
We have seen "Son of the Gods"
"Vagabond King" and Rogue
Song" General Crack" and others.
I was unfavorably impressed with
three things, and consider them
propaganda of the worst kind.
Blasphemy, brutality and ridicule.
In "Son of the Gods" Richard
Barthelmess, is made to denounce
American Christianity" His utter
ances were false, blasphemous, SO
unfair that though it is a picture
one feels that they must rise up out
of our seat and denounce the charge
as false. He might have said, and
with some truth, American society
or civilization. His charges were
an insult to God and to every
Christian in America.
Where have we heard this before?
American Christianity" American
Christianity has no earthly king,
pope or dictator, does not bow down
in worship to wood and stone, does
not worship images, shrines, forms.
American Christianity has shown
to the world how to worship God.
American Christianity is not lies.
Such a announcement and from
such a source when so far as the
picture portrays Sam Lee, was not
at any time associated with Chris
tians.
His f1ogging was brutal attack,
wholly without reason or common
sense, spelling place in the picture
which might have been made very
beautiful.
So overdrawn in its cruelty, we
lose our admiration for beautiful
girl
This same brutality we see in
The Vagabond King" Dennis
King, could not put it over grace
fully, brutality is not part of his
nature, and is unbecoming to him.
Tibbett handles his brutality with
better grace, again in General
Crack, disgraceful f1ogging, and
rough handling of women, what
does all this mean? What is back
OF this and what is to come after?
Women Love Brutes." Do women
love brutes? Mol Absolutely not!
Why this propaganda
There is no question in my mind
but that the movie" is the school
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31

Nils Asther, Metro-G oldwyn-May-
er's Swedish film idol, whose fad
is playing with animals in Los
Angeles ZOO, has a new pet. 1t is
a dog that boasts nine-tenths wolf
blood, and looks exactly like tim
Der wolf. Strange to say, the ami
NAL, which rejoiceS in the name of
Stupid" is exceedingly gentle de-
spite his dangerous appearance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
ROUNDING ROUND
THEATERS Hith H WA5Gzs

WOULD like Indianapolis guaranteed
fractions Theatre Guild
Dramatic League which Shubert for better things
EnglShS obtained of
Guild attractions only because the heaters Cincinnati o. closed
because of labor difficulties
We fortunate these attractions guarantee
next that will the Guilds leading
Cincinnati has ahead with the
tons under guarantee of people subscribing for to the changers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
This rite Sounds Powerful

1.-THE Richest Man in the World"
is the final title of the new M-G-M
picture formerly referred to as "Sins
of the Children" This film was
originally titled Fathers Day" and
was directed by Sam Wood, with
Louis Mann and Elliott Nugent,
prominent New York stage actors,
featured in the cast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
This Man Is Sure TaII

John Cromwell, director of Para
mounts 1.-The Texan" with Gary
Cooper in the title role, is one Of
the tallest directors in Hollywood.
He is six feet three inches in height.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
In 'WhOObee

Dorothy Knapp, star of sew
erGl Earl Carroll extravaganzaS
and one of Americas most
famous beauties, was signed
yesterday by Samuel Goldwyn
as the Indian princess in
"Whoopee. The perturbation
Of the noted stage success. in
which Eddie Cantor is again
TO star. is now in its fourth
week Of production under the
joint supervision Of Mr.. Gold
wyn aud Florenz ziegfeld.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
snanish Anthor Cots Nab

Miguel de Zarraga has been added
to the M-G-M writing staff and will
contribute original stories and
Spanish dialogue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
CAREER OF MARIE DRESSLER READS LIKE STORY OF WORI
Great Funmaker of the Taking Screen Joins With Polly
Moran in Giving Laughs in Caught Short"
Which Is Due at Palace Soon

THE OF Marie Draser contradict
Il tried and age-hallowed Hollywood axioms.
degree Of hstrioric
80 gains triumph the situation
precedent prove
republics major
the aphorism "ycuth be served"
notable
her
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
London Bound

Frederick Lonsdale, distin-
guished English playwright,
whose 1.-THE Last of Mrs.
Cheney was one of the bet
ter talking pictures, is in New
York, en- route to London. He
came from Hollywood where
he just completed the story
that viii be Ronald Colman'S
next talking picture. Upon his
return from England he viii
work on the dialog for this
film.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
Strothart Knew Franz Lehar

Herbert Stothart, composer of the
music for The Rogue Song" Law
renee Tibbett'S Metro Goodwin
Mayer smash hit. is former asso-
ciate of Franz Lehar, composer of
The Merry Widow" He tells the
story of Lehar'S attempted crusade
against jazz, when the composer
built an opera around a situation
where jazz was contraSted with
VienneSe waltzes, supposedly to the
detriment of jazz. But Lehar's en-
barraSsment was great when the
jazz number proved the biggest hit
of the show.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
Sunday School Lesson

The International Uniform Sun
day School Lesson for June 1.
Stewardship of Service, Matt. rs:
1890.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
Students to
Graduate
in Music
Teachers Plan RecitaIS for
Pupils All Next
Week.

an Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
~ Edward Nell of the Arthur Jor-
dan Conservatory of Music faculty
will present Irene Scott and Dallas
Galbraith in a graduation song re-
cital at the Odeon, 106 East North
street. Olga Porter and Mary Ellen
Galbraith will accompany.
Monday night, June 2, the Arthur
Jordan Conservatory of Music will
present two scenes from Freichutz-
Weber's popular opera, at the Odeon
under the joint direction of Lillian
A. Flickinger and Adolph H. Schell-
schmidt. Embellishments ensemble
will accompany the singers.
Elizabeth Haerle, Eugenia Magid-
son and Raymond Hail will take
the leading roles and Carolyn Cof-
fin, Vera Sudbrock, Laura Fiscus
and Katherine Carlisle will be the
brides maids.
Tuesday evening, June 3, the third
graduation program OF pupils of
Frances Beik, dramatic art teacher
of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory
of Music will be given at the Odeon
at 8:15 o'clock when Helen l.. Small,
Janet Morris, Frances Starr, Marie
Lenahan, Marian Fehrenbach, Lill-
yon Snyder, Evelyn Wolfard, Mary
E. Trabue and Ruth Wagner; Cor
don Bringle, Kenneth Lemons, NAL
colin Elwood, Earl Wrinkle and Rich
ard Sites will give 1.-THE Dawn of
Tomorrow" by Burnett; Papers"
and I'm the Spring a Young Mans
Fancy" by Will Smith Ransom. The
young ladies are the graduates.
The National Phi Sigma Mu must
cal fraternity public school music
will hold it's annual convention,
June and at Bowling Green, o.
jeanette Slocum. president of the
Indiana chapter and Beatrice West
fall, with Ruth Wagner and jean
cite Lemon as alternates, will repre-
sent the local chapter at the con-
vention. This chapter is located in
the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of
Music.
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BY VIM. E. GILROY, d. ID.
Editor of The COngreeationaIist

TINE general lesson title for this
u lesson, "a Contrast Between
Faithfulness and Slothfulness," is
somewhat more descriptive, though
neither title quite brings out the
full significance of the lesson which
has really to do with the real sense
of value and its application to life.
The lesson is one of those strik-
ing manifestations Of common
sense in which Jesus attacks the
greatest problems of life and con-
duct from the standpoint of life's
simplest principles. There is, also,
in the lesson the emphasis upon the
fact so commonly emphasized in
the teaching of Jesus that the laws
of the spiritual world are not so
unlike the laws of the physical and
material world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
Calls for Action

The ideal life in the conception
of Jesus is not a life of mere good
intentions, of futile dreaming, no
matter how rich and fine the
dreams may be; the ideal life is
found, rather. in true and real
investment of all that one is and
of all that one has. It is the di-
rection of life that determines its
destiny, or, as we should put 1t
in a terSe phrase o. today, 1t IS
character that counts. If a man
has a great treasure and allows
that treasure TO lie neglected.
neither in the material world nor
in the spiritual world can the trea-
sure be of much use to himself or
to anybody else
There is no glory that attaches
to the timidity of doing nothing,
even on the assumption that if one
does nothing he can do no wrong.
Life in its highest aspect is a mat
ter of adventure and commitment.
If we are not willing to assume
risks, there can be no glory OF re-
suit.
All this is expressed in the form
of a parable, which concerns a man
of substance going into another
country entrusting his goods to his
servants TO make the best use of
them possible. According 10 their
several abilities he proportional the
responsibility. giving to one five
talents, to another two. and to an
other one. The story as it pro-
ceeds is an interesting reflection of
life.
The man Nth the five talents
doubled his capital. SO also the man
of two talents: but the man of one
talent, careful lest he might lose
it. hid it away for safekeeping. On
the return of the master, the SER
wants who had received respectively
I've talents and two talents gained
the approval Of their lord But the
man who had hidden away the one
talent was rebuked as wicked and
slothful. because IN his anxiety he
had not taken proper care even
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31
RECITAL WILL
BE GIVEN HERE

Willard MacGregor of the faculty
of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory
of Music will present Paul Lind
staedt in his graduation recital on
Thursday evening, June 5, at the
Odeon.
LinStaedt will NAV.
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that that one talent should pro-
duce its proper profit.
OF course the parable is not en-
tirely typical of life. Like much
of the teaching of Jesus it is di-
rected toward the driving home of
one particular truth and the rebuk-
ing of the narrownesS and weakness
of one phase of life. In actual life
it is sometimes the five-talent man
who succeeds beyond all measure,
and who assumes the place that
naturally and rightfully might have
belonged to the man of larger OPP
portunity.
But no man either of five tai
entS or of one talent ever succeeds
either in the material world or in
the spiritual world by the methods
pursued by the one-talent man.
There can be no great living with
out serious and definite commit
ment. Conservation, when it is cut
off from activity, becomes itself a
principle of destruction.
Aggressive Christianity
AS in military conflict, attack is
often the trueSt form of defense,
so aggression in Christian living is
often the surest way of maintaining
growth in grace and effectiveness in
service. 1t was John R. Seeley who
declared in Ecce Homo that no vir-
tue is safe that is not passionate.
What he meant by that was that
positive goodness is the souls surest
foundation against temptation.
But let us again emphasize the
fact that Jesus is dealing with real
values and with true efficiency. We
make our lives great by living, and
the man who refuses to live abund-
antly not only limits the power and
effectiveness of his own life, but
ne tends to destroy the very force
that God has given him to exercise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-31

Mrs. Mary German, pupil of Lii
liam A. Flickinger, Georgia Bauman,
pianist; Elaine Wilson, violin pupil
of Thomas Poggiana, and Frances
Starr, pupil of Frances Beik, will
give program for the Ladies Aid
of the University Park Christian
church on Saturday afternoon, June
Z, at the home of Mrs Walter Kelly,
$3.50 Forest Lane. If the weather is
fair, there will be a garden party.