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RAE SAMUELS WILL SING RED HOT SONGS AT THE LYRIC
“Merry Whirl,” a Burlesque Attraction, to Open a Week’s
Engagement at the Mutual With Marie Breen
and Johnny Gilmore Featured.
“'T'HE BLUE STREAK" is here today. None other than Indianapolis’
JL favorite of favorites. Rae Samuels makes her local appearance at
the Lyric starting today after an absence of nearly two years.
Miss Samuels will head a quartet of Keith vaudeville attractions to
be featured on the stage at this theater for one week.
Rae, who is probably one of the outstanding ‘‘name’’ acts in vaude
ville today, has chosen Indianapolis, long considered by her as a ‘ pet”
city, to begin her tour of the Keith theaters this season.
Miss Samuels comes direct from New York, with a banner host of
sure-fire popular song hits, which will undoubtedly prove to be a sen
sation here.
There is no other artist on the variety stage quite like Rae. She
has a knack of selling her songs, a personality and an overabundance of
pep that has never been able to find a double. *
Although Miss Samuels will ap
pear four times daily at the Lyric,
she assured her legions of friends
and admirers in this city that every
performancee will be the same. Her
entire soul and being will be put
into every' song she sings.
Three accompanying acts are on
the bill. Among them will be found
the Four Ball Players, presenting a
harmony, singing, dancing and
talking specialty labeled ‘‘Twenty
Minutes in the Club House.”
Included in this group are George
Crable, formerly of the Brooklyn
Nationals: Bert Bowlen of the Texas
League: Charles Shannon of Notre
Dame and Bill Welsh of the South
ern League.
Sue Carol, the comely little flap
per screen star who rose to new
heights of fame by her performance
in the “Movietone Follies,” is the
star of “Why Leave Home?” an all
talking. singing, dancing film ver
sion of “The Cradle Snatchers,”
which will grace the Lyric screen
this week.
It is said to be the first Movie
tone musical farce yet to be pro
duced. Walter Catlett, who starred
in the stage production, will be seen
and heard on the screen in “Why
Leave Home?” portraying his orig
inal role. Nick Stuart, Dixie Lee
and David Rollins head the support
ing company.
a a a
“MERRY WHIRL”
OPEN AT THE LYRIC
“Merry Whirl” is the name of the
of the Mutual burlesque attraction
which comes to the Mutual theater
on Sunday afternoon.
Marie Breen, the “Sunshine Girl
with a Smile a Second.” heads the
cast, featured with Art Gardner, ec
centric comedian who needs no in
troduction to the burlesque public.
“Merry Whirl” always has stood
for the best in burlesque produc
tion. and this season it is said to
be more attractive than ever before,
with its song numbers, comedy bits
and costumes and scenery newly
equipped.
Among the man ente. tainers who
help put the show' over are Johnny
Gilmore, eccentric comedian: Jua
nita McDowell, prima donna; Ma
lene Salazar, soubret; Jack Lamont,
straight man, and Billy McCarthy,
the juvenile with a fine tenor voice.
Added to this is a large chorus.
‘Medals’ to
Be Made
“Medals.” Paramount's talking
film adaptation of the Barrie play,
‘ An Old Lady Shows Her Medals,”
went into production in Hollywood
last week with Gary Cooper as the
star. The tall young actor recently
completed work in the title role of
“The Virginian.” based upon Owen
Wister’s celebrated novel and stage
play. In “Medals.” Cooper's sup
porting cast includes Berly Mercer,
the noted stage actress who played
the role of the old scrubwoman in
the New York stage production;
Nora Cecil. Dowey Daisy Belmore,
Tempe Piggot. Arthur Hoyt and Ar
thur Metcalfe. “Medals” is being
directed by Richard Wallace, who
made "The Shopworn Angel,”
Maurice Chevalier's “Innocents of
Paris" and “River of Romance.”
Three Funmakers In One
Andy Clyde. Harry Gribbon and
Thelma Hill, that fine combination
of funsters seen in numerous Mack
Sennett talking comedy successes,
are co-featured again in “The Con
stabule.” the new Educational-Mack
Sennett talking comedy. Gribbon
plays the role of the town constable
while Andy is seen as a railroad
station agent. Miss Hill is seen as
the station agent's flapper daughter.
The suspected theft of a large
money shipment, left in the care
of the agent, provokes many of the
laughable moments and brings in
an unusually large number of
thrilling railroad train scenes.
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Carnival
Night to Be
Observed
A Big Event Is Planned at
the Indiana Roof
BsJiroom.
NEATH Spanish skies, scintilat
ing strains from Bernie
j Young and his Creolp orchestra will
usher in the first “Carnival” night
of the fall dancing season at the
Indiana Roof Ballroom tonight.
Last season Indianapolis dancers
acclaimed Carnival nights with so
much enthusiasm that Tom Devine,
manager of the Roof has announced
the same policy will be continued
this season, making Carnival night,
each Saturday night, a weekly fea
ture.
Bernie Young's Creole orchestra,
often referred to by dance enthusi
asts and radio fans as the ‘Faul
Whiteman’ of colored bands, will
strive to make this first Carnival
an event not easily to be forgotten.
Bernie has planned a group of
novel orchestral arrangements, espe
cially arranged by members of his
orchestra w r ho have studied courses
in harmony at Illinois university.
Patrons who were present at the
grand opening last Saturday night
or who have visited the Roof the
past week, will be delighted to know
that, “Speed” Patterson, eccentric
whirlwind dancer, will feature sev
eral of his brisk original creations
at different intervals during the
evening.
With balloons show'ering on the
merry makers, serpentine paper en
twining them into a colorful net
work, numerous novelties planned by
the management and the entrancing
tunes of the Creole orchestra—
Carnival night has all the assurance
of being a merry jamboret, with
plenty of fun for all.
Monty and Vernon Featured
Monty Collins and Vernon Dent,
who are featured in "Ticklish Busi
ness,” the latest Educational-Mer
maid talking comedy, wrote the
words and music for the principal
song—a laughing tune —for this
picture. They both sing it in this
all-dialogue laugh-maker of back
stage life.
Well Known Variety
Stars at the Apollo
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George Whiting and Sadie Burt, the well-known vaudeville stars,
will be seen and heard in the Vitaphone presentation program at the
Apollo theater, singing a group of popular song numbers. They are
assisted at the piano by Edmund J. Weber.
Midget Goes Movie
Little Billy, famous circus and
vaudeville midget, who has been
seen in many feature pictures, plays
one of the principal supporting roles
in Lloyd Hamilton's new talking
comedy for Educational, “His Baby
Daze.” The noted midget has a
splendid voice for talking pictures.
AMUSEMENTS
COLONIAL
Illinois and New York Sts.
Week Startin* Today
The Fastest Show In the City
Somethin* New In
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The Peppy (iin;*r JShow
-SPEEDING UP”
with
"Baldy” Hill—Jimmy Bava—Camille
Gardiner—Paul Reno—Mildred Wood—
" Sleepy" Chapman Hazel Smith
Daisie Due—" Dutch” Moon.
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GARTER NITE TUESDAY
CHORUS GIRL NITE THURS.
—ON THE SCREEN —-
Lionel Barrymore Jacqueline Loitan
“THE RIVER WOMAN”
Synchronized Music and Sound
“BEE’S BUZZ,” Talking Comedy
MATINEES, *Oe
SITES. SAT.. SUN. MAT.. SOe
I—Rae1 —Rae Samuels, “The Blue Streak of Vaudeville,”
opens a week’s engagement at the Lyric this
afternoon.
Dirty Work
Starts Its
New Season
Broadway Again Sees Our
Leading Woman Do
Murder, •
BY GIT,BERT SWAN
NEA Service Writer
NEW YORK. Sept. 7. —Unless
the geodetic survey reports a
few unchartered islands in the
South Pacific, the vs iters of mur
der dramas threaten" to run out of
scenes for their slayings.
The state of geographic desper
ation is indicated by the fact that
when the Labor day holidays
sounded the official signal for a
new theatrical season, two new
playwrights were to be found
“somewhere East of Suez,” stirring
about in the debris of Kipling land.
They are Harvey Fox and George
Tilton.
Last year when the first curtains
of autumn were falling, it was way
out to Indo-China that they sent
the lovely Helen Menken to bump
off the French military officer in
“Congai.”
And this time it's the decorative
and fascinating young comedienne,
Violet Heming. who is selected for
the dirty work. And, of all places,
they've selected Baluchistan. Be
ing in northern India, it’s almost
■MERRY WHIRL
JOHNNY GILMORE adding his type comedy to that of ART GARDNER, Juanita
McDOWELL, dark haired beautiful Prima Donna. MARIE BREEN, who knows the
full value of Charm. MARLENA SALAZA, soubrette red hot and snappy, and others
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
2—Art Frank, known as the “Grand Dad of Whoopee.”
is the featured member in “Rah, Rah, Rah,” now at
the Indiana,
certain to be a British outpost. Out
there, however, it isn’t the humidity,
it’s the heat.
Strange things happen tq, men
when the temperature is what it is
in Baluchistan. And strange things
happen to an attractive young
woman, such as Violet Heming. To
be sure, the heat in New York was
nothing to write back to Baluchistan
about.
But nevertheless and notwith
standing, Miss Heming turns from
a comedienne ol no small talents
to “thq wickedest woman in India.”
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THE play is titled, “Soldiers
and Women,” and it concerns
a very witty and attractive
colonel’s lady, whose emotions are
affected by the heat, So much so,
that if she can’t have all the men
in and out of sight she grows more
than passingly annoyed.
Comes one that she can not land,
and in a moment of pique she lays
him low. It so happens that he’s
the husband of the only other
white woman in the outpost. The
difficulty of fastening the crime on
Brenda, for such is her name, oc
cupies a considerable portion of the
drama. In fact it makes the opus
what it is today.
For while the audience has ob
served the killing and knows that
Brenda is the culprit, all the Brit
ish officers are engaged in finding
someone else. In the end, she’s
trapped—and there’s nothin? left
but the cyanide bottle.
All of this happens -with native
musicians playing whatever they
play in northern India, with lots
of good atmosphere and lots of
situations which make audiences tilt
in their chairs. Which means that
it will probably be among those
present on the Broadway front line
when the season is much older and
wiser. And there’s a performance
by one A. E. Anson, the particular
remesis of Brenda, which is con
siderably better than most to be
found in the white lights belt.
a a a
ANEW producing firm—which
is nothing new for Broadway
—also makes it*, bow at the season’s
official getaway. It’s called Show
shows, Inc., and is headed by Louis
Safian. who announces that he has
six new shows in his hip pocket.
“Great Scott,” it is called, and its
author is Howard Koch, who prac
tices law in his spare time.
It’s a comedy about the young
man who comes home with a col
lege degree and seeks to impress
his collegiatism upon the mill town
which claims him as a son. Just
such fresh, pert and unimportant
pieces have clicked before —for in
stance, “Skidding,” on last year’s
list. So this entertainment trifle
has good cause to hope for a career
sufficient to pay off the carpenters,
electricians and actors.
The gags are such as should
recommend it to the talking pic
tures, with the vaudevilian touch
that appears to have a definite ap
peal to average theater goers, how
ever they nay strike such theater
hardened oldsters as myself.
The humor is of that broad
variety which causes the college lad
to ask for “aqua pura,” whereupon
his father asks him why be doesn't
drink water. Whereupon the audi
ence laughs and seems to have a
grand time.
So Showshops, Inc., seems well
launched.
AMUSEMENTS
At Colonial
“Sleepy” Chapman
One of the new members of the
stock company playing at the Co
lonial is “Sleepy” Chapman.
Still Very
Big Hit
“Blossom Time,” that everlasting
musical favorite, will begin its
eighth annual tour under the man
agement of the Messrs. Shubert in
Syracuse on Oct. 7. with Rochester
and Buffalo to follow.
Announced as a continuance of
the Franz Schubert Centennial Tour,
“Blossom Time” will carry out de
ferred plans for a coast to coast
journey w'hich its extended engage
ments last season in many cities
made it impossible to complete.
Two Leading Men in Same Movie
Constance Bennett in her first
Pathe talkie, “Rich People,” has two
leading men. These lucky men are
Regis Toftmey, who has been bor
rowed from Paramount, and Robert
Ames, who has just completed the
leading male role in Gloria Swan
son’s latest picture. Toomey’s com
ing to Pathe is in the nature of a
trade, for Pathe has just loaned
Stanley Smith, one of its most
promising young players, to Para
mount to appear opposite Nancy
Carroll in “Sweetie.”
Ed Still Likes Blonds
Edward Everett Horton again
shows his preference for blonds in
his new Educational-Coronet talk
ing comedy. “Prince Gabby.” He
has chosen Rita Carew, an unusual
ly beautiful and talented feminine
player of the type that gentlemen
prefer as his leading lady for this
farce comedy.
3 —Ella Catrell is one of the chief members of “The Merry Whirl,” open
ing Sunday matinee at the Mutual.
ROUNDING ROUND
THEATERS RES
ONE of the most satisfying experiments that w'e have had lately on
the vaudeville stage was that of Adela Verne, splendid pianist, play
ing Liszt and Chopin.
At one show during her vaudeville engagement at the Lyric, Miss
Verne gave an all-Chopin program.
Os course, there will always be
some thoughtless persons who have
no respect for the artist or other
members of the audience, but it
must be recorded that Miss Verne
conquered.
It was noticed that during her
playing of a Chopin waltz that she
had nearly quiet attention on the
port, of everybody.
Miss Verne is one of the very few
fine classical artists who is bring
ing the work of the great masters
to the vaudeville stage.
I am sure that there were many
people in the large audience the
other night who were attracted to
the Lyric just to hear Miss Verne
play Chopin. Her Chopin is intelli
gent, sympathetic and beautifully
shaded/ In other words, a triumph.
After her program she was
brought back to the stage and flow
ers went over the footlights. That
is an unheard of thing in vaudeville
these days.
fit St tt
Have just received w'ord that
Charles Berkell has gone back to
the vaudeville field. He has opened
two variety theaters, one in Daven
port, lowa, and the other in Moline.
The Davenport Democrat and
Leader has this to say:
Mr. Berkell will book his own acts which
will be known as Berkell vaudeville. There
will be seven feature acts on every bill
and no pictures at any time.
Mr. Berkell has the distinction of be
ing the first vaudeville manager in the
Tri-Cities. He first introduced vaudeville
here in 1905 when he came to Davenport
and opened his first theater, which was
konwn as the Elite and was located on
the west side of Brady street, between
Third and Fourth streets. It. was a small
theater, which occupied quarters formerly
used as a store room. The general ad
mission price was 10 cents. As vaudeville
became more popular Mr. Berkell soon
found his theater too small and decided
to open a. new one in the 300 block on
West Second street, This theater he also
called the Elite which he operated for a
number of years. During the time that
the new theater was being built he
operated a show under canvas at the
southwest corner of Second and Scott
streets, where the office of the Mueller
Lumber Company is now located.
About 1911 Mr. Berkell opened the Amer
ican theater, which at that time was con
sidered one of the finest, vaudeville houses
in the middle west. It was located on the
site of the present Capitol theater. He
operated the American until 1914 when
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he disposed of his interests and retired
from the vaudeville field. Since'that time
he has held interest in road shows and
for the past eight seasons has managed
the Berkell Players stock organization.
During his years as vaudeville manager,
Mr. Berkell played many performers who
were later destined to become stars. Some
of these are A1 Jolson, James J. Corbett,
Mrs. Bob Fitzsimmons. Jack Coogan, father
of Jackie Coogan, Four Marx Brothers,
Le Marie and Le Marie, Buster Keaton,
Marilyn Miller, Harry Langdon, Joseph E.
Haw’ord. Charles Chaplin. Mabel McKinley.
Seven Belfords, Nelson's Aerial Ballet,
American Newsboys Quartet, Frederick V.
Bowers, and many others. He also played
in the first orchestra to appear in vaude
ville.
For many years Mr. Berkell was recog
nized as one of the leading vaudeville
managers in the country.
ana
George Soinnes, director of the
Civic theater, made a flying trip to
Bermuda and then to New York to
see the new shows. Then back to
Indianapolis to start rehearsals for
the Civic theater.
Two British. Captains in Films
Two players in important roles in
“Her Private Affair,” Ann Harding's
second Pathe picture, formerly held
the rank of captain In the British
army. They are John Loder, who
went into the army after a course
at the Sandhurst Royal Military
Academy, and Lawford Davidson,
who left a successful career on the
London stage to accept a commis
sion at the outbreak of the World
war.
RIVERSIDE
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
PATENT LEATHER KID
BALLOON ASCENSION AND
DARING PARACHUTE LEAPS
RIVERSIDE IN MIDSEASON FORM
Other parks may close or stay open, as their judgment dictates, but
Riverside will continue, as In former seasons, to operate al! its hun
dreds of features daily and Sunday until the end of the season.
Right now is the best time of all the year to pay the big fun resort
a visit, either for an evening's fun or thrills or for a pienle in the
beautiful grove of trees in the center of the park. Enjoy a. treat in the
park complete.
SEPT. -7, 1329
Jumper to
Do a Novel
Air Stunt
The “Kid” Will Photograph
Himself in Wild
Leap.
EVERY Sunday this season that:
the Patent Leather Kid has
ascended for parachute leaps at
Riverside amusement park, hundreds
of amateur photographers have
taken shots at the daring stun. 4
man.
Sunday afternoon the “Kid" plans
to turn the tables on the picture
takers and will do some shooting
on his own hook.
Strapping a fast-action camera on,
the balloonist will take a number
of photographs of the throng at
various heights, making his first
one about a hundred feet from the
ground and the last one just prior
to cutting loose from the balloon for
his series of parachute leaps.
Many photographs have been
made from planes and observation
balloons, but it is believed this will
be the first attempt to take pictures
from a hot air bag.
Riverside right now is at the peak
of its summer season, and the park
will be open until late this fall, with
all the various big rides and other
fun devices operating afternoon and
night. The picnic season is at Its
height at Riverside, with outings of
clubs and busness concerns’ em
ployes almost daily.
Today the employes of the Stuta
Automobile Company are holding
their annual outing at the park,
with thousands of their friends as
guests.
Real Ship
Is Used
What is said to be the first talk
ing cojnedy with scenes takeft on
board a steamship was filmed re
cently on board the S. S. Emm*
Alexander, which plies between Pa
cific coast ports.
The scenes were taken for Edu
cational's all-talking comedy, “Don’t
Get Excited,” under the direction of
Charles Lamont.
It is the second production in
the new group of Tuxedo Talking
Comedies being supervised by Jack
White, famous comedy producer who
is director-in-chief at the Educa
tional studios.
Passengers and crew of the Emma
Alexander got a real thrill when
Lamont, his crew of cameramen
and recorders and the cast for the
picture started to work on the scenes
aboard the ship. Microphones were
placed on the promenade deck of
the liner.
Cameras caught the action while
the recording equipment registered
the dialogue and incidental sounds.
Powerful generators necessary to
supply the high voltage to the re
cording amplifiers were placed on
the main freight deck, far enough
away from the “mikes” so that tha
roar of the gas engines, which drlva
the dynamo, were inaudible on the
deck above.
Harold Goodwin. Estelle Bradley,
Lloyd Ingraham and Addle McPhail
head the cast in “Don’t Get
Excited.”
AMUSEMENTS