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STAGE OFFERS BEST FOR WEEK k OF FESTIVITIES Centennial Visitors and Ad men Will Find Variety and Legitimate Bills. The welcome sign is out. There's a hearty handshake wait ing for all. Next week will be a gala week in Indianapolis. Theaters will do their part in enter taining the many visitors who will come for the centennial celebration and the convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. With summer stock at the Murat and popular vaudeville in the variety houses, the situation will be satisfactorily taken care of In these particular lines of en tertainment. ‘•THE MIRACLE MAN " crooks will hold the center of The stage at the Murat next week. That ts, the play to be presented, •" will be the Geor^e JQhEk M. O han success. "The Miracle Man." & The story con ':• rerns a patriarch M of a small village. }ZB AW* lL who. through ??> \ > faith has ac quired the power V : ' VaSifet*'- to heal the sick. * A crook by the V b fllDe °r Mad’son crook by the name TSonws Kelly. of Helena and others of the gang. Everything starts off well and the money begins to flow in until Helena and some of the others are reformed by the teachings of the goodly patriarch. On the stage it was a big success and was also one of the best pictures ever produced on the screen. In the Stuart Walker production next week at the Murat Aldrich I'owker will be seem as the patriarch: Rlanche Yurka as Helena, and McKay Morris as the leading crook. Others who will he in the cast are Bar bara Carper, an Indianapolis girl; Thomas Kelly, Judith Lowry. Robert IfeGroarty. Lael Davis, Oscar Cralk. John Wrav, Elizabeth Patterson and Elizabeth Black. “The Miracle Man” opens Monday night at the Murat for the entire week. SEASON TO CLOSE. With tonight’s showing of * The Gaiety Girls.” with Pat White, the Park will cloN‘ its 1919-20 season. The next season will open in the early port of August wltl most of the shows equipped with better electrical effects. • some new principals and new scenery. management states that the cur rent season has consumed forty-three weeks and that an attendance record has been set. G. Everett Black Is manager and lessee of The Park. SUMMER VAUDEVILLE \ Variety will be the keynote in the vaudeville theaters during the week. There will be music, dancing, novelty. AMUSEMENTS. llt OKIE ENTERTAINERS 1 I J 1 NEWLAND & BILL PADEN & READ I I DUK Fc* f^ 188 lEEFEH * t ALBERTS IJ / FOX FIL " FARCE “DANGEROUS EYES” and acrobatic offerings on nearly all of the bills of the four houses offering vaudeville. -I- -I- -!- THE RL4LTO. Miss Mildred Garrison is the featured player with "The f Perfection Girla.” headliner at the S3 Rialto next week. '' - known is corkers I,f in cork; Harris an<l I.yman and ~ Bertel! Sisters e\V Jn| The movie por- L., tlon of the bill L will feature Gladys "White Lies." n Fox movie. in Miss Garrison. which a French woman of noble birth comes face to face with poverty. .1, _i .1 THE LYRIC. The Souther 1 * Harmony Four, com posed of four vocalists, will be the head liner on th* new bill at the Lyric. "Syncopation at a Mile a Minute" is said to describe the offering of Newland and Will, a jazz offering. Three musical maids will appear un der the caption of the Weston Sisters and they play the violin and the cornet. Rube impersonations, singing and dancing will be the principal features of Keefer and Alberts, who will pre sent "Down on.the Farm.’* Trained dogs appear in an act an nounced as Duke and Duchess: Gordon and Day in "Whirlwind Nanßense" and Rader and Reed will complete the bill. A Fox movie. "Dangerous Days,” will make up the movie portion of the bill. THE BROADWAY. The Four Juggling Normans, well known on the variety stage, will be the headliner at the Broadway next week Bayes and Specks will offer a singing and dancing act. Mattie Lockett, a comediene; Williams and Culver in some nonsense, and other act* w-ili make up the bill. The fourteenth chapter of "Dare Devil Jack." with Ja'k Dempsey, is the movie feature of the new- bill. B. F. KEITH S. Keith's will have an entire nw bill beginning Monday and has been arranged to meet the entertainment needs cf con vention week Thief Takes §3O Out of Woman’s Handbag While looking at a window exhibit of "Indianapolis in IS2O, ’ Mrs. E. H Rob inson. 4236 Broadway, wn* robbed, she told the police A thief opened Mrs Robinson's hand bag and relieved her of S3O. Albert DeVency, *s*l North Illinois street, told the police that be w-as held up and robbed by two negroes last night near Senate avenue and North street. One of the men covered him with a revolver and the other took bis watch, valued at $M>. Burglars entered J. Ranbatz's store. 42." West Washington street, this morn ing, and carried away two -suits of clothes, two patrs of shoes, three shirts, a suitcase and a handbag. INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JUNE 5,1920. PICTURE BILLS TO KEEP CITY’S VISITORS BUSY Films of 500-Mile Race Will Be Feature of Varied Screen Program. Centennial week will be a big one In the movies, as each house has at tempted to offer a feature of a nov elty nature. Some of the best known stars wilt be flashed and the story of the speedway rare will be fold In filra. Each house has devoted special atten tion to tb<* musical programs as well ns to the film offerings. "THE SPLENDID HAZARD." The first showing of “The Splendid Hazard” on any screen in America, will take place Sunday at the Circle and will continue all week. Henry B WaithaU has the leading part in the play, that of Karl Breitman. in whose veins flows the blood of the Great AMUSEMENTS. I GEORGE M. COHAN’S GREAT SUCCESS THE MIRACLE MAN Beginning Monday Night 9 P. M. (OS ACCOUNT OF PARADE) and All Week Matinees—Wed., Thurs. and Sat.—2:3o Evenings, 50c and sl. Mats., 25c and 50c I J TWO KISSES T ■" " MEHB ■ IBEMIi IslaKE This Week’s Bill '■HBSBBfiBpfSfiMpH Changes §l2iyj |J3I M || ’ On Monday Indianapolis, the Center of Commercial Activity KEITH’S The Center of The VAUDEVILLE World If O O ■ A “Madam Sirloin—Medium” is a rare combina u dll uarnp filltion of come dy and talent, we might add, well VHi I VRI lIV ™W Wl W done, by artists who understand how to prepare a piquant sauce without spice. Van Avery, as “Rastus,” is one of the best “charcoal” cooks in captivity. -s fl | Q Ilf IB ’* a °k an(i Margaret have established themselves as uOUBfiV W git II “sure-fire” vaudevillians. Their “Odd Musical Non lIWIIII sense” includes some original laugh-producing ideas and gives Jack an opportunity to manhandle a piano. Bee Ho Gray & Ada Gray ■* Mw IIW mmmim ■’•■Jr asm. Ada rides a cow pony, “Onion,” and the way this trio introduces some frontier frolics is sure surprising. WB fl# Q ■ | Bill, Bob and Elmer compose a K Him fw Mlf!l!3*fld3l trio of loose-jointed muscular mar llvllUf Ivvvvv W IVlwll Uvl# vels, performing some daring and difficult gymnastic feats with a nonchalance that makes them appear simple. It’s all in fun and you’ll laugh with the boys and applaud at the finish. ■ ■ I# ****** 0 O You reca h the poet’s remark about H 21CStCiin li* AT. I■ n music and its soothing qualities. It af- WUIIIfI IlClddlllll W UUI foots the tired business man in much the manner. The songs and the musical program offered by these artists will be en joyed by all our patrons. ■ | ■■ ■■ O Jack bills his offering as “Five Feet of Com marfin Aw. Bin edy” and makes good the entire distance. All WHlPlm. 111 Hi III! wtf wU ■ you are asked to do is lean back and laugh. You’ll find it good for your health and ’twill be easier on your friends. Read it again. Get All the News in Film Form and the Funny Paragraphs in the KINOGRAMS AND LITERARY DIGEST TOPICS. Napoleon, nnd who becomes obscessed with the Idea of restoring the ancient glory of Napoleon's reign to Frace. He Ifartiß that Iledda Gobert, an opera singer, possesses papers that tell of a buried treasure of Napoleon and mad dened by hla lust for power makes des perate love to her. winning her confl dence and sincere love. However her affection is wasted on Breitman, who, feeling the urge his royal blood, derides that one of royalty must love lightly and having won her confidence and secured the desired in formation. casts her off and starts on his mad errand. The trail leads to America to an old estate In New England, and Breitman is followed not only hv Iledda. but by secret service men of the French gov ernment. who learn of his plot to over throw the republic, in America. Breitman, to accomplish his alms, l*>romcs secretary to a re tired sea captain, in whose house he ex poets further information about th treasure. The story moves rapidly, ter niinattug In a duel. SPEEDWAY MOVIES. Movies of the .Vk) mile speedway race held last Monday at the Indianapolis speedway will be rbown at the Circle, be ginning Sunday. DePalma's hard lock t* photographed as well os the good fortune of the winner DK MILI.E FEATURE. (>*•11 l>o Mllle .- pi' turn, "Why Change Your Wife." will be shown at English's all week, starting Sunday. Mr. Do Mille has gotten away from the old form of nutrimonia! p;ays In bis de piction of the w ?fe, who in her over whelming love for her husband tire* him to the degree that he finds solace in the eompanionshlp of a pretty divorcee. The wife, who forgets to make a play mate of her husband, and who has AMUSEMENTS. ‘ZPiWadfffl/A , 02U2aaEaxx££z?r [y Contlnuoan Neon Till II p. m. f 1 Today & Tomorrow U THE BIS J3V SHOW a 8 Big Features Including Tom Linton’s ! JUNGLE GIRLS I The Spfrlul Feature Altraftlon. ft Slngtna, Iluirlni. Mu*ieul Com u fd). with fperlal Scener.r, Prftty H Olrl*. Wonderful CoMuroe*. | Martin & Walters Robert Swain Hanley & Fritz Ben Linn I Knight’s Roosters Dare Devil Jack AND OTHERS COMING Mos. THE FOUR JUGGLING NORMANS The WorlJ’s Greatest Ladle*' Bargain Matinee* EVERY MON.—WED.—FBI. changed remarkably since their marriage ton years previously, obtains a djvorce and ho marries the other woman. It then develops that his second wife grows to be very opposite to what she was when he ma. !ed her. and trouble ensues. Meanwhile, the first wife, beautiful and (Continued on Page Six.) MOT |QN PICTURES. OWEN MOOSE Desperate Hero' A merrv, mirthful comedy-drama, in which love and romance arrive in a flivver" and leave In a luxurious limousine. SN'l B POLLARD COMEDY OLD MEMORIES, SELZNICK NEWS ALL WEEK. STARTING SUNDAY. LIBERTY QUINTETTE MUSK? THAT CMAQMS AMLRICAN HARMONISTS MSaaMauamgmf colonial W SUNDAY Eg Monday, Tuesday WS&r and Wednesday S. HART 1 A Border Romance of Hot Passions and Hank Mann LOST DETECTIVE” Novelty Five Entertainers. TFrri'niiriiii “""a”' 1 Snub PoUard \ /ligifH "SSEo, Urab the Ohortj Sherlock Holmes Brought Down to Date. The Scientific Ehicidator 0 f Wonder Sleuth J, 433 k. Police Mysteries Glen White Portray* the GreatQe tective —IN— Circumstantial Evidence story of swift action—compelling complications and a most amazing climax. A GrippinggjgiWtional Feature AMUSEMENTS. I RIALTO | Let’s Go-H’s Continuous ALL NEW AGAIN I Tomorrow Special Vaudeville I Perfection | Girls With Mildred Ganrison Most Perfectly Formed Girl in the World. iMiss Mildred Garrison. Gladys Brockwell Whits Lies A Powerful Story of Love and Sacrifice Morton Jewel Foar Novelty Entertainers, George Wilson Comedian Gilmore and Castle Corkers in Cork f Lyman ort of It Every Sunday at tills theater ay Mon., Wed. nsHr ALL THIS WEEK PAT WHITE and HIS New Gaiety Girts Supported by an All-Star Cast This coupon and 10 cents entitle lady to reserved seat at any matinee during week. MOTION PICTURES. 5