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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1928
Page
9
Berkell players close their season with a brisk comedy New Brooms by Frank Craven at English's next week. After the final show manager Charles Berkell will take the company to Chicago to open the winter season at Logan Square Theater on Sunday September 2.
Universal announces its first all talking production East Side directed by Leigh Jason from a Tom Reed original. The cast features Jean Hersholt Walter Long Mary Nolan Grace Valentine Tom McGuire with Cohen and Kelly family additions including Cornelius Keefe as young Kelly in The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City. Filming largely at Universal City with William J. Craft directing and George Sydney Vera Gordon as Mr and Mrs Cohen. Gertrude Messenger stars opposite Arthur Lake in Horace in Hollywood series directed by Edward Luddy.
Champions from Indiana cities join Indianapolis dancers in the first marathon dance at Day's Casino near Monument Circle. The Aug 12 start requires entries with physician certificates by Aug 11 noon, age 18 plus. Chicago rules apply, with 72 hours of continuous dancing per couple and 15 minutes rest per 45 minutes, plus early morning rest and medical exams.
A Sunday balloon ascent at Riverside Amusement Park is set for 3 o clock with plans to launch the Patent Leather Kid in a skyward journey. The event includes a 1000 foot parachute landing attempt with a Riverside beauty and a park land finish.
Peggy Hamilton a noted fashion expert visited the Tiffany St al Studios in Hollywood to watch Ricardo Cortez in The Gun Runner. Cortez wore a Gaucho outfit with a wide belt that sparked Hamilton to design a smart gown built around the belt motif under director Edgar Lewis.
Miss Betty Worman of 1501 E Maple Rd placed second in the Anita Page contest and will receive a three months pass to the Palace.
The Indianapolis Conservatory of Music presents voice students of Clifford D Long in a Tuesday night recital at the D A R auditorium 824 N Pennsylvania St Violet Albers violinist assists with a program featuring songs by Brahms Schubert and DeKoven among others and noted pieces including The Lilac Tree Gray Days Volga Boatmen's Song and One Fleeting Hour.
Miles Maner serves as author director and star of The Firstborn for Gainesborough Pictures with Madeleine Carroll and John Loder in the cast. British Screen completes Cradle of the U S A a historical twosreeler about forefathers. Welsh Pears on-Elder starts Sir Harry Lauders Auld Lang Syne with Pat Aherne and Dorothy Boyd among others.
Interpretative dance by George De Torgeo and wife opens with a dramatic shift to a tango and a Hindu worship segment aided by Lou McNeil and Frank Decker. The bill includes Camilla's Birds, Brady and Mahoney, Bordner and Eboyer, Jones and Grannon, Florence Seeley & Co, Kem and Debard Brothers, On the Screen, and Ruth Nover on the Lyric organ.
A caravan of 125 vehicles left Tiffany-Stahl Studios in Hollywood for Death Valley location scenes of Reginald Barker’s The Rainbow. Major items include camping gear and a large crate of chickens for the commissary. Leading cast includes Dorothy Sebastian, Lawrence Gray, Harvey Clark, Sam Hardy, Kate Price, and Gino Corrado.
The Indianapolis Times and Loew's Palace theater ran a resemblance contest tied to the screening of Telling the World. Miss Esther Ge Bauer of 1108 Odd Fellow Blog won first prize of $25 for her portrayal of Anita Page.
Letters from readers discuss distinguishing sound pictures from talking films. The first all talking movie shown locally is Lights of New York at the Apollo, with experts noting acting and directing must adapt to dialogue and musical scoring. Donn Wermuth reports Stuart Walker’s company may tour next summer, with casts shifting between Indianapolis Cincinnati and New York engagements. Robert St. Clair plans work in Decatur and Danville stock companies, not joining Berkell in Chicago.
Three girls will perform balloon ascensions and parachute drops Sunday at Gardens at Walnut Gardens. A state wide bathing beauty contest is announced for Sunday September 2 with an automobile as first prize. On Wednesday a Democratic picnic at Walnut Gardens will feature Frank C. Dailey, Democratic nominee for Governor, delivering the main address.
A Sunday morning concert at the county jail features the E. W. Hoover Concert Orchestra led by Christene Wagoner Roush with Jean Duthie at piano Helen Harrison harpist Margaret Rashbach soloist and a program including March Officer of the Day Pomp Circumstance Overture Viennese Song and other selections.
Evelyn Brent resumes work in Hollywood after a New York vacation and will be co featured with Clive Brook in a new picture. The project marks Brent and Brook reuniting as leading partners in a forthcoming film venture.
Broad Ripple Park will host two extra attractions Sunday Kruzo s Punch and Judy show and Duvall s Blackbirds a strolling musical act along Joy Lane The Punch and Judy show to entertain children formerly a Sesquicentennial Exposition hit and vaudeville staple Duvall s Blackbirds will perform music of popular songs as they wander the grounds A beauty contest by visiting county groups from Rush Fayette Henry and Hancock is planned with prizes at stake Also scheduled are men s horseshoe pitching swimming and boxing contests The Wilking Music Company will provide a program of latest hits for the Musical Mirsacle The big bathing pool and moonlight dancing garden offer extra appeal in hot weather
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