Berkell Ends Stock Season With Final Chicago Show
HARLES BERKELL will close his stock season at English's tonight with New Brooms. He announces the company will fold temporarily and return to Indianapolis next spring. Berkell praises public support, notes profitable late season, and vows a stronger comeback with accessible pricing and informal theater atmosphere.
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Lyric Presents New Summer Bill With Rossman’s Alabama Orchestra
The Lyric’s latest summer bill opens Sunday afternoon featuring Rossman’s Alabamians dance orchestra from Hollywood nights clubs. Also on stage Small’s Stylish Steppers with Cleo Floyd, Orren and Drew’s Mike-at-the-Phone, Stanley Bros and Attree aerial act, Bence and Co. musical trio, Dixon and Morelli comedy skit Perfect English, Three Pepper Shakers dancing, plus Fox comedy Her Mother's Back Universal Hurry-Up Marriage a Color Classic and Pathe Newsreel.
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Bence
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Robbie McGregory
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Morelli
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Pathe
New Acts at Keith Albee Orpheum vaudeville bill compiled
New acts booked last week include Ed La Vine in Soldiering Fred Carroll in Look Out Below Mildred Crewe and Boys Ahead of the Times Bernard and Harry Clyne with Syl Green Violet McKee and Company in A Bit of Musical Comedy in a Vaudeville Way Henry Fink and Billy Clair The Broadminded Boy from Broadway Jack Irving and Betty Burnett in In and Out of Trouble Eugene Conrad Haley Joyce Sisters Three Pepper Pots Bert Lewis Darktown Comedian Tom Fulmer and Mae Wayne in A Grand Boy and Girl Estes and Bernice in A Latirical Dance Novelty with the four Kate Kiddies Frank Cook and Jean Vernon in Oh Amy Joroy and Aleer in An Unusual Revue with Dorothy Kemdin and Leonard and White
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Ed LaVine
Fred Carroll
Mildred Crewe
Boys
Bernard
Harry Clyne
Syl Green
Violet McKee
Henry Fink
Billy Clair
The
Boy
Broadway
Jack Irving
Betty Burnett
Eugene Conrad
Haley
Joyce Sisters
Bert Lewis
Tom Fulmer
Mae Wayne
Estes
Bernice
Kate Kiddies
Frank Cook
Jean Vernon
Amy
Sidney S. Lazarus
Joroy and
Aleer
Dorothy Kemdin
Leonard and White
Rounding Theaters Round With Walter D Hickman
A critical broadcast on vaudeville acts and performers from New York and Indianapolis critics. Frank Livingston defends his Lyric review while Florence Seeley acts and a Broadway debutante Vivien Tobin features in New Face Week at Brooklyn venues. George Somnes sails for Europe to study European little theater.
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Mr. Livingston
Indianapolis
Alvin Kelly to speak at Lyric Theater shows
Denison Hotel perched shipwreck star Alvin Kelly will appear at the Lyric Theater this afternoon around 2 and again about 8 tonight. Manager Dick Wright confirms the event where Kelly explains how he stood on a flagpole for over a day.
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Camerman Syd Hickox Shoots Oh Kay! With Colleen Moore
Syd Hickox photographs Colleen Moore in Oh Kay as his current project. He previously served as cameraman on Happiness Ahead and Lilac Time, contributing to major productions.
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Human Cork to Perform at Broad Ripple Park This Week
Broad Ripple Park hosts a week of attractions starting Sunday headlined by The Human Cork, a 300 pound trick swimmer and diver known for continuous floating. He will perform in the bathing pool with mid show stunts and a finale battle with other swimmers. Musical Miracle, Wilking Music Company, and Frank Wilking provide weekly hits. Out of town guests from Madison, Hamilton, Delaware and Tipton Counties arrive by interurban, bus, train and car as committees coordinate county gatherings and picnics at the park.
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Universal Signs John Boles Five Year Film Pact
The well known stage star John Boles secures a five year contract with Universal to bolster its talkie roster. He recently played the male lead beside Laura La Plante in The Last Warning directed by Paul Leni. Casting updates include Nora Lane and Tom Kennedy for The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City as the company travels to New Jersey for location work. Alice Day is set as Reginald Denny’s leading woman in Red Hot Speed at Universal City, directed by Joseph Henaberry with a cast featuring Thomas Ricketts Fritzi Ridegway and Charles Byer. Show Boat casting continues with Grace Cunard Scotty Mattraw Joe Mills and Richard Coleman. The Universal unit is filming on the Sacramento River in northern California with Laura La Plante Joseph Schildkraut Otis Harlan Alma Rubens and Emily Fitzroy in leading roles.
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Alice Day
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Universal City
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Denny
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Thomas Ricketts
Fritzi Ridegway
Charles Byer
Edna Ferber
Grace Cunard
Scotty Mattraw
Joe Mills
Richard Coleman
Harry Pollard
Universal Company
Sacramento River
California
Joseph Schildkraut
Otis Harlan
Alma Rubens
Emily Fitzroy
Miss Venus of Indiana Beauty Contest At Walnut Gardens
A state wide bathing beauty event selects its winner at Walnut Gardens on Sunday September 2. Indianapolis will enter officially while local girls file applications at the Denison hotel. Entrants from several Indiana cities have been chosen by elimination or popular acclaim with more to come. The winner earns a Chevrolet coach and all entrants must be 16 to 25 years old and of good moral character. Walnut Gardens lies thirteen miles south of Indianapolis on State Road 67 near Camby.
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