Big Week at Broad Ripple Park Promises Major Amusements
Broad Ripple Park gears for a busy week with the Great Pasha burying a shoe act each evening and a noon downtown ‘‘blind driving’’ stunt. Picnics by American Legion mothers, Candiday candy wrappers gate openers, and the Homer Williamson Candy Company sponsor a public treat. Water tests aim for 70 degrees, Bathing Beauty Revue entries rise, and Patent Leather Kid returns with a wooden mascot Ima Dahli. Rail workers from Peoria & Eastern arrive on two trains for Riverside’s annual outing, while Canals of Venice and coast er rides draw crowds along with archery and skeeball.
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Pasha Hil
Ladies’ Auxiliary
American Legion
Mothers of the Post
Homer Williamson Candy Company
Onenair Theater
Daredervil Belloonist
Riverside Amusement Park
Ima Dahli
Peoria & Eastern System
Riverside
Indianapolis
Peoria
Canals of
Venice
RKO Plans for Thirty Big Movies for 1922 30
RKO outlines a season focusing on thirty major productions for 1922 30 with dialogue sound and music. Road show caliber titles include Street Girl Rio Rita Hit the Deck High River Vagabond Lover Radio Revels and more. Nine specials and nine radios plus three Richard Dix and three Bebe Daniels pictures anchor the lineup.
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R*o
Radio Pictures
Broad Way
Betty Conpson
Florenz Ziegfeld
Vincent Youman
Herbert Brennan
Rudy Vallee
Connecticut
Harry Ruby
Bert Kalmar
Radio” Pictures
Richard Dix
Bebe Daniels
Rod la Rocque
Upperworld
Betty Compson
Side Street
Delibtful
Jay Brennan and Ann Butler Star in New Vitaphone Sketch
Jay Brennan has completed a third Vitaphone number at Warner Bros. studios with Ann Butler opposite him. The skit titled You Dont Know the Half of It was written by Brennan for himself and Butler. Brennan previously teamed with Olive Tell and Mabel Normand in Hollywood. Butler left John A. Murray's Driftwood after her husband Hal J. Parker died and is now contracted to Greenwich Village Follies.
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Jay Brennan
Vitaphone
Warner Bros. Fastern
Ann Butler
Mr. Brennan
Hollywood
Olive Tell
Mabel Normand
Miss Butler
Brennan
Earl Carroll
John A. Murray
Hal J. Parker
Greenwich Village
Still Funny Chester Conklin Joins Fast Company Cast
Chester Conklin, famed for The Studio Murder Mystery Night Watchman, is signed by Paramount for a key comic role in Fast Company, a talking film adaptation of Imer the Great. Edward A. Sunderson will direct, with Evelyn Brent, Jack Oakie, Skeets Gallagher, Gwen Lee, Eugene Pallette, Aruthur Houseman and Sam Hardy also in the cast.
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Chester Conklin
Studio
Paramount
Fast Company
Aine Lardner
Evelyn Brent
Jack Oakie
Richard “Skeets” Gallagher
Gwen Lee
Eugene Pallette
Arthur Houseman
Sam Hardy
Suwanee River Sways Dance of Life Musical Sequences
The film The Dance of Life uses Stephen Foster’s Suwanee River as the melodic thread for key dance numbers. Hal Skelly and Nancy Casto perform graceful waltz clogs to the tune, featured multiple times in the Paramount all talking singing production adapted from Burlesque.
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Stephen Foster
Suwanee River
Paramount
Hollywood Studios
Fosters “Suwanee River
Hal Skelly
Nancy Casto
Paramount Signs Fred Kohler To Long Term Contract
Good News notes the versatile actor Fred Kohler has been signed by Paramount to a long term contract after his standout role in Thunderbolt at the Rivoli. The report highlights Kohler's commanding screen presence and fearlessness with the microphone in his performances.
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Fred Kohler
George Bancroft
Underworld
Paramount
Kohler
Rivoli
Jolson Featured At Brixton Astoria Opening
Honored Al Jolson in The Singing Fool earns a distinction as the first attraction at London's Brixton Astoria atmospheric theater set to open in August. Herbert Lomas, father in Bird in Hand at the Morosco, sends his preferred tobacco from abroad to England.
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al Jolson
Vitaphone
Great Britain
Brixton Astoria
London
Herbert Lomas
Morosco Theater
England
Local Acts at Lyric Feature New Vaudeville Duo
Local boy Mary Allison and Irvin Fields, both Indianapolis products, join Bob and Gale Sherwood at the Lyric for a vaudeville bill headlined by Rhapsodies and Blue. Allison trained in Indianapolis, with schooling from public schools and Shortridge High School and musical tutelage from Arthur Manning of the College of Music and Fine Arts.
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Bob
Gale Sherwood
Lyric
Mary Allison
Irvin Fields
Indianapolis
Keith
Shortridge
Mary
Arthur Manning
College of Music and Fine Arts
Civic Theater seeks subsidy to expand Playhouse
The Indianapolis Civic theater may miss its subscription goal for funding to start enlarging The Playhouse including the stage dressing rooms and workshop. organizers doubt the auditorium expansion this year despite local wealth backing the project and civic value.
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Indianapolis Civic Theater
Indianapolis
Burke Plans New Cast for Melody Land Show
Burke, Colonial producer, returns from New York with new material costumes and lighting. He introduces two principals Paul Rene tenor and Mildred Wood soubrette for Melody Land next week. Songs include My Old Fashioned Girl The Balloon Girl and Rain number. Comedies Casey the Fireman The Bath Between and The Pulman Train appear. Fannie Hurst story It Is to Laugh becomes The Younger Generation film by Columbia Pictures with Park Avenue apartment backdrop.
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F. H. Burke
New York
Melody Land
Casey
East Side
Park Avenue
Fannie Hurst
Columbia Pictures
River of Romance at Paramount Highlights 1840 Gowns
Twenty nine meticulously crafted party dresses were completed at Paramount studios for River of Romance. Twenty four seamstresses spent three weeks on 4022 yards of silk chiffon crinoline and taffeta for 1840 period gowns. Mary Brian and June Collyer wear costumes with over 200 yards each. Wallace Beery Henry B Walthall Fred Kohler Anderson Lawler Natalie Kingston star in the Booth Tarkington adaptation directed by Richard Wallace.
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Paramount Studios
Hollywood
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
June Collyer
Wallace Beery
Henry B. Walthall
Fred Kohler
Anderson Lawler
Natalie Kingston
Booth Tarkington
Magnolia
Richard Wallace
Actress Kathryn Crawford Joins The Golden Bridle Cast
Kathryn Crawford, fresh from Modern Love and The Climax at Universal City, is cast in support of Ken Maynard in The Golden Bridle. Harry J. Brown directs a romance of southern California with Gino Corrado J. P. McGowen and Frank Yaconelli among the cast.
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Kathryn Crawford
Universal City
Ken Maynard
Harry J. Brown
Southern
California
Gino Corrado
J. P. McGowen
Frank Yaconelli
Novelty Entertainers Highlight Apollo Vitaphone Program
The Blue Ridgers mountaineer performers join Warner Brothers Vitaphone presentation Noahs Ark set on the Apollo program. Cordelia Marberry assists while Trene Franklin, famed singing comedienne, headlines with a set of character songs enhancing the show.
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Blue Ridgers
Warner Brothers Creat
Noahs Ark
The
Cordelia Marberry
Trene Franklin
Comedienne
Scott Signs Contract For One Rainy Night Lead
Welter Scott, a familiar New York musical comedy star, signs to play the lead opposite Laura La Flante in One Rainy Night. The production is in progress at Universal City under Emmett Flynn's direction.
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Welter Scott
New York
Laura la Flante
Universal City
Emmett Flynn
Four Players Chosen for Owen Davis Stage Tonight
Harry Pollard selects Robert Ellis Norman Trevor Mary Doren and Don Dougles to perform on the Owen Davis stage tonight. Production begins at Universal City next week.
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Harry Pollard
Owen Davis
Teclve
Robert, Ellis
Norman Trevor
Mary Doren
Don Dougles
Universal City
Sherwoods Headline at Lyric Lyric
Sherwoods headline the Lyric vaudeville bill opening today in Indianapolis. Bob and Gaile Sherwood and their singing orchestra return home for the first time in years and present Rhapsodies and Blues with Mary Allison Irvin Fields and Bob Sherwood Jr. Also featuring Emily Darrell and a surprise Banana Oil act.
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Gale Sherwood
Indianapolis
Keith- Orpheum
Lyric
Sherwoods
Bob and
Gaile Sherwood
Keith Vardeville
Bob
Gele
Middle West
Ontertainers
Bob Sherwood Jr
Leon la Verdi
Mary Allison
Irvin Fields
Fields
Mary
Emily Darrell
Woolworth
Raymond Earle
Ethel Rovein
Do You Know That- Modern Opera in Paris and Vitaphone Plays
Do You Know That- Lyric soprano Fleaner Painter recently appeared in a Vitaphone short and sang in the first modern American opera staged in Paris. Frank F Harling conducted Light From St Agnes at Champs Elysees Theatre on June 19, 1929. Frances Ring sister Blanche Ring starred in Vitaphone shorts. Tommy Meighan tied to her. John Barrymore to debut in a Vita phone feature General Crack from Warner Bros.
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Vitaphone
Paris
Frank F. Harling
St. Agnes
Champssees Theater
Tommy Meighan
Frances Ring
Sisice
Blanche Ring
Avevie
Warner Bros. Vitaphone
John Barrymore
Warner Brothers
New Season
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