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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1925
Page
9
Variety pioneers headline Palace for the first half of next week. The Love Boat musical comedy takes over the second half. Jonia and her Hawaiians with South Seas flavor perform at the Lyric.
Jonia of Hawaii brings a native dance troupe to the Lyric with a program of hula and popular melodies. The bill features Modern Romeo, O Rourke and Kelly, De Lier and Partner, Earl Foster and Ethel Ray, Parisian Trio, Willie Karbe and Sister, plus a Variety Pioneers reunion. On screen The Dime Doctor and Under One Flag accompany a busy variety lineup.
The 1925 Artists and Models Paris edition opened at the New York Winter Garden on June 24 after a prior New Haven run. The show features Walter Woolf, Phil Baker, Bren and Rogers, Lulu McConnell, eighteen Gertrude Hoffman Girls from Paris and London, plus a large chorus. Ernest Truex solicits public input on his mustache for next season. The Student Prince company heads to Atlantic City July 4 for summer at Garden Pier Theatre before touring major cities. Willie Howard and Sky High draw crowds at the Casino Theater. James Gleason works on Mrs Bercevich a new project linked to The Fall Guy.
Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliam Jr issued letters to all county prosecutors outlining planned close cooperation with prosecuting attorneys and the State attorney general's office to enforce prohibition laws. Prosecutors will report regular violations prosecuted and decided to allow accurate statewide checks. Gilliam expressed optimism about growing voluntary observance and stressed working with prosecutors rather than independently.
Defense and prosecution clashed over trial timing as Judge Hines delayed immediate trial. The judge suggested July 6 to allow jury sourcing and avoid his vacation, with Remy planning to subpoena state witnesses and the defense arguing for fair consideration.
Willy Karge and Sister headline Lyric next week plus The Love Boat crew set for Palace harbor show The Love Boat. A heavy drama cast appears at Broadpole Park led by Robinson’s Elephants Edythe Elliott of the Berkell Players performs in Please Get Married at English's next week.
A large outdoor show opens Sunday at Broad Ripple Park starring John Robinsons Elephants, led by Tilly the talking elephant age 109. The act features four elephants with seamless tricks, plus a new dance garden and Connie's Dance Orchestra, drawing summer amusement seekers to the Great White Way attractions.
Gilda Gray has signed with Paramount to star in a film under a contract with husband Gil Boag as manager. A story by Robert E. Sherwood and Bertram Block will be directed by Paul Bern, with Lasky praising her as a major box office draw after a $49,000 weekly run at the Metropolitan Theater in Los Angeles.
George Magrill star of Paramount’s Wild Horse Mesa shines as Hollywood’s top all around film athlete. He won the navy light heavyweight boxing title during the war. Director George Seitz notes a very realistic screen fight between Magrill and Jack Holt in the picture.
In 1924 the year saw 525 845 custard pies used in comedies and two edible. 1 210 high silk hats ruined with five paid for. Comedy scenarios sent to screen comics totaled 1 765 254 310, only one accepted without pay due to company failure. Hollywood mothers with similarly resembling Mary Pickford daughters number 126 798, most brunettes. There are 792 comics in moviedom and three stated Chaplin was good too under cross examination. California hosts 1 987 philanthropists who do not sign actors’ checks.
Mayor Shank asked the board of works to acquire the Stutz Fire Engine Company property at 1411 N. Capitol Ave. for housing wagons of the street cleaning department and vehicles of the sanitary commissioners. The site reportedly cost owners 112000, but the mayor believes it could be bought cheaper, behind the Shank Fireproof Storage Company plant at 1430 N. Illinois St.
Paramount loans Douglas Fairbanks Jr under contract to play the juvenile lead in Stella Dallas directed by Henry King. Fairbanks has just completed a role in Wild Horse Mesa.
The Berkell Players present Oliver Morosco’s New York farce Please Get Married at English's next week. Ferdinand Walton and Muriel Ashley plan a marriage thwarted by Walton senior who cites false age as a ban. A staged elopement leads to a comic series of complications with a minister disguise and burglarized Ashley home. Edythe Elliott Milton Byron and the cast are highlighted for strong comic performances.
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