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Newspaper

Indianapolis Times

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 05, 1927

Page

12

Variety Bills Wr 1 Tani Aa Amiv L Ave Want Big Novelties

Vaudeville program led by B F Keith opens with Geraldine Valliere and baby grands in Bits O Dream Music. Other acts include Pearl and Violet Hamilton with Jessie Fordyce in Playtime, Willie Solar in multilingual comedy, Phil Rich and Alice Adair The Flower Vendor, Mann Holmer and Alberta Nichols, The Kitaro Japs in gymnastics and juggling, and Laveen and Cross in Julius and Brutus with Aesop's fables and world news.

B. F. Keith Geraldine Jerry) Valliere Hamilton Sisters Jessie Fordyce Willie Solar Jerry Valliers Pearl Violet Hamilton Hamilton Suds Violet Cinders Miss Fordyce Mr. Solar Phil Rich Alice Adair Mr. Rich Uncle Bim Miss Adair Mann Holmer Alberta Nichols

Noted Dancer Set for Palace Theater Show Sunday

The Mason Dixon dancers bring a terpsichorean revue to the Palace Theater next week with flights of steps. Acts include Mickey and Elsie McGarry, Mast sisters, Stuart and Grotty, and a Dixie scene. Also featured are Marie Prevost and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Man Bait, plus vaudeville acts Mack and Earl, Ann Gold, Mort Cass, Mabel Nayon, Joe Bennett, Rose Wynn, and the Jazz Classmates performing novelty numbers and dance routines.

Palace Theater Mickey Elsie McGarry Mast Sisters Stuart and Grotty Dixie Marie Prevost Kenneth Thompson Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Fritzi Ridgeway Ann Gold Mort Cass Mabel Naynon Ziegfield George White Joe Bennett Rose Wynn

Back to Hicksville and More at the Picture House

A rural comedy features Murry and Wright in Back to Hicksville with a village belle, a city girl, and a slicker amid comic romance. Other acts include Spencer and Williams, MecKay and Matt impersonations, Booth and Nina, Marie Prevost in Man Bait, Huntley Gordon and Mae Busch in The Truthful Sex, Pathe News, Aesop Fable, and various musical and novelty acts. Eight Mandarins perform jazz style with Oriental flair, Ottis Mitchell on banjo, Stanley Brothers gymnastics on a perch, and on screen Charlie Chase Are Brunettes Safe plus Kinograms and What Will You Have.

Mr. Bennett Murry Wright Hicksville Spencer Williams MecKay Matt Booth Nina Marie Prevost Huntley Gordon Mae Busch Pathe Ottis Mitchell Stanley Brothers Charlie Chase Kinogram

Big Revue Brings Lyric Bill Next Week

The Brewster Pomeroy Revue headlines at the Lyric with The Passing Folls of 1926. Indianapolis duo Desmona and Wilhelmina Reiman perform song and dance numbers. Also on the bill are Kemper and Byard Hokum and How and Janet Childs Personality Comedians. William A Kennedy and Company present The Minstrel Boy Irish playlet. Kennedy is a singing comedian with a fine tenor.

Kemper Byard Janet Childs William A. Kennedy

Ditmars to Lecture on Snakes at Indianaplis Club

Dr Raymond L Ditmars curator at the New York Zoological Gardens speaks on snakes tonight at 8 15 at the Indianaplis Athletic Club He discusses common questions from visitors shows living snakes and motion pictures of serpents in dens He includes venomous species and explains methods of extracting snake venom for anti venom serum This lecture is for members and their families.

Raymond L. Ditmars New York Zoological Gardens Indianapolis Athletic Club Ditmars New York Zoological Park Reptile

Jolson to Star in Big Boy on Tour with Jubilee Singers

A group of Negro spirituals with an Alabama Jubilee Singers octet opens the program. Al Jolson, closing a NY run, heads a 100 member company in English Theatre engagement March 24 25 26. Jolson portrays a Kentucky Derby winner in a four horse stage race amid 14 scenes in two acts.

Alabama New York Messrs Shubert al Jolson Southland Jolson Johnson Europe

New York music programs feature four musical comedies

Four musical comedies headline the New York scene with The Blond Sinner Gay Paree 1927 The Desert Song and Americana A second group offers two symphonic fox trots Arabian Romance and Cho Cho San based on Madame Butterfly airs A light concert set includes Air de Ballet and The Rosary The Song of Songs and a Macdowell violin solo When Day Is Done arranged The Song of India by George Irish closes with Conchita A London string quartet performs Sunday at 8 15 with works by Mendelssohn Brahms and Beethoven

New York Gay Paree Victor Herbert Air de Ballet Nevin Moya Arthur Hill Macdowell Paul Whiteman Mr. Irish India Whiteman Atwater Kent London String Quartet James Levey Thomas Petre H. Waldo Warner G. Warwick Evans Techaikowsky “Cane Penny Mendelssohn Sally

Paramount Changes Title for Emil Jannings Film

Paramount officials announced the title of Emil Jannings first American film will be altered from The Man Who Forgot God to The Way of All Flesh, inspired by a Samuel Butler passage deemed peculiarly apt for the screen story.

Samuel Butler Paramount Emil Jannings Man God

Dougherty Named Heavy in Arizona Bound

Jack Dougherty has been selected to play the heavy in Arizona Bound, the debut vehicle for Gary Cooper Paramounts next Western star, with production slated to begin in a few days.

Jack Dougherty Gary Cooper Paramount

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