APRIL 13, 1920 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ROGERS AND NANCY CARROLL HEAD CAST AT THE INDIANAWilliam Haines Has Prize Fight Role in ‘The Duke Steps

Out’ at the Palace—Jeanne Eagels Appears in HerFirst All-Talker at the Circle.

BUDDY ROGERS and Nancy Carroll arc the stellar lights at the In-diana s new show this week, where they are seen in “Close Harmony.”their first all-talking production. The stage show, presented by CharlieDavis and his band, is “Pepper Pot.”

“Close Harmony” is considered by many to be by far the mast am-bitious sound and talking production since the advent of synchronizedpictures.

Miss Carroll is attracted to Roger', a musical youngster attemptingto organize what he termed a jazz band, through chance and after much: ersuasion agrees to listen in on his orchestra. Agreeably surprised, shemanages to have the director of her

ter also listen in on a number orf.vr, and from thence on the youthano his fellow’ musicians are ontheir way to success.

The picture thrills are supplied bythe romance which develops betweenthe orchestra leader and the stage

In the cast. Jack Oakie andSkeets Gallagher assist in themmedy roles and their future suc-ce: s is guaranteed because of resultsobtained in this one production.

Another screen newcomer, HarryGreen, who plays the role of thetheatrical producer, is in the cast.

Jack North is the feature of thePublix unit with Charlie Davis andhis orchestra.

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NEW HAINESFILM AT PALACE

Outstanding figures in severalout tanding film plays appear withWilliam Haines in his newestMetro-Goldwyn - Mayer feature.“Tlic Duke steps Out.” a dialogue jpicture, which opened today at thePalace.

James Cruze. famous director of“The Covered Wagon,” and whoa! o directed Haines in “ExcessBaggage.” and ”A Man’s Man.” !handled the megaphonf on the newproduction. Joan Crawford, whola t. appeared with Haines in "WestPoint." and who recently scored asensational suceess in “Our Danc-ing Daughters." plays the heroine.

Karl Dane of "Big Parade” andRookies,” plays the giant fighttrainer in the picture, and TenenHoltz, famous for his work in "TheTrail of '98," ' Frisco Sally Levy,”and others, the manager of thepugilistic hero.

Eddie Nugent, also of "DancingDaughters" fame: Jack Roper, fa-mous heavyweight, championshipcontender, and Luke Cosgrove, cele-brated character comedian, areoth *rs in the cast, which also in-cludes Delmar Daves and HerbertPrior.

The new picture is a filmizationnf Lucian Cary's Saturday EveningPost story. Haines plays the prizefighter who goes to college to pleasehis sweetheart and thereby plungesinto all kinds of trouble, for shedoesn't know of his professionalidentity and he has to keep it asecret, even while he prepares fora championship bout.

Miss Crawford is the sweetheartin question.

Raymond Schrock scenarized thenew play from the Cary story, andelaborate talking sequences heightenits drama, particularly the uniquescene where Miss Crawford listensin over the radio for the fight re-turns when Haines battles Ro|>cr.

The surrounding sight and soundnovelties comprising the programwill bring to the screen the eightVictor artists, in a Metro Movietonepresentation entitled "Rube Min-strels." in which these talented starswill offer country-town doings.

Three lovely voices of perfectharmony will be presented in thepersons of Keller Sisters and Lynch,long-favored stars of musical com-edy and vaudeville.

The Fox Movietone News. knowrnthe world over as the talking news-reel. the M. G. M. News Review andLester Huff at the organ, round outthe bill.

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TEXAS GIT VANSTRUTS HER STUFF

Scintillating with revelry and thegaiety of Broadway night life, teem-ing with romance and tensedramatic action, and revealing thetenderness, staunchness and never-failing loyalty of mother-love,“Queen of the Night Clubs,” a Vita-phone all talking production open-ing at the Apollo today, presentsTexas Guinan, the original“Whoopee” girl, most famousAmerican night club hostess, as itsstar.

Perhaps the most glamorous fig-ure on all Broadway. Miss Guinancomes to the talking screen fortifiedby past experience as a musicalcomedy and legitimate actress. Sheknows how to speak lines and totouch the chords of human emotion,which she does with deft skill, foraside from depicting, with remark-able fidelity, the night club wherein..he presides, greeting each guestwith the salutation. “Hello. Sucker,”the story deals with a shatteredromance, a murder trial with thelife of an innocent youth at stake,and the courageous fight of a moth-er to make her way in a blase worldagainst great odds.

Bryan Fov directed “Queen of the

New ContractRichard Arlen. hero of

"Wings,” “Manhattan Cock-tail” and “The Four Feathers,”has signed to anew contractby Paramount exactly fiveyears after he had entered thatcompany's Hollywood studiosas an extra.

Night Clubs,” the screen play beingthe work of Murray Roth and Ad-dison Burkhart. The cast in sup-port of Miss Guinan, a large one,is made up of stage and screen fa-vorites. and is headed by Lila Lee,Eddie Foy Jr., John Miljan. JackNorworth and John Davdison.

Green's Flapperettes, an all girlsband, well known in vaudeville, in-troducing a melange of popular mu-sical hits, and Donald Brian, mu-sical comedy star, who was long as-sociated with Julia Sanderson andJoseph Cawthorne. are the Vita-phone acts. The program includesMovietone news reels and a specialMovietone feature entitled, “A La-dies Man.”

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JEANNE EAGELSSEEN AT THE CIRCLE

The Circle today offers as thefeature attraction, “The Letters,”all-talking production with JeanneEagels, sensation of New York be-cause of her work in “Rain,” in thestellar role.

Many critics have declared thatthis picture marks the advent of anew epoch in talking screen progressbecause of its great difference fromthe ordinary production which hasbeen more or less characteristic ofmotion picture entertainment sinceit was first introduced.

“The Letter.” adapted from thefamous stage play of the same nameby W. Somerset Maugham, liftsbodily those lines which were usedin the stage presentation and pre-sent them in all their color fromthe screen.

And to add further to the pic-ture's entertainment value, tech-nicians have declared that MissEagels has the best reproducing’ oice thus far found for the screen.Paramount officials believe this isdue. in a great degree, to her widestage experience.

In addition to Miss Eagels, theeast also includes other legitimateluminaries such as O. P. Heggie,Reginald Owen and Irene Brown.

The bill also includes another all-talking Mack Sennett comedy flyingthe title of “Whirls and Girls.” Itis well received and promises to beequally as popular with the audi-ence as was “The Joy Rider" whichwas so well received a few weeksago.

There also are two Vitaphoneacts, a Fox talking news reel, andan organ solo by Dessa Bird.

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WALLACE BEERYTALKIE AT OHIO

Wallace Beery in his first all-talker. “Chinatown Nights,” is thebig attraction at the New Ohio thisweek where this picture is beingshown in conjunction with Vita-phone acts and “The Joy Rider.” aMack Sennett all-talking comedyfeaturing Johnny Burke.

Florence Vidor plays oppositeWallace Beery in the feature picture.

The story of “Chinatown Nights"was adapted from “Tong War.” Thesetting is in the Chinatown districtof New’ York where Beery is seen inthe role of the “white man boss.”He is the ruler of one tong and atthe time the picture opened, wasabout, to place the entire nationunder his jurisdiction.

Miss Vidor, playing the part of a"uptown society woman.” made aslumming party to the Chinese dis-trict and, per chance, saw andtalked with the “white man boss.”She became infatuated with him atonce and gave up her position to re-main in Chinatown with him.

A tong war. with all it~ color, iswaging throughout most of the filmwinch adds materially to its merit.

Jack to Play RailJark Mulhall. star in First Na-

tional-Vitaphone pictures, lias beep“signed" as third-baseman. Thiscontract doesn't interfere with hisfiim work, for the holder of theagreement is Lueien Littlefield,noted character actor and baseballteam manager, who is now playingan important role in "The Girl inthe Glass Cage."

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