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THE IXDIAXAPOLIS SUXUAY STAR, MAY 10, 1931. 4- Jspiration." which also will be shown MOTIOX PICTtBE THEATEBS. I COMEDY PREVAILS IN SEW PICTURES OUTSIDE THE MILE SQUARE. The "Spice" of Variety ej-, i III SbCjttj? KEA.TON I THE COVtE K5 fsf ravtHG. is.unr akd tH 'DAMCF TOOVSk fWMTAlK SOUKRI, 1M 6KIPPV HKatOHTO Xrarww7e5V mi i VOUHG tM 'KOYHEJ35 1 1 I BELMONT l-'T" SHnHt Art.

TtiAS uri Tnmw DOIGLAS FAIBBANkS la "REACHING FOR THE MOO" TALBOTT Tsthnft at 61. Tatar aa Tantarrwa DaaMr Ftatare "THE OrilCE W1IE" "MAYBE IT'S I-OVE SHELDON at-'St. Taaay aa4 Tamacraw BCSTER KEATOX "PARLOR. BEDROOM AND BATH" PROSPECT 11 Prospect SL Ta4ajr Mt Tamarraw AH Talkiat CHESTER MORRIS la "THE BAT WHISPERS" ALSO TALKING COMEDO NANCY CAHKOLI. raiu.m Roosevelt Theatre 1179 S.

Meridian St. DB. Today aad Tamarraw Dorothy Peterson In MOTHER'S CRY" Spatial Price Aaatts lSe, CaUona Me DAISY THEATRE 35l W. Mlchicaa St. Teday aad Tamarraw JOAN CRAWFORD la "DANCE FOOL.

DANCE" Slim feuminervMIe Carardy and Chapter VII. "Kins at the Wild" IRVING THEATRE SOI E. Hathlnrtoa St. IR. 5SS Today and Tomorrow BISTER KEATON IN "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" Dorothy Markall la "Once a Hlnwr" niih s.

oi.sr.x JOHNSON 5 MILLION FRENCHMEN Comedy M. G. M. 411 E. Wash.

HI. Doable r'eatnn? JACK HOLT LAST PARADE GRETA GARBO INSPIRATION nAMLEirn ilHEATRElJ II fl w3 E- Vork s(- I (J A la loday aad Tomorrow CHARLIE CHAPLIN In "CITY LIGHTS" TACOMA Tod'V'aiia" TnMrrow Bl'MTEK KEATON In "Pirlor, Bedroom and Bath" GARFIELD 110 Shelby Today an. Tomorrow CLARA BOW in "No Limit" HOLM) Slsit.M rK. Tenth and Bnsart JR. 44X8 iv.uvnniin Joan Craw ford William Bakewell MOance Fools Dance1 TIE8BAV AND WKIINKHBAT Helen Twrlvetrees Robert Ames "MILLIE ThVrsDAT AND FRIDAY Nancy Carroll Phillls Holmes "Stolen Heaven1 SATI RDAV HOI III I'EATl'RE (luiidi'lte Colbert Rob Htrele In "Honor Anion 1-ovrrV In "The Sunrise Trail" 'waiai'aaaaaanaaai fiMill ft! X.

E. Cor. Wash, and Capitol fry- V. Iri MOWRI5 I kl XSI.M PBQSPUC'T COM LI DM FROM PACK teen rmtinvf1 hy his father to save him from himrif. The charactpr of the phytic! ul-ture trainer, piafd by Thomas ichan, in th? cinema 'iP.

one of the outstanding f.iin'S or tti Under hfs and guidance. Gene Gibson, the re er-dr-ell son. the drunkard, the bully gradually regain his norma! balance. One of the miin reasons for the reformation is the conversation Gib-nn overhears one night between the trainer and his small son. The words rt confidence exchanged between fath-r and son.

the cleanliness of spirit, the E'od sportsmanship which existed there, inspired the rejuvenating Gene Gih nn and set him thinking cf mn unwholesome position his narrowness and his weaknesses. Hrdie Albrifbt. star of the late Broadwav success. "The Greeks Had Word for It." has the role of the wayward sun: Dorothy Jordan is seen a a the temptress sweetheart. James Kirk wood ha the role of Albright father and Cecilia Loftus plays the socially ambitious mother of Miss Jordan.

The Paanc battle fleet of the tinted States Navy "rehearsed a iohd year for one ene in "Ship-j mates." Robert Montgomery 8 first Starring picture, now at the Falace theater. Culminatinc a year's prac tice and preparation, the fleet steamed out to a for the annual force-linnii exercises in which the entire battle resources of the squadron were brought into play for ten roarinft minutes. With the rtiradnauchts and their current batteries of lfi-inch guns were the destroyers with intermediate batteries and torpedo tubes, the bombing planes from floating carriers and the fighting seaplanes, launched by catapult from the big ships' decks. In this great tactical feat, some 4'UI00 men took part and countless tons of ammunition were used in the panorama of destruction staged every year to determine the fitness rf Uncle Sam's watchdogs. The entire spectacle, including night firing, was filmed and recorded by and the battle ship Colorado vas wired for sound and used by the rompany to romplete the shipboard action.

Harry Pollard directed the sailer tlm and cast includes F.rnest Torrnce, Dorothy Jordan, Hohrrt Posworth, Cliff Edwards, Gavin Gordon, Joan Marrih, Kdward Nugent, K. Allyn Wan en, George Irving, Hedda llcippor and William Worthingtor "Born to Admirers of Constance Bennett, former Indiana girl who made good In motion pictures, now have an opportunity of seeing her latest pic-tu'c, "Knin to Love," feature screen the new bill at the Indiana. As the stane presentation, lliocke Johns offers his second show, "Lots o' Tep." A third feature of the Indiana's program is an mgan solo by Dessa Fyrd, in which 1'cggy Hoffman, radio star, is presented as a soloist. In "F.orn to Love'' Miss. Bennett is fitf-t seen as an American Red Cross nurse operating in a convalescent back of the liiing lines in the vol Id war.

She loves a young American officer. Because of army regulations Ihey decide not to marry until after the war, however, and he soon is ordered to report at the f'ont. The girl receives word of his flcath and realizes that she will have to bring a fatherless baby into the viuld or marry a British officer whom -lie nursed to health in the hospital. After several months of married life she learns that her former lover was only seriously wounded and that he had returned to claim her as his own. Douglas Stanbury, Maureen and Sorn Larry Adler, Dorothy South ami I he Amitole Bom man dancers Die in the cast of Brooke Johns's staue idinw, Double Feature.

"The Lush," starring Richard Bar-Ihrlniess, lo he shown at the Capitol today and tomorrow, is a fighting romance of the dangerous days following Mexico's ceding of California to the United States. Thj supporting cast includes Mary Aslor, Marion Nixon, James Ronnie and Robert Kdeson. "The Gorilla" also will be slumn st the Capitol today and tomorrow. It is said to bo funny and thrilling by turns and sometimes at the same 1 1 mo. The ca.t includes Lila ice, Ktr.ro.

Harry Gribhon and Walter Fii'con. TUltllV "Tlir flood At lie Gayety today and tomorrow. E.MtRON" "Dance, ooi. Dance." Joan Crawford wean a sixteen- i pound dancing costume in the cabaret scene for "Dance, Fools. Dance," her new starrins; vehicle, at the Emerson.

Included in the supporting cast are Cliff (Ukulele lke Edwards. William Bakewell, William Holden, Clark Gable. Earl Frae, Purnell B. Pratt, Hale Hamilton, Natalie Moor-head, Joan Marsh and Russell Hop-ton. SHELDON "Farior, Bedroom and Bath." "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" is an elaborate adaptation of the stage farce with Buster Keaton aa a bill poster who becomes a "great lover." His victims include the preposterous, longleged Charlotte Greenwood, Dorothy Christy, Joan Peers, Sally Eilcri and Natalie Moorhead.

PROPECT "The Bat Whispers." Roland West, producer-director, requested permission to rob a suburban Los Angeles bank at night and it was granted. He also asked for po lice protection while the bank was being looted. No chance was taken of competition by real bandits while the bank was being robbed, as it was merely a scene for Bat Whis-pera," West'a production for United Artists, featuring Chester Morris, which comes to the Prospect theater today. IPTOWN and ORIENTAL Percy Crosby's "Skippy" cornea to the screen for showing at Bair'i Uptown today matinee and night and tomorrow and Tuesday nights and at Bair'a Oriental today matinee and night 'and tomorrow night. Skippy, the friend of millions, is now in the movies and the part is played by Jackie Cooper.

Santy Town is forbidden territory to Skippy, but there is where his pal Sooky, played by Bobbv Coogan, lives, and besides, the dogs, trash piles, the vacant loU and the unusual people to be founi there have a stronger fascination for Skippy than even parental decrees. Mitzi Green and Jackie Searl are in the cast. A talking comedy, sound news and cartoon also will be shown. HEX "Maybe Ifa Love" and "Life of the Party." Joan Bennett enacts the leading role in "Maybe It's Love" at the Rex and plays the sweetheart of the "all-American football puyer in the film. Winnie Lightner in her latest picture, "The Life of the Party," also is on the bill at the Rex.

In this production Miss Lightner is seen as a typical music shop song plugger who aspires to successful gold digging. Her adventures carry her to Havana. KTBATFORD "Stolen Heaven;" From New York's back streets to Florida's brilliant sunlighted beaches Nancy Carroll moves in her latest starring picture, "Stolen Heaven," the Stratford attraction for today and Phillips Holmes has the male lead opposite Miss uarron I DAISY "Dance Fools, Dance." A group of youths and flappers jumping overboard from a yacht after taking up a wholesale disrobing dare supplies a festive climax for a spectacular scene In "Dance Fools, Dance," Joan Crawford's new talkie now being shown at the Daisy. This phase of the picture is in the vein of Miss Crawford's "Our Blushing Brides" and "Our Modern Maidens" plots. Aunt." An accurate replica of Oxford university was constructed on ihe Christie lot during the filming ot "Charley Aunt," the talking picture version of Brandon Thomas's play.

The film Is a farce based on the ever interesting topic of mistaken identity end is coming to the Dream theater for today's run, featuring Charles Ruggles. TALBOTT "Maybe Ifa Love" and "Office Wife." The first "all-American" football team ever assembled in the history of football donned gridiron regalia and actually played in "Maybe It's Love," now at the Tablott. James Hall has the masculine lead opposite Joan Bennett. Dorothy Mackaill i to be seen again in an unusual atory, a picture bearing the title, "The Office Wife," also at the Talbott now. ROOSEVELT "Mother try." Dorothy Peterson, who plays the title role in "Mothers Cry," at the Roosevelt, was a featured player on the stage before the movies found her.

"Mothers Cry," is her first screen effort, and a great one. Mora than one hundred screen tests were made before Miss Peterson was finallv selected for the role. Helen Chandler, David Manners, Sidney Blackmer and Evelyn Knapp appear in her support. MOTION PICTURE THEATERS. IHI heItke ill E.

iota st. Today, Monday and Tuesday JOAN CRAWFORD in "DANCE FOOLS DANCE" Western Electric Sound Byitem "dance Fotnls dance" I Being an ex-cigar salesman, it comes naturally to Bob Robison to sell vaudeville. Robison is selling RKO vaudeville in a new manner at the Lyric. Some years ago Robison used to sell "ropes" in Minneapolis. The cigar store in which he spent his waking hours was on a corner and the usual local wits made it their custom to convene in the near vicinity.

Robison' earliest training in humor was at their expense. A successful cigar salesman in that neighborhood had to have a sharp tongue. Up over the cigar store was a gentleman who was a theatrical impresario in his own modest way. One night the salesman was in attendance at one of the smokers which was being supplied by talent of a sort by the aforementioned impresario. After everything wa over the gang at the party suggested that Robison, then the local wit.

make a speech. He did. It impressed the impresario. The next day that latter gentle man paid the "counter man" a visit. "I send out a little one-night-stand show every summer," he confided, "and I would like to have you in it.

You could try it during your two weeks' vacation and thereby lose nothing at all." Robison tried it. He's been in show business ever since. CLAIRE DUX LAST AT MAENNERCHOR CONCLUDED FROM PAGE S. der, Wilma Rothenburger, Alberta speicner, Donald Sharp, Mary Pearl Williams, Reta Storme, Thelma Dy- kms, Helen Meyers, Gertrude Rhoades, Frances Benner, Dorothy Prosch, Martha Pittenger, Betty Mc-Fadden, Jeanette Solotkin, Mary Rosalind Parr, James Kittle. Grace Marie Mullen, Hortense.

Guthrie. Helen Lloyd, Marian Fehrenbach, Edith McDouch, Maxine McKay, Constance Borman, Alberta Speicher, Mary Elizabeth Trabue, Ruth Wag ner and Ann Zimmerman and James Kittle. Members of the Phi Beta, dramatic art fraternity in fhe conservatory, were ushera at the performance of "The Creation" at Caleb Mills hall given last Wednesday night by the chorus and orchestra of the con servatory. The radio program over WKBF on Saturday night, 7:30 to 8 p. by the conservatory will be given by Mrs.

Fred Jefry, piano teacher in the conservatory; Byron Hollett, pupil of Donn Watson, and Helen Thorns, pupil of Glenn Frier-mood. Final Musicale. The music department of Attucks high school presents the final of ita Sunday afternoon musicales thia afternoon at 4 o'clock. These musicales were originated with a purpose of offering the, public an op portunity to enjoy the best in music. They have proved to be very popular.

Some of the leading musicians of the city have been presented. On this final program Mrs. Lillian LeMon, president of the National As-yiciation of Musicians, and Mrs. Marjorie T. Brown, formerly di rector of music in Northeastern Junior high school, Kansas City, will be featured as guest artists.

They will be supported by advanced pupils of the high school pipe organ class. The program follows: "CnnsoUtion" Mendelssohn "Romance in St. Clair Elsie Young. "Kol Ntdrel" Hebrew melody Bessie Patterson. "Berceuse" ffrom Ooilard "Marche Mllltatre" Schubert Svlvla McCann.

"The Lost Chord" Sullivan "Fanfare" Ascher Hilda Mitchell. "Conctrto" Mozart (For two pianos.) Mrs, Lillian LeMntt and Mrs. Marjorie T. Brown. Indiana Central.

Miss Julia Marie Good, piano student of Miss Grace Hutchings, head of the piano department of Indiana Central college, will present a senior recital next Wednesday evening in the college auditorium. She will be assisted by Miss Irma Chambers, violin student of William H. Fox, head of the violin department. The program will begin at 7:45 and is open to the public free of charge. Miss Jean Lewis will be accompanist for Miss Chambers.

Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, head of the music department of the college, will sing the soprano role in the oratorio "Creation" to be given next week at Bloomington with the Indiana university chorus and orchestra under the direction o( Edward Bailey Birge. Sunday, May 17, at 3 o'clock, Miss Virginia Aeppli, soprano student of Mrs. Burroughs will present her recital. Miss Aeppli is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon national honorary musical fraternity.

Miss Aeppli gave a chapel program for Washington high school Wednesday morning. MOTION PICTURE THEATERS. in) he a jyr 1JJ I3il Station Mi I 1 CH. IMS Today and Monday CHARLES RUGGLES in "A Lady Wnrrenders" IM" Tf-tE. CrVRESOU.

"RtACKlHQ As a rich girl forced to get nut and make her own living aa a newspaper reporter, she finds that her brother is Involved with a gang of racketeers. She is supported by Lester Vail. Thelma Todd, William Bakewell and Cliff Edwards. The programs include talking comedies, sound news and cartoons. ARFIEl.l-"No Limit." Atmosphere is provided for Clara Bow in her latest picture "No Limit," at the Garfield.

In this play of big city life Miss Bow is seen as an usherette in a great movie palace. She attains sudden wealth by a trick of fate and by the same token loses it all, only to find happiness at the finish in a romantic, if lacking-in-riches readjustment. HAMILTON "Dance, Fool, Dance," Harry Beaumont, the director who brought Joan Crawford to stardom In I III1 XViS WVE' Tfl.r,EOT.T X.1K1XT GH.RTTliL'D "Our Dancing Daughters" and who recently repeated this triumph with "Our Blushing Brides, again directed her In "Dance, Fools, Dance," her new starring vehicle at the Hamilton. The new Crawford film, however, is in no way a companion or sequel picture to the other Beaumont products. GAIETY Double Feature.

Giant newspaper presses are whirling full blast, carrying out to the world news about a notorious racketeer's latest sensational escapade. This gangster, Big Marino, has previously threatened to send for a ride the reporter who wrote the story. This one of the key situations In "The Last Parade," which will be shown at the Gayety today and tomorrow. The leading players are Jack Holt, Tom Moore, Constance Cummings and Robert Ellis. Greta Garbo comes back In "In- i.crH.7.reo OtltRICM OHIO IN HOUSES DOWNTOWN.

DOUBLE FEATURES BARGAIN FIUCEM A. SI. to 1 V. M. to 1 P.

M. P. M. ISC 20C IIILItKCN iwc ALWAYS -IC-r ft 4 started for the group. They scattered in all directions, but the elephant headed straight for Charlie Murray and would have rharged had the actor not been near enough to the gate to escape.

"It's the sun helmet and khaki outfit you're wearing, Mr. Murray," the trainer explained. "She had a trainer four years ago who beat her something fierce, and he always wore that kind of a getuo. When you came in here she thought she'd take a whack at you." ZARIMi "Beau Ideal." The long awaited sequel to "Beau Gpsre" opens its run today at Zar-ing's Egyptian theater under the title of "Beau Ideal," made by the diiection ol Herbert Brennon, who directed "Beau Geste." The cast is headed by Ralph Forbes and LoretU Young. Ralph Forbes will be remembered for his work in "Beau Geste Irene Rich is also seen in one of the leading roles.

Mr. Brennon, the director, is a past master at the art of delineating the desert and its heroic warriois, the Arabs and the French Foreign Legion. FOl'XTAI St I A Da nee, Fools, Dance." Joan Crawford turns newspaper reporter in her latest picture, "Dance, Fools, Dance," now showing at the Fountain Square. Joan's achievement as a dramatic actress in her recent films is said lo he overshadowed hy her portrayal of a crime reporter in this Chicago gangster story that penetrates deep into the heart of the underworld and finds in its core a drama thrilling and tragic. Cliff Edwards and a big cast are found in support of Miss Crawford.

Dale Young is held over for another week, playing popular melodies, inviting the audience to join in the singing. A Boy Friend comedy, "Bigger and Better," and Pathe talking news also will be shown. OBPHEI'M "Fifty Million Frenchmen." "Fifty Million Frenchmen," the Warner Bros, and Vitaphone production in technicolor, will be shown at the Orpheiim theater today and tomorrow. Olsen and Johnson, known as the nuttiest nuts of nutland, are in evidence as sleuths and the cast includes William Gaxton, Vera Gordon, Claudia Dell and John Halliday. An all-technicolor revue and Metro-tone News complete the program.

mrior, neonmm ami TV XV. DO "City Light In his iicture "City Lights," which! comes to th" Tuxedo today, Charlie! Chaplin applies the rules of the' young man who made good to his hobo hero. This time the forlorn, I dog-eared little tramp tries to lift himself up by the boot straps first 1 ns a hite wins, then a prtxe fighter and finally a man about town. It is ncclaimcd as his best vet. BL' L.MONT "Reaching for the Moon." A one-man football team playing asejnst the crew of an ocean liner was the strenuous job of Douglas Fairbanks in lor his new picture, "Reaching for the Moon' directed by Edmund Colliding, at the Belmont.

Doug goer, on a rampage p.fter a slight diapiointmcnt in his ooing of Bcbe Daniels, leading lady. TACOMA "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath." Charlotte Greenwood is Hn actress who took a long and lanky form, and so capitalized on it that she became one of the v.Tirld's greatest comediennes. The elongated laughmaker will be seen at the Tacoma I Buster Keaton in his latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "Parlor, Pedroom and Balh." She will have the role she made famous on tlie stage. i STRAND. ST.

CLAIR and RITZ "Dance, fools, Dance." "Dance, Fools, Dance," a Joan Crawford picture, is the attraction at Bair's Ritz today matinee and night and tomorrow and Tuesday nights and at Bair's Strand and St. Clair theaters today matinee and night and tomorrow night. Miss Crawford has many good pictures to her credit. including "Dancing Daughters." "Our Modern Maidens," "Montana Moon," "Blushing Bride." BOCK OOHS MGHTlHG 5HURlFr" 'XERHIMni, 1 7i Moriox pk rruE theatkiss. I First Rurt.

I Bath." In spite of the opinions of ideal-j Kpatn of the frozen coun--ts. money frequently- changes very cavorts through a comedy of radically the viewpoints of even i in nlanv "Wcct-. hearts, a jealous husband with a rlose relatives In C-'himbia I c-. Rml ftnd autu lures latest feature The Hood, jn ft srrjp(( pf )rjals nJ at the Terminal, the heroine is uitions. It all happens in "Parlor.

Fmall town girl who is driven from Brfirnnm and Ratn hia nrw comPdv home because of a scandal. She mar- i at theater, ries a millionaire and returns. Then' i lafal 11 Im 1- IMS Virginia Ave. East loth and Si. Dearborn First INDIANAPOLIS SHOWING III I "CHARLEY'S AUNT" III "CHARLEY'S AUNT" Imnclne II! The 'ohri nnd Kellys In Africa! hawl bv Hons! Knn down hy wild elnphnl! Snnppnl at hv hlnpnt! apt red hy cannibals! Kidnaped hy format! Ms! In a hnrrm! Qeo.

Sidney Charlie Murray Vrra liord-vn Kate Trice yells: screams: I SISI'KXSE! ROMANCE! LAKiHS! ti; JTVA A A nn 1 I II irene men TOA? AM) MONDAY aaiUnE Mill AND ALSO i Ml LILA LEE JOE FRISCO TERMINAL ILLINOIS AT MARKET First uilinliaHHs Showing ihHO NATURE INTEaJURC OXsaaTfl Illinois at Ohra By SUr Classified I Jim The MIGHTY SEQUEL I 7J must timk axvwhkhb 4 to "BEAU GESTE" LAKWi her family receives her with open rirs. IIic rlood tenures wennor Boa'dnian and Monte Iiluc. It ha-ncenps which depict the Mississippi overflowing its banks. (HMO "Dishonored." "Dishonored," presenting Marlene Dietrich in licr third motion picture roip. is the fenfure offering al the Ohio this week.

The picture was di-rectml hv Josef VonSternberg and Victor MacLatlon Ins tin- rhicf sup-portine rnle. On the same bill are a new release of "Stranse As It Skeins" and a comcily. "Revenge Is Sweet." "Dishonored' plnved the Indiana a few weeks and proved to he one of the best hnx office attractions of this AI-AMO "Toe KigliHut: Bu'k cnir.i's tn the Alamo in "The Fight ins Sheriff." a Columbia picture in which he the county sheriff whrs" per-istcnt efforts to establish the identity th? leadrr of a holdup nans and brms him to justice arc rventue.lly crowned with Lorettft Payers, the so-cief girl Columbia is groominn for Binrdom. maker, her screen debut as toe heroine. Robert Ellis is th leading bad man.

ill.V.NAItA AMI nnd in Afri." i First Run. i That elephants never fonet ,3 an axiom generally accepted, and Charlie Murray, playing a featured role in Universal's "fhe Cohens and Kellvs tn Africa." now- at the Gra nada and Rivoli theaters, had a reason to become deeply impressed with the fact. Eight hnce African elephants were engaged for certain sequences and the company traveled to "location" for the scenes. As they passed a corral one of the elephants separated herself from the rest and GIGGLES! THRILLS! Bir.OEn WETTER kJS fjJSp th 1 I A aaaraWT UaVa. a I I Wm IT! Ik I sfW I Tl irVL VaFI JOAN CRAWFORD "DANCE FOOLS I VI ST.CIAI, FT.

WATNE 1 1 I LMfilS JMrltyiMf i I DAIJCE" with Cliff Edwards and Bin Cart Laughing lipsdaring dances with death's mocking leer following them NO A "FOT F1HKNP COMEnV".