THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES 'AUG. 3. 1929

TWO WOMEN WILL STAGE AERIAL DERBY AT RIVERSIDEEthel Pritlchett and Lorel Starkey Will Perform a Series

of Parachute Jumps in Competition at Amuse-ment Park Sunday Afternoon.

A PARACHUTE rare Horn kv to earth -'ph each contestant chancing. a number n! times during the con'e. t. will he staged as the free

ittraction a* Riverside amusement park Sunday afternoonFthc! Pritchett, parachute leapcr will be entered in the race against

Lorel Starkey a girl. '* ho has performed aerial stunts for Riversidepatron'- on several occasions in the past.

Th' 1 aerial derby will start at the sound of a bomb exploded a milehigh over Riverside and the dash to earth is likely to prove highly thrill-ing so the pcrtator c far h<'!o" a each girl madly opens chute after chutea ■ '-he tumble: through the ozone back to Indianapolis. Miss Pritchettrecent!’ established her claim tot "* ~

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The Children'Paramount began casting for

its talking film of Edith Whar-ton's latest novel. "The Chil-dren.” with the selection ofDoris Hill for the principalfeminine role of Judith Wheat-er and Fredric March for theleading male role of MartinBoyne. The film will begin soonunder the direction of LotharMender, who directed ClaraBow's “Dangerous Curves."

world s championship honor'- in herprofession by rutting eight para-chute: on otic occasion at an out-rf-tO"n park, and her return toRiverside Sunday is bound to be inthp naturr of a homecoming to theballoon fan: numbered in her pub-lic.”

Mis: Starkcv and Miss Pritchett,on the Fourth of July, at Riverside,first engaged in a parachute race,end the contest at that time re-sulted in a both girls reachingthe ground at the snmr time. al-though Miss Starkey had quite astart on her competitor due to trou-ble Mi. s Pritchett had in rutting herfirst parachute.

After finally getting loose fromthe huge hot-air bag. the championmade up for lost time by literallyfalling hundreds of feet withouteven attempting to open her secondparachute, and thus was quickly one- cn terms with her less experiencedadversary. With an even start. MissPritchett is being favored by thefans as winner, although many areof the opinion that Miss Starkeywill prove a dark horse tomorrow’.

Riverside was thronged yesterdaywith employes of the Haves BodyCorporation, the occasion bring theannual outing of the concern.

A balloon ascension and parachuteRaps bv the Patent Leater Kid andboxing between local employes anda team of mitt slingers from theGrand Rapids branch were amongfe?tur <‘: of the day.

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"OUR GANG” KIRSEflOKF.n \T THE LVRIC

Who are tire most oenuiar kids inliterature and drama? There are athousand contenders for the honorof Huckleberry Finn and Tom Saw-yer polling an enormous vote.

In these masculine days LittleLord Fauntlerovs popularity wouldprobably be questioned. On theether hand Peck s Bad Boy probablytan hold his own in the tally.

Edith of "Edith's Burglar” famemight not fare badly. The Tow Lit-tle Princes' could not have a ghostof a chance and the Little Princesswould probable be considered asnob. Little Dorrct, Oliver Twustrod the other Dickens Kids arc notclever enough to cope with modernyouth and so the award would mostcertainly co to some of the mem-bers of Hal Roach's Our Gang.”

These kids have taken the worldbv storm. They arc known andloved and laughed at everywhere—-not just as " our gang kids." as eachhas an individuality and thereforean identity.

Now pretty little Mary Kornman,the original leading lady: JohnnyDow ns, the original juvenile leadingman. and Scooter Lowry, the origi-nal tough guy. have forsaken themovie lots and are appearing invaudeville. They arc booked to ap-pear at the Lyric lor one week soon.

Harry Weber journeyed to Cali-fornia to get these throe "Our Gang”kids off the picture lot. Then heemployed Herman Timberg. a come-dian-author or repute, to write thema vaudeville vehicle.

This naturally has to do with themovies. It is a comedy expose ofthe picture people and things called“In and Out of the Movies.”

Rig Castfor Doug

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair-banks have evidently decided to gothe limit in making good entertain-ment of Shakespeare, as their sur-rounding cast is more impressivethan either of these stars has everannounced for an individual film.

Geoffrey Wardwell. English

Shakespearian actor, will play Hor-tensio. Petruchio's friend: EdwinMaxwell, who is credited with thesuccess of The Doctor's Dilemma,"is cast as Baptista. father of Kathe-rine: Dorothy Jordan, prominent inTheater Guild casts, is the mildmannered Bianca, sister of Kathe-rine: Joseph Cawthornc. Broadwayfavorite, will p!- Gremio and ClydeCook, well known comedian, thefaithful Grumio.

Rehearsals are now in full swingand the picture will be finished be-fore the first of September.

Joints Variety StanA recruit from the dramatic stage

is Molly Picon, the diminutive come-dienne who for five years hasstarred at the Seccnd Avenue Yid-dish theater New York. She comesto vaudeville, making her debutnext- week at the R-K-O Franklintheater. New- York, in a song pro-gram arranged for her by J. MFumshisky.

May Be TrueCarol Lombard thinks that

the tendency among girls inbusiness is to overdress—gov. nstoo striking. too much cheapjewelry She says the costumeshe wears in Big Nows." inwhich she plays opposite Rob-ert Armstrong, fulfills her ideaof what a business costumeshould be. Gwen Wakeling.costume designer at the Pathestudio, designed it. It is atfco-piece suit of navy blue,flat crepe, cut on extremelysimple lines. With it she wearsa white organdie blouse, whitepull-on gloves of washablechamois, and a plain little hatof navy felt. Her shoes are pat-ent leather, with medium heeb.Her only jewelry is a watchand a very small pin.

New Typeof Revue

Is BookedMiniature Musical Comedy

to Be at IndianaSoon.

'T'HE Velvet. Revue.” a miniaturerrj.-ical comedy, will be the

presentation feature in twenty-seven Pubhx. Paramount. Loew's andStanley theaters in twenty-four keycitics throughout the ccjntry, in-cluding New York, it is announcedtoday by Sidney Blumcnthal & Cos.,who are co-operating with the pro-ducers. in the fabrics for the revue.

"The Velvet Revue" featuresmodern costumes and drapes of LaLoie Silvel. transparent velvet. Theshow will run nine hundred per-formances, and it is estimated thatover 3.500.000 persons will sec it.

The revue will open at. theOlympia theater in New Haven, andthe Metropolitan in Boston. Aug.0, and in New York City, at theParamount theater, the leadingUieater in the chain, on Aug. 17.

Tire new Paramount theater inBrooklyn, recently opened, will show/the revue the following week, onAuc 24. Then the show will travelwest and south.

Tire cities and theaters in whichthe revue will be given are the fol-lowing:

New York City, Paramount; Brooklyn.Paramount Jersey City. Stanley; Newark.Branford; New Haven. Olympia: Boston.Metropolitan Washington. Palace; Batti-more. Century; Philadelphia, Mastbaum;Pittsburgh. Penn: Buffalo. Buffalo. Toledo.Paramount. Detroit. Michigan; Cleveland.State; Columbus. Ohio; Indianapolis. In-diana St Louis. Ambassador: Chicago.Oriental; Chicago. Uptown; Chicago. Ti-o’i Chicago Paradise; Minneapolis. Min-

nesota; Denver. Denver; Dallas. Palace;San Antonio. Texas: Houston. Metropoli-tan, New Orleans, Sanger.

Makes Good

Paul H. Kleeman

In the cast of "The New- Moon,"one of the long run musical playson Broadway. New York, is PaulH. Kleeman. operatic baritone andformerly of this city. His sister.Miss Clara Kleeman of this city,has returned from a New Yorkvisit with the singer.

‘Lone Parade’Three more character actors en-

gaged by Ernst Lubitsch to fill prin-cipal roles in "The Love Parade.”Paramount’s elaborate musical oper-etta are Yola D’Avril. Andre Che-ron and Charles Scllon.

Maurice Chevalier, star of theFrench music halls who made hisfilm debut recently in "Innocentsof Paris," is the star of "The LoveParade" Jeanette MacDonald, beau-tiful red-haired stage pnma donnais the heroine. Lupino Lane, acro-batic comedian and former ZiefeldFellies headliner, and Lillian Roth,late featured singer and dancer ofEarl Carrolls "Vanities” have prin-cipal roles. Other actors now work-ing in the picture include EugenePallettc. O E’. Hcggie. Albert Roc-card:. Golden Wadams. CarltonStockdale. Lionel Bclmore. EdgarNorton. Russell Powell. William vonHardenbergn. Margaret Fealy® Al-bert de Wmton and Anton Vaverka.

AMUSEMENTS

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ON THE nrKEENBORIS* PREMIER 'HOMING

THE TALKING FEATI'ftE

“KITTY”Von "ill Like Thi Hurk?- Girl

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' ' ' 'I—Pepito, Spanish down, tops the new vaudeville bill opening today atthe Lyric.3—Children have lots of fun on the Whilamagig at Riverside park.

ROUNDING ROUNDT H F AT F R S wiih Walter1 n 0 D. HICKMAN

ABATING ill Chicago of Phil Baker in the Shubert production of"Pleasure Bound," now at. the Grand theater there, seems to be

in the air as it is going the rounds.Baker asks one of his partners in fun: “How much would you

charge to haunt a house?”It is even getting into letters as I received a letter from Chicago ask-

ing me how much I would charge for the same act.This proves as well as the great business that "Pleasure Bound” Is

doing at present in its seventh week that this really jolly and smartrevue has caught on strong. Much more so than on Broadway.

I am content to state that anyshow having Jack Pearl. Phil Bakerand Shaw and Lee is well heeled

for comedy. These four can stop theshow cold individually or collective-ly any time they desire.

You hear Baker tell you that "thecream of today is the cheese of to-morrow” and you will laugh andeven believe it by the way it is putover.

Baker, his accordion and the wisecracker who knows it all in the box

on duty several times. The re-sult is the usual panic althoughBaker’s material is not entirely new;.Baker knows how to sell this brandof fun and the public still demandsit because the people love it.

Some of the songs of Miss AileenStanley are not new but her meth-od of delivery has made them songinstitutions. Her chummy singingwith Phil Baker near the end of theshow' is one of the big high lightsof the entertainment.

I have only praise for the work ofthe Jack Donahue-John Boyle Girls.The directors have not only devel-oped the sense of smart hoofing buthave been able to develop personal-ity in each dancer. This makes thisdancing unit different from any or-ganization on the stage today.

"Pleasure Bound” is smart, gen-erally good mannered and often atuneful outlay of melody and splen-did dancing.

Since I have returned from athree-day visit in Chicago, severalpeople going to Chicago have askedme what to see there. "PleasureBound" tops my list at the presenttime.

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The Film Daily of New: York eachyear takes a poll of the movie criticsof the country to determine the tenbest directors.

A total of 304 newspaper critics,according to an announcement byThe Film Daily, voted and the re-sult is the ten best list of directors:Ernst Lubitsch. George Fitzmaurice,Frank Borzage. Clarence Brown.Lloyd Bacon. Cecil B. DeMille. F. W.Murnau. William Wellman, RaoulWalsh and Frank Lloyd.

1 Directors named on the honor rollare: Roland West. Irving Cum-mings. Josef Von Sternberg. JamesCruze. Sam Taylor. William C. deMille. W. S. Van Dyke, Harry Beau-mont. Jean De Limur, Malcolm St.Clair. Lewis Milestone. Allan Dwan,Frank R. Capra. David W. Griffith,Jack Conway. Paul Leni. Erich Von

! Stroheim. Monta Bell. Roy Pomeroy.Charles Brabm. Paul Sloane, KingVidor. Herbert Brenon. Victor Flem-ing. Roland V. Lee, John Ford. JohnG. Blystone. Henry King and ArchieMayo.

My vote submitted to the FilmDaliy was as follows:

AMUSEMENTS

F. w. Murnau. because of “Sun-- rise.”

Sam Taylor, because of "Co-quette."

j Roland West, because of "Alibi."Lloyd Bacon, because of "Singing

| Fool."! Frank Borzage, because of "Street

| Angel.”

Clarence Brown, because of ‘‘Trailof '98."

Jean De Limur. because of "TheLetter.”

| George Fitzmaurice, because of| "The Barker.”

] Arch Heath, because of " Melody| of Love."

Willard Mack, because of "Voice: of the City."

I selected five of the directors thatwere in the ten best and had two on

j the honor list.

On the Way

3—E(’ am! Morton Beck have a punning: time of it during the stage

show now on view at the Indiana.

Twins Make Goodat Indiana Theater

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The Darling Twins

These two young ladies, the Darling Twins, seem to be living upto their title in "Seashore Follies,” the new Charles Davis stage showat the Indiana.

Malcolm McGregor on VacationMalcolm McGregor, who plays one

of the leading roles in the Tiffany-Stahl singing and talking produc-tion, “Whispering Winds," is now in

Carol Lombard will play oppo-site Robert Armstrong in "TheRacketeer." a Pathe picture, soon tobe put into production. HowardHiggin will direct and Ralph Blockwill be supervisor. The scenario isby Paul Gangelin and the dialogueby A. A. Kline.

In production are "Oh. Yeah.”featuring Robert Armstrong andJames Gleason, and ‘"Her PrivateAffairs,” Ann Harding's second Pathepicture.

Editing are ‘‘‘A Sailor's Holiday,”featuring Alan Hale; "The Aw'fulTruth,” Ina Claire's first all-dialoguePathe picture: "The Sophomore,”with Eddie Quillaln, Sally O'Neiland Jeanette Loss, and "Big News,”a newspaper story, with RobertArmstrong and Carol Lombard.

In preparation are "Rich Peo-ple,” w'hich will be Constance. Ben-nett's first dialogue picture, and"Red Hot Rhythm.”

AMUSEMENTS

! New York en route for a longI vacation in Europe. While abroad,

j Mr. McGregor might avail himselfjof an offer to make a picture* in

| England.

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BEAT fileHEAT!

SWIMIn 5.000.000 gallons of PURE.Filtered Water—Clean. Safe,Sanitary. BEST BY TEST.Exhibition Fane v DivingSunday.

DANCEFREE in the COOL Moon-light Pavilion to the Sooth-ing Syncopation of HotsThompson’s Irresistible Latrd-o-Danee Band.

PICNICIn the Most Beautiful VirginTimber Grove in Indiana.Spend the Day in the Cool-ing Shade of the StatelyTrees.

ENDURANCESKATE

Contest Now in the SecondWeek in the Rink. 53.600 inCash Prizes to Winners.

BROADRIPPLE

Racing\A alnut Gardens

Speeds aySunday, Aug. 4

The outstanding drivers inthis section of the countryhave entered these races. Inaddition to the high-gradeentertainment. AValnut Gar-dens offer you swimming,dancing and amusements.

Admission73c

Located 13 Miles Southwest ofIndianapolis on State

Road 6*.

Fine Music jBrought to

the ScreenFitzpatrick Sec>ures% Many

Foreign Novel-ties.

FMTZPATRICK PICTURES. INC.,:

announces the opening of its, New York Exchange at 729 Seventhavenue, from which it will handlenational sales and distribution ofthe four series of short subjects insound and voice, comprising theprogram for 1929-1930.

The program includes a series of| twelve “Traveltalks,” described asindividual personally conducted

j tours of the interesting countries ofthe world. Much of the materialwas secured by James A. Fitzpatrick,the producer, on an extensive tour

i of Europe earlier in the year.I Fitzpatrick will deliver incidental

1 talks on each subject, and in addi-tion to the speaking, will be mu-

-1 sically accompanied by the Victor\ Traveltalk Orchestra, under the di-

j rection of Rosario Bourdon.I The second series will be knowni as Twelve Movie Horoscopes, one| reel, "'Signs of the Zodiac." simpli-! fying popular astrology on modernjsubjects. There will be a horoscope

; for every month of tine year, in| sound with dialogue and music.

Third is a group to be known asTwelve American holidays, designed

! to be a patriotic series adapting the| prime features of Twelve Nationaljholidays into entertaining tributes.

Fourth is Twelve Music Masters,| a series of one-reelers based on theI lives of famous composers. The or-I chestrations have been arranged by: Hugo Riesenfeld and NathanialI Finston.j The travel talks are being re-j corded via RCA photophone; fourI are already completed. Photophone

j is also being used for the moviehoroscopes.

Broadens Variety ChainThe principal topic of conversa-

jlion in vaudeville circles this past! week has been centered around the! actual announcements made re-j cently of Radio-Keith-Orphcum’s

1 development and expansion and therumors of further acquisition of newfields and conquests.

The F. F. Proctor amusement in-l terests and theaters were taken over| by RICO on Aug. 1, and by the latest

| gesture the Canadian activities arebroadened from St. Johns to Van-couver. Quite obviously nothing isbeing left undone that will hasten

I and assure vaudeville's prosperity.

AMUSEMENTS

RIVERSIDESUNDAY AFTERNOON

PARACHUTE RACEEthel Pritchett Lore! Starkey

World’s Champion yf So Leading ContenderBalloon Jumper for the Title

The Girts Will Cut Six Parachutes in a

DEATH-DEFYING AERIAL DERBYBar pain RifJp Tickets Front Naborhood Merchants

Skaters cnLong Grind

Are WellBroad Ripple Park Has

Many Big PicnicsPlanned.

MUCH interest is being mani-fested in the endurance skat-

ing contest which is being staged Inthe Broad Ripple park rink Th"contest started last Friday night.July 26. at 10 o’clock and in theweek the skaters have been on thefloor 168 hours, covering approxi-mately 504 miles.

The skaters arc given fifteen-min-utes for rest at the end of eachhour with thirty minutes for meals.Last season's contest ran 634 hourswith the skaters covering 1.902miles.

Physicians, nurses and masseur-are in constant attendance at therink and every physical comfort isgiven the skaters.

Special dietary menus are pro-vided for the contestants at 5 a m..12 noon and 5 p. m.

At 9 in the morning and 3 in the| afternoon, light refreshments eon-

' sisting largely of fruits are served.: The extreme hot weather of the

I past week has had effect on someof the skaters, but all are in goodphysical condition.

Among tomorrow’s attractions atthe park, the big swimming poolwill carry the feature with an ex-hibition of fancy and trick diving

! by a picked team of swimmers anddivers from the Hoosier AthleticClub, under t.Jjr dirceiton of BudSawin.

With the arrival of hot weatherthe big pool has taken a placeamong the main attractions at thepark. Daily the big basin is literally

; alive with thousands of swimmers| from early morning till late, in the| evening. Absolutely pure water

! filtered is maintained by rigid testsI taken several times daily. ‘"Best by

j test” is the swimming pool slogan.| The big picnic grove on the park

1 property furnishes adequate picnic,j grounds for all who care to partakeJ of the cool and hospitable shade.

Tomorrow’ the annual picnic ofthe Seventh District Joint Associa-tion of Postal Employes will be heldin the grove. Contests for men,women and children will be ors theafternoon program. A band con-cert also will be given.

Today the Link Belt Companystaged an anilual picnic for theplant personnel. Several thousandwere in attendance. The comingweek picnic schedule indicates thepresence of many thousands in thepark confines.

The weekly athletic program atthe park is attracting large crowdsto both the wrestling and boxingshows. Monday is wrestling nightand Thursday night is boxing night.The zoo, the thrills, laughs andother devices all are meeting withfavor from visitors to the park.

Russian Star on TourThe dynamic Russian star. Bacla-

nova, brilliant actress and singer,with her husband, Nicholas Sous-sanin, also a stage star and a screen

j celebrity, will be featured on thei Keith bill at Boston next week.

! Mr. and Mrs. Soussanin go immedi-ately to Hollywood from Boston.

NU-GRAPE BOTTLING CO.ANNUAL

CUSTOMERS PICNICRIVERSIDEAmusement Park

Wednesday, Aug, 21Two Cents

With each Nu-Grape Bottle Cap will entitle the holder to one ride

on any one of the following: Thriller, Caterpillar. Canals of Venice.Mill Chutes. Merry-Go-Round, Aero Swing. Whip, Twister, Castle,

Flash. Haunted House and Ferris Wheel.

The boy or girl bringing the largest number of Nu-Grape BottleCaps to Riverside on the day of the outing will receive

A FINE BICYCLEA DAY OF FUN FOR EVERYBODY

Bring GRANDAD and the BABY

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