SATURDAY, DEC. 20, 1924 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DUE HERE MONDAY Ona B, Talbot Will Present Mendelssohn Choir and Diaz as Soloist at Murat ‘Messiah' to Be Sung Twice During Christmas Time Here. The orchestral season under the direction of Ona B. Talbot will open Monday night at the Murat. For the first concert. Mrs. Talbot has selected the Cincin- nati Symphony orchestra, with Fritz Reiner as director. Assist- ing will be the Mendelssohn choir, with Elmer Steffen, con- ductor. and liafaelo Diaz, tenor, soloist. On Tuesday night, the “Messiah” will be sling by a chorus and special soloist under the auspices of the Indianapolis Ora- torio Society at Cadle Tabernacle. On Sunday night at the. Taber- nacle Presbyterian church. the “Messiah” will be given by the church choir. •* i* REINER TO ( OXDl't T ORCHESTRA MONDAY NIGHT The first orchestral concert of Mrs. Talbot's season will be given Monday night by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with Fritz Reiner conducting. The Mendelssohn Choir will sing. Raf;yelo Diaz, tenor, will be the soloist. The program follows: Part 1. Prelude to the opera. “Keeni .skinder'" Humperdinck Aria. “Vow Griselidea.” Opera “Grist iidts Massenet Mr. Diaz. Part 2. >Cho-al. *A Christmas Carol '.. Krar.ier. Celeste and organ. “Beautiful Savior" . Chrisien<’n “Hallelujah.“— M‘-lati” Handel ‘Come All Te Kaitlifui” Kovello Mendelssohn Choir, string orchestra. Mr. Diaz. Soloist. Part 3. T*nfinished Symphony Schubert <a i Vna Furtiva l.arrima—- “Elixir of I.o'-e Donizetti (b) Ouvrez tea yeux Blrues Haeemaim Mr. Diaz. 1812 Overture Tschaikowsky .1. .1. .1. Ii i •MESSIAH* TO RE GIVEN TUESDAY NIGHT Handel's “Messiah” an oratorio that has pleased thousands of Indi- anapolis people as a Christmas time feature in years past, will be given Tuesday night of next week at Cadle Tabernacle with an unusually well trained chorus. Horace White-house, who has spent weeks drilling several hundred sing- ers, expects the most flattering re- sults. Sponsored by the board of park commissioners the concert will be staged for an admission price which will make it possible for all classe-s to enjoy. Ticlfet purchasers will have an op- portunity to occupy any seat in the tabernacle as there are no reserved seats. In the presentation of “The Mes- siah" the Indianapolis Oratorio So- ciety of which Homer L. Cook Is president, hope® that the entertain- ment will lie patronized sufficiently to meet expenses as the project is not a money-making affair. The four soloists—Mrs. I.lllian A. fcFlickinger, soprano; Mrs. Jean Me- 'Cormick, contralto: George W. Kadel, tenor and Kdward Da. Shell*-, bass —are among the best known vocalists of the city. Mrs. William E. Duthle will play the pipe organ accompaniments and an orchestra of sixty picked players will be heard. Tickets may be had at any of the t- Uowing places Fuller-Uyde Music t’o.. Carlin Music Cos., r *ji-ole Talking Machine Shop. Pearson Piano Cos . Huder Drug store and the John A. Hook drug store at Market and Pennsylvania Sts. CHOIR TO GIVE GREAT ORATORIO The choir of the Tabernacle Pres- byterian Church. Thirty-Fourth and Central Av„ vi ill sing Handel's “Messiah” Sunday night, Dec 21, at 1:4o o'clock. The choir is under the direction of ‘Square Peg’ Hobart Henley, the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer director, has completed Ills production of “The Square Peg.” and has arrived In New York for a vacation. Norman Shearer, an- other Metro Goldwyn-Mayer celebrity, has returned to Culver City after a shopping trip to New York. Henley's new production was adapted by Agnes Christine Johnston from the Lewis Beach play, and has Claire Windsor, William Haines, Emily Fitzroy, Lucille Rieksen, Robert Agnew and others in leading roles. Fred Newell Morris. A rather full and complete rendition will be given some recitative passages and arias seldom sung will be heard The choir has been augmented with some of she best singers in the city. The choir plans to make a study of the various oratories, the “Mes- siah” being the first offering. Dvorak's Stabat Mater will be sung in Its entirety during the Lenten season. The public is cordially in- vited to attend thees services. The soloists are Mrs. Florence Par- kin Welch, soprano; Mrs. William K. Sproule, contralto; Floyd Chafee, tenor Fred Newell Morris, bass; I Paul R. Matthews, organist. BOBBS-MERRILL ANNOUNCES CAST | ‘Enticement’ Will Be Made Into a Movie. Winners fn the contest conducted bv the Bobbs-Merrlll publishing house to choose members of the cast of “Enticement” have just been an- nou need. The Inoe studio is to make the film version of Olive Arden’s famous novel. "Enticement.” which is pub- lished by Bobbs-Merrlll, and read- ers of the book were given the op- portunity of expressing their prof erenoe ns to players. This is the cast: 1.-e-ini Ifc-wlar Miry Aster kirhani Vs!,Tan lan K“!th Henry W*ni Olive Brook Mrs. Blake Vera I-rwaa S :ear. Murray T/Oinse Dresner Mrs Ma-ien Lillian Lanrdnn Announcement Is ma.de thabAhe nroduction work will start at once George Archainbaud is to direct. “Enticement." and an exeeptlqjm! supporting cast Is to he chosen to augment the six players chosen by popular vote throughout the Un.ted States. Nash Appears In Playlet Mary Nash made her vaudeville jdebut, last week at the Palace, New York, in 'Fear,” a one-act drama by Elaine Sterne. CHRISTMAS WEEK OFFERINGS ON LOCAL STAGE No. I—Bareback rider with Cran- dell's Brazilian Circus at the Pal- ace first half of the week. No. 2—Eva North at the Lyric all next week. No. 3- —Rae Samuels will head- line the hill at Keith's beginning Sunday. _ No. 4 —Viola Dana in “Along ROUNDING R 0 UNI) THEA TERS \ WITH “ WALTER D. HICKMAN As far as road attractions are con- cerned at English's and Murat for Christmas week both houses will he dark unless there are last minute j changes. Nelson Trowbridge has re- ceived cancellation's for “The Proud j Princess." with McKay Morris which was scheduled to he here next week. A. F. Miller at English’s has re- ceived word that “Lollipop,” will he sent elsewhere This is due to the sudden closings of many attrac- tions on tour and in New York .and Chicago. This will he the first 1 Christmas in years that the Murat I lias been dark. The only thing that | will save tiie situation is an eleventh- j f.Vuir ."Ooking. For once in my life nobody has told me cither in person or by letter that I caused them to squander their 1 money by going to the Follies. Lost year’s objection to the show was that it was weak in comedy ;t nd real ; names Everybody agre.-s that there is enough hokum comedy in the Follies which has been on view at j English's all week. ZiegfeM has ; found that comedy must pre- dominate in the Follies when he i Came Rijth,” at tile Palace as a movie feature, the first half of tiie week. No. o—Scene from the movie, "Wages of Virtue,” with Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon at the Ohio next week. No. 6 —Richard Barthclmess as he appears in his latest movie, “Classmates," at the Circle Christ- mas week. No. T—Harold Lloyd as he ap- pears in his new movie. “Hot Water,” at Mister Smith's next week. No. S—Jack Hoxie in "The West ern Wallop,” movie, at the Isis the first half of the week. No. Bebe Daniels ts si ■ ap pears in anew Paramount feature, "Argentine Love,” at the Apollo all next week. With Hopper from, the fun is .what the people want. Nan H.ilperin ends her ten weeks contract with the Follies tonight. She returns to vaudeville. Rolfitre Eggleston of Keith's will he Santa Claus and lest to all the ; artists appearing on the i'hristn is week I ill at Keith's on next Thurs- } day night at the Indianapolis Ath- j letio ('lilli. Julia Arthur I>. C. Whitney will present George Bernard Shaw's “Saint Joan,” with | Julia Arthur In the title role, at English's Thursday evening, .lan. S, for three nights only, with a matinee !on Saturday. The play consists of six scenes and an epilogue. Joan Is seen at Yalcoulers, making her application to Robert de Beaudrlcourt to send ■ her to the Dauphin; at Chlnon, pick ling out the Dauphin from among his ridiculous court, and beginning at ; once the difficult business of mak- ing a man of him; at Orleans, meet : trig Illinois and convincing him of i her divine mission by the miracu- lous changlttg of the winds, which impeded his operations on the river; in Rhelms Cathedral after the ocg-o- natlon of the Dauphin, and at Rouen, | standing Iter trial. AMUSEMENTS CAPITOL REOPENS WITH BURLESQUE Stock Shows Is Policy of New Management, Jack LaMont and his "Capitol Fol- lies” will formally open the Capitol theater tonight under the direction of the Fox & Krause Producing Com- pany of Chicago, Milwaukee.* Min- neapolis and Indianapolis. The opening attraction will be offered in the form of a two-act com- bination burlesque extravaganza and vaudeville presentation. LaMont, comedian, appears In the role of Izzy Cohen, a business man. Chubby Drisdale, soubrette, is in the company. Besides LaMont and Drisdale, other principals in the company are Billy Dunn, an eccentric comic; Don Trent, straight man; Bud Purcell and Frank O’Rourke, singing and dancing juveniles; Minnie Fitzgerald, a prima donna; Blanche Burnette, a soubrette and Mildred Strange, an ingenue. The formal opening of the Capitol tonight under the Fox & Krause ban- ner, marks the beginning of a season of combination stock and road show attractions. The Fox & Krause Cos. controls show houses in numerous cities? throughout the middle west and their policy provides a. company o£ principals in a city three weeks at a time-, with anew show each week. Court lei gh Enters Vaudeville Wiliam Court.lelgh will toud the Keith theaters in "The Good Pro- vider.” a sketch which has 3®rve4 Elliott Dexter well on the OiTiheum circuit. 1^2331 ‘ • ■ * iHj \ 1 I AMUSEMENTS Ii Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises MURAT Next Monday Evening, 8:15 HEAR THIS INSPIRING FEAST OF MUSIC (Christmas }Jragramntr ETHEL. WALKER \Vhn TV Wolf Hopper comes to the Murat for the week of I 29. ho will have th services of Ethel Walker as prim i donna. "The Mikado” will 1m sung for the first, half of the week and “Pinafore” the ia.st half. • takes to the road. Am informed that much of the comedy of ‘'Keep Kool.” which didn't last long in New . York, is now found in this Kollies. Regardless of where the fun came AMUSEMENTS B Christmas ; JTOEAK OF UftUKYIUF jPWMjI ITAiaiEvnxK'g rrnrsntST pl.ayi.kt 111 JOSEPH B. STANLEY & CO. g! With JACK KUAN. OlflK STRATFORD and tTX>raCXCTG AUJSI IS A HOTintf tTJVtSIC WITH TTIOBK DAKCING ¥ j 3 * HAWTHORNE & COOKE STEWART & OLIVE I' In "MAKf ME SFRIOn*” FORMERLY WITH EDDIE LEOKABD STARKE PATTERSON & LASNA CLOUTIER I, With WILLIAM KKIXHAKT In "TIIKKE STAGES OF LOVE" g SI RALPH LOUSE & NAN STERLING I CLAUDIA ALBA & CO. I ••FROLICSOME FOLLIES" I EI'ROHE'S FAMOUS FEMININE ATHLETE 2: T n r ..mar- . —'' —■ Mil 3! A WELCOME VDIiITION TO TTIIS YYOWDEKFTX BILL £ * I MR. LEO BEERS 1 VAUDEVILLE'# DISTINCTIVE BMTERTAIKER jX CHRISTMAS WEEK ATTSE Lseotkoh 1 . %% THE MERRY MUSICAL FARCE COMEDY t, HERE COMES EVA WITH THE POPULAR COMEDIENNE, EVA NORTH. SUPPORTED BY A METROPOLITAN CAST OF SINGERS, DANCERSWFARCEURS PISANOWLANDOWf FEINc^TENNYSON ECCENTRIC FUNSTERS ' "VIA RADIO* GAN ZELL WHITES SOTDTHIIISKI EMITIISMDKMSS SYNCOPATING JAZZ HOUNDS FROM N'ORLEANS MACK WCORFXT DAVIS and PELLE CRA2Y BUT GOOD J EQUILIBRIST IC MARATHON MME. EVEREST'S JUNGLELAND’S STELLAR. PERFORMERS l MACK SENNETT COMEDY, STARRING HARRY i LANGDON, “FEET OF MUD” KINOGRAMS—“A MISS IN J Hk. THE DARK,” LATEST EPISODE OF “THE GO-GETTERS” M ¥V J COSfPiUMENTS OP THE. SERSON. ||j| FROM THE BIG REVUES m RSAE DIX W AND THE GBIMSO HARSIOHADERS j| “A RARE TREAT” AN ARTIST Or NOTE INDIANAPOLIS’ OWN FOLK rj/Nrj | • r* a 1 > (** MARDO PEGGY 808 LA SALi-E KAEHN HOFFMAN *y}? SONGS —STORIES —STEPS .., T s a gift- \m CRYSTAL BENNETT DALY, MAcTaND DALY - Wm "THE ATHLETIC GIRL" “JUST FOR FUN” Sgmy —PHOTOPLAY—- yjSL VIOLA DMA AMD WALTER HIERS jam “ALDUS CASE RUTH” t.AW’ THE BIG LAUGH H,T OF THE YEAR vi EVES. so LET ' S GO! MATS looosEAre ' oooSEAIS 30^ fMNDtTY A HOLIPfTY MfJT/AfSES EVEMMO'P/r/C/SQ i tbZ '£Ss3& %*Lsi* '-^asjfr- k . j|it -f^^ir IRAFAELO DIAZ, Soloist Fammw Tenor Metropolitan Opera Cos. CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FKI r/ REI.NEK, (Conductor. ASSISTING CHORCS, 150 VOICES MENDELSSOHN CHOIR ELMER STEFFEN, Choral Conductor. Christmas Programme, Arias. Chorus—Shubert Unfin- ■ ished Svmphonv 1812—Tschaikowskv Festival Music. THE GREATEST PROGRAMME SINCE OED MAY FESTIVAIi PRICES SI.OO, $1.50. 82.00, $2.50, $5.00, PLUS TAX. I KEUKHOr.It THr, SOLD-OIT HOI SM-OKIIEK TICK KTS NOW KOK ' CHOICE SEATS. Farewell PAVLOWA and Salle! Rasse, Jan. 5 KREISLER, Feb. 1-McCORMACK, Feb. 22 Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope for Return of Ticket. All SEATS NOW SEI.I.ING—Ona B. Talbut Oilier. 918 Hnm-Han>ur Bid*. [DANCING IN THE LYRIC BALL ROOM AFTERNOONomEVENING] 7