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14 THE INDEX, Saturday, May 19, 1928<br />

T H E S T A G E A N D S C R E E N<br />

M O N D A Y night, May 21,<br />

the Summer stock season<br />

will open at the<br />

Nixon Theatre. The Nixon Players<br />

will present their first offering,<br />

the New York success, "The<br />

Man Who Came Back," a comedy<br />

drama in five acts, under the<br />

personal supervision of Ann<br />

Harding. Harry C. Bannister,<br />

leading man of The Nixon Players,<br />

will have the part originally<br />

played by Henry Hull in New<br />

York. Katherine Wilson will<br />

play the leading feminine role<br />

originally played by Mary Nash<br />

in New York, supported by a<br />

New York cast, including Josephine<br />

Whittell, who will be remembered<br />

in "No, No, Nanette"<br />

and other New York successes;<br />

Louise Quinn, ingenue, who was<br />

in stock in Boston, Chicago and<br />

Providence; Kathryn Card, late<br />

of the Belasco productions;<br />

Ge<strong>org</strong>e Macready, juvenile, coming<br />

from the American Laboratory<br />

Theatre, New York; Howard<br />

Freeman, past season with<br />

"Cock Robin" in New York;<br />

Fred Sullivan, Frank Raymond,<br />

Joseph Thayer and John Hayden,<br />

who is producer and stage<br />

director for The Nixon Players.<br />

Katherine Wilson is well remembered<br />

in "American Tagedy,"<br />

"Love 'Em and Leave 'Em,"<br />

KATHERINE WILSON<br />

In "The Man Who Came Back,' which<br />

opens the Summer season at the Nixon<br />

the week of May 2 1 .<br />

"The Distant Drum." Harry<br />

Bannister needs no introduction<br />

to Pittsburgh. The past few<br />

seasons he has been leading man<br />

with Ge<strong>org</strong>e M. Cohan's "Yellow,"<br />

with Marjorie Rambeau in<br />

"Valley of Content," with Alice<br />

Brady in "Zander the Great,"<br />

Doris Keane in "The Czarina,"<br />

"Sweet Seventeen" at the Lyceum,<br />

New York, and leading<br />

man with Clara Kimball Young<br />

in "Trimmed in Scarlet."<br />

There will be two popular<br />

priced matinees—Wednesday<br />

and Saturday.<br />

most of the intervening years<br />

have been spent in the service<br />

of the theatre. Yet today Fannie<br />

Ward is as vivacious as a debutante,<br />

with slim silhouette, roseleaf<br />

complexion, bright eyes and<br />

glossy hair. Her offering at the<br />

Stanley will consist of songs,<br />

stories and lecturettes.<br />

BILLIE DOVE<br />

Wi be seen in "The Yellow L ly,' the Stanley screen attrac-<br />

tion for the eek of May 2 1.<br />

STANLEY<br />

The cloak of mystery surrounding<br />

the outstanding stage<br />

attraction at the Stanley Theatre<br />

next week, has now fallen,<br />

revealing Fannie Ward, the most<br />

remarkable looking woman of<br />

her age in all the world, as Tlie<br />

Mystery Woman. Laughing in<br />

the face of Father Time, Miss<br />

Ward is the lithe and lovely<br />

proof that Ponce de Leon was<br />

right when he said that somewhere<br />

in America there is a<br />

fountain of youth. She made<br />

her stage debut in 1889, and<br />

Forming a magnificent setting<br />

for The Miracle Woman will be<br />

the stage presentation, "Venetian<br />

Nights," a miniature musical<br />

comedy with such artists as<br />

Berinoff and Eulalie, Three<br />

Whirlwinds, Ge<strong>org</strong>es Dufranne,<br />

Kitty McLaughlin, Grace Yaeger<br />

and a company of dancers, under<br />

the leadership of Phil Spitalny.<br />

The screen attraction for the<br />

week will be Billie Dove in "The<br />

Yellow Lily," a story of Hungarian<br />

court life.<br />

DAVIS<br />

Weaver Brothers and Elviry,<br />

known the w?orld over as the<br />

KATE BYRON<br />

Will appear with Arthur Byron in "<br />

Family Affair" at the Davis next week.<br />

Arkansas Travelers, will be the<br />

headline offering in the Keith-<br />

VISIT HEINZ PLANT<br />

Something new! Interesting and helpful<br />

lectures and demonstrations by a Home<br />

Economics graduate. See the modern<br />

electrical kitchen. Escorts to guide you<br />

through the various departments. Seethe<br />

57 Varieties prepared for thetable.Sample<br />

the good things made by Heinz. njr Individ­ uiwicu.<br />

uals, private parties, women's clubs, and<br />

other <strong>org</strong>anizations cordially<br />

5<br />

invited.<br />

7<br />

Easily reached—your street<br />

car conductor will directyou.<br />

H.J. HEINZ COMPANY<br />

^J IX O N^ - -Week Commencing Monday, May 21st<br />

POPULAR PRICED MATINEES WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY<br />

AYERs°iN THE MAN WHO CAME BACK<br />

Comedy Drama in Four Acts with HARRY BANNISTER-KATHERINE WILSON<br />

Nights—Best Seats $1.00 Except Saturday Wednesday Matinee—Best Seats 50c<br />

Saturday Matinee—50c, 75c<br />

WEEK BEGINNING MAY 21 DIRECTION STANLEY CO. OF AMERICA<br />

WEEK BEGINNING MAY 21<br />

'sUH: Fanny Ward' The Miracle Woman<br />

KEITH-ALBEE VAUDEVILLE<br />

featured in D A V I S AND PHOTOPLAYS<br />

"Venetian Nights"<br />

WEAVER BROTHERS, THE " ARKANSAS TRAVELERS ", And<br />

on TheBiLLIE DOVE "THE YELLOW LILY"<br />

FIVE OTHER BIG ACTS<br />

Screen<br />

PHIL SPITALNY'S ORCHESTRA News Features—Topics » "FOOLS of the Day FOR LUCK"ST^C?K

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