Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1921 — Page 7

BETTER QUALITY NOTED IN NEW GOTHAM PLAYS (Continued From Fare Sis.)

ten years the vrlfe of a land-grasping farmer has struggled and eared that their daughter might go to New York end develop her artistic talents. When the time comes to realize her dreams her husband compels tho pair to give up their savings that he may purchase more land. The conflict between husband and wife results In the latter being ordered from the home with the daughter and on the eve v>f their departure a famous artist, sojourning nearby, passes adverse judgment on the sample of painting on which the faith of both women hinges, and in despair the wife begins all over again to dream her dream which may come to pass In another generation, as the daughter follows the least resistance and accepts the marriage offer of a neighbor, cut from tho same mold as her grasping and unimaginative father. Augustin Duncan as the husband and Bffie Shannon as the wife reach the

TO OPEN PARK SEASON TONIGHT

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LENA DA I.ET. An Indianapolis actress, Lena Daley, will open the 1921-1922 season at tfia Tark tonight by appearing in “Kandy Kids," a musical extravaganza. Tha engagement will continue up to and in including next Saturday night.

highest point of acting of the season, and Willlard Robertson as tho suitor Is not far behind. “SCARLET MAX” IS FOUND AMUSING. “The Scarlet Man," a comedy by William Lq Baron, proved to be the most amusing play of the week. It was novel in conception and execution, and unusually acted. There Is little to appeal to the highbrow in this p'.ay, which takes its title from the fact that a modest and retiring bachelor is compelled by a modern young woman to “compromise" her that she may prove a point which she adheres to. The girl spends a night in the apartment of the bachelor, though a perfectly harmless night it is. The consequences for the man. however, are serious. He is expelled from the house as a moral leper. lie is dismissed from his position ns a roue, and loses membership in his club for conduct unbecoming a gentleman. All this while the girl, the one responsible for the dilemma, is accepted as a radical and a high-spirited woman and made much of. Tho three acts come to a conclusion with an appeal from the man to the woman to “do the right thing" and marry him. This request is granted, and “The Scarlet Man" becomes once more clean and pure. John Cumberland is one of the most adept farceurs on our stage, and in “The Scarlet Man" he sustains this distinction. ANOTHER PLAY JUSTIFIES ITS EXISTENCE. “Six Cylinder Love” by William Anthony Maguire was another comedy of

Special State Fair Week | Gaia Bill Arthur Anderson Presents “DOLL FROLICS” Cute Cuties in “A Trip to Toyland” TAYLOR TRIPLETS JEAN AND CECIL Manly Art of Self-Defense “STYLES’' McNALLY 8 ASHTON BYRON &LANGDON , Blackface Comedians “The Woman Dodger" MOREY, SENNA AND DEAN Harmony Singing Funmakers SHERMAN & ROSE Jonsa Rose Unique Variety Dancers “The Musical Girl” Mack Sennett Screen Farce “Wedding Bells Out of Tune” M, Lyric Ball Room 'M . Qflernoon tnd Evening

the week which Justified It* existence. It Is a funny mixture of farce and comedy, and there Is hardly a dull moment in either of the three acts. The possession of a motor car has proved too much for the enjoyment of a mature couple, and Its possession passes to another, a pair of newlyweds, and thereafter all thoughts of domesticity fade from view and new and strange roadhouses, scenes and incidents are discovered In a most amusing manner. She studied the speed Jaws rather than the cook book, and her husband was forced Into debt and distress, With their feeble resources the car almost accomplishes their ruin, but as befits a clever comedy, the end is adjusted amusingly’ and satisfactorily and Ernest Truex, June Walker, Bert on Churchill, Eleanor Gordon, Donald Meek, Kenneth Hlil and others, to say nothing of Sam Forrest, who staged the play for Sam H. Harris, assured the success it achieved. OTHER BROADWAY AXH ROAD NEWS. Catherine Mulqueen, who sang "Irene,” has been engaged for Bessie Barriscale’s company In “The Skirt ” Mimi Aguglia sails for London In October. She makes her appearance in a now play on Broadway In January. Langdon McCormick's new spectacular

melodrama, “Adventure,” will be produced In New York early In November. Alfred Hickman, who staged “The Passion Flower" for Richard O. Herndon, will act the role of Kstabnn with Nance O’Neil In her created role this year. Barry McCollum, who lately acted the role of Clutle John in “John Ferguson," has received several now Irish plays for use of the Repertory Theater this year. Frederic "Warren, who created the popular series of baliad concerts two seasons ago, will continue this series at the Apollo Theater this year, commencing In October. Avery Hopwood’s “The Bat” is on Its second year In New York. Half a million people have suffered forty million thrills In one year. Is the assertion of the statistics .ound of Wagenhals A Kemper. The Repertory Theater, of which Angustin Duncan Is the prosit nt, Is to produce three new plays this a .son. The first will be offered for matinee performances du-Ing Mr. Duncan's engagement in “The Detour.” Clara Clemens, the singer, has no sympathy with “temperamontallsts,” whether they be of the stage or the concert hall. “Artistic temperanjent," she observes, “may be defined as a hothouse name for emotional Insanity.” Clara Clemens, the soprano, daughter of the late Mark. Twain, and wife of Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, will be heard in a series of recitals in New York this

AMUSEMENTS.

season, specializing in her program of Brahm’s songs In English. FAIR USHERS IN FALL SEASON AT THEATERS (Continued From Page Six.) know because she Is dancing nearly all of the time that she Is on the stage. “You know,” said Miss Daley, in a recent Interview, “that I am of the firm conviction that If people danced more they would be healthier. I am aware of the fact that some people claim dancing is injurious, hut I know that this is not the case except in Instances where excessive dancing is indulged in. Os course when one goes to the extreme what otherwise might prove beneficial becomes harmful. “YThat I mean Is that dancing Indulged In as a regular form of exercise would have a tendency to strengthen one, to develop weak muscles, to aid digestion and to build up the whole system. I am a little superstitions so I am going to knock on wood when I say It, but do yon know. I enjoy the most perfect health. I never have a sick day and I never feel as if my work was a burden to me. I attribute my fit physical condition as largely due to the dancing I do.” Those who see Miss Daley's perform-

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ance will be convinced that If her dancing Is beneficial to her, ordinary dancing will never hurt any one for this soubrette Is chain lightning Itself. -I- -I- -!- “ABE MARTIN" BOOKED TO RETURN TO ENGLISH'S. Beginning on Monday night. Sept. 12, "Abe Martin,” a musical comedy, wPh numerous changes from last season, will open a week's engagement. Carlton Guy will again be seen In the leading role, which he created for the stage. Kin Hubbard, who conceived the character of Abe, claims that he “conceived Abe” after an extensive trip through the rural districts of Indiana while on a tour on a political trains as a correspondent. After a time of “rubbing elbows” with the natives, Mr. Hubbard hit upon the Idea ot creating a dally newspaper feature, Illustrated with a single drawing, though dlffr-ent each day, and with one predominating character, and this a sort of a composite of various Interesting Individuals whom he had met and become acquainted with on bis excursions to ihe southern part of Hooslerdom. He does not know how he came to call the character Abe Martin, for he says that ha never met or knew any one of that name. The name simply came to him after ha had made his first drawing, and deciding that it was as appropriate as any other, he let it go nt that. Mr. Hubbsrd classes Abe as a country loafer of uncertain age, bnt well along In years, who, although living In a rural community, has never been a farmer, nor followed any special vocation.

AMUSEMENTS.

KEITH CIRCUIT TO MARK ITS ANNIVERSARY (Continued From Page Six.)

smart and smiling attendarts. It was like a richly appointed club. The new Keith theater was o. k.’d, but the guests most of whom had never seen a vaudeville performance before awaited the show with some misgivings. The bill picked by M \ Keith and Mr. Albee revealed a pleasing, wholesome, varied entertainment that won every one, the clergymen being strong In its praise. From that day Keith’s was crowded twice dally and vaudeville was fashionable and correct and a family amusement. From Boston Keith vaudeville and Keith theaters moved to all the cities of the East. Mr Albee mastered theater construction to its minutest detail and personally superintended the construction of the magnificent houses In Philadelphia, Providence, New York, Syracuse, Washington, to name a few only. He is now building the finest and most modern theatera he has yet planned In the r.iw L'ph?an In Brooklyn, the $3,000.000 structure In Cleveland, and houses In Dayton, Toledo and Columbua. When B. F. Keith died In 1914 vaudeville was thoroughly organized In the B. F. Keith Vaudeville Exchange booking some 400 theaters from coast to coast. It remained for E. F. Albee, Inheritor

Three Reporters Only Ones at City Tax Levy Hearing Three persona not on ths city’s pay roll attended the public hearing upon the annual appropriation and tax levy ordinances before the city council last night. They were newspaper men. After waiting until 8 JM o’clock for some citizen to appear and ask at least one question about the way In which the administration proposes to apportion the expenditure of $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 by Its successor In 1022d Jacob P. Brown, president pro tem. of the council, announced that he would entertain a motion to adjonrn. The councilman and heeds of departments readily acquiesced and the ’hearing” broke up In a hurry. The ordinances will come ap for passage at the regular meeting Monday evening.

of the Keith vaudeville kingdom, to add new lustre to the Keith name by bringing about anew spirit In the relations of artists and managers and to sound a humanitarian note of the most Intense modernity. At his suggestion and through his endeavors, the managers combined in the Vaudeville Managers' Protective Association and the artlst^ N ln the National Vaudeville Artists.

MOTION PICTURES.

Sunday N Story of a land where the vanquished goes down and the game of life la played without rales. A romance of gold and the wilder West, and fighting men and love. CAST INCLUDES LOIS WILSON— Hall Room Boys Farce Fox News Weekly Literary Digest / — . Att* Boy I How about attending the World Scries Baseball Games as the gaest of the Alhambra, with all expenses paid? Get Into the Alhambra Conteat, now going on. For farther information see Mr. YGung, third floor, Lyric Theater Building.

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE SOfflO ft Pre^mting|Pretei^ous^^tograi)s^^j|^^ This One’s a Thriller From Start to Finish! Betty Compson and Milton Sills in “At the &nd \ of the World" Also— SA Harold Lloyd Comedy, with “Hebe” Daniels and "Snub” Pollard. International News Weekly. Literary Digest Topics, i! flpf

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