Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1921 — Page 5

Nance O’Neil to Play English’s for Three Days jWill Appear in ‘Passion Flower * — Tully Offering . at Murat. RAE SAMUELS AT KEITH’S Theatrical conditions will be improved on the local stage next week as the Murat will reopen ijext Monday night alter a week’s darkness to shelter "The Bird of Paradise,” and English’s will flash forth on next Thursday night with Nance O Neil in "The Passion Flower-” Big names will continue to hold headline position at B. F„ Keith’s next week, as Rae Samuels, known as "The Blue Streak of Vaudeville,” will be the bright star on next week’s bill. The ninth anniversary of the will be observed next week and the management announces that the feature of the "birthday bill” will be “Girls of 1921,” a musical revue. The Park will present next week “The Mischief Makers,” with Charles McNally. New bills will be presented at the Broadway ad Rialto. Much interest has been caused by the announcement that the Wilson-Hopper revival of 'Erminie” will be presented at English's for a week beginning Monday, Oct. 17. Indications are that this attraction will bring many people to Indianapolis as this city is the only one in the State that will present the stars in this . big revival. } On the same evening, Guy Bates Post will begin a three-day engagement in “The Masquerader” at the Murat. -I- -!- “BIRD OF PARADISE” RETURNS TO THE MURAT. “The Bird of Paradise,” Richard Walton Tully’s drama of Hawaiian life, will return to the Murat theater for its annual engagement, coming Monday evening, Oct. 10, with matinee Wednesday and Saturday. This offering now in its eleventh season, has taken its place with '-such meritorious offerings as “Ben Hur,” “The Old Homestead” and “Way Down East,” and the interest in its survival is unabated. The original lines, as written when Mr. Tully returned from the Sandwich Islands ten years ago, are just as striking and compelling now as they were then, which is a great deal to say for any modem drama. And not only do Mr. Tully’s lines preserve all their original beauty and tenderness, but he has seen to it conscientiously at the beginning, of each season, that the production is not allowed to lack for any of that careful detail which marked its first performance a*t Los Angeles where it received recognition as a dramatic novelty. The part of Luana. the semi-barbaric beauty, will be enacted this time by Ann Reader. Others in the cast are Herbert Charles, Frederick Forrester. Ellen Malar, Rose Watson, Frank L. Cooley, -Tames* K. Appelbee, Reba Garden, Douglas Cosgrove and the quintette of native singers and players, who bring back the weird note of the uklele and the plaintive singing, peculiar to the natives of the Hawaiian Islands. FAMOUS EMOTION AL ACTRESS DUE THURSDAY \T ENGLISH'S. We have been so surfeited wi'h mn- | sicat revues and e the ” close ol the war that the coming of n real emotional actress in a real dritma may be looked upon as an cunt. If the criticisms of the press in New York, Chicago, Boston and other Eastern cities which have, during the last two seasons, had the opportunity 'of seeing Miss Nance O’Neils presentation of Jacinto Benavente's masterpiece, “The Passion Flower,” are to be taken as a criterion, the play-goers of Indianapolis are promised a real treat when Miss O'Neil opens a three-day engagement at English's Thursday night. Previous to “The Passion Flower,” Miss O’Neil appeared as the mother of the Prodigal in “The Wanderer,” and Just previous to that she scored what was at that time the artistic success of her career in Mr. Belasco's production of “The Lily.” Not even her incomparable Odette in the latter play gave her emotional powers such scope for their tull employment as does Benavente's heroine, Raimunda, in her present vehicle. Miss O’Neil has been identified with somo of the greatest emotional characterizations ever presented upon the Eng-lish-speaking stage and her finished performances in such difficult and exhausting roles as Madga, Monna Vanna, Fedora and Camille, Hedda Gabler in “The Sorceress;” Judith in “The Fires of St. John,” have won for her the place as America's most distinguished emotional actress which is conceded her. ,

RAE BAMCELS TO TOP NEXT WEEK’S BIEE AT KEITH’S. Rae Samuels, known as “The Blue Streak of Vaudeville,” will be the headline offering- at B. F. Keith’s next week, starting Monday matinee. Miss Samuels, -who. has made rag time a classic, will offer a number of original Isongs. With rare exceptions Miss Samuels has devoted all her time to vaudeville, where she has become a factor. These exceptions were -with one of the series of Ziegfeld Follies and with a New York experimental amusement enterprise called, “The Moulin Rouge.” Miss Samuels has as her pianist Miss B. Walker, an Indianapolis girL Mme. Do reefs Operalogue, which will be presented by ten artists, including Mme. Doree, will offer the principal of the most popular arias from “The Tales of Hoffman,” “Pagliacci,” “T.a Travista,” “Carmen," “Faust” and other of the light operas. An elaborate stage setting is used. Edwin George will be seen in “A Comedy of Errors.” George is a near juggler, he attempts difficult feats, but Invariably blunders. Walter Newman and company will offer “Profiteering,” written by Mr. Newman. The plot has to do with an actress out of work and a profiteering landlord. Joe McFarlan and Johnny Palace will contribute their “Volumes of Harmony," in which melody and impromptu comedy are the main ingredients. Camilla’s Birds are a group of highly trained Australian cockatoos. They work in a circular track, which is very unusual, and do ail sorts of tricks at the bidding of their mistress. On the screen will be shown the Pathe (Continued on Page Seven.)

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STAGE PLAYERS ON VIEW NEXT WEEK S

Upper Lest —Ann Reader, the latest Luana in “The Bird of Paradise,” f Second From Left—Rae Samuels, the “Blue Streak of Vaudeville,” i||jp Third From Left—Nance O’Neil In "The Passion Flower,’' opening i Park—Mabel Clark In “The Mischief Makers,” at the Park next week. : m] : /L - Lower Left—Johnny Reynolds, a "dare-devil,” who will be one of the 'jfj* • - > A HHB9T "aSI t features on the Lyric’s anniversary bill next week. _ ■ ; % \ HHBp 1 ”, Vy A * Lower Right—Robbins and Robbins, roller skaters, at the Rialto. l[jx\ - J * Vi in° r p£Zn t8 at Noted Record Makers Will Re >,t i> woir u, PP .. r and i-rni-.! • -j* w • -'■ • .-l - WbL Heard in (incut Night English a a w,et from -I of Oct. 16. responsible for ho - h present season will probably bo Hop lives- a natty makeup of the song and— a

Victor Artists in Person at Murat Theater Noted Record Makers Will Re Heard in Concert Night of Oct. 16. Kncoairaged by appearing before two big houses last year at English's, the "Eiglil Famous Victor Artists” are playing a return engagement this year. Sunday, Oct. lit, at the Murat. Although tli ; rtisus curry the uumo of “Victor," they have asked Nelson Trowbridge of the Murat, to have it distinctly understood that this is not a phono ft • ji g 1 FRANK VAN EFS. graph recital in any way, but a regular concert and oratorio. This concert has no connection with any local music house. The artists who will appear are: Henry I Burr, tenor; Billy Murray, tenor come- ! dian; Albert Campbell, tenor; John Meyer, baritone; Frank Croxton, basso; Monroe Siiver^monologlst; Fred Van Eps, banjoist; and Frank Banta, pianist. In addition to solo work- the singers are greuped in the Sterling Trio, com(Continued on Page Seven.)

E lift I ICIIIQ Thur.-Fri.-Sat. CIIULIvII Matinee Saturday km a woiard H 4%SAFEST PERSONAI TEftDMPnff ." THE mmo® FS.OWE6T Trie £>&AM*aic nCM£I/£M£/*r<ar TUB oecxoe Translated br JOHN GARRETT UNDERHILL THE FIRST STAR ATTRACTION TO PEAY INDIANAPOEIB AT PRE-WAR PRlCES:siifc E s &3 Next Week, Beginning Monday, Oct. 17 xne Superlative Event of a Generation. FRANCIS A DC WOLF s .QNISMiMMI THE NEW and WDNOCOUS (( ] STAR CAST GORGEOUS PRODUCTION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRIZE CHORUS MAIL ORDERS NOW. SEAT SALE THURSDAY. Price* — Night, 500 to *2.75; Wed. Mat.. 550 to $2.20; Sat. Mat., 56c to $2.75. The above prices include war- tax.

Frederick Donaghey, who is representative of De Wolf Hopper and Francis Wilson in “Erminie.” which comes to English's a week from next Monday, is responsible for tho statement that the present season will probably bo Hopper's final one on tho American stage as Donaghey is booking the comedian for :i lecture tour in 1922 23. Tho tour is to be managed by George C. '1 yler and Mr. Donaghey. According to Mr. Donaghey, it is the aim of Mr. Hopper to say farewell to the American public in. surroundings and ■'onditious more intimate and personal than the theater permits. It is said that the comedian will appear on the Chautauqua and lyceum circuits. For my part, I would like to see Mr. Hopper ns the policeman in “The Pirates," as Dick Doadeye in "Pinafore” and ns Koko in “The Mikado." Wouldn't revivals of these be better than a lucturo tour, Mr. Hopper? “My first part was in John Philip Bou su's first operetta,” Mr. Hopper stated recently, “it wns called 'DeeireeJ was 1 mduced in Philadelphia, and I was roasted by the augtero press for ‘gagging.’ You set* dear old Colonel McCauil, who put me into opera, regarded me less as a comedian than as a great ’find’ lu the singing line. lie talk* and about me as ‘that great young basso cantunte, I) Wolf Hopper’ and would have sold me down the river, like Facie Tom, into grand opera, I believe, if the Philadelphia public, which had known me for my acting in a ‘straight’ play about comic Mormons, called ‘One Hundred Wives,’ hud not insisted that 1 was funny rather than basso. Two years later, or less, MeCaull was so convinced that X was a comedian that he moved the heavens in trying to buy ‘Erminie’ for me, that 1 might play the role I’m now playing—liaveunes. We were bro-ken-hearted when we were told that Nat Goodwin had slipped over to London on the quiet and returned with tho American rights of the operetta. Nat never played in It. however; his backers didn’t like ‘Erminie,’ and wouldn't put the money into it. Then Francis hero fell into the piece.’ Hopper is six feet two inches in height, and has never in all his career on the stage been in a fight with managers, actors, or directors. Wilson is an

INDIANA DAICT TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1921.

I inch filler than five feet, and fought I I is way with his fists Into recognition. In Chapin and Gore's Chicago restatiI rant, there hung for years a photograph "f two men in blackface, Cuban sun-hats, "h.i jackets and knickers, and doth ’ puttees—-a natty makeup of the song-and-t dance days when Wilson was new to tho 1 stage. Ho is one of the figures; the i other was a well-known figure of the variety stage named John Markin. The I "team" was dissolved when Wilson, repenting the physical and verbal abuse heaped upon him by Id* larger mate, quietly acquired the art of boxing, and knocked Markin into insensibility. Vnother fist fight fell to his lot on the : first night as a member of the fashionable McC'aull Compel v, when he thrashed a member of the company for having I mixed burnt cork wf h his cold cream. ' used for removing make-up from the face. Later, the first pago of the dally pros* | carried storied of how Wilson turned on ; the famous Max Freeman, a gifted but autocratic stage manager of other days, I and thrashed him into anew attitude i toward the players under him, according | to Mr. Donaghey. For the week of Oct. 17 Manager Egj gieston of H. F. Keith's announces Harry Watson, Jr., formerly of Zlegfield's ! “Follies," Jack Norworth's "Odds and Ends” and ji familiar vnudevlllian, will tie or * of the prominent features- in “The Young Kid Battling Dugan.” Others will lie Monsieur Adolphus assisted by Andre Vlviannu. premier diinsetise, in “Bohemian Life.” D. D. 11., a mystery act, William Sully and Oeneieve Roughton in “<'aif Lovo” and others. Rue Samuels, tho “Blue Streak of Vaudeville,” who comes to Keith’s next

. AMUSEMENTS. RIALTO NO FEATURE PICTURES Vaudeville Continuous—One to Eleven Eight Acts THIS WEEK’S PROGRAMSULTAN’S MUSICAL HAREM In songs and music, A miniature musical company with glr 18, beautiful wardrobe, scenery and electrical effects. PRATHER AND~ WILEY Father’s Wife—Harmony Singing and Prattle FARNELL and FLORENCE Eccentric Comics PEDDRBCK and DeVERE Singers and Dancers De Luxe WRIGHT and VIVIAN Novelty Hoop Rollers ADELE PEMBROKE The Girl and the Piano LEON NORTON Blackface Comedian ROBINS, NYLAN and ROBINS Comedy NoVelty on Skates ' Tweedie Comedy “Pinches” PRICES—WAR TAX PAID No Higher

week, asks two questions and then answers them. Is jazz, that long suffering and much maligned medium of vocal and rhythmic expression, at last coming into Its own"' Will that combination of souniL. which has for so long been condemned and deplored, be accepted as anew and high form of music? it is and if will, she declares. “It has taken a long time,” said line, “for syncopation, ns it is technically know, or ragtime, as we used to call it, or Jazz, the name it goes by today to reach the place w-hefie it is accepted by real musicians as a d<-flnite form In its own right. Asa matter of fact, it hasn’t ?%eri yet arrived at Its highest peak, but

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WALTER NEWMAN & COMPANY “Profiteering” EDWIN GEORGE “A Comedy of Errors” McFARLANE & PALACE “Volumes of Harmony”

All tickets sold one week in advance. i Use our season order service—it’s free. EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION • M&£ bj If '* *5 OPERALOGUE

it Is well on the way, and I am very i happy with the progress it is making.” Jazz hns had a long and arduous struggle for recognition, and Miss Samuels, because cf h.-r work, has been more than ! a casual observer of this struggle. She has watched ragtime climb from the lowly place it once occupied in the scale of ; entertainment, and she has studied 1 syncopation ns it was manifested in the j rites of the ancients. j “Studying jazz," Miss Samuels exI plained, “is lib*- studying a once great I civilization, jvhich has declined,' but ! which is slowly and surely building it- ; self up again, this time to a higher peak ;of perfection than before* Regard seri(Uontlnued on Page Six.)

DANCING KENNEDYS In Their Own Creations CAMILLA’S BIRDS “A Novelty in Black and White” AESOP’S FABLES A Laughing Comedy Cartoon PATHE NEWS World’s Latest Events

Fairbanks and Chaplin Films Bid for Honors *Three Musketeers’ at Loeufs and ‘ldle Class’ at Circle. OTHER RIG FEATURES Charlie Chaplin in “The Idle Class,” Douglas Fairbanks in “The Three Musketeers,” a movie versioli of “Rip Van Winkle” and Ethel Clayton in "Beyond,” are a few of the big movies booked at Indianapolis movie theaters next week. The movie fan will have a busy week getting in all of these attractions, but each one is so important that the average fab will welcome the opportunity to crowd ’em all in during a week’s time. The Fairbanks movie will open Sunday afternoon at Loew’s State. Chaplin's latest will open at the same time at the Circle and “Rip Van Winkle” will make its first movie appearance at the Ohio. Ethel Clayton will be presented at the Alhambra ail next week, starting Sunday. Mister Smith's will present Gloria Swanson in “The Great Moment.” The Isis will present F.uek Jones in “Bar Nothin’.” Next week will be a great week in movie land. -I- -I- -I- ---“ ALL-LAUGH-WEEK” TO BE OBSERVED AT CIRCLE. Beginning Sunday the Circle theater will have AU-I.augh-Week, and announces as its donble feature program Charles Chaplin in his newest comedy. | “The Idle Class” and Johnny Hines in his first starring vehicle, "Burn-’Em-Up-Barnes,” a racing story, j - “The Idle Class” is unlike anything

AM USEM ENT S . MONDAY EVE Prices: Maj Eve. 50c, 15c, 5U1.50.12 (and all NEXT WEEK Wed.MaisoctoSl; Sat Hat.socto $1.50 RETURN OF THE PERENNIAL FAVORITE

By Richard Walton Tully HLAN6W CASTof PLAY6RS WlHp* and we AFTER ALL ITS EXTENSIVE TRAVELS “THE BIRD OF PARADISE* RETURNS TO THIS CITY PRIOR TO ITS AUSTRALIAN TOUR—ACTED BY A C AST OU UNUSUAL DISTINCTION AND STAGED WITH THE SAME DETAIL THAT HAS MARKED EVERY PERFORMANCE. ITS APPEAL IS UNABATED

My Personal Thanks to Those Who Appreciate the Best in Amusements * When I began negotiating with Guv Bates Post’s manager for a return appearance in this city—before his departure from the United States on his world's tour —the matter appeared almost hopeless. Other cities, than this, demanded return dates —where full weeks could be played, consequently a lesser expense to Mr. Post, for the present high cost of travel with three cars of theatrical equipment is no small item. Amusement lovers who had, and amusement lovers who had not, seen Mr. Post previously, were insistent, and their constant requests caused me again and again to ask the booking offices for a date—it was not until I made a personal appeal to Mr. Post that I was able to secure his appearance at the Shubert-Murat three nights and one matinee, starting Monday, Oct. 17. The advance and mail-orda sales prove the soundness of his again appearing In “The Masquerader,” for while there still remains choice seats at any of the various prices, for any of the four performances, I must earnestly request immediate application for seats or you may not secure likable locations. Respectfully, Manager Shubert-Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, liid. Both Box Offices will be open Monday 9 a. m., to avoid waiting irs line.

COMING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, OCT. 21-22 Seats Monday Oct. 17. * Mail Orders Now. Prices—Eye., 50c, 75c,'51.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50. Sat. Mat, 50c to $1.50. NOTEWORTHY DRAMATIC EVENT * THE SELWYN PRESENT THE SUPREME SUCCESS OF HER BRILLIANT CAREER Distinguished N. Y. Cast. Exquisite Production. 1(

Charlie has ever attempted before, for its reveals him in a dual role, in one of which he wears the familiar hobo outfit, and in the other he Is dad in the habiliments of “the idle rich." Those of the Chaplin fans who don’t think he could boas funny in his dress-up attire as in the baggy trousers, size 20 shoes, etc., have a decided treat in store for them, for he is just as much of a “knock out” in regular clothes, it is said. Most of the action takes place on the golf course, and the peerless comedian was never more comical than when chasing a golf ball around the course, frequently annexing another player's ball as he travels around from green to green. Later, at a masquerade party where the husband goes in a snit of armor to meet his wife, whose displeasure he has incurred earlier in the day, he finds her in the arms of the tramp, whom she has mistaken for her husband. The doorman lias als<y,mistaken him for one of the guests, which accounts for his being at the party. The absent minded husband, in a fit ofi jealous rage, accidentally locks himself l into his suit of armor, and complications increase until finally the husband is extricated from his “tin suit” and explanations on all sides follow. Edna Purvianee is seen in the role of the wife, and Mack Swain has the part as the girl's father. The story of Johnny Hines’ first fea(Uontinned on Page Seven.)

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