Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1921 — Page 9

COLLEGE MEN WILL PRESENT PLAY AT MURAT University of Michigan Students Will Be Here on Dec. 20. On Dee. 20 Indianapolis Trill have Its first opportunity to appraise the high standard of dramatic excellence that has been attained by the University of Michigan operas. On that date, “Make It For Two,” a musical comedy, will be presented at the Murat by a cast of over one hundred Michigan undergraduates, members of the Michigan Union, the organization which controls all student activities at Ann Arbor and which is now offering its sixteenth annual opera. Prom chorus to leading lady all parts in “Make it For Two” are taken by men. That there are some astonishingly pretty “girls" in the cast Is the word received from Ann Arbor where the final rehearsals are in progress. They have been discovered by E. Mortimer Shuter, theatr cal director of the Michigan Union, who was formerly with Florenz Alegfeld. The book, music, and lyrics are the work of Michigan undergratuates and are said to be unusually clever. Costumes and scenic effects are on a costly and elaborate scale and would do credit to the most Important professional productions. The chorus and solo dancers have had the advantage of special coaching by Roy Iloyer of Fred Stone's "Tip Top." now playing in Chicago, who has mads flying trips to Ann Arbor to perfect the cast in the more intricate dance steps. ••Make It for Two” will play in a number of middle Western cities beside Indianapolis during the holiday season. Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit. Cincinnati, Toledo and other cities are on the Itinerary. Albert F. Schirmer, Sagtnaw, Mich., aril star as a pretty "girl" in the University of Michigan musical comedy, “Make It for Two,” which will be seen at the Murat Dec. 20. SOUTH SIDE RESIDENT DUES. Martin Schwartz, proprietor of the Schwartz Feed and Seed store, 1201 South Meridian street, died at his home, 22 West Sixteen street, last night. Mr. Schwartz, ' wartz has been 1U for four months. lie come to Indianapolis about forty-five years ago from Hungary. He was 74

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years old. No near relatives survive Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon from his residence. Burial will be at the Jewish cemetery.

OHIO WILL HOLD ‘THE SHEIK’ FOR A THIRD WEEK (Continued From Cage Eight.) ton works on Kathleen's sympathy by telling her he Is so hard up that he can scarcely afford the medical books necessary for him to complete his medical course, and Kathleen turns over a large share of her salary to help him out. While she is working on her wedding clothes alone In her dreary boarding house hall bedroom, Stanton is entertaining other girls on the money given him by Kathleen for the medical books. When the young owner of the factory tries to tell Kathleen about Stanton, Kathleen gives up her position and goes to work in a restaurant. There she sees Stanton with another girl and begins to realize that some of the stories she has heard about him are true. She goes home broken-hearted, and is quite sick for some time. During her convalescence the young factory owner helps her forget her disappointing first love by offering her a worthy affection. Supporting Miss Blnney are Warner Baxter, George Webb, Betty Sehade and George Hernandez. A comedy and nows reel complete the program. -I- -Iofficial war movies OrEX SUNDAY AT BIiOADWAY. Sunday afternoon, the official World War Movies taken by the signal corps of the United States Army, will open an engagement at the Broadway. It Is fo* the benefit of the American Legion Band. The pictures were made at the front by Corporal R. 11. Ingleston and his buddies of the Signal Corps. Corporal Ingleston himself lectures as the pictures flash on the screen. It is hard to single out any one scene, ) as all of them are alike In interest and thrills. There is one instance of a fight between a German plane and an Italian flyer In a French plane over the American lines. The allied aviator wins out, the plane of the German Is shown on its zig-zag tail spin to earth and a close-up was obtained of both tho victor and the German aviafor. The XaTy’s big guns are shown booming away at the enemy and many humorous little incidents of trench life are shown, with a running comment by Corporal Ingleston. -I- -J- -!- AT THE COLONIAL. “Chivalrous Charley,” starring Eugene O'Brien, will be the featured attraction at the Colonial all week starting Sunday. Based on the story by May Tully and directed by Robert EUls, ad-

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venture, romance, thrills and comedy all are said to have a place in the picture. The star Is supported by George Fawcett, the widely known character actor, 1 Huntley Gordon, Nancy Deaver and D. J. Flannagan. -I- -|- -|- AT THE REGENT. “Devil Dog Dawson," story of the old West, with Jack Hoxie as the star, will be the featured attraction at the Regent all | week. For entertainment and thrilling situations “Devil Dog Dawson” is said in advance reports to be among the leading “western” features of the season. Hoxie enacts the role of Dawson who, because of his unusual daring, becomes known as “Devil Dog Dawson.” New Plays Headed This Way fiMK!if!illU!!l!!!i!ll!lill!!i!R GOLDIN ANNOUNCED AT KEITH'S AGAIN. Manager Roltare Eggleston of B. F. Keith’s announces that arrangements have been completed whereby Horace Goldin the magician, will offer his act of “Sawing a Woman In Half” at that theater during the week of Dec. 19. Mr. Goldin was to have appeared a couple of weeks ago, but was forced to cancel his engagement. During the engagement at Keith's a local firm will furnish the paws with which the young woman is supposedly cut in twain. Local Interest will be attached to the bill that week be-<-nuse of the fact that Marie Dawson Morrell, a popular Indianapolis violinist, will make her debut here for her forthcoming tour of the Keith vaudeville circuit. "MERRY WIDOW" OPENS AT ENGLISH’S DEC. 82. Henry W. Savage's new production of "The Merry Widow,” will open a throe day engagement at English’s on Doc. 22. The singing cast includes Dorothy Francis from the Chicago Grand Opera Company and tb French Opera. .New Orleans; Jefferse De Angelin, popular American comic - pern star; Frank Webster, English tenor, from the D'Oyiey Carte Company, London, and with Tetrazzini during her recent tonr of tho British Isles; Ralph Soule, a young American tenor discovered by Mr. Savage; Mario Wells, musical comedy beauty from Mississippi; Raymond Crane, Georges Dufranno, Charles Angelo, Harry Meyers, IVAndrea and Walters, European novelty dancers, and many others; with a large singing chorus, anew scenic pro-

MATT MOORE RECOMMENDS By Matt Moore (Copyright, 1921, by Matt Moore)

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—“ Hamlet,” with 1 Asta Nielsen, the Danish tragedienne, is a motion picture production of great interest. This Is a picture based on the old ; Danish legends concerning Hamlet, from i which Shakespeare drew the inspiration | for his great tragedy. The Danish motion picture Is not a screen adaptation of | Shakespeare’s play but an original story concerning Hamlet written with the old Danish legends ns a source of Information. According to these legends Hamlet j was a girl, who was declared a boy by her mother immediately after birth in order to save the throne for the family J With this deception as a starting point, a thriliing story, which Includes most ol • the material used by Shakespeare in his play. Is developed. Asta Nielsen gives , one of the finest performances the screen :

dnctlon by Joseph Urban and Robert Bergman, and ultra-modish gowns and hats by Peggy Hoyt. -I- ‘I- -I* MTT7T AMONG DECEMBER BOOKINGS AT ENGLISH’S. On Dec. 29, for three days, Mitzl In “Lady Billy” will be tho Interesting attraction at English's. The story of “Lady Billy” has to do with a poverty stricken countoss, whose picturesque castle In Roumania is In a delapidated condition. There is an ancestral ghost, however, and this visiting wraith she commercializes, whenever there are visitors. Finally, she fools a young American engineer, who has caught her girlish fancy. Thinking she Is a boy, though reminded somewhat of the romantic ghost who has fired his imagination, the engineer persuades the princess to come to America with him. Here she meets with success as a youthful vocalist, and becomes the rage of Greenwich Village. It would not be fair to relate other situations. I RANK TTNNEY PIT! AT MURAT DEC. 23. Opening on Dec. 22 for fonr performances, will be Frank Tlnney In “Tickle Me.” “Tickle me” and Frank Tlnney, come

WITH i ASNfS AYRM AN9 ! RUDOLPH VALSNTJHO “SOME PlCTUßE”—that’s what they all say! So enjoyable our patrons are seeing it over and over again. alsolaold oi)or as an added attraction - ~ The famous Browns oricpndl j , i Saxo-Six j vi m i Jti/ jf / Japr JT |

has witnessed as Hamlet. Her characterization of this most melancholy figure In literature is one to which she appears to have been born, It is so natural to her. In many matters of technique this production is not up to the American standard, but the story holds the interest and causes tho spectator to lose himself in It, and the acting is exceptional on the part of Asta Nielsen, who is the equal of her European contemporary, Pola Negri. Harold Lloyd in “Never Weaken” has produced n comedy which is easily the best in which he has been seen. It contains subtle situations, satire, and the other elements of good comedy. At the same time the hero’s difficulties on iron girders of skyscrapers provide some real thrills.

triumphant, from New York acclaim. To further reassure good entertainment, Otto Harbach, Frank Mandel, and Oscar Hammerstein, second, wrote the book and lyrics, while Herbert Stothart tinkled out the rhythms. William Collier, by the way, directed the staging of “Tickle Me.” Besides Frank Tlnney, the cast Includes; Vic Casmore, Frances Grant, Ted Wing, Mary Haun, Gulden Sedano, Doris Arden, Lillian Ring, G. M. Anderson, Rowland Woodruff, Tom O’Hare, Vincent Townsend, Jerome Kirkland, Gerard Gardner, and a host of others. “Tickle Me,” by the way, ran 2SS times at the Selwyn Theater, New York. -I- -I- -IEDDTE CANTOR DUE SOO' AT MURAT. The Christmas week attraction at the Murat, commencing with a matinee Monday afternoon, Dee. 28, will be Eddie Canter tn “The Midnight Rounders.” -I- -|- -|. "MECCA" 19 ADDED TO NEW MURAT BOOKINGS. “Mecca, ’’ tho musical extrarnganza which F. Ray Comstock and Morris Oest will send to the Murat for an engagement of one week, beginning Monday matinee, Jan. 2, is said to be the world's biggest and most massive production;

MRS. FISKE DUE AT ENGLISH’S SOON

MRS. FISKE. Mrs. Fiske’s keen sense of humor was never put to a more severe test than in New York last winter, during the run of her latest comedy success, “Wake Up, Jonathan!” when she was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the Coffee House Club. This club, it must be known, is composed of the great and near-great in the world of literature, and only the privileged few are ever enter-

an outpouring of drama, ballet and tuneful musical numbers in which 300 players are engaged. The same big cast, headed by Gladys Hanson, Lionel Braham, Ida Mulle, Hannah Tobnck, Martha Lorber, Orville Caldwell, Thomas C. Leary, John Doran and Harold Skinner, which scored so heavily during the run of “Mecca” at the Century Theater, New York, will be seen here intact, it is announced. Also the original dancers, trained by Fokine himself, will perform In the ballet, “Memories of the Past,’said to be the crowning achievement of this sensational production.

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tained at their rooms on West FortyFifth street. | On the occasion of the dinner to Mrs. Fiske the principal speakers were John Drew and John Jay Chapman, and an elaborate entertainment followed. First there was a playlet by Clara Berangef, which was enacted by Mary and Florenc# Nash, Ernest Lawford ana Ernest Glenden n lug. Then followed the star event of the .-caning, an act from one of Mrs. Fisks’# famous successes, “Leah ICleschna." George Arliss, Holbrook Blinn and William B. Mack, who were In the original cast, played the roles they created; but Mrs. Fiske’s role was enacted by Charles Hanson Towne, the brilliant poet, but hitherto unsuspected as possessing histrionic talent. In an exact copy of a costume worn by Mrs. Fiske In the play, with a wig In imitation of Mrs. Fiske’s hair, and evidently coached by those who knew tk* actress intwustely to copy her personal style of delivery, Towne afforded Mrs. Fiske a half hour of the most hearty laughter she had enjoyed in a long time, and at the conclusion of the scene sha responded with a witty speech that topped off the occasion in the most felicitous manner. Mrs. Fiske will be seen here In "Wake Up, Jonathan!” at the English for three nights and Wednesday matinee beginning Monday, Dee. 19. Shark Fishing Days in East River Gone NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—The waters of the East River off Catherine Slip, in the shadow of the Brooklyn bridge, where only perms are to be found 2?w, were productive shark-fishing grounds a century ago, according to the local historians. Nowadays a shark that dares run very far beyond Sandy Hook Is a rarity. They seldom get past the outlying beaches down in the lower bay. But in the early years of the nineteenth century It was different. There were no steamers, with their thrashing propellers, or chugging motor-boats to frighten off the wary fish, and they followed the fishing smacks clean up to the shores of Manhattan Island. Once they got to Catherine Slip, where the biggest fish market in town was located, they were loath to leave, for there they found tho choicest tidbits floating with the tide—. the dead fish thrown overboard by tho market scavengers. Asa result, the shark-fishing was good.

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