Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1922 — Page 9

APRIL 15, 1922.

GOTHAM CRITIC REVIEWS STAGE PLAYS OF YEAR (Continued From Pace Seven.) traditional Harvard Influence In either O Neill o rhis ploys. But the Journalists tvbo were with him at college have all written about him and I think O’Neill was quite relieved wlen I told him that I was probably his only contemporary at Harvard who did not sit In the next seat to him under Professor Baker. XheSteason Is that I never took Baker’s course and although it may sound stupid I never heard of O’Neill when I was an undergraduate. For a man who has filled hundreds of magazine and newspaper pages, O'Neill is the most retiring man In the world. He puts his stuff Into his plays. The latest one Is called “The Hairy Ape,” and Is produced by O’Neill's early love. The province town players. So deep and definite Is Its Impression on New York that It Is already assured of an uptown stage as Arthur Hopkins Is going to take it over. It Is one of the things I have ever seen, passing in many ways the effectiveness of “Emperor Jones," and arriving at the point of being terrifying. The story Is that of a huge, hard man who Is a stoker in a transatlantic liner, a man who feels that he and the throbbing engines and tha steel girders of the ship r r<* made of the same stuff, who hates and sentimentality, and who feels out of touch with the sniveling and complaining of some of his fellows. lown to the stokehold comes a girl all dressed in white. She is the daughter of a multi-millionaire who. searching for sensations in her pallid life, dares even that much. The man and she confront each other dramatically. She flees with a croy of horror. The other stokers jeer at the man and tell Mm that the girl called him “a hairy From that moment ne lives for revenge. Spritual and physical revenge. He loiters along Fifth avenue to catch sight of her and her people. He Is arrested and thrown Into Jail. He begins to feel that he does not belong to life as he felt he did belong to the ship. And, driven from one place to another, with a sort of madness overpowering him, ho finally goes to the zoo to see the animal whose name has been set upon him like a curse. There Is the hairy ape; the man salutes

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TRAMP CYCLIST - RENO. On next week’s bill at the Lyric ‘will be Reno, known as the tramp cyclist and clown. He has been before the public many years, y him ns brother and opens the cage for cage for him. He offers to shake hands, and the ape, In a terrifying embrace, destroys him. I can't tell how this sounds to you. But with Louis Wolheim as the ape-man, and with settings by Jones and Cleon Throckmorton and with a language taken out

of the gutter of American slang and woven Into dramatic utterance it is terribly effective. It may as well stand at the beginning of the little list I am about to make as a summary of the before Easter theatrical activities of New York. TWENTY PEATS STICK OCT AS FEAT. ONES. I find about twenty plays sticking out, some more and some less in the swamp of my mind. (A reviewer’s mind does get swampy about this time.) Here they are in the order of their appearance in New York. “The Bat,” since Auguist 1920, It has been the most successful of thrillers, outliving many imitations and some variations of its formula. By all accounts It still hns the requisite thrill! The First Y'ear,” almost as old. Frank Craven's comedy of married life. Although I am not of those who consider this a masterpiece of comedy I bear witness to its rich flavor and constant ■entertainment. “.jally,” a prime Zlegfeld musical comody with Marllynn Miller and the great Leon Errol and several household tunes. “Shuffle Along,” the work of negro composers. Fingers, dancer*. For a long time the solitary exotic entertainment in New Y'ork. A tremendous and thoroughly merited success. “The Music Box Rerue,” Irving Berlin’s music in a little playhouse of his own with too many stars to count and Berlin's music. Do my mind, ns good as ever. “Blossom Time,” a musical event in the life of Schubert with that composer's melodies arranged as accompaniment. “Bombo,” Al Jolson. Need more be said ?

“The Perfect Fool.” Ed Wynn. Can more be necessary? This and the above you care for or you don't. I hope you do. “The Dover Road.” a gentle and always amusing satiric piece by A. A. Milne. This writer for London Punch Is rapidly becoming'the most successful of American playwrights. “Bull Dog Drummond,” a melodrama to be taken seriously as long as it.lasts. "Captain Applejack,” a fantastic farce which, X am told. Is Irresistible. “He Who Gets Slapped,” a tragic piece from the Russian of Andreyev. Produced by the Theater Guild and made the subject of much controversy. PLAY OF SENTIMENT IS IN' THE LIST. “The N st,” a serious study of the theme which is usually handled with

INDIANA DAILY TIMES.

Declared Guilty on Three Counts Carl Fletcher, 633 Stevens street, was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle while under the Influence of Intoxicating liquor, drunkenness and violating the traffic ordinance by Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth in city court yesterday. Fletcher was arrested April 2 after he had run into a machine parked at the curb in front of 831 Sanders street.

much sentiment of most playwrights. Namely, the relation of grown up children to their parents. “Chauve-Sourls,” the Russian vaudeville which has entertained the entire city from the day of its opening. Graced with singing, dancing and music of s high order and provided, In the persson of M. Balieff, with a remarkable comic genius. “To the Ladies,” a second American comedy by the authors of “Dulcy.” It has a famous scene scoring the American business banquet and many satiric sidelights on efficiency in business and promposity in the home “Madeleine and the Movies,” written by George M. Cohan and now acted by him in collaboration with his daughter. Again one remains speechless. “The Rose of Stamboul,” Jimmy Barton Cavorts around and about a musical show lavishly brought over from Vienna and made American. “The Truth About Blayds,” second

MOTION PICTURES PROSPECT THEATRE Churchman and Harlan. Sun--Mon. James Oliver Curwood picture “Courage of Marjorie Daw,” also Seamon Comedy. Wed. —Yon Stroheim in “Devil's Tas* Key.” F.— Kathrine McDonald In 1:i ir W ife.'’ Sat.—“<iirt From Porc.plne,” also special music. JEWEL THEATRE 1124 SO. WEST ST, Sun.. Pauline Frederick In “Madame XT' Thurs., special feature, "Silent Call;” Frl., Anita Stewart In "Invisible Fear,” also special Trnlax Band; Sat., Richard Barthelmess, " ’Tol’abie David” and good comedy.

of the .Milne plays and almost equally successful in humor. This time with an Ironic flavor. “Lilion,” second engagement of this Theater Guild piece. “Back to Methusaleh,” the third productioiF'Ttaking three weeks, is already announced). * And among newqr plays, yet untested, there are: “The First Fifty Years,” which hag two characters. "Voltaire,” which is a day in the life of one of the most engrossing characters In history; a revival of “Candida,” and others. The above list is the result of long pondering in memory and a bit refreshing by looking at a printed list of plays current. Most of these shows, by the way, I would go to myself for a second time.

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Some I have seen more than twice. (The Hippodrome show has been omitted because it always seem all by itself. It is approaching the end of an .exceptionally prosperous' time, one is told.) So. the season can’t be absolutely slammed off the nap. It has done its best so

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far, and if the list is notable for the number of plays it omits, be assured that many of these omitted plays have already traveled far from here —over the road to the storehouse. Next week a play or two will dribble in and after the' holidays there will be

man £ new productions. Among them will be anew Potash and Perlmutter piece, with the original gentlemen of those parts. Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr. I never can remember which played which. Probably reading from left to right will identify them.

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