Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1922 — Page 7

DEC. 29, 1922

BIG DUE 1 IM STAGE DilUiUf The New Year .'■ili open splendidly on thè locai stage, as Otis Skinner will be at English's and George Arliss will be at thè Murat. Arliss will be seen in “The Green Goddess” and Skinner ili appear in “Mister Antonio.” lyrMP- JfJpfltVA musical- comedy with a largo cast, :i i is an early Janunjy booklng at y English's. On Jan. WsmKsg% |Sf j> : 15, for a vveek’s .Vwjfe engiurement, “The ? yy , | \ Music Box Revue'' will open. This is ì thè sanie revue which appeared * j|& V s o r lifty-t li re e se s "*v~ weeks on BroadI* t j | way. The “Pearl” y. àmV 1 number alone cost % k¥>ÌNÌ. I a small fortune. 5-, J Al Jolson opens a ' v , 2*. | week’s engageN -—ri mont In “Bombo” at thè Ilurat on BF.TII MEAKIXS Jan. S. Jolson Comes he re direct from Ilis= Chicagro Mrs. T.eshe Carter and John Drew will open a three-day engagement at thè Murat on Jan. 22 in “The Circle.” Ernest Lawford, Robert Rendei, Clara Moores and others are in thè cast. -!- •!- -I* Otis Skinner Ihie at English’s An outstanding ever.t of thè locai theatrical season will be thè appearance of Otls Skinner at English’s In Booth Tarklngton’s character com-

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Skinner to Appear in Tarkington Play y * OTIS SKINNER English’s will start thè New Year by presenting Mr. Skinner in Booth Tarkington's “Mister Antonio." The engagement will be for three days. edy of American lise, “Mister Antonio.” Of all thè character portrayalfi Skinner has gìven in thè many years of his notabl stage career, pertìhps no ore of them iris so completely won its way imo hearts as that of thè Invalilo kin l-hoarted. philosophieal < rgnngrinder, Antonio Camaradonjo. To see Skinner’s performance in “Mister Antonio” brings ilio realizattion of how fortunate is thè American theater of today -hieh can stili boast of a dramatist of such unerring skill in character drawing as Booth Tarkington and an actor capoble of such flawiess interprotatlons as Otis Skinner; Mr. Skinner’s engagement here will be for four performance®, beglnning Monday, Jan. 1. with matinee on Wednesday.

\ ‘Suppcr Show Girl’ Is Never Success, Says One of Others

The “supper show girl” doesn’t make good as an actress. That's thè opinion of DeLylo Alda, former sta* of Ziegfeld Follies, ■ho will be at Iveith’s on thè New Year week bill in a playlet, “Sadie.” "Two things usually happen to thè supper show girl,” Miss Wlda has observed. “Eitlier a sensa-

EDDIE CANTOR IS XMAS STAR ON MURAT'S BiLL (Continued From Page 5) engagement at thè Apollo Theater, Chicago, Jan. 7. T -I- -I* “Dad” on tlie Menu Thursday and Friday nights of next •eek thè Little Theatre Society will present “Dad.” It will be irr thè nature of a revival. Marie Karrer will be seen as Jane Breedlove, tho youthful insurgent in thè Max Parry play. Charles Robert Hughes all play thè role of thè doctor. The play will be given under thè ausplces of th > Parry-Stephenson Post of thè American Legion, with Gideon W. Blain, chairman of arrangements. Col. Robert Tyndall, Col. John B. Reynolds and Col. T. Victor Keene of tlie Legion all are membors of thè Little Theater. and as siti li are finn Iv intcìestcd in tlie nieimuial to Lieti tenunt Parry. Coltine’. Keene ili speak off thè evening of l>ec. 2k. The generai conimitte© in cliarge of thè two performances is as foilows: Mrs. William O. Bates, chairman; E. M. Fife, vico chairman; Mrs. James D. Pierce, Mrs. Ada Utley Gordon, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Mrs. Marie Karrer, Robert Brewer, Mrs. Walter D. Baker, Mary Reynolds and Mrs. David Lurry Service Star Legion committee: Mrs. Ralph Kenntngton, Mrs. E. J. Roblson and Mrs. O. L. Watklns.

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tional marriage, followed all toc often by a sensational divorce, or a step back in thè ranks of revue.” Instead of being one of those, Miss Alda takes an early moming hike, takes a music lesson and then devotes another hour to dancing. Three times a week she studies dramatics.

/ Woman’s Department Club committee: Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter, T.lns. S. E. Perkins and Mrs. W.*H. Kershner. -I- -I- -IEmpire to Reopcn “The Chocolate Town Revue” will be thè first offering at thè Empire, whieh open its doors today. It is a colored company. The attraction will be on view all n#a week. The Lyceum Thoatrlcal Company of thls city has leased thè house. The flrst. performance will be given tonight. -I- -!- -IAt tlie Rialto Tlie Rialto next ’eok will fealuro a new musical comedy, “A Hicksville Jamboree.” A company of seventeen, incili ding princlpals and chorus, will present it. A number of new songs ili be introduced. The vaudeville part of thè show ili include Lankey Taylor, Texas, .Tenkins and Jenklns and thè Ilìxie Miiody Trio. The movie feature ili be' Mack Sennett's comedy. “The Cross Roads of N'iìy York.” At thè Broadway “Playmates” 'is thè Mutual Bnr-, lesquo offering at Broadway next week. It is a new show recontly addetl to thè wheel, and appears In Indianapolis for thè flrst timo. Bossle Rosa, Bonnle Dale and Èva Lewis are foaturod. Othor principale includo thè comic, Mlckey MeCabo and Arthur J. Sterri, Sidney Rogers and Dan Ev-

Arliss to Start 1923 at Murat Theater / , " *** 'S - 5 ' ■\ 'V mÉ * % Si *?4 wM GEORGE ARLISS Thls plcture show how Arliss will appear in “The Greon Goddess,” due at thè Murat on Monday aftemoon, Jan. 1. The engagement is for thè week. I ,-ins. Tlie chorus numbers slxteen. i Manttger Ed Sullivan u/uiuuiin s a special midnight show on New Year’s : evo. Sailor Plays I.ead Hobart Bosworth used to be a .sailor. Ile ran away from homo rk-enty-flvo years ago to become a •‘safari .n' man, and shlppod on thè whaler Soverelgn of thè Scas. The old I “Soverelgn” flgures conspicuously in TTie Strangers' Banquet," Marshall Neilan's production of a story' of thè shJpytirds, in which Bosworth hae thè leading role.

AMUSEMENTS |(, J A C nedy of Hoosier Home Lise by the Late Lieut. Maxwell O. Parry LITTLE THEATER PLAYERS MASONIC TEMPLE—Dee. 28-29 Auspices Perry Stephenson Post Tickets at Kautz’s—ll6 N. Penn. SL PRICES—£I.SO, SI.OO AND 50c.

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ARLISS’ FIHEST GHRISTMASWHEN 12 YEARS OLD By GÈORGE ARLISS " Star of “The Green Goddess” Perhaps thè most memorable Christ- 1 mas of my lise was when I was 12 years old or thereabouts. My parents gave a children’s Christmas party. My cousin was to brlng with him two schoolmates, thè sons of an actress, and thè three boys were to play for us a screaming farce entitled “Mrs. Bottlewasher’s Apartment.” We had had a stage erected with curtain and footlights. Thls was to be thè very backbone of our party. But a dreadful thing happened; thè two sons of thè actress arrlved. hrlnging with them thè news that my cousin had a biljous attack and couldn’t come, and so thore could be no play. This tragic news was conflded to my mother and my brothers and tnyself in low and aweful tones. What was to be'done? All thè chlldren had- already been seized with paroxysms of joy at thè sight of thè stage. Was nothlng to happen on lt? In a fateful moment one of thè boys look‘-d ine over with an appralsIng ove and sud: "Why couldr't you piai' 111 ■ iiart?” The die was cast. ,\\ * 1 ••re hnstled itilo a small moni, ! vi • >*•- 1 wis riveli an intensivo rah< r-.il—foli! what tiiey riid. and then lwl.it 1 did when they ilid r so and so, , and then what they did —and so On. And then I irai mado up by these sons of thè actress —marie up! It was thrilling! And thè curtain wont up and carne down midst screams and shrieks of dellght. Fmra that evening, almost daily for thè next Ave or slx years, thè cast of “Mrs. Bottlewasher’s Apartment” used to meet and at Intervais of not longer

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than two -or three weeks would glve performances for thè benefit of its admlring friends and relatives. Our next move was to thè professional

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stage, whero we were no longer admired by ajivbody —were lost in thè shuffle and did not begin to emerge from the crowd for about ten years.

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