Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1922 — Page 7

DEC. 26, 1922

Cantor Hands Out Bananas as Souvenirs Midgets Are Here —‘The Mikado ’ Pleases

By WALTER D. mCKMAX Efifii* Cantor ls genc-rous. He sur am. Eddle dishes ©ut thè melody and then groes through thè house diatribating ntce ripe bananas wlth thè announcement that fìie fruit didn't c>st him a cent *%§ as thè Shuborts are paying thè bill. Su Edule ìr si \ happy and se V aie thè lucky iP*̧BM ones - R scems li >:W, funny to sre "guesrs" cairn ly ■**' rating Panami? durine an inter- *; rnission. Qosli, ' ifr V **'l ani alad that this i sn>t watermelon timo. The gOP banana episode EDDIE CANTOR ìs wne es thc many In Cantoria r.ew revue, “Make It Snappy.” This revue is built along thè regalar Cantor style—lota of women, audden shifts of scenery, some pretty song plctures. several songs possessing a doublé meaninjr. speed and pep and. a bove 11, thè Cantor style of Sony". The truth Is tlie audience last night ••ras crylng for more of bis song?. He oad handed out “Joe ls Here." “Silver Swanee,” “Stumbllng." “Hot L.!ps.” “Thrce OCloclc In thè Morning.” Sophie,” and many others. Cantor has hls own May In puttlng >var a song. That Is thè reoson peoplo huy seats, There are thoae who do not care for CX-Rtor. Sometlmes hls songs may be yather broad, but thè artlftry wlth whlch he puts over hls material le thè thing that counts. You must Judge a Cantor show by a Cantor standard. Hls travesty on Jolnlng thè pollce force is a gem. Probahly thè beat thing he does, although ha gets tnto good favor whlla slnglng “Joe ts H-re” (guess thls is thè tltle of tt) vlth LUllan Fitzgerald. I dld not care for hls travesty on thè vampiro. Thts ls a wild affair, rather splcy In spots. Lllllan Fitzgerald ìs thè wild vamp. Miss Fitzgerald ls a clever Individuai. She has a chance to show her worth In a specialty. Another sohd hit ls Tot Qualters. Heam Comes lnto hls own In thè taxi bit with Cantor. Muriel De Forrest ls a knockout with her travesty on thè flapper. ealled "I Am a Baby Flapper.” He Roy Duffleld. Charlotte WoodrufT and others are used In song. The song numbers are well staged. Cleveland Bronner ls present wlth a ballet. As usuai hls creailon is one of those weird. exotlc affairs. Nleelv done and splendidly lighted. "Make It Snappy” ls a long show. Cantor has surrounded himself wlth real principals thls season. The cho rus ls thè regolation Wlnter Gardn affair. The costume? are stunning. I am sure that I am right when I state that “Make It Snappy” is easily rhe best show that Cantor has ver treutht to Indianapolis. At thè Murar all week.

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>lost Wonderful Palr of Hands In thè World Belong to I>etp7.ig Ha ve discovered thè most wonderful pair of hands In thè World. They belong to Nate Edpzig. The ©wner’s professional address : this week is B. F. ICelth’s then ter. Sometimes I use superlalives and I am not ashamed. Leipzig is thè best ; card manipulator I ever have seen. He places ten playing cards in a handkerchief. Ties ’etn up and then in some mysterlous manner makes three cards from another pile pass, unseen by thè audience, through thè handlterchlef. When thè liandkerchief is untied, fhere are thlrteen cards instcad of ten. He also changes thè spots on cards by merely passlng hls hand over thè ■ carde. Wlthout question thè best of hls kind. He alone would compensate any one In golng to Kelth's thls week. Harry Wagstaff Grlbble wlll be remembered as a former member of thè ; Gergorv Kelly stock company ut English's several summers ago. Since appearing here he has gone lnto writlng plavs and playlets. Some Urne ago hls "March Hares” was presented on Broadway. It dldn't last long. He has tumed out a playlet whlch ls a travesty on thè "The Bat" and other ! mystery plays. It is belng revealed jat Keith's this week under thè tltle >of “Batty.” It has about as many ! thrills and yells as "The Bat." Jesste Btisley as Mary, thè Batty Maid, ls ; thè chlef instrument in thè uproar. i The playlet ls entertaining and well acted. A good laugh and several thrills are offered. Tan Arakis ls a Japanese foot baiar, ring ladder act. One of thè men balances a ladder on hls feet whlle a lady at thè top of thè ladder Juggles a barrai. Spìendid work. Russ Brown and Jean Whitaker offer "Clown Topica." The man of thls team smiles aster each I joke and often bows. He certalnly love to take curtaln calla. The act In “F” spot is a musical offering preaented by a man and a woman. An unwise selectlon of songs ls a handicap to thè act. "The Mme. Butterflv” number ls thè best. William Redford and Jessle Maker eppear In "College khums," a dance and song combinatron. Act nlcely mounted and presented In good taste. One of thè comedy knockouts of thè bill is “The Editor of thè Assassìnated ; Press.” George Teoman is an artist :in handling out thè jokes. Each one will make you laugh. Hls jokes made me laugh and I stili believe that I arr. human. Bhjcc Harvard and Wynfred and Ruth open thè show wlth a •"Ort of a trapezo act. The man does some difficult stunts. At Keith's all wek “The .Mikado” ls Good Vaudeville Entertainment It is pleasing to see a vaudeville ' team use thè better sort of musical sooros That ir, what Fein and Tonnyson are doing at thc Lyirc this week. Tliey are billed as operatlo .ara. : They start out like other aets of this I character. but when they switch to ! a scene from “The Mikado” In eov tume they necomplish a wonderful

thing—that of recelvlng honest appreclatlon for better music on thè part of n vaudville audience. We need more acts llke Feln and Tenny--Bon. I was sadly dlsappolnted wlth Harry Cooper and hls Empire City Four. He has made thè mistalce by forcing himself to thè front with some not too brilllant chatter. Ile doesn’t glve tlie qunrtette hai? enough to do. The ending of “The Night Boat,” a little farce, remlnds one of an Al Wood’s farce. Tou get thè Idea that tlirees seta of twin beds wlll be liauled In any minute. The ending ls splcy, but not indecent. Well acted by Hazel Hickey and several asslstants. Marion Claire is a sololst. She ls different she slngs In both a high and a low resister. She has commandlng personallty and a deelded forelgn accent. You will llke her slnglng. especlally thè “Farewell” number. Page. Hack and Mack have an athletlc offering. Thls is a standard offering often seen on thè big tinte. Thls act radlates class. Easily holds thè house until thè last minute. Wlifred Dubois ls a Juggler who juggles well. He opens thè show. Foxworthy and Francis ara coloivd entertalners. Only fadr. At thè Kyrie all vzeek. -!- -I- -|- Smallest Jazz Band l’iays Just I.ike Grownup Mortale Ho A jazz band ls aiwavs a jazz band No rnatter who thè players are. you are sure to finii thè laughing horn and kindred Instruments. ’Tis so with thè little jazz band wlth Slnger's Midgets. The band is composed of about eight wee little men who jazz thè lnstru ments just llke thelr grown-up hroth ers. The Jazz band ls Just one of thè many featuree wlth thls untque or ganization. I ballavo that thè midgets thls seasou are glvlng a better show than when last seen here. Thè, entlre ari ls more spectacular. The little magiclan this season causes a midget lady to vanlah and in her place is a rea! meat-eatlng lion. On another sceno there are two elephants, one a big or.e and thè other a baby elephant. Can't teli an elephant by hls slzc. Both are so well trainnd that they smoke plpes. In thè hunt number a reai deer is used One of thè midget. women makes a stunning appearance clad In a smart riding habit while ridJng a pony. The strong “man” stunt and thè burlesque boxlng bout between two midgets are retained In t.his season's show A dress review nvimber is elaborate and givs thè little women a chance to dazzle evcry- one. The finale ls a sort of a fairy story, thè kind we al! read when children. It concerne a bold knight and a lady fair. I do not hesitate In saying that Slnger’s Midgets is thè bsf act in vaudeville. 1 ballava lt. will pleasa 99 Vi per cent of thè patrona. It. will b criminal not to take thc children to see thè midgets at. ih Palare this week. Th midgets take mueh of thè run ning tlme of thè show, hut there are

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others. Hlckm&n Brothers (no relation to me) offer thelr travesty on a small town play. Sinclair and Gray are two young women who ride bicyclea. Others on thè bill Includo William Edmunds and company, Betrtram and Saxton and Buddy Waiton. . The movie feature ls Doris May In “The TJnderstudy.” At thè Palace all week. -I- -I- -I*‘S<V Tliis Is Hieksville,” Is Current Bill at Rialto “Lanky” Taylor, who has been dolrsg blackface parts in thè musical tablolds at thè Rialto, has left oif thè cork this week and ls doing a sort of Western rube character. In thls rolahe showst some promise as a character ; actor. “So Thls Is Hioksville,” ls thè tltle j of tlie show. The action takes placa ; In thè country and thè plot concerns ; thè efforts of an old farmer and hls j wife, to keep thelr daughter from , marrylng a nelghbor boy. The boy j wlns out In thè end. There Is very little in thè show, not more than two or three jiong numbers belng used. The cos- : tumes and soenery are new looklng. “Cross Roads of New York," a I Mack Sennet feature is thè photoplay j offering.—(By thè Observer.) * -|. -!- J. "Playmates” Is (he Tltle of Burlesque Show at Broadway Aster gettlng away to a poor start “Playmates,” thè current attractlon it t-he Broadway, plcks up and tums , cut to be a “peppy” show. The show ls composed mostly of • ,its and song numbers. Some of thè cirigs have been given specilli settlngs | 'it are attractivo. The most. ini j iirtunt of these is a wedding number j :u1 "Sweetest Girl on Broadway.” in whlch well known songs from ’iroadway.” shows are used. Another feature ls a cabarot scene, during whlch several speclaltles are introduced. In thls scene a chorus giri of thè Spanlsh, who Ls prò gramed as Diale Jones, does a song number that gets over better than most of thè principals’ songs. Sid Rogare and Mlckey McCabe aie thè princtpal comedians. Others In thè cast are Bunny Dala, Bossi e Rosa, Èva Dan Evans and Arthur J. Stern. —(By thè Observer). On (lio Screen The followlng movlos are on vlew oday: “Quincy Adams Sawyer" at thè Ohio. “IJghts of New York” at 1 thè Apollo, "Tesa of thè Stomi Country” at thè Oirele, “Arabia" a*. Mister Smlth's. “Dr. Jack” at thè Isis. "The Kirlat Throwor” at thè' Regent, and "Slng*Ml Wlngs” at thè Colon lai. KILL THAT COLD take a cupful of hot Bulgarian Herb Tea Increase (ho clrculatlon. flush thè howels, stlmulate thè liver, holp to ward off (iti. grippe and pnmimonia. Sold by dmggists overyv.bere. Advortisement. pyi GoitreorSwoHen Glands 1M Wrlto at once for full p*r.*>s' U r 'l'*r hrfore }OU pj. \V e *!■• aliti •! wchh*' tri*tment. JC VJfi ,f "a;:*ì<vl you pay. No paio, tno p-u-on. no otaln Trvl for SO yrarj Writ ttKl.ir. The Verno Company, Dept. B. 906 NaMonal Ave., Milwaukee, Wi.

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