Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1923 — Page 7

JAN. 13, 3923

MUSIC BOX REVUE BRINGSBIGSTAHS HERE NEXT WEEK

Collier, Moore and Santley Appear in Revue Due at English’s Monday. ’UGENTS COME WITH KEMPY Rand Box Revue’ Brings New Features to Broadway. WILLIAM COLLIER, Florence Moore. Joseph Santley, Ivy Sawyer, Ethelind Terry and Solly Ward will be the principals of The Music Box Revue when that new institution is revealed for the first time in Indianapolis Monday night. The engagement of this big revue opens Monday night at English’s. It admitted that this revue is the big- • -st. show that English's has housed i years. As far as professional engagements •e concerned, the Murat will remain dark until Thursday night when Grant Mitchell and the Nugents open a three-day engagement in "Kempy." "Oh, By Gingo” will be the musical comedy offering at the Rialto next week. The Band Box Revue will be the burlesque offering at the Broadway next week. •I- -I- -!- Interesting Facts on The Music Box Revue Sam H. Harris will present the Music Box Revue at English’s for oe week beginning Monday night. ■ ith the usual Wednesday and Saturday matinees. • Back of this simple announcement there is a good deal of significance. Whatever local theatergoers may think of the approaching entertainment it is a fact that they will see the biggest musical play production that has ever gone on tour in this or any other country. They may not altogether understand this from watching the smooth performance, hut if they had a peek back stag<they would know jus*, what it meanFor fifty-three weeks the Mush Box Theater in New York an-' Messrs. Harris and Berlin decided tv send It here precisely as it wa shown in New York. A technical crew and a haggace car full of theatrical paraphernalia arrived ten days in advance of the playing date. The crew cutting tip the stage, installing elevators and plungers below stage and girders above. Later a special train made up of seven baggage cars, four sleepers and a diner will arrive in town and it will bring the Music Box Revue Company and equipment. It will take eight hours to haul the effects. Including 207 crates, to the theater and the day and night will be devoted to scenic rehearsals. Then the company and musicians will rehearse and the Music Box Revue will be offered for the approval of patrons. Scores of men, never seen by the audience, are employed back stage to • ■perate the show. What did It all cost? Well, that really matters little to any one save Harris and Berlin, who paid the bills, and they are not quite sure. Nearly a quarter of a million dollars Is their estimate. The “Pearl” number alone cost a small fortune. The weekly operating expenses average around $22,000, of this $16,000 goes for the salaries of the company. The rest Is apportioned in the cost of travel, advertising etc. The railroad bill for the jump here would stagger an old time Theatrical producer. + -!- -!- "Kempy” to Bid for Favor at the Murat. “Kempy,” a New York success. < ’pens a three-day engagement at the Murat next Thursday night. Two of its principal players are also authors. J. G. Nugent, who is well known to vaudeville audiences, and the eon. Elliott Nugent, former member of the Stuart Walker Company, and the little sister, Ruth Nugent, are appearing in this comedy, which also has for its featured player Grant Mitchell, who was seen here last season as stars in “The Champion.” Others in the company are Miss ; I sabol Withers, Miss Jessie Crom- J mette. Miss Frederica Going and Robert Lee Allen. "Kempy” belongs to the same school of the theater as “The First Year,” “Lightrin' ” and "Thank You.” Inasmuch as It tells a simple and compelling story of life in a small town. It has been called the play of "one thousand and one laughs,” and yet It contains not one line or situation to offend the most fastidious. This play was written to teach no moral, but for amusement purposes solely, which object it has never failed to obtain. It received the most flattering notices of any production on Broadway when It first was shown last May, and so great was the demand for seats that it ran through the entire summer and well into the autumn. -I- -I- + Snappy Burlesque Revue At Broadway Next Week. “The Band Box Revue” is the attraction at the Broadway the coming week. This is another of the Mutual burlesque shows owned and produced by Billy Vail, who controls the Broadway. The Band Box Revue features Jack La Mont. Jack Fuquay, comics; Howard Harrison, James G. Moore, Nellie Nice, Lillian Harrison and Frances Smith. There is a chorus of sixteen. -I- JMovies and Musical Comedy Share Honors at Rialto. A musical comedy and a movie will j share honors at the Rialto next week. | “Oh, by Gingo,” is the name of the j musical comedy. The story concerns ! a small town flapper and a black-face j porter. There is a singing and dancing j chorus. The movie feature will be Pola Negri In “Vendetta,” a dramatic offering. The vaudeville part of the show will consist of Walter Steffin, the Dancing Dominoes and the Tin Pan Harmony Quartette-

LOCAL STAGE TO BE FLOODED WITH BIG SHOWS

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Home Life Made Real by the Nugent Family

By WALTER D. HICKMAN DAD is an actor. So is Son. So is Sister Ruth. Son and Dad wrote a comedy by the name of “Kempy.” In the play, Dad, Bud and Sis all play leading parts. Sounds like a myth, but it is the truth, and, still better, “Kempy” is a big success. •T. C. Nugent is the “Dad” of this article and Elliott Nugent is the son. Ruth Nugent writes poetry.

I journeyed over to Cincinnati the other day and had a great visit with the three Nugents. I was seated In the comfortable room of Arthur G. Williams, manager of the company, at the Sinton Hotel. The elder Nugent journeyed from his room to where I was. Although he plays an old man in “Kempy” by the name of “Dad” Bence, Mr. Nugent is not an old man. “I am not old,” he complained. The success of the Nugents with their own comedy is similar to that of the late Frank Bacon In “Lightnln’.” The elder Nugent and his son, Elliott, who will be remembered as being a member of the Stuart Walker Company at the Murat, decided to write a small town play. Many “wise” managers refusd to have anything to do with it. Richard G. Herndon liked the idea of the “monkeywrench” hero of “Kempy." Kempy is a plumber. Not any ordinary plumber, he thinks, because he has studied to be an architect. So “Kempy” was produced In New York at the Belmont Theater. It ran many, mar y months. It played to absolute capicity. The Nugents had scored a success with a clean, pretty and interesting little story of “home

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LOTTICE HOWELL The first of a series of concerts to be given at Caleb Mills Hall under the auspices of the Indianapolis Federation of Public School Teachers is announced for Mondaynight. William Wade Henshaw will present Mozart’s “The Impresario." Lottlce Howell will appear as Mile. Uhlio.

The Room By Ruth Nugent. A room, mist hung, gray walled. A fire forgotten, dead upon the hearth— And echoes of a song upon the air. A book, an empty chair. A room illumined! gold! The sound of burning wood. The smell of smoke— A ~ose that blooms on, budding, vivid red— And on my breast—your head!

folk.” The Bence home is a regular American home. There is romance, comedy and a little tragedy In this home. -I- -I- -|- I like Elliott Nugent; in fact, all of the Nugents, because success hasn’t turned their heads. “Dad’’ called “son’’ on the phone and told him to come down. Elliott’s wife was visit-j ing him for the first time in several | weeks, but “son” obeyed his father. ! I like him because Elliott calls his j father "dad.” This is the most modest family of 1 real people I have ever seen. They j ' will not talk about themselves. It is \ j not often that a father, son and j ; daughter appear in the same play, j And to prove how modest the three j | Nuger.ts are—the featured player In j i “Kempy” is Grant Mitchell, who is remembered for hls work In “A Tailor j Made Man” and “The Champion* 1 ’ The j three Nugents are real actors. Their work in “Kempy” proves that. Mr. Mitchell gives a splendid comedy performance, but one will cherish the work of Elliott Nugent as Kempy and Nugent Hr. as “Dad” Bence. Might remark that “Kempy” comes to the Murat next week, opening Thursday night. Elliott Nugent last appeared with the Walker Company here in “Tern- | permental Henry.” While on tour, I the Nugents act as “real” off the stage i as they do on the stage. “Dad” al- | ways sees that his daughter Ruth gets j safely to and from the theater. Isn’t ! that fine companionship? The three j Nugents have- their dinner together | each evening and they have "supper” after the show. That is keeping the “home fires burning” while on tour. I bet you are going to love "Kempy.” I did. Don’t miss it if you enjoy the real things of the theater. WARNER BROTHERS’ PLANS Twelve novels and stage plays have been secured by the Warner brothers for production during the season of 1922-23. They include ‘Babbitt,” by j Sinclair Lewis; “Being Respectable,” by Grace H. Flandrau; “Beau Brummell” and “Lovers’ Lane,” both by Clyde Fitch: "David Copperfield,” by Charles Dickens; How to Educate a Wife,” by Elinor Glyn; “Shadowed Lives," by Justin Adams; “The Age of Innocence,” a novel by Edith Whar- i

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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No. I—Sophie Tucker, a jazz singer, will top next week's bill at Keith's. No. 2—Mrs. Leslie Carter In "The Circle” comes to the Murat on Jan. 22. John Drew Is In the east. No. 3—Joseph Santley and Ivy Sawyer in “The Music Box Revue,” opening Monday night at English’s. No. I—Edith Clifford who will be at the Palace next week. No. s—Francis Smith on ‘‘The Band Box Revue” at thj Broadway next week. No. 6 Elliott Nugent and his sister. Ruth, as they appear in “Kempy” at the Murat next Thursday. No. 7—Lurry Harkins who heads next week's bill at the Lyric. No. 8— Celeste Burk in “Oh. By Jingo” at the Rialto next week.

ton; "Broadway After Dark,” by Owen Davis; "George Washington, Jr." and "Little Johnny Jones,” two George M. Cohan plays, and “Cornered,'' the Broadway success of last season with Madge Kennedy, written by Dodson Mitchell and Zelda Sears.

HAIL! HAIL! TO THE AMERICAN QUEEN OF JAZZ SONGS Direct From London Triumphs, Bringing With Her the Noted Syncopators TED SHAPIRO AND JACK CARROLL With Their Double Piano Duet SOPHIETUCKER is a comedienne as well as a singer. These talents, with personality added, make an irresistible combination

AL FANNIE STEDMAN “Pianocapers”

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Second Orchestra Concert Booked

'Pile second of the series of orchestra conceits under the direction .f the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Association with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, conductor, will be given on Thursday evening, Jan. 25. at the Murat. The program chosen will include the overture, fantasie, “Romeo and Juliet” and the "Manfred" Symphony, works of the greatest Russian composer, Tschaikowsky. The soloist for this concert is John Powell. America's famous composerpianist. who will be heard for the first time in Indianapolis, playing his own composition, “Rhapsodie Negre.” Mr. Powell belongs to the college of heroic pianists. John Powell asserts that the negro's musical utterance, when really direct, not Imitative, brings with it always the breath of the tropical jungle. It is instinct with fear of tuskless, claw less man. before his stronger, fiercer animal brothers; the helpless terror In the face of mysterious, incomprehensible physical forces; also the protest against fate and resignation to the inevitable. “The Rhapsodie Negre" is an attempt to synthesize these character is tics and present them in a form of organic unity. Familiar melodies such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and ”1 Want to Be Ready," and the frantic frenzy of the voodoo orgy are all represented. The Sunday concerts announced for the Murat Theater under the direction of the Ona B Talbot Fine Arts Enterprise, are Mischa Levitzki, the phenomenal young pianist, Feb. 4; Fritz Kreislor, violinist. Feb. IS; Mischa Elman, genius.of the violin. March 4. and Nina Tarasova, celebrated interpreter of Russian song and dance in costume, March 18

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The World is Divided in Its Choice of Music —Is Opera Better Than Jazz? At Keith ’s You Hear Both

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LEADERS OF JAZZ HERE NEXT WEEK

Tucker, Harkins and Edith Clifford Will Top Bills. Jazz music will be handed out in large measures at the local vaudeville houses next week. Sophie Tucker, one of the first vaudeville entertainers to sing jazz, will headline the bill at B. F. Keith’s next week. Larry Harkins, a well known vaudeville producer, will present his “Monarchs of Melody,” a jazz play organization, at the Lyric next week. Edith Clifford will sing and dance at the Palace next week, beginning Monday afternoon. -I- -I- -IWell Known Comedienne Comes to Keith’s Monday Sophie Tucker, the International comedienne who has just returned to this country after a successful invasion of London where she scored a personal triumph, will be the topliner of the bill to be seen at B. F. Keith's next week. Miss Tucker has with her Ted Shapiro and Jack Carroll, known as Miss Tucker’s “two syncopaters." During Miss Tucker’s act they play two pianos simultaneously. AL AND FANNIE STEADMAN— A pair of rapid fire entertainers will oiler their comedy hit “Pianocapers” in which they sing, dance and play the piano in an original style. CROSS AND SANTORA—Expon ents of physical culture. These boys are holders of the Richard K. Fox medals for being physically perfect. POTTER AND GAMBLE—WiII offer a novel terpsichorean act under the title of “Dance Steps.” A special stage setting will add to the beauty of the act, CLARENCE OLIVER AND GEOR GIA OLP —Well known as legitimate players, have entered vaudeville and will he seen in a comedy playlet by William Anthony McGuire called "Wire Collect.” WILLIAM EBS—Is a ventriolquist who has departed from the beaten track in his offering “Always Something New.” He has a surprise finish to his act. COUNTESS VERONA—Is a real gypsy and a musical genius of the czimbalon. a native musical instrument. Her program will include) gypsv-folk songs, classical and modern music. The program will also include the Pathe News Weekly, the Topics of the Day and Aesop's Fables. -I- -I* -IJazz Players Top New Lyric Bill. Lary Harkins, prominent producer of vaudeville attractions, comes to the Lyric next week with Monarchs of Melody, a group of instrumentalists who jazz popular melodies, Interspersing their musical numbers with a variety of dances and restricted songs. The bill will include: ROBINSON AND PIERCE—Offer-

CLARENCE GEORGIE OLIVER and OLP “Wire Collect”

ing an original hodge-podge of crossfire patter, songs, and good natured fooling called “No More Saloons.” FERRY CORWEY —Famous musical clown from the New York Hippodrome. AUSTIN GOETZ AND RAY DUFFY—A clever comedy pair in a satire on newly-weds, entitled “The Bride and Broom.” MARK HART AND COMPANY — Character comedian supported by a cast of farceurs in Mr. Hart’s “My Daughter’s Husband.” CARSON AND KANE—Team of novelty dancers in a cycle of original erearions. JOHNSON AND MclNTOSH—Colored comedians, singers and dancers in “Jazz That’s Jazz.” ON THE SCREEN—Monte Bank’s in a farce, “Brilliantino, the Bull Fighter,” and Reginald Denny in “Round 11” of “Tne Leather Pushers.” -!- -I- -IPalace Bill Runs To Melody and Dance Edith Clifford will be headliner on bill which is made up mostly of singing, dancing and comedy. Miss Clifford will present a new' program cf story songs. The act is said to be pleasing to the eye and ear. She is

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assisted by Zella Ingraham at the piano. SKELLY AND HEIT REVUE—A miniature musical comedy composed of singing dancing, and comedy. The cast consists of Hugh Skelly, Emma Helt, Mildred Livingston, Sadie Goldie and Y 1 Conners. THREE VOICES—As the name Indicates, it is a vocal act, offered by a male trio consisting of Eugene Rauth, Frank Gaines and Ray Dahlberg. Each has what is termed a “Big Voice.” EDDY AND WYNN—Some more Indianapolis folk. They are offering a comedy skit called “Gimme My Hat.” Eddy is known locally as Ed Jolly. BRISCOE AND AUSTIN—A pair of artistic entertainers who play violin and banjo. RICE AND WERNER—WiII offer a blackface farce. PHOTOPLAY Katherine MacDonald in “White Shoulders.” The story concerns a mother who, thinking to profit by her own experiences, raises her daughter with but one object in view, to marry her to a rich n an. The daughter, however, falls in love with a man of her own choice and takes things into her own hands. Bryant Washburn, Nigel Barrie and Tom Forman are in the cast.

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