Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1923 — Page 6
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COMEDIES TO HOLD CENTER OF STAGE ALL NEXT WEEK Walker to Present ‘it's a Boy' and Grand Players Offer 'Welcome Stranger.’ Repertory and stock efforts in Indianapolis -will be centered upon two comedies which have been successful upon the American stage. The Grand Playres at English’s next week will present “Welcome Stranger,’’ with Jean Oliver and EddyWaller playing the two leads. Stuart Walker at the Murat will present as his third play of the current repertory season a comedy, “It’s a Boy.” with Tbm Powers and Eucille Nikolas playing the leads. Jenk s “Musical Maids" will be on view next week at the Rialto. The bill will include vaudeville and movies. , Grand Players To Present “Welcome Stranger” New- Week “Welcome Stranger,” a comedy, will ' be the next play to be produced by the Grand Players at English’s, all next week, beginning Sunday afternoon. The central character is Isidor Solomon. who comes to Valley Falls. N. H.. with the purpose of making his home there. He meets with strong antagonism against his race, and is not even permitted to take a room at the hotel. So he sleeps in the lobby, and is there when the girl of the story comes in. She also meets with the disfavor of the town, sol they unite for mutual protection with a discredited inventory. The girl of the story falls in love with the son of the richest man in t the town. The outcasts prove their worth and the play ends happily. - “Welcome Stranger” played fcr over two years in New York end ; Chicago, and is one of the mos; pop- j uiar plays ever staged. Jean Oliver will share honors with Eddy Waller, who will play the part of Isidor. Others in the cast are: i James Le Roy, Larry Sullivan. Ida-1 belle Arnold. Alice Mason. Earl Ross, i Jack Martin. Norman Wendell. Alice Delane, E. J. Brady, Bruce Miller and ETvin Ryker.j Matinee will be given on Sunday Wednesday and Saturday. < Tom Powers and Luciie Nikola" to Play Leads The Sam H. Harris sucres*. “It’s a Boy.” which had a lengthy run at the Harris Theater in New York last season, will be the Stuart Walker Cempany presentation at the Murat, beginning Monday night. . .p-When presented in New York "It's a Boy” was hailed as one of the most brilliant comedy dramas based or, American life today, that the stage had seen In aeons. * The “story of the play is woven about a young coupD who have made ! moderate success in Carbondaie, Pa. : The husband has a “Five and Ten Cent Store” and plans to open an-; other in a neighboring town. The wife, though anxious times to aid and help her husband, has secret social aspirations which she thinks might be gratified in a larger city. With the arrival of the first child the future becomes of far more im port than it ever was before. Father must do great things now in order that the future of the boy might be assur^t. Oppbrtunity. in the person of Pendleton, knocks at the Blakes door His rap is distinct. He offers to buy Blake’s stores and give him a SIO,OOO job in New r York. Blake isn’t so sure about it. Mrs. Blake i6. And though it means the sacrifice of his thriving business Blake reluctantly consents. The outcome of the story and the move was a good or a Lad one is skillfully handled by the Rfthor and told in an' exceedingly Jiumorous and amusing vein. Tom Powers and Luciie Nikolas will have the leading roles. Others In the cast will include Aldrich Bow ker, Judith Lowry, Boyd Agin. L’Es-
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ON LOCAL STAGE NEXT WEEK
1 No “—Alice Mason of ;!;< Grand * TKk' in ,j' 'll • opening Sunday afternoon at Eng--1 S'*Hov at the Murat, opening Mon
trange Millman. Corbet Morris. Eugene Powers. Donald Macdonald. Ixical Dancer Engaged For Next Week at Rialto Jenk’s "Musical Maids” will open a week’s run at the Rialto, starting with a matinee Sunday in revue of popular songs and musical numbers. Several new faces have been added to the cast as well as the chorus and bright new- wardrobe and special scenery has been added. Miss Hallie Alexander, local girl and a graduate of n dancing school, is home for the summer and will be on added attraction, while Hilly Clark, the Mississippi Trio. Katlaer ine Wilson and Florence Elam will make up the vaudeville end of the program. The dancing girls from the chorus and as a special feature “The Hot tentot.” a movie has been booked. Thief Can Shave '■ Razor blades valued at SSO were missing from the drug store of Edward Ferger in the Traction Terminal building today. .
Shakespeare at Right Prices The sale of reserved seats for the Little Theatre's Shakespeare revel in the sunken garden of the D. M Parry residence at Golden Hill on Friday 4 night. June 1, will open at Kautz’s, 116 N. Pennsylvania St., and at Lieber’s art store on W. Washington, Monday morning. Mny 14. One thousand reserved chairs will lie sold at $1 each. This being a special performance, membership coupons will not be available for reservations. Student admissions at 50 oenTs each will be sold but without reservations. Ample parking space will be provided and a corps of Boy Scouts will be on hand to show the way. Music will be furnished by the Claypool trio and costumed jesters * will furnish other entr'acte diversion in true g Elizabethan fashion.
AMUSEMENTS
No Amusement Slump Hits Here This Summer
By WALT KK I>. HTPKM AN INDIANAPOLIS will fare much better than many other inland - cities for summer amusement. The truth is, we who crave theatricals during ttic summer months will find much lo enjoy. In other cities the legitimate theaters are closing-, one after another. In Chicago. the managers are fighting to keep their houses open. The Mural and Kmrlish’s remain open here.
Several writers of the theater in Chicago have commented on Indian apolis. Cincinnati, Buffalo and other cities which support repertory and stock companies. Chicago lias been waiting for several years for a summer repertory theater. Wild rumors have been started regarding such a venture, but managers seem afraid of the Idea there. It is true that Waiter Hampden and Ethel Barrymore and others are talking of establishing reperotry theaters in New York next season. Mrs. Fiske has Just announced a similar intention. Time only will toll the outcome <>f such ambitious un dertakings. In Indianapolis we have the very things that Chicago and New York have been trying to get for years. Stuart Walkoj Is in his seventh summer season at the Murat. Among Walker's announced players are many who have played for months in leading "Broadway successes. Blanche Yurka will come here soon in “The Girl of the Golden West ” She appeared with Barrymore in "Hamlet.” Peggy Wood is still a success In “The Clinging Vine,” George Gaul remains on Broadway in "The Seventh Heaven ” Pm Keith hns just fin ished appearing in the first venture of the National Theater in New York All of these will be with Walker here during parts of the summer. J. .1. At English’s, the Grand Players are in their first, local season of stock.
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These players owe their success up to the presen ttlmo to threee factors The splendid ability of Jean Oliver, the happy faculty to choose interesting plays and the moderate prices being charged for a good article. A stock company must build its interest around one or two players. In this case it is the leading woman. She has actually amazed a whole lot of “we-who know-lt-ail.” Each week Miss Oliver seems to become more Interesting and more skilled in her art. Where Walker changes his players to fit the role, the Grand Players fit the role to the players. Both are highly successful here I am sure that this city is large enough for two companies. T T -f When the real summer weather arrives. O. Carlton Guy and the Municipal Players will begin a season of open air performances in the parks of the city. The city pavs the bill , The city owned park theater was started last summer by the Shank administration. There were many questions to solve and arguments to an swer but the c*ty did give us a summer season. The result is that the city has even more ambitious plans for this summer. Dramatically speaking we can point with pride at Indianapolis with her great amusement program.
THE SENSATIONS OF A HUNDRED llii THRILLING PICTURES CONDENSED ggUjmi MARVELOUS ENTER HH YORK TI AT SLSO^ Y TOP |||| ;fll THE CIRCLE WHL PRESENT ’THESE J|p| WONDER PICTURES AT OUR REGULAR %|j 111 FIRST TIMEIN THIS CITY
DEAN PICKS HIGH SPOIS Os LAST SEASON’S PLAYS t Writer Lavishes Praise Upon a Few Players, but Not Upon the Plays, BY . I AMES W. DEAN NEW YORK, May 10.—There is little to, report on the now plays that found their way to Broadway this week. They are so inconsequential that they will probably be packed in mothballs by the time this is printed. May plays do not flourish. They usually arc pieces that, have waited all winter to slip into theaters vacated as the hot months approach. This hiatus gives the reviewer pause to glance back over the season and to discuss the qitalities of various performances. The usual thing is to select the ten best of the twelve best performances. This is written with no definite number of nominations to a mythical hall of fame in mind. The outstanding fierforinurue of the yea l seems t<> me to ir.ve been trial of Phyllis Povah in “Icebound.” That because, in a role without an emotional moment and in a play without a dramatic climax, she created a character that lives with the spectator long after leaving the theater The essence of good acting is simulation of life. Miss Povah gave a drab character red Mood. The personality of Miss Povah was never evident on the stage. John Barrymore’s Hamlet was nothing short of great, hut Hamlet is about as "fat” a role as was ever written. Actors measuring intp'h less than Mr. Barrymore can and have played satisfactory Hamlets There - about Barrymore personal glam '•urous a role as Hamlet Hence he i ever achieves a complete simulation of life. Latirctto Taylor 1* Praised for Her Work Laurette Taylor In the ill fated Hu moresque was so perfect a Mama Kan tor that, those w ho know her well checked their programs to see if shr
was really playing the role Even then some had the notion that an un | dorstudy had replaced her, unanS nounced. Margaret Lawrence, playing three ages of woman in ‘Secrets” seems to : be completely in character in each of them She stands the test of i wide range of characterization Jane Cow! as Juliet is similarly sit I uated to Barrymore Hamlet she Is as pretty a port raj t as the stage has seen all season but the attraction is divided between Juliet and lane, 1 shall never read of Queen Elizabeth hut, what I shall picture her : exactly as Haidee Wright played the role In "Will Shakespeare." No acj tual queen was ever more regal t!pn this puppet queen. However. 1 have a speaking acquaintance with i very ) limited number of queens. Al! the spinsters I ever know are wrapped up in the one character Minnie Milne played In "A Square Peg.” 1 which met an undeserved failure. T doubt if Ethel Barrymore was i ever a hotter actress than she was in i “Rose Remd.” All about her were i miscast players struggling through a miserable translation <>f a mediocre | play, yet the character Miss Barryi more played wa* tremendously real, i Her talent was more than the role , deserved. l.enore I’lrich has broken all physj ioal endurance records in her streni uous role in “Kiki.” and Jeanne Eagels continues to set up a record for j her vigorous portrayal of u blasj phemous role In “Rain ” Only Tliret' Men Given Honor Places* So far Barrymore is the only actor mentioned. There are only two other men of the current season who earn consideration with him. They are Basil Sidney, for his very excel-
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Indianapolis Soprano in Recital
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•Mrs Irma Wocher Woollen, wife of Herbert M. Woollen, president of the American Central Life Insurance Company, will appear in recital at the John Herron Art In-
lent Mercuric in the Hopkins produo tton of "Borneo and Juliet,” and I Glenn Hunter who. it seems, will I play "Merton of the MoxiesG until he is a graybeard. Oh. <yes! The plays of the cut rent week! "The Inspector General'' .'.s done in English by Maurice Swartz i for tlv Equity Players Is a fatuous] attempt to make Hussion comedy fit: the American sense of humor. “One Night of Love” is a hodgepodge of operatic airs sung in Russian by what looks to he a cast of cast-offs from ; Billie Watson's Rgef Trust, who have picked uji good voices “My Aunt From Yysilanti” is a farce in every sense of the word.
GOIDWYN PLANS TO INCREASE OUTPUT President Godsol Predicts a Prosperous Year.' Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, during the next fiscal year, will release more than twice the number of pictures it released in 1922. it was announced yesterday by President F. J. Godsol. This largo production sched-
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RIALTO ABSOLUTELY CLEAN FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SHOWING ALL NEXT WEEK Can Harrington Ride The Hottentot 9 m GRAND INTERNATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE 5-Mile Course—so Jumps Thirteen Champion Entries "Tho Hottentot” thoroughbred, has never been ridden over the distance. He has defied every rider. But — SAM HARRINGTON, FAMOUS HORSEMAN. WILL RIDE “THE HOTTENTOT” FOR $20,000 WAGER. $5,000 that he'll take the horse over the first jump. $5,000 that he'll take over ten jumps. SIO,OOO that he'll finish. SEE THIS THRILLING BATTLE OF HORSE AND RIDER IN “THE HOTTENTOT,” THE STEEPLECHASING STUNNER, AT THE JENKS MUSICAL MAIDS 14 —PEOPLE —14 VAUDEVILLE AND SPECIAL FEATURES TUES., AMATEURS FRI., COUNTRY STORE
stttute at 3:30 o'clock next Friday afternoon for the benefit of* the building fund of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. Arrangements for the recital are being made by Mrs. Carroll Carr.
ule has been made possible through the merger of the distribution of Cosmopolitan Productions and the Distinctive Pictures Corporation with Goldwyn Pictures. “The outlook for large earnings for Goldwyn Pictures* Corporation for the next fiscal year is the brightest in the history of the company," said President Godsol. "Forty-nine pictures will be released by .Goldwyn during the next fiscal year, of which the Goldwyn studios will produce twentyfour. Cosmopolitan Productions fifteen, and Distinctive Pictures eight. Productions by (esse TANARUS). Hampton and the Achievement Film Company will complete the program. ' This compares with only twentytwo pictures released J)y Goldwyn last year, and the average gross in come per picture to be released should more titan double the average of any previous year. “As a further indication of increased activity, upwards of $225,000 was expended by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation during the first three months of 1923 for the purchase of story material, which was more than the entire expenditure for this purpose In 1922. Increased demand for Goldwyn productions has necessitated the company opening five new branches for the distribution of its films, making twenty seven distributing centers in a!! for Goldwyn pictures,” he announced.
Matinees rf ngg?SSrSS^^> Matinees Wed -K. 25 Cents r cS Ms- WEEK OF MAY 14 V|/ fSTUARTWALKERB % ■ COMPANY jgf V IT’S A BOY J An American Comedy About American People Downtown e,, rta :„ _ — b - t — Box Office, ♦ ' n *h"x MrOnire Merchants at 30 Heat and Light and 8:30 Company
TODAY MR. PIM PASSES BY
Mat. 2:30
ruAi ICU’O all week LIIULIOn O Circle 3373 Matinees Tomorrow, Wednesday, Saturday, 2:15 Charles Berkell Presents THE GRAND PLAYERS - —WITH—JEAN OLIVER and EDDY WALLER WELCOME STRANGER By AARON HOFFMAN EDDY WALLER plays George Sidney’s famous role Nite Prices—2sc, 50c, 75c ) T ax Matinee Prices—2sc, 35c, 50c j inoiuded l i ’
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1923
ROSCOE AILS HEADS NEW BILL Al PALACE Famous Comedian to Have Talented Services of Katie Pullman, ROSCOE AILS and his company of entertainers will occupy the headline position at the Palace for the first half of next week. With the wellknown comedian is Katie Pullman, whose Broadway experience in productions has won her a high place in theatricals. Ails carries a hand of syncopators with him. headed by Charles Calvert, who is said to be a clever musician and dancer. Music, dance and comedy in abundance wilt make this act one of the biggest, to be shown so far this season. The Rnscoe Ails offering will be in three acts. The bill will include: THREE WEBER GlßLS—Appear ing first as singers and dancers, they will go into a series of gymnastic and acrobatic feats. All three girls are said to be as accomplished In the arts of singing and dancing as in their more strenuous pastimes. COOK AND OATM AN—These “vaudevillians or route” will offer something in the nature of a surprise. HARRY WATKINS —Is known as "the young man with a million friends.” He toll open the show with a novelty offering. PHOTOPLAY —"The Broadway Madonna." with Dorothy Revier, anew star who is said to resemble Gloria Swanson. The story concerns New York society life, wherein a woman goes to criminal lengths in her es forts to be loyal to her husband. The last half of the week will be devoted to the memory of James Whitcomb Riley. A picturized version of “Just an Old Sweetheart m Mine," one of Riley’s most famous poems, will be The photoplay offering. In connection there will be a male octette, composed of looql men with trained voices, who will include In their program a Rilay selection. There will be the usual six acts of vaudeville headed by the Plaza Entertainers, a New York organization. Tire Taken Off Auto Russell McCormick, salesman for the E. W. Steinhart Company, 1102 N. Meridian St., told police today a thief took a sls tire from his automobile parked at Pennsylvania and Pratt Sts.
Choir Presents ‘Snow White’ "Snow White.” a play of fantastic beauty, will he presented next Tuesday and Wednesday at the Masonic Temple by the choir of the Heath Memorial Methodist Church. 9 Edward R. Gatto, 2226 N. Dearborn St., director of the church choir, is coach of the production. Instead of presenting “Snow White” at the church the choir desired larger seating capacity Than the church affords. The Masonic Temple was obtained. Members o * the choir will take part in the play.
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