Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1923 — Page 7
TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1923
CAN COURT BE JUDGE AND JURY? IS MOOT ISSUE \ California Supreme Tribunal Will Decide Question Wednesday, By RODNEY L. BRINK, Editor Sacramento Star. SACRAMENTO, Cal.. July 24.—Very soon now the California Supreme Court will decide whether a judge can be judge and jury too. That is exactly the issue presented by a Superior Court temporary order restraining ever}' individual in this State from membership in the Industrial Workers of the World. Violation of the order will constitute contempt of court. Hearing on an order to the I. W. W. to show cause why the order should be made permanent is set for July 25. Judge Charles O. Busick, who granted the temporary order, undoubtedly will grant the permanent injunction. Then the Supreme Court gets the question. The general defense committee, the organization that fights the legal battles of the I. W. W., plans a fight on the issue. Represntatives declare that the proposed injunction violates the right of individuals to freedom of speech and beliefs even more than does the California criminal syndicalism statute, out of which law the proposed injunction grew. Impartial views of the case as it relates to free speech are these: If the criminal syndicalism law. which has been on the California statute books for almost four years, does not violate the rights of free speech, the proposed injunction would not violate them; if the four-year-old and u'nrepealed law does violate those rights, so does the proposed injunction.
INDIANA BEHIND RECORDFORI3I9 Number of Industries and * Men Employed Lessen, By Times Special WASHINGTON. July 24—Indiana has fallen behind her 1919 record for Industries, number of persons employed and value of products, according to a report of the Census Bureau today. The bureau reportes only on industries with products valued at $5,000 or more. The report shows 5,109 industries in Indiana in 1921, as compared with j 7,916 in 1919; shows 206,539 persons employed, as compared with 277,580 in 1919. and shows products valued at $1,377,772,071 in 1921, as compared with $1,898,753,387 in 1919 Notwithstanding this decline, the report for Indiana compares favorably with that for other States and for the country as a whole. IMPROVEMENT OF STREET TO WAIT I Paving on Blvd PI, Contingent on Railway's Action. Permanent improvemen of Boulevard Pi. north of Forty-Second St. today hinged on action of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company in extending the Fairview line along that street. When property owners appeared before the board of works Monday, John L. Elliott, city civil engineer, advised that paving be held up until the car company decided on plans. The narrow bridge over Bean Creek on Shelby St. was termed dangerous , by Elliott, and on petition of property owners, plans and specifications for anew bridge were ordered by the board. These resolutions were adopted by the board: Permanent improvement of the first alley east of Central Ave.. between TwentyNinth and Thirtieth Sts.: permanent improvement of the first alley east of Winter Ave.. between Fenway and Bloyd Aves.; permanent improvement of the first alley west of Capitol Ave.. between Twenty-First St. and McLean PI.; permanent improvement of the first alley east of New Jersey St., between Twenty-Ninth and Thirtieth Sts.: cement sidewalks and curbs on Union St., between Glendale St. and Pleasant Bun Parkway, and walks and graded lawns on Nowland Ave., between Olney and Gale Sts. GIVES WRONG ADDRESS Mrs. A. P. Anderson Denies Herman Glover Lives at Her Home. Mrs. A. P. Anderson, 832 Edison St., today said that Herman Glover, wha- gave police her number as his address when arrested on gambling charges, has not lived there for three months. She said Glover formerly roomed at the house.
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‘lbbetson’ Is Walker’s Greatest Gift; Grand Players in Final Week Here
By WALTER D. HICKMAN. DREAM PLAY! That tells you about “Peter Ibbetson.” Dreams often are beautiful dreams if you know how to dream true. Out of all great love dreams there Is an equally great sadness. Dreams are made from mental cobwebs and colored by the sunshine and the clouds of experience. It Is a difficult job to catch a dream and place it either upon canvas or upon the stage. Stuart Walker has caught the dream spirit of “Peter Ibbetson, the result being Walker’s rarest and most beautiful gift to Indianapolis. I love to dream of heights I will never reach in actual life. In my dreams I reach the heights, only to discover how far away I am from them in real life. Thousands of us dreamers are Just like that. I am sure that there were several hundred great dreamers in the audience at the Murat last night, because we dreamed Walker’s Ibbetson dream of love and eternal life. It will be only a few weeks until I have covered shows in Indianapolis for four years, and I am sure of my ground when I say that Stuart Walker has caught a sort of a spiritual joy from dreamland. To me “Peter Ibbetson” is Walker’s finest achievement in Indianapolis. It ranks mighty close to any legitimate offering I have encountered in the last four years. There is so much beauty in this dream production—the careful lighting, the system of handling the many scenes so as to prevent long waits, the large and capable cast, the period costuming and, above all. Walker’s rrtistry of production. Walker seems to have outdone himself in this production. He seems to have reached the heights, and my only hope is that beginning tonight “Peter Ibbetson” will not play to a vacant seat for the remainder of the week. Walker has done his best. Now it is up to Indianapolis to do her best. Morris Returns to Murat to Do Really Noble Work “Peter Ibbetson” brings McKay Morris baA to Indianapolis for the first time this season. Morris also knows how to dream real. It is no easy task to create a dream character on the stage, and yet Morris has given the stage a piece of acting which mounts to the same dizzy heights of Walker's production. His work is careful, real and beautiful this time. He is not careless, but the magnificent artist he is and can be when he wants to be a great artist with a soul. If I had the space and time, 1 would like to pick out the high lights of his performance. The fact is there are wonderful high lights in every one of his scenes. In the first dream, his voice becomes a sweet sad symphony. In the murder scene, he is the cruel sad brute, made so because the dream dwarfs had lured him into the land of the moon. Then the death scene. Excellent. Aldrich Bowker in this play gives us at least ten minutes of acting—the
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like of which we seldom see even dur- , ing the regular winter season. This I happens in the second act where Peter Ibbetson meets Major Duquesnois who, old, feeble and half out of his | wits, is still able to dream a wee bit. I His mental struggle to re-capture ! some of his dreams belongs to the 1 fine acting class. The make-up, the j voice, the laugh, the spirit—it all comes from the soul of a fine artist.
Morris Does Best Work of Career
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M’KAY MORRIS IN “PETER IBBETSON" AT THE MURAT THIS WEEK. MORRIS IS GIVING THE FINEST WORK OF HIS CAREER. AT TIMES HIS WORK BECOMES A LOFTY DRAMATIC SYMPHONY. HERE IS WORK THAT MAKES ONE PROUD TO BE A PATRON OF THE THEATER.
I call this inspired acting if such a thing exists. George Somnes is cast as Colonel Ibbetson. an old, tottering, foolish, sensual fop, who never knew the meaning of the word dreams. Here is powerful, dynamic., dramatic acting. A complete characterization. Somnee also reaches peaks of fine acting. I am not afraid to use superlatives as often as I like when I feel that I am right in my Judgment, Julia Hoyt as Mary, Duchess of Towers, is making her first appearance of the season. I will make a confession—was a little afraid when Walker chose her for this role that he had made a mistake. Miss Hoyt shows marked advancement since she was last seen here. She is putting life into her work and learning to fit the voice to the spirit, of the scene. She was a great surprise to me last
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night. She is giving a splendid performance. Julia McMahon is back with the Walker company. She is cast as Mrs. Deane. Here we have some more work with a soul, a real living soul, in the characterization. Here Is flie Entire Cast of “Peter Ibbetson” Impossible to go into detail regarding the other members of the com-
petent cast. Will compromise and give you the cast in full. It is as follows: Madsrr Plunkett Eleanor Ew-tnr Diana Vivali Ethel Taylor Guy Malnwartcy. Lord Chlalehurat. . . . Ralph Srtselnpflut Charlie Plunkett Alhert Hackett Lady Abingdon Lucia HuP-hlns Mr*. Deane Julia McMahon Mr Lintot Jack King Davtt Mr* Glyn. Mrs. Deane * mother Elizabeth Patterson The Bishop James Webber Noel Leora Weimar Mr. Feverel . Thomas Springer Servant Parker Wheatley Colonel Ibbetson George Somnes Peter Ibbetson McKay Morris Lord Cray William Ghere Lady Cray Jane Dransfleld Raphael Morrtde-T a painter William Kirkland Mary, Duchess ot Towers Julia Hoyt Miss Fenwieke Katherine Johnson Miss Fenwieke Katherine Kory Ac hi He. landlord of the Tete Notr Boyd Agin Vietorine Charlotte Acheson Major Duquesnois Aldrteh Bowker Nurse Helen Harris Madame Seraskier. Mary’s mother
Jlidith Lowry Mimsey. the young Mary . . Bernice Spade Gogo, the young Peter Ethel Taylor Monsieur Pasquier, Peter's father. . . . Jack King Davis Madame Pasquier. Peter's mother Jean Spumey Crockett, Colonel Ibbetson* man Boyd Agin The Turnkey Parker Wheatley The Warden William Ghere The- Governor Wayne Hufl The Doctor Thomas Springer “Peter Ibbetson” In the hands of Walker, Morris, Bowker and the others is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Don’t miss “Peter Ibbetson.” At the Murat all week. •I- -I- -I- ' It’s Good-By at English’s lhis VVeew for Grand Players They are all saying “good-by” at English's this week. On next Saturday night the Grand Players will start a much-needed vacation. When the curtain goes down at that time these players will have rounded out a season ot seventeen weeks of popular stock plnys. Charles Berkell, the manager, is planning a motor trip to New York City. Eddy Waller is going out of the country for several weeks. Other members of the company will find places of recreation before returning to Davenport- lowa, for their fall and winter season. It is definitely announced that the Grand Players will return to English’s next spring for another season. Berkell has proven this fact—that Indianapolis will support a stock company at reasonable prices. The four outstanding personalities of the company are: Jean Oliver, leading woman; Eddy Waller, director and leading man; Larry Sullivan and Idabelle Arnold. It has been a triumph of personality as well as wise showmanship in picking for the most part safe box office attractions. The Grand Players have created their own audience, and that audience is a large and a loyal one. When I reviewed “My Lady Friends.” this week's offering. It was the hottest night of the year and the theater was near capacity. That’s the proof of the pudding. “My Lady Friends” is one of those light nothings with all the good points crowded into the second act. I wish these players had made another choice for the final bill, but why be too
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choicy this hot weather, when we have had such good ones as “Six Cylinder Love,” “The Gold Diggers," “Daddies,” “The Night Cap*’ and others. The comedy on view this weekk doesn't give any one a chanco. It give Jean Oliver a chr.nce to wear a bathing suit. The cast is as follows: Catherine Smith Mira McKinnely Eva Jones Jean • Oliver Hilda Walter Poulter Lucille Early Alice Mason Edward Early Larry Sullivan James Smith Eddy Waller Tom Trainor James Leßoy Norah Marianne Holmes Gwendolyn .. . Marg-aret Selkirk Julia Idabelle Arnold At English’s all week. •I- ’l’ -ILillian Burkhart Drives Home Lesson of “Dope” Traffic Since the death of Wallace Reid, the American public has given much attention to the evils of the drug habit. In some cities crusades have been started against this evil. The stage as well as the movie screen is being used to drive home the lesson from this traffic. Mrs. Wallace Reid has found it both profitable and interesting to use the scree nand the stage in her personal campaign against “dope.” This week at the Lyric Lillian Burkhart and company is appearing in a melodramatic playlet calleld “The Straight Dope.” It concerns a mother who discovers that her son, Just a schoolboy, is a dope adet. She enters a den of dope peddlers by accident and when she gets through all the dope peddlers are in the hands of the police. The advantage of this sketch is that only one dope fiend is presented and he is not so terrible. The author has not shocked her audience but amused patrons, at the same time driving home a lesson. At the close of the setch. Miss Burkhart gives a little talk In which she asks all people to Join the crusade against the selling of dope. From an applause standpoint, Gibney and Rogers are the real winners of the bill. A man walks on the stage Suddenly a woman appears with an ironing board. She begins to iron and comment about the singer. She
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turns out to be a singer as well as a comedienne. It is in the last role that she “stops” the show. The applause at the close of the act was more than generous. They appeared time and again to the ovation of the audience. The McKay sisters are three dancers. Most of their dances are Scottish. The Equilli Brothers open the show with an athletic offering. Irving and Elwood, a man and woman, also found the going mighty easy with their songs and conversation. Evans and Wilson have a clever song about “Supposin’.” Ty Ling Foo Four is a magic act. The man makes up like a Chinese and does many stunts with pigeons. Movies of the winners of the Indianapolis Times and Lyric Baby Peggy contest are on the bill. These movies were made by Rhodes & Chouinard, Indianapolis. At the Lyric all week. -I- -I- IIt Is a Woman Who Is the Hit of New Palace Bill There is a very clever little person at the Palace the first half of this week. Her name is Olga Kane and silt sings syncopated character songs in a manner that stops the show. Her mannerisms remind me greatly of Marion Harris, but Miss Kane Is not
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imitating. She does not need to, for she has too much personality of her own. Morris and Flynn are two young men who also sing popular songs and who also please. They close their act with a medley arrangement of popular songs, past and present. It Is a little different and a little better than most things of its kind. The hill is opened by Amoras and Obey, who almost ruin a good acrobatic act with a bad attempt at comedy. Bob Willis tells Irish stories. Some of them are not of the latest vintage, but he tells them well and the audience liked him. The closing spot is held by the Werner Amoras Trio. Their act consists of Instrumental music, slapstick comedy and juggling, none of which they do very well. The feature picture, “The Second Fiddle,” is a very good movie with Glenn Hunter, who is starring on the legitimate stage as “Merton of the Movies." So far as I know this is Hunter’s introduction to Indianapolis movie fans, and I think they will like him. He is very good looking and his screen acting will reflect no discredit on the reputation he has made for himself on the stage. The picture contains some realistic and thrilling scenes of a fight between Hunter and an escaped “bad man.” At the Palace today and Wednesday. (By Observer.) -I- -I- -IThe movies on view today Include! “The Girl Who Came Back.” at the Apollo; “Three Wise Fools.” at the Circle; “Nobody’s Bride,” at the Isis; “The Birth of a Nation,” at the Rialto; “The Buster,” at Mister Smith's, and “The Love Piker,” at the Ohio. LAD OF TEN LOSES LEG IN BRAVE ACT Attempts to Stop Father’s Runaway Team at Gary, By Times Special GARY, Ind., July 24.—Robert Springman, 10, living near Deep River, suffered amputation ot one of his legs Monday when he ran in front of hi3 father’s frightened team, hitched to a mowing machine, in a vain effort to stop the runaway horses.
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