Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1923 — Page 11

TUESDAY, OCT. 2,1923

Love Troubles of Three Ages in ‘Time’; Keith’s and Lyric Have Rival Bands

| By WALTER D. HICKMAN | (WIN* love is a great experifLi I enc ®- ~ —I Do you doubt it? Then take a little Journey to the Murat this week and get a look at "Time," a comedy •with a heart throb by Arthur Henry. Stuart Walked is giving Indianapolis a chance to see "Time” before .Chicago and New York has a chance to pass Judgment on it. Henry is new to the theater but not to the literary world. In this rky he shows love in the winter time, in autumn and in the spring. The characters used are a man and a woman who are married, but the man Is nervous for another; the son of the woman in the case is in love with the daughter of the man in the case and the daughter, well she is In love with the son of the woman in the case. Added to this, is the grandmother of the daughter of the couple which cannot agree. Grandmother decides she will teach her son a lesson and she tells the troubled couples that she, after being married to her husband for fifty years, has left him because he thought he was in love with a woman cf forty who had been to Paris for the first time. This was not true but it teaches the couple (autumn) a sound lesson. All ends well. Lucile Nikolas and William Kirkland are cast as the. r springtime couples. Miss Nikolas has come Into her emotional own in this show. She fcyins a dramatic triumph in the last ■ct. You will like young Kirkland w.s John Barrett. The best work he done since he came under the instruction of Stuart Walker. Dorothy Francis of musical comedy fame, plays the role of Ruth Prescott and A. H. Van Buren is the husband. This couple are the parents of the feminine part of the springtime couple. The woman In the case Is played by Anne Morrison. Marie

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Curtis as the grandmother (winter) and William Evarts (also winter) nearly walk away with the show. The cast is competent in every particular. As with all new plays, changes are needed. A statement regarding wine and prohibition should be eliminated. I am speaking of the third act. I have seen two audiences (I saw the show in Cincinnati) react against this statement. It should be eliminated at once. "Time” has some splendid lines and smart situations, especially when Grandmother Prescott arrive® on the scene. The first act is a little talky but the acting of Miss Nikolas and Dorothy Francis makes up for that. "Time” will appeal and under normal conditions it will please Chicago as well as New York. It Is human and has enough honest comedy moments to make it individual. I like “Time,” and, with a few changes. It will have a chance to make good. The production is one of beauty. It fits the picture. Walker has done well by this play. Visit the Murat this week and get acquainted with anew comedy and anew writer. -!- -I- -1In Which Mel Klee Proves He Is a General There are some things in the theater that no actor can control. One of these things happened at Keith’s Monday afternoon. Raymond Fagan and his orchestra had done the big trick of stopping the show The audience wouldn’t let the orchestra vanish, although Fagan made a little talk In which he advised the patrons to permit the other acts to come on and do the entertaining. The audience had a different opinion and Fagan yielded and stopped the applause by playing 6ome more corking melody. After such an outburst as this, an audience generally settles back and considers that a good afternoon’s work has been completed.

Mel Klee, he of the blackface makeup and Intimate knowledge of actors, had to follow this “wow" act. And it is some Job. I admired the way Klee walked out on the stage and began the difficult Job of making people forget melody for a little time. Klee by clean and legitimate material and by careful, considerate work accomplished the impossible. Ho won and that is saying a good deal. He is a real general. This man is a bigger showman than I have given him credit in the past. This is Fagan's first trip to Indianapolis. His organization goes in for effects. He also introduces two cute little misses, Pam and Peggy Garvin. Cute and appealing are these two girls. It remained for Fagan and his musicians to make a classic, a regular symphony out of “Three O’clock In the Morning.” I believe it is worth the price of admission >at Keith’s this week to Just hear this organization play this one number. The children are remembered on this bill as Gautier’s trained dogs, dressed up like workmen on a building, are present. No doubt these are the best trained character acting dogs on the stage today. J. Francis Dooley and Corinne Sales are back in “Will Yer Jim.” Why EBy more? Here are two real vaudeville performers who know how to coin an expression as well as a situation and make a classic of it. Cissie and Georgia Sewell are presenting a dance Idea which is pleasing. Miss Lucille Fields, acting both as a pianist and as an announcer, has the needed personality and talent to makp this act one of real merit. The waltz number, as well as "The March of the Wooden Soldiers," impression are the high lights of the act. Paul Nolan and company opens the show with a Juggling act. Yesterday afternoon Walter Clinton seemed to let his temper run away with him. He is with Julia Rooney in “After Dark.” Clinton, by letting his tem-

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per and some up-stage tendencies run away with him. makes It Impossible to judge the merits of the act. Miss Rooney was not to blame for the handicap. At Keith’s all week. -I- -!• -IA Saxophone and a Harmonica Start Applause Panic at Lyric Sometimes a vaudeville show leaves the stage and hits one full force between the eyes. That is what is happening at the Lyric this week, where a wonder show is being presented. The two big merited applause hits of the bill fall to Connelly and Francis and to Frish, Howard and Toolin. In the first named team, the man plays a harmonica, and by his droll, natural methods, stops the show "cold,” and that Is some Job, because it is a real show. It is the saxophone playing of one of the men of the team of Frish, Howard and Toolin, which makes the act a triumph. Both winning teams offe.- bright, snappy and well delivered material. All the song and Instrumental numbers are well chosen, but It Is the personality of the players which causes them to be such pronounced hits. Francis Renault wears some of the best looking gowns on the variety stage. The pearl gown is a masterpiece of beauty. Renault’s program Includes the player’s own conception of Julian Eltinge, Ruth St. Denis and others. If this performer would refrain from robbing the act of its class attributes by some pointless material near the close, Francis Renault would be one of the leaders in this particular line of work. The gowns are marvelous. Six dancers make up the company of Vlasta Maslova and company. Their dancing is artistic and well done. Ziska is a magician and he is highly successful on the vaudeville stage, because he has developed aeveral stunts to perfection. His solid steel ring stunt is done as only an expert showman can do it. I enjoyed every minute of this act. Leon and Mitzi open the show in an athletic offering of merit. Many and Jazz-playing orchestras of fame have been heard on the Lyric stage, but it remains for

Ralph Williams and his band this] week to ring up the band-playing triumph of the current season at this house. Williams and • ills players go in for certain effects. Their selections are right up to the minute, including “Shimmy” and “No, No, Nora.” The ‘ Nora” song is put over with telling effect. The bajo player is a mravel. Here is a band which is some band. No wonder nobody left the theater until the last piece was played. The leader of this band has tho right idea. The Lyric has a bill this week which brings dignity and credit to the variety stage. The bill has been put together with the idea of pleasing everybody and that is just what happens. The Lyric can shout the merits of Its show to the top of the roof this week because it is a big winner. At the Lyric all week. -I; -I- -ILaughter Is Manufactured at the Palace This Week “Hap” Farnell makes a success at his business of producing laughter when he appears with Florence in an act that is playing at the Palace the first half of the week. At the beginning of" Hap's” bombardment of fun, we were wondering when Florence would appear. It was just decided that Farnell was a whole act himself when his partner entered <and added to the fun. Even the orchestra leader, most abused of musicians, laughed at the self starting rhyme (?) and seemingly interminable one-sentence monologues that Farnell Indulged In. And when the orchestra leader laughs at a thing, you may be sure that it Is funny. "La Graciosa" is billed as the headline act. This is a pleasing series of pictures produced with a woman posing against a plain background, and with electric devices at the front of the stage projecting the picture against the screen, and including the woman In the picture. One of the most spectacular of these pictures showed the woman in traveling costume on a moving boat, with the skyline of New York passing in tHe backfround. Some extraordinary effects are produced in this act. Arthur Devey and company present

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a one-act play, “Mother’s Diary,” as their part in the program. The cast of four is capable, the play is entertaining and the act deserved the applause that it received. Murdock and Kennedy Sisters have a comedy sketch, with music and dancing. Some clever lines, good dancing by the Kennedy Sisters and exceptional work on the part of Murdock. “The Spider Webb” is a trapeze act by the Earles with an unut ual background. Their work calls for dexterity and coordination than for more-than-average strength. “The Rapids” is the feature photoplay. At the Palace today and Wednesday. (By Observer.) -I- 'l' ’l' In Which a Comedian < Needs Real Material John Barry with “The Bon Tons,’’ a Columbia Wheel burlesque Bhow at the Capitol this week, is a comedian who relies upon funny clothes, some “smart” sayings, strange facial expressions and a bunch of hats to put him acro.,s. The trouble with this show Is largely the fault of the book, if there is one, as well as the scenery. From a scenic standpoint, this show needs complete overhauling. The show needs new women principals and needs them badly. * Barry has real comedy ability, but he ruins himself with material, situations and jokes of questionable meaning. There is no place on the American stage for off-color material. Many of Barry’s remarks and situations have a double meaning and so ruined the show as far as my standards of judgment are concerned. Sandy Ackland is a credit to the show. At the Calptol all week. ~. .|. .J. Max Gealer Is Added j to Cast at Broadway Max Gealer has been added to the cast of the burlesque stock company, which is playing at the Broadway, and his first appearances this week prove him to he a capable entertainer. Max is one of six principals on the program. His work has already raised the standard of the show. The comedy in the first act was at 'ts best, when two of the players were constantly being interrupted in a love

scene by Gealer, with some new joka or pun. At the Broadway all this week. (By Observer.) The movies on view today include: “The Fighting Blade,” at the Circle;

Mothers know a dose of . - DR. CALDWELL’S PEPSIN Will keep them fit ‘First Aid’ For Sick Children

THE experienced mother is not alarmed when a child becomes sick. She knows that most of the ailments of childhood are trifling. If it seems serious she calls a doctor, but whether or not she calls him she gives, first of all, a good laxative medicine. The doctor would advise that anyway. It is his “first aid.” Such experienced mothers as Mrs. Everett E. Hunt of Betzoni, Okla., who has three children and never any sickness, and Mrs. F. B. K uklenski of Prosser, Wash., always give Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Peosin at the first indication of sickness. Such timely doses have saved them much worry. The Meaning of "Good” All doctors agree that a thorough cleaning out of the bowels is of first importance for it removes dangerous intestinal poisons. They will also advise a“good laxative,”and by"good”

they mean one that is effective and yet harmless. They know that there are physics that never should be given to children - calomel, which is mercury and loosens the teeth; phe□olphthalein, a coal-tar drug that causes skin

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“Why Worry?” at the Apollo; "Rupert of Hentzau,” at the Ohio; "Bright Lights of Broadway,” at Mister Smith's; "Flames of Passion,” at thf Isi3. and “The Mysterious Witness," ( at the Rialto.

trouble; salts, which concentrate the blood and dry up the saliva. They consider Dr. Caldweii's Syrup Pepsin safe for ail ages as they know it :s a simple vegetable compound of Egyptian senna with pepsin and agreeable aromatics. The formula is on the package. Give Laxative for Golds Adults should have at least one movement of the bowels every 24 hours, and children two or three. Failure to have it means constipation, then headache, biliousness, drowsiness, lack of appetite. Give a dose of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin at bedtime, and there wifi be health and good feeling by morning. A dose costs less than a cent, and a bottle can be had at any drug store. Colds and c mstipation come together, so if you notice coughing or sneezing step it at once with Syrup Pepsin.

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