Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1924 — Page 7
SATURDAY, JAY. 12,1924
ENGLISH’S BOOKS ‘LAST WARNING’ for™ DAYS Successful Mystery Play at Last to Be Seen in City, A time-honored tradition of the stag© is completely broken down in “The Last Warning:,” which comes to English’s Jan. 21, 22. 23. 24. Up to now it has been the feeling that all the secrets of life back of the stage should be religiously guarded The methods of the actors, the intricacies of rehearsals and allied stage matters were in complete mystery because every one associated with the stage felt that if th public knew the mechanicism of the stage the illusion would vanish and the interest lag. Yet this, is certainly not the case, as “The Last Warning” demonstrates the very revelation of inside facts amplifies interest. Thus, the play furnishes a complete lesson in the actual stage production. The players apply for positions in the cast. Then their manager engages rejects them. At length a rehearsal is called and the director reads the play and gives his impressions. Next the players actually go through their parts. They appear on the barren stage, in the shadow of cold brick walls and a solitary electric light, in a duplicate of the very same unromantic surroundings which actors fa'.e dally. The players discuss their parts, they talk about positions, gestures and voice interpretation. These matters settled, the play itself is actually produced before the audience, so that they get a thorough idea of the whole production from beginning to end. It is safe to say. therefore, that no other play in the history of the stage has ever exposed so completely long cherished secrets. Yet these matters, interesting as they are. serve only as incidental matters in “The Last Warning,” which is a red-blooded melodrama.
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WALTER D. HICKMAN HIS city has ben on trial this ! week, so to speak, because New I York producers have been watching the business done at English’s by the Galsworthy drama, “Loyalties.” This play belongs to the worth while contributions to the stage. Galsworthy has given us a powerfully constructed mystery play in addition j to several problems to think about. ; After word got about that “Loyalties" j was the real goods, Indianapolis theatergoers took advantage of the opportunity of seeing a wonderfully acted show. I would have liked to been able to record that at least once the i theater was filled to capacity, but this was not the case for any performance. Yet I feel there is no reason to kick the way we supported “Loyalties” this week. If we are going to get the better drama it is necessary to support this branch of entertainment as well as the musical revues. -I- -I- -II have the following data concerning the Little Theatre before me: When members of the Little Theatre Society read John Drinkwater’e successful play “Robert E. Lee,” Miss Ruth Richards will have a leading part. The reading of this play will be the feature of the January month ly meeting, to be given at the Little Theatre Work Shop, 12€ E. Fourteenth St., Monday evening, Jan. 14, at 8:15 o’clock. Mrs. Oliver Willard Pierce will have charge of the meeting. and other members of the cast are Col. John B. Reynolds, who will have the part of Robert E. Lee, Dr. F S. C. Wicks. Frank S. Chance, Walter Lieber, Eugene Fife, Parker
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Mme . Fitziu to Sing ‘La Bohcme * at Murat
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ANNA FITZIU
On Sunday night at the Murat, the San Carlo Opera Company will present “La Boheme” with Mme. Fitziu singing the role of Mimi. Sunday matinee bill will be “Madame Butterfly” with Mme. Tamaki Miura, Japanese prima donna, sing ing the title role.
Wheatley, Mrs. James Steep, ar.d Mrs. Robert Winslow. As orginally planned, the directing of this play would have been done by Mr. Charles Moores, who was a member of the play reading committee, and whose less is keenly felt by the Little Theatre. At the beginning of tho meeting a tribute will be paid to Mr. Moores by Dr. Wicks. Mrs. Pierce, chairman, and the play reading committee, at the opening of the season, formed a policy of reading at the monthly meetings some of the best of the new plays which Indianapolis dees not have an early opportunity of seeing. -I- -I- -II have been asked to give my idea of the best photoplay produced last yea.r. Have already gone on record by stating that “If Winter Comes.” my personal favorite of all photoplays seen last year. Here is a big story splendidly adapted to th© screen and as wonderfully acted. It Is the simplicity of detail and the suppressed emotions of the players which makes this Fox picture the Important movie event of last year as far as I am concerned. •i- -I* T The younger people of Indianapolis will welcome the opportunity of meeting personally the youthful film actor, Wesley Barry." This lad has a wonderful following In this city and his visit to the Apollo next week will be a most interesting one.
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Rev. Runyan Begins Second Revival Week
BY THE VISITOR VANGELIST WILLIAM M. RUNYAN on Sunday will begin the second week of his revival at the East Park Methodist Church. Meetings will be held every night next week with the exception of Saturday night. On Sunday, the evangelist will preach in the morning and at night. Dr. E. A. Robertson, pastor, is assisting the evangelist. Dr. Robertson states that the invitation is “Come, help and be helped.” HOLY COMMUNION will be observed at the Trinity Methodist Church Sunday morning. At 2:30 p. m. the Rev. Charles Kroft will preach. The Rev. C. H. Rose, pastor, will preach at night. “ACCEPTING GOD’S CHA Lr I.ENGE” will be the morning theme of the Rev. Guy V. Hartman at Hail Place Methodist Church. At night, “Oh, For a Safe Leap Year.” THE REV. CHARLES P. MARTIN of the Brookside Park U. B. Church announces his Sunday themes as: “That Which Man Needs Most” and “The Nominel Christian.” ITR. M. B. HYDE will preach at the Grace M. E. Church Sunday morning on “Some Assets of Life" and at night or "Spiritual Independence.” “THEN COMETH JESUS” will be the morning them* of the Rev. Paul W. Eddingfield at tho Broad Kipp!* Christian Church. At night, “The Virgin Birth.” DR. EDWIN CUNNINGHAM, pastor of the Central Unlversallst Church, will preach at 11 a. m. Sunday on “A Better Individualism,” in which the question,” Is personal development the best social policy?” wlil be discussed. HOURS OF SERVICE Sunday at the Emmanuel Baptist Church are as foliows: 9:30 a. m. Sunday school, preaching at 10:45 a. m. and at 7:30 p. m., Senior and Junior B. Y. P. U. a*. 6:30 p. m. Prayer meeting will be held Thursday night. • * * MID-WINTER RALLY in the Sunday school will be held Sunday morning at the Calvary United Brethren Church. In the morning, Rev. L. P. Cooper, pastor, will preach on “The Christian's Greatest Labor of Love.” At night. “Christ, the Divine Friend.” Evangelistic meetings will be itfdd each night next week, the piistor states. • • * UNION EVANGELISTIC SERVICES will be held for two weeks, beginning Monday night. The services will be held the first week at the Morris Street Methodist Church, 351 E. Morris St. Rev. C. B. Moor, pas-
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tor of the Immanuel Reformed Church will preach. Services will begin each night at 7:45 o’clock. The churches uniting are the Second Reformed, Immanuel Reformed, Second Evangelical, Mayer Chapel Presbyterian and the Morris Street Methodist Church. * * * REV. L. C. E. FACKLER. pastor of St. Matthew BvangeHcal Lutheran Church, will preach Sunday morning on “The Best That Could Be Attributed to a Person.” At night there will be an illustrated lecture on “Moses, the Lawgiver.” The Willing Workers will meet at the parsonage on Tuesday* night. * • • DR. FRANK S. C. WICKS of All Souls Unitarian Church announces the following order of service at 11 , a. m. Sunday: Grand processional (Gounod); “Chanson de FTorian” (Godard): Hymn 336; second service; Covenant; anthem; “Words of Aspiration”; responsive reading—thirteenth selection; Scripture;‘Hymn 476 (Lambeth); notices and offerings; “Aria” (Saint Saens; address; Hymn 332; benediction; postlude; “Postlude” (Bixet). -I- -I- -IEMERSON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH, Paul Judson Morris, pastor, will preach Sunday morning upon “The Work and Office of the Holy Spirit.” The subject of the evening discourse will he “For Want of a Hand and a Voice.'” HOMER DALE, piistor or the Hillside Christian Church, will preach tomorrow morning on “Why Everybody Should Go to Church.” In tho evening his theme will he “Are You Fit to Live?” Whiteside in Oriental Plays Walker Whltslde will present two Oriental thrillers at the ShubertMurat upon the occasion of his Indianapolis visit of three nights and Saturday matinee, ,‘oinmencing Thursday night, Jan, 31. “The Hindu” and i “Mr. Wu” are the plays in question, j The stellar roles are widely contrasted, one being the fascinating young Maharajah Prince Tamar, and the other being the Inscrutable, sin- I leter Chinese mandarin, Wu Li Chang. Miss Sydney Shields and a styierb New York company will he seen in the star's support. Novelist Is Seriously 111 PARIS, Jap. 12.—Anatol France, famous French novelist, is seriously 111 ; of a nervous trouble.
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To Give Jenny Lind Recital Soon
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Two important musical events for January under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises will be the “Jenny Lind Costume Recital” presented by Frieda Hernpel, soprano, and assisting artists. Conrad V. Bos, pianist, and Louis Frltzle, flutist, on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 20, at the Murat, and the second of the series of orchestra concerts given by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conductor, Rudolph G&nz, soloilst on Monday evening, Jan. 28.
SOCIETY IS HAMPERED Family Welfare to Work Under It©<hic<*l Budget During 1924. With one-fourth more demands the lit roily Welfare Bociety vfttll be greatly curtailed in its work this year, Paul L. Benjamin, secretary, said today. Because tho Community Fund did not raise Its uuota. the allowaneo budgeted for the society was
FRIEDA HEMPEL
Although she never shone as an inventor, Jenny Lind is responsible for the parlor car to a great degree. When the Swedish Nightingale was brought to this country by P. T. Barnum she spent much of her time in traveling from city to city, and to reduce the uncomfortable ness of touring to a minimum she had the seats of an ordinary car removed and the vehicle furnished with cha'rs, tables and other pieces of furniture appropriate to a parlor.
cut $9,000. It received $150,000. Other sourcas will net $25,000. The Big Brother work will be suspended, Benjamin said. The Kiwanis Club is considering taking It over. Alexander R. Holliday was elected second vice president by directors on Friday. All other officers were reelected.
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It Is Hayes’ Spirit Which Makes Him Great Artist
By WALTER D. HICKMAN “Every time I feel the spirit movin’ in my heart.” Those words wore uttered in melody by Roland Hayes, negTO tenor, while singing a negro spiritual at Caleb Mills Hall Friday night. I did not need to hear the words to know that a great spirit of religious feeling moved the singer. He did not shout his words, but the message seemed -to come as a whisper from the heart. Here is a splendid example of what i expert training mixed with careful religious training has done for a colj ored man. It was a mixed audience ! which heard Hayes last night. He iIW TO VjSiT MURAT Famous Mystery Drama to Remain a Week, “The Cat and the Canary,” which Kilbourn Gordon. Inc., will present at the Shubert Murat for one week beginning Monday, Jan. 21, is a melodrama replete with mystery that begins almost immediately after the rise of the curtain, and remains unsolved until the very last minute of the play. The story revolves about the strange events that follow the reading of the will of a rich and eccentric old man. It begins in the library of his mani slon on the Hudson, continues with | increasing dramatic tenseness in the I room in which he had died twenty ! years before the action of the play, | and reaches an exciting climax in the I library. , The action take® place between 11 i p. m. and 1 a. m., but in that time a i murder is done, a necklace worth a I fortune is taken from the neck of a ! sleeping girl, while suspicion is turned upon first one and then the other of tho characters with rapidity. “The Cat and the Canary” had a two-season run in New York and one of a season In Chicago, while other companies were playing it In Ausi tralia and the Orient. The Chicago J company will be seen here.
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sang in English, German and French and then closed his program with hymns of praise. This man has had no easy road tu travel. He brings the natural gift o( song Yo the concert stage and increases its beauty by a great spiritual faith. It seems to me that Hayes had to have those two great attributes to achieve the high position he holds today. He is an artist who is honored by all people regardless of race. I make no apology for true arS when it is highly developed. He haa set a high standard for himself and he demands to be judged by the standards which control every other artist. Here is a wonderful voice, which is made even more beautiful by the soothing spirit of faith. German Songs Were Greeted With Applause It was in the third group of songs that we had the opportunity of hearing a negro sing great German compositions. He sings exquisite German and the effect was so powerful (hat he received the biggest ovation of the evening after SchuL-w n’s ”Der Naussbaum.” At times his voice did not possess the volume that one expects but I am ?ure that it is due not to any limitation in volume but rather his interpretation o£ the song. And yet I believe it was in the last group, the spirituals, that I encountered Hayes both as an artist and as a man. Foreign recognition has not made him an egotist. He is an artist and a negro. Today, he stands as ona of the commanding (tenors of his time. The years will bring new beauty to singing as I am sure the spirit behind the voice will weave into it more marvelous harmony. He was presented here under the direction of Colored Men’s Branch of the Y. M. C. A. A wonderful evening of song. Consolidation Legion Topic Consolidation of Marion county American Legion posts is to be considered by the Indianapolis poet Wednesday evening in the Board of Trade library, E. S. Barnhill, adjutant, announced. H. Nathan Swain, chairman of the entertainment committee, has charge of a short program before the business session. The women’s auxiliary has been invited.
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