Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 294, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1924 — Page 3
TUESDAY, APRIL 22,1924
Berkell Brings Good Players to City; Did Mrs. Paid Revere Stay Home Alone?
By WALTER D. HICKMAN ONY stock company wins or (ails by virttfe of the ability of the members of the company. Charles Berkell’s Grand Players are now in the first week of their second summer ,l| dianapqjis theater ip-sfe ; "'1 Jean Oliver, Eddy A waller. Idabelle ' J|| Arnold and Larry Sullivan. Berkthe company, that CHARLES is the new ones, BERKELL are a great improvement over the old members who are not with the company this year. As I watched the work of Mary Hill, Herbert Dobbins and Alexander Campbell, new members, in the opening bill, ‘‘The French Doll,'’ it seemed to me that Berkell has a splendid all-around company. No stock company can go any higher than the individual ability and popularity of the men and women in the casts. Wih Miss Oliver, Waller, Miss Hill, Miss Arnold, Campbell and Dobbins in the cast, it is an assured thing that better all round performances will be given at English’s.this summer than last year. ‘•The French Doll,” an an opening bill was a wise selection because it gives Miss Oliver her kind of a role. She gives a gay performance, the kind her audience likes to see her do. Here is one woman who can be sweet and cute without being silly and too “sugary.” Waller is called upon to tell Miss Oliver (I mean the character she impersonates) how much he loves her and that should be an easy job for any actor. Was much impressed with the work of Dobbins as the French Papa. I believe he will make a valuable addition to the ranks of the Grand Players. Others in the cast include Tom Sargent, Robert Ray Myrtle Stringer William V. Hull and A1 Leane. I reviewed the show on Sunday which was the opening night. The four regular favorites received ovations. The curtain at the close of the second act was well handled. The audience gave all the players an
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men, open the show with a splendid athletic offering. Frances and Frank close the show. , Am saying it loudly—Here is a whale of a show. At Keith’s all week. -I- -I- -IREAL INDIANS TOP NEW BILL AT LYRIC There is a real novelty on the bill at the Lyric this week. It is called “Legends of the Hopi,” and it presents a troupe of full blooded Indians who perform their own rythmic ceremonial dances instead of trying to play jazz music or sing "Louisville Lou.” The act is presented in a set representing the cliff homes of the Indians. The squaws and papooses sit on tiie roof of one of the dwellings and look on v<hile the braves dance. They dance the wedding ceremony, the “Buffalo dance,” the victory dance and others. I can not pass on the authenticity of the dances, but I do know that this act is a real vaudeville novelty and that is a greal deal in these days. Sabbot and Brooks present a com edy act which has its funny moments. The lady members of the team gets most of the laughs with her “flapper” characterization. The Tripoli Trio stopped the show when reviewed. Their act consists of instrumental music, singing and some new comedy. Grace Cameron also scored with a Mah Jong song and comedy impersonations of Gllda Gray, Nazimova and others. Toyama and company is a Japanese act, distinguished from others of its kind by the use of real showmanship. The act is performed before a beautiful set. Erford’s Oddities starts like an Oriental dancing act, but proves to be !an excellent aerial turn. Hibbert and Nugent present blackface comedy. One of the boys is a first-class dancer. John E. Wise and company present a comedy sketch which is no longer a novelty. Movies complete the bill. At the Lyric all week. —By Observer. -I- -I- *l- - AND MAD WILSON GATHER MANY REAL LAUGHS
The comedy honors at the Palace for the first half of the week go to Lew and Mad Wilson. Wilson is one of those nut comedians who does not rely only upon his foolishness to make an audience laugh. Wilson has a bunch of nutty ways of doing things, but underneath it all is real He knows how to whistle, to yodel, to play an accor- ! deon and he has a keen comedy sense. . His radio stunt Is clever. There is another valuable characteristic about Wilson which mnkes I him different from most nut corned- | ians. He is always in good taste. ' That one attribute helps to make him a favorite. No variety bill this season seems to be complete without a jaz band. There is one present at the Palace under the j title of the Royal Garden Six, with the Fay and Weston Revue. The music played Is the sort that is popular at this hour. There are two i dancers with this revue. Rather a j pleasing flash act. Flo and Ollie Walters are two clever young women who have a unique way of introducing their material. They also have personality and they know how to use it. The “spur of the momcpt” recitation is clever. Cook, Mortimer and Harvey play a good game of basketball on bicycles. The two men of the team play one game in darkness as the ball is illuminated. This act opens the show. It will pay you to wait until the final curtain because the Max Theilon troupe is present. These men go fly 4 - ing through the air in such a reckless fashion that I even got excited ov*r the fear that they would miss at the wrong time. Fine. The movie feature is "Cricket on the Hearth,” a movie version of Charles Dickens' story. The Palace is observing N. V. A. week this week and doing Its part in the worthy cause. At the Palace today and Wednesday.
"GIRLS FROM THE FOLLIES,” IS CURRENT BROADWAY SHOW This meets Mutual burlesque show at the-Broadway is "Girls From the Follies." The cast includes Harry Harrigan, Hal Rathbun, Brad Sutton, Earl B. Miller. Marguerite Spencer, Lillian Evans and Nola Edwards. A chorus is present. The show is in two acts and eight scenes. There are many singing numbers by Nola Edwards, Lillian Evans, Sutton and others. The girls do an Egyptian number. At Broadway all week.—(By Observer). -I- -!• -INEW POLICY IN’ EFFECT AT LINCOLN SQUARE THEATER The Lincoln Square has anew summer policy which is in effect now. Continuous shows of movies and stock comedies is the new policy. Bobby Larue is present with his company in a comedy, "The Cowboy and the Lady." Besides Larue, the cast includes J. M. Luckey, O. E. Kane, A. Breyer, Elsa Yule and La Vera Reno. This comedy Is in four acts. The movie feature of the bill is "The Whispered Name.” The bill changes on Sunday. -I- -I- -!- WATSON HAS TRICK AUTO AT THE CAPITOL Billy Watson pays sixty dollars for a speedster. And it turns out to be the funniest of the trick automobiles that have been seen on the stage in the last season or two. It runs until somebody gets In it when it consistently stops dead. To complete matters it blows up, leaving Billy on the stage with the steering wheel in his hand. But h* doesn’t mind, for at that moment he receives word that the man who loaned him the sixty dollars had dropped dead. Watson, who is heading his own Columbia burlesque show as the last attraction of the sea3on at the Capitol, gets a lot of laughs out of this choice bit of slapstick. It Is the best bit of the show. But the show moves at a swift pace all the time that Watson is on the stage. He had the audience howling as he went sliding over the stage, "mowing" a dish of celery, eating goldfish, breaking dishes and diving
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through the transom. Slapstick, but funny. Watson is very nearly the whole show. The best of the supporting company are Frank Seannell, a dancer and Ethel *De Veaux, an attractive soubrette. Specialties are offered by Ruby Wallace, a singer and Prince Rosucci, accordlanist. At the Capitol all Week —(By Observer.) Other attractions on view today include: “The Goldfish,” and special presentations at the Circle; Our Gang in a comedy and Johnny Hines in “Conductor 1492,” at the Apollo; Cecil Ofc Mille’s “Triumph,” at the Ohio; ‘dborty Horse Power Hawkins,” at the Isis and "Lilies of the Field,” at Mister Smith’s.
Hoosier Briefs
Kokomo Lodge No. 190, B. P. O. E., has opened a new’ home. Rushviile wity graduate sixty seniors, the largest class in the history of the school, May 27. A special delivery love letter from an unknown “sheik” is declared in a divorce petition filed by Holland J. Rudy of South Bend to be the cause of his desire for separation. Shelbyville spent $773 to give its streets a spring cleaning. A total of 789 autos and 4,564 persons passed the Intersection of Main and Walnut Sts., Muncie, in one hour, a count of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce showed. The Citizens Loan and Trust Company, Bloomington is to erect a $200,000 building on the site of the Gentry block, which was destroyed by fire several weeks ago. Two St. Bernard dogs from the Knightwatch Kennels at Portland, owned by Postmaster Walter Gaunt, won prizes at a Dayton (Ohio) dog show. Forty pounds of candy were distributed by J. H. Applegate, attendance officer, to children at Coonville school,
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