Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1924 — Page 3
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Topsy and Eva Keep ’Em Yellin'; Hear Miss White Sing, Monkey' Song
By WALTER D. HICKMAN p==-| OPSY and Eva were pals! ] I years before the Duncan | Sisters arrived and many , moons before Catherine Chisholm Cushing thought of turning this bunch of cut-ups into musical comedy. But landed they have in the musical comedy field. Meaning that ' Rosetta Duncan as Topsy and Vivian Duncan as Eva are roosting ! in all their glory at English’s. ■‘Uncle Tom's Cabin” sot to jazz tunes, others not jazz, but mighty tuneful, all keyed Rose.” With The VIVIAN "rose" show about DUNCAN anybody could play It, but "Topsy and Eva” must have the Duncans. And right here we have the secret of Its success—honest to goodness hokum, done by artists, who make you yell for more and who keep you busy at times trying to keep back a tear or two. Don't be afraid NO MORE CASTOR OIL FOB THE CHILDREN Give Then Haley’s Magnesia-Oil Mother*, there’s an easy way now to correct that sour stomach, and to relieve the effect of something that has "disagreed” with the youngsters. Simply give them a teaspoonful or more of Haley's Magnesia-Oil. It has no oily taste—can be m!x**-1 with milk and given children without their knowledge—and It's harmless. A big dose for emergencies la perfectly safe and promptly effective. There Is no griping or other unpleasant effect. Haley’s Magnesia Oil Is simply milk of magnesia and mineral oil combined. The nil carries the magnesia straight to the lower boweh where most •‘stomach trouble” originates. The milk of magnesia neutralizes the acids and the mineral oil lubricates ami aids nature i|uickly t<> remove the cause of the trouble. Both work together. if your druggist can't supply Haler's Magnesia Oil we will mail a be; ie postpaid on receipt of price Trial !ze . .V: family size. SI. The Haley M•> <*. uipar;y. iiniiaimpolfs, In*!. of lftaqnsMa and Pxiz Vline/ial Oil —A<lvortisfin^nt
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I of hokum when it is dished up right. This musical play is a whale of a hit, because it sells itself even be- • fore the curtain goes up. It is en- ! tertainnient and that is what 99 per : cent of us go to the theater for today. It is a show of the minute, i but its theme and methods are as j old as the bills. It covers ground that some minstrel producers which i they could have covered. “Topsy and Eva” is a rip snortin’ hit because it plays with you. It is like a circus. It keeps you on the jump trying to see all that's going on. Clowning? Yes, bushels of it. Smart? Just as humanly smart as anything dares to be. Pretty? Yes. Good dancing? Magnificent. Good tunes? The kind you will be whistlin'. Cast? Hits high speed every • second. Here Is Topsy Rosetta Duncan as Topsy lands tin the stage carrying a yellow sunshade, clad in funny frock and exposing her bare toes with one of 'em decorated. She is sure the brown | edition of Topsy. Rosetta is the clown of the family. She wise cracks about everything, in- ; eluding the police of Cicero, IH. She chases make-believe bugs all over the j stage and she shakes ’em out of her | pigtails. She Indulges In hokum. ! Yes. bushels of it, but it Is the brand that makes you howl. Rosetta anti ; her sister, near the close of the show, j do a travesty upon the onion song. Vivian and Rosetta even use real onions to bring tears to their eyes. Rosetta Is a rough-neck edition of Topsy on the stage. She is doing one wild thing after another. No wonder that the Duncan Sisters knocked I’em dead in Chicago for weeks and j weeks. They sing, they dance, they clown, they make you want to cry and then send you out of the theater happy after giving you more than your money’s worth. The Duncan Sisters go In pairs. You must have both of ’em to make your evening i complete. Sweet, pretty and funny is their ; “Um-Um-Da-Da” number, but when | you hear them sing "Do-R*-Ml" you are hearing and seeing some of the best fun the stage has offered this I season. i Could say much more about the i Duncan Sisters. Am sure of on** j thing—they are the biggest sized j musical comedy hit we will have in many a d.tv. Am speaking of niusiI cal comedy. As to the Others Just time to pick some of the other winners. They line up some thing lik*> this: The toe dancing of Harriet Iloctor: ill*- singing of Nydia ’ D'Arnell at all times during the show; the singing -f Basil Uuysdael as Uncle Tom; the dancing of the Pickaninnies ispiendidl; the Plantation quartette and I might keep on and list "very song and dance number in ti;e show I am not running wild about this show. There was enough evidence last night at English's that Indianapolis is as wild as I am about the Duncan Sisters. "Topsy and Eva," and everybody present. My only hope is that you will not put off buying tickets until It is too jlate. At English's tonight and Wednesday afternoon and r.igii*.
THEN MISS WHITE TAKES HER LITTLE RED UIIAIR ■ | She sings a song about wishin’ : she was a monkey in a zoo. j That’s one of those delicious "kid" : songs that Miss Frances White sings 1 about at Keith’s this week. And sho wants to put on a merry - MISS WHITE go-round when she was young |is another hit. Her "Jealous” nunv : her has great popular But ; It is when this artist of song puts on j the rompers that she comes into her very great own. And what a hit sluts this week. And I rejoice that her** ils one real star anil headliner who is willing to givn her very best Just 'as long as the audience demands. If you go no place in town this week. | and there is a bunch of real things ; iiere. don't miss goin' to Keith’s M;ss White is one of the biggest reasons why you should go Billy Joyce is at the piano Then comes the little red shawl number. Deli- | clous fun. There is one chap in the business whom I have watched rise from the position of among those present to S those who stop a show. Am speaking of Jack Osterman. This fellowhikes out West last season and be tween acts he frames his new art about the folk who were Just "wild" over Jackie when he was In Hollywood. These stars, such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton. Wallace ' Beery and many others, gave Jackie the “cold shoulder" for movie reasons alone It's great fun as Ostorman brags what, a swell pal he was with all of the Hollywood tribe but the movie shows that they gave him the air. Great fun. Then Osterman goes Into the stuff that makes him a favorite. He struts his stuff while telling all about the Prince of Wales. “The papers even ; print the time .if day that the Prince ■ gets up in the morning.” allows < <sterman. "Good gracious, I have slept later than the Prince ever has and they don't publish a word of it." Ostemian has come into his own. His father and mother gave him an inheritance—the right to kt -,v the show bus.ness—and < >st*-r man has built himself up to that point of making himself a favorite Never has osterman appeared to deter advantage. The right stuff, ! even down to the can* and th<Prince of Wales hat. Great stuff. Another smash hit is Ted and Betty Uealv. Ted is king of the nuts He known not how to make people laugh, he makes 'em howl IT.- introduce- n umber .if assist;, n*s
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during the act of ‘‘Syncopating Toes.” Healy is an easy winner. Reck and Rector close the bill. A neev Idea of how a wife can make her husband stay home is advanced by Virginia Mann and Robert Hyman in a sketch, "Long Distance Love.” Bobby “Uke” Henshaw with his imitations makes the second spot on the bill have real value. Assisted by Vera Van Atta. Easy favorites. Nnack, equilibrist, opens the show. Keith's Is presenting this week the best all round laughing show of merit that I have ever seen at this house. At Keith’s all week. -!• -I- -IDIFEERENT DANCE REM E TOPS NEW BILL AT LYRIC Something a little different, a little novelty, is the keynote of the Revue De Luxe, headline act at the Lyric this week. Opening with a Spanish dance by the entire company, the rest of the act is dancing, singing and some excellent violin solos by one of the men. , Os the dances, the one done by two girls to the music "March of the Manikins" was In rny opinion, the most pleasing. Did you ever hear a son of China whose speech reminded you of Saint Patrick's day? Ben Nee One. yes, that's his name, is the one that does it. He sings in both Chinese and English and with his personality makes friends of the whole audience. Clever young fellow. Marked and Gay have a tap dancing act that, although not nut of the ordinary, is very good. Strictly speaking, the woman Is the best dancer. The Rose Kress Four is a very good looking roller skating act. Liked the Spanish dance done on the roller skates very much. Pierce and Russel, billed as "aeromedians," are two comedy dancers who entertain with a lot of comedy In their dancing. In Gnalano and Marguerite's act the man plays an accordion in a very pleasing manner. The woman's singing is net so good, but she can shake a wicked tambourine. Radio Fun Is an attempt at comedy along with several apparent radio experiments Bill includes |>i>lert and Schofield. At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer I \ \ IDLIN' \M I PI WO DO THEIR ON N •'ll FF A piano and a violin save the day |at the Palace. Meaning that the pinna playing of the man in “Thump son Light Trlii” .and tin* violin playing of the woman In the s imt 1 act are the easy winners on an only fair bill. The woman plays what. m‘ghf> be railed a tantalizing xiolln. She 1 plays the moonlight stuff we all lik>- to hear. The man at the piano gets some fireworks into his playing. ; especially his solo number. A male singer h- lps ;:i p itting the act over. Jennings an ! Mack offer a blackface act which smack fa show Tlieir topical song stuff s*-* m • , to g‘*t over better than the-it comely, j They r ill thei" The < 'amou , (laced Taxi.” A song wha-h rrml . Is on** of ••Mis- | ter Gallagher at.! M:ter Sliean" , helps "The lav* -dor.'' The remedy lin the act > only so-so. The girls j have several .are * nunil** i- The I comedian or comedians did not move | me to laughter. j Took Murdock nod Kennedy Sis-
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What I Like Best o n Stage Jack Osterman because he j knows the value of personality j and the necessity of changing his material every season. Has the best act in his career. At Keith's. The Duncan sisters, both of ’em. in tlieir full sized musical comedy smash, ‘‘Topsy and 1 Eva.” At English’s. The dancing of the pickaninnies In “Topsy and Eva.” Stepping that stops the show with applause. At English's. Miss Francis White because she is easily the best singer of "kid” and "wise” songs on tho stage. Real hit. At Keith’s. Ted and Betty Realy, with Ted doing the "nut” stuff. His trained dog stur.t is a wow. A funny sensation At Keith’s. Ben Nee One because he Is a good novelty. At the Lyric. | -—Choice of the Observer. - ... ~j ters attempt eccentric fun. Grace Ayer and Billy have a roller skating j act which opens the show. The ; movie feature is Rin-Tin-Tin, the ! dog, in “Find Your Man.” At the Palace today and Wednes- : day. The movies today offer: "The Mine With the Iron Door," at the Circle; "Garden of Weeds," and "All Night Long.” at the Ohio; "Forbidden Paradise," at Mister Smith’s; [ "The Hidin' Kid,” at the Isis and ' Sinners in Silk,’ at the Apollo. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen be ! long to: I (’liauneey C. Grove, 3*oo Kenwood Ave., Ford, from New York and Meridian Sts. Thomas J. Scanlon, 172$ N. Meridian St., Buick. from Ohio and Meridian Sts. Mike Hul.se, 343 K Washington ; St.. Ford, from same address. B\< K HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found hy police belong to: James Bivens. 1423 E. Raymond St , Chevrolet, found stripped of loose par's at Harding St., and Eagle Creek bottoms. < 'harle.*. II Oebh.ardt. Terre Haute, Iml., four, ! at Eleventh and Men . diarr Sts. Id •ntified as Bandit John Lewis, 24. colored, 164S Garfield PI., was identified by Daniel Thomas. ”326 Hillside Ave.. as on*of the three colored men who held him up Saturday night at Michigan and I 111 n* •- Sts. and took $16.30 from him 1 e-tectives Topson and White say they have a clew to fh*- , th*-i‘ two alleged bandits Street t ars Collide TrafTV was tie,! up on the College Ave. oral Fairground car lines if. 7 a rn today when a < 'nllcge ear j crash* 1 into a Fairground car at | College and Fairfield Aves Front • •ri-1 of the I'ollege ear. south bound, was smashed Two windows In the | fairground ear were broken.
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STILL ON STATE LAND Man and Wife Arrested, Following Find at Boys’ School. I By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., Dec. 9.—John i Dezelan. 24, farmer, was under a i six months’ sentence to the Indiana j State Farm today. Marshal of Plain j field arrested Dezelan and his wife, j when five gallons of liquor and luO ; | gallons of mash were found on the : | grounds of the Indiana Boys’ School. ! ! A similar sentence against Mrs. Dezelan was suspended when it was learned she was about to become a mo tlier. : | _____ ________________ Hoosier Briefs mWO small boys at Shoals en- i acted a "William Tell." Ono placed an apple on his | head and the other fired his rifle j loaded, he thought, with a blank. ! When the apple flew to pieces, the young marksman nearly fainted, j The other lad was unhurt. A diphtheria epidemic closed Newport schools a week. H. A. Wenlge, advertising manaj ger of a Bloomington paper, has i been notified his brother George has : been re-elected mayor of London, | Ontario. Delta Upsllon fraternity at Oreenj castle has purchased The Towers, for years home of De Pauvv presi- | dents, for the chapter home. ! Judge suspended Judgment when j Mrs Frank Terkoskey of Clinton ; said she sold liquor to buy food for j her children. IUBERT BLAIR, manual training teacher at Fairi- mount, laired a hole in a I block of wood and was sighting ! the hole when a student blew on j the other end. Blair had to have j a,doctor remove the sawdust from | his eye. Mike Bachman, Bb, tourist printer, known all over the country, was I killed at Marlon when struck by a street car. Two youths drew fines at South Betel for tossing pennies at actors at the Palace theater. Russiaville is proud. Gladys Fisher of that city is a member of th** football team of Penn College at Oskaloosa, lowa. [Achy , A /S'JS 1 lh, i>ti Cc km Get Cross 1 Vmictl Animd Word Puzzle , BOOK r Khh *•" th.; dod* C9t Sir if you can write the correct words in the spaces, children. It’s easy. When you have solved the puzzle, show it to father or mother and ask them to send '2sc to Peofile’s Hume Journal. fiO Lafayette Street, New York City, for a three months' trial subscription to People’s Home Journal. 'l ou will then receive free a copy of the* Victor Cross Word Puzzle Book, with other fascinating puzzles. People’s Home Journal the magazine for nil the family. Address Dept. CAVP -41. PEOPLE’S HOME JOURNAL ISr copy NEW YORK $1 prr yeir
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LOCAL MAN RENAMED Coolidge Keeps Harry I~ Fidler on Federal Farm Loan Board. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Nomination for reappointment of Harry L. Fidler, Indianapolis, former member of the Indiana State board of education, to the Federal farm loan board was sent to the Senate Monday by I President Coolidge. Edward T. j Franks. Kentucky, and A. C. Wilj hams, Texas, were also named on j the board. Celebrate Golden Wedding By Times Special' NO BLE S VILLE. Ind., Dec. 9. Mr. and Mrs. William Harper observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary Monday. They have lived on there farm here for thirty-nine j years.
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