Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1925 — Page 5
SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 1925
MUSICAL COMEDIES BOOKED AT MURAT AND ENGLISH’S
Sissle and Blake In ‘Chocolate Dandies’ Opens Monday—'Blossom Time’ to Visit Us for Fourth time—* * ‘Little Jessie James’ Coming Soon, * All the definite bookings at English’s and the Murat for January are musical comedies. On for three days, Sissle and Blake, former stars of “Shuffle Along,” arrive at English’s in “Chocolate Dandies.” * The Murat is dark next week, but will be re-lighted on Monday, Jan. 19, when “Little Jessie James” comes for three days. .
On Monday night, Jan. 26, "Blossom Time" returns to the Murat for a week. This will be the fourth time this offering has been here. Dramatic bookings are few and far between at English’s and Murat. “CHOCOLATE DANDIES” OPENS MONDAY NIGHT On Monday night at English s, Sissle and Blake open a three-day engagement in "Chocolate Dandies, an all-colored show. The production was staged by J ulien Mitchell. The lyrics and music are by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake. The song numbers are “A Million Little Cupids in the Sky,” "Manda,” "Dancing Pickaninnies.” “A Jockey’s Life for Mine.” “Dixie Moon.” “Songs of Old Black Joe” and "That Charleston Dance.” The book, by Sissle and Lew PayPton, concerns the handicap race at the Bamville (Miss.) fair. Assisting Sissle and Blake in the fun making are Lottie Gee, Lew Payton, Jimmie Ferguson, Valada Snow, Dancing Charlie Davis, Josephine Baker, Mildred Smallwood, Ivan Browning, William H. Hann, Four Harmony Kings, the Bamville Mississippi Dixie Band and Sissle and Blake’s Symphony Orchestra. -I- -I- -I: “LITTLE JESSIE JAMES” BOOKED AT MURAT A musical comedy, "Little Jessie James,” comes to the Murat for three nights and Wednesday matinee commencing Monday night, Jan. 19. L. Lawrence Weber is sending this musical comedy to us. The book of "Little Jessie James,” is by Harlan Thompson. Harry Archer wrote the music of Tattle Jessie James,” and the song hit “I Love You” was recently broadcast from England to America by the Hotel’ Savoy Orchestra and was heard in this country by a number of those who were listening in. Stress is laid upon a Paul Whiteman Band, carried on tour by the company. These young fellows comprise. the orchestra and are a component part of the entertainment. They are called the James Boys and the choristers are called the James Girls. Alice Cavanaugh plays the title role In “Little Jessie James.” Others in the cast Include Ros Pur■Gance, Elsie Peck, Robert Miller, Bam Collins, Katherine Claire Ward, William J. Gnhl, Marie Hunt. -1- + -IBLOSSON TIME’ TO PLAY RETURN DATE ' The Messrs. Shubert will present a come-back engagement of “Blossom Tima” at the Murat, week, Jan. 26, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. The outstanding thing about “Blossom Time” the lovely operetta which, after its remarkable triumph in Chicago and other leading cities of the Middle West, returns here in a blaze of new glories, is that the music is almost entirely that of Franz Schubert, the greatest song composer who ever lived. The oast includes Messrs. William 1 >anforth, Bertram Robert Rhodes, Yvan Servais, Paul Ker, David Andrada, George Hackett, Townsend Aheara, Lawrence Roberts Clement Taylor, Phillip Kelman, and the Misses Edith Thayer, Louise Arnold. Mary Stockwell, Violet Rio, Erba Robeson, Feme NejvellAlma Keller, Virginia Danforth and Peggy O’Donnell, premiere danseuse.
AMUSEMENTS . ‘DANCE ECHOES' ■ RALPH HARRY ‘ Ash, Goodman Comedy Four N _ With Frank Baions & Martin Jacklin I dudley-DIDDELL & GIBSON-del M ' “JUST VAll DEV ILL lANS” I Reynolds & White Walter “REFINED COMEDY" * , O-<HoooooooooH” Jj k/v PERTURE PHOTOPLRY " F/larie Prcvost, 71onlc51uc,iJdcKcGiidolyick L from ike iiovcliy JELtttest Jfkscai .
He Is Pleased Booth Tarkington is well pleased with the selection of Ben Alexander to play the role of the youngster, George Min - fer, in "Pampered Youth,” Da-, vid Smith’s plcturization for Vltagraph of Tarkington’s prize winner, “The Magnificent Ambersons.” In a letter, the novelist says: “I never believed It would be possible to find an interpreter of |he American boy of my stories. Being a real boy, and at the same time having obtained that training that is necessary for young boys to have in order to do movie or spoken drama, is a difficult background to possess. But Ben upsets my theory. He is able to stay a true American boy, a ‘regular fellow,’ and yet accomplish things in a dramatic way. He is a natural actor.”
‘FROLICS OF 1925’ OPENSATCAPITOL Local Comedian Again Tops Burlesqtie Cast, “Frolics of 1925,” with twelve scenes, twenty musical numbers, and thirty chorus girls will be the attraction at the Capitol next week. Leon De Voe, a local boy, who long since achieved fame as a comedian and who is now the leading “topic” of "Town Topics,” now playing, will again top the cast next week. Betty Haynes, dancer, and Thelma Leonard will again take Important parts. Each will do several specialty numbers. "My Ideal of a Girl,” a late song hit, will be sung by Harry Cornell, tenor, and also the famous “Sidewalks of New York” will be one of the outstanding musical numbers, and there will be shown an elaborate setting symbolic of the song, which has won national renown. Other outstanding scenes will show life in the motion picture studio “behind the scenes,” a small town railroad station, and a rainbow gcene. Lowe Is a “Bachelor” Edmund Lcwe, cast in the leading role opposite Pola Negri in her latest starring picture, “East of Sues,” a Raoul Walsh production for Paramount, was the youngest bachelor of arts" in America when he graduated from Santa Clara University. Later he obtained his master’s degree from Stanford University and for two years he was a member of the faculty of Santa Clara, teaching a branch of English literature. ‘The Boomerang’ Started This Week Camera work on the screen version of David Belasco's world famous play, “The Boomerang,” will begin on Dec. 26. This Preferred picture will be a special production made under B. B. Schulberg’s supervision, with Gasnier acting as director.
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ROUNDING ROUND THEATERS WITH WALTER D. HICKMAN I 1 GAIN we have the problem I A I before us: What is indecent •**■ In public entertainments? This week, the police chief, after trisiting the Capitol Theater, ordered tights or fleshings placed 6n the bare limbs of the girls. He also announced that he objected to some other things. For years I have stood for clean entertainment on the stage. The bare limbs of any chorus girl exposed on the stage will not lure me to the theater. Any vulgar movement on part of a |laneer In the chorus or by a principal drives me away and in dlgust from the theater. A dirty joke on the stage is a violation of the objects of the stage. But the trouble is we do not all agrea on just when "dirt” is dirt. Sometimes the fleshings and tights are so badly fitted to girl and sometimes \'hey have been so spotted with dirt that I longed to see a picture of September Morn. The point I am making is this —filth carnot be tote rated on the stage, but when the civil authorities seek to be the judges of what the public may see when they'Tiay their good money at the box office, then let us have a definite expression ,from the chief of police as what is objectionable and what is not. A dancer by the name of Duncan some years ago was commanded to wear more than a smile when she appeared here. The order resulted in first page stories In the dailies all over the country. If the Hmstockened leg of a chorus girl is not to be permitted here, then for all times let the chief fcet down his blue book and write
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
No, I—Margaret Young will headline the bill beginning Sunday dt B. F. Keith’s. No. 2—Dancers with Sunsweet Maids at the Lyric all next week. No. 3—Betty Haynes in “Frol-
down his orders. Burlesque must be clean If It wants to live. To me a dirty story is far worse than an over exposure of the cuticle. Burlesque is not realism. O’Neil is a master of realism. The biggest dramatic success from a box office standpoint in New York today is a show In which there are more oaths than have ever been uttered In ten shows combined. Two other successes, under the white banner of Belasco, are concerned with street walkers and women of easy virtue. The police of New York have not closed these three shows. The public is flocking to them. Some weeks ago I "Artists and Models” in Cincinnati. The girls had so many clothes on that I thought they were wearing mother hubbards or something like that. But some double meaning jokes and situations stayed in. The civil authorities do not and cannot agree on what is art and what Is dirt. I wan’ clean shows. I do not want censorship. The way to knock filth out of a show is to take it into coufrt. Then the whole problem .can be aired and a regal decision arrived at by a jurist. •I- -I- -IThis week I received a letter from Charlie Wilson. That is, his name was on the letter. Wilson is at Keith’s this week under the billing of "The Loose Nut.” I did not like the material used by Wilson. To me his bffering is cheap hokum. Made more so because the bill this week >■is dominated by eccentric acts. 1 * In the letter bearing the name of Wil-
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ics of 1925” at the Capitol next week. No. 4—Jane Craig last half of the week, beginning Thursday matinee at the Palace. No. s—Sissle and Blake with
Sarg’s Marionettes to Visit Us
Tony Sarg’s Marionettes have been placed under contract by the Indianapolis Public School Teachers. They will give three performances at Caleb Mills Hall. An after-school matinee of “Pied Piper,” will be given on Monday, Feb. 2 and another matinee on Tuesday, Feb. 3, when “Treasure Island,” will be given. The only night performance will be given on Tuesday night when "Treasure Island,” will be repeated. "Treasure Island,” includes scenes at the'lnn before the adventure really got under way, another of the usual confusion at the docks without which no proper maritime expeditiori can set forth, a lively disagreement on board the pirate ship, a beautiful getting in the woods, a son. It was stated I gave "a line write-up to all but the old .oca! boy,” meaning Wilson. He continues: "Sorry I made such a bad impression on you as I wanted a good write-up in my home town. Born and trough! up here and look at what did. Well such is fame and coming back heme without glory. Sorry, I did not write you last week that I am a local boy, but now it is too late, I guess.” Wilson, I knew you were a local boy, but you are a vaudeville performer and as such you will not get from me one more line of consideration than any other performer. I try to treat every performer on AMUSEMENTS
“The Chocolate Dandies,” opening monday night at English’s for three days. No. 6—A Paul Whiteman band ’frith “Little Jessie James,” due at the Murat, beginning: Monday night, Jan. 19, for three days.
fight near the stockade, the pirate ship at sea in a severe storm, while a fight on board prevents any exhibition of seamanship and two final scenes on the Island. As for the “Pied Piper of Hamelin,” everybody knows that animals are responsible for the entire stovy, and as the procession of rats becomes a stampede and a rat riot, the wonder grows that Tony Sarg could) have found so many of them in all the world. But they all go where the Pied Piper promised. Then comes the dishonest Burgomaster; and then the procession of the children, following the Piper; and at last the little lame girl, who could not join her comrades because they went too fast for her. the stage with tho same sincerity whether they come from Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Spencer, New York, London, Paris or from Kokomo. It is not because you are a local boy that a favorable review was not given. It was because your material did not reach the standards by which I judge vaudeville. I am not writing reviews to please the actors. If I do that I am a cheat and when that happens in my life it is time that the editors and the public kick me out. yMy "reviews are not controlled. They reflect my opinion regardless of whether the actor comes from Indianapolis or not.
Here Is Some Dinner. Pork and beans,* boiled potatoes, prunes and black coffee with condensed milk formed the Christmas dinner of the Paramount “The Thundering Herd” company on location in the high Sierras. The unit was too far from any community to secure anything like an elaborate menu. * "Red Clay” Is Finished Having finished “Red Clay” under the direction of Ernst Laemmle, William Desmond has been assigned to anew chapter-play under the direction of Henry Mcßae. Its title is “The Aee of Spades,” and it will be put in production next week at Universal City.
AMUSEMENTS VWWWWWWW<AAAAAAAAA^WV^VNAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA^/ BpSl ' rDAN CASLER AND HIS Society Symphonists With Miss Gypsy Rhouma A Melange of Melody and Dance D |V .!E KITNER & REANEY BLAIR AN OCEAN EPISODE AND Jack Kinney & Hilda Lee eWlth BETTY ROPER “The Premier Dancer*' SWEET ORREN & DREW “THE TOWN CLOWN** MAIDS - • *Ht Rainey & Avery lievue ECCENTRIC FUNSTERS medWtrio Sensational Equilibristic Marvels *♦ * * Imperial Comedy “ROBBING LIONS” Pathe Comedy “HELLO BABY” fs Grantland Rica Sportlight y%i=V®, CHAMPIONS’
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GUIOMAR NOVAES TO GIVE RECITAL AT3PISUNDAY Students of School of Music to Give Pro- f gram, At the Academy of Music at 3 o’clock Sunday, Guin\g.r Novae’s, pianist, will appear in recital under the auspices of the Indianapolis Maennerchor. Since the days of Teresa Carreno few pianists, let alone a young girl In her early twenties, have attained the pinnacle of success in so short a time as has Guiomar Novaes. Today the name of the brilliant Brazilian is a household word. Soul stirring In her phenomenal power, she shines radiant with the pure lustre of genius. The beauty of tone which she draws from her instrument, whether It be a thunderous fortissimo or the most feathery pianissimo, is far beyond mere technical facility, while by the romantic vision and emotional power which are hers, she establishes a strong communicative sympathy with her enormous audiences. The American public accepted this young artist with abiding Joy in the utter simplicity and sincerity of her great art, when first she made herself known here in 1916. Events have since proved the unerring correctness of this judgment. Now she ranks with the greatest pianists of our day, distinguished by Henry T. Finck of the New York Evening Post and the late James Huneker, in their search for superlatives, as “super-pianist” and “Paderewska of the Pampas.” • • • FIRST RECITAL OF THE NEW YEAR The first students’ recital since the holiday vacation will be given at the Metropolitan School of Music next Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock In the Odeon. The public is Invited. The play, “The Old Toys” will be repeated and will be preceded by a musical program. Taking part will be: Margaret Mattingly, George Webb, Fairteta DeVault, Mary Townsend, Betty Pittinger, Dorothy Grill, Beulah Doblin, Catherine Burrell, America Brown, Marjorie Carr, Edward Warwick, Mrs. Hazel Egger, Mary Alice Gillum, Helen t’almer, Dorothy Gatewood, Pearl Stockdale, Carol Mayborn, Joel Inman, Anna Thiesing, Edith Harrison, Kathryn Walker, (Turn to Page 6)
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