Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1925 — Page 5
SATUBDAY, JAJf: 24,1925
INDIAWAPOLIS dBSERVMB MUSIC WEEK FROM MAY 3 TO 9
Fine Arts Committee of Chamber of Commerce Again Will Sponsor the Observance —Famous Artist W[iil Be Brought Here for Saturday Night Concert. The Fine Arts committee of the Indiaanpolis Chamber of Commerce again will sponsor the observance of National Music Week, May 3 to 9, throughout the State. Plans have been made to conduct a State-wide music contest in this city on the concluding day of the week, Saturday, May 9. High schools all over the State have been invited to take part in the band, orchestra, mixed choruses and glee clubs contests to be held here.
This announcement was made today by R. Webb Sparks, secretary of 'the execuitve committee of the Fine Arts Committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. In his letter to all superintendents of public schools and supervisors of music, Sparks outlines the plans as follows: “We believe it unnecessary to remind you of the success of our initial undertaking: last year when twenty-seven high school organizations contested for honors in our contest at Cadle Tabernacle in this city. The success and the far-reach-ing effect of these contests already are common knowledge and we hasten at this time to pledge a greater contest and a finer observance of Music Week through our high rhool contests. “Copies of rules and regulations are being sent to all supervisors of music in Indiana high schools so that both you and your supervisor may be fully advised of the magnitude of our undertaking and to preclude any possibility of failure of your school organization to be apprised of the contests and the rules which will govern them. More Entries "The Fine Arts committee at its first meeting of the year recorded the belief that the schools of Indiana this year would prdvide many more entries in all our classifications—bands,''orchestras, mixed choruses, girls’ glee clubs and boys’ glee clubs. “Present plants contemplate such a large entry field that contests in various groups will be conducted simultaneously so that all organizations may finish the contests early enough in the day for members to be taken by motor to the hcyne of .Tames Whitcomb Riley, Riley Memorial Hospital and to other points of interest in the city in order that their trip to the Capital City to participate in the contests may be made a memorable one in their school life. • "The committee is planning a large concert for the evening of the contest day, Saturday, May 9, at which time some world-famous ytlsts will be brought here In conP'rt Wliiners of first prizes in the contests will be admitted to the performance, given places on the stage and required to sing or play their assigned number as a part of the program in which prizes will be distributed, probably by the Governor, the mayor or some other prominent, person. , These are but. the more important events which will honor Indiana’s high school students who come to the contests, as smaller undertakings are to be provided, all to the end that the trip here may be as enjoyable as possible.
"As was th© case last year. each organization will be obliged to finance its Journey here, but this can easily be done through cooperation of luncheon clubs, the local Chamber of Commerce, or through community or school effort, as the interest in these State contests already* has become so widespread that very little promotion of the idea is necessary to provide the necessary funds. Sta< e Interested ‘‘The Indk aapolis Chamber of Commerce, l,i sponsoring Music week throughout the State, and particularly in conducting the State music contests, has just one aim—to promote an interest In music among the general public and especially among school children of the State. Jts effort in the undertaking Is based wholly upon the desire to create this interest by providing the public with better music and by creating a greater desire among citizens to participate in musical undertakings. Many to Enter “The fine arts committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce desires every hlglv school in the State of Indiana to enter as many musical organizations as possible and will welcome every entry received. Please tell your music students about the contests, if they do not already know about them, for we feel sure that once the proper spirit is aroused, they will be certain to favor participation and that thereby their interest in music will he Increased to the everlasting benefit of themselves, their schools and the communities of which they will become an important part in later life.”
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ROUNDING ROUND THE A TERS — WITH WALTER D. HICKMAN 1 IS far as Indianapolis was conJJi cerned the cold shoulder was mighty production of "Romeo and Juliet.” “Saint Joan” did not do the business at English’s that such a noteworthy production deserved. The engagement from the box office standpoint was “just fair.” This week a second rate road company presented "Little Jessie James” at the Murat. On the opening night it did four times as much as Jane Cowl did on her opening night, and on Tuesday night “Jessie” jumped $250 over the opening night. The Wednesday matinee was done in face of adverse reviews. I did not hesitate in my review Monday to tell the theater goers that a mighty weak company was present. To my way of thinking it was one of the weakest companies ever assembled and sent here at the prices charged. But the public knew by the reviews that the company was a poor one and the production shopworn. And yet "Little Jessie James” did the biggest three-day business of any show staying that length of time at the Murat this season. I am sure that "The Goose Hangs High” with Mrs. Thomas Whiffen and a great cast would have starved to death here for .the first part of the week. It was canceled and the time given “Blossom Time.” On its fourth visit this hit will do big business, it seems from the advance sale. We are buying Just what we want to buy, regardless of conditions. “Blossom Time” deserves real patronage and will get It for the fourth time. -I- -I- IRoltaire Eggleston has Just returned from New York where he attended the opening of the New E. F. Albee Theater in Brooklyn, Monday night. Eggleston says that this theater Is the most costly and perfect playhouse that the “big town” has ever possessed. It is the culmination and realization of E. F. Albee's long cherished hope, dream and determination to give the greatest city in the world the most complete and perfect playhouse. Yesterday’s opening dedication and premiere performance has convinced everybody that Mr. Albee has realized his idea.
An idea of the widespread interest aroused by this latest metropolitan adventuie of Mr. Albee may be had when it is stated tht.t over a hundred newspaper men, sixty out-of-town vaudeville managers and scores of “specialists” in dramatic, musical and recital enterprises were members of the congregation which packed every seat of the 3,100 capacity of the new Albee Theater in Brooklyn. The people of Brooklyn, biggest borough of Greater New York, incidentally proved that they know what Mr. Albee means when he says to them: “The new theater is to be a civic center, a lyceum, a place of community' activity of the “show business.” That utterance gave flavor and significance to the dedicatory premiere. With the opening of the new theater, Mr. Albee gives to Brooklyn the best appointed theater in the world, not only for the visiting patron, but also for the artists who appear there. The new E. F.. Albee Theater in Brooklyn is the latest milestone in the nearly forty years of progress made by American vaudeville since B. F. Keith and E. F. Albee first started their little store show in Boston. The attitude of managers of all branches of theatrical business of the organized artists of vaudeville, of the newspapers everywhere and of the mertopolitan public as disclosed at Monday’s dedication and opening, Indicates the significance of the event to the world of the theater and its public. Work Started on 'Siege’ Camera work on Samuel Hopkins Adams’ story, “Siege,” will doubtless be completed at Universal City this week. Virginia Valli is starred in “Siege” with Eugene O’Brien, Mary Alden, Marc McDermott and Helen Dunbar. \
PLAYERS TO HAVE CHIEF STAGE ROLES
SHAW, MODENA, MITZI HEADLINE VARIETY BILLS All Vaudeville Houses Plan Special Features Next Week, EILLIAN SHAW, who is known as "The Arch Enemy of Gloom” because of her peppery methods of singing character songs, will be among the featured acts to be seen at B. F. Keith’s starting Sunday afternoon. Her delineation of various characters during the rendition of her songs has made her an immense favorite over the entire circuit. The bill, which runs mostly to comedy, will include: WALTER NEWMAN, the Indianapolis comedian who, with a sup-' porting company, will offer a farce from Mr. Newman’s pen, called “Battling Terry.” Mr. Newman is supported by Irene Sarli and Marjorie Chester. GEORGE MAC FARLANE, wellknown baritone, wlB appear In an act called “Songs Fantasies.” Appearing with Mac Farlane will be
Mrs. Fiske Does Stage Talking
Does the actor feel the grief he tries to picture? “It is different with different players,” says Mrs. Fiske, who is to make her appearance as Mrs. Malaprop in “The Rivals,” at English’s Opera House for three nights, Feb. 16, 17, 18, with matinee Feb. 18, under the management of George C. Tyler and Hugh Ford. Although the role of the rigid, decorous and word-hurdling Mrs. Malaprop makes no demand of grief, Mrs. Fiske’s theory of the processes of the actor’s mind and heart in that house of the imagination which we call the theater is nevertheless of lively interest.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
No. I—Lucie Bruch and her violin will be present at the Palace beginning Thursday. ‘ No. 2—Gladys Ahern will be among those present at Keith’s next week, beginning Sunday. No. 3—Edith Thayer and Roy Cropper in "Blossom Time,” opening for the week at the Murat on Monday night.
Margaret Walker, a dano r, and Herbert C. Lowe, a pianist. ELLY, billed as “America’s Leading Feminine Juggler.” This is her first local appearance. WILL AND GLADYS AHERN— Present an oddity which they bill as "A Spinning Romance.” They are expert rope'manipulators as well as singers and dancers. DICK HENDERSON Famous English comedian is also making his first appearance in this city. He will offer a comedy singing act. PATTI MOORE appears In a song and dance revue made up of eleven people, including Roy Sedley and his Bud and Buddy, assisted by the Domino Entertainers. Singing, dancing and music make up the main ingredients of the act. THE LANE SISTERS—A quartette of pretty misses who offer a fast dancing act called ‘Stepping Out.” The bill will also Include The News, Topics of the Day v and Aesop’s Fables. -I- -I* -ICOUNTESS MODENA BOOKED AT LYRIC Headed by the Countess Modena, celebrated European violinist and Peggy Stewart, an American girl who captured New York by her
“It is different with different players,” Alexander Woollcott reports her as saying in ode of her rare interviews. “I should say he feels an intense .lympathy. Knowledge of life and vision are his stock in trade. Why, if you have ever wept over a story or at the play, you, yourself know the feeling and the extent. "The actor wlt4i no science must keep lashing his own emotlone to get the effect a master technician would know how to express with his the lights at the other e*d of The world. I suppose Pederewski does play a little better with his mind on the composition before him, buV so skilled a virtuoso can afford to spare his own feelings.”
AMUSEMENTS
No. 4—Some of the members of “Revue De Art” at the Lyric all next week. No. s—Kurtis Zimmerman in “Children of the Moon” at the Masonic Temple, Thursday night. A Little Theatre offering. No. 6—Violet Wagner in “Hotsy Totsy” at the Capitol all next week. '
dancing as 'a stellar artist with the ballet of the Metropolitan Opera Company, ten singers, dancers and musicians make up <he cast of the Revue De Art, an elaborate vaudeville production which comes to the Lyric next week. The bill will Included MAUREEN ENGLIN—“The Scintillating Songstress,” who made a big hit at the Lyric last year, and who returns with an entirely new group of comedy and topical songs, enhanced by clever character delineations, of the type that have placed her phonographic records among the "best sellers.” FRED FLAPPER’S SEALS—WeII trained denizens of the deep who perform a novel and amusing routine of intricate feats. DOBBS, CLARK AND DARE— Two young men and a girl in a hilarious comedy skit labelled “Vaudeville Remnants” in which they sing a little, danpe a little and finish with some sensational comedy tumbling. ROSS AND MAE BELL—Dispensing good cheer in a lively farce entitled “The Love Teacher.” JOHNNY DOVE AND MABEL WOOD—“The Camouflage Duo,” blackface funsters, who have an original brand of humorous d' logue mingled with song and dance. BEEHEE AND HASSAN—Athletes introducing a somewb . different program of acrobatics, Arab tumbling and hand-to-hand balancing. ON THE SCREEN—Mack Sennett comedy “Honey Moon Hardships,” Grantland Rice Sportllght, "Nature Rouge,” Pathe comedy, and Kinograms. '•I- -I* -IMITZI AND DANCERS TO TOP PALACE BILL Mitzi. with her company of Royal Dancers, eight in number, occupy the headline position at the Palace the first half of next week with their dancing act, "Dance Creations.” Mona Del, Ruth Underwood, Maud Conroy, Vida Mayville, Winn Taylor, Rosemary, Dora Juatesen and Fred Ramsey compose the company and are responsible for the many danc-
ing scenes that take place. The other acts on the bill are: VIVIAN COSBY—Who introduces the audience to Station JOY, where a musical trio is broadcasting Its radio program. Songs, dances, music and comedy are revealed there. MAXFIELD AND GOLSON—Portraying “A Modem Romeo and Juliet” In their comedy classic of fun and song. MILLS AND KIMBELL—Whose “Yesterday and Today in Song” is divided in three parts: The melodies sung in the Civil War period, those In the days of the bicycle, and those of the present day. PAUL, LEVAN AND MILLER— Are athletes of strength and skill In "Treat ’Em Rough.”
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't^spectaculars) REVUE DE ART WITH THE COUNTESS MODENA., PEQGY ! STEWART AND A COMPANY OF TENJPREMIER ARTISTS Hpp : M\ EINI6LI INI l THE SCINTILLATING SONGSTRESS! l DOBBS. CLARK & OWE ' . W JOHNNY DOVE AND MABEL WOOD > | Beehee & Hassaa | Fred Flipper's Educated Seals I Ross &Mu Beil [ Athi.t.. Kb* ... DUT.rcab.l MARYXTB OF THE PEEP I THE LOVE TEACHER ■ I | MACK SENNETT C< '-ANO HICi. H °p JEyW0 ° N HARDSHIPS " KI NOGRAMB. GRANT- ]
‘Moonlight ’ L. Lawrence Weber, whose production of “Moonlight” ran for six months at the Longacre Theater In New York, announces an engagement at the Murat soon with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. “Moonlight,” in which Julia Sanderson is the star, was written by William Le Baron, a well known writer of successful farces and comedies; the music by Con Conrad and the lyrics by William B. Frledlander. All the dances and ensembles were staged by Walter Brooks. Frank Crumlt is in the cast.
NEW FACES 10 BE. SEENATCAPITOL ‘Hotsy Totsy’ Will Be Next Burlesque Event, r George Barkham, comedian, will play the leading role at the Capitol next week in “Hotsy Totsy,” a burlesque attraction with an entire new cast of more than thirty persons. While Barkham will be the leading funmaker, he will have the support of such comedians as Les Dunn, who has Just closed a tour on the Columbia Circuit with Fred Clark’s “Let’s Go”; and Jack Stanford, leading straight man. Ruth King, the modem Venus De Milo, will make her first appearance in burlesque. Miss King la an Indianapolis girl, and will play a limited engagement here. Norma Noel, the song girl, Bryon Wolf, tenor, with more than twenty chorus girls complete the cast.
AMUSEMENTS
‘BLOSSOM TIME’ID MAKE FOURTH TRIP TO MURATTHEATER Peacock, Thayer and Danforth Will Be in Cast, “Blossom Time” returns Monday night to the Murat for its fourth engagement. Critics everywhere, as well as the public, succumbed to “Blossom Time” because It was deemed worthy to be the forerunnner of anew school, or epoch, In the "light music” field of the theater, and such inedeed it has proven to be. Its electrical success In New York was instantly duplicated In every city of the country where It was presented, and as here to great popular accalim. The cast which Messrs. Shubert are sending for the approaching engagement includes Bertram Peacock, William Danforth, Roy Cropper, Yvan Servais, David Andrada, Paul Ker, Townsend Ahearn, George Hackett, Lawrence Roberts, Clement Taylor, Frank Noyes, Philip Kelman, and Edith Thayer, Laura Arnold, Feme Newell, Adele St. Maur, Alma Keller, Virginia Danforth, Erba Robeson, Polly Gray and Peggy O’Donnell, the dancer. Another feature of Interest will be the exquisite scenery and. costumes rebuilt, repainted and remade from initial models by the original technical artists, under direction of the Shubert art director, Watson Barratt of London.
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