Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1926 — Page 5

OCT. 2, 1926

‘ARTISTS AND MODELS’ WILL OPEN SEASON AT ENGLISH’S

Paris Edition of Shubert Revue With Phil Baker and The Gertrude Hoffmann Girls Comes for One Week, Opening Monday Night, Oct. 11. “Artists and Models’’ will open the theatrical season of 1926-27 at English’s Monday, Oct. 11. Contemplating the record-breaking advance mail order sale with its indication of a solvent condition for the entire engagement, the management attempted to have the original week’s stay extended.

Since the show Is booked to open at the Moulin Rouge. Paris, In December and other American major cities must be given a peep, ad■’lnonal time In Indianapolis was declared Impossible. This the Paris Edition, enjoyed a longer run in New York than any previous revue at the Winter Garden, seventeen weeks, an unusually protracted stay for Chicago, betokened the windy city’s approval The current offering is said to be both larger and faster than any of the prevoius versions of “Artists and Models.’’ In many ways it Is in better taste. Phil Baker and the Gertrude Hoffmann Girls head the large cast. The usual Wednesday and Saturday matinee will be given. Dew is good for the feet. If one would have graceful, beautiful tootsies one should doff one's pedal ward robe and scamper about the verdant sward of morning while the moist kiss of night still clings to the green carpet. Not Only do such activities favor one’s dogs, but sort of tones up the whole system. Seems like some mysterious but potent elixir exists in the dew find when stamped upon enters the pores of the feet and romps ail over the rest of the body. The practice of leaping about moisture-laden pastures Is what makes the eighteen members of the Gertrude Hoffmann girls in the Paris edition of “Artists and Models’’ so beautiful. Believe it or not. this Is the information provided by a Mile. Florence, premiere danseuse with the big extravaganza. It is her story and she sticks to It. doming from the same fount of wisdom are copious sprays of weighty data on the unique method the Hoffmann maids employ to achieve pulchritude and physical perfection. Some years ago Miss Hoffmann staged a classic ballet in conjunction with a civic celebration of the Mall of New York's Central Park. The event took place early In the morning when the dew was still sparkling on the velvet carpet of green. After n exacting performance the dancers nformed their mentor that they felt ■O fatigue. • Miss Hoffmann made further i • dancing in the dew. Asa result

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“Passing Show”

A. F. Miller announced today that "The Parsing Show" will open a week’s engagement beginning Monday night, Oct. 18. Tills is teachers convention week. every morning of the year students of the Hoffmann-Hermann School may be seen dancing in Manhattan’s mid-town playground. Dancing barefooted in the snows of winter is equally as efficacious albeit less enjoyable. , It is a part of the duties of the advance agent with "Artists and Models” to secure a secluded dell or fen In each city visited on tour. In these sylvan hideaways the Hoffmannians, chaperoned by Mile. Florence. disport themselves in the eternal quest for health and beauty. COMEDY NEARING COMPLETION "Long Pants," Harry Langdon’s third feature-length comedy for First National, is nearing completion on the Burbank lot. The cast includes Gladys Brockwell, A1 Roscoe and Frankie Darro., The story is an original by Harry and concerns the hilarities incident on adolescence.

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Newspaper dramatic criticism just now being discussed and “cussed.” It has been kicked over tlie lot for years, but now the Theatrical Press Representatives of America, Inc., in the T. P. R. O. A. Quill have opened up the subject again.

In the Quill, the producer and the critic have been invited to answer the qftestion: “Do you favor deferring release of dramatic reviews until same may be written after due deliberation, rather than the present system of rushing reviews to press the morning after premiere?” This is lyi important question in itself, but a solution of its many problems seem today even miles away. The current issue of The Billboard has a most sensible suggestion for what is termed the “review evil." The editor of Billboard has this in part to say and suggests as a remedy of the situation: N’ow for the system. To defer the report of a premiere is manifestly out- of the question. Newspapers simply couldn't afford to be late with such live news. It would be suicidal. But dramatic reviews consist of two parts. One is news, which is urgent. The other is technical criticism, w-hien can be delayed either a day or a week. The plan, then, is simply this: Cover the news angle immediately, and defer the critique sufficiently to permit the critic to do a good job of it. A helpful criticism, though it comes along two days or a week after the premiere, is obviously more desirable than a worthless criticism published the day after the opening. Also, an informative news story of the

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opening will serve the immediate mirnoaes much more effectively than a half-baked criticism. Even under the present system, if there are several openings in one night the regular critic can see and write up only one of them. The others are assigned to more or less unqualified reviewers. The plan suggested, however, requires the regular critic to see all the new productions in turn and write a formal critique in each ar. There is a difference b'-tween news reporting and dramatic criticism Any reporter of average, intelligence

Our Eddy

Eddy Brown, concert violinist now touring the Keith-Albee circuit, was married to Beth Lydy in California last week. Mrs. Brown will make her appearance with the Metropolitan Opera Company in October and Mr. Brown will continue his tour of the two-a-day. A Joint appearance in vaudeville is not unlikely at a later date. Brown • is from Indiarfapolis.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

! No. I—Theodore Roberts as he appears in a playlet to be been at Keith’s all next week. No. 2—Virginia Rucker will he seen in “Four For One" at the Palace the first half of the week. No. 3—Alma of Alma and Du-

I can attend a premiere and write up a story about it that will fulfill news i requirement*. All he needs to do is give the name of the play, where it was presented, the author, producer, cast, etc.: tell what the play It- about—a direct synopsis, not a parody or a supercilious bur esque of | tile story—how- the audience responded to the play and to individual players I what kind of an nudienec it was—i. e unusually friendly, ordinary or "liard--1 boiled"—ami any other observations gathered in tlie course of the evening. All this Is pure and simple news gather--1 ing. And it means just as much—perhaps I J great deal more—to the public than a hasty, unripe, loose and olten unclear 1 critical opinion. It means just as much to the mass of I reader and it would be treating the production with greater fairness—to re port how the audience as a whole re- ! acted to the play, -ather than how the i individual critic or reporter was in pressed. Considering the wide diversltv of taste, and the futility of one man trying- in p-* i scribe the right kind of entertainment for | any number of others all the of and “me" stuff appearing in present-day criticism is very much of a loke. When a reviewer savs “the audienee I enjoyed itself tremendously." he Indicates - that the play appeals to the composite

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Vail to he present on the hill at the Lyric next week. No. 4—Mile. Florence, premiere danseuse with the tier.rude Hoffmann Girls in “Artists and Models," opening at Fuglisli’s on Monday night, Oct. 11.

mind But when he disdainfully remarks that he had a hanl tune keeping a-vake nd neglects to mention that the rest of •tie avdion- e had a go,si time he nil rely misleads the nubile and do< gross liijus tier to the production Hence the advisability of assigning comncient reporters t report the news uigle and compel lit critics to do the criticising. Tim ipst oi th suggested evatrm Ins l-i its fiilfil'ment of the demands of the reading public, its fairness to playwrights, producers aiul a,-tors and its possibilities in promoting a hotter understanding of dramatic art Even tn the smaller cities, where attrae-

To London Marion Harris, songstress, will break her tour long enough to play an engagement of four weeks in London. Miss Harris will return Iqter to participate in the Centennial Festival, of which she will be a star.

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ttons play for only one week, the plan Is workable. The news story published the ioiiowiis' day will give local playgoers such guidance as they tuuiiire tu deeding whether the ula.v is to tiieir liking. The subsequent critique, even if it apn-ar* as i.ite is tlie following Sunday, will still have Interest not only lor those wiio attended the play and can tnludge in pleasant and instructive retrospect, but to anyone who is at all interested in dramatic discussion There is. of course, somewhat more than this to the system. But enough has been outlined to enable anyone to get the idea. Any critic with real love of the theater and genuine sympathy for theatrical worker- in Ins heart can make much of the plan. As already pointed oiU. attitude Is of prime importance. Without a sympathetic attitude toward the work, all the qualifications In the world wont help a critic put tho idea across. Th ■ system calls for plenty of reai mental exertion. But it is worth-while exertion. IVoper altitude on the part of critics will promote proper attitude on the part of the public This in turn will benefit the drama and the theatrical business. It is in the interests of this vclfare that the plan is offered. And so (nds the remarks of the editor of The Billboard in his own magazine. I am so impressed with his idea that T want readers of this department to think over his remarks and let me know their idea. It is the public that I want to

Walthall Signs Henry B. Walthall has been signed for a featured role in “A Fighting Love," Jetta Goudal's next starring picture for Do Mille. It will be directed by Nils Olaf Christander, the former UFA director recently brought here by the De Mille-Keith-Albee studio.

hear from and so does the editor of The Billboard. “M’FADDEN’S FLATS,” COMEDY "McFadden's Flats," which Asher, Small and Rogers will release through First National, has been put into production with Richard Wallace directing Charlie Murray and Chester Conklin, have important roles Mr. Wallace, Rex Taylor and Jack Wagner wrote the continuity for this famous comedy picturizatlon.

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PROPER FACES IN PROPER PEACES WOULDSAVECASH No'ccl Film Director Has Interesting Theory About Types. By Gene Cohn, NEA Service Writer. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—“ Business men lose thousands hiring and firing employes. The time will come when they will have a casting director. just as the films have, tc cast proper workers id proper places just as the director easts his pictures.” Such is an interesting theory of Clarence Brown, the rising young director of the Metro-Goldwyn forces, who gave the screen "The Goose Woman" and “Kjki” and is now engaged on "Flesh and Devil." As far back as 1913, Brown says, science recognized that the innate qualities of every man and woman are lrirrc •'•d in their externals. Causing Abilities "Ti e i ' ■'arches of Dr. Katherine M. II Blackford," he says, "evolved definite rules that anyone can follow In gauging man’s abilities and possibilities. She examined more than 50,000 subjects analyzed their features and characteristics, and compared them with their known qualities, thus dividing the human race Into a series of generally standardized types. / “Her basic rules are interesting when applied to casting either labor or actors. “The contour of the face is a valuable index to a man’s mental habits, and his adaptability to a given profession or work. We can divide them into three groups. “First, there is the triangular. Men or women with triangularshaped heads, broadest across the forehead, and who often have triangular bodies —the upper torso the widest—this is the type of poet, educator and artist. John Gilbert, while generally of this type, has a squarer contour, indicating a driving force underneath the artistry. Square Type “Then we have the square type—square contour of head, body, hands. Pioneers, generals, fighters and hard workers come from these. “Then there is the round type—■ rounded features and body—the type of judges, financiers, organizers. The late Willard Louis was an excellent example—hence he was cast for such roll's as ‘Rabbitt.’ In real life he was a shrewd business man and organizer.

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