Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 338, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1927 — Page 5

MAY 7, 1927

‘WHITE CARGO’ AND ‘LAZY BONES’ WILL BE STOCK BILLS

George Gaul and Elizabeth Patterson Will Make Debut at 0 i Keith’s Monday—Jean Oliver to Be Seen , as Tondeleyo. Beginning Sunday night, the Berkell plkyers at English’s will offer for their week's entertainment a play jyhieli is richly tiavored with the pungent atmosphere ok Africa. This change of theatrical diet, entitled'*' White Cargo,” will continue throughout the week with matinees on Wednesday,: Thursday and Saturday afternoon. j

f Miss, Jean Oliver, leading woman, will portray tire baleful African girl whose pernicious morals poison the atmosphere in which wiflte men from England and the States must needs ply their trades. t The action of the piece takes place in a bungalow on the West coast of Africa. Here are housed white men who have' come to the dark continent with a firm determination to repel its various influences, but, who, little by little, succumb, and are either sent home as wrecks or else die a failure. One Langford, a doctor, of England, had become addicted to the usd, of alcohol and unfortunately endeavors to perform an operation on a patient while under its influence. The patient dies, and Langford escapes to Africa well aware of the country’s subtle, power to overthrow a white man’s ideals, but imbued •with a determined zeal 16 prove that vulture, refinement arid education |are superior in strength and prePionderancy. But Langford's ability to resist is as frail as a child's attempt to rush from beneath the hoofs of an oncoming steed. He finds Uvat his only solution is to marry the mulatto vampire. This he does and the pitiful clutches, into which he has thrust himself almost proves his undoing. When the wife awakens to the realization that her only riddance of her white husband is through death, she slyly plans to slowly poison him. Langford is finally saved by an enemy who turns the play’s hero,— BAI L AM) PATTERSON AT KEITH’S NEXT WEEK George Gaul, Vivian Tobin. Ernest Cossart, Elizabeth * Patterson and Elizabeth Taylor return to the Stuart Walker company on Monday night in the first local presentation of “Lazybones.’’ a chronicle of a country town by Owen Davis. The story deals with Steve Tuttle, the Uydest man in Milo', Maine, win e aversion for work ■ can only he compared with 1 1 its love tor going fishing. From one'of his''numerous fishing trips lie returns carrying a basket with a baby in it. He had found it among some bushes behind a beaver dam. * A rather peculiar story-, but that was the way it happened, iijsists .Lazybones. Everyone turns against liim and for the ensuing twenty ’years he is ostracized. Ho bravely hears the malignant bigotry of the townspeople and seeks comfort through goin' a-fishin.’ A happy as well as hilarious ending is worked out by the author and the play is decidedly, enjoyable and creditable entertainment. It is not only packed with sentiment and laughs, but it has in it a lot of the realism that made "Icebound’’'- and “Tiie Detour" such interesting plays. This moving drama of small town life, should be rated with tiie authpr’s best work. George Gaul will have tiie title role in the play and Vivian Tobin will have the leafing feminine roky Elizabeth I’atferson, who was in the original New York production, will have the* chief comedy part. Others in the cast will include Ernest Cossart, Elizabeth Taylor, Eleanor Martin, Muriel Kirkland. Helen Emert, •* Harry Ellerbe and Eric Kalhurst. Tiie play has been staged by George Somnes.

RIVERSIDE AMUSEMENT PARK Is Entertaining Thousands , Admission FREE This Season Come Out This Week-End and Get a Foretaste of THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME

.prarTTO Monday another big and kHlll'H NIGHT BRILLIANT FIRST NIGHT! Return of the Favorites!

George Gaul Vivian Tobin Elizabeth Patterson Ernest Cossart Elizabeth Taylor Eleanor jfartin Muriel Kirkland

Note: Mist* Patterson was in the original cast of this play when it was presented at the Vanderbilt Theatre, New York, a few seasons ago. T/ndTITHE ROAD TO YESTERDAY

Organizations Can Raise Substantial Sums by Holding Theater Parties at Stuart Walker Company Performances .*

B } ENGLISH’S 1 P EALL WEEK MAY 8, START- § ING SUNDAY NIGHT RJEAN OLIVER-MILTON BYRON W m K “White Cargo” if „ THE OUTSTANDING PLAY OF THE Jk SEASON. DO NOT MISS IT WL ■ E F tire lialcony, SOc. Gallery, 83c (not Isa LT reserved). Gov. tax on 90c seats only. & Matinees—Wed., Thur., Sat.,, 8:18 1 Lower Floor, SOc. Bale tiny, 35c Gallery, SSc M ■ L 1 ) NEXT weck “LAFF THAf OFF" | C

LffllC BUYS ALL > OF THE NEW WILL lOGERSMDVIES 'Unofficial Ambassador’ to Be on View Here. , Will Rogers, “unofficial ambassador’’ of the United States to Europe last summer, is going to prow to all America that his famous andTiumorous trip abroad reaiiy happened, and that the foreign experiences' which he has detailed in pungent and uproarous magazine articles were not fiction. , Will has just completed the mak-‘ ing of a series of twelve short motion called “Will Rogers, Our Unofficial Ambassador Abroad” in which he “reveals” the naked truth about Europe. This series will be shown at the Lyric. The first, “Will Rogers in Dublin,” to be presented next week. Not sii'fe.e Mark Twain chronicled his immortal tours abroad has any private citizen of Yankeeland described a trip as did Rogers in his recent series of articles on the adventures of a “self-made diplomat to his president,” and the cowboy humorist hag the advantage of Clemens in that he had a motipn picture camera and a crack Hollywood cameraman along. Although Rogers has had years of experience as an actor in motion pictures ho has broken away from all film traditions in photographing his own tour, an<J has produced twelve reels of highly original and personally planned pictures, doing, for once all his own direction acting and writing of subtitles, t He is working industriously on the subtitles while on his transcontinental tour, having hgjd up release films for the coinage of new witticisms, which he* says keep coining to him. Rogers’ pictures will fJbtail his experiences with royalty, dictators, peasants, ■ airplanes, railroad trains, strange languages, strange foods, kindly exaggerated and caustic wit which are characteristically American in this shrewd, unpretentious westerner. The camera takes Rogers through England, Ireland, Switzerland, Holland, France, Belgium and the Rhine region in particular, hut tiie pictures with their subtitles hit off national foibles and virtuep. The humorist approached Europe without timidity and without hostility. say those who accompanied him. resolved to see it as he has seen his own country, free from illusions and pompousness. Many of these scenes were photographed publicly, many privateliy, all being those of th& travelers’ personal selection and chosen with a view to amusing and perhaps enlightening the Americans whom he has known from the cattle ranges to Biftli Avenue, from backstage at tiie “Z.’egfold Follies” to the halls of the United States Senate. Rogers’ star of tflese travologues is, frankly, himself, and Mrs. Rogers is his leading woman. No other characters go through the entire series. **

AMUSEMENTS

Tirst Time Hero, the Comedy Success— LAZYBONES

LOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS UPON LOCAL STAGE

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ROUNDING THEATERS

This has been a notable week in the theaters of this city. We have seen the Murat sold oul for tine nirht when “Trelhwnv of the Wells” was presented by one of the irreqiest easts ever assembled.

The night before we saw Keith’s sold out for (he opening of Stuart Walker. And on the same night the Berkell Players were greeted with a capacity house to see "The Cradle -Snatched?.”' It seems that Indianapolis Is buying just what it wants and how. This city seems “right” for stock and the big business done by both Berkell and Walker proves the point. If any cast in the world could demand a packed liou.se then it was the one in “Trelawny.” A. F. Miller tells me that most people coming to the box office were buying tickets to especially see John Drew. Os course, the entire cast was a magnet, hut most people seemed to best remember John Drew. In speaking of interesting people in town this week, we have with us Captain Lin O. Greene and Ills museum. Tiie following data lias been prepared for me: “From seaman to showman" might be the title of the life s story of Captain Lin. G. Greene who is in Indianapolis this week and next with a marine museum housed in a private railroad cor on tiie Monon

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tracks at S. Alabama and Maryland Sts. ' s Captain Greene thas spent practically his entire life collecting oddities from tiie sea. From the time lie was a lad seventeen years old in New York State and sailpd his own seven-teen-foot private yacht on a nearby lake until he stored tils soecially : built private yacht “Tamiaini” tit Sandusky, Ohio. last November, the i captain has been collecting rare | specimens from the sea. Over 200 I of thescw?ea creatures which have ! boon caught in the past twenty years arc now on display here in Captain i Greene’s special car. i o'he re 1s a strange story connected 1 with everyone of the specimens, from i the mamouth whale-shark over 45 feet long down to tiie perfectly ; formed baby octopus only eight inches in diameter. Although Caplain Greene could relate many a hair raising tale of tiie sea based oh his i personal experiences to tiie public, his interest in tiie museum is purely philf.ntl ropical, and he chooses to j \Valk along with his charactdVistlc | rolling sea gait and point with boyish | pride to the result of his life on the I sea.

AMUSEMENTS

No. I—Miss Elizabeth I*atterson will make her first appearance of the season with the Stuart Walker company Monday night In her New York success, "Lazybones.” No. 2—Herbert Dobbins of the Berkell Players will lie seen next week, starting Sunday night, in “White Cargo.” No. .I—Bobbie Brown will be among the artists to he seen at the Palace next week. No. I—Helen Garty will be seen with the Don Valerio company at the Lyric aIL next week.

In Concert

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I-awTciice Tibbett

The soloist with the Mendelssohn Ghoir at the Murat on Monday night. May 9. will lie Lawrence Tibett, baritone of the Metropolitan Opera.

Opening Date for Riverside

The official opening date for the Riverside amusement park will be Sunday, May 22, it was announced by A. \V. Colter, manager, today, and it Is planned to make the opening a gala occasion, with free “rides” at certain hours nnd winding up with an elaborate display of fireworks in the evening. An “official” opening day this .year would appear to he an empty formality, as tho big fun resort has i ecu filled with crowds of pleasure t cokers for the last two weeks, almost ten thousand persons visiting tiie W. Thirtieth St. park last Sunday. Practically ull the various amusement devices arc in operation, including the thriller, skyrocket, mill chutes, old mill, aero swing, skating rink. Ferris wheel, frolic. Uill game, twister, Kentucky Derby, bathing girts, haunted house nnd iterpillar, to say nothing of the old reliable merry-go rouml and 'dozens if other minor attractions. The admission charge to the park has been done away with this summer and the gates are thrown wide open to tiie public. This week-end a, free attraction called "Tiie Chinese

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¥ 'YOUTH* BEAUTY S VARIETY ' J k*. E4RTEE SISTERS J^*R,EVUE I A MUSIC, SONG AND DANCE DELIGHT* WITH SONYA GUDOWA, TEDDY CARUSO, ELSIE BARTEE, ANTHONY BERTERA AND FRANK PETERS BARREH & CLAYTON LOU CAMERION & CO. "THE REBOUND" -"CLOWN CAPERS" DON VALERIO & CO. ITALY'S PREMIER WIRE WALKER—WITH HELEN GARTY CECIL ALEXANDER FOUR COVANS “ONE OF THE IDLE RICH” “SENSATIONAL DANCING" BOBBY “UKE” HENSHAW & CO. “TAKE IT EASY” ON THE SCREEN - 1 I THE AMBASSADOR OF MIRTH 1 Will ROGERS &7 | HN DUBLIN" • j HERF/S THE FIRST OF THE NEW WILL ROGERS SERIES OK COMEDIES FIIiMED EY THE FUNNIEST MAN IN THE WORLD DUR- | INC. HIS MEMORABLE TRIP ABROAD LAS T SUMMER. THEY ARE I AN INNOVATION IN THE REALM OF MOTION PICTURE HUMOR. IN HIS INIMITABLE WAY ROGERS REVEALS “THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT EUROPE.” IF YOU SEE THE FIRST YOU’LL BE EAGER TO SEE ALL THE REST. WATCH FOR THEM AT THE LYRIC.

DAILY ORGAN RECITALS BY LESTER HUFF STARTING ATI?4O O'CLOCK NOON-DOORS OPEN 1250

Death Coll” will be shown in the center of the park. It is a mystery act in which a young woman enters a. small box measuring J 7 by 17 by 32 inches, after which twenty-four large swords and sabers are thrust through the Ikix from all sides and at all angles. Os course the young lady emerges unhurt after tho swords are withdrawn. Wins a Dancing Cup Sally Blanc, young Paramount ingenue, a dancing cup and a screen contract the samo night. A film executive dining at the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, saw motion picture possibilities in her grace and beauty and arranged for a test. s

Record Run -The longest run ever achieved by a screen comedy is the record now belonging to Warner Bros.’ special produo;ion, "The Better ’Ole," starring Sydney Chaplin. The picture has ended its New York premiere of twenty-five weeks of capacity business at $2 top, at the Colony theater.

AMUSEMENTS

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BROAD RIPPLE . GETS READY FOR lIS NEW SEASON Workmen Busy Putting Finishing Touches to Park. “Indiana’s Coney Island” would be an opt titlo for Broad Ripple Park this season which under tho magic touch of a small army of carpenters painter;*, electricians, and builders of outdoor amusement devices is being transformed into ono of tho most complete summer parks in the middle wear. Broad Ripple Park when fully completed for opening, which is scheduled to take place the latter part of next month, will put Indiana and Indianapolis on the map of tho country's modern amusement parks. Along tho big midway or “The Great "White "Way," which will be the now concourse for tho many new and varied attractions, visitors can point with pride to tiie fact that one of tho biggest of the summer attractions was built, by a Jloosier concern. Tho attraction Is “Bluebeard's Castle,", and the builder Is Charles W. Reed, u local builder nnd promoter of outdoor amusements nnd wl*o lias erected devices in some of the best-known parks in the country. Along with the big array of wild animals that will Inhabit the free zoo, which proved one of the most Interesting of the attractions last season, will be added tills season nil alligator farm. Tiie alligators, which run from tiny ones to tho big maneaters eight and nine feet in length, will bo furnished by “Alligator Joe” Campbell of South Jacksonville, Fla. There will also bo several dens of makes of every variety. These will come from the Florida Snake Farm, located nt Hillard, Fla. Gila monsters from Arizona will also bo new tenants of the zoo this season.

Mendelssohn Choir AND Lawrence Tibbett T ANARUS““" MoMay9 8:15 P. M. SEATS—S2.SO, $2, $1.50, $1 Cn Sale at FULLER-RYDE MUSIC CO. 27 E. Ohio St.