Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1927 — Page 6

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ANN DAVIS OPENS AT KEITH’S IN ‘LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY’

The Berkell Players Will Be Seen in a Prize Fight Comedy, Ms Zat So,’ at English’s Next Week, With Milton Byron and Jean Oliver in the Cast. Stuart "Walker announces that the most distinguished east of the summer season thus far will he seen in his production of ‘‘The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” at Keith’s theater beginning Monday night. No'fewer than three leading women and two leading men will participate in this brilliant and amusing play, which only recently was released for presentation outside of New York.

Ann Davis, seen here last summer in “The Outsider,” and “The Swan,” will have the title role in “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney,” while Eleanor Martin and Muriel Kirkland will have other principal feminine roles. George Gaul and Gavin Gordon will have the two leading male roles in the play. A most noteworthy supporting cast will be found in Edhest Cossart, Elizabeth Douglass, Frances Bendtsen, Elizabeth Taylor and Eric Kalkhurst. In addition to the above players there will be six or eight others in minor roles. “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” is by Frederick Lonsdale, eminent British writer and author of “Spring Cleaning,” which achieved a run of consequence two seasons back. The presence of Ina Claire in the New York production of “Mrs. Cheyney” had something to do with the immediate success of the piece, but even the most popular actresses need solid, substantial vehicles for the expression of their talents. The Lonsdale work struck Broadway along about the same time as “The Green Hat,” “The Vortex,” and other important plays and it is interesting to note that it was just as pronounced a hit as any of its contemporary; works. PRIZE FIGHT COMEDY ON VIEW AT ENGLISH’S The Berkell Players at English’s offering next week a delightful comedy entitled “Is Zat So.” It was written by two young men who acquired a nifty line of slang while overseas during the world war, and who felt that such jargon would build an ideal dialogue for a play. The co-authors, James Gleason and Richard Tabor, were actors out of a job. They hunted unsuccessfully for work for several months after the close of the war, and finally decided to write a play for themselves, using the argot gained from association with mixed classes in the trenches. They acted out their play as each successive scene was built, assuring thmeselves that no detail had been overlooked. But writing a play and producing it, or inducing someone elce to produce it was a more difficult task than writing it, and the two disappointed chaps struggled for recognition for several months as they peddled their play about. Finally they succeeded in borrowing enough money to put the play in rehearsal with a, small company and invited Shubert representatives to view it. It made such a decided hit with him, that he advised them to play it on Broadway. Overnight these young men became famous. They filled a two-year’s engagement with it, later went to Boston, Chicago, London and several foreign capitals.

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IN THAT GAY, DEBONAIR, DAZZLING COMEDY

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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (FIRST TIME IN INDIANAPOLIS)

' * George Gaul Ana Pavts Gnvfn Gordon fcrneet Co.sart Elizabeth „ •' Patterson

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Organizations Can Raise Substantial Sums By Holding Theater Parties at Stuart Walker Company Performances

iilßEßimi® SPWEtoV®] ENGLISH’S—AII Week V / | Starting Sunday Night, May 29th—8:15 a U JEAN OLIVER - MILTON BYRON J J ,[ GIVE YOU PLENTY OP LAUGHTER IN n{J 4 “SS ZAT SO” If " IT’S A DANDY Nightly at 8:15. Lovrer Floor, 90c—Entire Balcony, 50c— Gallery (Not Reserved), 25c. Gov. Tax on 90c Seats Only. MATINEES—WED., THURS., SAT. AT 2:15 Lower Floor, 50c—Entire Balcony, 35c—Gallery, 25c WEEK OF JUNE Sth—“EASY COME—EASY GO” DON* TMISS THIS. IT’S DIFFERENT.

CASINO GARDENS OPEN for RACES Saturday, Sunday and Monday Starks Royal Vagabonds (10 Pieces and Entertainers) Reservations, Lincoln 8266 and BElmont 4839

VARIETY ROUSES PREPARE BILLS FOR RACE WEEK Taaches’ Browning and Bernadine de Grave to Be Here. In order to give Speedway visitors entertainment the Palace thcater has booked for the first half of next week “Getting Gertie’s Garter,” a picture taken from the famous New York stage success starring Marie Prevost and Charles Ray, and "Our Girl Friend,” a musical comedy playlet with Bernadine de Grave and her six boys. “Getting Gertie’s Garter” is based on the hilarious story of a young man who gives his fiancee a beautiful gold garter with his picture on it. He thinks it is a bracelet. When the engagement is broken off, the fiancee is horror-stricken to learn what he has done and his efforts to retrieve the garter lead to complicated and humorous situations. “Our Girl Friend” stars Bernadine de Grave, the feature of Ziegfeld's “Sally,” in several dances. The Cyclone Steppers are young men who have a program of eccentric, tap, comedy, and special dances to offer. The bill will include: ABADULLA TROUPE Three ■women and three men who hall from Algeria in an acrobatic offering. KNORR-RELLA AND COMPANY —Funsters who shout “The Battle Cry of Freedom” in their comedy sketch laid in a divorce court, at Reno, Nevada. FENTON AND FlELDS—“lmported from Scotland” with their unusual novelty of song and talk. ART HENRY AND COMPANY— Spend their time at “A Rehearsal” where they proceed to have much fun. Jane Johnson who has had wide experience in dancing circles, and who has played the lead in “No, No, Nanette,” brings her company of singers and dancers to the theater the last of the week. The variety Pioneers are-novelty entertainers of yesterday who join forces to take another swing around vaudeville circuits. Rodero and Maley are male funsters who sing and play a variety of instruments in their “Ask Me

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They Settle Asa result of conference l •- ween representatives of the Dramatic Guild and Lee Shubert, and counsel for Shubert, William Klein, and Arthur Gar field Hayes, representing the Dramatic Guild, the difference between tJpc Shuherts and the Dramatic Guild have been satisfactorily adjusted. The Shubert Theater Corporation will now become signatories to the basic agreement.

Something.” E. J. Moore is a master magician comedian in “Tears of Buddah.” On the screen arc: “Getting Gertie's Garter.” with Marie Prevost and Charles Ray the first half of the week and “Upstream,” with Nancy Nash, Grant Withers and Earle Fox the last half. Pathe News, a comedy, topics of the day, and an Aesop fable are tin 1 small reels. “PEACHES” DROWNING TOPS DILL AT LYRIC Hailed as the “Most talked of girl in the world, 1 ’ Frances Heenan Browning, better known to the public as “Peaches,” as the result of her matrimonial difficulties with her husband, Edward W. Browning, New York real estate dealer and millionaire- “Cinderella Man,” will appear at the Lyric next week in a vaudeville offering in which she is assist-

AND STILL NO INCREASE IN PRICES! !

LOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS UPON LOCAL STAGE

LAUOho a •( FEATURE STARTS AT CHORTLES / 1:35—4:50—7:35—10:00 CHUCKLES & \m r e nt|Es HI CIK * MARIE PREVOST (jsmSßl if _ CHARLES R-4.Y llillnf - 11 ™ 8 tilts* fticttfeuMy> lidLtty yfijCtS. premiere comedienne of the screen at her best in a human story, VH the film version of a famous stage I o tgj success that rocked a nation with |rp < laughter. Don't miss it. p /gfe /scLiate of ziegfeld's / -Sfusic<3/ Comedy J-ht &ally " \ N ! / SERNAtXNE . >.\ i ( DE GRAVE 'F fl CDcth HER CYCLONE CARTER SROS |||||sg Mi ABADULLA TROUPE 1 llj BROWNE & LAVELLE -T* Handle the Goods” * * NORA and SIDNEY

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■ cd by Henry Saxo and Leslie Coulliard. "Peaches" is no stranger to the stage, having been in musical comedy in New York prior to her marriage with Browning. She made her vaudeville dehut shortly after her marital affairs were aired in court without a satisfactory conclusion. The bill includes: ALEXANDER AND IDS GANG — Vaudeville's dynamo of. fun, with Ole Olson and Joe Messer, presenting a clown frolic, “What's It All About?” hi which the artists on the hill will participate. JOE BROWNING Monologuist and eccentric comedian in "A Timely Sermon.” “A US HERE”—A joyous fantasy of pre-prohibition days staged by Harry Bates and company in which “Al,” the genial bar-keep and his “customers” gather around the mahogany counter and harmonize on “Sweet Adeline” and kindred melodies of yore. ROSE AND KAY—Popular Mackface comedians known as "Dixie', Favorite Songs,” in a comedy song and talk concoction. EARLY AND LAIGHT —Favorites of long standing In anew and mirthful comedy skit. SYLVIA LOYAL AND COMPANY—“The act beautiful,” introducing remarkably well trained poodle dogs and pigeons. LESTER HUFF —Daily pipe organ recitals starting at 1?:40 o'clock, noon. ON THE SCREEN—A Mack Sennett comedy, “Crazy to Act,” Kinograms and an Imperial comedy, "Wine, Women and Sauerkraut.”

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No. I—When "Is Zat So" opens at English'* on Sunday night for ! the week, <l. F. .Marlow will he seen in the cast. No. 2—Murg:/-et Douglass, who matie such a favorable impression

ROUNDING THEATERS

1 had my first experience with the Moscow Theater Ilabitna presenting * * The Dybbuk’’ in Hebrew p.i the Shubert in Cincinnati, Ohio, the other niulit. Jt was my rare privilege to In* one of the few to lie taken hack to the dressing room of Anna Rovina, who plays “Leah" in “The Duhhuk.”

It Is conceded by authorities that Rovina is one of the most powerful dramatic personalities in the organization and it was my good fortune to see this woman play “Leah." Representatives of the Ilabitna told me that the company is so gifted and so well trained that an actor playing a two-line part tonight may play the lead on ttic following evening. And what a contrast was the dressing room of this foreign player to that of American stars. There was nothing to tlie room hut the necessary costumes, n chair, some maketip and the street clothes of the artist. A dressing room Is just a work shop. The men dress as a large family in one big dressing room, hut the women have separate rooms. Although she was the master of

la>'t season with the Walker players, makes her first appearance of the ■ eason at Keith's Monday night in “The Lu-t of Mrs. C'heyney.” No. 3—Dorothy Holden will he

ROUND With WALTER D. HICKMAN

five languages, Rovina found it necessary to use an interpreter hccauso my German Is something awful in conversation. Here was a great dramatic personality standing before.me in the weird white dross that she wears in the second act, her dramatic proclamation of marriage act before the spirit of her real sweetheart enters her body and soul. It Veined to me that tills woman, speaking one language and then another (everything hut English) need not speak at all because she “spoke with her eyes and hands.” Although she is appearing In a strange land many miles away from home, she understands two things

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seen with Kne • -Della and company at the Palace the first half of the week. No. I—Alexandria and his gang will he seen at the Lyric all next week.

of her audience—the applause and the close attention of those who see the Ilabitna. It was in the last net of “The Dyybuk” that Rovina became the dramatic power which the world lias found to exist in her. She fights as the Zaddlk orders the evil Dy\;l)llk to leave her body. She Js weak in voice when she speaks herself but her voice becomes whirlwind when the evil spirits speak within her. It is when the Zaddik drives out ttie evil spirit tlint one catches the real spiritual beauty of the acting of this woman. It is then that her own spirit breaks out, leaves her body and goes away on the long Journey with her dead lover.

OTEMHMC’ MICE SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY 28 SHADELAND CARDENS, FORMERLY JACK-O-LANTERN Dc Sautelle Royal Terrace Orchestra. Take HSth St. to JYndloton Pike, north ou pike to Sliadohiml Drive, turn loft at Shadeland Drive straight to gardens. FOLLOW ARROWS. GAR DAVIS, Manager

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BROAD SIPPLE, RIVERSIDE OPED DICE PALACES Amusement Parks Ready to Handle many big Crowds. The new dance palace at Broad Ripple Bark will he opened tonight by a dance party sponsored by employees of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, who will have an outing with the dance ending the festivities this evening. While the dance hall and the big rink will ho open the official opening of the park lias been set for next Saturday, June 4. All of the new attractions and concessions along the midway will ho be in readiness then, as will the big swimming pool which has been changed in various ways. Water is now being pumped in the huge basin of the pool from the park's new filtering plant installed by the Perkins Laboratories of Omaha, Neb., and which insures a continuous flow of pure filtered water at all times. The opening of the mammoth Cinderella dance palace at Riverside tonight is expected to. draw thousands to the park, where all the various rides and other amusement devices ore stow in operation. Many thousands of dollars have been spent in making the new temple of terpsichorc one of the finest in this part of the country. Three thousand persons can ho comfortably accommodated on the wide expanse of floor, and the finest orchestras "will be brought hero from tim ■ tn time. Since the admission charge to Riverside has boon abolished this season, the park is becoming a popular resort for all-day picnic parties, the beautiful grove being an • ideal spot for spreading the al fresco meal, anil visitors feci free to visit the nearby ball games, golf courses and tennis courts or to enjoy canoeing on the river, returning to the park as they please.