Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1927 — Page 6

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‘WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS’ DUE MONDAY AT ENGLISH’S

‘The Donovan Affair’ Will Be Next Offering of Berkell Players gt the Colonial —‘Fog’ Will Be Here Soon With Gage Clarke in the Cast, "William A. Biad$ r will present Patricia Collinge in Sir James M. Barrie's comedy, “What Every Woman Knows,” at English's all next week, opening Monday night, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. “What Every Woman Knows,” was revived by Mr. Brady at the Bijou Theater in New York on April 7, 1920, and ran ' there for over 250 nights. *

After which it played engagements in Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Detroit and Chicago, where its reception was even greater tHUn/in New York. This success of the famous play Is a pleasant one to record, for it proves that our play-going public inherently yearns for what is fine and best in its native theater. Patricia Collinge as the star in “What Every Woman Knows,” will be remembered as the creator of “Pollyanna,” and many other successful parts. In the company coming here with her in Larry Fletcher ranked high amidst New York favorite juvenile leads. Fletcher is too young to have been seen much outside of New York City, where a brilliant future is predicted for him. His John Shandv is said to' be inimitable. Lumsden Hare, another stage leader of directors and character actors, and Selene Johnson, a favorite always as an artist of great variety together with the balance of the original cast will present the play here. NEW MYSTERY PLAY AT COLONIAL . There is no more joyous game in the theater than that of trying to outguess the of a mystery play and find the guilty person before the author wants you to know who he or she is. Now and then someone writes a mystery melodrama with so many surprises, so many unexpected developments that it is next to impossible to say who the culprit is until the play is pract tically over. “The Donovan Affair,” next week’s offering of the Berkell Players at the Colonial, will open Sunday night. It is a thriller from beginning to end. Written by an unusually successful playwright, Owen Davis, it contains all the tricks used by the average author, and many concoctions of his own brbain, so that the entire niece is a masterful assemblage of excitement and mystery. Davis opens his play with a crime committed, and leaves it to the audience to guess who the murderer is, even though three acts of maneuvers may be reequired to whet the wits into recognition of the culprit. An adorable love story perfumes the play, which is designed to please the finer senses. Jack Donovan is a man of the world with perhaps more enemies than friends. He is dining with an acquaintance in Westchester, New " Fork, in company with several others. Donovafi wears an odd ring which he claims possesses unusual luminous qualities if displayed in the dark. His host therefore turns off the lights and Donovan demonstrates his ring. During the moment someone stabs him, then the mystery begins. Who is the murderer? ' Invitations have been extended to several men of keen wit in the city to see who can first determine the murderer. All of the members of the Berkell Players will appear in the production. Alney Alba and Milton Byron will co-star, and Josephine Aumann, concert organist, will preside at the organ. “FOG” SECOND SHOW AT ENGLISH’S . From all reports “Fog,” the latest mystery play that comes to English’s Theater for an engagement of one week, starting Monday evenin,

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He Returns Karl Kraeuter, well known as a concert violinist, has returned to New York, and concurrently the twenty-fourth season of the New York Institute of Musical Art begins its term. Kraeuter is one of the well known concert artists who is to be associated with this organization the coming season. It is the most important endowed institute in the United States, sharing the Julliard fund.

Oct. 24, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday, is one of the thrilling plays of the current theatrical season. . Written by John (Mystery) Willard, who also wrote that worldwide success,” ’Cat and the Canary,” ‘“Fog” registered an immediate and emphatic triumph when it was presented at the National Theater, New York City, and where it played an entire season. It is said to be a play of intense interest, dealing with what happened, to nine, persons, eight men and a girl, during their visit aboard a mysterious ship, “The Nightbird,” lost at sea in a fog. Captain (Tiger) Larribee, a rover of the Seven Seas and owner of this mysterious bird of passage, has requested the presence of several persons aboard his notorious vessel, on a certain date, all for a vital reason. From the very first rise of the curtain, mysterious figures are seen lurking in the fog and hideous sounds and signs are enacted. A shot is heard in the darkness, then a low moan; every one rushes aboard, the cables are cut and presently the craft is winging rudderless and apparently unmannned into the heavy sea. It is at this point that the real complications begin. The second scene shows the interior of the cabin; one by one the characters are killed or disappear; mysterious arms are thrust through portholes, thumping, weird steps, eerie sounds. Suddenly a trap door in the hull of the ship opens mysteriously and one of the characters, without warning, is hurled into the raging sea. Events crowd one upon another in startling fashion until the final denouement, When the mystery that is keeping the two young lovers apart is unveiled. The author requests that we tell you no more of the plot; however, we can tell you it is an orgy of thrills, more exciting than “The Bat,” and a solid evening of starts, thirlls and clammy creeps; in fact, it is the sort of a play that Edgar Allan Poe might have written. The entire production is staged under the direction of Arthur Hurley, former general stage director for Arthur Hopkins. Cast includes Nellie Burt, Leslie King, Jay Adair Young, Gage Clarke, Robert Toms, James R. Garey and Prince Singh. She Signs Long-Term Contract Long-term contraacts with Paramount have just been signed by Dorothy Arzner, director; Esther Ralston, beautiful blonde stor, and Doris Anerdon and Grover Jones, writers. Jones wrote the story of “The Cay Defender,” which Richard Dix now is making.

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Lawrence Schludecker has an important role in “Hazel Kirke,” a comedy-drama given by the St. Cecilia Players of Sacred Heart Church, Union and Palmer Sts., Sunday, Oct. 16. The cast includes Francis Schmitt, Lawrence Feltman, Henrietta Boehm, Hilda Rathz, David Fields, John Lauck Jr., C. Francis Rathz, Flora Hermann, Alphonse Wendling, MFWY mann, Alphonse Wendling. Charles Lauck, Lawrence Schludecker, Elizabeth Feltman, Alma. Scherrrer, Joseph Rautenberg. Many Extra Persons Used A total of 900 extra persons are used in the big London carnival scenes of “The Street of Sin,” the second American-made production of Emil Jannings, recently completed at the Paramount studio. Mauritz Stiller directed the picture, and Fay Wray had the feminine lead. Reicher Is Well Known Here Frank Reicher, who plays in “Beau Sabreur,” Paramount’s sequel to “Beau Geste,” was for twenty-six years a legitimate stage actor and later a picture director. He played in both Europe and United States, and directed twenty-three pictures.

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No. I—Hardeen will be the chief vaudeville attraction at B. F. Keith’s starting Sunday afternoon. .No. 2—Patricia Collinge as she

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In my eflort to keep up with what is new op the stage, I made a trip to Cincinnati to the Grand Theater, where I saw the Civic Repertory Theater of New York present “The Cradle Song,” a comedy in two acts with an interlude in verse. “The Cradle Song” is produced under the personal direction of Eva Le Gallienne, who used it to much advantage in New York last season.

The two acts of "The Cradle Song” are placed in a room opening upon the cloister of a Convent of enclosed Dominican nuns and a jarlor of the convent. All gfr the characters of the play are nuns but three, and only two men appear in the play proper. The interlude in verse is read by a man, Albert Moore, who does not appear in the play proper. It is this odd construction of a play that forced me to go to Cincinnati. I was interested to see how a poem recited could bridge the space of eighteen years that passes between the first and second acts. Although Eva Le Gallienne was not in the cast, yet the cast was of sterling worth. One could feel the genius of Le Gallienne in the way the play was directed. The comedy touch was definite and bold and yet on a second’s notice the entire action of the play becomes dramatic, powerfully so. “The Cradle Song” tells the story of life behind the iron barred windows and doors of the convent. First you see nuns with the novices in a room of the convent, ere one gets a beautiful picture of the discipline of this order of nuns, strict but humanly touched with the milk of kindness. Here you see the novices having a little difficulty in bending to the strict order of life and thought in the convent. And at the same time you see in the older sisters the result of many years of such a life of prayer and devotion. And then suddenly the outside world enters the convent in the form of a baby girl who was deserted

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appears in “What Every Woman Knows,” opening Monday night for the week at English’s. No. 3—F. F. Marlow will be seen

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by her mother in distress on the steps of the convent. Then you see the struggle to dedide on the part of the nuns whether the child should be kept by them. Here is a beautifully done picture of women “becoming mothers with- j out being wives.” They decide to keep the child. In the second act after the interlude of verse, we see th girl grown to eighteen years. Is she to become a sister? No, love for a man has entered her pure soul and she prepares to leave her many “mothers” and go out into the world. She was never prepared for holy orders, although she is a daughter of the convent. And so the young man comes to the outer wall of the convent to pay his respect to the nuns and to thank them for their great work in making Teresa such a lovely girl. The boy nevers enters the convent proper, but stands behind the iron bars, although he carries on conversation with the nuns. Here is one of the most effective scenes of "mother love” that I have ever witnessed. Each nun is really in heart a “mother” to the daughter of the convent. The irindividual reactions to the leaving of Teresa creates a picture that I will not soon forget. The cast is as follows and you will note several famous names: Sister Marcella Fanny Davenpork Sister Sagario Elizabeth Chester The Prioress Mary Kaaw Sister Joanna of the Cross Mary Hone The Mistress of Novices.. .Virginia Gr-i'ori The Vicaress Phyllis Rarikin Sister Tornera Pamela Robinson Sister Inez Mary Arden Sister Maria Jesus Eleanor Lewis The Doctor Harry Davenport Teresa Zita Jcoam Antonio Alexander Kirkland Lay Sister Agnes Brady

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in “The Donovan Affair” at the Colonial, starting Sunday night. No. 4—Frank and Mary Wheeler will be among the important ones at the Lyric all next week.

Nunss. ....Claire Albertson, Mtirie Pincard Monitors. .Gertrude Brady, Elsa Van Loan I am sorry that “The Cradle Song” is moving toward the East instead of coming to Indianapolis. Yes, the Grand in Cincinnati was near capacity when I saw “The Cradle Song.” Have received word of the death of Paul Hillman, former manager of the Cincinnati company of Stuart Walker as well as the “Greenwich Village Follies.” He died in New York last week and was buried this week near Cincinnati. Nelson Trowbridge attended the funeral.

Do You Know —

Edwin Carewe, she producer of “Resurrection” and “Ramona,” is a proud father? Mary Akin Carewe, and Edwin Gilbert, the new-born son are doing nicely? “Jean,” the famous Scotch collie who is appearing in filming of Helen Hunt Jackson’s story “Ramona,” has been insured against accident and being lost? That the insurance doubles if he should die during production? Dolores del Rio took hula-hula dance lessons from a native of Hawaii during her recent visit to the islands? Finis Fox, the scenarist, has written over 300 stories for the screen? He wrote the scenario for Tolstoy’s “Resurrection” and has now completed the script for “Ramona.” Robert Kurrle, cameraman for the Inspiration Pictures-Edwin Carewe Productions, is to attempt a nonstop flight from .Hollywood to a movie location in Utah? This is the first time in movie history a studia cameraman has tried this daring feat, and that he will make a landing in altitude of 8,000 feet? Warner Baxter has engaged a make-up expert to aid him in covering his body with red make-up when he appears every day as “Allesandre,” the Indian lover of “Ramona,” in the film story from the book of that title?

They Arrive

Members of the English company which will be seen in the Samuel Pepys comedy, “And So to Bed,” at the Comedy Theater, New York, arrived Tuesday on the Carmanie. They are headed by Yvonne Arnaud, noted London star, who will play Mrs. Pepys, and Fred O'Donovan, late leading man of the Abbey Theater, Dublin, who will portray the diarist himself. They will be met by James B. Fagan, author and producer, who, with other members of the company, has been in this country several weeks. Add Englishman to Cast York Sherwood, English character actor and comedian, a former singer in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, has been added to the cast making “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."

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ENGLISH’S rm WEEK MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY OPENING MONDAY NIGHT WILLIAM A. BRADY Presents Lovely PATRICIA COLLINGE IN Lovely Maggie Wylie, T /VllSjt Jfv WVXf with her quiet humor. fV ! IrLv V A-J l/L / J who shows svery girl _ svas;r d Ho‘w Woman Knows does she do It? Love and cunning and downright BY SIR JAMES M. BARRIE sommon sense—all feminine qualities these. (the best comedy ever wntten about med ■%> He doesn't realize It. All Wltll woman's* sense' of humor LUMSDEN HARE. SELENE JOHNSON is her saving grace. and the Broadway Company that broke all Every woman knows records with a phenomenal run of S4 that - weeks at the Bijou Theatre, New YorkITS A GREAT show. (Play staged by Lumsden Hare.) I REASONABLE PRICES: Nights—OrchMta, *2.78; Balcony. *2.20. 01. OH. *l.lO. WEDNESDAY MATlNEE—Orchestra, *1.68; Balcony, *l.lO. BATI’HDAY MATlNEE—Orchestra, *2.20: Halonny, *I.OB and *l.lO. Second balcony. all performances. 80c. BEATS NOW SELLING FOR ENTIRE WEEK.

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OCT. 15, 1927

Crosland Honored by Record His Name Has Been on Q,ay Broadway for Two Years. _ BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct. 15.—His name has been on Broadway continuously for the last two years. Only one film director in Hollywood can claim that distinction. His name is Alan Crosland. About two years ago "Don Juan" went Into the Warner Brothers Theater in New York. Crosland directed it. Then followed “When a Man Loves,” also a Crosland production—although I can’t figure why he boasts about it. A short time ago “Old San Francisco" opened in the same theater. And Crosland will soon have his fourth consecutive film on Broadway when "The Jazz Singer/’ with A1 Jolson, opens. By the time its run is finished, Crosland’s record on Broadway will be pretty close to three years. Crosland started in pictures when they really were an infant industry. In those days a director also had to be an actor, writer, cutter and sometimes a cameraman. Asa result. Crosland learned every branch of the game from the ground up. The things he learned in those early days are largely responsible for his successful pictures of today. Regardless of the distinctive claims other actors around the village might make, Ralph Forbes is alone in having a woman chauffeur. She handles his expensive car very well, too. While wandering about the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot the other I noticed Louis B. Mayer trying to beat Charley Paddock's record between the projection room and his office. He must have been trying to earfi part of that million-dollar-a-year salary his new contract calls for. And they talk about economy in the cinema factories f

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