Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 162, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1927 — Page 5

NOV. 15, 1927.

JARDINE GETS COTTON PRICE SLUMPBLAME U. S. Reports Add to Troubles of Mississippi Delta Plantations. BY HILTON BUTLER Written for The Times CLEVELAND, Miss., Nov. 15. About a year ago and from this place—“the heart of the Delta”—l wrote a dismal story about cotton and money conditions. The story still holds. Lightning has struck twice in the same place. Last year the trouble was over-pro-duction. This year it is the flood. This is Bolivar County, the section that has produced more fine long staple cotton than any other county in the world. Even this year the production will not be much below the peak of last year, for the flood waters of the Mississippi didn’t creep far into this county. County in Debt But the trouble is this; What would have been profit must go toward putting up new gins, new warehouses, replacing machinery that was washed down toward Vicksburg and New Orleans, paying off notes, helping a more heavily stricken friend, going to Washington to talk about flood control and doing the other things made necessary by the flood. Cotton prices jumped as a result of the flood that left nothing but weeds and cracked earth in most of the delta land. Bolivar County growers expected to get peak prices. Then out came the Department of Agriculture with its production forecasts that tumbled the market the wrong way so far as the cotton grower is concerned. Jardine Gets Blame So the wrath, the pent-up wrath that began April 21 when the levee broke, has been exploded on one man—William A. Jardine, the Secretary of Agriculture. Down here they call him “Jar-it-down.” That’s what has happened every time a forecast has come out from his department. Nothing would please the people down here more than ta see his scalp hanging , on a cotton boll. Until the flood, the Delta was an easy-come, easy-go country, spending money right and left, buying new cars, sending daughter to St. Louis for plenty of clothes and taking care of son’s expenses to Old Miss for the football games, to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, to Memphis for the three-day grand opera season, and to Europe, by golly, if he wanted to go. Ask Aid in Congress Whatever thinking was done in the Delta was done about dances, automobiles, fine homes and good times. Until April 21. A soberness settled over the Delta that night as surely as did the waters of the flood. And it still exists. Eyes and ears, and the feet of the more prominent, are turned toward Washington. “Stop that river! S. O. S.! Stop Jardine! This is the . Delta broadcasting from station C-O-T-T-O-N, getting weak and almost out of commission. Signing off until relief comes from Washington.”

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EDWARD NELL, JRTRIUMPHS AT HOME The Vagabond King' Lives Up to Its Reputation of Being as Good as When It Started on Its Journey After Being a Broadway Hit for Months, BY WALTER D. HICKMAN Applause may; seem cheap at times, but honest applause is never cheap. Edward Nell, Jr., came home last night as Francois Villon in “The Vagabond King.”

This is the first time that I can remember of hearing him in Indianapolis. His success has been rapid

as it has been honest. To me he is as interesting a Villon, the man who told a king that he would like to have his job and got it, as the man who created the role in the original New York production. When it comes to a review it makes no difference to me whether the chief actor comes from New York, Boston, Indianapolis o r where. If a local

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boy delivers the goods, I am ready to record it, and, if the case be different, I do not hesitate to say the actor is bad. But it is the truth that Edward Nell, Jr., comes into the role of Villon finely equipped as to voice and he has a better understanding of the dramatics in a musical drama than most men who have been on the stage for years. In a curtain talk that was sincerely demanded last night, Nell told the audience that he has been only a short time in this business and that if he could hold out a year in this heavy part he hoped to be able to come home again and attempt to please. Nell is gifted with a sincerity as to acting that few have in this class of a show. He does a characterization, probably better in the louder dramatic moments when he is leading the gang of the Paris underworld than he is in a lighter mood. And it is the dramatic mood and the quality of the voice which gives Nell the right to be sericnsly considered as a leader in this type of work in the future. The time will come when he will be called upon to create an outstanding role. He has the dramatic talent and a voice backed by the proper training. Personally, I do not care to see flowers go over the footlights to a man. Cigars or cigarets probably would be more appropriate. But the flower situation was cleverly handled by the conductor of the orchestra when the parade of flowers started for Mr. Nell and, the actor got by with it nicely. Nell is so far ahead of the man who played the Villon role her e last season that there is no comparison. The comedy roles are as well handled in this company as they were wtyen I saw the show in New York. H. Cooper Cliffe is King Louis XI. My conception of the role differs greatly from the way he is doing it. That is no proof that Cliffe is wrong because he gives a performance that commands attention and respect. Carolyn Thomson is the Katherine and she makes a pretty picture. Many others in the cast. The chorus is a wonderful improvement over the one we had last year. They make a classic of "The Song of the Vagabonds,” The orchestra is splendidly conducted by August Kleinecke. Here is one conductor who does not object to give encores when the audience demands it. “The Vagabound King” is 3tilJ one of the most delicious buys on tour. At English’s all week.

PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS Have always thought that the farewell week of a stock company should be a grand affair. That the last production should have those lingering qualities of bsth sweetness and greatness which causes one to be friendly and still remembering while waiting for anew season. That does not seem to be the idea of Charles Berkell who does the

very opposite. Since /this man is highly ‘ successful in managing his stock -ompany, his idea hallenges an arument. This week he Berkell organnation in its final eek at the Colon'll is presenting a rce by the name “Some Baby.” TO '■y way of thinking is a noisy, silly, bin piece of stage bunk which one expects to see in the summer in a ten-

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twenty and thirty-cent production. Berkell works on the idea that this class of fun makes a good ending because it leaves his players as well as his audience free and easy. This show gives the players many a wild chance to clown and do about what they desrfe, regardless of the author. I refuse to take “Stome Baby” seriously as I consider it a mighty poor play. There is no chance for serious characterization in this play. Those who have parts this week are: Idabelle Arnold, Adalaide Melnotte, Robert St. Clair, Kathleen Sanders, Heroert Dobbins, Larry Sullivan, Bernice Marsolais, Milton Byron, J. F. Marlow and William V. Hull. “Some Baby” closes the Berkell season at the Colonial on Saturday night. On view all week. ISLAND DANCERS ON VIEW AT THE LYRIC Native dances form the major portion of the entertainment of Prince Lei Lani’s Somoans who head the bill at the Lyric this week. Strangest of-all of these dances is the one that is performed but once a year when one of the chiefs are elected. The men all sit on the ground and sway their bodies to and fro accompanied by a tapping on a wood block and clapping of hands. A sword dance done with weapons that were used years ago and a mili-

tary drill were also danced to unusual accompaniment by the men. Leilehua Auld, said to be the greatest performer of sinuous dances, shows the people how they do the black bottom on the island. Her own interpretation of the hula is pleasing. Prince Lei Lani, instead of yodeling, sings an Irish song that he learned when he “was with Ernest Ball.” Said to be on their first tour of the United States, Vanderberg’s company of yodelers take you on a “Trip to Holland.” In this company there is a string band that plays some of the jazz of the day and some of the music of their land. They may be the "world’s greatest yodelers,” but I only heard one person. However, she was very good. Elsie Clark sings a number of her own" song hits which were made for radio and records. She is accompanied by Nelson Story at the piano. I liked her, songs but her style is a bit tiresome. Joe and William Hale make their juggling a little less serious business than do most juggelers. They put a lot of hokum comedy in the act and liven it up. The stereotyped gags and jokes of the old time juggelers are done away with and real comedy is introduced. This act is a knockout. The old man tells his secretary, who is in love, to go a head and do what he wanted to and not let the girl’s father know about it. He also lets his own daughter go with the young man <b help him out. The old man, in Douglas Flint and Company, dpes everything to help the boy marry the girl he wants to, but he wants his own daughter to marry some old “bird” with a lot of money and one foot in the grave. This is sure fire stuff. The Wilmont Sisters get a little close harmony in their singing. They have several of the new songs and a medley of old time ones in their repertoire. They have some new harmony for “At Sundown.” The Nafgys are said to have something new in the way of a spectacular entertainment. Fire eating and exploding of gunpowder in the mouth make for unusuality. However, I am sorry that I missed this act. At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) t CARL FREED HAS THE RIGHT IDEA Since the band presentation idea on the stage has become the latest in movie theaters, the question is now how to present a band differently as applied to the vaudeville stage. Carl Freed has worked out his idea in a manner which is stopping the Keith show this week. Freed has a good orchestra but he has made it different by doing ninetyfive per cent of the clowning himself. Freed is essentially an eccentric musical comedian whq has real musical ability along certain lines. He makes a dramatic entrance and then immediately starts his harmonica to do the blues. It is then easy for him to get his musicians into the “blues” mind and he cleans up with a “jug” num-

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ber as well as with his two musical soup spoons. He is wise enough showman to know'that there must be real melody and he gives his men a chance to do that. I noticed yesterday afternoon, when I caught this act, that Freed stopped the show “cold” and was sincerely called back many times. Carl McCullough opens with a couple of songs but it is his conception of a wild woman talking over a wilder telephone in a pay station booth that gives his act its knockout blow for favor. Jimmy Conlin always has had wild ideas and he is just as wild this year with Myrtle Glass in “Morning, Noon and Night.” As usual, Conlin does his piano stunt at the close of his act which is a good wild hokum finish. Howard’s Spectacle introduces some clever ponys and dogs. Elizabeth Friedman has some mighty good individual dancers in "Elida Dancers.” If the opening number was better handled along scenic lines, this “Jazzing the Nursery Rhymes” number would be a positive sensation. It is good as it stands, but better handling of lights and the like would do wonders for this number. The girls have the looks a.jd the way that makes a successful dance act. If the opening and closing numbers were handled in a better showmanship way this act would nbt be spotted in opening position. The mdvie feature William Boyd in “Dress Parade,” with Bessie Love. At Keith’s all week. MORE BURLESQUE AT THE MUTUAL Joe (Sunshine) Melino in the

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“Nite Hawks,” now playing at the Mutual, keeps the show from being a “flop” by the way he goes through the performance without making a verbal sound. He gets his thoughts across by the use of his eyes and plain simple motions that could be understood by anyone. . Starred along with Melino is Dixie Mason. She has a sttong powerful voice that could stand a little more cultivation. Her solos are well suited to her vitality. She is a passable dancer and her humor takes a pecular twist in kidding certain persons in the audience who try to flustrate her by their “wise cracking.” The show starts out very slowly but near the end it speeds up a trifle. The majority of the work is thrown on the chorus which is weak in talent. Patricia Kelly is the soubrette of the show and as such has more dancing and singing ability than any of the other principals. I would say that the “Nite Hawks” is only passable burlesque. At the Mutual this week. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: “What Price Glory,” at the Ohio; “Jesse James,” at the Apollo; “Publicity Madness,” at the Indiana; “The Fair Co-Ed,” at the Circle, and “The Valley of Hell,” at the Isis. FEAR HANKOW TROUBLE #— Bu United Press LONDON, Nov. 15.—The Hankow correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph reports that the German and Russian concessfbns are in a state of defense, owing to the possibility of an attack from troops moving down the Yangtze River from Shasi to Chenglin. He reports the flag of the Nanking nationalists flying from many public and other buildings in Hankow.

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Stage Verdict LYRIC—A unique and good dancing act, that of Prince Lei Lani, tops the bill. ENGLISH’S —Edward Nell. Jr., triumphs in “The Vagabound King.” Splendid comedy moments and a great chorus. COLONIAL—“Some Baby” is a poor show and a bad closing bill for a successful stock company. KEITH’S Carl Freed and his orchestra walk away with the honors this week with an eccentric jazz band offering that is mighty good. MUTUAL —The burlesque offering here depends upon the ability of Joe (Sunshine) Melino to keep things moving. Only fair burlesque. t

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