Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1927 — Page 5

JTOV. 26, 1927.

NEW YORK GRAND OPERA COMPANY BOOKED AT ENGLISH’S

'Abie's Irish Rose’ Opens Engagement Here Monday Night—Shuberts Will Send Noted Cast Here in ‘My Maryland’ for a Week’s Stay, THE La Cianci-New York Grand Opera Company lias been booked at English’s for the entire week of Dec. 12. Eight different operas will be given here by this company and those presented here will be among the more important standard works. The repertoire of a traveling grand opera organization is a matter of great concern to the impresario. Among the great

number of lyric dramas that have been written and produced since grand opera became the highest artistic entertainment on the stage, only a limited number of them survived the fluctuations of popular favor. The taste in music is as varied and individual as the taste in matters more material. There is, however, a certain number of operas that have become the standards of musical taste throughout the world. La Cianci-New York Grand Opera Company coming for a week’s season of grand opera on Dec. 12 to the English Opera House offers the most ambitious repertoire of operas that a traveling opera organization has eVer undertaken to stage on the mad. The operas to be given in Indianapolis will be chosen from the following repertoire: Aida, Trovatore, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Faust, Othello, Forza del Destino, Samson and Delilah. Every one of these works has earned a popularity, not only universal, but which seems immune from the ravages of time. Men, women and even children hum or whistle an aria or two from these immortal masterpieces, and though they are sung in a foreign tongue, every one knows the stories of these operas. No better choice could have been made as far as the repertoire is concerned. In fact, “Othello,” “Forza del Destino” and “Samson and Delilah” have so far very seldom been offered by a traveling opera company. ft tt tt BIG HIT SHOW % HERE NEXT WEEK v There are, no doubt, many local theatergoers who will welcome the news of the return engagement of Anne Nichols’ “Abie’s Irish Rose,” the wonder play of all times, which comes to the English Opera House for one week beginning Monday, Nov. 28, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. At the same time many will regret the news that this is the farewell engagement of this clean and wholesome comedy of laughter, with its beautiful love story. Triumph upon triumph has fol-

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lowed in the wake of this riot of laughter since its premier in Los Angeles, a little over seven years ago, until it now has reached a pinnacle never before attained by any play ever written. All records on the North American continent were shattered by it, as well as those of Australia, and anew world’s record was established but recently, to be exact, on Monday evening, Aug. 15, at the Republic Theater, New York City, where the play is now in its sixth year of unprecedented success. The company to be seen here comes direct from a ten weeks’ engagement in Cleveland, and includes Phill White as Solomon Levy, Thomas McGrath as Father Whalen, Ted W. Gibson as Abie, and Eddie Pascal aas Isaac Cohen, all of whom were seen here during the last engament, a littleover a year ago. Os the new members Jack Mack will be seen as Patrick Murphy, a role he has interpreted for four consecutive years, he having just returned from a two ycars'tour of Australia; Alfred Clarke as Rabbi Samuels, which he has interpreted since the organization of the Chicago company, some three and one-half years ago; Patricia Quinn as Rosemary Murphy, and Bertha Walden as Mrs. Isaac Cohen. It is hardly possible to offer a more capable assemblage of players to interpret these characters. a a tt “MY MARYLAND” TO BE HERE SOON When the Messrs. Schubert present “My Maryland.” the new American operetta which seems destined to replace “The Student Prince” and “Blossom Time” in the hearts of American playgoers, at English’s Opera House for one week commencing Monday night. Dec. 5, local theater patrons will have an opportunity of witnessing the musical drama whose fame literally has swept through the land, although it has been shown in only five large cities of the country. Its story tells a gripping tale of the love of a charming young southern maid and a dashing Yankee officer in the midst of the crashing conflict of the Civil War. rt has been set to music by Sigmund Rom-

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1. Rahman Bev, “Miracle Man.” headliner at Keith’s, starting Sunday afternoon. 2. Phil White, John McCabe, Patricia Quinn and Teddy Gibson in a scene "from “Abie’s Irish Rose,” opening Monday night at English’s. 3. Gray and Baldi will be among those present on the new bill, opening Sunday afternoon at the Lyric. _

berg, composer of the popular successes, “The Student Prince” and “Blossom Time,” and these features alone insure it a ready and an enthusiastic reception wherever it appears. Coming at the head of the fine company of one hundred and fifty players is Lottice Howell, who gained fame as the prima donna recently on Broadway in Arthur Hopkins’ sensational native opera, “Deep River.” and was last seen here as the prima donna of the “Music Box Revue.” With her will be George Rymer, the international concert star, yho last appeared opposite Eleanor Painter in the “Nightingale;” Alexander Clark, character actor and comedian, with forty-two years of experience on the American and English stage, and Betty Byron of- Dayton, Ohio, who gained prominence a few seasons ago as Lady Jane in “Rose Marie.” Others in the huge company will be William Pringle, Helen Doyle, Jean LaMarr, Ralph Dunn, Peter Lang, Leslie Bingham, Sallie Stembler and others. The outstanding feature of “My Maryland.” however, as was the case of the “Student Prince,” is the appearance on the stage of a male chorus of sixty, whose singing of the famous marching song, “Your Land and My Land,” has-become one of the outstanding incidents of the current theatrical season.

Players Take Over Theater

Don and Mazie Dixon, who recently opened an engagement at the Colonial, have purchased the lease of the property from the Capital Amusement Company. They have taken over the management of the theater. The Dixon company have lately closed a three-year run in Chicago theaters and promise the public something unusual in the way of entertainment during the coming season. “Smiles and Tears” will be offered for the last time tonight and next week the presentation will be “The Road to Happiness,” a four act comedy. Eetween acts there will be vaudeville skits among which will be one by Don and Mazie Dixon called “I'm a Dancer.” The “Syncopating Orchestra” will also be on the bill. Bring Leads Together Clara Bow and Josef Swickard together are in “Get Your Man,” the first production in which they have associated since “Maytime.”

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WAS over to Cincinnati the other night to see George White’s Scandals at the Shubert Theater. Nelson Trowbridge told me that this big revue did over $40,000 on the week. This revue has one of the highest priced casts now on tour and it takes a weekly fortune to keep it moving.

In answer to questions, Indianapolis will not get this revue, but if you run across it in the East be sure and see it. This revue has the service of Eugene and Willie Howard, Ann Pennington, Tom Patricola and many others. I can truthfully say that this is the most satisfactory revue I have ever seen. tt n ft I am told that Frank McNellis, well known in business circles in this city and a former resident of Terre Haute, is now a success in that successful new play, “The Five O’clock Girl,” row in New York. tt tt tt On next Wednesday night, the Little Theatre at the Playhouse will produce their second play of the season, “An Enemy of the People,”

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by Henrik Ibsen. Here is a big play and a timely one. The Indianapolis Civic Opera will hold a chorus rehearsal in *the small auditorium of the Athenaeum next Wednesday night at 8 o’clock. tt a tt It is beginning /to look that “Broadway” is a big city show instead of road show. The smaller cities are not so familiar with cabaret life as reflected in this mighty good show. It seems to have its biggest appeal for men, although many women, who have seen the play at English’s this week, have told me that they enjoyed it. The truth is that this play is not doing the business that it deserves here. tt tt a We are going to have a chance to support grand opera for a week. The operas announced are the standard ones. If we want opera, then here is a chance to prove it. It is a gigantic undertaking to bring an opera company here, but Ad F. Miller is grilling to take chances. He will know first, as the box office will tell the story in no uncertain terms. I hope that Mr. Miller will be so happy that he will start singing. Restaurant Makes Bow The new studio restaurant at Paramount has made its movie debut. It played its part in the exterior scene of Emil Jannings’ new film, “The Last Command,” in which the German star is represented as an outcast Russian general seeking employment in Hollywood. Selects Films The Nation Board of Review has selected “Peaks of Destiny” and “Toddles,” a two-reel novelty, for the Photoplay Guide of popular entertainment film. The two will be listed in the December issue of the National Board of Review magazine. /

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Jolson to Be Seen in .‘Big Boy’ Noted Stage Star Returns to Murat in His Big Success, A1 Jolson, under the direction of the Messrs. Shubert, will be the attraction at the Murat on Dec. 9-10 in “Big Boy,” his latest musical comedy success. “Big Boy” is for the most part a story about the Kentucky Derby, with the role of Gus, Negro stable boy, in the hands of Jolson. There is a big cast supporting Jolson and the chorus is one ranking in beauty and shapeliness with that of his other offerings. Th§ play deals largely with a race course, a colored jockey and four honest-to-goodness thoroughbreds, with the added starter in Uie Information Stakes that Jolson would almost give up a $5,000 matinee to see a big contest between ponies. “All my life,” remarks Jolson, “I have been an admirer of horses. When I was a kid, after having read how the famous trotting mare, Maud S. was discovered by some man in Cincinnati drawing a cart of some kind, I would size up every crowbait that came along in order to determine with the old critical eye whether it had racing points. And the greatest thrill I ever had in my life was when I saw a bunch of horses working out for the first time on a race track near Washington. “Frbm my affection for the nags, both as models of nature’s handiwork and as betting propositions, I really believe that away back there one cf my ancestors must have been a centaur. And you can readily understand why I gave three cheers when I was informed that this new play of mine had much to do with horses and that at one stage of the proceedings I was to be a jockey.” “Big Boy” comes to town with the usual Jolson chorus. 22 Plays Produced Anne Nichols, the fabulously successful author of “Abie’s Irish Rose,” now being produced in films, has written twenty-two successful plays.

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‘Miracle Worker’ Due Here Noted Dancers Will Top New Bill at the Lyric, Rahman Bey, the Egyptian cle worker” whose defiance of physical laws have amazed physicians and laymen alike, will be the headline attraction at B. F. Keith’s Theater this week. Bey first attracted nalion-wida.at-tention about two veara ago wtum £a went into a state of trance and allowed himself to be submerged in an air-tight casket in the Hudson River, where he remained for an hour without breathing. In his present act he is buried alive in sand,. is pierced by sharp instruments without feeling any pain and does other apparently miraculous feats to prov© (Turn to Page 7)

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