Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1928 — Page 5

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LITTLE EVA TAKES BOWS WITH WINGS There Is Rare, Honest Fun in ‘Fly-by-Night,’ a New Comedy Dealing With the Great Artists in a “Tom” Show Making One Night Stands. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN Little Eva went to heaven years ago in a white dress and with her Wings showing tout not flapping. And this same Little Eva as an actress in the person of Hattie Hale tal.es her bows in the cne-nighters with her stage wings on. But Little Eva didn't wear her wings long in private life because the second she enters her dressing room, this same Little Eva uses words that

never would be proper for a candidate of heaven to use. I am trying to tell you about a new comedy fjf show life, “Fly-ley-Night,” by Kenyon Nicholson and John Golden. They arc getting this show ready soon after birth for Chi-

cago by presenting it to us at English’s. Nicholson is well known here, even so. before he became a college professor, and before he wrote, “T h e Barker,” w hich was a success. Nicholson s tar ted early after leaving college at Crawfordsville by being press representative for Stuart Walkerat the Murat. He : is now writing; plays, they are being produced and

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people arc buying tickets. During! the last season there has been a fad to attempt to produce show and cir- ; cus as well as burlesque life as it j really exists. Nicholson and Golden I have done this in “Fly-by-Night,” | which deals with the life behind the i scenes and sometimes before the! curtain in a one-night production of 1 ‘Uncle Toms Cabin.” We first see 1 the “actors” in this one night stand show back stage while the specialties I are being put over on the innocent I citizens of ‘Hiawatha, Kan. The j . litloys tell you that this berg is the Lrv.lt arid that all of ’em are just apple-knockers or similar objects of Main St. The troupers admit that! nobody is in the audience, but the! show goes on just the same. Then we get a chance to see these great “artists" doing the Grand Allegorical Transformation Scene in which Little Eva flies upward but not all the way to heaven. Then the actors come bouncing out for their apjplause and Little Eva comes out like sugar with her wings to take her bows. (■'). Then we get a closeup of Little Eva and the rest of the troupe in the following scene, that of Hattie Hale’s dressing room. We then discover that Little Eva has strong language and that she is about the oldest Little Eva in the business. j She is so old, we are told, that she I ‘‘should have her face lifted.” And Hattie Hale is also the \ mother of a child holding the beau- j tiful name of Oriole, because, as Hat- \ tie says, her child got th enamc be- j cause an oriole was singing on the j window when she came out of the j ether at the time of her daughter's j birth. Oriole wears short dresses but, there is nothing short iji her language or her noise. She is the wise ! and terrible infanta of the show. I

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Lois Shore It is safe to say that one of the i personal hits in “Fly-by-Night.” anew comedy that is getting ; ready for Chicago, is Miss Lois Shore of this State who lias the role of the infanta terrible in an i “Uncle Tom” show. Now at English’s. She “barks” when she shouldn’t and. she always says “ain't.” And here the playwrights in this j scene does show’ the mother instinct in the heart of the woman who; plays the role of Little Eva in this J tank town organization. Her daugh- j ter must have castor oil for her j stomach and she borrows the dol- ; lar to get it. And of course we get I the love theme—the efforts of Mai j Thorne to marry Hattie. But Hat- j tie does not believe she can be hap- j py with a man that hasn’t a buck to buy “medicine” for her dear lit- j tie Oriole. It is in this scene that we meet a character that will be the talk of the >vise ones for many moons—that apple-knocker backdoor Johnnie known as Mr. Newton Wampler who admits that he is a rich furni- j ture dealer in Hiawatha. He says that he has a side line but doesn’t! name it. It comes out in the last ac t—the side line is the undertakingbusiness. Old man Wampler wants to marry Little Eva and he is disappointed when he finds that Little Eva in private life is a mother. „ Then w’e are ready to lead up to ] the second act, which is devoted to the troupe car of the Bondell U. T. Cos. Company. Here we have realism—both tragedy and comedy. The actors are asleep and broke. The owner of the show steals out of the car w’hen it is stopped because of a flood. He leaves his actors broke and even beyond that he takes the only live bloodhound. Then we witness the realization of the actors when they are stranded. Then Wampler appears and consents to marry Hattie. He promises to do that when she insists that he give the stranded acto'rs money to get home. This leads to a big scene between Mai and Hattie. So Mai decides to be a business man and arranges a benefit show for the flood sufferers at a lodge hall in a certain Kansas town. Hattie gets wild and makes plans for her loveless marriage with the furniture dealer with a side line. But Hattie doesn’t know her Mai. Mai goes on with his sudden benefit performance and puts Oriole as Little Eva in her mothers’ role. Then v.’e are ready for the third act—the benefit performance. Hatties puts off her wedding. She becomes so jealous at the applause that her daughter is, getting that she stuffs Oriole with candy. And remember, that Oriole alw’ays had a w’eak stomach and in the scene that Little Eva dies, Oriole acts as if she was crossing the ocean. That breaks up the death scene as Oriole goes running off the stage, 3’elling for her mama. Then we get behind the scenes and see the mother 1 again come intq the being of Hattie. She doesn’t want her Oriole to perish and she orders more castor oil. And then Hattie discovers that Wampler is nothing but an undertaker. No wedding. Hattie then realizes that she is the best Eva in the business and she tells Mai that she loves him. This story is told in the language of the one-night actors. Here is realism as to talk and to characterization. They fight each other and the next second they are fighting for each other. The characters look like they might have stepped from the stage of a “Tom” show that I saw under a tent in Waynesville, 111., nearly thirty years ago. As the cast now’ stands the acting honors go to Lois Shore as Oriole. She is real as the bad youngster and she is a riot as Little Eva when passing out with the stomach ache. This character will be a panic to the wise ones who know' the show business. Gladys Hurlburt is better in her ! emotional scenes than in straight

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Verdict of the Stage ENGLISH'S—“FIy-by-Night” is honest fun about a company of “ham” one-nighters playing ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” featuring Little Eva going to heaven. It should be a comedy wow to the wise ones in Chicago and New York. LYRIC—A fairly good bill with the Roun-de-Lay leading the acts. Several good comedy teams are also included in the program. MUTUAL—George Leon and Nora Ford are to be seen again this season in “Dimpled Darlings.” Fairly good burlesque. KElTH’S—“Chita and Her Pals” are somewhat of a disappointment. “The Man Said” is a clever comedy skit of married life with Nile and Mansfield in the character roles.

j comedy. She handles her big scenes right. Joseph Dailey has been wisely cast as Newton Wampler, the furniture dealer with “a side line.” The cast is as follows: Tracey Boone Joseph Crehan Grace Steeple Olga Hanson Cor.nie Bord Nila Mack Leon Montrose William Wadsworth I.orna Montrose Alice May Tuck Dave Amazon Boss Hertz Oriole Hale ....Lois Shore Hattie Hale Gladys Hurlhurt Mai Tliorne Thomas Mitchell Fd Bondell I E. J. Bitinknl! Ernest Beaumont William Sellery Newton Wampler Joseph Dailey I think that as "Ply-By-Night” now stands that it is real theater but something should be don" with the first scene because it breaks too rapidly upon the audience. It is over and so is the second scene before one is quite sure what is happening. But the play has real characters that we all know at sight. I think it will be a success in Chicago and New York but that Main St. may turn it down because of being too real. Main St. should love it if that street can stand a laugh. “Fly-By-Night” is on view tonight and for a matinee and night performance Wednesday at English’s. Mr. Nicholson is here looking over his show. a a a VISITING KEITH’S NEW VARIETY SHOW It's a terrible feeling to have your hopes raised to unexpected heights and then let them down with a thud. Not only is it. depressing but it is very disappointing. Last night I went to see Chita and Her Pals. “Flaming Youth,” as the revue is known, started out very nicely, with a comedy song and some good dancing by the Ward Sisters. Then with music and drops that announced Chita, I sat up expecting •omething extraordinary. The dance that the star of the company did impressed me as an exercise she might have done to limber up with. It had the semblance of an acrobatic dance. There was one redeeming feature in the part of a turn made on the stomach. There were other dances of the tap and comic variety, along with a clever Bowery number. “Anti oh’ the man said” Is a clever comedy skit, that tries to show one side of married life. Grace Nile and Dick Mansfield are the characters in this skit. It has been here before, and a I remember, early this season, but that in no way keeps it from being good comedy. George Watts is a very big man, and a very good singing comedian. Belle Hawdey plays his accompaniments at the piano and sings a song or two. They both get together on one number and Watts sings snatches from this and that piece while his partner sings the real words. Very clever. “Ketch-on” is a dialect skit. Steve Freda and Jonny Palace arc both supposed to be Italians. They have some repartee that is good. Freda plays several numbers, both popular and comic on his guitar while Palace does most of the singing. As an encore they sing “I'd Climb the Highest Mountain.” Freda is very good on the guitar. The St. Claire Sisters and O Day have a bicycle riding act. One of the girls takes her wheel apart while she is riding and finishes up on one wheel. All three are good riders. O'Day mounts a cycle that is very tall without the aid of any ladder. It is said to be very difficult to do. “Midnight Rose” with Lya de Putti in the leading role is the screen feature. News reels and comedies complete the progam. At Keith’s today and Wednesday. (By Charley Garrison). a tt u GOOD REVUE TOPS LYRIC SHOW Most revues are of the specialty kind. That is, a dance revue, or one composed of songs, or something of a kindred variety. There are but few revues that really take on the proportions of a revue, however small it may be. With songs and dances and acrobatics and even a skit or two compose the Roun-de-Lay. Joseph Mach.

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