Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 316, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1928 — Page 7
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fERKELL PLAYERS GET BIG OVATIONS
Stock Actors at English’s Receive the Biggest Reception of Career Here in Opening Week of New Season. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN NO ONE could have been present at the first two nights of the opening of the Berkell season at English’s without being Impressed with both the magnitude and the sincerity of the receptions accorded the players. v
Mr. Berkell told me that never such ovations as were extended the And last night was another duplicate of Sunday both as to capacity as well as enthusiasm. I can truthfully tell you when I was present on the opening night, that I never witnessed in the theater such a manifestation of good will as the audience gave this company.The opening bill is a light little comedy by the name of “Mary’s
Other Husband.” The play is most .'Suitable for the first week of the Berkell Players. No great demand is made upon the actors, but it serves its purpose to bring back this band of players. Miss Edyth Elliott has returned as leading woman and it is necessary to concede when it is all said and done that this woman is
the most satisfac- Milton Byron tory of all of the leading women that Berkell has had here. She has a substantial as well as a large following. This season returns another favorite, Mildred Hastings and she has a corking good comedy chance in this show. She is cast as a maid who has a weakness for butlers, Bob Fay is another one of the Berkell Players who was missing last season, but back again. Milton Byron, leading man, Idabelle Arnold. Larry Sullivan, Bernice Marsolais and Robert St. Clair are all back again this season. Harry rioxworth is a new member. William Worswick is the new director and William V. Hull is technical director and stage manager. Hull has been director for the past several seasons and it was found necessary because of the demands of that position to have both a director and technical director. It looks like a success because the stage sets and lights were better handled than in other seasons of these players. It is not necessary to go into detail ocncerning the story of “Mary’s Other Husband.” It is clean fun, not brilliant, but has the qualities which make for an interesting opening bill for a stock company. The cast is as follows: Stella Mildred Hastings Svlvia Allen Idabelle Arnold Mary Marshall ...'. Edyth Elliott Limpy Lannigan Bob Fay Harvey P. Marshall Milton Byron Uncle Elmer Larry Sullivan Florence Ainslee Bernice Marsolais Jerry Niles Robert St. Clair Officer Shea Harry Hoxworth If the opening capacity crowds mean anything, then it appears that the Berkell Players are now on their most successful season. On the opening night there were flowers for the actors, talks and the like that go with a typical Berkell first night. “Mary’s Other Husband” is the bill for the week at English's. HARLEQUIN CLUB HAS MIGHTY GOOD SHOW The Harlequin Club of Purdue University was wise in selecting a recent musical show hit, “Castles in the Air,” as its annual show. The students brought their show I to the Murat last night and presented it to approximately a capacity house. This show has real tunes, splendid chorus numbers and a theme that yields easily to treatment on the part of students. I believe that the comedy parts,
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in his life has his players received m on the opening night Sunday.
those taken by Miss Bess Franklin and by Eddie Kinzel were better done than any I have ever seen in a college show. I am thinking back on the many college ffhd university shows I have seen and I believe that I will have no trouble in proving my point if necessary to prove it. , The two romantic leads were splendidly sung and acted by Louie 1 Lowe and Madelyn Markley. Both have good voices and both are blessed with splendid stage appearances. Both the male and girl choruses know how to dance and they looked their part. The show was splendidly mounted. The famous doll number could not have been better handled in the second act than if professionals were putting on this i number. The cast of principals was as foli lows: Amos, the butler Herme Emdee ! Mnie. Durant Muriel Knight I George Gilbert Hooker i Annie Moore Bess Franklin Philip Rodman Dean Brossman Evelvn Devine Madelyn Markley Count Draaga George Southworth Montv Blair Eddie Klnzel Prince Carol of Latavta Louie Lowe General Slodak Wally Denny Kemlar. the Jester Russel Greenwood Chancellor Rex Little Queen Regent Charlotte Canaday The Herald Newland Knight A Peasant John Kanne The Harlequin Club, I believe, this season has surpassed their former annual shows by the really splendid way that this musical show was put on. I left the Murat last night at 11 o’clock at the close of the second act and there was one more act to go. If some numbers had been speeded up, it would have improved even this good show. GOOD DANCING ACT AT THE LYRIC While dancing is an art in itself there can be, and is, a great deal of artistry in presenting it. Dancers can bs ruined by the wrong kind of music or steps, no matter how good they are. A group of dances that are modern and lively, but yet done with a touch of the classical is presented by the Libby Dancers. Sports are the predominating mode. The curtain rises to give a view of the old time dress for sports and then to the modern day dress. A clever number is the take-off on Aesop’s Fables. There are two girls and a man in this and one of the girds does some acrobatic dancing that is very 1 good. While all the girls seem to be toe dancers there is one featured
dancer who is especially good. One of the girls does a burlesque on the more or less classic dance. There is a football dance done with a great deal of grace as a finale, with all the company in it. Here is the sad story of a young man who was proposed to by four different girls on leap year and in
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Libby Dancer moments of weakness accepted all of them. The girls were invited to the young man’s home and the most talented one was to be the one considered. Paul Rahn was this man and while the girls are changing he sings several comedy songs that are clever. Two of the girls also sang. One with a very low voice. The other had but a fair voice. There was one toe dancer, and she and another girl, along with the man taking the part of the butler, did a tap dance. This is a pretty good act. Holton and Whiting have one of these before and after taking sort of skits. It is when they meet to be married and one year after. One year later the husband is celebrating, and I would say from his condition he had been doing a very good job of it. There are some funny and clever bits of dialog In this, as well as some good comedy. Eddie White has a repertoire of some popular numbers, which he sings in a good fashion and some stories that are really funny. He has an act that takes. Quite a number of popular ballads are played by Mary Zoller and Company. "Dizzy Fingers,” a number by the composer of* “Kitten on the Keys,” is played by the man in the act, on the xylophone. This is good. This man plays a medley of numbers with Miss Zoller playing an accompaniment on the vibraphone. The effect is good. Lewis and Ames have a comedy act that is mostly singing of comedy stuff with one song that is a specialty, “We Know a Thing or Two.” This man has been here before. There is some good comedy that borders on the slap stick in this act. The Colby Wells trio, which is a substitute for Jackson and Baker, is an acrobatic act that possesses the distinction of being as good as
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Beauty and the Beast Here are two pictures of one of the animal trainers with Sells-Floto circus. This young lady handles the elephants in a masterful fashion as is shown in the top picture where she is all wrapped up in the elephant’s trunk. There are to be two performances today, a matinee this afternoon and a performance this evening at Eighteenth St. and Sugar Grove Ave.
the general run of acrobatic acts. Most of the stunts are tumbling. Comedies and news reel complete the program. At the Lyric. (By the Observer.) LOOKING OVER NEW BURLESQUE BILL I have heard it said many times that the success of the show never depended on the comedians. However I have seen the statement repudiated several times. Especially is this true in the burlesque show. There has been shows saved purely on the merits of the comedians. Harry Jackson in “Be Happy” is to my notion the man that keeps the show from being nothing.. This man is also a good actor of character parts, burlesqued of course. When I was at the show he did a skit in which he was a drunk. It was all very silly, but it was cleverly done. Agnes Nichols was the leading lady. She and her sister sang several songs and they had fair voices Eloise Dwan was the best dancer of the company. Frances Haines did an aerial number hanging by her teeth and with the aid of lights making a butterfly. “Be Happy” is not an exceptional burlesque show, but it does have the saving of it by Harry Jackson. At the Mutual. (By the Observer.) Other Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Tenderloin” at the Apollo; “Laugh, Clown, Laugh” at Loew's Palace; “Love and Learn” at the Circle; “The Smart Set” at the Indiana; “Speedy” at the Ohio and Sells-Flotp Circus at Eighteenth and Sugar Grove Ave. CHURCH PLAYERS TO PRESENT COMEDY The Sutherland Players will present Tuesday night and Wednesday night at 8:15 o’clock, “The Arrival of Kitty,” a three-act comedy, at the Sutherland Presbyterian Church, Twenty-Eighth and Bellefontaine Sts., as their fourth regular production of their 1927-28 season. Riley Fledderjohn will play the leading role. Others in the cast are Jeanette Wilds, Fannie F. Fort. Ruth Brown, Joe Foy, Russell Young, Fred Fledderjohn, Roberta Hawkins and Norman Green, producing director. Music for the performance Tuesday night will be furnished by the Fairview Presbyterian Orchestra, under the direction of Robert Schultz. Music for the Wednesday night performance will be provided by the Leslie Troutman orchestra. Virginia Brackett Green is chairman of costumes, assisted by BerI nice Mitchell Young and Mrs. Mina
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Verdict of the Stage ENGLISH’S—The Berkell Players are receiving the largest and most sincere ovations ever extended to them in this city LYRlC—Libby Dancers top the bill with a series of sport dances that are done with a touch of the classical. Paul Rauh and Company have a good comedy act about leap year and its fatalities. MUTUAL—“Be Happy” Is saved by the antics and acting of the leading comedian. Harry Jackson. An airial act is featured in this burlesque show.
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