Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1928 — Page 5

MAY' 12, 1928

BERKELL STARTS HIS THIRD WEEK SUNDAY AT ENGLISH’S

'East Side, West*Side' to Have Services of Milton Byron and Edythe Elliott—'The Jest’ to Open Monday at Keith’s With George Gaul. THE third Aveek of the Berkell Players’ summer season of stock at English’s opens with a drama of life, entitled “East Side, West Side.” It is an arrangement from the fiction story by Felix Riesenberg. The scenes of the story are laid in New York with an intermixture of events transpiring in both the East side, where life is pictured in the Ghetto and the Bowery; and in the West side of

the city where life is separated from gritty actualities and has a more rainbow hue. The author has given a vivid, picture of New York in the days when bar flies gambled for their booze and took their whisky and gin raw. When great plates of sliced rye bread and bologna sausages adorned the counters, and a man found it no unusual disgrace to be a hopeless wreck and a failure. He lifts a boy of 16 out of the Ghetto and gives him the usual start in life. The boy succeeds and becomes a man among men, but the conflict of the story is when the man is called upon to choose between his beloved profession and the romantic love of a beautiful woman. The Berkell Players will have an opportunity to depict a phase of life that is tinctured with alcoholic humor, and during a great political crisis in New York when every agency of the respectable and the elite had banded together to drive out the grafters for the purpose of establishing the city upon a high plane of civic worth. Miss Edythe Elliott will portray the heroine of the piece. All of the members of the cast will be required to produce the play. It will be done under the personal direction of William Worswick. The usual three matinees with seven evening performances constitute the week’s program. Underlined for presentation in the near future are “The Great Hat,” “The Noose,” “Tommy,” and “The Eleventh Commandment.” an n “THE JEST” TO OPEN MONDAY NIGHT “The Jest,” by Sent Benelli, which is naughty but carrying the story of a beautiful love, opens Mondky night at Keith’s Theater, the second offering of the Stuart Walker Company in its tenth season of repertory in Indianapolis. The leads are taken by George Gaul, who is playing this week in “Why Marry?” the Pulitzer prize play; Marie Adels, leading lady for Walter Hampden; Larry Fletcher, an Indianapolis young man who won fame on the New York stage, and William Ingersoll. “La Cena delle Beffe,” known to all Italians as “Le Cena” and to the French as “La Beffa” and to us as “The Jest,” is accredited with having begun anew era in the Italian theater. The plays which followed it make up the present rich store of contemporary Italian drama on which the American theater has been drawing more heavily in the last three years, were all colored by its brilliancy and its sincerity. It had its premiere in April, 1909, at the Argentina Theater in Rome. Received there with prodigious enthusiasm, two well-known companies took it on tour shortly after the Medicis excited that city, and interest in its Florentine premiere ran high. Naturally a play of Florence under the Medicis excited that city. It opened there on May 15, less than a month after it had first appeared and the Roman newspapers carried telegraphic reports on its mammoth reception. Sarah Bernhardt chose May 1, 1910, the day it celebrated its 400th performance in Italy, for its Paris

ENGLISH’S TC NITELY, 8:15 MATINEES WED., THURS., SAT., 2:15 BERKELL PLAYERS presenting a play in four acts OF NEW YORK LIFE "EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE" WITH THE FOLLOWING CAST OF PLAYERS: Edythe Elliott Idahelle Arnold ; Mildred Hastings Milton Byron Boh Fa, Robert St. Clair |g arsw j c | ( Harry Hoxwortli Wm. V. Hull | E| eanor Scheufler Dorothy Farley NITE PRICES, 25c, 50c, 99c—MATS. 25c, 35c, 50c fWEEKof MAY 20th—“A PRINCE THERE WAS”

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production. Interest in “The Jest” has never flagged and every important actor keeps it in his repertoire. Sem Benelli, although little known in America, has been a picturesque European figure for years. He is the youngest playwright in Italy, and except for D’Annunzio, is the most popular. He entered the World conflict and served three and onelialf years and received a number of decorations. The Metropolitan Opera Company has added "The Jest” to its repertoire this season. The curtain rises at 8:30 promptly. Riverside Will Open Formally May 27 to Be-Official Date for Opening of Broad Ripple Park. A GALA week-end is on the program of Riverside amusement park for tonight and tomorrow, the official opening for the summer to be observed tonight with several special features. From 7; 30 until 8:30 o’cock tonight Riverside will “stand treat” to the public, all the big rides in the park being free during that hour. This is an annual feature of the formal opening and has always attracted thousands of pleasure! seekers. Also tonight, at the conclusion of the evening’s ( fun, a big display of fireworks will be presented in the center of the park. This will be one of the most pretentious pyrotechnic programs ever shown in this city, it is announced, and wifi be in charge of expert fireworks men who come here from the factory. ana FREE ZOO TO BE AT BROAD RIPPLE When the animals for the free zoo at Broad Ripple Park arrive f or the regular opening the par l ' Sunday, May 27, a reception committee composed of a pair of pretty young deer and a small bear who have been at the park the past winter will greet the big family from the field and forest and welcome them to their new home which has been painted and reconstructed. The inhabitants of the zoo are said to include nearly every known animal seen in an institution of this kind. At the preliminary opening of the park last Sunday a crowd of midseason proportions were on hand during the day and the management was complimented on all sides on the many changes made in the park by the force of men who worked practically all winter and for the new and amusing fun devices just installed, among them being the new Temple of Mystery when the vistitor is regaled with ludicrous and bewildering happenings while exploring its mysterious realm. The park will be open each Sunday from now on.

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Murat Will Be Scene of Home Debut Ann Kaufman, Shelbyville Girl, to Give Concert Sunday. Tomorrow afternoon in the Murat theater a musical event that has aroused the entire State of Indiana and particularly Shelbyville and Shelby County will be the “Homecoming Debut” of Ann Kaufman, Shelbyville girl who has received the encouragement of the severest critic in the world, the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, who, when last January Ann Kaufman sang before the committee, predicted a brilliant future for the young Indiana girl. Miss Kaufman has been studying in New York for the past two years. She will sing her first recital in the Murjit theater at 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon assisted by Willard Mac Gregor, well known pianist, who will appear as soloist as well as accompanying Miss Kaufman. More than a thousand of Miss Kaufman’s town folk are planning to come to Indianapolis by motor in procession headed by the Shelbyville band and Mayor Emert of Shelbyville, who will be met at the city limits by Mayor L. Ert Slack and escorted to the theater, where a section of the theater has been reserved for them. The following is the complete program for tomorrow’s concert: Chaconne Bach-Busont Willard Mac Gregor "Nuit resplenslssante" (Resplendent Nlghtt "Cinq Mars" Gounod “Voce di donna," “La Gloconda” Fonchlelll Ann Kaufman Rhapsody in E flat. Op. 119 Brahms Nocturne E major Chopin Etude Op. 25 No. 12 Chopin Waltz Op. 42 Chopin Willard Mac Gregor "Mother My Dear”—To Honor Mother's Day Treharne Yohrzeit SUverstein Anr. Kaufman “Ondine" Ravel "The Cat and the 'ruse” ..Araon Copland "Cradle Song" Palmgren "Navarro” Albeniz Willard Mac Gregor "Mattlnata" Tosti "Calm as the Night” Bohm "Che fara senza Euridlce”—“Orefeo".. Gluck Ann Kaufman MISS CLARE CHRYSLER, soprano, student of Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, will give a recital for graduation from Indiana Central College next Monday evening. The program will be in the Kephardt Memorial auditorium of the college in University Heights, at 8 o’clock. Miss Chrysler will be assisted by Miss LaVonne Thompson, violinist, student of Nathan Davis. Miss Beulah May Shaw, pupil of Miss Grace Hutchings will be the accompanist. Miss Grace Given, cellist, will assist in one number. The program will be as follows: "Care Selve" Handel Miss Chrysler "Cantabile” Salnt-Saens Sans Soucl Case Miss Thompson "Her Rose" Coombs “Memory” Densmore "The Gypsy" Grever Miss Chrysler "Dost Thou Know That Fair Land".,. Thomas Miss Chrysler "Liebeslled Krelsler “Serenade" d'Ambroslo Miss Thompson "Hills of Home” Fox "There Sleeps the Crimson Petal". Qullter "The Spirit Flower" Campbell-Tlpton “Life” Curran Miss Chrysler A miscellaneous students recital will be given at the college next Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. There will be solo and ensemble numbers for piano, violin and voice, given by students of Mrs. Burroughs, Mr. Davis, Miss Hutchings and Mrs. Sherman Davis. The following students will take part: Pianists—Esther Parsons, Anne Wertz, Grace Swanson, Robert Eschlemann, T eai. Settle. Mignon Christy and Mabel Eailey. Violinists—Helen Phipps, Esther Lemme Inman. LaVonne Thompson. Robert Duhram, Walter Hauswald, Neva Smith, Hilda Gatword, Pearl Lare, Orville Hawkins. Harry Dixon and Robert Reese. Singers—Whildon Amos, Kathryn Smith, Raymond Morris, Frances McClanathan, Floyd Perkins, LaVonne Thompson. Helen Phipps, Herman Rider and Ralph Curk. THE Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts announces the adidtion to its faculty of F. Elmer Marshall, a teacher and professor of public speaking, dramatic reader and impersonator. Mr. Marshall is a platform artist of national reputation having toured from coast to coast under various lyceum and chatauqua bureaus. He is the author of “Speech Practice and Successful Selections,” which is used as a basis text for the courses in oral interpretation. Has about 1,500 speaking engagements in Indiana and Illinois with

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“THE JEST” BY SEM BENELLI

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Hear the .Stuart Walker Players Over WFBII Sunday Evening, Between 5:30 and 6:00 WEEK “SATURDAY’S CHILDREN”

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I—George Gaul will be one of the featured players In the second Stuart *Walker offering this season to open at Keith’s Monday evening. “The Jest” will be the name of this play.

-75 per cent of return engagements and often many times. Mr. Marshall has been for nine years professor of public speaking at the Indiana Central College. Recently he was judge of the oratorical contest of the South Central High School in Linton, in which were six schools of the district : at Fowler, for the oratorical contest of Benton County. May 2 he read “Tillie,” a Menonite Maid” before the school assembly of the Jefferson High School in Lafayette and on May 9 before the Shelbyville High School assembly. The monthly faculty luncheon and business meeting will be held on Monday, May 14 at noon. The annual recital of the Indiana College of Music, representing all departments will give the following program at the Masonic Temple on Friday evening, May 18, at 8:30 o’clock: Larghetto for Strings Dout Thelma Rubush, Wilma Friddle, Kathryn Zlmmerscheid, Gladys Power "The Crystal Gazer" Kramer "Little Star” LaForge "Time, You Old Gypsv” Lesley Thomas V. Broadstreet "Concerto G major" (First movement! Mendelssohn Wayne Berry, Ruth Gaut, second piano "Legende" Wieniawskl Charles Buckley "After a Dream” Faure "Chauson ludoue" Rimsky-KorsakofT "Danza. Danza" Durant Women's Glee Club. Mrs. FlickInger, director “Waltz E Flat” Chopin Hazel Lamkin “Lorelei" Liszt Mrs. Pearl Srvder “Welsh Melody and Variatlors”.. .Thomas Harp Ensemble: Ruth Ranler Nessler. Helen Harrison Glossbrenner, Merza Browdues, Margaret Royse. Pauline Sanders, Victoria Montani, Mrs. Jeanette Arnold. Pasquale Montani "Gracia for Two Pianos" (First time In Indianapolis) Infanta Sara Elizabeth Miller, Virginia Lucas "Aria from Nadeschda ' Thomas Mrs. Robert Blake “Elegle" Arensky "Valse Migonne" Palmgren Bomar Cramer Trio: Thelma Rubush, violin: Mary Webb, 'cello; Gertrude Whelan, piano "Etude" Arensky Frances Robbins ✓ Selections from "Bohemian Girl" Brasses. Horace Abdon. Ora Greenwood, Melvin Brown, William Ransom. Donald Ferrell. Paul Smith, James Gouldlng, Gibson Wilson. "Acrobatic Dance" Bettle Wooling "Tap Dance” Bobby Llpton "Toe Dance” Oneta Franklin "The Wooden Soldiers Ballet” Fourteen Little Soldiers "Midsummer Night's Dream". Shakespeare Act 11, Scene 111 Scene: A wood near Athens. Characters Oheron Daune McKinney Puck Jean Kelt Helena Marie Lenahan Eermia Henrietta Orr L/sander Ruth Ann Baker Be letrlus Alberta Wysong Ti e semi-monthly recital by junior pupils of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will be given on Saturday, May 19. Mary Elizabeth Lee, Dorothy June Benton, Ruth Katherine Duckwall, DeLoris Doerr, Jasemine Bush, Margaret Berry, Harriet Ann Gamble, Elbert Gilliom, Mildred Wilson, Muriel Payne Conger, Dorothy Bryan, Ruth Brenton, Helen Ruth Berry, Myrtle Baron, Hester Sutton, Leona Mae Collins, Elizabeth Humphrey, Helen McCullom, Elizabeth Kiger, Eleanor Harter and Charlotte Wehmeyer are pupils of Mrs. Duckwall, Mrs. Hine, Miss Sommers, Mr, Barker, Miss Lyons, Mr. Schaefer, Bomar Cramer, Mrs. Powell and Miss Hendricks. Mrs. Paul Duckwall will have charge of the program. Bomar Cramer, artist piano teacher of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts has returned from Sherman, Texas, and Muskogee,

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Okla., where he gave piano recitals on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Mr. Cramer will give a recital at the Herron Art Institute on Sunday afternoon. May 20. THE pupils of Florence M. Keepers. assisted by the pupils of Miss Smead, and those of Miss Brown will give a piano recital and a play at the Central building of the Metropolitan School of Music, Friday evening. May 18, at 8:15 p. m. The program is to be as follows: "The Mill Brook" Flgue Thomas Goodman "Barcarolle from Hoffman” Offenbach-Engle Jane Rogers Reading—"lf" Harriet Levy "Italian Serenade" Maykapar Loraze Brackett Reading—“ The Cross Ladv” Dorothy Shafer "Torchlight Procession" Torjessen Annette Sutton Voice—- “ Wings of Night” Watts "Lady Moon Edwards "O Sleep" Handel Irene Scott "Prelude" Mullen Richard Griffith Duet—" Turkish March" Krentzline Eva Mae Roempke, Dorothy Lea Fendley Reading—" The Minuet" Margaret Louise Kayser "Madrilena" Wachs Louise Ball Reading—"A Mortifying Mistake" Marian Sturm Voice—- " Mistress Margarita" Penn "What Is There Hid in the Heart of a Rose?” Protheroe "The Crying of Waters”. Campbell-Tipton Mrs. Paul Seehausen “Valse Nanette" Friml Mary Jane Gent "On the Bayou" Cameron White Dorothy Ann Soroggln Voice—"One Fine Day" i Madame Butterfly) Puccini Irene Scott "Senorlta" Friml Anna Mav Bush Musical Monologue—" There Are Fairies at the Bottom of Our Garden" Mary Sue Teter Duet—"Mlnka" Eggellng Mary Jane Gent, Dorothy Ann Scroggin "Improvisation and Melody” Brown Mildred Woolman The play, “Six Cups of Chocolate,” will be given by pupils of Miss Smead. Those taking part are as follows: Charlotte Berryman, Bernice Shaw, Mary Hindel, Mary Eleanor Peggs, Pauline Klingensmith, Ernestine Bradfleld. The junior students of Hugh McGibeny will give a violin recital at the Central building of the Metropolitan School of Music Sunday afternoon starting at 3 p. m. The program will be as follows: "Springtime” .- Rader Miriam Hostetter "Last Dream of a Virgin" Masslnet Olindo Mastropaolo "Passpled" Delibes Eugenia Miley ... "Spanish Dance" Burleigh Norman Carey "Czardas" Monti CMary DeShlpper "Serenade” Drdla Marthagrace Williams "Kuiawiak" Wleniawski Marion Chaplin "Mazurka” Hubay William Williams "Serenade de Tslgane" Valdez Margaret Jones "Chanson Louis XIII and Pavonne"... "Couperin Frederick Landis "Minuet” Paderewski William Hancock Sonata (A Major)” Handel Georgianna Doan The Metropolitan String Orchestra, under the direction of Hugh McGibeny, will give a radio concert from WFBM Wednesday evening. Assisting with the orchestra will be Nina Hayes, pianist; Alma Miller Lentz, violinist, and Mrs. Anita Scott, soprano. Miss Frances Wishard will be the accompanist. According to an announcement there will be a play “In the Cave of the Gnomes” given at the same recital by the pupils of Norma Jus-

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2 Some of the Mason Dixon Dancers who will be seen in a dancing act of the Lyric starting Sunday. 3 Ida belle Arnold, one of the Berkell Players, who will be seen in “East Side, West Side,” opening at English’s Sunday evening.

tice. Those that are to take part in this play are as follows: Cecelia, who tells the story.. Louise Edwards Mary Jane, who listens Ruth Heik The Little Old Woman . .Martha Schrieber The Four Little Gnomes—Genoa Haines. Joan Hickman, Helen Cohen, Clara Jane Hickman The Waking Up Fairy Marie Shaner The Two Little Clowns Alice Weghorst, Cecelia Conley The Timid Chinese Gentleman .. Katherine Weiss The Siamese Twins Thelma Dvkins, Anna Dykins A Spanish Dancing Girl... Helen Riggens The Literary Potato-Eating Giant ... Alberta Spelcher Wee, His Shadow Mary Jane Singer Leone Kinder at the piano. Miss Florence Swartz, piano pupil of Mrs. Lucile Wagner of the Metropolitan School of Music, will be the soloist at the annual May Music Festival at Fortville, Ind., next Friday. Elsie bells manning will present her students in a piano recital Friday evening, May 18, at the public library. Those taking part in the recital are as follows: Maxine Christy, Anna Laura Hill, Frankie Hill. Alberta Tenbrook. Mystle Rainewy. Orpha McCay. Gurtrude Zorntger. Dorthy Zornlger, Earl William Galyeau. Nettle Chadwick, Albert Deckert, Clayton Nichlos, Mrs. James Bird; Mrs. V. Nichlos, Anna Margaret Voohies, Marguerite Earhardt, Marguerite Pike. Roy Butler. Mildred Purdy, Almlee Axiom, Adna Shull, Gleatha Holland. Ralph Sampson Manning. Jean Walker. Lois Shorrock. Virginia Campbell. Lois Campbell, Mollie Bluestein. Eva Bluestetn, David Russell.

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Marjorie Hook, Maxine Hook. Mary Martha Schiesz. Rosiline Frelje, Julia Freije, Forest Deal, Doris K. Deal. Betty Craft. Gortlon Foot, Virginia Brattaln, Ronald Ferls, Robert. Crouch. Russell G. Wlker. Palma Quire. Marv Easterday, Mrs. John. Corcorau, Helen Swartz, Walter Voohies. There will be a violin recital of the junior students of Olive Kiler at the Main Library building this evening at 8:15 o’clock. The students will be assisted by Wilma Casey and Martha Harvey, expression students of Vivian Eastham Cooney. The program is as follows: “Processional March” Berton Ensemble "April Fool Pranks" Greenwald Irene May Harker "The Cello Player" Mclntyre Helen Steeb "Valse Grazloso" Nelson Marguerite Geckler "Appreciation" Dunbar Wilma Casey "Canzonetta" Hollaender Robert Myers "Gavotte" Gossec Elmer Woods "Souvenir" Drdla Vivian White "Musette" Bach Ensemble “Caprice Vlennols” Krelsler Edward Wischmeier "Pizzicatl" Delibes Eleanor and Helen Hansen "Intraduction et Polonaise" Bohm Charles Schwartz “A Dreadful Mistake" Doyle Martha Harvey "Scene de Ballet" Deberiot Gale Graber "An Old Time Minuet” Saenger Ensemble

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All Comedy] Week to Be Lyric Bill Billy Gilbert and Company With Sneezing Act to Be Featured, ALL next week, starting Sunday, at the Lyric will be known as “all-comedy week,” with seven acts booked for the occasion. The act topping the bill will be Billy Gilbert and company. Gilbert is said to be the “world's master sneezer.” His partner, Jack Leonard, is said to be a smaller edition of Gilbert, only he cannot sneeze. These two comedians will be assisted in their hokem act, “Ker-Choo,” by Billy Lenz. The bill will include: REDFORD AND WALLACE—In a comedy juggling act, entitled “Versatile Moments”. In one of Mr. Redford’s stunts he balances an iron pole weighing twenty-eight pounds upon a three-foot tennis racket and playfully knocks away the support and catches it in his neck. RADlOLOGY—Presented by Arnold Bailey and Nelson Val Jean, is the title of the world's first staticless set. Their radio set needs no juice, but lemon, and runs on applesauce. FRANK SINCLAIR AND COMPANY—Offering a comedy skit with music and songs entitled “Find 'Em and Fool ’Em.” THE MASON DIXON DANCERS —Presenting an exclusive dance offering entitled “Several Flights of Steps.” There are three pair of dancers, Mackey and Elsie McGarry, a mixed team—The Mast Sisters—dancers and McGarry and Strait, a male stepping duo. Together and singly they offer a varied routine of exceptional dances, including buck and wing, clog, eccentric and accrobatic—with special scenery depicting a scene in Dixieland. JOE DELIER AND COMPANY— Accordion comedian and his singing partner who acts as a foil for him in an act titled “Yours Accordingly.” I WILSON-AUBREY TRIO—In a routine of stunts presented with ease and skill. ON THE SCREEN—Fox comedy, “Follow the Leader”: Color Classic, “Red Man;” Sportlight, “Matching Wits,” and Kinograms News Reel.