Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1928 — Page 5

JUNE 5, 1928

‘TOMMY’ IS A PLAY THAT WINS HEARTS Those Who Wrote ‘The Wooden Kimono’ Should Have Put in the Kitchen Sink, Because Everything Else Was Used to Make Thrills. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN SOMETIME ago I yelled my head off during a legitimate season to tell the world about one of the several sweet, honest plays that the stage possesses. I am speaking of “Tommy,” just a one-set play, and one that will get into your heart by both its sweetness and its family fact of life.

There is much to be thankful for, because Berkell captured this play. There is a sane sweetness of life

about this comedy of natural thought and action as it exists, in a home. I have told you in this space about this play when it played English's as a road show. Now we are concerned with the kell has given it to us. There is one big outstanding perform ance in this production. Guess who does it? Larry Sullivan as Uncle David Tut-

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tie. I believe that I ha ve seen most of the plays that Berkell has given us. And I can tell you most sincerely that Sullivan in the role of the man 'who loved Lincoln and life as well as politics so much, has given us the most finished as well as the mcst honest characterization rn this city. There is delightful 'Charm about the way that Sullivan captures the spirit and the word of this man who knew life from so many sides. I actually was raised to great appreciation by the way this man brought Tuttle into existence again. Sullivan uses his voice, his mind, his hands and his feet as well as a very bad wig. I will forgive che wig because his performance caught the character of Tuttle. And remember this character is the play. And again I tell you that Sullivan is registering as he had never registered before in this city. Here is natural acting. He has caught the germ of this character and he lets it grow as the play goes on. And I must call your attention to the work of Harry Hoxworth as Mr. Thurber. He is so good as the dad of this family that you mentally will want to call him “dad.” When Mr. Thurber wants a cigar that he doesn’t buy, he wants it. I am a guy that buys many cigars and I can be sympathetic with Thurber when he waits for a guy to bring in one lonely cigar. He gets 'em from the

gents who call upon Marie. Idabelle Arnold, when I saw this play, was just Idabelle Arnold. She had not at that time entered into the characteristics that make a Marie Thurber. Every Marie Thuiber is not Idabelle Arnold. Marie is a girl that sways, both in voice and moods. And her family gives her those attributes. Bernice Marsolais has just a bit, but she goes to it with so much speed and understanding that you will remember her even when her voice is not heard calling “Willie.” Bob Fay is Bernard, one of Marie's sweethearts. Robert St Clair misses a lot of business which should make Tommy Mills the character of the play. St. Clair fails in the last act to maintain a sustained “souse.” In other acts he does not watch the pauses that brings out the character of Tommy. Others in the cast are Mildred Hastings (she is afraid to adjust her voice to character) and Milton Byron. From a scenic one-set standpoint, William Worswick, William V. Hull and Harvey Schlueter have given us their best efforts of the season From a scenic standpoint this show equals the “Chicago” company that played it here. You are going to love “Tommy." Now at English's. n n HOW TO SEE A MYSTERY SHOW HERE Just going to give you a tip. Go to “The Wooden Kimono” without knowing a thing about the plot. I refuse to let tell me about a mystery play. I mean the plot. There are lot of people that will

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ruin the other fellows fun about a mystery play. I am not that guy. Here are the facts. Stuart Walker this week at Keith’ is giving a very good production of a play that causes the audience to act as much as the actors. When I was present Monday night, the audience was as funny as the cast was a mystery. And that is the way that it should be. Here is an adequate, more so, performance. You are interested mostly in the way the players do it because I will not discuss the play. There are many good points of acting in this play. They are as follows: Carlotta Irwin as Clara Malcom, who knows how to do what she seems not to do; the Roger Malcom of George Alison (theatrical but necessary); the Ethan Malcom of Eugene Powers (sustained dramatic tempo); the Dr. Graham of Charles Starrett (sustained natural work); Gavin Gordon in character as cruel and under “dope” in the last act and, the Agatha Bloom of Elizabfeth Taylor (good comedy relief). Was not satisfied with the work of Jack Storey as John Dryden; Muriel Kirkland as Mary Maddern and France Bendtsen as Sheriff Jotfc (Bendtsen thinks hokum could make this character comedy relief. He is wrong). “The Wooden Kimono” is a trick affair. It is so timed that you will i have a grand time and a great thrill, many of them. See “The Wooden Kimono” and have a good time. Now at Keith’s. a a n LOOKING OVER NEW ACTS AT LYRIC The test of the good comedian is to get his audience laughing from the start and keep them that way all through the act. And that is what happens in “Oh May,” the comedy skit of Billy Kelty and Warren Jackson. Kelly is the comedian that gets into trouble and out again. He is the fellow that is in love with the girl and he is the fellow that does not get her. As it turn out he is only her long lost j brother. The act opens in a drug store and the moment that Kelly enters the : act gets funny. It is not so much what he does or what he says as! the way he says them. There is j some slap-stick- stuff in the act, but j it is good. The girl does some good j work and is a very fair dancer. | Kelly is a good dancer, too, and j demonstrates some of his steps. The

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This class will graduate from School 66 next week: front row (left to right), Billie Stalnaker, John Hoohingarner, Harold Albertson, Robert Brown, Carter Johnson, Gordon Clancy, Charles McCormick, Jack Leonard, Richard Davis, Edward Anderson; second row, John Miller, George Home, Marjorie Downs, Jane Marshall. Marydell Rous, Virginia LaGrange, Helen Berkowitz, Isabell Zeller, Helen Wolf, Lois Unger, Stella Olig, Frank Steinmetz, Hugo Horner, Thomas Hudgins; third row, Louise Von Goeben, Chris Madson, Francis Moody, Mary Anne Russe, Charles Crane, Esther Helgeson, Daniel Brooks, Lillian Love, Lewis Malcolm, Lucille Morrison, John Cade, Jean Boyd, Dorothy Meub; fourth row, Robert Marshall, Marjorie Miller, Thomas May, Dorothy Winter, William Hanning, Virginia Harris, Irvin Thorpe, Margaret Pfennig. Mel n Brown.

idea of the skit is disclosed cleverly in the first of the act. Here is something really clever. The Hanlon Brothers have worked out an act that is ingenious. “The Hotel Impossible” is the place of the action. One of the men is the deck and another a bell hop. He is to clean a large mirror and as he opens the curtains his image is seen. The movements are rapid and done perfectly by both persons. Then they do several good dances of a very eccentric sort. The last of the act is the Bell Hops Dream in which the ghost of a former clerk returns in the form of a skeleton. Some excellent slap-stick comedy here. In one place the bell hop has his head cut off and in another gets it caught between the lid and the top of a trunk. Great stuff. Green and Austen are billed as “The Two Hod Carriers.” This is a black face act with these two men as hod carriers. The most of the action takes place where they are to work and is an argument about who works the most. One of the men unwraps his lunch and that is a scream. Yards and yards of paper are undone to finally uncover an apple. The fat one plays the harmonica and the other dances. In opening they sing a burlesque to some operatic selection. When I was at the theater this act nearly stopped the show. W. H. Groh and his Piano Hounds have been seen in the city before. This is a comedy act with the dags playing basketball with some ballons. A lot of laughs at the antics of the dogs. Here are three women who have a fair act. Mabel Hanley plays the piano and clowns through the act. Some of this clowning is pretty punk. Miss Hanley plays the piano. All three sing and have some fair harmony. Mildred Force sings and talks her songs. They are about how dejected this girl is and about the girl that took a crazy man's word for what

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