Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1928 — Page 7

AUG. 7, 1928

ST. CLAIR WRITES ANOTHER NEW PLAY —. Patrons of Berkell Company Have a Chance to Give Title to New Comedy-Drama—‘Kempy’ Is the Last Offering of Walker Season. \ BY WALTER 1). HICKMAN LAST season Robert St. Clair wrote a mystery play and this season his playwriting contribution is an unnamed comedy drama which is being offered for the first time on any stage at English’s tWs week. The reason that tht? play has no name is that both Charles Berkell and St. Clair desire to have their patrons name the play.

This is good from a business standpoint as it does stimulate box office interest as SIOO in gold for the

best title in the opinion, of the judges, four in number. The St. Clair play is in a prologue and two acts. In the prologue we meet the characters of a small town one night stand dramatic company playing “East Lynn” and the other * barnstormers. The prologue is the best part of the

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play. We are concerned with the career of Norine O’Day (Edythe Elliott) and Paul Jearpux (Milton Byron). They are married and in the same company. Paul is a good actor and his wife is terrible. So when his chance comes to go to New York, she forces him to leave her while she goes on barnstorming. In the first act we see Norine and her daughter. Paul did not know that he had a daughter because his wife refused to correspond with him. He makes a hit on the stag?, retires with a pot of money and adopts a son. The son, played by St. Clair, writes a play. The leading woman of the play gets soused and Norine’s daughter is put into the role! Norine had always kept a song that her husband had composed and named “Norine.” This is put into the show and the daughter makes a hit. The first act is back stage of a New York theater. Norine O’Day is wardrobe mistress and her daughter was in the chorus before she got her chance. The second and final act is placed In Paul’s bachelor apartment on Fifth Ave. His adopted son falls in love with Norine’s daughter. Paul objects, but when he hears her sing “Norine,”’ his memory of his first happiness comes back. Then his wife walks into the apartment and everybody is happy. Asa story, the plot is mighty thin. There is no reason except possible temperament for Norine staying away from her husband. The. prologue is placed in a small town Michigan hotel in 1908. This gives Miss Elliott, Mildred Hastings, Irene St. Clair a chance to wear some old-fashioned clothes. St. Clair in the first act has not spotted the “Norine” song right. It now sounds just as a vaudeville specialty would, having no connection with the story. It should be the keynote to the plot. As this play now stands, it is not a big city play. St. Clair has lost nearly all of his definite types in the first and second acts. His prologue is good, but not strong enough to make a play. There were all kinds of bad directing on the opening night. The snow scenes were a farce instead of being atmospheric. And the church being next to the hotel was another bad move. Both the storm and the

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church have been -eliminated by now. I consider this play just a summer experience on the part of St. Clair to write a play. He has real characters in the prologue, but lets ’em go wrong as to type in the other acts. The two outstanding performancep aye contributed by Irene St. Clair, the mother of the writer of the play, and by Mildred Hastings. She has good wow lines. Now at English’s. a a a A GOOD “KEMPY” IS ON VIEW HERE "Kempy” is just the show to make you forget your troubles in the real and fancied perplexities of its young and boyish central figure, “Kempy” James, played by Harry Ellerbe. Perhaps# the home life pictured here, with all its ups and downs, may not be a portrayal of your own, but it is close enough tp yours and mine to give you many a hearty laugh and chuckle. As the twenty year old boy, who is really an architect, but is working as a plumber in order to study the art, Harry Ellerbe brings just the right finish to the character. He is convincing, boyish and impresses you with his truthfulness. Nothing is affected in his part, he is natural and his troubles are your own, and they make you laugh. What more could be asked? Elizabeth Taylor will make you think of someone you know who is just like her, but you just can’t remember her name. As “Ma” Bence she rings as true as Ellerbe in his role. The emotional fireworks is mostly left to Katherine Hall as Katherine Bence, the young lady who is certain she is an artist, but can’t quite make up her mind what branch of this varied profession to really take up. She handles it most capably The whole cast is convincing in their different portrayals and much could be said about them, but you are familiar with all these people and know what to expect. Valerie Cossart as Ruth Bence, George Alison as “Dad” Bence aqd Jack Storey as Ben Wade are probably the next in order regarding their ability in their different characterizations, but this in no way detracts from the excellent work done by Ricca Scott and Charles Starrett, they make up a cast that proves highly acceptable. At Keith’s this week. (By J. T. H.) FINE DANCE* * ' ACT NOW AT LYRIC There is no doubt in my mind that the most talented dance act

Verdict of the Stage ENGLISH'S—Robert St. Clair’s new play is not a bjg city show. Prologue good but the show doesn’t hold up. LYRIC—The best of the dance acts of. the last two years at this house is found in “Garden ofJFtoses.” Two other acts stand out. Rest of bill so so. KElTH’S—“Kempy” is the final bill of the Stuart Walker. season here.

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that the vaudeville stage has seen here in the last two years is being presented this week at the Lyric under the very bad meaning title of “Garden of Roses.” The chief woman dancer is Rosemary Dering and she can do symphonic expression things with her toes that would make some headline women dancers become alarmed. Miss Dering has grace that is not only startling, but -commanding in its strength. She does her dancing with Gerard FaWlers, if I have the name correct. Here is a male dancer that does not offend in his poses. Splendid and honest in his work. Miss Dering works out her various dances in a routine that is new. Tommy Tucker is the chap who sings if I am right on ftie name. He is good, but rather uncomfortable in his attitude. But he knows how to do a song. There are a number of girls who dance here and there. Villa and Strigo have an instrumental act that develops the personality of the man. The man saves the act with his intimate handling of the orchestra. He doesn’t appear serious and that is relief. Walzer and Kuban have a hokum burlesque offering. Only fair in spots. Joe Fanton and company live up to their title of “Sensational Seconds.” These people do astonishing things. Very sail, very sad is the thing attempted by Elizabeth Nelson and Barry Boys. If I were to name the bad acts in vaudeville this one would top the list. Jack and Sol Freed are dancers. Good. I was late and missed the first act. Now at the Lyric. Other theaters today offer: “Lights of New York” at the Apollo; Dick Powell at the Circle; “Four Sons” at the Indiana; “Beau Broadway” at Loew’s Palace and “Street of Forgotten Women” at the Colonial. Boy, 13, Sells Drinks By United Press BROOKLYN, Aug. 7.—Edward Bronikowski, 13, was arrested as the youngest bootlegger. Patrolman John Sasseck alleged he purchased a drink from the boy, who was behind the bar in his father’s saloon.

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Mrs. Lucille Mussett Allison, 35, bride of only five days when her millionaire husband, James A. Allison, 55, Indianapolis-Miami capitalist, died last week, is branded “a skillful expert” in “the fine arts of love-making,” in a $2,000,000 alienation of affections suit brought late Monday against her by Allison’s first wife, Mrs. Sara C. Allison, who divorced him June 27. The complaint says that Mrs. Allison always sought “to minister to his comfort and happiness and endeavored to and did contribute to his progress and success in his business and worldly affairs; that during all their said married life until about the year 1920 her said husband was kind, affectionate, devoted and faithful, and supported and maintained the plaintiff upon a most liberal, and high standard of living. Alienation Is Charged “And plaintiff says that about 1919 or 1920 the defendant, a young woman of great attractiveness and personal charm, whose name was Lucille Mussett, became acquainted and associated with plaintiff’s said husband as secretary or stenograph- ! er to him and has remained in such ; apparent capacity or under the pre- [ tense and guise of such capacity I with him down to the date of her | marriage to him, as hereinafter “That irom the time of defendant's first association with plaintiff’s said husband down to the time jof defendant’s marriage to him as I hereinafter averred, defendant designed and inaugurated a course of i deliberate, systematic and continuous intimate conduct toward and relations with plaintiff’s said husband for the purpose and design of winning and alienating from plaintiff the affections and marital relations of her said husband and of destroying the society and company ionship, conjugal love, harmony and happiness existing between palintiff and her husband, and for the wicked purpose of ultimately bringing about a divorce between plaintiff and her husband, to the end that the defendant might marry him. “Fine Art of Love Making” “That said course of conduct on defendant’s part as aforesaid and that the aforesaid wicked purposes, consisted of and comprised, among other things, intimate and continuous love-making to plainti’ffs husband, living and remaining in his home days and nights in affectipnate and intimate relations, persuasions, solicitations, enticemnets, bringing to bear upon him the fine arts of love-making, at which she was a skillful expert, dinners, various characters of pastime, trips on railway trains and in automobiles to various places and voyages on the ocean in his yacht, all for the aforesaid deliberate, sinister purposes and designs. “And plaintiff avers that defendant. by her said acts and conduct toward and relations with plaintiff's ' husband, gradually more and more

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and finally completely won and alienated the affections of her husband from her and wholly destroyed their marital relations, harmony and happiness. “That during all the time defendant was in her persuasions, enticements, arts of love-making, intimate relations and other influences she was bringing to bear as aforesaid and by reason thereof, plaintiff’s husband became gradually more and more cool and indifferent to plaintiff, more and more restricted in his former liberal support and maintenance of plaintiff, declaring to plaintiff that he did not love her any more, but only pitied her, seeking by various means to humiliate and offend her. threatening to reduuce her maintenance to the barest living, building on Star Island, off the coast of Florida, a large, magnificent home, costing scores of thousands -of dollars, in which the defendant spent her time with him, sleeping in his bedroom, her said husband barring her from entering his magnificent and beautiful home and estate in Indianapolis, known as Riverdale Springs, worth from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000, which was dear to plaintiff’s heart and in which she had spent many happy years with him. Made Life Miserable “And plaintiff avers that although her said husband was and is worth from $3,500,000 to $6,000,000, as she is informed, believes and avers, he, under the influence of and compelled by the aforesaid acts, conduct and designs of the defendant, and taking advantage of plaintiff’s frail health, weakened constitution, and mental anguish, made her life so miserable that he succeeded, under the defendant’s wicked influence and compulsion, in compelling plaintiff to divorce him in Florida on June 27, 1928. “That the plaintiff thereafter, sick, almost prostrated and helpless, was compelled by the aforesaid acts and influences of the defendant to come to Indianapolis and take up her residence in a hotel, while the defendant, in furthering her designs and completing the alienation of her husband’s affections, and further to humiliate plaintiff, and bring her to shame, as aforesaid, came to plaintiff’s said husband in his private car attached to the same train on which plaintiff was traveling and went into and occupied said old home of plaintiff at Riverdale Springs, and on July 29, 1928, mar-

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