Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1928 — Page 11

OCT. 12, 1928.

GEORGE SOMNES TO LAND SATURDAY Director of the Little Theatre Will Arrive in IndianapolL on Monday to Begin His Season’s Work. GEORGE SOMNES, director of the Indianapolis Little Theatre, landed landed in New York Saturday on the S. S. George Washington, aftei spending two months in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London, where he studied continental stage conditions and development. He will arrive in Indianapolis Monday and will immediately take over his work at the Playhouse, Nineteenth and N. Alabama Sts., for the 1928-29 season. Somnes has been the director and producer of the Little Theatre since 1919, with the exception of one and a half years when he toured

with Stuart Walker’s production of “The Bo6k of Job.” Under his strong leadership and dramatic ability, the Little Theatre has become a recognized civic and artistic force in the community and has been lifted from the classification of an amateur organization to that of a repertory company witn its own Playhouse. Somnes’ stage career began over a decade ago in New York at the old Third Avenue Theater, and took him at the end of that year to Mexico City, where he was invited by Virginia Fabregas to join her Theater of Repertory of Hugo and Sardou. After his Mexican experience, he played with Thomas Wise, which was followed by a year of vaudeville, melodrama, and barnstorming in a repertoire, ranging from Shakespearean tragedies to “Paid in Full.” His first worthwhile chance came all-star revival of Shakespeare, which included “Julius Caesar,” “Romeo and Juliet,” and “Othello.” He thus studied with Faversham for the next two .seasons and appeared with such actors as Cecelia Loftus, Julie Opp, Frank Teenan, Tyone Powers, Constance Collier, Odette

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Tyler, Gabriel Dorzial, and Julie 1 ' Mellish. Somnes next became associated with Ben Greet during his final tour of this country. After spending a season designing costumes for Charles Hopkins’ production of “The Marriage of Columbine,” and the fancy dress costumes of Faversham’s “The Hawk,” Somnes appeared with the newly formed Washington Square Players as the only professional in the group. Mr. Greet soon engaged him and Elsie Herndon Kearns to make the regular Greet Shakespearean tour of the colleges and universities, and at its conclusion in 1915, he was called to London by Mr. Greet, who was endeavoring to turn “The Old Vic” in Waterloo Rd. in a People’s Theater for the popularization of Shakespeare and the old English comedies. There he played during 1925-26, produced several plays, and acted in an advisory capacity to Mr. Greet. Returning to the United States, Somnes and Miss Kearns made the summer tour for Mr. Greet, and two years later they took up this work in their own name. Following these Shakespearean

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tours Somnes understudied John Barrymore in “Peter Ibbetson” unti: called into military service. Afte: the war he immediately joinec Stuart Walker and played with his company, in stock and on tour, for many seasons. He still directs Walker’s Indianapolis company, and during its summer season here, in addition to his regular season at the Playhouse. a a u Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Simba,” at the Murat; Red Grange, at the Lyric; “While the City Sleeps,” at the Palace; Charlie Davis and Dick Powell, at the Indiana; “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” at the Circle; “The Singing Fool,” at the Apollo; burlesque, at the Mutual, and “Girl Revue,” at the Colonial. Part of the profits of the “Simba”

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MINCE MAYOR FACESJQUIRY Editor Charges Liquor Law Violation. E.y Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 12.—A probe of liquor and gambling operations here was opened today by the Delaware County grand jury called in special session by Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth, during which a charge that Mayor John C. Hampton violated the dry law will be investigated. The mayor was accused by George R. Dale, in a recent issue of his weekly newspaper, the Muncie Democrat. Thomas Miller, local attorney, who precipitated the call for the grand jury, commenting on Dale’s charge, has declared: "Either Hampton is guilty of violating the liquor law or Dale is

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