Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1929 — Page 6

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“PYGMALION” WILL OPEN SEASON AT ENGLISH’S MONDAY

Girls Will Top Bill ■ at Lyric Helen Johns and Her Own Organization Is Due Here. THE Lyric management programs another array of stage and screen entertainment for the week starting today. Four RKO vaudeville acts are prominent on the stage program. “The Girl From Havana” an all talking Movietone feature picture is to be seen and heard on the screen. Chasing jewel thieves who escape from Los Angeles on an ocean liner bound for Cuba, via the Panama canal and attempt to smuggle their loot into Havana, is the job assigned pretty Lola Lane in the picture "The Girl From Havaila,” and before victory crowns her efforts, there are thrills and drama enough for a dozen movies. Paui Page, who will be remembered for his work on “Speakeasy” is again the leading man. The film was made and recorded under direction of Benjamin StoJoff in Cuba, on the high seas, aboard a regular liner, in the Panama canal. The supporting cast includes such well-known players as Kenneth Thomson, Natalie Moorhead, Warren Hymer, Joseph Girard and Adele Windsor. John Stone and Edwin Burke are responsible for the story’ and most of the dialogue in “The Girl From Havana.” Helen Johns’ ingenue ensemble billed as “The Glorious Girls,” head ■ the quartette of vaudeville attrac- | tions featured on the Lyric stage with this picture. "The Glorious Girls" present a ; "Rhythm Revue,” in which they I offer instrumental rhythm, vocal j rhythm, dancing rhythm and if pos- j sible rhythm in appearance. Each j of the ten attractive girls, is an ac- ; complished entertainer, and while as a group the act is a band act. j these young ladies do not rely upon music alone to entertain. Howard Anderson and Rean Graves, a duo of well-known comedy j artists brings to this show their up- j roarious scenic comedy sketch called “Taking Her Fishing.” It is an epi- ; sode of the "holiday outing” or j "week-end fishing trip” with the : wife accompanying for the first time. ! Cole Caroll assists the two featured players. Another featured attraction on this stage bill is “Le Paul” who is announced as being among the foremost exponents of card manipulation. Le Paul is just a youth—a real American boy, yet he has gained high honors among magicians. An unusual feature of his performance i? the fact that all of his stunts are performed under the strongest light. The usual short film subjects and music by the Lyric orchestra complete the show.

Ann Corio Heads Her Own Show ■Girls in Blue’ to Open Week’s Engagment at Mutual. THE big news gathering associations devoted a few lines of their valuable space last summer to an item concerning Earl Carroll as another of the big Broadway producers who had gone to Mutual burlesque for talent. The article quoted Carroll as having signed Ann Corio the ingenue soubret, whose “Girls in Blue," opens Sunday at the Mutual. Carroll, according to the news dispatches, wanted Miss Corio to take the place of Dorothy Knapp, internationally famed as the “most beautiful show girl in the world." Miss Corio would now he basking in the spotlight of Broadway popularity with a $5 musical revue, were it not for the obvious fact that she had a contract with I. H. Herk, president and general manager of the Mutual Burlesque Association, that called for her exclusive services on his circuit this season, thus depriving the alleged Tired Business Men of Glittering Gotham of seeing her manifold charms. So the big Broadway revues, which have for years been peopled with 'players from burlesque lost this one star at least, for a number of seasons. Miss Cario’s “Girls in Blue” when it appears in the Mutual will be an entirely different version from the one that created such a fine impression last season.

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Jason Robards, appearing in "The amblers,’’ & Warner Brothers picture. first went on the stage in 212? Since 1920 he has alternated between stage and screen. Helen Foster, juvenile feminine lead of "Gold Digggers of Broadway,” a Warner Brothers all-color Viiaphone picture, is a 1929 Wampas baby star? • His famous stage band appears with Ted Lewis in his Warner Brothers Vitaphone production, "Is Everybody Happy?” H. B. Warner is champion of a famous London fencing club, and owns framed letters from Roosevelt. He trod the boards at 6. Sigmund Romberg, composer of light opera, and Oscar Hammerstein IT, librettist, are now to concentrate their talents on Vitaphone tpiking and singing musical comedies anu operettas.

1— Dudley Digges is a prominent member of the cast that the New York Theatre Guild is bringing to English’s, starting Monday night, to present “Pygmalion,” and “Major Barbara.” 2 Ann Corio is the chief member of the cast of “Girls in Blue,” starting Sunday matinee

The New York Theatre Guild Will Bring Frieda Inescort, Dudley Digges, Elliott Cabot, Percy Waram in Two Well-Known Plays of Shaw. THE first offering of the New *York Theatre Guild Acting Company, which comes to English's opera house for a week’s engagement beginning Monday evening, Get. 7, will be “Pygmalion,” a sprightly comedy of morality and manners. ' “Pygmalion” is an engrossing comedy, filled with laughs and possessed of dialogue as sparkling as one will find In any of Shaw’s contributions to the theater. Moreover, its situations are excellent: it has a speed not possessed by some others in the Shaw group: it offers many fine roles to its actors, and its success in its two American productions (that of Mrs. Pat Camp-

bell and that of the guild) is proof that as a stage play, it is one of the most hardy of the modern Items. Its cast includes Frieda Inescort, Dudley Digges, Elliot Cabot, Percy Waram, Jane Wheatley, Phyllis Connard, Winifred Hanley, Edgar Kent, Ruby Hallier, P. J. Kelly, Maurice Wells, Isidore Marcil, Geoffrey Harwood, Margaret de Mille and Jack Quigley. “Pygmalion” will be presented Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings and Wednesday matinee. In “Major Barbara,” the argumentative comedy to be given by the same cast for the remainder of the week beginning Thursday evening, with Saturday matinee, Bernard Shaw is found indulging in one of his happiest rnoodJJ—spiritual and social war. In this, one of his earliest plays that has continued, and indeed increased in popular favor since its original presentation more than twenty years ago, there is found, ironically, beneficial war, war against millionairedom, and, with all the fervor of anew crusade, war against any common crime of poverty. At all times brilliant, with frequent ironic shafts at the conventions, “Major Barbara” has as one of its central characters Andrew Undershaft, a munitions maker—definitely opinionated, bound unflinchingly to his moral convictions —who holds, as one of his firmest doctrines, that poverty is one of the greatest of crimes. * When asked if he considers pov-

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' erty a crime, the dogmatic Underj shaft promptly replies: “The worse ! of crimes. All the other crimes are | virtue beside it.” By his own admission out to aci cumulate wealth, by whatever | means, the mere matter of stirring up a war is nothing to him. Neither murder r.or theft is in the least repulsive to him. He justifies his means of making money by the dire results of the poverty he points out. His motto is “unashamed.” Throughout “Major Barbara” there is always evident the frequent flashes of Shawian wit, one theme reacting to another and always demonstrating Shaw as a man of profound feeling and sentiment. The cast includes Frieda Inescourt, Dudley Digges, Elliot Cabot, .Percy Waram, Jane Wheatley, Phyllis Connard, Winifred Hanley, Edgar Kent, Ruby Hallier, P. J. Kelly, Maurice Wells, Isidore Marcil, Geoffrey Harwood, Margaret de Mille and Jack Quigley. st st tt MYSTERY VAMPIRE DUE AT ENGLISH’S “Dracula,” the mystery play that Horace Liveright is sending on tour this season, and which comes to English’s Oct. 14. 15 and 16 with matinee Wednesday, is said to be all that is claimed for it as a thriller. It deals with the supernatural, and if the advance reports are to be considered it makes all other mystery plays look like a bedtime story. “Dracula” is a spirit vampire that

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prowls the countryside from midnight until dawn. His prey is sensitive young girls whom he draws to him with magnetic power to a frightful doom. The dramatization for the American stage was made by John Balderson from Bram Stoker’s novel of th esame name, which has been read by two generations of novel readers. a a a “LUCKEE GIRL” TO VISIT US Not often does a musical comedy retain for tour such a cluster of luminaries as possessed by “Luckee Girl,” which will shine under the auspices of the Messrs. Shubert at English’s, Oct. 17, 18 and 19. Drawing upon a great store of talent, this production offers first of all, Billy House, one of those comedic rarities that bob up from obscurity into the “Find” of the year. Real comedians are the scarcest commodity in the theater, and as a matter of record, it is only once in five years that Broadway looks for a jester of Billy House’s stamp as a present from the skies. They called him the “Blimp Proportioned Comedian” and the ‘‘Leviathan of Fun” when he used to play- the honky-tonks and in vaudeville tabs. All through the west he was popular, but the east knew’ him not. Finally, he made his appearance in New York at the Palace theater. He was a hit in a playlet that included his wife and others. His

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at the Mutual. 3 Helen Johns and her Glorious Girls are the chief event on the new bill starting today at the Lyric. 4AI and Gussie Blum arc members of the stage show, “Let’s Go,” now at the Indiana.

manner was breezy as would become one from the Texas ranges, and soon he was a Keith headliner. It was not, however, until he was picked for “Luckee Girl” that his real quality as .an entertainer was recognized. House is one comedian that can sing and dance. New Revue to Be Given at Colonial Two Comedians Will Be in ‘Frivolities of 1930/ PRODUCER Burke of the Colonial, will present next week a musical revue, “Frivolities of 1930.” Os course there is no plot or story. The comedy end of the performance is in the hands of two comedians, Jimmy Bova and Billy Watson. Paul Reno, Bert Wreneck and Dutch Moon, have been given the task of featuring the ballads with Mildred Wood, Hazel Smith, and Helen Ducy, in runway numbers. In “Whispering Winds,” the Tiffany Tone dialogue picture which will be offered as the screen at-

traction for the week, Patsy Ruth Miller, Malcolm Mac Gregor and Eve Southern will be seen in. the principal roles. Patsy Ruth Millpr will be seen in the part of a demure, home-loving wife, beset with worries about her husband and her baby. She is the sort of woman who wants’ her husband’s happiness above her own, even though it may mean giving him up to another woman. Her characterization of the wife who meets a crisis and is ready to go out of her husband’s life when she thinks he loves another is so natural that one wonders—seeing .her —whether this is not the real Patsy. Picture to Start Soon Churchill Ross, that eminent collegian, and Buddy Roosevelt have been added to the cast of Mary Nolan’s second starring vehicle for Universal. “The Come-On Girl.” It will go into production at Universal City under the direction of Harry Pollard next week. Don Douglas and Robert Ellis are the other featured players. Flynn Completes Picture Emmett Flynn has finished his second picture for Universal. The last scene in “The Shannons of Broadway” with James and Lucille Gleason was shot on the big stage at Universal City on Saturday night.

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Connie Is Big Hit at Ballroom Band Leader Has Many New Dance Ideas to Spring. POPULARITY of dance orchestras may come and go, but Connie’s seems to go on forever.

r|SAI 101190 NEXT WEEK CilULltf n U >•>’■' >*:•••£ss ® gat. Mat 50c to $2.50 Lincoln 82 7 3 seats now THE THEATRE GUILD OF NEW YORK Presents the Theatre Guild Acting Company in Mon., Tues., Wed. Eves. | Thurs., Fri., Sat. Eves. ■Wednesday Matinee | Saturday Matinee BERNARD SHAW’S BERNARD SHAW’S Sparkling Comedy Satiric Comedy “Pygmalion” “Major Barbara” With FRIEDA INESCORT DUDLEY DIGGES ELLIOT CAROT PERCY WARAM JANE WHEATLEY PHYLLIS CONNARD And Others , j ENGLISH’S ! Without fear of contra* DICTION THE MOST FAsClNtlfiipljwwMmk ating THRILLERS Mmwmm**aeef its great: PRICES 50c, SI.OO, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 MATINEE 50c, SI.OO, $1.50 Mail Orders Now—Seat Sale Thursday. ENGLISH'S THU., FRI., SAT., OCT. 17, 18, 19—MAT. SAT. ___ the nmsTUNC newjobk that holds □□□ THE BROADWAy COMEDIAN OF DORIS VINTON. 808 LIVELY. HELEN FABLES. McGUSHION TWINS. LOU POWERS. MAUDE ALLAN, ISABELLE VERNON. fLARBNCK HARVEY, HELEN LaVONNE, FRANK GALLAGHER, MARIE PITTMAN, BILL MeKINLEY. Soni; nnd Dance Stars In Full Blast From the New York Casino —With a Parade of Shivering Cuties In Talcum Ponder Coats. 1Z KELLEY DANCERS 4 MUSICAL DIPLOMATS Seats Ready Oct. 1-4 >D Mail Orders Now. PRICES: Evenings. 50c to 32.00; Matinee, 50e. to SH.IHi. Ail Mail Orders Must Be Accompanied by Remittance and bell-Addressed Stamped Envelope.

OCT. 5, 1929

Proof cf this is the most cheery welcome which has been given by roof patrons this past week toward the appearance of Connie and his rollicking aggregation who opened their engagement in the Indiana Roof ballroom last Saturday. This band is known all over Hoosierdom and the middle west for its entertainment specialties and personality. Local dance goers can look forward not only to the latest dance rhythms and up-to-the-nvnute syncopation, but also a host of new novelties, which Connie has up his sleeve for his engagement here.

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