Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 146, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1929 — Page 9

OCT. 29, 1929

PHIL BAKER WINS IN ‘PLEASURE BOUND’ The American Grand Opera Company Gives a Splendid and a Sensible Performance of “Faust” at Murat. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. PHIL BAKER wants to know from Shaw and Lee just how much it costs to haunt a house. No answer is given, but I have a good idea that Shaw and Lee would make the of gifts of nature and charge Phil an awful price. In other words. I am telling you that “Pleasure Bound” has arrived in town and that it is the same good revue that I saw in Chicago in August. And that being the case, I can assure you that this Shubert revue is a mighty good theater buy, and that you can take my vord for it that you will get your money's worth whether you buy the

cheapest or the highest priced seats. I might as well tell you that Phil Baker, his accordian and the wise guy in the box are the hits of this very good revue. It is a long show, tarts promptly at 8:20 and we left lhe theater last night at 11:15. Baker is a showman that knows what the public wants. He knows how to feed ’em melody. He knows when to dish the little rough stuff. He knows how to get chummy, and above all, he knows the comedy value of every word he says. Being a stage institution, his material may go back at times to other seasons, but Baker is such a wonderful showman that even his oldest jokes (his own variety) seem just as fresh as his brand new ones. He has a comedy knockout number with Shaw and Lee. Shaw and Lee are what I call dancing comics. They have enough nut stuff to make us howl out in front. Baker has another winner with Paco Moreno when Paco tells Phil about the bull fight in Spain (not the one going on in Wall street). Phil also panicked the house last night when he confessed in song that his stock broker is still looking for his best sucker, meaning Phil. I have always considered Miss Alleen Stanley a clever artist in song. She is wise in singing individual things. She received one of the biggest ovations of the evening

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when she sang “My Musical Man,” while Phil turned his accordian into an orchestra. A great number and they followed it with another winner, “Look In Your Looking Glass” or something like that. The Jack Donahue-John Boyle Dancing Girls compose a fine dancing unit. Just as good a dancing unit as we have had in any revue. They appear often and their dance routine is new. Jack Pearl is present in many of the comedy scenes. He knows his stage. They are carrying a lot of people in this show. Scenery and costumes are right. I am sure that when you see

Makes Merry John Rucker, one of the most famous of all blackface comedians of the stage, makes his debut in dialogue pictures in “Haunted,” the famous vaudeville sketch which Gordon Bostock has produced as a two-reel comedy for Pathe at the Pathe Sound Studios. New York.

“Pleasure Bound” you will agree with me that it is a good buy. At English's all week. m m m A REAL “FAUST” AT MURAT Youth, modernity—an age of lipsticks and light love—found something Monday night at the Murat theater if they were there.

And if they were not, then the regret is there’s, for the America n Opera Company, which opened its three-day engagement at the Murat Monday night will give us but one “Faust” and that one breathed into a Sixteenth century romance the life and loves of today and the dominant theme of books, divorce court judges, and reformers —Sex.

Natalie Hall

Those who heard the Gounod opera as sung in English by the American, found a Gounod who would have known why a woman sitting next to you crossed her legs to show spider-web hose. If it was a “Faust” without devil’s horns oh Mephistophles, it was a “Faust” without apology for the liberties taken. And what a Mephistophles as sung by John Moncrieff, what a Marguerite was Natalie Hall! Her “Jewel Song” was verdure cool, then warm as the necklaces she fondled. Moncrieff’s dramatic work kept even keel with his voice range. In the ,duet in the garden scene, the Marguerite of Natalie Hall carried Clifford Newdall as Faust (the cavalier) into its own stream of passion. For the Marguerite of Miss Hall is not the plump, buxom, Marguerites of the past. Her restraint in the tonal quality of her voice and acting in the prison scene left the insanity of Mar-

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guerite a thing inevitable and charitable. Others of the American Opera Company observing praise were: Mark Daniels as “Valentine:” Louis Yaekel’s grief-stricken “Siebel,"' 1 Martha, the flirt, as sung by Helen Golden: and a bit of acting by a mute tavern-keeper. The orchestration under the direction of Isaac Van Grove, former conductor of Chicago Civic Opera, had verve and finesse. As for the story of “Faust,” the philosopher who sought youth and found but dregs, it has been told too often, but rarely better told than it was Monday night in song and gesture. Tonight the American Opera Company will present Carmen at the Murat. Bertha Hall sings the role. (By observer.) * # * “SALUTE” IS REAL FOOTBALL PICTURE Let there be no doubt as to the entertaining value of “Salute,” which is the feature movie at the Lyric. Here is a movie that puts every football picture I have ever seen on

ice and will keep ’em all there for a sp#ll. We have had many movies showing the feud between the Army and Navy foobtall teams, but this story has added interest because two brothers, one a great, fine, big, healthy player for the army and his kid brother who goes Navy. The two brothers meet

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on a wet field, and you would be surprised to see what happens. George O’Brien is the big he-man of the Army and Joyce Compton is the Navy man who is not so sure of himself, but he gets his flghtin’ spirit up and keeps the Navy from defeat. Never have I seen better direction than the scenes showing the Army and Navy at play. The

Navy dance is full of human interest and finely directed. Even O’Brien goes in for comedy relief, but of course Stepin Fetchit, who chaperons the Navy goat, is a riot. Here is a picture that will rank among the leaders of the year for just good and interesting human theater. I recommend this movie to everybody. To me the most interesting feature of the vaudeville part of the bill is Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers. They act like they come from the hills and they sure do sing and play the tunes which nestle in those Kentucky hills. One of the boys sings a song about drinking hard cider through a straw .with a Kentucky gal and the result is marriage and so and so. A knockout is this number. In fact the entire act is. After an absence of seven years Bob Hall, who makes up his songs and chatter as he goes along, is a i big audience winner. He stopped the show cold when I was present yesterday afternoon at the first show. Personally sometimes in the past I have not cared for his material or his method, but this man is a showman and he always seems to have his audience with him. Joe Niemeyer has a bunch of toy dolls and several live ones. The act starts out as a novelty and then takes on the methods of a revue. Pleasing in spots. The feature song of Black and Hovel is ‘“Sheila,” based upon the serial appearing in The Times. Black wrote it. It is tuneful and has appeal. The boys were not so hot on their double piano numbers at the start, but “Dardanella” scores as it always does. Now at the Lyric. tt an SONG CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED The winners in the “Sav It With Songs” contest conducted in relation to the showing of the A1 Jolson picture at the Apollo have been decided. Over 2,500 titles were submitted and it was difficult to select the winners because it was necessary to get as original titles as possible. Those who receive $3 as winners in each of the four titles are:

Mrs. Marie Ackerman, 1905 South Talbott street. Mrs. Otto H. Schulz, 4711 Rookwood avenue. Miss Dorothy Dean, 18 N. Linwood avenue. John E. Kleinhens, P. O. Box 1241. Those who receive $1 as second winners in the first three titles (no dollar prize for the fourth picture was offered) are: Margaret Harris, 815 Union building. Mrs. F. Branlam, 853 South Belle View Place. Ethel Schafer, 815 North Del-

aware street. Those who receive a pair of tickets for the Apollo are asffollows: Mrs. Bernice Meehan, 563 West Thirty-first street. Mrs. Hazel Kyphart, 809 Mills avenue. Gussie Silverman, 1523 Madison avenue. Margie Everroad, 1399 Hoefgen street. Ruth Breeding, 2034 Broadway. Susie Currin, 2425 Parker avenue. Mrs. J. White, 4709 East New York street. Betty Le Jarman, 937 South Church street. Mrs. William Layton, 520 Abbott street. Roy Vehling, 1137 West Thirtyfirst street. Mrs. E. D. Wilhite, 4621 Winthrope avenue. M. A. Stevens, 3529 West Twelfth street. Irene Erwin, 1177 West Twentyninth street. Mrs. Walter Olvey, 4408 East New York street. Mrs. Marie Ackerman, 1905 South Talbott street, Katherine Cross, 530 South West street. Opal M. Hunt, 421 Riley avenue. Mrs. Edith Hughes, 462 Holt avenue. Mrs. Grace Bruns, Maywood, Ind. Hubert Stewart, 215 North East street. Other theaters today offer: “The Saturday Night Kid” at the Indiana; “Young Nowheres” at the Circle;

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