Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1930 — Page 5

MARCH 25,1930

SANTA CLAUS IS NOT SUCH A HOT ROMEO Jane Cowl and Guy Standing Lift 'Jenny’ Out of Gutter Into Very Tantalizing Entertainment. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THE SANTA CLAUS in the story of “Jenny" was one of those nice old men who was a great corporation lawyer, but a dam poor lover. John R. Weatherby might have been just a nice husband and father around the house if Jenny Valentine had not taking him on a fishing expedition to her cabin in the Canadian woods. Jenny knew what fish would be caught on this expedition when this very proper man got away from his very selfish family.

And what a darb of a family John had in respectable life. His wife went floating about with an

alleged interior decorator and a Russian prince who lost everything, but created a jazz orchestra when he escaped irom Russia and Paris into this country. Cissy, his wife, certainly did not know what it was all about. She was just a silly kid who went wild and foolish when she should have been listening only

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there were two silly daughters, one just 16 and very "nutty,’’ and the other married who had a yen for other women’s husbands. Then a son who wanted to be wild and was as long as dad's money was of the good kind. A silly family was this Weatherby outfit with the exception of father. He w-as slow going but after Jenny tamed him and showed him certain things about romance or what have you. But when Jenny arrived, father after a struggle, forgot about collecting postage stamps and raising roses which looked like a certain fine vine in color. Jenny by a clever mental argument kidnaped father and gave him a sex vacation which made father walk off W’ith Jenny in the last act, leaving the family flat.

And I didn’t care what became of the family. “Jenny," by Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon, in four acts, is about the wildest thing that Miss Cowl has ever had on the stage. The first three acts struck me more as a burlesque upon sex dramas than just plain comedy. Jenny started out to make her man and she sure landed him but it was a struggle because Weatherby was such a gorgeous and such a substantial fool. “Jenny” as a play sags badly here and there but is dragged out of the gutter by the smart acting of Miss Cowl and Guy Standing. Here is wild theater along sex lines. If you get the burlesque idea of “Jenny” you will not be frightened. Don’t take this verythin play seriously. It just spoofs at sex and at a too secure husband who really was in “jail,” the matrimonial jail, before Jenny tossed her party by kidnaping her man. Miss Cowl in the first and fourth acts is immense in her fun. She just toys at the burlesque Idea w'hen she plans the kidnaping in the second act and in the third, when she lands her man. It really isn’t the type of a play that you would expect Miss Cowl to go sailing around the country after "Romeo and Juliet,” but you recall she had her own ideas about Juliet and how she acted on the balcony. Guy Standing as W’eatherby gives a polished performance of an elderly

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man who sows one wild oat, and what an oat that was. A brilliant performance in a role that most actors would have ruined by taking either too lightly or too seriously. Miss Cowl is funny and clever in the second and third acts, but it is in the third that she becomes really beautifully dramatic when she gives the Weatherby family the low* down on the fishing trip. To me she is still the most beautiful woman on the stage, although her vehicle doesn’t amount to a rip. The cast is just about perfect. So much so that I give it to you in full as follows: John R. Weatherby Guy Standing Cole Robert Lowe Eustace Wade Lewis Martin Cissy Weatherby Katherine Emmet Prince Dimitria Miranoff ...Coburn Goodwin Jack Weatherby Ben Lackland Nora Gerrish Joyce Carey Alec Ames Charles Brokaw Jer.ny Valentine Jane Cowl Angela Weatherby Helen Brooks If you don’t like ham and eggs every day for freak ist, then take a slant at this burlesque of a thing on sex, called “Jenny.” At English's all week. a u n TALKING OF THIS AND VERY MUCH OF THAT There is a little of this and much of that at the Lyric this week. The “this” consists of Loretta Gray, a woman who dances on her toes in a splendid fashion, and Max and his dogs. Miss Gray has a dancing act of

merit as far as she is concerned but from a showmanship standpointcomedy relief would lift the act to the place where it should be. Her toe dancing on the stairs is splendid. Her assisting girls have a couple of good routines. The man is a good eccentric dancer. The work of Miss Gray is unquestionable. Rather fair scenic background. The work of Miss Gray and the girls on the drums —splendid. Max Is a dancer. He sings a wee bit and he then brings on dogs. They have been trained along human lnes, takng all the leads from Max. Have always considered this a fine act. No reason to change now. Meyers and Nolan have a bunch of hokum, at times of only fair quality. They know how to work up a finale which brings the encores. Walter Brower talks again in his own way. This man knows what it is all about. He delivers. Probably the most unsatisfactory talking picture I have seen in many moens is “Second Choice,” with Dolores Costello. Mighty poor story, even more poor direction with conversation that is supposed to be snappy when it is only silly. Too bad to waste Miss Costello on such bunk as this. Be your own judge as usual. I know what I think about this one. Now at the Lyric. Other theaters today offer: “Slightly Scarlet” at the Indiana;

“The Cohens and the Kellys In Scotland" at the Circle: “Party Girl" at the Ohio; “The Sky Hawk" at the Apollo; George Fares at the Colonial; “Be Yourself” at the Palace, and burlesque at the Mutual.

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