Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 299, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1930 — Page 12

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BEDROOM FARCE IS CUTE BIT OF WORK We Get a Dose of a Lot of High Fun in ‘Strictly Dishonorable’ With a Cast Just Starting on Tour. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN A LITTLE girl by the name of Isabelle wanted to go wrong In that city of New York, but she picked out the wrong guy. This opera singer wanted a "baby’’ In his apartment who knew her ‘•groceries'’ And on finding that said dame did not know the several languages In the game of modern love he left her flat and went a sleeping in the apartment of a judge who resides over a speakeasy. And that, in a nut shell, is the story of "Strictly Dishonorable,” which has become quite a fad tin Broadway Here is a bedroom farce all done up with cunning frankness and all the ultra smart dirt which one hears

sober or otherwise in a speakeasy that has rooms above the bar. In story or theme it is as frail as "Twin Beds.” but there is less closing and opening of doors in this play than in this early farce of what to do in a bedroom. I consider "Strictly Dishonorable” I as one of those cocktails which can make most people laugh after the; first act. This play has the lines and the situations which make one want to be present. All the elements of a box offi~e success are present. This play takes one into a "speakeasy” with a judge of a court get-

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ting his nip or nips as he desires and running a bill. Into this comes a southern girl, Isabelle, and her sweetie, Henry Greene. Henry gets too much of the bootleg stuff and he gives a lecture. Isabelle gets independent and falls for the opera singer, Count Di Ruvo. Then into the bedroom stuff. Isabelle wanted to stage the "grand show,” but she pulled the sob stuff on the opera singer when he wanted the quiet stuff. Bingo. No reputations ruined. Thin ice gorgeously skated over. Even the skates of the skaters did

not get too wet. Lot of wise cracks and as many laughs. Now as to the cast. About the ! best piece of fun from an acting standpoint is done by Lee Baker as 1 Judge Dempsey. He feeds in the fun of farce and comedy. Margaret Perry as Isabelle and the only woman in the cast is good to look upon even u'hen she is getting ready for bed. But there are several times when she fails completely to lift this play to the limit of fun which the author gave it. That was evident when Lino Manzoni was prompted in the last ! act and when he did not get the flash of fun that Miss Perry fed him j in the first act. George Meeker is the Henry Greene who finds out that a guy j must travel with the “dame” he wants to be his wife although "he likes to take excursions into a New York speakeasy. I know that the cast is getting together. There is enough talent to make it a corking performance when things get Ironed out. The 1 cast is as follows: Giovanni, a lookout Edwr.rd Hartford Mario, a waiter oald S,i A i e Tomaso Antiovi Judge Dempsey .. we u.nrv Greene George Meeker Isabelle Parry Margaret Perry Count Di Ruvo Lino Manzoni Patrolman Mulligan Jerome Daley Now at English’s. Closes Saturday night. Other theaters today offer: “Show Girl in Hollywood,” at the Indiana; "Ladies Love Brutes,” at the Circle;

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