Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1937 — Page 18

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"No Ladies Appear in ‘Women:

One Actress Goes to Seek Elephants, Others Hunt Men.

By JAMES THRASHER |

Some of the more faded - flowers of American womanhood are within the blast of Clare Boothe’s rs indignant pen at English’s this week-end. The play’s title is “The Women.” . And, believe you me, Miss Boothe does not meah “The Ladies.” | Had a man written this play, he would have been accused of an exaggerated disregard for truth, chivalry, delicacy, fairness and most of the other more estimable virtues. But a man couldn’t have written it. As it is, Miss Boothe has had all these charges hurled at her head. Meanwhile, “The Women” has (or have, if you prefer) gone on and on to become a hit. There is one woman in this play who goes to Africa to hunt elephants. The rest of the mstay at home and hunt men. That's what the play is all about. A Shoots Both Barrels

This elephant-hunting person is Nancy Blake, a novelist and the only single woman among the principal figures. In her we. can see the playwright, sitting back, sizing up her sex with a clear eye and then letting go with both barrels of a biting wit. And Nancy Blake is one of “The Women’s” most delightful features. The story, chiefly, is nothing more nor less than a sweet and faithful wife’s loss of her husband to another woman, and the wife’s subsequent recapture of her spouse. The theme keeps the play from being a wholehearted comedy, and the treatment saves it from melodrama. But the plot serves as a grand prop an which to hang some very caustic satire, Mary Haines is this decent, trust. ful wife. She listens to the advice her catty friends, however, has scene with her husbands mistress and goes to Reno. In the two years separating the divorce from the third act, Mary Haines learns a great deal. She learns that, in her set at least, happiness is a survival of the cattiest. So, armed with her new knowledge, she uncovers the second Mrs. Haines’ current infidelity and marches off in triumph with a “Good night, ladies.”

Not for Victorians

That's the only time you suspect that there are ladies present in the dramatis personae. It’s been some time since local playgoers have heard such a profusion of quips and epigrams—and such naughty ones. What saves the play from vulgarity is the light touch, and the small, hard kernel of truth at the base of all the broa satire. However, if you are of a Victorian way of thinking, “T e Women” is not for you. It would another case of Victoria's’ “We are not amused.” The performance has the virtie of speed, if not of subtlety. As the drama gets under way, one is conscious of a good deal of bad acting. As amusement and absorption grow, these deficiencies slip into the background. Lois Wilson, as Mary Haines, exhibits many of the now-familiar shortcomings of the screen actresses on the stage, though net to the extent that we have seen. Her performance is well studied and the actress is almost self-effacing in her modesty. Yet there is a lack of grace and freedom of movement. It probably comes from years of roaming the camera range, which i very expansive,

Encourages Smugness

The best supporting performances are by Doris Packer as Nancy Blake; Laura Pierpont; Celeste Holm [as Crystal, “the other woman”; Emily Smiley, Gladis Griswold, Edith Shayne and Dorrit Kelton. That's giving credit to only a few, for there

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Terry Howard (eft) is one of the attractive corps of performers grouped under the title of “Play Girls” at the Lyric this week. Patric Knowles and Beverley

feature.

Roberts (right) are shown here in a whimsical moment in “Expensive Husbands,” the bill's screen

peraméntal a Bunch as

as temperamental as the turbulent unto those who disturb them.

Take Dinty Moore, for example. soup, his corned beef and cabbage and even his gefuelte fish as a Tin Pan Alleyite might be of his latest song. Let a customer complain about

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Manhattan's Restaurateurs Are About as Tem-

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NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—No more temperamental fraternity exists than Manhattan's restaurateurs. Being the Rembrandts of the ladle, they are

painter with his brush. And woe He is as proud of his vegetable

. « « and he is given his hat, coat and walking stick and told never to come back. It has happened there. Another oddity of Moore’s from an epicurean view, concerns the hamburgers. Hamburgers without onions, strangely enough, cost more than hamburgers with. For a cool and practical reason: The hamburger steak already is prepared with the odorous bulb and to prepare it any other way means additional kitchen labor. That seems fair enough. It is axiomatic that few restaurateurs eat in their own establishVincent Sardi generally dines at Child's. Sherman Billingsley seldom dines at the Stork Club. Claims he can’t have his meal in peace there. - The waiters, overanxious to please the boss, generally get so nervous that they will spill the contents of their trays over him; and the chef, eager to impress, puts an overdose of the ysual ingredi-

ents into his food. _Billingsley, by the way, has just barred a prominent hotel man from his club, claiming that when this customer visited the Stork, he was out for no good. Just wanted to borrow innovations and possibly lure away a good waiter or chef. The people who run the restaurants are jealous that way, too.

By their license plates shall ye know them. If, on your jaunt through New

to see a limousine licensed “S,” that

are 41 speaking parts, and nearly as many actresses. John Hambleton’s myriad costumes are effective without being obtrusive, and that’s something of a job. Likewise Robert B. Sinclair's staging is adroit and the settings, though simpler than Jo Mielziner’s usual output, are entirely adequate. But the play’s the thing, providing you like a play that is very biological and very, very funny. If you are a man, you'll probably leave feeling smug, superior and infinitely wiser.

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Broadway will be bereft of its most decorative first-nighter when lovely Hope Hampton departs the local terrain to make pictures in Hollywood.

No premier is complete without the appearance of the stunningly gowned and startling Miss Hampton in the front rows, with her husband, Jules Brulatour, the film king. An opera singer to begin with, Miss Hampton once nurssed an. ambition for the legitimate stage. Then the movies beckoned her and in her forthcoming picture she will sing as well as wax histrionic.

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“Manhattan Merry - Go - Round,” with Ted Lewis, Cab Calloway, phil Fegan and Leo -Carrillo, at 12:4 7:03 and 10:13. “Portia on Trial,” with Walter Abel and Frieda a Inescourt, at 11:28, 2:38.

5:48 and 8 ENGLISH'S

“The Women,” Clare Boothe’s com- . 845s. with Lois Wilson, Curtain at

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AMBASSADOR

“Vogues of 1938,” with Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett. Also “This Way Please,” with Buddy Rogers and Betty Grable.

ALAMO “The Girl Said No,” with Irene

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for her skillful painting of ivory miniatures. She was offered $150 for one of her pieces the other day and aeclined the offer. Her hobby, she said, is not for sale.

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Triggs Plays

Own Music In Recital

'Blind Man" Suite Takes Audience on Dream Voyage.

Harold Triggs, Jordan Conservatory piano department head, was known to music lovers of Indianapolis today not only as a skilful pianist, but also as a dreamer. In his recital at the World War Memorial Auditorium last night, he confirméd his reputation as an artist and a master of his instrument. His interpretation of Beethoven’s Sonata Appassionata was that of one who has studied the

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emotional overtones. His Chopin— and he played almost the whole range, from Polonaise to Fantasie— was a blend of virtuosity and tenderness. Most sympathetically interpreted of the classics were Scarlatti’s Sonata of the Chase and Bach’s chor-ale-prelude on “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.” The latter was played in Myra Hess’ piano arrangement,’

Resting Rivers Sigh

After the intermission, he took up his dreaming and his philosophy. The mood was set by Debussy’s “Minstrels” and Ravel's “Morning Serenade of a Clown.” : Fr them he went into an impressfonistic suite of his own, based on a line from Allen Tate's poem, “The Subway,” reading “To glut expansions like a blind astronomer.” The first number was an exquisitely beautiful dream-web based on” Amy Lowell's phrase, “the sigh of resting rivers that are tired.” The second number was a rollicking philosophy on the theme of a spiritual in the Carolina lowlands, “Death ain’t yuh got no shame.” The third was an incisive vision of New York City, waltzing above dissonant harmonics of unsightly and selfish life. Then came a minuet, a dream of the past, and the music Mr. Triggs set to James Joyce's “She Weeps of Rahoon.”

Music Travels Far

The dream-mood became jolly again with an excursion. into a Vienna beer-cellar where young people were dancing to a tune that sounded like “She was only an acrobat’s daughter.” The magic dreamcarpet swept finally to a flesta in Mexico, where the native dances were lively but not always gay and

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ALLEGES ACTOR DRUNK

HOLLYWOOD, Dec, 10 (U. P.).— Clyde W. Cook, actor, returned to Hollywood from a 10-day movie location trip to Arizona with the confession that he “never drew a sober breath in 10 days,” his wife Alice charged in a divorce suit foday.

where at last the church-bells were: drowned out by peons’ fireworks. In the same mood was the first encore, de Faya's “Ritual Fire Dance.” showy Chopin etude. Mr. Triggs’ ‘artistry, which is of a pleasantly intimate type, was displayed much better in the nearperfect acoustics of the War Memorial auditorium. than they were on his first appearance here, with the Maennerchor at the Athenaeum. Musical Indianapolis almost filled the room and paid him high tribute, both as a pianist and as a composer. (S. E. H)

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. It is the suite which Grieg com- & piled from his music for Ibsen's play, “Peer Gynt.” Fabien Sevitzky, conductor, has listed this work in place of the Bizet “I’Arlesienne” suite, also a oellection of incidental music. Whether recognized by name or not, the melodies to “Morning,” “Anitra’s Dance” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” from the: Grieg. suite, prboably will be recognized by those hearing their first “live” symphony concert as well as veteran concert-goers. As soloist, the popular-priced performances will offer Boris Schwartz, the orchestra’s concertmaster, playing the Mendelssohn Concerto in E Minor. Mr. Schwartz, who has been in the United States only a little more than a year, brings to Indianapolis a European reputation that includes appearances with every major orchestra on the Continent, as well as repeated recital performanoss in leading music ceners. ~~ Other Music Familiar Equally familiar music included in the program is the overture from Beethoven’s music to Goethe's “Egmont”; the first two movements of Dvorak’s “New. World”. symphony, and the overture, “1812,” by Tschaikowsky. The one new piece of music will be Cesana’s “Negro Heaven.” It 1s

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