Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1943 — Page 14

c Cast Draws Praise

For Performance in 'Jason'|

devastating little lines in which the

Givic’s pre-occupation with Samson Raphaelson type of ‘wears one down a' little, I suppose it is in good taste to 1 with the little theater's of plays, but I quarrel with how, because .I think it fruswhat the folks out at the hope to accomplish, - Raphaelson does not write the plays that have what one call a mass appeal. If the is to succeed in broadening ershiin base, as it demowishes to do, one way be, 2 to serve a wider variety of matic tastes than Mr. Raphael3 habitually caters to. is drawing room Diogenes is a after truth amid the kind of surroundings that Donald Son, the Civic’s = designer, 8 So well in those artistic and sets of his. Raphaelson is “of a sofa sophist with a: golden of rhetoric. He gives Mr. FinDn a wonderful chance to exhis talent, but nobody else.

~ It’s for the Inner Circle

kind of stage behavior a emotional response to the le lines and phony creations pla t who uses words both ly and extravagantly to say little, al to say it well. ultra-gsophisticated style of g, which involves a response nfused thinking and ersatz btionalism, threatens to become hool at the Civic, and it is too pllow and sterile a school to bene- } young people who have theatriI ambitions. e Raphaelson: cocktail, “Jason,” lich opened last night for an exided run, is something again for inner circle.. I doubt that the sional playgoer would know or ‘a hoot that its bright and e (sometimes) satire derives the author's contemplation of wright William = Saroyan and c George Jean Nathan.

They Find Themselves

*Jason” produces good imitations the figures involved. There are

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than for a royal ride, and there|:

are other lines which take 5 all back. The struggle ‘herein lies in the person of Jason Otis, the critic, who finds his values challenged by a screwball of a pla t with a

touch of greatness and'a touch of},

lunacy. For two and one-half acts, the characters - are: required : to stumble around . trying to find themselves. I am pleased to report they finally do. What they find is not exactly clear, for you: don’t get to know ' who they are, except in a general way that Jason represents Nathan or his type and Mike Ambler, Saroyan, or his type, if he is a type. : Doesn’t. Know People With this off my chest, I should explain that it was the grand work of the cast which brought it all on. Richard Eisenbach’s “Jason,” Charles Caron’s “Mike Ambler” and Lynn Shore’s “Lisa” were capa enough to expose the machinery of this play—wit © that passes for thought; imitation that passes for drama; sophistry that passes for profundity. Mr. Eisenbach handled his speeches splendidly. They are long speeches, filled with epigrams that pass for philosophy. Earl Davis as Mr. Kennedy, the steamfitter, who represents the masses, and Helen Morton, as his wife, both had the right touch. Lelia Simpkins as Violet, the maid, demonstrated the stage manner of a professional actress. It is entertaining. It is highly amusing. And it is well worth seeing. The playwright’s analysis of the Saroyan-like Mike Ambler as a catalyst capable of making’ life react to art is interesting. But I quarrel with the selection of the play, although I think it is a well made play, because it happens to be the second Raphaelson comedy the Civic has presented this season—and because two_Raphaelson comedies in one season add up to one too many. —RICHARD LEWIS.

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Alexander Kipnis

‘Conflict’ With: Junior Miss Proves an Error.

Alexander Kipnis, the Metropolitan basso, will sing at English’s March 22—a week from Monday night—instead of Monday night as previously announced. The erroneous announcement brought calls to the Times asking

ble| whether Mr. Kipnis was going fo

appear on a double feature bill with “Junior Miss,” the Broadway sub-deb comedy, which occupies the stage at English’s this coming Monday night. It might not have been such a bad idea at that, as :one caller suggested, although Mr. Kipnis has a full program and “Junior Miss”

iis a full-length play.

The caller proposed that the two attractions on the same bill would save the patrons’ rubber and gasoline, and even if the program lasted until 2 a. m., the management could furnish a light lunch around midnight. Attempting to trace down this error, we conclude we must blame it on the gremlins at Gladys Alwes’ music shoppe or some very talented brown mice we have around the office. Anyhow, the truth will out. —R. L.

Benny Movie Offers Gags

Rochester Aids in 2-Line Quips at Circle.

JACK BENNY and Rochester pull a series of two-line gags in that old chestnut, “The Meanest Man in the World” (Circle) which gives you the familiar Benny routine jelled in a one-time George M. Cohan production. Priscilla Lane is the girl back in Pottsville waiting for Jack to make good in New York. Benny finds his kindly nature a handicap to success in the law business, so he hardens his heart of gold and learns how to be medn under Rochester's tutelage. He starts out by shooing the pigeons he has been feeding off their ledge and works up to stealing an all-day sucker from a street urchin. Finally, he evicts an ‘aged woman from her home, gets his picture in the paper and business booms. The clients mob his office to have nasty jobs handled by & man who knows how, and out on the street go widows, orphans and pénsioners. Priscilla comes to the big city to wed Benny, only to find him giggling over the phone about the eviction of a client's poor, old relative. Slugging Benny, she huffs back to Pottsville. But all's well that ends well, only this hour of foolish film doesn’t end soon enough. It killed an hour for me deader than any other movie has done in some months. :

® 2» » THE CHETNIKS are a mobile, guerrilla army of Yugoslavia patriots fighting Hitler's occupation. Gen. Draja Mihailovitch, Chetnik leader, turns out to be Philip Dorn dressed up like a Sigmund Romberg musical comedy hero in Fox's The Chetniks,” the Circle’s sSecond feature. : All this film needs to make it typical of the Balkan light operas Hollywood stages from time to time is Nelson Eddy on a white charger with a balalaika. As a documentary epic of Jugoslav resistance, it looks like a 1932 horse opera with plenty of cowboy and Indian style warring between the patriots and the invaders. The- kiddies might like it-as a 12-part serial. —R. L.

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Belmont tomorrow to stay through Tuesday. i ® E 4 v ow 2 ES CAPACITY ATTENDANCE dur-

ing its original run will bring “Yankee Doodle Dandy” back to the Vogue tomorrow for a threeday engagement. James Cagney, academy itis ner, stars as George M. Cohan, the “Yankee Doodle Boy” whose life is portrayed in the story. “Casablanca” and “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” are showing at the Vogue for the last times today. Ef J = ” o “THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE,” in lighter vein and starring Hal Peary, is at three theaters today. It will remain at the Granada i: through i Wednesday, double-billed with “Hitler's Children.” Other showings are at the Belmont

A doubleheader, “CasaHal Peary blanca” and hind the Eight Ball,” will hold boards at the Fountain Square abs eas Tuesday. ‘The Sanders screen. tomorrow and Monday will give a dual “spook” show, including “Night Monster,”

Tomb,” starring Lon Chaney. ® » ® “Joan of Paris,” introducing Michele Morgan, European actress, and “The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle,” make up the bill which will continue through Wednesday at the Esquire. “Whistling in Dixie” and “Sev.en Days Leave” will show together

at the Emerson tomorrow through Wednesday. The former film is doubling with “Forest Rangers” at the Ritz through Tuesday. Sergt. Gene Autry’s last picture before - he entered the service, “Bells of Capistrano,” with “Youth on Parade” as a companion pic-

: By T. B. MOSS. aa ae Ss De »”: the plotarization of ronr’! Death,” is still arawing the crowds to the neighborhood five of them tonight. The picture is at the Old Trail and the Ambassador for the last

times today. It will remain at the Rivoli and the Irving through tomorrow and at the Granada, through Wednesday, 716, Will coma; to the :

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Sothern. : ® 8 2 BELMONT — “Commandos Strike at Dawn” and “The Great Gildersieeve.” Tomorrow Tuesday: ‘Hitler's

through Children” and “Behind the Eight-.

CINEMA—“George Washington Here and “Pierre of the Plains.” through Suesaay: “The Glass Key Yad “Reunion in France.” — “Commandos Strike at. and shorts. Tomorrow and “Fiesta” and “Casablanca.”

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