Indiana daily times. [volume], May 07, 1921, Last Home Edition, Page 7, Image 7

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TWO COMEDIES '
NEW TO LOCAL
STAGE BILLED
Wives’ English’s
Offering—'Mamma’s Affair’
at Murat.
EDDIE FOY AT KEITH’S
Two comedies never before seen
on the local stage will be presented
by the Gregory Kelly stock company
and Mr. Stuart Walker and his play
ers next week at English’s and the
Murat.
At English's next week the Kelly
players will be seen in “Scrambled
rWives” and at the Murat Mr. Walker
will present "Mamma's Affair.”
Eddie Foy and bis famous family
will head next week’s bill at B. F.
Keith’s. It has been many seasons
since Foy has been here. ,
The Lyric will present next week a*
Its feature act a musical comedy offering
called “The Juvenile Folliea.” Loews
State will have a vaudeville bill headed
by Emile Montrose, a protean star, and
a movie, "The Little Fool.”
New bills are announced at the Bialto
and the Broadway for next week.
“SCRAMBLED WIVES” TO BE
XEXT BILL AT ENGLISH’S.
On next Monday night Gregory Kelley
end his players at English's will present
fer the first time on'any stage In this
city the comedy, ‘'Scrambled Wlvee.”
This comedy gives Mr. Kelly and Bath
Gordon good comedy chances.
The plot has an ingenious twist. A
young fellow, John Chiverick, and a still
younger girl, have..a real boy-and-glrl
love affair. Their parents do not realize
h“W serious an affair it Is until the chil
dren announce that they have just been
married. Then the marriage 1b speedily
annulled, snd the girl Is carried off to
Europe for travel to make her forget.
And she does forget very easily. She
calls herself Mrs. Smith and has a gay
time posing as a wldcw. John, too, for
gets so successfully that In a few years
he marries again. Connie, his second
wife. Is Jealons of the unknown first Mrs.
Chiverick, and when an attractive widow,
calling herself Mrs. Smith, and trailed
by one Larry Macleod, who says she has
eamised to marry him. turns up at a
use party, trouble begins. Connie only
suspects the facts about Mrs. Smith and
Chiverick, but Larry knows, and compli
cations pile up thick snd fast.
Gregory Kelly appears In a comedy
role as John Chiverick. Ruth Gordon
will play the frivolous widow, Mrs.
Smith, blossoming out in several new
' gowns.
The rest-of the cast is as so„- w:
Larry Macleod. .Harry Wagstaff Grlbbla.
Connie Chiverick Grace Hayle.
Mr. Halsey Byron Beasley.
Mrs. Halsey Florence Murphy.
Recsie Carleton Angela Ogden.
Dickie A Willard Barton.
Bee Holloway Alma--Hammersley.
Martin Harry Sothem.
Grace Hayle makes her first appearance
In this play with the Gregory Kelly Com
pany.
ELIZABETH PATTERSON
RETURNS MONDAY TO MURAT.
“Mamma's Affair.” the Harvard prize
comedy by Rachel Barton Butler, will
be presented next week by the Stuart
Walker Company at the Murat. The play
was produced In New York last year by
an all-star cast, under the direction of
Oliver Morosco
The play deals with the theme of
mother-love dispensed In too generous
portions. Mrs. Orrln, the mighty mamma
of the comedy, is a chronic neurasthenic
who has gradnally allowed herself to
completely dominate her daughter's life.
Finally the frail young girl breaks down
nnder the strain of constantly attend
ing to the wants of her exacting mother.
Alarmed. Mrs. Orrin calls In Dr. Jan
sen to see Eve, the girl. He sees that
she Is the victim of her mother’s lovable
tyranny, and orders her away to the
country for a month of complete isola
tion.
Not even Henry Marchand, the suitor
of her mother’s choice. Is permittefi to
see her. Thus, relieved of the worry snd
care of her parent Eve regains health
rapidly, and just as her mother is about
to reclaim her the doctor takes things
Into his own hands. Although he fights
against his emotions Dr. Jansen at last
is forced to admit to himself that he Is
In love with his pretty patient. How
ever, it Is not until the final curtain that
tho stubborn young doctor sweeps aside
Jlertry, the insipid suitor, and euc
tumbs to the charms of Eve.
“Mamma’s Affair’’ marks the return to
the Stuart Walker Company of Eliza
beth Patterson. Miss Patterson U one
•f the most popular players whlcn
Stuart Walker has brought to In
dianapolis each year he has appeared
here. She will be best remembered for
AMUSEMENTS.
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Fireworks Band Concert Masked Ball
Opening RIVERSIDE AMUSEMENT PARK
SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY 14
her fins performances last year In “A
Very Good Young Man,” “38 East,” and
“The Lodger.” In the play of next week
Miss Patterson will be seen In the lead
ing role, appearing In the delicious
comedy part of the overwrought,
hysterical mother.
George Gaul and Regina Wallace are
cast in the roles of the doctor and the
girl. Judith Lowry and Julia Mc-
Mahon. two old favorites who return with
the Walker organization for another
season, will also be seen next week.
Robert McGroarty and John Wray com
plete this superb cast.
Ae entire production is made under
the personal direction of Mr. Walker,
with special settings for sll three acts
designed by Frank J. Zlmmerer.
There*wlH be the usual matinees on
Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
-I- -I- A
EDDIE FOY AND FAMILY
TO ROMP ON KEITH’S STAGE.
Comical Eddie Foy, the veteran come
dian, surrounded by his famous children,
will offer a travesty on the high cost of
living as the special attraction at Keith’s
for the week starting Monday matinee.
Their act is called "The Foy Fun Revue”
and is said to be a real scream. The
scenes of the act is laid in a high-class
restaurant where Eddie has taken his
family for a bite to eat. He only has a
few dollars in his pocket and when bis
offsprings start to order dishes from the
menu thst only John D. could afford
the fun becomes a small sized riot. The
children Include Irving, Dick, Mary,
Charley, Madeline, Bryan and Eddie, Jr.
Ruby Morton, billed as "The Little
Star of Song,” will offer a repertoire of
special numbers. Mis* Norton will be
assisted at the piano by Clarence Senna,
who is also a pianist soloist.
Ed Gallagher and Joe Rolley are trav
esty artists and will be seen in a comedy,
"At Palm Beach.” Mr. Gallagher is a
vacationist and Mr. Rolley will be seen
as the presiding officer of a rolling chair.
Eric Zardo, tha eminent pianist, who is
making a limited vaudeville tour before
returning to the concert stage, will con
tribute an act that will be a treat to lov
ers of music.
Henry B. Toomer, supported by Esther
Day, will present his new sketch, “The
Wife Saver.’’ Mr. Toomer Is seen as a
husband who is inclined to pbilanOer.
The wife saver Is a profession which, the
woman suffrage has brought about; its
main object is to keep matrimonial ships
from hitting the rocks of discontent.
The Adriot brothers combine head bal
ancing with the playing of musical in
struments. One stunt that is original Is
when one of the boys playing the piano
balances the other head to head who
plays s violin.
The Great Johnson is a contortionist
who performs his act on a Dying appa
ratus instead of the ground as is gen
erally the custom with acts of this kind.
The Tathe News Weekly and the Lit
erary Digest Topics will have their usual
position on the bill.
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"THE JUVENILE FOLLIES”
DUE AT LYRIC NEXT WEEK.
“The Juvenile Follies.” described as
a miniature edition of Flo Ziegfeld's an
nual revue, but presented by e company
composed entirely of juvenile artists,
twelve In number, clever kiddies who
sing, dance, impersonate stage celebrities
and deport themselves quite as confi
dently before the footlinghts as do the
seasoned performers of mature age, will
top the Lyric's bill next week. It Is an
Imposing boy and girl act, said to be
the most talented aggregation of children
ever assembled together In one organi
zation, providing the stage with one of
its most attractive novelties.
Gertrude Taylor, prlma donna, late
with the Shubert “Winter Garden” and
“Passing Show’’ productions, will offer
a pleasing song travelogue in which she
has the assistance of several others, and
another melodious divertiaement will be
“Harmony Land,” a song and music skit.
Introduced by a quintet of vocalists and
instrumentalists. <
Phil Austin and Ralph De Laney, col
ored comedians, will appear In their
mirthful concoction called “The Synco
pated Hotel,” In which they have become
favorite gloom-chasers around the Vari
ety circuits, and rounding out the show
there will be Baggott and Sheldon, jug
gling experts, in a display of dexterity
with Indian clubs Ted and Corinne Bre
ton, comedy conversationalists. In anew
act entitled “On- the Board Walk,’’ and
Charles Harte and company, Including
Violet Lawrence and A1 Lyons, In a song
and dance oddity.
A Fox film farce, "Janitors," the Paths
review and the Paramount magazine will
be picture Interpolations.
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---810 MOVTE AND VAUDEVILLE
BILL BOOKED AT LOEWS STATE.
Coming to Loew's State Theater, start
ing next Monday matinee, will be Jack
London's story, “The Little Lady of th&
Big House,” and renamed, for screen pur
poses, “The Little Fool.” It was pro
duced by the Loew-Metro with a cast In
cllding Milton Sills, Ora Carew and many
other local favorites.
The story deals with Richard Forrest
and his wife, a fascinating creature
whose charms attract all the men In
vited to the palatial home on the ranch.
She Is cold to them all, but at last one
man appeals to her, and soon the husband
is faced with the fact that his wife is
going to leave him. The climax at tho
eleventh hour, when all seems lost, has
terrific force.
The top-liner of the vaudeville pro
gram, Emille Montrose, a protean star
and famous on both continents, will pre
sent the dramatic success, “Into the
Light.” Miss Montrose does an entire
act by herself, impersonating seven char
acters from a youqg girl to an old man.
Drama and comedy are well combined
and the swiftness with which she makes
her changes In appearance and voice are
marvelous.
Follette, Pearl and Wicks, will offer
the skit called “The Co.il Driver.” The
Clemenso Brothers offer an acrobatic mu
sical pot-pourri. De Lea and Orma have
an interesting skit called “Six Feet of
(Continued on Fage Eight.)
amusements. ,
“Come On In! The
Water’s Fine!”
—and so’s the fun j
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/THE OLD
SWIMMINf
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FIRST NATIONAL'
attraction
There’s a wonderful time
for every one in the fun
and pathos, too, of James
Whitcomb Riley’s old-home
poem. Directed by Joseph
de Grasse.
FOUR DAYS ONLY
Starting Tomorrow
at the
Rialto
Let’s Go—lt * Continnons.
R P K F IT ITS
’ J V-ji'i.fc ■■
METROPOLITAN VAUDEVILLE
Twice Daily, Starting May 9th.
Special Engagement of the Peer of
All Comedians.
EDDIE FOY
And the Younger Foys In Their
Kew Travesty,
FOY FUN REVUE
Songs, Dances. Music and Comedy.
ADDED MUSICAL FEATURE
RUBY NORTON
Clarence Senna at the Piano.
AND SIX OTHER BIG ACTS.
BARGAINMATINEES
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921.
In The Land of Make Bclievc
By WALTER D. HICKMAN
It is no easy task to divide the year
into movie seasons, as we have the movies
with us the year around. Movie pro
duction, as far as Indianapolis is con
cerned, can not be judged from the an
nouncements of photoplay releases. It is
necessary in selecting the twelve best
photoplays of the year to limit our
selection to those seen nero. Although
I can sdvaneb no particular reason for
doing It, I have fixed April 30 as the
close of the movie year and May 1 as
........ AMUB KM E NTS.
I“A Tailor Made Man” "3T
PKIAI EVENINGS, 25c to SI.OO.
EL 111 I" I IYIi 7 ! 1 WED. AND THURS. MATS, 25c*
Lily Lid II u sa a t H£ y mat ’ "*■ 6os
NEVER HIGHER
sth SMASHING WEEK
“A Gold Mine of Entertainment”—Times
‘‘A Skilled and Adaptable Oast of Players”—News
“An auspicious event. Mr. Kelly and Miss Gordon may be
proud of their achievement.”—Star.
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A Broadway Company
At V3 the Price!
"
Gregory Kelly Stock Company
A Whirlwind of Laughter
Commencing Monday Evening, May 9th
IN. B.—Friday Afternoon, May 20th
SPECIAL FEKFORMANCK ONLY **•
“ROMEO and JULIET”
GREGORY KELLY as ROMEO RUTH GORDON as JULIET
TODAY TT~-lE7 WAT Y? By EUGENE
Last Two Times A A JULIa W VJfLi.l WALTER
Big o Week Monday Night 8:30
Mat*. W ed., Thur*, and Sat. ' r
MURAT
The Stuart Walker Company
IN ,
MAMMA’S AFFAIR
A Comedy In Three Acts
First Time In Indianapolis
—WITH—
George Gaul Regina Wallace
as / as
The Dauntless Doctor The Dutiful Daughter
John Wray Judith Lowry
as as
The Busy Bellhop The Fastidious Friend
Robert McGroarty Julia McMahon
as as
The Simpering Suitor The Nonchalant Nurse
• - - ‘“’’V'' ' '•
mmrnmmmmmmmmrm mmmmmmmammum
Elizabeth Patterson
Fifth as Second
Season The Mighty Mamma Big Week
the beginning of the new “movie year.”
This department hag been asked to
pick the twelve “best” movies of tho
"year.” This is Indeed a most difficult
task. Such a selection, of course, Is de
termined by the personal likes and dis
likes of the reviewer and controlled oy
his individual standards of criticism.
In selecting the “twelve best” movies
seen here since May 1, 19’.0, up to April
80, 1921, I have selected several which
“failed” as box office attractions In this
city. The faUure of the publlo to re-
spond does not indicate that It Is a
bad picture.
My selection of the “twelve best” movies
with the houses first showing them, are
as follows:
Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan In
“The Kid," at the Circle.
“Humoresque” with Vera Gordon at the
Ohio.
AMUSEMENTS.
l All Next Week l
I A SYMPOSIUM OF YOUTH I
( The Novelty Extraordinary
Twelve talented kiddies in a performance of-unusual
[merit —staged with apologies to Mr. Ziegfeld.
Chas. Harte & Cos. “Harmony Land” I
Artistic Musical Offering _ . A Melodious Treat
Baggott & Sheldon I Gertrude Taylor & Cos. I Austin & De Laney
Two Acm of dob* 1 A Travelogue | “The Syncopated Hotel*'
Ted & Corinne Breton Fox Film Farce I
“On the Board Walk” “Janitors'* H
LOEW’S
LASTTIMES TOMORROW —“WITHOUT LIMIT”
ALL NEXT WEEK STARTING MONDAY MATINEE
A DRAMA OF A WOMAN’S INDECISION
JACK LONDON’S S, r S*S’&.
“THE LITTLE FOOL”
A Story of the Eternal Triangle
and Other Favorites
"‘jxzsr 1 “INTO THE LIGHT”
Protean Success ,I,IW 1 ~S - MONTROSE
DeLEA and
ORMA
“Six Feet
of
Comedy”
Special Picture Comedy/ “TORCHY TURNS CUPID” Loew’s News
“The Mark of Zorro” with Douglas
Fairbanks at the Colonial.
“The Jack-Knife Man,” a King Vidor
production, at the Circle.
‘What Every Woman Knows” at Mis
ter Smith's.
“O’Malley of the Mounted” with Bill
Hart at the Alhambra.
(Continued on Page Eight.)
French
Eccentriques
The Clemenso
Brothers
MEIGHAN TO BE
VIEWED IN ‘CITY
OF SILENT MEN’
Eugene O’Brien, Dorothy Phil
lips and Other Favorites
in New Pictures.
SPECIAL JAZZ MUSIC
Stars will flash on the local screen
next week.
Among the brightest ones will he
Eugene O’Brien, Martha Mansfield,
Thomas Meighan, Lois Wilson, May
McAvoy, Mark MacDermott, Harry
Carey, William S. Haft. Dorothy
Phillips and others.
Their vehicles will include “Glided
Lies,” “The City ot Silent Men,”
“The Truth About Husbands,”
“Blind Wives,” “Hearts Up,” “The
Whistle” and “Once to Every
Woman.” - J
Many of the houses are featuring theli
music and the jazz numbers done in the
latest cabaret fashion seems to have the
edge on tho popular ,fancy as this sort
of music is very popular. Several ■of
the movie houses are featuring organ re
citals, such ag the Circle and the Alham
bra.
-I- -J- -J.
CONCERNING “CITY
OF SILENT MEN’’
"The City of Silent Men” will be pre
sented at the Ohio next week, begln
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Foliette, Pearl
and Wicks
“The Coal
Drivers”
Continuous
1 to 11 P. M.
Prices—Mats., 15c-250
Night, 30c-40c
A Singing
Sensation
The Gypsy
Songsters
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