Indiana daily times. [volume], September 03, 1921, Last Home Edition, Page 7, Image 7

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BETTER QUALITY
NOTED IN NEW
GOTHAM PLAYS
(Continued From Fare Sis.)
ten years the vrlfe of a land-grasping
farmer has struggled and eared that
their daughter might go to New York
end develop her artistic talents. When
the time comes to realize her dreams
her husband compels tho pair to give
up their savings that he may purchase
more land. The conflict between hus
band and wife results In the latter being
ordered from the home with the daughter
and on the eve v>f their departure a fa
mous artist, sojourning nearby, passes
adverse judgment on the sample of paint
ing on which the faith of both women
hinges, and in despair the wife begins all
over again to dream her dream which
may come to pass In another generation,
as the daughter follows the least re
sistance and accepts the marriage offer
of a neighbor, cut from tho same mold
as her grasping and unimaginative fa
ther.
Augustin Duncan as the husband and
Bffie Shannon as the wife reach the
TO OPEN PARK SEASON TONIGHT
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LENA DA I.ET.
An Indianapolis actress, Lena Daley, will open the 1921-1922 season at tfia
Tark tonight by appearing in “Kandy Kids," a musical extravaganza. Tha en
gagement will continue up to and in including next Saturday night.
highest point of acting of the season,
and Willlard Robertson as tho suitor Is
not far behind.
“SCARLET MAX”
IS FOUND AMUSING.
“The Scarlet Man," a comedy by Wil
liam Lq Baron, proved to be the most
amusing play of the week. It was novel
in conception and execution, and unusu
ally acted. There Is little to appeal to
the highbrow in this p'.ay, which takes
its title from the fact that a modest and
retiring bachelor is compelled by a mod
ern young woman to “compromise" her
that she may prove a point which she
adheres to. The girl spends a night in
the apartment of the bachelor, though a
perfectly harmless night it is. The con
sequences for the man. however, are seri
ous. He is expelled from the house as
a moral leper. lie is dismissed from his
position ns a roue, and loses membership
in his club for conduct unbecoming a
gentleman. All this while the girl, the
one responsible for the dilemma, is ac
cepted as a radical and a high-spirited
woman and made much of. Tho three
acts come to a conclusion with an appeal
from the man to the woman to “do the
right thing" and marry him. This re
quest is granted, and “The Scarlet Man"
becomes once more clean and pure. John
Cumberland is one of the most adept far
ceurs on our stage, and in “The Scarlet
Man" he sustains this distinction.
ANOTHER PLAY
JUSTIFIES ITS EXISTENCE.
“Six Cylinder Love” by William An
thony Maguire was another comedy of
Special State Fair Week |
Gaia Bill
Arthur Anderson Presents
“DOLL FROLICS”
Cute Cuties in “A Trip to Toyland”
TAYLOR TRIPLETS JEAN AND CECIL
Manly Art of Self-Defense “STYLES’'
McNALLY 8 ASHTON BYRON &LANGDON ,
Blackface Comedians “The Woman Dodger"
MOREY, SENNA AND DEAN
Harmony Singing Funmakers
SHERMAN & ROSE Jonsa Rose
Unique Variety Dancers “The Musical Girl”
Mack Sennett Screen Farce “Wedding Bells
Out of Tune”
M, Lyric Ball Room 'M
. Qflernoon tnd Evening
the week which Justified It* existence. It
Is a funny mixture of farce and comedy,
and there Is hardly a dull moment in
either of the three acts. The possession
of a motor car has proved too much for
the enjoyment of a mature couple, and
Its possession passes to another, a pair
of newlyweds, and thereafter all thoughts
of domesticity fade from view and new
and strange roadhouses, scenes and in
cidents are discovered In a most amusing
manner. She studied the speed Jaws
rather than the cook book, and her hus
band was forced Into debt and distress,
With their feeble resources the car al
most accomplishes their ruin, but as
befits a clever comedy, the end is ad
justed amusingly’ and satisfactorily and
Ernest Truex, June Walker, Bert on
Churchill, Eleanor Gordon, Donald Meek,
Kenneth Hlil and others, to say nothing
of Sam Forrest, who staged the play for
Sam H. Harris, assured the success it
achieved.
OTHER BROADWAY
AXH ROAD NEWS.
Catherine Mulqueen, who sang "Irene,”
has been engaged for Bessie Barriscale’s
company In “The Skirt ”
Mimi Aguglia sails for London In Oc
tober. She makes her appearance in a
now play on Broadway In January.
Langdon McCormick's new spectacular
melodrama, “Adventure,” will be pro
duced In New York early In November.
Alfred Hickman, who staged “The
Passion Flower" for Richard O. Hern
don, will act the role of Kstabnn with
Nance O’Neil In her created role this
year.
Barry McCollum, who lately acted the
role of Clutle John in “John Ferguson,"
has received several now Irish plays for
use of the Repertory Theater this year.
Frederic "Warren, who created the pop
ular series of baliad concerts two sea
sons ago, will continue this series at the
Apollo Theater this year, commencing
In October.
Avery Hopwood’s “The Bat” is on Its
second year In New York. Half a mil
lion people have suffered forty million
thrills In one year. Is the assertion of
the statistics .ound of Wagenhals A
Kemper.
The Repertory Theater, of which An
gustin Duncan Is the prosit nt, Is to
produce three new plays this a .son. The
first will be offered for matinee per
formances du-Ing Mr. Duncan's engage
ment in “The Detour.”
Clara Clemens, the singer, has no
sympathy with “temperamontallsts,”
whether they be of the stage or the con
cert hall. “Artistic temperanjent," she
observes, “may be defined as a hot
house name for emotional Insanity.”
Clara Clemens, the soprano, daughter of
the late Mark. Twain, and wife of Ossip
Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, will be heard in a
series of recitals in New York this
AMUSEMENTS.
season, specializing in her program of
Brahm’s songs In English.
FAIR USHERS IN
FALL SEASON
AT THEATERS
(Continued From Page Six.)
know because she Is dancing nearly all
of the time that she Is on the stage.
“You know,” said Miss Daley, in a re
cent Interview, “that I am of the firm
conviction that If people danced more
they would be healthier. I am aware of
the fact that some people claim dancing
is injurious, hut I know that this is not
the case except in Instances where ex
cessive dancing is indulged in. Os course
when one goes to the extreme what
otherwise might prove beneficial becomes
harmful.
“YThat I mean Is that dancing Indulged
In as a regular form of exercise would
have a tendency to strengthen one, to
develop weak muscles, to aid digestion
and to build up the whole system. I
am a little superstitions so I am going
to knock on wood when I say It, but
do yon know. I enjoy the most perfect
health. I never have a sick day and I
never feel as if my work was a burden
to me. I attribute my fit physical con
dition as largely due to the dancing I
do.”
Those who see Miss Daley's perform
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921.
ance will be convinced that If her danc
ing Is beneficial to her, ordinary dancing
will never hurt any one for this soubrette
Is chain lightning Itself.
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“ABE MARTIN" BOOKED
TO RETURN TO ENGLISH'S.
Beginning on Monday night. Sept. 12,
"Abe Martin,” a musical comedy, wPh
numerous changes from last season, will
open a week's engagement. Carlton Guy
will again be seen In the leading role,
which he created for the stage.
Kin Hubbard, who conceived the char
acter of Abe, claims that he “conceived
Abe” after an extensive trip through
the rural districts of Indiana while on
a tour on a political trains as a corre
spondent.
After a time of “rubbing elbows” with
the natives, Mr. Hubbard hit upon the
Idea ot creating a dally newspaper fea
ture, Illustrated with a single drawing,
though dlffr-ent each day, and with one
predominating character, and this a sort
of a composite of various Interesting In
dividuals whom he had met and become
acquainted with on bis excursions to ihe
southern part of Hooslerdom. He does
not know how he came to call the char
acter Abe Martin, for he says that ha
never met or knew any one of that name.
The name simply came to him after ha
had made his first drawing, and decid
ing that it was as appropriate as any
other, he let it go nt that.
Mr. Hubbsrd classes Abe as a country
loafer of uncertain age, bnt well along
In years, who, although living In a rural
community, has never been a farmer,
nor followed any special vocation.
AMUSEMENTS.
KEITH CIRCUIT
TO MARK ITS
ANNIVERSARY
(Continued From Page Six.)
smart and smiling attendarts. It was
like a richly appointed club.
The new Keith theater was o. k.’d, but
the guests most of whom had never seen
a vaudeville performance before awaited
the show with some misgivings.
The bill picked by M \ Keith and Mr.
Albee revealed a pleasing, wholesome,
varied entertainment that won every one,
the clergymen being strong In its praise.
From that day Keith’s was crowded twice
dally and vaudeville was fashionable and
correct and a family amusement.
From Boston Keith vaudeville and
Keith theaters moved to all the cities
of the East. Mr Albee mastered theater
construction to its minutest detail and
personally superintended the construc
tion of the magnificent houses In Phila
delphia, Providence, New York, Syra
cuse, Washington, to name a few only.
He is now building the finest and most
modern theatera he has yet planned In the
r.iw L'ph?an In Brooklyn, the $3,000.-
000 structure In Cleveland, and houses In
Dayton, Toledo and Columbua.
When B. F. Keith died In 1914 vaude
ville was thoroughly organized In the B.
F. Keith Vaudeville Exchange booking
some 400 theaters from coast to coast.
It remained for E. F. Albee, Inheritor
Three Reporters
Only Ones at City
Tax Levy Hearing
Three persona not on ths city’s pay
roll attended the public hearing upon
the annual appropriation and tax levy
ordinances before the city council
last night. They were newspaper
men.
After waiting until 8 JM o’clock for
some citizen to appear and ask at
least one question about the way In
which the administration proposes to
apportion the expenditure of $7,000,000
or $8,000,000 by Its successor In 1022d
Jacob P. Brown, president pro tem.
of the council, announced that he
would entertain a motion to adjonrn.
The councilman and heeds of depart
ments readily acquiesced and the
’hearing” broke up In a hurry.
The ordinances will come ap for
passage at the regular meeting Mon
day evening.
of the Keith vaudeville kingdom, to add
new lustre to the Keith name by bring
ing about anew spirit In the relations of
artists and managers and to sound a hu
manitarian note of the most Intense
modernity.
At his suggestion and through his en
deavors, the managers combined in the
Vaudeville Managers' Protective Asso
ciation and the artlst^ N ln the National
Vaudeville Artists.
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Story of a land where the vanquished goes down and the game of life la
played without rales. A romance of gold and the wilder West, and
fighting men and love.
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the gaest of the Alhambra, with all expenses paid? Get Into the Alhambra
Conteat, now going on. For farther information see Mr. YGung, third floor,
Lyric Theater Building.
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