Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-09-18
DUST OFF YOUR
SHELL RIMS, DO
UPYOUR SMOCK
For the Bohemians Are to Hold
Forth in Follies at Murat
Next Week.
KEITH'S DOUBLEHEADER

hEIIH y OOODLEI1EAD
Get out your shell-rimmed glasses
and be a villager because the Green
wich Village Follies comes to town
next week.
These opponents of New York's
Latin Quarter will gambol on the
stage of the Murat beginning Mon
day night.
Included in the array Of beauties" to
be brought here next week will be
twenty artists models, who will act in
ornamental capacities during the frolic
on the Murat stage.
English's will go dark, following to-
nights performance of THE Mikado,"
until Neil O'Brien's Minstrels open
two-day engagement next Friday night.
Underlined at English's for the week
beginning Monday. Sept. p. is Twin
Beds" with Zaina Curzon playing the
chief role.
On Oct. II, for three days at English's,
comes Carmen" another Ralph Dunbar
production, and for three nights begin
ming Nov. 1s, Clarence" returns with
Gregory Kelly, Ruth Gordon, Robert Ad-
ans, Byron Beasley and others seen
here last season in the same play.
Here is some more big news.
Al Jolson's in ''Sinbad" comes to the
Murat for the week of Oct. 4, and it is
needless to say that this will be one of
the biggest events in the history of the
Murat
The Murat will shelter soon some very
important attractions such as "The Pass
ing Show Of 1919" 1.-The Bird OF Para
disc which is a long time friend; Guy
Bates Post in THE Masquerader" and
Wedding Bells" which is now in Chi
cago with Margaret Lawrence and Wal
lace Eddinger.
The theatrical feast at the Murat is
starting early this season.
B. f. Keith's next week kill have two
headliners and the remainder Of the bill
looks as good as the featured acts.
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hURAT WILL SHELTER
GREENWICH VILLAGE FoLLIES.
The event Of the week In theatrical
circles next week Will be the appear
ance, beginning Monday night at the
Murat, of The Greenwich Village Fol-
lies.''
This entertainment is unique in the
annals OF the stage, and is one OF the
largest organizations on tour.
The Follies had its inception in the
quaint and diminutive Greenwich Village
Theater in New York in midsummer Of
1919.
The theater lies in that section CT
New York where the artistically ambi-
tious, artists, vers libre poets, ilustra-
tors, opponents of varied cults and sun
dry "isms' congregate TO express thelr
varied moods and emotions. But the
revue was not long for the village.
The cramped dimensions OF the theater
could not cope with the immediate pOpu-
Iarity of fthe place, and soon the Fol
lies was riding on the crest OF fame
at the Nora Bayes Theater, in the very
heart OF Broadway's famous amusement
circle.
For seven months 1t was The mecca
to which smart audiences made their
pilgrimage.
Now it comes to this city direct from
q summers engagement. OF twenty weeks
at the Studebaker Theater, Chicago.
The book and lyric of the FolIies are
by Philip BarthOlomae and John Muir
ray Anderson.
The accompanying music is by A.
Baldwin Sloane.
Many OF its melodies are already IA
miliar to music lovers, notably Red
Red as the Rose and II Want q
Daddy"
Conspicuous in its array OF players
are James Watts. an English carlcatur-
Est, with deft travesties on the art oi
PoFlowa and the female opera stars
Ted Lewis, the jazz king. with his laugh
ing trombone and hysterical clarinets
Al Herman, a new type Of black-fact
comic we'll named by Caruso, the LAC
quered laughmaker"; Verna Gordon, ia
the fantastic Jayanese and marionette
dances; The Hickey Brothers, Jane Car
roll, Mabelle Jaunay. Irene Olson and
Warner Gault-