Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-03-02

| Pearl Franklin wrote it. Taken from
| the Azalea stories by Ella Peattie and
made possible for the stage by John
Golden.
/ Just as Golden created Lightin' Bill in
/ "Lightin'," so he has given us two char
acters, at least. in 'HOwdy, Folks, who
1 are good to meet.
They are:
/ The breaches played by AlrhOnz Eth
/ Ter, and Mandy Coulter, mountain gal,
/ quaint, sincere. awkward, honest and
/ real, played by Leila Bennett.
| Mandy is not the "main" girl of the
play, but the truthful acting OF Miss
! Bennett will make Mandy live just es
Lightnin Bill Jones is livln' today in
/ New York.
The story: Ma and Pa Mckinney live
/ in a cabin up in the mountains of North
/ Carolina. They don't dress modern, as
! they live close to nature. Ma and pa
/ nave neichbors in Buck and Dick Bahb,
/ Sam Disbrow and his old man, Mrs.
Kitchell, Jef Coulter and daughter
/ Mandy. The Babbs and the Coul:erS
/ have a feud of long standing. They are
all primitive and when they hate they
/ late. MOUNTAIN preacher brings Ana
/ lea. 4 little body from a circus way
/ down in one OF the towns. The parsOn
! thinks that the Lord tells to make Aza-
| lea happy. although he has 20 lie wee
/ bit He does and pretends that Alazea
/ IS the heiress to Simeon PAGES fortune,
a miser who died with his coin hidden
IN his cabin. While the Coulter BabD
feud IS on and the money IS being
/ sought. the parson fights and Drays Sc
well that Mandy Coulter marries Dick
1 Babb and the feud is broken Azale@
/ decides to settle down with sam Dis
I -
which Dick Babb marries Nancy. The
curtain drops on real cOntentment 10
/ the mountains.
/ Alphonz Etnier Is powerful in his dra
matte climaxes and as he gets deeper
/ into the character he viii smooth out
/ the rough spots.
/ Marion Swayne makes n good looking
/ Azalea, but she hasn't as yet caught the
spirit Of the mountains Marion Kerby,
bless her soul makes Mrs. Kitchen a
comedy delight, along with Horace Jones
as Buck Babb. who wooes and wins Wild
ow Kitchell by being musical. Chester
Norris. at the present time. causes Sam
Disbr0w to become modern too quickly.
Marie Day as Mae Mckinney and Harry
Willard as Pa fit we'll into the picture.
/ The other characters do not entirely dam
age the mountain picture.
But the acting honors 20 to Leila Ben
/ nett as the awkward mountain Mandy.
Benjamin Kauser as Mandy's lover also
does real honest character work.
The third act becames too modern"
] but the atmosphere returns I'm the fourth
act.
The play is well mounted.
"Howdy, Folks Is a mountain album
rich with some real people. Other parts
Of the play are very weak Some changes
must be made.
Remains at English's all week. Then
| goes direct to Chicago for a run.
ION. MY DEAR"
Some persons sing their way to your
heart.
Others dance their way into your az
/ fections
But occasionally you'n find one who
/ both sings and dances without being the
most remarkable singer or the most re-
markable dancer in the world, yet is
captivating to remarkable degree.
And into this class falls Miss Juliette
! Day, the star, if such there be, of "Oh,
/ My Dear" at the Murat all this week
! Miss Day has personality. Her songs
/ have personality. Her dances have per
sonality. She plays her way into your
heart
/ Last night was Shriners' night, so
/ IT goes without Saying that a good
( time was had by all"
/ The Shriners always have some extra
/ stunts at these theater parties of theirs.
/ This time their ingenuity was devoted
( more TO dressing up the theater than
/ to providing extra amusement That was
| left-and advisedly-to the "Oh, My
/ Dear" company.
( Gaily colored balloons were every
/ where. Bobbing up and down on the
/ ends Of long paper strings that SHIN
mered and glistened in the light, adding
/ unusual bril1ance to the scene.
But the plays the thing.
| All about fashionable health farm.
/ run by much married doctor, where
/ guests drop in from the sky and others
| come for treatment for those Ills that
| beset certain stratas of society before
the eighteenth amendment was tackled
on to the constitution
Not a heavy plot. But enough to
carry the songs and dances and other
speciaIties for which the Princess thea
ter attractions are justly famous.
Miss Day has capable company
in her suppOrt-notably Miss Evelyn
MacVey, who knows all there Is to know
about dancing; Douglas Stevenson, who
has been here In the past with several
musical comedy successes; Hal Forde, a
patient at the health farm, who has
passed the pink elephant stage; Ernest
Cossart and Miss Suzanne Jackson, as
the good doctor and his WIFE
Miss Day has one song-"Phoebe
Snow''--alone worth a visit to the Murat
while Mr.. Forbes ut Makes a Fellow
Stop to Think" also adds to the general
| merriment.
"Oh, My Dear" stays at the Murat
all week, and viii play to another lodge
party, the Elks, Wednesday night
+ It's pleasant diversion.
Il l. Il
/ They are even Jazzing the classical
/ Spring Song nowadays.
II is being done by Sheila Terry in
"rhrees a Crowd" at Keith's this week.
Miss Terry is q graceful dancer She is
assisted by Gattison Jones and Harry
Peterson. clever turn. Lew Dock
stader speaks feelingly of the late John
BarleycOrn and ether things. One big
hit, he is. Ota Gygi is splendid on the
violin and Maryon Vadie dances while
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