Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-30
TWOCOMPANIES
STOCK PLAYERS
BID FOR FAVOR
Stuart Walker Opens at Mu.
rat-Kelly Continues at
English's.
F. ELLIS is AT KEITH'S

Interest centers next week on the
opening of the stock season of Stuart
Walker and his players at the Mural
on Monday night and also on the be
ginning of the fourth week of the
season Of the Gregory Kelly stock
company at English's-
The opening bill of Mr.. Walkers
season will be "The Wolf" in which
Mr.. George Gaul and Regina Wallace
will play the leading roles. Mr.. Kelly
has picked as his fourth bill
comedy, "a Tailor-Made Man."
Keith's will feature condensed musi'
cal comedy offering called Under tne
Apple Tree" Maggie LIE Claire. who I'm
personates Irish characters, will be the
chief Offering at the Lyric.
Loew's State will headline Anna =
Nilsson in a movie, without Limit.
The new spring and summer policy VIII
continue at the Rialto and the Broad
way will again present vaudeville ana
movies.
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BIG OPENING Assn hED
FOR STUART WALKER MONDAY.
Next Monday evening at $3.50 O'Clock
the curtain will rise upon the five hun
dredth performance which Stuart Walker
has presented in Indianapolis. Next Mon
day evening also marks the first night
of Mr.. Walkers fifth consecutive season
here. For this extraordinary occasion,
the Stuart Walker Company offer 1.-The
Wolf" by Eugene Walter.
THE Wolf IS a play of the great
Canadian Northwest. George Gaul. whose
return to the Stuart Walker Company is
regarded with great interest, will be seen
in the heroic role Of the danger-loving
Beaubien, who loves Hilda, the<daughter
of the harsh old Scotchman, McTavish.
Hilda's mother had run away with a
Frenchman and her father, fearing the
faint in her blood, treats her with cold
cruelty. Beaubien Is moved to pity for
the girl. and love follows.
Then comes The Wolf, in the person
Of Mcdonald, who steals into Hilda's life
with fattery for her and false promises
for her father. Beaubien and his faithful
Baptiste rescue Hilda from him by car
rying her in a canoe toward Montreal
Mcdonald, with the "reminiscences Of the
villain of the melodrama, follows them.
A fight with knives then occurs and the
curtain falls upon the death Of McDon-
aid.
In the role Of Hilda McTavish, Regina
Wallace will make her debut in Indi-
annapolis. Arvid Paulson, another new
member Of the Stuart Walker Company,
will also be seen during the opening
week, playing the part of Bartiste.
Others In the cast, all well-known to
the theatergoers Of this city, include Aid
rich Bowker, John Wray and George
Somnes.
The entire production Is staged under
the personal direction of Mr.. Walker
with special settings designed by Frank
j. Zimmerer. There will be matinees on
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
LIVELY AND PRETTY COMEDY
TO BE PRESENTED AT CYCLISTS.
"a Tailor Made Man." by Harry James
Smith, will be the play at English's next
week and the fourth in the summer sea-
son Of the Gregory Kelly Stock Com
pany. 1t tells of the rise to fame Of a
roor boy, his fall back to poverty and
shame.
John Paul Bart was the assistant Of a
Scotch tailor, who believed that tailors
should remain tailors, and assistants
never attempt to climb out of their lowly
who made life more endura BILE for the
bringing sunshine into their drab lives.
A socialistic fellow who was in love
with the young girl hung around the
shop, and in the intervals Of his love
making. talked the brotherhood of man
to any one who would listen to him
Young Bart listened. He was eager to
rise socially and financially, and had
always been a follower of society do
,1ngs IN the Sunday supplements.
{ While Bart was bordering how to
make even temporary escape from a
fife Of arduous labor, the valet of an
important Englishman brought his
imaster's evening clothes and all that ac-
fcompanies such garments to the shop
ltof pressing. Bart's brain was spinning
with the account he had read Of a re-
Eception to take place that evening, and
with Kari Marx to back him up, he put
tou the clothes and went to the party.
+ From this point on the play tells of
! wooing OF an heires, his business achieve
ments, and then his sudden flop back to
the old job in the tailor shop.
Mr.. Kelly will be seen as Bart and
Miss Gordon as the tailor's daughter
Others who will appear will include
Byron Beasley, Angela Ogden, Owen
Mech, Percy Helton, Harry Sothern. Will
lard Barton, Harry Wagstaff Gribble,
Alma Hamersley, Florence Murphy, Eu-
gene stockdale, Howard Hill and Ray
mond Elligood.
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MUSICAL COMEDY OFFERING
ON NEXT WEEKS KEITH'S BILL
Under the Apple Tree" with John
Sully and chorus of girls. WILDE the
headline offering at B. F. Keith's next
week, beginning Monday matinee. George
Choos produced 1t.
McWatters and Tyson will offer their
new vehicle, 1922 revue called eyes Of
Vaudeville" McWatters is a light come
dian and a pianist. Miss Tyson is a
mimic.
Dorothy Van and Frank Ellis, with a
supporting cast, will be seen in a one act
playlet with songs, called Filtration"
The cast includes Jack Oliver, Al Gar
belle, Constance Campbell and May Van.
Sybil Vane. who Is known as 1.-The vest
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