Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-15
MAIN STREET
Is PROMISING,
HINES WRITES
Nine Plays Make Bow on
Broadway Within Weeks
Time.
HODGES NEW OFFERING
BV DIXIE HINES,

NEW YORK, Oct 15.-N hen six plays
are offered for debuts on one night, and
nine plays in one week, the task OF re-
viewing them becomes 4 matter of endar-
snce. For instance there was THE O'Brien
GIRL Lilies Of the Field" THE Fan"
Thank You" Beware Of Dogs and
Like a King all on one night, followed
By THE Love Letter." Main Street" and
~Bombo." to say nothing Of the worlds
pennant fight between the two city clubs
the advent of schubert Vaudeville and
the new pictures and the opening Of the
music and opera season
Thank You is a comedy by Winchen
Smith and Tom Cushing, and comes
nearer substit uting for ~Lightnin' than
anything that has been offered this sea
son. This playwright glorifed gambler
the other day and it didn't take, so he
played safe this time and made him a
preacher, and & mighty human and inter
esdng preacher he is. HIS niece comes
from Paris and starts something in the
parish. She takes up her home with him.
discards her poiret fnery and adopts
gingham. She wins the son Of a rich man
and makes her uncle a fashionable
preacher instead of drudge. She ad-
yertises him and turns him from a thank
you" man into a man Of independence. It
Is sure FIRE comedy, with nothing espe-
ciaIly brilliant about it but lot of clean
fun. clever situations and good character
drawing. Already il is a success. Harry
Davenport Frank Mccormack Frank
Monroe, Donald Foster and Edith King
axe the honorS.
1.-THE Love Letter is based on a story
and from the adaptation a very weak
sfory-by Franz Aolnar. William LIE
Baron has written some amusing and ap-
peaing lyrics but fell down on the book
Victor Jacob, on the other hand con-
tributes some delightful music, which
John Charles Thomas. the new star. sings
delightfully."-. Marjorie Gateson. Carolyn
Thomson, the Astaire's and VIII West
give first aid TO the star and opera, and
with the sumptuous staging by Charles
Dillingham;, the appealing voice Of Mr..
Thomas. the agility of Miss Gateson. the
charm of Miss Thomson and the fun of
Mr.. West as well as the teTpsicherean de-
light of the Astaire's, it has become one
of the tuneful treats OF the season
MARIE DORO HAS
A WORTHLESS VEHICLE
Lilies Of the Field which brought
Marie Doro back to the stage as an
actress is by william J. HuhTbut- Mr.
HurTbut mi~ht be better engaged The
play is pruriant piffle. and although there
are members Of the cast who are popular
business IN acting this
William Hodge has new play this |
year which ne calls Beware of DOGS" |
which according to his custom. he wrote |
himself and in which he has q sUitab BILE |
part for his peculiar talents The play. |
briefly. concerns the embarrassments Of |
one GEORGE Oliver. who. having brought
his invalid sister TO the country for some
fresh air. en~a res, of all things In the
BUSINESS of boarding dogs How the peo-
pie who come with the dogs are mixed up |
in an affair which reads like the reports /
of some Of our recent prominent divorce /
cases-weu. that's the plot Oliver re- |
CARDS all his misfortunes in q hopeless |
hut necessarily humorous and tolerant |
fashion and eventually every one who can /
reform and the others remain their sweet |
and wholesome selves. Mr.. Hodge comes
as near heing an Institution as any one
of the native sta~r, which is another way
of Sayinr he will please his friends, who
are numerous, and satisfy himself. Julia
Rruns Mrs. Craic, Edith Shayne. Ann
Davis and John Webster ara among those
prese-t in his supporting east
Like a King" by John Hunter Booth
is another small town drama. of which
we have had three this week. 1t is all
about returned soldier who has misled
his home folks. They think him wealthy
and when he meets MP with a former
comrade-now a chauffeur-it is agreed
that the latter shall drive him home in
the borrowed machine Of his employer
He enters his home town like King"
In the luxurious car, g chauffeur and
everything The ruse succeeds only too
wei The simple folk in Lower Falls
accept the prodioal and the auto at face
yalue and likewise his Wallingford
schemes for a greater city till the real
owner Of the car turns up and is per-
suaded without q shred of evidence that
he sold it to Nat while drunk. Credit
is re-established, our hero saved from
jail and wealth promptly follows. Adolph
Klauber, who is the director of the des-
TIMES Of the play, has done we'll by it
garpt wiltshire James Gleason. Hale
NorCrosS, Nina Gleason Ann Harding,
Lucille Parker, James See1ey, Frances
Howard Robert HomanS Z. L. Duane
Edward Poland Dodson Mitchell and
some more are included in this respec-
table group If intelligent actors
MAIN STREET"
. Is A BROADWAY SUCCESS
Main Street has now found its place
on the stage, Harvey O'Hicgins and
Harriet Ford deny that it is either an
adaptation or drzmatization of the
SINCLAIR Lewis story of small town life,
but admit that the story is founded" on
the episodes of the book They have at
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