Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-08
The KeIlys Are Going TO
PLaU Romeo and Juliet
They're EnthuSed Over the
Great LOUe Tale Open
Stock Season Monday.
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN.

by WALTER ID. HlC hmAN.
willie Baxter" and Cora Wheeler
are going to play Bill Shakespeare S
Romeo and Juliet"
Isn't that a great piece of news?
I found this out the other day when
l rushed over to Englishs to see Ruth
Gordon, the wife of Gregory Kelly.
about l p. m.
The Kellys had just completed re-
hearsaI and, to use a newspaper express
sion, everybody was starved" Acting
on the theory that newspaper men &C
tuaIly "eat'' sometimes. and that it is
much nicer to talk shop" with a nice
piece of lamb and a salad in handy
reach, the Kellys started me of to the
Sphinx Arms as if I were a human being
and accustomed to two hours for lunch.
After the first shock of being carried
off to lunch, l had another big surprise
in store for me. Somehow or other
had the impression that Cora Wheeler
the red blooded girl in Booth Tarking
was far wrong.
CORA IS NOT
RUTH. INDEED, NO!
Instead Of the Eighty. weepy, t1irty
Cora Wheeler, l found a little woman
who has big ideas; who longs to continue
and act in plays at which no father or
mother could take exception; a woman
who is well read and who possesses won
derful ideas; woman who loves her
husband and who tries each hour Of the
days and nights Of the theatrical seasons,
which overlap each other, to make the
stage as "homelike" as possible.
She takes her work on the stage as
seriously as Julia Marlowe or Mrs. Fiske.
Cora Wheeler may giggle and cry on
the stage, but there is no Cora in the
personal life of Ruth Gordon.
AS she toyed with a chicken sandwich.
Mrs. Kelly softly said, DO you realize
that Juliet had a good deal Of Cora
Wheeler in herr"
SHE'S GOING
To PLAY JULIET.
Then she added: 81 am going to play
Juliet in our production of Romeo and
Juliet during the stock season.
I was trying to balance a piece of
butter on a toothpick- sized butter knife
Well. I dropped the butter on my plate.
Why not?" She asked earnestly In
the words Of Lady Capulet in the play,
She's not IA Oh, l know that Italian
girls of that age are advanced, but Juliet
vas Eltl- MI just line CORA DuL sue
was a girl.
Il imagine that if Cora was placed in
the Shakespeare play she would have had
ar least twenty-one affairs by the time
she reached the station in life of Juliet
Cora is a little flirt, you know"
GREGORY TALKS
ABOUT CORA.
Then Gregory Kelly spoke up and said
Cora, you remember, thought she WIS in
love with Mr.. Stem and when she forgets
about Stem, she was head and heels in
love with Clarence"
Then 1 began to realize that the ma
jOrity of the Romeos and Juliets l have
seen would make appropriate grand
fathers and gTandmothers
Then Miss Gordon said, "Why shouldn't
youth impersOnate youth. Juliet was
young and Romeo was no aged man. Why
shouldn't Romeo and Juliet love as
young people love and talk
The words are there in the play. One
has TO put youth into them. Cora did
not have just one love, she had several
Then Kelly said, Juliet had one love
a love until death"
BY that time Cora would have had
twentyone affairs" suggested Miss Cor
don.
The more this remarkable woman
talked Of Juliet and Cora, the more in
terested I became. Lady CaPulet and