Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-09
KELLY
STOCK SEASON
OPENS MONDAY
Promises Pick of Plays With
Famous Players for Run
at English's.
RUTH ROVE AT KEITH'S

The big event in town next week
will be the opening of the Gregory
Kelly stock company at English's on
Monday night when Mr.. Kelly and
his players will be seen in "Clar-
ence."
The hand of welcome goes out to
Mr.. Kelly and his wife, Ruth Gordon,
In bringing themselves and their as
ISOLATED players to Indianapolis for
spring and summer run.
Monday night will be big night
at English's. State and city officials,
men and women prominent in civic
life, society leaders and hundreds of
the Kelly fans in every walk of life
viii be on hand to welcome the COM
pany.
Ruth Roye viii be the person OF i'm
portance at B. F. Keith's next week. A
musical act will be featured at the Lyric.
Loew's State win feature a movie, The
Brute Master" New bills will be offered
at the Broadway and the Rialto.
Partisan FIirts" will be the bill at
the Park next week.
Il i Il
KELLY TO OPEN STOCK
SEASON MONDAY AT ENGLISH'S.
Everything is ready for Gregory Kelly
and his company to open a season in
summer stock at English's on Monday
night.
AS the opening bill will be the famous
Clarence" which was written by Booth
Harrington, the author win be present
Monday night. Governor Warren T. Nc
Cray and Mayor Charles Jewett have also
been invited and they are expected TO be
on hand to welcome Mr.. Kelly and his
company Monday night at English's.
Mr.. Kelly announces the cast OF
Clarence" as follows;
Clarence ..-............-..Gr Gregory Kelly
Cora Wheeler Ruth Gordon
Mr.. Wheeler .......-...... Byron Beasley
Miss Pinney ........Nera Fuller Mellish
BOBBY wheeler ....---...-.-Percy Helton
Hubert Stem ............W Willard Barton
mrs. wheeler s-.-....---.. angela ogden
Mrs Martin .-.-........... beuIah Bonuy
DlnW1dd1e ...--...-.-.-... Harry Sothern
Della ..................Flo Florence Murphy
Mr.. Beasley has played with Margaret
Ellington. played the leading male role
in Daddy Long Legs" and IN BelascO's
1.-THE Man Inside"
Miss MellIsh played IN Cosmo Hamil-
tons 1.-THE Blindness Of Virtue" Cohan's
''Genius and the Crowd" Under Cover
and In the movies. but prefers stage
work.
Percy Helton was the original nephew
in 1.-THE Return OF Peter Grimm" with
David Warheld. BE playel the lead IN
Conan and Harris Young America" and
has just left Three Live Ghosts" which
was successful on Broadway.
Willard Barton, FIVE seasons with
Maude Adams, played with Henry Miller
Nd Blanche Bates in "MoIlere," and
was the original Hubert Stem IN "Clar-
ence"
Migg Ogden, six seasons with Maude
Adams, was here with Richard Bennett
in For the Defense"
Beulah Bondy played here IN ''PicadiIly
jim"
Harry sothern. three seasons with
Sothern and Marlows played with Otis
Skinner in "Kismet" and In 1.-THE Silent
Voice"
Florence Murphy played in Booth
Tarkington's Seventeen"
Mr.. Kelly chose Clarence" as the open
ing Dill, purity out OF compliment 10 ME-
Harrington. as this is his town, but
chiefly because has has always been
greatly interested in the part OF Clar-
ence and because the play is particu-
Iarly suited to displaying almost the
entire company in roles Of interest and
importance.
Clarence" was written for Alfred
Lunt, who headed the New York COM
pany. when Mr.. Tyler made up his
mind to open a Chicago company he
chose Mr.. Kelly and Miss Gordon for
the two important youthful parts, and
they headed the Chicago company, as
was indicated in thu way the play pro-
grams were printed. The company
played fourteen weeks at the Blackstone
Theater, Chicago; played out to San
Francisco and Los Angeles, and returned
and played all the important cities of the