Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10
and Philadelphia Public Eedger.
I Special to Indiana Daily Times
BY GILBERT SELDES.

and Phlladel phia Public ledger.
Special to Indiana Daily Times
BY GILBERT SELDES.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-Thc opening of
new shows continue at such pace and
with such enthusiasm that the critics
of the daily papers are obviously spent
by Wednesday of each week and gasp
with resentment when even the One-time
sacred Saturday night is pressed into
service for a premiere. They are hard
working lads and just now they keep
staff of assistants and carefully save up
joke or two which might go into the
| Tuesday criticism just in case Thurs
day turns out weak. Even with the help
! of a capable assistant / haven't go
/ line on every thing, but 1 think / can
give fairly the tone and atmosphere "
this beginning season.
Il -
The Greenwich Village Follies stands at
the extreme of gorgeousness. Several
years ago John Murray Anderson took
a million yards of gauze, threw lights
on it. got a dancer to wind N and out
Of it and made a show. GauZe, IT. per
haps it was chiffon, for l know AL too
little of these matters, is inexpensive in
| comparison with velvet and cloth of gold
| and the progress of Mr.. Anderson in his
! expenditures He imports a number of
! delightful stunts. For example. his show
| this year starts off with a Marionette
| in which his own stars are done puppet-
| wise. He has Rosemund Fuller to sing
and Bird Milman to walk tight rope /;
he has again. Benda's Masks. 1t Is
small point but I think you will see
| just why Mr.. Anderson does not throw
in mere straight comedy scenes, but pos
sibly this is to distinguish his Revue
from the others, which are fun of them.
Irene Franklin and Al Herman and an
exceptional number of agreeable people
populate the stage and the costuming is
in the best manner of the present mu.
steal comedy production.
Around the corner from the Greenwich
Village Follies is one of the quietest and
| soberest and most appealing plays in
many years. "Daddy's Gone AHunting,"
in which Miss Zoe Adkins has thrown
over the upper classes and has composed
a piece about ordinary people set around
the figure of a painter with an ambition
to tear the truth out of life and a com
plete independence of the usual scruples
about methods. The real triumph Of
Miss Adkins Is in making the painter him
self a credible person, and In charging
her atmosphere with unexpressed emo
lions. Arthur Hopkins has carried his
methods of production to logical con-
clusion. so that everything is deftly and
quietly banded, and whatever you may
say Of the details, the total effect is one
| of truth Marjorie Rambeau bowled over
the skeptical with a performance which Is
entirely in keeping with the production.
+ Robert Edmond Jones did the settings
and Frank Conroy played the artist {;
| Miss Frances Victory played the child.
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, melodrama taken over into a setting of
reality. The outline of the play includes
the death of the child, but omits the
happy ending. The whole thing has been
given an exceptionally serious and sym
pathetic reception
An equally sympathetic reception, but
| not nearly so serious, was the portion
of Cosmo Hamilton's 1.-THE Silver Fox"
1.-THE Silver Fox" is neat and British in
treatment. which means that no one is
| offended by the brightness of the lines
as they are when an American play
wright makes an American say clever
lines. "The Silver Fox" as played by
Violet Kemble Cooper, is a lovely human
| being with blonde hair and, according
to the idea of the play. Patters along
| from iceberg to iceberg. seeking and
seeking and finding nothing. and all she
wants is unlimited nattery and affection
The play doesn't really carry out the
idea because those are the very things
her husband gives her. What she wants
S love and to love, hence a very clever
plot revolving on French Socialists,
satirical dramatic act and a climax of
moderate happiness.
Swords by Sidney Howard, affected
the critics in many ways; it is poetic
drama and the names of every one from
Sam BenelIi, who wrote "The Jest" to
Arthur Symons and Stephens Phillips
and D'Annunzio. have been mentioned in
comparison. 1t seems to be the run of
opinion that Mr.. Jones sets are mag
nificent and Clare Eames is. or isn't,
great actress, the last depending on your
opinion of her in her previous great
part, that of Mary Stuart
Two Pevivals do not draw on the
writer's stock of IDEAS except for com
pairing public taste decade after decade
THE Merry widow and THE Easiest
way" are the two. strange that you