Indiana daily times., 1922-05-20
THREE PLAYS
MAKE DEBUTS
IN NEW YORK
Ethel Levey's GO Easy Mabel
Lacks Much Of Being
Real Success.
OTHER RIALTO NEWS
BY DIXIE HINES.

BY DIXIE HINES.
NEW YORK. May 20.-Three new
plays we're presented last week and
the current week will not exceed this
number. Go Easy, Mabel" with
Ethel Levey. was disappointment;
''The Advertising of Kate" was an in
teresting comedy, and "Billeted," a
delightful revival. "The Red Gerani-
um" was presented at the Princess,
but 1t hardly deserves special men
tfon.
The Advertising Of Kate" is a prac-
teal treatise on that art as applied to
the charms of q not unattractive woman.
Annie Nathan Meyer wrote the play. and
earlier in the season 1t was said to have
achieved some local success with a stock
company In Detroit. The authors moral
is, IL we read Alright. that a woman must
adorn herself to attract the man she
loves so long as mans emotional being
remains In q state of immaturity. Kate
is full, 100 per cent business woman
as the story starts out, but later she
becomes Jealous and then starts to apply
her business principles to winning back
her lover much as she would a dis
gruntled customer. 1t is in this that
the brightest lines occur, and some of
the scenes are amusing and trenchant.
The cast is a good one, including Mary
Boland as Tate and Mrs. Whiffen, who
every now and then makes her "last ap-
pearance" on the stage, and has been
doing 1t successfully for at least fifteen
years. Leslie Austen and Byron Beasly
add distinction to the cast. Altogether.
"The Advertising of Kate" is an adver-
tisement we.should all read.
IEvEY SHOW
HAS SLIM CHANCE
'Go Easy, Mabel" Is q three act
musical comedy. Charles George wrote
and composed everything. Estelle Win
wood makes an inauspicious appearance
in q musical play, and Ethel Levey,
who has done much better work in
vaudeville, is the star. After having
seen the production, heard the music, and
otherwise taken note Of the affair, one Is
inclined to commiserate with Miss Levey.
H. n. Harwood, was done some years
ago by Margaret Anglin. The opinion
has long prevailed that Miss Anglin,
although a delightful comedienne, was
totally unsuited to the role of Betty. the
irresponsible and delightful young wife
who graces the play in the leading role
Grace Grfswold, who Is the director of
the Comedy Company, under whose
tha mis- hos
been more fortunate. Lois Bolton has
been given this role and her performance
is one of the bright spots Of q play which
is filed with bright spots. She is eJ-
qufsite In her naivete, and in the sup
porting cast are others who give excellent
encoura cement, notably Selena Royle.
Kate Mayhem, Lumsden Hare. and
Langdon Bruce. The play is now as ever.
one of the most smartly written comedies
ever produced, and the revival Is dis
tfnctly worth while from every point Of
view.
The French Players brought their
limited engagement to a close with La
Belle Aventure," done here some time
ago as THE Beautiful Adventure" This
company will return next year for a
twenty weeks engagement, thanks to the
good impression they have made. NJ.
Charles Schauten and NJ. Richard Hern-
don, the director of the players and the
director of the Belmont Theater respec-
lively, have brought their interests to-
gether for this engagement, which will
likely become perm anent hereafter.
OTHER PLAYS
AIMED FOR BROADWAY.
Chief among, the new plays Of the week
II ~Kempy" with Grant Mitchell This
delightful American comedy. by J. c. Nu-
gent and Elliott Nugent, has besides the
star and the two authors. Lotus Robb.
Ruth Nugent, Jessie Crommette. Mabel
Carew. and others. 1t is one Of the best
comedies Of the season, the advance re-
ports foreteI, and shall probably du-
plicate the other Grant Mitchell successes
THE Tailor Made Man" and 1.-The
Champion"
"Bilieted," at the Greenwich Village
Theater, is the first play of the Comedy
Company-not Comedy Club as has been
announced.
The Irish Regimental Band will make
q tour Of the United States under the
management of Roger de Bruyn.
1.-THE Night Call" the latest play Of
the Players Assembly, will be followed
by another production shortly, and next
year this company will have Its own
1heater.
Edwin Franko Goldman and the Gold
man Band will not make the United
States tour announced. Their serv-
ices are in such demand In New York
that 1t is planned to bring the people
OF the United States here this summer.
and thus make tour unnecessary.
The Idiot" will be given two addi-
tional matinees at the Little Theater,
thanks to Reginald Pole who aided In
adapting this powerful story to the
stage. and who directed the late per-
formances.
Galina Kopernak, the electric magnet
In Montmartre," Is to have another
emotional role next year. 1t was learned
only recently that her present is her first
highly emotional role to be played Here
tofore she shone as musical comedy
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