Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-07
HINES BRANDS
PETROVA PLAY
VERY POOR BIT
But Dover Road Declares
Gotham Reviewer, Is
Delight.
OTHER RIALTO NEWS
BY DIXIE HINES.

NEW YORK, Jan. Santa Claus
brought New York playgoers a va
ried assortment OF plays this year.
There were all sorts-some Of them
good. Bull Dog Drummond," a
frank melodrama from London; "The
Squaw Man." a melodrama of our
own make, first produced several
years ago; Face Value" a cheap
melodrama; 1.-THE White Peacock"
6. mysterious sort of play; "The Mar
ried Woman" a talky, tiresome the
atrical TRADE, and a season of the
plays of Shakespeare, with Fritz
Leiber and his very excellent COM
pany.
Bull Dog Drummond," imported by
Charles Dillingham; from London, is a
melOdrama of the old vintage, but it
proved one of the most interesting plays
of the new group. The title is derived
from the soubriquet applied to one Capt.
| Hugh DrummOnd who, In seeking excite
ment, inserts an advertisement which is
seen and answered by a young girl, the
sister of his buddy, who persuades the
Bull Dog to undertake to release a
stranger whom she suspects is being held
by a band Of blackmailers in fake sani-
tarium. Thereafter the excitement is
frequent and in large doses, representing
the conflict between the band Of crooks
and the young officer. 1t is a melOdra-
matte lark in which every one had n
good time The cast is largely English,
u P.,VT hA
title role.
PLEASURE TO SEE
THE DOVER ROAD"
THE Dover Road" by A. A. Milne, is
one Of the most entertaining and pleas
urable plays produced this season. The
Dover Road" is that road which leads
from London TO Dover and freQuented by
clipping couples. A whimsical bachelor,
With a villa down Kent way, adjacent
to the road, has a way of side-tracking
clipping couples TO his own home, where
be manages to keep them for week or
ten days. He has discovered that at the
end Of this time they are generally very
happy to part. AS the play opens such
a couple is about 10 be received, and they
find there another couple, the wife of the
masculine member of the new combina-
ton, all intent upon clipping TO Paris
and thence to the Riviera. In short,
they are cured, that is of their desire for
elopement. One OF the party decides to
stay indefinitely with the bachelor and
another one concludes that his wife IS,
after all, a pretty fair specimen, espe-
cially when he has a bad cold and needs
attention. Charles Cherry acted the
bachelor with ingratiating charm, and
Winifred Lenihan, as the young lady
who decides to stay, was quite bewitch-
ing. Reginald Mason and Mollie Pear
son, with George Ridden and Lyonel
Watts also contributed considerably TO
the success achieved.
PETRoVA PLAY MAKES
4 BAD EVENING"
Olga Petrova. one Of the most pictures
que and ingratiating figures on the stage.
has melodrama written by herself called
THE White Peacock" It is all about q
woman who is married to a chap who
turns out to be something of a rOue, and
she leaves him TO make her own living
as an artist. While in the latter phase
Of her career she meets up with q charm
ing young fellow, with whom she becomes
quite friendly. Then there is a murder
and the young man in question Is ac-
cused of 1t by the revengeful husband,
although II is subsequently established
the latter contrived the killing and in
the end his sccomplice kills him-the hus-
band and not the youthful suitor-and Is
taken off to prison for the crime and the
girl and the boy look forward 10 an I'M
/ trammelled existence Of happiness for
ever after. II is a silly story. and is
acted In a manner which suggests that
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