The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-09-16
HOLLYWOOD : PLAY
OPENS, UNAWED
BY PLAY JURY
Coincidence DEGREES Premiere
of Latest Bedroom Farce
Should Be Censored.
CHARGED WITH POOR TASTE
Greenwich Village FoIIies Gets
Off to New Season With
Many BiIIiant Costumes.
BIZ WESTBROOK PEGLER
Urited Netrs Stnf Corrcspondent

NEW YORK. Sept. let was a
coincidence that Avery Hopwood's
newest arrangement of twin beds
and repartee should overtake Broad
way in the very week which at last
brought into being the play jury of
moral chiropractors who are to cast
the devils out of the drama by simple
pressure of their fingers on the nerZe
centers Of the producing office. N5p-
wood comedy called Why Men leave
Home" exploited a heap Of talk and
dressin that was both decollette,' but
the play is regarded rs the best eX-
ample of playwriting so far "a the
season has gone. You can't take that
away from Hopwood.
He teI1e a story Of three husbands
whose respective wives have been hav-
ing too good a time abroad, to the
utter neglect of their good and lonely
providers. The husbands pretend to
be quite satisfied with this state of
affairs. The wives becoming appre-
hensive, forgo all further itineTancy
and exert themselves to win back the
affections which had never wandered
away.
There is some disrobing in ''Why
Men Leave Home" and the crafty
Hopwood still contrives to write at
least two sides to every pleasantly.
The very name Of the author is
enough to evoke a demand from some
sorts of playgoers that a jury be
l., Tl aeTf ri
manner. But rather than indecency,
which accusation was thrown at Hop
woods ''Demi-Firgin," and made to
stick, the charge against Why Men
cave Home" appears to be merely
that Of poor taste and vulgarity,
which are the handiest working ma
terials in various theatrical work
shops. The Winter Garden is a
monument to their popularity.
Brady Play Postponed
William \. Brady was to have pre-
scented the other play of the week, a
drama called Dreams For Sale" by
owen Davis. on Monday night. but
changes in the cast made ii necessary
TO postpone the premiere until
Wednesday. II Is laid in the woods
Of Maine-the standard forests of the
theater-where a feud is promoted be-
tween two families with the dramatic
object. one suspects. of matrimony by
and between the new generation.
The Greenwich Village Follies made
a dazzling impression mt the opening
on Tuesday night The show is
rather logged as TO its meIriment.
but scenery. costumes and music
were the best in the series Of Green
witch Village Follies which is no
grudging compliment. The comedians
shirlled, putting the burden of the en-
tertainment on the inexhaustible
dancers who whirled and wriggled
from Warsaw to Waikiki
Savoy and Brennan, veterans Of the
G. Y. Follies, are in this seasons bill.
plugging a new catch phrase, It's
Nobody's Business" Young Carl Ran
dali. who used to dance for Ziegfeld
OIL the roof, is a featured toiler in a
Spanish number and also in a bed
room travesty called Babes in the
A. H. Woods"
Village Comes Through
The unregeneratiYe inmates Of the
actual Greenwich village came
through with an amateurishly as
sembled vaudeville called "a Fantas-
tic Fricasse," at the Greenwich Vii
lage Theater The show is true to
its surroundings, which are confus-
i2g and ainlless and generally futile.
First nighters We're attracted how
ever by a puppet show and by Bobby
Edwards. the trousered and sOft-coI-
Jared Pan of the village, who writes
and sings better doggerel and spanks
a more melodeOus ukelele than any
one does in any show uptown.