The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-09-09
CR|T|C'S REVIEW
Of WEEKS PLAYS
4 BATTLE ROYAL
This is the Time to Smash at
New York auctions as
They Come.
By WESTBROOK PEGLER,
limited NetnS Stdn COrrospOndenl


United Netos StGr Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-In battle
royal boy shouldn't try to box. The
thing to do is smash away at the
nearest man, then smash away at the
next
Reviewing this weeks events in the
theater is Il battle royal.
Therefore: smash
The Endless Cham"
This is about a stupid and pretty
Young wife who applied herself 10
the vamping of a wealthy Wesierner
in a New York hotel to the end that
her husband might prosper. In this
play by James Forbes, A. L. Erlanger
is presenting Miss Margaret Law
renee as a new and fully qualified star
She plays the part Of Amy Reeves. who
knows a thing or two about life and
yet makes the mistake of believing
that the wealthy Westerner COnfers
n 8 many favors indirectly upon her
through her husband. with motives
Of purest friendship and altruism. Mr..
Forbes provides a happy ending by
endowing his Westerner with d very
practical sense of decency which as
serts itself belatedly when he per-
ceives the young woman's dismay up
on discovering what a dangerous
game it is to vamp a rich philanderer
George Cohan Again
80 this is London" is George NJ.
Cohan again in his later and now
characteristic mood of satire which
has largely succeeded the flagwaving
ebullition Of his youth.
Arthur Goodrich wrote so This Is
London" but Cohan's touch is there.
They have taken an extremely .tmeri-
canese American and an unrenl ting
~ English family. The American has
a son and the Englishman has a
daughter. and what more would you?
The play is heavily sailed with real
humor both OF dialogue and of picture.
Brock Pemberton. who comes from
Kansas. went to Italy for the manu-
script OF The Plot Thickens." This
is a comedy about a fellow with
enough leisure 10 be bored with life
and enough money to hire u movie
director to squirt the tabasco of cal
culated adventure upon the tasteless
sameness of his existence. Movie
episodes transpire at the rich mans
home on Long Island. Burglars come
and Adonis Duckworth. the hero Of
the fabricated connections, helps them
to get away with his town treasures,
mistaking them for members of the
movie cast. The critics say it is
mere playlet spread over three acts.
The Torch Bearers
Another recent production which in
cidentally has discarded the novitiate's
cap Of humility for the laurel crown
OF appreciation is a comedy called
The Torch Bearers" by George Kelly,
a vaudevillan.
The audience fully appreciates and
shares the authors derision C the
soul searchers who have become an
excrescence upon the worthy little
theater movement. while the serious
thinkers themselves won't know they
have been hit. so merry is the mood
and free from meanness.
And smash bang, sock.
Molly Darling Is lively musical
comedy. a pretty production. with
good songs and better dancers.
sally, Irene and Mary" is a must
cal comedy whose authors have frank
ly abducted the heroines from those
three well.known and highly success
full plays and worked them into an
other piece wherein the three pretty
characters come up together from
tenement poverty to affluence. adula-
ton and theatrical eminence. and
eventually marry the respective boy
friends" OF their earlier obscurity.
"Hunky Dory." a comedy OF the
Scottish lowlands. with the Scottish
cast came here after a successful run
in London and was received with cor
diality.