The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-20
GAY PAREE HAS
A WINNER IN THE
WIT OF CHIC SALE
Fay BANTER Tries Out a New
Comedy, "FirSt Love-"
on Broadway.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-The new
Winter Garden revue, Gay Paree"
by title. is now in our midst with
hospitable doors ajar for visitors no
less than our own folk.
Like the first version under this
title, it is spectacular with beauty
Of form, face and furnishings. 1t
has names familiar to playgoers in
all parts Of the country-Chic Sale.
for instance-and others less
familiar.
1t has a chorus Of probably forty
young girls striving to get along,
and they do it as few ensembles by
active. agile, graceful and persistent
dancing. 1t is one of the best
dancing groups in town.
They dance in every conceivable
form. They do enough acrobatics to
put them in training for a prize
fight, and CARRIED vaiiously they fill
the stage with their youth, en-
thusiasm, grace and ability. There
are stars, so.called stars and near
stars in Cay Paree." but the real
stars are the girls who fill in the
spaces between specialties and
sketches.
One needs no more TO satisfy than
these young misses-they are young
and while we applaud per-
functorily Mr.. Sales and his we'll
won specialties which have been
seen i'm most places bearing n name
between the two big oceans, and
while Winnie Lightner Is a delight.
full little rowdy, and Alice Boulder
a good comic, and a new face in
Mile. Aubert. from Paris, and the
beautiful stage pictures framed
with the human form and much
gold, silver and other furbelows.
when it is all said and done we
remember the girls. whose names
we do not know, but whose skill and
charm are a delight.
Annual Appearance
Fay Banter made her annual ap.
pearance in our midst in new com.
edy from the French Of Louis Yer.
neil. "First Love" by title, which
has been well adapted by Zoe Atkins.
Miss BANTER imper ,onates little
Roumanan girl who takes UP with
nice looking young French boy.
Together they live in a garnet, and
starve together pleasantly. Sudden.
ly the father of the boy sends an
emissary to propose marriage to an
other girl. A handsome sum will fol.
low the ceremony. The boy, some
what reluctantly, decides to avail
himself Of this chance to get money
enough to make his little sweetheart
happy, so he arranges to go through
with the marriage, receive the money
and desert the new bride for the old
sweetheart.
The girl. however, after her sweet.
| heart has departed, decides upon the
| heroic alternative of Selling her.
SELF to a presumably old baron who
has followed her. She CARDS herself
becomingly. keeps the rendezvous
and learns later that he is the ia.
Their of her own sweetheart.
OF course the old roue realizes
her sterling worth, forsakes his own
amorous attentions, effects a recon.
Citation with the boy and there
you are! Or, are you? There is
rare charm and humor in Miss
Bainter's impersonation. And Bruce
MacRae as the father of the boy,
and Godfrey Kerr as the boy him
self, and George Marion as old SER
vitor Of the master give enough to
make any play a success.
Another Chapter
Brickmakers. we are told. never
attempt to manufacture their wares
without straw. But playwrights
and producers are different. This
thought occurred more than once
during the progress of a play called
"Old Bill, NJ. p, being a further
chapter in the life Of Bill of 1.-THE
Better ole" Charles Coburn is
once more the old walrus-faced war
dog, and Charles McNaughton once
more Is Bert. There are many
speeches reminiscent Of the old play,
done twelve years ago.
But as the story progresses II be-
comes hollow, tame and unpalatable.
II has all the ingredients Of the old
time melodrama, built for effect and
without rhyme or reason. Except
that it is so well directed by most
Of the real characters, and so well
staged. it would be impossible to
Withstand. Old Bill is now in multi.
He has a little pub and Is a coal
miner. There is a strike in the mine.
Old Bill is for law and order as
against the bolsheviks. lie is
wrongly charged with sabotage, and
to prove his innocence, with his
faithful Bert and All returns TO the
mines to put things right.
The mine is blown up and all es.
cape except the three musketeers.
They stick together and are about to
pass over to the beyond when rescue
is effected. Old Bill then is exon
Grated, dons his uniform and makes
the race for parliament and, OF,
course, is elected A simple, ineffect-l
i've and unimpressive little tale, put
together, we should say, in the dark
with the eyes closed and the hands
palsied But the familiar characters
are the same as before. and II they
do not make the same impression
as before It is not their fault. As.
was before said, one does not make