The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-06
Broadway
Gets Ready
for Fall
Desiree EIIinger Hasa Very
Poor Musical We
hicle.
BY DIXIE HINES

BY DIXIE HINES
NEW YORK, Aug ct will be
another fortnight before the theat-
rical managers will begin to expect
responses to the work they have
been doing in measuring plays to
what they believe will be popular
fancy. The hinterland, as we jok-
ingly refer to Stamford, New Lon
don, Mamaroneck, Great Neck, At
lantic City. Asbury Park, Long
Branch and the other seashore re-
sorts.
AS for New York, there has been
nothing worthy the name for the
past couple of weeks. kiss Me" was
an alluring title, and Desiree Ellin-
ger, who is the prima donna, would
not be hard to kiss but the show is
handicap. If we must take the
show in order to get the kiss, well,
we will just have to do without it.
1.-THE Manhatters," removing from
the Grove Street Theater in Green
Wich Village, have found a haven
up town at the Selwyn. There have
been several changes, but happily
we still have Jacques Cartier, with
his two remarkable dances, and
Eleanor Shaler still brings up
memories of those delightfully."-
sentimental days when the girl who
was beyond recall evoked the tear
duct operation. Miss Shaler Is a
genius, and little Katherine Rem
wick is another Ray Dooley, if you
know what I mean.
People seem to prefer the outdoor
music to the indoor show at present.
Edwin Franko Goldman and the
Goldman Band is attracting 5000
to $4,000 at Central Park and the
New York University, and the Phil
harmonic concerts at the Stadium
recently brought out $4,000 people
to see and hear George Gershwin
and his new music, including 1.-THE
Rhapsody in Blue" Mr.. Goldman
will close his engagement this week
in order to play for four weeks at
Atlantic City, and then there will
be great sorrow and distress among
music lovers.
What's Doing in Our Set
Galina Kopernak, formerly Rus
sian but now good Broadway, has
opened in What the Doctor Or
dered." With Miss Kopernak as
the prescription the doctors are get
ting human. Sydney Shields, now
spending some time in New Orleans
with her mother, who, so report
sayeth, was the first woman press
agent, is returning to start work
in THE Family Skeleton" in which
she has the featured part. Mi
Ram Hopkins has signed out to
do the lead in THE Medicine Man"
and 1T will start operating shortly
-. "The House in the Wood is a
new play to be tried out by a lead
ing firm of Broadway producers at
the Jefferson Theater, Portland,
Maine. Charlotte Wynters, blonde,
and of course preferred by gentle
men, is to have the leading role
Broadway is getting ready to go
up and give it the once over.
1.-The Kite Man." an amusing COM
edy that has flavor. of airplane,
is being produced out of town by
Ben A. Boyer, and he wears be-
coming smile, indicative of complete
satisfaction, so that may arrive
shortly.
The Dancers Guild will do some
thing that has never been done be-
fore in New York, commencing Aug.
%. They will get together seven
of the biggest dancing stars and
give a gala dance series, each eve
ming being given over to a certain
dancer. Margaret Severn, Jacques
Cartier, Maria Garnbarelli, Doris
Niles, Martha Graham and Michio
Ito are among those who will head
the respective bills. . Julia Parker
who has not been on Broadway in
a revue or musical show for some
time, has recanted her affiliatior
with vaudeville and motion pictures
and will enter. the musical comedy
field. .Whitford Kane, speaking oil
the classics, Is to continue next sea-
son in the classic revivals that have
proven so popular this year in Chi
cago and st. Louis. They are ask
ing him to return to New York, and
next summer he may be enticed to
do a set of them in al fresco style
-. Edward H. Robins, who went to
London last year to stage Easy
Come, Easy Co." after having won
popularity when he acted there in
$50 This Is London" may go back
next year as an actor-p producer. i. /.
Arnold Reuben, one of the cele-
brated characters in New York, is
being done into play. Mr.. Reu-
ben is the gentleman who makes
sandwiches after the manner in
which the late Schubert made SYM
phonies and Sousa and Goldman
make marches.