The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-11
GIRL ABOUT
TOWN
by MARILYN'

did and those who did not enjoy
Strange Interlude." The atmo-
( sphere ia. drawing rooms and over
teacups congeals palpaDly when
ever the subject arises. Individual
reactions have been most amusing
Friends have parted with harsh
words. One woman felt she must
consult her pastor. But the largest
scream is the Tudor Hall instructor
who had to see doctor.
Last Thursday night must have
been something in the nature of a
holocaust for hly-livered emotions
because the crowd, good-natured
and anxious to make itself agree
able, guffawed in all the wrong
places.
In the last hundred years and the
twenty-sixth act, when Nina Leeds
was Eliminating about the tragic
fact that she was fast approaching
40 and women's bodies rot away at
40, the audience largely feminine
and wholly 40, pealed merrily. Miss
Lord herself smiled broadly. 8
In the first night audience were
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank P. Manley, Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Metzger, Mrs. Joe
Rand Beckett, Mrs. Wendell Sherk,
Mrs. VIII English in her box, Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Metzger, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Haerle, Miss Elizabeth
Haerle, Mrs. Jack Goodman, Mrs.
Gordon Murdoch, Mrs. Herbert
Foltz, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Metzger.
During the internnission everybody
adjourned either to the Athletic
Club or the Columbia Club highly
amused at the novelty of the situa-
ton; gulped crabmeat cocktail and
cup of coffee during the hour and
twenty minute intermission, and
then trotted back for another three
hours.
From all of which you may gather
the inference that We consider
Strange Interlude" a remarkably
fine play to read, but we hesitate
to tag the actual production with
the too easily uttered word, genius.
And too. we see the apt lucidity of
A. H. Woods reputed remark. When
Eugene O'Neill was peddling his
play about New York, the story goes,
he read it aloud to Woods. After
the sixth hour of listening to Nina
Leeds sc" and neurotic turbulence,
A. Il. Woods interrupted with the
classic remark, Sweetheart, that's
lousy!"
All day Friday I was Swathed In
wells of gloom - the inevitable re-
action. Friday night after a period
Of cerebral calm at the movies with
Gilbert and three cups of coffee,
felt considerably better having
reached the indubitable conclusion
that I belong to the Great Amer
lean Booboisie, with the ancient and
honorable gesture of thumb to nose
in the general direction of Balti-
more and H. L. Mencken. Painful
admission. I was glumly and pro-
foundly bored with Strange Inter
lude."
Monday night the town came out
OF its gloom and baSked comfortably
in the charming personality of Miss
Cornelia Otis Skinner. The Con-
temporary Club, Subterraneously
known as the "Contemptuous Club, .
brought its aunts, beaux and those
to whom it was socially indebted, to
the Masonic temple to the one guest
evening of the year.
Miss Skinner is pleasingly tall
and serene, her dark hair brushed
back from her face with knot at
the nape of her neck. She wore
flesh-colored satin evening gown
simply draped at low waistline
with panels which reached the floor,
and silver hose and slippers. There
was single strand of pearls around
her neck and pearl earrings. A most
self possessed young woman, she
held her audience firmly in the grip
of her capable young hands. Dis
carding III turn a bouquet of
orchids, which I fancy the Bryn
Mawr alumnae here sent her, q
white lace shawl, a sports coat, and
a tightly fitting old blue jacket, she
gave sskilful interpretations of
youthful, middle-aged and elderly
femininity.
In an audience which included
the haute monde of the city, or
words to that effect, were Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Lieber, Mrs. Alexander
Spruance, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Wolff, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Knef1er
DR.. and Mrs. John Ray Newcomb
Stuart Dean, Mr.. and Mrs. Kurt
Panther, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Won
negut, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Horn
brook, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Vonnegut
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Burns. Mrs. A. E
Vinton, Mrs. j. N. Hurry, Gilbert
Hurry and George Calvert.
At dinner parties preceding Miss
SINNERS performance. Adele anc
Margaret Painter, Elizabeth Haerle
Ted SEVERN, Garvin Bastain anc
DR.. William Niles Wishard were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Haerle
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin McNally
Winifred Conrick, DR.. Vernon Hahn
DR.. and Mrs. Wynn Owen were the
guests Of DR.. and Mrs. John Mac.
Donald.
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