The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-12
League Cast
Drills Daily
tor Opening
Number Please to Have
Dress Rehearsal on
Thursday Night.

With rehesrsals each day this
week, more than 100 members OF
Junior Leagues musical revue,
Number Please" cast are prepar-
ing for the opening Friday night at
mgliSh's. There is to be q second
performance Saturday night.
Wesley Totten and Arthur Seelig,
Representatives Of the New York
organization of Jerome H. Cargill,
producer, are directing the 20 skits,
comedy sketches and dance numbers
Of the show. A typical musical re-
vue, Number Please" has no plot
nor leading characters, but combines
a series of satirical take-offs with
speciality and chorus dancing.
Final dress rehearsal, with Mr..
Totten in charge of dancing and
Mr.. Seelig supervising skits and
music, is to be Thursday night.
General chairman OF Number
Please" is Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus,
assisted by Mrs. Henderson Wheeler.
Mrs. Burrell Wright is to be in
charge of wardrobe, assisted by Mrs.
Harold Taylor; properties are to be
supervised by Helen Sheerin, as
sisted by Anna Torian, and Mrs.
Rosemond Van Camp Hill Is to
supervise makeup.
Broadway Provides Music
Music for the show was taken
from q number of Broadway pro-
auctions, and costumes were secured
from closed New York musical
shows. Edwin Browne is to conduct
the English Theater orchestra to
provide accompaniment for song
and dance numbers.
Taking part in various comedy
skits are to be Michael Fox. Mrs.
Thomas r. Kackley, William F.. Fox
Jr., Mrs. Frederick Boone, Percy
Weer, Mrs. Robert c. Winslow, Will
liam Wildhack, Frank Hoke, John
Armstrong, Edward Green, Mrs.
Wheeler, Mrs. Henry Frenzel, Mary
Stewart Haines, Mrs. Kurt Panther,
Mrs. Philip Reed, Mrs. John K.
Ruckelshaus. and Warrick Wicks.
Others in skits are to be
Paul H. Krauss III, Herbert
Sedan, Walter Walsh, Charles
Weiss, Oscar Kaeliin, Alex Stewart,
william Jackson. Clyde Wands,
John Wildhack, Harriet Denny,
Robert Sweeney, Dean Rice, Mrs.
Weiss, Ruth Hodges, Mrs. Postum
liken, Clyde Wands. Mrs. John Nc
Even, Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus.
Mrs. Kackley, Mrs. Malott White,
John Recap and Daniel McDuffee.
In Specially Acts
In specially singing or dancing
numbers are to be Mr.. Rice, James
Sutherland, Mr.. Kaelin, Mrs. Hoke,
Elinor Stickney, Vernon Roth, Mrs.
Irving Fauvre and Dorothy Merrill. |
Mrs. John X. Ruckelshaus and Miss
Merrill are to have a two-piano
speciality number, and Mrs. Herman
Wolff Is to accompany at the piano |
Mrs. Hoke's comedy song.
Dancing choruses are to include |
Mesdames Carl Vonnegut, Harold
Taylor, George F'otheringham, Or
land Church, William H. Jungclaus.
William Munk, Clifford Arrick, Wal
lace @. Tony. Elizabeth Illes-Ogle.
David Andrews, John Cooper. Mar
jorie Roemler-Kinna Paul Gull
lum.
Also Henry G. Atkins Jr., Perry
Meek, William Bertermann. David
Stone, Paul DeVault, Perry w. Lesh,
Fortune Jr, Philip Reed
Henry Frenzel, William H. Wemmer.
Paul Lee Hargitt, Samuel Runnels |
Harrell, Dudley Pfaff, Eloise Gall, |
Gerda Hanna.
Others In Chorus
Others are Misses Dorothy John
Ston, Jane Fitton, Dorothy Painter
Carolyn Richardson, Florence Bar
rett, Eleanor Ann Barrett, Katha-
rine M. Brown. Madelaine Speers
Julianne Campbell, Dorothy DuPuy
Elsie Sinclair, Elizabeth Watson and
Margaret Denny.
Also assisting Junior League
members are to be several men who
are to have parts in dancing
choruSeS.
Proceeds from the presentation
are to be used to maintain the Oc-
cupational Therapy shop at the
James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for
Children.