The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
Skill, Zest,
Variety Are
Outstanding
Current Lyric Attraction
Needs No Radio Aid
For Success.
BY RALPH NORMAN

With skill of professionals and
zest Of amateurs, dozen youngsters
and one oldsJer, billed as Maj.
Bowes' Amateur Unit No. 7, dis
pense this week delightful and I'M
usual variety entertainment from
the Lyric stage.
While we suspect the Lyric man
agement Of capitalizing on the
Majors indianapolis night tomor-
row to boost another of its stage
programs, the booking is one that
speaks for itself, and needs no fan
fare from New York TO make it
popular with theater goers. The
large crowd on hand for the open
ing performance attests that the
Bowes' show popularity has not de-
creased. The last unit set an at
tendance record at the Lyric, and
we won't be surprised if it's broken
by the current attraction.
To this reviewer, the current
show offers no singularly outstand-
ing act, nor is there a single weak
number. Each performer seems to
thoroughly enjoy being behind the
footlights, the novelty numbers are
clever and difficult and the whole
is pleasing and worthwhile to low
ers of light, clean variety enter
tainment.
Drinking Glasses Make Music
To enumerate a few acts which
the audience seems to enjoy most:
Marshall Rogers, who plays music
on an ordinary set of drinking
glasses by merely moistening his
fingers and touching the edges;
Johnny Powell, whose dancing IS
better than is offered in many pro-
fessional shows; the Kitchen Two,
who do almost unbelievable things
with {. piano, dashboard and a
couple of skillets.
Then there is Mildred Koppel,
who sings we'll Victor Herbert's
Italian Street Song; Windy Jack,
who makes music on bicycle pumps
balloons and other queer contrap-
tions; Ruth Reed, blues singer, and
Buddy Raymond, tenor, whose
novelty duet about meeting at the
amateur hour is clever; Bobby Nor
riS, who initiates skilled dancers;
the Harmonica Kings, four boys
with a dozen or more harmonious,
and another youngster (whose name
we don't recalD who most prof.
GENTLY does noise limitations.
AS master of ceremonies, Wally
Sharples is better than most.
On the Screen
On the screen the Lyric offers
THE Law in Her Hands," story
about two attractive young feminine
lawyers, handsome district attor-
ney and gangster.
Mary Wentworth margaret Lind
say and Dorothy Davis (Glenda
FarrelD have their law degrees, but
very little practice when New
York's most-feared eangster, Frank
Gordon Oyle Talbot offers hand
some fees for "mouthpiece" services.
Because she is irked by her dis
trict attorney-boy friend, Robert
Mitchell (Warren HulD, Miss Went
worth accepts the offer, takes Sc
riously his advice that law is full
of tricks and practices few her
self.
Cutsmarting the district attorney
when he tries to convict her gang
ster-client on murder charge, she
clears her client by clever trickery,
then turns him over to the aStor-
ney for new prosecution.
A Woman's Show
Fully convinced that the law,
when gangsters are involved, is a
business much too dangerous for a
woman, she willingly accepts the D.
AS suggestion that she is just a
homebody, and the picture ends with
the routine conclusion.
AS Miss Wentworth, Miss Lind
say looks and easily acts her role
as q stubborn, attractive profess
sional woman, AS her partner, Miss
FarrellS part is full of good humor.