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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1910
Page
5
Lew Dockstader dazzled the Mural Friday night with a wild mix of mechanical acts and street theater, climaxing in a sharp automobile monologue. Madame Kalich starred in A Woman of Today at the New theater with intense drama and a strong supporting cast. Elbert Hubbard prepared a vaudeville entry, and a slate of acts including Nellie Nichols, Madden and Fitzpatrick, the Frey Twins, and others filled the program at Keith venues in Indianapolis.
The Park opens with George Ade’s Just Out of College a breezy three act musical comedy about a financier’s son who starts a pickle business gains fame and wins his love. Scenery songs by Herman Timberg with a fifty five member company and a strong supporting cast. The Arvine Benton company brings The Great Divide to the Majestic next week with Arizona and New England settings and a praised dramatic arc. Seats go on sale Thursday.
Robert Mantell will appear for one week starting Monday November 7 at the Shubert Murat theater. The noted actor is a favorite in Indianapolis and usually attracts enthusiastic receptions for his Shakespearean and classical repertoire portions.
The Colonial next week features a act reminiscent of a big top show. The Rohers trio perform a bicycle act in a revolving wheel cage shaped like a wide barrel that tips and turns on its side.
Mubat-Lew Y Dockestader presents minstrels with old time gloom dispelled by new frills. Keith's Grand Hoffmann review hails the best bill in seasons. Park shows As the Sun Went Down this week, matinees daily. Majestic features My Friend From India a rollicking comedy. Colonial offers Lloyd and Whitehouse singing sketch and George Van’s minstrels in melodious songs. English’s Follies of 1910 shines with good songs and fine singing. Emptre burlesque Star Show also on the bill.
The program features a risky wheelmen act and a comedic Cupid's Voyage with ship scenes and a shipwreck. Four Dancing Belles in fluffy skirts sing and dance to win the crowd, while Mr and Mrs Berini perform an operatic number and Hutch and Lusby debut a piece titled 1910 Something. The evening promises pure entertainment in line with current sketches.
Henry P. Dixon presents the Big Review at the Empire theater next week with familiar stage stars impersonated by the company. The two act musical comedy includes a scene from The Girl of the Golden West and a boxing cameo by Sam Langford. Yonkers setting, 20 show girls, pony ballet, grand scenery, and a large chorus accompany a cast led by Will Nel Lavender Frankie Heath Russell Simpson and others.
Arvine-Benton players, fresh from Forty-five Minutes From Broadway, plan a Nov 8 week at the Majestic to stage The Talk of New York, a sequel to the Cohan musical. Frank Jones returns as Kid Burns with a large chorus and professional singers and dancers.
Her. Isaac Patterson, superintendent of the Missionary Alliance of Ohio and West Virginia, will head the program of the twelfth annual convention of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in the Indianapolis district at First United Brethren church. Rev. W. N. Huhi, a Tibet missionary, will preach Saturday afternoon, with Rev. Me B. Fuller, an Indian missionary, also speaking. The convention closes Sunday evening featuring devotional exercises, songs and addresses.
W C T U leaders and members across the county report on missions and school support for underprivileged children. Dr Martha Keller outlines local efforts while Elizabeth Stanley, state VP, promotes municipal suffrage at the Propylaeum. County superintendents plan a year’s work and Susie Miller wins the railroad employees pennant for efficiency.
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