Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1921, Page 75

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—ROTOGRAVURE SECTION—JANUARY 16, 1921. Among Us Mortals The Play’s the Thing By W. E. HILL Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc Left— The Jewish play, full of what the press agent terms ‘“‘home- Iy sentiment and unctuous (?) hu- mor.” Abe has just lost out on five mil-* lion dollars, but he still has his daugh- ter Sadie, so what else matters? Above— The play all about the ups and downs of life in a great newspaper office. It is midnight in the composing room of The Evening Truth Bearer. If Horton Claverly, the night city editor, runs the great graft exposé the financial back- ers will withdraw. Lilleth Brodie, daughter of Judge Brodie. chief financial support of The Truth Bearer, is Horton s fiancée. *“Do as fawther says, Hor- ton; it means that our lives are in the balance! It is my love against your convictions.” Horton is firm. He will run the article, backing or no backing! “Good_for you, chief!" cries Frankie, the copy boy; “I'll stick with you!” “And I, too,” cries Miss Miggs, the stenographer. *Three cheers for our edi- tor!” Whereupon the graft is exposed and Horton Claverly is famous. Hor- ‘ton marries Miss Miggs. they adopt Frankie, and all ends happily. The vaudeville playlet which has all the ele- ments of a three-act play boiled down to fif- teen minutes. Rooney and Kelly, “the so- ciety girl and the bellhop, in fifteen min- utes of clever comedy.” are in the midst of their act. “Gimme a suite on the second floor,” says Miss Rooney. ‘Sorry,” answers Mr. Kelly, “I ain’t got a Swede on the sec- ond, but I can give you a Polack on the fifth!” which is the music cue for Miss Rooney to oblige with “I'll Be Waiting in Apple Blossom Time." % Right— @ “Don’t look at me like that, Harry! Don’t look at me like that! I'm not what you think I am—I'm not a bad woman! Oh, say you believe in me!” The stage reporter with the little red notebook, in which he jots down “scoops” and ‘“‘beats” every few minutes. Right— In the prologue Arthur eats too many helpings of Nesselrode pudding —or smokes hasheesh maybe-—lies down and. goes to sleep. The rest of the play is his dream. Imagines a Chinese idol comes to life and takes him to China ~twelve thousand years ago. Arthur falls dead in love with the idolwho turns outto be a Manchu princess. and they are just starting for the church when he wakes up. The play about the old-fashioned wife who nearly lost the love of her husband because she neglected her looks. When she sees how things are going she turns over a new leaf. Her plan is to imake hubby jealous by wearing beautiful clothes and vamping the other man. The plan works beautifully and hubby loses interest in the rival sirens. The English high life play in which things look pretty black for Lord Nigel Clancarty, Lady Clancarty having just owned up to a little indiscretion with the Marquess of Mink in a hotel on the Riviera. Lord Nigel is calling her a painted lie and worse. But it turns out that Lady Clancarty has assumed the guilt of none other than Lord Nigel’s little sister Betty, who was the woman in the case. The Clancarty household will be pretty much upset till about five - = minutes before the final curtain, when Lady Betty and the marquess will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that The literary play in which an eccentric duke, an art student, a débutante, a cat meat vendor, a marquise, a l?urgl‘al:..n hnrlot and a they were secretly married before it all happened. only they couldn't tell for fear of enraging a lot of the rarquess’s bishop all meet at an English country house and discuss life in general for three acts, and what is wrong with clvnhzaglon, and all creditors. that. At the end of the third act they decide they don’t know. Half the audience feels that the play reads better than it acts. The other half will go home and read the book-—and decide that it acts better than it reads.