The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1917, Page 7

“Punch” the “Concave” Actor and the “Cuddle-Up-Closer” . Leading Woman—One Is as Masculine as the Single But- ton on His Vest, the Other Merely a Baby-Doll—Why, Then, Should Authors Be Blamed for Providing Chick- on Feed? By Charles Darnton. CCASIONALLY we may thank the press agent for an inter ing ‘idea, Yesterday A. Toxen Worm, who stands quite alone In his class—except when he sits down to @rink your health—sent this pa graph with his compliments: “Bugene Walter, author of ‘The Knife, at the Bijou Theatre, will leave New York next Monday fot a tbur of New England cities where stock companies are playing, in search of actors suitable for juvenile roles, Mr. Walter declares that the {feminist movement is increasingly re- sponsible for a lack of virility among Broadway actors, and that he is com- peligd to eck in the highways and byways of theatrical America for types of sufficient manliness and force to play juvenile roles in his new dramas.” This struck me as veing worth a great deal more than a paragraph, 80 I lost no time {n telephoning Mr. Walter and asking him to put his views on the subject into writing. You know, of course, that Eugene Walter has no equal as a dramatist with a “punch,” It is characteristic of him to give a play such force that he knocks it” straight into you, whether you like it or not. He dis- plays the spirit in discussing people who att This is what he sa same pla “a HE concave actor, up to the minute in shape, with a Charley Chaplin mustache, wrist watch and shoes of peculiar de- sign, may be superlatively entranc- ing on the screen; but when It com: to speaking regular words of regular men on the regular stage and giving & regular impression of masculinity —all wool and 4 yard wide—he's About as impressive as the one but- ton of his vest, hidden at the extreme point of his concavity. “Then, after you've heard this ‘now ~ you - stop-and-leave-me-alone’ actor p a few dir and terse, speeches right on the wrist you wave argal and send for a him aside ats dramatic agent to help you find some one for the job. “You have a portray red-blooded men and you feel n 80 other you can take care of the women if you have of males with r apes manner of expression, put over the footlights the impression of having eaten regular ‘he’ food late Paul Armstrong was wont to ex- press it. “Have nt. “Male or man actors?’ ehe will ask, ° ‘Man,’ “ ‘How old? which alms to nd women, way or play tha maximum number al male thoughts, si who wil as the you any? you ask the “'Must look between twenty-five and thirty.’ “Then comes your list—pitifully short, painfully familiar, Here they are—the thin manly line—every one @ yeteran and an artist, hanging on to the remnants of youth and ready to do their bit. “‘Pretty well along in your invariable comment, “They can maks up young enough.’ “ ‘How much? e runs her finger lightly over the short lis® and murmurs the salaries the lowest $350, the average $500, and then up to $800. *‘Not one of them under forty, and most of them fifty years old,’ you comment. “*You know ‘em! Any one of them who looks it can play the part.’ “ Haven't you any young ones—real ones, who are fairly good and want a etart?’ “They haven't the punch.’ “ How about the women “ ‘Just as bad,’ ts the answer. ‘ years, ts ‘an give you a lot with th butan slouch, but vigor and conviction and the power to put it over went out without corsets, hips and a normal bust,’ is your answer “And so as an author T out on a trip to find, if the am going vy can be Serve him right, with Cocktails Your friend knows a compliment when he tastes one. All Padver to "Lo: 108 for “Lost and Found’ articie@@ World or reporte "Room om Its Men and Women, | Asserts Eugene Walter | found, young players of both sexes with the punch, with voices well Placed and who can hit from the shoulder. HE American stage has been made the dumping during the last teq years for men without girth of wafst or in- tellect, {ll-formed, ill-informed, light- waisted in all essentials of life—physi- cal and otherwise—while the baby- doll, the hipless, voiceless, simperin; cuddle-up-closer leading woman has driven our fine actresses nearly into | 46 “ISTAGE STARS WHO WILL APPEAR IN NEW 1 YORK NEXT WEEK BREEN or ort. CorUmi an AES: obscurity and authors nearly to the| asylum. “Lam not going to argue the cause| from either a sociological or political point of view. If this is the era of the chicken, some one else can figure out the reason why, but don’t blame the playwright when he is compelled to} give them chicken feed to keep them alive. If the lounge lizard is at the height of his glory, then blame not the poor author for giving him little more to do than lie out on the rock and bake and blink tn the sunlight of popular adoration. If the ‘feminist’ woman is breeding a class of men who live on the earnings of their sisters and sweethearts and wives while muscles become flabby, gesticulation girlish and ¥oices falsetto, then blame the feminist movement and not the dramatist. One cannot cut down a giant redwood with a pair of mani- cure scissors, “That's the condition of the stage to-day—that'’s why [I'm going into the tall grass to find some real men and women who can act with the punch. Women who can start when started, the Ethel Barrymores—the Blanche Bateses, the Julia Deans, the town in France and the story cent about the activities of a popular re iment quartered there, Capt. Poil-| deau is the hero, For several years he has spent all his spare time and much more than his spare in tion to the ash R Stress has been } element Joying. It POPULAR AT COLUMBIA and ballet ey ON SCREE: the tre, in pr |‘ HIP HIP HOORAY GIRL Now well into the second month of its engagement at the Columbia The- atre “Hip Hip Rooray Girls” tines to draw about all the people the | house can hold, This combination of | burlesque and vaudeville specialties merits the large patronage it is en- The Six Diving Helles con- | tinue to be the most attractive fea- ture of the show, in the Nuge transparent contains several thousand gallons of water, are constantly adding daring and graceful feats to their ac ice skating carnival also become a popular feature of the performance. These performers | PROCTOR VAUDEVILLE | AND LOEW FEATURES | A vaudeville programme of eight} acts, combined with photo plays, will AT RIALTO |: i on the comedy amme with Geo! 58 con- ank, which < EORGK B Cm ee RoASsion Wipmassamio# THREE ACCUSED IN SCHEME TO SEND MAIL TO GERMANY oT bes AGTRESS, DIES IN SLEEP 87 Years Old, She Made Debut in 1862 and Appeared Last in April, 1916. | | Mrs. Mary Sediey Smith, America's |eldest actress, universally known a Mrs, Sol Smith, died yesterday in her sleep at her home, Avenue, Although years old, she appeared in April last the Nurse in “Romeo and at a performance given by the Professional Woman's League, At thirteen Marie Sediey appeared as Juliot at an amateur performance It was not until after her first mar- riage that she made her professional ry in “The |." Later she appeared in New York as member of the celebrated stock company of the old Winter Garden, | Her success still later on Pacific Coast prompted Edwin Booti to call her Eaat to join his company. Her first husband was Wiliam | Henry Brown. Her second was the late Sol Smith, ;a i known actor, She leaves four children, Sedley, Kdward and Alice Brown and Mra Elmer Smith Redding. |. Funeral services will be held at the Little Chureh Around the Corner at {1.16 o'clock to-morrow. Burlal will be in Greenwood Cemetery. MAS, SOL SMITH, OLDEST | °*eer= sztr4 AUBURN, WN. ¥., June convention of the Travellors closed tion of t boa mate Jnited © here to-day after 4 following officers: Counsellor, William . George, Grand Junior Counsettor A Jamestown 1T MEANS mitted suicide at 5.90 A. M. to-day & cutting his throat with @ razor, 0 found the bod: said he had been cause of poor business, Keep StomachWe FOR ANY WEAKNESS—TRY HOSTETTER’S ‘0. 99 Claremont Spink, thirty yeurs eiguty - seven | proprietor of butcher shop at No Greene Avenue, Williamsburg, in the jeapondent Your BETTER HEALTH PHOTO PLAYS, | Plan Was, Authorities Say, to bal Such was the manner of man who fathered Abra- ham Lincoln, Tom was illiterate but not ignorant. He loved his family; he had courage and a sense | Letters to Norway Whence They | Would Be Forwarded. Anp NIGHT! for the Beban in paying at pretty girls in| A f Imp o” and gil, Maude Odell, Charles Judel # the two m hum us features. | ¢ Charles) McNaughton, Ned Munroe, | Mr. Beb: i be asar aming | | Horace Binc al Arthur ¢ ry, Doris | Italian mounteban with a trained | one mt Marvin, Grace Dan els and Virginia! pear { 5 comi n. ‘The story, | bck a se which Mr. Beban's own, has the | Sax o AD Ren, Baler and Masnidconce | “A Daughter of the Goda," the mo- | ©haracteristic mixt f pathos and | Me Pa aihd / Li hald nette Kellermann figures, ill be the} Vehicles 1 q supported by (a ttraction Standard T tr | Harrison h i, } tuntle Julla “BIG TIMBER” AT STRAND In the Chaplin ) “ ! be The Greatest Amusement Place in | ROLLE AND OTHER FILM FEATURE rs New York is the | R aan TING || mber,” in which Kathlyn | «994N WHOCAME BACK” ¢ the arand || “ ms and Wallace Reid appear as HAS REMARKABLE RUN IN THE e story by Bertrand Sinclair of the . a whe ag ’ ON THE FINEST California lumber camp district. H 4 & xt week, Pp ean from its FLOOR IN AMERICA big trees are felled and cut and h d5th to 62d p vance at the an ind The entire thint f died is shown during the action. “No Playhoise This presented oF private tant st O, Henry's tale of newspaper under directior Ww n A. Brady wary hese ife, will be another acreen feature, Is by Jules Ki Ge founded tenches and classic 5 ls rollee seuiien hi ML also be concert numbers on a. sory ra i Fleming Wilson BILLIARDS AND PockeT || here for the comtort “THIRTEENTH CHAIR” plaving the leading roles since BILLIARDS inva ageryieeesgpriny PASSES 250TH MARK * peed Iaat_ sum using’ Vetween 4th "soth mareste || ow decore T Call Murray Mill 6610, “The Thirteenth Chair” passed ‘ts | ,gfThe ‘Thirteenth Chae m4 ADMISSION 25. saath “performance at hn Fort id || OPEN AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS rm weather which has force the to ch has had no effect whatsoever on Ba 1 Veiller’s thrilling melodrama, ‘1 ercelient “ast is headed by Margaret Wyohely, (ner mpd DANCING CARNIVAL GRAND CENTRAL PALACE ADMISSION, "725 Lexington Ave., (Use 46th St. GRAND CENTRAL PALACE Me 3 Bw Entrance) in Ay, (hae 46th St, E Market closed ‘song whww ‘pate, bestia 500. Maia LONGACRE Wp 8 Fe 5 WM. COLLIER in NOTHING #4 z TRUTH “UPSTAIRS AND DOWN” STANDARD YUOUR BETTER Wed. Banday—"A Daughter of the Gorda,” EMPIRE Siiiiete Weit'ac PABMiK’s The New Word BARI MO Medale. and NEW AMSTERDAM We The (12-12: vos, at B15, M hy nee tines Wed, & Ball, 8.18 ee B hye \., Mata with ALL WT aN C ys ou REPUBLIC ¥*.,,4 Heovens at this Theatre Aug “PETER IBBETSON Barrymare.tonstance Collier ye re € 469. te Hwa «Wed FULTON. 4 ist WM. COURTENAY "40 WISE to Lee Wilson Dood’ Con 60 Coban’s Mat: An Mr a vento EVELYN NESBIT RERSREL In, the Film Sensation MANHATTAN Hen BON “Redemption” Oust, LAMBS ALL-STAR GAMBOLS of humor. Aside from his paternity of one of the dominant figures in world history, his adventures and achievements were those of a thoroughly human, Dorothy Donnellys, the Mangaret| be presented at Proctor’s Fifth Ave-| i | Pata . ' Anglins, the Helen Wares ry a the Theatre, commencing Monday.| Two Austrian sailors and ‘neva ta | intensely interesting individual who made his mark dozen more—and men—real men with | 44 an added attraction, Charlie Chap- of at stohtctay al ain eld in | ‘on the records of genres As portrayed by @ real punch to come up in reserve | z Aes $1,000 bail each by U. 8. Commis- | Benjamin Chapin in the Lincolt, Cycle of photo- of the rapidly thinning lines of de-|lin will be seen in the latest movie! Canoone in Brooklyn on the MISS FRANCES MORGAN CHANCE FOR 3,500 GOOD MEN plays Tom is an engaging, enjoyable, engrossing pendable veterans—they are the ones | comedy, ‘The Immigrant.” Proctor's , |Charge- of running a private mail character. we need Twenty-third eet will feature Will-| apa | Ve. “Maybe the war will straighten the| jam Cahill in “The Man From Ire-| Toute from New York to Germany by! Prove a Stimain shoulders, fill out the bellies and|jand.” Tho bill will » include| way of Norway 4 bring back the punch to the vast pro- | Waithour and the Princeton girls in a Anton Sager, thirty, of No, 108 Bast ospaaie Col, R. D. Walsh, In charge of the duction of concave kids, Maybe the | cycling act, Knight and Lioyd, and) Fleventh Street, New York, and bis| Special an Takes Small Party | Resular Army recruiting in this dis- war will bring back to style the} Locket and Brown. “The Immigrant,” | brother, Rudolph, thirty-four, of No e 7 J urlet, whieh has atill over %,500 men to woman made by God to carry His} with Chaplin, will also be offered.) 350 Washington Street, Brooklyn, of Guests to Locust Valley enroll before July 1, sald this morning real burden, the responsibility of the| An all-girl bill will be given the first) wero sailors on the steamship Martt for Ceremon that he anticipated that a large nume endurance of the race—a woman of| part of the week at Proctor’s Fifty-| Washington of the American-Aus- - y- ber of men would want to follow the| ; sound brain, sound mind, sound mor-| eighth Street Theatre, Some of those) trian Line when she was interned at! In the rural quiet of St. John’s} xood la bet by thdee echediited ‘ als and sound emotions. aie appeariare shy Ble facksons | Honokea at the OuLOVeek UCM WOls| Gulu te Tettictien, stesmsn Vaden’ lemnmrtra atone SATEReeTiea pant THEATRES. “Let ux hope all this will come|Ciaudea Coleman and Black and| When war with Germany was begun, |“ sey deh Do vy . | ~~ ~ and that the man with the punch—| White. Helen Trix and sister in songs|ihey were sent to Ellis Island, but|1. 1, Miss Frances Tracy Morgan, {fade along Fifth Ave from Wash- | Winter Garden?.cw 4,00, Bye. &.» shoulders, girth and a conviction or| wil} head the bill at Proctor’s One) they were released on April 21. second daughter of Mr, and Mrs. ington Square to Fortieth Street. Ac- to or two—will walk with her hand-in-|Mundred and Twenty-fifth Street) The Sagers met dn a saloon Her-!pierpont Morgan and cousin of the |°O™Insly ho called attention to the fact PASSING SHOW 3f- hand to @ new era of plays and| Theatre. Whipple Huston in a one-| garth Schmidt, cook on the Scandina-| 4, fe of Police CG testoner Arthur | ‘Nat the following army reery sta- vil players for real, healthy, grown-ups. /act skit called “Specks,” the Brigh-|vian (Line steamship Bergensfjord, het piseraanep ested : tions will be open ell day t row, That's my dearest wish as a writer|tons, Virginia Rankin and Charlle!anq after a little talk found that they| Woods, was married to-day to Paul) sunday, for the convenience of men Directo: for the stage. Chaplin in "The [mmigrant’ will be} knew his wife in Bergen, Norway.|Geddes Pennoyer, of Berkeley, Cali-| wanting to join or seeking detailed in- S. L. ROTHAPF! - _ other features: non | 800M, according to the testimony be lfornta, who was a classmate at Har-| formation Bway @ sr. “The Immigrant” will be | fore Commissioner Cahoone, the thr “a Sage i ao ta COMMENCING "BUNDAY, | Monday and Tue: ‘at Loew's Now| trranged that Schmidt would take all|V@rd Of her brother, Junius Spencer} 131 Park Now, te post office, M's ays ‘or e York ‘Theatre, “The Deemster willl {he letters they could gather and send | Morgan, ? 0 Delancey 1, near Second = Rie be shown on Wednesday anc hUrS-| them to Germany by handing them| ‘The wedding, one of the most fash. | Avenue | : 4R SI. in “A ROADSED RESARIO.” ‘ day, While Alice Brady. will, be fea) to his wite to put in the mail In Ber- | ionable of the year, wan attended only | ,,1*1 Hast Fourteenth str near Matis HO Olas aoa ty aR a papers URE: ¥ 0 e Divorce Ga on ney chs : "| Third Aver TLLEA Present se oming eek |" : Yeleska Suratt in “The Slave" fra the tell Ls ig Pee tie ere |by immediate relatives and the|'"\59 fast One Hundred and Twenty- “Land of the Rising Sun j co AGe | will be seen turday and, Ethel Vation of the censors of the United closest friends of the Morgan and At) Silo none HNrl uence bnacttiaey OIE by Frxautnie Barrymore in ate! or States, Pennoyer fimilies, A small party Off oaiin st hird Avenue, : (are) Leo HE Lambs will hold thelr annual |on Sunday. Loew : Se ‘The authorities got the Saxera two guests went from this city by special|. 240. i Filty-ninth Birest, near | RIALTO OMPARAD public gambol at the Manhattan| Will have Frank Bush, thy ny {weeks a ‘They had thirteen let-it sin Owing to illness, Mre. A. A ond Avenue, CHI RA ; | story teller; Anthony Andre in HOT tare, in possession, They got wing to 5 . A. Sixth Avenue, at Forty-second Conductor. ren+ Op House to-morrow night | Reggar Man" and Dorothy Wahl and! qi iiae when his ship came in yes- Pennoyer, the bridegroom's mother, te Overture, by and Monday afternoon. A portion of | Jackson in “The Girl From Brazil, |¢ ; : 113 Went Twenty-third Street, near | 1] Margaret Wycherl: 4 tle | terday could not be present. uN Aeon i yeherly Orne Rie the receipts will go to the purchase on (S AND FRILLS” _> Th@ ceremony was performed by| 1931 Broadway, near Columbus Ctr By Bayard V NPY RODOLTO, “Toners and maintenance of hospital amiu-|“FROCKS AND FRILLS” | wccing SINCE SUGAR FIRE. the Mev. Charies W. tinton, rector|“*i4, yignuan avenue, at Lang Ind Da a lance for the Red Cross in Francs PALAIS ROYAL REVUE} SINUE SUS of Bt John’s, Miss Morgan had only| station Breakin . "in te Ty The fret skit, written by Georgy V. Two More Employees of Wave- one attendant, Miss Jane N. Morgan,|,,,2*8, Broadway, on Bridge Plaza, Wil VHLAAM W. aben Wie BORE PERIO Hobart, is called "Getting Up a Gam- Society and the Stage are well rep-| meyer nt Not Vet Accoanted For. 7 tamebueg. “PLAYHOUSE HEGINNING MONDAY art, Soc ; : f 2 her sister, whose engagement te 12 Washington Street, Ho nnaby wos Bry bol.” ‘The same author h #0 con. ted in list of reservations for| The wives of Theodore fimmis. forty: |George Nighols of thie olty became| _ 163 Newark Avenue. Jevsey ¢ Mate: Webbanlag ghd Gobantnn: CHARLIE CHAP LIN tributed “Words Mean 2) ng. the pre erformance of the new|two, No. 51 South First Street, and) ynown only a few days ago. Junius in “PUM IMMIGRANT, reflection of the motion picture play.| Palais Royal summer revue, “Frocks|Charles Grusiblates, forty, | No. 2 T| Spencer M brother of the bride. AMUSEMENTS. " \Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, reported | who, wh were classmates, in ~— A dramatic sketch by Rot Mackay | and lis," at the Palais Royal |e ‘the police to-day that their husbands troduced Mr. Pennoyer to his even k t e M e | First line comes Daisie Irving,jthe American Sugar Refining — plant . a » a taugtime Minstrel Lambs will be an- an Be ine uaa, oe Trey Worked “Tt Is believed thei | Ushers were Henry #. Morgan, an fi other feature, There will be 150 per. | Prima gonna. t Mya oountrY cn are in the ruins, where workmen |other brother of the bride; John C. Greater't | sue Marni formers, among them De Woif Hop +5 ue ye nea ae the selene ne sul digging. Three bodies were re-| Talbot, Willlam C. Van Fleet jr. of | © Nem Seusations Galore, | 7 4M. te 10.80 iM Senta on Sa ain I petuding] % them De Wo -|to bring young men to the c . Ta three men died in hospl-|gan Franc f 4 Collier, Clifton Crawfo: vdrew | Pulgn song entitled vir Flag anc the only employees not ac- sr the wedd , F - n. Crawford, Andrew | (ountry Need You." which she will| counted for | ASAE AE WORBIRE InOre! WAS A CONEY'S Mim Eliot's #3 KATHLYN k Will Rogers, James T. Powers, | titrod in the ‘rev Others in the| id - reception at Matinicock Point, Glen FUN Mats 220, William Courtney, ‘Brandon Tynan, | introduce in the revue. Others in the JG QUOTATIONS. —|<est,tia, country home of Mr, and FACTORY _[f naniime tous LOVE OF Niice ILLIAMS | Ta) Donald Brian and’ John McCormack. | xt ire Man! n Murray An- CLOSIN UOTATIONS. jerpont Mo ivwer & wis Re The climax to the four-hour pro- | S¥!PRe: the cet rot, whi CASINO Mititem Wal, & Sat, 218 gramme will be the gong, “Fail Inco |derson and Cynthia sonugghe YOURE IN LOVE O.ucNas sams Line for Your Motherland,” the words Lap oi A "NO SORY’ REVIEW by, President Wilson and inusic by | DANCING CARNIVAL Alaska Gold. Aine PRINCESS Bnet Wa John L. Golden, This will be sung by "© TY VI g | Ailischalinem Ls ane echt De Wolf Hopper and the entire con: | DRAWS MANY VISITORS |4ie<t« ie HOH, BOY I maateal cay pany, with a patriotic ensemble de- ee Aun. Lan ve v Sun | LIBERTY Smt, vised by R, H. Burnside, Many out of town visitors on their |4@ Malt Wt pC WASHINGTON SQ. PLAYERS |} fii. ius. 230s aac Mieeae BNE i vac are appearing on the floor | Am " 2 urs he Messrs, Shubert will present! oe the Dan Carnival at Grand | Am 400 Oscar Straus’s latest ope ay | fe al at Orang ae OF BU RLEESQUE | D FATS AT S00, rete: ones, ntral Palace vitendance has | 4 BWae Kp" Aen i mere, 8 fe, ic Theatre | been unusually | of late, Haldw oe Pigs J » Monday ‘night. ‘The book and oe } 3 aot, NAVY NIGHT bate Wed 9S ates — ke BIGGESTHIT ¢ croniy MOROSCO ts lea |e of the operetta is lald In a garrison | BEBAN AND CHAPLIN Chea ON BROADWA) AF TERROO pa FPROCTO oR DEVIL Zot Ne dA | bl ait Ae. By, | na a ata Mrs Chan, oO) se TMPICE tion You ca TO-M( wud HY FEN formal tt to oe. ‘ Grenuest eas stare ‘Annem ny ‘stages ey including JOWN M’CORMACE | ON BALE and W “ALMA HANLON ia Hour BIG VA: be o AL WY te COOPER are rrerean Rool {> PANTY, HEN. you go en your vaca- your favorite paper mailed te you every day. Evening World, 12c per week Daily World, 12¢ per week Sunday World, bd ed Sunday & PHOTO PLAYS, saad Sh ‘tbl sl gent Oe ieee Troupe. and othege "welt Lowey ihe Mysde iy addition DAU ae parc 8. "Mart in * ene ¥ th Summer have be. 20) se wilh sia as sOu de Dewainaler where vou