The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1918, Page 12

w THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918, - | r my patrone arite per} al ase eh the vee Een ae a | ayer GOODWIN SPEAKS | CURRENT ATTRACTIONS WAN CONDUCTING (SSeS RSS hes Es eerie MeN NEEDED NOW, y tiko charged 24 cents ad-! is eliminated 1 women t hi merely for the por f | scinpctiguieieiadaainniiaeetinick las n.. The World ‘ad’ brought me duce peos xreeable plug the pipes in the "pull ileg Fromm | DECLARES A H, woods AITY py vetah OF MUSIC—Photoplays. ise v business could be| noes In One 5 ed to intrude | the dancers warm—they do that thom- | : ASTOR—""Why Marry?” Ade Pots on the tgh | welven.” lwanaser Viet ‘ oF tWo OF thites. we he tia : on 088 Manager Foresees Victory, Peace ‘ BELASCO—"Polly With a Past.” . t along without Witatives leutaiteees att Gres Walnce: Aue nd New Prosperit re : BIJOU—"Onds and Ends of 1917." sing miton Tite My Liseat night | n'100 ADVERTISING WINS Mee AF PUTT 7 “ ” pas riled I ash s+ | music " o- i ay . SUN WHY MARRY?” aise ot cay ae IS NOT A DANCER cgeituelis teins Sates op ae FOR “BLIND YOUTH”) pe sar, wna 6 : é a | took an entire floor in Grand | where the 1 hful pupils may be | Y As Me . oats |) oBitiex Cpu acoee ores esa, Daring. the first vavee| fae era ad alin are gives —- ssl tect unte tee anasen. incnebeial — OND >} ~~" . —_—~> Ty loa 28,0 ** 5 hah MD Pabes - Se r : te ophe ped x aoe yanne = 1 toat $25,000; the ext three dally, which s that asa matter of Brings Success to Lou Tellegen’s tr phe, ae bee staan Svea ee P ‘ Feteene oO ra n one k and invtruction + rofessionala 0 ht * mere © ‘Audience Grins as Veteran) Gexruny—che chin Chow.* G. D. Grundy Merely Watche nde my leat year #000 ahead, TIE Poon uances dally, tho a.| Play at Thirty-ninth Street — | vetoped tho pea ul peop ot Ameren t 3, $497 " tn wine . m4 , 1, ¢ ¢ eat right along unti, now | rendance lays frequenti> In the process of adusting ourselves k <” Holds Forth on Marriage COHAN-"The King: 4 Thousands on Floors of haw fa floors in. Grand |e shee ttn unk: “As to the fu-| Theatre. to the new eonéition already under wag funeca IAN & HARRIS—“A Tailor Made Man.” ‘ an annual rental of cure of dor Grundy said | One of the triumphe of newspaper) every man, woman 4 child ta | amt Divorce COLUMBIA—Burlesque. | Grand Central Palace Jance tere. peak Bod. bar | hehe te Linton aan ; han ever |advertising and intensive publicity han| country ts being called on to play & new | = | CORTMo sie." | Ating oapenses.are $100,000. Prom Ice tetowing. Ii ie not vulgar ag it /2ten acored by the management of Lou) and vital role, ‘The,old cited, Sigeage When wat C. Goodwin inunchen; — CREME IOS Haars inosa | There te in New York @ man who | business we dorive a profit of was five years uso, In other words, | Tellegen, who ts tlow Folin gut, and the’ new ‘order ‘that feto a discussion of marriage and - furnishes the opportunity fer more it $60,000, We have 265 instructors | it's @ pleasant, tion and|own play, “Blind Youth,” boming in’ is bringing a new meaning 4 ein “Why Marry?” a broad | EIGHTY-FIRST ST. THEATRE—Vaudevilie and Photoplays. than 600,000 people to dance each year, ,,.°°2 And women—and we pend ‘not a Saturday h vol.” | Thirty-ninth Street Theatre. our lives and a new power and purpose eae rie sete grin spreads over the faces of the knowing ones in the audience. They eeom -disponed to accept bim as an authority on the aubject Early in the play Uncle Evorett, the character acted by Mr. Goodwin, a@xtounds his nieces and nephews by calmly announcing that he and his wife of more than twenty-five years have separated and that she t# in Reno seeking & divorce. ‘The family expostulates with him “Shoe has been a great help in the parish work, Uncle Everett.” says Theodore, the clergyman of the fam- wan earnest worker tn the vine~ yard, Theodore,” admits Uncle Bver- ett. “In fact, I might say a model female.” “Then why do you want a d1- yore? the family ask in chorus. “Because, damn it, TI don't Mke her,” explodes Uncle Everett. 1 “But think of poor Aunt Tulle,” | eaya bis niece. | “But, damn It, aho doesn't tike me,” | answers the old chap. A little later on John, the old-fash- | foned head of the family, who thinks | that womanly place ts in the home, | gives up in bewtlderment at a views | point he can't begin to understand. “But if there's no other woman, no othor man, what's It all aboutt™ he asks helplessly. “Well, I'll tell you,” eays Uncle Fverett, forcing himself to be patient. “Bho Mkes her beefsteak well done; 1 ike mine underdone, She likes one window open an inch; I like all the windows open wide. She likes to stay at home; I like to travel. She loves the opera and hates the theatre; I fove the theatre and hate the opera.” Helen, the girl who sets the family all on end because of her revolution- ary ideas, bas a thought or two to ox+ preas on the subject of women and their dependence on matrimony as @ moans of earning @ living, She says, for instance: “All women used to be owned by men. Formerly they ruled WF. Rhysical force—now by financial | {Dut Bt tast they are to lose even that held upon us, poor dears.’ Helen is not alone in her way of looking at things when she declares: “Too many brilliant men have already been ruined by baving to go home! every evening to a narrow-minded apartment or @ dreary suburb and eat morbid meals opposite a housewife re- galing him with the «octal ambitions of the other commuters.” Helen has a younger sister who ks volumes when she saya de. ringly: “Helen ean afford to hi By Montacue Gines BARNEY BERNARD a ELTINGE BUSINE BEFORE . PLEASURE In Association with the Messrs, Shubert.) ELTINGE—"Business Before Pleasure” EMPIRE—"The Lady of the Camoliias.” FORTY-FOURTH 8ST. ROOF—"Over the Top.” FULTON—"Billeted,” GAIETY—"General Post.” GLOBE—“Jack o' Lantern.” GRAND CENTRAL PALACE—Dancing and Skating HARRIS—“The Naughty Wife” HIPPODROME—"Cheer Up.” HUDSON—"The Pipes of Pan.” HURTIG & SEAMON'S—Burlesque. KNICKERBOCKER—"The Land of Joy.” LIBERTY—"Gotng Up.” LOEW THEATRDS—Vavderille and Photoplays. LOEW'S BEVENTH AVE. THPATRD—"Daddy Long-Legs.” LONGACRE—"Leave It to Jane.” LYCEUM—"Tiger Rose.” MAXINE ELLIOTT—"Byes of Youth." MOROSCO—“Lombardl, Ltd.” MOSS THEATRES—Vaudeville and Photoplays. NEW AMSTERDAM—*"Cohan Revue of 1918.” OLYMPIC—Burlesque, PALACE—Vaudeville, PARK—"Seven Days’ Leave.” PLAYHOUSE—"The Heritage.” PLYMOUTH—*“The Gypsy Trail.” PROCTOR'S—Vaudeville and Photoplays. REPUBLIC—"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath.” RIALTO—Photoplays. RIVOLI—Photoplays. SHUBERT—*"Maytime,.” STRAND—Photoplays. THEATRE DU VIEUX COLOMBIAR—French Plays. THIRTY-NINTH ST. THEATRE—"Blind Youth.” WINTER GARDEN—"Doing Our Bit.” Independent views; #he has an indp- pendent Income—she earns It." But it is Uncle who su up the whole matter tn the end by observing: “Everything any one chooses to say about marriage is more or less true, but just at present it's the best thing the world has to offer &@ social in- ntitution, So why not accept it and make the best of things?” HARRIS CRIES DOWN CALAMITY HOWLERS George M, Cohan’s Smiling Bust- ness Partner Isn't Fright- ened by the War. fem H. Harris of Cohan @ Harris tins not been frightened by the calamity howler, as he calls them, in the th atrical business. He is a firm b: in the theory that the public must have amusement whether there be war or partner, tons, had, firm's business. “We have four attrac successes. will fo on f#00n. “In vos, ae ont Need wo ery. jhis patrons lose confidence in his at: Good plays will always make money 1: along waya fall T prove ducing | pl we'll win, iF} Aoanon, though Prevs, bad we'll he theatrical business on eartl other thm pte mand testrey ink ‘em off. We thin =SS PARLOR and Jules Eckert Goodman with AND ALEXANDER CARR [A WATRLWIND FARCE HIT THEATRE MARJORIE RAMBEAU IN EYES OF YOUTH AT THE MAXINE ELLIOTT THEATRE se George M. Cohan, will mo right ahead furniehing the theatrexoors food attrac- “This ts the Dest season we have ever said Mr. Harris, speaking Of his “ons on Broadway and they ere al) Our road attractions are not ae numerous ae usual, but that fact tn due to ratiroad conditions, princtpalty. We Intend to go right ahead producing, having twd plays im hand now which war times theatrical managers must expect @ reduction tn thotr prof- a calamity how! from a manager makes tractions and his business will suffer. | handled tntelligently, Bad ones will al- | pro- 1h any other pot so much. Tt “they | usiness Ie the teat th in time of wat or ens BEDROOM ann BATH Br 0, W. Bell end Mork Swan FLORENCE MOORE AND JOHN CUMBERLAND REPUBLIC THEATRE By Max Marcin and Charles Guernon Now In Its Sixth Big Month | Watches them dance and looks after comfort, and yet he has never dance | step ff his life, Ho is G. B, Grundy who conducts the dance emporium at Grand Central Palace. His company the Dancing Carntval, Ino, bas the largest dancing place in the world where liquor te net eold. It Is a bunt nese proposition with Mr, Grundy and its object ts to make clean dancing pay. Mr. Grundy does It, but it keer him busy from morning till night poven days @ week. “I am very fond of dancing n* an obnerver on the alde fines,” “6 |*T really would like to do eps myself, but whe fellow hu © look after a proposition like this be cannot afford to spend any time dancing. 1 have never danced a step.” more idea of being the proprietor of the largest dancing place on earth than he bad of going to the North Pole. He owned, and owns yot, the Northeast corner of 28th Street and Lexington Avenue, and was busily engaged conducting @ real entate con corn with offices at that address. HH: still conducts the firm. It is W. C. Reeves & Co. One day about four years aro a actor dropped in to see Mr, Grundy The caller had heard that there wav a large studio in the building for rent. He asked about it. “You rent that studio for $125 @ mont said Mr, Grundy. “I haven't any money,” replied the actor, “Then why in thunder (14 come here looking for a studio?” “I want to make you $126 @ week." The caller then unfolded hiy plan. He wanted to open a school for the teaching of the so-called modern dance steps in the studio, He said he would be able, through advertising. to attract women with money to the place, and from each he could get from $26 to $100. He told of other such places, and convinced Mr Grundy they did exist, He did not got the studio, but later he opened one tn 724 Street and made a lot of you *|money. From him Mr. Grundy got ‘business idea, “He de mo realize,” sald Mr. if Grundy, “that there was a vast bust nese in New York rambling along in an unorganized, skinflint manner. I decided to ay, to systematize i. I rented a small room tn Grand Cen- tral Palace, and advertised in The New York World for dancing puptis First, I provided myself with a danc- x instructor and ¢ 1 to charge Four years ago Mr. Grundy hat no & 10 annually for carpets alone, ir, Grundy asserta that bia infu. 9 has Ge ne Away with rowdylam nd billiards, nee o of Charles Emerson Cook, Ine, has 1 ® he went Into the and @ corner where o! ‘ 4 Hel f conducting a dance place dren are taught interpretive steps, aka Maccorded. “Bitnd the ‘ ~ ely forbade the use of The rec agitation to save Hight! ty thods hat might be critic! id not permit Hquor. ay me ‘The “masher” ts not welcome at the janeing place in Grand Central appears he * not make ta politely | chaperons and heat has bro’ ght forth this sug- | gestion from Mr. rundy: “Too many lich wastes electricity. puld make those full tMluminating « doportment perfect h rted_outalde, Twelve alue from it and et rative feature. f ty so doing we Bi legen's business manager ts Charles Emerson Cook, and the latter's firm Youth” waa not entirely enthusiastic, |atthough Mr. Tellegen’s personal tri-|! are of the decora-|umph was complet profilgate waste of advertising ap printion ging, and the resi a ninate the deco-' Pellegom'a production is now rated one id of the an ‘There was no tently plug: has been that from cial proposition Mr. but a constan ediocre fin. oat successful along Broadway. > —<THE- SKATING CARNIVAL nd The. publ bring also ur institutions. tO tne ciilzers and industrice of the United States will now be call to exercise to [he functions of usefulness, so will Never in the worl there such n need for the servi cient and glorious institut ealed 20 Lone of the Font has brought 60 mus! nese eo much comfort in sorrew. m le will realise, sale the adjustment is complete. ture to predict that tho new year, its preangen of victory and peace, a new ora of prosperity usefulness to the theatre, i Occupying the entire Fourth Floor in the Grand Central Palace is the largest and best equipped Roller-skating 3 and Dancing rendezvous in the country. . It is patronized by thousands of people weekly. There are two Bands and two separate floors, with CT DANCE AS OFTEN - Without extra charge you can a |SKATE AWHILE “3.3 . SKATES FREE LIVELY MUSIC WONDERFUL NEW FLOOR PERFECT LIGHT and VENTILATION no , the 5th Floor, 46th Street Entrance. Peer e it AS YOU LIKE DANCE AWHILE} roller-skating on one floor and dancing on the other. CII. NO EXTRA CHARGE SPLENDID FLOOR WARD’S JAZZ BAND LIGHT ON ALL SIDES ADMISSION 30e¢ INCLUDES NEW BALLBEARING SKATES and the privilege of Both Roller-skating and Dancing OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY from 2 to 5.230 P. M. and 7.30 P. M. to midnight SKATING CARNIVAL GRAND CENT2 ee Lexington Avenue : USE FORTY-SEVENTH STREET ENTRANCE This Is the Skating Carnival, 47th Street Entrance. It ts not the Dancing Carnival, which fs on AL PALACE | id's bi fullest extent e fn why ir ye pw yg ue