The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1918, Page 6

if ‘THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1918. 7 STARS OF STAGE AND SCREEN WHO APPEAR HERE NEXT WEEK Ly BONCH IN SPEEDWAY” IGIRLS NN LY mee hy Oey ear Ne Women of America Are Dress Drunk, Ts Lesson Revealed in Eugene Walter’s New Play -_-o— | Playwright, in “Nancy Lee,” Re-| veals the Female Parasite as the Slave of a Soul-Destroy- ing Fine Clothes Habit. By Eugene Walter. HEN 1 wrote “Nancy Lee" I thought that I would touch on | the real simon-pure-all-wool and-a-yard-wide female parasite who doesn't even go through the unpleas- fant operation of surrendering any eomfort or of being gullty of any con- ventional transgression in order to pay the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker after having paid our good old friend the dressmaker, I have nothing against the last ge teman, although t# has set the ‘women of America on a long and evidently hopeless jag of ,clothes. They are reeling in chiffons, silks, erepe de chines and French p fumes. Their clothes and the mul- tplicity of designs and fabrics, along| with the frequency of change in gtyles, have resulted in the woman unconsciously changing dress from a thing of adornment to a thing that| has becomp @ positive mental nar- | cotic. | Women are dress drunk. It te a| passion which transcends in these} days of civilization that of the most barbaric belle of the Congo, who stufts | her head full of ashes and smears it with cocoanut ofl and then lets it €row sour in the sun #o that the per- fume will attract the opposite sex. | The modern American girl doesn't! wear a thing in the world that oould | be called positively convenient and comfortable, Good sound linens that oan be washed and kept clean have | deen thrown away for unsanitary | fineries, and every possible move has| een made to increase the sex appeal without positively entering into the peculiar and exclusive precincts of Ortental environment. - Women think | Gress, tulk dress, live dress, | In an experience covering fifteen | years in the thoatre I have seen such | @n extraoniinary mental change in| AMUSEMENTS. { | Twice Daily, Week May 6—BOWE With HARRY K. MORTON anc ZELLA RUSSELL, Assisted by A Big Company of Favorite Players, Brand New Show From Beginning to End Moderate Prices, women—and when I say this I am speaking of great artisis—that where, at one time, upon accepting a part She would inquire into the story of the play, and the relation of her char- acter thereto, now that same woman, before the part ts in her hands, be fore she knows what the play is, bee fore she t familiar with a line, come |mencea to plan what she shall wear, | What ts the result of this? Intem- | perance in ek deadly hes that is just as as intemperance In the use alcohol, morphine, heroin or any other deadly na A tute for dress that has shifted every reason ts Just as dange as for brandy, The direct result of ___AMUSEMENTS, gh BO CSAP DCN wee Can, Lively Fun Music; iSp rited Da Girls; Stunn’ng Costur mes; Be:utifu’ Scenery That’ 8 Columbia | ur 'e que. Smoking Perm tted, RY BURLESQUERS —Seats Now. ae . CHARLOTTE. WALKER Pe ASs D ANIL SMA TIME” BROS ONURST TSA F PEITICOATS7 NANey Lee which has been the tremendous tn crease in the female of the species who wants to have continual Jags on clothes at the other fell xpense And with clothes, of course go all the accessories of Jewels, — perfumos Umousines and what not, The fo- male clothes parasite ts Just like the male alcoholic parasite, who wants to get as much as he can with the least possible work; so tho kind of woman who gets as much as sho can and gives as little as necessary is, in the matter of psychology, precisely like the Elghth Avenue bum hanging around to get @ drink without Jabor or expense, And for these reasons I try to point out In “Nancy Lee” t ne beautl fully adorned, well gr: . well per fumed, adequately bejewelled lady, who doesn't work for « living and who even protects herself feom g!v ing a physical return, 19 selling he soul for the eternal round of fem} nine finery Just as much as the pan han@ler ts Who gives up every sense of manhood and Intelligence for the biggest schooner tn town that you can buy for § cents, There ts no dif ference in the moral attitude either, and there 18 cortatnly ‘ similarity in the + point of view of both types, 1 ¢ want to advocate prohibit t clothes any more th 1 would lk to advocate prohibition of liquor I cortainty do not t universa intoxtoation, and the hat the women are su to-day. I find tn my a people of the s| to It, that t Indu the xactl o In extravag ardest long dist ook ike a dirty deuce tn ac The lady knows no lin matter of clothes, § and recelve more fine what Its cost may be, possibly believe, Yes, the women of Amertca dress-drunk, and as lon main that vay the vex will Increase in ty of thelr sex will a false sense row in Its menace, omte. aspect. be frightful, But at t Jon't see any sign of their go e up. a Mo jaure Workers, ALBANY, April 27.~I amend- ments to the New York Compensation Law effective May 12 for employers of or operatives regul Workmen's ployees, a A to-day by 8 Industrial Comm | | Allen Lewis at Milch Gallery By W. G. Bowdoin. Etchings of Allen Lewis are on ex- hibition at the Milch gallery, No, 108 West 67th Street, until May 1. The catalogue contains fifty-one numbers plus, When Mr, Lewis wits down with his etching needle he is inspired by the pictorial, At least the present exhibi- Uon polpts that way, Even in such a theme as “Barn Doors and Windows," while the doors Jand windows are tn evidence, sure bass, and the team of horses m trom righ left, and even the road itself as ha dled are ali eminently plotorial. Mr, Lewis 1s again happy in his conception and working out of trees. | This ie evidenced in |race,” in which the blasted tree trunk rises stark and naked on the terrace, ing | background, “Gowanus Canal” pletorial ur Mr, Lewts. easily er the magio touch of well subordinated “Che Closing Curtain” 19 pleasingly accomplished a8 an artistio adven- __ PHOTO (OTO PLAYS. intl evmre OF B'way a. 429' ST. Direction $, L. BILLIE BURKE “uwrs oer‘ pry 1VORCR.” Klee On! by Feunas THe KIALTO ioRC HESTRA- | gested in the black and white, ‘Some Etchings by | enough the pictorial creeps in as a| thief In the night oF a8 @ musical aub- | left, the bind life at the! “London Ter- | hacked by cho building facard of the! | becomes © included figures are | ALTO RIV THE THE’ AOTon be LUT aot COMMERCE o And the Vesa BRIESENTELS ei Ph i ture, The stage folk are almost in a state of eclipse, and the curtain movement is surprisingly well eug- “The Print Shop” affords a wide Jopportunity to exploit the pictorial and Mr, Lewia, recognizing this, has boldly seized upon his opportunity to do this trick with Intensity, It 1s @ charming bit, “Purman Street” is a homely theme, with homely figures of “white wings” and others that have been featured, but everything in the print has a pic- torial bent, Mr. Lewis’ has tncluded a number of his book plates with his etched work. These are well worth the most | careful consideration, His plate for) Alfred Stlegtitz, {n color, ts perhaps the best of the exhtbited ex libris, _—— PROCTOR VAUDEVILLE AND FEATURE FILMS | At Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre for the first half of the week will be Nelson and Castle in “Songs and Jess,” Alton and Allen tn “Steps and Tunes,” and others, The change of bill on Thursday will bring and company in “The Headliners, Charles Lradiey, and motion pic- tures. Proctor’s 234 Street, 58th | Street and 12th Street Theatres will | offer vaudeville and feature film 5 feature peawaticn | extracntinary- Neg Te-morrow M. bereafter rt 1PM. PRISCILLA DEAN -T— HETWOSOULWOMAN Aa nod as the best 82.09 Broadway ow i tract rae-Summet Prices Now in Effect y ae 25° | Rotire BROADWAY ‘Theatre, Broadway at 41m Bt. s NOTICE ALL RECEIPTS FOR 6T1 BIG WEEK FOR [LIBERTY BONDS ch GERARD “NYS YEARS' in” ICKERB Shen THEATRE, 38th St, @ Bway, BUOADWAY & 6iar Benuver rt ii 8h). MON, TUE. 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