The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1918, Page 16

» AR AOE EN IR: A IRN ET bine i * hey ey ors THE NEW PLAYS “The Unknown Purple” Highly-Colored Melodrama BY CHARLES DARNTON WHY, Test SihoRS ARE Good \ Mer AND You MUST BA & “PATRIOT AND SAVE For our Bos in FRANCE Mom,o8- Mom = T seep A HEW PAIR OF Sons, WouLD FIT 4, SOLDIER Anyway Yes. BuT-mom- T dont SINK MY SHoms — ~ 1B never know what the Jack-in-the-box of the theatre is going to a do, therefore “The Unknown Purple,” flashed at the Lyric on Bat+ 3 urday night, be a bit surprising. With their play, nd Weert and Carlyle Moore take the name of Jules Verne in vain when they hit upon the submarine boat that is now # reality. They would have us believe that a man may make himself in- vietble. This is a very large order, yet the playwright of to-day doesn't hesitate to make his play the most impossible thing known to melodrama. If he can make his public believe what he thinks he believes he bas every reason to consider himself a scientist To be invisible and go about the| Woman who gave him a straight cut world without cha is an idea] to prison that probably has ¢| The first part of the play is inter- esting as a human problem. But it »mes quite impossible when the imple inventor, a shabby, shambling aN ~ “RM ~ RRINWERHO ER = | creature, is transformed as a Chester. | feldian on who bows over lady- . AAAtG ERA WeaTe HON SaxNFEllPaett You'll Have to Fire BOTH of ’Em, Joe! evening clothes that even his wife of other years is dazzled, if not razzle dazzled by him pure SURE sm READY! BUT WHERE’ MY CAR — WHERE'S M CHAUFFEUR ? BOTH Gone! DaWGoNNIt ED, With the aid of th light he has invented, he ts in le when he chooses to be, and he DON'T WASTE TIME “TALKING OLSEN, Get “THE CAR OUT AND WELL , THERE'S ONE JoY IN HAVING A CHAUFFEUR — OLSEN (1S A DREAM AND ; JOE SHALL NOT EIRE HIM, ee ee i plac All the light nakes him invisible HURRY ME UP THERE- ¥ * he ent OU GOT A WATCK-DOG ' at Curtains flutter when he enters, ‘ it chairs meve with the touch of unsea ('M_ LATE Now tt \ ’ ' 1M GONNA FIRE THAT Guy \nends, andecwrely, ta out ie Sobel, the ON “TH'GAR ~ (T's SAFE + man with the manners of the Couat *risto finally walks off with ster and his little boy wife is left to fight with ad husband forever after the equally As for these two, no one could pos sibly wish thom to pass their de- , |clining days in a more hideous place ; Rs F HELEN MACKELLAR the house they had overfur- ‘ ENNGTT as 4, for it challenged the eye with 4 2 eT ee yew et rst taste the stage has offered in many @ night. us. But aside from the clear-sceing | Richard Bennett Verne, the world continues on {ts/ as the bewhiskered inventor. uethodical way | “The Unknown Purple” is a stage curiosity, First of all, it reveals two| to throw on the th jailbirds talking out of their win-| Helen MacKellar made the i vend * Jenough at any price, but Lorraino dows, and then the story turns, Frost gave the value of natural charm movie-like, to a scene revealing the|to the sister that Peter carried off troubles of a poor inventor devoted | with his boy. Marion Kerby played to his luxury loving wife. His prison|@ vulgar role for all it was worth, “rhe Unknown Purple” is highly pal puts him on his mettle, and when | coioreg melodrama, novel and imag- he serves his term he is in a fair] inative if you like, but by no means way to square matters with the thrilling. did his best work In this rie proceedings. YEZZ7IRETTLE WIN 7TH’ WAR AN’ MY HUSBAND WILL GO Down “1 PosTeRITy Not wee HE 15 IN HIS - ~| LABORATORY EXPERIMENTTIN’ With A NEW EXPLOSIVE HES DiScovereD! YYES= MRS. GOOF * I Deo DRoPPeD IN To See TH’ * PROFESSOR’ # About Plays and Players _ By BIDE DUDLEY | “Glorianna,” tn which John Cort will star Eleanor Painter. Helen Carrington of “The Passing Show of 1918" doesn't like to be callad Noll. “Dignity’s the:thing,” says atc HE Messrs, Shubert will produce in the near future an English dramatic success entitled “Betty at Bay,” by Mrs. Jessie Porter, This i line “I don't understand"? Fister haa “ue tale infil An actor, playing the part of 4 Wet how tee taee Mhal ioomed ia | play has just terminated a long en- cagement at the Strand ‘Theatre, london. Walter Hast, associated with the Messrs. Shul in this venture, has arranged to bring Gertrude Kerr of who will be|jearned to swim Brooklyn.” Nellie Revelle stat ‘on the shores of S. Montgomery, Roosevelt 1s patat- ing a portrait Of Klsie Mackay of 1. H. Barnes from England to stage! it otner Man's Shoes,’ the play. Mr, Barnes made the Lon- | don production, He will play a lead. ing Tole here, “Betty at Bay” will reach Broadway late in October. BRADY HAS TWO. William A. Brady is preparing to ‘woduce two plays, One is “Peter's Mother,” @ romantic comedy by Mrs. Henry de ia Pasteur, and the other is “Enemies Within,” by Kilbourn Gor- don and, E, H. Culbertson, | THAT FLAT-WHEELED CAR. ton y Maurice Schwartz intenda to do some Ibsen drama in Yiddish at the Living Place Theatre this winter. William Fox has been made a ma- jor in, the theatrical unit of the Police Reserves. He'll make the crowds toovie on, The Ziegteld “Follies” went to Bos- rday. It will begin an en- gugement at the Colonial Theatre to- night. Ann MacDonald, Herbert Ransome #nd Thomas Coffin Cooke are the iat- est additions to Bertha Kalich’ pany The Dram taken a loo! and says it's A man who gue of America has Crops and Croppors” | 1 right | ows he can fly “with his own wings" wants a job as a frea': | SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK IF THRIFT Win WIN TH! WARY Jy'S ALL OVER, ROS"! THIS GUY Xen wr} ME BUYS A BARGAIN STRAW pyle aS KeTOCARRY A ¥ ANT NE TSUmmar,! E BEEN A PAYTAFUL. SSREANION WOOTSIE WOULDN'T. THINK OF ALLOWING TOOTSIE TO GET & NEW DIP WITHOUT OVERSEEING THE Jos! IN MOMER'S Teo- | ‘fou Look #9 MANLY AND OISTINGUISHED TNT .@ 4 > 4 a r Aemosharoeasabdes ‘Copy rigme 1018, Freee Fobraning Co 1 Y Brenig Werte 5 st Buds CouniHan’ It’s After the 15th! AH! HERE WE Have [yoke nee] Straw Lids Off! (THE I5™ of SEPT OF DEC, of July i WOT DIFFERENCE Do IT MAKE? PAw TRIES To GET. Away WITH WEARING HIS LAST TEARS BIRD'S NEST! STRAW AATS NEVER MADE ANY DIFFERENCE US BeAr TM eoy |Lis So Light, STUFF - PRACTISED [ON YoUR BEAN! 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WHY 18 IT THAT— play is ever written without tii jarm hand, will say “I cawn't"? | A chorus girl, who fries her egg in| her hau bedroom each morning, will) order $9 worth of food when out to dine with a male admirer? TO TRY A NEW DRAMA, “The Man They Left Behind," drama in three acts, will be sented for the first time on any by Arthur C. Howard in New H. to-night. In the cast will be Morgan, Mrs. George A. Ii Mary Ann Dentler, Jane bhard and TO MY STRAW HAT Gaphstge, ok tal yn work eave’ tenes tales trend re eared ‘ine from teat ain eu Oe et caer non r ott “arn ap eet ery wort, sour pitch your purebase ieice T ‘Goilar thinset, 7 Gossip. Edith Latimer, Mabel Bunyea, sum Sidman and Cyrus Brown will be in “The Little Brother.” Alexander Clark will have a part in “ “o> “Never Too Old to Learn” POPULAR MUSIC YIACTIME PLANO FL Laiget wonge tau” ‘Three omee, 612.00, payable Fl weekly WIMN SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC, Carey f Principal Ut ‘en tere, Hom 2-10. . 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