The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1918, Page 16

“Humpty BY CHARLE Mildly Amusing Comedy Dumpty” S DARNTON kee} hie Swai t stu O long as “Humpty Dumpty" invigorating. Last nigh two acts that take pl first and third acts proved a It was not until the cui came jauntily on the tmir tonic advertisement. a will was read by way of giving the ¢ looking | vival of Mr. Skinner in a white jacket was distinctly cheering. After the cold and di ps in the sea air its tnmor ts rather noe at the Lyceum Theatre found the shoombe-on-Sea entertaining, but the fry. n bad risen @ second time that Otis Skinner ike the pictured barber of a familiar morning room in whioh play real English atmosphere, the ar- He put an edge on the armusement of the spectators as he lathered and shaved a customer who was in no mood for conversation, and the fun increased when Swashcombe's leading undertaker was deftly fitted with a wis. Albert Mott, hairdresser, loved his art, but he couldn't keep on working at it. He was visited by two gentle- | motherless boy, men from London, who informed him that he had fallen heir to a title and a fortune, He was almost as horrified as hia poor Uttle mother, tut thers was no help for him. His lord#hip simply had to go up to London and make, himself and various other people generally uncomfortable, But after parading in his robes he bolted back to the barber shop and had a ‘appy for life as his miseus, | Mr, — _ |put him back in hie plage by an- nouncing that he was not the son of Mra, Mott, The head of the house jof Delamouthe had married her right | enough and then promptly broken his } in a fall from his horse, t when her died in a ma nity hospital whe had adopted hence the mix-u after Mrs, Rogers had grimly warned him that he was in for a regular Humpty Dumpty fall, After all, he still had tris “mother,” hie shop and a young woman with amazing hair, who waa only too willing to make him Skinner was happiest while hig trade of hairdresser. He dropped his h’e with more or less success, but at times he also dropped his Knglish dialect as if it were a hot potato, His manner, too, sug- gested the possibility of Albert's mother having had a few drops of French blood in her veins, though |the author of the play, Horace An- nesly Vachell, dropped no hint of the kind when explanations were in order. Beryl Mercer gave another of her quaint character that has mu with the charwoman Lady Shows Her Medals. homely and thorougMy human por- trayal she added a touch of native shrewdness in the concern caused by the unwelcome visit of Mrs. Rogers. Clara T. Bracy helped to make this incident one of the most interesting bits in the play. John Rogers did capital work as the hairdresser’s busy assistant, and iton, Fleming Ward, Maud 4 Ruth Rose were other ‘enerally excellent perform- high old time shampooing swells at advanced prices, only to learn that he wasn't a Lord after all, A mer- cenary female out for hush money About Plays te eee Humpty Dumpty" i mildly amusing comedy that offers . Skin- ner a novel role, No more can be ‘and Players | DUDLEY 0 you remember the Harry Kemp Players, who made such a ter- rifio hit presenting Harry Kemp's one-act plays under the dl- rection of Harry Kemp at the Thim- ble Theatre last season? Of course you do—what a silly question! Why, they wore so successful that Harry and each of his players made $15 in real money out of the venture, Well, sir, Harry is getting ready to do it Late in October or early in mber he will stage several new Kemp playlets, and ho says gee, but they're great. One will be "The Kal- ser and the Carpenter,” and in it the poet (Harry Kemp) will play the this fall and winter, He doesn't see why the ‘Bard of Avon'e works shouldn't be as popular as Irving Lerlin’s on Broadway. THE WRONG SHOW. A man came out of the Globe The- atre, where “Penrod” t@ playing, the other night and @atd to the ticket seller: “Gimme back my nything ‘wrong’ Treasurer. “Nothing, only I came here to seo itchy Koo.’ When did it leave?” t's been gone two months.” | "Gosh!" said the man. “How tem- | pus does forget!" : BEWARE OF PRETTY GIRLS. bumved ugh, boy.” *aaked the Katser. Another will be “What Happened to Romeo and Juliet.” Harry mys Shakespeare had the wrong dope on this pair, and he intends to tell the (ruth about them at the Thimble. A third will be “The Sacrifice,” a gem Ab olank verse. “By ginger!” mid Harry, “there's so muco action in thas one it will make you dizzy, It's about the croco- dile sacrifice thing. You k year they gave 4 «ir to the hungry old in my piay t ved U ‘The dangers of the iron way Was ‘knocked unconscious by a dray ‘He'd men & pretty eirl, ings and fe ‘ Het iene ate borate Wy ere Ww the brute, Can you 4m on Oe Harry intends to have a c Gossip. new cast this. sousou. He thinks it} Mr, and Mrs, Joseph Laurie jr. vnly fair the t of his (Laurie and Bronson) have a new baby wiends and admirer the chance to earn 34 each MANTELL IS COMING, rt Man dend w Nobody’ te Grindstone George” He's the peddler who uses the base- Ment entrance. sure i for ‘Why did he leave?’ Sige’ wotile | Th minister tok his text from St jon has returned from where he spent esting, arson has been engaged in Mme ash Twins, Alice and Edna, 1 the statue dancers in the ene at the Hippodrome, cornet and lL Liberty Fr soor Appe re in 1918" only one wi wedding ring. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. 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