The evening world. Newspaper, September 21, 1918, Page 12

THE NEW PLAYS Constance Collier Superb in “An Ideal Husband.” BY CHARLES DARNTON OOD taste, not to mention good acting, is 90 rare w thing on the stag G that we would be fools not to recognize It, It doesn't matter in (1+ least that outside the Comedy Theatre are exhibited enormously enlarged portraits of Norman Trevor and Cyril Harcourt His the women who of first® tmportance in Wilde's so-called “bri!-| ~|and, to make a long story short, he Nant comedy.” As a matter of fd | finds he has jet himself into a bad Job. This business ts so obvious that you are compelled to pire the actors for the straight face they put on the situation, In spite of Wilde and | tricks, Constance Collier | With all her splendid | never gives herself to the his stage superb. charm, she ap trade | melodramatic adventur | She proves this point with rare | when the noble statesman politely orders her out of his house An or- dinary actress would give the br |wouch of vulgarity to this scene. i$ ollier ma it a triumph of ience, of the in: | Two radient women—Miss ¢ and Beatrice Beckley—make the p formance u beauty show that wo rouse even the tired business i But Miss Hockley, with ail glacial aliurement, must learn “speak up” if she hopes to be etood. She is unmistakably wel but at times tnaudible. Second honors go to Julian L’ trange, who makes Lord Gori decent sort of loafer instead of a s: ass, He goes about his reaily | jearnest business easily, and thereby | the play is as “brilliant” as the pro-| wins your good opinion | fframme would bave us believe it to) Mr. Trevor acts like a gentleman Back of * qq {and a statesman—that is, in the Jng- wed k of “An Ideal Husband” 8] to manner—untit he makes the most the terrible wife, and in this instance) Uf his part by telling @ truly English she happens to be a direct descendant! wife juat what he thinks of her | of Queen Victoria. You may well! But it i* the gloriously be «wen ¥ Constance Collier, in spite of din gree Sage breath as you view the) eonery. provided by John D. Will situation. The husband has taken| jams, who makes “An Ideal Husband” | advantage of the situation by selling) worth more than the price fixed by @ state secret to @ © - the box offi About Piays and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY ma production of the musical pla: time.” by Rida Johnson Young Rudolf Frimt. Ed Wynn will head the cast in which will be also, Doro: thie Bigelow, Frances Cameron, Ma‘ Mildred le Gue, Harri uk, Jobn Merk: tier couse as ARRY KING TOOTLE, who was & playwright and theatrica press agent before he became lieutenant in the United States Army and went to France, postal cards this column as follows: “Labor Day! 1 suppose (as usual) this day opens the worst season (as woual) in the history of the theatri- eal profession and (as usual) artists will manage to live through the sea- gon until May, when they wil begin to borrow (a3 usual) to live tll sep- tember.” Lieut, Tootle consored the Rimself, so it must be al! O. K. usual), WHO WANTS A DOG? ‘When R. H. Burnside planned’ “Bv- erything,” the new Hippodrome spec- tacle, he Mapped oul a scene which called for the use of twenty-four thoroughbred fox hounds. The dogs were procured and (hen the scene was ut, Now Caries Dillingham wants to “farm” \iem out to people who will gs them good homes in tbe country, It may be povsible that the hounds will be used in a Hippo- drome show of the future, TO AID THE LOAN, The National Theatrical Allied In- terests Committee of | the rly Lean, E. F. Albee, chairman, will open n ’ Haven Hallen Mostyn and William One day 1 thought "4 take « walk ‘A monet one in the pa 1 get me nat and told my ite e he sir ia fine, P know: dunt tien the niin, sailed, “Giee ght” Kod wo Teo ida't eo. 1 chowebt last pight Td ep downtonn And paps bam) ew ia) “A very fine, card DE LUXE 18 EXPANDING. Theodore C, Deitrich, President of De Luxe Pictures, Inc, which makes Doris Kenyon films, has engaged Thomas A. Persons as studic THE BABY COMPLAINS. camerman. Francis J. Grandon, direct- og “Wild Hon will go to the Adirondacks soon with 200 people and fifty horses, to make some exteriors. MIRIAM, SHE SOARS. Miriam Doyle of “The Maid of the .} Mountains” ts a poetess who can way. Fron its rooms there it will] give the famous Ellabelle Mac Doolit- send out speakers, literatura, etc. tle cards and spades and then bring home the bacon. She has sent us the THEIR GUESS WRONG. following: Tho gossips along Broadway say that when it was planned to produce " Egg Ral if at the Comedy Avd MELISS Veen ‘the. age. - axine Hiliott and William wall tne rage, Faversham were asked to Decome| Rat (uijmt ety iam ndlog singe members of the casi, They didn’t] “To tie oid Gestoo's 4 feney the project and declined. Now the joke scema to be “on” them as “An ideal Husband” is proving very popular, WELCH GOES TO COURT. Jack Welch, through his attorneys, House, Grossman and Vorhaus, has begun suit against B Ray Goetz and Raymond Hitchcock for $3,160, which, he ajloges, is due him in unpaid sal- ary. His affidavit states that he wan e, it GOSSIP, A) Jolson’s receipts at the Century | are beating those he drew at the Winter Garden Sinbad,” Marschalk of the "Mid- horus is to act in films as Vangie Valentine. Roth the Winter Garden and the Central will have concerts to-morrow | ght. Extensive bills have been ar-| engaged as booking manager for Hatcheock & Goetz at a salary of $150 & week last season and that he was discharged twenty-one weeks before his co: t was due to expire. “SOMETIME” COMING. ‘The Messrs. Shubert announce that the next attraction at the Shubert Theatre will be Arthur Hammerstein's od. arry Tammen, part owner of the Sells-Floto Circus, was noticed on Broadway yesterday telling Jack L everything Abner Cob vaudeville, is in New York on bis way) |to Greece in the Hed Cross service For the first time in eight yea Harry D, Kline is to be a company | He will be with Julia San-| e Cawthorn. | of the Mountains” com- pany will have an old fashioned hay | |ride to William Courtenay's barn at| Rye, N. ¥,, to-morrow. « “ lleboay ends a Nadel} teGrindstene Goons’ Hes investing his Money in brewery ech. | A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, | When a man asked Bill Pinckley of Wellsville the meaning of “faux pas,” Bill advised him to send his que |to the New York Times. aus uf QOLISHMENT, Easy oot te ibg eh sotto ah, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. 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