The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1918, Page 16

oy Aes PATO EIA DE HE SER, eutes Eur 1S AOR NAN PM NIB AN OG APART COMIC PAGE Monday, September 23, 1918 Ly mesh “Some Suggests a i] BY CHARLES DARNTON USICAL comedy is given so 1 with a retentive ear for tunes rig up the sort of thi: ink. This is what Harry Delf hae Called “delirious new comedy with music and surprise” at th “Some Night!" may be a dream or a nightmare, but at any rate it sug- gests a bad dream. Say what you will, New York sets the pace for musical comedy. London is no longer in the running, Vienna is on its last jeg, and Paris has lagged behind the procession for years with an inter- mittent revue more or less sacred to the music hall, The “surprise” offered by “Some Night!" must be granted, The music is commonplace and the comedy 1s sad In short, the whole affair is amateurish. The youth who Is #o rich that he doesn't know what to do with himself ought to be drafted. By posing as a detective he merely re- flects q@ dime-novel intellect. As for | those present at the impromptu party. the girl who pops into his hideously furnished rooms with a handful of bonds seized from her dishonest cuardian, she seems to be more in need of a nurse than a detective. Anything, of course, may happen in a| dream, yet weirdness in musical comedy is not likely to add to the xayety of an audience, Certainly, human affliction does not give a comes under a very common head. To accomplish this task it is only necessary to worry a plano and spill good Night!” Bad Dream much License these days that any one and a sense of poor jokos may easily | jone in writing “Some Night!” the s0- Theatre. Joyous touch to musical comedy. Yet | in this case we are expected to fird humor in a deaf-and-dumb boy who {is as funny as a lunatic. Happily, there are good-looking girls who act as though they were having a very good timo when they Jning and dance. ‘They, at any rate, |are young and sane, and they throw | themselves whole-heartedly into the one really good song of the “show.” ‘They have nothing whatsoever to 4o with the story, but when the plot thickens into dulness they come romping to the front and perform fonlivening “stunts.” Apparently, they jare giris with little stage training, liut they have the carefree buoyancy of youth. One of them, after dane- ing very woll, makes the mistake, however, of posing awkwardly when | she should be taking her place among | Forrest Winant struggles manfully with the part of the pampered youth, though it must be said that singing is not his forte, For her part, Rom.) June has a nice little volce, but when e mixes it with Mr. Winant’s in a 4 lament the orchestra leader has every reason to burst into tears, | As I have said, the chorus girla are/ nice—and that’s all I can say in favor By BIDE DUDLEY of “Some Night!” and Players | HAT promises to be one of the most pretentious spec- nthe! - About P lays (o be offered New York theatre-goers shortly, under the management of Julie Opp Faversham and Lee Shu- bert, It ts a play called “Freedom,” written by E, Lyall Swete and C Lewis Hind, with spectal music by the English composer, Norman O'Neill. ‘The expense attached to the production may reach $100,000, There will be twenty-eight scenes depicting he birth and rise of freedom from the time of Alfred the Great to the present. Through the efforts of Mrs. Vaversham the financial support of the following named has been en-! listed in the project: Lee Shubert, Mr. | and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Otto | H, Kahn, Clarence H, Mackay, Mrs. Hlizabeth Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. H. | P, Davison, Mra. Robert Bacon, Mr. und Mrs. George Armsby, A. W. Mel- jon, Mrs. James Creelman, C. Lewis | Hind and others. The spectacle will | be hpused in one of the largest thea- | tres in New York. The Century has been mentioned in this connection. | Im the cast will be Marcia Van Dres- | ser, im the title role; Edward Martin- del, Ariene Hackett, Henry Herbert, J. Harry Irvine, Clara Eames and nearly 1,000 others, Yitty per cent. of the profits will go be the Association for Disabled Mili- tary and Naval Officers of the Eng- lish Speaking Peoples, E, Lyall Swete will direct the rehearsals, ROAD BUSINESS GOOD. Reports concerning business for theatrical attractions “on the road” have been confilcting this season. It} Is therefore timely to say that Levy, | Harbach & Plohn, who have five| companies out covering the entire United States and some of Canada, report them all making money, They have “The Garden of Allah" in Can ada; “Watch Your Step” in the South; “Flo Flo” in the Middle South; “You're in Love” in the West and “Her Regiment” in New York State. IRWIN'S BOTHERSOME LIGHT. ‘Walince Irwin has a cottage at Shoreham, L. I., and in the cottage is an electric light which, until it was doctored, was as vacillating as a beautiful girl. The light would shine and then go out and repeat its queer antics until turned off. The cottage is 00 @ bluff overlooking the Sound. The other day a couple of Secret Service | men called on Mr. Irwin and asked] Charles E. and Harry Cl , him what the y| contemplate extending chesney quizzed him so leery ending she ain o Irwin couldn't write a poem for twen- ty-four hours. When he finally satis. fied them he was not trying to signal the ns to drop a bomb on Shore! he called in an electrician and had fim teach that light a lesson | it will long remember. A NARROW ESCAPE, Channing Pollock was in Martin Herman's office at the A. H. Woods headquarters recently when an office boy came in and said, “Mr. Bern- wtorff wanted to sce Mr. Pollock. “Bernstorft!" said Mr. Herman, “1 thought he was in Germany.” “I thought 80 too,” came from Mr, Poliock, his teeth chattering. Finally the boy wa. told to let the visitor enter. In came KR, H. Burn- side of the Hippodrome. MI8S NASH TO STAR. | Charles Emerson Cook ranged to pre | has ur-| ash in )PDPULAR MUSIC ANO RAGTIME PIANO PLAYING highway robbery?” “T giv It in a London and Paris success. A.! H. Woods owns tho American rights. UP AND AT ‘EM. I'm feeling sort o° silly, ones willy-nilly ad Se Peirce sit At amet | ‘Was that it's my intention ‘To write & rhyme on oyster slow or beans; However, I'm @ ina, be ax ay yoo'a eg A, J crany fovde teed, SAS eure TA, Jost forget the Deane thaltte tar too ere, THE NEW PLAYS| iret ae brought me ¢"tgr ‘wa han cent tie, A bi ‘ Baoe, bes, Bed oyetar saw; ai Ne some prefer atic , what an earth | ack you. cam I Go? Moet oysters are delicious, OF ene T'm quite sumpicious ne SAG hd lt ere | "5 domwone niawtut, Nef OMEr it'oat abt haemo tyme to-day FOUR CAMP SHOWS. George W. Sammis and Josoph Glick are doing much in @ managerial way this season, They have two vaudeville companies playing the army camps, and will put out two musical revues, A DOG TALE. John L. Golden thought that talr about the Hippodrome mana wishing to get homes for was & press yarn. He said all the hounds the Hip would give him. R.H. Burnside and Mark 1. cher quickly slipped him four, Mr. Golden sald was “Ooch!” GOSSIP, Spencer Charters and Irene Myers have a new skit by Thomas Gray Madison Corey and tho Mess bert wilh étage “The Grass Widow. John Barrymore in "Redemption" | will open at the Plymouth Oct. 3. Helen Raftery, a talented young gotress, will be in “Take It From _ Jessie Reed, formerly in the Winter Garden chorus, bas been made a pri 41 in “ihe Passtag Show of 118" | Toe Selwyns will “The Crowded Hour,” by Edgar Sciwyn and Channing’ Poll Vaushing el bra 1 Pollock, in Washing. | “Tamer & Sebtnoff,” now called “The Awakening,” will open at the Criterion Theatre Bept. 30, obart-Paulton-Hein c farce entitled “Missy Blue yee" il open in Atlantic City Sept. 30. J. L. McManus will be musical conductor. | A performance of Mitzi in “Head Over Heels” will be given at the George (Mf. 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