The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1918, Page 20

4 t : a weCalaut COMIC PAGE Tuesday, December 3, 1918 | LITTLE MARY MIXUP “Betty ©THE NEW PLAYS © A Tame Thing _ BY CHARLES DARNTON MARY YOuR CONSCIENCE ( “TELLS YOu wien YOu ‘ae \ Done someTaine You mean T fave & CONSCIENCE res Teut.s ME wend Im —DoInG@ SOMETHING Nauenry 2 Does MY CONSCIENCE Go AND TEx, You Abour 9,7Se 2 - at Bay” OW ttat the war is over, there is little chance for a play like “Betty at Bay” to win success tn this country, not to mention Dngiand. “Betty at Bay” isn’t nearly so thrilling as tho title of the play that worked Itself out of a prologue into three acts last night at that hoase ot theatrical experiments—the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre. The play with @ war background has bad its day unless it happens to ho a drama with the throbbing heart of humanity behind {t. Jessie Porter has written an essentially feminine play, in which there is a lot of talk and very little action, Betty marries & eoldier who is reported dead, only to find herself facing a grouchy and more or less penniless father-in-law who tells her to get out of the house, and then finds that she is necessary to his welfare. The husband, as you May guess, comes back to her in the Best of health, and the world Is Just as you left it before taking a journey to the theatre, We have endured a great many war brides during the struggle that has changed the system if not the map of Germany, but in the theatre We have seldom seen a tearleas hero formed the extraordinary feat of re- maining dry-eyed while she told a brave-hearted story that brought ber audience to tearn, Up to this point the play had proved nothing more |than an aimless, sentimental product. |"Betty at Bay” ta, in fact, a tame |thing. But Miss Rankin, in the scene that gave the play its only approach |to life, touched the heart. Moreover, |ahe acted with the fine and delicate reserve of an artist—that is, with un- | | derstanding. Malcolm Mortimer put ne end of | swagger into the part of the soldier- husband; J. H, Barnes waa labort J ously distressed as the futher; Charles | A. Stevenson acted in a distinguished manner despite the fact that he had | nothing to act, and Allison Skipworth wan amusing in situations that put ner at a disadvi “Retty at Ba THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Y PooR GooF - DID You EVER Do ANY THIN’ “lo SAVE YYouR FELLOW- -MEN ANY SUFFERIN'- YES BUT WGoTA GIVE “ BROTHER SOE” CREDIT FoR Gon” 7 FRANCE ADA, RED CROSS WORKER: HED A FATHEAD ~ SES A FATHEAD ! About Plays By BIDE AVID BELASCO 4s to be seen ) in flims soon, However, aa- tonished reader, you may calm yourself—he is not to attempt to rive! Charles” Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks or that other noted screen star, Bnrico Caruso. Mr. Belasco ian’t out after a fm bank roll. He merely sub- mitted to the camera man’s orders to help out the Stage Women's War Relief, which is made up to a great extent of persuasive and beautiful women. The picture will show Mr, Belasco at work in his studio, He will “act bimself” on the ecreen and, as wo understand it, all the dimes that collect in the box offices 4s a result of the rush to see bim will go to the Stage Women's War Relief. Mr, Belasco’s motto te: of teen at a#bare of the plays of the Nation an T care not who acts in the filma” HAMMERSTEIN BAYS “NO.” Arthur Hammerstein, producer of "Some Time,” in which Ed Wynn and May West are acting, says he has notified these players that he won't jot them appear in the Century Grove's new show. (More leter!) HANDLE TO-DAY FIRST, at's the usp of worrving ': really, ean be Pye, bot other days aod Gates exenpt to-day. 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And then there was ‘The | =; Baby Mine!’ Walley.” “But, momsey, it was not nearly # Mother loved it, Tuley- Gelighttul as ‘Begging My Heart,’ in| Which John Cort acted at the Lau- rette Naylor Theatre.” “Righto! Nor as fine as ‘Fiends ‘and Enemies,’ acted by Louis Ship Mann of Barnard College.” “Hee hum, fairest Little pig of the hitter! Would I were an Alan Darn- ton or @ Burns De Foe, that I might gee al) the plays.” “Aw, shut up!” GERMAN TO ORDER, Louls H. Chalif, the Russian dancer, has received a letter from an actor, and Players DUDLEY now in France, who tells the follow {ing story | An American aoldier brought in a German prinoner recently and found the fellow had a pocketful of French |money. The American looked at the |money, thought of the fine restau- \rants in Paris and th German on the shouid: “Kamerad, kans du OH, LOLA, LOoKIT! | ee ee re Phill B. 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