The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1918, Page 22

\Wednesday, December 4,1918 COMIC PAGE | ©THE NEW PLAYS » “A Place in the Sun” Good for Two Acts BY CHARILES DARNTON _£ DBaAw-w- ft mom ( O*-WeRE MUST BE Some ~ SPANKED ME FoR PLAYING- MISTAKE — MoM LIKES TS ( ON THe PIANO ? me (teaver You PLAY ON The Xu . BE oli i omit PIANO _——- = comp on I'L Show You - I WAS NT EXACTLY PLAYIN’ § ON “THE PIANO— & PLAY like “A Place in the Sun"—meaning a castle in the air if we A may take the author's word for it—may have its place In the theatre. Beyond doubt, Cyril Harcourt has a sense of the stage. His ideas may not be new, but they a eresting, just as humanity Js always interesting. At the same time, the idea of caste, or class, or whatever you choose to cal! it, is a bit mildewed, Jt reeks of English traditions that have Uttle in common American life At auy rate—or rating—"A Place in, 3 <5 the Sun” is good for two acts. novelist with both force and skill, nut man on the farm in the beginning is|@t 80 high @ pitch that lis perform- | not only the man with the hoe, but a|@nce lacks variety, Jane Cooper is man With imagination. It is, of course,| Simple and tender as Dick’ remarkable that he should develop| sister. On the other hand, Pegs from a simple farmer into a famous | Hopkins is so affected and mak Bovelist. His rise is so sudden thar| Marjorie such a silly creature that no/ it makes the onlooker a bit dizzy.) ™@” with sense enough to run a farm | Dick Blair is that rather rare animai|@nd then write even best-sellers) —at least in the literary world—"a| Would ever dream of marrying her. in| eclf-made man.” Yet success doesnt | Short, when Miss Hopkins takes in| turn his head, and he does his best tu| the family scandal at @ glance and knock off the head of the spendthrift | 8898 to Dick, “Give your sister my) who kisses his sister while waitin; | love and leave the rest to me,” she is for a drink of water. Blair has the | a yut as convincing as a doll hanging | uncommon courage to face about «nd | from the limb of a Christmas tree, kiss the arrogant aristocrat'’s pretty Mr, Harcourt acts a drunken jour- nalist--a man who lives in terror of THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY WoTts “tH IDEA- WHY “THT, F INVITATION LUKE There Was So Much to Be Lived Through! vat | — - BUT \T SEEMS uke” FIFTY i} OH! IM GONNA CELEBRATE MY GOLDEN WEDDIN' TR -MoRROW NIGHT GOLDEN WEDDIN ME EYE - WHY Y'FATHEAD SYou'RE ONLY MARRIED sister, When the play develops the a aa ie fact that Dick's sister is in weed of | Alcohol—in an effective serio-comic i a . “er oF TWENTY YeARo! os . the marriage ceremony to save Ler | manner. But as a matter of taste, in —~ |his capacity of author he shouldn't sand all right with a wedding ring | talk of washing his neck, pigs, birth. | Dae ee agh chee and Dick | Marks and other things that make bis balanced on his conacience, and Dick) play so frank it scarcely escapes ts more than ready to marry the sit! | seeming vulgar. who has made her way to his rooms | | John Halliday is amusingly tmpu- sales dace th dent as the young cad who says to in order that she may square things | bis father “I'd like to pay you out for by seeming to be compromised. The creating me.” For the life of me, I tather who aod} can't imagine the most extravagant from the river the waster comes talks about “class’ “caste” is such an awful old party | “waster” AP Loft saying such @ hing to his father, ne makes more noise bis Reba ais eel apes And that’s the trouble with worth, Place in the Sun"—it's extravagant | Norman Trevor p s the farmer- ¢ About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY = ae : +s pups cs neventn é , “J ’ YY ° ° ° ILLLAM OILLETTR witi open tre: where Winthrop Ames 1s presente JOE’S CAR And Joe Never Took an Ad-Writing Lesson in His Life! fa. comedy, “De ‘| tra out in front begins playing 6 faa" eh Matos feirtea) wea Star Spangied Bann No matter , Caprpighn, 111, Prose Pubiianing Co. (N.Y. fevening Wert) what they are doing these twenty-five “huykies” stop all work, straighten up and snatch off their hats. When Wainwright was added to the!the final strain has died y they Bee vaiesaas, go back to work as though nothing cast yesterday. Others in the com-|E? Qn°k 1) mom aa. pany are Sam Sothern, Louis Calvert, | the other nighe let e place of ecenary Grant Stewart, J. H. Brewer, Hilda {fall when the anthem began. The Spong, Violet Kemble Cooper, Klisa- scenery was broken, but Mr. Ames beth Risdon, Myrtle Tannehill and|*#d the men did exactly right. Helen Hayes. Cyril Maude will leave the Empire Dec. 21 and go on tour, PLEASE “TAKE THis ‘A | —ona ILL LEAVE $50, ANY PLACE ~ANY “Time ~ FoR INFORMATION ABOUT MY RED AN GREEN = FLIVVER" 4ioo Reward FoR L— 4 INFORMATION CONCERNING | MY LOST AUTO. CALL AT) NUMBER --- - BLANCHE~ I'M GONNA PUT AN "AbD" IN “TH PAPER OFFERIN' A REWARD FoR “THE RETURN OF OUR CAR. MEBBE TH’ GuY STOLE (T JUST T'Ger A REWARD! the management of Charles Frohman, Inc, on Monday evening, Dec, 23. REWARD! 1 witt pay 4150 “TS ANYONE WHO CAN “TELL ME “THE WHEREABOUTS OF MY CAR, WHICH WAS STOLEN FROM — \ oH = NIX —! SHE WRITES PLAYS. playing at the Broad Street Theatre, Philadeiphia, first. SPRINGER V/RITES ONE. Edward Grant Springer, the short story man, bas supplied H. H. Frazee with a farce called "Smart Aleck,” which is to have an early production, is ging the cast contract are May Vokes and George Parsons. NEW WORK FOR LEVY. Bert Levy, the Hippodrome car- toonist, contemplates doing a talking act with Frank Tinney some day. will hardly be befor at the Hippodrom: feature of * novelty apictur the whi SHE KNEW HOW, YOU BET’ When the waiters walked out at the Century Grove Monday night the chorus girls volunt 1 to serve the food and drink head usher helped. At one point in the proc ings he was in a quandary had ordered a bottle of cha «he is a popular thing.” Tt will be a Bert without his dra nh. HH» intends tor The but the boy didn't know open it “Gimme that bottle,” commanded a} beautiful young blond thing. ‘The boy obeyed and soon the patron was sipping bis wine “That boy must ‘a’ a beer saloon,” sneered the lady as she started f tor a load of chicken a la King young IT’S “THE VELVET LADY.” Klaw & Erlanger have changed the title of the Her ql musical comedy House,” from "Sh to "The Velvet 1 a Broadwa hea year THEY'RE PATRIOTIC It is an interesting sigh the stage crew at the Sh 25 CENTS EACH CLUETT. PEABODY 6 Co fec. Makers A feotral A 4 ear. 4T ALL DEALERS, tf his season ends * been raised in| the kitchen Rachel Marshall, a Seattle young roman who writes, is in New York, Visiting Mr, aod Mri Oliver D, Bailey. ‘Five years aso Miss Marshall, in col- Jaboration with Mr. Bailey, wrote a pla. iled “The TraMo,” which made almost $100,000, It ran in Chicago 200 nights, Mr, Bailey and she are planning to write another play. While here Mirs Marshall will look after the publ! of a novel she has written, JOY FOR MEGRUE, yer Megrue, author of “Tea " js sure now his play is a has been notified by a lawyer that somebody—just who the lawyer doesn't say—has accused the playwright of plagiarism, Mr, Me- than the aceredite fore he feels that now an assured success, uthor, THOSE SELFISH BROWNS. Mie Belgubors, the we give the - Dear Mov. Breen, a, ere changed was that Brown bough have one aod, weil~there you t we'd use theim but eur fond hopes tre hed, a Te Temineve~, and we felt their neg Brown used to wed to drive he mother out Some day we iotend to eet Brown a hot Dad mye. ¢ comen li'l) big car chat will make thelr | bh & more would just 9 be eracted | Grove show, nevertheless, was given at Maxine Elliouw Is of the nd. umes. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. 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