The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1918, Page 7

7% FAS SMe On ee Oe. aS ee RE EN ENO E he * oer ’ Sex-Play Heroines CELEBRITIES WHO HOLD THE CENTRE OF THE '. Of the Drab and Florid In Striking Contrast Clothes and the Woman Mean Everything wai or Nothing to T E may not be able to treat in. New York that may be discussed them, pays. BERTHA HKALICH ir TH8 RIDDLE woman” FRA s STRIKING CONTRAST IN CLOT! ‘When we go to the theatre we draw adout us the comfortable mantle of virtue, and, incidentally, hope for the worst. It is this well-upholstertd condition of the mind that makes so- called sex plays popular. Now, if a man marries his housekeeper, ac- cording to Richard Wagner or Ar- ngld Bennott, the goose hangs high and the neighbors drop in to have a CEES who also happens to be | gagement at the Lexington Theatre| Shown. One of the concert numbers plece of it. But if he doesn't, open -- the windows and let out the scandal! Sex-play heroines have a hard road to travel over the footlights. First of all, they must be understood. If they seem merely silly creatures given to ®& momentary emotion, they are for- gotten before the doors of the theatre are closed. They must stand firmly thelr own feet and demand con- ration as human beings with hearts and souls that call for sym- pathy. On two stages in New York at this time we have sex-play hero- ines who are in striking contrast to each other, one in “Tiger! Tige tie other in “The Riddle: Woman. ‘Frances Starr, in the play at the P co Theatre, is drab and humble, | for the moment when she comes out of the kitohen blazing, with } Bertha Kalich, at the Harris ‘Theatre, is florid and vengeful. @lothes and the woman mean every- thing or nothing to the plays in ques- ‘ion. One seasoned theatregoer said \> me: “Frances Starr isn’t pretty in the play" by way of giving his opinion of “Tiger! Tiger!” Is it| necessary always for an actress to be “pretty,” or is she to be given an op- portunity of proving that she can act without the aid of expensive frocks and useless milinery? Other persons have told me they were shocked at seeing Sally walk into a man’s bed- room, Now, to me there is nothing half so shocking in this scene as the vulgar love-making we are com- pelled to witness again and again in ¢omedies and farces that depend upon ribald laughter for their vogue, The American theatre is, to be suro, es- sentially a theatre of convenience— that is, a place of amusement. But at times it may be taken seriously ¥rankly, I was not at all disturbed when Sally walked into Clive's bed- room, but I must say that th ering of the curtain to indicate a \,) lapse of virtue probably made the NFLUENZA \ FOR PROMPT RELIEF FROM )Grip, Sore Throat, Cold in Chest ‘und All Inflammation and Con- \estion, Radway’s Ready Relief Aives Instant Relief and Com- | 4‘ fort to the Sufferer Pour 4 ity of Rad r low- adways Np eaay Bc de elief wo tt Va STOPS ae | ia TAN Al Orne, et New York Stage. By Charles Darnton respect, unless we take it as melodrama with @ crude and violent appeal to the senses, yet there are two plays on view | Think what you may, it is women who make plays interesting. Oc- Casionally, 4 man may make a terrible row and smash the furniture, as the unmannerly patron of Iris did, but it is the woman who counts, not XX . i rf > Ps / THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1918. wo Plays on ‘the any play of the season with serious | @ second time because of the women | hex, Pearse Aa 0 5 bg plot is concerned with the fate that is to befall ox-Kaiser Wilhelm. Some >, of the scenes show the Women's Motor Corps of America, 300 soldiers from Camp Merritt and the Overseas Theatrical Unit. Ip a romantic phase of the story Elain®? Hammerstein ap- pears as the star. Ire Franklin and Burt Green are seen entertaining —— Plays for the _ Coming Week "irvsts srt tooo ZIEGFELD “Frolic” starting at | Scientific food js the basis of the A 9 o'clock will bo given on the | Patronage which is being awarded roof of the Néw Amsterdam | Murray's Roman Gardens, in Wost ‘Theatre Monday night. Among others | 424 Street, near Broadway, and the engaged for this entertainment are | Tsults have been obtained by fre- quent conferences among the heads Bessie McCoy Davis, Lillian Lorraine, | o¢ departments with M. IH. Cox, Vice wT Fanny Brice, Bird Millman, Lillian | President of the company, and Morti- en Leitzel, Bee Palmer, De Lyle Alda, |mer M. Kelly, the Manager, “Scien. Eva Lynn, Georgie Brice, Yvonne | tific food,” said Mr. Cox “Is'a general Shelton, Jessie Reed, Dotores, Martha | f4'™amenich covers the entire problem | ROMANTIC PLAY AT RIVOLI| PROCTOR VAUDEVILLE __|‘WANTED FOR MURDER” ONE WEEK ONLY STARTING » MON. EVG. DEC. Mansfeld, Simone D'Herlys, Bert | pest basis of food conservation | WITH ELSIE FERGUSON. AND PICTURE PLAYS| AT BROADWAY THEATRE Rebs Wed Sid Fa at ine Dead of ae = know of. It involves only a practical . nopenaasaseat —_—__——_ a ded feature, Holbroo! ledge of m all Dad prep- = _ Blinn will appear in a dramatic aration ee foe te aualty, foal Prep- | Elsie Ferruson will be seen at tho| For the first half of the week Proc-| ‘The Broadway Theatre will present creen sion of the FE |tor’s Fifth Avenue Th: sketch called “Mr. Valentine's Christ- | objects are kept ever in mind with| Rivoli ina mas Supper.” After an intermission | our a la carte service, in which the | lish play, for dancing, the “Midnight Frolic’ | guest is responsible for the kind of| ‘The plot concerns itself with the ad-|Ball and Brother, Ashley and Skip- will take its usual course. The lyrics | food he selects, and we for its quality, : at wan. thlece, Waektaee ey, “atadall of the new show are by Gene Buck | preparation and service, it 1s pecu-| Ventures of a society girl, who, in|per, Ward and Proyor, Madeline CONCERTS _ AND _MusiC and the music by Dave Stamper. larly true that we feel the entire re- | SPite of her wealth, tires of humdrum| Gerard, and Charlie Chaplin in} ___CONGERTS o tre will have! q new film play by 8. Jay Kaufman, nder the Greenwood Tre The Piano Movers,” Rao Elinore| ntitied “Wanted for Murder." The is sponsibility for our table d'hote | und purchases a gypsy van with) .pqoulder Thursday will be ‘Demarest | f HIPPODROME, SUNDAY EVE., DEC, is The now “Century Midnight Whirl" |!uncheons and dinners the intention of 1 Arnold CONCERT. BY * one ing @ carefree ex-/and Doll, “Motor Boating will open on the roof of the Centur Sn RE ence. or various 5 vho fol-}and Allm aderna and F Theatre Thursday night with “FUSS AND FEATHERS ee si al be ee nt to it is ' "f flasel suaud.” Proctor’s. ar CORMACK vynn, Molile King, Gordon and Will- : . OSH RO “UES hel neatre will eek with Nn aL Ee a ae ON SCREEN AT RIALTO, | witas, wut tho appearance of « hand-| Taentre vill start, the week with p Jay Gould, Rosie Quinn, Rath Broth- Peer eee ee tae some and titled stranger leads to a| Golden, Ve ers, Frances Pritchard, James Clem- For its chief screen feature the Ri-| happy romance. Other features ons, Arline Chase, Paul Baker, Julia | alto will have Enid Bennett and Doug-| be “Clouds that Smile,” the Anima Ballew and forty chorus girls. ‘Harry i of an Pictortal, a “Mutt and Jeff Tierney has written the music and | '*® MacLean in “Fuss and Feathers") 1g concert numbe ugon and Dreams and the His Repertoire of Three Valdares. Thursday will bring H Pike win aiae Ge eration ge ca i er SING wee gui the lyrics are by Joseph McCarthy aks of 8 miner's little ual) en ES | sii a Pea, Bay and John H. Mears, who, through the acquirement of sud- Abed sd Taal dba tak} den weaith, is enabled to aid the repro- THEATRES. | THEATRES. ——____ THEATRES. audience self-conscious, simply be-| Robert Mantel, at the Forty-Fourth | bate son of a millionaire mine owner cause it happened to be an awkward | street Theatre, will appear in “King| He is robbed, found unconscious by bit of play-management, Lear” on Monday night; “Hamlet,”|the girl, and carried to her home, Most of our playgoers, like most of |tuyesday night: “The Merchant of| Where, concealing his identity, he ac- our playwrights, seem to shrink from | venice,” Wednesday afternoon and| cepts a position as her dancing tutor the realitics of life. In my opinion, | friday night; “Richard III,” Wednes- | @nd Instructor in etiquette. He find Edward Knoblock hag not turned out | gay and Saturday nights, and “Mac-| his position extremely congenia a good play, but I refuse to say it 18] peth," ‘Thursday night ond Saturday] prying neighbor notific a bad play because of its frank e€x- | afternoon. “Peaks, Parks and Pines,” the Anima: position of a most simple subject. It eee ted Magazine, and a comedy called seems incredible that a fastidious} #rarry Lauder begins a week's en-| “The Fatal Marriage” will also be Bway & 50th S Pree 838 Mata PLATHOUSE, 3 Miss oT ‘ ice espe WINTER GARDEN fs LL aug wiutcOMe HOME, AGAIN 48th ST, Bit’ Fate Ming” sare foe THE BIG CHANCE woMARY NASH QUET OF LAUGH PLYMOUTH ket bre 836 SIN eB of MAETERLINCK JOHN BARRYMORE” ° ed by J.C, Muttman, Harold Atteridge, Music by Member of Parliament would declare] on Monday night. One of his new! will be Saint-Saen's “Danse Macabre.” a cook to be his “inspiration,” 0: | songs was inspired by his observa- —_—s— Al Jolson. 1 a something of the sort, though I prust tions at the front during the war. A BILLS AT NEW YORK TO-MORROW—SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Quthor of "The Blue Bind” een r F st confess that the only M. P. number of vaudeville performers wil’ | Geares Whitin Saale Burt, Harry ¢ " on was a simple, middle-aged chap who | add variety to the Scotch comedian's | AND AMERICAN THEATRES | | ream Ath Jute Ket Canvout? Rath is THE BNTURY GROVE Thee, me cultivated roses instead of cooks. | entertainment. Bette, "vit jan Rosedale, Sam er Brottie play iC arent 5 However, that’s a matter of taste, if ee ¢ At Loew's New York Theatro and Year. ————— not of smell, especially when Sally The Camp Merritt soldiers’ show,|Roof the film attractions will be “Good Luck, Sam,” has met with Enrico Caruso in “My Cousin,” Mon- such success during the two weeks iF thie Bheadons 6? the Maat? it has played at the Lexington The- y BOF SUG emer: atre that on Monday night it will|Tuesday; “The Gypsy Trail," Wednes- admits she has put “scent” on her hair in the hope of keeping her sensi- tive lover from nosing out the fact she has been cooking cabbages. Sure- ly, there can be little romance in the Msheet Price Oren, SHUBERT THEATRE Beata Brea gh oa) PLLA LAL ALLL LAL LLL ALLL LPP, ” HEN MARCONI SAID HE COULD carat 2 ee eet SEND MESSAGES THROUGH THE AIR, begin a two weoks' engagement at|day; Mabel Normand in “A Perfect . TT i) aM tir ‘under such conditions! BOG een Ti, : er ore ie WONDERFUL AND a een tore dally ta perfectly | th Knickerbocker ‘Theatr 36," ‘Thursday; Virginia Pearson in WHO BELIEVED HiM ° honest, and therefore thoroughly hu- “Buchanan's Wife” and William Rus man, and she has every right to tuen| “The Man Who Came Back,” with TH THEATRE, near Broadway. a fens Hirrant 13 30, 1 in “All the World to Nothing,” Wed ie 30, | WELCOME AS. PEACE lov . ome wt| Laura Walker and Frank Morgan in| *¢ ) : He Upon her lover wen ne ttc her| the leading roles, will be the attrac-|Friday; Juno Elvidge in “The Zero a ROLAND WESTS THRILLER OF THRILLERS , pie Hi a HER pl ae itchen ning a bluccblooded tady | tion at the Shubert Riviera Theatre. | Hour,” Saturday, ond Emmy Wehlon PERSON THEY CANNOT HELP LOVING EACH OTHER,"—Beity, JOUN D, WILLIAMS and WALTER MAST Present BETTY AT BAY in “Sylvia on the Spree, The vaudeville bill a a American Theatre the first half of © iit elude Barry McCormack junday. y ; > beau in “Where Pop- at supper. I don't think any eloquent Marjorie Ram | Member of Parliament would have | pies Bloom ” moves to Loew's Seventh | gone off to the war because Sally| Avenue Theatre. : realized after various visits to his] The Standard Theatre will | have| ? le Barry McCore rooms that she couldn't keep on got Sugenie Blair in “fast Lynne. In yea Cant Beas Them,” Danny there for the rest of her life. If heaven sand ¢ i Jeaver. doesn’t protect the poor working girl, | WOMEN STARS IN FILMS During the last half of the week she is compelled to protect herself. Catherine ana tee her Fashion Lilla in “The Riddle: Woman,” is| AT 81ST STREET THEATRE) Girs wil head the bill a heroine of another color, and itn She Unknow Pipe Ty itoand Ww 800 Wc) win RICHARD BENNETT 4°" 0% inee 8.30. the matter of clothes Bertha Kalich| wpno fim feature at the sist Street “THE FRENCH CH FROLICS"* | aT BIG M T THEATRE, 45th and A Play of the Instinct Maternal, tie nee makes, this creature of Violent, PAM |ayeatre the frst halt ot the week| OLYMPIC’S ATTRACTION H ONTH|! ISTO ear tige tt "8 THT coggte mawnin. Win ame tam AL But, jungle plays aside, it must de] Will be Mary Boland in “The Prodigal] x " Panis that Mme. Kalich knows the-| Wife.” Beginning Thursday: Clara ‘The French Frolics” will be seen atregoers. She knows that they de-|wijiiams will be seen in the “One| at the Olympic Theatre. The company Nght in spectacular effects. She $8! Woman. There will also be vaude-|1!s headed by Lena Beier. aware that they want to be dazzled. | vitie acts, = A “showy” part ts almost sure to TOUCHES WITH, AN rr Most Charming Musical Show in New York elias Caan ENJOYMENT IN | find its reward ia the box-office! » 4woe PALACE CROWDED | ~~ “THEATRES. at | 199 | 190% ENTERTAINMENT | And though the leopard may not EMPIRE Broadway & 40 St. PERSONALLY change its spots in this neck of the AT TERRACE GARDEN “Exgulate nga ‘emedy “acted ye Has wored « ane. woods winent a large bill from the saa wt , 2, t t say 5 ty af lor ete is i. h r eyes. But for the life | tinues to attract capacity patronage ’ “caees |SAVING of me, I can't understand why she|at all sessions, including those Satur- MAUDE Master doesn't kill the villain when #he has! gay and Sun@ay afternoons. Prof. vice {GRACE nike ger ; MONDAY, in “DEAR him, by the throat, Perhaps, Mitel warry Tucker and his orchestra of WM. eee shuts.” over" this presumably Danish play for | fifteen men have inaugurated a prac- eae us, decided that a more or less happy | ti¢e of playing the good old songs oc- ending would be in better taste, It|casionally. Managing Director Mar- The "bir iB Be hil d ihe “a is much more shocking, for that mat-|cus Nathan has engaged M. Perrone 8 bl Bhin 8 ” ter, to learn that one of the man's|for classic dancing at the Saturday || siggreip 9 ociocK AND MIDMICMT victims has killed herself. sessions, Fotis Opens mon, Eves ect In this instance the heroine comes _ 2s - a bi, wry oft with flying colors, and it must be] «STEP LIVELY GIRLS” LYCEUM $3 Res, iE fat, 2.20 timaniyarsne dees, Mss Bar| AT HURTIG & SEAMON'S|| AD DIES y, is like a poor relation. ARTHUR HAMMERSTEIN Presents i i ane THE BIGGEST MUSICAL Watiness Saturday’ 2.20 P HIT IN TOWN poe a = WALKER WHITESIDE in THE LITTLE BROTHER With TYRONE POWER, . Geware P. Te Carolyn Thomson CENTRAL | k nt in Curl Gontronrt Marjorie Gateson Cameron § Eves, & Mats, Wed. & Sat i hn Charles Th mos §/i? 1) Walter Catlett sind ANNA. CHANDLER. The Handsomest Girls in Town! Gitbert 4 ‘Sullivan Comic TODAY AT BUOU | Ba ayaa Erne te PINAFORE | vcanboizns | les Darnton. Bye. World. THe 2 BEGT Pave In TOWN JME COWL" MeCROWDED HOUR HB Bo wen. Goce REPUBLIC j,"4,% to “NOTHING BUT LIE! COLUMBIA THEATRE SHOW| Maree Wilson, Jack’ stundy, Dotson |] BELASCO Ystath aut "a tat! tie and a chorus of girls pith tailod &, “TIGER! ea aver saree in a Parisian Comedy of the Goulevarde FULTON “ Ww. it, gay: Bee 838, h Bedini will bring his “Puss-| ce PP ETEN an LAW | FRANCES STARR = ticen SELWYN THEATRE, | LASTITCHT sie “RENE” IN TIME | -niv- IFENWICK | FUDSON Wane Pee Lik Mats, Wed & Sal, 22%, sous san Pu company to the Columbia The- |) GORE Bc Ea, Maia Wed Sel ED. atro and give a two-act burlesque AMONG FILMS AT PLAZA; JULIA JOSEPH | to “THE called “Apple-Sauce,” together with —_—_ | SANDERSON | CAWTHORN! CANARY" 4 vaudeville acts, In addition to Mr. On the screen at the Wane ‘Theatre! want s 01xON, Bedini the company includes Clark | Will be “Within the Law” to-morrow: |] TIBERTY West 4:4 i, Mveuinus, ik + Figea sereine’ Matinees. Wed, and. Hat, 21s and McCullough, Helen Lorayne, Four Fisgs," | Monday 2nd/1 joun cours NGLORIANNA” Babe Wright, May Meyers, Joe Kelso, | Norma = Talmadg An} | Musical Comedy, “Poppy” and Weber and Fields in ry ELEAN 4 STAR Fifi DeLaur and Harry Kelso. Among | The Worst of F nds," Wednesday EL OR PAINTER “ire the-other features are a jazz quartet,|and Thursday; he Man Who = the Camouflage Magician and a satire | Wouldn't Tell.” Friday and Saturday on the process of making a moving = —aeeeenenenemns picture wis IRENE BORDONI | ELTINGE Wd To-NiGh = Rambeau,'Wher Arthur Hophine AsT st, Clary Kummer's BE CALM CAMILLA With 4 LOLA FISHER AND WELTIR HAMPDEN Fs + fate BHU ies ROBERT B. NORMAN TREVOR, CYRI | MANTELL GenevitVE Whuren in Vatve Ceien Order of Plays HARCOURT, PEGGY HOPKINS A PLACE .\» SUN Written by CYRIL MARCOURT, eee “TOO MANY MILLIONS” FILM PLAY AT STRAND | WHY HAIR FALLS OUT Tho Strand Theatre will have Wal- Dandruff causes a feverish irrita: i ink bth wim ORRIN JOHNSOR A Susecasrul Cal ae lace Reid in “Too Many Millions” us | tion of the scalp, the hair roots shrink, rath ettér’ - win RN JOHNSON KING LEAR A ‘Silsecneul ty 2 was written by Porter Emerson @ al f ev tick 11 COHAN! TT 2d Bt, Bree. at 6.20. th BIG in Dario Niccodemi’s & Michael Morton's Wednesday Matinee and Friday Night, fa "tl sparkle:=Laule De Fos, ‘ua World. Brown. ‘The leading role is thas of @ Beige a mall Gate "of Dans COWAN HARRIS Mere Wed. & Bab. 2.60 WEEK SPARKLING FRENCH COMEDY WEEK MERCHANT OF VENICE Wednesday and Saturday Nights, book agent who falls heir to $40,000,000, | derine at any drug store for a few and later finds love and happiness | cents, pour a little in your hand and which wealth cannot buy, There will | rub well into the se After several also be a comedy, a scenic study, an plicat! all pears” MOROSCO THEATRE 45°5¢: ‘Touredey Night and Naturday Matines |ACBET! BOOTH Wort stun, ot ev Wed. and Sat. , Most fascinating mystery play ever ror ron one AEH eee. ioe dinstholbs, cots po rtd Hak Nit tt -! = animated cartoon, the Strand Topioal | and the Aair stops coming out.— Advt. Heoview and @ programme of music, You pays your money and you _In the easeeada show, “Step Lively &£°- COHAN Pd. ™ a = takes your choice.” @ whieh oman to Hurtie & Sear ¥. SLEGPELD SIL PHODUCTION. a mon's Theatre, are Rich McAllister, iBY PIGEON POST} BEDINI’S “PU. ‘SS Harry . Shannon, Anna Propp, ———— ‘