The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1918, Page 16

COMIC PAGE Monday, December 30, 1918 | wit, MARY How Did You Ada be “Poor wit GiRw = How Did You Fae Fay Bainter Charming In “East Is West” BY CHARLES DARNTON- EEING Fay Bainter in “East Is West" at the Astor Theatre is like going slumming with a dainty, exquisite girl. Though her head may be turned by the praise thrown at it, Miss “g Bainter is Wkely to become one of the popular actresses of our stage, for ~ xe has charm, delicacy and youth in her favor. Her versatility is enough in itself to make her distinctive. She can sing, she can dance, and #he cam act, The play by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer is another matter, It ei finds its level in melodrama of the sengual type, though it has the color of the Orient in the beginning and afterward refiects the light of “Limehouse Nights.” The “love-boat” on a river in China fg @ scene that every lover of the theatre will appreciate, for it has the glamour of imagination, There is * mesic, too; but a harsh note is struck by the playwrights when they have & their American hero say: “That's all 2 right, old man, but don’t pull any rough stuff while I'm around.” It’s all very well for the vattant youth to protect the girl who is in a biting mood, tut we can’t listen to hard Janguage and at the same time feel t the softness of the scene, As for Ming Toy, she is a creature who calls for delicate consideration, But she new surroundings, and as easily for- given, But the authors of the play have failed to make her the simple, romantic creature she might have been, The fact that the American youth is intent upon making Ming | Toy his wife leaves romance in tho| balance until it is explained that she is the daughter of an American mis- |sionary, Otherwise, she might be obliged to change into a blonde be- tween acts, Strange as this might be, it could not be stranger than her act of calling up her long-lost mother on the telephone at the end of the play and casually announcing that she is in the land of the living, as well as the free—and letting it go at tha ‘The play is nothing more than pl turesque melodrama, lacking in’ ima ination—not to mention good taste but Miss Bainter makes it fascinat- ing. Lester Lonergan is impressive | ConrTieMe 1018 Prose Pvbtahing Co THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY -ER- ID LIKE To Ake “THIS AFTERNOON OFF 1 Pein Werte) &) IT ANT PoSSIBLE - WE'RE “Too Busy Me “to Go SHOPPIN' Gor TH FLU’ WITH HER ¢ OR SOMETHIN’ 2 doesn't get it, After she is vold to a Chinese merchant of San Francisco, ahd is pursued by a pig-tailed villain, she gives herself to this ugly speech: “Get out, you Chink!” Moreover, she as a Chinese merchant who saves Ming Toy from the “love-boat;” George Nash is amusing in the role of | a chop suey magnate with a sinister | eye for Chinese girls, and Forrest Wi- is indulges in the “chimmy dance,” the |nant is determined, if not romantic, i latest vulgarity known to Broadway. |as the American lover. | ia There is something comparatively| “East Is West” may lack the finer | e fanocent, and therefore amusing, in |qualities of romance, but it will prob- | te the winking of her eyes at passers- |ably make a strong appeal to lovers ta by, a custom easily acquired in her lot highly-colored melodrama. | About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY COUYTIENI, 1919, Devan Panianing U8 IM Y Rivening Werte» GE M. COHAN has decided to continue indefinitely in the lar role in bis play, “A a Prince There Was,” now the attrac- 3 tion at the George M. Cohan Theatre. Robert Hilliard, for whom the play was written and who opened at the Cohan Theatre in it Tuesday evening of last week and stepped out Satur- day morning, is out permanently and is quoted as saying Mr. Cohan will write him another vehicle, The change came about amicably. Mr. Hilliard said he wasn't happy in the role and was certain the audience realized he wasn't happy in it. Mr, Cohan stepped into the role and found it fitted him to perfection, At the two performances Saturday he played to overflowing houses and scored two Fenvine triumphs, Speeches were demanded of him, but he contented himself with taking many curtain calls, At both performances Mr, Hilliard was on the stage, in the wings, and he gave Mr. Cohan all as- Wetance possible in the way of help- ing him with his cues, &c. The stellar role in the play is a typical Cohen part, and Mr, Cohan els wonderful values out of it. The TO SING “FRA DIAVOLO.” William Wade Hinshaw announces an all-star production of “Fra Dia- volo” for the week of Jan. 13 at the Park Theatre. In the cast will be Orville Harrold, Maggie Teyie, Craig Campbell, William Danforth, Frank Moulan, Blanche Duffield and Herbert Waterous. Mr. Hinshaw also announces revivals of Martha,’ ie Rusticana” and “I Pagli- acci.”” WS Gee! as aint RIGUT—] | “ther's BEEN A MISTAKE ( tes SOMEWHERE! lanes ‘LL ASK HER PAT AWT Live BLANCHE To Go AN’ Blow SEVENTY Five. BUCKS ON A COAT RIGHT AFTER ME GivIN’ HER “THAT EXPENSIVE CAR! LOOKIT “THAT BILL, DEAR! LToLp Them pisTINCTLY SEEM ME somepopy'S fe. ale) SE NDECHT aie E100 = bs) rt \ tr | mane A MISTAKE , EH? f asa pagel Pe eA 8 bts 7 ME THE #75 ONE i! r Mistake —! PLEASED THE PRESIDENT. L SHOULD SAY YES— Philip Dunning, who was a stage director for the Messrs. Shubert be- fore joining the navy in_ 1917, nt &. brag oy on the Preside: ship id, in the quickest time on record, wrote and produced a “girl show” on the boat, using men only. It was called “Unde Tom's Stateroom” and it pleased the Presidential party im- mensely. Dunning Is now arranging a show for the return trip President. Tt will be cal sailor.” He says the the best “audience” he ever saw Gossip, “Dear Brutus” will be played at the Empire Tuesday evening, Jan. 7, for the benefit of the Lafayette Fund. It 1s belleved Marguerite Cl: Paramount star, received more d for Christmas ‘than any child America, She's married too, It is announced that Gladys Davie: “SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK” ‘k, ols in WOULD TA Loodd-ur CAARLIES GOTTA WAY WHAT KIND OF A MEMORY + ' ; rat SI s A . usp! Coban admirers, whose number is Je-| film star, will be married on Jan, 2 TOOTSIE AND WOOTSIES Q' JOGGIN'MIS MEMORY HAS ATACK Got ¢ MHAROLOS oat ee gion, will find their favorite at his|*? @ travelling man, name not SAU INET GOTTA, | BY SCRATCAINIT WIT GOT THAT KIND! ME, see eee aL = ra mm. MEMORY Fole EVERY | LL BIT A HAPPENIN WAT BACK WHEN THEY FIRST MET EACH OTHER! IT's Jost WONDERFUL! LISSEN NEVEI2 TRUSTS IT! WE USES A LIL. MEMORANDUM B00! ) « DAISY IKEEPS A U “peEMORY Bool” PASTED FULLA | DANCE PROGRAMS, LOWER ahs AO SCUY ENIES TO REMIND AEROF AIS AAND AND COULD TA SNAP PIN’ HIS FINGER ) RE-MEMBER IT, thel Stanard of “Keep It to Your- self” says she iy devoted to physical culture, and yet she taxicabbed to all best, which undoubtedly means that the show is in for a long run on Broadway, the rehearsals of the play. Mr, Hilliard thas relinquished his| Eddie Long, house manager of tif financial interest in the production.| Shubert Theatre, is the futher o George M. Coban and William Enliott| 2°W ,t!titteen-pound boy. Eddie 4 rapidly recovering last night, are zow proprietors of the attrac-| «1jitle Simplicity” is breaking rec- Cz ad ‘You GeTrTA MEMORY JUST ABOUT So LONG: » A ay = Ger \ PUMPKIN PIE: + Ain’ paTes HARDEST MEMBER TH! TIRAL T FIRST, IXtSSE0 You > ton. ords at the 4th Street Thoatre, eee te SBLEASANT, ERN TRINGS TA rare RUBLICTERIR TRE Ace where it moved from the Astor, REMEMBER! mauoe 8 f Walter Hast, producer, will play th D'JEVER STUDY > hen Sergt. Percival Monger oflroie of Shinavitz in e Little PAIS Tony | British Army reached New York] Brother’ aga y again at the Belmont Thea %,. pacnaree Fecently, he}tre to-morrow afternoon, ries Emerson Cook. The name of the unprogrammed Ir. Cook.” he sald, “I've got to young woman who sang several nui have something to do. If you have bers in “Listen Lester” last week is Pething for me Vil be forced to re-\ Mary Milburn, She joined the cust —_7 Facet a do that, would your"|#fteF the programmes were out, ‘asked Mr. Cook, Charles Compton, now in “Oh, Boy,” "Til have to.” has been promised a prominent part “Well, if that's the situation 1|!2 & new Broadway production !y guess I'll have to be public-spirited,”| Millett, Comstock & Gest neat sea A said Mr. Cook. “Get busy and put] #°" some stories in the papers about a Sylva Film Com / | orp, , Florence Nash in ‘Remnant.'” | sm of formation by Pst iat And thus, according to Sergt. Mon-|@ group of moving picture m eveve men na capitalists who believe the s il! make a great movie star Martine Burnley, a p ASamta girl, came to New York t ‘eet he sailor brother on his return trom elgn waters, She went to seq Canary,” developed stage am and was given a position in the play by Charles Dillingham, making her debut Saturday night. One hundred and fifty wounded soldiers were entertained at the City Athletic Club yesterday afternoc where B. 8. Moss had arranged turkey dinner and a vaudeville show for them. ger, another catastrophe was averted. POODLES TO REMAIN, Charles Dillingham yesterday no- tified Poodles Hanneford, the new clown at the Hippodrome, and the rest of the Hannefords, bareback rid ers, that he intended to keep them aN at the big playhouse until sum- mer, The renewal of Yheir contract will be the third for the Hannefords. ‘TO PLAY “TEA FOR THREE.” “Tea for Three,” now at Maxine Hiliott’s Theatre, will be the first -made play to be produced n soll since the war began n took @ copy of the manu- seript to France recently and turned it over to a couple of K. of C. men Now he writes the author that whether he likes it or not, the play will be produced in Coblenz Tuesday night. Mr. Mexrue has cabled that he will waive al! royalty rights in ex- change for one German helmet. “ONE PIECE” WAS RIGHT. Bryant Washburn, the picture star, was listening to an orchestra recently and seemed dirgusted with the music. “Mat must be a one-piece or- chestra,” he growed “Not on your life!” said the man Addressed. ‘There are twelve mu- icians in it, ‘tag Pet, shar've played only one ‘Piece in Past hour,” retorted ‘ashburn a2 ,DSTONE GEORGE pee | ae a ne = Now He'll Have to Go Into a ‘‘ Piece’’ Conference! "Nobody" 7 Yend x Nobedy' to’ Grind stene George * He writes a. family history and. tells all the facts, 4 me the >. 4. Advanced Ge of ninely- GRI uncle ~ John wasa\ very active min — ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES fe | , Inquirer—Frank Morrell is at the New Victoria Hote! P. D. K.—Don't know about Cum mings, Ask some film publication four he stolen horse aid a 1 dag of beans C from a naigne ., oe “ A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, Hard work will put a solid founda tion under many an air cast) Pink! FOOLISHMENT, When Johnson's watoh ran down he put | Teron the susie’ Tt tare running night | « ch male ila Niece tes know FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE “He married a high-toned giri “One with social position?” “No, one with @ squeaky voice.”