The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1919, Page 18

© THE NEW PLAYS © “Tillie” Too Heavy For Patricia Collinge BY CHARLES XCHPT for the moment in which DARNTON Ad Jake Gotz took off his leather belt and Tillie defantly told itm that sho would kill him if he struck her there wes nothing dramatic in the play by Helen R. Martin and Frank Howe jr. at the Henry Miller Theatre For the most part, “Tillle’ phiegmatic course of the Per nia Dutch. Aypurently, these people interest Mra, Martin, who has writ- ten novels about then, [tut to turn these novels fulo plays ts another matter, “Erstwiilo Susun” was cnr. | ried to a certain dagree of success Oy Mrs. Fiske. An actress of un- common skill gave iuterest to an sec- centric charreter rieta Collings das charm, but as 4 wew Alun of the theatrical world slo cannot hope ty shine in the dlack-aod-drub role this play offers her, For that eantter, ahe displayed inure nulunu charm jn her blithesorne respouse to curtain owls than she guve to the Meuwotte mad tn the four acts of this dull ay. “Tillie” is toy huavy for Miss Collinge | By letting @ lock of her hair stray | out from under her white exp, and | by “walking gut” with a novelist who figures ua a school teacher, Tilo aylva- cosas her standing In church, and! finde hersetf facing marriage with Absalom, the parsimonious “dude of | o last night took the® Then the novel-writing hero returns and takes her into his It ts all very simple, though scarcely romantic The fortune Tillie has foils to the literary master of the situa- tion, and all is woll, though not in tonsely thrilling. In fact, the eloventh- hour arrtval of the hero was greeted lust night by laughter—that ts, laughter in the wrong place. Mins Collinge acted with both doli- cacy and feeling, bat she often gave | 41 Irish, uther than a Dutoh, accent to her role. Adolph Link was thor oughly in cheracter as the paternal tyrant, and John W. Ransome gave a great deal of humor to the part of a country r. Mawle Grange wheered. hymns amusingly as an old) dame, and Alfred Kappoler made the penny-wise sultor u laughable ass | But the people in the play cailed the village, arms. “Tillle" luck charm and tnterest. They have nothing in common with the About P lays and Players By BIDE FH WOODS wil) offer two new | Plays in New York next week. | On Tuesday evening lin will oresent “The Woman i Room 13,"| ut the Booth Theatre, It 1s by Sam: uel Shipman and Max Marcin, In the vast are Lowell Sherman, Janet Beecher, Gail Kane, Will Deming and Charles Waldron. On Wednesday evening Mr. Woods will install the farce, “Up in Mabel's Itoom,” in the Eltings. 1t is by Wilson Collison and Otto Harbach. Hasel Dawp, Jobn Cumberland and Walter Joues head the cast. WALKER GETS THE COMEDY. Stuart Walker has arranged to of- ter his Portmanteau Players at the Comedy Theatre, opening the third week in January. The initial bill will be composed entirely of new plays. Mr. Walker has seven now in re- hearsal, including three by Lord Dune sany. A NEW MOROSCO PLAY. Oftver Morosco farce called “Plc James Cullen and last night he launched Ricks” at the Shubert Theatra New Haven, Tom Wise and ‘iiiam Courtenay are the stars in this com- edy. SOME UNDERSTUDY! A man who said his home was in Ithaca, N. Y., went to the George M. Cohan Theatre last night and saw “A Prince Th with Mr. Cohan in the st ert Hilliard played during the week of the comedy's Ni gugement. When the cut after the second nan, “Bay came here to see Robert Hilliard, but an understudy’s playing (he part.” “Well, what do you think of the understudy?" asked the door man, with a smile, “Some actor, that boy!" replied the Ithaca man. ‘Take it from me, the kid will be famous some day.” which Rob first SAM MEYERS DEAD. Sam Meyers, for twenty-five years « Frohman company manager, is dead | Ro! Cover Megrue sill ge abroad to |cast of DUDLEY rounds, ts In ‘The Melting of Molly’ at the Hroadhurat Theatre In each performance she bores Carolyn Ar- hold, and poor Carolyn! Why, the irl ts developing a tin car and a flat nose, Goodness, Vern—have a hoart. STONE FILLS IN. ‘There was an understudy rehearsal “The Canary” at the Globe Thea- esterday and the substitute for Harland Dixon of Doyle and Dixon did not put in an appearance. Fred Stone wus tn the theatre and he vol- unteered to go on. When he had finished his work those who saw him were unanimous m the opinion that ho has @ bright future a» an eccentric dancer. | “TEA* FOR LONDON. | Selwyn & Co. are refusing all offers for the English rights to ‘Tea for) Three." They expect to uso this play as a vohicle for entering the London Hold themselves, Archie Selwyn and nae it Gossip. Cyrus Wood has written a playlet called “The Understudy,” which will be played at the Actors’ Fund Benefit Devah Morel has been added tw the “Take It From Me." She sings well and shakes a graceful foot To celebrate the fiftieth perform- ance of “Phe Litue Brother,” at the Belmont, Walter Hast dined the com- pany last night at the Little Club. Dorothy Cameron of “Little Sim- plicity” will give a birthday to-night for her sister, Madeline, has just danced her way past her oighteenth milepost Douglas Paths stage manager for “The Little Journey,” is interested in an Playem, a wandering f red men who present “HHia- a Harry Kelly and dog Lizzie are to be in the "Overseas Rev lizzie will portray the role of a Helgian police dog deserted by her parents Having read that Gen, Pershing 19 fond af dancing ‘cus Nathan plans to offer him & gald annuul pass to the Terrace Garden Dance Palace when he returns from Europe Daisy Vivian of tho cast of “The Invisible Foe,” at the Harris Theatre, has purchased a home at Beachhurst, and will reside there with her mother. “Attaboy," the musical comedy at George 1) Grundy's Lexington The- iire, will remain there two weeks It will be followed by Chie ind Opera Company en, & young woman from the West, went into the Ziegfeld “Nine o'Clock Revue and Midnight lust night and made a big hit with her songs at the piano. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY A travelling man gave Abe Hinkus of Wellsville # S0-cant cigar for] Christmas. Abe only smokes it when he wears his full-dress suit FOOLISHMENT. of heart failure, He was sixty-five years old and a native of Boston, Hix family name was Untermeyer. He served as m er for Maude Adams, Rille Burke, Julia Sanderson and Joseph Cawthorne e funeral wil be held to-morrow morning at 10.30 o'clock at the Campbell Funeral Chapel. THINK OF IT! Mercedes Desmore, actress, wa discussing Wagnerian music recently ‘It reminds me,” she said, “of a jazz “vand trying to take seriously,” HORRORS, SCRANTON! Thelia of Scranton, Pa, bas sent us a rhyme which we print just to make you m The of 1 fives SHE'D UPLIFT ART. | A letter addressed merely to “Thea tve, New York," found its way to the Longacre box office yesterday, It from a young woman in F Pa who wishes the stage to # r For her own sake we will withhold the name, here's the note “My dear friend: I want to be show acter, © come after m Come in the 1 please come, I know you wi My father and moth Nan 1 don't like to # please ‘ome. 1 would} f th old place. I cor Please give this t the show pictures.” VERA IS A SCRAPPER. Bumstead’s Worm Syrup id evervwh 30: Voonubes. wD. Pee FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Miss Brown, very pretty A tel and pop ‘ephone belle Central,’ is al f girl.” NO SETTLED RESIDENCE, ‘ce IRE are you going to lec- | ture to-night, my dear?” inquired Mr. Wise of his} wife, a prominent equal suffrage lec- | turer, according to the St, Louis G Democrat m to address the Cooks’ and He Union,” she responded, | Her husbant laughed. | “LT see not to laugh about Surely they have as much right to ote a% any other woman,” his wife began, indignantly Lam denying that, my dear nildly MrW ut it is wal Don't you realize that a cook or housemaid never re- mains long enough in one pglition to | be entitled to a vote?" | | Mrs, Wise, recognizing t@Pwisdom of this, cancelled her engagngpent by telephone, he un-“- “Tere GOES THE LAST f TREC a No Key! 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