The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1919, Page 9

JULIAN ex- STAGE MANAGERS RETIRED AND L6T GEoRse Bo iT. der 2 ‘The Only George M, Making Cohanized Opera of “The Royal Vagabond.” Cohan Brain, Cohan Feet Turn Another ‘‘Joke’’ Into $80,000 Cohan Rhapsody George M., Who Has Again Set Town a-Talk With Success of “The Royal Vagabond,” Tells His “Opera” Views. By Charles Darnton. NCE again that wonder of the age, George M. Cohan, has made him- O self the talk of the town. After taking over and making over “A Prince There Was,” he seized upon “The Royal Vagabond” and put both his brains and his feet into it. What might have been a Hungarian goulash was turned into a Cohanesque rhapsody. Without advertising him- self, Mr. Coban describes his latest trick as “Cohanized opera comique,” and like Hamlet he puts a question. Here it is: By George M. Cohan. What is Cohanized opera comique? ‘That is the question I've been asked to answer. Let me see, now, how can this be done? I have it; we must begin at the beginning. First of all, what is opera comique? Opera comique, I should say, is comic opera a la bill of fare. AU right; now that we know that, let’s follow on. What is comic opera? | , Comic opera is an old-fashioned style of light musical entertainment. All right; now that we know ali that, what else? Oh, yes; what does “Cohanized” mean? Well, you see, it’s like this I objected to the name of ‘ohan” being used. The authors objected to the word “satirized” being used. So we opilit it fifty-fifty And compromised on “Cohanized.” If a truckload of scenery And several hundred trunks full of costumes Are on the way to Lhe storehouse And you see them driving by You can safely say, “There goes a comic opem.” ‘This is what really happened: Saw the trucks on the way, Ordered the transfer man to turn around, Pulled the scenery off the trucks and repainted it, Took the costumes out of the trunks ‘And sewed a lot of spangles on them, Kidded the life out of a serious story, Made enemies of two librettists, Broke a composer's heart, Fought seventy odd fights with a music publisher, Lost several nights’ sleep— But, by golly, saved about $80,000, And saved the actors from losing their jobs, Even if I did have to Cohanize a comic opera, That's Cohan in his own words, or.|In every comic opera it's got to be if you like, the man who has revived | ,SUNK the English spirit of Gilbert on the} ipye villagers, the hes and hers, Amorican stage. In his happy-60-| Are there when the tra la la ia oc- lueky life, a man like Cohan doesn’t! | curs; spss . They sing, morrily sing of this and gray at his ago without using his} “th? ood everything, gray matter. Years ago he put Broad-|mpey dance, merrily prance, when- \s way behind ‘him and eettled into the} ever they get a chance. thoroughfare of good, hard work. Hel irra ta ta Ja, tra Ja ta la, knows the game and ho plays it lke| "The lyric ‘would make you laugh, @ true sportsman, | at ee a Je the opening or that we pay je royalties, cherie of "The Rovnt Vagabond,” in|] They sing it in fifty different keys: which he laughs with us, not at us: |All ‘Tra la la la, tra la la la are 144 Oe ee ie ta Ue Tra Ja lata, tra la la la, The wilingere abe Tt — Tra Jala la la Ja la la peewee Tid ah eer the inn, DANCE PALACE There's Kot to be an inn, there's got TERRACE GAI RDEN opera can't begin. mes Chefchick, your synt- EVELYN HUBBELL pathy to win Dancing Evenings, 7 to “S.” |BASE THE PAINEUL Saturdays and Sundays, & 3 Lessons with pam, 256 Pi Lemons, Sloan's Liniment will relieve it on one application. It's the world’s most popular counter- and aches of thos attacks which every ma child suffers from at one By penetrating without rubing, it} helps to scatter the congest result » wom n and | and SUNDAY #172 BIG CONCERTS SPURT Te Cie TO-DAY # PERFORMANCES All druggists, 0c, 60c, $1.20, Too! sao ! oe . Fassia hart a N.Y. Sun, _ tein? HDPODROME Dorotey HYSON'S “IT'S & JOWE" SAID GEORG WHEN HE iNest Saw “VAGAISOND “ON THE ROAD HIS HIGHNESS (mean “one Punicn”) VN BUNCH ON Th a DR, ANSELM GOETZL, THE CRECHO-SLovar Composer, EXPRESSING HIMSELF COVER, WHAT ‘THEY DID TO HIS BEAUTIFUL MuUstC GEORGE M: REVOLVTIONIZING VAGABOND” He means a lot to you, he'll tell the| gers were backed off the boards—in r everybody was t George do it. So listen to his wail, it's a good old- And George did it. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1919. «Chae s RoOCcH BETTER OLE SANE Tee Ar Pulled a $70,000 or $80,000 chestnut out of the fire and proceeded on his —the way marked by the]. sign of genius. 1 New Giheroes In the Theatres ments for the coming week rill, be printed in The Evening World. on in ane of his earlier # Cohan takes us into his confidence, as good old Pete when sounds of merriment heard in the wings of the old Rialte Magazi “Jolly dogs, those stage hands.” in his turn, For example: ialeasilpnipsones “THE BETTER ’OLE” ON SCREEN AT STRAND keeper of the inn, Where the villagers go, for the vil- For tho first time tn theatrical his- tory a successful play will kn) | Where to go to chin and drink their gute ali uttatas There's a mortgage, a mortgage on Bruce Rairnsfather's car- en put into a motion pie- fon tind will have its first Strand Theatre. ‘Ole is a comedy that 2 STONE and Etfa Pollard will come to the Columbia The- atre with “The Social Maids” on Monday and appear in Same old tale been told for years, Selling beers and shedding tears. My name's Marcel, I'm the barber of “The Better carries a message of good cheer from those who fought |T hold the mortgage on the inn, Awe get the girl or cash it in, principle and humorously with men who contrived to avoid going to war, there are a num In addition to Stone and Pollard, the company includes John various types |, the barber of re- |He hopes to win the hand |Of the heroine, you understand. are seen as the tt iMy name's Janku, T deal in drugs and kill the bugs nd get my laughs with funny mugs, apothecary man, , Jack Pillard, Lynne With Varia- chorus of girls musical novelty called “An Episode in Pmieets “UNDER ORDERS” COMING TO BRONX OPERA HOUS Janku has a To save the girl nel wave the day And _ incidentally ene , “PAID IN F WITH MISS FREDERICK & electrified his f ear old Janku. Three men— And now that we're all together As happy as we can b We'vo started tho play, we've started | “Under Orders” will be acted at the | Bronx Opera House by Effi and James L. Crane. 1 screen ver- Walter's play, "E The play con- On a trip to the land of comedy. ‘ord is an American living now that wo're all together f 1 earning power ¢ He defaults and his ill-gotten a flash of luxury jarmy and leaves for the We've started the play, we've started | eral months later he is taken prisoner money brings way To the land of comte, opera comedy Arthur escapes to her home, help him is futile, rain power over Emma | Good old time comic opera, forever and aye; Words by Gilbert and tunes r he is quickly “a great resemblance n the captured man and the sou ed it 80 proper, y set about to set officer to London to px SARL (tea ‘| PROCTOR VAUD , AND PICTURE PLAYS|' » Gilbert and Sullivan days b two men that Here comes the heroine, she's a little|# blunder on his part rev What she dc | play to a highly dr | | BILLS AT N AND AMERICAN THEATRE all day, happy the villagers . a beautiful song | EW YORK ove is in her heart it till you hear, wait till you hear, | Wait till you hear. Here comes Chefchick, the keeper of ve of Mino,” e the Cohan gait and |used to carry his cane a rum-tum-tum human heart's a drum, scrapping, vie torlous ment RHEUMATIC TWINGE | When te band begins to play, It " fi | That's ame me f the week will in’ tecause we must cheer w henever they do a I for Hip Hurray! . ‘ll Way to Lox the King’ |thur sday will be How irritant for the shooting, darting pains |W’ nu pus external regular comic opera soldiers, 1/4 sinelng a regular comle know nothing woldier kno: time or another. | ¥ re only paid to pleas re on our toes to ) fight the ing in a warm, tingling glow of comfort |That tre ase. Takes little to turn the trick | |W \quick. Won't stain the skin, Get a} nomy’s sake, | h¢ tte CHARLES RAY AT RIALTO IN “THE GIRL DODGER” re regular comic s no mistaking these soldiers, » the galt and | Cohan dashes all through the whole! in w new two-act Burlesque cailed THE BOYS FROM HOME All Fun, Melody, Magnificence and Pretty Girls. Moderate Seats 2 weeks in advance. Smoking Permitted. its MAIDS OF AMERICA n When he sat through a "performance of “The Roy st [student at Washington, I am told. he put his hands to his head and " But # girl come the story and ing a bad action, se mManay ensues as Charlie Chaplin will be ‘iy he began chi pear Into a-good one. a Brreorcis mete — —— “ BATTLES INTHE SKY WILL DETERMINE WARS OF FUTURE i Four Weeks Set as Limit. of Combat Under Operation of Up to Date Aeroplanes. The next war will not last more han four weeks. It will be decided in tl That counuy which has t and better supply of commercial atre| eraft—because these can be cons verted eusily to military purposes— will be the winner These were some of the st with which Leon Carmen, ow ot innual meeting of the Aerc Society of America, in the ¥ jot Society Hullding in West 49th Streets | ing last night Mr, Cammen, Second Vice Prest dent of the Aeronautical Soctety discussed "The Weapons ef the Next Wa After reviewing the methods id the instruments of the war r¢ cently ended, he sald: “The roal revolution in methods of warfare is coming with the adequate use of wireraft, both lighter and heav- r than air, All other develope the methods of warfare are predi- "lcated on the proper employment of ircraft. “The destructive power of aircraft mbardment has never been tried out Jin full, Dropping a few shell nake good newspaper ‘copy’ but not achieve much in the way of res “In the next war we should expset wane th 1 a vastly used night after night on cact atches of forty to titty h Rombardments on ‘ lrange and greater carrying capa of the planes and the noiselessine eir engines and propeller ENJOY THEMSELVES COMMENCING MONDAY AFTERNOON THEY bo * will be at Hf burlesque called “Wait a Minute.” amily Dycr, Billy Hobert, Lit, | ny ¥isa uy and Gene. eumaveetiieaenpate TWO FILM ATTRACTIONS * AT BROADWAY TAEAT. ‘ho next war—if there be any— » machinery used poison gas and especially air- will be prepared on a scale of |" Theatre will Munro Salisbury Light of Victory” anything hitherto such a tremendous property in| weeks as 4o make fur- ther resistance in to. be deprecated, Sit t keeps many @ mai by the enemy , what is more, “In this initial attack airernft will NEW YORK THEATRES, Jim Fulton & Co. military uses that coun H fue vr words even @ brief analy- apons of the next war ‘® Mart [Ory & Barer, Coy Do Nie wat the mercy of each of peoples lies in t s well worth a regiment and a day may come when ‘LOEW’ $ hw YORK THEATRE Cont, A. M. to ALP, J. WARREN KERRIGAN, Loew's American ves laughter unless supported number of airera ¢ problem of the day.” i's Ms OTHER BIG ACTS nn SOTO ) PLAYS. “MON. TUE., BLACKTON on General of the reported to-d BA BM o WHat ie “WOMAN WANTS" * x VAUDEVILLE. ¥. 20-30-8556. Mat. 15.200 Inel PHOTO _PLAYS RIALTO RIVOLI DIRECTION of HUGO nuseureiD SSC WAY ot Som —==—_$_$_=_<_—<_—<“<“ Chaplin Revival allo-Rivoli Comedy Classics. from time to lume present chosen gems from among tha hest Pictures of the past, ot These theatres will good pictures Jin “A NIGHT AT THE SHOW,” at Rialto beginning Sunday. RIALTO DR. L, S. SUGDEN turing Prisma's Beginning Sunday. RIVOLI PAULINE FREDERICK in Paramount's “PAID IN FULL” From Eugene Walter's Pla Alaskan Revetations CHARLES RAY “THE GIRL DODGER” - “KIDDIES” — But the point to bear in mind Is] CHARLES CHAPLIN in Natural Colors. HK PRIZMA Last Times To-day TRAN| BROADWAY YY at 4 ction Mest Onan NG 1O-MOKKOW. ow and the’ Mouse yet fF Tx ts Swab MACK SENNE} AST LYNNE,’ Mi % STRAND TOPICAL REVIEW AIRS OF OLD ENGLAN: STRANDSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EDOUARDE, Conductor.