The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1919, Page 11

THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1919. NOTABLES OF STAGE WHO APPEAR HERE THIS WEEK witiiiii aa omnen | wer Why B Barrymore Quits Comedy | For sae | By John Barrymore. OU have asked me to tell why I shifted, mid-career, from com edy to tragedy, and if I intend to stay put, now that | have ehifted. 1 am hard up for an answer, not be . cause there isn't one, but bee not happen to know it. From the facts of the case, which are definite enough, I know that my head con tained, in some obscure quarter of it @ fixed purpose to become what they golomnly call “a sortous actor.” ‘Those facts I will tell you, and perhaps you oan then come forward with an ex- planation 1 used to say, though with a prudent privacy, that I loathed the theatre TO-DAY, 1UE., WEDa BILLIE AL NEXT THU., FRI,, SAT., SUN. BO RO’ THY | DA LTON SUS HOPKINS" 7 CAaRM® 4 GRANADA | BROADWAY "2°00. ue 1 saw myself, a grown man, hur- : .c rying into a dressing room and Reoovs ager Om Cara Seaatag aiveall over With & MeN ol Me ‘iee ne \ UE eager ) ‘wns, Charlie Che Be paint, then alking out onto a " ABA TR «< | Fant: he itt iy 2 RiGee i ‘4 CHARLIE CHAPLIN In “A D0) stage and exploiting myself 4 young and debonair lover, king of ee, and what not, bent upon be- 4 ning if | could ulmination of this sort of S Wiing was in “The Affair Anatol.” is x2 é % Bijou 9, - | : MAB CHARLIE CHAPLIN, “Wiles THEA . . The Give 8150,000 for Disabled INCREASE TROLLEY FARE i ce wren | EDLVOL! :: BIL READY THIS WEEK 22205059... AQ PALTO | ohh n for extending the as Pi a Times Sor zr0 Sg There I gave the worst performance ° voua ly retraming dis I have ever seen, and the one which, mblyman Martin Says Commit. [abled soldiers, fs and marines GTRA FRED STONE of them all, most estranged me from | ¢ Will Re Measure to of allah haat shel a SWAY 9) AT* Si Solan Ore a pee fing Hs eral Board for Vocationa Lower House with the statement that ary ing more 10 than—It's a word | need not startle you with At any rate, whatever else I was doing, 1 had the grace not to call it acting. In my own summing up, 1 did the first acting in “Justice” L had ever done in my life, and in m: eyes, my “career” includes just tice,” “Ibbetson” and “Redempt er fina il assistance would be | HEA | Ic ING NONDAY EVE., MARCH 24) ' ted t-visht | BRONX OPERA HOUSE SEAT SALE TO-DAY i eudy eport it “GOING UP” ." H " ‘hie 27th Division Players Preseat "| vexr “A TAILON MA s Oe week | wrth UTRNY MUTCHELL + Lt S BEAT IT’ “But, to go back to my “comedy” / t sal. { days, | had many a sound talk with re rere eg ne abd by sore process of F | times/ wiih GRANT MITONELL [Vz Paras Greenwich Villoge {u*Tt,«% 8, 4 2n/SUNDAY WORLD WANTS Sreenwich Villoge asc war aaeat 5 | WORK MONDAY WONDERS: which I cannot exp dee Lione! must let me be the artist, while | , - GRA CE ’ . he came back to the stage. | ¢ ’, : mi Rr! . s Rt j ‘ 4 | —s$) Lionel was of no such notion. He ; y vie | : medy of Creenwte . THEATRES. an was going to require my bes e * «4 - suasions, I 6aw, and being none too ~ mo A : pets ; ; a ness with . 1 hunted sure of my persuasi Lionel, I tried guile inste: THE WINTKIC GA ENT 4A. through Italy to find a play which about to play it with me in the “Cena -" | Delle Beffe” of Sem Benelli. So much Gay BAInntEm I 1 WALKER rR IN \ 2 f for scheming! “EAST 1s West’ anit My, WHiteeoe ter 1 found the play, I ASTOR THEATRE? TALAFERRO Diva IN By Ben ere! | Sey PLEASE Snyper | came back with it, rashly leaving | Léonel to follow on his own time, and by chance I found here in New York the one play in the world that 1 | jinn wanted to act. It was Galsworthy’s if 1 have “Justice” And though I know it had superb qualities of all sorts, the qual ity it had for me was that it had nota) |” single laugh in it from beginning to! uy end. In “Justice” I went into hiding. 1 got behind u make-up which, I hope | ; igtness inp } ir NORA BAYES a oma Pe | A.H.. 2 THANSCENDENI MUSICAL wit, | | ONE WEEK ONLY, BEGINNING TO-NIGHT AT ‘8.15. \ wo DS SUCCESSES SYNC zee oe {CLP ORCHESTRA Wesco) RANT ORn ‘WOMAN i ¢ VELVET LADY}]] .. 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