The evening world. Newspaper, March 22, 1919, Page 7

__ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1919. ae, an | STARS WHO ILLUMINE VAUDEVILLE AND FILM NEXT WEE ~ Coburns Dug a Gold Mine ec. a - . fb oe Peer £3) | Wi ee New Amsterdam Kinw & Crtanger's b VELVET tidy ft LIEGFEL 5 OCLOCK REVIE® fF Ene ee RA RQ LIBERTy \t Aj," ©, Henry Miller, Blanche ‘Ba 8, | Hotbrook Blinn, Estelle Winwood \lnee Gen hos nase wirmens nanwow or “MOLIERE” GLOBE ! wet OTIS SKINNER Out ¢ ot ‘The Better ’Ole’ by ‘Reat Humor and Humanity Charcoal Sketch of Old Bill, Made in Trenches ‘Was Beginning of the Play Long Ped- dled Along Broadway in Vain. TO-MORROW (Sunday) NIG! CARNIVAL | "actus OF JAZZ 0 iOthens . 71 IN Y. pa Orches'ra ot 50 oF ier BROADHURST uh. % CORT Bon gn, ere ae Tall THE KISS BURGLA TO-MORROW | Sumi NIGHT, (3 wns The etter Ole BENEFIT of the Acton 1 A TOIAL. MAT “ruesoars bani ey aaa Hei Oke TOM Wyck. W, ua ABELLE LOWE Mattie COHAN & HARRIS Saintes, tiation | | PHONZETHIER': rite conven vt TheRoyal Vasabend Nora Bayes “8 Last Matine A cota D OPERA COMPANY GREATEST Jane MRI Henry Miller Yor Syncopated Orchestra { Mrs. Fiske oe (face Ke By Charles ‘Darnton. D”™ goes another theatrical tradition! “The Better ‘Ole’ was con sidered “so English” by one New York manager after another that] it Was passed by—or up, as you please—until Mr. and Mrs. Coburn | turned it into 4 gold mine. The fact that five companies are now playing it in this country is worth keeping In mind. Old Bill might still be Squeezed into a Broadway pigeonhole if the actor who could play the part with a full sense of its humor and humanity had not hoppened to put bia | hand on it. Now, Charles Coburn is as mild-mannered a man as ever blew up a bridge. Indeed, it would be difficult to imagine him blowing up even an actor at rehearsal. When I ventured into bis ofce—for he 1s an actor Manager with a fearsome hallboy and a long-range telephone—I expected to be greeted with a booming “Ullo!" and a heavyweight personality. [ don’t mean to say that he might have won the lightweight ohampionship if he had taken to the ring instead of the stage, but Lor’ bless yuh, he’s not @ dit like Bill, for he bas nothing in common with the old blunderbuss. “The truth is," confessed Mr. Coburn, “that after the first dress rehearsal of ‘The Better ‘Ole’ | came out of the theatre so discouraged that I would have given up the part then and there if there had been @nother actor to tke ft. 1 felt 1 had made a great mistake, that 1 had/ tailed to get under the skin of the character. But a wonderful thing hap-| pened at the Greenwich Village Theatre on the opening night of the play tue audience took up the burden I had been carrynig and made me feel that it had a warm place in its heart for Bill even before he made his appearance. Mr. McNaughton and Mr. Campbell have since told me that they felt this to be true also of Bert and Alf. We have our audiences | to thank for lifting us and carrying us through the performance bemuse ot their warm sympathy, thelr quick response to ‘the three muskrats' | bungling their way through the war.” | “3 The history of the play that has proved to be the greatest surprise WAR AnD of the year 1s interesting. When I asked Mr. Coburn how “The Better| WANSrNC/ Ne , DEMPsTER THE pei WHO STAyeD AT OME HAW AU 8t be ai Bese teal : Napa i al ai Geo GOHAN Tus. eas A Please Get Married THE Wit OF THE TOWN with Frnest Truex and Kaitn Taliaferro: | PLAZA THEATRE TO SHOW AMUSEMENTS. “A PRINCE THERE WAS” FOUR PLAYS ON SCREEN BELMONT Away . PENNY WISE. 7u),mauy PEARSON. 39TH ST, fiita. we he THE PLAY UF 1000 LAUOHS KEEP i, YOURSELF ce ' WELCOME | Wriday | ii NTURY GROVE ROOF OF Cr fatigi "wenn comport || ditt stags. |e i ! ae PLAYHOUSE “THE RAZZLE DAZZLE” — | | CHAIRWITH BACK | | any THE Bit SENGATION OLYMPIC ATTRACTION | oh IN GRIPS NEW YORK! FOLLOW THE CROWD TO sees eee | GRAND STAND | [ETHE INVISIBLE FOE The ser Theatre day will nie Ward; W The Border 3a and Hobe “~<A . . Ardis that te to th " way, Eve. ‘Ote” hed come into bin posseasion, he ald: | BORE Gress cs patriot N. E, COR. 72nd ST. & Sth AVE. | [KY oprouges not ne te Sie VANDERBILT, al “It had been peddled along Broadway for more than a year and rejected) Rien ee” bh A LITTLE JOURNEY dy various managers who considered it too English in form and spirit to} Ps oy 4 yeh FICK ETS ON SALE V RRanliey and Cibet Dane, * < ei son eo ia ce a ba ” 5 AT STAND OR 49un, “THE | “MUSKRATS” IN “THE BETTER ‘OLE.” ; CHORUS “GIRL” DEFIES SCAR. 200 Madinoe Oa Cor ate se, | | SUN NOT Se > , . " a. i Private k WI Conceal $4 Floor ase (THE BOOK OF JOB} n. i Fe : OF rake: lip will preven ice open Sunday after ‘ at eR eg ci nuuencen of the 27th Divi SOAS [reer serge cor carey gee |i| __TOBY’S BOW ) Borsa, Monday night at the Ce Peery | gaat Puahy ted sear HAC: IBLE YAL EAST MEST of shrapnel raked the wirn Surk ‘ill be an in n the play, Battle wound. D A D D E TUBA. Wiel Wp Hoey and Lee, Dolly Kay and oth | gether, wherefore the camouflage. together with the twelfth episode | sides, Fred of Houdini's picture play, “The Mase | + BELASCO & most modest choru THE WOMARr 3 we ROOM patrick was a front row beauty in the shoruxs of “You Know A Which the givision’s soldier-actors pro- dim New York before they sailed | r France, When the show closed, Fite ympany in HUDSON ics" , Bruines st Matiners EHIME ‘as |] Sem BERNARD & lose MANN Scena at | FRIENDLY ENEMIES | ; NET Y, Fv ne WELCOME HOME MATINEE TUES MARCH 25 _Dancine 2 10 12 PM Brown's Dogs. Thursday will bring the Trixey our, elgit other acta and |incrice went back to? a OWVISE Fools ||] ELTINGE aia the twelfth episode of the Houdial |), a taee GURAREC AL LAE rit) CHARLES picture. away = merril ane without § Benauentod ah. yy Finiasle WnUlc dig’ Wenaerale RTIGs»' SEAMON'S Leo DITRICHSTEIN ps W. S. HART AT RIVOLI pattie hat bent the indenburg tne. | laeayanine~ arombay ratiwee: | A Nest Wek. linn takin aT Berr” IN BARBARY COAST PLAY In that scrap he was bit - Wed & Sat, £1 } RT y i } dood cm VAUDEVILLE || MARJORIE RAMBEAU a waiter S. Hart will be n at the | Oraett Erateess 08) Sailors After serene . 3] Ly Be toca en tanec mater wan aeneee SUNDAVTIT'3 BT (2-2 BIG CONCERTS careers | Aed_Usset. Vester aos . G the y Girl” his wife. Ef is ee “framed nd gets a fourteen-year ; meanwhile Mike Mc amor term i pete AT TIE, “users Bra ; iS ae || Aa HE NET an : a SN il pl Pel ong SUNDAY AE The Crowded H. a Et Loews NEW YORK THEATRE "2% \ mt RAOUL VIDAS "% kh glee ety My Hon, to ta be understood in this country. The son of an American actor-manager who Jallet and musical numbers POST A if ‘on! mit | had seen the play three times in London sent the same report by cable to ian Offerings GRIFFITH'S LATEST PLAY a hey Gets conan ete eee | his father. Some one—I don't even remember the man—told me about | } tue success ‘The Better ‘Ole’ had won in England, and one day 1 sent| In the Theatres ON SCRE AT STRAND to a New York agent for the manuscript. When Mrs. Coburn had read ‘ ; the first act aloud she looked at-me and | looked at her--and at the end | | DW G efit Ba film prod (Additional dramatic announcements | ton, 6 Girl Who Stayed at Home GEIhe Ronco ack: I-dacided to agi neRnuiatlons for ile Arerioey) Mints: | watt be printed in The Evening Wori’ (will be brought out at the Strand “We read at least a hundred plays in the hope of finding one that wou'd) 6) yo nday) [Renter the sory is that of have an appeal, but all seemed stale and old. A new drama was needed Broadhurst Theatre vo- | Modern Magdalen «he day after we entered the war. The plays at hand seemed to kick ‘he spirit that had suddenly vitalized the Nation. ‘The Better ‘Ole,’ it seemed 5 play by | to me, struck the note to which America was responding, even though it A Ww iB adhurst ‘to unded on happened to be an English play, and 1 wanted it because of my belief in| "Medea," will be given for t the appeal its simple humanity would make. | felt that Bill and Bert and include Blanche Pil only “THE TURN TN THE ROAD" on them Alf were just ordinary day fellows who had a most unpleasant job % iv e | Wise. Alphonz Ethier, Katiorine | AT 81ST STREET THEATRE — (Bot L t) do, but that they were determined to do it gracefully—that is, make the nett Norton, Bavid Hi: | . coy CHAR | TOASTIES CHARITY. | RO Wik Briten ates, O'R | They're different bbe tek from other corn flakes More meaty, more delicious! Why, | could fairly LIVE GOOD CHEER FOR CRIPPLED SOLDIERS Two thousand voices will sing at the MASS MEETING FOR CRIPPLED SOLDIERS Sunday Aft pon at 2.30 o'clock at the HIPPODROME thal the Charles 1. Weibell will show 1 he Raed “How to Dance the Buck and Piursdiy, |. CONCERTS ANDO MUSIC, _ Wing With Artificial Legs.” rhe Girl DE RINGTON fete waa Thomas SPECIAL VICTORY MAT. TUES., 3 S55 MATINEE T0.0ay ag PRINCESS white ritsay, ahs” “OH, MY DEAR” best of it. The piece was first done in London as @ one act musical skit tee Nealee and. Chive and then made into a twonet play and given at cheap prices, But it eons Bite venison, us se hat the prices were raised. It was done a bit more roughly 4 Pe are rs Lad had ing re Bae here, with cooties and all that sort of thing. BILLS AT NEW YORK bat “L engaged an English pantomimist to go over every word of my part in, AND AMERICAN THLAT RES to qive it a cockney accent. We were together so much that 4+ ppose Capt, Bairnsfather meant Bi!l neashire, or more likely from War ew Young will tell “How to Along Without Arms.” " pies Hear America’s inn Tenor Mel. oot wilt on |* THE BEHMAN SHOW” BERNARD DALY et iis Weason stance yu ernest ” = ~ Fi Z- . , re" sae — SEE REID S Pe COLI ELE cr DT nnn ESE omeentininsareincnipeessicg tit csesajicicsrete ROBIN HOOD was called my ‘shadow.’ { don't & to be a cockney. He might be from L ‘SWEE ; dent without either arms or nin “Bxtravagenes."! AT HURTIG & SEAMON'S ‘SWEET INNISFALL wickshire, for Bairnsfather lived in Stratford-on Aro Bu ne lntarest e Barriscale Heart uf ‘a i ran put aes Wed. we PATIENCE loos d, is the fact that 38 aahhur i Mal w AM, at xperts on the Crippled So! ing than the question of locality, te my min sday; Bryant Was nes to Hur r aeatint of the trenches. Bairnsfather had never sold a drawing before he b Wednesda 1 Marie | O R Cc H E SOMA b er Frebren, sentess ‘MI KA D re] 5 » the first sketch of Bill with a piece of charcoal n “Never Say Quit, " Vy ts v. atm Mu Allied cour ‘ oe went to war. He made Py 1 Ir vis COSDC TOK Charles E H ~ on a plank just to amsue his comrades. One day he received a copy of rivcilin Dean in wand rlee Evans Fu turgiar’ and Frankli The Bystender, and when he saw it contained drawings of men figthing at the front he used it as wrapping paper for @ cartoon of Bill and sent it te the editor, ‘The result was @ check, together with a commission to send in more sketchos. This was the beginning of ‘The Better ‘Ole’—a play created by a sokdier for soldiers whose life was so terrible that the only way to brighten it was to mike It seem ridiculous, No Admittance Charge. 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Willard Mack made the | to *t ie ATiAtCOn MABE ties and nmsical features, ‘fhe com laptation, The woman in the case me | with GRANT pected of having murdered her former gusband, @ For the first half of the week Proc and they are as-/ himself, ‘The programme will atso in- | EOF t ea ee y a iy a, Klornon (ty: tae Rialto Magazine, ‘two or. | y “ y Harry Eimerson, Ire! " chestral numbers, the Rialto Quartet ! Cantwell and Walker, Ward and Van, Harte aud Anna Sawyer. and a.solo by Anne Rosner, ida May Chadwick, the Soyarr a) “GOING UP” tinea pany is teaded by Harry K. Morton Greenwich Village 4\\'* re and Zella, Kussell DIANA, Df ce Daily A Comedy | Week Marat 00 Leekn York, of | Brook yn, Office, i100 ‘Mane nan SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK , ai”) Sie Vo 92.00. NO WAR TAX