The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1919, Page 6

oe a THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1919. SEEING NEW YORK, IN FILM AND VAUDEVILLE, eee WEEK . Miss Crothers in ‘°39 East”? Proves That Clever Author Is Best Director of Plays Creator of Characters Best Fitted to Select Cast to Portray Them, Without “Experimentation.” By Charles Darnton, | OW MANY theatrical managers, I wondor, have realized the wisdom of giving the playwright his head, or at least a free rein, in the production of his play? It must be granted that his head is worthy of consideration, else the theatrical manager would have nothing to prodace and—the actor would have nothing to act. This year, more than ever before, the vanity of the manager has been betrayed on -lectric eigna, billboards, and in newspaper advertisements. The author's name, if seen at all, is in type so amal! that only the etrongest and keenest eyes could find ft, Just how much he owes to the author will! probably never be appreciated by the manager. Botter still, let him sive) the author not only the run of bis stage, but the control of it at rehearsal— that ts, if the author has common sense combined with a sense of Oe) theatre. At “39 Past” my eve was caught, apps and my interest engaged, by this| views on the producing of a play as modest line in the programme: “The he agence play staged and production under the| naq treutimont, tonne wpood “olay. | supervision of Mise Crothers.” This|but oh! how a good play is hurt by meant that Rachel Crothers knew |sren"n"edoerg ray eh ay what she wns doing, good or bad— ae db In other words she knew the charac-| stage from behind the footlights, ters she bad created, how they|knows acting dramatically and in- should be acted, and the surroundings | %t/"ctlvely from all sides, who knows they should bo given. To be sure, the mechanics of all that go to make up the production of a play, has in Miss Crothers is an unusually intolll- | )j¢ ands tools which e can gent playwright—I was on the point asibly use as well as . himself, of saying woman, which has nothing | {0% bis own plays. First of all, the} writer of plays soes the people, h ara thelr voices sees their clothes, the rooma in which they Hve nod move, feels the tempo and vibration of the acting just as soon as the worls drop from his pencil. There- fore, when he goes into the theatre to begin the production of his play it isn't a question of experimenting or finding out how this scene goes and how such and such a part ean he most effectively played, but on the contrary a matter of knowing abso- lutely before he begins just what the finished performance will be. So when ho selects actors who are to play his characters, he knows instantly who fulfills the part physically and who doesn’t. Starting with physical re quirementa. he tests the acting abtity in a brief rehearsal or two and finds to do with the casa She knows hor play and she knows her stage, and in the art of producing @ play sho has much in common with the finest artiste in our theatre, Mrs. Fiske It has been your everlasting expert- ence, I dare say, to mo to the theatre and seo a banker on the stage wearing a@ high hat as he enters his office. But have you ever got your eye on a banker with all this nonsense on his head? My little experience with bank- ers is that they look Uke ordinary human beings ang act accordingly. But turn a banker over to the two- penny stage director and you will be- | hold him as @ personage born of bis ' SES FASS BOTIONS play m that sible never from hi. the dir and ev it, every shade of light, and me “T firmly belies s tt fers m« and fro whole How ts {acting individual performance, can kei the bones pe! with two or three people pulling out het else in some of the ornamentation, are rap Tt ta on of a pl ation that one anee, whether the very sl the tenderest handling or n strong 1 vigorous drama which demands a responding However, cannot much importance upon the production sido in ust be understood by one mind, | 4 knowing it from every pos- ndpoint and never wavering yubting, er turning aside 4 vision of the completed th ns not only the selection rand of all his clothes, but cting, the building of acenery ery line and shade of color in piece of furniture, every every noise and tyne ovement and vibra tour stage «ut suction ore from indi om lack of one mind thing than any it possible that a plo of that play as a whe ectly set in tts ra, putting it in soma place the experiment of improving while they idly disloc ating the foundation nly by fuetion ay as a ified or ets harmony and bi matter In hand isa play which neods ender little f treatment gain and again, we regard too seriously or put to» the theatre.” CONSTANCE CONCERTS AND MUSIC. _ REOLIAN HALL—To-morrow Atternoon at 3. 80NG RECITAL EMPIRE fis 4'q pe Gillatte (3 E y Kaw & Erlanger'a, New Musica! Comedy } VELVET eee d LIBERTY yort23 %%, brepings, a 820 Bat Henry Miller, Blanche’ Bates, Ho'brook Blinn, Estelle Winwood sri’ MOLIERE" GLOBE} OTIS SKINNER 2 ui "fh0h0! COHAN & HARRI Ww. Pas, Bs. aha. Mats. Wed & 8) THE ROYAL VAGABOND A COHANIZED OPERA ComiauE, Henry Miller "(84 224.W. 49 8. Be MRS. FISKE ‘iiss MIS" NEL BINNE. In So STHe. yeotT OF HONo R’, STRAND THEATRE RIALTO. “All LAZAR wn Sport SORTING MIDOWS” con OMEN a. “THE-N TREE New Offerings for the coming week will be printed in The Evening World of Monday. the first half of the week the bill will include Andrew Mack, Jack Morrisey, Larry Boylan, Meyers and Golden, Mabel Burke and the four- teenth episode of Houdin!'s picture play, “The Master Mystery.” Thurs- day will bring Conway and Fields, Leipsig, Olive MoGivney, Wood and Wyde, Bell and Caron, and motion pictures. Beginning Monday Proc- tor’s Twenty-Third Street Theatre will have Dooley and Dooley in “The Turn of the Cards,” Powers and Wal- in the Theatres Additional dramatic announcements ILLIAM RUSSELL wil be seen at the Rivol in “Brass Button: & photo-play by hatter and his tailor. ‘This is the sort of bad stage man- agement Miss Crothers has avoided in “89 East.” Her characters are, for the most part, simple people living in & bourding house. They come down to breakfast and make the best of their existence. It is not for them to cast their grapefruit or oranges upon the watera,’yct there is a bit of acid tn Joun MORers AS THE Part cor their remarks. ‘To have everybody Pleasant at a boarding-house break fast wouldn't be human. An ogg is an egg--and you are not in a mood to question it are true to life. There tures in the col song of the col be accepted as tion for the im Just as the » sonal remarks flung about the tap prepare you for the comedy in stor But reaiity ¢ makos itself felt. T y real and buman in the home-ttlent conoert. especially the two simple maids who love music but can’t play it very well. It is in the sympathetic detail given these types that Miss Crothers has herself to be a play- mmon observation, and “FAKE” ASPIRIN | WAS TALCUM Therefore Insist Upon Gen | uine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” CONSTANCE HENRY HULL Cwney LUNCH OT CONTRAL PARK out whether the combination of what the actor has to give as a person and | what gift he has matically to add | to this person will make the living | character which the author has seen in his mind sinee the chara was first nin the manuseript, ‘Thi combint and the t prom f riving up a little o: | Millions of fraudulent Aspirin Tab | Personality if the ability is strong Jets were sold by a Brooklyn mann. SBOust for that, or, ¢n| facturer which later proved to he (220th ae Oe a) composed mainly of Talcum Powder hteon ir, narecter, f “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin”, the true, filly to the beat advantage the result genuine, American made and Ameri: one is after can owned Tablets are marked with | sq ‘i » the safety “Bayer Cross." Prinses (h MpoONe on ta. De Ask for and ten insist upon “Bayer peopte in POSEN Heteeno Ray Tablets of Asi wrin” and always bay gr eal to bring to some | charac: them in the nal Bayer package which contains proper directions and) dose ge. tent upon t for an! #0 sily mou Aspirin is the trade mark of Rayer |") the wr way by the atnge direc Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester (0% that very valuable qualities witch of Salicviicacia ee v My Advantage a ~ lost ! Yur an't k ¥ === t ° them, In other VAUDEVILLE, wey hotor (s an ins finely’ attuned, exquinit Hf rument played upon by WEW YOKR Inka hes, Nirce Therefore, the greatest re ibility in the theat 1ds of the one whe » plece upon the st Tt Is not y Necessary to understand the rand know how it should be Nes in the tually put bis SPHING FESTIVAL a law USUAL VAU ois. at us are ; much of himself the aetor ouent 18! rn we TIVAL. colp to it and how much ne must oe : a sie create and form out wth ane, a ie t tars . 4 a Betty won ay by, cero eee Bow ies) ’ * Jines of characterization and never ) LOEW'S NEW YORK THEATRE £ noor " oy Ais th t part and the actor « the o nation makes. tn i] EBtise tuts tWe: Meta tnd den Loew's “Awericns Rot $4.9 ¥ ore Hens ic end, the real person of the author’ conception. Like every other piece o sei, Work which must have unity and hai- SOME NATURAL CHARACTERS IN “39 CONSTANCE BINNEY DANCED TO “THI “Th Jack Mag Murray in at the Olympic in den tg Siberia.” Intyre, Gussie Whiie, a Ruben Lt eo k SIG Yi, a al BILLS AT NEW YORK AND AMERICAN THEATRES | Tho film attractions at Loow's New | York Theatre and Roof will be W, 8 Hart in “The Poppy Girl's H Monday; Fred Stone in 1| Your Gun,” Tuesday; 1 4 Fighting for Gold," Wednesday “What Am I bid Thursday; Vivian Martin in 10 Little Comrade,” and Corinne Griffita | n “Phe Unknown Quantit »| Kitty Gordon in “The Be Jay, and Bert Lyte in" ack ng ot n the vaudeville bill at Loew's America Theatre 1 Ktoof the fir t EOE ie MOO HE | the Zlegler Sisters, Ufert Carlton, Jim |{irown and Belie Jackson, ana Tore hy Hayes, Th n aitraction in he theatre with be Fr Btone i} “Johnny Get Your Gun.” With the change of bill on Thursday will he the Chung Hwa F Private Paul Rolin, the Four Laurels, the Ko-Ko Carnival Company and the film play “The Poppy Girl's Husband,” with W 8. Hart, saben | ‘AMERICAN BURLESQUERS' COME TO TLE OLYMPIC will be ¢ Gar 6 American Burlesauers" “Prom In the compa Don Clark, McCab Billy Me- Flo Owen, ny are | Stephen Fox. The story concerns | jag, and Rogers and Barrett. There 1 rich young man who borrows a| will’ be an entiro change of bill on| polleeman’s uniform for courting| ‘Thursday with Bernard and Dufty, | purposes. ‘The action includes N Katherine and Jan} commen neve Alice Nelson. pin Bh | FILM PLAY AT STRAND WITH JOHN BARRYMORE tral a tho | PROCTOR VAL DEVILLE | ance from the smallest dotall in order | Hughey Bernard, Easter Higbee and’ to round ow the whol Dick ¥ ot “rrr memnentitimeee te sm - Rockeo In “THE CRADLE | On the screen at the Strand Thea- | tre will be John Barrymore tn “Thy | |-rest of Honor,” @ play based upon| BE. Phillips Oppenhetm's novel “The! Malefactor.". Mr. Barrymore appears as @ convict whose career ts ruined by a treacherous woman whom he loved. Constanco Binney ts in the supporting cast. Additional features will be “A Wasmanipol W “A Surprise Party ‘'n the Topical Review, numbers, and concert| — DOROTHY GISH AT RIALTO | IN FILM “PEPPY POLLY” | | For tts chief film attraction the | Rialto will have Dorothy Gish in| “Peppy Polly.” Miss Gish has the part of a vigorous and aggressive young woman bent on the unearth- ling of graft and other abuses tn a | girls’ reformatory, Tho plot leads her to become an inmate for pur- poses of investigation, There will also be a comedy called ‘Well, I'll| Be—," the Rialto Magazine and musical numbers, JOHN ahaa aera wikwwParvrick| | NAZIMOVA AT PLAZA AS THE | IN “OUT OF THE FOG” BOARDING ——— HOUSE Teng! | The screen features at the Plazi BARYTONE | Theatre will be Nazimova tn “Out of |the Fog’ to-morrow, Monday and BWAY ai La R3 Tuesday; Norma Tumadgo in “The { Wing HARRY - GOLEMAN GSRRENCING: SUNDAY, |Hiaxg's comedy, “Hick Manhattan, 4.1% 2 BIG CONCERTS Am OWN Presents |Wednesday and Thursday; Mrs ne : =f ——<—$<_<—_<—_<—$<_<——— jc harlie Chaplin in “When a Girl re Wonders never love and Charlie Chaplin in “The woase at the Hipe | cleaning-up of a Western town, a| Rink,” Friday and Saturday. "AT THE eee em {couple of fights with city thugs, con-| MAT. TO-DAY, 2.1 sane ike OSG hid ee | roams Ct Sam “THE TEST OF HONOR Mutt Jott cart | mus n, and orche will complete pros cae tenes AND PICTURE PLAYS At Pr 4 Pifth Avenue Theatre Mr. Louis Capano Tells How Cuticura Cleared Dandruff “My head was so full of dandruff that 1 could not stop scratching it, My scalp was sore and red, and I could not sleep nights my head used to itch so, I couldn't touch my hair because the dan- diuff would fall and get | | all over my clothes. My | | hair became thin and life- | | nd my head was disfigured. | hen I used Cuticura Soap and | | Ointment and after using one cake | Big Company, Paty Matinovs, PHOTO PLAYS. BROADWAY AT 4204 5 of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuth- cura Ointment my head was healed." (Signed) Louis Capany, 1530 Sth Ave., Troy, N. ¥., July 18, 1918, You may rely on Cuticura to care for your skin, acalp, hair and hands, Nothing be ‘er to clear the skin of Pimples and blotches, the acalp of dandruif and the hands of chappin, Besides the Soap has no superior for all toilet uses. ABTS gees DOROTHY GISH tm Perermount’s "REPPY POLLY* TRIO from “FAUST” RIALTO ORCHESTRA Rissenfeld @& Pinston Conducting ag GAS, RAY “SHERI Soa se “THE SPORTING WIDOWS” IN COLUMBIA BURLESQUE “The Sporting Widows” will come | KN to the Columbia Theatre and present thelr new two-act burlesque called Harry Cooper, June Le Veay, Lasar, Loulse Wright, Anna Collins, May Clayton, | Ward, George D. Meyers. — ANNIVERSARY WEEK The Hippodrome will observe its fourteenth anniversary on next Sat- | urday, when four hundredth performance. There will Monday and a parade on Saturday. Cee nnn en ne MA ISON SG. GARDEN ALLNEW YORK MARVELS AT THIS THE Gigantic Zoo, Congress of Freaks DANCE PALACE CLASSES FOR CHILDREN in laeedton!, and too dancing, Classes ‘now forming Gone, intermediates and adveno under ¢ ROSELAND COMMENCING MC SPORTINGIENTE Anctuaing ° WEEK APRIL 14 ALi RIALTO RIVOLT DIRECTION # HUGO RIESENFELD BEGINNING SUNDAY 1 P. PEER Giri” oF NONLEANS" 0. Then. lway & Ad SU Eva 8.50, O52 Cohan ieee. War aia at he, “A PRINCE THERE WAS” COHAN as The Prince. KERBOCKER, Hroadway and 88th res. ot B18, Maunece Weds & Sat. is JOHN CORT BN: LEST “omady_ Eva 8.30 LONGACRE W287 8h at, Fre 3 Most tas pune ae play aN ree a in Fun.” The cast includes Alice Joe Brown, Frank Wiest and Harry ve the Better ‘Ole win Pik & MRS COBURN AT THE HIPPODROME overything” passes tts Aecell NEXT TUESDAY AT 0.30. SEATS NOW. Margaret Illington Robert Edeson Wilton Lackaye Katharine Kaelred jn “A GOOD BAD WOMAN, LYCEU! 43th Bt. nr. Bway Macinces Thura a Maen. fi poe eles be special features beginning AMUSEMENTS. | citys NOW RINGLING BRO» BAPNUMs BAILEY ip peu vee. 6.50. Mia. Wed., Fries GALETY, Biway end 40th St. "230. al ACU OF ALL AMUSEMENTS PUNCH & JUDY & PENNY WISE “Sercamingly Funny.""—Journa @ To-day, 2:30 with MOLLY PEARSON 41.00 to $2.50, WOKLO'S MOST AMAZING CIRCUS. STANDARD, Broadway, 00th St A TAILOR-MADE MAN™,!3,¢ Next Week, “THE INVISIBLE FOE.” LANGTON i hes ea, inishaaa, Who Misses Si ri Play Will Regret It All His ute war BERNARD bALY “SWEET INNISFALLEN” (4 Four Act Boman! bettinaa, pnvelient” Acting Coenpe Hest Week hevert Bownin. HELL At the Terrace Garden Saturday Afternoon AND ADULTS interpretative, national, charsoter, for be pupils, the diseet supeeviaion of EVELYN HUBBELL Bt, pen, Le si * An, Dancing Evenings, 7 to 12. seterdase esd Sundays, © to 42, oholic Drinks Sold GRONX OPERA HOUSE Wat ea POPULAR PRICE MATINEES WED. co Carril'o “LOMBARDI Li D. : M 23Y,4 4-4 hear &' 27, NING. P7ONBAY. WEN | in AMEN hover | SEATS OLLY. WARD aon PHOTO PLAYS, ___ GIRLS A Paramount Picture BRIGGS COMEDY Wien arute NEEDS A FRIEND " TER | STRAND TOPI- OUT MES TE | Ca heview. MALCOLM. McEACHERN (Lusso), LONA LASKA (Alaskan Soprano) a char Jouarce ~ Cond DUSTING TAS UECOME 00N SOAY AFTER a) born St vw from’ i to 1 . M MADISON AVE WILLIAM CHARLIE} GLORIOUS DESMOND |CHAPLIN| 27TH Lites @ | mening the [Mobiliration Prego n 1 Soreen. tas of Pretty Giri a aoe wo BARGAIN Mart | 0c & 0c, | ' EW BON TONS, neluding Tax wa PHOTO PLAYER BROOKLYN, BL eee GRAND (OPK) Bldyn (7 3d Big Week—Don't Miss if “FIT TO WIN’ Authorized by the U, 6, Public Health Service, First Showing to the ube True to Life in Revealing the Vicious Waus of the Underworld ROADWAY AT 49th M. ployed by RIVOLI ORCHESTRA Ene Rapee & Joseph Klein Conducting WILLIAM RUSSELL “BRASS Surrrons® | nr. Fulton St, Mat Main 1803" Da e te AMERICAN BURLESQUERS ty Bunday 2—Big Concerte—2 THEATRES, ae Sa mRST 4 Rachel Crofhers’ 4646 3g) 44TH ST. Mis), of Mews, Pret sarotte"Take it From Me’ Nora Bayes ™!*, Weds, ae THE KISS BURGLAR $4§t2 48TH ST, Tha. Bottyer ne a MAGEL TALIATERRU if ph¥Gs HPHIS’B REOVIN THEATOR SUNDAY NIGHT -CONCERT (APRIL 6) StATS NOW! 74 SELWY Musical Central”: way x on TEA, Bway @ io Casino™inh, 50.0 2, A Merry Mus NTURY GROVE PO% of CENT TATE Giwionigar WHIRL | Annive Monday, veri a Rye, #30 PLAYHOUSE \\" (*" tt He ALICE ERADY?S 39TH ST. TAKA or Wway. Buus, 9.20 4 wes Wed. & 2.30. KEEP, YOURSELF } THE PLAY OF 1,000 LAUGHS } BIJOU ™s,,00 fh TANDERITLT™S, Bt fia be ‘eur, A LUTTLE JOURNEY | Cyril Kelontley and Ethel Oane. =I | q EAST sewest Astor -* ry Ball, fies by ks SSNIGHT ‘ SHUBERT {i Bun Weds eet ae me Wed. & Kat, LS. § uate aa Morning, Judge “Grorge Havsell, Mollie Kins. Charter Kins { t | BOOTH THES. (0. ({ rey bros a ' ' BELMONT fi"; anne} Macterlinek's new) +A BURGOMASTER LI lL OF BELGIUM” } Journal LOEW'S 7thAV Mat, To-day Neat Week “Kalen, PLEASE G MARRIED with Ernest Truex and Edith ELTINGE Mi ed eet)" iaferro, Evenings at 815 HUDSON i & $a BERNARD & LoUls ‘MANN HLERIENDLY ENEMIES | Bven. at Wed. MARJORIE RAMBEs U i MOROSCO Wiatttees tie COU TENAY & WISE ~ TOBY’S BOW | } REPUBLIC}. tint CAPPY RICKS JOMEDY THEA. Fre. 8.50. Mats. Thurs. PLYMOUTH 45. !n5-1.9 JOHN BARRYMORE ne chi'ion WAXINE ELLIOTT’S, w. 39th st. Tea for 3 Matiness Wed. and Sat., 2.30. MANHATTAN ®), 94.20 2, Mata, Wed ro JANE COWL ye CROWDED HOUR 500 Orch Ey 038 cont [NKNOWN” " PURPL PRINCESS Fes. 0, 2, et eta ks, Smartest & Uriediees or an Princess reg a ‘th, AY DEAR’ ‘Bete than ‘Ob, Boy.’ *—Herald. ARK 532 RM a LAST 2'WELKS * anne Mat To-day, 215, 1s ak Fei te | Mom, vn Next” Week csae} __ PATIENCE | 1} ROBIN HOOD } EHUBERT-PIVIEKA, KALICH Fk 1 MET Aas 2 1 DOUF. WOMAN,” tke Week" MAY TIME." ' BUNDAY CONULAT, Lov TO Greenwich Village Peis iy 8 rina fl Mis 7 OBOHEMIA of Greenwich Village, Tun a CHARITY, CENTURY #32" & Wod., 2.18, SEEN 272? THE 27TH DIVISION'S BIG MUSICAL SUCCESS LET'S BEATIT’ | Lavairen ayn Must PRY LINE PASOLDtit PRODUCTION way Goud and Beiter than Pr nal. “ESPECIALLY THE MUSICAL DANCING BOYS ARE UMBERS SIMPLY All profits to be ad the division fuml f atered by beneft of NET. OP. Ho GALA CONCERT tics. Eve ats vERALDINE FARRAR AY WORLD WANTS WORK WONDERS Vs.i0y"Atuclation, War’ Tax SERGEI RACHMANINOFF PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTR4 SKATS NOW ON BAL en m Association, ® W. 38th; Met. Op, House, ‘Tyson's, iullman’ Monride's Agencies. “Writs 81 to” $10 Bagmabs Eoumeh ¢ \