The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1919, Page 6

——— oe Battie SOO ee Role of Brooks the Butler, | Intelligent Human Being, Sparkles in “I Love You’’ | Is One of the Best Characters Le Baron Has} Created—Shavian in Its Wit. | Py Charles Darnton. INCE the Admirable Crichton there has n na servant worthy of S 80 much notice as that ed by the butler in “I Love You." This man, of course, doesn’t “buttle,” as Broadway puts it, but he serv as the last word in everything concerned with literature and so forth that people with only money to their credit know nothing about. William Le Baron probably never talked with Bernard Shaw, but I ‘ul That deligh for! sure he has read him, for wit leaves its bright trail Old servitor William in “You Never Can T relation to the superior Brooks in the comedy at the Booth he confesses he went to Harvard and then to Oxford and 4s working as a butler, he replies: | “Well, you see, I'm not fitted for anything practical.” “Have you ever tried?” asks the sympathetic Betty | “Yes,” he responds, “when I first came to New York T got in a large business house, but I couldn't stand it. 1 stayed only two day The second day, in speaking to me, the general manager made a gramma’ cal error. He said ‘I done it’ I suppose I shouldn't have cared, but some-| how I couldn't stand it.” | “Then what did you do?” “I became President of a small college in the middle west, but as soon as I discovered that the millionaire who was supporting it made his money @ut of hogs, the idea seemed so far removed from higher education that I} might ea tair heatre. When s asked why bh @ position + is not only a mouth-) ~ he Isa man of tdeas—|he did in Idea,” that he human being, al-| has ideas noved from the} though he fecls it necessary at times| Broadway variety. His views on to seem merely s machine, | farce-writing for this reason may in With him, to my Le Baron Very well, has created the acter in “I Love You.” should be the first aid to farc farce for years has been both an in- sult and an injury to Intelligence. Brooks saves the play. For example. har- “Of course the Gredient of a farce is an idea that is first necessary in- . & ERY THING” — PRQDRONMKE. basically humorvus. much dilference where the it doesn't make or how you get if the play ts fin ba ees idea because, Peter, who knows nothing but successful, large nuubvers of pe ciety,” ventures the question: “But| Will sue you for iniriugement, while, , “Oh, yes,” answers Brooks, “though | urxina é erings Of course it has its drawbacks Ike] 1 Aan idea bursts upon you, in whit wae?” Words. if it sounds u od funny n idle €a si a “Well,” says Brooks, “I am brought into association with a very low class|iuucn to L of people.” Phen go ww pense of hu Possibilities, you provavly ha: sn With as is neve. (Additional dramatic ments for the coming week will be announce-| “You mean in the servants’ quar. (hl! ny, Are mh ideas, ieee printed in Tha Evening World Ai? of the Week will be Hrnest Truss! ‘ 4 inthe a rd {arces and tell him your idea | enday.) ‘ S OF FAITH” ind Louise Huff in a screen comedy- “No, In the drawing room.” in filty words. AZIMOVA will be seen at the RIS THEATRE) tama called, “Oh, You Women!” On There is keen satire in this kind of| “if he laughs and says, * Rivoli in “The Red Lant AT HARKIS THE: [Thursday the bil wit change to Antte| . Chat os org dea - ck- | writing. La Baron proves again, as gg re tery @ photo play based upon Hullth A te] “Fires of Fv al eat begin baggling over | Wherry’s story of Chinese life ducing | ct y ious ie | ture production which open |the Boxer rebellion, ‘The heroine is|the U. a our tn | t a ; Rea | “After you have accepted his offer,|m half-caste girl, born in @ Vexing | S°D5% Walter rhe Fx pager Medes ER eet tll te you rush home to your desk and plunge! cotfin shop, who becomes the war! ®t Man Woods was filmed in California and It's Gentle. into your dmara. “You have described | m n of Chin. court, and the film play > dealg with the re-| It's Effective. certain characters in your fifty-word | Red Lantern, Kidd Jr.” with ay Viekford, gentration of & girl who fought her| It Never Fails. scenario and you now gather them toe | companied t usic, | . ee . | way .out of @ trap. Commaoder It Pleases the Palate. gether and let them start off the first * | HASTIN BIG SHOW Mrkieainks Hockh at (hk DAvation| pout hai .” | Evangeline Booth ati Maif way through it you) “THE WHITE al wn EATHER COMES TO COLUMBIA y nt ‘ discover that Teddy C. to be your comedian, upon turning himsi ert, who was has insisted f into a gouty old vhen ts were preetitetbe Time wa in Ame do and failed { ON sc KEEN AT RIALTO Salvat daring to pto- Harry Hasting’s Big ca entlemnan, or perhaps a character! yfaurico Tourneur's latest produc-| the Columb) p just’ what is i 5 le some to! i “7 bo) burlesque “The Doctor in Candy Form cant, unimportant person is doing atl| #on, “The White Hether,” will be) burlesque jayers-Lasky Cor-| the talking and keep the main film & you in fits of feature at the Ri will please you and the children, mentai laughter, as The story, adapted from the The company includes ped to ive the Take home a box of Partola “The plot you started with has en- molodrama written by Cecil Raleigh|Dan Coleman, Harry Hollis, Phil Pe-| tre to the mane hey tonight. No pains—no incon- | | tirely disappeared and you are madly | ; 7 spaces e to the Salvation Army wenlenes building up complicauions that hi ve | 4nd Henry Hamilton, centres around | ters, 00 Home Service Bund Cam-| 4 nothing to do wit ‘the recovery of marriage record! Alma | For over 18 years Partola has | | ever, this should not du | from the hulk of a yaoht) Mar . Jeanette! , Phe picture has a cast that inciid been used by thousands who because, of course, your ¢ ¥ and the | fey | Cotherine Calvert, Eugene O'Brtei have been continuously helped | | know much more about playwriting place at the bottom | Ruby de Rewer and Taeodore Kob- than you do. If you let them alone they will usually come home wagging your play behind them. “It may be that the manager who has agreed to produce the play and who, while you have been writing, has engared a cast, will be annoyed when he sees the final manuseript which is supposed to be built a the clever | erts. when in need of a Laxative Tio Candies Raten To-night Wil Set You Right, Rene ee re ene ete cil aiso| MANY STANS AT WALDORF| a bathe Siaite MARR nG 6 Same) IN WAR RELIEF PLAY| BILLIE BURKE TO PLAY : ~——— FILM FEATURE AT PLAZA N’ AT STRAND| “Mrs. Drummond's War Rellef,” a — | WITH ANITA STEWART) Diy bY Mrs, Nina Larre Duryea, will! On the screet za Theatro| be given In the Waldorf-Astoria’s ball- | wil! be Billic gy,” to- | fifty-word idea you recited to him--| For its prinelp screen offering the bagi to-morrow night and x eee! sometimes he ts. riage Selpee Anita | afte n enk, “But by thia time he hae gone so] "rend. Theatre will have 4 y and Thursday om far that it wonld cost him more to| Stewart In “Mary Regan,” an adap-| J, tan and His Mone stop than to go on, so he takes the| tation of Leroy Scott's novel. One of | Wis nin “The Bank,’ play and ponte It into rohearenl 18 the raiding of “tob- others Friday ond Saturday | Other with r, Outing Floats a Drear w and inugi- | An) the incidents at this noint the author really heeins . bhp nS | ster palace’ i to write his farce. IJnat how it is done | can hardly he described in a family | ture newenaner, day some ntav- | Owls” wwrieht le m write a book on {the Strand Topical Kevic ow Plove Are Uneritten in, Re. [eal numbers, heapeal! TMhia hook will be mailed to any dmmatiet in Amoerion, in a ntain nn HOTO PLAYS, __PHOTO PLA‘ PLAYS. RIALTO RIVOLI B'WAY AT 49th ST il nt 9 BILLS AT NEW YO YORK Entre” not to avenge any ot ite cons [AND AMERICAN THEATRES | B'WAY AT 42nd 8T Direction of HUGO RIESENFELD Beginning SUNDAY, 1 P.M. “THE WHITE HEATHER”| NAZIMOVA | {uction of the Tho flim attractions at Loew's New York Theatre and Hoof will be Har 5 old Lockwood in NTS. “Shadows of Suspi- vurneur’s Pr Metro's Super-Production cion,” Monday; Mary Pickford Lane Melodrama “THE RED L Pa | ari the Getafe’ Wak®| RIALTO MAGAZINE = |“THE RED LANTERN” | Wednesday; nid Bennett Judge Rumhauser Cartoon na ente | law of Me Thur Bruce Scenic tt & Jeff Cartoon Walsh in “Help, Help, r Agee in inp, iio lice” at | RIALTO ORCHESTRA RIVOLI ORCHESTRA day; Shirley Mason in “An Unwritten n Girl” Overture A Chinese Honeymoon’ Code,” Saturday, and Norma Tale | Hast Tima wader CPCuL B. DR attILLIre Haat Tove wieder CHARLES RAY PHOTO PLAYS. THE MOST DARING PICTURE OF ALL TAMES!' A GIGANTIC DRAMA THAT TELLS THE TRUTH AND DRIVES IT HOME HARE GARSON BLANCHE SWEET Presents In MAJOR RUPERT HUGHES’ ASTOUNDING STORY eit SE AHASTINGS 4 BIG SHOW ly r V Pn (smutty) WAniOn n Amerie Bet BTHURTIGW SEAMON . aesiinincs rronsay SraDree | STONE“ PILLARD Lent NINE EVERLASTING | SOCIAL MAIDS SUNDAY £'14°2 BIG CONCERTS only, May Sth inclusive ARGONNE PLAYERS of 77th Division in Original Reproduction « ARGONNE FOREST und CHONETONDE HUN THEATRE Matic He Argue Fares Prieve Oncantre The & $1.00 Drow Cinke 00s, Toe, 81.00 Hacony ve le Se Directod in Porson by MORSHALL NEILAN 2,000 New Yorkers Chesred — 10,900 Were Sorrcwiully Turned Away Last Night 1h YOU WILL NEVER FORGET IT, me ecg EN) ' DANCE PALACE i TERRACE GARDEN “WON aon J uw a my Neyen case Dancing Heeninys, 1 tof mabe, From. 2 Nasa tool} Bit, DNFORU ASL Pe A Seturdoys, Sundove pnd ‘Hokdeye, Augmented Symphony Orchestra of 35,\UN WABI Foo, 8.Y. World ate a2. DPODROME | |°S= "3, Dapenvay worn wane whhx wonoens |Special wat Puce Broadway & 4ist St. BROADWAY THEATRE Direotion B. S. MOSS Dancin sto Tk. 1 Fs |“OH, YOU CALVERT NEXT WEEK'S OFF ERINGS IN FILM AND VAUDEVILLE CATHERING CALVERT! % aN oss Le COLOMBIAT {fATRE. WOMEN!” AT 81ST STREET THEATRE At the Sist Street Theatre the first night Romance. sure in the with Purene O’BRIEN and RUBY de REMER Catherine uced by. Prod Famous Playors-Lasky Corporation, Directed by Edward Jose SCENARIO BY CHAS, E. WAITTAKER “She Went to New York and Hasn’t Written Since——” T’S coming from the lips of a prematurely gray mother, leaning over the backyard fence. She quiv ers as she turns away to wait to wait “till she writes.” But will she write? Can she write? Chances are that she will, because You'll know why she will if you see “Fires of Faith,” the greatest story of human hearts that ever graced the silver sereen. At the request of the Sal- vation Army, the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation is presenting this moving picture for a limited engage- ment. Net receipts are con- tributed to the Salvation Army’s $13,000,000 Home Service Fund Campaign, BEGINS NEXT MONDAY NIGHT May Gthy at 8.30 P, M. HARRIS. THEATRE, 424 Street, West. ONLY TWICE DAILY M — —_—_—_—_, “THE SOCIAL MAIDS,” AT HU. RTIG & ¢ SEAMON'S “The Social Maids” will be at Hur- tie & Seamon's Theatre with George Stone, Pillard, John O'Donnel, Bert Bernard Ross Duflin, Lew Cecil Jefferson an THEATRES. WINTER GARDEN F ter Aaron gr Frente 4un, W. of wooTH bei Fell Fh! fare comedy’ Bio i AE AT 1130 =A SENSATION CONCERTS AND MUSIC. HiPPCDROME, SUN. NGT,, Mey 11 at 615" RECITAL RY GALLI-CURCI TICKETS $1.00, 91.50, $2.00, Newent Rachel Crother eels St. W. of BY fats. Wee MORNING JU fivoe __Motiie King, Charles King SALE Rate ettie Ri Met Cran ar Dv, Me 44TH ST. 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