The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1919, Page 22

i E> SLL eee / = F AGU © THE NEW PLAYS “Nightie Night” | Best Farce in Years By CHARLES DARNTON F FEATHERS aro in fashion, Martha M. Stanley and Adelaide Matthews | have every right to put at least two in their caps, for in taking their professional quill in hand the first time, so far as my knowledge of them goes, they have written not only @ capital farce, but one that is as elean as the kitchen in the final happy act of “Nightie Night.” Anyone suffering from insomnia should keep away from the Princess Theatre. There's no rest for the weary in this little 39th Street house. The so-called, “wide-awake farce” acted there would make even the tired Dusiness man button back his eyelids. No matter how tired you may be, @ good Jaugh will do more to rest you than the promises of lower food | prices, and there are so many good laughs in “Nightie Night® that the if piece gives you a hearty feeling. ‘The circumstances of the affair are wildly extravagant, but the incidents fe irresistibly funny. For example, there seerus to be no reason for Trix- fe’s running away from her husband fight after a portoctly legal ceremony Because #he is the mother of a son by & perfectly dead father. Facts don't matter, It's the fun of the thing that counts, and when Trixie flops on the floor and rolls herself into a rug as though she were an acrobat in the desperate hope she will not be “dis- covered,” the funniest situation that farce has offered in a jong time is revealed. ‘The agting, for the moat part, Is as ] Matendinns soma good an the play. The burden of the play is carried by Francis Byrne When he acted with Rose Stahl in “The Chorus Lay” he was villianous, But given the freedom of farce, he proves himself to be an exceptionally clever farceur, There is not @ point in hia whole performance that ha | doesn't reach with a delicate sense of humor, In hia comic distrean he halt xwallown his wordn, yet he miccoeds| in making hia whole scheme of acting thoroughly come. Suzanne Willa doew a good piece of work and Dorothy Mortimer is @ nice litle wife. In short, the acting is exceptionally clever and “Nightie Night” takes it# place in the farci- cal heavens. By BIDE to Introduce to Broadway his new Booth Tarkington play, “Clarence,” on Sept. 20, at the Hud- som Theatre. This comedy was writ- ten to order for the producer, who de- fired to Mt Alfred Lunt with a role. Mr, Lunt spent more than a year ip the male leading role in "The Coun- try Cousin.” He has the title role in “Clarence.” Others in the cast are Mary Boland, Helen Hayes, Wisie Mackay, Susanne Westford, Rea Martin, John Flood, Glenn Hunter, Willard Barton and Bariowe Horinawi, ( PORGEC. TYLER bas arranged IN THE BERNARD CAST. A. H, Woods has completed the cast of Barney Bernard's oew starring vehicle, “The Honorable Sam Davis.” in Mr. Bernard's support will be Augusta Burmeister, Lucille English, James Spottswood, Jack Crosby, Mer- tim Alsop, Robert Cummings, Stanley . ORDERS ARE ORDERS. While the Pershing parade was passing 59th Street yesterday an o o@upie got through the police lin aad sat down on the curb, He looked eighty; she seventy. A big, rough imap eepconches them, fou'll bave to get back behind the Mes,” be growled. “Orders are or- dere” Aa was passing. “That's @e one Jocy went away with,” said fe old lady to the old man, “and ene he'd ‘a’ come back with . mother!” eaid the old man tone. " said the cop. “Set down You'll get your clothes all ett F & moment later an old couple peated on the handkerchief of ig diuecoat who didn't seem to whether orders were orders or La © BY WAY OF DIVERSION. A Uittle rag-doll is asleep in fits. orid; its clothing in sad dis- e@rrey. Deep down in her trunk mother’s tucked @ wee bib and there it is going to stay. A high chair's been sent to the attic @dove; a go-cart went up with the chair, Each one has com- pleted @ labor of love and cob- weds must now be its share, A picture-book went to a neighbor's to-day,*a gift to a youngster we know. And mother has put some wee dresses away to look at as years come and 90: We've Dowed to @ heart-rending ruling _ of fate—a ruling that hardly seems fair, The home seems so About Plays and Players DUDLEY solemn and quiet of late and God, but it’s lonesome up there. ANOTHER NEW THEATRE Brighton Beach is to have a new theatre. ‘The Robinson Amusement Company, which owns the Now Brighton, has arranged to build @ big | pleture house on the nite of the Brighton Beach Casino, ‘The theatre will have a capacity of 3,000, GOSSIP. Nat Curr has been added to the cast of “Just a Minute.” H, H. Frazeo ig to present Clifton Crawford in @ m' "My Lady Fri ‘nd John Wenger has been engaged as art director of the new Capitol ‘Thea- tre. D. W. Griffth is to buitd a big film studio on the Iagler Mxtate at New Rochelle, Doris Kenyon, film atar, legitimate etar and poetess, has written a book called “Humorous Monologues.” Mary Ceetl of “Scandal” is the au. thor of a sketch which Joseph Hart will stage. He needs a “lady vamp.” Frank Toohey, ybrother of John Toohey, author, has taken hold of the anmblicity for a feature film called “Heads Win.” Sam H, Harris has given the fta- ox that was in the man- department during the A. Page, who has it at , loaded for tear, ” ndred students of the New York School for the Deaf and Dumb will Helen Keller's film “Deliv- at the Lyric to-morrow aft- ernoon, “First Is Last,” a Samuel Shipman and wilt open at Maxine 's Theatre September 17. "Th ® Million” will return to the Lyric next Mon- day. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. ; Fireman—Your poems are all too jong. Georgie G.—Write Walter Kingsley, Palace Theatre. FE. and M.-—Thetr salaries are their privato business, You'll have to ask them, comedy by relval Wilde, Daly—That's before our time, We're considerable of a chicken, *A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Anked yesterday if he had an tensive wardrobe, an actor replied: “I'm standing in the middle of my wardrobe right now.” CAN THIS BE TRUE? Does Kudie like Dotty? 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