The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1919, Page 14

COMIC PAGE | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1919 <j U, You Nrep NT WASH OUR we ‘Just You TS wa OuR. CLOTit —) ‘ “Scandal” Amusingly Shocking By CHARLES DARNTON Ai ee FAMILY has moved to the bedroom shocker, This momentous stride was made last night at the Thirty-Ninth Street Theatre with “Scandal,” a Se eae | fantastic comedy by Cosmo Hamilton | i Like the Hattons, perhaps, Mr. Hamilton delights in being “daring,” \ possibly because he thinks it’s profitable, A bed in a play may mean money im the box office. Again, like the Hattons, the author of “Scandal” appears % be fond of “society”"—meaning the sort that doesn't behave very well unt! the hour is near for the final curtain, The simplicity of the formula i 4a obvious. Let the proletariat see the idle rich getting into trouble, It's @ Ddeautiful, almost altruistic, scheme. All the people in this play are so righ that they haven't anything else to do. Now, “Scandal” is a scandalously extravagant play, but {t isn't a bad play; it's just amusingly shocking. A spoiled darling goes to the rooms of & painter at night, and when her relatives follow her and are properly horrified, she sends for a man in another apartment and announces that she has been secretly married to him, * nh No man in the world, of course, would be fool enough to accept this THE BI TTLE FAMILY Maybe Luke Saw Double, at That! situation. Men who go to the play will smile at it, but women are likely 12 q to take it hook, line and sinker, At matinee performances there will prob- q ably be breathing room only. 16 IT Thee WML i ‘All lines, you may be sure, lead to the bedroom, where the impromptu -PINCHIN’ es i “husband” tears off the upper trimmings of the reluctant “wife,” and| alba ar TH “THAT “So WAS “THE | 3 Ren’ Stes q then commands her to go to bed, It’s rough stuff, but happily Beatrix | + My ef wicur! ONLY BER MAN ' | “has another room and a inald at her disposal, ao that the audience is not) | PANQUET LN NIGHT? AT “THAT “BANQUET” compelled to hide its blushes behind its programme, ‘The moderntheatre, | THEY CLAIM WE WERE Las’ NIGHT 2 ; , DISTURBIN' TH’ PEACE 4 \GHT # ds nothing if not considerate of its trusting patrons, The lady trots back STUI “WE = WHO ARE ALL 4 with her golden hair banging down her nightgown, and all that sort of) thing, but the man, if you please, walks out on her! He's #0 mad, he can't) @ee straight, or at any rate see her, He must have beew mad? Well—but upRIGHT Crrizens! Inge, get ‘on with the story. fj ere’s a bitter honeymoon, in which the modern Petruchio breaks) f out with the rash statement: “1 wish we lived in the good old days, when | meu could beat women.” Mr. Hamilton's play is full of little thi ‘wonld thrill a sewing circle, To go back to the bedroom scene, for Mrs. Brown, the heroine's companion, rushes into the room, “Thank God, you sent for me! Am I in time?” To say that Mr. Hamilton skates on thin ice would be a waste of words, for even thick ice would melt under of the lines. But there is ex- cellent comedy in the last act, when ‘ and “Boe” are really sincere in what they say and make up their minds to marry each other. It was in this act, too, that the best acting of the night was done, Charles Cherry, who has the rare talent «f always seeming sincere, no matter how foolish the situation in which he iinds himself, was capital from } 4 | ‘the first, but he took hold of the final act with a firm hand and made it un- istakably effective. Francine Larrimore threw off her earlier affectations, a fairly sensible human being instead of indulging in gurgling achieved a pleasing bit of acting. The other members of the cast had very little to do, but they did it very well. j “Scandal,” I should ray, is sure to spread and become a popular success, i } i + BUD Coun (HAN. JOE’S CAR Blanche Should Buy a Good Horn and Then Get a Car to Fit It! Correa. 018 Pome Petition Co (.Y, Rowing Wor About Plays and Players WELL THEN, WE'LL “TRY IT ouT GOSH BLANCHE! I'LUTeLL YOU MIGHT AS WELL “TAKE (T Lx . ’ MATTER wera et! po You By BI DE DUDLEY FOR A FEW MILES AN’ IF IT'S TH’ WORLD “THIS OLD BOAT BACK JOE! T WOULDN'T “TAKE nm A : 5 ALL YICLAIM FOR (T= LL Take CAN TRAVEL" FEEL “THAT “THIS OLD THING AS A GIFT !! INK ID HAVE A CAR WITH A SPT, ewan Locce wa he oar reedings in partes folowes™ IT! How's Hat? MOTOR dumP! AN ee ge Sore - aha presented at the Harris! TAcre’s none so thick as a Brooklyn AW — wuats LIKE “THAT ? K—IK~1K! ‘} + Pheatre during the woek of Sept. 22 hick, Look OuT FoR. TH! MATTER ‘by the Messrs. Shubert. The cast in-| And the kind that tries to writc “THAT FLIVVER. 2 i cludes Isabelle Lowe, John Halliday, poems, . WITH (T ¢ i Effingham Pinto and Jose Rubin. At) 45 records 1 ahdw, ¢ i the Bijou Theatre on Sept. 22 Walter ue od Jit i rateadd Hast will offer “An Exohange of | Lag Wives,” a new comedy by Cosmo| 7? insane asylums and homes. Hamilton. Among the players will be Leo Baker, Forrest Winant, Crystal MISS ELLIOTT RETURNS. i Herne, Margaret Dale, Stanley Har-| Maxino Elliott has reiurned from England. With William Faversham she has formed a film-making com- pany. They will appear first in ptc- BACON TO BE A STAR. ture versions of “The Man Who Lost All bis life Frank Bacon has| Himself" and “White Man." George 5 Laspired to be a stage star, Now his} ). Baker will direct. lu Gream is to come true. Winchell th and John L. Golden, producers| ALMA FRANCIS RETURNING. sof “Lightnin’,” which Mr. Smith and ae Francis, after five years in i ims, is to return to the stage, She ‘Mr, Bacon wrote, have decided to |ha, th chinanad ty Molbitia Theatr: P¥ison and Mirlam Doyle, ea } ‘early in October. They came to New ‘York from their country home yester- GossiP. to prepare for the coming season.| Pete Smith has left the Famous- *Mias Marlowe, who hasn't acted for | Players-Lasky concern to do the pub- about five years because of ill-health, |licity work for Marshall Neilan, is entirely well again. For the new "Midnight Frolic,” to be produced Sept. 22, F. Ziegfeld, Jr., VOLLEYS FROM THE POETS. has engaged Fannie Brice. * ‘yey Will Archie has returned from 4 The Broox-Brooklyn age The Rg Bridgeport, where he went to sottle Lh ‘ eee ‘ote this Breads up the estate of his father, the late i ‘put the actor's namo ap ioe Seer cal erprises for a principal sole in ' t i a new musical comedy “My ee eee PE Hest Meneny Once tn a While." Hetty Mudge, Robs ree af ert O'Connor and Spaulding Hail will gaan - 7 SACL SOTHERN AND MARLOWE. be in this piece also. ‘Vera Miohe- G is ‘i { Ae ARE YoU 7H’ ONE WHO THOUGHT Sothern and Julia Marlowy | ie ‘ AY-HUGHT TOLP “LUCY Lick , MMR tEy tae eiaes’ ha covstare |e 0 vere the lencing role, sO THERE A THAT & WAS A SHE KNEW * e 7 ay in Oo SHE 1S, EM! RO, A Wore FOUR- FLUSHER 7! q . Archie Smith. : _aide into the enemy: George Arliss has sniled for Amer- f Bome people work to get in the pud-\ica from England and will arrive in le eve, New York in about a week. The Follies will remain at the And others have it thrust upon) New Amsterdam Theatre indefinitely 6 them; The show's road booking was disar- H * " ranged by the strike, i But as it's the Bronz that's pushing or Pos eitiy who sought chorus fj i us, fobs in “The Frivolities.” 185 were We don't want to “Gosh dern‘em,."| brunettes. Don't go in the drug siness, } flo a word to the wise is sufficient, wart and Morrison have engaged } fs oe en phine Whittell, Laura Hamilton, } ronz, for your boasts we do nOt | yrank Crumit, Irving Beobe and Nel- car n Riley for “The Love Lamp." } ‘ ,| ‘Thurston has arranged to extend r goodness sake, stop riding in the & x { For g SIRE #08 om his engagement at the Globe until } subway; Oct, 4, He cancelled his Boston open- Come up once in a while for air, |ing date. Milton ©, Herman, last seen in “An Ideal Husband,” has been added to ‘the cast of ‘Those Who Walk In Low Cooper will introduce a new Ned a wes out A . ; Nhat a Girl" d GO'WAY , #8 THAT SO! DID YOUR PAPA foes waaay c t a ache to Joplin Mor’ to" oan’ > Right back at him comes a load of WHAT CONDITION A WAS LAN dancing school. y | A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, Now that the strike is over a lot of well known actors are emerging from the tall grass, PLEAD PEN. } BLOTTING FOOLISHMENT, There was a young fellow named French, } Who said he had served in a trench. | His claim as a hero Soon melted to sero, When they found that the trench was @ ditch dug for a water pipe ‘The Best For Mopairing Glassware Crockery, Vases, — Meer | fchaum, — Furnit Heck!n” Tipping Bihtard | in Hoboken Cues, de aaa USE MAJOR'S CEMENT) FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, three kinds, Abe per]. “The Federation of Labor seems to botue jbe papendine.” % Est. 1876, “Yeo. hey ought t a h SWesiers: Vicase send ‘tor Special Offer! Spreaderation of Labor.” ne he al »