The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1919, Page 20

ay ew yee ene ; © © qight other productions scheduled for - eee Se ee ie ee eT © TIIE NEW PLAYSe “Adam and Eva” Merry and Bright By CHARLES DARNTON ‘VEN loafers can be put to work and be made to like it, according to E the gospel of “Adam and Eva." Now this may or may not be true, yet the play by Guy Bolton and George Middleton, cleverly acted at the) Longacre Theatre on Saturday night, is decidedly entertaining. “adam and Eva" is merry and bright even when the rich father of an #ife household is made to believe he is and in need of @ long vacation. | is urged by his family to take a trip to South America. At first he! ks at going, but when he discovers the little plot he changes bis mind, | ferns over his checkbook and his household burdens to his young business | anager, Adam Smith, and installs him as “father,” while he packs himself No man in the world would be likely to do such a thing, of course, Bt the authors evidenuy feel it their Orst duty to be amusing and they ®eeceed. They display both humor and originality, in spite of the fact that @heir play is like “A Successful Calamity” when the members of James King’s family are made to believe that a slump in rubber has brought about fig financial ruin. Does ruin mean the same thing) —————————————————— Bere that {t does in England?” anx Pog gg A His lordship chucks ly inquires a titled fortune hunter,| He Utle and runs @ livery stable; Shue his rival for Eva's hand, a 2.78| CURcle Horace quits being a profes- Bontor, lesey no tine in xetting away,|#onal Invalid and becomes an insur- It looks as thougn Lord Andrew Gor- | regi? agent, and J wn would follow suit, but he sticks | ‘0 the road selling his bargain with Eva and, like the| ents.” The final i parasites, announces his readi-|#n ecatasy of indu tevfo to work. In other words,|¢%Ine If not convincing. It only re- ie play bas its surprises, To put all ‘s husband takes mains for Eva to say: “Adam, have ‘wasters to the test, Adam appro-|® vite of my apple.” The honorable Priates the family jewels so that they |!!¥*ry stable owner gives her up like a €annot be pawned or sold, and when | & sportsman, and Thanksgiving Biya discovers him with strings of | dinner is served. pearls and learns his motive for the| Courtenay Foote is bots amusing More or less daring deed, she thinks; and sincere as Lord Andrew Gordon, Mm even more noble than the noble-| though he's not at all Scotch. For ye has promised to marry. that matter, the character might just One of the funniest scenes prover | as well be English. Very work, that “old stuff” will get laughs. | too, is done by Ferdinand Gottachalk, years vaudeviliians and minstrel; who is his eccentric self as Uncle men have read “want ada.” to the de-| Horace; by Reginald Mason, as a it of their audie and thin ts | flashily dreased salesman, and by Ben- it the desperate people of the Bol-| ton Churebill, as the business man tomeMiddieton comedy do for fifteen| who gets awfully tired of writing or twenty minutes. \checks, Ruth @hepley and Otto daughters go in for raising| Kruger play the young lovers accept- chickens and keeping bees on a Jer-| ably, and Adelaide Prince ta @ beau- ney farm, Julie saying, with Ingenu-|tiful vision as a silver-haired aunt. @Us confidence, “i know all about| The acting gonerally does a lot to Dyes after ing that book of m Adam and very good fun. About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY jl OHAN & HARRIS are announc- THE BOY WAS RIGHT. ‘ ing their plans for the early! Charles Compton, actor, went to part of the season, They in- recently and notio at most of tho ladies present were wearing Glade the resumption of the engage-| gowns cut very low in the back. t of “The Royal Vagabond.” now | “Huh!” he said, “Lot's wife looked the Cohan & Harris Theatre, and| back and the women of the present te launching of preparations for fy oa to look dite ese but out of town tours. These include two BAYES CE companies in “A Prince There Was”! A glance at the 44th Street ‘Theatro in “Going Up." “Three Wacos| bullding these days might make those » o yolet # + “A Dailor-| NOt conversant. w! e fa ink 5 ard Ree is or;| Nora Bayes owned the whole plage. le Man, we Acquittal” and Her name appears in three electric Mrs. Fiske in “Mins Nelly of signe on it Que sign gancunces the NOrieans.” Mrs. Fiske will begin) Nora Bayes Thea the other | {Wo call attention to the fact that her tour in Atlantic City on Thure- | 0 “y, ‘ac! ‘ ayes is featured in “The Sey of thie week, “A Tailor-Made | Galeuien’ she has had & photograph Man” will begin its season at Cin-| made of the building, and ts sending eippati next Bunday; “The Acqoit- her friends copies of the picture in- fai” will open in Toledo on Thurs- | @ribed follows: “Three Faces Kast” first plays Peg ZoUreye on this girl! She is mington, Del, on Thursday; : Eastern “Going Up" will open in am bus, Ow next.” Monday; th LEVY ENGAGES FouR. ern “Going Up" begins in Ham-| Abraham Lavy has engaged the , O. Sunday; the Kastern “A| Wilton Sisters, recently of Keith vau- Prince There Was" opens to-night at| deville, for the cast of “The Little Standard, New York, and the| Whopper,” the Harbach-Friml-Dud- rn company in this comedy will) ley musical comedy, which opens in in Denver Sunday. Baltimore next Monday. Harcy C. is announced further that Cohan | Browne and Mildred Richardson have ‘Harris have accepted several new| recently been engaged, also, for im- which they will produce be- | portant roles, the advent of the New Year, — Go! 5 “NEWS FROM THE WAR. George Monroe will be in “The Now Yorkville wants to mix in the} Passing Show of 191 ie of poets being waged by the) ‘The Sunday concet it the Hippo- more of the Bronx and Brooklyn. 'drome will be resumed Sept. 28, with . Grohl of No. 1648 Second Ave-| Mischa Elman, has this to say of the scrap: Patsle De Forest will be in “Oh, read the poems of all these fights | What a Girl!” when it reopens at the ..| Shubert to-night, een the Bronz and the Brook-| 1 torr ‘itNe has heen engaged by 4 lynites, Anton F. bilia for a comedy role In et let them scrap, for all we care, | “My Once TRE, N.Y, & While.” . Pete te Henry W. Savage will present “See- the best of all is Yorkville, fair.}aiw™ hin iatest musical comedy, at ‘and then Sidney Beckenstein of tho/the George M. Cohan Theatro next Bronx attacks with the following: Monday * Bo Brooklyn thinks we're in the soup | Oliver Morsece’s next theatrical pro- wi “Bevel Mii t ‘And ought to be in a chicken coop. i wil be an tak Lite + Well, I'll give the world a little clue * Phat Brooklyn really is just one large | t00, Next comes L. 8. G., who shoots at the warring boroughs from the side ning to-day and continuing rough the week Helen Carr will do high dive in “Happy Daya” at the r. has given John Steele, 6 Follies,” a long-term ppee in manner thus: contract at @ very substantial salary. @he Bronz and Brooklyn poets are) agoiph Kiauber has accepted a new rank, comedy by Martha M. Stanley and They have none but themselves to| Adelaide Matthews, authors of “Nightie thank Weber will produc For this expose of their terrible junk, arcical romanee by Syd caval c “Letty Arrives.’ Which waves us readers all in a , nate nee tas punk. usic between the acta of Phe Harlem dove are the once whol} "The Greenwich Village Follies” at the Nora Bayes Theatre voice George Broadhurst will send “Keep Preir thoughts in words and phrases |1t to Yourself to Chicago after this = pay week at TeHer’s Bhubsrt ‘Theatre, rookly Thurste t the Globe, took a rab- bit out of Reginald C, "Vanderbilt's pocket the other night. ‘This in spite of the fact that Mr. Vanderbilt does not pose as a hunter and trapper, My FRIEND CAME ¢ WAS HE PABACK FROM BOSTON ) are IN of me THOMGHT FOR TO-DAY. 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