The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1919, Page 22

Fuca Colurlo ANCTORVAN COMIC PAGE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, i919 “Literal Obedience,” Mom—What Are You Going to Say? eo THE NEW PLAYSe “Thunder” A Dramatic Echo | By CHARLES DARNTON wnat © ito THe. CANDY AGAIN ?P Pur THAT Box on “THE TABLE This “INSTANT 99°? Wet , I Pur THE. Dox on THE TABLE _ Did Nr T sy fag aa | } | | OUNTAIN folk have their place in stories, and from time to time they emerge picturesquely in plays, but they are little more than picturesque when brought to the stage unless they happen to have @ strong dramatic quallty. \ Tt was from the Blue Ridge stories by Ella Peattle, as the programme set forth, tat the comedy by Peg Franklin produced at the Criterion ‘Theatre last night was made. The producer, John Golden, did the obvious thing by naming the play “Thunder,” since it follows “Lightning.” But @hip time Winchell Smith did not have a hand in the business that he knows to his fingertips, nor was there a Frank Bacon to bring home to us the wentiment that makes life as we see jt across the footlights a sympathetic, | throbbing thing. “Thunder” is merely a dramatic echo, a pleasant rumbling, if you like, | without real <ramatic form. The characters are picturesque, quaint types | that edgrge attention, yet never command interest for more than the | passing mor In fact, the story is as thin as most of the mountaineers chemselves. © Preacher, known as “Thunder,” js not strong enough in) Himself to hold an audience, though he does “su a girl from bed perils | = 2 Suggested by « supposedly wicked circus manager, and commits his con- 1 7 : lence to the yarn that she is the niece of a rich codger who dies at THE BIG LI T T LE FAMILY Luke Has Tried Both! Psych 'agical moment. The treasure he leaves behind him leads to! *: ‘the susp'cion that a youth intent upon “larning” at an “academy” is guilty YES DEAR ARI Of stealing the miser’s fortune, but the preacher, with the ald of a mega- phone, forces the boy's father to reveal the hiding place of no less than $27,000, and so virtue has its own reward, There ore various types that give the play human and humorous touches. The of these is Mandy, a poor, half-hearted creature, who fimally runs a from her unfeeling father and ends a long-standing feud by casing herself into the arms of an hereditary enemy. | his pathetic creature, Liela Bennett was so appealing that she took e in the heart of the audience, When she trailed into view as a Hride she looked like a scared cat in a thunderstorm, ‘This scene, too, was § capital bit of comedy, with the vengeful father cowering before a pistol + aie the wedding ceremony took its more or less interrupted course. There | Was ancthor human bit when the bride slipped out to give her friendless dad a piate of ice cream. In every mood of the character she played, Miss Bennett wis simple and real, not to say poignant. = Burr Molntosh managed to be a lusty, strong-lunged preacher, but it} beyond his power to make “Thunder” dominate the play. One's interest | p day instinctively to the minor characters. Iorace James was capital | Buck, who had his eye out for a widow, but felt he couldn't win her) e: jt music—so he played a mouth organ out of sheer desperation, ; jes Althoff played an old fiddler inimitably. His squeaky voice and q funny legs won him a hearty welcome, Marion Kerby also served to be WHY THE AGENT SAID WE CAN BUY IT ON “EASY PAYMENTS \¢ ay | HAT EASY PAYMENT” “THING —-BELONGS "To TH SAME. CATEGORY — AS “HAT OTHER : WELL KNOWN ONE 3 — PAINLESS DENTISTRY’) Y'GOIN' To BuY Te will CiGarente COUPONS 2 when, with bandaged face, sy “the misery” she suffered. Chester’ Morris, Benjamin Kauser, Marie * eaven bless her fine, kind face—and others did everything that could * done for a woak play, she paced up and down, complaining | SEGAL, at present in Baltimore playing the principal feminkye role in a new musical Wilts ue she had a strange ‘oh a Baltimore streét Sun- ence,” writes Miss Segal, “is abashed by race, color or previ- condition of servitude. It comes all classes these days—apparently. Yesterday 1 went out to see if I could wet @ wasberwoman to do a few clothes for me. It was Sunday and I kmew the laundries were closed. And then, I wanted the clothes washed ‘quickly. Half a block from the hotel met an old colored woman and mopped her. ¢* Mammy,’ I #34, ‘could you tel where I)can got a woman to do Uittle washing for me? “The old woman grinned. ‘Laws, Wy!’ she replied. ‘I’se out lookin’ for...s0 te wash some clothes me.’ ‘ THE VILLAGE GETS IN, 4 reai poet living in Green- Village, despite all reports to the ie . He is Ethelbert P, Mor- and he loves the land of short- ‘women and long-haired men 60 that he has entered it in the of Poets, now raging in Greator York. This is what he has to war of Borough poets really got our goats Greenwich Village, home of poetry. why should lazy Brooklyn have a lookin? m reason for the Bronz IT cannot see, Histon, everybody, “Ws treat my home-land shoddy AT om this poet sudject I don't kick, leave it to friend Will Page dear old Greenwich Village lasn’t got all other Boroughs » licked, Morrison explains that be isn't ally acquainted with Will Page, that he had to use his name for rhyme. ISN'T THIS A SCREAM? Cecil, appearing in “Scandal” 29th Street Theatre, once made NB paique record She hada role in « laylet in which Digby Bell was ‘and at one point she had to Ho well did Miss Cecil that the whoop became the the act and she was known as “the girl with the Later she went abroad and 4 in London and Paris, Miss and she “LITTLE WHOPPER” OPENS. Abraham Levy presented the new Harbach-Vriml-Dudley musical com- edy, “The Little Whopper,” for the first time on any stage last night at Ford's Treatre, Baltimore, It wan received enthustastically by a largo audience. In the cast ate Vivienne Segal, Harry ©, Browne, Sydney Grant, the Wilton Sisters, W. J. Ferguson, Lotta Linthicum, David Torrence, Nellie Graham-Dent, Mil- dred Richardson and Lucille Wil- llama. Oscar Eagle staged the book and Bert French the numbers, “The Little Whopper” will reach Broad- way in a month. LONESOME. Tige, come here, here! You'll understand somehow, They've took her off an’ me an’ you Ain't got no mother now. e're goin’ to miss her awful, Tige, She's gone for good, old man; We'll have to try to-get along The best way that we can. You're goin' to miss that plate of bones She give you day by day, For, 'ceptin' Ma an’ me, the folks Said you was ‘in the way, Yer goin’ to miss her pettin’ too, For Ma sure wus yer friend; T'm goin’ to miss her, Tige, too much For you to comperhend, Sis says to try hard not to ory— That she'll take care of me; But that ain't it—tt ain't the care— T'm lonesome as can be. If Ma wus only here again, We wouldn't care what cdme, We won't forget her, will we, Tige? We'll love her jest the same, Here, old feller, w Gossip. ' Otto Harbach has bought a country place near Yonkers. At a rehearsal recently W. J. Ferr guson, aged seventy, was seen at- tempting the shimmy, Hardin P. Luca: writes us he has called “The 1919."" Tony Heind! has written the music for a ballad called “When You Look in the Eyes of a Baby.” J. Osborne Clemson writes from the South that the theatrical business is | good down there, He has a musical | show out It took Alfred Lunt, who plays tt title role in “Clarence,” a whole se won to learn to tweedie on the saxo- | phone, He hunted up an Instructor in each big town his of Greenpoint ompleted a play | Great Steel Strike of »mpany struck. | | ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. M. K.—Eugene Kelcey Allen is a dramatic criuc, He was never in| vaudeville. | WE GOT A PLAYER- PIANO BUT YOU'AINT yY BET TAM! I'M GONNA TELL ED Jus’ WHAT 1 ‘THINK OF Him! JOE , MAYBE HE COULDN'T HELP (T! ‘¥ Bye Womo GRAND FATHER. WAS A WONDERFUL CIECHANIC. HE DIO THE. FINEST WORK iW 37 wiTus: COME TO MY HOUSE ILL SHOW Henshall—Alice Brady married | James Crane, Ho is @ son of Dr Crane. Yes, he's an actor, | A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. | A strike of clorgymen is hinted at. ! Looks as though congregations ought to wake up. | FOOLISHMENT, | She went to Dad and asked him for A brand new sealskin coat, | Said Father: “Seal won't do at all,”| And then he got her goat. of living,” FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “He went up 20,000 feet in his aero- plane.” | “Must have beea pursuing the cost | HE 12 WS WORK AMO AE YO 1T wilt, Hl WAS A NATURAL GoRW CRAFTS Mans! SAY! You'RE A FINE GUY, You are! Y'PRomise {LE GET OFF wiTH A LECTURE AN' “TH'JUDGE SOAKS ME A #65 Fine! Biooey! THE OLD FAMILY SKELETON O©isid Press Pub co a WAIT RIGHT THERE “TILL | CALL You ————F 7 1 DONT BELIEVE HER. WERK MA AMY MEDIUM ~ “ W000, METAL, MORTAR be Coun HAN What Joe Thinks of Him! : ' WELL, HE ASKED ME WHETHER ; N I THouGHt You'D LIKE “T'PAY A You RE FINE ,OR “TAKE “TEN DAYS - -- m SO 1 WISHED “TH'FINE ON You! 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