The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1919, Page 14

_ STARS OF STAGE AND SCREEN WHO APPEAR HERE THIS WEEK | New Offerings UTH CHATTERTON eR Henry Miller’é Theatre to-migh | in "M nt ond Honey } @eeklo,” a con by George Sear Dorough that } scenes in Wash ington. Mir rion has the rol of the dougie: of a Wes Senn-| 1 tor, and ot aracters are araw! / from Washington social types and| Western political frien the Sen- | 4 ator, In the suppurting cast ar | James Rennie, Kdward Fielding q Lawrence bidinger, Charles j Bridge, Sydney Booth, Lucill eon, Katherine Emmett and j Bhofield i At the Lyceum ‘Theatre on Tuesds nw night David Belasco will present In ' Claire as a star in a comedy by Ay ; Hopwood entitled “7 Gold Di goers.” With Minx Claire will ' Bruce Mchtae, H. Reeves-smith, Mred i erick Truesdell, Horace Braham, Aus ten Harrison, Harold Christy, D. Lewis Clinton, Frank’ Lewis, Jobyn Howland, Beverly West, Louise Gal | Joway, Ruth Terry, Poullne Hal ; Lilyan Tashmen, Luella ( adys i Feldman, Katherine Walsh and Lou i ise Burton. H ee ae Hl “The Dancer,” a comedy by Edward Locke, Mat Marcin aod Louie K. An epacher, will be produced by the Shu- borts on Wednesday night at th Marra Theatre. The play is con i] cerned with the social experiences of ty @ Russian ballet dancer in this coun- H try. In the cast are Isabelle Lowe, | Zohn Halliday, Rubens, William Morris, = Effingha Pinto, Helen Sallinger, Eva Lang, Miriam Filiott Renee Adore, I. George Burnett and Richard Freeman . . On the same night, ot the 48th Birest Theatre, George Broadhurst will offer “The Storm,” described as “a romance of the big \woods,” by Jangdon McCormack. The company includes: Helen Mack Kdward Arnold, Robert Rend , Charles Hen @erson and Max Mitzel + 8 A mystery farce Your Wire?” Punch and called “Where's esented at the ¢ on Satur. ompson. Among Dorothy rge Howell will Judy . Th Tp Nila ‘Newell, Grace Goodall, ¢ and Jack Pollard. oe Fiorens Bieeterd sr. offef on \ the New Amxierdam Theatre Hoot on Thursday night at 1!45 the new. est oitition of the “Midnight Frolic \Bome of the entertainers are Frances White, W. ©. Fields, Allyn King, Bavoy and Brennan, Ted Lewis and Die.Jase band; Byan_}} .rrows Fon- Hal Hixon Martha Mansfield, | Fanniy Brice » ¢ | to-night at the Manhattan Spore Bowne. “Good Morning, Judge,” with George Hassell and others the _ orteinal eay of ‘Theatre. The Standard Theatre will have “La_La Lucille.” “The Unknown Purple” will be the attraction at the Bronx Opera House, —a—_—. / ) Raia, Few Shows, x Make Dull Day in Varin, PARIS, Sept. 29.—Parisians spent a @ull, monotonous Sunday. To add to the general discomfort of the theatri- eal strike and no horseracinss, a steady drigtiing rain fell all day 5, from general, t ous Aj to make people hesitate to start on what might turn out to be a i freitiess journey in search of distrac- tion. ent between strikers ond Ren-strikers led to fisticuffs last night, police intervention was needed. only distraction left to Parisians found in cafes, where twice a day ing orchestras play. Needless to the cafen were rapidly filled. Peanut Oil —makes a delicious ealad dressing, ie an economical shortening and fries “deep” vite eut burning. Ask for ? Piedmont In the Theatres comes to| Irene | | Murier TINDAL. NS MONTE CRISTO JR, WINTER GARCEN | Ror CHATTER TON INS Oon Liater | HOnevsock ve? | Hera, e ra “‘Close;Up"’ News and Views Of Filmland and Its People By Julian Johnson §) O. DAVIS will become editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal, Jan. 1, succeeding the oveu- Pant of the chair for thirty years, Edward W. | For the past six months Mr, Day is has been managing | jeditor of thi jodical, | It is safe to say that a curt item,| carried in a single paragraph by the jAssociated Press of last week, was |the most interesting personal item of | the day the film Harry O, Davis came |the film busi one of its most erally’ speaking, was against him, to business. sbrity and was certainly nique figures. Gen- ry man's hand whether his hand was against every other man or not. And these hands wore not hands of enmity, #0 much as hands of protest- ing astonishment and incredulity. The Davis method hadn't been heard of, and it couldn't be right To be Sure, he had his troubles, but he tainly stirred up a lot of excite in , nt while he remained in the celluloid puddle, This tall, lean, red headed icono- clast first appears in the old Sears- Roebuck organisation in Chicago as & protege of Mr. Sears. Mr. Sears passed on—but Davis passed on also to the San Joaquin Valley, in Cali- fornia, where he was a successful bog raiser, The astonishing part of the man's career i that each succeeding phase of his activity is totally and utterly different from anything he tried before. After the hogs Davis appears as the genius of the San «0 Exposition, a lovely fair—or more correctly speaking an architec tural dream and a landscape gar- dener's vision—which was put more or less on a permanent basis, Here he attracted the attention of Carl Laemmle, President of Universal, and at “U City” soon started a series of arthquakes whose tremors were felt wherever men manufacture pictures Day Introducing efficiency in the wildest and most wasteful of trades! He formed his own organiza tion throughout, heads fell by the hundreds under his axe, and, despite protests that he would have none Mf the star system, the pictures that sponsored made stars of them- selves and some of these stars are the very bigwest Universal possemes to: day, His stories too were hits at the that is to say, the stories put under his baton. But, lest the infer that Davis himself did but executive wrk let to mkt that this ¢ inanufacturer-hog ra. man sat him down which ving hasten w us untless “show - und wrote several firmly established a stove comedies creen mirthmaker whe had uever eon heard of before Phen Davis and Laenimile blew up, he arted from Universal al- ddenly he had cc ving, however, the remnants of his Hulold civilization beh nd him. He Next appeared--and as suddenly and unexpectediy-—as the absolute maes- tro of Triangle, which had recently been deprived of the persons who gave it its triangular name—i. e., \Grifith, Ince a nnett, For about one year the “Davis way" prevailed Jin the Triangle lot very fine plays were ing blossom-like aAmmie ring and & number of produced, stand- ina field of pro- which Were not so | It read: lealled “The Bugle Cal) THE EVENING WORLD, MOi DAY, SEPTEMBER 29, ' TH Au Zh SI co ae + CHARLES CHERRY InN SCANDAL” SOts STRRET THEATRE nd suda corpor n parting of the ways with hii on. When he retired, last year, every | one thought it was to start his own, film co tion, with the fairl on= aiderable ps 1 fortune accumu- Inted in his energetic and singular film efforts. | But, no. Here he is again—an| editor! And once more the film na-| tion is astounded and buzzing about it | Dy the law of averages, successions probabilities, and all that, H. O.| | Davis's next incarnation should bi as a modiste on the Rue de Sol thing-or-Other, showing Worth and Paquin what they don't know about | gowns. And maybe he will, at that, While Bryant Washburn was in Chicago lust week filming some neéc- | essary scenes for “It Pays to Adver- tise,” he received a wire from | “Sonny,” or Bryant Washburn junior “Dear Daddy: Baby brother | has just arrived. He likes California, | but is peeved that you are not here to welcome him. Weighs 10 pounds, has brown cyes, and all three hairs are curly. We all miss you and want | you to came home. Moth and brother are fine. Love, Sonny The Collier kids, Willie and Buster, | are having the time of their lives making comedies at_ the ph studios for Joseph Schenck, Ne ia Talmadge's managerial consoct, Wille | Wis never particul ly fortunate in his en Ca ys, Buster | made a real hit in a‘ of thr » drama years ugo—or maybe more— Buster has ‘grown up a little since then, length- {ening his trousers and acquiring @ rexponmible air. Hoth Colliers ara) crying for scenarios for the new | funny pictures, According to a recently circulated rumor, Maurice Maeterlinck is to write a film play for Fannie Ward. | Miss Ward met the Belgian and dis- cussed with him the possibilities of picture writing. Before he knew it M. Maeterlinck had agreed to think It over and supply Miss Ward with a new vehicle for her dramatic talents. Maeterlock has been filmed; no one who saw “The Blue Bird" will forget the Tourneur classic, Those young ladies throughout the United Btates and the Dominion of Canada who have been following the speech-making tours of the Prince of Wales with bated breath will ture a dark green shade when they hear that another young lady—in her carly twenties—is to have an opportynity to view the Prince close up. The young lady will be accompanied by 4 camera, which she will use to vemmit optic murder on Albion's heir, Louis Lowell is the first lady “camera-man, and she has been assigned to “cove the Toronto engagement of the Prince by the Fox News Weekly Natalie, the youngest Talmadge who only went into films on family provocation, ix to be on her own at last. She will appear in “The Way | of a Man,” a Thomas Dixon pictur Sister Norma did “The Way of a It's all in the family Woman.” With Bid Bennett in a new picture is Dorcas Matthews, who lias per formed long and creditably in vamp parts. of lobert | Melkwin ad man of |the srec tor | - | Product “On With the Dance will be on at the former studio ngle, in Yonkers, which y has leased, | George Fitzmaurice is directing the new Mac Murray picture The 56th Street studios are bustling with activity and sputtering with lights. There is the Minter company working under Will jam Taylor's direction; Billie Burke and supporting cast, with Larry Win- dom bebind the camera; and Lionel Barrymore, making the interiors of “The Copperhead” to soft music enclosed set. Dorothy Dalton, the star of the Bast, in 125th Street in an Tne is busy at a studio ‘The Itobert W. Chambers Film Com pany has been born, It will make, ac- cording to report, picturizations of ail A these » masterly dramatization of Charles Rann x “The Servant in the House. old, has never heen seen by: the pub: ‘This film, more than a year Davis created Pgh the author's brain-elildren, Many | Chambers tales have been filmed: the Cosmopolitan Productions have already jhe had the ni Abe Ss ieee pein, CRIPASON y Bix BROACHURST | cae 2 F4:. LZ THRACE WITH THORS: urge * ore a i Se%eoors TON THE MAGICIAN GLOBE THEaTeE va " INA‘ CLAIRE ¢ 'N*GOLO ae A VOOMELEN MACKELLAR In “THE STORM” 4@7 Stace Wantne Elman n Plays; Italian Operas Sung at Garden eieneaenmcaiene | | ! | By Sylvesier Kawling. ISCHA ELMAN gave his first violfn recital of the senson | here at the Hippodrome last night before an audience that hausted the capacity of the big audi- torium, stage and orchestra pit cluded. He showed unwonted artis- | tic continence without any impair- ment of tone, Mr. Elman’s playing, technically admir.ble and often. bril- ant, has not always satisfied the elect. It came nearer to achieving | that result last night than on any asion that I recall, His ap- peal was that of an artist; his sin- cerity was not to be questioned, and he lost not one whit of the adulation always bestowed upon him by the mass of his followers. In the Handel sonate in D major, with which Mr. Elman began his pro- | gramme, and in smaller compositio assistance of Josef Bonim at the piano, The unaccompanied Bach chaconne he played worthily, Among the works he presented wer his own parap!)"use on Rubenstein's “The Dew 1s #: urkling,” and compo- sitions by Ernst, Bruch, Tchaikovsky and Sarasate. H in Madison Square Garden held 12,000 people last night at gala per- for of opera in honor Ad mira} Conz and the officers and crew of the Italian battleship Conte d Cavoug, In consequence, between a ance of torlum wag decorated profusely with American in Italian were made by Justice Froschi of the Court of Special S¢ sions and by Admiral Conz; there were presentations and an auction with Anna Fitaiu, the opera singer, taking part, and there were frequent shouts about Fiume and D'Annunzio, hot well timed just how, per that were applauded thunderously. But it must be remembered that it was Perforce. “Cavalleria get an Italian occasion. the operas presented, and “Pagliacci,” must geant notice, Madison’ Square is indispensable for some of York's activities, but it is well- impossible an opera house. The Mascagni work, with Rosa Pon- selle a8 Santuzza, I did not hear, In Leoncavallo's litle comedy-tragedy there was a notable pronouncement of nigh \ Some $20,000 and $25,000 will be turned over to the Italian Free Milk Fund. AMUSEMENTS. The figures were given to me by Sot) Bi) 1 Uk S Fortune Gallo, the impresario, who EVERY DAY directed the entertainment. ‘The audl- | HOLIDAY and Italian flags; speeches | PHearrety Se } MARK my QUEENIE SMutH lig "opened to Galsworthy ° STR alt Tom Moore Kiteeee BOLY Eves” naidered “ and Lady Algy* . Y t rook pia Th hought 4 ogg a wad with Be proprietors these! Sever oocurred to it ducer Johu Strand Orchestra MGAMET Dace Places of entertainment ts ng tO}, Williams, mor t 1 ad Fagg oy yay cog AE Sivest "pe a life and death eee ata Sta A) ik il AZA HAYAKAWA Bisou THimaTRE, ‘lie deal — THE DRAGON PAINTER® PHOTOPLAYS. PLAZA _ORCTLENTIA~ Theview [THEATRES IN PARIS YIELD 10 STRIKERS Houses, Including O1 and Opera Comique, Will j Ban Non-Union Actors PARIS, 2 -A number .of the theatrical to accept ar of engaging the matter is now before syndical managers have tration on the question non-union actors, and the Inter- nployees’ ittec. | veral prominent managers have ac- cepted the committee's contract form, proposed | | Compr including the clause prohibiting | the engagement of non-members of the union and no prolonging be- yond September, ments of non der contract. managers of the Antoine, Grand-Guignol, De Jazet. The directors ique reached committee 1920, the members already un- These include Renaissance Odeon, Cluny and engage- of the Opera Com- agreement with the | permitting them to open their house this afternoon and eve- ning. The of the commit- however, declared that if within an secretary forty-eight hours all the managers had not accepted the contract form the strike would be made general, | even in the case of the theatres) which had signed, | M hall strike leaders say the present contest in which they are en-| AT THE HIP.” aryl te HIPPODROME | HAPPY PRICES, SEATS 8 WEEKS AHEAD. | HURT E MoI HS BRUACGINL SOUL SHOW | CHRIS TENED | ' GIRL ® D Hall Open Ay Ta tARLE ys, Sundays ad . ingluding 3 0, TERRACE GARDEN | try ian pene rt Besirs ia ls DANCE w OLUMBIA r | BILLY WATSON ane, | \Breae AMUSEMENT Park | MINUTES PROM Roller ‘TIMES SQUAR= Skating made “The Dark Star” and “The Iest- pe Sek It is not said that Cham- ‘will personally su; Die works and bers Te ee came to in the filming, the prologue by Riccardo Stracetari, ite pity that Edna Kellogg, sab- stituting for Miss Fitziu, as Nedda should t ing her local operat: debut. Comment upon her vaice and art must be reserved for her appea ance with the Metropolitan Opera. Company, Other singers of principal arts were Stélla de Mett, Mario ‘aiie afd Manuel Salaear, and Gae- tane Merola was the conductor. Sunday Word “Wants” Work Monday Morning Wonders, helself from lasting damage.) But/ticro’s no nonsense about them into what corner of our theatre does | They're terribly in earnest and aw- the bedroom play fit? A very small |fuily busy, In fact. they're so busy : |that they don't get a moment's rest one, I should say |during the whole course of the play. To be sure, there is a certain, ex-|'Toke Mr, Wheeler, in “Clarence,” pectant public for the play that|acted to the life—the strenuous life— eae * ‘ “4 pert John Flood. This character is throws back the counterpane and pats | ossentially American. Wheelers are the pillow Ilible folk watch those }as gommon as sewing machines tn preparations wit interest, | lligh*geared neighborhoods, and it ts se om oy «/ce8y to see that Tarkington takes Yet there can be but tcome, 8 loon delight in making them squirm in “Scandal,” when leaves | Poor old Wheeler works as hard in he heroirf# flat hy he does in his office— yes, harder, There's no rest for the It is Interesting to draw compart |¥0% Bardo sons between such 7 as Cosmo! On the other hand, Hamilton's peo- REPLBLIC Hamilton has a weakness for writing ;ple don’t have anything to do but Theatre. es ly like “Clarence,” the {c@f @routid and get into mischief, kts Loci Ml Ld 7 Now, such Americans as these could hearty w f Booth Tarkington. |oyist only in the imagination of Mr. ‘There's nothing like making the|Hamtiton, He doesn’t seem to realize ‘ ‘ in shat even the members of our leisure theatre invitin I i istaliy have something to do American comedy, most of tha sides getting into trouble, Lolling keeps it w e end popular, 1 un thes by day and : Wiis’ pts in an | beine ! within an inch of their the artin shat elbicnbetirs * nik them @ cer- atmosphere heavy with it amour in the eyes of play- Go wash your fa " Lin ix days a week, but the play at the Hudson, | ue weve cir tae ' common with Americans, dience never f that itn ‘‘Voerdé’s only one thing about thm ts mind before tak home, 1 hich you can feel certain—they mptntith lorful a ‘ t trike, because they never but abs all it ha i 5 his " nd from f 18) ut hair rh pen f fresh’ ' i th retain " ng poreh—and by a y is wh re Tark vs appeal (1 4 Picture Triumph. Matinee Daily. \, udier ' n simples le Be) Dorothy N A sew mecreLo™ tile plays of i ive. Vor | ARES) Phillips in N MoMiGHt FROLIC” “Sxmmmammmee thing, 3 ¢ put) Matinee N NEW ~ vard or a gard net Dad Haat N ASSIS” Da pe ‘ ; | ily {o Happiness KC ik Nis asl | Ths Grevtest Love Story alohe: N wae cacert town the cella M than a SX remembers h lah and en » you y Better than hal ahed 4 m3) 1055: pla. hig rab Pe ned MNNTTTINEE GEO. LOANE TUCKER TREMENDOUS DRAMA 1919, a et a ‘It’s the Clean American Comedy That Keeps the Theatre Wholesome —ee | p |sertous ‘actor In it, | By Charles Darnton. |"'Just now Mr. Tarkington and Ma F the furniture man should ever |Hamilton offer an interesting Cd mil to whload ‘ tage |in contrast, Tarkington has the fail to unload a bed at the stage |) comers Tarkington z vor, the sophisticated comed¥ | whereas Hamilton is an Englishman. would be ruined. (The lady in the|He convinces you he has grown up case may always be trusted to save|W'th the characters he creates, that has known them all his life, And 7eHinacle Han. be adoir me Ie romances on whieh the p iger wont omerpecin So HE LIFE LING. ay that means anything to th ? Wa a was » mind ts so rarely nivoct Cyd vial) BQ VALTO | wctsore® sats aa 2 inee, mad Times Sonera RIALTO ORCHESTRA, THEATRES: in 3a veys inntian novel arzed blooded story of tense American life ‘ Jo am 5 el This Week Because Tremendous Poprlart CENTRAL THEME sain wyy-77300 times Daily from {PM to 1PM. PRICES 50¢%—#/2%2 The lest Western Melodrama cver Screened