The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1919, Page 16

‘ Fy 2 © THE NEW PLAYSo “Moonlight and Honeysuckle” With Ruth Chatterton BY CHARLES DARNTON Scarborough has pussy-footed out of melodrama and walked Fgbt into Washington society. The revelation of Washington society at the Henry Miller Theatre is even stranger than fiction at five cents 4 W's: “Moonlight and Honeysuckle,” it goes without sdying, Georse Of most importance in the play is Ruth Chatterton. At last she seems §rown-1p. She has “manner;” she wears her clothes as though she had ‘Been born in them. It’s only natural that she should act at times us though she would like to jump out of them. But the fact remains tho! whe is attractive, Though @ bit cold s' @outhern ty, we have had our eyes open for years, and the sale of moked ¢' Feaoches of this country. I, for one, found it a pleasure to look at Miss Chatterton. Never has ahe been so lengthy, if sothing more. She is like @ statue of liberty, towering over Washington heights of imagination. « Yet Judith takes the liberty of suggesting to her various suitors that @he bas dallied with the honeysuckle in the iavonlight of other years, and accordingly, she shocks some of them with her “pust.”| A dude and a Con- Gressman fail to stand the test. But how about the ranch: from her} @wn State? Does he doubt her innocence? No, wiree! Le opens bis arms! to Bis pretty birdie and fairly aches to shoot whe snuko ip the grass-tmat ‘6f invention. While et>rience has proved that the boy frum the ‘home town Is Mkely to lose the girl he follows into a big city, it's encouraging to find that the stage gives him a chance to win tho prize he is after. Is hope ever! fo be crushed out of the heart of the small-town boob? N-n-o! Let us! rejoice, then, in the happiness of Judith, with ber manufactured “past,” and| Tod, with his perfectly natural present. | Still, only an Innocent stage maid would even dream of trumping up a “past.” Think of tho theatric mitrons who have suffered agonics over Mt—Mrs. Tanqueray and others! Would they have taken the chance of making themselves unhappy though unmarried? Let Pinero answer, for| he’s coming over here shortly with a brand new play. I must sgy that Judith ts virtuously original. Now that the “new woman” is an old affair, | it ls possible that Mr. Scarborough felt It necessary to invent a perfect lady with imperfect ideas. Miss Chatterton makes Judith altogether desirable, and James Rennie gees good work as the successful ranchman. A delightful touch of com-! e@y is given the performance by Lucile Watson as a.fascinating widow.! Somehow, Miss Watson can’t help being fascinating, That's more than I! ean say for the play. By BIDE DUDLEY INCE this Is Saturday, the birth- day of Oom Popple, the famous punster of Trego County, Kan, we have decided to make it Humor- ists’ Day with the column. Several |8ut mayhaps you can tell to me just ef our Broadway friends have con- why ipibuted humor, each modestly hint-| The Bronz girls love to flit ine that f is absolutely new, Take|To @ Brownsville dove with @ Louis Rosenberg, for instance. Le Brownsville bunch, tells of @ man from dut of town who| And hold a Brownsvillian's mitt. came to New York to visit his niece 7 in to nose around in the a*- / fairs of said-niece’s family. “By the way, Rebecca,” he said You cam boast full well of your pretty girls In “your” land of democracy. TO GIVE RUSSIAN PLAYS. Robert Whitticr will direct a Rus- sian drama season in a series of matinee a performances during the pant bust is your husband in?) Fai) and ‘Winter. He will present He's 4 newspaper man,” she re- | “T' Qrehard,” “The Thr piled. “Is that so?’ came from Uncle “Where's his stand?" The foregoing has always handed Us a erin Brothers “King Hung : and four one-act farces by Chekhov. TO SUPPORT CRAWFORD. Then there's Francis Byrne of engines will support Clif. Night." on Crawford in "My Lady Friend a aed ight" He .telle Us Of 8/4) t1. Brasce "han éngnged The: Pad who had lost his ‘horse. The’ Condver, Mona Kingxley, Rao How- twa authorities failed to find the'\din,|June Walker, Helen Gill, Claral “nima) and, just when the owner had | Vedera, Jessie Nagle, Frank Morgan ®iven it up for gvod, the town idiot |und Robert Miske. Edward Elisner is | ame in leading old Dobbin. Tho! staging the play, The opening will gener was astonished. take place Oct, 18, out of the city, ‘How does it happen,” he asked, “that you were able to find my horse WILKIE BARD HERE 800N. when everybody else failed?” i Wilkio Bard has sailed trom Eng- “0! replied the idiot, cheerfully, land for New York an wits Abd {7 just thought what would I do if T/in about a week. He is under con- os a horse and got untied, and then tract to th Keith vaudeville — ins T did it and there the horse was.” jtereste Bert Levy will head a r Next we have a joke from Ernest |ception eommittee to mect him ‘Truex, the pint-size comedian with | the pier. jthe talented mustache. | iL" went out walking once," says | . es? communication, “with two COSssIP. Walter Wanger has a new called “The Purple Slipper” Nearsal Thurston, the magician, leaves the Globe to-night, He will be at the Standard week after next s Lowell Sherman has been engaged Mesars. Shubert for a role in ood of the Moun,” werd Ordyns “Fair Helen” will o; Monday night Marie Nordstrom is to appear at the Palace Theatre, London, for Sir play in res fat girls—one on each side, A| Mewsboy spied us and began to ladgh. {When I asked bim Maughing about he said: * “ister, they ain't very meat in that sandwich, is tie And now we come to Sam Serwe gontribution. It is a simple, swe tory about the wedding of A. Wood nd Sarah Birch. ‘The knot was tied he Reverend Willowby and the ing dinner consisted of club wandwiches, plank steak and maple fee cream, Tho orchestra played * music and everybody was hat he was production of en in ‘Hartford nin of wil aged to swing| t the Capitol} Jand Townsend, the hotel man, noti-| Theatre. ih idea att fied us that he knows an optimist who| Kdward Garvey and Georgia Ma-| ig still carrying a corkscrew on his|natt have been added to the cast of the Wateh chain. Smith-Riesent musical comedy, Humor is a great thing. It grates |“ietty, Hohav on many! Out in Ow sree dint has been THE CRITERION’S NEXT. purchase of a » You ~The next attraction at thé Criterion | Would too if you } his mon Theatre will be John T. Meintyre's Rogers, the lariat in t Harry Hou- for the Bardsley Cushing has begun rehears- Yoomedy, “A Young Man's Fancy,” |@ls of a farcical romance called luced by George C. Tyler with | “Blind Man's Buff,” by Pitts Dumeld feanne Eagels and Philip Merivale in| Sunday re to be \cthe leading roles. There are twelve | held at the pexinning J™gcenes in the play. The opening is | to-morrow be held at get for Oct. 14, the’ Winter the 4th Street Theatre al Jimmie Burns has conjured up a new dance which he calls “Sippin Cider Through a Straw." He is danc- Jing it at the Terrace Garden Dance | Palace. SLAMMING BRONX POETS. Franklyn M, Arnold is the latest Brooklyn poet to take @ poetical ‘punch at the Bronx, Have a look: Pat your chest when you speak of the Bronz, | ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES, “And prate of* “your” land of the Haven't Lute Jonson's free; a Ask Walter Mloyd ud | AN—~Write Alice Brady, | Playhou | warded LAWRE a Meyer Cohen, Astor Theatre Building, about lyrics, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. A pessimist is a man who wears both belt and suspenders. Jay Bren~ nan, The Best for Repairing Glassware FCrockery, Vases, Meer- * wchaum, Furniture, Books, | Tipping Billiard Cues, ete. Use WAJOR’S GHENT Rubber ond leather, all 3 kinds. Mc Per Bottle Est. 1876 FOOLISHMENT, know a young woman named Mester, Whose sweetheart decided to test her. He asked for a kiss, And then heard her hiss; “Go on, you! J don't think it best ter.” FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “What room do lovers like best?" “I'm totally in the dark on the sub- ject.” “Mushroom.” » New York. 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