The evening world. Newspaper, October 10, 1919, Page 36

eTHE NEW PLAYS e “Hitchy-Koo 1919’’ Entertaining Tomfoolery BY CHARLES DARNTON 4 AV™® you met the Captain?” If you haven't, Raymond Hitchcock will be only too happy to present you to the leading lady usher at the Liberty Theatre, where he is doing his best—and that’s pretty Food!—to make everybody fee! at home. Incidentally, a lot of people are meeting Mr. Hitchcock. They can't | help doing it, for he greets them ag they are going to their seats, takes them by the hand, tells thom how well they're looking, and by his insouciance, or Plain “gall,” compels them to return his bright, patent-leathor smile. In| tmot, before the show staris, he does everything Dut sell flowers. All this howdy-do-Tom-Dick-and-Harry business serves to introduce “Hitchy-Koo 1919” and put the audience in such good humor that it doesn’t | are what happens. I mast confess that this revue sets the reviewer a hard | task, for it can be described only as entertaining tomfoolery. Hitchcock | fakes it eo by sheer force of his comic personality. Certainly, George V. | any! ong has put little humor into the “book.” Horseplay ts not confined to | , the intoxicated equine, and other devices seized upon by the author 4re equally ancient. Most of the music written by Cole Porter has been Written before, but there is one pretty song, “An Old-Fashioned Garden,” with = quaint and charming setting, that deserves all the encores it gets. uy Cooper sings it very nicely, and the other pretty girls who fo with it are decidedly in the picture. Mr. Hitchcock makes a point of introducing you to such rare creatures &s Anastasia Reilly and Babe S0-and-So, and after bringing short girls to your Snraptured gaze, he trots out tall ones with the grave observation that every- thing ‘s getting higher these days. He is especially happy when he shows Off showgiris in the latest fashions and speaks of “the sunken waist” as | being “quite the thing.” At another time he gets so much fun out of « barber shop soen' makes you almost forget Lew Fields, Then again | he swaggers into mahip ticket office as a heavy English swell intent upon sailing to New York, only to be persuaded into buying @ ticket for india. In short, he does any number of things—and gets away with them! | ‘Mildred Keats dances charmingly just as the performance ts coming to an end, and Ruth Mitchell and Klaine Palmer are pleasingly in evidence from time to time. Princess White Deer may not be @ perfectly good Indian, out she’s a very good jazz dancer. ‘The costumes are so beautiful that there can be no possible excuse for the indecent display of bare legs that is made. It's not too much to say that the production is as la as “Hitchy” himself. And he’s really the whole show. ~ About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY only. to look after the baby? No, siree! I'l] get Cousin Flora to come ‘to the house and take care of baby OROTHY DONNELLY'S new play, “Forbidden,” has been ac- quired by Walter Hast and! for a week,” said Mrs. Browne. Mooser, who will place it In| In Baltimore, three days later, Mr. feheareal én October 2. For the| Browne met his wife after a shopping rol» they have Martha Hed- | ‘ur. J y “What did you buy?” } The phiy will have an out-ot-| “Justa lace collar to # “y town hearing on Nov. 17, Flora for looking after Baby.” 7 “What did it cost?” ¢ WOODS BUYS A PLAY. "Only thirty-one dollars. Even though he is confined to bis OHARA’S HIT. Sed by illness, A. H. Woods Ws still! john D, O'Hara has sent us the fa the theatrical game. The other! newspaper criticisms of, his per- Crane Wilbu ed on him at the formance in “Lightnin'’,” in Mel- vot onecel prorapierny ai he had a bourne, Australia, and they are indeed y,| abertag., It ts evident that Mel- dlny Mr. Woods really should buy.| bourne likes the play and the Bill Mr. Woods told him to come up and} Jones immensely, dead the play. Mr. Wilbur went up And Mr, Woods scquired the play:| is ATL Bh lake pacity ’ “ ” on of legitimate T fe calles “The Winged God. wtite ‘and vaudeville headliners will ee ‘be seen at the Century Sunday eve- ning at the Actors’ Fidelity League's The following named THANKING DARLING. AT, WoT T Said "TH “MORRIS'S * AN’ RANDOLPH” ARE ON “TH' “ours” ! JOE’S CAR WHAT SORT oF -SHOES WouLD YOu .iKe ? COMIC PAGE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1919 I TELL You, “THis BUSINESss OF KEEPIN’ A CHAUFFEUR (Ss BUNK! iS A NEEDLESS EXPENSE . wiTy “TH cosT oF Livin’ UP WHERE {T Is! BE SENSIGLE AN IDEAL FRIENDSHIP ? Capt. Louis Algsaro yosterday pre- | benefit. Rented Manager Al Darling of the - Theatre with a testimonial | feroll @igned by more than 300) Prounded soldiers. It is a message of danks for entertainments. ¥ ‘THE HOMELY PAIR. When Charles Darnton reviewed *Apple Blossoms" he referred to the Pomedians, Roy Avwell and Percival ‘Koaight, as “the two homeliest men give scenes from past succ Julia Arthur, Florence Nash, McCoy, Holbrook Blinn, Grace George, Thomas B. Shea, Ralph Herz, Amelia Bingham, Mary Ryan, Louls Mann, Margaret’ Anglin, Burr McIntosh, Billie Burke, Fay Bainter, Henry Miller, Kuth Chatterton, Frances Starr, Ina Claire, Otis Skinner, Mrs. Fiske and George M. Cohan. JAIL CURED HIM. Michael Nachbar, doorman at the Strand, used to be a policeman, Last night he was accosted by « patron of the theatre who asked if he had not been a copper in years gone by. te,/ Nachbar replied im the affirmative. t opera.” “I knew it,” said the patron, “I've een in jail only once and that was eighteen years ago when you pinched me for being drunk. That jail cured me of drinking. 1 went on the water night caused a cartoon of ee ee be made, Gee! but ‘ pictures: > gested that his wife nurse behind to le girl. nurse $2.60 a day LiKE TALK F zaT so! MYSELF BUT-) WHATS Your PARTICULAR FORM oF ASSASSINATIO ro wagon right there, Really, I owe a lot_to you." * “Glad to hear it," said Nachbar, “How about going somewhere with me and getting a little drink?” asked the man, GOSSIP. “Scandal,” at the 39th Street Thea- tre, is beating the record it made in Chicago. John Cort has placed ‘Three’ Crowd” in rehearsal. It is by Ba’ por Biggers and Christopher Mor. ley. John Halliday will remain in “The Dancer” unti) the Messrs. Shubert produce “Dangerous Years,” in which be will have the lead. ws Wood, recently of the Win- ter Garden, and Hi, ates will dance Sunday at the Terrace Garden Dance Palace. the occasion being the first anniversary of the institution's opening. . William Courtney is to leave “Cap- py Ricks” to head the cast of a Chi- ‘ivilian Clothes” company. The Me: Shubert will put “Hello Hopper.” a new musical comedy by Edward Clark, in rehearsal soon. David W. Grifth has arrived in New York to make this his film man- facturing headquart Eddie Leonard's Minstrel Band, re- leas by Eddie when he went into “Roly Boly Eyes,” is playing at Pabst's Harlem, Rivington M. Bisland has been ap- pointed Treasurer of the new Capito! Theatre. He used to play ball in Pottsville, whieh ought to help some. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, Success is like an aeroplane, It has to keep going or it will drop. 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