The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1919, Page 32

i iy My © THE NEW PLAYS © “A Young Man's Fancy” Absurdly Fantastic BY CHARLES DARNTON 4M HOUGH the Eden Musee is gone, we have Mr. Tyler's Waxworks, exhibited last night at the Playhouse. In other words, George c Tyler produced an absurdly fantastic comedy, “A Young Man's; Fancy,” written by John T. Mcintyre. Only @ poet could lose his throbbing heart to a deauteous waxen Indy in a shop window. Accordingly, Pickering is a poet, and when the shadows fail on Washington Square he wanders up Fifth Avenue and stops in front of a shop to saze long and ardently at a wax figure. Then Im fancy he meets this rare and radiant creature at a garden party and is enchanted | to learn that her name is Mary. Poets are more simple than they seem. M-a-r-y—oh, rapture! And so he kissed her hand. Well, the play went from fancy to reality and back again several .. times, and in the course of the strange proceedings Pickering smashed the shop window when he saw his beloved one dining on air with a perfect gentleman dummy, One shuddered to think what a regular devil he would De in a doll shop. The window dressers, together with an Irish policeman, him up to this violent moment, and when he was back in his lonely dining room Mary—that ts, Mary in the flesh—Mary of one of the first families of Virginia—Mary who was working by day and going to the ‘opera at night—came to him and sat at his table. She had come into her own for breakfast, luncheon and dinner—and at last happiness drove lone- liness out of Pickering’s soul. She was real—real—real, and apparently whe had an excellent appetite. He had no reason to fear that she would melt as she dipped into her soup. Jeanne Eagels made Mary a beautiful, pinch-speaking heroine, and Philip Merivale managed to seem almost sane as the poet. Fortunately, the audience was not driven mad by “A Young Man's Fancy.” “Five o’Clock” at the Fulton. Frank Bacon of “Lightnin’” fame and Freeman Tilden have given @mpie touches of humor to their comedy at the Fulton Theatre, and, what is more, “Five o'Clock” strikes a sympathetic note in its significance to Gefective children. But the plea is stronger than the play. So far as the story goes it concerns a young man who has been kept in a eanitarium for thirteen years because in his boyhood he be- friended poor urchins and stray doga.jnstead of collecting postage stamps and other useless things to which the members of his Boston family de- voted their ives. He finally proves his mental efficiency by writing a ‘vook. The daughter of the doctor in charge of the Institution has the book Published, anc the young man and the girl, as you may suppose, learn to love each other. But it is only after a trying examination, at which the testimony of relatives and doctors is given, that Orville is granted his freedom. Then he establishes a home for children who need help, Leslie Austen gives @ sensitive, well-considered performance as the unfortunate young man; Tim Murphy te thoroughly human as an out- spoken country doctor; Joseph Conyers makes the hotel keeper an amus- ing witness, and Alberta Burton is~sincere and pleasing as the girl who gets Orville’s book into print. There are also romping children to enliven the somewhat dreary play. About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY T last ‘F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest have found a young Hill, Cal, that is infested Tiong the bation he’ enya, and seater r ‘woman to play the title role in. the anttis by growlli eras “Aphrodite,” the big spectacular pro-| Somebody's been ing that guy Awotion they will make at the Century | meat ‘Theatre next month. She is Dorothy Dalton, tlm star. The producers had been searching all over the land for &@ girl of the proper mental ability and Physical loveliness and, with the as- Gistance of E. Lyall Swete, who is di- feoting the production, they chose ‘Mies Dalton. We happen to know that Aphrodite isn't to wear much in the on Ahad baa mgee the play. This fact 1 please Miss Dalton, 2 @lothes are darned high in price A LAUGH FOR You. ed because we A producer at a rehearsal of a play @ays to the hero: “You snap your fingers at the villain and ex® laugh- iy." All right! (Now the hero speals up. Says he: “If this play is anything luke your last one I can see where the £ A AWFUL NICE L LADY ce “THING —S0 ‘You 'GoT ALWAN® THINKING OBBIE S Mom) )Im clad TRINKS You Re SHE APPROVES | COMIC PAGE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1018) |} YOUR POOR LOOKING YouR LIFE. INSURED, EH? Sou SELFIGH HOG — Joc! arpuonse ts our L “HERE IN “TH'GAR SOBBING HIS HEART our! GO sec. WHAT'S “THE MaTYeR! KT) Hy * SKINNER REHEARSING. Gs Skinner has begun rehearsing 3 his aor ae. “The Rise of Peter ‘ad 4 Charles will 3 rip The play was writ- ten by Jules Eckert Goodman and the ‘e wife, Mrs, Maud Skinner. WANT “LITTLE WHOPPER.” Several London producers, who had Abraham production of “ne Little Whopper at the Casino, from ‘Washington, have made Mr. Levy for the English rights to the George Vivian, Seorerenting interests, believes it Fun @ year in London. BARRYMORE DOUBLED. Kennedy, who wrote “Boys ‘be Boys,” now at the Belmont, etories by Irvin Cobb, is acting Jest,” at the Plymouth. When oo Ringe opening Monday it 't be on hand to see act. However, in the last act “The Jest” he merely dons a sheet When the curtain Barry- roached Kennedy. it up and see your @how,” he i my ‘bit’ in the last act ‘here! What about itt” double in brass for you” John (Barrymore deliberately for his friend. BACON TELLS ONE. Frank Bacon, star of “Lightnin’,” J., boy, is in “A Young Man's Fancy.” notifies us that there is a stream near/| river and the Captain said to fall in.” audience eggs it laughingly.” Not with eggs so high, eay we, lenry. Gossip. Si.ney M. Piliott, a Montclair, N, Eddie Foyer, the cowboy poet, will appear at the Harris Theatre Sunday evening in recitations in costume, Walter Hast announces he will bring Gir John Hare to America for @ brief tour in “A Pair of Spectacles,” ner Diphecy sted was be ggored to forty wou! lers at the performance of “Happy Days” at the Hippodrome y afternoon. Evelyn Hubbell's Dancers, twenty pnb gave the Hungarian dance, the ‘ardas, at Pabst, Harlem, in cos- tume last night. Miriam Batista, originally in “Oh, ‘What a Girl,” rejoined that company at the Central Theatre last night. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Our idea of an impatient maj one who runs up a moving escalator, [ 4 Agi Wy HUA FOOLISHiENT. 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