The evening world. Newspaper, November 24, 1919, Page 17

Se ER Te Tar Gi @ us AX om a. AL. Oe Work Is ; Play for Belasco | And He Enjoys It Even for Eighty Hours at a Stretch k "Gets a ‘Headache’ When He ™p.Loafs—Makes Lenore Ulric |. Work to Prove a Point. By Charles Darnton. 8 everybody knows, there are all sorts of tricks im the theat-| tical trade. When that lamp overturned in the final scene of Son-Daughter,” as the seem- msty frail little Lien Wha, with the ity of a Tosca, strangies the vil- “Sea-crab” with his queue. may suspect, as I did, that the ene is plunged into darkness so that Ulric may drag a light dum- ¥ to the base of the idol instead of Moestayer, who is a fairly actor. I had no sooner put this jenious idea into the form of a for my private information Mr. Belusco sprang from his » crying: “Come, see for your- 1” and rushed stageward with hope that we might be in at the } But we came upon an empty stage (@@ stared blankly at the lowered in, against which a veritable of applause” was beating. A later Lenore Ulric, panting fend wild-cyed, staggered behind the e@urtain and leaned limpiy against the wall And then what do you suppose Belasco did? He cheerfully sug- (ested, in spite of my earnest pro- testa, that she go through the knock- down and drag-out scene again, to show me there was no trick t it. Nothing could stop him from making his hard-workinng lit- Ue star work overtime. For her part, had caught her Accordingly, Mr. Mestayer ed out of his dressing room, be- d, yet willing, and ordered to Be down. He looked up helplessly, as h naying to himself, “What's the idea?” and | felt like giving him one of those cigarettes that he smokes so herically in the performance. He didn't know, poor chap, that I'd this mess until Mr. f a strap fastened fo the back of his blouse and ex- jlained that Miss Ulric was aided in @ dragging process by this simple means. All the Une 1 was cursing _ myself so roundly that there wag lit- “@e left for Miss Ulric and Mr. Mes- to do in that line the little Indy took the of his blouse, and, breathing hard, ied him from the edge of the bed the feet of the idol. After that, @fl of us took a long breath, and Mr. . with an admiring glance at Miss Ulric, remarked: “Pretty good work for a lightweight, eh?” I'll say &t was. Then he added: “She works 4." WSflow about your work?” I asked, Fecalling that Alexander Woollcott ded hit the truth about him straight on the head eartier in the season by writin “Belasco works like @ horse. “Oh,” said Mr. eless case he Belasco, with the assumes when he my play. It's my watering pot, and keeps mo fresh and healthy. I get ® headache when I don't work. I've ‘worked cighty hours at a stretch ‘without feeling it. I never close my eyes before 3 in the morning and I'm at 9 The secret of life—that | 0 “enjoyaien of it to my mind: Ing the thin® you want to do. ppy when I'm in the theatre. n't play golf or other game: I yt smoke; I don't drink anything onger than an occasional glass of erry, yet I manage to have a good o all the time. [t is in the theatre it I find happines: row, | know David Betasco well jough to know that there was no ose” in this statement. My interest in him at the time was the interest hat one takes in a good workman, ous, painstaking and intelli- nt. And in these striking times can imagine a workman ready and ing to stick to his job for eighty ra without rest? discerning Mr. Woollcott was when he told his readers Bat “Belasco works like a horse.” It’ homely phrase—but if I were I couldn't kick myself more oughly than I do now for not ing used it years ago owever, h 's the idea that hit oe nothing to do but talk, “my work | s I'm! I straight betwgen the eyes, per-! ISS GREENWOOD KICKED HER WAY ~ TO STELLAR FAME ED WEYBURN, at a dress re- hearsal of one of Klaw and Erlanger’s musical ehows a few years ago, ran his eye over the chorus until his gaze rested on a tall and somewhat awkwandt figure that didn't seem to fit in that long row of silk-tighted ladies and he shouted “Out That was Charlotte Greenwood's introduction to the stage. Now Miss Greenwood is the longitudinal star of “Linger Longer Letty,” and those same long legs and arms that didn't fit in the chorus are in a great measure re- sponsible for attracting people to the Fulton Theatre, where she is kick- ing in “Linger Longer Letty.” Contrary to general knowledge| spread by the press agents, Miss Greenwood is not a product of vaude- ville, She came right out of the chorus—in fact, she was go tall and thin that they almost threw her out, However, Mr. Weyburn had a heart, and after dismissing her managed to use her in a number which allowed Miss Greenwood to cover her rather extensive figure in a Japanese kimono. That was the beginning of Miss Greenwood'’s career. After the start in the K. & E. cho- us she joined m Bernard in ‘Nearly a Hero,” and Mr. Bernard made good use of her figure in a dressmaking scene in which he meas- ured her to @ rapid flow of jest about her shape. It was while playing in “Nearly a Hero" that Miss Greenwood met |nice Burnham, and they developed a vaudeville stunt just for the amus: ment of other members of the com- pany until one day some one urged them to go into vaudeville, They took the tip. While appearing in their “act” at the old Union Square Theatre Miss Greezwood attracted the attention of Vl parted and they put her in ie! assing Show of 1912," ‘Ord of this unique and promising comedienne found its way across the continent and Oliver Morosco engaged her by telegraph when she was play- ing in St. Louis, She attracted go much attention that Mr. Morosco decided to commer- clalize her amusing physical qualities and gave her the first big opportunity of her life when he wrote “So Long, She appeared in that piece for nearly six years, Miss Greenwood was on the & long time before she herself realized the possibilities of her “kic K ing in @ particularly happy frame ot mind one day she just “iet go" with | both fe sane @s the actors sa a stage | ing editor of The Evening World ave it to me years ago—the idea of visualizing the thing you have in mind; of seeing it clearly, from every | ngle, before the public sees it \ualization,” sald Mr, Belasco, the greatest quality that the pro- ducer of a pluy can possess. If he c see the play before it is produced he can count upon the returns jt will bring. This means, first of all, imagination. I visualize everything I do so vividly that I belleve it has affected my eyes. ‘The secret of good work is to have heart and soul and head work together. your eyes on your job. | the producing of plays, and so far as the actual work Ix concerned I can produce any play that comes to my hands in five wecks, whether it's | simple or elaborate in its settings. T give as much time to a light comedy with @ small cast as I do to a play that demands a greater number of actors and more elaborate scenery At the same time I don't flatten my | nose by sticking it into other people’ business. 1 stage-manage myself.” |, You may well take this advice from the greatest stage manager in the world, My job is Licuians onan ae PALLET TE, Oivine sae Mc GOW are ae Creer) ScARbonce i ‘Little Blue Devil,” at Central Theatre * CeRnard GRAVE, as AuousTus It] rowly haps for the reason that the manag- | And then keep | BEHIND tte SCREEN | ‘‘Close-Up’’ News and Views Of Filmland and Its People By Howard McLelian. Marjorie Rambeau will be seen in the screen version of “The Fortune a@ last season success, midst of making a picture antschi was thrown from his nd severely hurt. He recov- ered, only to have a big outdoor stage setting destroyed by fire. The whole film had to be retaken and Director George Foster Platt discovered that all the trouble started when a young woman opened her umbrella during the taking of an interior scene. Mme. Paviowa, Russian dancer, has made a great hit in italian films. The Italian film producers are making such great headway with big screen productions that Famous Players is reported negotiating with Italy's greatest director, Gigi Armandis, Two days after he had completed “Speed Carr,” lace Reid started work on Trap" by Byron Morgan. Broadway minus six beauties. soon to be shown, Wal- “The Bear ‘The demand for bathing girls on the screen is so great that Harold Lloyd, the horn-rimmed eyeglass comedian, Sc haa to come from thern Califor- Gatti Revives “La Juive’’ and’ Caruso Scores By Sylvester Rawling. R. GATTI revived Halevy's “La M Juive* at the Metropolitan Opera Housé on Saturday af- ternoon. Deli I have named Mr, Gatti first In this review because the cultivated Italian gentleman who has directed the operatic flow at our Temple of Art for eleven years is of catholic taste, ever seeking to enrich the repertory by novelties, One of the rare occasions in our personal inti- macy in which Mr, Gatti displayed ir- ritabitty was when I had protested that he was sticking too closely to the established order of things. “Show me,” he sald in,the eloquent French into which he falls in conversation, “the new works you would haye me pro- duce. If 1 can see in them artistic merit, the directors will support me in presanting them, no matter what the cost, even if we doubt that pub- lic approval will make for financial success, But, do you know what It | means to launch a new work or even |to revive an old one? hearsals, new scenery, a mountain of labor, t expenditure of money, all j for a Countless thing In which we | faith You -|now Mr, Gatti o ve | The story of “ 4 "is hard, cruel, revolting. It involves two nar- averted lynch complished bo saful warri pold, wedd have no puch.” And makes | \w er onterapt ha Cardinal, of the sets the faithlessne e her lover whole kettle | of fish, Prince Rachel yields prayers of |dossta and the villain is re prieved, while father go |to their horrifying d That the old Jew, at the last moment, has his saturnine revenge upon the Cardin disclosing to him that bf hel own daughter, despite the dra- ie climax, doesn't lessen the hor- e any more than when “Ll Travatore,” the dying Azucena |tells the Count that Manrico, whom jhe h just exeouted, iy his own brother, If Halevy music typify have m the ‘ story de the Juive" would have been the greatest opera lever wri He failed. When the |score isn't commonplace of the com- monplace it is milk and water Mey Vhy then did Mr. Gatti re- Because it provides pomp and splendor in settings, effective chorus Sreepings and for captivation bal }let, Of more importance, i offer exceptional opportunity for sustained singing by two of the principal char acters, Rachel and Bloamr, and th latter was impersonated by Caruso In in hi closed th t mi . displaying graced Cyrano di neith Ponselle wis Sh was disappoin n that she did no i fulfil the promi that h 1 oat at her debut lust sea. t pos sible that Miss Ponse L Ves she can take an airplane to the highest pinnacle of art? t can't be done Another neweon was Orville Harrold, us Leopold, who will have better opportunity to dis- play the — lovely ~— quality of his voice in other characters, Leon Rothier, that fine French artist, was the Card Bome of the low notes required of him were not delivered as smoothly as was to be expected Thomas ( was a bit too handsome a cavalier for the bigot R Rosina Gall vating dancing and by t which she Is. The pu children was fine and well ried out Mr. Rodan carefully, almost wit! pression. A little would have been an ady for his pruning of +t) jeyot his || ROBIN HOOD | ! Page 17. nia to get them. En over the bathing girl co! and ody. hor | does deadifest MONDAY OVEMBER 24, 1919-—Page 17 | is M4) mained until the scene in which she vamping \\\ \\ AN addline was | Mary Pickford in nbinder and hatehe |reached and then walked out | Anita s bote aad Oel one sore sure pn) “All summer Peart White has been | Cha | arcs ell bets are vividly re. raising turkeys ut on her Long] ure, | called in “The Tong Man,” in which! Island estate, She's giving a feast to| tion | Sessue Hayakawa is now being, her colleagues on Thanksgiving Norm starred. And, by the way, a new) furnishes the turkeys, William Far. | Two We Japanese artist, Mada, in being | RUM has sent cranberries m his | . " Sag Harbor farm and George Walah | groomed to follow In the footsteps of Hayakawa, Edith Storey’s new picture is “The Golden Hope.” In the same studio} Bessie Barriscale js busy with a big feature, in which she is supported by Niles Welch, Helen Montrose dropped in to see| herself act in Histo Ferguson ae Ing. “Ma its je and feature. Shere] Here are THEATRES. WAY & SO ST | IRCLE 25.30 EVENINGS AT 8 UF MATINER THANKSGIVING Book by Harold Atteriden, Biased by 4. C. HURRMA: FRAY COMSTOCK MORRIS PVICSCH The most unusual’ ‘musi Book by v1} Lyrics by PG Wodehouse it LYRIC. THEATRE N KN _ SPECIAL MATINEES \ TO-DAY 2.15, clio Tuss., Wednesday ard Frday Badward Locke's Comedy Drama, i Leen wi an -- wa test Toesire Cant | | WU Yy CZ SG BROADWAY'S SAUC/IEST MUSICAL AIT \PMNS | ey | ontributed app! Valley orchard Roscoe n invited. ria Swanson, Gry Colton gy aoe V VE Oh Staged by Robert milton av Julion Mitchell Female," whic! matrimony. THEATRES. vy DAY GEST a/ Comedy Of the Seasan | THANKSGIING Mo: Arma {THE MAGIC MELODY > THE OPERETTA Lyope lilt tinhl Uy the compose of MAT with CHARLES PURCELL JULIA OFAN = TOM me MAOH TON Scenery by Joseph Urban « from his Mohawk | Tom Mix will do the Arbuckle not | the dainty star in h will have She is to NEFS Hi Tus OF B00 THINGS AS ATHANKSGIVING DINNER sic by ind Vecsey ew York premiere at the Rivoli | Rext week, is to venture again upon |the sea of marry Herbert K. Somborn, President the new | of Equity. Pictures, 0 ages for filmdom’s anda a | Leah ad “Nee, \\ (XG\ \ next two months Heart of the Hil tewart In “In Old Kentuc Pe ra for tn n and iter of Liltan 1 in “A Dav orld, CAN YOU TELL ME? Peters is still “Silk Hus- Puns—House His new picture is nd Calico Wives.” K—Cla Kimball a Young's | the movies. | Amer! | | managers insist that her offer to give | her are Ba T. Db. Lincotn EY - prod Im sorresp Sole m Wi |GARRICK BEGINNING TO-MORROW NIGHT TH and J. 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