The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1919, Page 28

-— eee me men ae ——— ee 3 a . " i : ‘ ~ ( i UP UUUUU LY Ry Seale \ WN N \\ TUESD COMIC PAGE AY, NOVEMBER 25, 1919 Yy) Uff eDail\ ee Magazine LULU) © THE NEW PLAYS Billie Burke Admirable in “Caesar's Wife” By CHARLES DARNTON | | | I NG off her earlier affecta HROW forn wi This play by W. Somerset Maugham is so thoroughly British that Amert- can audiences may take It, if they take it at all, with certain reservations. But if you happen to love the theatre find cause for rejoicing in a cast tha As for the play, it is a thorough! posed to be the ruling power in Cairo. @haracter, and so he stands for Eng) to his wife. hands, he kisses her higher up, and husband. hasband The play is above suspicion so far as English virtue is concerned, and, I may add, it is never lacking in strength of character, for all the people in run true to form ‘Miss Burke and Ernest Glendinning played their sentimental scenes Norman Trevor gave both sympathy ani the part of the husband who was twenty years ahead of his wife. @traight from heart. Tom _A. Wise was a thoroughly delig! was picturesque as a Pasha; Margaret Dale was clean-cut and effective; Hilda Spong put her claws under cover altogether, the performance was delightful. | If you are fond of good acting, don't fail to put “Caesar's Wife” on your Uist. Incidentally, you will find a new Billie Burke, full of sympathy, and, fast of all, understanding. ce of her career last night at the Liberty Theatre in "Caesar's The young man who figures in the triangle is the consular agent's secretary, and he comes to the point where he tells the young wife of a middle-aged husband that he loves her. It's the old story of the young and the old. casts off her young lover and sinks into the arms of her remarkably patient 6he is admirable. tions, Billie Burke gave the finest per- for the performance it offers, you will t gives you excellent acting. y British product. Sir Arthur ts sup- ro. He embodtes English strength of and while a younger man makes love After kissing ber on the she finally tells the whole tale to her In the end, the wife dignity to Mrs. | htful old lady; Frederic De Belleville with the art of @ lady, and, About Plays By BIDE AM EL HARRIS, as his sécond ven- ‘ure as an individual producer, ‘will present William Collier in a ew comedy by Victor Mapes entitled MIGS TAYLOR COMING IN. Raurette Taylor will retum to the Mew York stage next Tuesday night at the Criterion Theatre, where she ‘will be sean in a new three-act drama 3 rF I : | i i i ifr : g 4 i i Best it (ii yy i t 5 ia MORE GUNDAY CONCERTS. @2 arrangement between B. F. Albes, Kel @oncerts will be given at Opera House f unday beginning next Sunday. ‘There will be no matinees. WE'D LIKE A RIDE, JOHN. John Gregory, formerly a newspaper man, but moro recently of Wall Street, bought a fine new benzine e other day and while driv- ing Up Broadway was hailed by an actor friend. Mr. Gregory offered to ye the actor home. § . “Just drive » Mr. Gregory wondered but he com- with the request. After the lap the actor suddenly said: “It's all right. He eaw me.” And then the passenger waved at a ‘man in a tailor shop window, MISS LORRAINE LOST. “her chauffeur invariably loses his way while driving ber about tn her hig buzzer. Oh, he knows which stops to pull out and all that, but he doesn't seem to have a sense of di- rection, Take last Sunday, for in- stance! He was driving the “Little "Blue Devil” lady out in the country and lost his way. @ fet of directions, but in half an hour he jost again. Just then j| the one performance ‘§° | gross will be $3,900. 4S and & A tarmer gave him and Players DUDLEY & man came along and the chaut- | feur addressed him. “Say,” he said, “which is the road | to New York?” | “Goo, I give it to you half an hour | ago. How'd you git back here?” re- | plied the farmer, The chauffeur had geen going in a circle. Rut, after all, can you blame him? GossiP, Otte Harbach’s new comedy, “Ready to Occupy,” will be put in rehearsal to morrow by A. H. Woods. Norma Brant, well known in Chi- cago as a dancer, has come to New York. She will be seen in a Broad- way production soon, k. Josephine Costigan, niece of Mrs. Helen F. Coban, has taken up paint- ing and intends to make it her life work, | “The Royal Vagabond” will cele- | brate its 300th performance at the Cohan & Harris Theatre to: Elsie Janis hap volunteere part in the Cheese Club the Central next Tuesday afternoon. “The Little Whopper” will break record of the Casino Saturday night. The demand for seats indicates that the night's Pat Rooney, Marion Bent, Jim Thornton, Henry Lewis, Ben Welch, Charles Irwin, Du Four Boys and) Demarest and Collette will be among | the players who will go to Blackwell's Island Thursday, as Keith Trouba- dolls to be sold at the annual bazaar | of the Professional Women's League, to be held at the Hotel McAlpin Dee. “POOH!” SAYS WILLIE. Wille Cummings says be bets if some one would push ten of those famous .“Bathing Beautics” overboard seven would drown.—Rambler, in Greenpoint Home News A RHYME BY ROBBY. Robby Speck is the author of the follgwing rhyme, and proud of it: “Something has come between us,” Cried the lover tn dismay. “What else can you expect,” asked 1 she, “When you sit so far away?" A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. ‘The practice of making faces at the firemen on passing engines is more popular than ever in Wellsville. The firemen throw hunks of real coal at their tormentors. 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