The evening world. Newspaper, November 26, 1919, Page 20

Mr comedy was raised from the jazz level to romantic spectacle | “The Rose of China” A Thing of Beauty By CHARLES DARNTON Eyeing COMIC PAGE | WeDNES DAY ,NOVEMBER 26, 1919 by “The Rose of China,” which opened last night at the Lyric Theatre full-blown in its beauty. There was atmospheric charm in a garden and last hope taste, if you like. rage tale of the maiden and the youth who are) f musical comedy, and a’ Its romantic appeal is an- Yet Guy Bolton has written @ the same time given it of humor that is understood along Broadway. There's a more or sacred rose that is sniffed by a fat American tea agent who immediately Becomes eo sentimental that he kisses a Chinese girl “in public,” whereupon sbe loses her caste, and there's the “ “foreign devil” to pay for it with his life if he doesn't marry her. Somebody may love a fat man, but the girl case doesn't, and as there happens to be another American of alighter on the premises she tells her wrathful father that it was he who made free with her lips. Go it is that the innocent young chap, who hasn't had a smell of the rose dangerous to bachelors, goes through a marriage ceremony while the fat man goes free. Then the unwilling husband proceeds to fall Angeles” with “man jealo' considerablo tots who looked like Chinese dolls. over ears into love with his wife, and all is well. ., The music by Armand Vecsey is pleasing, though somewhat lacking in + In one of his lyrics P. G, Wodehouse has the courage to rhyme "ut after regaining consciousness I got Pleasure out of “Our Chinese Bungalow” and two engaging _ Jane Richardson sang and acted prettily as Ling Tao, but she would have been better off without the pidgin-English she was compelled to spenk. Frank Melntyre carried the heavy honors with comic ease. He played himself for all he was worth—and pounds. Stanley Ridges was ol: gone to Yale and sang about it wi he American hero of the romance rth is not to be figured merely in} amusing as a Chinaman who had reat enthusiasm. Oscar Shaw made ikeable and lively chap, and Cocil Cunningham gave a capital performance as a girl from Maine on the hunt for a husband—quite the best performance, in fact, she has ever piven, Paul Irving twisted himself into grotesque shape as an old gardener; Louise Brownell, with blond ‘hair, if you please, did good foot-work as a Chinese @adcer, and Cynthia Perot entered gracefully into the proceedings. ,; MONG those bunting Broadway theatres for their new produc- tions is Mra. Henry B. Harris, Strange as it may seem. Mrs. Harris 1s part owner of the Hudson and the Fulton, but they are doing very well with their present attractions, which cannot be disturbed. So there she sits, with a perfectly good hit en- titled, “When @ Mah's a Man,” on ber hands and no place to put it. ‘The play, which is by Willard Rob- eftson and Kilbourn Gordon, was twJed out on the road and did weil. It is off just now, but just you wait Ul Mrs, Harris gets a theatre! A CHANGE AT THE CORT. John Cort announces that “Three's a Crowd,” his new Biggers-Morley ‘eomedy, with Phoebe Foster in the leading role, will open at the Cort ‘Theatre Tuesday next. BARON TO PRODUCE. Henry Archer Baron, formerly of the Shubert forces, will enter the woducing field. His first venture will a production of “The Refuge,” by Dario Niccod jemi. BERTON ON THE JOB. Nerton Braley happened to be standing near a- couple of Broad- way's famous men the other night and overheard a conversation which he thinks belongs in this column, This is what he heard: Said Alexander Woollcott to Stan- Both the story and the music drag at times, but “The Rose of China” is so beautiful that it deserves to be a prize-winner. About Plays and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY ton Leeds: “Ah, I see you're a dra- matic critic now.” “I am not,” replied Mr. Leeds. “What are you doing, then?” “Same as you—reporting plays.” THIS DRIVER A WIT. While in London recently Syivia Breamer was on @ bus which was beld up near Charing Cross by a fun- eral cortege. A_ pedestrian passing along slipped and caused a horse at- tached to the hearse to sidestep and nearly trample him. It was observed by the driver of the bus, who yelled to the hearse driver: “Greedy!” ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. Mandell—ghe ix not Jewish. Woolf—It the publishers won't tako your song, I give it up. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. 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