The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1919, Page 32

COMIC PAGE EDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 191 ——-.-- ——$_$—————| LITTLE-MARY MIXUP ® THE NEW PLAYS ° Laurette Taylor Fascinating | in “One Night in Rome.” By CHA RLES DARNTON Aw - unc. pease } No, I won't — er: ie se } T wont TAKE MARY OUT I'm Nor Gomme. “Thines = I'm HOT Gone. “Tike Maey] [ROT ON MY TAINES - MoM CHANGES To The Movies OUTSIDE ‘hs Te TAKe ‘You To THE YGur MIND ¢ SE HASNT <BEeN House TONIGHT Movimss TSNHIGHT nade vasa OUT Today N HPR OWN quizzical way, after the play at the Criterion Theatre last night, Laurette Taylor play to her sense of humor by saying: “t heard they were taking off their clothes in ‘Aphrodite,’ so 1 thought | Might startic the town into recognition by taking off my hair.” One of these days J. Hartley Manners may take his wife by the necklace @ear to Aphrodite and threaten her with a bad play if she doesn't swear by fhe seven sacred strings that shi will never again give the whole show Qway the moment it’s oyer ut it matter in the least that she spoke @f “One Night in Rome” a. ecuve st which she was enabled to ‘ play the grand lady of mystery for the be f three acts and then @hrow off a dark wig that had given her an Italian guise r trick was turned by an exceptionally clever actress, with the nious playwright. If Miss Taylor doesn’t run a close second tarrymore in “Declassee” in the long run of the season, you may vet own im your good books as a bad prophet Ww r without her own hair, Miss Taylor was fascinating. Everything So as.de, she gave the old adventuress a new twist, Mr. Manners t the lady in the case is mot an adventuress, for she turns out to be the Widow of un Italian diplomat who shot himself when his doctor told him e he was suffering from a disease supposed to be incurable in those days. | fan ugly story in the end, but it has the virtue of a wife innocent of | @ny wrong-doing and left to earn a living for herself. Her hands are her) fortune. They are sympathetic, and so they place her in touch with more | or leon le people intent upon having their fortunes told. THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Tiie first act of the play is almost wholly given up to fortune-teiling. m Heres But there's reason in it when the mystic crystal-gazer brings@a modern NOWUN? Lud A a ( Ps warrior to a realization of his weakness and puts his courage to the teat Wade? aA Quail LOO? tea aweart) | gS” in at a country house, because he is afraid of the woman to whom he is FUR-CORT ! MAKES A GUY { a ~e He goes up to his room after he and the fortune-teller have been locked “engaged,” but when the palm-reader smashes a glass case containing an “LOOK LIKE A MILLION opal he reappears with all the force and chivalry of a knight. He throws DOLLARe — EASIER off his earlier indecision, and declares himself heart and soul for the mys- terious lady, no matter what her past may have been. It remains €or a vindictive Italian to clear the muddle, and finally Signor Diranda acts like & gentleman, The heroine's husband was 4 bad lot, and he left his widow to make a living for herself. She explains the whole miserable business in Miss Taylor gave a performance of admirable and unusual quality. A | g @elightful bit of jt was her interpretation of an Italian song, Her expres- sive gestures added largely to tho effects she gained by simple means, Philip Merivale was frank and carnest as the English lover, and his engag- ing smile won friendly response from the audience. He was the sort of | man, you said to yourself, who willingly went to war for his country, with or without fear. George Majeron| played the suspicious Italian with a sinister sense of character, and H. Cooper Cliffe as a Justice of the Supreme Court known, only to the stage; Louise Beaudet, as a purring example of her sex; Helen Blair, as a Zephyr calculated to drive any man to drink even in these dan- | ferous days, and Barry Baxter, as a youthful clown, did excellent work. “One Night in Rome” is an ingenious and a clever play, and in it Lau- Fette Taylor, with or without a wig, again proves herself to be an actress of distinction. ’ 5 »§ Bude Cen tHAn) syne eer JOE'S CAR It’s a Fact, Joe Ought to Drive a Bicycle! About Plays Players ; DAWGONN(T: I've. COME CUTAN ECce —-an’ NOW Look at at! Yes Joe -“Mere's F ; HE PUNCH AND JUDY THEA. | to-day, we'll lot the inquisitive young| |) WELL , WHAT ARE. SIMPLY GOTTA GET] C1 GOT A RADIATOR COVER , SOMETHING WROK — YOUVE: Got “THE W. TRE te to have a musical wom Know about you You LooKING 5° Hein oe Tuat cae! |\eor —' WINTER -- SEE? BOILIN OVERM IG - “THING BUTTONED uP show, with a ot ity by u bd t ‘aa ak Ga h'big Sesitetra Aad every. OTTO DINES OUT. WILD -EYED ABOUTS] loves aeTiING UP ; ENGINE: TUke BURNIN, “Too 1 TELL You ~Wer's with YOU ! ‘Gut # ey ™ ae oO Je “ a ‘ “ Boreslde he nredvoee tha, Hippo. turant in derscyepity the other day sump'N AWFUL! SuUMP'N WRONG T ©) drome shows for Charles Dillingham, [ra Wnaebnacned by an old negro will present at the Punch and Judy al “Steak,” anid Otto comedy with music called “Miss Mill-| “Does yo'-all want de sixty-fibe fons.” Mr. Burnaide wrote the book | Cent, steak or de sebenty-fibe cent one? asked the negro, and lyrics and Raymond Hubbell con-| “what's the difference?’ | tributed the music. Valli Valli bas| “Why, wit de sobenty-fibe cent the principal feminine role and Clay-| steak, mistah, yo'-all git a shawpah ton White and Rapley Holmes look | €8)fe. Bi Matter the comedy of the piece, Mr.| t%0,took baked beans, Burnaide is the proprietor of the | _ About it have been received from the] gent Street, Brooklyn, had nent us A feed. whole lot of rhymes. We shut our Ie may seem strange that a big|eyes and put our pencil poimt on this musical show should go into the |one: mt Punch and Judy, which has but 299| “As a sketch he is certainly hot,’ feats, but there is no other theatre| Said Margaret to her friend, Dot. in New York available. There is| “He took me to dine, Re plenty of stage room at the Punch| And to pay for the wine, Py and Judy, the proscenium arch being He asked me "How much have you $8 foot wide and the depth trom gor?” ‘prod to wall being 38 feet, Mr. Burn- eis ‘a “ side cannot hope to make much ; GOSSIP. HELP! HELP! CALM YOURSELF ! Ci m@ey in such @ small theatre, but} spe Crimson Alibi" is to be played a rh WHATLL We 00? “LL CALL MY fi 2 WE ey SEY, if the show proves as good as they| in Japan soon. iat y rip ROTHER Joe! 2 ‘ MON ov OF way it is, he'll nave a larger house| Doc Potter wishes to announce tha . r lippodrome donkey, Nellie, 1s fer it some day. vii cata mother of a little white ¢ " ie donkeyette CHEESE CLUB SHOW GOOD. Abraham Levy, producer of “The ‘The Cheese Club rat the Cen-| Little Whopper,” at the Casino, leaves tral Theatre yesterday afternoon was to-day for a two months’ stay in Call- orn. & success. ‘The boys uncorked @ good | "Murioric Hast, of “Scandal,” says show and everybody was happy but| she's an “in-B-Tween.” She's tov old William Rock, on whose act the cur- | t» be classed as a child and too young tain dropped suddenly, No wonder] to be called a grown-up. Now, Mar- Mr. Rock's blue air remarks were | jorie, you be a good girl. audible. Why, it wouldn't be very Four “Sunday Evenings" will be 7 hard for a man to break # lex trying | given at the Bijou Theatre, beginning to dodge a curtain. Harry Hershfeld, | Dec, 14, under the direction of Mabel cartoonist, qualified for big time|R. Beardsley. She says the talent will Yaudeville with a monologue. Bar- |b “high class but not bigh brow. ring Barney Bernard's bald head, we} Harold Rick, one of Bast New thought Harry shone more than any-| York's favorite sons, is pla) thing else in the show. Here's a sam-|**The Beauty Show” at the (ae ple of his material: Brooklyn, this week. Maybe you think Harry and his wife were tired the] East New York isn't proud. | other night and were figuring on go-| The children at Public School No. ing to bed early, when Fritz Collier |184 will stage a play by Charles F./ showed up at their home. Harry took | Pietsch, a teacher, at the school to- his superior officer aside and said: | morrow night. It is called “The Wand | “Listen, dear, we'll ask him to stay | of Democracy.” However, Repubicans ail night. Then we cah go to bed |are invited, too, semneves = want bA It's the only Marion Sunshine, of hear Bu diplomatic thing to do,” gies hae rented ' taaian i , : iG Meee icra ciaktegt® OP 9 | Grmosiet aha oat Tt ooat She aa) TE: 0 There’s a Lotta Goofs Like Titus! sea HET sake, Clr Geasine ies’ i'cew tie ore | THE, OLD FAMILY SKELETON “I can't do it,” he replied, “but I | stories about the actress's lost jewels? | tell you what I'll di jarry; I'll stay | Sort o° like meeting an old friend to "i 4 till 8 in the mornin read another one, en? BY See Bete NOBODY: — There will be eight specially written REGAN, HE GETS MAD, playlets in the Friars’ le, to be ; 5 = Walter Regan, who plays opposite [Rela at the Lexington Theatre on WILE TITUS HE REAO HE WAS —~ Cie ie a ca yer VER ge ie WE BUYS ALL THE MAGAZINES f "at the Vander- | Sunday evening, I 21. 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May | Will Pearl White ‘indly oblige by| Once went to a rather swift play. anywering & few que Said she to her beau: self for « young woman who loves to Calg oe read this column and chew gut is| “I'm shocked, dear—tet's go, girl has demanded that we answer, But she came back alone the nezt these queries: dau “What is the color of Pearl White's | hair?” | — “Ls her complexion dark?" FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Mother (to small daughtet)—Your “Is the long hair she weat# on the ; whe" sereen her own or ti ecnscience will tell you when you're too big an ua, 80 Miss) naughty. it you will us @ line a8! Daeughter—But, mamma, will it tell read ‘ening World you, too? ‘e ve . AL ate allan Sr iit etnnatatltin A nai e itn