The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1919, Page 18

\\ y MAnK MORGAN tewann t EARLY “1 KING AS WARRINGTON NORAH- AS _GWENOOLYN War Play Already on the Wane; ; Fact May Be Due in Measure an artist has written At Besi, | Fheme, | and Humor, Not Sentiment, |" Is Negsled to Save It $a Sorry 4 sorry bu Requiem Mass, McCormack and By Charles Darnton, 8 to look aa though the war- 'T ig the war would Get ve over on the stage for many | Years, and authors who believed what the managers told them proceeded 8 for By Sylrester Rawling eoporately to rewrite their pl ERDI'S Requiem Mass was su V ne other purpose than to give a mpressively AC the Metropo! war background. The indifferent tan Opera House last nist quality of these productions may ex- | nder the direct of Giulio Setti. plain the indifference of the public| the chorus master, T svloists were toward them, Mo Kaston, Merie a “The Phantom Legion,” with its} Al contralto; ackett, ghosts of the pattlofiekd, is indeed a|teMor, and Jove Mur Alcock ftrange product, yet the sincerity of ite author is not likely to be ques- | PHny, Woned. Anthoty Pau! Kelly brought | Meld, took ‘ 4 both an idea and an idea! to his | 40m, suddeniy indispos ed work; he did not try merely to sturtle | - i her part weil i » } @-Diinking populace. it is all the|< i more regrettable, re, that he]? did not do beter work His en deavor, at any rate, is worthy of re spect. To touch the soul is one thing, 7 to disturb it another, Little, if any 00d can con. of mere disturbance So far, no one has written a really great goed war piay. ‘The argument that |! the. war, with its long-range guns ud airplancs, was so largely me- g@banical as to put it beyond the gresp of the dramatis, doesn't hold for it challenges the playwright ae greatest human event in the) history of the world, To make nothing more than an excuse foi mechanical invention of the thea Meats that profiteering has net b CONCERTS AND MUSIC. METROPOLITAN. TO-NIGHT OPERA HOUSE LA WUIVE HARDIIAN PIANO URED eonfined to the strictly business H]PPODROME IER exception to this charge is to be |S Sunday Afternoon DEC. 21st etic s:'5. Heri sttarca ore |. GALA CONCERT on te 8 pie and Bp. EMMY PESTINN of that play, PHILIP BENNYAN for the men in it tout of heart and true in spirit, Best of all, there Waa steady development of cha With all his lightness, Mr. Manners | worked to a serious end. 8 At the same time, it’s a wise wuthor | who puts humor into his war play. | A sbadow may be artistic, but it ign’t entertaining. Worst of all is! sentimentality related to tragedy—and war is the tragedy of nations. Sen- | timentality hed its limit in a piay given over to a beauteous ac tress who figured as 4 showgirl and | an emotional telephone op- | erator in France. his sort of rot, | especially whe of our boys were risking Srats 75¢ to $3.0) RIVOLI BROADWAY ar 49M Street HUGO RIESENFELD Director JESSE.L. CASKY: preennts of qming. Elsie Janis, ie a greater factor than the heart have tried to | stricken actresses who act when they must } were playing to th: Miss Janis kept felt they advantage in hut @ over France, she mu e Allie y her lover. She is so clever that} ‘Wager any sum within reason she ‘Wil go through the country like wild fire. This doesn't mean that inet @ girl who crossed the @heer the boys—it means that 5 VIOLET HEMING WANDA HAWLEY THEODORE ROBERTS AND A DISTINGUISHED CAST Be — ew, ON ~ PAARTE CHAPLIN C4: ‘Uae | Parisian ashion?role | > 6 Beivans ) “YN oA na SE Ret water TRAND Mowe >| Sure Relief } Ss BROOKLYN. ARM ot TEM 5. ‘ret wntte, Two—8iG ila emia THERESA MAKW RL. Conover AS LUCcLLR BARLY To Quality of Those sti hay on New Music Hall JACQUES PINTEL | i ad THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1919. ZIEGFIELD’S ‘‘MIDNIGHT FROLIC’ AT NEW AMSTERDAM THEATRE © Luereee RN cwisruars ocrotny! * DALTON CAHRYSIS 4 Cane as ; APHRODASIA 4 Seer { cororwy a Lees OAncING Stave 4 Harmen have beer Mr. Stra Ave a! the Mise Gauthi ETHEL. 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