The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1920, Page 24

© THE NEW PLAYS o Ditrichstein Works Wonders in “The Purple Mask” BY CHARLES DARNTON from which Leo Ditrichstein escaped with nonchalant ease at the ' a JUDENI himself couldn't have got out of more tight places than those | Booth Theatre last night in “The Purple Mask,” a more or less )' xomantic melodrama taken from the French by Matheson Lang. } Handcuffs? Pooh! They meant no more than a wrist watch to that |) @mredevil, the Comte de Trevieres. Was he disturbed because the Royalists found their style cramped during the First Consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte? |) NO, citizens and citizenesses. He stalked abroad at night wearing a purple }\ mask and @ long cloak—not to mention other necessary articles of cloth- | 'm@—and won renown by his amazing exploits. (1 don't know just what ahey were, but they caused a lot of talk.) If this valiant Count had lived in a later poriod he might have won the toss of war. Instead he was given the double cross by a Royalist who thought he could bring about the escape of a duke by diverting the atten- | @ion of the police to the capture of the Chevalier of the Purple Mask. | the grounds. He simply turned the || Perish the thought! Armand was not that sort of bird. He went after old fellow over to two supposed gen- d@armes, and sent him out one door, while he walked through another. ‘Then, taking his prisoner to Paris, he snatched off his wig and disclosed him as Brisquet, first aid to Fouche, prefect of police. Now this cunning WManher COMIC PAGE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1920 yrht 1070, by The Prem Publishing Co, (Toe New York Evening Wortd), = “We Ps 5 eornens 11s Frese! Peiihing Cu (MT Revaing Ware ¥ > WHATCHA 2 \f VANT suse “8 Cd THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Wahl, + ail “int tb } Beteives, if you please, was found banging from & book on door in a) 4 , Dut instead of turning black in the rants ays i hd ey! r } melodramatic situation, he calmly asked to be taken off the hook. Then he; as B : 2 | fried to trap the Count by wending him a létter to which he signed the: ‘OMY NEW YEARS ATHousAND COME GIFTS TLL SAY WHereD & GET IT? ole | game Laurette de Chauteaubriand, the fair daughter of the endangered | PRESENT To You AN! sTenitee “Dave” eee GY Test ‘DAVE WHoozI2" Jeo stass tL ) Duke. But was Armand caught by this trick? Yes, he was—for a moment. | Y'BROTAER Zoe’! HAN r Laurette, of course, didn't know he was coming to her boudoir at 9 P. M.,| @nd when he climbed through the wi the bed. This little French touch i} » When Brisquet covered the H a i junt threw brandy in his eyes, knocked him out, and got away with tte. Later on the resourceful id jog guard at the north gate of Paris, so that the soldiers couldn't shoot, @ad in this simple way rescued the beppy. It was eq easy for the dashing trichstein worked wonder in his @hrough a capital performance. Brandon Tynan won second honors as| t Brisquet, and was especially good when he gave a comic toueh to the ficti- > thous old prefect. Lily Cahill was pleasing as Laurette, and other parts were well acted. About Plays | By BIDE & TENNIS believe they) when it reaches Broadway.—Jefferson , have solved the one-night stand |Shrewsbury Nutt.” problem. Lately proprictors of atres in emailer places have found 8 80 profitable that some of them retuned to book regular theari- This fact, coupled Proposition for theatrical tthe situation by cutting down musical piece “When Dreams True’ to run fifty minutes the title of “When Dreams i True Revue,” and are booking Win conjunction with the films. It ¥ @ town three days and is given ¢ each night at 25, 50 and 75 cents. show bas twenty-two people and of scenery. It has been out weeks and has never failed ' & profit. The railroad jumps |} ere short and there are but two a || week. At the same time the patrons iis. theatre get a musical show their films too, | “We make several hundred doll- (girs @ week on it,” said Mr, Coutts, that is @ lot better than charg- Le - dway, the old-time saying goes, wilt live to fight another day. tells the truth, I s'pose. But who fights and runs away, though he’s a cautious chap, will much running in his day and never win @ scrap. When trou- Ble slaps you in the face don't Tun away and hide, for soon he'll % your hiding place and stick fight by your side. Slap back ‘and when he secs your grit he'll “ ‘eave without delay. But he can wilip the man who'll quit to ! fight some other day. i JOLSON GOING WEST. Al Jolson began his week's in “Sinbad” ag the Broad jt Theatre, Newark, last night, a@vance sale was $11,000. Mr. is heading for the Audioriuin, whore he will remain in became somewhat mechanical in its tricks toward the end. But Mr, So eThe Purple Mask” is full of incident and surprises, after the manner Of old-fashioned French melodroma. “I Take What I Will” writes the free- handed hero—and it must be granted that he takes the cake, a the bigh oost of transporting|er, Harold Hartsell, Bruce Mantell, hOs made the one-nighters a/Ridler Davis, Joseph McCauley, Coutts & Tennis have/tin, Helen Rapport, Aiva de Anchovie, ndow she discreetly drew the curtains added to the delight of the perform- romantic situation with @ pistol the hero poured wine over the guns of a Duke and made Laurette very, very hero to do all these things that the usual skilful way, and went smilin’ and Players DUDLEY A GOOD CAST. The cast selected by Richard Hern- don to support Nance O'Neil in “The Passion Flower," opening at the Greenwich Village Theatre Jan. 13, in- cludes Charles Waldron, Charles Fish- Charles Angelo, Mrs. Charles C. Craig, Pauline Moore, Gertrude Gus- Aldeah Wise and Clara Bracy. GOSSIP. A. ‘H. Woods has changed the title of the new Harbach farce from “Ready to Occupy” to “No More Biondes.” Norman Clarke, dramatic editor of the Baltimore News, ig in town, chap- eroned by Krank D. Webb of the same paper. | Dora Hilton and C, Leland Marsh |have joined (he cast of Herman Tim- ante musical comedy, ‘Tick-Tack- Noe." |G. M. Anderson's “Frivolities of 1920" will open at the 44th Street to- night amd “The Light of the World” wil) start at the Lyric Three hundred persons will come from Jersey City to-night to see Wayfarer.” It is a enurch party Duncan Macdougall will “The Folk Theatre Movemen day night at the Church of the Mes- Dayton Stoddart has be by Mare Klaw as his representative. At pre: alding the launching of Theodore Kosloff dances: in a film called “The Tree of Knowledge," soon to bo seen at the Rialto. He is to try a dramatic film role next. About 600 clergymen, some of them accompanied by their wives, saw “The Light of the World” at an invitation | performance at the Lyric last night. Between the acts supper was served in the lobby of the theatre, but there was no yollow-legged chicken. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. James S.—Bernbardt iq living in| Paris. KE. Wright—Fainbanks was not in that play. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY Only 963 days till Christmas, bo your shopping carly FOOLISHMENT. A Freeport old fellow named Hooley When kicked by @ cow took it coolly. Suid he: “It's no trick Youre A LIFE | ae wnt You } PLEASE ANSWER The Bet. 2? RADIATOR , 1 COULD “TAKE YOU “TO “TH' MOVIES “TONIGHT! WELL, WHY ISN'T \T Exed Yet? st ikepene DOROTHY DAWGONIT-WoNT BROTHER “Soe” Be HAPPY— OW! Bov ¢ Possibly It Was a Soap Peddler at the Door! Tren v%4- T can answer The Beuw Now! You CAN FIND SOME Way? Go AneAdD — ANSWER “That Ber ¢ ANSWER “Har e} Bete ies Good EVEN) Sew { Alt “RIGHT NC Lal for @ big show and losing sighs ve q hi cident ‘uperreg OD Care Sa ee ° : . 5 aS one + cline tn he ein WELL, DEAR HEART — If IT OH, " tg Rela ei Y ALWAYS hea age a ie YOU'D BEEN 3 ; Whopper" at the Casino, She will as f 2 : BEEN \WED B Ow IGS) = Dultne mon wns ponte ond rune [tome tho maid's role next Monaay. WASN'T FOR THAT LEAK IN THE Now OF “Hose. “THING DARWIN! “TH'CAR You) “WOLD ME ABOUT IT No “TELLin’ WHAT DAMAGE & | L. WHEN Y'FIRST saw IT! ; MIGHT HAVE RESULTED ~~ WsTEadD oF ME! | 4 ) DOWN AN’ BUSTED *soes"! 2 COuNIHaN ©© YOU KIDS WANT To SEE ME DO MY MOTION PicTURE STUNTS? For old Bossy to kick; Altho’ she's no mule, she's a muley.”’ LOOK! DANGER. HES WY Sastters? GETTIN’ ARRESTED MAKE THE CHARGE AGIN’ ME bg? —_— FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE Doctor—Did you take the medicine? | Patient—N: | Gite column, who went to Boston ly to investigate a report thar! Patient No ¥, Coolidge might run for real} ationt—The instructions said “Keep t of Harvard, has sent us tho fol-| bottle tightly corked,” dus theatrical beat: —<— Dear Dud: 1 and the wife are on| BUT SHE WOULDN'T WAIT, Nob here and last night we saw u LIZABETH tripped blithely into show called ‘Uncle ‘Ivins the country postoffice, in. gp moinking you would like to “I want to know,’ p the other theatre editors with | with a telltale blush as she } eer este. 4 a ale blush as she handed t Mowing: Satie nery SBME the | clerk a pink comminication uddre tory of the Bouth before the Revol yy War, opened here Jast n i will Open on Broadway soon, h Ging lady was Harriet Beeson owe and she was very good, being pleasing in sormawful moments. Riva was played by a good actress, who died vory nicely, rks, the pawnbroker, was also ie a a I and the wife. It # to @ cold, disinterest! he iow the negroes got the worst |third party, and if it's smAllpox thoy ; in @ way that would make John | won't let him write at all, if he's dead nson of Ottumwa, Kan., turn in] Theh, aguin, if he's got a new girl—-" ave. It had one song'You'd| At which moment he realized that prised’—by Irwin ats, I'the fair Elizabeth had flown, muccess for this show Argonaut, price of a stamp, upon which to base an opi carning capacities, If he ot care to dicta