The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1920, Page 24

Aq [ COMIC PAGE AM THURSDAY, JANUARY 22,1920) ge © THE NEW PLAYS o “Big Game” Small-Fry Melodrama BY CHARLES DARNTON T is far better for a healthy young wife to be frost-bitten than enow- | bound in the Canadian Northwest, according to “Big Game,” the play by Willard Robertson and Kilbourn Gordon produced by Mrs. Henry 8. Harris last night at the Fulton Theatre, SAY — IF AH UM } FELLA AU keto DA FELLA | | WHAT DONE. TROW | DAT SHOE AT MA [ti \ EYE —AH'S GWINE- GOSH, THAT SLIPPER) 18 JUST LIKE | | MANDY ALWAYS | \ELVIN' UP INTHE. AIR | | i Cowra 4 “Big Game” is small-fry melodrama, interesting in character but lack- i ing in incident. The daughter of a woodsman comes back to her country ] from Vermont with a husband who has a bad cough and doesn’t look at i all well. He certainly is in no condition to engage in a death-grapple with ie the sturdy Lothario of the region, John St. John, when that unsaintly i hunter of women breaks into the bedroom of the tenderfoot's wife. q But Marie expects her “man” to protect her, and when Larry betrays { a New England prejudice against murder, she speaks most unkindly to him and announces that she is going to Quebec with John St. John, This tt doesn't seem quite right to Mister White, the owner of the cabin, so he 4 offers helpful little hints to the reluctant husband by putting knives and i Pistols within easy reach. Larry finally bucks up and shoota John St. John i by way of bringing about a happy coding. The play has a simple realism but the story might easily be put into a twenty-minute sketch. Fivcellent acting won applause. Pauline Lom! was free from affectation and charmingly bloodthirsty as the heroine; Alan Dinehart suggested the feeling of a strange man in a strange land during the processes of thought foreed upon the husband; Reginald Barlow, though sounding « bit English, made White a forceful character, and George Gaul wus recklessly gay os THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY the exceedingly fast worker who almost got away with Maric. There were : . P f00d bits of characterization, too, by Charles Holton and W. It Watson 4 5 ae AN MEXICO StOuGH TeresoRvY G-Goo -BYE “WALLY” But with all the good acting, “Big Game" runa a great risk of being $0 YouRE GOIN’ \, ee "WALLY" — FULL OF { —D-DONT Come BACK WH A NAME PLATE ON YOUR CHEST AN’ ‘YouR HIP-PocKETS FoR HANDLES ! snowed under. To Tour TH “Souse > AMERICAN COUNTRIES FoR Youn FIRM? i VALLER FEVER'~ REVOLUTIONS AN’ EVERY THIN’ # About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ICHARD HERNDON, producer | must be written by an American and of “The Passion Flower,” in| ust not deal with religion or poli- which Nance O'Neil is starring | “°* at the Greenwich Village Theatre, claims the record for quick work in| wity staging a play. Nine days after he signed his contract for the use of the theatre, “The Passion Flower” oponed | Sr pee as at the Columbia, Far Rockaway, and | (urned five days later received its initial) y Presentation in New York. Edna Wal-| “Angel Fuce" to London in the hearsed but four days. The writer of} Vivienne sLof The Little Whop this column saw the opening perform- | per,” at the Cusino, has a parrot that ance at the Greenwich Village Thea-| C4? imitate a Jaee bun After each | tre, and it ram as amoothly as if it] "Dirctor Omip Dymow of the Jow-| LITTLE MARY MIXUP wr Oxslp Dymow GOSSIP. rd Mack, weighing but 102 nd’, has qone to Kent, Conn, to He's been very ill 2) bad been on tour two months. Miss) ish art Theutre annow that he O'Neil’s first week in New York in coy placed Miho wakening | vw the play ended Tuesday, and the of Spring” in rebeareal, i oe ey Bor i i Bor : gi ay . ae oe ut T was So S'PRISE ord of receipts showed “capacity” for] ine cust of the Mortis Gest side || \ UNCLE EZRA: DD You THANK MARCH RIGHT IN THERE. Peions et [ee eay Har You" GIVE prnre all performances but two. night Whirl” on the roof of the Cen- Gave Me A- { HIM For tr 2 AND THANK UNCLE EZRA- U//| THANK You For. ANYTHING THAT 1 FORGOT, '@ target tury. > 5 ey pe eee Ee NEW WILBUR PLAYS. The frst pertormance of “Tne|| |Penny— He Dp Lauer, “The Unseen Hand,” a new play belt Flame,” serine anes 7 5 by Crane Wilbur, has been put in re-| Will be given at (he Columbia, Fur : , Rocka . Feb. 13. eC bearsal by A. H. Woods. ‘The cast in| TAY en ihe wite of Charley AWRICHT~ cludes Alma Belwin, Malcolm Will- | King, is the mother of a fine seven- 3 : Helen Knixht, formerly of Georg yd, Clifford Self, Harry White's “Scanduls of 1919,” has left Shutan, atrice Noyes and John the stage to become a movie actress. | Ray. John\Cort will produce another! James Damiano and five assistants Wilbur play called “A Fool's Game | ®ve imitations of Frisco, the jazz dancer, the Terrace Garden Dance at the Apollo Theatre, Atlantic City, | Paluen Inst might ee oarae Monday night. Maude Fealy will Col C. B. Cochran, the English theat-| etarred, rical producer, saw Grace George in| ay “The Ruined Lady" and has arranged | TWO SHOWS OPENING SOON, | to take star, play and al to London | | w ? ork run 1s over, | ona ous attractions in two of/ "yack Curley and Freeman Bern- | he New York theatres controlled bY | stein have arranged to have Downie’a the Messrs. Shubert are announced | performing elephants, the Riding De | for Monday evening, Fob, 2, Maxine | Motts and Wier's ‘Trained "Tigers at Biliott wit begin an engagement at Ghreun, openiu Het 8 Garden Indoor i her own theatre on that date in Will- | ~The Prince of Wales has sent Wil- SAN, t tam Hurtbut’s comedy “Trimmed in| nor and Romberg thanks for the Wes) a Mn ( MM foariet.” “No More Blondes” will| special performance of “The Magic have to leave Maxine Elliott's Thea-| Melody’ given for the men of the ; i (0 . tre in the middie of its populurity,| PTnee’* Meet Ons CAR Look ’Em Over, Joe; You Ain’t Missing Anything! and since no other Broadway house| 4 THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. can be found’for it, this Harbach | The man, who used to find it hard | farce will go to Washington ana |to come hon —_ 8, Felix Krebs, Howard Lang, pound baby «irl, born at the King m J. Kelly, Brandon Peters, home, No. 805 Weat 72d Street. will Coprghs 08, Pom Pebhing Co UM Y. Evvning Wold) eee ale, Ce cm aifeit e weve keen | Se ors Gee! “ha’s FUNNY — =- BUT YOU DON'T MIND Joe — New York later. On Feb. 2 also Vic- | crtepy ; WISH S They's “TwQ oF EM ® tor Herbert's latest musical piece, | A timid Jaae seman aves Gale, BOE DEAR non Ug a. CHICK Home IN ~TH' CAR ITH HERS T' DO Your WE MET GENEVEVE “My Golden. Gin,” will go into the |” f : MEET US AT “THAT DRUG } > DEM ic sda ale AFTER 1 PHONED You! Nore Bayes Theatre, displacing “The|/” lifts was afraid and turned pate.) | ree any DRWE US HOME? EV'RY TIME ~ LOTTA FUN Greenwich Village Wollies,” which AME SORE DOGE SANG ROE 1 Vedic Q JoLLYIn' ‘em! ; fou wall go an tour. The book and lyrics “When going to bed, OLD HER QN MY LAP! OH MY Not wt “My Golden Girl” ure by Predenc | 7 frequently run wp the scare: VSteune smNGe = DEE -LIGHTED, DOWNING GETS A PLAY. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. OR YOU CAN DRIVE —— ELE J 'm sure! Robert Downing has been hit by “In Boolotta, Africa, a man doesn't Prohibition, He has been appearing {know his wife until’ after he has in “Len Nights in a Barroom," and |married her.” now he finds himself with the only| “Why sing barroom in the country, This fact | | may sventuaMy ourtall interest in his | DIDN'T KNOW TYRANUS. barroom, and he has, therefgre, ac- | JSON, Republican eet ences or cae ee IRAM JOHNSON, | Repudit | ot Jacksonyile, Pla. Mt bears thc nator from Callfornie, (a title of “Nhe Swivel,” one of the hottest baseball 'S A BIC fans in the country. Jim Phelan, BERT EA BIO SHOW. |Democratic Senator, knows nothing | Father McGoan's annual concert in An VLE Hold der! » out Boolotta, Africa?” _ : eases ere is proof of the id of the worthy poor of the Bowery | “bout the Hare 1a IOoe OF thie section will take place at the Hippo- |latter*statement: drome Sunday night, Euhe) Barry-| The other day Waller Johnson, pre- more has agreed to appear, as hav | { Laurette Taylor, Geonge M ! John Charles Thomas, Blunc Charles Winninger, Barney Bi Donald Brian, Ciifton Crawtord, the Astaires, James Barton and numer- | cher of Ahe American League, b, the greatest ball player | istory, perhaps, paid a yisit to| ate. ‘After they had been in I around and ro LEAVE re ous others. ane \ship, Ph = : Ee z Fi JAKE AS A POET, wR at she Bene a a MY GOODNESS, GiRL+— HOW 20. UNE KEES EO! niall cara eelreeeca ary (Pombo we L-vve Never |, Ov FA DOWN THY WALL % ~4y ered that Jake F of the Woods The: nthal, mana e in the Wir | City, used to be a poet. The foll FAW, TIME A — Bag ee eumeetviand a8 one of Ja First Wir ON { We have a chicken in our barn | ! That does not never crow; N an Arkansas river town built The reason I twill tell to you: | largely on reclaimed land most of ag It is a hen, you know. the houses had to be built on pil, i pak are four or five feet above ground. A TIP THAT WASN'T, nt with a longer head than 4 M vors inclosed the space under Leo Ditrichstein was invited out toi" dinner recently. During the cou the meal a Wal) Street broker g } him an “inside tip" on a certain sto that was “sure to go up.” The star of |), “The Purple Musk” took the up and ; it cost him §x00, He says ho'll dine at home here- after, vickets and in the pen kept a drove of reckon hitched up his o ver Notice any bad effects from HERE'S A CHANCE. i Walter Hast, prod f Beandal” “he w I hoon a at the 8th Street The , announces | i t haw g for fourteen vbat he will give $1,000 for the beat Harp play submitted bim by pape 4 ho