The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1920, Page 24

SSE ‘ fg CCE: VETTE [THE NEW PLAYS . “The Night Boat” Too Good to Miss ' so YOUSE 0a FELLA WHAT 4 SLuNG DAT SLIPPA_LATYG MA HEAD : ? | Yo NEEDN'T BACK OUT~ fy BEGORRA , ILL BY CHARLES DARNTON Theatre, for this jaunty mugical craft flying the Di¥ingham flag is cleverly rigged with words ahd music by Anne Caldwell and Jerome “Kern, and it carries such @ merry crew that there isn’t ® dull moment in the . whole course of the trip. Since there are no night boats out of Paris, it follows that Mias Caldwell must have thoroughly shivered the timbers of the French farce by A. Bisson on which this piece is founded—not foundered. The easy-riding plot is con- cerned with the mildly amorous adventures of Bob White, who pretends to be the of the night boat to Albany so that he may pass week-ends away from his wife and mother-in-law. For the b6nefit of late comers, this plot is explained in a novel manner by six confiding chorus girls who have a ‘way of making you fee! that they kfow more than is set down in the book. But they're nice giris—oh, very nice! ‘ Jncit Hazzard is in the thick of the plot and he gets a ict of fun out of It as the landlubber who puts on the cap and coat of the desorbed as looking like the cab-starter at the Automat, best work in making a mess of a gaind mixed under the baleful eye of the unexpected mother-in-law, Ada Lewis te something untque in others-in- law, awtully grand, yet bubbling over with song. Then there's something im the grapes he eats on the boat that goes to her head ,and in the exhilara- tion of the moment she dances inimitably. In everything she does, for that matter, Miss Lewis is screamingly funny, A charming little creature, Loulse Groody, has an original and a graceful way of handling her feet, and she sings ae well as she dances, The best song, “Left All Alone Again Blues,” ie given full value by Stella Hoban, but “tr, Kern has scen to jt that there is enough lively music to go around, in- eluding a medley of old river songs. « ‘n Ernest Torrence sings, once with lassies in Scotch costumhes. In an idie moment Torrence asks Hazzard: “Have you a cigarette” “No, i replies Jack. “Oh, very well,” says Torrence, “Tl take one of my own.” be “Have you a horse?” inquires Hazzard. “No; why should I have @ horse?” + Withering scorn curls Hazzard’s lips as he explains: “Jesse James had one.” F ‘Bhere is a suggestion of foe in the river when Lillian Kemble Cooper ie draws her English accent on the uneasy Mr. Hazzard, but she sings with him ¥ nigely while he utters weird sounds, Like Miss Kemble, ail the girls are i pretty, and in their tasteful frocks they sivq © Gainty charm to the per- |~ ~ I can only add that “The Night Boat™ {» too good to miss. About Plays a is ate sure to be plain sailing for “The Night Boat” at the Liberty WEY DAWGONIT —Th! OLE GAL AINT SLEPT.A WINK S\NCE — sce ete sane t Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY : UR limerick contest is getting beyond our gontrol. The post- man, who used to actually seamper in with the mail. now ap- pears humped over under a burden of missives containing contest rhymes from jt. So Major Belth just ed out his old thanuscript and the ay was produced. It is a London HERZ TELLS ONE. Ralyh Herz of “Always You" was , lucky| with a troupe twenty-five years ayo winners. To show you how’ deeply! that had a ba eerie pboh impressed the public is with the con-|¢nds, meet. a the audiences didn't come the ticket sellers at the test, a newspaper yesterday printed |ineatres would invariably say: “They “0 -no-N BA "ia -MoM ~ 2 GAé- Must ae ear hart po Pala Me ACTS KiKi ITS headline reading: “One Slain in ca ~ i {americks “Biota” Vand | four people faa a oul had appeared aid cu werk ina re APPROVES The. Nicest HAT He comments ike, “Good work!” “ie. | “st suppose,” «aid the manager oar- iN EVER TASTED ¢ castically to the ticket seller, “this is y another of those towns where they come late, ien"t {t?"" “IT dunno,” repied the ticket man. MEANING “Lye been here twelve years and they| “PRETTY - mae So uae PRETTY" DEAF GIRLS “SEE” OPERA. ‘Thirty little girls, all:pupils of they Municipal School for the deaf, are at- the. performance at the Cap- They are lip- Aon's New SPRING HAT | & joy ‘the presentation of watha.”’. even though they couldn't hear the music, / A NEW STAR. The Western Spirit, published at Pack, Kan., nounces that Walter Hast in “Scandal” will be the attrac- tion at the Mallory Opera House on Feb. 7. We thought we'd missed him, MISS MOORE A BRIDE. ‘When Fred Moore, Manager of the; Apollo Theatre, Atlantic City,’ wasn't looking “Tuegday his daughter, Kitty, went over to Philadelphia and mar- ried Paul R. Binder, an. Atlantic City hotel man. They are in New York hen their honeymoon. THE “SHAVINGS” CAST. The complete cast of the new lenry W. Savage production, “Shav- ings,” a dramatization of Joseph C. Lincoln's Cape Cod novel, includes Harry Beresford, Charles Dow Clark, James Bradbury, Clara Moores, Vivian Tobin, “Lillian Roth, Douglas MacPherson, Mitchell Harris, Saxon Kling, George Neville, Dudley Clement and Eleanor Martin. So ns aan tare ete tae ae SE 3 JOE’S CAR Conv, 0, Pw Pelting Co (HY, oenng Wer DAWGONNIT! HERE'S WHERE. 1 Woss A LiL SURPRISE. To TH’ Good wiFF! oa You HAVENT Muct{ oF A SHAPE ANYWAY , SO 1 DON'T suppose (T MAKES MUCH DIFFERENCE! “THOSE STYLES ARE J 1 SupPase You THINK, re tL |) EINE FOR STRAPPING Ke , YOUNG ATHLETES , JOE - FREE “T' DRIVE uP IN A dAACK DEMPSEY, EH? y ( tl vEHETTL pur REALLY --- [~] | YouR AGE AND AN’ EVERY THIN' sack! ry rela i ee FIGURE! s— = 1 SHOULD THINK [t WELL GEE WHY AIN'T | YOU wourd BUY A GARMENT MORE SUITED \T A Goer coat? 1t's\ (vy o ¢ You Loox FOR “TH'CAR ~ NICE AN’ “7 (ive A BROOM LOOSE — LEAVES MY ARMS/) stick DONE. ; Watch for Katinka t On This Page (ae Gossip. y ‘Nheda Bara will open in “The Blue Flame” in Stamford on Feb, 18, It's Friday qo. “4 ‘The Cansinos, Spanish dancers in “The Night Boat,” have been given @ long-time contract by Charles Dil- linghaen. “Apple Blossoms" at the Globe had a model audience last night, Three hundred fashion models were present, ‘To-night will mark the 100th per- |- formance of “The Magic Melody" at the, gShube Charles Purcell will sing “Bweethearts,” Mr. and Mrs. Coburn have engaged Anna Wiheaton for the princtpal role in their comedy with music, “Three Showers. “The Unseen Hand" will be launched by A. H, Woods in Stam- ford on Feb, 9. Forty of Ann M > The Good ir Ship Yooseless cDonald’s ad- cd mirers from Weehawken, where she latitude, 2.75 N. played in stock, saw her in “The Pur- |ple Mask” yesterday. | ‘The first Yiddish production of Longitude, tor1ZW, “The Lily” wil be given at the Irving Place Theatre to-night, Maurice a Schwartz, Jenny Valiere and Bertha | . - 1 Gersten head the cast. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Rewer H. Post has written a play called “Would Alcohol?” He got the! At Sea, Feb 5 {oe while using some in painting his| arn, Via Yireless Phone | To Evening World Readers | FOOLISHMENT. (By Bert it.) So close within his arms she swayed, | And nestied there quite unafraid; He felt her breath upon his cheek, He gqzed at her with eyes 80 meek, | Perhaps you'll*think that this 1s | mush, s . + Gomic Page next Monddy. | pur no—it's (wo in a Subway cry). Am holding my own, but ‘tis a jolly rough trip. Save epace for me a-top FROM THE C STNUT TREE. | “You didn't know’me jast nijpht, did your” “No, who were you?” I'm fulla pep an'pickles (Signed )-HATINKA