The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1920, Page 28

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920 | , KATINKA TH GOING DOWNTOWN FoR Your WIFE’s HE NEW PLAYS] gece } [genet ON Tye YouR AR— Collier at His Funniest in celia ®. “The Hottentot” To Dawe % BY CHARLES DARNTON She Delights in Breakin’ Milk Bottles! Twat Must HAVE PY Bortce 2 cost, BEEN THE WHY Don't You MILK Botrce Lf) ware were youre RodE Ove DRIVING — CoucDN'T You SEE A BIC THING UKE A MILK BOTTLE | IN THE ROAD Zz i No SiR- THE Boy] . UN. LOOK AT THIS Secor oa TIE ALL CoT UP—How Dip THAT HAPPEN ? Y ERE,” says William Collier, handing the butler in his racing play « twenty-dollar bill, “try and get a ticket in some theatre with *hat.” Well, here's a tip. If you put your money on “The Hot- at Cohan's Theatre you are sure of picking a big winner. ‘This new farce by Victor Mapes and Coll'éf is more like a comedy, such Good one that it puts the laughs over the jumps at breakneck speed, and in spite of the fact that nothing really happens until the last act, when Steeplechase race is run off-stage and described by witnesses in the familiar manner. Another odd thing about the play is that the first wets such a fast pace as to handicap the remainder of the performance. With Coilier at his best from start to finish the fun never lags. Once again it is fear that drives Collier on to an heroic finish. As Sam ington, from the West, he is saddled with the reputation of being a rider, when in truth he’s afraid to look a horse in the face. But Re makes a truly flying start by jumping on the fiery, untamed Hottentot 4 stold to ride over from a neighboring house to the me of the only im the world for him, with the result that he arr: a awful looking His hat is over his eyes, his breeches are torn, a: even bis teeth are Wource of apprehension to him. | At once Collier makes himeelf the whole show, quite legitimately, as he ws the girl to sew up the gaping rent, or sits with her and gets no end ‘Tun out of a tiny coffee cup. Meanwhile he quakes in his boots at heating assert and reassert her belief that a man who shies at a horse is a She arranges to have him ride her horse in the race, and he goes far as tu say that his racing colors are black-and-blue. Then he gets his the butler to hide the fearsome mare, only to get himself in such a rate situation that to get out of it he’ risks his life on the Hottentot's As the race proceeds he is reported at one critical moment to be on the horse's neck, yet somehow he takes the water jump without ing off, and presently limps back triumphant, though black in the face. _ Farcical as all this may sound, it is done so smoothly and with such as to damp William Collier a comedian of the first rank. There is not or ight comedian either in this country or in England who could equal ‘work he does in “The Hottentot.” It i# nothing less than an artistic Forty iN SPELLING SIXTY IN WRITING “THRTY 1 DEPoRTMENT = 8 rlere ‘Ss MY CARD FOR YOu FoRTY if SPEWIANG —SiiTY [rae TEACHER said T ee IN WRITING AND THIRTY 1 LUCKY TS GET MAR DeroetMent ? I pony see | \"Saar mu ge WHERE ‘THE Luck Comes iN reste : WITH SuctH Low MARKS @S “THAT ¢ wiTte GR. I am—? Another capital performance is given by Donald Meek as the butler, tally, there’s a bit of showing off on the part of servants in the last that is Pickwickian in its rich humor. Three uncommonly pretty women | len Wolcott, Frances Carson and Ann Andrews—add charm to the nothing to be de- | About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ODGE ami Pogany are to have) pippins in Jersey end has written the their first theatrical showing | following poem about them: - on Broadway next Thursday | We're getting tired of reading Wroning at the Punch and Judy Thea-| The silly shrieks and squawnks fre, where they will offer “Musk,” ©! 4 pout those little dollies Bee was a success in Vienna ia An’ Y’Can’t Stage a Come Back, Either! a es THAT MEANS SILLY ME | . ; ee a GooD -BYE * IN ' ANY LANGUAGE WHY “IT MEAN “GooD-BME * UNK "AU REVoIR” 1 GooD-@NE™ IN “TH" ' FRENCH LANGUAGE LUKE -OR RATHER aw! SuT ) Au REVO! THATS jouer WELL ” WooD - i ALCOHOL” To, You “HucHie Ra was, Gasche Turks In Flatbush and the Bronz. ‘fm the cast, which includes| You don’t mean what you tell us Garrick, Marguerite Tand,| When claim they b the é Temple, Giga Ziceva, Natalje po da (dil oad Henry Mortimer, Cecil Owen, | Garden, Scdtt\ Moore and |For we have some in Jer el Lunbec. A young Russian director new to America— Uraneff—has directed the) the play. Spa Maal | And wish you never did, b EXCURSIONS AGAIN. Come over here to Jersey he return of the railroads to pri-| and took them over, kid. With which the old world is blest. So, before you couple up, sir, THEY LIKE AMERICA, ' ndin ia , of great er | the three months that the ce to the Hippodrome especially, | English players in “Monsi i Weets Qi, OP, i 4 . iE means much in the way of at- caine” Meee Neen aDeariae at cht ay ah [oH Nora! THE Wi OP e. ready A New Amsterd: Theat P vi y i@®y Manager Luescher to arrange | geveloped such a liking for knee STOVE HAS be jeatre parties from other towns. that without exception they have —— |declared their intention of making | HARDLY A DOLLAR'S WORTH. | their homes in this country. Lennox ) (Fatty. Aruokle, film comedian, Pawle will become"a citizen, ted an orphan asylum recently d- told the little inmates funny Gossip. ries. One small boy was pointed! Olive Oliver has been engaged for t There in the Corner! é Yo tilin' as incorrigible, Fatty|-phe Piper. it him out. “Thay tell me you're pretty bad,” id the comedian. “Do you think) uu could be good if I came up here ‘k and gave you a dollar?” Pg prted that the youngster had been! ty bad. ‘Do you think you've earned the lar I promised you?" asked Fatty. ‘ell me yourself—honestly ?” = The boy frowned. Finally he mut- d: “Aw gee, gimme a nickel.” A NEW DAVIS COMEDY. ~@-*A Week-End Marriage,” a new eomedy by Owen Davis, has been ac- tepted for production by the Messrs. Shubert. Rehearsals will begin next onday. AN AWFUL WASTE. At one point in “The Purple Mask” 0 Ditrichstein saves his life by ring brandy in the guns of his mies, After he had done so last ight a man in the audience was wd’ to mutter: | “Gosh! I'd rather be shot than it” TO STAGE PLAYLETS. ‘The Guild Players of the Univer- 'y Bettlement will prodyce three act plays on March 5 at No. 18 dridge Street. The plays are “Th ed Chest,” by John Masefield Madame Permits,” by M. D. New. and “Lithuania,” by Rupert OH, WHAT A MAN! Margaret Donis, aged fourtee of No. 802 has read this column ever since ‘was ten, we think we ought to it. Hold tight—here it is: was a young girl in Hoboken jose sweetheart he gave her a token; She had the ring tested, He'd a dollar invested, then the engagement was broken. WOODS TO OPEN THEATRE. A. H, Woods, who acquired the fort Theatre in Atlantic City re- fly, is having the house redeco- and expects to open it about middie of June. He will try out bis new plays there. The theatre's y will be changed to the WE'LL DO THAT, KID. jing in “Just a Minute,” which John Lenore Ulric will appear in “The Son-Daughter” the 126th time to- night. Robert Marks is directing the danc- rt will send on tow Nance O'Neil, in “The Passion ower,” at the Belmont, has been approved by the Drama League F. Ziegfeld jr there are more pretty girls in Nine o’Clock Revue” than he ever had im any of his other productions. Edward Peple bas written a story especially for the screen. It bears the title of “The Mother Man.” ‘Sasgha Beaumont is the latest addi- tion fo the cast of Marc Klaw’s new musical comedy, “Dere Mable. Clara Beranger, film writer, will make her debut as a playwright when the Blaneys produce “The Unwanted One" i Hartford to-morrow. wrote it with Forest Halsey. William G. Stewart, stage director at the Capitol, will have a high class opera company in his home town, Cleveland, O., thi: immer, WE CANNOT PERMIT IT. Kent Rodway of No. 575 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, solved our limerick puzzle of last Saturday but unfor- tunately dropped the $200 check he had made out for ug on the floor and his dog chewed it up. He asks if he may send us another check. No, we cannot permit any person to have two shots at one limerick. Re caroful with your checks, limerickers, or you may spofl all your chances to send us things. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. Hannon.—Cannot advise about song contests. Daly.--See Chamberlain Brown, Pitagerald Building. Fontaine.—See Mrs. Bendix, Colum- via Theatre Bullding. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Ellsworth Hopkins, son the druggist, has become a noted pletu: actor In New York. He writes home | he just played the role of Mr. Extra in a big film, More fame for our little city! —Wellsville Optic. FOOLISHMENT. “Line up!" the Captain shouted, “The enemy is nigh, The time has come, my comrades, For ua to do or die,” The soldiers started laughing, No enemy was near, And now you have the story Of Captain Josh Devere. PSA Jersey girl who oi . Tg is us for permit- ot New York FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “Where did you get that suit?” “At @ Broadway tallore, It's an! Yarious uncalled for suit.” are some = “Gosh! JOE’S CAR np ON, Pree Paling Gol UN Y. Booming West MIGHT 1 INQUIRE. IF YouR FRIEND CASEY HAS SENT A CHECK For THE CAR YET? Him “To SEND TTH'money 1% Cont see How Joe CAA SE SO MEAM S— | Naw! voorerreer Ul (Tae voor sting FoR A CAINUTE. “THAT 1M GONN SHOVEL “TH'REST OF “HAT SNow AWAY FROM “HE DRIVEWAY — DO YOU? LHoveut You were COUNTING ON “THAT MONEY, “To PAY YouR income “TAX wiTH! B NY A Little Tunnel Through Pure Ivory, Eh? Py OMS POS. CO. INVEVE. WORLD > J [wars “THERE