The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1920, Page 24

atten mgee een tore eee COMIC PAGE © WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7,1 E NEW PLAYS|/! 1 ror eer ee ee le E L | WAIST WITH THE GREEN 4 WE'D DO ANYTHING To ve Bots Out OF THE WINDOW RE Ir i Thing HURT MY “ Pd Lassie FoR Me ?peaPLEASE OUR CUSTOMERS! EYES EVERY TIME Captivating Musical Comedy 7) = ae a : © “Y Passeo! By CHARLES DARNTON \ TH 10 ADD to the celebration of old home week for pretty maidens, there ‘was “Lassie” last night displaying such daintiness and charm as to make the Nora Hayes Theatre wholly unsafe for any man under Now “Lassie,” as you may know, is Catherine Chisliolm Cushing’s (we're ‘on the high C’s) little Scotch comedy “Kitty MacKay” set to music by Hugo 4 Felix. It's @ fair guess that Mrs. Cushing has a strain of Scotch in her, or at q ‘any rate a thrifty sense of values, together with a neat way of turning her | ‘hand to lyrics, and at the same time talking Mr. Felix into writing the best % Light music that has been heard klong Broadway in many a moon, The score | 2 ts the work of an artist, a real musician, not merely a tunesmith. The even ig ‘more shocking fact about “Lassie” is that there are people in it who can act 1% ne well as sing. Could anything in musical comedy be more amazing? Individual hits were the order of the night. Tessa Kosta, as the lassie LITTLE MARY MIXUP . ‘ Yes, It Must Be Sider Cover! ' i ia ‘eighty. ia ; i who loved @ soldier supposed to be her half-brother, sang like a lark on a epring holiday and caught the Scotch note with a blithe sense of character. eo It was only at the end of the second act that she suffered from bad stage | 4 management in a cort of dream scene, so dour—if you don't mind a bit of | Scotch—as to make it quite out of place in musical comedy. This scene should be cut out and the lights kept up. The main thing is to keep Miss Kosta smiling, an art she has apparently cultivated while giving herstif to vocal exercise. At times she lifted her voice to the roof, a bad habit common to youvg singers, but it was sich a good voice that it never failed to bring down the house. . In the comparatively quiet moments there was Molly Pearson going over | fhe Bible and the fashions of the sixties once again as the practical Meg, and, you may be sure, giving a thoroughly delightful performance. Moreover, this Bunty of other days pulled the musical strings offered her with considerable skill. Roland Bottomley sang “Lassie” so well that he covered himself with the glory of several encores, and then went on acting Eugene O'Brien's old role like a dutiful son, Carl Hyson made pretty Dorothy Dickson seem part ‘of windlass in a dance around and over a well, These two dancers left Bf “no stone unturned on their way to success. Colin O’Moore eang like a young 4 John McCormack, Louie Emery was delightfully savage as a Scotch house- svife, Ralph Nairn made Sandy altogether sincere in expressing the hope that fhe might get well so that he could go to drinking again, and Alma Mara got Jot of fun out of the flask he carried, Jollier still was the game played in “Skeletons,” with Ada Sinclair leading an exceptionally clever and original . (here was a generous display of knees and so forth by chorus‘ girls re 7 afterwards were most engaging in crinolines und danced a minuet iy ebarmingly. a In @ word, “Lassie” is captivating. About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY Now ,n1SseNn-§ No MATTER tow MUCH SOMETHING LOOKS LiWe RUBBISA_ “Don't Tae, IT UNLESS IT'S IN TH Paw ¢ si Tat ae —_ ~ Ste 7 Hey, MISTER & were a GOIN? with / OvR BABY 2? —— Ne A EAE Ae ms Pee ee You KeeP A-RUNNIN’ AWAY so - Tm Just coin 6 Te You TS Tite RUBBISH PAW. Ten You CANT “RUN AWAY ~ THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Fie TH HosPrTAL? WELL SEND TH" WAGON QUICK, RIGHT AWAY, PRONTO! THES A GUY _HERE_WITH og 7H * DIM-DAM®S = Attention, Limerickers! ts Jeremiah Hepper, leader of the Limericker Party in Boston, has FE PRE 4 a BEE Hy *§3 2 36 Fas of the Billiard Table for $2,000 campaign contribution; also a chewing gum to be turned Women's Auxiliary. We joxen a running mate, but eevera] men who might take ace. Applications have not, as been received from Herbert i BE ke es i i ne F ay taice ppl (yep heya Gov. Coolidge = YS - y : Marjorie seve: ers, but we are ex- - & booting them to erpty woon. We wish RUSTY AND BUB ‘ Bub Has Clean Ideas Even Abo as a Limericker and must seni us 5 ZB); 27 ky 7, a rp a ) THATS BLACK Dy, SMOKE. , 8UB Susie ioral daar $2,000 and six pairs of silk eocks as an entrance fee. Wr have no choice pe A of the boys would do. If we decide to reject them all we may ac- cept Henry Proctor Waugh, who nut WHY DON'T THEY WASH ET i ‘FORE. THEY THEND ET OUTE = a littlg harshness in this campaign in order to whip some of the Anti- gays Mr:| Poetry Faction into line. We wish to take occasion here to Then| rebuke George W. Mohr for his state- my as-| ment, by mail, that we have no right to use a forelgn language in our trick Limericks. Mr. Mohr forgets that COLLEGE. | many of our readers live abroad. J . * , Linco” Why, he, himself, lives in Jersey City. cm ippantstaut ie In” will | yy, , g - 3 ae text Sunday | Why shouldn't wo use foreign lan- q formance | Suases? WHA'TH ALL THAT DIRTY BLACK 6$3 Ti TUFF COMIN’ OUT THE CHIMBLY ~ To-day's pus#le rhyme, friends, con- cerns something that will make you Be, eet epee NF ee sit on it, in 16 missing word, and rush it tn, Will,| together with your $200 check and a ‘ beacon prune pie. Here's the rhyme: NN Eve. Weare —e JOE’S CA The telephone central was dumb, She'd put every call on the bum, “What number?” she'd say, "Coryidh, 108, Fr Pdlihing Co UV. Eovaing Washi And then turn away, , { suar's sol MARE OUT A BILL OF SALE \ ' And apend alt her time chewing —-,| | ( WELL, LE'S TAKE. A LiL’ JAZZ || mgToR's GOT A LATTA SA ais: SE Show THIS GENTLEMAN SAYS “TH' Boss “ToL YOU, DIDN'T HE - . EP ~ AINT ITS : " ” BUZZONI" S|! |IN UT ~ AND IF OTT BEHAVES Pr "our? PULLIN’ FOR HIGH WELLATAKE “THe.” BU22ON1" We PUT “TH'RED ONE UP Rext Monday to see some of the . = ; GEAR! DAWGONNIT, % 200 “THis MoRNIN'? j . ALL RIGHT ~ ' ' | wr! : Racial Counci wih attend’ the: per- “THAT'S FAIR Vu SAY 80 e formance at the Capitol Theatre to- night. Asa theatre party this is the season's record. Kathleen Brenon of “Apple Bios- soms” has been invited by her bro- ther, Herbert, the film director, to join Marie Doro’s company at Monte Carlo this summer, Isabelle Rodriguez has been added to the cast of “Florodora” at the Cen- tury. She formerly danced at the ‘Winter Garden. nk McCormack has assumed :| the direction of the final rehearsals of "The Bonehead,” which Claude Beerbohm will present at the Fulton Theatre Monday. Magsie Teyte has cabled her ac- ceptance of an offer to play the same in “Lassie” in London. It will WATCH HER ume! : WELL, You'RE | ts Doin! Th’ RIGHT ) ie r e produced there during the sum- ~ : A_* A mr Ces LEAVE IT TO LOU Lou Mashied the Goof With a Verbal Niblick ! ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. weit . Puli CP hk’ oar G. M. D.-—-Mansfield died in 1907, nests LF on re RU 127—- HOW S ! y ps jesse" ‘4. Hi—There's no telling when whe ¥ vor aM bat a OW. YOU'LL MOT BE |> : will play here. Haven't her address, WELL" COUSIN = APD LOMESOME HERE M. H. F.—Write bim care the Pathe RALPH — 'M GOING - Barton is to be featured in a| offices, New York. * You p ‘ WwrthouT any 4 norton, of two-reel film comedies. Powers—Take your lyrics to the Ssrow al WEEK-ENDERS Cantor will be Seed 1b 8 publishers. We cannot handle them.) WEAL COUNTRY y v OO 7 * |, THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, cwet! ‘Herne of “The Acquittal"| He; » Turnbull, the Wellsville bag- new house hasbeen | gage man, says he has had to quit) toasing grips around carelessly since | Prohibition ewooped down. 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