The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1920, Page 24

Cohan’s “Mary” A Whizzing Hit By CHARLES DARNTON h HH A dle i c4 * ll i qe i } v7 FEEL WE ith Ht vata # il H 2c f8 tat “The Love Nest.” y i H | i F ee ent Ualal bik ue ea HTH i i fi i fs ‘company. The enough to get to 96th Btreet, when wii go into rebearea] next @ nice lady wearing a diamond —* @upervision of| ring Came in There was no seat wecont, Dut Willie immediately stood up ond said: AL NEWS. ions usuaen, tromner ot One Hat. aan mate Rave may cnet, ledy!” bach, librettist and lyricist, te in Now The lady sat down and ali ad- with his bride. He is a resident! mired Wilke for Me gallantry. a where be te tn the shectzt. One day, se months later, Willie guest Otto Hi home. attempted to cross Fifth Avenue ts elegy eo of Joe Miller fame. Bud. : acon, was married last Wesnestay| deniy he wow « fine cigarette stub. Allen, ‘of the touring “Lignt-| With @ burning desire to possess fin’ " company. Mrs. Allen te appear-| the «tub Wie stopped and bent ee Se Se Se ever. A deautiful automodtic vagd struck Mm in the exottement and “HALF WOON” 600! denoched him down. The fine lady Nov. Aerie Hatt Moon,” was in the car. Willle sat down on fae ‘Cawthorne ie the) fe curb, dascd. The fine lady , wih the Liberty Theatre| opened the auto's door. Willie saw ‘audiences to tho Liberty, “ON,” he anid, arising, “it te you a 90 tome Sense She Dilling: Hove my seat.” bam Lemy pope cannot an “Leek a-hore, boy!” she replied, aetna Ww 6 yes eneeh the mas- — guard on my car?” Then she drove 4 re OM, WHAT A BLAM! Gwey. a Te gs ye ag ey morte Wlie staggered out to get the “4 ‘ e trenches in) cigarette atud, but it was gone. It ‘s ‘War with a brondeide for| was thon that he lost faith in remarks women. the Here's Ms pee: bf (The ond.) Lsten and cast before Leo anna ed nated Rare * re in it in Now York. io ip ‘Theatre. *» Hospital yesterday whon Irene| Note Bayes yesterday “and Jay Brennan, ali of “The Green- Wich Village Follies,” called and gave) Ona) ay the inyalid an. afternoon of music. |‘, ma. work for him, however, eal bin Mr, Bothaps an Jan Saturday night. THE NEW PLAYS LD-FASHIONED as “Mary” may sound, this musical comedy, Pro- O @uced last night by George M. Cohan at the Knickerbocker Theatre, te #0 apeedy, as the now word goes, that it breaks all Broadway ¢ weveriis, making even “The Royal Vagabond” seem like a limping tramp. To write in terme of Cohan about @ Conan dancing-and-singing piece | te impostitta, for cold type can't keep up with the pace he sets, “Mary” went like « whirlwind and, accordingly, scored a whizzing hit. It was Fapid in footwork, with all the members of “George M. Cohan's Gancing like mad, and leaping, romping across the stage with Be perpetual motion of youth. The effect created may be described, per- Rae, as one of vensational activity. In all of it, feet and head, were the marks of © genius grown from “Little Johnny Jones,” or something of the & Beet b one of the biggest men in our theatre If there happened to be moments in the book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Frank Mondell, Were almost instantly dimpelied by the action of the performance Gnd at the same time it te only fair to gay that the lyrics proved good umlo by Lou Hirsch never failed to be » and with it came the welcome to be a charming young woman working 5 widow who lived on Long Island, first The eon of this landed proprietress had an fairly poor, and tthe model of this timely Mary—was displayed as the ideal home for love- Dent upon matrimony. From its chimney came Cohanesque touch of realism. An extremely pre- the foreground as a haymaker, and gther characters house couldn't mean millions to hero of this extravagant affair did @ good stroke of busi- @ fortune out of oil wells, He Fned into a dovecote, with two doves |. Coban's sentimental standard. ness in the end were apread over felt at any thme that everything in thin little world of n't go well, for everybody im the cast did good work. wholesome-looking Mary and she sang charm- io Jack Mo- melodious as the old-made young man, and iy ‘wae & gorgeous mother; widow who didn’t mind turning a handapring; Frenchman anrusingly though noisily, James C. Marlowe also helped to keep the fun Carrillo iter of Ivan , author of “Happy-Go- at the Booth, has returned | to London. He's coming back A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY ‘The man who eays, “I told you #0,’ a at the thelr performance. Norman Peel has gone to Oregon to! ’ Jook after the publicity of the Para-| A FUN INA HOSPITAL. mount Film Corporation in that State. t secet weloome| “Three Live Ghosts” moved from | elrprice Iter cick room at Be vin-| the Greenwich Village ‘Theatre to the| Down 8. L. Rothapfe! of the Capito! is familiarly known as Roxtle. te apt unpopular to grow. This Is ‘open | rhyme, I hope you'll note, that’s had Vaversham enough to Ket your goat Bis new play and he gives much of the credit for it to the bird. \ FOOLISHMENT * Moral (for producers and stars) i: eet tang : vy viain girl from St. Jor i > Stood under the vreen mistletoe poke Just seven men biesed her Oh, not a man missed hey aossie. ‘The girl had @ million, you kyo Ho, Ho! A waillion real dollars Bureskie will go to Kurepe new) “Eph, nowadays?’ he done learned Pe ve FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. what's your brother, Rute, i | | ‘and Constance Farber, Bert Savoy | 3° fervens tee wwe David East” and the work of Dorothy Gish | in| uary. | We have been notified that the| receipte at the Astor, where Louis Mann ts appearing in "The Unwritten Chapter,” broke the theatre's record! DON'T GET FRESH! How's THE CORN Today 2? > JOE’S CAR a. Pw Pobuing CaO. Bi Lod Swett aut RIGHT - oT MAKE. (T RUN. BUT FIRST rt wish You'd TeLL Me WHAT Y'DID ‘To 1T! GOSH — \F FLVER , WHERE “TO ————v Goo bY, ° : Cee yet eelog P DONT MENTION 17 aT Sour Panry Hey 341d — MAGE iis ‘i I stevunn Nr OUGHTA ae Se HAVE Sep ‘=m. T A j HAD A Mice Time aT THEIR “PARTY — GONNA BUY A MY GRAN’ POP A BIRFDAY ee BuT COMIC PAGE _TURSDAY, OCTOSES 2%, HE'S ALRIGHT, CARLY — He ASNT SURE WHETHER HE CAN A ScoTcH Teeeee PUP FOR A PRESENT! —-———— ACN QuIT THAT SOKING I I Gey ? LAPD GWE ME A 7) DID YOu LEARN J QUART OF THOSE Beets! DO YOU SEE ANYTHING WRONG. WITH IT, Joe? Werth, DID You s are 4 : REMEMBER TS say J ds ty a YOu 4AD A Nice Time, AT Theme PARTY? YouR GRAN'PoP He DOETH DON'T WEAR WE'S SENDING vou) | founded in 1857 by O'Mahoney, | into a Do You When | ting her wat And Think of the Laundry Bills Grandpop Saves! HERE HE COMES inesh eae OUR Music TEACHE F\TOLD US To ALWAYS Give “FOUR BEATS To A MEASURE 1} ~Y'DusTeD ALL TH’ WIRE6 “OFF OF, Tu’ SPARK RLUGS C—_—__—_--—_— Ler said ) \Don't Men rion 17 2 / <Rs- Vain Ceashst = * rea | Seses Oys.en. NWEVG, warege) hen, Horsa and others calle ralned to teach her husband a lesson. | hurts.” ) “what {s } < that you, Tom? he ma 1, What is the 1 breed of ; pablo anne COS. Budi onan. Cael RMathing: ometany ald th dogw ; ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS loor.”* ‘ emily ‘only now he knows."-T 8. What did the Jacobite pretenders | sodium ch rei Told at Last, © the Hoglish throne call mselves | lanta; 8, at V WOMAN can't keep a secret, 4. Who founded 8! Augustine? iis | | “Oh, I don't know,” re- b, What tw the chemical name tor | = And down went ihe window With “/torted the lady. ‘I've kepttay age & walt? Subject For a Lecture van avcret since I was twenty-four,” 6. In what country was che puloter | R, JENKINS was in the habit of , “You, but one of these days you will Rubens born? M attending meetings which often | ‘ Lost He Knew. | give it away. In time you will simply 7. What woman ts supposed to have detained bim after the usual JAS from the nursery brought have to tell it” | satlod with the Argonauts? hour of retirement, to be wpres-| # What planet has rings around itz] Ono night he was exce edingly late rs . What is the Irish brotherhood ‘and his wife, after fretting herself! “Never mind, darling,” she com- “Well, | think that when a women has kept a vecret for eighteen years she comes pretty near knowing how to keep it” mother, who found : baby efully pulling Billy's curls, : : melee eases > temper, went to bed, deter-|forted, “Baby doesn't know how it| How Ne Happened. Bushung, it two hours of that fast lec BLL, 1h tell you," sagt a| living didn’t inighty nigh ruin met" she had been upstairs about| Half an hour later wild shrieks! citizen of Sandy Mush, | TM P. Morgan in Judge. ten minutes she heard a knock. Put-/ from the baby made her run again tu | A y ae hoad out of the window, she | the nurse i} Ark., in reply to the in- ling over the town And trying to get quiry of a neighbor, “I was over to| A Financial Diagnos: Cattawampus ye y, and ipside Na confi¢ent of two hours there were three fights, ] group of niedical 8, a fire, “a lady horse nent two ru whippiag nuther, and a couple of airplar took up t matter t gnosis of the maximum a gent for something or tr s@ll- | di ely img into the fights, keep out of the run- | of cours aways, run to the fire, watch the| For ix the re lady, and keep my eyes fixed on tho My w Ita a 85 ‘alent airplanes, 1 got knocked over four| Sutarion pnd $8 for o t We Cons or five times and tromped on con-| The: then @ voice from phitheatre, slightly siderable, and I don’t reckon my neck | vious will work presizely right till the Lord| the pack knows when, How them folks in| thickened, » town manage to keep healthy with| “Doc,” /t asked, “how much do you all that hooraw going on amongat| vharge a fellow for passing you on ‘em is wore thay 1 can figger out,'the street? —Chicago Journal,