The evening world. Newspaper, October 21, 1920, Page 28

‘ b — _ COMIC PAGE — THURSBAY, OCTOBER 21, 1920 | | THE NEW PLAYS “The Skin Game” Class War With a Scandal By CHARLES DARNTON “Strife” and “The Mob”—could ever turn theatric seems incredible, yet this suspicion cropped up so often in the later scenes ot “The Skin Game,” at the Bijou Theatre, last night, there was no downing it. Byen The Woman with a Past came back and tried to kill herself. Possibly, Galsworthy felt that a play concerned with class war might have a long life if it were given a touch of Pinero. At any rate, “The Skin Game” ts class war with a scandal. In the earlier contention between | @n idle aristocrat and a busy manufacturer there is interest and earnest- | eas, strengthened by good give-and-take, In buying land on which to build potteries, Hornblower had promised the Hillcrists he would not drive off any of the tenants, When a man and his wife complain they have been ordered out of their cottage, Hillcrist vainly remonstrates with Hornblower and thon accuses him of breaking his word. The manufaeturer takes thi) indifferently, with the argument that in hurting two people he will eventu- | T= John Galsworthy, of ali dramatists—the man who wrote “Justice,” ally b» helping hundreds, but when Hillorist refuses to have anything to do With -his scheme of building up the town a break between the two men takes place. Hornblower resents the fact that Mrs, Hillcrist has never | called upon his daughter, and to make matters worse Jill Hillcrist brings Chioe Hornblower to the houss, only to have her ordered out of it. The manufacturer threatens to buy adjoining property and pour smoke from the chimneys of his factories over the beautiful landscape of the aristo- ephts, and succeeds in gettitig it at an auction sale by having an unsus- pected agent bid for it, This skin game so incenses Mrs, Ilillcrist that s! starts a Little one of her own, and through her private sleuthhound, ore Dawker, she finally discovers that Chice, before marrying Charles Horn. | Blower, was a professional co-renpondenty in divorce cases, With this Weapon Mrs. Hillcrist forces the manufacturer to give up the land and! pledges herself to secrecy. But the suspicious husband finally gets the| truth out of Dawker. After overhearing his denunciation of her, Chioe attempts to end her life, in spite of the fact that she is to be a mother, but she is carried back on a stretcher and assurance given that she will live, Hillcrist, easygoing and sympathetic, expresses his sorrow over the whole affair, but Hornblower calls him @ hypocrite and stalks out of the house, Peace is not made. Avfine, strong performance of old Hornblower was given by Herbert Loinas, an English actor with a real sense of character and physichl fitness for the part. Marsh Allen, as Hiicrist, realized perfectly the role of a country gentleman. Joan Maclean snapped at everybody as the slangy daughtor of the house, one of those irritatingly “advanced” girls who talk too much, Cynthia Brook played the mother with quiet authority and un- derstanding. Jorephine Victor seamed far from Wnglish as Chloe, but #ho put considerable power into her emotional outbursts, and #o much lung power into her scene with Dawker in the bedroom that the wonder was she didn't rouse the whole house. Arthur Bowyer did good dirty work as Dawker. A strange phase of the performance was the auction scone, played across the footli¢hts, as though the audience were part of it, and with a final bid that seemed to come from the rear of the house. Stranger still was the Spying maid who fairly breathed scandal tn Chloe's bedroom, and slipped in and out of it with the utmost ease. That maid will be remembered long After “The Skin Game” ts forgotten. e About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY HE rumble of a railroad train| Eddie has told him to make {t into a ¥. often has a distressing effect full evegnee enteMainment and Billy as gone to work with the wit and on conversation among thos] rumor dictionary. Theldentally, Billy aboard. Jerome Kern, his wife and|\y slightly iil. He's been’ eating too several friends were coming to the| many strawberry flips lately, oity from Bronxville Tuesday night| to Ste “Hitchy Koo” open. Jerome Was telling a story with donsidérabie| vocal effort. Suddenly tho WANT TO GO TO LONDON? John Murray Anderson intends to train tape Here tien most beautiful ys | show girls in merica to Bngland @lowed down and the story-teller! with nim when he sails on Nov. 11 to shouted: | stage a revue for Charles Cochran, “{ jumped off the horse and yelled| No other Johns will be permitted to’ ‘aheat'” | go along. Grins camo to the faces of many other passengers. Finally a fat man| ‘ OBSERVATIONS; at the end of the car sang out: Jf Cow is elected he'll be an Ar- ticle Ra-Governor. . Did the nag stop, lad?” es five whol minutes blushes rest- gently on the Kern classical coun- | téfance;a visage not overly given t@ the crimson. Pork is lower on the general market, but tickets for Bacon, at the Gatety, have had no decline. “Don't starve yourself for beauty’s sake,” says Emily Stevens, It wouldn't help us anyway, Em, BEER UNCORKS ONE. Bemuel Shipman, co-author of Louis) Mann's new starri vehicle, “The Wil Charley Rose, who is sure Unwritten Chapter,” at the Astor, i8| Carpentier will whip Dempsey, @ very proud young man. A_poem| kindly save his money for us? Re- member, Charley, we spoke first. Juan Belmonte, Spanish bull~ fhter, 1s coming to America, Why hag been dedicated to him by Morris Abel Beer, a poet whose himyabove the home-brew wince he is dead, Mr. Shi ‘KATINKA: . [Spike A eR ST KNOW A PLACE PVHERE'S Two DOLLARS) is THAT HAS NICE "| KATINKA, GET SOME ROSES FoR Hy WIFE - IT'S HER BIRTHDAY vf: sedis = “JOE'S CAR OW! GosH! +1 come PRETTY NEAR’ FORGETTING mY DATE. wi “TH DENTIST. — VD. RETTER GET To TH'OLD RLECTRIC CHAIR ‘Lwetn me CAREFU on Hee Dont, DROP HER Jost ° SAYS “13 Sms iF se Se ‘Ss LEARNED TS WALK — —7 mn ra is Hull LEAVE IT TO LOU saree THATS ROBBERY | WHO WILL COST You TEN DOLLARS | BRING OVER THE MONEY RIGHT — Away Dom BUNCH OF FLOWERS 7 ° aaa = Put It Bri HAVE. 1° GOTTA. HANG AROUND WRASSLIN' WITH THIS “THING FOR A COUPLE OF HouRS ??? AW, SUFFERIN ToMcATS! WHAT'S “TH' MATTER WITH - THIS. DAWGONNE OIL CAN? TT STARTED ALL RIGHT =-BUT HOW $--wHaAT!D BAe STOP tT WITHE WER Cer! = AND SHE GOT Now She’s Parking in a Place She Didn’t sriefly—the Les BI Wants ‘VEN Bucks For A\=-Gageaead| THE JUDGE ¢ I Gor | RE\CAUGHT PICKIN’ ‘Ett IN (THE PARK tt rneel i'm DARNED IF & witt! 'D RATHER Go an’ WRASSLE WITH ‘i ANT ste TiRED BY | THis Time WE DOCORS GONG WD. MAKE “GAO OR Ken kt ser of Two Evils? Tocelving all the congratulations, Mr, Mann appears as Salomon in the play, Look: Who was this man, unsung in poet's rhyme, Trwritten in the story of our land, Whose soul was kindled with a dream sublime, Who gladly gave for country heart and hand Of Judah's race, he saw the dawning light, And strove with Washington to keep aflame The torch of freedom thru the starless night; And this’ was Salomon—immorta} name! THE POETS’ WAR. Woe are in receipt of the following rebuke for Clam Digger, who called Yonkers girls rawney: Clam Digger of Pdrt Washington, Ere this beauty war ts done You will cut a sorry figure, You're a clam; not a clam digger, Yonkers girls are trim, not scrawny, Also, Yonkers bovs are brawny, Nassau Janes sure need our pity, Yours, F. O., the Terrace City KERR ARRIVES. Fred Kerr, one of the best known! ngland, has arrived from | to- don to appear Henry Miller’ F en “4 The | and Judy Theatre. actors in production of “Just Suppose.” eompary, headed by Patricia Collin, ig now jn rehe Henry Miller's tre, Nov, 1. THEY'LL SEE PAVLOWA,. Who Ship News Reporters’ Assocta- who permit | aio guilty story to escape when the tion, made up of the b- Dig’ shifts dock, will slip into clean collars to-night and go over to the Manhattan Opera and see Paviowa | 4°4th some day.—Janson. y ‘The reporters —_ ‘and the girls dance, are to de the guests of the manage- Frank J. White Ment of the theatre, Will be yell-master, EW FOY SHOW, MAYBE. in a musical production Billy Jerome has sal, It will open at Foy and the Foy dozen may bout written & vaudeville act which lastens it would stand elongation, not match him against some of our | political candidates who are throw- ing it? GOSSIP. The Capitol Theatre will be one year | old Oct, 24, Quite an infant, eb? Edythe Baker, “Midnight Frolic’ pianist, will be in “Sally in Our Alley.” : Mack has taken the place Ollie 8 of Sam Sidman in “The Rainbow Girl" on, tour. ‘he Theatre Lovers’ Association ts ehearsing Herman Bahr’s “Poor | Fool." a Gray, who shakes a superb shimmy, will’ appear at the Century Promenade beginning Oct, 25. | Philander Johnson, who wrote the jlyries for “Kissing Time,” admits he jom indulges in osculation, —@ ‘Autumn Fiddles will be pthyed |to-night at the Jewish Art Theatre, | ‘They've been tuning up for some time Oliver D. Bailey Js entertaining his j sister, Mra, 8. W. Crosby, and her) | husband of Newton Falls, Ohio, James Madisan is to write another show for Rose Sydetfs ‘London Helles’ and one, also, for Pat White's |Gatety Girls. | The Theatre Guild will withdraw | “The Treasure” at the Garrick on} ov. 2% A week later tt will offer| “Heartbreak House,” | Margaret Beecher, a granddaughter | of Henry Ward Beecker, is to become a film star under the direction of | Edward Hemmer. ‘There will be a Friars theatre party prrow night at © performance cause of Helen” at the Punch Mortimer Wilson, winner of the Hugo Riesenfeld $500 prize for the | best American overture, will conduct | | his composition, ew Orleans,” # the Rialto Sunday at all perform. | ances, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. No matter how truthful a man may he’s bound to lie at the point of a FOOLISHMENT. Bee the racd horse on the track, With the jockey on his back, AN! the other steeds he'll trim, TU the day you bet on him, FROM THE CHESTNUT T, Ee, “The ons! nan ts dead.” “HN bet be died hard.” RUSTY AND BUB ate ease We Ge NN Ge wees ALICE SEZ wustY €THA MUTT.AN' 1 THAY HE ETH N'T LAN’ sakes f wHatd ALL THE RACKET asouT 4 WELL, DO YOU WNOW WHAT A MuTT 1S? THANKS “To OR. LOD Cw Wesser, Hib A Woman Always Puts You in the Wrong! PARTY THINKING WELL-L—1T MAY Be SUMPIN NICE. — PRAPS “HE ETH ONE ‘AFTER ALL ' prominently in the Chicago baseball se.adal? less than half an hour he told me DOYo ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. whole story of his own accord, ¥ 1, Centrifugal; % Loule XIV.; %,| Boys’ Life, ? "! Know? Roulette; 4. Sanserit; 6, India; 6, — oar he desided t take a joo during ne Diogenes; 7, Charles Dicken: According to the Will. choo! vacation, and accordingly 9, Tiercelet; 10, Parisg 11, F A FARMBR walked into the !t-/ Sought work in a grocery, After he him again in the morning. And in) marked, dominant characteristic even of his extreme youth When he was about eight years old yl. What force is made use of in the governor of @ steam engine? 2, What French monarch reigned longest? 3. What gafmbling game ts played with a revolving disc and an ivory ball? 12, Abo Attell. tle general store in the village; had been there a week or 80 his with @ firm and decided atep.|Uncle, meeting the old grocer, asked “I want,” said he, “that tub of Well, how are you getting on with | William at the store?” Pitpbpe relays ies teh of bacon, and| "1 geem to please him,” said the old all the other foodmufts, grocer with a smile, "I seem to please “Good graciou: confessed to playing tru- " i, ." said the recently | him."--Harper’s Magazing 4. What is the oldest Aryan lan-| asked a school attendance offl-| bereaved widow who kept the shop, cancel guage? cer, addressing the mother of a small! "whatever do you want with all them 5, What country Is richest tn mica?| and dirty boy things, Mr. Giles?” : No Wonder. 6, Whom did Alexander say he "Yes, sir, he did,” the woman re- ‘I dunno,” replied the worthy farm- 4 old man was applying at the aap | Third Degree Confession. ‘ce tp 1. Understand you to say that this lad voluntarily would choose to be next to himself?|#ponded, “I just had to persuade|er; “but you know I'm the executor ve howp: oA As x Who. created the cher ett tim a little, and then he told ‘me the | Of your hWsband'’s will and Lawyer ey yer hing ae penis Bidney Carton? whole thing voluntarily.” Stylos eaid 1 was to be sure and carry acles, and nO GOCE, Wa 8. In What year was the Federal "How did you persuade him out all the provisions!"—Christian| making a test of his eyes. Reserve Banks system established? | quired the officer, Herald, A card was fixed on the wall a 9 What is male falcon called inj “Well, first I gave him @ good hid- little distance away from where the falconry? tng," sald Yhe parent, “and then 1 old man was sitting, and the doctor — Father to the Man. 10. Who killed the Greek hero|put him to bed without supper, and|wN Congress they tell this story of a| asked hi Achilles? I took his clothes away and told him | @ certain youthful but. successful tan read that, my man?” 11, What ‘does the name Solomon‘ he'd stay in ‘bed until he confessed y i" @ald the old mun, 4" mean? what he'd done, if ‘twas the rest of’ jopresentative, This gentleman's | can’ 12. What former pugtitet is figuring bis days, and that J should punish be confidence has always been most The doctor told him to go nea: “Well, can you read it now?" #0 far as to call him a Har, but those Again the old man replied: “No,|as knew him down our way do say sir.” that when he wanted his pigs to The doctor angrily pulled him for-|come for their feed he had to get ward till his nose almost touched the| somebody else to call ‘em."—Bostor Globe, can you read it now?" o, sir,” said the old man sadly, jsiaking his head. "You mee, air, I <omenncenstiietreenaahese Wifey Made It Worse, never learned to read!"--London ROUCHING at the coffee, snarl. Answers, ing at the bacon, the maste oe of the housé grabbed at his « _Disillusioneu. letters and started to read, Suddenly the alr resounded with ¢uriouk mouthings and explosiona of | Page. The pale-faced woman at the | other end of the table shirk back ba her seat ) “Hero—here"— ho yelled, “Pah! will not pay any attention to xt! It's libelous and slanderous and false, In this letter the writer called me a bully and a swindler and an unscrupulous he ee was once a politiclan, for merly a farmer, whose reputa- | tion was such that a colleague, meeting an old man from his district, asked confidentially: “What do you think of him down your way? Is he an honest man?” The countryman stroked his whis- kers and smiled, | rogue. % ‘ “Would you call him a liar?” asked |foRue, Id me, him, but he hasn't the other ; “surely,” sald his thmid teh Another stroking of the whiskers | spouse, you can trace the writer. then he repjied: After all, it must be some one fwhof “Well, now, I don't know that I'd go knows you pretty WelL”—Argonpul. | ae