The evening world. Newspaper, October 22, 1920, Page 36

THE NEW PLAYS “The First Year” ; Season's Laughing Hit By CHARLES DARNTON ON'T fail to put “The Virwt Year” on your theatrical calendar, for thir play by Frank Craven at the Little Theatre, with its author acting the feading role inimitabiy, i# too good to mise, = ‘Thla “comic-tragedy | @f mmrried life” tu funny beoause it is Lrue, fo true that you, perhaps may Ged yourself Inughing at your own expertances. Dr, Craven has a keen sense of the difficulties, sentimental and economic, Mab confront so-called nowly-wods, and in “The First Year" he has fur paemed “Too Many Cooks.” With small-town people doing commonplace | Mingn be achieves a triumph of the commonplace, for the rearon that his dharactere are simple ond human, Most @anple of all is Tommy Tucker. trying vainly to be ramantio in the hope of vanquiahing an accomplished an4 then to his great eurprise nding the girl of his heart in hte arma it is the awicward Tommy proposing to the girl with his hands in his that firet catches your eye and then agalg Tommy in « bilawtul et midnight kicking a foot that has gone to nleap. Grace te tired town and wats to soe “strange faces,” in mpite at the fact that abe * singemriy strange one, and so it happens Lhat Tommy and geen in Joplin, Mo, In their little flat they aro to give @ dinner purchasing agent of # rafiroad who Is after an amusement park upon option, The dinner, not to mention tho preparations Gclights of the play. At the seventh hour a colored girt infomation that her mother is in bed with “(he misery,” 8 premed into ecrvice and proceeds to make a mesa of serves. But tho purchsaing agent, who in too hungry to be “The magn delicious, imn’t ith in wife anewern: “It good to me.” Tut the hated rivay puts in an unexpected appearance epails everyidog by annauncing that the mulroad ts to run {te apur way from the amusement park, and the dianer brenks up in ‘Then Tommy and Grace have “words,” and sho pack# up and leaves fo beak hams . Aftar several cooktalla, he «ets o check for $125,000 Purchasing agent, follows her a week Mtor, fis bis erstwhile rival th Grace, enguree In a rough-and-tumbie Might, and is knocked out that Grace throws at the other fellow. After being patchod up by who happens to be Grace's uncle, he patches wp mattors with his naugssenaye if 5 f FI 5 avi £) ing & «Tab at Graco aa the demperate muitor: tn waking up hie foot ing happtiy/ on tis way: in saying “The trouble with you le you're (n tating to a chair when left alone with tw cucktails; and} ut af the fight & battored wreck, Mr. Craven gives a| it places thim én the front renk of com % Another de dumorous oharsoterimtion i sccomplithed by Wiliam Sampaon, ther who ta usually eo encromed in his newapager that he pays attention to anybody. Raberta Arnold docs good work as the some. | high-tempored, selfish young wife; Maude Granger plays the mother | comfortable, settied way; Tin Murphy is more than indulgent aa the | doctor, and Lelia Bennett ina real joy as the volored maid who plays a larwe | Part in the dinner | Tt in to be noted that Winchell Smith staged the play, and be may have fone something more, Anywny, “The First Year” ls the lug nit of the and in it Frank Craven eooren the hit of hin life. _ About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY COMEDY bearing the dazzling VERY LOVELY, INDEED! | title of “Bright Angels will] Virginia Mitchell, a poetena of Nor- ba produced in tho near fu-| man Avenue, Hrooklyn, | sends | up ae 16 pleaaant wishw. hank you, | tu by William Moore Patch, It ts) Vinvinin; samo to you! Tead the by Lelia Chopin Hattersley of St. following, friends, and you'll unders Louie. In the cast are Caroline Kobl, | stand: Jamen Sceloy, Charles Gotthold and — /addling down the stream of Ufo, We i sit ‘a number of other players of repute. In your Kitily canoe, } “the opening performance will be May you have a pleasant time, | in Syracuse about the middie keel ocala: anima Yor daa | ber, This comedy was Sron | A try-out in asiock several month» WHEN ALICE BALKED. | sbow promiao, ago and bo Meaning Alice Detysia, etar of “Af@ar, which Comstock & Gest will produce A REALISTIC PLAY soon, will kiss ho man who weara a George Fiateav, in returning to & mustache, That is final Yenterday budding playwright a comedy that Trying Beebe, whi ia to play opposite had ‘been gubmitted iim, aid! her th “AtKar , ‘i ig mot guited to my needa, Oret rehearse 1 Mo tt. It te realistic.” “4 th “Teall fa it?" replied the piny- wright. ye, Dut up to this time L Maven't Deen able to realize any- forward, and, i thing on 1." mba happened. The fair F meee |} put the ban on the m THE WI@DOM OF ANN | wan argument, but you know who Ann Ponningion, whose Won. Irving is a smooth-tneed youth ate ll anon ee tennderon, Hos We'l bot Mils, Delyala, reostvay own edag ne and * fine A} plece from the Barbers’ ST nga A ey ee ee oieao,| Unton opaning nleht ania? Truex with aould be twir nd what mu think #h _—— the. Sr eetea thar it is the women, WHAT DON'T YOU KNOW? | the man, who are responsible for What sort of scales did D. W. increasing nudily on the st Griffiths use to” Way Down Faatr ve-day. Ti John C. iNeher’'s name doesn't | “Don't Blame the poor old b e om see: endo,” aid ANA. “The women want| Yelle him. why doven't he tebe | the bare tem. The skinny old maiis, Margaret Angitw? j Jove to go to the thoaire aud aoe I} you threw a rock af a certain beautiful legs and sofi w scenic artist would D. Frank and wonderful backs, They Dodge? and dream they have th nelves. 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