The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1920, Page 19

* comes back “Miss Lu Homely, Human and Amusing ~ By CHARLES DARNTON Zona Gale bas not lived in yain Jn a small town, for she bas caught its people, their talk ald manners perfectly in “Miss Lulu Bett,” a *elcome visitor last night to the Belmont Theatre. | Miss Galo is a true Main Street realist, In the play she has made from THE NEW PLAYS lu Bett” i THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1920, fuvenm NTS. | NORA BAYE ES “BOOTH "aes Rist bwe Pe be WILLIAM FaveRsHam ‘ltt Fine Ate Tru Witte (HE Ist YEAR MATINEE TO-DAY AT 2.20, FRAZEE Ts G's Ex Elden MUSEMENTS. |. WINTER GARDEN R13 TO-M'W N'GHT | SELMONT ts &.3. ef By. Ent ve The Passing Show MY 1921 fs ALS a o aenecets Preemts GILDA Vanes NTER MADAM honman Tagy FULTON sitvoouy 4 GREENWICH ' VILLAGE t THEATRE ®” May Your New Year be Filled with Dining’ & Davelog Reservations Barly, a most | ‘ber novel she seems not merely to/ ave observed life in a place where one neighbor knows what the other ts doing—or almost dies of ouriosity tn the attempt to find out—but she has absorbed \t. Her types have even more reality than those in “The First Year,” with the happy result that | “Miss Lulu Bett” {s homely, human nd amusing. There is also the pa- thos of loneliness felt in a town so @mall that there ls no escape from it} Yor a dependent spinster—that is, a] Grudge “going on thirty-four.” Doing all the work in the home of her brother-in-law, a fatuous, self- Satisfied duffer given to platitudes And home-brewed humor, poor Lulu bas no chance to play until a brother of the resident wind-@\gs blows in from the West and lavishes upon her tion to go to dinner and the a neighboring city. Ag a prelim part of the evening's en- fertainment they join hands and re peal simple vown that are declared fo constitute a civil marriage by the brother-in-law, who happens to be a Justice of the Peace as well as the leading dentist of the community. The hearty Westerner is willing to) bind the ba and he and Lulu} leave f soul, by the conductor ot ture that ars hefore 1 a_woman. whe m. The pompou: cfn tamil: keep the matter brother secret, but fo write to Oregon, an t the first wife 1s ulive Lunt trine ver Dea- who has compl reached | had con,, the conclusion that to be told her the story rder rid of her. Young Ci . Who runs a “music store,” stay in the town and 1 she away, feoling there is some one ys wanted and thinking it rself. It is left to you to} however, that she will re suppose, turn and marry the plano dealer: While the play !s somewhat ex- travagant in plot, granting the West- erner to be careless in matrimonial arrangements, {t has a simple, ap- pealing quality that is lkely to en- dear tt to audiences In towns big and little. An expert dramatist might ve succeeded in pulling the story more skill than Miss ulred, yet the bunue touch is never Incking. The acting was excellent. Car omas cast her beauty to Winds on the make-up box by m tch of the ab- er. Youth, in bobbed off As the vain, other of this child, Cath. Joucet was charming- |account by silver bullets that put an plain, yet 3] school” by Allee Duer Miller, eautiful per- | . i se ceruio offered {Met 80 long ago on the by the Provincetown Players, with that equally remarkable negro actor, Charles 8, Gilpin. | Horror runs mad on the stage as the erstwhile Pullman car porter, who established himself as “Etn- peror” on a West Indian Island, tries to escape from the blacks he has swindled and is finally brought to end to his glorious career. The ter- ror of the murderer tracked through the forest first by ghosts and then by | hig real pursuers is a brave thing 80 far ug the author ts concerned and made fascinating by the acting of Gilpin. Tho incessant beating of a tom-tom carries its sinister message, and the miserable wretch who throws off his gaudy uniform and prays for merey is like a wild animal caught in a trap. At first the fantastic humor and then the wild fear of the {m- postor are vividly realized by Gilpin. 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R JONES” He OALSWORTRY'S TTIMES 8c $0. ate va Ww. 42 oe eka, Bra .00, i NATINEE FRIDAYS: oF The theatre could not give you a stranger, more original experience than that offered by “The Emperor Jones” “THE GIRLS DE LOOKS” BURLESQUE SENSATION AT BROADWAY THEATRE| The jast show of the eleventh sea- son of burlesquo was issued into the Columbia. Theatre this week with |The Girls de Looks" company with | Watson and Cohan as the featured comedians, It { two acts and six scenes. There seventeen tuneful numbers for a pretty chorus to danre and sing, {n surroundings of prokers . Hawalian beaches and pea- cook rooms at Florida hotels. Watson and Cohan are a fine pair of comics und the monologue preced- ene three of act two by Watson . It was written by Aaron The show was presented Barney Gerard and the dances el by Victor Ilyde. Anna Propp and Georgie Stone were pleasing ju- venile dancers. J Thomas and have eccentric 5 © lilted of Haws ukulele | WALLACE REID CLINGS TO AUTOMOBILE IN “THE CHARM SCHOOL” Reid just can't refrain from using an automobile to slow how clever a driver he Is, and in his latest ploture, “The Charm School,” | he first is an auto salasman, then the head of a girls’ seminary and finally a bank ma “phe Charn Wallace stage here, is the offering this week aj the Rivoli ands a highly enter- taining comedy, abounding in some picturesque scenes and a lot of quaint humor. This young comedian as the head folden played with a great | ard Robert~ simple ag the gagingly ous thing to say, but | n is likely to fall in want to marry “Miss i “The Emperor Jones.” As you may know, “The Emperor Jones," by Eugene O'Reill, is a re- markable play, brought up to the lwyn Theatre yenterday afternoon A Heligen Opera At Metropolitan, By nul peater Rauling. to the holiday Htan Operi pany yesterday afte rnoon re ed “The Blue Bird," which Albert Woift set to music from Macterlinck’s text The composer al: conducted. This work, first given here last year, had sporadic success inasinuch as its story is too thin afd the sc con- ains too few of the arlas and other us. rms ot audiences like But its stage pi are charming and it gives one the privilege of mect- many of the Metropoll- gers Who appear only in‘ro- ‘The wudicnce was of good ‘An Italian pianist, Guido Agosti, made his American debut in Aeolian Hall in the afternoon. He has a guod|* falent, with youth still in bis favor, should dé o weomers, Martha ton girl, and list, gave a 5 dévloain 1 nice tone, showed other good musi: cal qualities. The aonereric. Boclety sang its r th performance of Handel's *Messis "ip Carnegie Hall in the evening. Walter Damrosch was in harge chorus and orchestra, the ‘New York Symphony, and, thoroughly familiar with the work, kept them to- gether and got praiseworthy results, ‘The soloists were Frieda Hempel, Mabel Beddoe, Judson House and Roya) Dadmun. It was evident, in watching the audience, that many of them, know the old work us well as me at the Metry wes * acel" and the new “tl Carillion Magico”—<The| Chimes, Glulio Crimi took} place in the opera, Ringing for the first time this season. Others in the cast were Einmy Destinn, Pas- quale Amato and Mario heueset The cast of the ballet was unc previous pertormances, we Miss “Baird| of the seminary, only. for a brief time, er, is seen at his best, and ts ably assisted by such well known recn artists as Lila Lee, Adele ‘arrington, Beulah Bains and Lin~- coln Stedman. The Rivoli offers also a Chester comedy, a Christmas fantasy, in which a chiffren's chorus ts licard, jand “In a Tavern,’ ther chorus, sented by the New School of Op- with Carl Rollins, baritone. “Jolly Robbers" is the overture by the Rivol! orchestra. | AMUSEMENTS. ; FE PaO OR S)) os Al Mamaur & Jimmy Rule, Marlo & foe de Ward, Bowers, « Croker otis. mtg Turglar Urraat Ny al Hd Athos ad Co ledge, Watson's Dow it I. Ue othe “poroins ish ta “Flying bd SL ol Ne ALL THE DOCTOR” |\<: Seer Metre Geel) CHAS. RAY “19 & PHYLLIS" es u ") SENATOR TOWARD, WANNER WHAT | Joan Adair & Co. Tring & Jack Kaul? 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