The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1921, Page 8

TURNING ON THE SPOTLIGHT Doomed for Life Frank Bacon Smiles. BY CHARLES DARNTON. to Act One Part; | NYWAY, it’s his own fault. He has no one to blame but himself, for he wrote the play with a helping hand from Winchell Smith and he acts old Bill Jones so the town would never be rid of that well that it begins to look as though cheerful liar and incorrigible loafer, After idling along for nearly three years at the Gaiety, Frank Bacon seems Goomed for life to act one part. But he doesn’t mind; he merely smiles contentedly after breaking all records with his 1,135th consecutive per- formance on Broadway. “Tm not ambitious,” he sid, tak- ing @ slow pull at his cigar. “There isn't any famous character that I should like to play. In fact, I don't want to appear in any character that hag been played by another actor, for, if I did, nome one would be sure | to say, ‘Oh, but you should have seen So-and-So in this part!’ I know Bill } Jones, so I feel at home in the part, and I'm perfectly willing to play it slong as the public will come and seo me.” Mr, Bacon @idn’t even wince at the suggestion that he might become a New York institution. “New York offers wonderful possi- | dilities,” he admitted, “with its great } population. Let us say that ‘Light- * min’ hes already been played to a milton people. This ts little when the gther millions here and within a radius of twenty miles are taken into . consideration. It is not so much the Jong-distance run that ‘Lightnin’ has made as the capacity audiences it has attracted that impresses me. How do I account for this? Perhaps a letter that came to me yesterday ex- Plain it better than I could. I have posted it on the board so that all the members of the company might read it. Please wait a minute and I'll get it” Part of the letter be brought to me read: i “I am making my fifteenth appear- ) ance at your play, and am bringing H with me three guests from Minne- | sota.” ‘Then there was another letter from recently retired Admiral of our lavy that went on to say: “I've been gee you nineteen times, now it’s Ze uncle, He never worked, but he saw to It that everybody else did. When his wife asked him to bring in wood he would answer: ‘Yes, all right.’ Then he would say to me: ‘Come on, Frank, take me out to the woodshed, load me up and start me back. That enough? he would ask his wife. ‘Yes,’ she'd say. ‘All right," he would re- spond, and that job was done. “Well, playing Bill Jones is pretty much the same sort of job with me. It's 80 easy that it's no more tiring than sitting here. I don’t act. But about 6 o'clock in the afternoon I get restless and say to myself: ‘It’s about time you were getting down to the theatre,’ At other times I dig in the garden or play golf. ['m going to Play through the summer. Vacation? No, 1 get nervous when I'vo nothing ° An Impression of Frank Bacon In the Title Role of “‘Lightnin’’ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1921. FRANK BACON as LIGHTNIN — od “AN 1 CHASED A SWARM Plaines ACRe®s TH’ ONCT, Wit LOSIN’ ONE eee tt BACON + Eos rps ‘The Italian Lyric Mederation got its season of opera under way at the Lexington Theatre last evening by producing “Aida.” The undoubted feature of the proceedings was the appearance, as conductor, of Leopold Mugnone, one of Italy’s great oper- atic conductors, whom the Federation brought over for the occasion. Mr. Mugnone lived up to his repu- tation as a musician of temperament and echolarship, but he had nothing to work with. The singers were, gen- erally, an infertor lot. The orchestra treat.” It A ase! A Alaa eaying 2 tickets be put aside for them, Ono - man wrote from Egypt saying when he would be here—and he was true we This sort of thing puts personal touch with my audi- > ‘Then again, another thing I that there are a great many » He 2 the appeal of the play—what's opinion?” I asked the man who it to know. Li @ modesty that might in itself have been the answer, “Bill Jones is hon- estly truthful and human. Perhaps his genera! appeal comes from the ‘fact that therc’s a Bill Jones in every, family, not exactly this sort, but the kind that makes plans for others to carry out. There's nothing much that you can say for him, yet there's nothing much you say against him.| He means well, but he doesn't do anything. He goes through life making people happier, unconsciously though it may be, by amusing them Bill tells stories as another fellow ‘would play the fiddle, just to be en- tertaining. His yarns may not be true, but they are amusing.” | likes Incidentally, to tell stories. “A Senator sent me one the other day,” he said, leaning back in_ his chair, “You know Bill's yarn about his driving a swarm of bees across the plains without losing a bee? Well, it seems that out Walla a petition was sent to the city vouncil asking for the passage of an ordinance making it a misdemeanor, Frank Bacon for bees to leave their hives roam about town. If that doesn't something sillier.” Getting a bit nearer home, he went on to tell how the man in the bo office of the Gaiety was “stung’ short time ago. “A woman asked for two seats, only to be told the house was sold out, he said, But just as she was turning away two orchestra seats were re- turned, and these were offered her. How much” she asked. ‘Two-seven- ty-five each, said the treasurer ‘Two dollars and seventy-five cents for a show that's been here three years!’ she exclaimed, indignantly ] should say not! i If I'm not bringing home Bacon, this, at least, is the man you would fing him t the i Moreover, this author-actor doesn't hesitate to “give away the “whole show. With another pull at his ‘ar, he puffed: “Bill Jones, of course, is a wonder- ful part for an actor. He has all the answers and gets all the laughs. It's the stalling he does that l love. When- ever he gets into a tight place he | switches the subject. All of us try to t { { do this at times, but when I attempt j it at home all I hear is, ‘Now, come } on, none of that Bill Jones thini | I'm handicapped before I can get fairly started in the family circle,” And yet Mr, Bacon doesn't look like an abused person. He has the tranquil air of a man who has never stirred from his fireside; the wall that stretches between him and Broadway might have been built in China. He takes no credit to himself | for the greatest success Broadway hae ever known. He is just Frank Bacon, a journeyman actor, like old tramp printer, who finally found his home. ll Jones,” he explained, “is an lance, that's all He was my has in Walla| punishable by fine or imprisonment, | Artur beat my bee story I'd like to know of | £1 | dolph A) orches the the | was, possibly, not so good as Mr. Mugnone made it sound. To-night “Rigoletto” is the bill. “The Dream of Gerontius,” Edward Elgar's fine contata, was sung by the Oratorio Society at the third evening of the Musical Festival at the Man- hattan Opera House. The soloists were Mario Chamlee, Frederick Pat- ton and Frieda Klink, contralto, who all did their work creditably. Mr. Pamrosch conducted, keeping his forces together successfully but fail- ing to stir the pulse of his audience to any appreciative degree. NEXT WEEK'S MUSIC. “Nl Barbiere di Siviglia” will open the twenty-first week of the Metro- politan Opera Season Monday, when it will be sung by Mmes, Chase and Berat and Messrs, Hackett, de Luca, Mardones and Malatesta, “Faust” will be sung at a sp atinee on Wednesday by Mmes, rar, Ellis and erat and Messrs. Harrold, Danise and Rothier, Other operas of the week will be “Manon Lescaut,” Wednesday evening with Mines, Mu- zio and Telva and Messrs. Crimi, Amato and Malatesta; “Tristan and Isolde” ‘Thursday evening with Mmes. Kaston and Gordon and Messrs, Sem- bach, Whitehill and GustAfson; “An- area’ Chenier" Friday eve with Mmes. Muzio and Perini and Messrs. Gigli and Danise; “Carmen” Saturday matinee with Farrar and Bor) and Messrs. de Luca and | Martino; “Mefistofele” Saturday eve- ning with Mines, alta, Howard and Perini and Messrs, Gigli, Didur and I At Sunday's violinist, will play ard, Orville Harrold Amato will si concert Fritz Kreisler, Kathleen How- and Pasquale To-morrow night in Carnegie Hall Bodanzky will give his first and| popular concert with the Nationa Symphony — Orchestra he pro- mme will be confined to works of | Ric Wagner and Tehaikovaky Next Wednesday evening, Ru- Ganz, pianist, the tra, under Bodanzky overtu Ri Sym- Tehaikovsky's phony Is the true. It does IN THE REALM OF MUSIC Mugnone Conducts “Aida’”’ At Italian Lyric Opening; Offerings for Next Week: Fab-le. Plano concerto in B-flat minor and overture to Smetana’s “The Bar- tered Bride.” The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the direction of Leopold Stokowski, will give the last concert in its series for this season at Carnegie Hall un ‘Tuesday evening. » programme is made up of works by ikovsky, the symphony being tho “Pathetique,” and the other numbers the euite from the ballet “Caese-Noisctte” and the 1812" overture. Walter Damrosch will make his farewell appearance as conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York when the society presents, at the Music Festival in the Manhattan Opera House, Margaret Anglin in a dramatic performance of the “Iphi- genia in Aulis" of Euripides, Thurs- day evening and Friday matinee, with incidental musie by Mr. Damrosch, it ‘being the first presentation of this work in New York. Miss Anglin will play the role of Clytemnestra, ‘The following yers_ will support Miss Anglin: Eugene Powers, Harry Bar- foot, Sidney Mather, Ralph Roeder, Mary Fowler and Maroni Olsen. The prologue will be sung by Miss Merle Alcock, contralto, A picked chorus from the Oratorio Society, consisting of 150 voices, in addition to 200 others in the pageants of Greek sol- diers, slaves and attendants, will take part in the production. Grecian chari- ots will be utilized in the drama, with other unusual and novel effects. The Friday matinee will commence at 3 o'clock, As to the week's concerts and re- citals Albert Spalding, American vio- linist, leads off with a recital in Car- negie Hall to-morrow afternoon, with the nds of Music giving their rt in Aoelian. Carol Rob- anist, will play at the Gs wutre in the afternoon, and the night recital will be given by Joseph Hislop, Scottish tenor, at the Hippodr Monday's event will be a violin re- cital by Rinaldo Sidoli, ‘Tuesday. Louise Stallings of Mlinois will sing in the afternoon at Aeolian, and Franklin Riker, tenor, will give a re- cital there in the evening. Everhard Beverwijk, a blind pianist of Hol- land, will play at the Plaza Hotel in the evening. Wednesday is quiet, except for the annual spring festival of the Music in y Lenora in Aeolian, School Settlement at Town Hall the evening. On Thur oprano, will sin elyn MacNevin, contralto, will give a recital in Aeolian Hall, and on Saturday Clara Clemens will © her second Brahms recital; dia Lipkowska will be heard in | costume recital in Carnegie Hall in the evening, in the same Nina Tarasova, {nterpreter sian song, will appear. nad of Rus- Joseph Hislop, heard in the row the Hippodrome night, has been singing thi gon with the Chicago Opera tenor who will to-mor. tion in such of RAS. U. 8, PAT. OF first syllable of But FAB is fabulous things. “Butterfly,” in whtch he won quite a degree of success. His concert to- morrow will be under the auspices of the New York Caledonian Club and 100 native pipers have promised to be present. Mr, Hislop's programme will be made up of a group of Eng- lish songs by Coleridge Taylor, Ko- ser Quilter and Harold Craxton; operatic arias; some Swedish and Norwegian selections, and a group of Scotch ballade and songs of the Heb- lary of Argyle, maid,” “Heart of Fire Love" and “Land of the Leal” | Oscar Nicastro, ‘cellist, and Al- {berto Sciaretti, pianist, will contrib- ute numbers to the programme, AMONG NOTABLES IN MUSIC. Mr. Gatti-Casazza, general man- ager of the Metropolitan Opera forces, has done little else the past few weeks but juggle with his repertoire jand his singers. An epidemic of cold invaded the precinct of the Broadway temple of art and played particular havoc with the tenor sec- tion of Mr. Gatti’s band. Mr. Car- uso being out of the running, and | Mr. Mart away on a concert trip, the younger men have had to step into breach and they have jnot negle the pportunities. 9) Only Friday did Mr li return to the fold, while Mr. has been erything from “Aida” to “La In addition, singers have |been kept busy studying unfamiliar parts and keeping themselves ready for any emergency. Mr, Gatti Is al- |most afraid to respond to a tele- phone call lest he hear the familiar message, “I am sorry, but I cannot sing this afternoon.” Enrico Caruso is able to move about his apartment at the Vanderbilt, but he is not allowed to see many per- sons. It is understood that about May 1 he will take ship for his home invItaly. Artnro Toscanini has finished his concerts in this country but is fre- quently seen about town. He and his orchestra are only waiting for some kind ship to carry them home. ‘There have been strange noises per- colating through the inner recesses of the Metropolitan ail week. Some of them find their origin in William Guard's family flute, others come from drums beaten by Albert Wolff, French conductor, while everybody who can twang an instrument adds to the sound collection. All are practising for the performance to- morrow night on the opera house roof stage to be given by the Ten Nights’ Club, an organization of mysterious origin and methods. The Psycopathic Orchestra wif render some bits that the most modern com- poser never dreamed could be poly- phonted. A charming song recttal waa given yesterday afternoon at Aeolian Hal! by Carolyn Carre, who presented a programme of sterling merit. Her voice is one of unusta! quality and she uses tt with commendable kill. Miss Carre was particularly happy in the rendition of her group of Engiish songs. —— COP tS DOCTOR TO FOUR ILL. Beate Ambulance te It fm Treating Family for Bad Asparagus. Bernard Radow, his wife, Ray, and their two daughters, Jeannette, fourteen, and Zella, twelve, of No. 797 East 3d Street, Flatbush, awoke very fll carly to-day. Radow called in Policeman John Fink of Parkville Station, who gave them first ald and sent for an ambu- lance, ‘The doctor said the poltceman had left nothing for him to do, and the family remained at home. Fadow sald their illness must have been due to canned asparagus they ate last night. _—_—___—._—__- Detectives Go on Strike. Refusing to agree to 9 reduction of |their pay from $4 to $3.50 a day, 300 watchmen furnished by New York detective agencies to protect property on Staten Island steamship piers and warehouses went on strike to-day. The men said the agencies made $1 a day for the services of each watchman. No disturbance resulted when a small num- ber of strikebreakers were put at work. CONCERTS AND M MUSIC, NEW YORK oncn SEASON Carne 12 THURSDAY AVTERNOONS 16 SUNDAY i AFTERNOONS: su SUBSCRIBERS ARE REQUESTED ALL SEATS NOT SUBSCRIBED AVAILABLE FOR hr tnformation deollan Building. mY anderbite BATURDAY AFTERNOONS Aeolian Hall jubscription NEXT SEASON BEFORE MAY 14TH. ALLOTMENT CONCERTS AND MUSIC. SYMPHONY ESTRA 1921-1922 WALTER DAMROSCH o=«« ALBERT Ci gie Hall OATES cam. AND 12_ FRIDAY PVENTNGS FOR YOUNG PHOPLEL 4 SATURDAY MORNINGS FOR CHILDREN. Renewals JO SEND IN THEIR RENEWALS FOR WILL BE To NEW Si rained at loom. obt 0471. George Engles, Sar. HIPPODROME A} TO-MOR'W NIGHT és |, * WILLIAM MORRIS. Announces THE FIRST AND ONLY CONCERT HISLOP PRINCIPAL TENOR CHICAGO OPERA 00. ROVAL OPERA COMPANIES. COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, STOCKHOLM AND Iraty. Assisted by OSCAR NICASTRO, Cellist. ALBERTO SCIARRETTI, Pianist —Ausploss: N. Y, CALEDONIAN CLUB, WHO HAVE ASSEMBLED A KILTIE BAND OF 100 PIPERS—100 ‘Ticke 1.05, $1.10. Aine, Mt ), $2.75, & Mami NATIONAL SYMPHONY artur BODANZKY conductor CARNEGIE WALL TO-MOR’W (SUN.) EVE WAGNER- TCHAIKGVSKY. ATHETIQUE) POPULAR TRICES—t50 te $2 WEDNESDAY EVE. APRIL 6, AT 8.15 Soloist RUDOLPH GANZ Pianist THE KNABE 18 THE OFFICIAL PLANO. HIPPODROME, SUNDAY NIGH, APR. 10 Jar 8.15, Last Appearance at II ome This Season | GALLI-CURCI TACKS $1.00, $1.50. 43.10, $2.50 and $3.00, SEAT BALM OVENS NEXT. MONDAY. ‘Orders No Hippodrome Hox Office, VANS & SAUTER (Steinway Piano.) Mat CHARITY. ALL STAR GEORGE M. COHAN A “IRENE” GO.” PRINCI + OR: CHAUNCEY OLCOTT, WITHEE, DILL R NELSON! ei “OWN wodnik a THe anes by | OPERA METROPOLITAN: for the women and children o! will never be deaf to the call for relief in behalf of suffering humanity.” BEN BERNIE a aL Voi’ Pocioe acta’ wists me ON FESTIVAL |OF MUSIC MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE, Mar. 29-Apr. 8 By THE ORATORIO SOCIETY of N. Y. WALTER DAMROSCH, Conductor, 7h Se" BACH WAGNER Program with Faston, Clarence Watchin” ac NCHom “of Hetnichen, | ‘Oratorio’ Chorus, N.Y. Symphony Or- whe Feats 10 evening ; ; B15 Verdi Requiem || Peratte, ‘DiAlvares, Ghamies, Patten, | chorus of 300 and. urenestras 63 | MARGARET ANGLIN tn TA IN AULIS," by Rurtoldes Time in New York G0 Sti Bt 8o44.00) Bath St. and Box Office. ip 39TH STREET “THEATRE. TO-MORHOW (SUNDAY) EVENING, AREWELI RECITAL _ YVETTE GUILBERT AEOLIAN HALL, ERIDAY EVE.. April & at ’ EVELYN MacNEVI |. SONG RECITAL—RICHARD HAGEMAN Jat the Pano, (Mason & Hamlin Plano.) ni for right man. Address P. 8. 341 World CHARITY. Tomor’w Aft’n: HOUSE BENEFIT FOR DESTITUTE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN IRELAND PRESIDENT HARDING WIRES: “I wish you the fullest measure of success in the great benefit performance fIreland. * * * The public of America BI LL Includes WILLIAM COLLIER SAM BERNARD PALS AND FULL chorus. WALTER G. KELLY r ACE NELSON . 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The explosion was not violent enough to break any win- dows, A umber of residents and business men in the block found they had no lights when they tried to switch on the electricity, In the Brooklyn Buffet Lunch, No. 645 Nostrand Avenue, and the Nostrand Lunch, at No, 505, the patrons had to eat by candle light. The only damage was to property of the Edison Company, officials of which sald only half a block of the conduit was affected and that the trouble soon would ‘be repaired. AFTER GAS BLAST! Lunch Room Patrons Left in Dark| “OH YE HARD HEARTS!” Steal Not Only @40,000 Goods, Also Two Quarts of— Detectives are scouring the city to- bat day for some awfully mean burglars, who yesterday robbed the Manufac- turers’ Transit Company, Ine., ware- house at No, 245 West 12th Street of $40,000 worth of leather goods, After carting away the merchandise the bur- glars went through the desks of the company officials—and that's where the “y mean part comes in. 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