The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1921, Page 28

THE NEW PLAYS “A Bachelor’s Night” More Noisy Than Gay By CHARLES : thrown off, «|n ay at the Park E now havo ie bedqult farce. | failed to meet the demand. where it goes by the feverish | 11 DARNTON inges no man could ask. What of the cast? It's almost as hard-working as name of “A Bachelor's Night.” In a! the hinges. William Roselle is a re- printed 1 Jest author, Wil- | inarkably aminble bachelor, constder- son Coll Nothing ovigi-| ing all the annoyances he is made to nal is cli He overlooks | endure. Amy Ongley does no end of the bedquilt wning as the excessively talkative With nothing else between her and | maid; Lillian Tashman displays en this cold metropolis, a poor girl from | viable gifts as a cocktail drinker in Mason City, Ja., finds romance. anything be wonderful Could | +4 more ne role of the vaudeville lady; bel Irving is a most patient mother, | Better | I'm coming to | Taa- | think of the saving in clothes! |and Leila Frost a pretty Miss Dill not a word about pickles, but the “A Bachelor's Night” is more nolsy | name of the quilted heroine is than gay, but wholly innocent. On erica Dill, Isn't that pretty? the road It may seem quite devilish prettier still is the happy ending of ond all the signs at the Park point to this coy littl 4s DNII's home town. The hour 1 the up) right bachelor ved furniture while a ve He lady toys Softly with the piano, when Miss DIN, chastily clad in the full length | quilt, stes » the room, appar- ently from the fire escape. (The time | is early spring and cold enough for | furs.) Instantly the enraptured | bachelor recognizes her as the girl of | his dreams. But he he takes her in his arm: isn't rough quilt Is wife } enddle lady n hiss with del tune to “Hom J then, a the cue of the bethrothal kiss, breaks | into a joyous wedding march. Of course, there's a lot more to the story, which ranges back to the day when Frederica Dill and Dicky Jarvis gazed into each other's eyes for one Dlissful moment in Grand Central Station, Miss Dill had just arrived rom Mason ¢ ntent upon be 4 an actress, but bles: “ yeatt i nin Dicky apartinen ay yo Not at all. You see, it was this w Dicky had gone hunting for two weeks, and so his maid servant—Dicky being a queer bird—thought she might as well make a little money by renting his room to Miss Dill, a per- fect stranger as well aga lady. She was quite comfortable until women fairly flocked to Dicky's place on the and night of his return the maid, ny During cocktail interludes in the dining re Miss Dill would timidly emerge faint with cold and fright, or be otherwise pathetlo, yet it never oc- @urred to any one to ask the poor dear; “Have you enough covering?’ With doors opening every other min- ute, the wonder is she didn’t catch ber death of cold No comp review would be | play peat My play M THE BIG LIITLE FAMILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1921. | “TOES CAR YES ~ BUT THE UNDER Par Y Is PLASTERED WITH Mud “Too! wily DoT You CLEAN in “That OFF “Too? WELL, SAY SuMPH! ~ IN'T L DOIN’ A GooD| JoB ON (T? Soult py We-e-e SOLD MILL STREAMS e4onutd | -f WMERE T FIRST -un .mer Yee Con “HOME DAMES” FoR “ou — You DONT® BELONG IN A DECENT PARTY “HE (DEA OF A MAN OF YOuR AGE DOING THE SHIMMY t GOSHAMIGHTY # woT HAVE I xX WASNT Doin' No K shimmy!) ——— AW —"To much Live WORK! BESIDES , WHO EVER LooKs UNDER A GAR ANYHOW 2? 1% “hese DAWGONE WINTER PL 3; @ -P-s-s -s-T- HERE “TOWSER . EA'EWiA S-S+S WeEeeE Towsee. About Plays | and Players By BIDE DUDLEY be- possible F, Albee HE theatrical interests h: railroad tle-up. has ordered ott of storage the many auto trucks owned by the Keith vaudeville circuit and will use them to transport players, scenery and baggage between cities which have Keith houses. He has also ordered the managers of the theatres in the various cities to place these trucks et the disposal of the local authori- | « tee after Monday of each week for | W the transportation of food supplics and other necessities, Routes of players have been changed tha they will have phortest jumps | ti possible, and prep s have becn | made to hold acts with repertoires a eaeh theatre as long as th ean change their offerings weekly. The trucking system has been perfected for forty-two cities with eighty-four girl, her mothe TRAVELLING SALESMAN ¢ OH, WHY DID L MAKE FERDIEC Become A THEY SENT Him WAY OUT WEST AN’ T AIN'T HEARD FROM HIM IN WEEKS - (SNIFF) MAYBE HE'S STRANDED IN A STRANGE TouN | OH, IT'S ALL MY FAULT ft! 1 WANTED Wii To BE SOME Bopy ! — — Be | Boo, 115 TeRRIBLE - 'D Give MY ee ES: LIFE JUST To GET WoRD THAT THE LeTTER FoR PooR Boy IS SAFE AN’ WELL — is C hotel rates in all cities have gone w hy?" We'll bite, Charles. Why? ALLEN LEAPS IN. ne Kelcey Allen has n tle in t Wait ‘ill We 1 Henaming ntest 1 Thoughts of the Past." FROM PETE K. HURWITZ. When Cecile d'Andrea, who dances ne Merry Wido' took to the country Was a little) eliminated. \ and for the first time she saw a outhits, horse which was not hitched to aj _—_ wagon, Little Ceclle turned to her! SHUBERTS TO USE AUTOS. mother and said: Trucks will be used also by the), (Oh, mamma, there goes halt a DBlecans. Shubert, it is announced, in| "™ keeping thelr theatres and attrac: | FUN FOR THE FARE ions going. At a conference ! Dorothy Mortir f ‘dust M Shubert outlined the plan. Autome- | 4 beat Bits & ' ng biles will be in readiness in all the | Drivers glare at each o One principal cities between Boston and | says Bt. Louis to carry companies, scenery end baggage. Extra billing has been @ent out to cities where Shubert at- trections are to play. MAY EXCHANGE ACTS. Broadway hears *hat the Shubert vaudeville interests and those of| William Fox will become associated | ¢ tn the booking of acts, Thia will give Mr. Hox access to clase acts while t emte will have a on to fill out bills. PROBABLY JUST BECAUSE. “Om acoount of hard times,” writes Prarien Peyton, from Cincinnati, & supply of high rger field to draw — a if you saw me again plies the oth “Well, do you think you'd know me ? Not if you washed your face," “Ha, ha! merry.) The End GERMAN OPERETTAS. A season of ten weeks of German perettas will be given at the Min hattan Opera House beginning Nov, 14, by the Thalia 1 rs Compan NUTT's DOPE. We have received the following com. munication from Shrewsbury Nutt, epecial correspondent of this colum! er. (Miss Mortimer becomes} n 4 excitement but could learn nothing.— st America to act in “Bulldog prum-| mond” for Charles Dillingham be , Far Rock- ee l RHYMED PROPOSALS, 5] Bessi i fe 3 ae ee jessie n The seen A NEW FILM CONCERN. oF Pa Kirt Bertha, the girl Paul K. wants to! announcement of the formation of marry, saw bis rhyme in yesterday International Ple- x paper and sonta reply te v mes 1 ohas just been i ear 4ow fennel] Heer Nos aayei closet organized to distribute! tion wil LEGAL ADVICE: tan thes tentel ieeLane oR een” Chard nt care: | the products of both foreign and) Hyde." ee T sits on my fenco every | 1608s hee au ie like Bertha'e | American independent producers.| atter next week in‘Buftalo, Ma night and makes the night dandor, but there iyone line in her | Among the directors are’ Malcolm| siarsh, in “Brittle,” will come to hideous wich his infernal re see No Ge0e, poem" that positively should be | Strauss, futhor, artist ani m Pro-! Broadway fi eng ent. rN G [LE girl walked into a con- See if you can find it,| ducer; Louis and Paul Meyer, George ROWGY, fOr. an lenRaROMSDs Fow, Now Idan’? want t have sny Tho Provincetown Players will open| bother with my neighbor, but this their season at No. 198 MacDougal Street Nov. 14 with "The Verge," | Dulsance has gone far enough and I by Susan Giaspell. want you to advise me what to do. Margery Chapin was the first giri| The young lawyer looked as solemn Zrrol for the new | as an owl and answered not a word. S. Hallman and Charles Presbrey. Officers have not been elected, but it is rumored Mr, Strauss is slated for the Presidency. He says his concern intends to distribute pletures for the| inded. Its frat release will| engaged by Leo Here's the rhyme Imagine such a fellow, | As this poor fish, Paul K. He has no nerve to speak of T will not wed him—nay sof the Sea,” by Sem-| “Midnight Frolic | “1 have a right to shoot that cat, ‘a Yor. tha Kien hie: speaks 0 i, author of "The Jest.” Mary H. Kirkpatrick has added! haven't | Taviie Watson to the cast her new “LT would hardly suy that,” replied Md hive quow Dre MADISON'S NEW ONE Crothers pla Ey young lawyer. * ut does not Ketore Vd sh hut old chu 1 Madtsat fi Hagen Fy Liliom’ wi . sth | be I and," Aitough Tihgar youre uy Tedy al Ny aa oe a : He M8) Ant" exe! I the ght of the law, h Will King will appear Nd calendar year of “The | {then E think you have a perfect right Dear Dud—Bob Ruth, the noted| he batter the Brooklyn Yankees, is | cisco. returns to the Casino, San Fri Judging from the title, says | First Year” at the Little Theatre will ' | begin with the 445th performance to-| figures most in the knooking of home re-| % hot water. I Jearned to-day that) Oscar Ockroth, the tunes are aM in| oight runs, | Judge M puntain Land, who controls) a miner key Bert Green, the cartoonist, has en- — sports all over America, ordered him —— tered vaudeville and te doing very FOOLIGHMENT. | to play some post-season games but BUTTERFIELD TO WED. well, much obliged. A atudborn young pig of Goose Hol- Bob refused. I and the wife went to Visiting fire chiefs, reunbering more | Dugan's Bluff this morning to inter-| than 100, saw Al Jolson tn “Bombo” low, jview the Bambinnigan about it but at Jolson's Theatre last night In mud used to wallow and wallow, found the place locked up un this Donald Meek of “Six Cylinder sner forbid tip down and you'll have an exclusis Love" has bought t Floral; His owner forbid tt, OE a Boston at the home| Park. LI A ities! But still the p gis it, aL Tt °o G Cowan. Dd) saying: “Dirt never Murt ai Apotta." ut n vy n pri at yorcement” pera ~~ that If you will get in’ ‘i \ \ Pvt ; | tion of @ stage family, many of whom] FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. | Mayor she nT end a | ny eet a Hn 900,000 people have see) vere noted po Na 5 | | s and Pde ‘Bend’ Dudle Pay the | “Get Together” at the Hippodrome. ee Ee aan ahelree —ehotds: pa" bu hair’ The old galseemsato be stuck| The Actor-Friends’ Bociety will A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. “Why?” on you. The wife found a dollar bill| Meet at the Garrick at & Bunday, Recent events esem to make it ap- “Then tn one of my vests iast night. Much A. B. Mathews Se en ronte to parent thet muscle, not brain power, reach of ell fectionery stero at Pendleton, placed a nicke! on the counter aaa called for an {ce cream cone, “Yoo cream cones are 7 cents, little gicl," the fiza clerk announced, “Well, then gimmg a soda pop.” The Day’s Good Stories “Six cents,” “Got any root bees?’ Yep, 5 cents, too nickel,” "Oh, shouted back. that ews. SS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. HE newly elected Prestdent of a banking institution » He at pride, made "a soagretiste oo! su! Roareat nal. introduced ngled ci “and one elitht mi replied the President. But hereafter "Wall Street Jour “Bee! he's Here, iittle girl, you're leaving your the clerk called to her. the child “It's 10 good to me—It won't buy anything!""—Indianapoils t's all right,” to the « out one of the n | the cashier's assistant, with conscious heard, looked time I only in all that ke. you. her nickel on | heing 4 By Don Allen. | GOSH! i HE Fifth Avenue bus swerve Riverside Drive. All the way i |from Washington Square a rath sportily dressed individual, who w affecting spats, had busied _hintse pointing out the places of interest 1) a typical New Englander. The Down Easter, to judge from his conversa- ‘tion, was closer than a dead heat and fmaisted upon placing a money value on about everything he saw. “That,” announced the city-brok? | half of the combination, pointing m. ‘is the home of Chari One of the finest homes jookin’ at it frum here, Must cost about a hundred thousand! “Where do you get that stufi’ asked ie one, "at house costs : Akasa) “Wal,’ re-mused the New Englander, ‘me got swindled.” | AIRY LANGUAGE. 66 FFICHR," pantingly woman htt rushing up to « Br Officer, [ve go | fly right up to 42d Street and Sever Avenue and"— “Just watt a minute, Madam,” suayely answered the policeman. “If you're bound to ‘fly’ up there I'll have ® plane here in a jiffy.” The woman took the subway. FONETIKAL SPELING. E epends his days on Low: Broadway sandwiched betwei adver ie Man 1B rds that otone, Does your man take tures? ked a passerby. “Best in New York!" was hie stere otyped reply. “Well,” continued the inquisitive one, “if he doesn’t know any mor: about taking plotures than he does about apelling he's in the tinty): class.” A glance at the sign showed: “PASPORTS PHOTS TAKEN.” FATHER FOUND OUT, good pi VIDENTLY things had not be running along the macadu street of life for the father Ja husky boy of eleven or twelve, the usually fond parent was playing a zylophone solo on the shoulders of his yelling offspring. “When I tell you to do somethings: warned the father in a hoarse voice, “I wish for you to DO somethings. I'l show you who ts de boss!” After he had further tnoreaged his paddling average, the father asked “NOW who is de boss?” he boy only whimpered, shielding ears from the cuffs that had been entred upon them Who is de boss? Who ts de boss: he repeated many, many times, 6i- lence still encircied the boy, “For once more I ask you, whe is de boss in my family?" ‘The boy wrenched loose, ran @ few yards and then turned to answer the all-important question, “You eek me who is de bees” called back, “I'll tell you whe is ¢;, bos: Mamma is de boss—and yw know ft! Off in the sflent distance « truck was stalking another victt mai! mm, | PAGE GATTI-CASAZZA. ‘The modern counterpart of Demos Ithenes, the original Greek spellbindey, |who trained his voice #o that !t would carry above the roar of the ocean, has been found in @ Seventh Avenue subway train; only the modern youth is a singer of baritone HbIlities, When the train rts, he too starts, taking @ running jump at the seale, singing louder and louder as the racket of the train socelerates, and gradually muffling his tones as the train slows down, until, when th train reac! n completely soft-pedalled. esh Kid was on the bule near the sin last. night, and wondered; th |seeing whence the baritone harmo ees, jeame, he turned to another fresh kid | ‘companion, jerked his thumb 1: Aireotion of the 2, 7 tobe geht ow’ ) | \ Y a dead stop, bis vetes |