The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1921, Page 12

: TURNING ON THE SPOTLIGHT BY AS It ever occurred to you that) we have very few physically big actors? The only ones now! an evidence are Lionel Barrymore and | Tyrone Power. Most of our noted actors are undersized, and they; usually emphasize the fact by pulling themselves in at the waist by way of suggesting they have been to dinner in one of those plays where liqueurs | fre served with maddening regular- {ty. A still worse babit to which they are addicted is the wearing of high- heeled shoes by way of making them- | felves imposing. You may fee! like| shouting “Go get © pair of stilts!" only to remember that you are sup- posed to be a faspectable member of the community and accordingly keep your mouth closed, Acting From the Shoulder. | There is something almost startling | in an actor who happens to be big} enough to fill the stage, an actor large | of frame and voice, one who makes himself felt as well as heard, In the old days there was no lack of them, but now they seldom come to view. ‘The two mentioned complete the list. ko far as distinction gocs Acting from the shoulder {s an art that depends upon nature quite as much 4s on training. Both Barry- more and Power have the lunge of it, the p! ical ability to “put it over,” in the language of Broadway. I don't mean to say they haven't more than this, for both are actors of intelli- gence. But the physical side of their work must be considered If, for example, “The B * were bette qualified to act Mathias than| better qualifiedd to act Mathias than| Iionel Barrymore? In the bypnotic “dream scene” he would be able to suggest the strength of the innkeeper who hoist: the murdered jewel peddlee | upon his shoulder, a thing that Henry | Irving, with all his + melodramatic | kifte, coud never make convincing. | What a Mathias the most vigorous of | the Barrymores would make! “The| Belis” will ever remain great mmelo- | drama—and don't you forget it! | The Wonderful Jew. In this week Mr. Power haa made tus believe not so much In “The Wan- dering Jew" as in the wonderful Jew | who lives to the overripe age of 1,30¢ | yearsond still carrieson, as the Eng lish say, women, He sets an example both remarkable and env able, moreover one calculated to throw Bernard Shaw quite off his reckoning of a possible 300 years of life in “Back to, Methuselah." Shaw pro- teats that the present limit of exist-! ence is ail too short for understanding | with and enjoyment of our privileges, but the wanderer in the play at the Knick gets 80 tire | ding al after he has passed tho| thousandth mile post that he yearns | for death. Yet he somehow manages | to pass the time pleasqntly by ajways having a woman for company—xood company, as Fanny Brice has said of Camille This may be the moral of “The Wandering Je In any event it is more than reassuring, for Matha- thias outdoes tie sailor who has a sweetheart in every port by having a most desirable woman in every age. No matter what may be said of him he certainly {# not an anchorite, [t is possible the author of the play, E. Temple Thurston, said to himself as he worked along, “I must put a dasa of sex into this thing,” and followed the idea to the end, Well, we must agree, it is a pleasant idea. Any min About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY OT Will Rogers on Broadway yesterday, Jeff Nutt was with us, and a fine time wae tad by all, This is about the way thing. started: “Hello, Rider!" (From us.) “Howdy, Kansas!" (From Will) “Flow be?" . “Fair enougb! When'd you head im CHARLES DARNTON living along that line to 1,300 ought to be willing to die at the stake without | making a fuss about it The Restless Wife. | Wite maid—Mathathias 10 particular, But in “The Six-Fift | as in other plays of the season, the restless wife who betrays a dis position to Jump the straight @nd narrow track, Hester hates the farm, and we are disposed to sympathize with her. Yet, for the life of us we! can't understand why she walks out into the moonlight with a lady-killer from the wrecked train the moment he suggests she might find it inter esting. It is this action, more then | anything else, that knocks the sense out of Kate McLaurin’s play. Moon light? No, this is sheer moonshine But you never can tell what women will do~on the stage. or THE BIG ‘LITTLE FAMILY ~ IFYOu BRING SOUR FRIEND CASEY” HERE AGAIN TLL Kick HIM OUT - WHE INSULTING WRETCH ¢ INSULTIN' ? MIGOSH — ALL TI HEARD HIM “TALK ABOUT WAS TH WEATHER # A =Gus 1s ty PLace. OF CAR ACCEPTED IN TRADE ON OUR NEW MODEL SPORTSTER” = (LLU Gwe , OCTOBER 29, 1921 | nNie We —“ANY MAKE 'EM A TRY ACKED ME IF X REMEMBERED THE BIG BLIZZARD OF 1976 raat UNCLE E2Ra SINGIN THE BABY 76 IM SuRe CASEY” DIDNT MEAN TO ey Mom! You ADVERTISE You'LL TAKE. ANY CAR IN TRADE ON A ‘SPORTSTER « WELL, VE Gor A IOIT LE- biti 'd How COME YOu Dont SING TRE BaBy TS nin’ me ragged ever since. H—! with literachoor!" “By the way, Mr. Rogers," inter- posed Jeff Nutt, "a you of the noted silverware family? “Dunno! Mehbe—anyway, | under- stand Grandpa come from Grand Forks." At that point Bert Levy, the Hip podrome cartoonist, Jout of the hr | kers, approbched who never goes without his whis “Bout sun-up yestiddy writer now.” “For what?” Goin’ to write up the Disagreement I'm a Conference at Washington for the Hoxie Squirt-Gun."”" | “How about writing it for our column too?" “Might give you a carbon copy if Smally Taylor of the Squirt-Gun didn't rare up an’ buck. Name's Peally S$. Mellon Taylor, but the nick- a ne ain't wasted. What'll you) “What amount would you admire?” “Oh, a hundred a day, mebbe.” Give you a carben copy of That don't go for the Shu pert and the wudeville thoug’ vita get three origina thous: dollar bills from ‘em per Per week or per-haps?" “Better make it A week. Yep, I'm In’ to met out the old rope an’ dust r off. Likewise jokes! ‘m a author now." “So?” “Yep! Helped a guy fix up a sce- marius out West an’ be put me down 3 & cocor-author, or whatever it is. Vy in't_ my old friend Levi, still lookin’ over -the shedge," sald Will, We huutlee Jefe away In Jorder to avoid a .vafic jam | seemed imminent SUCH 1s FAME. now at vaudeville light, few weeks ago Eb; Ana yee Ringling, John J. Murdock and the swatter of could baseball they thought \called “the superman Mr Rickard ventured that only George Bernard Shaw ¢ that question and volun Shaw and ask him s sent and this reply er heard of her Whos f BY WAY OF DIVERSION. “My mother's hardly ever cross,” said Litiie Willie Green ‘She's hummin’ tunes ‘most all the time. 'Tuint often she gets mean, I do 'most anything 1 a eee Danged Income Tax man been run- | that for the tale about thet | F, Aldea, head of the Keith interests, told John | McGraw, Lawrence Waterbury, John | Tex Rickard that Babe was to appear in| Keith vaudeville and asked them tf} like, RO she 18 stéefin’ near, but say—you bet I wartch my step ‘wer, look here!’ My mother's got @ okerry switch, | when Mom say: Beatrice of Bushwick ( RHYMED PROPOSALS ——- {surprises at the Terrace Garde | Dance Palace Monday night. A stag { one-step centest will be held there | She hungs it on the wall. its uke the way L. B. of Harlem writes | pshaw! It ain't used much at |were favorable, Look’at her “poem,” all. Fer days an’ days it's never \atmed at L. Mt touched. That switch I never fear | I'd like to y.ve you the double 0, | untit Mom drops her work right |For I'm in search of a steady beau the Nation” pageant at the Waldorf, Julius Tannen | ceremonies at the benefit for the Jew- Parkway | ish Consumptives’ the Sam H evening, Nov. Hallowe'en appropriate. souven Tuesday evening. William McDermott, at the Armistice will be master of | Relief Society at Hartis ‘Theatre Sunday 18. will be celebrated with novelties and | leans at dramatic edi- JHELLO- GIMME “THe. USED CAR DEPARTMENT MoM save sHe HAS ONCLE E2RA mre Old New Orleans | Seen in Works of Wayman Adams By W. G. Bowdoin. | Wayman Adams is exhibiting por- |traits and paintings of old New Or- Milch Gallery, No GEORGE , LISTEN - THERe's A MAN HERE WITH A LQI5 LE-MON HE WANTS TO TURN IN-| WHATTA YOY SUPPOSE “THE JUNK DEALERS WOULD GIVE US FoR (T IF WE TAKE (TP 108 | appears carrying his top hat !n_ his \hands and his gloves occupy a place |that is collateral with the hat When Mr. Adams approaches his survey of old New Orleans he bids fa 11 to his worship of detail. Ho selects and composes well and in the Mere "hut nn the BOER oy Fa tena bemer foe my oem or cht, Seelang Pai Belt la| Wont ehh street, unl Nov, ho that to me hz, 0 x | 4 he ove P've atiays| "ar invited lo lunch ‘yesterday by | catalogue conteins 20 numbers, with| hat to me, gee whiz, but I look | Just give me the love I've ahways| was, invited to lunch vesterday bY | aastions, most, 1f not all, of which | out! Fer then I know my | craved, |the engagement for a reason. Ask| were painted last summer tn the mother's mad. I quit what I'm | I'll give you the kisses so long {’ve| him southland. | about. Oh, Mom ain't hardly | saved. Mr, Adams te at his best tn por- ever cross, but sometimes she |'Twill all de so fine tf you're Mtr) Ps THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. .{traiture, and both in his child and ¥ | rof. Starr of Chicago University) aqui subjects he has adventured acts queer, You bet I gotta | Right, |says American women are not beau watch my step when Mom saya: | But if you are not—well, we'll just] Sful, The professor should take | nd achieved. ‘Son, the opinion | id look herer'" say good night. ation occasionally from Chicago. and get away man of mystery, | again disregarded 1 Ho 1s to be particularly commended | for his "Old New Orleans Mammy,” which features a negro woman of the | a) The light effects are concen-| deal with churchly events that are Gossip. Hudson. Mifty of them will see FOOLISHMENT. | best tradition, She is shown seated | E. 11, Sothern addressed 3,000 schoo} | 't Tuesday night I asked Bill, the barber, to shave me.|on4 in repose. Her white apron, of teaches ortland, Me. yesterday 4 the hait| Six cuts on the cheekbones he 9¢te| ample size, 1a eminently befitting and . Kk aie | pipes 4 6 8 is The Penn State football team will tir sora UTE) helps to carry the dark sleeves of the wow Phe Les 2” at the Century My groans were not heeded, waist, A fan 1s party seen, held ! ce : : he wouldn't) He merely proceeded ver right hand. The left one rests Al Jolson has a piano in his dress told the anadan fate the woma » 8 {ng room at the Joison Theatre. He| ing world he will be at Loew's With bits of court plaster to pave mo, ) On x beads Bhs shed show Bim. Joe higgins, they aay, is writing al FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Be ceean Fred Latham will stage “Bulldog| inusical comedy that Will knock us| “rm going to gmt a divorce.” His portrait of “Colonel £. M. Drummond’ for Charles Dillingham. | off our scat is to be called “King| Why?" House" shows the |Tt was he who directed “The Wauder- | Honunkus hen shall we prepare] “ty wife hasn't spoken to me for | coated and gloved, with the collateral jing Jew. to tall, Joe? Roernne hat. | pins, dining oar scone in ~The six\ Eva Le Gulliene of “Liliom,” at alt Unelian’ aol stow: B\t'y” 4» attracting railroad men to Fulton, wil: represent ‘The Spirit of another wife like that. 2 Sscesomaiinesgentlceonsietoetciaeeeienetiiieettatecitiieeneen cieeiantingmetiadeercaneeeeinetaia readies ta a eer Se THE BABY GLAD To GO TO s.eeP! eround 1s sombre, as it should be, to wet the obtained effects. The portrait of ‘John McClure Hamilton” was awarded the firat prize at the Newport Art Association | in 1918. The technique of the House] portrait is here repeated with the same happy re its, and we have an} alert and resourceful man, in regis- try, during a moment of repose. He} mean time he ma: fine distinction, but he certainly es- tablishes a formu of paraliclam that 1s almost measured in several) instances, In the case of his painting entitled “Flight,” belonging to Booth Tark- ington, who loans {t for the present showing, this trend {s held under more severe restraint than is the case with gome of the other shown ple- tures. The componition 1s jolly aud the colors are good, but the face of the figure 1a a perfect bihnk and so] picture {s utr nined ‘Green u illustrates of the e: t to wi expendic F s his colors with ‘ th he trend the p figur detail ne Bookworm pressionistic. w man is pictured as immersed | study of old to: ok stand, | It is'a fine, strong ¢ lent of the collector, with the element of detall| Certain of his more vivid sketches YouW never get \trated upon the face, which ts tbhus| made eloquent and absolutely true to endowed with juminosity, The back- negro life and character, LAY Screenings By DON ALLEN PAUL I6 POPULAR. ‘The Pioneer Film Corporation Just announced the release of a serie; of comedies to be known as ‘Paul’ First Kias,” “Paul's Temptation, “Paul's Dilemma,” “Paul's Mistake’ and “Paul's Wedding Day.” Evi dently, some one named “Paul” ii mixed up in the series somewhere. FRECKLE REPLACED. Wesley Barry, the “crying kid, lost_a freckle during hie recent viail to New York. Now that the weth touted California sunshine has pi the freck back, Wesley is busy ing as “Penrod,” SOUNDS ODD. Buster Keaton, the smileless won| der, has at-last cracked his counte: ance in a grin. Now they are offertn, a prize to the person who finds o1 just what made this scrious face| young comedian thaw out of h ueual frapped expression. AN OBJECT LESSON. Norma Talmadge was given a let son recently, And it took a little Ft to do it “I stopped a youngster at play said the star. “She had ribbons an} pieces of net flowing down from he| own of pasteboard. “What are you playing? the tot. ““T ain't PLAYIN’, answered lttle one. “I AM a Princess.’ “In the future,” continued Mir Talmadge, “I'll not ‘play’ I'm a chay acter; I'll’ try, Nke the little girl, # ‘be’ the character. \ BUSINESS VS. MOVIES. Doris Pawn intended to set th business world afire when she gradu ated from busine’s college. ‘Then sh} was taken on a sightseeing tril through a motion picture studi¢ Liking the whirring of the camer: far better than the click of the type writer keys, Miss Pawn left big busi ness flat and gasping. Now look her ip “Shame.” ROBERTS AND EX-SKI PER. ‘Theodore Roberts, the player of virlle characters for th screen, can spin a sea yarn with best old salt. Why shouldn't he? Foy ars he was the skipper fe e chooner running out of San Fran- sco, mostly to Santa Cruz, Follow- | ing his recent serious illness, Roberts | used to entertain tends by the | hour with his sea adventures. “But they're none of ‘em so wild as some of the scenes l've played in; since I started movie acting,” an- | nounces the veteran. } THIS READER FUMBLED. } A atory Sorng the rounds of motion picture highways and by. ways {s to the effect that the reade! of a certain big New York publishin house turned back the manuscript « “The Shiek” with a note to E. Hull, the auth r, to the effect that would not “g Another "lee grabbed it then the movies annexed it and the: | fair for the story that “wouldn't go.”} “CAMERA!” Movie acting must be @ lot easter than fighting, to judge from the way fighters are flocking to the screen. “Spike” Robinson {s the latest. He! has a role with a punch in “The Foal Ish Age.” Earl Williams ts @ sticker. He Bas just contracted to furnish seven pro- ductions within the next twetvemonys to Vitagraph, Wlams broke in with Vitagraph and saya he Intends tg atick, ‘The majority of the scenes of Lure of Jade,” Pauline Fredertak’ latest film, were shot in one of Unole Sam's biggest naval bases. Ten ‘Nheodora” companies will be sent out by Goldwyn shortly, Broadway has just heard that a Cincinnati exhibitor {is advertising “The Birth of a Nation, with the original New York cast.” Henry B. Walthall {s now an Indian brave, but not a brave Indian. Some wild tribe or other wished the title on him recently during the filming of his latest picture. He says he feels lon some now unless he has @ cigar store back of him, Sidney Franklin has trekked west- ward to direct Constance Talmadge in a film tentatively known as “The Divorcee. in “Two Minutes to oe e's too much football wath 4 glance af the ball. There gs that will not film inte pasoball and football. ‘Tourneur's mother, who lives in France, saw her son recontly for the first time In years, She “net” him {na picture theatre in France He was being shown in a screem snapshot. Douglas Fairbanks says he refus $25,000 offered him Me he would display an advertisement of @ certain aruele in his next picture, 1 aake th folks seem to lose interest Ray ee {