The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1921, Page 20

too. |. JOLSON FINDS A WAY. { PF) At Jolson seems to have solved the | roblem of the late-gomer at the | Ehaatre. The other night, when the { ye hpeee was well into his first scene id Bombo,” a party of twenty with @olipons for seats in the first row, * along. (Giri jand Fanny Hatton, with Mary Young jand Juliette Day in the leading roles, By BIDE ROADWAY between 42d and 434 Streets might appropriately be called the Avenue of Eternal Hope. Daily between 10 A. M, anu 6 PF, M. dozens of unemployed acturs, theatrical advance agents and play- Wrights stand around waiting for Pomething to turn up. And every one of them, no matter how hard his luck, looks clean and is fairly well dressed. But the most wonderful part of it ali | is the fact that each and every one | ©an see a silver lining to the cioud that at present spreads over his lot A talk with them brings out only ‘What are you doing now?" asked an actor who, we knowledge, hasn't worked in wine months. “Nothing just at present,” he ad- mitted with a smile, “But I under- Stand ‘Ben Hur’ may go on tour again | in January, and if it does it’s a pipe ¥ get a part.” * “But what if it doesn't go out?” “Oh, it’s a cinch there'll be some- ing doing after the first of the "he replied, “If I don’t land by sbruary I'll fix up a vaudeville act} @nd pick up some coin.” “What do you think?" came from @aother actor who had just come “One of Comstock & Gest's di- fwctors just told me there ought to be #omething doing with that firm in the Production line after the holidays. He told me to drop Comstock a note. Mo with a Comstock and Gest troupe WOUld be pretty poor, eh?” “You're a lucky ham, you are," said | the first actor. “Maybe you can fix| me, too." At that point an old-time actor h@ppened into the gathering. He and his wife had written a play and were aimost starving while waiting for an agent to place it, “The boys up at my play broker's office tell me they expect to submit eur play to several managers soon,” he said happily. “How long bas the play been in the honds of your agent?" we asked. “Only about seven months, Had a e@hance to sell the picture rights for $3,000, but wouldn't take it. After it's produced those rights will be worth five times as much.” “T believe I'd have fold the rights “What—and lose a rot of money Wot on your life'” As we went around the corner he eres and berrowed halt a dollar. IN] slip it back as soon as 1 get me advance cush on the play,” he ronused. And he was sincere about | About a and Saal to our personal | DUDLEY || RHYMED PROPOSALS This column wishes to announce the engagement of Anna, of Brooklyt, jand L. B, of Harlem The | will take place as soon as T. BB. borrow a Tuxedo and arrange for few double meals at some restan | Where the happiness of the patrons | | is put above mere money, Anna ac-| cepta L. B. in the following rhy ty | | Your answer, my dear, fille my heart | with good cheer, |1'N love you and cherish you more |___ every year We'll both look smiles by the score Until we are called to that beautiful and for for joys So L. B. of Harlem if no ‘Tux’ you own, Go sce where there's one that won't cost much to loan | Put up a deposit—say, down, For dear, I've already my white wed. ding gown, ten dotlars | | | | | | HA—HaR? {TS “WH LIL WHITE BALL = ' Gppeared In an aisle. Seeing the ush- | were unwilling arrivals, Jolson stepped to the foot lights and “Come + Make yours everybody t son's Theatre. it a rendezvous.” pur seats. at home. I want comfortable in Jol- My Smiling, he pointed to the first row, and continued: “I / think those are your seat | The members of the party, aome- what abashed, came down. and san’ Anto their seats. “Now, I want you to get a square jeal, 80 I'll tel yon the story of the play as far as we've gone. You have ‘d for your ti¢kets and you have 9 right to gét he whole show.” Stil} smiling, Jolson told what had gone before and then, waving hi+ “hand at the orchestra leader, he sain: | Now that it's all explained, I'll sing & little song I was about to tackli when the folks who were delayed in the subway got here.” ‘And “Bombo” was resumed. TWO OPENINGS SET. Billie Burke will begin an engage- Ment at Henry Miller’s Theatre tp Booth Tarkington's “The Intimaw ranger,” on Nov. 7, under the man- agement of Erlanger, Dillingham & Ziexfeld Mare Klaw, Inc, will a new comedy by put “WwW Frederic into the 48th Street on Nov. 9. MISS AKINS TO SPEAK. The first lecture of the Drama League's Sunday afternoon series will take place Nov, 6 at the Plymouth Theatre. The speaker will be Zo Akins of Missouri, and her subject will be ‘The Wong of a Play.” JUST THE. NAME! Paul Terry, cartoonist, encountered & chemist friend recently. “You've cartooned a lot of insects in your film fables," said the chemist “Give me a name for my new com- pound. It is a terror to insects.’ “Why not call it Bugaboo?’ asked Terry A RHYMED TRIBUTE. to seat the Inte | idea is to make | GEE, THAT HOUSE IS RIGHT ON Tue Brot WHERE OUR TRACKS ARE SUPPOSED To RUN ~— WE'LL HAVE To BUY THE | [SHACK AN’ TEAR IT DOWN ! shore. t THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY ~ MOND. Y, , OCTOBER 31, 1921 ee ABOUT IT FeLix — Hi OW MUCH MAIL “iis MORN? MY ‘AD READS Goop “wo. LL PRORABLY FIND MY DESK SNOWED UNDER WITH ANSWERS! Theee's ONE. BORN Ev'RY MiNnuTES I SHouLD SAY NoT! We Given up |. : TRYIN! “To Trane “TH' Care WN To ANY DEALER — 'm GONNA SELL 'T MYSELF THis AD T PUT IN “This MorrIN's £ LLPAPER'LL DO IT, Too! [~ r% ‘ eye Women ARE FUNNY tinies = INSTEAD OF SHOWIN’ A LITTER. ENTHUSIASM, SHE dus’ SAYS - “1 HOPE. so!" |” It'll Be a “War” Club! . LookIT HERE — AN’ IF T ™m ‘iri — . You tages! ‘ BEAR, ANY MORE Bur tit eet | AY OY Game! ( Tee = OF ‘YOUR IMPUDENCE WoL) DON'T KNOW \ Hee TLL SocK You OVER Worse RIGHT CLUS"To Do oP uni HANl. All He Has to Do Is | Find Them! I JusT DELIVERED ‘This TS YOur OUD ttouse — AND T Found You * D Moved. on- WE Moved (FROM wHeee | “WELL , WHERE TA MOVE TS INDEED You WONT! IVE GoT! QTHER THINGS To Do BESIDES RUNNING OUT To OPEN AN’ cs SHUT THE DOORS EVERY FET TIME ATRAIN WANTS ==*ni / 5 IAT DO You HEN “Wy WERE SURVEYERS FoR tal Sant AROUND HERE ?)gl A RAILROAD = WHERE'S [aul WHAT Must You we (ELL, WE WANT i ie UHR OF THIS SEE “Kiet ABOUT 2) To RUN OUR TRACKS RIGHT THROUGH THis House ! 5 engi JAM. Pons Piling Co. IM_¥, bvsan, wae) will act in “Danger. Ivan Simpson of “The Green God |dess” 1s not Ivan Sampson of “Ro- | mance.” | Dorothy Stone, daughter of Frod | Stone, has lost her dog and is discon- solate, He's an Airedale named Jack | Patrons of the Equity Ball will see Of all the communcations KF. ois : Albee has received regarding the Lise Tho Midnight Jolites” and will 1n- Third of a Century anniversary of] i Hh & teOtbRAM Oy SURpEE Keith Vaudeville, a poem by Amanda he Messrs. Shubert are trying to Peyton Ellis, who says ehe is “just a| extend the contract of the Lockfords Uttle « dy of seventy-four,” living | dancers, who have scored in Shubert fm Boston, comes very near pleaxing | vaudeville him more than any other, It follows For thirty-three years Pye mingled my cheers With those of the rest of your pa trons ¢ lightened my load You's You've smoothed out Ir Each week To the shows you've $n you God willing, for I pray that the cheers Of millions you've helped will con-| N | You must sing @ song of more th sixpense if you want any rye th days, says Maciyn Arbuckle knowing!s George M. Cohan has arranged to have the hall in North Brookfie Mass, transformed into a theatre George knew the town when tt was a litle hamandevalet ' H fs 1 . mn tho he tM Josep Drake, the Masi I | Dignity of the Nation at the Viet lpall and pageant at the Waldorf 10. | Helene Sinnott, , Robert Fischer, iNellie Graham Dent, site Gtow: |" Carlotta Monterey and Faire Binney | Beane ‘Andre Maginot,|of war debts would help the opening Nov panied to by 3 in Yiddish at nee whole Wey's one Lerter — FRUM “TH! GARAGE WHAT FIXED YiearR Last “time! A decided paucity of new showings | marked yesterday as an opening day among Broadway cinemas, | Wiliam 8S. Hart brought his same expression to the Strand in and Kex Beach's latest, |“The Iron ‘Trait, was blazed at the Rialto. At the Capitol, “Shame,” the feature picture, came new only in so far us it was fresh on Broadway at popular prices. | Passing in Review. | RIALTO—Witiam S. Hart. in ‘White Ouk"'—Hart is Hart and West is West and ays the twain shail double up. There iw no exception to thig rule this week at the Rialto, where the most Western Westerner appears in a drama of some timo ago and during the unwinding of which he knocks ‘em dead and leaves 'em gasping in true Hartian manne “Wihite Oak” isn’t, as might readily be judged, a tree from which des and other furniture will grow, but ¢ honest-to-goodness gambler with tl jaccent de the honest. y Hart fans and so tire ynst favor hi well loved b some to those who style of pantomime | ‘Lhe action starts in St. Louts, which what of a handicap, but grad ward until, in hunt pposed betrayer of hi nite Oak runs afoul us a band of Indiana 8 perfecto signs. m7 y works we ng Does a jittle thing like a band et Indians stop Hart? It does NO" |When he got through the dust we jall chewed up All ends happily tor every one concerned, even Chiet Standir Bear, a real [njun hia week's bill is up the Rialto standard and include: atest. Buster Keaton comic, “Hai t Luck.” a news reel and several son | and there, | CAPITOL—A curious mixture of white men. ow men and blackny ame 1 io Broadway and is shown At the Capitol fo first time in, that vicinity a toes ame” isn't such a much as far as films: wo, being filled to the boiling over point with things that no avdt reconcile itself to. Ft doddering old Chinese, 1. Clung by name, darts from the un |ground passageway of a mythica | Chinatown to nowy and barien wastes of Alaska and {n an instant becomes an expect musher and driver ge with the best of than, jumble about a voit ence could stance—a believes he is tainted yellow blood and sees things The story tries to make one believ belief that causes him to go through a course of D. T's Lbut he breaks a mirror during the course of t action and that must account for all of his tantrums, John Gilbert does his best to make th taint-crazed young man as hu man as the scenario will allow The infant is still the star of the film, however ‘There is an interesting programi ¢ — — — —-- — —— of music and the movie end of ‘ \e 3 entertainment is rounded out by a GOSSIP. ltett, M ssinger Bellis, Roy Coohr | sinister to France, has presented 1o/| tinued, “there would be no necessity|fantastic “interview” with a Gel: 1a Jane Lowe goes to the Poll Stock | and L by Huntington will be Mayor Robin of Verdun a fund of 66,-|Of paying interest on appreciation of | cirl and the Capitol News. | Company, Bridgeport | “The ous Cireassian 600 francs for the creation of an in- Paid currency, and I believe the ex- ‘ie Rudolph Schildkraut, father of Jo fant school in that French city. This|change situation would be greatly STRAND—It's plc! , | a picks and shovels, taste arene 908. will bring “The | seph Schildkraut, has’ been eng: money was collected by Cuban news- | better Of course, nothing {8 & pare fists and ice floes this week at y Novy. 7 by Max K Wilner for "God of Ven- papers. or Domingues was accom-| complete panacea, but a cancellation |the Strand 1 e while Rex Beacli's “The Tron ‘Trail’ 1s being shown to he Irving Place | Cums aa annie | because of the exchange. W Minister of Pensions in the neh| World to return to a normal condi-| packed audiences. Mr. Beach @.1- ators Beh eG tee eh Cubans Uneasy Because Of | inition cons of unsold sagas Cabinet." ton." : POY Bue Wight “and lenidl a. tow has gone to Chicago to see the > caticfac , “H from the last crop. Great efforts are *) words, namely, “that he thought Jt Weoaat (ae Gardcks Later he will e Hi DEA oer sae Being made now to diapose of this at GEN. BULLARD TELLS ONE. WILL HAYS LIKES BOY SCOUTS. | vas g’aarn goed plcture.", ‘ihe Tron ; MSC Dae he will go ‘ial Situati T of] s|/any price before the new crop comes Major Gen, Robert Lee Bullard Postmaster Genera: ‘ays 1s 49 really the true ‘acidents o South to see the company which ison | — Cial Situation, Though They | oy rie eee ied Over we shail an enthusiastic admirer of the Boy |actuial happenings in th. Far North | tour down there There was a young loafer numed Mee Who tried to make bread without dor Rut found, to his horror He who stops in town occasionally, ) e Touri jerippled during the coming year.) (12° spite 5 little : he [28 Beach himself saw them when he ack DIGRBESINrME NT Hope the Tourist Influx | sree ens ae giunood tons x| tells this story of the draft Sooo intone eet an te a ie [was digging and washing gold'as a By Ea . Will Put Large Amount of | Year, and as a drastic measure we arc! "A colored boy named Feet nto tee ae tei, In| Drompector. Te ts a Whitman Bennett by Edward Acker.) a trying to reduce this figure for next eet hoanad Mook hands. Helore lone. Ate, Hava | Production, and theifine hand of W had half a dozen Scouts < jand this is what he said to them ‘I couts, our country necds willing Wy seve r days. of our wai We expect a good tourlst seasun a was questioned fer the passport red tape,| the officer in charge. however, which kept so unany away last yer 1 think that you delong in the me Money in Circulation, are By Roger Batchelder. ound him, lat iam O'Hagan Hurst is seen in some f the big scenes. Murray O'Neil, bet tev known as the Irish Prinoe, has a big fight on his hands to put through the bridge for the ratlroad in Alaska And. oh, to Nis server |has been cleared away and Amer navy,’ he caid at length. Can you | [| have « a ain that nadn'e-cheghor? Gfx 41 It is a well known fact that condi- {cans may now visit our island with | row? | A nANS sald SEO ID ORG AMER AIRY. ata iy not ai by the crooked- tione are bad in Cuba right now," de-|out any restrictions whatever We Yo, boss, 1 can't ro | politics, but more attention to | Nese of one yordon, who at jared Dr. Alpert J. Carrio, an at-|*hall have the races as usual, and} Sambo. politics. What a condemnation | tempts to ste 7 scheme. Tes. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY é i ty Other "lof course the ‘wet zone’ is a graat Do you mean to say was Roosevelt's active life t there ate a couple of big fetic Bats Tiles Murry of the Shubert theatr:.|tormey from Havana who te at the| drawing card. We hope. ‘dingly,| can't paddle a boat?’ insisted the ehoae Muleag. 11S and—but, then, the Strand ‘a 1 office not a literar iit We depend entirely on the !to get some money into ylation | Officer. moodtl ta still at 47th Street and Broadway — the joes b ugar crop, and if the sugar situa- | soon” 4 On, yeu. T ole paddie a boat | public afta gO see it for yoursel i de ceaod cavarething slaa)goan . 2 4 wl Tienes mena t. mOMsat yey | tone. thi individuals ° FOOLIS MENT ; ; Shehhany MORE CUBAN NEWS. bd Tro! Ike at lon are elected bv processes of poli. | WHERE OTHER REELS UNWIND, rest mt a lotory Charles Flynn, also of avan wea We can have better go’ Fairbank he “ ( f i) hariee FIVOAI: & Haven’ CANCEL ALL WAR DEBTS, HE ; ne out : Pegi se ene ee en brought this information to the Bilt suGGEeTS. rae Sas 6 cen- ' upe greeter England is financially s: 4,* re pipe hy t i) s i ‘ si the several f at 1 edals f ibann parted Richard’ Kesean ; and ma rinight lonze been a la ‘ 1’ 10 Ply lon's oldest 5 i Rep ee h tuit't et of * 189 i the Fenney ’ nnn n "Pete: F 2 the | and a eaten a ceaneeey ant ah _FARTHEST FROM HOME. Pen plterton S 2 t arane ney | navy pla ri a th rt i Phe “New Yorker for @ Day or "i FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE n 5 gan ressed the opinion that the Ver ra Day or T Priscliia Dean conti Ray: \ sa counts, and nd bea German would not pay their inde is farthest from ho er life Biss one , ; bp Ba of our money 1s / rine in relic nity, and added that he did not think sa ah dF ne today tea. | {pr Her Use and eiaetheart suring the ell us, M out of circulation, and the sugar crisis lon, ‘campaign for Humanity,| they should be forced to do eo. W. Coaser, whois of the Pennsylvania, | ¢ | big lon: far cane tn Commish. ah the teamsters?* hom Ww Because they hold the rains,” snd Taw wif vail war debts, including _yye| His home town, ny are clouds \s Jit senor Domingues, former Cuban| German, were wiped out,” he cc a-| 5,000 miles from Brea”, ww. keeps the trouble going. ‘urope is Cuba's only market now, Kobe, Japan, is about | “Theodora” ie still at the vy