The evening world. Newspaper, November 12, 1921, Page 12

fa dp ARR ae eoaee em ETN AERTS NRT sor tI em | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1921 | amet |THE NEW PLAYS Ed Wynn Is “The Perfect Fool” By CHARLES DARNTON PLease! PLEASE. DON'Y HURRY ME! DoN'T GET IMPATIENT. WE'VE (V8 Got WH sPEcIFICATIONS HERE. OF A CAR ('M INTERESTED IN — ('M GONNA READ 'EM OVER AND SEE WHAT U“THINK OF Tf WELL, Hat IsNT “he WAY i T WOULDN'T Buy IT ON’ PAPER — "D Go about BUYING Acar! 'D Bur IT ON PERFORMANCE { 1s That SO! wet They SMARTY, How woULD You Go aBouTt tt? OULD it be shocking, for @/symipathy et the same moment it - change, to take Ed Wynn|rouses your laughter. seriously, to consider him| Then there are Wynn's tnventions— mich a fool as Shakespeare had in| he would have you believe he devotes | mind from time to time and play to|/bis summers to them. Though he Play? Has this idea never occurred|ioves music, he has contrived the to you? If not, why not? Certainly, | noiseless soupspoon equipped with ® aside from funny bats, no one !m|Maxim allencer. He shows it to you, modern dress has over, suggested @D-|and you are duly impreased with !ts clent cap and bells s» completely a6] power to lessen the shocks of life. this Broadway jester. The title of|-Then he holds that the man who eats | the piece of nonseawe -n which he fig-| with his knife is worthy of protection, ures at the Cohan Theatre is sypet-land so he champtons disarmament fuous, Ed Wynn 1s the perfect fool.| with guards like those fashioned to ‘The rest docsn’t matter. In fact! safety razors, there 1s little tise, merely a few over- worked performers who are dragged on and off without leaving any im- pressio#, and a chorus of clever dancing girls. They really should be Paid for overtime, so often and #0 hard do they work. Wynn may look foolish—but not when he is looking at the salary list! On this score he ‘would never be sent to Bellevue for observation. The company he keeps proves beyond any possible doubt he is not half-witted. For your money’s worth you must depend entirely upon Wynn, He eeems to sense this fact, for the mo- ment entertainment threatens to run low and leave you stranded, out he ambies to jolly you along. His genius for this sort of thing may be ex- plained as something merely human, the simple art of getting in touch with his audience. Call it gall, if you! like, but he gets there. He cheapens himself only when he pushes out to the street door in time to ask the speeding guest, “Did you like the show?” No one could possibly dislike !t, for Wynn makes it chockful of laughs. An his burlesque of an acrobat, for example, he is screamingly funny, It is his seeming carnestness that makes him so, his deep concern with doing things that an unkind Nature never His ear-candle burns | to the hour at which duty cails—and | there you are, ready to jump out of bed and go to work. Foolish? Yes, But Ed. Wynn is genuinely funny—funnier than ever, THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Screenings By DON ALLEN On! sues $0 ECONOMICAL i] THEIR BROWS WERE WET. Hobayt Bosworth isn't a villag: i smithy, or anything like that, but } the beady moisture of perspiration | came pretty near rutning several! i “shots” in “Blind Hearts," his latest | Far North thriller, Bosworth and his company filmed many scenes in frozen Alaska, but when it came to sllooting Nome as it was before the gold rush, twas another matter city Dow, So, a portion of Nome wag built jn \ the California studio and Bosworth and his company pile@ on fur coats. ( gloves and caps and etarted work 5 The thermometer was working on ali Ae Nome is a grown-up wy ere, LITTLE MARY MIXUP | six cylinders and no California sts | tistics would ever admit it could at Might Call It a “Broken Dozen”! \*°,204,*e I geneese of h pent perspiration snd i | jow wouldn’t mlx, even on tit intended him to do. His surprive at aa a | | film, and the actors were i | ) finding himself left fat, as it were, has MARY. IT S GAD | faces wouldnt perspire” “MM AND NINE More Just LIKE | faces wouldn't perspire. SENNETT AT WORK. After a long, long vacation tiie time clock at the entrance of the Mack Sennett lot is working a, The howe of comedy and bathing | girls is buzzing with activity Just when film fans were wonde: ing what on carth had become uf Mabel Normand she popped up and “reported for duty” In Sennettville It seems she has been taking a well earned vacation, but says she's readv 7" and anxious to siart work on her newest comedy, as yet unnamed Ben Turpin also tooked in on the lot but no one could tell whether be was gazing at the time clock or trying to see the on the back of his 1 be working soon again ALL “RIGHT - Tu SAvY ire @ cheerful resignation that stirs your | am / pane Te BREAK PLATE — BuT-DONT | About Plays SAY "BUSTED — and Players “ou MusT s4yY: | I BROKE A PTE By, BIDE DUDLEY ROM Francis . Reld, who F Dandies the Billie Burke pub- licity, we have received an ex- planation of the fact that the Iittle country railroad station in the first act of “The Intimate Strangers” is equipped with electric lights. This is a reply to a question we asked about Cures EXTRA! EXTRA! Travers Vale, directing "A Past | Roard Crown,” sent out 4 call for 69) Adirondacks. They have electric ane There cs a he hee nee = thee They Par et ee trae THese WEEKEND SPONGERS AW, THERE SHE 1S WAITING # TLL GEE, WHAT A SLOW POKE = JusT Ri TED ALE avereaiaranta at tio'abortage ct || MEG cn account of ite usd for this OLD MAIDS' Hoe!) | (SHIP Me AUTIP’ WHEN We Ger To THE || BEHIND. HURRY UP had capitalized thelr tuxedora and Durpose, the water is at least threo, BE HERE UNTIL feet lower than it ever was before. ToMorRow ! s~’ Booth Tarkington knows well tho i ae gy railroad station that made the scene | ; : 5 : “ of the first act of “The Intimate Strangers.” It is up near Paul Smith's, | nd it is lighted by electricity.” | Very good, Mr. Reid, but you have AUNT DORA WON'T \ and $5. CLAY NOW IN BRICK FORM Th final’ scenes have been shot tor ‘and now we suppose \eciay 13 turned into regular brick. | Paul Scardon, director, haa mad somewhat of a speed record tn film ing “Clay.” but magnanimously gives i ull er to the weatherman, ‘This | missed our point. It is this—if the lia the st time in rH story when fs storm has put both the telegraph and | | Weatherman lias been praised for | telephone wires out of commission, janything as far as statistics show | why should the electric light wires) CUT BACKS. | @till be batting 100 per cent” (Give) ~him the answer, Rene.) SOCIETY DEFAULTS. Rowland V. Lee will direet th “Dust Flower,” Basil King's lates screen story. When the benefit for the British ‘Unemployment Fund was held re- cently at the New Amsterdam Thea- tre, Cosmo Hamilton said he would Thave a number of society women i Wy The marines are busy these days ‘They are not only guarding United States ma!l trucks, but some of then are acting !n a local motion picture house. ‘They like acting almost a« well as fighting. “ seated at tables on the stage when the curtain first went up. At 8.15 the Indies had not appenred and Jack|The best one. in esterday's bunca, the Hippodrome last night was at Haezard, master of ceremonies, ap-|@ccording to Mr. Luescher, wus: RHYM tended by 160 wounded service men. proached R. H. Burnside somewhat Fd diggest oe since pork ED PROPOSALS The mother of Henry Young, Treas- perturbed. ani ans were united.” “) urer of the Globe Theatre, died re-| “Where are the Louts Binder wrote tt. oe one Doesn't the cently. ‘The funeral was held at Piaa : | now ‘The fox hunt featured In “Peter Ih | betson” was shot down Long Island ' worked on Weatern ranches or | Way. The fox hunt was all right ex served in the cavelry. At any cept that they couldn't find a fox. rate, one never learns to rida Helen Farguson says she was born { their way on a bridle path.” tactless. "I'm always gazing at the i hd bd picture of some one's favorite relative society women Dae Hlamiiton was to have here?” he asked, — Well, Hen is o Jolly| dome yesterday. IRISH WORKER TELLS OF |and telling the truth,” she says, \ "I'm sorry,” replied Mr, Burnside, A NICE OLD MAN. old scout and yet he has his serious} Clark and MoCullough, !n “Chuckles RELIEF. The first picture made by Peai) - } “bat she didn’t come,” Loney Haskell, while out walking |moments, Lately he has become rest-| of 1921." now at the 44th Street, will Detroit H = near Bridgeport the other day, saw/less because he has no sweet little PBT PORE AL BORO! etroit as MI88 FULTON’S NEW ONE. [an old negro driving a mule attached | wit to meet him at the door with a ee hive ares Pesinnins ‘Thanksg!v- Cecwiagey mee Lae piaveg ies 2 Caran’ sees In the waGon | cigs, @ fatiron or something, and he| ‘Three hundred disabled soldiers sav | es Dee ccce on foe hil nelle Guolett aang out Loney, | P2# made a did for the hand of Anna, |‘Main Street” yesterday afternoon a! own pen “and ts touring in it out “Hauling dogs to-day? 7" lof Fulaskl Street. See how swestly’| the National as gusste of Lee Shubert It is called “Sonny” and re-| The old man estopped the mula he offers to let her support him; <i svi Rogers will be given a dinner | ae say it is proving successful.|'Yep! Jump tn,” he sald. Anna dear, of Pulaski Street, Pr sep years 20 Lagan rs orenian, al onGway some Can sing a song and shake a leg, 4 Long on eats; and now I beg ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. You take me up to see your folks, Albert B. T'U telt them lote of funny jokes, | MBlled to her. I'm out of work and all alone, “No one can estimate the effects hae ee Y ne Solve ar 2 of constant warfare on the future |It 1s to be kn ak “Any 0." Solved Problem “The Detroit Safety Counc!t has|Senerations of Ireland,” assertea| Anna Q. Nilsson, on her way ty | of Reducing Traffic Acci+]opened a school for commercial| James Douglas, Treasurer | of the | Italy to film “The Man Prom Home 5 a drivers, which gives practical in- Ea Re Cras re Auee S08 fonped at Monte Carlo. TBp Stas of Police and Civic Bodies. | course will ieave the drivers with a dren on both sides," he went on.|eays she has at last found the answe ) period this year. These figures show will spon he. relensen a decrease of 84 per cent \fresh knowledge of traffic rules just| “Protestants and Catholics, Gentiles | to the film's title. ft the time when they will have to|@nd Jews work gide by side in ana-| Hope Hampton ts busy filming Undergo the rigid examination of the| tonal effort to relieve suffering, A |«wnhite Faith,” a novel that has not procuring| sreat part of our work is Mnding |geen the light of day yet homes for those whose drellings have been destroyed by fire or bombs, and in some sections of the country By Roger Batchelder. John A, Russell of Detroit declared yesterday at the Biltmore that his city Your letter has been/had made great progress tn reducing the number of trae accidents, “The Police Department, the Detroit ve TED WILL BE FIRST. ay Did you ever hear of a star act tn- MATINEES DID WELL. sisting on opening the show? Neither ‘Those managers who arranged to|did we, but Ted Lewis insists on it {have special matinces of stows in the |He ts to appear with his band at the way district -yesterday were |beneft for the Jewish Consumptives’ . All houses where such per-|Relief Soctety at the Sam H. Harris police for renewing or licenses in 1922." ’ The story starts soon as a serial in a popular magazine. { GH ‘¢ Ade has taken his portabir the destruction has been such that|, George A F | | women and children are found wan. |typewriter In mend. and ta now bat. Ik dering aimlessly about in search of |ting out stories for Paramount. H 1 “AS OTHERS SEE US.” Carl Mathis of Pendleton, Ore., home of the famous “Pendleton M. M. Bob—George M. Cohan ts in Europe. s ye San ; i ane 1 se will be “Ou ding nces were given were crowded|Theatre to-morrow night, and the! go take me home, my sweet, my — afety Council, the Public Safety | Roundup” every | year. doesn't | food. . 2 3 pray Ania Wee ae up paenlng 4nd thousands of people walked the |Only specification he mada was that fae A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. |Committec, tho Detroit Autom ~te| BUN Oh loa ter tne HERE'S ONE FROM CHICAGO. | titles! Streets looking for places to go. Pee ee) eae Gree eh aes Snobby Moaks, tho Wellsville hu-|Club and the Board of Eduei\>) 3 in Central Park, but J. H. Blatchford of Chicago told this | _Elnor Glyn took a few minutes off = {rranie ainne cha’ bareuenia Byte . morist, asked Peleg Lee the other | have all combined their eforts in the} he does have a good word or two ‘a at the Commodore yesterday: one day and dashed off a yarn for PADIEs FOR IMITATORS, se tne Ade Mao Woeke ta a big |{ another play after “The skirt"|day what caused the decease of the | Interests of the am for the herseman of our | ‘How did you order your steak, | Gloria Swanson. It will be flimed % Al Jolson will give a ticket to th| Mature of the bill and Frank Crumit | clones. Dead Seu. | paign i months mounted cops. of the | sine inquired ie Walter who had {under the name of “Beyond the h Thangegiving Day matinee of “Bom-|is*anothes. In fact, there ia enough | Harry 1X. Morton lias beon engaged — the reporting of a mat riders I have seen in Central | Pion pone a week In the estimation | Rocks.” . 1} 0” to the boy who presents himself |/ane talent on the bill to equip three | bY the Messrs, Shubert for "The Pink FOOLISHMENT. ter how: t ita " Par said Mr. Mathis, who 18 | ofthe hungry patron Rupert Hughes says he ts "fasci- | rn o hintitaee pakecus te shows. Others are Lee White, Harry | Slip." He loved a sweet girl, did young) ey, ahd avert fre ne] saying ef the Mariniaus, [se ““Foolishly, I did {t personally,’ bet- |nated” with his Job pear hunched over the necks of their mounts in an overbalanced, unnatural sty! nd their stir- rups were too short, That might do for a trip around the park, but I doubt if either horse or one Jonnny“Dediey” lrving| The “baby matinee” of “Just Mar- . Eemibling Mr. Joison's nearest. Bette-| Sorte Devin & Pele, Hodley: leving| ca et the Nora Hayes Theatre wi| eller |BxeenRAtahy § ate naredaloe “make it twenty-five, Al, or you'll| Herman, Ruth Roye, Bert Levy, Grace | take place Noy. 24 But hadn't the courage to tell hor, | Denartmen Al ahpel oa cabed eid ‘eak a lot of youthful hearts Eastman, Carlo Enciso, Bernard &| The Players’ Club will honor Allan| gqig she: “Are you dumb?” {o court for thelr port in accidents, | ‘ sae Townes, Prince Gow Ding, Al Han-| Pollock, of “A lili of Divorcement,” nee |which. previously would have been 4ONORS FOR BINDER, ders, Victor Morley, the “Tangerine” | with a dinner tonight Said he: “No, by gumt Mi 4 C u the Police had any sense I'd have o mail @ month in wyn. Earle Metca It be reasured itograph trench coat t , motion lowed the hungry patron. ‘If I had| picture director.) fs dimming his own story, "Renal. ¥ancet> for Goid- _ FARTHEST FROM HOME. settled by the Insurance companies| rider could stand a long ride i of hundreds of prov n and x w we'd do it. At 6 P. M./Quartet and many more. Robert Hilliard will return to vaude-| 7 guess I’m exceedingly yeller without the imposition of any penalty | tinder ‘sun conditions. But the The “New Yorker for a Day or| women. } — ville Monday, Nov. 21, when he pre-| -, whatever on the offenders. mounted policemen here muat | Two’ who is farthest from home to-| Frank Borgage, whose chest is sii, i sents “The Littlest Girl” at the 44th ‘ “Statistics show that while there} win the admiration of all who |day ts B. Mendelsohn, who 4s at the | ging from the welght of a prize photo ral-| Street. ‘This playlet 1s based on a| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. |werg 106 cerious accidents from| appreciate good horsemanshi Pennsylvania, His home town, Port |play medal awarded him for Humor “| Richard Harding Davis story, He-—A kits is the language of love. Tanbary to September, 1920, there orse and seem to be as, | Elisabeth, South Africa, ts over 11,000 directing Fred Stone in two ia! ‘The Armistice Night performance at! Ghe—Why don't you say sommthing?! were only seventy during the same one. Probably a lot of them have’ !miles from Broadwoy. pictures, | q } hi# lene nines ms