The evening world. Newspaper, November 26, 1921, Page 12

ny AWKSHAW the Detective still | Mves! Proof of this—if any were needed—is furnished by Pe tess an authority than William — in his new play. SE Dhe crook play and the detective are feally one and the same, for were no criminals at work ‘Making © dishonest living, what use © Would there be for sleuths? Nor docs Batter what form your Sherlock takes, This time Mr. Gillette him a doctor, but this doesn't his audiences a bit. In fact, they added delight in identifying him, ing it eather clever and shrewd them to see through his disguise. " more than one person at the on Monday night was heard “exclaim, “that doctor is Sherlock 0 all over again!" It was clever ir. Gillette to get them to say to keep them working for him the play, and paying for the lege. re is probably nothing more than an audience following a detective play. To watch it change haughty contemplation to child- riosity is part of the sport of Between acts the poise ‘the aristocratic lady in the right~ Wied box is superb. But as the play “ her along #he becomes another -* excited, thrilled and a bit red EPthe face, while the man beside her _— his eyes and tightens his lips. is the theatre we are seldom more Phan’ seven. It isn't a matter of in- >. Wilfigence; we are simply eaten by ) @arfosity. Just as men like Woodrow mn read detective stories, so do of seven and seventy flock to apn melodrama. Its fascinn- unfailing. It is watched see-how-it-comes- interest. This curiosity explains @ survival of Hawkshaw the De:ec- “At more or less regular intervais _ tee are told the crook play is dead. Be ion on this point is authen- ; it comes from theatrical man- 4 who always know what the u wants. But the fact ‘a the! i flic gets fed up with too much of ai & is ‘ad same thing and wants a change. ve it time and it will go back to old fare. > | Jongest run of crook plays in years began with "Tre Deep It was slow-golng at first of Paul but is nefarious product trong and Wilson Mizner, My people discovered eters were interesting «though and lost no further time In get- acquainted with them. Then plays were trotted out till there no rest for the weary playgoer. | body got sick and tired of them. | was nothing doing along this Suntil a year or 80 ago, when “The | ‘swooped down upon our quict | . It fs still here, There has @ poor imitation of it with “The tea." now Mr. Gillette i reverting to with “The Dream Maker," y absurd, yet likely to prove iy popular. It ‘gives him opportunity to go slithering in a weird, mysterious way, a ww’ with mo other credentials ‘his own word, yet establishet household pet almost as soon as winds his woolen muffler, It ‘@o much that he succeeds 11 crooks as it is that he man- to be picturesque, a fact largely to his being incredibly thin. A f or even stout, Dr. lement Mdn't be able to handle iic case igi Rigas ae = By BIDE DUDLEY ORGE C. TYLER is to revive Paul Armstrong's two biggest stage successes, “Alias Jimmy "and “Salomy Jane.” The med was put In rehearsal yes- ‘with a cast headed by Otto . Emmett Corrigan and Mar- [@illmore. It will open at the Hoty Theatre on Dec. 8 “‘Salomy| ‘will be staged later with Miss! fm the ttle role. Helen} Row appearing in “Golden! at the Gaiety, will go on tour ee Greenwich Village Theatre to-| Mr. Tyler plans, however, to it at the Galety for special mat- pees during the run of Jimmy Valentine.” OUNDS REASONABLE, h went to a ‘football edme| y, arriving late, Mae!” said a friend. “You're aren't you?’ g° late to avoid the rush "TURNING ON | THE SPOTLIGHT | BY CHARLES DARNTON to rely greatly upon Prohibition in luring the crooks to their downfall with a bottle of drugyad whiskey that gives them stomach-ache, With $200,000 almost within their grasp it doesn't seem reasonabie for them to turn to drink. Stlll, there's an appeal about Scotch these days that is well- nigh irresistible, ‘This may have been Mr. Gillette's for orderlag Scotch. reason Even executions may! have their cheery side. I've no means of know- ing how Grace George feels when she goes to the guillotine as the exceed- ingly lovely and unbelievably chaste Marle Antoinette, but a meaty story comes from “The Wandering Jew." When Tyrone Power ts ready to be burned at the stake, [ am told, he is moved generously to say to his fellow | players: “Gather at the rotisserie i JOE’S CAR THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY AY Moe WANTS Sree ee Our sor KATINKA SAM GAVE HE A SEASON TckeT TO K'S THEATRE AN" TA Goinc AL OVER ~~ THey'Re SHOWING THAT Bic i: wpa yea eo MB Fey ves they, AS TWAS “TELLING BLANCHE YESTERDAY — MY FRIENDS ARE. ALL GONNA HANG AROUND CLOSE ,Now “HAT TOWN “Ty! SWELLEST CAR { JOE wit BE a very POPULAR Guy, War A MINUTE - IDonN'T KNow you. Ho IS your MotTHer 2 FIRST “Wine fit DO Is DROP OVER AN SHOW (T “OED. He'Lu WANT “To CHUCK His ou FLIVVER OVER “ThE BACK FENCE WHEN HE Ges AN EYEFUL OF MY TWIN-six! How 'BouT Iv.E> ~ain'T y'@Lad y'unow ne?] How'D YOU LIKE “T'BE SEEN RibiN@ DOWN “WE AVENUE WITH Me Now - En? MAKES Your oL' FLIVVER Look SI@k\~ HEY 24, SNIFEWHEN “© MARRIED You © EVERYONE ELSE # Can’t He See: for 5 ( YES— OF course ) BuT WHO 3 ARE yu ?| cs She Doesn't Want “Nothing for Nothing’’! Puony WEEKLY TU LET KATINKA USE THis To-DAY— THEY'RE SHOWING AN EDUCATIONAL PICTURE AND (7 OUGHT To BE VERY INSTRUCTIVE T HER? EDUCATIONAL News oF THE WoRLD — IN PICTURES — OF AUSTRANY WHo OFFERED To SELL HIS THRONE FOR THE PRICE OF A SHAVE AND WAS TURNED DOWN in a : wilo am I 2 tgs o+-IM THe LITTLE GIRL THAT SHE SENT } Loven Here. s ~ Fe OFFIC OURS ON APPLiCATion RINC Case BEA, Ys \ rR waebe LAME R Ee —S Good SPIRITS AND ULL TAKE Hirt BACK WITH A HEADACHE —~ BUT T CAN RUN “TEN MILES ON TH'GAS You USE 7 | warm 'ER UP ! of those who go early to avoid the rush," replied Miss Marsh. GETTING OSCAR'S GOAT. Oscar Shaw attended the Univer- oily of Pennsylvania, Harland Dixon once saw Cornell University. Shaw gnd Dixon have a t in “Good Morning, Dearie.” As they gtarted pping last night Dixon sald: core, 41 to 0." It Was the score of the Cornell-Penn | football game, which Cornel! won, | Some tight followed! | WHAT ABOUT THIS? John Raftery, who used to produce plays himself, has advanced a theory regarding the high percentage of theatrical failures in New York this] season. He blames Prohibition “It used to be," says John, “that al didn't go out and circulate reports that it was no good. Now let « man ge to a play that Js qnly fuirly ente taining and it will get on his nerves, Then he knocks it and up the flue it gces. It has to be a darn good play nowadays to send a boozeless audience home happy." MAKING ED FAMOUS, Philip b. Dooner, our poet of ad- other night, and, while he doesn’t think the piece will ever fail because ob iarge suluries pad the cast, he likes Ed. See what he has written about the perfect fool: Blue? Don't sit and fret, A ticket get, You'll not regret The coi Blues? Ed Wynn will slip 1 funny quip, Like magtc—zip! Alas! They pass— They're lost, A PRACTICAL MAN IS HE, Two days after “The Man's Name” opened at the Republic Theatre a play, opening in Buffalo on}man could get a drink before the! friend met Eugene Walter, co-author »& “The Straw,” in which Mr.| show started and between the acts.|0f the play, ana congratulated him and Miss Gillmore are now)! With a drink or two under his belt | 0" » will end its engagement) the show looked better to him and he | 8 brain-child the fine notices the critics gave “They were all of the opinion the play is a work of art," said the friend “Well, let's see if the customers will come to the grocery* store,” repiied Mr, Walter, “If they do, it's art.” BARNUM STARTED “VODE.” In the history of vaudeville, which E. F. Albee is writing for publication in book form, none other than P. T. miration, saw Ed Wynn's show the te - ’, py age” h ~~. a Barnum will be given credit for origi- pele: She signs her rhymed plea for a mate “Still Searching but her name | is Anna, She lives in Brooklyn and we pave hor telephone number, which of course, can be purchased. The price js three hams and a pan of Dutch cheese, Ever eat any Dutch) cheese? It's certainly fine. But get-| ting back to Anna, here is her rhymo; | { RHYMED PROPOSALS and danced, but there were no full vaudeville bills in those days. GOSSIP. Sidney Brodie is the father of a new boy baby. Katherine Cornell of “A Bill of Di- E vorcement” was delighted to hear the | college named for her had defeated Penn on the gridiron. Florence Moore of The Music Box from be and had reached The Day’s Good Stories | ONE OF THE HORRORS. was one of the of those heroes who had sailei and he Camp Pontanezen, unsung, one art back home again, d States just Revue" will be a guest of honor at know that. France just in time to turn arouné He had xplored inland even as far as But the gushing lady who met the Ship at the pler In Hoboken, anxious to do something for the boys, didn’t She saw him come down ath hairso lovely, curled. EnteVigent, you must admit, Peppy, #0 I'll know he's w'ive, Have lots of money; more. Kindness she will appreciate, make Who wants a dark eyed maiden, , She reads The Evening World, | Must be handsome, adout five-fve, | Give me presents—gifts galore; And never scowl when he comes home | hature. . a Criterion Socfety ainner on Dec, 2 tarle Carleton will put “Danger,’ the new Cosmo Hamilton play, in ube pe A new act is being pre- pared for her. Djeuro Chemidine Turn, aged only| Dance Palace Tuesday evening. It, Went In! Tell me what great lesson 147, the oldest living man, been of-|{s open to all dancers and the entry | You learned—what wonderful truth fered a vaudeville contract by the] jist already is long. ve impressed itself upon your some | Messrs, Shubert. mind Morris Gest has returned to New York from a milk farm, where he spent two weeks communing with spinner, will be seen in esi “Under the Bamboo Tree is to be A one-step contest for three prizes wil be held at the Terrace Garden A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. | The ceiling in the card room of the | ently Whippus Club of Wellsville fell the, other night just as Monroe Red Pep- the 39th Street Theatre on Dec. the title of the musical comedy in| “Oh, tell me!” she gasped. “Tell me | and Perrin, Frances White is to to rin an ben | Which the Messrs, Shubert will pro- | il about it! What horrors you muat| A bunch of press agent matter has Bs pti eis to tour in Shubert | Sunt Bert. Williams have been through! What experi. | just landed from a big movie concern. ences! Popple | Sector. gangplank and near the Red Cross coffee stand she cornered him. ‘What soul regenerations! You cannot have come out of It all as you “Yex'm," answered the soldier obedl- "I found out that lemons ain't no good for seasickness."—The Home of stage cntertainment. Investiga- tion shows that Mr. Barnum, at his museum at Ann Street and Broad- way, back in 1661, put om the frst vaudeville Offls, As early as 1950 there were halls. people sang af } the Hippodrome Wednesday, Thurs- day and Friday afternoons, | This ‘s FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. @ dozen black hens’ eggs.” The boy selected six of the biggest 5 Screenings) By DON ALLEN | HOTEL MUD PUDDLE. Charles Jones, or just plain “Buck, visited indianapolis recently, althougr |he maintains there wasn’t any 1 excuse for the trip. It being his firs visit to the Hoosier capital, Buck that is, Charles—wasn’t on to all the ropes. He had been told to meet Mr Whoozis at the Claypool Hotel. Whe! | it came time for keeping the appoin ment Jones had misplaced the natn | And so he asked a policeman. m lookin’ for a tavern with | funny name,” announced Charles,“ just can't remember, but ‘8 sont thing about a mud puddle He was d rected and foun the Civy pool, ANOTHER MIX-UP. Tom Mix has made a No, he hasn't discovered yet that looks better in cowboy attire tht he does in a soup-an'-fish, but ‘1 ortheless he has joined the Columvu class. Tom has discovered why ra snakes are scarcer now than b itch among the Boisheviki. It’s all on account of the increas: in the flivver population,” oun | Tom, “A rattlesnake is, or was, in dinately proud of his rattle. So, whe the flivver became as thick as fleas at a dog show, the rattlesnake jusi coiled up, gave a spasmodic « rattle and vanished.” Weill! We rather imagined the snake scarcity was because they ha: een grabbed to act as Volstead ox cuses, buf we stand corrected. THE REASON. Why are old shoes throwa at new \lyweds? We diin't know either, until Chirte Eldridge, ° of Pa according to Eldvistge. that the presenting of a sandal In the olden days bound a bargain «nd the father of the bride often gave tt groom a slipper to show a transferring of authority Eldridge went on at to explain further: the origin of the strange custom, but gid not hit the nail on the head until he said: “The wedding shoe, in me ine stances, is belleved to be the relic 0 the ancient cuatom of tie father throwing anything reach at the man who was ru away with his daughter.” | PEARL SHOWS ‘EM. | Pearl White showed a lot of authors and nva-authors just how to regist fear, hate, love, envy and a few otze) emotions recently at a dinner of ta Authors’ Club at the Hotel Astor ‘The screen star succeeded famous' with the assistance of Channing P)!- lock, one of the authors, as her ui- rector, and the “act” brought dows the tables. Will Rogers, another guest of hon» and who was entered in both th actor and the author sweepstake was called upon to demonstrate em¢ tions, He showed the only one iv knew and he sure did make ‘em laugh, The "party" was voted a success, * STILLS. Katherine MacDonaid writes to sas that she js not an infidel, but juat acted in a film of that name, Now, n't that nice? In Anita Stewart's latest, “The Woman He Married," a young mill- fonaire drinks and smokes gold- tipped cigarettes, We didn’t know they did that sort of thing any more. Meaning the gold-t'ps of course. “Tears of the Sea,” and they should be copious, marks the American screen debut of Isahelle Savory, Eng- lish girl who isn't at all hard to look at. If she lives up to her name she ought to be very much to the Lua It has helped a lot. The pa come in handy. idle The publicity department of Warner Brothers announces that “after seeing Monte Banks at work acting for the movies, twenty little orphans were glad to go back to tho asylum.” Doris way and Priscilla Dean right casual-like recently. To believe @ phonograph record of the meeting, 7 -. t h grasped a movie came: We forgot to tell you yesterday thut |held four aces. He is suing the club See brpdaye ameran and tote, i Louls Mann served real turkey to|for $10,000 damages FOOLED THE GROCER. started to. take the other's plotura, Breathes there the man I’ve de-/nis “Nature's Nobleman” players in . 66T_JALF a dozen dlack hens'| Apt ‘hose girls just too cute? seribedt the dinner scene Thursday. Excuse FOOLISHMENT. | H cess?’ said the grocer. ugene O'Brien, Selanick star, gays I'd love to mect him and de his bride, | ¥%, ths once, please, An oyster once went for a stroll, “You've got me! I can't tell re those that read: Sherood “| Richard G., Herndon will revive the| And gee truck full of coal, bi h rcs from roth 1 aheoks’ as EES relosed Methinks there'd be. no diverees then | viene casi 4 seeing a truck full of coal, lack hens’ eggs from any other|find chec af Theatre Parisien for matinee perform. bei kina.” Faire. Binney, Conway If women knew how to love the men,| ances in the French language at the He said to the driver: |" “Lean,” said the boy. "Mother told}ieading woman in "A.W Stee tana Gelamne Shas ere early in TRRUNY: . “Tul bet you a fiver me how to. Town,” has followed the le. ¢ ter According to a count made by the av m ” “Well, here you are," said the|star and has quit pictu inpo nating the modern form of thia style | doormen, 9,689 children passed into| TM¢ Navy will win by one goal” | rl wee ine wee you pick out half|rarily, to be sure, Mut stil whe'a ag Produce; J, L. Frothingham and cart of “Lhe Bride of the Gods” mile the time of the year that the young-| “That clock on the stairs is danger-|in the box. ‘These are black hens'|a record trip recently. They tray. ous.’ egss," he said, and the grocer, feeling |@lled from sun-baked India to the ‘How do you make that out?” that he had been “done,” took the!@rosen steppes of Russia. The jours “It might run down and strike offered for them and let him ney took two minutes. ‘The steppes one.” ton Transcript, were only a few steps away, ¢ great lengta \ .