The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1921, Page 40

‘About Plays : By BIDE ; Po woman to the column, “how =~ many more women stars than wen there are in theatricals to-day?” “Phe amazing part is the lady's # in the matter. pinion that this is an era of male ‘savas. Look at this list: fh E. H. Sothern, William Faversham, | FR Winiam Gillette, Otis Skinner, Al EA Jolson, Eadie Cantor, Grant Mitchell, William Collier, Allan Pollock, Chaun- S Gey Olcott, Lionel Atwill, John Drew, Henry B. Warner, Leo Ditrichstein, y Fred Stone, Hd Wynn, George Arliss, nk Bacon, David Warfield, Louis Manp, Will Rogers, William Hodge, Walker Whiteside, Lionel Barrymore, George M. Cohan, Henry Miller, Wi ter Hampden, Robert Mantell, Frits Uieber, Fiske O'Hara, Wallace Ed- ‘ gine John Charles Thomas, Lou oa | jegen, John Barrymore and Barney | ‘ f] Benard. And there are others whose! Be. ot fames do not come to our mind just} eal tow. H . & THREE NEW PLAYLETS. ; | The third bill of the Provincetow: \ Piayers will be made up of these pla; “A Little Act of Justice,” by ” by Donald Corley, and “The Stick-Up,”| by Pierre Loving. This group will ‘open Jan. 2. | A NEW MUSICAL SHOW. i Joseph M. Gaites has arranged to put his new musical comedy, “Up in the Clouds,” in the Lyric Theatre on Jan. 2 for arun. The book is by Will B.Johnstone and the music by Tom Johnstone. KNICKERBOCKER’S NEXT. / “Bulldog Drummond,” an English melodrama of the thriller sort, pro-| @uced in this country by Charl i | Dillingham, will begin an engage iy ent at the Knickerbocker Theatre Monday, Dec. 26. The principal; Fole will be played by A. E. Matthews, ‘This play has been @ success in Lon- for a long tim Ye, LOOK OUT FOR HIM! | Another ticket moocher is at work ff the Broadway district. He ap-| peared at the Hudson Theatre box} office Tuesday night and asked it! fickets had been left for him for! Elsie Ferguson's performance if “The Varying Shore.” On receiving a neg- ative reply, he said: i "That's strange. My friend, Charies ton, dramatic critic of the Eve- | World, told me they would be % )y 7) Am a courtesy to Mr. Darnton the 7 Box office man, thinking a mistake ad been made, gave tite fellow two tickets, Mr. Darnton had made no fequest for seats. An effort is being ade to catch the grafter, La tilda BN'T it amaz. writes a rm. be-| just wired us from Bogash, O., whero We are of the/Le and his wite, Jesi and Playe DUDLEY | NUTT’S DOPE | Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt hat Plympton | Nutt, are visiting relatives, as fol-| lows: ‘Dear Dud: I and the wife got a hot tip to-day that the Kansas Mir- ing Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is being mobbed by women Amozons who are mad because thelr husbands would rather loaf than work in th mines. Understand Governor Mill up in Albany, may call out the milit:a with instructions to throw pepper a! the women. Why not send ‘T and the wife out to investigate this anJ get you an exclusive scoop on it? I could mix with the soldiers, drink | with them and be a good fellow, and get their side, while the wife could get the women into a bridge game and make them teli all about what's up. Please give T and her a quicl answer on this, Hector Claypool, a poet of this town, tried to recite & poem called ‘Slap Me If You Dare’ at Smuts Hall last night and Gilly Hai, slightly hootched, did. Much excite- ment but could learn nothing.—Jeff.” | Wor ! Y'say ' You DONT NoPE } NOT SINCE I Gor Now. WAIT RIGHT THERE — You Must N (Ger Lost 1M THis CREGT RIC STSRE - £ THIS “ANGEL” LUCKY. |, Did you ever hear ‘of a theatrical “angel” who made money on his dip into the show business? No? Well, heard of several, but none of ever got the quick action that a fallen to the lot of William F. of Pittebyrgh. Mr. Faunce $50,000 into the “Tangerine” pro- pac which is at the Casino. On . 16 last he filed suit before Jus- Guy asking that a receiver be inted to apportion the profits. was disclosed that “Tangerine,” opened at thé Casino on Aug. had been penne to more than weekly. Carle Carlton, pro- ‘of the musical piece, offered to Mr. Faunce out and the latter withdrawing hts action. It Mr. Curlton paid Mr. $125,000 for his interest in the Thus, you see, this par- sel” made $75,000 on hi junent in a very short Let's see—how did the old song rasn't it “I want to be an angel stand?” CORT GETS “APPLEJACK.” H. Harris will present Wallace r amd Mery Nesh in “Cap- ‘Applejack” at the Cort ‘Theatre ‘Thursday evening, Dec. 29. In- in the q@upporting company Phoebe Foster, Hamilton Revelle, Lackaye, Ferdinand Gotta- ‘ Harold Vermilye and Maric : . bd wright. es DUNCAN’S FIRST. | © Augustin Duncan will make his trst juction early in the Steamehip Tenacity,” ] Bean Gossip. . BS As! hes joined the ) bpaece nota” ca } as ir G. Delamater is arranging @ for “Lassie.” . | lam Kent, who shivers in “Good ing Dearie,” Gnds it easier this weathe! members of the ice ballet at ‘Hippodrome heve formed a club sehich will skate in Central Park on e Rasley, an English tenor. arrived in New York. He will with Nera Bayes in Shubert pn Jade” will be launched at Shubert-Garrick Theatre, Wash- Dec, 26 ‘on i : Miller and Orlando Daly havi for Lao Ditrichstein's ort in “Face Value” rity Kelly of “The Midnight Frolic” m a. club of real red-headed ‘but she doesn't know why. he Rat,” New York, will enter. “The Bat,” Philadelphia, with = m dinner at the Hotel Astor, x, % 4 i Dec. 25. ) FA patron of the Casino, Brooklyn, ias written the boys in the box office | c Hy complimenting them for their . Well, well! What are we | Green Room Club will have a revel, as they call At, Sun- se hem, nad t mene { RHYMED PROPOSALS the wild and woolly Westerner, she “Los Gitanos” Sally Jean of the Bronx has the right idea about this proposal thing. In accepting the hand of Roarin’ » Mart Wallev' is makes a suggestion that is pleasing in the extreme. See tf you can find it: Roarin’' Bob from Dry Lake, Wis., I think you'd suit a bobbed- haired =miss—five feet eleven, peppy, too, (i'd like to bet he wears a ten shoe.) Your line, “If you look like I think you do,” makes me want to explain my- self to you. I'm half past nine- teen; hair of brown; use powder and rouge, but don’t look like a clown, I'm gind to hear that you're not fair, A dark man's my speed—t love black hair, And to think you come from the swootly West! Ah, that ts the part that I love- the best. Any dards, In fact, alt iards, FROM THE ight, Roarin’ Bob, ring me up | Knowall. tallic products to make industries suc- on the phone. By seven you | The obliging Old-Timer reptied, “To ceestul, Huactories have never must ring if you'd catch me | drop the pilot.” se padiepireacetl ly bap | " {| _“Why ore they letting him go” Mis oan : . # alone. My number? Oh, well, |. Why ore they s 2 xpanse of the ce intry and the you know how to get that, And “Another case ot incompetence, TI} sat the Chinese have been abic I think you should buy Mr. Dud- | suppos», Miss Knowall suggested. ‘xist without external ley @ hat. “Well, it's lucky the Captain found} aid have handicapped them. him out right tion to vat ® Bpenisd esi the Keith circuit, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. ‘House, the raitroad agent at people call him the round House. FOOLISHMENT. Jim Dunn was a dandy at billiards, He beat all the Smiths and the Hill- And each of his sona. At playing the game were real skill- “I don’t believe those apples are fit for a hog to eat.” “Try one and see.” SEER DROPPING THE PILOT. and Miss Wise stood at tho rail of an outgoing steamer as sho slowed up to let the ptlot off. “Why are we stopping?” asked Miss “Were's 4 Noise 1 never HEARD BEFORE! -— 7? 2. — 2-27?— sounds iixe a | RIFT IN “Ty’ LUTE {ff 23>? a THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY WHY I “THOUGHT HE WAS AN’ OLE HOME =ToWN, FRIEND OF SOuRe LUKE i {You SAID SHE HAS ASTHMA— WHY NOT GIVE HER THE T CaN GOSH — {'D FORGOTTEN 4 You Had FAN BEARING HAD A GREASE CUP ON (IT THAT INTRODUCED Me Ta MY TH’ BIG “SAP- WE yoy FIND A TAL LADY “THAT SS : AWFUL MAD AT ALITTLE GIRL, KEEP HER For ME- THAT ‘s MY Mom VW. 1 WANT To Give HE E AH! TvE GoT IT— SOMETHING SHE WOULDN'T) A RAILROAD TickeT BACK HOME ! and will present it on 0 roly~poly that the to the a fallucy, according to W. the Dunns. at the Pennsylvania. CHESTNUT TREE. | sures us, not, until recently industrial undertakings in away, before we got ou By Roger Batchelder. ‘The “heathen Chinee” idea, where- by all natives of China are relegated laundry on the corner, | Newman, who represents a number of British firms in China and who is now “The Chinese are intelligent,” he as- “They are not skilled in in- custrial pursuits because they have had the opportun- ity to understand modern machinery, and require Western guidance in or gaunizing big manufacturing concerny, R. OLD-TIMER, Miss Knowa!!| They #re moro of an inventive pent M “At present there are no really large though that country has over 400,000,- 000 people and also the necessary me- commercial jaturally have a certain reserve when ony further into deep water,” and Mis: | fo: come amongst them, for He Tine enrel » eight vuliet—-tarper'e by? think thet they have come only exploit the people and the neturel. resources of the country, This atti- tide is rapidly changing, however. “One difficulty is that the Chinese aro not aggressive by nature, and the politica! conditions there are such that the wealthy man prefers vest his money outside the republic. The reason for the succesy of the Eng- lish firms in China is the co-operation England nas not 3 obtained the ital and Chinese are rapidly put- with the natives. isolated herself put h benefit of Chinese brains. The Chin tung their money into foreign panies, and have cach day a more lib- eral feeling ¢oward foreigners.” EXIT—THE OLD CLAY PIPE. “It is with a feeling of regret that I admit that the proverbial clay pipe of the workman has gone,” confessed pride of their owners is Many a tra- dition went with a well-smoked clay, and many a fight was waged over one. it tht have changed. a a RR ton and is spending « few days at the Biltmore. ‘No one can say | ways, but it is not a clay, It is a briar, often of fine grain, and he| polishes it on hits nose. The only that New York is not the greatest place where one sees clay pipes now| city in the world, and I cannot fs in the shooting galleries, and when find words to describe it. But Ne- a crack shot puts down his quarter,| braska has many prugrssive cities the who thinks sometimes of the which are gainin cry day, in old days ponders and winces.” | every way,” he added quickly. . . . “New York has many great peo- SPEAKING OF PEARLS. | le, and 0 bas Nebcaoia.” qov. icKelvie an a usi- again, Some people think that pearis are | ness men were optimistic back rather useless articles of adornment. | If they are real, and worth many gray hairs on pa's head, folks look at them and say, ‘They must be ar- tificial.” And if they ere manufac- tured jewels, folks say the same thing. So there you are. But Winfield Scott Solomon of the Providence Chamber of Commerce, said at the Biltmore yesterday that he had just received information from the American Consul in Aus. tralia which proved that artificial pearls were all the rage there, any- way. “La two years,” he announced, “the United Kingdom imported 4 pearls into Australia. ‘Tho United States home, and that the Siute was do- ing everything possid.c to relieve the embarrassing conditions which exist throughout the country. oe 8 CHILI A GOOD CUSTOMER. to in- percentage of American goods manded and sold creased rapidly, com- the Orient,” according to and has lived in Chili for the p sixteen years, change,” he said yesterfay « Ajpin, Walter Rogers, a Rochester contrac-| came next with 9,176, and other coun- “but they have Jearned the bats Sees tty tor, who is at the Commodore. “In tho | tries in the following order: France, imorNe of Ampernicnn, ned ie curing the swered Ole. ° ; sore, | 2718; Japan, 1,974; Canada, 1,508, an OW Wi ‘ 5 old days, when I looked over the work, | 2718; Japan, 197; Canada. 10k ant | American brands. We oan biy goods we Waade ya mean? - welled the every man in a trench, every man on|tnis amount. went io New South] here, ship them 9,000 or 10,000 miles, "TQM. ae yop mow, dost vont the scaffold, had a ¢ pipe in his| Wales, where they nay enter from] P@y duty, and still re below your re, |" 18 mare, J wh gi fj mouth. Some of the pipes were worn ],the Unitec ingdom without pay-| tail prices, for the reason that on: ‘Why, what's the matter wt | }Jand broken until y the bow! pro-|ment of duty.” selling costs aro about 10 per cent. an) yo Noared the bor r. ‘ t|truded from the smoker's mouta.| But you imagine the scrutiny to | Compared with 8 to 50 per cent. in th Welt’ 1 tole ean wy L Vit Ben thougir they only cost a cent] which every pearl tn that country is vetall shops of Amoricuo cities | vork no mere; two year ago canic aplece, and could sometimes ba subjected by damsels and matrons to das country an’ york on ¢ bought two for a cent, they were the ces FARTHEST FROM HOME. ranch .{7op, .gax o'clock in a AS OTHERS SEE US.” | “It's beyond me," adinitted Gov, Samuel R, MoKelvie, of Nebraska, ven Ane.cenye tr free Ween Mi. H. Bloowm, who ‘over 18,000 miles from ADs are Dine nannies The Evidence Is Plain! CAR ON “H'WAY DowN HERE! a “Since the beginning of the war tho de- by Ghili has in- nti] now only a small fraction is asked of Hurope and Morne Rosen, * nm, who was born in New Tork Senta a aan oe Che stent “Our people are slow to make a the Me- The “New Yorker for a Day or Two” who is farthest from home to-day te M, at the Commodore. His home town, in New Zealand, is bw cada rey ett BY YouR FACE “TROUBLE with YouR | . % | Screenings | By DON ALLEN. CONGRATULATIONS. Owen Moore says this etuff about movie actors having a pretty soft job 1s all wrong. A couple of days ago Owen's birth- day rolled around, as it has a habit lof doing. Did he celebrate? He did | not! Did he have a big birthday jeake? He did not. His birthday feast was @ thin sandwich and s0me -nmy tuke warm tea. | During the afternoon he had 4 heated argument with a sub-director. | “I didn’t mind,” confided Owen. “T guess he was trying to wish m- many scrappy retuens of the di SHOULD WAIT AWHILE. It looks as though thé Selaniek crowd ‘had jumped at a wrong weather conclusiop when they sen: Eugene O'Brien and his company to | coe Glancing casually at the thermo- meter one would rather imagine, one would, that Gene and his coinpany might have been snow-bound hi they remained in and around Man- | hattan. ; But Selznick wanted the snow scenes quickly and wouldn't take the weatherman’s word thet enow was Hence the trip te the TUFF JOB. The lot of a scenario editor is not an easy one. The varying censorehi) requirements of different States pre. sent the greatest problem. ‘Ask Paul Bern, Goldwyn editor, He knows. fi “Censors demand that Good always triumph over Evil,” said Bern, then they forbid us showtng an: Evil tor Good to overcome. In othe" | words, Virtue must triumph over 2 decidedly milk-and-water enemy.” \ HOUDINI STUMPED. Harry Houdini, who walks througit | Jail doors and out of tight places~+. as easily as the June sun burne its | way through a mist, has at last found | something he cannot free ‘himself | trom, He's mastered straightjackets, dou | ple-dietMled handeuffs, chains, ropes, twine and even paper bags, ‘but. he just can't break away from the moy- ies. Houdini, following a few weel in vaudeville, will jump right back aci- ing before the camera. “Picture acting is the only thing 10 the world that can hold me," an nounces the self-liberator. FADEOUTS. Cedric Gibbons, Goldwyn art dire.- tor, is New Yorking for a few da: He’ came for a vacation but is wor ing hard. Shaki “Rokkaku artiat, visited the cently. and looks like a long- the Seven Sutherland “The New Desciple” will start two-weeks run at the Lyric ‘Theat': next Sunday. famous Japanese Goldwyn lot He wears his hair in br othe Have You Heard This One? By SID GREENE T was railroad work afid the fore- I man was peeved. “Here you, Jum; ect a shovel, Here you, ‘Tomy you get a crowbar’ Here wre still ood séered at We foreman “What's the matter with vim in’ to’ sax o'clock night, [| 1 . ot yob on sheep ranch @ J vor’ om tray o'clock mornin’ till ti soem afernoon. "ll be T vork om any monoy reach!