The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1921, Page 12

‘BAN; {ow THE NEW PLAYS|}: r GS = Look AT PooR STEVE = HE STEVE OL' RID = WHat's 1M WORRIED , Jo — Y'NEEDN'T Laven A “ The Dover Road” “SLUMPS AROUND LATELY As iF HE. DIDN : ; ¢ HAVE A FRIEND IN “Ty' WHOLE WoRL NEVER SEEN YOU Lookin! ME WORRIED ~~ So _ SOUR N WOE GEGONE ! Fe —— NE | Delicious Comedy | . REGULAR ! By CHARLES DARNTON | T was worth plodding through the | mond Lowe made a rather large “Lit- ] slush of a duil afternoon to reach | tle Billie,” but he realized the ro- “The Dorr Read” at the Bijou} mantic side of the character. yesterday, for here is as bright a Hie] One of the best performances was tle comedy as one could hope to coll?) given by Harry Mestayer as Geck, across in weeks of pliygoing. especially in the scene where the This agreeable and somewhat fan-) meek violinist denounces Svengali for tastic excursion has the charm of] beating Trilby. There was especially leisure, pursuing much tae same easy | g00d work, too, by Jeffreys Lewis os course as “Mr. Pim Passes By.” You| Madame Vinard and by Ignacio Mar- feel that A. A, Milne is taking you) tinetti as the volatile "Zu-Zu." £ on an English holiday and giving you| Mr. Lackaye recalled the time when ? plenty of time to enjoy it. There ts| Maude Adams in “Peter Pan” asked Mo distracting rush for the sake of| her audience “Do you believe arriving ut a scene fianding out as |fairies?” and felt than now it plainly asa signboard. The joy of it] be in order to put the question, “D> is in loitering along und having a} You believe in actors?” merry fling at things with the peb-| Certainly the National Players have pies you find on the way. Bricks are|™ade a good start, <lere's wishing : ; them a fat Christmas and a golden not in Mr. Milne’s line, He does not | i & | daboriously lead up to a situation and |New Year! Cope, 1821 (N.Y. Eve. World) By Press Pub. Co. then hit you on the head with it, He} tias learned the gentio art of play-| THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Now Even the Bankroll Is ‘‘Cooked”! writing. Although !n this case he} deals with runaway coupies, there 1s | ~ no violence, He mercly shows them ; aera the error of their way CANT Go LIVIN’ HERE IN “TH Sit ; > It is the indoor sport of a middle- NE: SUBURGS 1S SURE aa nes No! Woure WHY You TOLD BUT “THAT ~wAS “Toot f aged gentleman living on the Dover . AVIN® % f Road to make his home a sort ot] fh. ; lee WRONG “Sam Me 6o LAST BEFORE WE EVER aie.way house for eloping paire on| E - HIRED “THIS Cook: their way to take the boat to Calais,| a 4 thereby enabling them to get ac- 3 quainted with one another. It's devil- ish good fun for him and it may do| his victims a lot of good. One man is put in such > draughty room that he catches oold and is anything but ro- mantic !n the morning when he learns that « servant has dropped his only suit of clothes into the bath tub. An- mher volunteer hero of romance finds | s himself nearly killed by the kindness | of a woman who presses food and| “ther things upon him that he doesn't ‘want, and he grows both pathetic and mathematical in the distracting pro- = i = yess of figuring out days and weeks - Rie Gab A lal a Sand months and years with this gen- ‘and maddening, creature, The) LETTLE MARY MIXUP Wanted—A Ten-Ton Truck ! ‘other chap, too, gets more attention than he can stand, and finally both p YY s bolt for France. The confirmed eee Ss A NEW WY) why Geese ts occupied with a conveniently FAMILY MOVED IN COME “RICH Sie d gervant in the house, while HEXT DOoR AD) Uy Se sister in disillusionment remains THEAR THEY HAVE brighten the declining days of the ALITTLE GIRL — ‘who has slyly managed the You MusT GO OVER = ‘business. AND “PLAY WITH HER! PTL “TAKE | Charles Cherry acted like a gentle- HER RDN fman of the old school in carrying out unromantic scheme of things and on quite a new aspect as an ac- hed light comedian. In his his sneezing and stiaving, Reg- Mason was legitimately amus- while Lyonel Watts suggested the of the other sufferer with quiet “Molly Pearson was tireless wr @ Gweetly managing terror, and 1d Lenihan did her share of the capably. George Riddell was ‘excellent as an imposing and appal- Qingly self-possessed butler, who spoke of a “nicish” day. 1 Gatarle MoClintle nae produced KATINKA Maybe He Has Renamed His Reindeer! vedy that is capitally acted. ASM ay National Players ~ Give “ Trilby” With Wilton Lackaye as one of ‘heir members it was inevitable the Wational Players would revive “Trilby,” if only for the sake of hav- ing the greatest of Svengalis hypno- fize @ sensitive public at reasonable prices. This was done with consid- ; bie success last night at the Na- NO WONDER MY Boss WISHED THE Yi YY Yff (~~ Note - ‘ “SANTA” SOB ON ME THis YEAR— | |/ Yun fy Y\\wite THe Tiis BAT'S) THis OUTFIT 1S HOTTER THAN ST) //7///\\ assistance oF ||| MINE - LEGCO- ‘ J Z\\FaTHER Time DA-"!-#& WILLIE | STOP THAT SWEARING ! WHERE ee DID You LEARN THOSE T HEARD SANTA CLAUS SAY ‘EM WHEN a4 — I HOPE THE KIDS ARE ASLEEP — OVER THE pp J ’ THIS SPACE ppl eaaie. j : Yi fy , fy SEPARATES 5 ye’s famous impersona- = yf ff) Hon was as striking as cver, with all fr x Ly , Wi, HE TRANQUILITY Its ola familiar glamour, evil menace Z s . f Mn OF CHRISTMAS, a green-lighted spell, It 4 My “EVE Fron its place again as one of the y) 7 jnost vivid melodramatic figures of a 5 Y a bie ig LM feneration. Morn —™” ° ‘ Ken Kline Except for being a bit sweetish at . . — times, Charlotte Walker was an ac- _ beptadle Trilby, and she died a loveiy pacrifice to hypnotism. George Nash As we watched the final act unfold we| “Well, Bide,” he, a ‘ : | bocker Monday night. He found the! 5 Taffy,” and Joseph Allen struggled] (dge that the man had married his; A VERY PRETTY THEATRE. moths had ruined them. He was tell- rrest Winant Frank Me- | “Burnside has a lot of dress suite the point of bursting out with{tc descend, we were led to expect a| Terminal Building, in West 42d | nme) left her, vowing never to re- e-what's all the shootin’ for?” Ed-| nappy erding. Instead the couple just | Street, last night and revealed bne of |turn. ‘That was almost a week ago | «They were used in past seasons.|Time” will be given at the Ambassa-| She'd say, as she'd shake ~| went ahead living together unmarried | the prettinst film houses in the United |and she is very blue, While we have | Why not borrow one?” dor ‘Theatre to-night. 1 oma Nenioctaate Genaia area: It Is really the Theatre and we went home with the picture of | States 1 Sneaking suspicion he left to avoid! ‘Not me!" came from the dignified] Margaret McKee, wn as the ‘up until you have it just as it ought] Speaking of our daddy, if you don’t, theatre, A system whereby prompt) On, Bingo, tell me what I did, sign for billboard paper, receiving od a ball at the Hotel Astor to-| iiige a lady?” ~ it” and finally found what we sought. | passed his eighty-third birthday, our pt A vised had tricks of various kinds in|, Alice Lloyd received a cable yes- ” "Now, if Heywood Broun will move over | old daddy closed his eyes never to LATHAM IS CAUTION® it. Nobody knows this better than | terday saying her husband, Tom M A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. claimed: 2 | Naughton, was well enough to enjoy | yo Wellaville, who, ‘Bless my soul, that 1s my house:"|" Wesley “Harty; who will never bs . ree oy tc out to Me ed Latham, director of other Dit- Hep Oliphant of Wellsville, Oe y ‘y, who ne’ oth Barone saat A ditto and le Heer eae eo a to oun | RH. Burnside ie agaw¥@ntor of inna productions. Yesterd*}r Mr,|his Christmas meal to-morrow. weighs 357 pounds, has been asked by| “Yes,” eaid the fair one, blushing: |cnarged with forming « combination “ a couple of sticks or so. and there he is resting,. Day before | tricks in stage equipment. ry| Latham went to his closet to fx out| Marguerite Forrest has been added | the Street Railway Company to use | "I'm he new cook!”—London An-|in 1 ‘We saw “Danger” Thursday night. yesterday we met Frank Tannehill. Hippodrome production he ever de- | his. dress clothes. He int fed fo/|to the salary dist that will pester the | Car No, 7’ when he wants to ride. Rs swers. You Tell ’Em, Joe!. 3 were sure Author Cosmo Hamilton | ‘Our Mayors’ , “have tne | wear them at the opening of “Bull|manager of “The Stcamship Ten-| has just come out of the ehop, where| g nen” . © Mayors’ come yet? Do; " s ” . fit w y ’ fiwalified physically, at least, as|would send us home with the ie | : | BUSTED ROMANCES Hentai Tear dent aa eaataha oe ae ovarhe et: re , ?, Coy will lau a stock company at ravely with the Scotch burr of “The | fesretary, with whom he obviously was) p, 8, Meas opened his new Cameo | Jennie of Washington Heights bas | ing his trouble to Charies Dillingham, | je Sure isu Nee Gok. FOOLISHMENT. ” ving. So adroitly written were the 1 broken he s at’e ¢ ° e latter ea a : e ird,” though he seemed ever on al FR ont wah ae sepout| Theatre, in and adjoining the Bush roken heart. Bingo (that's a pet | when the latter had an idea. on Jan. 2 There was an old lady named Bart, over at the Hip,” said the producer. |, The 100th performance of “Blossom | Who shimmied each night a la carte, a baby without a legal name, starting | quisite. There is no other tt tue bother of spending money for a| Latham. “About the time I started | California Mocking 2 will be in the | “Gosh ding! I don't care! This is|the name of “I'm Just a Lonely out in the wort © phill fight.| the block, the principal reas Christmas gift for her, we'll print her | down the aisle in one of those suits|cast of “Hanky Panky Land.” ART.” litte Kid.” We were held in exp’ nll through | that sites sre too valuable in that im- |tale of woe in order that she may | the back would drop out and a bird| jive ermine wraps were noticed in Harry Rapf, producer of “Schod bd out ays the act only to leave disappointed | mediate neighborhood. The have every chance to get him back.| would appear on my eleventh verta-|one row at the Globe Theatre lasi| —— Days,” just celebrated his tenth wed o a) the way dome we wine A Cosme | pl ure on the bill is M Murt a4 Hlere it brae d@ sing out ‘Cuckoo!’ I'd! night. And oh, how they did glare at| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. oe penivereary. ea ae amilton had been given the advice | “Peacock Alley ast night's < Afi FIMO ELE me man. rather rent one.” . ach ott “The; , ogers in 6o far as that he still has our old daddy gave us. By “keeping |ing was an invitation affair 1y Bingo is a handsome ma ther TORY OUR iain’ Monday | Soe otnet sy Stephen Wise | left hind fot ofa rapuits” “AT” ‘*] the same wife he started with. an ayers at it” he surely could have turned a| house wiil be opened to the public I love him very much, evening, first-nighters! He may look | , A, press note says Dr stephen Wise | Uehi NEN Seed Of oe Palle rabbit,” Pena nrtere Nan Aanis cantolete trick that would have cleaned up the | to-morrow MISE #Llatiof aniniaoriaihing) | funny entertained two box parties ut the < Fn my Be cy ag rd play and destroyed the bad taste it | — performance of "The Mountain Mfan' repteepninmed nick. We hope the film isn't aw By BIDE DUDLEY left. Thers could have been a way TO CENSOR PLAYS. That got little me in Duteh DISABLED SOLDIER WINS. fast plght What dd the I ctor | GETTING ACQUAINTED. ten! it somehow. But Cosmo never met the pees sonata ‘ apie He went away the other day ot ; co. 155 E: nares ‘ HE bus w: Thirty-seven marriages of ext: = old gentleman, so “Danger” was left he Authors’ Teague, the Amorinan a Lieut. Ely M. Behar of No. 155 East | «realizing the tremendous popu- us was etarting in the midst | ployed in “Red Hot Romanc in our mina as one of those “easiest | Dramatists and the Actors’ Equity | And suid he'd not come back 34th Street, a student at the Mlus-| larity of your column,” a communi- | of a torrent of rain, when the have taken place since the film wa EARS ago the father of the | way out” plays. have joined in an effort to formulate tnd now a loving beau like he | trators’ School for Disabled Soldiers, | cation just in begins, But, why go on? | conductor put his head inside|started. They wed in haste, « writer of this column said to measures whieh wall obviate the ne- | 1a. all myself doce lack won first prize in a B. F, Keith | We've got to print the fact liere now | and inquired: right; but, then—an extra's got him; “Son, in writing never give JUST A LITTLE STORY. cessity of political censorship in. the |poster contest. He made the best de. | that Jupiter Lodge, 1 O. O. I, will) sewin any gentleman get outside to} !otta teieure. ° . = action MN be taken regarding the ‘$100 for his wor! night é : “Bright Eyes" for Mack Gennett kita be. If you'll keep racking your| mind, he always sent us from Kansas | OCUom Wil We taken itil A letter you must write. $300 for ‘his work Whether blondes are better dancers| “She cam come inside and sit on my | We can't tell whether he was shoot rain obstacles that appear insur-|six 5-cent cigars for Christmas, We'd! public protest is planned, A lett Please let me be your loving kid, y ‘than brunettes will be decided in a|knee if she likes,” said a passenger ies where he was looking or iooking mountable at first will disappear.|take them to the Friars Club and| was sent to Sam H, Harris, President datcictstne len entan aaaitane a SOeetr sot. {contest at the Terrace Garden Danee | jocularly w ere he was shooting, fe Kou ci make it right if you'll keep | Frank Tannehill would help us smoke Of the Producing Managers’ Associa . he ty wil lave a Chrlat- ! po on Tuesday evening. The! qo his great surprise @ bemem Ani ewact’s lates! ee Wen ; . ; tion, inviting him to name a comn PU wait for you—Oh, Bingo, dear, | mas The Attic to-morrow ads are kicking, claiming they i an He Marries" was al ihe after it them, eh year Frank, about this tee o¢ members of that organizat Holh ea wake we aa Toys see oat in the cold. A inatinee ses- Woman bounced in and asempted Wte| doors, It @ bot of lovety drawing ‘* We've found his odvice good. Many | time, would meet us and ask “Have © act with committee med i iy TS NAaR bi ahd The Hippodro! elep! sion will be held at the Dance P% e offer. After a time the mac. get tuto pore, a Somes and other A P & time, in writing « rhyme, we've oeen | the ‘Our Mayors’ come yet?" They three bodies that have initiated t you don't come back by Monday, coryved a Christmas dinner to-morrow. | Monday ere will be souvenirs, | conversation with his fair burden, |terors. Mies teak Nike, a8. Ralmals ’stumped for the proper word, or the | usually had and we'd get busy j movement A imecting 30, panaldpr PU look for another tad. A bushel of peanuts will be the des- | Toys will be distributed tonight, “ang asked where she was going. aa te a ur yight phrasing, but we have “keptafter| Last September, just after he) ne . e — sert. —— On hearing her destination he ex-| Mabel Normand is busy filming . ' P eat EATIN' YOU LATELY ? i've | | THE DocTOR's Got Vins a FagT — HE SAYS my ‘eae Lad ipa a (s WEAK — I'VE Got T'BE CAREFUL — “WEY 5 MANY: AN OL! FLIER Ne! HE SaYs (T DON'T BEAT QUITE. MISSES FIRE BUT KEEPS ON Vins ; ¢ RUNNING Just “Ty! same Mt Screenings By DON ALLEN. BEARS OR PICTURES? Dustin Farnum, it is announced }: the Fox people, is hunting grizz!: bears in Arizona. Dustin always )iu: | been an enthusiastic hunter, and wi | were getting all excited over the i's | until we came to the part that |Plained that “cameras were tak! 4s along to record the adventures of | ' famous star.” ¥ Well, even if no grizzlies are » it's a cinch that many thousand | feet of film will succumb befor deadly aim of th ameramen. AUTHOR STILL HEALTHY. The experience of Kathleen No successful novelist, now writing rectly for the screen for Goldw holds out hope for writers. Let | tell it: “I was many things before [ cided to write. They told me starve if I took up writing, so I t ;to be a clerk, stenographer, bo keeper, school teacher, compan: governess, photographer, libri Red Cross worker, settlement woi!' and children’s story teller, 1 aln starved doing these tasks, and | cided if I must starve I might as w+ | die happy. { “So I wrote my first story. T sv) {t to thirty-eight magazines, T! sent ft back. I started all over « it was accepted enthu: tically try the editor of the Atlantic. Many o1h: editors wrote and asked why |hadn’t given them a chance to ' if it. I sent them back their rejec the way it is with w HOW DO THEY END 'EM? A great Japanese secret is out The mystery of why the J censors always remove kissing scr from American pictures was told + jeently on the Goldwyn lot ‘by | Kikuchi of the Department of Edu tion of Japan. “The Japanese do not kiss," he sv |“and therefore do not like to s¢ jon the screen. We do not regurd as immoral, just distasteful. \ |countrymen are wild over Amer { films, but the kiss scenes are alwiy 5 \ecissored.” | How in the world the Nippon: ever end a film is another myst: ’ T. Kikuchi didn’t explain that WOT A SHAME! He was a movie fan fron bridge of his nose to the arches o ‘nis feet. Also, he must have bee Janti-Volstead with the accent on t prefix. |" Things were going along quicti last night during the showing ot news reel when the scene shifted Ja snake den in a 200. The sccn: showed a group of men feeding ‘ python. When thev started mixinu a lot of milk with thirty dozen egg: the man was quiet, but when they started dumping in’ a quart of re old vintage brandy THAT was dif- ferent: “Givin’ that stuff to a snake tered the man tn a mutter tha the theatre walls—"My Gawd SIGNS IS SIGNS. In front of a cinctna: “THIS WEEK, “I WEEK, ‘THE POOR * mut shook E PERFECr STILLS. Picture Corporation day with the Famous outfit. Many of th stars and executives of Realart will be taken over by Famous Players Jack Norworth has just finished a Jackie Coogan song. It answers tv Ben Turpin has started shooting ‘Suzanna” while “Molly O" goes mer rily on in_ neighborhood houses. traint of freckles, ie i. He