The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1921, Page 12

rene: —_—_—— HERE {s probably no man 80 weak that he hasn't dreamed of being a pirate bold. He may| See himself—and incidentally laugh . ° beart at the sight—in apiain Appleia fantasy by Walter Hackett, in which | Wallace Eddinger probably aston- ished even himself last night at the Gort Theatre, If Mr, Hackett hadn't moved from here to London some years ago he would doubtless have located his play on Nantucket, for that island is its natural home. But having written it for the English stage he chose the Cornish coast, where the involuntary hero is so bored by monotonous com- forts that he advertises his home for sale and determines to seck romance and adventure. He gets what he ts longipg for without leaving the ho’ Among other things he has his ey out for the “fash” of love ut first sight, and he sines he sees it in the gorgeous lady who rushes ‘nto lis uiet Life with the thrilling tale that she is a celebrated Russian dancer who as escaped from Moscow with the priceless jewels of an awfully gramd duchess and is being pursued by a terrible Bolshevist. Will not the | brave gentleman save her and show her a hiding place for the jewels? SWHL he? In a minute! Thus she Warns of a secret cabinet in which is_ @ parchment giving details of a sup- posed hidden treasure, and this is what she is after. The parchment states that an ancestor of Ambrose | Applejohn was a notorious pirate. ‘To | guard against burglars who prowling about, Ambrose sits up all night, only to fall asleep and dream he is a pirate. ‘This dream js the best part of the piay. As mild a man as ever scuttiod a cup of coffee is changed into a | hold, bad buccnneer of the Spanish Main, cussing his crew, calling for his #rog, dragging forth a comely wench, sticking a knife into a treagherous | _ dog and finally putting down a} mutiny by cutting cards with Its un- happy leader—aiways turning up an nce. Then Ambrose wakes up to the fact that he has a band of treasure- seeking crooks to deal with—and he stil! has enough of tho dream-stuft | left in him to scare them in short order. After this adventure he real- fees that he has found romance in his pretty ward, Poppy. | It was all extravagantly funny and | novel, like a {rollicking burlesque with picturesque trimmings, Con- tasted with the country house scenes, | interesting and mysterious enough In themselves, ‘were the riotous doings | abhourd the pirate. craft, in whieh the; real characters assumed new and strange forms. | Mr. Eddinger was a thundering good Captain Applejack, roaring and Swaggering, about the ship, calling About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ME news coming from Philadel- | phia yesterday to the effect’ that the Shubert interests and those of Erlanger, Dillingham and | Ziegfeld had agreed to consult each | ether about the booking of shows in| that city, in order to avoid conflict, is not surprising; neither is the «re- | port that they may use the same method in sending attractions to theatres. It is really a common Femi THE NEW PLAYS }: “Captain Applejack” Extravagantly Funny i By CHARLES DARNTON. or-stricken crew, and having a high old time generally. He also played the gentle Ambrose with engaging kk," the wildly adventurous! 4drollery. Mary Nash gave a- vivid, amusing performance as the highly a Russian accent is beyond under- standing, but onything g@@s in ex travagunza, and Miss Na#h carried {off dashingly. Phoebe Potter got her chance when transformed from Poppy inte a ragged, spunky cabin boy, and §! Only Marie Wainw: tain her stately dignity. Ferdinand) Helen Lackaye adsled to the fun of a wild t other cities where both sides have | sense move, The theatrical business | isn't very good anywhere in the) country, and a booking system which | 1 POMC Sika the leader of the mutiny a “stray sea -scum!" at the ter Jouse," hurling “'s temperamental adventures, Just how 1 Cockney should be able to manage the most of it git, as the 8 permitted to main unt, Ww fottechalk, Hamilton Revelle and f THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY OBO! T SURE STAND 4 PRETTY WITH TH WIFE SINCE I GAVE HER “THAT “WRIGT WATCH" Y' KNow “THAT WRIST WATCH ONCLE E2RA GIMME For CHRISTMAS & 1 Took A TRiP FIVE \ YEARS AGO To EVERY (LARGE CTY AN STOPPED AT THE FINEST HOTELS! ————— u = amare ors ere Bag 7 = —_— = \JOE’S CA \ Gos GOSH NOW WHAT ? “ee dike LT THOUGHT THERE WAS A CRICH SOMEWHERE mcs) way sy DICKENS Have. T Gone AN'“pOoNE Now, al WONDER 7 — with YE 1 was MOTIONING FOR YEZ T'Go AHEAD Look AT MY WRIST -1T'S Motions Mixed! i. Screenin: s | By DON ALLEN H ALL “GREEN” ) WELL-T BOUGHT (T “FOR Oy PLATINUM © <i WELL LL | ¢ [RETURN IT AN’ (Ger oy $6 R Bac ¢ Weir NoHsEN SE ! ITS GumRANTEED TLL BET You A GOOD DINNER THAT \_ YCAN'T NAME A DECENT HOTEL INARY LARGE TOWN IN THIS. TRY LST tA ——$2,5 KATINKA— WHAT ARE You Doinc (\TS A BeT— \ Just WAIT THERE le A Few si ( 1 WANNA GET THE NAMES OFFA THESE SPOONS You AT ty, SILVERWARE 7} | BROUGHT BACK FROM YOUR st Trip AcRoss THE CONTINENT! er eee r ; Sj it difficult to induce people to uttend| poet, will see the year out at Atlantic | these affairs. City with a certain girl, EXACTLY THE SAME. ® Dick Barthelmess and his business | manager agree to one thing at least, Here's why: f | Dick just returned from shootin scenes off the coast of Maine for |Seventh Day,” his latest inspirat starring vehicle. He waxed entl siastic nbout the way he and his co pany had lived on board a steu yacht. “Why,” gurgled Dick, ‘we lived like Kings on that yacht. The meals were just exactly like those served at the | finest New York hotels. “I'll say they were exactly alike,” \| interrupted the business manager. { “How do you know?" asked Rich- ard, s “I just got the bills,” moaned the manager. | OH, DUSTIN. Dustin Furgum has returned to the speaking stage. But don’t get wor- ried, it's only for a week, When the Los Angeles Post of the American Legion produced “Pinu- fore," which they were to give in compliment to the Pacific Fleet, they needed some one to play “Little Bur- | {+reup.” No, don't for a moment think that Dustin was chosen, for he wouldn't ft that role at all, but he appeared, | nevertheless, and im one of the pring ter. } AT LAST. { ‘Tne Lasky Ranch, near Hollywood, bas at last come into its own. Foy | the first time it is to be shown as \ ranch in pictures. -It has posed as part of France, a slice of Scotland, gob of England and a plain in Mexte but now Paul Powell has used it a the background for many rane scenes in Dorothy Dalton’s of Lost Valley.” ‘It is known im th picture as “Lost Ranch.” ¢ Seems to us as though it’s juet Beew, tound “STATIC. Mary Thurman has been adie the cast of “The Great Temptat! June Elvideg ts playing an tmpo} tant part in “Beyond the Rocks: Elinor Glyn's latest screen story. “Miss Rosaiind Layte, well- on the London stage, makes her American debut with Willlam Far- aum in “Man's Weakness.” Barbara Bedford, screen star, jsee her nume in the papers for = |couple of days and so she was held np by a bandit. We shouldn't men- (ton it, but items are scarce. Many of the screen favorites spend- ing their holidays in New York have en invited to attend the Movie Bal! the Twelfth Regiment Armory turday night So has President Harding. “Luxury Tax.” which we have al ed {8 no name for a come was just been finished by Hugy He's busy now cutting [ and cut a luxury tax! Jest try do it! t the Sign of the Jack-o'-Lan torn,” will be released by Hodkinscn n the near future. Ivene Castle says our story abo there being disappointment amon ertain dusky Christmas party be ise she didn't give 7 nresent is wrong. She | will keep, for instance, big musical | musical, which might prove accept- PPWMED PB hits from playing against each other, ,8ble for production by Mr. Dilling RHYMED PR or big dramatic successes from doing |ham. He beieves he will find a9 — = fame thing, will mean more| Wealth of such material in Austria Helen of Brooklyn is a practical profits all around. jand Germany. girl, Charlle of Flatbush suggested "to mare, Sar a2 & fight between these} — ler recently that they have a lark in there has been one for several yeate,| .., COULON'T FOOL HER: the park. The idea didn’t hit Helen Just the other day a New York pro.|_Ethe! Newcomb hips been in the right at all. her reply to Guger booked his new musical piece |TUT@! districts; yes. sir, and she's a | Charlie s Cf |hard one to fool when it comes to, ae annee Wass ln Atlentie City | discussing the mand what goes, Charlie of Flutbush you sre take € engines, she says, which they shook for with their own dice. ms Robert D. Leland, Boston author | and publicist, is Broadwaying. _ > CYRIL TWITS US Nagle Taw sroiuert wae teeianied Eugene O'Brien is some favorite Cyril Bagley of Jersey City ina. the first time in Stamford Jast night, He has just been notified that he was ” other day we t al that Kay Luurell makes her vaudeville Jveted the most popular screen fact be Cyril MeNeill, author of “Bull-| debut at the Riviera, Brooklyn, next WHY HE WAS THERE. Taen my siepmother, the daughter of |mong the fans of Walk. Hawaticn Drumond,” had 1 the nom du | week. Man oiing A 1aRAtiO ay wife. had a son, and that boy. of | ts: Gene got 89 cut of the tota? plume of "Sapper" to “get out from MAN was visiting a lunatic asy- course, was my brother, because he /f 94 votes. : under that Cyril thing.” Comes Cyril jum and while walking in the u my father's son; but he was also| Owen Moore is Bagley with « note written on nic grounds he met a patient, to son of my wife's stepdaughter, | «:methin: Now Stevenson, ‘Creasurer ut of BE and hey /ell, ino playler entitled "The Puture. ton ore emering pith vaudeville, 1 v will be welcomed tn len Dane i wih thousands . novelties and Dancing will continue will be contests to- ith it. Toe other day she was com he ze | - * ¥ * Af the present time no plan has teen | “ith it 4 she priz pink paper asking if we never ave a ; whom he sald: ¢ snd therefore her grandson, and that | He'll be back at Gousidered loaiing to the establish. |PMinINE 10 a delicatensen man that! yu, nerve ia go great, nothwith-| Hankering to get out trom under that | ,,Jenole lephant presented a (har) “wae wow aid y et here?” of my step-|iowever, shortiy ‘ment of one big central booking of- | ‘be ©&8% he had sold her weren't ex- “Bide thing.” Cyril. It’s a con. | tte doll to Frances Lovejoy uf} Sell. how did you get here Then my wife had a son, so xocks out Old Man ‘21 A Hee, ‘Such a step lan't necessary. |2ctly, fresh. . standing your size \traction of Abijat and we're darned, Hartsdale at the Hippodrome yester-/ The man replied: ther-ia-law, the stepsister of z s ~ Mot infrequently in the past several ,, WS Ug¥ 10 serve them fresh.” De! i lark i the park's no more pleas. "wankful (he name contracted pay 7 valled the al-|. “Welk Sin, you see, 1 mairied a| 1¥ son, is al § grandmother, be = ‘years Victor Leighton of the Erianger | {*P! av we er earns om oun alae cc fone ee ne mie Sdow with a grown-up gaughter, and "use he | Btoking department has ‘called up Mn ge nor teuurted Alles New | ig ; pebvonveandan Vale of Content,” by Herman Suder- [202 my father martied my wite sree caus S arkl wes Murray, who books for the Fhu- | comb “| all about chickens, 1| 10" @ Addl in @ tub On tho: dine DREAM DEPARTMENT. in, at No, 43 West 72d Street caush ‘ hat made my wife the | ale. use Pp es erts, and obtained enzagements for | ¢ 3 i - bounding sea . xEguest am Pi i ederick Kerr, English actor, has ™¢ther-in-law of her father-in-law, |W’ ‘ of my aitractions under the Erlanger ban- ‘isited # farm up State wher ther A Reaves from Poy Marah 9 ain New A tor , has ind my father became my stepsen the son ef my + i mer from him, and vice versa. Both #7, ots of them, and they er (ay | Suggest a fine Winner. or even a hat we interpret a dream|in ‘“TAe Czarina.’ In which Doris, === —- a am my mothe fets of interests realize that, with 8% 6&5 | dance, Oe mate Ue $0 Innugurate | keane will be starred Fie bandit left acwite'and one chia “ -law: my wife is her own |, HOUSEWIFE—Don't you feel sorry present conditions prevailing. the he : ge adr partnent in this column, | “Frank Martins has assumed the role | seventeen years old, Ee child's aunt; my son is my father’s |for those poor chickens when you main thing is to keep their iouses| “UNACCUSTOMED. AS | AM tid then see how quickly I'l pump, lf you have had a strange droam,! of Clark in William Faversna, re- 7 2 how, and Iam my own grand-|chop their heads off?, ‘pen and on a paying basis, and Don't tell Will B. J t the eh write Us about tt and we'll toll you vival of “Phe Squaw Man” at the A ry her. -? s BUTCHER—Well, yo: is, and | on’t tell Will B. Johnstone, aut at the chance. : a an we ¢ ival of “The Sq Man” at the As- le + you see, ma'am, eee cere poten ee | Dear ten Wil Fe Jonpeiome aainr | Leh eNaNee. vose:| Just What ie means Mr. Marsnalts | Sor tweatee FOOLISHMENT. That's why Iam here, sirl”—Lon- {I've found a way to spare iny feel? Pore 0 hartie.of Flatbush, you close-| note says John Cumberland, in a sketch called The girls now wear cn Answers. ings. . - HOUSEWIFE—And how is that? strike of actors a coupie of which opens at the Lyric Theatre | ago put these managerial in-| Monday, but there {s a surprise ir fisted Turk, in the same trench, and. with|the air A lot f his newspaper , wt the old bankroll and put it to }i I dreamed T met a beautiful girl a {Che | a dance given by the Etks. some this mi ‘ant Mitch - ina boatie ee chi | The Russian bo NAMING THE BABY. | BUTCHER—I chop the chickens off ay HAVE decided on a name for |the heads. baby,” said the young mother. MRS. WRANGLE—Why di i a a be me oO For this I ought “I shall call her Euphros,ne.” always argue? | don't toa whet mo Nanaia Tekh. Her busvand did not care for the Would hapnen if you ever agreed with But I've not heard uggestion; but being a tactf el MR. WRANGLE—I'd be wrong, They make ‘en (o Like foreign cutics » cream and she with a laugh, Wh ne future doubtful as to what the, friends iil sec show Tuesday and they intend to yel Asso- | “Autho: with great gusto. iM . they will stay | Johnstone finds this «ut ab to |time well jfor him, » work removal of the tax from passe give producers of unsuocessfu | w ays who want to fill their theatre | ice err ve to write hig speect please don’t tell him. neing will begin at so Latham of wb the TAX ON PASSES KILLED [ramepeee yea conare te Fea _ oe Me Boivenive iN te are She DUS Men Riek ing, ing pends. he said cheerful “poe! SYMPATHETIC FRIEND—1 hear rs ny ane ‘on ee me enone 8 Apo ae pe Ms pace | Lasiagton SEseize, Jan. 9. ts up a Wellsville restaurant yesterda: Flubdub——Fo be sure, no ome/eise mother,” said the young w min gee pon toeits FRIEND reat ur Rosenfeld, the picture frame the proprietor bit him with a biscuit, 2cal, eh? » Watchman and Examiner, “ HENRY PECK—She'll come baci a ; siaisiabaiaies seinen BOT, nits ne . = - - ere) Cree :