The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1922, Page 28

THE NEW “Lawful Larceny” PLAYS : High-Handed Melodrama ? “ LTHOUGH we gazed in aston A ishment at the wife in “The Wheel.” who ran a gambling house just to break her husband of 4 the roulette habit, we hadn't seen any thing yet, as Al Jolson would sgy. faded into pale insignificance before oe the revelation of a wife who robbed the eafe of Ramblers and got away with the goods at the Republic Theatre last night in “Lawful Larceny.” Not only did Samuel Shipman make this punisiiment fit the erlme of the Opulent adventuress, who had stolen & perfectly geed husband while his Wife was away on a visit, luring him on with theatre tickets and such like frres.tible temptations, but the stern, telentless author gave the wife the custody of the siren’s young, unmar ried lover. Mr. Shipman more than ‘ hinted there had been altogether tov i Wuch glorification of sirens from Cleopatra down to Vivian, and he was for putting them in their place, even if he had to go to the trouble of making the cutting distinction that some women kept house and others kept houses. Though it cannot be| said that Vivian was left without # leg to stand on—since she was well Provided for in this respect-the fact | remains she was given a terrible jolt Littic did the haughty gambling house keeper suspect that the ap ‘parently harmless little woman she | engaged as her secretary was the | wife of the man she had ruined | financially and damaged morally. | For that matter, who could believe | It Our amazement was shared by Marion's husband when he found her on the job. But she worked so fast that it took her only a day to get a proposal of marriage from Vivian's pet lover, who never dreamed, of course, she was already burdened ‘ with a husband, For a man of his/ experience with women he was in- credibly ingenuous and impulsive. Coy, though not hard to please, Marion led hin: on to tell her some thing of himself, what he did for 4 4 fiving and vo forth. With the in- discretion of a lover, he confessed he made » business of robbing women like Vivian, because of an old grudge against her kind, When he was fresh from college such a woman had Im- posed upon his innocence, blighted his young life, and after great suf- fering ho had come out of the hos- pital with revenge in his heart, This, briefly, wae the story of Guy Tarlow, and it touched Marion so deeply that she proposed they rob Vivian and live happily ever after on the loot, The ¢harming an was instantly carried out, but Marion got away alone with the money and jewelry and stocks nd bonds, after having first sent her husband home to take care of the baby. * It was an ungrateful trick to play upon Guy, byt he took It good na- turedly when he saw how things were M Marion's hoine, Vivian came also, but got nothing but reproaches to gether with proof of the charge that phe used marked cards. Marion deciared she was going to | | | That vision of domestic enterprise | home- wrecking queen of | ‘ By CHARLES DARNTON. drama was explained when Marton took exception to the law that punishes a person for stealing ma- terial things, yet provides no penalty for the theft of spiritual things like 4 husband's love—in short, lawful larceny. Margaret Lawrence gave vehement expression to these views and at other times acted Marion as charmingly and sincerely as the circumstance: would permit. Naturally, Allan Dine hart found himself at great disadvan. |tago as the husband, Lowell @her keep everything she had taken and establish a fund for her child, but after Vivian had gone she changed her mind and said she would send tack the booty. She also agreed to fet her husband live in the house if he behaved himself. The title of this high-handed melo- About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY I ADIES and gentlemen! To-day's column may not suit you. Frankly, it doesn't suit us, but ewe can't help it. There's a reason. It's a man who resides in our hotel ‘who forgets every pronounceable word but “'Atta Boy!” when new years come in. He started on that “’Atta Boy!” at midnight Saturday and kept up till noon Sund All the time Wwe were trying to sleep, like the sober old crab that we are, but we couldn't ™*Atta Boy!" resounded through the halls until we wanted to herd W. H nderson, Puszyfoot Johnson and Mr. ‘olstead in‘y the place and show ccess of Pro- travelled all a. Ye the house. At times it was fain: en it boomed. During the wee sma’ > rs of Sunday morning some cele- ing lady would say + =~ “Oh, for goodness sake! Whee!” © “atta Boy!” would come the re- ly. Then a male voloe would likely e ser’ ® “I wush fullback on za teamsh at soollege. » “'Atta Boy!" would be the result. a j-And #0 forth. We wouldn't have a cared had he it, but he literally saturated with “’Atta Bo: nd it's with us Saget, To make things worse for the Aolumn, our wife just phoned us and Sasked when we'd be home im “Early,” we replied, she sald. us to-day. We'll mon was an amusing Guy, and Gail! Kane a pulehritudinous Vivian, of whom it was said that in her teens | she was as good a girl as God ever | made. The change that had taken| place in that girl was as strange us| the scenery. | HE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Tig alles of Ved : KATINKA } 1 WISH I KNEW SOME MORE LANGUAGES — I'VE CALLED THAT “CENTRAL EVERY NAME IT KNOW KIN ENGLISH! a TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1922 OH GEE wHizz ~ 1 LeFT HAT BOTTLE UNDER “Ty! sear! 1 BETTER GET (Tt AN’ PUT IT IN MY Desk ‘ Copr. 1922 (N. Y. Eve. World) By Prese Pub. Co. IF A CROOK “went “Throusn | MY CAR THAT'D BE Th’ Fiest THING HE'D GRAB HOLD OF — TWEY'D RATHER swiPE Hoocy “THAN DIAMONDS ! { Were < Go 5 ate. ¥i N ns a ost ‘ie wae DUST DeriveRedD DON? say NOPE Yeu MUST ALWAYS Say’ & “NO THANK YOU “Hese 1722 ” 0=0-0-on! CALENDARS « T WHouauy “Wiey Were BILLS! aor, BAW - T DOWANN 4 ALWAYS SAY NO THANK, | om sz What's the Difference, Anyway? PHONE GIRLS GoT EVERYTHING |[EVERY Tire T TAKE UP THE RECEIVER, IM] [My Boss Tinks THAT e IVE WISHED 'EM- THERE WOULDN'T BE |/MORE AN MORE CONVINCED THAT THE | SCRUBBIN' GIVES ONE MuscLe} ENOUGH HOSPITALS To —— NOW 1 FORGOT|| FAMOUS "LOST BATTALION” GoT LOCKED a 1 GOT MINE PUSHIN’ TH Is) IN A TELEPHOT > eam es > {WHAT ARE You FOOLING \ | AROUND THERE FoR— / °\ DON'T You KNOW THAT PHONE 'S OUT or | — ORDER ? HOOK UP AN’ "DOWN — > Pos \ Copr. 1922 (N. Y. Eve, World) By Prose Pub. Co, production, “Bibi of the Boulevard.” goes into rehearsal to-day with these in the cast Dorothy Maynard, s Coghlan, Elsio Lawson, ( Maitland, Dorothy Day, Quadri, Marcel Sutherland, Ivan Sampson, Willian: C. Holden, Burtor Lewin, Roy Purvian Al Roberts, some real Parisiennes as a WHOOP! IT'S A BOY. A very excited man got us on the telephone last might “Hello!” he yelled. “This is Karl Bernstein, I'm a daddy for the first time. I'm press agent for the New Brighton Theatre. to him Norman Karl are you, anyway We carefully ed the telephore receiver back on the hook and re turned to our mahogany desk mur- muring: “Some men don't need hooch to get that way.” REN WOLF DIES Rennold Wolf, newspaper man and playwright, died yesterday morning 48 nome, No. 349 West 87th Street, the unmediate cause of his demise beine a stroke apoplexy. ‘The fu- neral will he a this afternoon the Campbell ( tuun > 1 and Broadway, and nent will take i nich city he was place in Ithaca, 4 native. The death of n Wolf removed frown th adway a man who kn world more in- timately than any other writer of his time. For years he was dramatic critic and columnist of the Morning Telegraph, and his writings were copied by dramatic editors all over the country. He had a keen wit, which was evident not only sn his newspaper work but in thd many| most Ma d'Arville, Margaret | but is visiting in New York, has de-| breakdown whioh left him in a cided to try to find a husband while|c&tious state of health. He never gained in strength from that tim and his death does not come as a sur- ¥| Who claims heap good looks, much eral editions of “The Follies.” Grace K., who hails from Jersey,|"Amout a year ago Ren suffered here. In filing her application with us she has described a rather attrac-| prise to his man tive person, say we. As a rule Jer- a sey girls seldom take the brown derby GLENDENNING ILL. {in matrimonial contests, we've been| E told, but Grace K. seems to be differ-| ington Avenue Hospital, where friends. | Each night do I read of some out of! o¢ «, | town dame, | eau ‘on a new M (he was to ac on cooks, o'er her name, a Now I'm not a braggart, but here BY WAY OF DIVERSION. I'm ail set ; When Grandpa steps on our | A corking fine chef for your one best | old cat (he does it now and | male bet. | then) we see a man of vighty-one | Weigh one-twentysiz; have red} made lively once again, He does anger last night. His illness } cheeks the year 'roun’, a funny little dance when she be Brown hair and blue eyes, not a) gins to how! and, folks, it's quite wrinkle or frown; a treat to hear old Grandpa cuss Just flve feet four inches from head and growl, Now, Grandpa's sight to my feet, ig rather poor; he never sces I step kinda lively; I'm some| the cat curled up before the ath-e-lete. front-room grate, asleep, there on You now have my letter; don't file) the mat. But when his foot it away, lands o% her tail she lets him Just tell all the voys I'm from| knote it. Gee! the way he hops Ventnor, and ekids and kicks ix something == | you should sce, Kuch time old | speeches he made at dinners given| Grandpa tells us all he means by the Friars’ Club, uf which he was| to kill the cat, Dut we just smile an honored: menpber, bly ‘cuoceaatil tmuaical crconks, Wit| decause we know Ae'e not ae M1." With Channing | : i Feat “The Rainbow G { RHYMED PROPOSALS || Pollock, however, tie wrote such sue cesses as ‘The Red Widow" und sev- nest Glendenning is at the Lex- he ent. Don’t miss this one, boys, Look: | underwent an operation for appendi- | \citix yesterday, He was reported ou & postponement of the start rion Davies film in which # filied and| litte film star who, as you probably | know, is a Jackie. mean ag that, T wish our friends could alt drop in when Grandpa half asleep, steps on the cat and umpa, la no quest Max Wiley, who used to be a wre tling champion, FOOLISHMENT. ho} and growls Twould tickle dance n “Up i t is} my, Ks Bh: aN us u Twould tick aan A An eR a | There was a young girl from Bellaire, 1p eet: Who wore a red rose in her hair anes the twenty i ; {| Said she: “It looks sweet. tarcain none Met UnerApA ne cehine Was more than twenty-five years | 70 see me so lovely and fair.” his plan to help needy ex-service men, , a Kelth Circuit outside] mma Knill, widow of | Milo J-| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE nae | teow hie Rent wine’ BoAEN Gh When is a widow like a gardene: erstudy te ve female Jes in M “1 must confess 1 cannot anss 4 your quiz, in to th weeds i ; = oo a -_——.------ tay, Th . AT THE OPERA 66CQJOU were at the opera last | evenir What did you Pore hear?” s “Hear? Oh, Madge Gray is en- walt, and Mr, Coburn gauged at last, and the Billy Brews ine Rinne aRIenke : ure going to get a divorce, and Bert wos covert ‘ley has lost all his money in Wall Tren? TAgeraol ee mi j Breet and Sue Cathro has a baby, aie! spate eet Mrs, Sylee was lunching with Ady drome ut the Hipp ther man while her husband was indicate that Auto} out of town, and” in | recently Ww on location in ¢ K ti Ie x ANSWERS TO INQUIKIE Hut—you don't understand. What] frni cing in California, wh [ ONeY RSS: Tea) ; Ald nea eae “it never rains," von got lis wish Piha foie Rea nC Se Ry Pearce ; See? Why, that Kate Kady has| Wil) Carl leading onan for att gement: of ; lle turned her old rose gown, and that] Waherine MacDonald Domestic* Mani ub Maaine: Bboy y Sire r y.|those wonderful Van | tela * visited a ca ea oe } Pho, monds “we read of are Jeently to Jud 4 | mate rote tn H Ph ay Tannery : als rote In tn sae what was the name of] althougu yo! ev t it frony Crater KN and Ma " her name, a to be on speak ey, the villains of Dog Drum A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. of the opera? Oh—why, I|terms with Willian ‘of Ba mond,” are hissed roundly every time) William Coogan has been name 1t on the programme, butiden, gave a “Swedish” New Yea they take a bow. Military Secretary to Gov. Miller. | really I've forgotten—I've such a poor a muise Groody of “Good Morning,| Now we have a military Coogan and|memory for details; really it is quite wie’ has bought a drug store in|a naval Coogan, the latter being the|a cross!"—Los Angeles Times, Safety First! { a GUESS Tt BETTER | a LEAVE (T Mala) IT 16 @ om Screenings By DON ALLEN” WHAT'S NEXT? It must be almost as hard to find a name for a film as it is to dig out one of those fancy eognomens gencraily hitched on to a ftve—beg pardon—six- cent cigar. | We read of and write about somo | big film under a certain title and | then, Bing! just as tho release day dawns, the title is switched to some uring worse. A good instance of the instability of movie titles is that of « First N tional re First w as “The Daughter of Brahm: dently they thought that su much on the poultry and switched it to “The Bride of the God A great hurrah was made about how wonderful this title was and now we learn it is to be released as "Shat tered Ido! Variety is sure the thyme of life. ored + | | MUTUAL ADMIRATION David Wark Griffith ran inte Ik jatd Barthelme rdiry | “Howdy, Dick red” Day | “Howdy, Dave.” veplicd Dick they choruses WALKED SPANISH, TOO. Gareth Hughes will fin Spanish in th atur orderit enrno or mutttesing “Hot the Don! appen shoott took dese and rthly as could st in Mex L- taxi—segure—bi red toa taxi driver. Gareth is cured A DOG STAR. | Strongheart, — the dog actor, is now a | pearing in “T wonde “How'd you get along? someone of Lawrence Trimble, Dis of The Silent Call” and is NOT BARGAINS. Two hundred Los children collec . in [rvin bb's film, Five Dollar Baby,” recently.’ After their “work” they were guests of Viola Dana, the star 8 Harry Beaumont the director, was handing out thei pay checks he noticed a very charm- ing little girl in line. "So you ure one of the $5 babic suggested Beaumont “No, s emphatically shot ba the ingenue, “I'm @ $7.50 baby; they've raised the pay of extras,” FADEOUTS. The latest kiddie to join Marsivuil Neilan's “Penrod” kindergarten is Bernice Rudom, already a serecn veteran. Her brother, Winston, aleo appears in the film, Robert C. Bruce, foremost produce” of scenic pictures, has just rounded the century mark'as far as subjecis go. He's off again. This time hi series will be “Wildernoss Tales,” Victor Rodman, screen heavy, ra er prided himself on his cave man ideas. ‘Then he met Dagmar Dali gren, Now she's Mrs. Caveman and the male portion of the combination Iriw@ the dishe and is busy al] th time dusting out the “cave istie is in Tia Juana makin Vernon picture. Frijok \ ¢ and Chile Conearne play th uding parts. \ n Lloyd Hamilton, one of the funnies comics in sereendom, lost a wig few weeks ago, He searched und found {t draped among the branches of a tree. A gluck bird had staked out arlor, bedroom and bath in the hirsute adornment “Unknown Switzerland” is name by the National Motion Picture League as a good classroom film for oduc tional purposes. rich von Stroheim wished for rain |party at Henry's. We don't kn gither, just what e "Swedish" par