The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1922, Page 16

[ eaammaaanaaneal TURNING GA GMICWSE A ON THE SPOTLIGHT BY CHARLI | ’ | HIB ory of “Author! is seldom] tried it on®® and made a dammed h heard these nights, be-| bash of it | | cause he is likely to be at lras There's nothing absurd about that } three thousand miles away, A glance] Mor about this: } at the list of pluys now in view woul "Miss Anne, T am not being moral @eem to strengthen the occas You see, 1 am a very rich man, aad assertion that New York is a forcign| %¢ Know on good authority that it city, Certainly, our native dramatists! '§ difficult for a very rich man to be do not begin to fill our theatres wit a RN Lea Bar bape very their plays, This may or may not ‘ ry to spend my: money be their fault. But whate thy | 80 that It makes somebody else happy j cause, the situation ts an interestins | 'esdes myself. It's the only hapty one for speculation, Look over thi thedtre advertisements and you wil find these plays from foreign sourc:s “The Claw." “A Bil of Divorcement.” “The Dover Road.” “Madras House.” “The Married Woman," by at American living in London, “The Circle.” “LAliom." “Face Value,” from the Italian “Danger!” “8. S. Tenacit “The Idle Inn.” “Bun Dog Drummond.” Kiki". and “The Grand Duke,” @dapted from the French by Mr. Be- Jasco “The Great Broxopp.” “Captain Applejack,” ean living in London. “Bluebeard's Eighth Wi “The Green Goddess.” Surely this is an imposing Isn't it enough to make you stare and even ponder? No doubt various explanations : to be offered, among them the f Plausible one that a producer may bi More inclined to take a play that ho met with success abroad than risk his money on one that has not, stood the testapf public opinion. But from any by an Amerl- point of view the present showing is | by ro means fluttering to American as Playrights. As for playgoers, they apparenuiy don't care a hang where a play come from so long as it interests or ente: | tains them. In this respect they | Probably more cosmopolitan than any other public in the world, although of late years London has shown a quick ened interest in plays from France, America and even Russia. Individual taste is a curious thing. Recently a woman said to me: “I don’t like any play in which the wo- men are not beautifully dressed. t @an see enongn kitchen aprons and other working clothes at home to suit me.” Now, what are you going to say to that, especially if you happen to be a playwright? Here we may find the Feason for acticases advertising thi makers of their gowns in the playDill To me this practice has always | @eemed a mixture of vanity and bad } taste. But it mry be “good business" for every one concerned, For my part, I detest an ostenta- tious display of finery on the stage It distracts attention from the. play, just as the ringing of a cowbell or the blowing of a whistle would do, and what's more it Is bad—very bad stage management. I've often won- dered whether directors take this im- portant fact into consideration, I prefer old clothes to new ones on the stage because they are more human, because they have more eharacter. Let them be clean, if pos- able, but this is not absolutely es- sential. A really good play makes you for- get its clothes, Take for example, “Shore Acres,” with its overalls, gingham dresses and sunbonnets, All that James A. Herne cared about was its humanity, and he made you feel it from the rise to the fall of the cur- tain. Somehow it seems easy to get to the hearts of characters who dress simply, The drama in working peo- ple is part of them, it: doesn't come by the yard. It is for this reason, emong others, that “The 8 S. Ten- acity” is the best play of the week. On the other hand, I thoroughly enjoy the company of leisurely, com fortable, well-dressed people, y happen to be intelligent and anvusin as they are in “The Dover Mond. With all his delight nonsense, A. A. Milne, who isn’t altogether fair to himself when he calls his play “an absurd comedy,” has decidedly in- teresting and sensible ideas, There fs, for instance, that fertustic fellow Latimer’s warning to an eloping pair: | “A dangerous road, my friends! | ‘And you are travelling In the dark." And then to Agne: “Marriage is an ari—it'e « profes sion m Itself. And what are you do- ing?) Maivying a man wh only qualisication for it 1s that he has ——— —= = SHE HAD HEARD OF THEM. iS DARNTON . ty of spending money, isn't it? Acd t's my hobby to prevent people—t> try if T can prevent people—makirs unhappy marriages.” It was another author who said to me, with deep longing in his eyes: ‘My greatest ambition is some day to write a play to wich the “ritics will wear dress sdite.” « | ARE LEAVIN’ US FLAT To DOIN TH’ - WH NAVY 2 We GoT A NEW BABY AT OUR House —, SHE WEIGHS }JOE’S CAR | THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY ’ JANUARY 7, 1922 tS waist {- u PACK - UP Stow — DOWN ss f ee L NINN TETTN — — CAN You Row ? / Ro’ - Ro’ ?? ‘COURSE . AY t e Iny e == tay AW SAYS BABIES cosT & HAVE A SEAT, SIR- THE BOSS WILL. Down! g\LIKE OUR DRY LAND ? EXTR' ORD NARY COUNTRY, I'LL SAY! ISOLLY GOOD LOOKING WOMEN, RIPPIN BIG BUILDINGS AND EVERYTHING, BUT You HAVE ' WHAT'S THAT- RIGHT ANYTHING How Do You JOE, WHAT ON EARTH ARE You DOING ?, PRACTICING TH MasHie UM GETTIN’ MY West IN FINE SHAPE — TH’ 4) SNAP Comes EASY |)! WELL THE FURNACE NEED COAL AND HE CAR [NEEDS DUSTING es ‘] atlas Copr. 1922 (N. Y. Eve. World) By Press Pub. Co, BUT Y’'FATHEAD WoUVE GOT To KNOW HOW ‘To Row A Boar ! ey Ve Cor a NEW “BABY over To Bownie’s IT WEIGHS NINE “PouNDs — AW! ARISTOCRACY MY DEAH LADY, ARE PEOPLE WHO NEVER DO ANYTHING - WHOSE PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS NEVER DID ANYTHING — WHOSE ANCESTORS HAVE ALWAYS House. AW THou'T Y'ALL MEANT Fae Bowes 2Bud se Count Must Buy ’Em at the Butcher’s! Copr. 1922 (N. Y. Eve. World) BY Press Pub. Ce: Sc —Bur IT stHound THINK WE Ccourd HAVE A LITTLE TWO OR THREE POUND ONE ? S\c ] STRRIN VENER = ONLY WE CALL ‘EM TRAMPS! About Plays ALTER PERKINS, comedian, used to be @ telegraph oper- ator. The other day he ran across an actor friend in the lobby of 4 Broudway hotel and the two sat down to chat. The friend is some- what of a deadbeat and was in Mr. Perkins’s debt about $200. The eome- dian considered the money gone, how- ever, and had no idea of bringing up unplyasant subjects. As they sat thare the friend said he had fongot- tea something. ‘Excuse me a moment," he said. “i want to send a telegram.” He went to the telegraph desk and By BIDE DUDLEY & moment later the friend suddenly asked: in your younger days, Walter?" I'm a pretty good one to beat! the high cost of living. Up at hig| Ver to some one else theatre at 69th Street venth Avenue Al, as has been hinted ne times ju the da cere Admirer,” “I am an ardent the- atregoer and (blushes) am intensely interested in your gossipy little col- umn. I see that Alan Dinehart 1s appearing in ‘Lawful Larceny’ at the Republic, Can you tell me what has \become of his charming and talented young wife, Louise Dyer? She did | wonderful work in ‘The Challenge’ and we are wondering why she 18 hiding her light under a bushel, so to speak. We need you, Miss Dyer. Come back to Broadway and let some one else darn the socks down on Long Island.” S’all right for Miss Dyer to come back, but we'd suggest she refrain from turning that sock darning job and Players As they started out of the lobby “Weren't you a@ telegraph operator "Yep!" replied Mr. Perk yet" © they “And And that was wh PRETTY SOFT FoR au | Al Jolson has found a way parted | MISS MANN’'S CHANCE, | Sixteen we ago Helen Mann was just another little girl in Boston, To- | au appearing | y press, “Bombo.” Several | DMIRAL EBERLE, now head of | wit. our a mossage. Soon it was|needed some soap. Thai nicht }e/44¥ She flnds the door to musical] the Pacific Fleet, auld the other g ove , ig fo and Ko's fame and fortune wide open| v ae ete a Ban Francisco, re, {S208 over the wire with Mr. Perkins |mentioned $0 and So's sony while i e wide op } aay reading every word from the instru- | performing and the nexi day he had + When chorus of “The { ee sero show |e" ‘ a dozen cakes deliver: with (O'Brien Girl” was changed in Boston i ‘ hi Capek orth You| “Will try to reagh Chicago Mon-|the compliments of the monutucturer,| Mi8% Mann, an anootour, went in tt »4 ere like the young judy who suid 1a it sald “Am broke, hut just | Perfume came next and tien cheese |Recently Elizabeth Hines beeame til Pile PR sce are those great, funny | m Walter Per and will touch|Barly this week Al d VEU’ and Miss Miu Dloved her role 80 ing things him for a fifty." needed some shoes, Ho he well that Producer George M, Cohan x pt eeiaaesa the friend returned the come-|@ certain brand. “Yeo! as complimented ‘her and predicted a fom, 2 boatman, “ ‘How lovely sald the young lady of course,’ ulead - “eal an had his plans al) made. ‘and what ure those fussy little things | “Lusten, Sam," he said. “Let me bebind them?’ have $28, will you?" one ee catiy! Tugs-ot-war |,,"What!” came from the other How stupid of me!’ said the young |"Are you broke? Lay. ‘T've often heard of tugs-of-war,| “I am.” “Gee! Bo am L* s pairs of shoes and six pair great future {turns to the cast Miss Hines re~ to-day pers were received by bin) at the atre. Wonder what would ) open it CHILDREN To ACT he mentioned Scotch w! The youngsters of the Stage Chil- dren's Fund, of which Mrs, Millie BOY, PAGE MISS DYER Thorne is President and Lee shu- “Dear Bide Dudley,” wriics © | RHYMED PROPOSALS, || | Joe of the Bronx wants a wife. but | he can't stand for powder and paint.) He solicits our aid in his search | the lady, as follows; I want a little maiden | To make my little wife. If she is nice and pretty | PU love her alt my life. | She must not buy complezion | From any druggist's store. | For what I want's a real one, | The others make me sore, | I've hunted for this lady, Yes, hunted high and low | It seems I cannot find her, | No matter where 1 go, | Oh, get me one, dear Mister | Sans powder and sang paint, | Cosmetics make a lady Look like just what si | he ain't, | their annual performance at the 3 little A SIESTA FOR JACK Jack Osterman, the youth who made Jake enthal famous by se- lecting him as h daddy, is endeay- oring to find # lost voice in’ Atl City. His mother, Kathryn ( man, is with him. Jack was trying hit high K in Keith vaudeville last week when his pipes burst. Anatol tic @ Sin-| bert Honorary ivesdent, will givey Friedland told him te hurry down Jo/a former Ziesteld “Follie: Atlantic City Immediately and con- The wedding took place the other day sult a plumber, a ueoe _ in Atlantic City. |W. A. Brady is to send “The Man Who Came Back” out again, It will | open at the Majestic Theatre, Brook- lyn, on Jun. 16.” Rehearsals are going FRIARS TO FROLIC. The Friars are to have a Frolic at their club house, No. 110 West 48th Street, a week from to-morrow night. | on. Donald Kerr of ‘The Greenwich Vi There will be a * ” a fox trot contest at lage Follies" has written a panto-|the ‘Terrace Garden Dance Palace mime called “The Apache Avenger,” | ‘Tuesday evening. Dancing compte which will be done at this entertain- tions will be held } afternoon, also, | broke all ‘re jing the holiday there to-morrow The Dance Palace ‘ds for attendance dur- ment. GOSSIP. Mabel Taliaferro is to appear in the A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Loew Theatres. H. Franklyn Bellamy of “Bull Dog] ‘The Sioux Indians have named Drummond,” has sent to England for) Gen. Persaing Lightning. Betcha his aeroplane. Frank Bacon never speaks to a Sioux John Cort will restore the Wednes- | #gain! day matinees of “The Wild Cat” at eacee the Park next week. FOOLISHMENT. Father, a doctor I would wed. Now, don't have a conniption. Arthur Corey, the gold man of "Up in the Clouds,” is a chemist. To us he looks more like a big, lively paper- weight. They want Katharine Cornell of “A Rill of Divorcement” to run oyer Mgland and play the role there while, The National Club will have a bene ington Theatre Jan, 22 1 be used to he poor ehild and Clarence Novd- I'll not object; go right ahead If he'll write me a preseription, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Two heads are better than one" “Yes, on « bass drum,” a Children’s *Service tat the Le — STICKLER FOR ETIQUETTE. H° Was the most down-and-out ty the cast Regular in whic looking specimen who had ap- and Cleo Mayfield are ed at the back door of this starred. | ticular farmhouse for many @ year, On the bill of the Actors’ Fund] The housewife viewed nNowith dis- show at the Century Friday afternoon.) gust 2 be the following playlets eMy wondnessl"’ Bhi The Other Mrs. Bellis"! don't” believe y e Sign of the Hour.” There is now a Mrs. Morris Rose. ust about that,” agreed the She was Miss Gladys Logan and |s| “You washes befo nly beauty.{ eats.” —Philadelphia, Public Ledger, PAGE NATIVE SONS. Some varied and flimsy excust have ‘been offered by the many, maat film producing companies for thel shutting down, but the truth is ov 7 \ at last. Famous Players-Lasky let the felig 4 4 out of the grip yesterday, inadvertent ly We presume, but nevertheless | frisky kitty is capering right smaf(, | In wanouneing that impetus alt } | been added to their production in Caf ifornia, the Lasky press agent slap the California weather right on th | in California are causing the closin pulse by writing: “Although overproduction and rai, of several studios, production activ® | ties at the Lasky plant will be im'| | ' snapper, of course, is the f: that ANY one has the temerity come oyt flat-footed and admit ever rains in California, ANOTHER STAR. | Warner Brothers, in searciih!)) «) ound for novelty, found it, they y ir » fuzzy sh of “Bozo,” Chie | panzee educated to pe rform aii {little tricks of the movie actor, inciid ing an open defiance of Volstead Although he is still somewhat cx era-shy, B0z0 will soon be cast in of the Monty Banks comedies is expected that he will shins as pright as many of his human !) ren. ° ib nd he won't be in a position & brag about his acting, either, | DICK IS BUSY. | 1 Barthelmess ix as busy @ tly -time ss as just started the filain; “after taking rest from his but a dagt strenuous work in Po ter Emerson Browne's. story Bia) venth D originally known @ All At Sea | We ran into Dick yesterday, @ | didn't look a bit wan or tired “1 wish,” he said, “they had title ‘Al At Sea’ stand, for t best explanation of my feel | could think of." HE'S TWINS. ld, who 4 lor Ndwyn's Flower,” is a slip of a Scot who six fee! elght inches on the hoof Despite his great altitude, An parents were both I. His mothe pod but five feet tall and nis fas lie feet five inch | “t fairmly believe fam twins," aves Andy Well! tiv’ Let's let it fo at that OH, HELENE! Chadwick —w She shive She Helene other day }teeth rattled man to her and thing, The man the wardrobe turned in a mom “Sorry, Miss ( wardrobe mistress any more—women now." Miss Chadwick wants it distinct! understood she wanted the petiicom merely to cover her bare shoulder: | yi) Sy there, now. | | «= cold ow d then he A propert ed some away t rh hastened artment nt and shouted: hadwick, but says she ha’ don't wear th ., er FADEOUTS. movie press what else to cicams “admirer” letter star, y might be good fillers, but not in this column. “Bought and ant, William d closely to the versior | Sir, we wish to report progress. “The Green Temptation,” n’'s latest is ready for th Of cou it was Preene nother title—"The Noose. < William Fox has broken anoth record, This time he and his employ ces have all kept silent about a bt Whenever know in a agen } doh to ht spac deesn't d For Mille ¢ Bett production he was making. The ot ject of the secret ve stuff was a “Monte Cristo.” fil fon of Wha f other? Harry Millarde has just finishe ? directing “The Town That God Fo fot” We have no inside informa tion, but we'll gamble this town is i Oito. In William Farnum’s latest releac a_ perfe production of “Phe In f of the reoal Burner,” a Tondo | |resort, is shown, ‘That lifted a § awful weight off many minds whe they heard that at last they were t.§ | behold this wonder. | Grace Darmond and Philo Me § CuMlough are co-starring in a fifteo episode anima) fe " the Jungle.” Mrs, Trim director fo Is week special Geo rr work Lasky Comp: or Famous. Vivi Osoorme and John Rock have been udded to the east of Good Provider.” .