The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1922, Page 12

| | aC] 4 HEN “The Blue Kitten’’ got Theatre inst night we knew that nothing could stop tt from be back belong to Lillian Lorraine and it w Wi there, As a rule it is hard to forgive a lady who turns her back on sou, But there are exceptions, and this as one of them. Miss Lprraine wave Us sO much: ‘en more than we were look tng for—that we couldn't possibly feel slighted, ous way she came Ju her simple, gener out beautifully Shunning compromise, was fear- lessly, superbly vertebrate. At a Blance it could be seen that she be -| Neved in hewing to the waistline. When Marion Sunshine plaintively murmured, “I am trying to to nature,” we were reminded that Lilian had got at least half way | | there without saying a word about it Her back spoke for itself Joseph Cawthorne could hope to do} little more than shine in the reflected | glory of a musical comedy taken from n French farce, for the humor pro- | vided him by Otto Harbach and Will fam Cary Duncan wasn't exactly daz. ziing. Even his inevitable topical song | dealt with such worn subjects as) bridge and dancing, But he was his) old good natured self as the porter of | the “Blue Kitten’ ¢ in Paris, grown 80 rich on tips that he “ported a chateau, and so he managed to be amusing. Everything but h gun went with a bang, especially the music of Rudolf Frim|, 8 uneful and spirited. Tréops of pretty girls tricked out by the lavish Arthur Hammerst prettier costumes made Kitten” gorgeous and | even Blue ely One of the most charming of the ornate company was Mary Cory Kit chen, who danced on her toes with rare grace and just a dash of She fairly had the audience at her feet after her “Dance of the Roses.” | Miss Sunshine kicked up a pair heels quite as saucy as her eyes— clever givl—and Grant and Wing in dulged in sn acrobatic fling caleu jated to raise them in the estimation of the onlookers. Although Lorraine of | Manville did not charm the ear with her through singing, she tripped daintily several measures and was ing sweetheart. Douglas also acquitted himself xracefully as the favored man, It Was that bon vivant, Victor Morley, who raised the i that all Paris would laugh at the wedding of a porter's daughter and a marquis, Would it, indeed? Lillian Lorrnine got her back up as never before at the mere thought of such a thing Such as he might laugh. Lounge lizards might laugh! woman ler innocent could flirt with lover—might laugh! "rhe who came to the cafe with husband so that she the violinist—her But all Paris laugh at a marquis for marrying a decent girl? N-n-o! ‘The indignant Lillian had called for champagne impertously earlier in the evening, but now she vibrated with righteousness as she proudly threw back her head in defense pure of About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY to take Charlotte Greenwood, pe MOROSCO has decided ‘the lovely long comedienne, out of “Let 'Er Go, Letty," In which she is now appearing in give her a new starring vehic ‘Er Go, Letty,” is pretty good enter- tainment, but he had a chance to get Rose Stahl's old play, "Maggie Pepper." for Miss Greenwood, so the change will be made just as soon as “Muggie’ can be set to music, The title of the new one will be “Lanky Letty Pepper,” and it will open Jan. 28 out of the Werner will sup the score and Leo Woods and Irving Bibo will write the lyrics Paul Burns, Ray Raymond, the King Sisters and Josie Intropodi will be in the cast city. Janssen IT SHOULD DO WELL. K. B. of Brooklyn informs us that our suggestion that somebody write | a play called “The Prescription” is a little late. “{ have written such a play,” says his note. “In it a youthful doctor writes skee prescriptions in order to get money to build a garage. His girl, to stop him, has his auto stolen In the end they kiss and make up and he stops writing prescriptions because all used he finds his pad is Fine, eh?" up. MAXINE BROWN TO WED. Maxine Brown, prima donna, who was with “Buddies” when it was at the Selwyn Theatre, and has done other good things, is to become the bride of George H. Maines, Vice Pres- THE NEW PLAYS “The Blue Kitten” Gorgeous and Lively By CHARLES DARNTON back | ten’ NaN GME ACM CW Sil G'S: >| womanhood en levelling a fate ful finger at the poor wretch who ailed before her flashing eyes, she | finished him with: "I'm going to rry him—God help him!" It was » funniest thing in the show. rom time to time Dallas Welford, who as a tutor looked ike a boiled | undertaker, was also driven ly fear to the verge of apoplexy. Mr. Caw- thorn lived in dread of a terrorizing wife formidubly represented by Jean Newcombe, but he in turn tyrannized over Robert Woolsey as a ridicu- lously small nephew, Little did the lovely maidens care. They were al ways merry and bright, and so hand. somely dressed that nothing could disturb them: As a beauty show ‘The Blue Kit- takes the blue ribbon as THE BIG LITTLE =I =, E7 1 Sose CASEY” i BROUGHT HiS New Cope, 1922 (N.Y. ive. World) By Prose Pub. ( | SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1922 TO SOAK ME A BERRY YOR Tat Lit! Bure!’ TH PRICES TWEY GET |_ Auto \ ‘ Wal Ris { \ \ } Fs FAMILY LITTLE MARY MIXUP Gopr. 1922 (N. Y¥. Rep. World) By Prone Pub Co, I'm wenn’ & LETTER - 775 ONC *2 ZR KATINKA DID YOU HEAR ABOUT MINNIE HINCEPIE GETTIN’ MARRIED ?. THEY SAY IT WU2 COVE AT FIRST SIGHT— 1 S'PosE SHE RY Got SIGHT oF His wy Dd ——_—— -| THEY'VE Gor a FINE ‘GALL. ACCESSORIES "!. AN' A HALE GosyH — FoR MART? wHat eu wae So LARGE FOR- AND ON SucH A BIC PIECE OF Papre & WHAT ! Y'DIDN'T KNOW MRS. MUFFINS: HUSBAND LEFT TOWN ? WHY, HE DISAPPEARED THE DAY AFTER PROHIBITION AN’ THE PoLice LOCATED iS Hitt IN CUBA ¢ —Sey'ry TIME 1 Go wh —t' BUY ANY THIN’ FOR MY @a\ 'M “LUCKY IF Tt Come ouT WITH MY SHIRT ON! — PAM ES <| ~ SHE STILL Loves HIM- NOW “THAT SHE HAS FOUND Our WELL, T DON'T LIKE To AccUse MIR. WART— | BUT ONLY MEN WHO CAN AFFORD ‘To BUY THEIR WIVES SABLE FURS THE: DAYS ARE BANK ROBBERS AND [BANK Book TS wire Bic eS ONCL “Sound” Argument! RE € E2R¢ Competition Not Welcomed ! HURRY UP KATINKA- HRS SMITH IS COMING FOR DINNER ! s—~ & Ken Shirley Masen as a lotta trouul SDEAF~ And T Pipie siles wean HAVE TO WRITE twelve seur-4 YEH - How p You TRANSLATE “Hat P ~—— KEEPS HIM IN BLISSFUL IGNORANCE OF THE FACT t | NICE VACATION. Lon Chaney is on his way back to Hollywood, gasping but game, pantiny but proud and with his brain all |a-flutter, wondering just why any one |could look upon Thanksgiving, Christ | mas and New Year's as holidays “I came and was conquered,” an | nounced Lon just before he left. | knew when I came on I was going 10 work in Hope Hampton's big filtn ‘The Light in the Dark,’ but I didn't think it would be a five weeks’ go the-directur-pleased grin. “I sorter looked forward to the thir olidays and craved The ons ason I knew they were holidays all was because Director Brown made us start work ea keep at it longer. I'm fed up on work, fled—wait UN you see you'll know why.” SHIRLEY’? TROUBLES. but I'm sat the filmi AL LouD® "L get so tired of having some sales dy "The children's departaven is on the next flight, fourth aisle on the right,’ that I could jest hotho peeved Shirley recently, “It is awfit size just betwist and betw " sizes start at fe me like « circus tent on | n I to dor" to eat plenty fattening food, or, if that is to much trouble, seek out a good dress maker, » SHUSH! Ernest Truex, the gill-sized screen comic, is sharper than a year-old co! lar edge. Once he and Rutgers Nei) ‘on attended u football game betwee: ‘ew York University and Rutge)~ College. “Well, Ernie,” quipped Rutgers \“since I was graduated from N. Y. t nd inherit the name of Rutgers here do you think I ought to sit dur this g we ‘On the not back Erni f MRS SMITH? How T HATE || THAT GABBY OLD THING: ALL SHE Do€s IS TALK A FABLE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S - |.,Once Upon a Time there wa vale Gazook who hunted Thr if Squares a day acting as a movi i Kline. Czarina” leave New York to-day for Baltimore, where the play will be launched at Ford's Theatre Tuesday evening. In the cast are Basi] Rath- bone, Frederick Kerr, William H. Thompson, William Devereaux, Ian Keith, Edwin Noel, Richard Malchien, RHYMED PROPOSALS The Duke wants a wife. But he is getting tired of proposing. So heart- broken over his failure to annex one is he that he is threatening to leave for Yonkers. He writes at follows: | 108 Meredith, Phyllis Allen and Blanche Gervais. Here upon a midnight dreary, A Tam sitting, weak and weary, GOSSIP. Still without a wife to cheer me, | A production of "Ghosts," with Mary Shaw, is in rehearsal. Earl Foxe {s reported ill in Knick- erbocker Hospital. : Elna Hansen is leading a new danc- ing number In the Toyland scene at the Hippodrome. The Catholic Actors’ Guild had a big theatre party at the performance of "The Mountain Man" last night And I'll tell the world I'm sore. So herein I am addressing To the sex which kept me guessing, That for all time I'm through mess- ing. Goodby, girls, for evermore, a William Faversham will : aa am will intervie tarlo League, The wedding will be| would-be actors and actres: at th celebrated in the spring. Miss Brown| Astor Theatre Thursday morning will continue her stage career, Mr, | ext. i ip ainalive ot Pine “Rosa Machree,"’ at the Lexington hi tive of Fuint, Mich, but | qneatre, has been renamed "The et uke New Vork his home| pbeatrer | fas, ito hereafter Al Jolson is Interested Oscar Shaw and Harland Dixon} fought more than 100 times in Morning, Dearie," yet they profess be good friends. ‘ H TURN: Drifting” will re-open \ COHAN RETURNS MONDAY. | Loin Menken playing the role made George M. Cohan will return from | yacant by Alice Brady's illness, Atlantic City on Monday, and {t 18| «phe “Pins and Needles’ probable he will announce some of | from England yesterday on the Me. his plans then, He went there for aj ganUlo. It includes Harry Pileer and rest and to plan productions. Maiale Gay. ae The Sydney Rosenberg Post Legion, KEANE COMPANY LEAVING. | (eon Ameren stay ‘evenit with him in the proprietorship of the Hamilton Club N eo 8 the 5 ident and Manager of the Hamilton Baseball Club of the Michigan-On- theatre party Tuesday evening at Doris Keane and the edmpany Riviera, Brooklyn. which is to appear with her in “The “Marjolaine,” the musical version | | Hay in the cast | Clouds,”* BUSTED ROMANCES Ex Libres Artie, whatever that ts, has taken us into his confidence re- garding a busted romance in which he figured. He doesn't want the girl now but he does want his frat pin. Read his lament: I once did know a pretty misa, And thought that I could love her. She got from me my best frat pin, Ere I could “turtle dove” her. 1 must lament the fact that she Now greets me with a grin, Don't mind another playing her, But I want back my pin, Now B. D, if you want to do | A thing to win great fame, Just tell me how to get my “joot” To give another dame, ‘Pomander Walk," will open at thal dhurst ‘Theatre Jan. 23, with y Wood, Lennox Pawie ana Mary rtrude O'Connor, of “Up In the wants to be a policewoman, but she hasn't any club. Skeet Gal: lagher, who dances with her, tells her to et it, Bert Levy will be master of cere- monies at the Rachael Ald Society benefit at the Ritz Theatre to-morrow night. Thirty acts have a pear, 80 Bert will be to eee A one-step contest for the rn States champlonship will be eae at the Terrace Garden Dance Palace to-morrow afternoon when Long Island dancers will contest in the first preliminary. medals will Gold, silver and bronze be awarded. The next Sunday New York's east siders will compete. Tuesday evening. A waltz contest will be held ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. KM. jasco's son-in-law, N.—Morris Gest is Mr. Be- Reader—The New Amsterdam The- atre was opened originally on Oct. 26, 19038, with Nat C. Goodwin Midsummer Night's Dream.” A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. A Middletown, N, Y., man says he has discovered perpetual in "A motion. And it has nothing to do with a woman's tongue. FOOLISHMENT. Through the trees the wind is sigh- ing, On the line the clathes are drying,| Birds are flying, no denying, 'Tis a dream. I can hear the peanuts cracking, Bootblacks sing as boots they're \formance in Brussels, Milan and other dlacking. Life is perfect—nothing lacking, Peaches and cream! FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “gir, do you #ee anything ridicu- lous in my tie it, airt bead.” even before T demand 0] foil known SPENDS HOUR iN OVEN HEATED 312 DEGREES. Chickem and Bread Baked Brown, Candles Melted, but Man Emerges Alive and Well. (Prom the Detrott News.) For a wager of $200 a man named Martinez suffered himself to be practt- Jeally baked allve some yevrs ago in Paris in the presence of a number of scientists, He entered a huge oven, specially built, after it had been heated to a temperature of 12 degrees F., or about 100 ‘degrees hotter than boiling water, ‘Then the door was closed, and he was left alone for an hour, in company with an uncooked chicken and an unbaked jlouf of bread, Candles were also pro- |vided, that he might have light during his inearceration—or incineration, as |many people thought 1t would turn out. | When he was released, however, he |was found alive and well, with the chicken and loaf cooked to 4 turn. The candies had become bolling tallow Martinez afterward repeated nis per- cities, but there must have been some- thing abnormal in his constitution, since \of several would-be emulators of his feat none aucceeded in staying out the full hour, while two, at least, perished mis- erably. Probably bis success was due in part \to the care he took to have every par- ure erat re Rg That hot: dry air_dtes not so adversely effect a human be og ee hot, moist air, — tracted from the | th gxtracted from tne | fully able to understand the relasious location here, ‘To-day she samples fanaticism of the Bast wien the people Mrs. are seen at prayer in one of these bunch BUDDHA'S BIG IMAGE SET ON GOLD FLOWER. Figure 80 Feet High Worshipped With Insane Devotion in Sacred Temple of the Lama City (From Harper's Magazine.) An cighty-foot wooden image of Buddha standing on a golden lotus flower within a sacred temple tn ‘The Lama City,” reserved for residences of Mongolian priests, {s worshipped with all the Insane devotion possible by the Mongolians. The great figure is heavily gilded, incrusted with precious stones and draped with silken cloths. When che temple 1s opencu to the faithful of the City of Urga a priest at the entrance gives each person a few drops of holy water from a filthy jug, and the people, etlent with awe, bathe their faces with the fluid and prostrate themselves before the statue, whose head is lost in the shadows of the temple rgof, ‘They kiss tts etlken draperies, sotled by the lips of thousands, and each one gathers a handful of eacred dirt from slance last week, turned rignt aroun the temple floor, From niches in the wall hundreds of tiny Buddhas gaze worshipping Mongols, The seono worship 1s one “intoxlenting in barbaric splendor, ‘The chorus of prayers which rise and fall in a meaningless half wild chant General Manager J. D, Williams, are broken by the clash of cymbals and @ boom of snakeskin drums, and one temples, ss Agent, t He didn’t claim that his star wo the most beautiful in the world; tha: |she had just lost $1,000,000 worth of diamonds; that she could act bette ; than any other screenite that he } hobby was raising self-pi Kling ev + cumbers or that her forth coming re lease was to ‘cost $1,000,000,"" In Other Words, he tried to be How est. MORAL: “It's better to have hu a job and lost than never to ha: « worked at al!.’" J FADEOUTS. Dustin Farnum fs shooting seen: for a new film tentatively labelle “When Iron Turns to Gold.'*, It will probably be released, we presume under some such title as ‘Why Cas Iron Sinks."* Mary Carr was called upon by . William Fox script to fry som: doughnuts. Now, what do you sup pose Mary Carr did? Right the fir time; she fried doughnuts. Jack Ford, widely known directo: grew so accustomed to eating seed less raisins, tasteless cooking and drinking kickless drinks that he ha started smoking a smokeless pips, “Ten Nights in a Barroom,” a fil made from the age-old story, + bringing back “‘old tin "* memorie in several big cities. olstead hasn seen it yet. Parthenon Productions the signing of Ludmilla Batalina and Alexander Trojanowsky: 18 Wouldn't those two monickers shine brightly in 60-watt lights? My, o!, my! “If absence makes the heart ‘Ow fonder,” muses Ernest Truex, “the: nearness makes It beat like thunder The old Eden Musee has been re produced in Hollywood for the nex Educational Mermaid comedy, Al Christie 1s personally directine a new comedy featuring Bobby Ver n announe: Franzowne. impassively on the bunch of Iowans in the films at pres. of ent, ‘ts We belleve Ben Turpin sprouted 14 on, “Schoolday Love” will be title o the next Campbell comed: Irene Dalton gave Chi and whisked back to Hollywood. Iowa Is raising a new crop now adays—Screen Beauties. There are All are not beauties, however, Des Moines. Associated First National, thro entertaining Florence Lawrence Western screen writer, on vacation Delmonteo's cooking with a of hungry Hastern writers on screen topics.