The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1922, Page 22

By BIDE Cailiel Gali: ACM About Plays and Players DUDLEY ROADWAY hears that Lew Dockstader is to head another | big minstrel troupe, Charles D. Wilson, it is said, will be tt ager and among those who may join man- | { RHYMED PROPOSALS } The “Rroposal’’ business was pretty good with us over Sunday, Exactly the company besides Mr. Dockstader | fourteen pleas for mates were handed | are Eddic Maver, Reese Prosser, the Three Musical Cn John P. Rogers, the Six Marcos and Bddie V. Cupero, the dean of minstrel band and or- thestra conductors. A big minstrel Bhow like the one projected should do well. TWO BENEFITS. Two big benefits were held last night, At the Hippodrome a bill ar- tanged by BE. F. Albee was given for the K. of C. building fund. The theatre was packed, Among thowe who appeared were Irene Castle, Irene Bordoni, Bessie Clayton, Belle Baker, Harry Carroll, Anatol Fried- land, Ada Mae Weeks, Andrew Tombes, Courtney Sisters, Carl Ran- dall, the Templetons, the Magieys, Williams and Wolfus and W. C. Fields. The other benefit was for the 1 Aid Society at the Ritz The- . *Rhere Mile, Pally Anna, pre- miler dahcer of the Royal Opera House, Budapest, made her Ameri- cin debut; Everett Butterfield pre- sented an entertaining new act; Sophie Tucker sang, and others who ased were Els Buttler, Hyman irsch. and sister, Georgie Jessel, Deris Levene, pianist; Grace East- man, the Beaumont Sisters, Bertram | Peacock, Jack Osterman, the Mey- .akas Japanese Troupe, Johnny Dale, | Job E. Brown, Guy Robertson, Max) Weily and Melissa Ten Eyck, Al| Sanders, Joc Laurie, Harry Green, | the Havels, Robe¥t Pitkin, Harry Ruby, Bert Kolmar and Anatol | Priedland, Bert Levy was master of ceremonies. ED WASN’T HUNGRY. Fifty members of the Yale Club en- tertained Hd Wynn at dinner the other night. It didn’t cost thet much per capita, as Ed ate only @ pickle and some ice cream and posi- tively did not take any food home in his pockets. FUN ON THE SUBWAY. ! Roy Walling of ‘‘Lilies of the Wield" had a seat in a subway train yesterday when two girls carrying ice skates entéred the car. Mr. Wall- | ing arose and immediately offered his seat. | “No, thank yo! came from one | of the girls, “We expect to sit down | tater." 1 “Why?” asked the actor, innocent- | ly. “Aren't you good skaters?” As he left the car the guard whis- pered, ‘‘You made a sort of a fuss past with them gals, didn't you?" THE SECRET IS OUT. Bruce Edwards, who is in Miami, Fia., nubmitted to an interview for a local paper the other day. When he | read it next day he was surprised to} find this sentence; “Mr. Edwards is well known, being General Manager for Charles Dilling- ham, the famous actor.” A PROUD FATHER. Nils Granlund, the Loew publicity man, writes us to announce that his| seven-year-old daughter, June, made | her stage debut in Wickford, R. 1.,| recently and did a gypsy dance that “"gnocked ‘em cuckoo."’ She also #ting, ubing a voice that is much better than her daddy's. June wore a tinselled dress ami ‘her hair was curled. Watch this child, managers! VAUDEVILLE FOR APOLLO. “An announcement just in siates that Shubert vaudeville is to be pre- sented at the Apollo Theatre, Atlan- tie Cit inning next Sunday. This Yotuwe has been playing regular shows and has been booked mainly by the Erlanger offices. The new tum in af- fairs would point to even closer relu- tions between the Erlanger and Shu- tragtions of both sides must use the at Atlantic City. The Giobe ‘has been a Shubert house. ATTA BOY, ARTHUR! Arthur Rosenfeld, the picture frame poet, is with us again to-day with an effusion directed at Margalo Gillmore. Arthur is a bachelor and he Joes liky, pretty girls, Look! Margalo Gillmore, you are immense, O'er me you've cast hypnotic influ- ence. Whene’er I look in your eyes of blue The world I'd gladly give to you. Aa Rose Lane in “Jimmy Valentine,” T'@*turn crook for you any time. are concerned,” sald Fritz, An@ now in “He Who Gets Slapped,” Lam more enthused and enwrapped. “PRO” MATINEE POSTPONED. ‘The old fashioned _ profession: tinee of “Bull Dog Drummond, which was scheduled for next Friday, has been postponed to Tuesday after- noon, Jan. 24. The change in date is made to avoid conflict with the Actors’ Fund benefit at the Century. | apptejack.”’ MISS SEGAL IN “VODE.” Vivienne Segal, musical comedy ster, will appear in Keith vaudeville soon. Hers will be @ hovelty singing ('\ act, called “An Impromptu Re-, bearsal.” NO DANGER FOR HIM. Fritz Leiber, Shakespearian star, | was iI a few months ago. When he waa able to be around again a lazy friend met him, “I hear you've been ill,"" said the tiend. “Yes,” said Fritz, ‘I'm just out.” “Is that s0? Gea I hope it isn't wo far as you | Me Carter yesterday, at his studio. us when old John Vostman scampered in, One was a request for the address of Grace K. of Ventnor, N. J. Another | was a nice plea written by Rose of) New York, who says she is anxiously | waiting. Hers is given space to-day because she is eager and willing to get married quickly. Here it ts; I'm a willowy miss Who loves to kiss. | Dark hair, dark eyes, Never given to Hes, Can cook, dance and sew, But have no nice beau. So boys, pen a tine And I will be thine. I'll look here cach day; For a sweetheart I pray. My story is told, Come on, boys; be bold! CouPRLA BOARDERS HuH ? HERE COMES THAT . 1982 (N.Y. Eve, We THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY. + |LUZARD. FoR A FREE FEED e7™2, | AGAIN | WHAT Does HE THINK THIS 1S - THE (~ SAWWATION ARMY? 5) 1 USED To “THINR UY LED A MITER@BLE LIFE wuen 1 WAS A viD AN’ HAD "To “TAKE. CARE. ~~ L_OF Dad's Horse! ——, BOARDERS CourPLe OF ATWES, eon THAT BiG HOUND ANT GONNA GRAFT ANY MORE HOT SUPPERS; IN MY HOUSE ! 1 WANT You To TREAT HiM SO HE'LL STAY AWAY AFTER THis ! JANUARY 16, 1922 ville HG 1 Hap T'PITCH tT BAY AN’ LEAD IT To WATER AN’ RUB IT DOwN with A GuRRY Come AND BY “TH' WAY OF ‘ourRds-BLOOD RELATIONS & ‘LUKE’ ARE THESE TLL SAY “Pook RELATIONS” S50 6) MARY--RUM DowN AND SEE WHY THAT crhurecH BELL js RINGING —~ MAYBE THERE “S A FIRE OR WEDDING oR MURDER OR SOMETHING. —s. THAT WOULDN'T NEXT TIME HE Do A BiT OF COMES JUST GIVE HIM THE “COLD SHOULDER’! IT To PASTURE N' RUERYTHIN'— GosH , But 1 WAS HAPPY WHEN HE SOLD TH'OLD NAG! — Take I Found ouT Ati ABOUT —wSSsSS 7 THeY are Forever BLEEDIN' Who'd Have Guessed THAT ? A Cope. 1922 (NAY. Rive. Werld) By Press Pub. Co. THE BELL 1S -RINGIN? ‘CAUSE THERE'S , & MAN PULLIN || ON THE ROPE ° aS FERDIE'S A i) | VEGETARIAN ! (a due to overwork,"’ COULDN'T BE FOOLED. In “The 8. ake het the ship. In her dressing- room she has a ship's clock to give| her nautical inspiration, While a! visitor was in the room last week the | clock struc! “Oh, dear!" sald Miss Forrest. “You ‘must excuse me. It's my wateh."" op kidding!’ came from the| cast visitor, “You can't make me believe |Hordon!'s new starring ve) @ watch xtrikes as loud as that.’ late Junie MeCree, has jot! sumble of "Blossom Time,"* d the en- for Al Jolson and “Bombo,” while Al Goodman is busy on some music writing Hamilton Revelle, now 4 “Captain gave a tea for Mrs, Les- William ©. Boyce, doorman at the Longacre Theatre, in dead of pneu- je wan eishiy years old and ybody called him Pop. “The Bat'' will celebrate its 600th performance at the Morosco to-night. | Two large theatre parties of newspa- | per writers will be present | After an absence from Broadway | of three years, ing which hel served in the United States Cavalry, | Max Sherman is back, and will pro- duce for vaudeville. tdward Roelke ac the Hippodr r, master mechanic me, and Nina Dan- aN N 1 t was/and Mrs, Arthur Geary were their attendants, George Leonard, Charles Orr and R |Etta Hagar are rehearsing a musical . ‘The Tenacity” at the| skit for the Friars’ Frolic to te held Belmont Theatre, Marguerite Forrest| next Sunday night. Argyle Campbell turn on watch on the/and Max Scheck are staging it. Ruth Hornung, grandniece of Matt | Grau, will have the role of Hannah the New York Uni jduction of “Thank U" at the Long- acre, Thurston Hall, recently of “Pne Rroken Wing,” has been added to the “The French Doll" Irene Maude George, who appears in the - film “Foolish Wives,” has decided to Gossip go Into vaudeville with a new dra- Barbara MeCree, daughter of the |!ratic called “The Card Case.” Fifteen hundred children trom Pub- lie School No. 39 demonstrated how Louis Silvers ix swinging the baton | Well they were trained in their fire Saturday morning when they ft Proctor’s 126th Stret Theatre in minute and a half after sceing virbanks film, Thare was no fire. It was just a demonstration A THOUGHT FOR TO-Day. It makes the average man mad to 0 running about th Jat a high rate of speed—unte: jin at nee an a FOOLISHMENT, Willie lay o'er father’s knee, But the voy was cabin, “When it comes to lies “1 sure get the palm.” Led ber @ dog's life, uh rsity's pro: | a | | The Day’s Good Stories SWEETLY EXPRESSED. OT for worlds would Mis, Smitn|men in some agreeably remote re- speak an unkind word about’ gions still voting for Andrew Jackson; | 66 any one, She was one of those|and if that Js so we'd like to take a S charitable old ladies who try to think |few weeks" rest there. and speak kindly of every one. .If| We used to go fishing with Phin| make the proposition good: any one asked her opinion of a per-| Kibbe up in the Berkshires, and he son, and she did not particularly likc| Was one of the most amiable politi- the individual in question, she would | cal conversationalists (if you like the express her feelings in such a quaint} Word) we ever knew. He was ami-| “Well, well, never mind, cheer up, end original way that the sting would | able because he never disagreed, He|old man, cheor up! e never disagreed because he rarely | us and shows us our better qualities.” “What a brilliant conversationatiat| spoke atall, He was a good fisher-| “An, but Adveraity didn't try me: | or the journey. young Mr. Jenkins is,” said a friend|man. Sometimes we went after pick-| it was a country judge, and he show- “Do you know him?| rel, drifting along the edges of the|ed up my worst qualities,”"—4Minneap- Really, it’s an education to listen to] lly pads from the stern of w leaky | ols Tribune. him talking." | Yes," sald gentle Mrs. Smith, “I have met him.” “You must have found him very entertaining. W! Le quite lost. te her one day. Smith, with a sweet smile, ‘it mus' have been at the beginning of th. second hour."—London Tit-Bits, aid he, | i FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE ] suing for 4 separation Mrs lels of Mount Vernon, In", were mar- | Smith says her husband is a rover fied late Saturday ai ynoon, Mr doesn't do to take polities too|in his chain of thoughts. He seriously Some think there has jin politics. They say there are still | and temperamental but very homelike and fishy-smelling boat. After dark | we sometimes sat in the same boat, aroma of the kerosene lanterns set in an talk clev- late. prone night a period of an hour's id ne “Say, who's President now, Me | Kinley ?"" discussion. mourned He knew all to run pickerel or a mess of bullheads once Boston Herald ————=>_—- HIS WORST QUALITIES. WEBT are the uses of adver: ity,” says Shakespeare; but the following colloquy doesn't in a whil “Ah, Sam, so you are in trouble, “Yes, Jim; yes Iam.” _————- IN THE BEGINNING. N the evening of the sixth day, | seechingly of the field, the|the bus.” e fowls of the air and all the | only and wittily for aa hee Gee | the boat's bottom. Then wo fished | creeping things upon the earth as- | streteh."* witl) drop lines for bullheads—a fish | “Then when I met him," said Mrs.|unlovely to gaze upon, unresponsive the fish odor being relieved by the O sembled around a great stone table i rn uniOuman affection, but delectable to| i the Garden of Eden. The occasion| “All the world loves a lover," is the Continent," V was a banquet in honor of Adam, who had just been crated, the repast, the mastodon, who because of his sive But the elvili been too much taking 0 | ve answered, truthfully as is our| ut been appointed master af cere-| he should, for the pretty seriously in politics. Some think © habit, “No, Roosevelt,’ bas been soo much taking of all kinds monies, bellowed “Speech! Speech!"'|not his sweetheart, ‘That ended the evening's polities’ Zhe tumuds eubsided only when the Admirable and much- | guest of honor, blushing all over, rose fishing companion, Phin. | and bowed, the politics pecessuw |, “Vertebrates and invertebrates,"” he began, “this overwhelms me. you I am absolutely sure | par sincere. —Life board the bus, piontatie Aaa Do jience was broken by Phin, who) ~ «4 od Ww 5, a‘ silene? «ous through the damp dark | ‘The -table was loaded with vege-/up o Highland laddie in kilts THE SILENT FISHERMAN. ‘and ventured to make audible a link “bles and fruits of all kinds—except-! get up, so that you can sit next to T as- unpre- And for once the old apology was ——————— “ALL TnE WORLD LOVES A LOVER.” HE bus conductress waa tired and disgruntled. She had|pought the first electric presser ever shguted to the waiting knots of | sold. people for home: “Only two upstaira| A very personal screen snapshot —only three inside—so more atand- ep ‘ng room—no more room at all," and/sqi City, After seeing the film Jan Adversity tries turned | has decided to stick to the fiddle, really savage towards the final stage| . Elinor Flori of Goldwyn’s scenario very similar statements, and she “I tell you to get off—get off the! California next week, She will prob- step—there 1s mo more room,” ehe|ably tell ‘em how NOT to write, cried to a civilian who would try to|,, Richard Dix yosterday told | bis “Oh! do let me get in,” he said, be-|actors are out of work," said Dick. “My sweetheart Is inside|‘‘!’m glad A pause—and then the conductress wmnlled—reuily smiled, “On!” then,” she said, “but hurry up.” come un the old saying, and next to a pretty|'*The Dictator,” in which the then girl, the only one in the vehicle, rose | Willie, but now dignified William “yq) | Collier starred in the speakies, your sweetheart,” he said n blushed so | Califoi was He had no gitl following the com) pletion ve Thi 4m the bus at all—London Tit-Bits, a Glass Window," ’ Screenings By DUN ALLEN, HENRY B. IS BACK. Henry B. Walthall, the “Mansfield of the screen,” is back to his old love —the movies. Following an absence from the screen of more than two years, the ,|Jovable player who was guch an out- standing figure in Griffith's “Birth of a Nation,” will be seen in one of | the leading roles in “One Clear Call,” | to be released through First National. While really a “heavy” by nature of his character, Walthall, as of old, makes his beholders love even the character's bad traits. | Here is one screen player who was truly missed. Thousands upon thou- sands will welcome his return. ANOTHER MOTHER Dick Barthelmess has anotiver mother, Although he’s had six or seven already, the handsome young star 1s a glutton for punishment and didn't kick a bit when Inspiration Pictures told him that his latest “mother” would be Mrs, Margaret Seddon, who, by the way has mothered some of the biggest movic stars. “How do you like your new mother? someone asked Dick. “Very much,” answered Barthel- mess, “and you might announce that | both ‘mother and child are doing tin WHERE THEN? Katherine MacDonald is worried. It's all over the rather flimsy Ahn .| outlook for movie writers “If the conference at Washington brings about the elimination of w just as Volstead delivered a more « less fatal blow to legal liquor and | night cafe life, where will the writers go for their material?” |the star. “What the films will be lke fn a hundred years is hard to predict,’ amplified Miss MacDonald. censors frown on all barroom and cate scenes unless “adjacent-beer™ signs are used to prove the stuff the actors are drinking is kickless, If the world frowns on war, what will the censox do then to our poor effo' Wi theme can we use for motic stories?" Our one best bet would be to stic's to the film theme of Miss Mac's lates: release, ‘Domestic Relations.” There general fight enough and action enough in that line of thought to satisfy every author. | ENGLISH AS IS. | ‘Three «chaps strolled out of a Montreal theatre recently. ‘They had just seen “Aesop's Film Fable” of “The Rooster ‘and the Kagle.” “Hit were a heagle!* announced one. “Hit were a ‘en, ¢orrected the other. “Yer both wrong,” climaxed the third, “Hit were a howl.” FADEINS. Jackie Coogan—look out! ‘There's another kid on your trail. Ho's Eddie Hoff, ha'-pas'-seven, and lives dowy Coney Island wa Doug Mairbanks is touting him as a “better screen actor than Coogan they say. Just watch Kid Hoff. Published reports that Fairbanks had rented the Royal Opera House, ‘ovent Garden, London, and was to ‘switch it into ‘a cinema, are denied from that city. Walter F, Wagner js, however, running it as a movie house. “The Glorious Adventure," J. Stu- art Blackton’s natural color film stay ring Lady Diana Manners, has been made into a serial story by 4 Orman. ‘The Hallroom Boys are claiming a lot. They now claim to be the origi- nators of the {dea of using an electric fron as a stove. A chorus girl made this discovery four minutes after she pictur shows Jan Kubelik staging a little comedy with Frank Mayo at Univer- department will be principal speaker before the Women's Press Club of father all about how atrical season is, * ud the the- Thousands of my son, you are not an rt’' answered Dix, senior, as have started turning and on “Brothers Under their Following the completion of ‘Across Reid will start filming Richard rding Davis's Will Payne has left Hollywood for his winter home In Flori funny, after reading nla Chamber of ¢ mt ity . May McAvoy ts enfoytm\ a vacation rough