The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1922, Page 24

NE thing to be sald for Elsie Janis is that she gives jobs to former service men, She hal ev old gang with her at the Gaicty ‘Pheatre last night, together with sev eral new recruits. “But something Missing. Perhaps it was the unt- fyrms, which were half the battle two seasons ago. Or is it that the ovelty of this kind of entertainment ‘has worn off? Anyway, there was not the old zest, the khak! spirit, nor the same infectious humor. The ef- fect was rather that of good-natured young people giving a modest show for some worthy cause, such as buy- fag 2 pulmotor for the church @rgan—a clever show as such shows @, yet one neither quite professional wholly amateurish. No one could be more completely yFofessional than Elsie Janis, unless if is George M. Coban. She was te honest about her show, setting h tm billboard style a galaxy of fare beyond her reach, rating herself Weiow @ $100,000 or $200,000 produc- even if she had as much money @u that to invest in herself, and then ting her aggregation of per- with a fond wave of the seemed to be The boys and girls sang, danced fooled enterta‘ningly at times, at other times not so entertai ingly. ‘Che best of the singers w Furien Thayer, with a pleasing voice and un easy presence in the spot- Right. Gus Shy had his comic mo- ments and Charlie Lawrence lookei funny even if he ci.in't live up to his ks in- his rather simple attempts t enliven the oveasion, The girls About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY HE MPSSRS. SHUBERT hav decided to make the 44th Street * ‘Theatre a home for ‘“‘legiti- te’ attractions again. This house ich has been used for Shubert Ne for several months, will @ its former policy next Monday, Joseph M. Gaites will move hi- musical play, “Up in the Sa into it from the Lyric. It at the 44th Street that Mr. ites’s other musical success of re- chat years, “Take It From Me," got ifs New York start and he feels fHlendly toward the big house. ‘The announcement from the Messr+ states that another house up will take the place of the 44h in ing of theatres, Thus the Winter will be the uideville house jn the Long Acre juare district arid it will be the key- of the circuit. Heat@ale Ren the Shubert Vaudeville! only Shuber: | As things were, | 'THE NEW PLAYS| Elsie Janis and Gang Give Modest Show By CHARLES DARNTON on reeable and wily Asta Valle. en Janis irre were vorally up their toes, esper But the saving grace of the tainment was, of course, Miss Her dancing had all its young, sistible charm, blithe and gay and resh as a breeze. In a Montmartre skit she sang Brice's song. “My Man,” in French with a keen sense of character, It was not until about 11 o'clock, however, that she veally came into her own with imita tions of Ethel Barrymore in anot! Fannie Brice song, one of Miss Bri having a go at Miss Barrymore's roic n “Declasse,” and then hitting off Sam Beenard as a temperamental traffle cop on Fifth Avenue. All these mpersonations were strikingly true and thoroughly amusing. A flag bal let enabled Miss Janis to end her versatile and artistic perfcemance in a blaze of Old Glory. THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY “Wese HARD TiMeS MEANS “THAT POPPER WILL HAVE “To ECONOMIZE ON LUNCHES ' “N'EVERY THIN’ LITTLE MARY WaT YOu DOWG MARY’. 9 Pa AREE KATINKA (Capr. 1922 (N.Y. Eve. World) By Press Pub. Co. WRITIN’ SSS —— —_————$ TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1922 OE’S CA WIR “TWIN Six . 4, | MIXUP 44th Street was somewhat ih con- | with the Winter Garden, as they) but a short distance apart. ‘iw, uptown will command a neg} tele for Shubert Vaudeville. | which one it will be has not been | LAND SAKES! You LOOK LIKE A FELLER WHO SusT -— GOT A LETTER FROM THE INCOME TAX INSPECTOR ced. MISS FERGUSON LEAVING. engagement of Elsie Ferguson Zoe Akins'’s “The Varying Shore,” the Hudson Theatre, will end Jan. » Producer Sam H. Harris explains the star's inability to obtain a ement of film work, for which fs under contract, makes the of the New York engage- tt of the play Amperative. It \s stood Miss Ferguson will play other cities, including Chi- before the play is withdrawn. THE SHANGHA! DIED. y C. Wood of Red Hook, N. Y., grooming his chickens these days preparatory to showing them at the big poultry show to be held at Madi- won Square Garden soon. They aro dguble-jointed Brahmas, light-whis- Mered Cochins and Mebbe Braham Bantams. Mr. Wood is a noted Broad- Way first-nighter, but when it comes tg his poultry, he’s an every-dayer. ANOTHER FOR GORDON. ‘Kilbourn Gordon, Inc., will soon srotuce @ play called “The Cat and the Canary,” by John Willard. We n't be surprised to see this one @ into the Ritz Theatre when Ina aire leaves for Chicago. COHAN RETURNS. George M. Cohan returned from tic City last night, but said he mot quite ready to outline any he may have been considering new productions. Incidentally, J. Rosenthal, manager of “The O'Br since it was first produc his position yesterday succeeded him. rt? 1 Ww “hy © THE MAJOR'S JOKE. Pistejor MacDwyer afd Col. seli- live in Brooklyn and take their at the sume restaurant but different tables, The othe day the found his table one upled ny To REPORT FOR a EXAMINATION ! RHYMED PROPOSALS Buster of Washington Heights, says he had been a reader of this column 80 long he feels he has a right to use it In his plan to obtain a wife. Buster jis right. We want all our young men to take wives. Of course, it makes a difference whose wife is taken, but well, anyway, this Is what Buster says: 1 wonder if some girlic Will give a thought to me? I'm big and strong and not too fat And just past thirty-three, I leave the house cach evening And have no place to go; Just looking for a sweetie Who's looking for a beau So if there is some nice girl Who wants a steady man, I'll send my address to her As quickly as I can ' and he took a & ut the one pre- sided over by the Colonel. When the Colonel finally noticed the Major at his table, he asked: « “Major, what are you doing here? “Just filling in," replied the Major. John Rutan, a capitalist, seated ne them, immediately told his pri secretary to send us the story. A the point of the tale ts this: ane Major was very hungry—cmpty, as at jit we | The r| ere, and—exciise us & moment, phone's ringing. RUSSIAN TROUPE FEB. 3. | Morris Gest announces that the | Russian players from Moscow, who | have been appearing in Paris and} | London as the ‘Theatre de la Chanvo | will sail from England J*ri- and will open at the 49th street heatre on Feb, 3, Before the regu- jlar opening they will give a perform | lance for newspaper and magasine | writers exclusively. GossiP. Edouard Durand has been engaged |for “The French, Doll.” Edwin Milton Royle, author of “The the Squaw Man," is understudying Sheriff role in that play | Virginia Danforth, daughter | William Danforth, of “Blossom i will enter musical comedy | spring. From the Belasco offices we learn that David* Warfield and Frances Starr are breaking records for re- ceipts on the road. re dancing in the ladies’ | J sitokt fam at the Globe between jthe acts of jood Morning, Dearie. | Helen Menken took up the Alice Brady role in “Drifting” at the Play- house and did very well with it ga Petrova has a plan to neat her vias “The White Peacock," Jtranslated’ into French by Mme Maeterlinck, Every seat in the George M. Cohan Th for Ed Wynn's show Jan. 20 WOE, How y'MaKING ouT wrth ' LiKe FETTER'N YOUR OTHER canis ? « LL SAY 1 DO, oscar SHE'S ONE Jazzy CAR — STILL WRITING LETTERS 2 1T ANY AN’ IVE Cor EIGHT More TS WRITE. MAYBE IF You LAIO OFF FREE BANQUETS FOR A WHILE AN’ GIVE YER TEETH A 7 1 NEVER EAT ANYTHING AT THEM AFFAIR telephoned us last night that Doroth: South of “The Wild Cat,” had oat some diamonds. She is positively the only actress who ever lost her Jewels. Billie Burke will play matinces of ‘The Intimate Strangers” at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Thursda and Saturday of this week. A. H. Woods is negotiatin, London’ production of Samuel Ship man's play, “Lawful Larceny,” Brock Pemberton is sailin, England to-day on the George Wash ington. He will produce ‘Enter Madame” in London next month in association with Dennis Eadie. Frances Roeder, daughter of the late Gus C. Roeder, is presenting her new vaudeville act, "The Frances Roeder Review,” ‘at Proctor's. 23d Street Theatre the first half of this week. A THOUGHT FOR To-pay, A friend of ours got drunk yester- day and hung a blue flag beac white star in his window, ME & FOOLISHMENT, |The sun 18 @ great institution A product of much evolution It lights up the earth And it causes much mirth’ Said Henry H. Pickett's son Martin, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “I saw your wife at the ball last night.” very cent Pe make goes on that woman's back.” has been bought by the Yale Club. Frank Payne, veteran press agent, “Rusiness can't be very good with you.” y, Friday | W'LL RUN A MILE ON THe MERE. ODOR OF GasoL ine! OF WHACK — HAVEN'T HAD A BIT OF TTReuBLE. SINCE 1 Gor IT —!~ CANT EAT THIS A must ie) The ‘Goad truth, stand up all the tim NEVER ouT OU'SIR-Do Make AN EFFORT — MY TEETH ARE. AWFUL BAD SAE x STEAK -ITS AS “TOUGH AS SOLE LEATHER ¢ / i A Do Ou Mean 7S SAY & LITME KID LIKE MARY eEEPs up & CORRESPONDENCE — Y\WEITES LeTTER WL AFTER LETTER 2 — WHAT 1 WAS Goin TO WHY CANT You DRIVE ME TH Crry omeur ? i've SWELL CIGAR — come. AN T DINNER BUSINESS Dare — BUY You A SAY — IN Got A ON! HAVE. To EAT FoR MY -woT THE CUSTOMERS Leave f Yes, and She Writes‘ Numbers Too! IT ONLY Go To MAKE A SPEECH, AN Y'NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE HAVIN’ TROUBLE WITH THEIR TEETH FRort SUST TALKIN’! PARTIOTIC TO THE LIMIT. N Englishman met a friend and remarked: “I say, old chap, I've got an awfully good Idea, don't you know. I'm going to have a must- cal box put in my bathroom so that when I'm having my bath I. can listen to a Bit of music.” His friend ata Not seem to think much of the idea, and when he met the genius a few weeks later he }asked him how he got on with the ¢al box in the bathroom. h,” said his friend, “to tell the it wasn't much of a success. beastly thing would only play Save the King’ and so I had to Tit-Bits, PROVED HIS POINT, HB old Scotch professor was try- ing to impress upon his stu- dents the value of observation “No,” he complained, “ye dinna use your faculties of observation. Ye dinngguse ‘em. For instance’ Pitfing up a pot of chemicals of SL ee horrible odor, he stuck his finger into it and then into his mouth, “Taste of it, gentlemen,” he com- manded as he passed the pot from student to student. After each had licked a finger and had felt a rebellion through his whole soul, the old professor laughed in tri- umph, “L told ye so!” he ehouted, “Ye dinna use your faculties of observa- tion! For if ye had observed ye would ha’ seen that the finger which I stuck into the pot was na the finger I stuck into my mouth!"—The Satur- day Journal. A and very charming young lady hajled a four-wheeler, there being no taxi in sight. Just as she was getting in she noticed that the horse seemed inclined to be frisky. He was jumping about, and swish- ing his tail in a way that alarmed her; she was a timid ttle thing, So she adressed a few words to the ie eS NOTHING TO FEAR. EW days ago a well dressed Copr, 1982 eres | NINE oF ’em 2 , Ss (N.Y. Ee. Werld) Press Pub. Co.° EVERY TIME MY Boss HAS AN ARGUMENT WITH THE MissusS HE LOSES A a, COUPLE ¢ “No, mum,” he replied, “I have @ S of here “Yes, plain, sir,” tor. fishes done that they should be cruelly ancient Jehu: “I hope,” she sald, smiling bravely, “that you will not run away with me, The cabby sighed mournfully, ae sively responded Jimmy. chasing worms was That's what delphia Ledger wife and seven kids —Pearson's Week! ——. LITTLE JIMMY'S GOOD EXCUSE. PEAKING at a dinner, Uncle Joe Cannon referred to the ability the average youngster finding a ready excuse and told the t ‘ome already!” following story as mmy “| was"— ‘ou should be ashamed of your- " reprovingly interjected the pas- “What have those poor little they afternoon minister small slowly his way to a Sab- | bath the country when, in passing a mill creek, denly came upon little Jimmy John- Son seated beneath a shady tree with a fishing rod in his hand. “Why Jimmy,” ilustration: One’ Sunday the in a town was wending school in he sud- exclaimed the min. ister, with a horrified expression, am certainly amazed to see you started to ex- hooked on the Sabbath?” “What have they done?” defen- Why, they on Sunday. done.” —Phila- —sHe's IN ty'sHoP HAVING “TH CARBON STAKEN OuT '! -— BATTLE SCARS. Huntley Gordon, appearing tn “Ie yond the Rainbow,” William Christy | Cabanne feature, has a hard time covering up two frightful battle- scars with make-up. One of these Ladges of honor cleaves lis upper hp and without grease paint shines livia |‘neath the greenish glare of the Cooper Hewitts. The, other dent is ‘cross his right eyébrow and i almost as prominent, When seen for the first time the scars bring up vivid pictures of war- torn No Man’s Land—bursting shell, shrieking, fighting men, a hand- | grenade, a frightful explosion and | Gordon lying torn and_ helple | When Gordon speaks the visio fades. “That guy can sure swing a mean lockey-stick,"’ he mutters every tito» he socks the scars full of cosmetic HE PAYS AND PAYS AND PAYS. Frisco, who, when ho is not trip fn ping a light but jazzy fantasti Reisenweber's, sometimes acts in pi tures, was invited: rece a private showing of at the projection roo firoadway. It being absolutely ¥riaco accepted with avidity. But on the night of the showing somebody opened the sluicews y and a heavenly ocean was turned loose on Broadway and environs. Frisco hailed a taxi to ferry him the few blocks |Alighting in the rain, Frisco asked | the fare. | {The charge is four bucks!’* grunt Jed the taxi pirate. “The charge is no such thing,” fumed Frisco. ‘The charge *s and larceny But, as is usual in all sien cases Le paid 0O LALA! We didn’t think Harry Myers liad the nerve to do it, but he did. Harry always had the reputation of playing whatever part assigned in the manner it should played We've seen him as a lawyer, doctor business man, tramp, hick, lounze lizard, orook, hen-pecked husband, 11 alimony dodger, a drunkard, a gamb ler, a chauffeur and even a wife |beater on the screen and thought there wasn't much left lic could he ; called upon to do. | In “Boy Crazy” he shows lentirely new characterization. | plays a he-dressmaker. |. “I don’t like this he-she idea « bit,” confides Harry. “And if any onc on earth, even Jack Dempsey, dares to hint that J lisp I'll knock ‘em into the middle of 1923, And that's some long journey.” A FLARE-BACK. “Only once in my life did J ever so far forget myself as to strike my him us an Harry wife,’’ confided a friend to Owen Moore. . "In a moment of great anger | struck her, and for two days 1 couldn't summon up enough courage to look any one in the face. In fact, the next morning I couldn't see out ither eye. “Yes, that was the only time I ever forgot myself in that manner. FADEOUTS. Warner Brothers announce that King George of England Uikgs Monty Banks as a movie actor, . R. also has a hankering for whiskers, but that doesn’t make it unanimous. Tom Mix has started work on an- other mixture in Hollywood. It is now known as “Up and Going.” Be good, too, if Tom has shed the idea that ‘he looks like anything but a head waiter in evening clothes. Lupino Lane, famous London mime, has started work on ‘The Broker, his first William Fox starring vehicle Otto F. Hoffman, R-C player, start ed life as a phrenologist. "That life was too bumpy, and now he's a pic ture actor. A FABLE: Once upon a time every worhan who was arrested, or sued o1 was sued, claimed to be a chorus gir! Now they are all motion picture a tresses, according to their claims. Thirty Christie actors took fencinz lessons for two weeks. Now they can build fences with any crew on earth. “The Family Album,” Jutan Ollen dorff's latest Sketchograf, is a currant | Educational release. | Rosalind Layte, London: stage beauty, 18 making her American screen debut with William Farnum in “Man's Weakness.” Johnny Walker lives up to his name by doing a five-mile hike before his coffee and flapjacks every morning. Out in California they are now call- ing Barbara Bedford's “Santa Bat |bara,”” because of her angelic dispo |sition. Wonder if that's the reason |they call that burg St. Louis? The Prince of Wales and Charli: Chaplin both claim “Al's Button’ is funny Alm.” Wonder what the Prime Minister of the Aztecs and Monk Eastman think of it? Wesley Barry is to appear in “From Rags to Riches" and “Littlo Heroes of the Street." If Wes was a jgirl kid he'd probably be starred in “Bertha the Sewing ¢ Girt."* Ad