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prec re Oo emer eet oe + Mr, Goodman's melodrama. ile (Ra HFDREMEWSRGa GOSSIP! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1922 @\4 THE NEW PLAYS “The Law Breaker” Unconvincing Melodrama S DARNTON i By CHARLE HERP is nothing like timely, but in these days of chronic hold-ups it would take @ much detter play than “Th Breaker” to stir interest in the welfare of a “gentleman crook,"®even though he wears evening clothes and ig embodied by so engaging an actor moral 48 William Courtenay, 1t is diffidult if not impossible, to share the faith of W. A. Brady in the t ex periment by Jules ximan | made last night at the Booth Thi atre Justice might have taken its course if the banker who was the victim of a robbery had not acquired along with his fortune a daughter who hid picked up a few theories as a rett'c- | ment worker, chier of which was that a criminai might be reformed if | omly a sense of responsit | awakened in him. A priest alo was inolined to be lenient in his point of view, and as the talk went on there Was, #8 a matter of course, something | said about Prohibition making us a | natin), of law breakers, together wit | reckless, not to say dangerous, com- | ment on the attituds of men who fought in the war toward government. The real business of the play dd not get under way until @ privete de being | denly made up his mind that he loved | | Kit, and parted with the high-minded jbanker's daughter on the best of terms when @he came around to set how the dear litte girl was getting slong. Although there was no hint as to their future plans, it seemed as though Jim and Kit might get along very well at Palm Keach. Anyway, the did the right thing by them, Mr. Courtenay sincere by turn, playing with mucl the same skill he gave to ‘Ars Lupin’? when first he trod the crooked path. Kit waa acted with consider able spirit and charm by Marguerite Maxwell, and Blanche Yurka worked eurnestly as Joan, Morgan Wallace was an amusing low-brow crook. In the role of the priest Frank Sheridan was debonnair and | cave important aid to a generally ex cellent performances, one far superio to Mr. Goodman's unconvincing and unsympathetic melodrama TI ONLY WANT VT oritL NEXT Paw pay “Sam! tective arrived on the scene with the news that the robbery had been com- mitted by the bankers son and pact | of the moncy found in the flat of a} girl he knew. It also appeared hv | had stolen his sister’s pearl necklac: You may readily guess that Vu) father underwent a sudden change o! | gpinion about punishing the criminal and was for having the mater | bushed up in a hurry, then over joyed at getting a message from Po lice Headquarters that a crook nam+d Jim Thorne had been arrested for th: robbery and would be brought to the house at once, It only remained tor the boy to walk in and explain! had taken his sister's necklace | merely for the purpose of raising a | few thousands lost in gambling to make the father supremely happy No parlor crook play would be com plete, of course, without a pearl neck- lace. It has done invaluable service wince “Raffles,” but never has it been turned to such surprising use as in Strong in its possession, the banker's daugh- ter put it up as security for the hon- orable conduct of the handsome crook still holding fast to her altruistic | theory of regeneration. Perhaps his face and his evening clothes saved iim from going to jail—who knows? An ugly, badly dressed burglar would probably have fared worse. Certain- ly, Dandy Jim had everything tn his favor. He was most flippant on his arrival, but after Joan had talked to him of the better things of life he seemed chastened. In fact, he was so touched he didn’t have the heart to swipe her necklace when she left him alone- with temptation. It was beau- tiful—the necklace, 1 mean, | There was better melodramatic stuff, though, in Kit's flat, with a humor- ous crook joining her in the lingo and trying to make her believe Jim was @ stool pigeon. But she wouldn't be- Neve it, loving him as she did in her! humble way. Yet jealousy warned, her that something had changed him. | For one thing he had taken to drink, | while all along he had been nobly | temperate, and it looked as ce reformation would be his ruin. Poor Hittle Kit was dreadfully worried about him, but keenly suspicious. Finally he confessed he had been “hought’’ by a woman, bought with a pearl! necklace no less, but after thrashing | Joan's bad brother he was ready to Prove himself a man again by taking back a good part of the money that Kit had hidden and getting the hate- ful ‘beads’ for her. But her in- stinct led Kit to follow him and she popped into the room at the banker's house blazing with jealous rage at what she had heard Jim saying to the fair Joan, Then police were dis- covered outside and the lights turned off so that Jim could make his get- away. But a shot cut short his fight, and when the lights went up Kit was lying wounded, Yes, she had stepped in front of him at the window to save his life, brave little soul! There seemed no escape for Jim this time, but the priest kindly arranged matters so that he could carry the girl home. Here Jim sud- About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY UPPOSE you gather round our desk, readers, and we'll tell you some news, just as we might tell you over a nice dinner you were buy- ing us! We want this column to be chummy and intimate; in other words, we want to be like a nice old rooster scratching worms out of the ground for the other chickens. Why shouldn't we be that way? Each night do we not all meet on the back page of this newspaper? Of course we do, so let's dismiss all formality and regard cach ether as members of the same family Let us call each other by our first names and revel in pure friendship. Now for the news worms! Listen, Jake! Did you and Rebecca know George M. Cohan has written the book, lyrics and music of a new i JOE’S CAR at Bia KID'S Gevtin’ ty! Best L. | OF 'T — HERE Goes A STILL BIGGER. KID CUTTIN' ONE Loose AT HiMt Copr. 1922 (N. Y. Eve. Wovid) By Press Pub. Co. THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY las Ta aN SorRyY LUKE Ole PAL - BUT LITTLE MARY MIXUP GEEWHIZZ THE PHONE ! MAYBE (T'S THAT SPORTY LITTLE FELLER I MET AT THE DANCE LAST NIGHT, HE PROMISED To CALL! WANT SOME ELP ~ ; LITTLE GirRe? ani ary Yes, SUST GOT A FLAT TIRE ON My WAY To YouR HOUSE — IM ONLY A BLock AWAY — TLL FIX (T AN' RUSH RIGHT OVER ! ~BLA- BLAH-!! GooD FELLOWSHIP AN’ FRIENDS ARE THINGS OF TH’ PAST ff ACQUAINTANCES — WES? BUT FRENDS —NO ¢ ) HE HAD AN AUTOMOBILE ! a nem, GOLY — 1 CAN SHoot "EM. AS Good AS EVER — THERE AINT A MAN IN TH’ OFFICE I COULD TAKE BY “THA HAND AN’ SAW WITH TRUTH —"HES MY FRIEND: Cape. 1882 (N.Y Eve, Workd) By Prom Pele Conn eae by Be OS —_—— Now. LET s RUN LIKE THE Deuce? Cc Cras Foo FT) arte BY THE TIME I WALK AROUND THERE HE'LL HAVE THAT TIRE FIXED AN THEN WE will remain all summer, And Helen, did you and Little Otto know that the! Cohan farce in which his daughter, Georgette Cohan, will appear is to be called “Madeleine of the Movies"? We thought maybe it would he news to you. Well, sir, this farce will open in Atlantic City on Fab, 27 and come to the Galety Theatre, New York, the following week. Incidentally, we'd like to tell you, Mike—you and the O'Toole family— that the Chicago company of ‘The O'Brien Girl’’ will take to the road a week from next Monday, opening in Hartford. Aiso that the company playing this musical show at the Lib- erty Theatre now ts going to the Gar- rick Theatre, Philadelphia, on Feb, 18 for an indefinite run. That's about all the Cohun news we ha but we have some from other sources. For instance Van Ritzmores m y be interested in j knowing that Marcia Leonard, who has been directing the productions at the Brookside Open Air Theatre, Mount Kisco, N. Y., is to have a se- ries of special matirse performances Jat the Park Theatre, beginning on Feb. 20, The trst play is The Craft | of the Tort * written by Prof, Al- |gernon Tassin of Barnard College, and Mary Boland, Marie Shotwell and Mes. Thomas Whiffen have heen en- gaged to uct in it, The title of the | play is just the sort a colle pro- { RHYMED PROPOSALS } La H. F. G. of Brooklyn really ought to have a wife after writing the fine plea that follows: I don't write prose, And I can't write verse, This junk sounds bad, But it might be worse. I’m an engineer, Just thirty-two, Don't have much cash, But am willing to. I have no girl Or a wife to love, Who'll stick as close As a fine kid glove. Now I ask you, Bide, For your helping hand My motto ts: “Ain't Nature Grand?” give them a bit of news, Marie Lobr, the English actress, appearing at the Mudson Theatre, will change her tilt riday evening and present 'Fedora,'* | This, of course, will be 2 Linyd George and the rest of the lads who lke a gnod show now and then, And then we'd like to notify everybody show called “Little Nellie Kelly’?| fessor named Algeinon would select, | that ‘Mr. Winkley Goes West" will Well, he has, and it will go into re- hearsal early next month. This pro- duction is intended for the Tremont Theatre, Boston, where jt probably don't you think? Now if the residents of Great Brit- ain, who are daily readers of this col- be staged by the Melville Company late in Febr ons are on for Willard } Producing Negotl k to have umn, will pay close attention. we'll the title role. another fifteen days, and just present, so he should have the proper atmosphere. That's about all we have to-day in the way of new ventures. But remember, folks, don't be so backward hereafter. We must make the column chummy. STUDENTS ACT WELL. The production of “Thank-U," act- ed by students of New York Univer- sity at the Longacre Theatre yesterday, afternoon for the benefit of the uni- veraity’s endowment fund, was high- ly successful in every way. The au- dience was large and the amateur players handled their roles very well |indeed. The principal parts were in ‘the hands of Sylvia Florea, Theodore A. Distler and Robert Crow, P, E. Mc- Coy, general stage director for John Golden, directed the rehearsals, and the result is a credit to his ability. DE COURVILLE WRITES. A note from Albert de Courville, producer of “Pins and Needles," is It says: I was very inter- ested to read your paragraph about ‘Pins und Needles’ yesterday. My dear fellow, !f you only ki had gone through! The c my hands; the theatre dar! tract to open two weeks ago, and the scenery still on the water, not due for imag- ine—it left England on Dec. 23, It ne- cessitated many cuts of course, It would have been hopeless to have He's in the West at! postponed any longer, for after all it ) requires a Bank of England to sustain| and will we print 1t? Well, we should | such losses." |smile! Look: Mr. de Courtille has had a hard/,,, 7 | time of it. Undoubtedly he will punt] 78 Smile Week, Dud, and smiles are} through when his ship comes in. In| free, the mean time, “Pins and Needles" is| I'll blow you—have a smile on me, worth seeing just as it Is. There! Lamp those lips that gleam NEW POPE ON SCREEN. vn peeweety | Films of the new Pope were shown! S*¢!! Wynn your heart, that girl, in the Keith theatres last night. Pathe Arline, took some pictures of the Cardinals) in Rome recently and rushed them to| She'll Wynn your heart—you get America, A section showed the new| Pope, then Cardinal Ratti, and hi election made that part doubly inter esting, since it was displayed on the very day he was chosen that word? Forgive the pun—but she's a bird, ‘he's at the Cohan, name's McGill, Go sec that smile—and say, you will, GOSSIP. Lionel Atwill, in “The Grand Duke,” will go on tour after Feb, 18, playing GORDON LIKED IT. Gordon Lindsey of New York writes he heard us over the wireless phone | Friday night when we assisted in an entertainment at the WDY station, near Elizabeth, N. J. * It was great,” says his note. “I have only one suggestion to make. | The next time you have a party like that, take me along."* Tit-willow, Gordon! Better stick to your listening and let us tell the radiophoney stories. Tenacity” and will move to Neighborhood Playhouse Feb. 14. Reports say “The Bat" is breaking records in Londom, where it is play- jing the James's Theatre. Edgur MacGregor wi)’ stage “A Night in Spain,” to be given by the Advertising Club at the Hotel Astor } oy NOW, WHO WROTE THIS? Smile week, which has arrived, we hear, hasn't been overlooked by ey- erybody. One man, a poet, hy the way, has used it to say a few words about Arline McGill, a young lady appearing with Ed Wynn tn “A Perfect Fool." Norman Trevor will open at the Princess in Wilson Collison's “Desert Sands” on Feb. 13. | Frank Rainger, stage manager of “Good Morning Dearie,’ used to sing ina church choir at Springfield, Mas: ; Charles Dillingham will hold a bull- His poem !s at hand ' dog show In the lobby of the Knick- erbocker Theatre, where “Bull Dog Drummond” js playing, Thursday af- ternoon, Feb. 16, Jimmy Hussey will head a com- pany which will appear in a big mu- sical act called “Tne Promenaders” intended for Shubert Vaudeville. It is due at the Winter Garden soon. Col. R. L, Moore of Louisville, Ky., father of Grace Moore of “Up in the Clouds,” will arrive in New York to- day, accompanied by fifteen other Kentuckians. They're all going to see daughter act to-night. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Jeff Horton, the Wellsville restau- rant man, isn't a bit haughty, but when a footpad entered his place the other night he was stuck up. FOOLISHMENT. (A Girl'e First Kiss. T have received my first kiss, From a young man; what bliss! It seemed heaven gave me joy, More happy than a baby's toy, I would not want my parents to know, I blushed and tried to say “No!” ‘Twas eventide; our lips did meet, They tungered; oh, 'twas very sweet, He's a bricklayer by trade. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Charley Brickley is to become a laborer to study the carpet." “Can you beat it?"* e { ‘Screenings [By DON_ALLEN”_ THY NAME IS MAN. The following letter was special de- liveried yesterday to Screenings “The other day in your column wis an article stating that a film corpo- ration was looking for a now face. It must be better looking than Wally Reid or Valentino. “Well, I'm better looking either of them and I can act.” We simply haven't the heart to kid the writer of the above, because that sort of language dosen't belong in this column. than ONE CROP SAFE. Gareth Hughes, hearing that the California orange crop had been damaged greatly by a cold snap, re- cently took a (rip about Hollywood to see about the local damage. Bit Gareth wasn't looking at any oranges ‘Upon returning to the Metro studios ho reported uli’s well. “The orange crop might have ber) frostbitten,” reported, ‘but 1 peach crop is better than ever.” HOW COME THIS HOKUM? Revenue and Prohibition acon have heretofore been accused of ution everything in the world, but nev: as far as Screenings can learn, hiy they been pressed into service press agents for a film It seems, according to grapevin information, that several — hoor! | hounds descended on a still nes | Truckee, Cal, recently and were ji | about to arrest villainous a ti of moonshiners ever mashed Imash when Penrhyn Stanlaws. pry | ducer of “Over the Border. viv | and straightened out the situation | A postseript adds that the pre ‘agent is tearing what little hair | f because he — overlooked “story.” Just what do they mean by “over look?" AIN'T WHAT? | Members of the Hollywood Chani ber of Commerce have been wagit a red-hot publicity campaign to try and prove Hollywood “ain't” The members claim that so many money-mad writers for and spreaders of mouth-to-ear i have pattered mud all over j otherwise unblemished complexion of Moviedom that something had to ‘done to Hollywood “ain't” | what they say it is In ot their propagand |was designed to uct as a giant blot ter to blot out the smirches put up the name of their locality by whi! they term “scandalmongers.”” Thi: say Hollywood “ain't” ali bad; t! the orgy stories ‘ain't’? true; that |there “ain't” nuthin’ the matter wit | Hollywood a’tall | “We see by the papers’ that Ho lywood really ‘ain't.’ That ts, | “ain't” the ante-room to heaven thu! | the boosters claim it is STILLS. | EB. K. Lincoln has just An j working in "The Light in the Dari. |Hope Hampton's next First Nations release. ‘, Special educational matinees of "Ju- lius Caesar,"’ with Anthony Novelli in the title role, are being given datiy for school teachers at Bim’s Standail Theatre. Hedda Vernon, who plays the title role in Wisterla Production’s “Lady Godiva," has a wonderful head of ‘straw blond hair. It forms her en- tire wardrobe too in one big acenc ‘The line forms to the Might, boys! “Hell's Highway,” which isn't roadway at all, will be the first pro duction of the newly organized Edwin | Carewe Pictures Corporation. The Electrical Club of Los Angeles a luncheon to Ben Turpin re- gave cently. Ben led the singing. No ons was shocked. | It is reported that the Prince of ‘Wales laughed heartily at “Aif's But ton," a British film, Well, we'v: heard people laugh at less than that College men and women are re- sponding to the call of the movies in \sreat numbers. Higher mathematics will help ‘em a lot in their acting. | John Emerson says that if the film |strips of all re-takes in “Red Hot Romance" were put end to end they |wouldn’t get anywhere. | Mary Alden, famous for mother jroles, is really a young woman, Shi iprefers character parts, howeve Well, that makes it unantmous! Anzia Yezierska, author of “Hungry Hearts," has just published another Inovel, It answers to the name of “Salome of the Tenementa.” lat