The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1922, Page 28

‘oo te nena ee om a EOE EAR LH ERAS REY RNID THE NEW PLAYS “The Blushing Bride” Jolly and Jazzy By CHARLES DARNTON i ‘ © one can bial Cecil Lean if N “Smile Week" isn't a success, for he sets an example in “The Blushing Bride’ at the Astor ‘Theatre that only the most confirmed ‘optimist could hope to follow. This is no new thing, to be sure, with Mr. ean, who apparently is never so happy as when showing his teeth, As you may know, it is as familiar as Cleo Mayfield's vocal slouch, though this time there !s more smile and less grin than usual, a slight yet im Portant change for the better. All is well at the Astor. F body, including the audience, he good time. Even the pretty chorus en @lad to cluster about the q amiable comedian, though they know he is married and will go Straight home with his wife the mo- ment he rubs off his make-up and his smile. ‘There's so much life in the per- formance that it goes with a mnch faster pace than the race horses Mr. Lean describes when he dashes in from the track to see if he can hold up @ restaurant for a few dollars’ worth of food. ‘Still more amusing {s a cabaret skit in which visitors from Oshkosh and other points West are held up by the head waiter, Their hearts are set on having a table near the dancing &pace, and when they finally get there at great expense they find they have just room enough to wiggle one hip provided they hold their hands straight up in the air. This ts thé funniest thing tn the show, and ac- cording to the programme it was ‘written by Mr. Lean. The book and lyrics are credited to Cyrus Wood, ‘with reservations. Sigmund Rom- Dverg’s music is of the popular variety. To ease her drawl, Miss Mayfield eceasionally lapses into song. She Is musing and attractive, especially wher she figures as a Quakeress from Vast 109th Street. As for Mr. Lean, he proves he can burst tnto song vem through ea “‘Hap'’ Ward make- ‘Then there are those blonde and ‘olsaless aingera, the Swanson Sis- ers. By way of variety, Edythe Weaker is.qwfully mean to @ piano. ‘The dancing is good, particularly ‘and Players DWARD ROYCE, who knows us #0 well that we permit him to call us by our first name, ts to have @ theatre of his own beginning 1. Eddie has an enviable repu- m as a stage director of musical Diays. He will take over the Fulton, through an arrangement with A. L. Frignger, who has bought the house @nd who assumes possession in June. THe Mrst Royce production under the n@weorder of things will be a musical version of ‘The Marriage of Kitty, ‘yy Pred De Gresac, with music by Vic- fof (Herbert. It is Ed's idea to make the Fulton the home of intimate musi- cal comedy. He will strive, also, to develop talent, offering youthful art- ists every opportunity. The list of successes Staged by him includes such well-known hits as ‘‘Sally,"’ ‘Irene,’ Good Morning, Dearie,” editions of “The Follies” and ‘The Midnight Frolic’ and one which he will never forget, “Come Along,” from the pen of @ noted column conductor whose hame we do not care to disclose for personal reasons—very personal. LOOK OUT, LONDON: Sophie Tucker is going to London, late in March, and who d'ye suppose sho’s taking along? She's taking Harry Lauder, Mrs. Lauder and William Morris, We understand Miss ‘Pucker intends to introduce Mr. Lau- der, rather well known a singer ef Scotch songs, 10 London. Of course she will do a little singing herself over there, and we are proud to say she has confided in us the name of a song with which she ex- pects to make an impression wn the United Kingdom. It is "I'm a Broad- (Minded Broad From Broadway.” A TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN. ‘The anniversary of Lincoln's birth will be observed by the Keith Vauy ville Circuit Sunday at 11 A. M. wit! programme at the Coliseum, 1sist Street and Broadway, Senator Will- fam Borah will deliver the principal nddress, Julia Arthur will recite * Rattle Hymn cf the Republic,” N Alma Clayburgh will sing and the Keith Boys’ Bund will play patriotic girs. Rev. Christian F. Keisner, pastor that of the Glorias, who have greatly improved their remarkabls skating measures. A fair young beauty hula- hulas energetically, but she should be spanked and sent to her dressing room for exposing at least two-thirds of herself to the night air. idently she hasn't the slightest fear of in- fluenze, sciatica, or housemaid's knee. For a moment Tom Lewis is tempted to shake a foot, but he behaves him- self in soberly comic fashion and makes another of his disjointed after- dinner speeches by way of topping off a good performance. Gertrude Mudge finds joy in champagne and spreads it generously. All along, for that matter, “The Blushing Bride’ ts jolly and jazzy, capital entertainment, The bride does not take the veil until the end of the evening, and then she does It to pre- serve the sanctity of the home, What more virtuous than musical comedy? “THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY MINNIE” BUSTED \ OFF TH’ ENGAGEMENT “NT EVERY THIN’? “Tiere “s MARY CHEWING GoM AGAIN? SHe'iu HAVE 76 Have & Goon guier TALKING TS _ { KATINKA ITS BEEN QUIETER THAN A DEAF AN’ DUMB BOARDIN’ HOUSE AROUND HERE ALL DAY, AN' SUST WHEN TGET ™-) | INTHE TUB THAT OLD PHONE a gle iby +. SWE PROMISED FAITHFULLY To MEET “This. “Train — 1 MIGHT KNow BETTER THAN To EXPECT (Tf - ME ‘YouR SISTE JUMPIN’ OUT OF A HoT BATH i ow THESE COLD DAYS ISN'T MY FOR THE BOSS ABOUT HIS RICH |JOUT HOW THE MADAM'S BROTHER GoT | | SNAPPy- LM FREEZIN’ \DEA OF A MAY PARTY- BUT | |UNCLE MISTAKING A BOTTLE OF || SO RICH IN ONE YEAR AN’ HE's FREEZ at CALLIN' UP TO SAY GOOD-BYE BEFORE BOONE Feu U{cont ON A LIL_VAC THAT CALL MAY BE 5 TLIMPORTANT! 3 ery, ¥ id é < Pa wes! MINNIE” MR. TRAIN SAID SHE COULD'NT OUST eee MARRY ANYONE WITH s RAINE” GAVE A CROOKED NOSE # Him “TH AIR & Ce Sa) tae a — MARY You ARE ‘THE ONLY ONE IN THE CLASS CHEWING GUM — WHY CANT You BE [ LITTLE LADY 2 ONE BUCK FOR “Ten Brocks —! {VE BLOWN ENOUGH DoUGA ON “Exis “hus WINTER “To BUY CONTROL OF “TH! Taxr COMPANY (T gost me A BERRY To COME Home. FROM “Ty STATION IN A TAxt ——,- ae a Ce ey Cope-1922 (N. ¥, Eve“ World) By Pinar Paby Ca, Ud ' It Was a Sad Blow, Mates! > Wey were “THATS A” DUKE ! FOOLING AND How Dip HS HE BROKE “ CENTRE-BOARD Become CROOKED ; LADY. I Asked EVERYBODY IN Scoot TS HAVE & PIECE — ———. IT MIGHT BE SOME Good News MAYBE A PROHIBITION AGE: I HOPE THEY MAKE IT IN THIS GOWN —— OH -— YNEEDNT EXPLAIN —t— 1. = SWITCH KEY AWAY WITH You IN THE MORNING ttt WHEN SHE PULLED A CHAIR FROM UNDER ie Ct cea NO | Bur Novany RN i TAKE 174 down in Washington, broke a toe on his left foot and we think he ought to be interviewed, You see, it was kept diplomatic 50 as not to disturb the Administration,, but we got the truth of it He broke that toe kicking dog. Some people here say it w little toe, but I and the wife got a bunch it's a big toe. Why not have T and her go down there and inter view him? I could wise up a litth on psychology and discuss the bone of the Chelsea Methodist Episcor Cliureh, will be Charman, Ad sion Will be fice. THE “FEDORA” CAST. The cast of “I " which Marie Lohr will pres the Hudson ‘Theatre to-inorrow evcning, inclu Miss Lohr, Edmund Gwenn, ©. Hallard, Herbert Marshall, Van Featherston, E. Vivian Reynolds, Bydney Ellis, Esdate, E. Reyson-Cousens, Geo Sydenham, Max Brent, Vera Oliver, William Grayson, Howard Edwardes i and. Hilda Spong e NUTT'S DOPE. @f the time, Jefferson Shrewsbury e Nation. A note from him sug- Ing 2 £00d Story reads “Dear Dud—I and the wie hk ly that Vice President Cooler! ee BI SESS ae ree ard Les *havles | ward Lester, Charles |day and was examining its contents * Although he is in Bogash, O., most | Nutt, special correspondent of this eolumn, keeps his finger on the pulse with h@m, also advise him what kind of liquor to bathe it in he wite could take the sentimental angle and give you a fine heart story You know—how the poor little dog sneaked nto the room: dow the Vice Presi dent, being sore about the ice bill look a wham at the dog with his foot id broke the toc She could tell about little children erying over the Nation's misfortune and so fort If you want us to go, wire us and send $11. Rey. Pitts MeKane of this town picked up a flask on Main Street to |when Pie Hlake yelled; ‘Save me a |few drops, Doc! Much excitement but could learn nothing!’ —Jeff SIX-A-DAY ENGLISH. We were standing on Broadway talking to when a vaudeville ac the Loew Building happy “Just got eight conservative weeks," he yelled “Do you open the shows?" Jack asked, wishes to marry a ambition, she says, | will be gt to go out in the early {of Music Fr ahout 9 o'clock, 7 trees und gather Agricultural A nd give Miss Cohen | Bordo! With town life Would like to meet a furmer bo Dear Farmer Boy, come be my beau, | Wl be polled for my rural dream! came the rey “It’s not stimulated in my contract,” FINE TIME WAS HAD now: New Jersey State ck Osterman | musical show ow” came out of Hammerstein t RHYMED PROPOSALS | anesir. oR Ear SRCMR N TY: named Cohen Ellen de Lerches will offer “The Dance of Death’ on the Ziegfeld roof 8 | soon. A Negro pageant, ‘The Open Door,"* at the Brooklyn Academy lay night. We t to read “Back to Methu- clah'? but couldn't wade through tt. Shaw should develop his love tnterest Jen. | and put in a murder, Ray Goetz will present Trene “The Freneh Doll” at the Lyceum Theatre on Feb, 20, It 1s a omedy with songs. wee flower City maid ; i "They say they've had to take out a Quite: dismayed. icense for the auto in “Six Cylinder Love." The darn thing really runs, » his pride, his jo you know can cook, sew, The audience at the Hippodrome aturday night in a plan to learn where all the Hip come fro puffle Along,"’ the colored revue the 68d Street Music Hall, has new costumes, and ts now @ very proud Amy Ongley has been engaged by F 1a tot | A. G. Delamater for a role in Broken Senators played| Branches,"’ soon to be produced yesterda We have been informed that Leo A. Hammerstein's | Scher of the Shubert fores to Blue Kitten,” at} marry Frances Casin of Brooklyn and Atter t t uttering cigar Duley.” now at the Frgzec| 1 ex Phoatee y1o the Hollis Street, | on, It leaves the] kK, Duke Ferguson has been made ’ - Pree a caseas weer een stage manager for ‘‘Sadie, One of Those Girls,” in which De Lyle Alda is-starring in vaudeville. Mollie Dodd, a dancer, has joined the cast of “Up in the Clouds,” re- placing June Roberts, who !8 headed into vaudeville. Say good-by to Sam Tauber. He's going to Brooklyn to manage the Shubert-Crescent Theatre, which of- fers Shubert vaudeville. He believed in the gospel of| answers Earl Lewis, box office treasurer of the Metropolitan Opera House, was seen on Broadway yesterday chasing six ticket speculators and daring them to halt. If there are any more trees to te cut down in Central Park, wouldn't it be a biumane move to offer the ex- Kaiser the Job? There was a young woman named Who wanted a grocer to trust her and the off ot GRINDSTO? Job and g hustler of the modern school eeding up. _ he placed a large printed notice a reading: “Do It Now.” But one summer A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. fingers and ex- hausted air, he tore them all platonic or FOOLISHMENT. (Por Credit Men.) » ceremony of destruc i ‘ " gin at once Buster. tion. “What's up? Doesn't hustling |/? @ 1 pay? Going back to the old leisure orth methods?” Said he: “T cun't do ity ingen a peat anaried -Orindatone:| Ve uaye wee That's all there is to it.” “Hustling doesn't pay. T save SiX-{ Von who has ¢ Enough, st wae plain, to disgust | pence each for theso notices, thinking] 0 woven. fine her. they'd spur my staff on to hard) yg. my wife | work. is ever had to provide for that num Jo aveiiet her knows how busy RHOM THE CHESTNUT TREE. |) itso. the net ccsult ‘f ol! 1 never bel ‘When is am ose Not a ne rt Y r ef | ship. I've « Vho knows joastie 1s bolted with the contenty|T claim it's a joke eyghen it’s @ litte reddish 7" of the safe; my typist has eloped in Judge. . ’ vy aiae “ LIVING UP TO A MOTTO. with my youngest son, four juntors was al|came in yesterday to ask for boy has found a better Over every AN O desk in his office I NEVER believed in platonic friend- ship. I've but I claim it's a joke! But a week|sirl who believed in it later, with tired} that our friendship would have to be could be good chums and not spoil it down, all by becoming sentimental “Hello,” said a} Want to get married, friend, dashing in|agreed. As we both then knew that it would be perfectly safe, we started That was te vad to take care William Sanford! so he signed up Jerome Storm Screenings By DON ALLE DECORATED. Bert Lytell startled many of his friends last week by appearing with three golden stripes about the right sleeve of his Tuxedo, After wondering for a long, long time whether Bert had started living in a cuckoo clock or was made up for some new movie, Gareth Hughes ambled up and chirped: “Why the decorations?* “Wound stripes,’ calmly replied Bert. For why?" shot back Garry. “Well,” sighed Bert, smoothing his classic forehead, ‘‘since the defenders of Prohibition have taken to display- ing service stars in their windows, I think every one who has been a vic- tim of Prohibition liquor is entitled to wear @ wound stripe." CHRISTENED, Willam Farnum, as every one knows who knows the star at all, is @ deep student and lecture hound. ie is, likewise, just as fond of a merry quip. The two likes blended per- fectly yesterday when we met Bill on the way to the private showing of “A Stage Romance,” “I attended a lecture this after- noon,” mused Bill. “It was by a chap named McCollum.” “What's his first name?" we ven- tured. “Whatcha!* sighed Bill. Off in the distance a trolley car yodled for {ts mate. SOME JUNKET. Dollar-a-year men were common during the war, And some of them were commoner than others, but that's beside the point. They have come back to earth now—only they are dollar-a-week men, despite hard times and the H. C. L. It seems that Associated First Na- tional Pictures, Inc., 18 to send nine theatre managers from various parts of the country to the motion picture colony in Los Angeles as a prize for best advertising campaigns connected with First National Pictures during First National Week, Feb. 16 to The announcement also states that these managers are to receive $1 a week for their time while they are aw: It neglects, however, to state wheth- er the trip to Hollywood will be the grand or the booby prize, but it listens very much like the latter, ANSWER TO MANY. To the many, many readers of Screenings who have asked the same question, we make this answer No, Rodolfo Valentino does NOC use stove polish as a hair dressin: Ile uses a buffer before every scene, STILLS. Fred Niblo, who directed The Three Musketeers,"" has been engaged to direct Paramount's ‘‘Blood and San¢ The concluding scenes of *"The Man From Home" have been completed in London, It'll be shown on Broadway in a little while, Tom Mix and company didn’t think it dry enough in Los Angeles, so they, hit the trail for the Mojave Desert for shooting purposes. Sounds bad, we have been told that Los Angeles ts much to the Prohibition. Emmett J. Flynn has been entrust- ed with another blg special by Vox. He will start as soon as ‘Monte Cr is finished Myron Selznick announces that he s made another movie find, This |time it is Evelyn Laye, a British beauty She will start American hearts fluttering within a, couple of months. Charlotte Pierce, appearing with Charles Ray in The Barnstormer," is somewhat different. It is her proud boast that her mother makes all her clothes. The usual movie star pays a pr agent to proclaim that her gowns are fashtoned by some Parisian modiste, even ff they are not. Dick Barthelmess et al. is, or are, loafing. Reason? Henry King, the director of “Sonny,” the Inspiration Pictures, Ine. special, has gone fluey, This is not slAng, it merely, ionable and is entertaining a slight attack of flu, t Mary Wynn, screen protegee of pro- ducer J. |. Frothingham, is the neice of Eddie Polo. Uncle Ed has taugh little Mary how to ride a pinto por like a centaur, Fox's barometer called for a chan director, a