The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 24

} NS VCS: and Players By BIDE DUDLEY Sie GOMPERS, President of IT's NOTHING SERIOUS , Is tr? the American Federation of Labor, talked to 1,200 members of the Actors’ Equity Association at the Republic Theatre yesterday and told them that the parent labor body would be with them in any battle they, might have to put up for their rights. He said the A. F. of L. always wanted its affiliated members to be right, but | he assured his hearers that, even were | the Equity to err, the parent body would hardly turn against it. And, when Mr. Gampers gave out his inti- | mations to this effect, he sald what | has been aptly termed a mouthful. The Equity alone might be licked in a battle, but teamed up with the! union musicians, stagehands, teams- ters and others whose work has to do with the theatrical business, and sup- ported morally by the rest of the| 6,000,000 members of union labor in, Amorica, the ladies of the organiza- | tion might safely go ahead hemstitch- ing the “We Have Met the Enemy | and He Is Ours" banners, What will be the attitude of the Equity in the | matter of the Equity shop, when the! present agreement with the Producing Managers’ Association expires in 1924, | we cannot say, but if you'll give us three guesses we'll hand you back two unused, i President John Emerson, of the Equity, spoke first at the meeting. He MYFISNT CT GRAND dwelt on the ulleged refusal of the DH Wisty CUR OLD members of the English cast of “Pins HOME. “TOWN AFTER AUL and Needles’? to affiliate with his or ? ganization. He hinted that there might he a plan on foot through which cer tain managers hoped to bring enough unorganized actors to America from | England and other countries to oppose the Equity advantageou Mr Gompers said he had Mr. De Courville and felt certain the English producer, when he returned to Eng land, would be a fine press agent for the Equity. He expressed the opinion that there was no plan, such as Mr Emerson hinted at, and added that should one come to light he woul: against it. Other speakers were Hugh Pray‘ne State organizer of the A. F. of Li: Le Wolf Hopper, Louis Culvert and Frank Gillmore, Executive Secretary of the Equity. A. H. Woods permitted the Hquits to hold the meeting in his theatre free @ cost and was the recipient of nu merous verbal bouquets as a result Ne definite action was taken in any matter, the meeting being rather one JOE’S CAR SERIOUS ?!! Tut FaTHEAD MECHANIC PUT IN TWO GUARTS MORE OIL THany TH ENGINE NEEDS" \Ceiet eA WS) T DID, You Foo. — But 1 DIDN'T Find tT OUT “TILL ALL MY SPARK PLuGS weeé i¢ Mage GUMMED UP LIKE DONT MOAN ABOUT IT ~ KICK IN AN' CLEAN ‘em! WELL —- DRAIN ‘TY OFF, sTuPID' AND REMEMBER DEAR How WE USED WH, MEET EACH OTHER AT | “THE “CORNER, DRUG STORE BeroRe We Were MARRIED ? — AND “TOMORROW 1 START ON NUMBER NINE ¢ “rieres: ANGTHER “Poor, SAP* WATING : : e zs - of propaganda. Mr. Gompers told! [A Se LOOK AT BORK Het Mome Bose s 7 * several stories and showed a sense of ax are ae uA WORE THE SEAT OF I see- 4's Yi ge i humor in other ways during his talk ‘ earner ths PANTS ALL OUT AFRAID SOME ONE ES AFRAID HIS the two. day. OPENING POSTPONED. The opening of the new musical comedy, “For Goodn Nak an. nounced for to-night at the Lyric The atre, has been postponed until to-me row night NUTT’S DOPE. Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt. special | correspondent of thix columh, has| found it expedient to spend the win- ter with his relatives, the Bones, in Bogash, O., but he is ever on the job, A note from him re- d to-day says: ‘Dear Dud—I and the wife see by the papers that President Harding has refused to let the soldiers pre- . sent him with a bonus at this time unless they put a tax on sailing ships. KATINKA Pereonally, we don't think this sails tax is right, but we believe we could TLL BE AROUND To TAKE You get a good atary: out of it by running FoR A RIDE IN MY NEW CAR lown to Washington, My cousin, KATINKA — IT'S A PIP s Asa Bone, was once a sailor, so 1 could interview the President on the RE subject of sails as an expert. The first thing I would probably say would be, ‘President, port your helm in the fo’ castle.’ That would get a laugh from him and I'd be in right after- wards. The wife could talk to some of the sailors’ wives and get the story from the domestic angle. Together we could cover the whole tale, and ‘wow, what a smash it would be for you! Wire us at once, if we're to get it, and send us $11, The local sing- ing society put on ‘The Can Ta Ta of Esther’ lant night and Boogey Peters, the town drunk, kept yelling ‘Bring on de dames’ until Esther's father gave thim the boot. Much excitement but could learn nothing!—Jeff.” TRIBUTE TO MRS. SPEYER. An entertainment will be held at the Shubert Theatre Sunday, March 3, ‘ WILL SEE 2STEAD OF A AND HES AscaReD wit THE SEAT ar tis PANTS GUTS Home ¢ Him WHERE We SEAT OF 1S PANTS 1S Cone? What’s That About Conscience Making Cowards ? SAY AMOS. - THERE'S A FELLER WAITIN' FoR ME IN THAT AUTO - You'RE GOIN’ RUP THAT WAY — TELL HIM H ULL BE DOWN IN A ALL RIGHT GIRUE $ as a tribute to the memory of the late Mrs. James Speyer, who often helped |formed by these intere the Actors’ Fund. The proceeds wil! |'0P, Cleveland, Syracus be devoted to charities she assisted, ]@¢ Philadelphic Reasie Clayton, sin W 5 Providence » Hoffman, Annownced for the programme are |) alton, Mrs Mine. Emma Calve, Mme. Frances [U8e and others nave ated tn the iss, Bisie Sania Cresta) Horne, 2 plan, It is Mr. Albee's hope to make Basar) Wide Ailsa. Durvon, America lead all countries in the field Ferguson, Blanche Bates, Nara Bayes, |°f ballet dancing, Elsie De Wolfe, Maric Doro and I nore Ulric, Elisabeth Marbury heads MEANS WELL, ANYWAY the committee in charg offices received presiaes letter last week It DOLLARS FOR DEMPSEY Read it: sir—Please let me know It is understood Jack Dempsey when he appeats at the Hippodrome for his engagement beginning Feb. will receive the largest salary ever paid any individual attraction at the big playhouse and, in addition, a per- centage of the gross receipts. He will feature physical training in his act velyn Nesbit is if she can’t get and out in the street i Will one Poor girl With no friends and if you should see her tell her to right to me and t Will anser as I am a Widow." GOSSIP. STANHOPE RETURNS. Carle Carlton thinks Beulah Berson ‘Tangerine’ is a second Rosa Pon- le. Fredericx Stanhope arrived from England yesterday. He brought with Rim several plas he. wit, troduce| _dulla Sanderson is telling the ladies “ at the Biltmore to-day how to become here. While in London he staged) peautirul "Tbe Wrong Number,"’ which was) 4 : - Alice Ridnor of ‘The Mic known here as “On the Hiring Line.”’ sey Phe Midnight Rounders” been engaged for the next “Passing Show" by the Messrs BALLET CLASS MEETS. Shubert ‘The first regular clans of New York| Neysa McMein has finished a paint- ballet students, organized by the Keith |ing of Lenore Ulric as Kiki Vaudeville interests, is meeting to-day| Mack Hilliard is to install Sunday @ the Coliseum Theatre, Broadway |night concerts at the Selwyn The- 18ist Street. This hag been |atre beginning next Sunday, when he F. Albee | will have « jazz bill. A American Harland Dixon of “Good Morning, ave been Dearie,” read ‘The Plough Boy, of ‘ will make her debut tn vaudeville soon and then go on tour. contest for the best rhyme on ‘*My] Leila Bennett and Mercita Esmond sreatest thrill,” The prize will be ajof ‘The First Year’’ say they intend NO USE FOR IT. copy of the song, “You May Hola| te have @ female minstre! show some Pp” walked into a clgar store. said day. After getting into the telephone Me Tight if You'll Get Me Tight Leon Errot will appear as George booth he called a wrong HAS, trom "The Midnight Colic." Tess of| Washington in ‘The Midnight x a ber. As there no such number Fort Lee sends us the first thrill. Get| Frolic’? Wednesday night. He was|the switch attendant did not answer ours in early and have your friends | looking for a cherry tree yasterday. | him. Pat shouted again, but. re- do the same. Tess tells her story as] The Junior Society of Temple] coived no unswer follows: Emanu-El will present a musical show| ‘The gis] in the store opened the The greatest thrill I ever knew called ‘*Leave It to Me," at the Wal-| door and told him to shout a little Was when my sweetic, fond and true,|9°" Commencing April 6. louder, which he did, but still no an- Declared nie love neue never dim, 4 THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Again she sald he would be required ind asked me .if I'd marry him, You can get a shine for a nic to speak louder. He'd been 80 mean to me, by gum!|now in Topeka, Kan. People who Pat got angry at this, and, turning That 1 was feeling pretty glum to run out there can save from to the lady, sald: eras ae “pwas when I yelled: “I never wittr| 1° Sets each, y louder T wouldn't use your bloomin’ That I experienced the thrill « our dinner and you’ applied psychology in selecting future to accept m position ase clerk in a| UAE Se YOUr tani advised Mr RHYMED THRILLS plays. yA store. One morning she was called | SO" 0.0105 to her young son. “Wil Pally Anna, a Hungarian dancer, Good Stories before the manager to explain why she was performing a certain part of |% be bis @ Wo have decided to ugurats a { ould-telephone at ell !”—Tit-Bits. fbi FOOLISHMENT. ieitiabrcnieaies: the Western World” Inst week ana} 2% & basket one day Charley Lee HOW IT HAPPENS immediately bought a farm up-s Took a kitten to Mary McGee. IVP villains, with gyves upon arnita Lascelles will appear as Said she to the lad: F their wrists, sat in durance vite, in “Back to Methuselah “You make me so glad “It is strange,” said we, “that we'll have to go. , MK you five stalwart scoundrels, after Marcus Loéw will open his new I see you've a feline for me. robbing the bank and maltreating ail State Theatre, Boston, soon, He will persons who sought to stay you, take some movie stars to the bean] FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, ‘We reached Chicayo tn a box car juess pnould nave allowed yourscives to be centre. Barney Bernard is cnter Keith|and my brother went uptown to got vaudeville in @ eketcl called “The ze Birthday,” by George V. Hobart, "Did be get any? Kilbourne Gordon, producer of] “ure! A handful! Some of them almeout, whole.” knocked down and hog-tied by a lone cripple equipped with naught but a abtree cudgel.” “Alas, sir,” replied the most low- lowed of the lot. “Our lack of fore- ought was our undoing. We ex- GEE, WHAT A 9 NARROW ESCAPE ! I KNEW THAT Guy WOULDNT SELL ME A CAR LIKE THAT FOR FIFTY Bucks UNLESS IT WAS STOLEN !! less manner. Miss Murphy,’ said the manager, pected to encounter only the usual “for the past two weeks your work heavily armed posse, which could not | \‘fo run and capture a lost gosling. In-| has been very perfunctory. We can- stead, we met this lame lad with a] 20°C 7 club, who meant business and had no Mr. Tohnso! desire to show off. Of course, we did] YOUNS woman, MADE IT WORSE. Philadelphia Star, _— N a civil suit being tried in an OF COURSE, MISS INNOCENCE. lowa court the Judge decided a contested point against a young | lawyer, whereupon the latter lost his aise cemaact : ne our Honor," he sald, in a tremb: ling voice, facing the Court, “Tl am Ipstantly the young lawyer's part-}&c. Being an Indianapolis schoo! rer, who happened to be in the court-| teacher, she immediately noted it as a | ele’ room, sprang to his feet novelty, “Your Honor,"’ he interposed, “I! «such a clever litle thing,” she said want to apologize for the hasty re-|to the clerk. “I've never seen a top| Why, Viola, we never knew you wel mark of my young partner. By the) }\xe it befora, What are they for?” time he ts as old as [ am he will not] “wot, they're a sort of diversion*| Mac Murray saya she will pla te amazed by anything your Honor] the saleswu: Many peo-| Juliet in a stage revival of “Rome does."* ple use them financially.” and Juliet.” Take a tip, Mae, Jul ne “On yes, of course, of course. How | never dressed the Murray way. ACCEPTED AS PRAISE. many of them have you? I was just Gareth Hughes, headed oe ILEEN thought herself possessed | thinking they would be splendid in| friend's house, lost the address. E of more thun average abijity. | teaching the children combinations tp | ask @ policeman,” suggested @ frien! re numbers+nice for arithmetic, as 1 were."—Indianapolis News, Taking adventage of the city of maar of al. sorts, der the duties assigned to her in @ care- Interrupted the |™men more? ‘O've been working ves." | here four months now and, although ‘comport ourselves. . ¥ Ai Rnam ieme SOLS n pa 24 Oi've tried my best, that's the first bit | Film Fables os of praise since Oi've been here.”— 'T looked to her like a big idea, She had discovered one of those elu-| yeational Association's convention ve, tantalizing, little] there, If those two titles had bee! cops, so popular now, in which the| much longer we couldn't have used mere spinning of it gives one oppor- amazed," tunity to take one, take all, pay three, WRONG SYSTEM. The chief indoor sport along Broad- way these days ms to be the ask ing of the time-worn questio |What's the matter with — thi movies?’ And although those inti- mately connected with the jumping | opera nearly always shop to its de- | tense, they claim there is nothing the | matter with the movies. | During a catch-it-and-run lunch- | eon at tie Astor Saturday we heard | what we consider as good an expla- nation of what the real trouble in | with the movies any we have heard advanced. It has all to do with the star sys- | tem, yet, peculiarly, it has nothing to do with the movie stars themselves. Said a chap who really, knows movies: ‘Lhe star system now in | vogue {ts the real trouble with the mo- tion pictures.'* ‘What's the matter with the stars?!" we asked. “'Nothing,"' he replied. ‘Absolutely ‘nothing. But the trouble is that Fox ‘is starring Fox and Goldwyn is star ring Goldwyn and Ince is starring Ince and De Mille is starring De STitle—and ‘/none of them ever appear on the | screen, But don't use my gem he ,cautioned, “I'd lose my nite fat jo! in a jifty. “What are you doing now?"’ “Why,"’ he replied, gazing afl about “I'm helping to star So-and-So."" And he named one of the biggest magnates in moviedom. OPPOSITION. Mary Pickford and Friend Husband (haven't spotled many movies in thei: long career, but they certainly ruined one Friday night. Here's the low ‘down: A thousand or more prospectiv: movie patrons had gathered in fr-1 of a popular Broadway cineray awaiting the opening of the box c’- fice, Many were waving bills: tn their hands in anticipation that t) sight of real money would case th house manager to throw open thi | gates earlier. | Looking over the mass format.) | the manager said, “Aw, let ‘em wa'l | It was just about at this momen! |that Doug Fairbanks and his charm jing wife strolled by. A policema: \called to help handle the crowds, tr advertently yelled to a fellow en) “There goes Doug and Mary!"* | That was the signal, The mia |formation broke and every last \or them started tratlieg the stars | They didn't “wait,” as the manag: had prophesied «nd, like Jeffric beaten champion, they didn't coms, back, There were a lot of empty seat- inside, too, when the manager final! j consented to throw open the doors REAL THRILLS. To all of us who used to wallow around in the pages of ‘Nick Carter {this will come as a joy tiding, Nick Carter, famous of all famou sleuths, and who dandled Sherloc | Holmes, Allen Pinkerton and a fev other famous dicks on his paterna knee, is going bi With this announcement from J President of the Glave we can see William S" Hart, Carey, Tom Mix and a few other ‘‘two-gun movie actors trembling so herd their laurels fai right off their brow If there was ever a character tha would fit exactly onto the screen it | was this same “Nick Carter."* The ad ventures of Nick’? have been read by 50,000,000 and all of them, if they lhive, will rejoice when they learn they will be able to at last see ‘'Nick’’ as well as read him STILLS. Crittendon Marriott's novel, ‘The Isle of Dead Ships," is to be pictur ized by Hope Humpton Speaking of husbands, ‘‘Topice of the Day” flashes: ‘Your husband arrested; why don't you bail him out?" f it's my husband you couldn't pump him out."" And it's Prohibition, too. Films, only a short while ago in the infancy, have arrived, accordin: to a new title, at ‘‘The Foolish Age Niles Welch just gave his wife # frame house in honor of their wooden wedding. The “Soul Saver'’ is not the pictur life of a shoemaker. nd tall like daddy?” asked the son. And Ernie, the dad, left the breakfast table. "Major Jack Allen, filmer of wild animals, saya he wants to open aj sanitarium. Why not call it a sana torium and charge the tired busines “Don't count your nickels before they are matched!” advises Aesop's ‘Twin horses are stars in "Val of Paradise,” Paramount's latest. They are real equine twins, too. Harry Levey, President of the Ni tional Non-Theatrical Corporation, i» in Chicago attending the National Ed this squib. “How many fish have you caugnt™” some one asked Bert Lytell. ‘When 1|1 catch this one,’’ answered Bert, “and n more I'll have an even dozen.’ Viola Dana has been elected a mem ilber of the Disabled War Veterans even ha!f-shot t| "He's not that kind of a \ ad 1" silenced Gareth, est -