The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1922, Page 18

ad AR RET RELL E OTR IES EN ear FRE EEL IREY RETIN TIES a T the opening of Irene Bordoni's new comedy, “The Svench| Doll,” at the Lyceum last ight we introduced J. Andrew White, | the radiophone man, to his neighbor, | Max Dreyfus, of the 1. B. Harms Music Publishing Company. | “Oh, Mr. White,"* said Max, "you're just the fellow I want to see. We music publishers are thinking of charging you radiophone people @ royalty for having our songs sung over the wireless phones.” “And I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Dreyf said J. Andrew. “We've thought maybe we ought to charge you music publishers for permitting the singers to broadcast your songs.” “Now, listen,” said Max, “I don’t"—— “But, listen,” came from J, Andrew, “It seems to me”—— We went out to have @ amoke, THAT'S A FACT. George A. Schiller of “Thank U” nist sent us a@ little poem. Look and Washington never told a lie, He always stuck to facts. But don't forget that in his time There was no income taz. WE'LL FIND HER. ‘We get funny requests from readers occasionally, One just at hand asks us for the height of Irene Castle. Be- ing unable to answer this question we have decided to spend our next day off (Saturday) chasing Mrs. Castle with a tape measure. We ure the servant of our readers and we must do their bidding. So you might as well prepare to be measured, lady. A NEW UNGER PLAY. Gladys Unger, who wrote and pro- duced ‘The Fair Circassian,” has an- other play ready. Broadway hears Marjorie Rambeau will have the stellar role and that A. H. Woods may be interested in the production. OUR OWN POPULAR SONGS. Bill Baker went and wed a wife, He thought he could afford her, But living got so high that he Was forced to take a boarder. One night on coming from the’ store He saw the boarder kiss her, Then Baker started in to hiss, And proved himself some hisser. His wife yelled: “Whoa, there! Hey! I've got a word to say.” Chorus, “You ain't no good around the house, Except to pay my bills, You work so hard to buy me clothes It gives me awful chills, They say your coat and vest have got A kindly/heart beneath. But pooh for you! The boarder, here, Has lovely eyes and teeth. Go deat it while the benting’s good. You're out, old top; that's under- stood, Say it with boarders. OFF AG'IN; ON AG’IN! When we opened our mail last night we found a note that said Mary Shaw's production of “Mrs. Warren's Profession” would not open at the Punch & Judy Theatre to- morrow—that it had been indefnitely | postponed, “Wonder,” we said to the writer of tnie column, “if the police have banned {t as they did when it was) staged some years ago.” ‘We got busy on the telephone and | learned that such was not the case. | Already those in charge had changed | their minds about the postponement and had decided to produce the play Wednesday afternoon (to-morrow) | es originally planned, The matter of terms with the theatre had in- truded, but that was all settled. So much for that! : Mrs. Warren will be played by Mary Shaw. Others in the cast are Everett Buttertield, Lynn Pratt, E4- ward Martyn, Edward Poland und John Hewitt. AS TO IRVING. We heard two women talking in a theatre the other night and one men- tioned Irving Berlin, “Irving is becoming a regula: nighter,” gald she. “Isn't he “Not entirely,” said the other “He's first- of How DISTINCTLY 1 RECALL HE OLD ONE LUNG” CAR OF TWENTY YEARS AGO = QUITE DIFF'RENT FROM CHAT Four @yuinper ‘quincy’ THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY sant “Hen You eRe's a LUNGS “HAN Th! FIRST Sik — Five more aw He. WELL - I DID mY BESTE “TELL PEOPLE “ou MARRIED MARY? COME HERE ¢ Dont fou KNow You Must NY TALK TS ANYONE LiKE THAT - TA SuRPRISED AT WHAT Do You CHARGE FoR SECOND - $60 ON #50 ON THE FOURTH - #40 ON THE FIFTH AND #30 ON THE SIXTH ! THE THIRD — EIGUT SEVEN CYLINDERS ELEVEN MORE KICKERS “TAN “AND A “TWELVE LiKe Mine f THE ORIGINAL BOILERS HAD — Wes 1 “Too PROMISING ! PPE ETT Tere ts strenem IN NUMBERS Itt “ou WAS Suep Wwice For’ BREACH OF PROMISE ! Cope. 192 (N. Y. Eve, World) By Ws ‘RE Just Paarin’ He's A Porice MAN It Should Have About Nine Floors! WHAT'S THE MATTER — ENOUGH ? PRICES NoT LOW YouR HoTeL . AIN'T Hl ee GH Rt COMMAES THE NEW PLAYS “To the Ladies!” Youthful and Amusing. By CHARLES DARNTON. | | od TWO dummies that came out at 4 the Liberty Theatre last night in answer to the obviously confi- dent cry of ‘‘Authors!"* could not be taken as fairly representative of George S. Kaufman and Mare Con- nelly, for in ‘'To the Ladies!" these wise men had already lived up to the, title of their comedy by giving every- thing to the women. This was done with all gallantry, of course, thoysh with a possible knowledge that women are the theatre's best and steadiest customers. ' Any man, young or old, who goed to this play with the notion of get ting all puffed up about himself is dgomed to come away feeling as flat as a toy balloon after a hard day, but the lady by his side is sure to sail out into the night like a full-rigged schooner, fairly swelling with satis”) faction. Modesty, delicacy of feeling, what you will, may keep her from saying anything about herself, but before she gets out of Forty-second street she is pretty apt to remark, “That young clerk would never have amounted to anything if it hadn't been for his wife,’ and then, after letting this sink in, add, ‘nor that old business man, either.’* It certainly looks that way, at any rate so far as Leonard Beebe is con- cerned. He is a young clerk living in Nutley, N. J., and supporting a grape fruit farm in Florida. While getting his ideas from advertisements, he lives in the hope of winning promotion, thus easing his way to grapefruity af- fluence. He is at his best in the first act, since this happens to be the best part of the ptay. Both he and Elsie are in an ecstacy of anticipation, for the ‘boss'' and his wife are to stop at the house that afternoon on a mo- or toring trip to Atlantic City. Leonard hopes th visit will result in his beine invited te that grand affair, the an- |nual dinner of John Kincaid’s Sons at the Hotel Biltmore, ‘the banquet,” Ino less. If this great honor is be- stowed upon him it may mean ad- | vancement in the business, and so he \is prepared to meet his employer at least half way with three 40-cent ars and a bottle of champagne lett trom the weddi This situation of the newly-weds |has much the same sort of fun as {rhe Wirst Year.” It is interrupted rather violently Elsie ing a little song as part and deliberately while of the programme by the arrival of truckmen intent upon carrying off the use of a payment that is the piano bec due, but this is settled by rich and mighty Kincaid, and, wh: more, Leonard gets the prized invit tion The a n amusin ut the ‘th ience gets the novelty of ed speakers’ table where the toust proves to be highly ow, Leonard has learned tly good speech from a@ three- but ft is utterly spoiled clerk, who has done the thing and gets the first chance to spring it upon the en- th 1 din Poor Leonard ts knocked speechless, but his ever-ready litth wife hops up, explains he has lueyngitis and has asked her to make him, and thereupon to get a lot of good hot 1: business off her chest. The pun is discovered after Leonard nade the piano manufae- . but again Elsie, ald- KKincaid’s managing wife, comes dd saves his job. a rather poor last is so much fun in the por vollar book rival me for Stull 5 i but there uct, other two acts that the general result is a youthful and an amusing comedy with capital acting to help it along. Helen thay pecially good as | the busy little pla delight- fully in spite of being hampered by @ twangy Southern accent, The hopes und fears of Leonard were humorous: ly reflected by Otto Kruger, and fun- nier still was Percy Helton as an even more lowly clerk with the high am- bition of putting on ‘‘a piano act’’ ip vaudeville. The best thing at the “banquet'’ was provided by William F. Canfield with the buncombe of typical polit after-dinner speaker. It may interest you to know that Dudley Field Malone sent his regrets Among others present were Georse Howell and Isabel Irving, both of whom addec evening. to the enjoyment of the A. M. Finch, who has travelled over the plains of the West, has sent us # rhymed thrill about two-thirds of a first-nigiter.” “Ww do you mean’” “Oh, he goes to the shows, but he has to leave before the last act in order to appear in nis own shuw, "The Music Box Revue “I see,” came the -eply BERNHARDT’S DEBUT. Gordon Whyte of the. Billboard has sent us Some additional data on Sarah Bernhardt's American debut. writes as follows “Sarah Bernhardt made her debut in this country at Booth's Theatre on Nov. 8 1880. She appeared in ‘Adri- enne Lecouvreur.” Other playy in her repertoire on that trip were ‘Frou- Frou,’ ‘Le Sphinx,’ ‘L'Etranger,’ ‘La Dame aux Camelias,’ ‘Phedre’ and ‘Hernani’ It might interest you to know that tickets sold for the entire season of twenty-four performances (orchestra seats) for $60. Single seats for single performances were priced as follows: Orchestra, and orchestra circle and balcony, $3; dress circle, $2.50 for the first night and $2 for! other performances; family circle, 8% for the firet night und $1 theresft GOSSIP. Bisle Janis is getting car ready for her road tour. private }to win the copy of the so He! He is very easor | Muy Hold Me Tight It You Get Me Tight” to send to a girl h® used to know in Bonner Springs, Kan. Here ig his thrill: \ Pll tell you of my greatest thrill. T once wus in the West, A lone house stood upon a hill | And there I stopped to rest | A hermit occupied that shack | My greatest thrill, I think | 1 got as I lay on my back When he suid: "HAVE A DE. \— - NE?” |the Hippodrome, was once guard of the lute Czar, Frank Greene has been engaged by the Messrs. Shubert for a role in The Hotel Mouse.” The “Rose of Stamboul” company has gone to New Haven, where it will play before coming to the Century. Charlotte Greenwood opened in ‘*Let- her new musical play, at luntic City, last night. body- att . nig Voros, the mind reader of The Mid demonstration of his psychic power this morning. Earl Carroll writes us to say there is nothing cryptic about “Bavu," the title of his new play. It is the name of a character ; The Players’ Assembly will give a special performance of ‘Montmartre’ ut the Belmont for the producing nunagers and their friends Laddie Boy will not go into Shu- bert Vaudeville. The President's Sec- retary has written Arthur Klein that Luddie prefers to remain at the White House and chase cats The Playgoers’ Club of De Witt Clinton High School, seventy strong, will see “Bull Dog Drummond” neat Monday night. * Emma Haig of Revue," has formel a dancing class among the girls at the Henry Street Settlement. Jack Mason is directing the West Point cadets’ show to be given at the military school, Harry Pianj wrote the book. The title is “A Trip to Cuba." Tony Heindel, well known as a mu- sical director, is f!! at his home at Merrick, L., 1. A Nervous breakdown is the cause. “The Music Box reach her 100th! Sclasco | A THOUGHT FOR TO.-Day, Louise Groody of \ Earl Barroy of “Get Together," at night Frolic,” gave Mary and Doug a!has many charms. Among them aro CHINKY CHOWS. lf you chance to run afoul of E. K Lincoln, handsome leading man for Hope Hampton in ‘The Light in the Dark,” as we did yesterday after- noon, and he starts spilling a lot of language that sounds like an order for chow mein and eggs foo young, don’t think he’s advertising a chink suey layout. No, he'll only be gurs- ling about the prizes won by his Chow dogs at the recent show. beauty, youth, populurity and a drug store FOOLISHMENT. (A Shinuny Dancer Epeah 1 dance the shimmy nightly In @ Broadway restaurant 'Tis excellent for the mugcles, But it isn't what I want. Dreams of the farm and childhood Come and I am sad, Alas! The music is starting. | 1 must shimmy again, my lad. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Good Morning Doctor—That old suilor has the Dearie,” who has Just married again, | ague. ‘Assistant—A sult shaker, eh? Sanaa aeeneseietetttt Ee emeepenenssmmemnnpamanenannitll tien blue ribboners sounds like a section ot] the Shanghal telephone directory, but the doge are better than they listen. Among the winners are: Greenacre Li Ping Tow, Blue Winkle, Wynd- ham ‘Wang Wu, Red Tsingtau and Sun Bury Tsa Sima. Make ours the same, waiter, with- out the lime! PINCHED, they were given a fine chance yeb- terday. We picked up a floating mob near 44th Street and, after edging up near the front line trenches, dis- covered what {it was all about. A very officious and looking chap, fortitied by a 2 badge as big as a headlight and a W. S. Hart gun, had just overtakeo u meek looking guy with a bulging suitcase, “Gwan, open up,” ordered the be- badged one, flushing his shield in the afternoon sun. “But, officer,’ protested the man, “| have nothing contraband in this cape." ‘The crowd pressed closer. The official looking gent stooped down and ripped open the case. It sounded as though 4 toy balloon had burst "The, crowd, led by the & staff, pressed clo: epecting to u in on @ hooch raid Broadway crowds love to flock and |* to the four winds. We caught one. It advised us to see David Wark Griffith's “Orphans of the Storm.” WHERE'S THE STING? Clarence Burton, playing one of the leading parts in Paramount's “The Ordeal," starring Agnes — Ayres, trolled out of the studio the otner afternoon promptly at 2:80, Over his oulder was draped a set of golf clubs and he started striding toward the nearest links. “How come?” asked several other actors in unison. “How come what?" cross-questioned Clarence. “How come you can get away to golf while we huve to stay here and work ull afternoon?” “Wel smiled Clarence “Oh, death, where Iv thy stingeree? asked w poetically inclined eatra HOLIDAY. Constance Talmadge interfered with the teaching of the young idea down on the Catalina Islands recently. Con- stance and her company had sailed to wonder islands to shoot scenes in fhe Divorce." Now, the the “T died at best thing they From out the suitcase the inr cent one plucked 1,000,000, more or less, little circu: and cast them y all it a sc iday could do was to cat! it a school hol ‘The children were told they didn’t have to study any that day, and they could go and see the Talmadge outfit take pictures. And the time of their lives. PROHIBITION. Who said the country was dry” Let him or her or it who made this eye declaration over the their weather films—coming cast list of going—that deal with wet-goods, ls- leases by First National alone would Among them the ocean as a background, Hope Hamp- Anita swamp an ocean liner, are: ‘The Seventh Day,’’ with ton's “The Isle of Dead Ships. sixteen children had the of ‘A’Game Chicken," Bebe Daniels'’e next starring vehicle to be released by Paramount. Some day Cullen Landis says he hopes to look old enough to be the futher of his child, Now, most folks think Cullen is a big brother. Norma Shearer, tlm ingenue, isn't ufraid of all the cameras in the world, but she developed radio fright last night when she was broadcasting & story in Newark. Mebbe it wasn't the apparatus at all that scared her! Mebbe it was just Newark. Reginald Denny, star of the ‘‘Leath- er Pushers,” says he's going to start 4 new fad among movie idols, viz.: nd Stewart in ‘Rose o' the Sea;"’ *Kin- | 4, 7 dred of the Dust," although it sounds | aulifower ears. like dry propaganda, is really a wet) The New York Photodramatist ‘a in Katherine MacDonald's} Club will hold its anniversary ban- “Phe Infidel’? there is a lot of oczay|aquet at the Cecil a weck from to- stuff, und we mustn't forget Holut| hight. There is a long lst of speak~ Bosworth's ‘Sea Lion." ers by a big majority. CUT-BACKS “Step Forward’ is the latest t too many names to remember. Roy Del Ruth, director of Pevan-Mildred June Comedies, ts 1 the flu pearance ture ovsn't miu sonal 4 a speech, thank goodness! Nina Wilcox Putnam ts the author Looks as though the wets have it draped on Ben Turpin's next release. It used.to be known as—but It's had Eugene O'Brien will be judge of beauty and costume contest at the Fifth Annual Dance Review, Masque and Movie Ball at Terrace Ggrden Friday night. He expects to sur~ vive, but will never look the same. William De Mille ts in New York preparing the presentation of ‘Nice People.’ He always meets that kind jin New York, he says. De itle ake | tnu y foreign shores again and when he @ in Hoellywoo Thursday, will start work again.