The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1922, Page 32

and Players OH BEE-— wou soon — “WEN tLe HaveTime.. Joe -oH Joe! -! E DUDLEY G ) . By BIDE DU! ARE y'GoNNA START FoR “THAT T DRE UP ANLGET. me: TM LeavinGri7 ABour, © rumor that Sam H. Harts Some CIGARS;— 'm ae] 1 | RIVE minutes i intended to quit the theatrical IN ABeuT “ouTaoF!'em! “ ~ business for the race track, cur- “Twet } rent for several days on Broadway, aR des was dissipated last night when Mr. Harris, who is in Cuba, notified his offices here by wire that it was groundiess. Last week Mr. Harris bought a race horse called True Fiter from Harry Payne Whitney and wtarted his nag in a race Saturday, ‘The Harris colors came in first and the news soon reached Broadway. { That was what started the rumor. A number of years ago Mr. Harris owned a string of barg-tails but he quit the racing business to go into theatricals. His purchase of True Filer was made merely that he might | have the thrill of seeing a horse of his own win a race. He will con- tinue producing plays and he may, keep on racing True Flier. |, y ¥ : fa HIS DREAM COMES TRUE. vasaly dik: gZ Garry, who has been a bootblack } in the theatrical district for twenty} THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY : years, has a shine role in ‘To the! i Ladies!" He ts paid $25 a week for 2 polishing a man's shoes in one act. Yesterday a manager who does not SAY I WHEN “I like actors was accosted by Garry, BouaHT Hig HOUND who wanted to shine ‘em up. The Mou SAD HE WAS, manager grinned grimly. « \ i “Go to it," he said. “I've always iJ FINE FoR RATS said some day an actor would shine my shoes and my dream is about to be realized." “Sure!” said Garry. ‘‘How you| been?”" OH, IT WAS AWFUL. ‘We entered the Harris Theatre Building yesterday and were almost knocked down by some hoarse dis- cords coming from an office on the fourth floor. Investigation revealed the fact that Bill Norton and Joe Tierney of the Harris forces were, practising on saxophones, They said | they intended to become expert mu- siclans. ‘What was that tune?" we asked. “ ‘Over the Waves,’ "’ replied Bill. AINT “THAT FINe FoR THE RATS ? $ be you were playing ‘Over the said Joe, “but I was play- the Good Old Summer “Boys,” we said, ‘first you should HOW, DONT LEAVE LOLITRoPs decide what you're going to play""—— AROUND WHERE "HE BARBY’LL “Yes?” came from Joe. Ger LD OF GEM — AND GET IT “And then decide not to play It.” “HEY MAKE BABIES 6ICK— BEFORE THE They're not speaking to us now. h' BABY _PNDS ALLEN ACCUSES JONES. } D. Morris Jones wrote a musical comedy which was pivduced at the seated | * Advertising Men's Club dinner at the Hotel Astor the other night. While it was being performed Bugene Kel- cey Allen found D. Morris at the pe Se Sy ris, “That's not it," grunted Eugene. “You' ‘welt nature. Mutual friends stopped the argu- ment. » a believer in that old saying, preservation is the first law of “BROK_N BRANCHES” SOON. A. G. Delamater will present a new @rama colied “Broken Branches’ the 39th it is by E Winslow re ONLY A POOR MY Boss 1s Closer THAN nM e on March 6. y and Herbert Hall Fer HELP! / , | HE'D DIE FoR A TRouBLE, SONNY ?}} MY PENNY A TRIBUTE TO A CLOCK. Had you noticed that the big clock | a eet and Broadway had | SA ie Deak Friars. “Why aren't you over at the hotel seeing your show?" demanded Eu- zene, ‘m too bashful,"’ replied D. Mor- ved? Wait Winchell missed say goodby to cafes and the Pat ave where acts’ wages multiply. T pawned my watch at Simpson's MAN LOOKIN’ THE SIAMESE TWINS — WHAT'S THE : \ GIELL DONT LET IT ROLLED WORRY You - TLL FIX THAT ALRIGHT ! (with her photo in the case), 1 didn't need it any more because | ~ = aoe = sae at heen rem it the other evening and, seeking a sreluded spot behind a bigh glass of | Iemenade, he wrote the following rhyme about it: I miss your face and hands, ‘ Big Ben; 1 miss you on the square. You served the Roaring Forties ‘mid the incandescents’ glare You've quit the Square, ald timer, where the trolleys you took its place, I really can't If baneed the Selwyn Sunday night will be an) Proctor houses soon in a sketch called | [=== —_—_———SS | believe you're gone; a tear | RHYMED THRILLS evening of jazzified musical joy ) ‘The Right Girl,” we'tten by Howad] |} q 2 drops from my eye when Tre. | ———_———. Resides Jack Dempsey, Joe Juck- | Hickman 1] creenings call how often, Ben, you helped A young man named Slade has sent $02. a very funny pantomimist, wii! John Cort has pliced Conchiva | | By DO = me alibi. Your absence discon- |us a rhymed thrill that looks pretty |i the Hippedr shaw Monday) FGOr. Oi SI Bunn a ee ae ate y_DON_ALL afternoon. ss Fables, des a long- certs the cop who works the | gvod. He says he is expecially r bapa ei AvaalPamisie hci: cad wil eine: ae “WHO COMES THERE?" « 7 Pr) oe, Two hu red Lambs 1 hea oh © we : Stop & Gu." The throngs who |to get the copy of the song “YoU! pate Seay band ut. the Tenn cal play soon. 4 E. D. Meador, whose chief duty rush to matinees will miss you | May Hold Me Tight If You Get Me|qrome March 5 in honor of Lamb| ‘Good shows," said a friend to us,/and ambition in lite is to see the i much, T know, Without you |Tight’ to send to a lady friend in| Sousa “will always do business, You can} wong wsfetro" in every possible plac nanan » Soi . lady file sava.| 5 , always fill the bucket from the main ? s there 1 fear a lot of acts will jee South. The lady friend, he says,| ya Condon, recently of “The D stream. It is the tributaries that run| is somewhat well known wong Broad- miss their cues. We mourn your |has a good yoice for singing and {s|tour,"’ has been added to the cast of | dry ee way. His fame, however, hasn't yet loss by humming Irving Ber. | an expert whistler, too, We wouldn't| “The First Man." Eva is an “Oh, | — reached Harlem 's “Broadway Blues.” }be surprised to see this youngy mi Laat Binh ee | _ A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Yesterday afternoon J. &. D. limon et aes a “Bul 0 rummond’s'’ matine 1 ally, Seearnute ‘ e Oscar H. Squash, Mrs. Pony Wi °: e gh 4 OS: COTS! / vie we in ord later ' MISS GEORGE'S NEXT be Oscar quash. Mis, Pony Wil-| erbocker set # Rew high record fr! und beer, that in itself might be bonus | Movie house in order to hsten in and b Grace George will uppear shortly in| m8 and Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt, | the theatre. enough for most of the ex-service | hear how one of his films was going ee @ play called ‘The Exquisite Hour.’ The Slade thrill follows: | Al Strassman solemnly informs us| boys among the Czecho-Slovaks cs Rehearsals have begun. | ‘ that people who see “The Cat and the! =e | Boldly he strutted up to the door oe | zt greatest thrill I ever knew | Canary cannot couzh because of on soeLiaHMERY card in hand. He was halted by a \| Jame in a restaurau | ome! ip | an of Stygian blackness | JOLSON CAN SWIM. ' j citement. Ina store @ young lady of Boston | dormer Res seat and calle e mui e opening “The Rose of S ‘ , | ’Whar am de t?” asked the In “Bombo" last night Al; Jolson| / ¢00¥ 9 seat and called the mun, The opening of “The Rose of Stam-| gnce noticed some glove with no cost| agoyman a made a speech regarding Prohibition. Said 1: “My friend, 1 want boult ae tie Onotury bas been ‘post. \ erry epluitere La “I believe the workingman should| A cup of coffee with real cream.” poned fram nese Monday to the eve. . mM 4 Mn wanaanse need a ticket; I'm J Meador'' have his beer," suid Al, Hearty ap- I realized my dream, hoses BOWE AThe REE Ae TOs “Don? mak’ no decid plause greeted this statement. ‘I Wij Gieateat {hrill crise soheAT The Dolly Be ters say that the| But, gosh! what's the price? the doorman Hl would like to see every bottle of gin ¥Greet prnived when! | Prince of Wales freiuently visits | tg absence from gloves puts u frost) "But I'm Mead protested th ; und whiakey' at the bottom of the Discovered it WAS CREAM their London house und plays he | on Pufficist | bea,"’ continued Al. The applause for!) ==—== = drum in their jazz band | “Ah don’ care ef y¢ 1 Will this one was pretty thin, but it broke wii) pe 6 01 a Mareus Nathan hos iryited ust jams, yo" don’ gE in dis doh wisout i put in volume uxnin when he cons Toll Bf, $00 Performances olf to-mor-| ie Dance Review 1 Ae eG FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, sai i , Nanton cmareon acer reek uitey CR pestaurant ad ayessin \ H w I'm an expert swimmer! Marilynn Biller will wear a new syou needn't wear ‘Sihant " floomy mund—How will you have und diver isian ballet gown in “Sally” Mone write ieate PAC rie . aia ; day night, [t is riek-racked with! wet, now! 1 Gossip. diamonds eee eae ripe Sn t «Wot Franks Craven and "The First Year Muck Allard says his cuocest ws! vaudeville, Sbe Wi aLpous ap . | ctust, wut being vuLutiod with gulusnve fully, hesitated the fraction of a sec- and then shook his head in a de- cided and emphatic ‘No!"* that flapped, was not prepared for the) was oozing from what had been a nice Square pack: rhe stickines us| while he was at work on the script. a horse actor as has yet been | iquid fire or vitriol, sent, perhaps, bY | roppest Hulsey adapted j1¢5 colder weather in California, Ho, stories, Prohibition Re ert Frazer, widely-known speaky had been harsh met and greeted him \ well-known motion picture critic contained honey eftusively wit telling Prohibition World know that 1 local theatre “1 “Claire Adams complained yesterday wouldn't call joke about Prohibition. It simply wouldn't stay in cut of mused Hilliard scenarist snd ADMIRAL NODS “NO!"" . “They have taken out the “When | pul in a few days in NO SMOKING. first be and, we ean appr Admiral act in ule Alban 1s far as amendments A elgar- teenth duel lovked bay agen! te hale Ure heuduchely remorse THE NEW PLAYS “ For Goodness Sake” Is Enlivened By Daneing Astaires By CHARLES DARNTON. Y OU often hear of “old favorites,” ye. seldom, if ever, anything about young favorites, who are really of much more importance to musical comedy. ‘This form of entei lainment nowadays relies largel; upon youth, and there's lots of it “For Goodness Sake" at the Lyril Vheatre. Here are those young favorites, \ the dancing Astaires—the gangling Fred andethe pert Adele. As they amble into view and mix with other youngsters they don't look as though they were anything more than somes: body's children. But when they dance —oh, boy, and likewise girl! W! { ease, grace, rhythm, charm and hus mor, youth becomes a wonderfil thing, and you realize all this 16 watehing the Astaires, They a to be the best of their kind, and ad cordingly “For Goodness Sake” has the best dancing along Broadway. It is not without some misgiving that this fully deserved praise is be- | stowed, for as I passed the Strand on coming away from the Lyric, last night I overheard a woman remark: “They say that since Wes Barry bas become old enough to read his notloes he is completely spoiled.” Somewhat apprehensively, I recalled having sug+ gested that some one write a musical play for the Astaires at the time they were brightening that otherwise dull | composition “The Love Letter,” and now again I had in mind one or two jlittle things that might cause them to feel their hats were too small for comfort. But it is a pleasure to stat they seem quite unspoiled and that they do a great deal to enliven the piece at the Lyric. Perhaps I've gone far enough along this line, for just about here Jacl Hazzard may be muttering: “Is thie! guy going to write his fool head off about Fred and Adele? The kids are clever but they're not the whole show: Where do I come in?" Mr. Hazzard comes in from time to time, once or twice a bit reluctantly, all of which is natural enough in | these dry times, considering the happy fact that he has jeen hiding in a wine closet. His strangely retiring man- |ner is due to his playing the part of a desperate husband who hopes to cure his wife of the flirting Mabit by having her believe he has killed him~- self. Of course she doesn’t believe anything of the sort, knowing by long experience that suicide would be dead+ ly to musical comedy. While he is playing ‘“‘ghost,"’ eating under the table and drinking in any old place, Mr. Hazzard hoarsely calls, “Hear me!"’ now and then in order to @&- plain that this is the college cry of Peter Grimm. He manages usually, to be funnier than Fred Jackson's | “book” generally, and does nothin to mar the tunefulness of the music. by William Daly an¢ Paul Lannin. In the role of the wife Marjorie Gateson dresses as violently as she flirts, Charles Judels is extravagant+ |ly emotional, particularly when he der scribes his favorite omelet, and Helen Ford and Vinton Freedley get along j nicely in their songs and dances. For no reason whatever the, prancing chorus breaks in upon one number after another until these in~ trusions become both tedious and ire ritating. On the other hand it is im- possible to get too much of the As— | but not another word about them! a smoke. It went down the wrong way and the fit of coughing that followed | so swelled her eyes that she could not appear in front of the camera the rest of the day.” “Were you that young woman?" we lasked in our best crogs-examining tone. “T refuse to answer," replied Shir- ley, “on the ground that my answer might tend to incriminate and degrade Call the next case! STILLS, | “Bluecoats are running wild in | Hollywood these days," says the First |National praise agent in boosting | Buster Keaton's new film “Cops.” * ‘The daily news stsries would go to | prove the sew contention. In fact, man hunters seem to bo featured in several film activities, |'There’s Charlie Ray's “Gas, Oil and Water," in which Secret Service agents have a tough time with smug- | glers. And Billy Bevan p! copper in ‘On Patrol. John Emerson's new story for Con~ stance Talmadge brought down the house. ‘The ceiling of his library fell \ 8 a humane Ben Turpin is said to be some bird in “A Robin's Nest.’ } Will Russell just stepped from the joe chest into the freezer. He left New York to avoid the cold and ran hum. or, has joined William Fox's aggre) gation of ph wrote of “Tol'uble David: “I en- joyed the film so much that there | must be sometiing the matter with it sing for the movies. of the cost of d Take a look ai Mae Murray, Claire, nd profit there/rom 4 Cullen Landis recently lectured on | seenario writing He ought to know, never having written a scenario in his life. Motion picture stars thoroughly én- joy the letters they get from fans. ‘After having read a couple of thous- | | jate why, ' Certain motion picture official who inst returned from the convention ut » Albany (yes, we know too the ‘con: + ) was over days ago, but he's | turned.” just the same) says uw ju a, is nowhere near the E just hit the third,” eunwer