The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1922, Page 12

tt i a + Wich man to keep Irene Bordoni in Theatrical News and Gossip TURNING ON ‘ -THE SPOTLIGHT BY CHARLES DARNTON LACD AUX DAMES! Indubitably, the week in the theatre is all to the Indies, if I may be permitted to trade upon the title of one of the plays that make men seem like human apologies for being alive, Sensitive about it? Not at all; just hardened to the lot of poor, helpless, <Pitiable man on the stage. Against the feminist movement in three acts he thas about as much chance of striking out boldly for himself as a fish in the Glance at the women, then glare at the men, in “To the Ladies!” <“The French Doll,” “The Rubicon” and “Fyr Goodness Sake’—if not for Heaven's sake! Is there any comparison that could be anything but ‘odious? And the worst of it—the treachery of !t—ts that all these plays were written by men. If there is no justice, there might at least be shame, But no, these conscienceless traitors take their brother’e money and then Sel! him at cut rates or give him dead away before he’s fairly settled in bis High priced seat. Some day there may be a terrible reckoning, but not thts week, Bill, not this week. OW, I’m not saying that “To the Ladies!” isn’t good fun, far from it. But it is decidedly fun at the expense of the men in it, as well as the simple masculine souls who laugh at it while all the time their ‘wives may be taking it seriously and saying to themselves: “This play is fo true, it has such understanding!” Ha! There are times when derisive laughter | Tam not ashamed of this contemptu-y ous outburst. What? Yes, I agree with you that a young husband needs almost as much care as a baby, and that he may require even more at- tention as he goes along. It 1s, in- deed, kind and thoughtful of his dear! little wife to measure him for shirt sleeves while he is struggling with a mental problem upon which his atid her whole future may depend, “There is, I grant you, something tender ‘abd beautiful in her yearning to have his shirt elcevos just the right length. But do you expect me to belicve, ‘@mdam, that if you went to a ban- Gfet—a banquet, mind you, with a dpeaker’s table and a toastinaster and @ flasdlight photograph and every- @thing—and found your husband! couldn't respond to a toast because | @ hated rival had taken his canned speech right out of his mouth, that you would get up and make a speech for him? Do you—take your own time in answering—expect me to be- lieve anything like that? And sup- pose you did break all the we-have- ‘with-us-to-night rules of oratory by behaving im this extraordinary man- ner, don’t you realize you would make your husband look more ridic- ulous than ever? What if you did explain be had laryngitis,, do you Wik imagine for a moment any one would 3 Swallow that excuse at a banquet? W/\ . y ~ No, madam, you would only makea bigger chump of the poor boob sitting beside you. The-play is good fun, yes. But true and understanding? Hat , ardonable. No, madam, the husband in “The Rubicon,” and as for the play it deserves io be treated with polite silence. ‘Yet, here again it is the man who pays, honest, trusting fellow that he is, pays and pays for two acts with the dignity so dear to him. Did she tell him before tuey war married that she would expect him to sleep on the couch in the drawing room for the rest of his life while she rested comfortably in the only bed outside fhe servants’ quarters? It's dollars to francs she never mentioned it to Rim, There's no telling how long the poor fool might have suffered if there hadn't happened to be a bottle of champagne in the house. The French are so playful in these matters, too darned playful to suit us. “Canned smut,” said a woman Jost behind me at the Hudson, Silly rot, Td eay, Tome is even less to be said for GOSH ! YOUR Boss Took My SUIT CASE AN’ LEFT ME HIS BY MISTAKE — HE'S Coin’ ON A THREE MONTHS TRIP, Too! 1 E can only eurmise what the millionaire in “The French Doll” gets, but whatever it is fs sure to pay a big price for it. He is thrown down so hard by Georgine when she turns to the young Man who plays the piano and other Parlor tricks that his middle-aged romance is fairly knocked out of him, but she picks bim up neatly #he realizes his money means e thing to her. She calls him a “ beeg Teesh,” but he’s really a poor fish. Still, there's no getting away from Boo-Hoo® You KNOW WELL WANT Gome MONEY FoR A NEW DONT You LET! Me NAMeEs JOE’S CAR Gow — SHE PULLED BETTER'N Wis vesterpay An! “Ty'siiow: (S PACKED HARDER “Too-—- WHAT “H' DICKENS ~~? =?- THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY OME WoT A GRASPIN’ WOMAN “ou ARE —WOUVE PesicRED ME FOR THAT MONE EVERY DAY His week ¢ You THIN ‘Ss GOING TS CALL YOU NAMES % va? a tof on- He WILL. Att RIGHT WHAT eae ‘PHONE THE STATION AN’ TRY To CATCH THAT Guy BEFORE His TRAIN PULLS OUT! HURRY You WRONG ME =I NOT GRASPING $ GHE'S' GETTIN’ HoT “Too — mebee. c's Bum GasoLINE.— I BETTER STOP AN’ Have; MIKE Loow HER OVER. —: TM Not! te BoTHERED You FoR Some MONEY -X apmiT! HELLO -MR. GESSIT- OH, 114 SO GLAD 1 CAUGHT You — ~ HELLO — HELLO ~?— GosH, THEY \ CUT US OFF!) The Evening Y'DON'T neta Tete me — T-KNEW You'd stoP IN WHEN 1 SEE y'Comin’ SOwN Th! ROAD. —— True Womanly Intuition! | | the praises of a dozen players, | this girl was the only one who haj | shown an: i Wf /, i-e el) World’s Comics y'Gor Your BRAKE ser! A bl (mentioning the name of an at She writes to thank me for'a kind mention I ma in Why, I didn't | fact, hers i | gone to the trouble of thanking me f)) | Pretty thoughtful of her, eh?"” \§ critic, ‘she's a pretty fair little tress. T believe she'll get there too. Jevitza, way of thinking, the 0 n he indulgd ‘ yething like this: ve ils are wonderful. Eye move is a picture, Why, it to the cast of comedy ampton, ducers of thire comed ithe fact that {t would tdke an awfully Screenings By DON Al SOME STATISTICS, Huntley Gordon, playing an impor- tant role in “Reckless Youth,” Elaine Hammerstein's latest, is not only a good screen actor, but he is a ham mer-headed shark for stutistics. He does not delve in vilal statistics at all, because the sort he does submit are not of vital import to any one, much less himself, But he writes: the sort of clothes she wears in this Play. Incidentally, there's no such thing as Miss Bordoni’s being all dressed up and having no place to 0, It must have taxed A. B. Thomas s Vagenuity as a playwright to arrange fer this gorgeous comedienne’s dress parade. It is puzzling to see her wearing a dazzling evening sown §m the afternoon until she explains she fa going out to dinner. That's that. ‘Then when she gets down to Palm Beech ahe happens to mention she is @emae to « mask ball, so that explains er Dlossoming out in a rose costume hat would put Ziegfeld’s “Follies” to he blush. Clever chaps, these ‘There's nothing they Playwrights! | can't do if} “in the pictures Ihave been mar- | | swinging a mean megaph and peaceful sort of citizen, was{—count “Hit ber with the ash can!” he shouted, and his orders were carried out to the letter. But don’t be alarmed. No one shied & rubbish receiver at the fair and lovely cranium of Claire, For “ash can,” in the parlance of the Goldwyn folks, means a specially | oft built lamp used to throw an extra] strong ray of “sunshine” on player. So all is well out Goldwynville way. ride and ride, A press agent with nothing else on is mind made the rounds of William | Fox players recently and asked them | "em—while acting in a Egyptian spectacte soon to burst forth} veteran plu on the screen, were required by the| script to mount camels and ride and The statistics do not! show just how many of the extras ac- tually climbed on to the hurricane deck of the ships of state, but just as many as climbed on eventua}ly fell} big And it wasn’t because they couldn't the! hold on—it was because the camel-| | walk proved too muci) for the riders. In half hour 99 44- extras were sicker than any landlub- AMBITIONS. \ber caught in @ Point Judith roll Atter receiving medical treatment and being snatched from the brink of the grave, one dusky-skinned cama- 100 per cent. of the ‘ nevah gonna ride no camel heir chief ambitions had teen. | to. as they're put to it. | ried 3499 times, played best man| ynae, thelr chiet embt non ad heen lleer said unto the other: - 8,987 times and have had 3.66445 | works! EE OEY s) “Ah grains of rice heaved at m I no mo’ If we could spare send it to Huntley, OW, a man may worry about N his wife's flirting, but for @ medal we'd goodness sake can you imagine | him going to all the bother of pre- BIT Russell says he wanted to pose | for lingerie ads, Tom Mix wanted to be a snake charmer, “RIDE a ¢: in disgust, | wanted to be @ motiste with a Fifth | tending to blow himself up, as he THE SECRET'S OUT, does in “For Goodness Sake,” just to make her realize she is wounding his sensitive nature? This !s Jack Haz- gard’s only excuse for slopping 4 cylinder now and then durt 4toumd in a bathrobe that looks as strong emotional scene may though it had seen better days in wondering, The gecret is out. “Tangerine,” unless I'm greatly mis Claire Windsor wus “emoting'’ all taken. over the studio recently while film Look at these men in the week's ing Albert Payson Terhune's "Grand plays and see what women make of Larceny.” them! Yes, madam, women! Wallace Worlbey, ordinarily @ calm stars when they (the stars) are mii cca. Those who have wondered what fa-|be a millionaire. nous directors really say to feminine | to Avenue name, Al St. John wanted to | Clyde Cook wanted | Mary run an elevator, anted to be Queen of Willtam Farnam wantodt Curr} Some folks say i pirate, | of the He knows. of « bird in her next releuse. At Jeast, | release date has been set as yet Hispatiaest he nice girl Ho for mone of the have! ‘The number of out-of-work actors] the neme of the picture would so in-| Harry Myers declares the pubmo| W’™* #% n realized, althoy John | around Hollywood hus taken a big} dicate, It is to be culled “The Gilded|likes old jokes best, Wrong again, | There was @ young lady yamed June has pretty near crossed his youthful | jump lately and this J the reason for | Cage.”” . |Harry! Old friends, old wines, old | Who to ev'ry surprise was mmm Sout = Ed's putting a high) price on talk.| Cecil De Mile is in Hollzwood Fe: | who yes; but old jJokes—NE' Till a man in a street | = Every day’ tho line of indigent “At| covering from the scrious illness that} Would suggest as title for ‘ : PAGS THE LEMONG, |tubertien": forms to thé right and| interfered with his recent world tour. |Turpin’e next release “The Cay onae olered Rie cat Movie extras, to the tune of 1,000|luys down a sad, asked the other RIDE one? Why, man, Shirley Mason | a) ain't nevah gonna SMOKE one." TALK NOT CHEAP. that talk is cheap, | iward Connelly, dean sad verbal barrage upon the ever-attentive ear of | the Recently Ud reached the bursting point and was complaining about the| <p} chase firm with a bis film contract opened | & two-room office in New York. The manager's wife and an office boy con- stituted the staff, The contract was} with Charlie Chaplin, And now look| at Associated First National! Clarence L. Prown, directing Hope! Hampton, is {!] with the fu, in Screen! by him: Claire | hey say Norma Talmadge | through with "Smilin’ Through,"’ but! is not through smiiin’ Gloria Swansen will plo CARRY | William the part | Moses Mary Astor has been selected by|Have It." Four years ago this week a small| Norris's novel, “Br ings, We apologize to Harry for having spelled his name We stand correciea If, and he ought to know. Windsor, “hest-dressed woman in the movi jhas never been east of the Missi kn is} and a nine in one heat. —We haven't seen Ox’s latest nlm us it ls a whoppe: of Myron Selznick to be Eugene O'Brien's latest leading woman. peared in “The Beggar Maid. management She the T rights to Charles |it. iol own as ut V i- ast ap- “Nera,” pravel constant line of talk he was forced} snow and Convention to be held at| ‘¥#’t Kempner, of Brooklyn to face ¥ day. |tho Grand Central Palace ix geeking | COMtributed a rhymed thrill and says] ¢ “But,” interrupted Ralph Lewis, /the movie camera man who has|he sincerely hopea he will get the “talk is cheap, you know." |travelled the greatest distance in| prize, a copy of the song “Cheap nothin’,”" blared forth Con-| making pictures. Don't shove, boys: | old Me Tight 1f You Cet Me nolly; ‘‘not when they talk you out of | The line forms in the centre ¢ iu ; aoe 2 ten or fifteen bucks a day.’ | orobuuen, tov Wilner a ee zt the a in ae fees —— ee "lover lis way want to learn to sin 4 STILLS. she has just pur wouldn't be |to hear that factory burst into sony orden [Some day. Look Iden’ | It’s sev'ral years since Barley dicd, But do we mourn his passing? | Not while we see on ev'ry side |stppi. She wears ‘em, though, just While touring in my auter, Allen Holubar spent last week tike they do In New York and Paris | stretched 'fore my eyes: a picture old, shooting seaside scenes for “The Soul] William hum went huntins! 4 peservoir of water. | Seeker. _|Nesterday? He shot two naturals | NOT SO BAD, TABS! ivien | ‘Tabs, a New York girl, No [see her maiden rhyme in the pi |she writes like @ pretty reserved two boxes at the Hippedrom 4 for Monday night and will bring some, RHYMED THRILLS empsey in his athletic turn, ou May Tight." factory | trned over terna for for Italian charities at all surprised ailroads ‘has been trying to mug Margot; too! Long streams of booze e’erlasting. The thrill that made me hot and cold, wants to! “My cousin Jke iv in the tee-cream business.” { | “Oh, an ice-cream Cohen, eat \ About Pligy ‘and Players DRAMATIC critic approached u recently with a letter in hi hand. “He was in a very amial jj mood, + What do you think? lere's a-note from Miss So-and-"~ which y much about her} minor role; but she ha “Yes, indeed!’ We replied. ri's going to succeed. ‘Come to think of it,” sald During the week the critic had sun, appreciation. Willi she succeed? Well, watety her A SIGHT SHE'D MISSED. - We lad the pleasure of the Metropolitan's new n Vienna, not long ago, and foun ming, First, she tool 1sion to say that, according to hel rage Ameri ; any style in dress, Then. th} ct of jazz music came up, OF | tried to explain it to hers “You sow--the laughing -tromj “be sald, making a move s though he were playt :, Jeritza shook her ir dit see the trombun em? Hed, YANCS! SUGGESTS, nz n met the Dolly sister! ‘. vr seeing them . and began to talk abou re in which he could gt t te worevur “On it with dollars.” it's the end of the story: and Jessie Bustle; udeville. egut has been adder The First Man.” Because,” a new musica , opened last night at North Mass. tudents “Just T the America) — Aits will pre“ by Cora May um Wriday after of ‘tranger, at the Ly ies Hurtig and Lee Shubert, pro (| “Just Married,” will sene? }, owapanics on tour playing tha )] Now Jettey has) |* Gov wurds of officials to see. Jacl over finals in. the Easter State: step Contest will he heldemt Garden Dance Palacey to- y night the Danc to Association La Ara mask’ ball and. cagniva A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. } Margot Asquith says the Americar 4 are away behind the times ,- f an it he that the York Centra little cigarette And people say; “How awfut!* But it's alt right in our own sets) (2 | We smoke them by the clawful. ©* 4 7 puff and dream, for I'm imilove, | The world is bright, an@ apet— | Tle does not want his turtle dove To smoke a cigarette. On, Lady Niwotine? FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE.