The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1922, Page 24

years old, you may have felt @ tight have been hoped. 3 @ fifteen years ago, when Shaw ii to me, “I'm going to write a new a8 soon us I can get around to IT thought he was joking, but now T Fealtze he was in earnest. Evi- jelitly “Back to Methuselah” is no j than his Bible and something fe than Wells's “Outline of His tory,” since Shaw is never satisfied WBLA he goes the next fellow one bet- Ranging from the Garden of to “As Far as Thought Can " namely, the year 31,920, it is ‘setaxgering step forward, taken with ‘Ciaracteristic audacity, keen observa. ‘and brilliant humor, yet suggest- mothing so much as Shaw at great lémyth.. He never knows when to Btop,'as he proves once again in ‘The Geepel of the Brothers Barnabas,” ‘with its theory of extending the term of human life to three hundred years, There is probably more than most ‘would be willing to admit in his Just as we get old enough “Back to Methuselah” A Staggering Step Forward “*~ By CHARLES DARNTON URIOSITY must have been satisfied at the Garrick Theatre last night ‘when Bernard Shaw's five-part “Back to Methuselah” started on its \first lap and covered a stretch of nearly four hours. If at the end at time you weren't convinced of the possibility of living to be three ‘sneatre Guild, a third of the so-called philosophic fantasy was pro- “and acted as well as could be expected, perhaps, though not so well PERO TNS» URNS AY 4 NOU Me at least a hundred. By the grace of Hampstead Heath capital work is done by A. P. Kaye as Joyce-Burge, while Claude King is deliciously suave as Lubin. Albert Bruning acts Franklyn Barnabas with fine, tolerant intelligence, and Moffat Johnson is a brutally frank Conrad. Miss Wych- erly is excellent as the parlor maid who will mean so much more a weck hence, when we get in “The Thing Happens” one of the results of Shaw's idea. As Lubin says, it is a fascinating ‘dea. on! dearie # TM BACK Home AGAIN! THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Yes! AND MY DEAR- M ‘You To EXPLAIN HILL 19 THERE ‘Your Conduct WHEN WE Ee RN bea ossip’ THis ts WHERE I'VE Got IT ON ED — My OL RUNS OUT Fast BECAUSE I KEEP My GARAGE HEATED IN COLD WEATHER JOE , DIDN'T You say YOU WANTED To “TAKE. This LETTER To “THe OFFICE with You? OFF ‘You x SAID GooD-BYE ~ %H YOu-AND WHY oO EXPLAIN ? Dre c ree ParreD # “TAT'S “Ty LETTER ABouT We, CORRESPONDENCE COURSE. IN "MEmoRY CULTURE’ I ToD ADR EDTA MET a RN RE ECE PST ep ree NN Op ee oe ** The Evening World’s Cor AN' FORGOTTEN IT! ABouT Twas AFRAID’ You WouLD ACCUSE Me OF HAVIN’ “Wat for'the life of me I can't follow little something, off we go! im that a man should give a golf if ever he is to be of )real use in running the world in- naga It merely convinces me Shaw doesn't like golf, any more ‘than he tikes meat. Indeed, he seems te miles. point by ling to suggest that healthful exercise of any kind be an important factor in pro- life, Yet he is undeniably “and stimulating in urging men- @s one means of keeping true decency of we might “tells Eve love may be too long a , after it has of love, and other words of peculiar the feminine mind. The creating life 1s, of course, into Eve's ear. On this more to be said than an be conquered by birth. Oasis in Mesopotamia,” put “a few centuries later,” for having been the discoverer of blood in slaying beasts, your emile is likely to fade away as be proclaims himself “the first gonqueror” because of having killed his brother. _He calls Adam “old yeretable” much as a young Englis! man of to-day might say “old bean,” though less affectionately. But he is his. vainglorious best after listen- ing to. Hive, discoursing drearily on @hildren, when he consolingly re- marks: “Poor mother! One tires of ing. There is nothing new the’ sun.” “You almost expect te -retort’ wearily, “Boys will be i". AN of this is pretty good tun. ‘The, fun of “The Gospel of the Barnabas" is found in the ‘wranglings of Lubin ‘and Joyce-Burge, instantly recognized as Asquith and Licyd George—one bland amd-easy, the other explosive and energetic. Burge gives himself dead mt he meets Conrad by breaking “How 1 wish I could have devoted myself to biology! I have always been interested in rocks and strata and volcanoes and so forth.” But when he proudly sets himself up “gman of the people,” Lubin ‘rings him down with the shot: “Don’t te ridiculous. You are a gountry solicitor, further removed from the people, more foreign to them, more jealous of letting them to ydur level, than any duke or archbishop. You fall into the very common mistake of supposing it is poverty that makes the proletarian aod money ‘that makes the gentle- men." But there is too much arguing hem, and the danger of it is that it put any audience to sleep. Franklyn Barnabas, the former ehirchman, and Conrad, the biologist should learn sooner that their vis- iters, far from understanding them. have vo other thought than of put- ting “their theory of extending the term of human life to selfish uses. One of the realities that persists im the beauty of Ernita Lascelles as Zve, beauty so virtually unadorned that it may explain the use of the fgoreen behind which the Garden of Eden scene is played. This clumsy, @a-taphioned device, far from height- ing illusion, has the effect of an obstacle. As for the scenery, it is more fantastic than decorative. But im every sense Miss Lascelles is al- Margaret Wycherly, as The Voice of the Serpent, is effective, and her trilling little laugh a delightful nm. George Gaul is a stal- Borse Threw de Mod aT ME! De KATINKA YOuR CLEAN [TPMT PRATT LITTLE MARY MIXUP B wea HER ABOUT THE Mud BoRWE ess? THREW AT TH AFRAID To LET YOU GO HOME uy HOUR OF THE NIGHT— THERE'S IBEEN SO MANY HOLD-UPS ade (C)) DON'T BE FooLisH ! T WIsH You HAD SOMEONE poe To GO wilh! HERE COMES A FELLOW-| HE MAY BE GLAD To HAVE COMPANY HELLO STRANGER — \F YER GOIN’ MY WAY TLL. WALK WITH YOU I LOVE COMPANY ¢ George Bernard Shaw of | angland g copy of to- | 8 his ay! a-% Why? we're going to announce that we saw bet he condemns us. the first portion of his dram ‘d book, “Back to Methuselah," and we consider him the ducated smart | Aleck we ever ran across. Maybe | “wise cracker’’ would be a_ better term. It is not within our province | to criticise his work, so we stop right here. But we feel we a few! nat | y} words about the free |saw “Back to Methusel: levening at the Garrick ntruted esse of G |lage. The short-haired long-haired men we many of them m refrain from sleeping while th drawn Jout, borrowed Shaw dissertations were | being expor | arettes in them (the ladies) women there 1 to dies smoked cig- on kissed wart Adam, and Dennis King makes ap eloquent Cain. In the after-the-war ‘words at the Barnabas batiie home of on rings clanked the bobbed-hair ke because ed by tad, We ma 1 to ake through the first section ot Eve, For an explanation (T's PRETTY DARK ALONG THESE STREETS — EVERY TIME I SEE SOMEBODY PASS 1 GET 5777 — Cope. 1922 (IN. Y. Eve. World) By Prese Pub. Co. to i USue 's come TS SEE You ABOUT THe MUD I THREW AT BowBaie No- HAND THINK IT'S.A HIGHWAY, MAN, EH ? Welcome, A COP! OVER YER Stranger! of this statement hustle around to the Garrick and lamp Eve, Wow! only a suitcase but wore trunks in his act, as did the elephants in—but, here. We've gone as far as we dare. RHYMED THRILLS Brose Bradley of Scranton, Pa., is to-day’s bidder for the copy of the song, “You May Hold Me Tight If You'll Get Me Tight,” offered as the prize for the best rhymed thrill. Brose writes he'd admire to win the INTRODUCING NUT WYNN. Charles Heywood of Salina, Kan., reached New York recently, by some ake, and dropped in the Cohan ‘Theatre to see Kd Wynn tn ‘The! Perfect Fool.'' He found fitted the billing so well that when he got “LOLA” REHEARSING. Leslie Morosco announces that a new play with music, entitled “Lola,” starring Helen Shipman is in rehear- sal. Others in the cast are Clarence Derwent, Bddie Garvie, A. J. Her- back to Salina he had the comedian | contest because of the honor it would | pert, Lenore Novassio e clected to the Salina Nut Club, No.| bring to Scranton. His thrill follows: | purnham. and Eunici 1, Ed's number in the club is 56, but i x : it ought to be 1 Gosh, I had the greatest thrill, eee 'Twould knock New Yorkers out. Gossip. The other day I bought a gill Of booze you dream about, FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD! Being a little despondent, we have | decided to print another poem by| And when I turned around to go, Arthur Rosenfeld, the picture-frame| pe barman said: “You see, Rate tue) | In Scranton, sir, we're not so slow, | Come on—have one on me.” The Sousa concert at the Hippo- drome Sunday night will be the last for the bandmaster this season. Leon Errol of “Sally,” says he has a wecret formula for painting auto- mobifes, Wish he had one for paint- ing towns. Belle Bennett will replace Hazei Florence Eldridge, 80 charming and fair, The part you play is full of despatr,| ment. “Until to-day I haven't smiled| pawn in ‘The Demi-Virgin” at the But when the villain's caught in his} since last October. But watch me." | pitinge Theatre next Monda: And then Morris Gest not only 4 lair, Good over evil triumphs right there, 1nd I am delighted? | Ruth Berse, of the A. H. Woods press department, is acting in’ Law- ful Larceny” as a side line, She says it’s a cinch. Edna May Oliver has been engaged by Henry Baron to play the role of grinned violently, but actually chuc- kled DEMPSEY AT THE HIP. Jack Dempsey began his engage ment at the Hippodrome yesterday and scored a knockout, There was @ punch in his act and he put on his | ™*.=uase" aiid rate 7 Petia various stunts promptly, in this way| Howard Hull Gibson of “Six Cyl- avoiding heavy waits, By pleasing |inder Love,” has staged two playlets ills at each side of the |®Y Willfam Anthony McGuire for tlso proved himself quite a| Kelth vaudeville, Lie came to the theatre with| Robort O'Conner GEST GRIN RETURNS. Morris Gest was seen on Broadway yesterday we that on the success of the Company at the cause ya smile us big as face, The Russian Bat Theatre 1th Street was the “This has been no smile he for | st me," he said, when accused of merri- | boxer returned to the Madame Sevin in “The Rubicon” at) cast of “The Blushing Bride’ last night after gaining the decision over | Kid Flu, | An orchestra of fifteen Turkish mu- sicians will be used in ‘The Rose of Stamboul” Theatre. A benefit for the Stage Children’s Fund will be given the Casino Sun- day afternoon, Seventy-five juvenile players will participate. Forty-six pairs of new shoes have been purchased for the girls in | Morning, Dearie," at $6 a pair. Some bill to foot, say we jocularly. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. William McBride, ticket man, says that only about 25,000 people attend the fifty first class theatres in New York nightly, He adds that out-of- town visitors who stay here all night average only about 17,000 a day. i | | FOOLISHMENT. “Kiss me, dear,” the maiden suid, | “Then hold me on your lap.” | He turned and ran just seven blocks, He was @ bashful yap THE CHESTNUT TREE. back your girl's from I knew she low-cut | but I didn't know you could [see her back clear trom Boston.” wor coming to the Century/ FOUND THE | some bills that way up from the office I dropped in} e my fishmonger nd he was out?" Then I tried my grocer."’ ‘orrect. | ‘He was out?’ Plenty of shopmen, Of course, in “Right. no proprictor. that I called wanted to see Dispute about bills. “Exactly butcher, and Jove! but iy not?" I wasn't.’ MAN AT LAST. ON BLUMER—I had the most singular thing happen to me the other day, Did you ever go into a man's place to pay a bill you owed him and find him out? Plankington (emphatically) — No, sir. Did that happen to you? “It did. 1 had a notion, or rather I nerved myself I owed, So on my but L left word to settle up, but the proprietor first. Do you twig?” t strengthens your Then I called to see my rn wasn't out also.” be hanged if he you were in luck." “When L got home I found them all ; Waiting Tor me! ‘—nicago Herald, up to it, to settle| While Joe May was in Norther Africa directing some big scenes for “Mistress of the World,” he notiesd one bevy of black boys doing better work than all other groups. “Those are my go-getters!” gm, nounced an assistant director, The next day May says he eoukin't pry the go-getters away from @ crap game. He turned to the assistant, “Your go-getters have become gumts getters."’ The assistant laffed. He hed to, Joe was his boss. EB REVERSE ENGLION. William Farnum, always at cuss, said yesterday he never understand why film vamps ate ways brunettes and the heroines al- ways blondes. After wondering for half an hour, BM, Hke the culiar actor he is, called up the of William Fox and announced Eheger he wanted‘A blonde vamp and a bilagk- haifed heroine'in “SHnekles of Gold.” Not that the vamp or will be handcuffed, silly! name of his picture. HAVEN'T SEEN HALF. | The Civic Club of this Ittle is taking a great interest in Not that motion pictures concern Civic Club members at all, at all they just want something to be terested in and so they picked om movies. During the latter part of last 2 Committee on Movie Cengorshi from the club was given a Cook's Tour through a big New Yer! studio, introduced to the players, lowed to turn a camera eranik put through all of the hokum, | The committee left fully conyinee! there was nothing in moviedom the) hadn't seen. rail They missed Hollywood, however by more than 3,000 miles, *) \ MELO MELLER. { Whitman Bennett, producer of latest Rex Beach story, “Fair Lady, for the screen, is a strong believer ir the regular old-fashioned, “ki *em-down-drag-'em-out - and - shall-triumph"’ melodrama. He said so himself when he let with: ‘Meldorama, if made clea! enough and good enough to appeal § the ordinary person, provides. most acceptable of all forms of ents ltainment. Meldorama ts stimulaéf, jin its action” wey ‘We let him get no further, “So is Gordon Gin,"’ we quipped, And Bennett, he's mad. STILLS. Running true to form, this week ic some sort of a movie week. We sex by the papers that it {s also “prun¢ week." Now, YOU say it. \ | Cullen Landis’s rise to fame im the) movies has been rapid. He started as an assistant director, but that proved too much work, and mow loo) at him, } Jack Abbe and Winter Blossom, #! play in “The Whims of the Gods, are both Orientals, althougt former monicker ce! listen like it. Kate Lester, screen veteraness, an important part in Mary |Rinehart’s original photoplay, “7 | Glorious Fool.'* | A glass building owned’by: and containing 3,384 panes hes been) | moved a half mile. Not @ pane.’ even cracked, ‘tis said, Rothaker Studios claim te have photographed one of the two slippa.s, worn by Marte Antoinette the. she kept a date with the guillotine.| Well, what of it? A London cinema critic | American film actresses to wateh an: study Lady Diana Manners's of leaving a drawing-room, J. Stuart Blackton’s all-British| film, The Glorious Adventure,” making some stir abroad. r| Farl Derr Biggers has just warmly!) complimented the screen version 0’: his story, “Idle Hands.” George Ar-, liss is the star, When Mary Pickford plays *T of the Storm Country,” her next pro-| duction, it will be her first grown. part in months. Excepting, of course, | Dearest in “Lord Fauntleroy.” Douglas Fairbanks is working another costume thriller, He to divulge the name, however, Charlie Ray will start making pie- | tures for United Artists next May, Major Jack Allen, who ropes animals alive while the busy whirra, is New Xorking for @ ,