The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 12

fl a a © 1 A aa 5 (teem “TURNING ON THE SPOTLIGHT BY CHARLES DARNTON EATING the Ringling Brothers’ Show to town by two or three weeks, Shaw's Three-Ring Intellectual Circus, “Back to Methuselah,” may truly be called unrivalled. Here, ladies and gentlemen, you have the world’s most astounding spectacle entitled Creative Evolution, to- gether with Adam and Eve cultivating the modest fig-leaf, Cain, the Natural Vegetarion, the only Talking Snake in captivity; those Age- Defying Marvels, the Brothers Barnabas, and other high-browed wo wonders. When Barnum died, Shaw was born, And a greater showman never lived. No one knows better than he bow to exhibit strange ideas to the gaping multitude and rake in the shekels. He has only to show himself in front of the tent and cry, “Walk up, tumble up, any way to get up!” to cause @ stampede in hie direction. And don’t imagine for a moment that the members of that wise band The Theatre Guild aren't fully aware of this fact, for while they are softly playing ‘This Is Where We Lose Our Shirt,” they have their treasurer over im the ticket wagon counting money with both hands. OTHING is lacking in the big show to make it just as adver- tised. When you come out and plod homeward you have no occasion to stop before a billboard and with pointing finger bitterly complain: “They didn't have that.” You saw Eve in all her glory, didn't you? You bet you did! Not all? Well, nearly all. You really couldn't expect more for your money, could you? Certainly not. And did you| cyer ste such a snake as The Serpent, | with its beautiful hood and its still | more beautiful line of talk? You must admit that as a snake charmer Shaw | has no equal. Even a snake that had sone to boarding school couldn't hold a rattle to this highly educated reptile. Consider, for example, its saying, “That is great thought.” Where’ in the world is there another snake even with sense enough to get Its coils about a ordinary, common, everyday thought, let alone grasp a great one? You cannot fail to realize that this Serpent has had the advantage of a bigher education, that it has, indeed, gone to school to no less a teacher than Bernard Shaw. Such snake- charming as is evident here takes time and patience and uncommon skill. This is no ordinary, sideshow kind of training. UT let us leave the menagerie and pass into the vast arena, where the Brothers Burnabas are about ‘o begin their ageless, life-saving sen- sation, ‘‘Three Hundred Years, or As Jong as You Like."” But first you want to see the clowns you say. Very well, look at those two merry fellows kaocking each other down. You rec- ognize them at once as Asquith and Lloyd George, just as last year you identified the dry, grim-visaged, friendiess wanderer around the ring as Volstead. No, circuses don't change much, though they do strive desperately to keep up to date. This making clowns of political figures is an old trick, one more popular in England than in this country, yet always sure of rais- ing a laugh. Sometimes nothing more than a falseface is needed, or a high David Belasco to improve each shin- ing moment. London paper may give Mr. Er- langer @ terrible shock, but it's too g004d to keep: “And who was the nicest man you met in America?” “George Tyler, who owns the New Amsterdam Theatre.” That is nice, isn’t it? ‘BY THuNDeR! TLL PUT IT RIGHT uP “oO HER Powrr BLANK # Ziad POoR MAN hat and a frock coat and a lily, though carrying a sign is considered safest. Ly this means the clown is absolutely sure of being taken for the personage he represents. It's exceedingly sim- vie and often quite laughable. See how easily Shaw does it. N PLACE of pink lemonade you may get coffee in the refresh- ment booth. This {s an excellent idea, But I should say that coffee, hot and strong, ought to be rushed to the spectators about the middle of the Barnabas act, as then the difficulty in keeping awake is greatest. It's ively enough while Asquith and Lioyd George are pummelling each other with red and blue balloons, but when hey get up to their knees into Brit- sh politics their antics necedsarily veem less frisky to us. Discussion of the Liberal Party and similarly chatty topics are not ex y side- splitting. Yes, a little coffee might «0 a lot of od at this stage of the performance. There's a lady clown, tov, of course vut she's not good for much, Her japper Ways are more irritating than amusing. So far as fun goes, her habit of chipping in isn't to be com- pared with the old hatchet work of the Carrie Nation clown. Portion of an interview with) Miss Wish Wynne printed in « SAY, KID. ASK MOM IF He’ tay _ GRear NEED. [ WHY, NO MUM - HE LEFT LONG Aco! Joe, tm ABOUT PURCHASE. A CAR = You Have. OWNED A Good MANY AND 1 WANT You 7 GWE ME YOUR advice. MY PREFERENCE IS For A “TOURING CAR JOE, RATHER “HAN A CouPE = fr Witt CARRY MORE PASSENGERS AND 'S MUCH “HE CHEAPER! “THING 1 EVER GWE away, CERTAINLY s vip! ATS Wer X SAID —Dpip You MARRY Me FoR MY MOoNEY— ANSWER ME THAT Wor ! Yeu ADMIT \w ? WELL. WHAT IS HE IN NEED OF @ MONEY- FOoD- CLOTHING - Find) our WHAT He Hep} Or] ai GOSH, How AM 1 GONNA GeT OUTA Here P-ST! T'LULTIE THese SHEETS l]} TOGETHER AN’ You CAN SLIDE : OUT THROUGH THE = 7 NIGHT Still, it must be admitted that Back to Methuselah” has most of the familiar circus stunts. ETURNING one night this week | name of which I leave suess, a man remarked: you to Mr. Belasco sat just in front uo ‘What in the world was he do: heve?” asked a surprised friend “Well,” came the answer, “when ever the lights were up he was rea tng bis mail,” It has always been characteristic of 4 f more leggers are responsible for seen the picture said to me, ‘I liked | those head measuring machines on S Cc Pepys een 1 n s “never agains” than all the New everything in such-and-such a film," "| nim for a me pes ; | Year's resolutions from here to| Writes D. W. G AC ere ee hat, sir!” an~ i By DON ALLE! Shanghal. And that's some jaunt. “That,” continucs the letter, ‘was; venmnanks!'? muttered Niles, “that's Dicky arrived at that conclusion] the worst thing he could have said | ali 1 wanted to know. Thank good HAIL THE CZAR. last night while he was a guest of|@bout the picture, and I'm glad he| ness my head hasn't started to swell To-day should be a sort of a Durbar|a big club. Now go on with the|didn’t say it about ‘Orphans of the| Yet: ca | And he walked out day in moviedom. Will H. Hays has | sto Storm. zs left the office of the Postmaster Gen- ‘I found, as always," said Dick,| “I always try to pian to put enough EXTRA! EXTRA! eral flat, and fom now on will reign | that the chief conversational topic| variety in my pictures to suit every, ‘There isn't u lot to this little yurn, head of motion picture land was Prohibition. I judged that a cer-| one. If any one likes ‘everything’ in i éxcept that it shows that in some stu Although he js officially on the jod|tain bootlegger, known as ‘Dan,’ was|® film, then it is a ¢ tlm and| dios the uctors and actresses are mak sturting to-day, it is announced that|the most popular among the club] Will be just as heartily disliked by]ing steps in the right direction he will not tase the reins of office | members. A newcomer burst into our|™#ny. many others, whose point of | ne heading over this story the until Monday morning. He will wiecd | group with the sud news that Dan| view is not the same as the one wholmame of the latest’ Edna Murphy the scepter from hiv newly selected | was suffering from grip. liked it all Jonny Walker starring film. 4 offices ut No. 522 Fifth Avenue | “ ‘He's got plenty of stuff for that,’ “Yes, I'm gind no onc yet told’ muy be judged from the title, “Extra According to the offices of 8. Gold- | interrupted another meniber. me they like ‘everything’ about the xtral’’ is @ newspaper story wen, the masnute who hus bean ‘ "I know,’ shot back the news- | ‘Orphans'—— There is nothing much to say about acting us Emperor Hays's minis- | monger, ‘Dan's doctor ordered him to “The weather down here is fine.! the production as yet with the cxcep ter plenipotentiury and ambassador | take plenty of it, but Dan insisted on| That's about all they have left of the an Ay ay Monee Bene extraordinary, there will be an of. |having a Ti ceo ie eA cs old Kentucky past | Murphy or Mr. Walker, both playing | ficial coronation of Czar Hays at a log Ioan aeeint Ana i ated regs | reper » do NOT carry a pad and ball at the Hotel Astor on the night | jy,’ | STILL 7 1-8. Denes 7 : Jot down one check on the tilm in of Maren 46 aeeen Niles Weich, leading man for Blaine pieuani MAR Or aRe iednin Linnia orden ian em Cie How D. W. G. EXPLAINS. Hammerstein in “Reckless Youth," 18 t . H.R. H. Hays had n no David Wark Griffith may be ru 4-|a particularly charming sori of a chap STILLS Mimation of wien he would start ce jeating down in the Kentucky hills, {and ch t for hundreds! Here's how they change ‘em. ‘Tiles clean up the movies; or where where once every steam flowed 100) of fan letters, vily from the|/t# both Hugo Ballin’s two coming Ww « 1 \ him a red-hot ' proof and the feud experts filed two| eternal feminine pictures have been changed to WHE t tart at it's 3.00 ‘the latest: switeh ma “Lipstick Pilea feat ie otehes in their rifle barrels before| The other day,afier getting a batel |ind — Roug “Other Women's cawn-pohn an’ Java every morning,|of ninety-two mash notes, Welel: Clothes,” and “Things Divine 3 THAT'S DIFFERENT. but he hasn't forgotten the movies, j|strolled idly into a hat store and|een changed to “I Owe You Dick Barthelmess says that boot-| “A friend of mine who had just}asked the salesman to put one of] Pat O'Malley has one of the lead- — ee SHE Must HAVE “ee. No HEY Mon— Tdon't HAVE TASK HIM I KHow WHAT He NEEDS ~ MAKE No Noise SIF MRS (ASE SST CAUGHT He LEAVIN’ m AT THiS HOUR OF THE ID BE A GONER! ng parts in Vitagraph's comini production of “My Wild Irish Rosi Charles Kenyon, vrsook writing for the speakies to grind out movie stories, is burning midnight electricity now and fash- ‘oning another talky. He still re- his position, however, as a mber of the Goldwyn writing siaff. who temporarti Violet Clark will make the screen luptation of Carey Wilson's “This Out.” When the yacant lot across from ‘he Paramount Studio dries up the ‘wo armies being filmed in Wallace teid's ‘ut—on a busebal!l diamond. Colleen Moore has played the lead- ing parts in two of Rupert Hughes's poctures, viz: “The Wall ind “Come On Over.” Rupe writes she is the best screen actress knows, Anita Stewart, having finished two pictures for Louis B. Mayer, is speed- toward New Orleans. She will nake New York on the second lap of ber journey Tom # man, divector, wil megaphone during the Katherin Donald's Conquers. handle filming of The Woman Producer J. ls Frothingham is per- onally supervising the editing and utting of his latest film, “The Man Who Smiled." wilie Chaplin entertained mem- bers of the Paviowa dancing organi. zation at his studio recently. Pav: ' BT weRE’s THE HITCH Joe.— MY WE HAS MADE UP HER MIND “The Dictator" intend to fight | Flower" , he CouPE ! Room for Argument ! About Plays and Players Ry BIDE DUDLEY wT MUST Geet Been HE Theatre Guild believes if ae has been misunderstood in cons nection with the Jewish Religt™) lkund drive. Theresa Helburn, Ex: utive Director, has asked space an explanation and this is what says, under date of yesterday: At the Jewish Relief Fund mee! last night at the Manhattan Oper: iiouse, Mr. B.S. Moss made the as-U sertion that every theatre in New York helping the drive except the Garrick As this statement re- fects seriously on the generosity, the decency, of the Theatre ve think it only fair to ask yuce for an explanation. We were ‘uested to permit a speaker on our [f- next week. As that is the produce Part IL. of 'Bacl ied have to try the exk wt of beginning + ont in decent fuse the permis: that the lobby tre, Where our Dro- Ay ‘ Slapped". an 5% p at their service week in the year savg LAL Week, when we are wrestling Vith the task of getting the secont ection of (he Shaw play int an eve found the stage of (their servige. Tt was |? where we Dud to con y) first. To imply that) 7 © noble appeal of 1 Tittle unfair.” the reliet fund ty use the staxe for only # brie hile the curtain ts dowaacict il se understand it. Ap the curtain und a @ ) wond take up only al nute:. Tet the fund people this to the Guild and undoubt permission will be granted. : ’ ‘LA FLAMME” FOR BRADY. SCH! IF SHE aw would rick nin th ve dt 1 tries of ely the um A. rudy Nas obtained thed CAUGHT ME vin rights to ‘La’ Plamme,’ a . the Theatre Ambigi, Paris. COMING IN play. Which is on. the. styh to X,"? was written by Chg Mme. Vohtire has wade @ hit in the leading part. Mere mendou | | TO HONOR SOUSA. ; | It is just tweoty-tive years ago tha loshin Philip Sousa wrate his mare j"stars and pes Forever,” and he will play it again to-morrow night af the Hippodrome. As a compliment t: the bandmaster-composer, B. F, Alber) + has had the march put on the orches tral programme of all Keith theatres for the coming week. ce GOSSIP. , The Aviation Division of. the Police Department will see ‘Just Married’ Monday night. i The ‘Rose of Stamboul'’ company 4 3 é vill arrive rtford to-I ¥} will arrive from Hartfor: o-morroy by special train, Ralph Morgan, while opening a bot! tle of alleged champugne in “The Ne tional Anthem” last night got a in the neck. Four one-act plays will be given te > night by the students of the Dramati Society of Washington Square, Ne: York University. re Theodore Westman jr. of ‘Than U,"" was born on Feb. 29, some year ago, and has been mad abont missin | birthday presents ever sinve. Elsie Janis and her ‘Gang’? b leaving the Guiety to-night. On t private car Miss Janis will nee piano, an auto and a radio-pl ‘Ne outht. Mac Kuschner and Charles Nola will dance for the one-step champtor ship title at Terrace Garden Danc Palace to-morrow afternoon. Kysct ner is last year's champion and Nola’) this year's, Tuesday night the @ri/ preliminary in the fox trot champlor. ship contest will be held. Long Is and dancers will compete. RHYMED THRILLS J | Harlem Herman Sage has an ambi- tion to win the copy of the song “You May Hold Me Tight if You'll @et Me Tight,” the prize for the best rhymed thrill, and has sent us a fine domestic |poem. Look at it: | My wifey just yearned for a girlie l To jill her cup brinc-fult with joy. | While throughout the day, tate and early, 1 prayed that wy first be a boy. | The time of fuljitinent soon hovered, I gazed at the scene with alarm, In the arms of the nurse, I discov- cred, Were two—of a kind—in each arm, FOOLISHMENT. |I knew a young woman named Mace, | Whose nose was too big for her face. | ‘Twas also quite flappy, Which made her unhappy. But that is quite often the case. A THOUGHT FOR TO-pay, | 7 wt An up-State composer has nol’ fied iis that if we will write the boc! lowa “Acted ‘ musical comedy « n a comedy and get it ar ic heels 6 ‘ cepted by a producer, he will D Be h s F \ Pleased to sell us the musi ap where he was looking nor looking , oo to if | where was going recently while | jhe was running a street car during | FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE.) the filming of “Step Lively.” The! car struck an auto and Ben struck | the cobblestones, The stones were not even dented, but Ben was. ‘hat cop is like a rainbow,” “Why?” “He rarely appears until after storm ts over,”