The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1922, Page 24

5 “Madeleine and the Movies” Cohan Surprise Farce by CHARLES DARNTON fF nis new play, “Madeleine and the Movies,” given at the Gaiety Theatre Jast night, George M, Cohan is up to his old tricks. Knowing that you “lke to be fooled, he wees to it thot you are thoroughly bamboorled. | ‘The movie actor, the scenario writer and even the detective in this mys terious affair suspect that some one !s playing a joke on them. But they &re wrong. The joke {8 on you ' Yet vou are taken in fairly and squarely, please bear in inind, with your eyes wide op You observe the movie star reading a scenario the Moment the curtain goes up, and you see his vulet doing the same thing when the actor hurries away to meet (le writer of the million-dollar knock- Gut just us actors always rush off, you know, to congratulate authors There is indeed every assurance of Mr Cohan’s earnest "On the level, 4d@." at the very outsct, su if tiis note of honesty doesn't reach your ears you can't blame him To be sure. there are circumstances calculated to mystify you, so efiy arranged (hat unless you are an authority on the trick-play you ma easily be deceived, and even if you still have “Beven Keys to Duldpute’ up your sleeve the ohances are you will find yourself completely jn the dark almost from start to finish Tt doesn't seem at all unreasonable that a handsome movie heartbreaker should come back to his apurtient at midnight and find there a poor, adoring shopgirl waiting to tell hin how she has collected his photographs for yeurs and treasured them in her laundry bay. But simple Madeleine has something more to any to the great and mighty good looking Garrl- gon Paige. She tell him how, In order to vee more of him than the @ereen permits, she left her job in - department “extra girl” in the studio he adorns: | how she hid the money she made un- @er the curpet in her room—being 4 member of one of the older New York | families—how her che THE NEW PLAYS} WERE COMES PooR otf ELMER — HAH ~1 xncw y' wourr! Now Listen oer MILLION BERRICS HE Boucnr DON'T LEY yYouR wire BOSS That Car TH CAR HIS WIFE WANTED — He's START OuT RIGHT — DRIVE Got A BACKBONE Like AN INNER Tyee! IT -WOURSELF —— —emmane i BUT How do You MANAGE 1% ot ‘iets! | DIE BIG LITTLE FAMILY ned secret J. SPN thie PrP” -AN' Wor NoT MucH! Was discovered by her irate father, ) 3 “ and how. he crappy * brother lad | IN TH AUDIENCE DID MI6S PIPPIN SHE SAID THERE vowed to “get” her innocent hero. | WIK TH WIFE — THINK oF WAS ONLY ONE She has come to warn him, even though she har chosen a cious hour four her unselfish visit. | ‘This is the story of M Mad- gan, poor, screen-struch ¢ | seems to be. Then al friend Aggie, the brother's asimilarly merciful errand. Another buzzing of the telephone brings old Madigan, and he ta follower white hope of the family, § bruiser. It begins to lou’ Irish reunion even Callahan joins hia friend Tony, the scerari are naturally disturbed. en when that movie uuern \io'ct Holy wood und Bella, the micment vamp, cet naty and call Macelonr and Akxie couple of hich «” not Micks. The dear girls we bie away, perhaps to save a fit une next day Madeleine hurries ri to tell Paige she made up tiv tory, and that her supposed and brother are nothing move crooks who fired her und Aggie t help them blackmuil bom tye cuptures these members of the infamous Vollvar gung—you're the | Patsy. don't forget that-ond is | Riving the girls a ride tn (he wagon too, but Paige's plea in their bely Bo touches Cullahan's heart that he lets them stay with the actor and the scenario writer, Strange as It sve Paige and Tony bave in love overnight and yearn to murry the girls, just us handsome men in the movic poor wirly right along. May han is “kidding” the movies, you nux- gest? Well, that's for you to find out. I refure to say another word about the play, except that it le a Cohan surprise comedy of the typi- fally ingenious and entertaining kind. , Looking like her motier and acting Uke her father, Georgette Cohan mac & most pleasing impression in her first role here, playing Madeleine with directness, sincerity and an excellent wense of character. Ruth Donnelly w a thoroughly amusing Aggie. James Rennie as the movie star, YEP, EVERY GIRL WHO WoRKS Harry Mestayer as the scenario NEAR A GAS. STOVE - CLIMBS writer, Edward Nannery and Thomas ita Jackson as the crooks, Frank Hollins pedaped detent WINDOWS as the English valet, and Mrank Bheridan as the detective, helped to BE PROTECTED By keep the performance going at a pace ACCIDENT ebaracteristic of the happy author INSURANCE ! and proud father. y und Four More Hours Of ‘‘Methuselah”’ § a test of your staying powerr ip the theatre, the second lap of “Back to Methuselah,” at the Garrick, cannot be too strongly recom- mended. It took four hours and more do get through "The Thing Happens and “The Tragedy of up Elderly Gen- tleman” at the more or leas private performance on Sunday night. In these by no means smal! portions of his exhaustive work Bernard Bhaw arrives at extravaganza, much of it tie all, | “I WONDER How GooD THING \ suspi- | SHE LIKED MY : a I sab THe Baar was 4 OLD SCooT T'D LiKe To KNOW WHY FERDIE SURE THAT SAP WHY, AN ACCIDENT POLICY \| SUPPOSE You TooK HE SENT THAT PEST AROUND To TALKED METRTO 1S A WONDERFUL THING, || To A SHOW OR BROUGH HE - HE MUST THINK LYE GOT J) OWE BUT WHAT KATINKA — IF ANYTHING ME A Box oF CANDY - HONEY To o cy GOOD 15 IT? HAPPENS You GET #50°2)| COULD 1 CoLLecT ? EVERY WEEK} The Evening World’s Comics _ LooK SOE — How ‘Bour TONIGHT AT Casey's 2? Ger vouR wre TO LET Y'HAVE YouR CaR AND DRIVE US ALL OVER THERE —.'.# GIMME A RING Joe — IF YOU CAN WoRK it! and Players OPINION OF Yoursee ! sin operations. ‘This firm has ar- |ranged to take over the Greenwich Village Theatre when ‘The Pigeot moves to the Frazee next week. first play to be presented by the Van Volkenburg-Browne interests will be | Strindberg’s ‘*Credito: another production will be made. Miss | Van Volke newcomers to Broadway, but the have made several produc “HE SAID OUR. Baw’ WAS / WHAT T SAID) HE WAS rangements for the erection of 4 seven-story building at Nos. 447 and 149 West 4¢th St a work shop fur hi this structure scenery will be painted properti Weare very sorry tos enfeld, the picture treme poet favored u classifies At Marjorie Grant, e Rit my heart prances Whene'cr she dances WELL, IF THAT AIN'T AN ACCIDEN T— WHAT 1S ? “The Blush ey intend to attend the first radig: ideas trom which to write @ radio- phone Jane Neilson, Bill Bailey and a lot of girls from the “Up in the company will will Vaughn d [Prank | two off the Pacific Coast, but she likes New highly imaginative and amusing, but more of It tedious with a facility that| falls dead when he grasps the merct- threatens to be deadly to the Theatre|‘! Oracle's hands. Gulld’s enterprise. It is only at the end that Albert | ‘An you may know, the year 2170 is| Bruning touches the pathos of this reached in ‘The Thing Happens,"'|Chiracter, He does not suggest «| with the former purlor maid of tho] Briton, yet he speaks well and per- Barnabas brothers attaining the ag forms his tremendous task in a gener- of 274 and as Mrs. Lutestring speak ally creditable manner, Miss Wycher- | {ng with no little experience tn the|!¥ 1% an tmpressive Oracle, and Den- official parlor of the President of the|?® King as Napoleon, A. P, Kaye as British Isles. Here, too, the once|the Envoy, Eleanor Woodruff ax Zoo, | young curate Haslam has got along| #4 Ernita Lascelles as ‘The Woman, fn something more than years, having| "US! valiantly into the wordy fray become Archbishop of York. It is to a save the white race that he and the ancient yet robust lady go away to Ket married. Various subjects are dis- cussed by the President, a hopeless epmbination of Asquith and Lloyd By DON ALLE s rt George; by the learned Confucius, Pn ite famillariy addressed as ‘‘old suge- and-onions,"’ und other debaters, In-| FLYING START, cidental conversations are carried on| Will II, Hays, who yesterday waded over long distance telephones by that| seductive Negress, the Minister of| Health, and the susceptible President A. P. Kaye makes him an amusing | ass. Margaret Wycherly looks like a| Roman chariot driver as Mrs. Lute-| atring, the Domestic Minister, though! ‘rie new head of the motion picture oa tele well, industry, is to say the least, frank But of all Shaw's talking machines! ye treely udmite he knowe nothing the Elderly Gentleman of the Tragedy] about movies and that he is going to holds the record. He holds forth in| start from the ground up to learn the yeur 8000, when Bagdad has be-| qyom carly morn till late. jast ome the capital of the British Em-} night, Cvar Hays was as busy as a pire end he returns to Ireland !n pen xylophone eoloist with itching through ankle-di “py plaster, pushed 4 fow ladders and bumped {nto tor or two in order ch lis desk and start reigning iperor of All the Movies, spent most of the day talking. done pretty well, as far as interviews | from all sorts of comedy to all soxts| liev are concerned, of grief, and from extreme awkward- | Presi “There is one point T want to make | ness to exceeding beauty, It is im-|net; William Farnum believes that clear, clearer than T have as yet ex-| possible for her to be insincére. She| stare are called artists because they myself, and that is~I am|has the final art of artlessness."’ | draw so well; Maurice Flynn wants Rupert is like} to know what the Salvation Army od und make|a boost {rom Sir Hubert. It means| does in Venice where they have no clean up, I may start something | somethin’ | corners; Clyde Cook ans like that later, but as for the present, | don't) use the Salvation Army in Ven I'm going to find out what we've got and then decide wt sed r going to grab a y and start in at Hollyw him tell it paid $200 for u brother, deduct $100 for @ half brother. If you one Wife last 5 “Deduct five weeks’ salary for time spent in trying y come tax bln! Zenda,’ my next “Then call uj serve a Rupert Hughes, who does everye comes right down to movie acting. Tom Miy or sive mood, With others he consults All day long it was talk, the Oracle. Rather than go buck to people incapable of livin, truthfully, back exhausted and sighed: he begs to be allowed fe sta, a Just listen in on what he writ last night he leaned | Miss Moore has played the leading| seemed to want gray hair; Al Ste /cook and admits tt. Emlce Had roles in two of my pictures and has|Joyn doesn't "ke stout girls because! wanted boiled eggs for breakfast y, und @® “Ker a beginner I consider I Lave! had to run w long scale of emotions! they roll off his lop; Pearl White be- ‘cently and asked her mother whether is that place m cle ner] And praise from § wers they 1 tee, they use the Navy and to do with it” ED'S VOB RATE: | h From the way things look now, Ed*| wars hushed up. OUTGO TAX ward Connelly, Metro character man, Fustercienatael Rian tne way [BG2d REVEr Want for a job, Rox In- “Y\gram, the demon director, sayeth as STILLS. attend to your Income tax. Lett mich, , Ralph Graves, who scoied a viirat be sure you huve an income, |.pRe% 8828 he would no more think | cess in am Street,” will mak ie aan re up income: jof producing or directing @ picture Thin frat wppearunce as a Goldwyn the ‘sum you think you Maula without Ed, his favorite character! pluyer in ‘'Come On Over," Ruy Tr sot are aihawey ty Sheulé man, than he would of quitting the | Hughes's latest : ‘movies himself In a recent screenings yarn wi “Mr, Connelly has been in every |credited Famous F ud more than 1 you ure allowed sid Mr, Ingram yesterda watch his work in * Prisoner of | First National.. We're mighty s picture. He hus| A big three-ringed society pect to use} will be a colorful touch in arm in every | Hammerstein's next releas: duce,"* dene » tisure out your ins hospital ana ree} PEcome my fetis yn my human 4 bh exposure cot in hopathie ward und Mm lpicture 1 ev« AS Move BN | As for Ts C BRAVO, COLLEEN: back and wonde ee, southe: 4 where all that "un-|betng rehearsed for the ctreus rcencs, court, But he will not have ty mur to his films but act in them, — Pa ee ; 5 uw em, ur, “Good morning, Judge.” until evidently thinks Collcen Moore ts a FOXSTROLOGY. his director yells “Can: Pian thie more than aceshigh when it} ‘The stars say court scenes in "John Smith,” ( c Vented a prepara@- |lutest pleture. bair— but nobody} KOUND—A us: | tion for movie star Who cu t | she should break the shells or not, | @-—————— RHYMED THRILLS. a s that if a woman is ever elected nt she'll have a kitchen cabi- Madam Petrova has an entire np et of costumes for use in “The W) Peacock Pepper M Dempsey relief at that. of Yorkville eatest thrill as yet, but ho he feverishly this column to-day: copy of the song “You May Hold Me ‘Tight if You Get Me Tight,’ he wants more js that thrill thousand or so letters and telegrams | rutulating him on the tenth birth- Non-Theatrica} ain after a Good Morning Dearie” at thi) Globe Theatre will be 150 perform es old to-night ine! Just then the dawn broke and the| leased under the alluri had some thri | mond’ t . H. Woods hus sent a et i $3,000 to the Jewish War Relief Fund Irving Berlin has given $600. The Morosco Holding Company, Inc has taken over the musical productio wetty Pepper," in which Charlott has been assigned to of the wite in “ | Valentino's first starring picture, Michael Bohnen, the giant in The} | Mistress of the World, If 1 wanted to mention what I've been ayers with having Id fill about ten books or more F picture I have directed from ‘Hearts |produced Katherine == MacDonald's but one exemption Are Trumps’ to ‘Turn to the Right,'"|The Heart Dealer.”” We should , “and just|have given full credit to Assoctated | But the greatest of thrills to me twill Rambler, the sage of Greenpoin| writes us that he has returned fror Philadel phis brother w a nice boy, end yesterday. you came steppe Benoit, cinematographer of Masquerader,” It is said that Parnum And sce'this fine poea nnelly, he just sits} would have envied the show that {s A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. It was discovered to-day that Ze Ashforth, the shoe store clerk, ow# a lot of money to Dr. Picker, the ch ropodist.—Wellsville Opti y he made forty-nine exposur ne strip of film than double. That's better! qyjgt will be th employment” talk comes from, Eugene O'Brien has been hated into is the lurid ute ns latest thriller. tills, we'll bet {t's @ hummer. exact count 156 g! Hays office yester If there ts onc FOOLISHMENT. I kmow @ young woman named Smush 1 tol who's terribly fond of fried mush; She'll cat tt with tid when people ‘ FROM THE CHESTNU7 TREE, Doct pot t ; Patient—Forget +t Doe! postinan, st] for Jobs in the films. ne] place in town NOT to be had, No. 6 Fifth Avenue By BIDE DUDLEY NEW producing firm mado up of Ellen Van Volkenburg and Maurice Browno is ready to be- This one run four weeks only, and then nburg and Mr. Browne are jong in & and Chicago. RP THE SHOW SHOP. L, Urianger has complet a \ t whieh wilh ty productions. made and 1 sauls 1 building will be dy i July ARTHUR TUNES IN tArthus q In with a rhyme whie a “pip. Arthur hes about Marjorie fect Foul: k one slant 1 don't fall hard as a@ rule In “The Perfect Loo! RADIOPHONE FANS. Lean and © © Mayfield, of Bride," are radiophone e written ux sayin: They he bull, to be lield at Terrace Gat Friday night, and hope to gel kit for thetr next musico k Osterman. Louis Breau attend the ba Leath and if Ne can get over from Philw a SHE LIKES NEW YORK, Steck, the California prin who recently wit! iw considerin so into vaudeville. Miss 1s Leen offered a primi in a new musteal piece o also role and probably will remain here GOSSIP. t tin will ‘box’? Jac! ® the Hippodrome to-nigir' Greb os referee Annis, a dancing dais\} Wynn show, is workin tege of jin at the Comedy, one residents of Pleasayt N, Y., will see “Bull Dog Dnihy ight at the Knickerbockey ik fo nwood is starred. where she saw hg ried. ‘And he was suc) muses Ramby You need exe walling «Wh