The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1922, Page 24

ry “THE NEW PLAYS “The First Fifty Years,” a Matrimonial Silhouette. By CHARLES DARNTON BING “The First Year" and reading “Ethan Frome” may have influ- enced Henry Myers in writing “The First Fifty Years,” for this curtous play of only two characters, acted by Tom Powers and Clare Barhes at the Princess Theatre last night, has something of the early rap- tures of Frank Craven's comedy and more of the later grimness of Edith ‘Wharton's story. ‘Mr. Myere’s first play suggests a] ~ — - matrimonial silhouette rather than aj ing young bridegroom, gave new proof generally recognizable picture of do-|of his ability as the middle-aged in- meetic life. It ie interesting, just as| Valid and again as the doddering old original ideas are nearly always in-|/man. His recent growth as an actor teresting, but it is not wholly con-| is astonishing. Miss Eames was over vineing. The author seems to have | the worst of her troubles when she got ‘an extreme case of incompati-| ciear of the bride's happiness. ‘Little inity—as he has a perfect right to| srasshopper” might be excused as po- ‘de, for that matter—and made the] etic license, but there seemed no ex worst of it when he might easily have] cise for an underlying harshness un- ‘made tt less arbitrary and at the same | til this quality came to the surface in time quite as ironic. It is gentle of] the older, bitter phases of the charac- @ Yusband to call his wife “littie|ter. Miss Eames improved with age grasshopper,” especially if she hap-| until she was quite as good as Mr. nens to be a eix-footer, but this gen-| Powers, These two gave a well tlemess makes his violence all the] sustained performance, more marked when he subsequently threatens to strangle her. Moreover, the players seem naturally to be finer than the characters they represent. This te no fault of the playwright, to be sure, yet it has the effect of mak- ing the growing vulgarity of Martin and Anne Wells seem not only sur- ‘Prising to a shocking degree, but al- mest incredible. It is not that Mr. Powers and Miss Eames do not act their parts well, but simply that they do not took them at times. They are ‘God made them—to borrow an apt phrase from Arnold Bennett—and of course Mr. Myers can't make them Look WORRIED ’ over. Then, too, there are necessarily mudden changes in the seven scenes ranging from the homecoming of the couple to the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. It is not conducive to their happiness, in my opinion, that they are reminded of various anni- versaries by a letter from the oft- quoted Harold, who loved and lost Anne and thén went to Australia. In eounselling them to question their hearts and consider their ways on " these supposedly joyous occasions, zm | Woraien ! “THAT LEAVE IN « oom WHAT'RE You Comin’ IN way FoR — Did You THE CAR OUT FRONT ? I DIDN'T! WOULD 1 Do THAT? . 1922 (N. Y. Eve. World) Be. Press Pyb. Co. ld may have been up to a most bit of deviltry. Perchance he foresaw the changes they would undergo ip their attitude toward each other, and longed to make them real- jae their misery. _ At first Martin dotes on Anne and she him. Their home in Hariem ts paradise on earth to them, even though eggs are fifteen cents a dosed and a hired girl—that is, a good one—costs $2 a week. As he is only a clerk, they can't afford such a luxury, so Anne does her own house- work. But in spite of the fact that she does it very well, Martin grum- bles @ year later of her stinting, and from that time on things go from bad to worve, Anne complains that Mar- tim doesn't make money enough to enable them to live properly and ac- cuses him of gambling. He is tired of the two pieces she plays on the Piano, and she is tired of what she ¢alls his “obscene poetry,’ read to @inner guests who have stayed till at midnight. They quarrel about petty things until he upbraids her for i no children and she retorts ‘wif not have children by a man TiMMiny ¢ I Dunno HOW TO OPEN MY EGA. ‘Ga ome ihe hates. Sh damit: he 1 4, and Martinis ready to) KATINKA le her. It appears there is lence between them for years, bro- en only when Martin becomes sick, then Anne tells him she is going divorce him as soon as he is well. it they go on and on in their Wretched way until Harold. is dead they are dulled by age and in- ifference. Their fiftieth anniversary inds them in senile satisfaction over e fact they have kept up appear- and made people believe they happy. r. Powers, playing easily the lov- | ONE CAN GET HORE OUT OF MY Boss BY FLATTERING HIM THAN TALKIN’ ROUGH! Itt GONNA ACT NICE AN’ MAYBE_HE'LL SLIP ME THAT RAISE ! Screenings By DON ALLEN } SPEAKING TITLES. *' Charles K. Harris, the songsmith, Beems to Have forsaken ‘words and music" for just words, judging from MAID! LITTLE MARY MIXUP Tu stow Ya. Ya-JusT HiT 1T LIKE THis, MY! ANOTHER WOMAN GETTING A DIVORCE BECAUSE HER. HUSBAND FELL IN LOVE WITH THE THANK HEAVENS OUR GIRL IS SO HOMELY # You'RE A FUNNY LOT, You WOMEN — PUT TH'CAR UP IN THE GARAGE. AN' “THEN HOOF YT ALL “Th WAY AROUND 0 THe FRONT DOOR IN “Th! SNow , En? ANYTHING “ AVOID “TH! KITCHEN, 1 SUPPOSE ~ HAH - HAH -=- 1 iced WHY WELL-"TH" BEST THING “ou CAN Do *“LuKe" 1S ‘To phic, TH! wire RECEIVED AN ANONWMous LETER “BOUT SOMETHIN’ x DID “earns AGo # Yeu Cotta cook ME ANOTHER SOFT-BoOned BEG T THINK You're THE LOVELIEST MAN IN THE WoRLD ¢ You've GoT THE KINDEST FACE — the ‘way: he is selling photoplay stories. The ‘$riter bof heart-thrill songs till, however, sticks to the old flam-|him deaf, dumb and blind about titles. Here's the list of photo. [Siam jays he has sold already: “Once when I in “ coer spouted the friend, “they were cele- q,After, the Ball.” “always tn the trating the fete of the wile lo. Pray,” "Whe It Strikes Home," |phant, the 1 animal of the ‘Hearts of Men, ‘The Barker," |Siamese. 1 stood near karat i*For Sale, a Baby,"’ “Break the News fo Mother,” “Ashamed or nd “Don't Weaken." } As lurid an alluring lot us could be talled in a day's ramble in sobland, golden gates to the king's palace and saw droves of white elephants stream n, They approuched from all diree- tions, Kast, West, North and South, each contributed its to the avalanche te elephants. long, undulating lines they swayed in Parents" share of wv EAR FOR MUSIC. harley Ascott, who plays the { slowly—ever see anyth like that? Paphonious rate of “Tin Ear Fagin" | yh? jn the “Leather Pushers,” a “Not since Prohibition," muttered friend who claims he has an ear for|penny, and the travel talk ceased music sine die ft One night last week Chariey's Triend visited several anti-Volstead JACKIE, HE CHIRPS SOME. nis just like emporiums and eventually gathered in a load that would make a five-ton truck creak. Finally his friends raped him Wer his front stoop and Taded into thé, night. Came a volc any other seven-year-old boy are few seven-yeu down such except that there olds who draw yb) of salary each week from above, Yesterday Screenings received letter i} “Henry!” it wailed, “Come in lere}from Jackie uddvessed to All the this minute!” Boys in America “I won'f move a step," mumbled Jackie writes in part “Have a Henry, “Until ya stop playin’ that} good time, but don’t get tgo dirty phonygraph.” Every morning wash your teeth, back “Phonograph?” returned the dis-}as well as front, ‘Then shine. your Busted wife. “That's no talking ma-] shoes, back well us front; then phine, you're sitting on the cat.’ aciay' re well as front ye and then comb your hair, ba well NOT NOW. us front t sy ginald Denny stood patiently to do the ! not. And I 424 und Broadway yesterday while a go Yours truly--dackie famch travelled friend tricd to talk ounds like t In WINSTED (CONN.) MOVES. Winsted, terday we received a despatch from Bayport, Hernando County, Fia which read “Norma Shearer's cat, left here when 8 North, to-day eap- tured a twelve-foot shark after a te rifle battle, Miss Shearer has. wir that she inten have a travelling g made of the shark's fv," Lumber lguc ve inspired THAT one the town given credit for "| putting the zoo in zoology and the ake in fake, would better perk up. RESERVED SEATS. John Emerson and is wite, Anita L writers cf ult nantic ro- mances for the screen, received a novel invitation recentiy, As a re- sult of the bid, the two have pur- chased front 1 ow seats the war scheduled for next summer in An- The Emersen- Loos combination was surprised when the information came to then and of less than 100° intr ‘ s of Per pignon, in Midi, will mareh on t Hie of Andorra the tiniest nation ¢ ‘obe, some time when ihe weather is propitious. Tyrences \ er the tri Any me of t Viiters wall de Yes- “How Dry I unanimous. of Paradise” died yesterday as a title to the Jack Holt-Bebe Dan- Now there, if their present intentions do Am.” not wilt and die on the vine. That makes it THEY HATE 'EM. In some small ends of the ‘‘legiti-| iels nla tam She it's beets Shee te’? aaa a % _|tened ‘north of the Rio Grande,” mate" they still hate the motion pic-| 4101, will be permanent for a day tures, ‘Lhe smaller the "end" the] or gp, more vitriolic the hate. We know the following incident is true, because it happened to us. In a theatre on West 44th Street two balcony seats were all thut were left. 8 as it may seem, we bought ‘em. When we reached the balcony and held out our expectant hand for a programme we were met by as impudent a as we have ever seen, It shot from the eyes of an usherette 1 YOU want? David O. Selznick, who edits the Selznick news, has bested the flu and is back again blue-penciling such sensational news happenings as ship launchings and annual parades of the Wallpaperers’ Association. He might get a little busy on “scenes of Prin- cess Mary's Wedding.” rge Fawcett, grand old man of the screen, has a prominent role Eugene O'Brien's latest film “Too Much Business” stare in she snarled. has been ac- gramme,’ we answered, still] quired by Vitagraph. It isn’t often holding out our hand the case that too much business “Where's yer cash? she de-] comes along, but, then, this is in the manded movies, and that's only the title o “Kor what’ an Earl Derr Biggers picture, “Programmes.” Latest Non-Theatr Picture Cor- “Never mind the repartee; just] poration film shows the inner work- hand over @ couple programmes.” ings of electricity, whatpver they “ * she bawled, ‘“howdja git] may be. ‘at way? Programmes fer NUTHIN? Sixty-five public schools in Chi- Huh! Where do you think you are~] cago are equipped with projectors in a PITCHER show and motion pictures are part of the Mean, now, wasn’t she? day's work, We have a fellow feeling for the pupils—we're fixed that way CLOSE-uPs, too. Roesliffe Fellow that play Phe Primitive Love Constans ne sad tunc Ming by} Tolmadge’s latest, will be released ir movie playe But May only tune that cao niane him oF rf is] Marguyriie De La Motte, the J. L, — AN’ SUCH A NICE SMOOTH. HEAD! PARDON Me. 1e 5 Seem|] %G INTERRUPT YOU = BUT LLEFT “He CAR AtouT “TEN BLocKs DOWN “HE. ROAD — RIGHT WHERE Tt .KNOW-BuT DAWGONVT SHE WONT LET Me READ TH LETTER-— AN’ < Doni KNow WoT ‘Yo CONFESS Bosse S Gor MINE ¢ Hugo Got All the ‘Raises’! el? FEEL AGAIN! ) Ken Kling—= Cope. 1922, (N.Y. Eve. World) By Prose Pub. Coy and Players By BIDE DUDLEY place in rehearsal a new musical comedy based on Armstrong = success Some."’ Otto Harbach play over into Si H. HARRIS is preparing to the former “Going has made the @ musical show and Louis A. Hirsch has supplied the; tunes. “Going Some’ ‘was originally, a story by Rex Beach and concerned a young man who, while sailing under false colors as an athlete, was forced Paul to run a foot-race. Of course he managed to win the race and the_girl —for there was a giil, as in the ease with all well-regulated theatrical en- tertainments, FAY'S A BUSY GIRL. ® The Garment News of March 7 has surprised us. From it we take the following: . y Bainter, by the way, is still touring in it Is We: She is wearing a new sct of costumes in ‘The Blushing Bride’ at the Astor Theatre.” WHITESIDE HERE MONDAY. Walker Whiteside will begin a New York engagement Monday night at the Comedy Theatre in a mysterious melodrama entitled ‘Phe Hindu," by Gordon Kean. “UP” IS IN STYLE. The word “‘up'' appears to be po) ular this season for use in theatse titles. Marjorie Rambe new play at present is called ‘Up,’’ and then there are “Up the Ladder’ and “Up in the Clouds."" The last-named pro: duction, now at the 44th Street The- atre, will go on tour after this week, “JUST BECAUSE” SOON, “Just Because,” the musical comedy which has been in the limelight re- cently because of injunction procee ings which failed, will open at Earl Carroll's Theatwe Monday night, oo ONE”MORE™ MUSICAL SHOW. jl “Mary, Irene and Sally," a musiont act playing the Shubert vaudeville circuit, has been elaborated into & full evening’s entertainment. Eddie Dowling and ay Klages wrote the book and lyrics and J. Fred Coots the music. WE MISS A FORTUNE. Lou Erdt is mad at us. Sunday he said he'd like to make us rich and asked for a few hundred dollars. We had invested our millions in a perambulator for the baby and couldn't fork over So Lou went to Al Falk und touched him for a fifty. Yesterday he corrailed Al and handed him $95, n explanation of this look over gz reports from Tia Juana Malachrino won the Futurity and Lou had some advance dope on him. Well,” drawled Lou, ‘that hoss Frothingham star, has returned from location with ‘The Brotherhood of He She says she has a lotta thrill ories to tell. Well—turn ‘em loose. “Free Air,"! the Outlook Photoplays Corporation's latest, will be dis- tributed by Hodkinson. The next Irene Castle production will be from a story called ‘Don't Weaken.’ ‘The title will be changed nefore Broadway glimpses the film, The Hugo Ballin Production, Ine. starts work soon on "Pattering Feet,’ & prize-winning scenario. A special showing of “Other Women's Clothes"? will be given this afternoon in the Hodkinson projection room at No, 469 Fifth Avenue. ——— SAVING KNOWLEDGE. t was a gala day the town, and among the many events in small was a “pea race.” Each competi- tor had to produce two dozen peas ind place them in his shoes before a committee of umpires. At the appointed time the race be- in, and away hobbled the men, One old fellow, however, did not seem to he affected by the tortures which the inflicted on the others and ambled past the winning post head of the rest On b complimented snd how eat so many far 1 friend d to isked he had mana men, he younger Well, yo I to tion to boil the peas!"”—Faim Life, ue see. < the preeau a Bill Necht! Me Tight if You Get Pretty good, too! Have thousands, I stood before the Magistrate, Who spoke in tones so low. you are convicted and “Young mun To prison you must go. The prison life was palling me. “Oh, death, where is thy sting?” ll tell the world it was some thritl When T heard the ‘larm clock ving. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. A Harlem boy was hear bragging that his father was pért bootlegger."* RHYMED THRILLS } Second attempt to win the copy of the song, “You May Hold Me a FOOLISHMENT. “f always sell the best of meat,” Was Butcher Johnson's boast. Mrs. Green, “No sech a thing!” said Aud then she got a roast FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. liza, yo! standin’ on “Which foot, mammy?’? was bred by my old friend George Wingfield out in Nevada, and Johp McKay of Reno bought him. Pus* sonally, I don't believe ‘there's a critter on four legs that can get home first ahead of hink” But the baby hgd to have that per- ambulator, didn't he, wife? Tight!” glimpse, WATCH THIS LAD! mer Floyd, who bills 1 Ziegfeld of the West, ed cire ys: us with a, printed pattle. In it he “Gentlemen, the time has come when New York must have the new in futuristic and — impressionistic ideas, I shail give New York these ideas either with New York capital or Western.” Mr. Floyd's picture cular. He may not New York ecxpital, but he a fine pair of side-burns. adorns the cir able to raise has raised st GOSSIP. Doris Keane has joined the men Voters BE. R. Bradley, turfman, has named 1 new colt ‘fhe Blushing Bride,”’ Alfred De Courville-has begun nego- nglish rights to “The League born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Irving Mels, Dad is the selo violinist in “Blossom 'Time."? To-morrow afternoon's performance of "Get Together'’ will be the 8,000tF, at the Hippodrome under the Dillt ham regime, id son was red hot