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rier” Vy nas HAPS the most remarkable th Shaw’s overlong play: tually been on the whole, creditably accomplishe amazing than “I’ck to Methuselah’ Having got “As Far as Thought an Reach,” you may pardonably feel Nike asking Shaw, “Was that the best you could do?” §o far as the happi- ness of mankind is concerned—and after all that is all that really mat- ters—he gets nowhere by going on to the year 31920. Even his 100-year- old Ancients, as they are called, sug- gest nothing of the joy of living, so what would {t profit us, if we could ‘will it so, to live to be 300 years old? If the world ever rouches the time fmagined by Shaw it will probably bo @ far better and wiser world than the one foreshadowed in this Arcadian fantasy. In the matter of dress it seems rather conventional to go back to the evrly Grecian period instead of for- yvord to something nore simple, Even the khuki worn by Shaw long before the war would be more sensible. It fs encouraging to fancy that one diy there may be only thought filling the spaces we now cumbersomely occupy, Dut there is little thought out of the ordinary in what the Bearded Prophet of Adelphi Terrace has to say to us by way of conclusion. The youths and maidens who dance and loaf about the Temple of Love might be the youngsters of to-day, while the Ancients look as though they lived in graves, stepping out only on occasions to air themselves and their rather musty views. The pleasantest part of it is the idea that a child may be born merely by the breaking of an egg after two years of incubation and pop out full-grown. This innovation would save a great deal of trouble, doctors’ bills and maddening squalling. But no change of instincts is prom- ised. The girl who comes out of the egg looking at least seventeen, fairly leaps into a flirtation with the first youth that strikes her fancy. She is refreshingly direct and appallingly proprietary. In her simple way she sees what she wants and goes for It as quickly as a chicken goes for a kernel of corn. Judging by her ac- tions the young man of the far dis- tant future will not only have to be constanuy on his guard when near a ‘well-done agg, but be ready to fight for his single life when it comes to the breaking point. As the impulsive child, Martha Bryan Allen behaves charmingly or dangerously, according to the point of view. Sho is eager, lovely and al- together—or nearly altogether—allur- ing. The other maidens who skip and dance and loll about are similarly dressed, wearing nothing that may be said to cramp their style. The only wonder is that they can find their ‘way along the maze of paths, or that they don't run as fast as their bare Jegs can carry them away from a ‘Temple of Love that is grim as a tomb. The grimness of Margaret Wy- cherley as the She-Ancient ts quite another thing, for it has a deep pathos that works a powerful spell. Miss Wycherley's is the finest performance Screenings By DON ALLE! CHARITY. Eugene O'Brien made a mistake esterday. He stood jingling some change in his pocket when he noted «he approach of a young nephew. “Please, Uncle Gene,” started the oy, “Willya gimme a dime?” Haying passed out several such ¢oins to the same itching paim re- cently, Gene, quite naturally wanted to know the why and wherefore. “Gwan, gimme, persisted youth, “It's fer a poor lame girl.” Touched by the boy's evident chari- table bent, Gene came through with ® half buck. Then he followed nevvy. The lame girl sold tickets at the aeighborhood movie theatre. the REAL BRAVERY. Lucy Fox, a member of Richard Barthelmess’s “Sonny company picked out the right sort of @ father for a daredevil movie actress. Said father happens to be a Battalion Fire Chiet of the New York Depart ment and used to taking all sorts ot ohances. Sald Miss Fox yesterda of my earlier films I was ¢ to drive an automobile n ony Ned upon through a plate glass window, When I returned home with a badly jacerated right hand my father asked me what thy trouble was, I told bim. He just looked me over and said “Tt takes more nerve to be a movie actress than it does to be a @reman. I've been risking my life for twenty years, but 1 wouldn't drive deliberately through a window; that Is, not unless there was a fire on the other side."” NO PROPAGANDA, J. C. Ragland, of Associated Ex- hibitors, releasing ‘Lady Godiva,” wants it emphatically understood vhat this is NOT a propaganda film The main reason for making iis declaration seems to be that Mr. Ragland’s mali has been cluttered up recently with letters from hair ton « concerns, begging the address of Hedda Vernon, the blond Venue whose luxuriant tresses form her en tire wardrobe in one scene “If these hair restorer , think Mise Vernon wil! aid them Mair business by giving them @ ic-ti- e THE NEW PLAYS @ Last of ‘‘ Methuselah” An Arcadian Fantasy BY CHARLES DARNTON ing about the production of Bernard f it may be called a play—is th accomplished by the __ Te THINK OF (T Joe OUR FRIEND ELMER HAS ie CAR TAREE WEEKS 2] iv Yer! hee tit has ac- Theatre Guild at the rrick, and, @ d, This gigantic feat is even more itself, of all, a thing to be felt and not forgetten, Another striking fe is the automaton—that is, the artili- cial human being—embodied mechan- ically by George Gaul. When it doesn't remind you of Andrew Carne- gie it bolds you with the uncanny cleverness of the actor. Good work is also done by Moffat Johnston as the He-Ancient, Claude King and Stanley Howlett the sculptors and Denis King as Strephon. In the three weeks’ course of “Back to Methuselah” there has been much acting of an uncommon kind, and for this, more than for the play, the The. atre Guild deserves many thanks, ‘THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY ‘li JOE'S CAR HIS WIFE HASN'T TeeD 7 {I . FRIDAY, MAXCH 17, 1922 AND THERE'S The HICKS —— They VE AD “THEIRS A YEAR | axe SME's NEVER DRIVEN 7! Had AND |illl HEY! LUKE — How You Comin’ To Cera clitstn of GONNA STAY RIGHT AT WAHT Some WIRE * I Dont NEED IT. ‘CAUSE ‘Titis 1S GONNA A WIRELESS TELEPHONE - KATINKA TIMREATENED QUIT IF MY Boss DIDN'T Give [Y'WANT ME To CALL UP gu A JOB SO HE PROMISED ‘To START You In (]/ LOOSEKNUT & CO — WIS OFFICE ‘TO-DAY. IF HE EVER DARES TO WHAT'S THEIR FIRE YOU SUST LET ME KNOW, FERDIE! NUMBER, SiR ? ————=* Ek & WIRELESS TELEPHONE - LOOK IT UP IN THE PHONE DIRECTORY ON THE DESK - AN’ MY STOCK BEFORE 1T GOES ANY LOWER T MUST RUSH OUT! ABOUT ToInin’ OUR Poker vane To-NIGHT + YOU INTEND To STAY AY Home EVERY NIGHT Now — How Come ? Sam out NOT “o-NIGHT- NOR ANY OTHER NIGHT! Weee ~ I WANY “To GET AS MUCH USE . OUT OF OUR FLAT AS POSSIBLE WELL — £ THINK uIs LucK'S HELD AND “HE CADWALADERS 1 FORGET HOw LoNG “ey ‘ve HAD THEIRS ANd SHE'S NEVER EVEN SAT AT Tye WHEEL! WHAT De BEFoRE TH’ LANDLORD RA\SES ‘About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY 5 eld AGAIN ‘ Be Cues eUrw (aS >) wert, T taved FT .CoT Tie DINKUS YOu TALK INTo YET - Nok THE ARE CULAR “RADIO } TUINGABOB YOU oe FAN - te > WeLl- How 15 THE OUTFIT ( OuT OF YET- BuT = WELL war } aarT Have ) YOu TSWARD oa WIRELESS | ol-Ive Gora) “PRETTY Good START — I GAve AWAY ALL MY WIRE _ FOUND THAT NUMBER YET?) (Gites | GIMME A U'L TIME ¢ ‘em To SELL TM ONLY UP) To PAGE 32 mith monial nounces: thoy are mistaken, well in a hurry. He hadn't taken any the producer. “Her of the prescriptions. Mebbe that was grew from childhood without th he reason he got well of any ‘hair grower,’ Anyway, when he was packing up mighty proud of it." to leave the hotel he unearthed just fifty-seven varieties of medicine he had received in bis “shower."* . HARD PART There was everything in the bottles Ernest Hilllard, the screen's most | put pickles: debonair “willun,” 18 now up to his —_ neck in wickedness in Elaine Ham- DO You KNow— merstein’s picture " Hel nat Bese Danie Aaa declared yesterda owever, that he ae a aAtiele image’ her’ frst was playing one of the hardest parts |appearance as the pathetic little Duke in his film history of York in “Richard M1"? “What are you playing?” we asked | That Will 1 Walling has played him. A e than 700 purts in y “A frightfully hard one"? he an- [ore than 700 paris in hie thirty swered, gazing awe years’ expericnce and is now witt What? Paramount = ck Carlyle, th “Tm playing an actor,"’ he finally | That Jack Ce ne movie play- retorted. “und you know how hard it/eM Was graduated from Cornell as a car aes coals construction engineer? is 4 : That Chales A. Stevenson, now with Gloria Swanson in “The Gilded RIVALLING HEINZ. Cage.” was the first initiate of the They might have killed Casson Lanne i fat he Shepherd of that tins a club and that } © took a tlyer tn Foreue pn with kindness, but they ie voe busi idn't. ‘Thet almost every one has forgotte The ‘'they’’ refers to other mem- Nit eps how Valentino spells his first name this week? That Farache vo at work for Uniy bers of Penryn Stanlaws's Over The Border"? company Casson was thrown and hog-tied by Stroheim ts back sial? a bad cold during the shooting off That Dustin Farnum is using his snow-stuff In Truckee. speed boat, Miss Los Angeles, to ferry Everybody was solicitous and, as}letween Hollywood and the Catalina always, every one suggested his or her] Istands? favorite remedy, and, in a most] That William Ruos ‘ friendly max hurried out to get it Kk pleture in! M Burn for ti man Buange as it may ecem, be got And that ¢ roquois ans have adopted William Desmond and plas to’? We thought you didn’t tered him with the name 'Mani-kwa Thanks! nal ie STIVGS EXTRAORDINARY THEFT. “Orphans of the Storm’ is face to Meee face with its 150th showing. Monday DVANCE agents of musical is the day when the D. W. Griffith shows are usually careful to feature reaches that age. © “i ascertain the peculiarities, the ‘phe: Gilded Cage’ baa been put | Merits. and demerita of the theatres into production by Paramount with} win) confer with Myron Selznick in Gloria» Swanson starring and David ; aniey regard to his next picture “A Barnyard Cavalier,” a Christie comedy film and a travesty on "The Three Musketeers,"’ will be an added attraction next week at the Hippo- drome, “The flood scene in ‘Wild Honey will petrify you," wrote a hectic ad writer. Good. Petrified spectators cannot read titles aloud If all films produced the advertised «Zecta most folks would be in the psychopathic ward. “The Truthful Liar’ and “The Powell playing the male lead Ceci! de Mille made his @rst ap- pearance at the Lasky studio yester- day after an absence of four months He has been fll, but is reported greatly improved Nita Naldi has been engaged to play the role of Dona Sol in ¥Blood and Sand." Goldwyn's praise agent claims that for the first time in vcreen history they have a screen doctor who looks and acts like 4 real doctor in ‘The Glorious Fool."" Well? Lying Truth,"’ just go to show what Clarence S. Ball, portrait photog-|% POor Praise agent ts up against rapher of the Goldwyn studios, 1s kept | ‘hese near-spring days busy when not ‘shooting’? address-| To call some ims “super-pictures” ing camera clubs His pet hobby is| is superficial. “composition and lighting." He] “Blind Youth’ might go to the knows his subject, too. movi for an eyeopener Eugene ©'Mrien has just finished} ‘Talk is cheap in another man's John Smit Now he's rusticating|tetephons.”* chirpe Ralph Ince the A ‘ons’ nimadge |s jared to one of he rier di stardom, ! as been basKing retiai and baking down lim Beach way,| lights in "Happiness a la ia on bis way to New Xork whene be! Moda,”’ 1 The Day’s Good Storie RHYMED THRILLS J . Ober of Harlem thinks manor @ }of town really should win copy ind halls they are to exhibit in, for}ot the song, “You May Mold Me they arrive One of these agents,] Tieht if You Get Me Tight in t having hired a hall in u Kentucky] thriti contest. Miss Ober (we forgot town, asked the proprietor of the) ty tet! you she is of the positive sex) bullatay haw been fond of good music ever “How are the acoustics of YOUrl since she wos a babe rms, and if her mother used to sing "Bye, laby, he which?” said the Kents Bingo Now, an ord ays "The acoustics.” the #0: has sent in the 1. “Well, i'l) tel you said th iowine? ooking a little puzzied, "Thar a SOA eae n ‘long hore] If seems like only yesterduy ‘bout two weeks ago that stole ‘bout! When Harry I first met everything they could lay their hands on, 80 mebbe they're missin’.”"--Har- per's Magazine. —_—_——_———- STUMBLING ALONG. A TIRESOME lawyer, in arguing / a complicated case, had looked 2% up authorities dating back to Julius Caesar, He had dilated on his subject for more than an hour and a half, when he was pained to observe what seemed to him inattention on the bench, It was as he had feared: ~ his worship was unable to appreciato the nice points of the argument. The meeting thrilled me ina way I somehoue can't forget. Five years or 80 have since flown by, ¢ just platonic friends. The sage has said: “Where marriage starts There friendship often ends.” FOOLISHMENT, Sunday, just at half past three, Mabel Brown was happy. He'd proposed, had Blimp McGee, And he'd made it snappy. « aia nearness Ae y Mabel hugged him; then her Ma The Magistrate shiftrd tnonaily ia Kissed him, but the shock his ehair, UT have so far,” he ane Come when Father yelled “Baru!” exci eds EES ee AB east And chased him half « block my way back jone 1 aw em enine ———+- Gugis mse changing, i y|can publication of the souvenir albu f HHROUGH an arrangement with Ts H. Woods the Selwyns have quired the latest stage edition of “Potash and Per!mutter" and will star Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr in it very shortly This edition, prepared for acting purposes by tague Glass and Jules Eckert Gooa- man, bears the title of ‘The Schenckem Six" and is a satire on the automobile Mr. Woods will be associated with the Selwyns in the presentation bf this Nusiness AHEM! LADIES AND GENTS! It's great to be claimed by two ntly we were invited to a Kansas banquet and now ¥ 0 be a speaker a @ Missouri f which Waltes Williams, dean of the College of Journalism and one of the real chug bust: of Missourt publio life, will be th honored guest. Ho- mer Croy is ur) nging this affair, and all Forest Hill. is betting it will be a success. Hon) r refers to us as “be- ing from St. Jo. -_ph.'’ We were born in Minneapolis, Minu., but don’t, tell any of those Kunsans and Missouri | ans, or we'll miss u lot of rich food trom time to time. e thank you! DIPPY DOODLEUMS. “Oh, Mamma “Yes, Baby Bunko?" hat is a bair-lip, my love?” i the lip of a rabbit, Baby® nk you, Mamuna! tell me who wrote the sons Broken Bucket-Shop.’ "" “I don't know, dear. If M gets a deck of cards and plays on| piano will you sing it?” “Wait! First tell me—if I shake’ hands with an alligator do I get an r grip?" Baby Bunko, do you zon template ee ee “No, mamma, I should not need tt I should do my travelling in an auto Have you 4 hammer and a nail “Why would you have a han und a nail, my sweet?” travel If 80, Pay down 4 (ree and give you eff “If I travel by auto I :aust drtve) must I not?’ “My conscience! Baby Dunko} mamma must have an elevator put Sr] the house so that she may bring yor up better. Now Usten, dear! Ye hairy is too long. Run down to Wi Street and get trimmed." MANY NIGHTS IN ONE, i Barney Gallant has arranged to hol “The Ball of a Thousand and On Nights" at Webster Hall to-night, ani) he has inWfted us to drop in and ab\/) sorb some Greenwich Village atmoe |” phere. Barney states positively the this affair will be Webster's up abridged. y oe j GOSSIP. A Yale Club delegation will see “Bu| Dog Drummond” to-night. Arthur Hammerstein has ph Georgie O'Ramey under a five: contract. Morris Gest announces the Amer |! * of Balieff’s Chauve Souris."* i Michael J, Cruise, the city's offiel Cupid, has invited the members of tl Just: Murried’’ company to drop any time nd get wed The Messrs. Shubert announce thy will form another “Rose of Sta boul" company to ¢o on tour Marie Nordstrom will play ope eye John Cumberland in ‘‘Lady Bug," t farce Philip Klein |) producing Helen Hardick «ad Talbot Keni of the Golden Glades Roof will appe at the Israel Orphon Asylum beng at the Knickerbocker Theatre Su | day night. | Jane Wheatley tas been engag to play Mme. Denis in the Arth. Hopkins production of ‘Voltatre.'*| ff) Claude Greneker tells us Prig, Mobamed and Bink McCluske» presented to Frances White of Hotel Mouse,” last night, Now sb got ‘em what will she do with ‘em? A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, | We won't believe Eugenie Den’ of Atchison, Kan., has supernatt powers until she telle ua who atry Billy Patterson, FROM THE CHESTNUT TRE! “Why is 'H’ on unfortunate lett “E have no idea, Mr, ‘amo, Because it's never in luck and! eimags in debt,”