The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1922, Page 12

The Eveni ng World's ———— | | TURNING ON | THE SPOTLIGHT JO1’S CAR DIG BUNCH OF WORK “T'DO “eNcHT — GIVE & CAR Good oIL Got Some New ol FoR F3 1 GOTTA GO OVER A PILE OF PAPERS Ta car Topay — y'ousuta L N ree 'S LIKE A TONIC ON “THAT NEW DEAL — you'Le HAVE. SEE HOW MUCH SMOOTHER SHE BNR (AGH BY CHARLES DARNTON |e excuse ME IE’ T SEEM to p— FUNCTIONS WIT IT — Runs AE il ORDER A ~V NEGLECT You -— LIKE A waren! Ge L — Costs A mere tameatel Sai MORE BUT WHAT OF IT? HE smail-cast play ts looming larce, Following “Tho First Fifty Years” Bm: j Ne — = 3 } which might easily be taken for a running start of “Hack to Methu a) yo Scertainy — selah''—Sam H. Harris 1s out with the announcement that he i to sf WORK ComES FIRST | produce n threc-actor comedy. ‘There Is also a chance of Weber and Fields aattericiiral Oeming back in a piece that they would have almost to themselves, t i# uot alfficult to understand the : Bees of the sparsely populated bite An ethos Tana RY most of Grima to the managerial mind. For] scom to was oe eminiblon Readies one thing, its transportation means| freezing melodrama, chiefly Httle more than an upper and lower] tulminons specimens from the berth and a cory corner of the bag-] Vit Pee La ARAL Naty wage car. A clause in the contract! pood-and-thunder ply than the atipulating that the whole company| American ‘crook’ concoctions, which be taken from the railway station to}are so continuously dumped down the hotel in a taxicab would probably | MTT you like that? And don't you Be granted without bloodshed. The ly like “sanguitulminoue’? possible advantages to every one con good, jutcy word for “Bull cerned in such an enterprise are ob to get nis teeth into if he vious, especially in these days of steep a happen te be hard up for a raliroad rates and the hig Ot eee a actors But then, of course, aud ow! THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY @lso to be consider In fact, they compel first consideration. The main 7 : =~ question is whether they will be sat- ee lela WOW a BUT x eer = ye rani 2 word ors for two or three hours, Wi 1 ey ext tiles grist’ wane teen) ie Bini ENGAcemenT! CALA (T OVER HAULED game figiires and the same voices all TAXY “tom! LAST Week! the time? The same persons again and again are likely to bore us, we must admit, It ls this feeling, per haps, that explains onr liking for thronged ste even though the people we sco hurrying along are utter strangers, You may argue that this is the herd instinct in but T'm Inclined to think it in our love of variety. And nowhere do we look fo varicty 80 much as in the theatr $ you may recall, the twu-ac play was tried on the pub! few years ago by A. H. Woods 7 with “Under Orders.” if my memory © tor tites hasn't gone wok on me. the] LITTLE MARY MIXUP ,only difference in phys. form be F tween that war play and “The First . oOnH=-No. y' i WANT T see IO. ¥ CANT Fifty Years” is that Shelly Mull and R Th Hi) Settie Shannon cach aeted two char- ME WorK MY HEAR ‘THrov ent | i H ‘ it 1 a; { ; | \ ir. iT isnt THAT KIND - acters, Henry Myers's first and exceedingly promising play Tom Powers and Clare Eames each ect but one character. The strain at the Princess is con- whereas in sequently greater on players and au- lence, though relic differentiation in the @nce of the somewhat by yutward appear- rs due to the inges from pmpiished with skill. Possibly = Mr. Powers has the more difficult task, not only for the reason that he ao- Dears to be the of the two s has bones upon 9 advancing ein gray manti sof this kind ones are !mportant, for it is in our bones that we betray the real signs of age. Miss Eames bends hers to the purpose of the play convincingly and almost cre: and not merely charact ars. The Ke are ac rame “They Don’t Answer”’! STOP “TALWING ABouT IT AND do“THAT WORK, You micHT SET THE MONEY 7 PAY te You!D AN' “THEN Gave \T To TH’ GARAGE AS PART Payment! Bude CountHary fhecause she way to t It is a8 much a matter of her face as For one so boyish look If Into man, und volee to the YES, WE'VE JUST MOVED IN THE NEW APARTMENT, FERDIE — COMIN’ OVER TONIGHT ? FINE - TLL Expect You ee rl (ATIGNGIATS I MET BILL SWELNUTT ON THE AVENUE, HON- AN’ HE'S Comin’ OVER WITH HIS WIFE THIS EVENING “To GIVE OUR ROOMS THE - ONCE-OVER! ing, Mr. surprisingly what's more suits years he takes on Powers makes hi credible old his of O. P. Heggie as the venerable impostor in The ‘Truth About Blayds,"" but it wouldn't be the truth Fine as his performance is in every other respect, Mr. Heyiie’s voice is toe strong for a man ninety years old, Thourh admirably modulated, it is by no means Aveak, Hearing him you might say/he was sixty or seventy even eighty, but never ninety. That is too much One of the first things +} should consider when he ¢ well along in y I’ would be pleasant to say as much actor 1 role With an 18 rs is his voice WASSA MATTER, MUM- Y'LOOK WORRIED ?_ mommie ? GETTING COMPANY THE FIRST DAY WE'RE MOVED AND 1M ASHAMED To LET ANYONE IN ~ THE PLACE IS FERDIE ‘LL UNDERSTAND WHEN 1 TELL ‘In tt Som > Kenkline. not relish it. Screenings AP Once upon a time Mary and Doug lesson from a chum Nat Goodwin once told me of an cx | a in triumph from a trip] who couldn't cao! aid Miss Garon erience that eaused him to mend hiv] |] returned . ata Seal ese. Wee Pisvine the Der eg od ON SALLE, abroad. They were wined and dined, | yesterday, “She had planned a lunch BEE Goan WGA LER eat enah ——————s— fiand finally given a rousing receptionjeon. ‘The fatal day arrived. The wilderness for weeks and finally #ta STUMPED, at the Hotel Astor by the Friars, cook was taken suddenly ill Lying Kered out of the woods, weakened b Foster Gilroy, a W. W. Hodkinson] During the after-dinner entertain in her bed, the faithful servant gave hardship and lack of food. But there | xeoutive, lives on figures. Give him] ™Ment the grand ballroom was dark-|minute instructions us to how to pres Waa f ood fat speech waiting for m: Ha : ened and there on the sereen was|pare the luncheon and I tackled it with great gusto. | half down sheets of paper alll Mary in one of her first Biograph| ‘Do you think you’ t along all yather admired the way T did it until] 'mbled up with numerals and he's] subjects. It was awful to behold ma'm?' asked the cook I picked up a newspaper the next] appy as a clam, In fact, he eaux} All during the showing, Mary sat ‘Certainly, Bridget,’ answered my day and read that 1 was in astonish lathematical problems for breaktast} there, scarce breathing, and when /¢riend, ‘Don't you worry, There are ingly good voice for a poor old fell Very morning and hasn't grown thin] tt at last Mickered out her sigh of [just two things you have forgotten to who was supposed to be nearly dead [on the dict relief could be heard over the ]te me. What kind of soap do I use I realized then that I had been talk So clover is he at figures that he | place. to wash the lettuce, and do I fry the ing like a giant who ate meat th was sent to tour B s three years | Yes, we don't imagine Little Mary |pacon in butter or lard? times a day, but, believe me, I never] uo in the interest of one of the big- | will be in sympathy at all, at all,] “After that I learned to cook.” did it a upon returning to elvilt est financial blocs in New York with the revival _ zation. No, sir; I returned to my Sut Jast Wednes » met hi penaes, and in a hurry, too." at Necnteang He anes be ; BIG MOVE. Toching: himsolt’ in his) office ho PLAYS 'EM ALL. Selznick is branching out some N THE old duys of melodrama, of] vorked and worked and worked Once upon 4 time there was al] more, ] course, an actor did pretty much] shortly befove midnight he left—com- | moving picture actor who had en- Apnouncement is made of the as be pleased, and a8 a rule no] pletely licked. graved on his card the mystic infor-| forming of a big English branch of one seemed to mind Here’x where the snapper comes in. | mation that he “Played everything] the corporation with Sam ‘T. Morris Speaking of melodrama and keep-| You thought we were going to] but giants and children." at its head, ng in mind the fact that it write that he had worked up to the] Cecil Holland, Member of the] For the past few years Mr, Morris ented h in {ts wildest last minutes fieuring out his income | Paramount cast of The Woman Whol has been Vice President of Selznick werm by “Bull Dog, Drummonc tax; but he didn't Walked Alone,” Koes him one better. | Pictures and has acted as general is amusing to read these remarks of | At was a plumber's bill Cecil once played a giant in pictures,| manager of the distribution unit of a London reviewer concerning “The and in the present George Melford|that corporation, His selection to Bet" and “The Nightcap,” now play CASTING UP. production, featuring Dorothy Dalton, |take entire charze of the Buropean ‘mg there: Universal may think they are do-| Cecil plays a South American boy business of Selznick is looked upon “For @ good many years, and, deed, up till very recent) ing something decidedly novel and pleasing in reviving “Going Straight,"* fashion among dramatic criti @ two-reel thriller, starring Mary theatrical chroniclers—especially of) l’ickford in the "old days." And, as the more or less highbrow type—to| far as most folks are concerned, they * gi gory mciodrama, or ‘blood-' probably are. thunder’ plays, aa they were gen- But as for the fair Mary, it's a ——— Quite some range along film row as an ideal choice. He will leave the middle of next month to establish offices in London for Select Pictures, Ltd., the name chosen for the foreign end of Selznick. Subsidiary offices will be opened in all important European centres as SOME CHEFESS, Pauline Garon, the charming screen player of ‘‘Inspiration Pictures," like many another screen star, prides her- { all his mouthing faults, Henry Irving : seldom erred in this matter of speech. Possibly because he sounded catarrhal i at his best. Joseph Jefferson couldn't gO wrong in tone, and John Hare | Rf ATI le ELM aan ———— twenty-to-nothing shot that she will|self upon her knowledge of the tricky] soon as the London office starts func- ' i tioning properly a car, Careful OH, SHUSH! who hesitated in New ago on her way y a girlhood friend ui! Francis Marion, scenario writer for the Talmadge sisters, is New Yorking awhile on a vacation. Violu Dana, York ae north, w to a very sedate yet artistic tea) Shooting of additional scenes found toe ton Ane A ok Glad ee sssary for “Jim," Thomas H, Ince's was much the same as that of a y me ‘ ng merrily on while movie house—dark when you first en- t film, 1s gol finished portion is being edited tered, but ew lighter as her eyes ind titled became accustomed to the rarefied |" TO obertaon, Director of Fa- “Viola felt around and found her|Mous Players-Lasky Company, has and then peered through the beentloaned to Mury Ploktord and wil haze, She saw nearly every |airect her in her retaking of “Tess every tuble occupied, Moat | the Storm Country,” her most pop- ular film, Betty Blythe, who gained fame in the title of "The Queen of She all of the girls were a male escorts After gazing ompanied by awhile, Viola leaned i returns to Broadway in Rex Horan ne guiness Beach's “Pair Lady."? She is. still “fan't it cute in here?" : reigning, as her part is also that of a The friend opined that she was Ls P Carey Wilson, the seribe, been And look at all those couples tea~ | made associa litor of the Goldwyn spooning !"— The days ARE getting longer now ‘ a Lusky announced yesterday janant ches? Stanlaws's next picture, - ver the Border,’* will be FADEOUTS. Cynthia Stockwell’s “Pink Gods and Having finished his third two-reel] Blue Demons." Constance Binney comedy for First National retease,| will be feature Ben Turpin turned right around and} ‘The Ordeal" is nearing completion started his fourth. The name is a secret ‘Allen Holubar has engaged Gertrude or as principal faminine support rothy Phillips in “The Soul Just like tt 11 Powell, the director, says ‘’The \* hasn't been any such a thing. Warren W. Lewis, pufficist for Hod- kinson, has just been elected Prest- dent of the Jackson Heights Tennis Club. Which clinches the proof that tennis is not a ladies’ game, at |b A ot Sed hard Waltoa ®ully learned how y RHYMED THRILLS Herman Sage of East 107th Street says the greatest thrill he ever had was yesterday, when he read a poem of his own to a strect sweeper up his way and was told it was fine. On re- the street employee Herman sought the subway and delivered the rhyme to ceiving the commendation of us. Here's the very rhyme: She was the one maid on my list I didn't want to tose. Upon a ring did she insist. I could not welt refuse. She got the ring, which greatly vexed Her, ‘cause it had no stone, And (lest fond reader be perplexed) ‘Twas on the telephone. FOOLISHMENT. I cannot sing as once I did, My voice is giving out. In looks, though, I am still some kid, Beyond the slightest doubt. To-day my sweetheart said to me: “Don't fret, you handsome thing! my darting honey bee; You're still Let other blockheads sing!” A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Egbert Schwab, who used to be con- sidered by Wellsville people a worth- ls now the best mandolin less boy, player in Bogash, O. bout Plays and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY | a Play called “My Lady's Lips.” by Edward “The Martha Hedman William Powell and Gilda Leary are the only players in it anc{f A, there is but one set of scenery. Hani Forrest, who is directing the staging says that despite the smaliness of ( cast it is a very promising play. Ss H. HARRIS has in rehearss| Locke, who wrote Climax."" ZIEGFELD TRAVELLING, F. Ziegfeld jr., within a few how } after arriving from Palm Beach, tow a train for Pittsburgh to visit his wit Bille Burke, who !s playing ther: He will accompany her to Chicas Saturday to see her begin an enge “The Ziegfeld Froile j with Will Rogers, opens in Chicas: } Sunday also. The producer wil! + t turn to New York late next week 111 begin arranging to cast the 1 “Follies.” TO MY SWEETHEART. a (By Bill Neckt.) oart | The nose is red. \ The laws are Vii | Hooch is dear, And 80 are you. JACK DOESN'T LIKE IT. When the Selwyns named their n+ ! “Potash and Perlmutter’ play ‘Th: i Schenckem Bix,"* Jack Weleh, one vi f i h \ ) their lieutenants, decided to find ov what the title meant. Nobody in ti. Selwyn organization could tell so he sought a rabbi am! asked It means it's no guvd—you q * said the rabbt. wir ‘Well, that goes for the show’ title," grunted Jack, “You take it!’ | ATTENTION, MANAGERS! L. &. Clarke, who admits haves followed this column for years, write ur to ask that we suggest that th theatrical managers pay some atten: tion to the amateur nights at th udeville houses and thus pick uy some good talent (or thelr show He says he heard a wonderful ame teur tenor at Moss's 207th Street Th: atre recently. Very well, we hereby make the suggestion. By the way Mr. Clarke, what's good for a xa! loused place on one toe? We've xo such a spot and it pains like the vei. devil. i ADVICE TO POETS. p f Never send an editor a poam of less than forty-six verses. Editors like long poems and wil! throw out advertising to get them in the papers, o | Don't let anybody tell you “baby” fi doesn't rhyme with “lady.” Thos: who criticise ure jealous. N It is always best to inclose seversi |-4 |p stamps with your rhyme. Ten twos z will buy an editor a pork chop, you i know, f Never be too serious in your poem: » one on “The Old Hle should have comedy* After telling of the electrocution you might have a line reading: “Said the Warden with a wink, ‘Come on boys, I'll “*buy” a drink.’ After your first poem {s printed 11 is well to give up speaking to ti common people. Quit your job, ren a dingy attic studio tn Greenwicl Village and starve to death. GOSSIP. Nan Halpes'n, at the Winter Gui- den next weck, will be starred tn s new Shubert musical comedy, ‘A benefit slow for the French Dax Nursery will be held at the Lyceum Theatre to-morrow night. The Clet Club will give a@ serle: of six Sunday concerts at the Lyric Theatre beginning to-morrow night King Jazz will preside. New York's west side dancers will compete in a preliminary of the fox trot championship contest at Terrace Garden Dance Palace to-morrow | afternoon, New Jerseyites will com- pete Tuesday night. Monday night an old-fashioned store event will be | held at the Danoe Palace, and Wednesday nsht there will be gou- /) venir novelties , Fritz Leiber, Shakespearean star, ts entering vaudeville Monday at Proc- tor’s Theatre, Mount Vernon. i FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. 4 “My wife and I live as one.” fl ‘My wife and I live as ten. one and I'm nothing.”