The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1922, Page 28

| NYTHING that Arnold Daly does is likely to be interesting. But of chief interest at the Plymouth quaint idea of two young girls dragging that old sinner Voltaire into a play. Nothing quite like it had ever been done, so it was only natural that ‘the novelty of the experiment should excite curtosity. Though well enough as the maiden effort of Leila Taylor and Gertrude Purcell—both of whom enjoyed the thrilling experience of being led to the footlights by the gallant Daly—"'Vol- faire’ will not make stage history, French or otherwise. With all its flashes of wit it is a trivial comedy of 80 little body that its three acts seem ®@carcely more than as many scenes ut off in such a way an to suggest Arthur Hopkins ctard!. on his rights @s producer and casually remarking: “Better have a curtain there." Wearing a periwig that disguised him almost beyond recognition and with a how. og his knee breeches, Mr. Daly played \ “ein & high, thin voice, by way of denoting querulous old age, while squinting eyes peered out of a bloodless face. For the time was 1765, at Ferney, with the author of disquieting works living tn comfortable exile near the Swiss border and helping across it a tash young atheist who had escaped from prison and taken refuge in the chateau. This was the play so far as anything approaching plot went. character belng of first importance. Even so, it seemed that something more might have been done for Vol- taire in the plot to get the fugitive out of the house when the chief of po- lice came from Paris with gendarmes in brand-new uniforms. The old gohemer managed to get rid of poems by Frederick of Prussia that were bad enough to cause war, according to ac- counts, but with all his renowned cunning he failed to work out a plan by which his youthful disciple could shake off those low dogs of the law. ‘This was left to the spying Marquis, who underwent a change of heart be- cause of his tenderness for the adopted daughter of the household, Marie Corneille. Although Charles feemed incredibly stupid for a spy, It was he who hit upon the idea of get- ting the refugee out of the place undér cover of Marie's hood and cloak. For once, Voltaire didn’t seem to have his celebrated wits about him as he discussed ways and means with Charles over a supposed game of chess. In the end everything came his way, including a communication from the Pope and general forgive- ness, Meanwhile he had a pleasant t me patronizing everybody, hobnob- Ling with the actress Mlle. Clairon, éancing an impromptu minuet, and ddressing the industrial workers of his loyal colony. All these things Mr. Daly did with #i:y grace and crafty facility, play- ing extravagantly and looking ex- coedingly picturesque, not to say aw- fully strange. Marguerite Forrest as Marie, and Carlotta Monterey as the Comedie Francaise actress, looked charming, and had little else to ‘do. ngs) Screeni By DON A ANSWERED. We asked yesterday why Charlie Chaplin assumes a funny walk, wears large shoes, affects a paint brush on his upper lip, wears a derby and swings an agile cane in this space yesterday. The answer is: To earn a billion a year. SUCH HANDS. Betty Jewel, D. W. Griffith's latest find, and oft referred to as ‘the third orphan,” has wonderful hands. This has been noticed by artists and movie eoers for months, but it wasn’t until yesterday afternoon that the final test, as far as real praise goes, was iurthcoming. “If T had that jane’s hands I'd be worth a million,” muttered one sleek- lwoking individual to another The remark in itself didn't mean qauch, except that it came from a ris- ing young pickpocket just now out on parole. A REIDISM, Wallace Reid jr., four-year-old son of the Paramount sta is very much like the other kids of bls age, inas much as when he is good he is very, very good, and when he is bad le's— BAD. He had been naughty the other day, und as a result had been sent to bed Yor punishment. Wally sr., not being busy, was home. He heard a mum- bling in his son's room and stopped to listen, He says he heard the laddie io ig nd now, dear Lord, I have been “aKing you for 4 month to make me 4 #e0d boy, und to-day | have been bad gain. { guess You got tired lis'ning to me. But try again.’ 1870 BEATS 1922. In what looked like a hare and tortoise contest on the desert near Yermo, Cal., Ol’ 1870 left 1922 as If | Hippodrome glued to the sands in the latter escaping a sandstorm last week Players in the film, ‘The Days of Buffalo Bill,’’ were acting in scenes in the early days when the sandstorm The short feature makes no pre- * started up. The actor uctresses, e THE NEW PLAYS @ “Voltaire,” With Arnold Daly, Won’t Make Stage History BY CHARLES DARNTON start. Theatre last night was the rather John 8. O'Brien was a good priest, and George Le Guerre came through a secret panel emotionally as the sorely distressed fugitive. Jane Wheatley gave the impression of be- ing thoroughly at home in the role of the housekeeper but for his part of the Chief of lice, Frederick Truesdell both act: d and sounded as though he were far more than two hundred miles from Paris. Yet in spite of shortcomings, the night must have been a deliriously happy one for the bright young au- thors. They have made a promising How 1S EVERWTHING AT OH! SHE'S ALLRIGHT AN' we're HAPPY ENOUGH ¢ Cont, 1922 (N.Y. Eve, World) By Prese Pub. Co. LITTLE MARY MIXUP REmMAMBEeR “Tar Time ED- A COUPLA YEARS Bagk WHEN THAD MY ou STux’ STOLEN? NEARLY RUINED mY YOUNG “TO HEAR iT! You KNow “Here WERE RUMORS OF “Rows ANER- secaeasees: O4- A Lost poée Here .ToOwseR. FRE Fido - HERE FLOossie, BRUNO, PANSY, REX, CLARA, Dodo, Jortn, GEORGE FELIX, HELEN| MIAME, BESSIE , TOM. Bre. EBTa:-. Sust SHOWS WHAT A SUSPICIOUS NATURE You've, Got! WHY, NIGHT SCHOOL ~ BUT ONY THIS MORNING THE QUESTION 1S SHE WAS TELLING HE HOW NICELY SHE] WAS GETTING ALON! AND HER TEACHER) iia SAID — = Ah TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1922 Rows! ves! We HAVE PLENTY oF Rows “Sant hose Days and THESE Days! {| J BY Tu’ Way DID Y' Loe tr Just Now? SAPHEAD IN THOSE DAYS — LEAVING A CAR STANDING ALL DAY WITH IF SHE HITS ME sue's HAPPY— le SHE MISSES -r am? WHEN We HAVE A BATTLE TH’ WIFE GRABS A DISH OR SOMETHIN’ AN’ FIRES AWS. sPEAK uP? ANSWER Me ® WAGE YOuR > “TAIL - SOMETHING ® o4- 1r Must HAVE BEEN MY Dae FOUND - +5 Was He WOULD NT ANSWER AND ANSWERED TO THE NAM= OF CLARE WHAT DID \ WELL, Co ON— WHAT'S THE | 7) MATTER — HAVE] @é.- You GoT Tt STILL | WAITING ! | ARE You GoING To Teer Me THe REST ee AREN'T You ? all mounted, made versal City Just as they ¢ race for Uni me nine miles away tarted a transconti nental lim! 1 hove in sight, coastin. along throuch the rising sand Dir the train pass the 1870 bunch? It did not, But then, now, mebbe try so hard as it might to p galloping players. Anyway, the sand storm didn't catch Art Acord and his sang, and all is well out Yermo way wife HARROWING. Dolores Cassinelli, the screen play- er, was telling some hair-raising ex- periences yesterday. “Tell us some of those -Chinese yarns,’ chimed in Tom Terriss, the director “[ remember one time my eye was struck by ehink in the wall."* first be a long series of travesties on : Doug Fairbanks and his “Three Musketeers’ film has struck town. It thi is a picture known as "A Barnyard | Si6ns Cavalier’ and is being shown at the Bobby Vernon, sereen comedian, plays the leading role and is mighty | blond? Successful in making fun of the re nowned Fairbanks. contest ? That tense of being unything but « tray-! ewim? esty, and as such i ne qualities: Doug saw he never shich is some NATALIE, SHE Some one (Pictures have for years.) That Priscilla Dean once acted in a pleture where she didn't rescue her lover and save a town That Earache von Stroheim was the chief speaner at a St. Patrick's Day ‘elebration ? We thought you didn't Neither do we thought handsome men made the dest husbands. Gazing soulfully at Buster, she sighed and muttered “1 do not think looks count at all A man may world and another For instance, my husband has never been known to smile in yet he has the most wonderful smile in the world for me “A woman for his way to his wife. is until she s his per intangible But her audience had fled never A TRAVESTY. The first of what we imagine will ought to greatly Capitol and the Moss would thur Somers Roche stories as a pastime bankroll, DO YOU KNOw—— That Charlie Chaplir That Ben Turpi the only thing Will H ed Was @ letter Rex Ingram an address: Little Eva? “The Four Horsemen’ lool fivvers? ‘That slow motion pictures are not been that way STILLS are not the only bb start trouble,” muse: Moss and 8, 1, Koilsad gnates, are matched ra $1,000 prize mford, Conn,, according to Ai who writes mov und to fatten his is the greatest dog in the country. Nearly all movies the just 1 cont otar of The Cave Girl,’ yestenday. believe in the Kneipp baret | RHYMED THRILLS —_—__ You'll haye to pardon us. Von Stroheim is back Shearer just s of snow stuff at Lake Placid gone to Florida to thaw out . Lincoln plays # shi with an Oxford eduction in i It has not been burdened with a name as yet. Reginald Denny California after Leather Pushers’ ferred to ourself never smiles as dumb us she hails trom Brooklyn ister on the screen It doesn’t reg- 4 woman say > ” you ain't such Convenience el dy in which Owen Moor you're not married getting down going to print 4 in New York John Willard thrill sent us by Kast 42d Street, ELL?” said an artist as his friend fixed eyeglass and examined i jost finished picture 1p to it, then moved away fror ten viewed } corner, then tried tt from the north I'm moved b of these things od,” he said, finally One of the best pictures of a mine I've ever seen! . in later scenes, That lifted me I'm fired with nobte ambition, I'm almost a rich I shook hands with old Skipper Dud- up with the Kings prove. pic famous man. He glared at the critic angrily and clenched his hands. “It's a birdseye view of Eastbourne are a perfect snic decoration One of the big film producing con- You pikers, beat that if you can, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Canadian Club is to expand. This probably isn't the Canadian Club you were “ce acquainted with. that may De und almost as black and shiny as the which he works, doesn't thankful I'm not a bird!"—Argomsut, ry About Plays and Players RANK MOULAN of “Just Be- F cause,” which opens to-mor- row night at Earl Carroll's Theatre, was attending a rehearsal yesterday when he was suddenly eon- fronted by a man who tried to sel! him some books. Moulan sought the stage door man, angry. “Say,” he demanded, “what did yo let this ook agent in on the for? “Book agent?" came from the sur- prised door man, “Gosh, I thought he said he was a bootlegger.” EMBRYO ACTORS READY. The graduation exercises of the American Academy of Dramatic arte were held yesterday at the Lyceum Doris Keane and George Gaul ad- dressed the grajuates, who numberdg } re thirty-four. A WORRIED PHYSICIAN. Wiliam Ken!. of “Good Morning Dearie,” plays the role of a China man. Last nis it a doctor was back stage at the ‘ilobe to see another member of the cast, and he ran across Kent in make-up. “My dear man,” said the physician “[ don’t Ike that sallow complexion Shan't T prescribe for you?” “No, thanks, Doc!'? replied Mr. Kent. That sallow complexion keeps the wolf from my door.” Nevertheless, the doctor moved away shaking his head éubiously. TO HAVE A BENEFIT. The United Home for Aged Hebrews will have a big benefit show at the Eltinge Theatre Sunday night, Apri! 2. This is preparatory to the open- ing of the Home, which is In Ne@y Rochelle. THE LATEST IN SLANG. The very latest in slang—take tt from Arthur Jay Levy—is the ex- pression “I'll so say,"” used frequently in “The French Doll,” Irene Bor- doni’s new starring vehicle at the Lyceum. A, EF. Thomas, playwright coined it as his idea of how a French man would say “I'll say so." Jag” sent us this story last night by special Messenger Will he be glad to see tt in print? We'll so say GOSSIP. “Ljliom” returned to the 44th Street Theatre last night. Fay Bainter is playing her second consecutive week at the Bronx Opera House in “Kast Is West.” “Abraham Lincoln” opens a two- day engagement in Springfield, Tl, § to-night. Every @chool child in town will see it The All-Star Annual Equity Sho: will be held on May 7, ‘The commit tee in charge is headed by Lynn Overman. Cecil Lean of “The Blushing Bride* likes a good horse. He has a picture ot Morvich in his dressing room. Harry Wardell joined Al Jolson’'s “Hombo" company yesterday. He ap- pears as a bandit and Jolson bange him over the bead with a elub. é Waiker Whiteside, acting under fi 1 direction, will begin an ei i (| 4 ) nt in “The Hindu” to-night at the Comedy Monday next be Priars’ Night at the Columbia, Several hundred r r will sec “Bits O' Broadway, in or of Arthur Pearson, the show's producer. Clergymen «ni Justices of the Peace living Milford, Greenwich, Darien, Danbury s Cob, Denby a Stamford hi n invited to @ ‘Just Mar free of-cost ‘to-night { Jules Hurtic wonts to show them ju how ma 1 ceremonies should FO" .ISHMENT i TL were but a bur-guta | I'd take my automatte {nd seek a school where damsels are, In manner quite emphatic Id rob each viaiden of a kiss Permitting one to gurgle. Nert morn I'll bet each little miss Would say ull men should burgle. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “Does Smith's wife love him?" “Does she? She even takes tn} washing to help him pay the alimong! he owes her predecessor,”