The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1922, Page 28

} 4 e THE NEW PLAYS © Pleasing Tunes and Dancing “Just Because” BY CHARLES DARNTO! ERHAPS if Anna Wynne O’Ryan, Helen §. Woodruff and Madelyn P Sheppard were asked their renson for writing musical comedy, they would lightly quote the title of their first work of this kind, “Just Because,” blithely offered last night at the Earl Carroll Theatre, and then leave you to find it agreeably feminine. After gil, this is what musical comedy must be to make It attractive. One thing the authors have suc- ceeded in doing quite simply is popu- lating their so-called melody comedy properly by having a widower with nine daughters and a bachelor with @ large flock of orphan girls established on adjoining estates. After studying the map of Frank Moulan as the proud, though anxious, parent, you may wonder at the beauty of the daughters, and you may marvel still mere at a young man who under- takes the education of a job-lot of flappers for no other reason than that nis love was blighted by a radiant creature with merely brains enough to say ‘just because’ whenever he asked her why she didn’t come in out of the rain, or some equally difficult ques- tion. This weighty situation may ex- plain the heaviness of a ‘‘book'’ so reeming quite as.forced as his tipsy scene with Nellie Graham-Dent, who played the flirtatious survivor of vari cus husbands in the farcical manner or Widow Bedotte. Jane Richardson sang so well that she partly atoned for her ‘‘baby talk," in which she in- dulged to a senseless degree. Charles Trowbridge could not do anything to “ave the woman-hater who finally igved the melodious damsel from be- ng hopelessly dull. It was the pleasing tunes and danc- ing that made “Just Because” en- tertaining, CANT PAM You ANY THIN' “his week by Miss Sheppard is bright and pleas- ing, if not surprisingly original, and the costumes and settings are pretty, Sentiment occasionally takes a practical turn in Mrs, Woodruff's lyrica, as for example one maiden's lament: “If I don't even have a chance To look at pants"—— Although you may feel a certain hitch in this rhyme—posslbly due to association of thought with suspend- ers—you must admit it has its own justification. Moreover, “Just Re- cause” ig a thoroughly clean musical comedy, a fact brought home to you on wash day, it would seem, in a laundry number running, or let us say dripping: “Lattle shirty = Y. Eve, World) By Frese Pub. Co. LITTLE MARY MIXUP Once all dirty.” Please don't imagine the girls were so busy with their work that they had no time for play. It was good fun to see them playing with walking dolls in the most ingenious song of the piece, and they munaged to make {t a delightful novelty. <A good- natured dog also barked himself into popularity. But the best feature of the per- formance was the dancing of Queenie Smith, who has something of the sunny charm, technical skill and flash- img grace that once were Genee's. Miss Smith will be even better when she overcomes a bad habit of winking. At times she had for her partner that clever, lanky and humorous stepper Olin Howland. As the clown orphan Mary Hotchkiss tumbled about amus- ingly. Mr, Moulan bad nothing funny to do or say unfortunately, his one- word dialogues with Mr. Howland Y'vHow- YOu GIMME 4 QUARTER FoR GIVIN® AWAY THAT poe — Screenings ~_By DON ALLEN MAE, HOW COULD YOU? Mae Murray, who during studio hours has become the titular charac- ter of ‘‘Broadway Rose,"’ Metro's lat- est, yesterday claimed she had discov- ered the apotheosis of appropriateness in names. A young pianist, a member of the orchestra used in several scenes of film, is Octave Kies. “Yes,"" added Miss Murray, “and he’s just twenty years old, too; A minor"’-——— We fied while the fledding was good, ROUGH START. June Mathis, the dignified adaptor of “The Four Horsemen’’ and who has just scenarioized “Blood and Sand,” was off to a bad start in the movie game. She was once & slap- stick, knockabout comedienne and often acted as the target for well- aimed pies of the custard species. "I started as a comic Zulu,” said Miss ‘Mathis, “and for some time was on a casa NR JOE’S CAR Copr. 1922 (N. Y. Eve, World) By Press Pub. Co. “THis Boox'Lt HAVE ME WEEPING TAWES ME Back Sy) Remember How 1 USED To GRUMBLE WHEN DAD WOULD SEND ME OUT “TO “Ti' BARN ON A GoLD NIGHT T'PuT A BLANKET OVER OLD — SHE WAS AGooD OL NAG =~ \s GETTIN’ Tel A obatsnnhs Now DAYS co iN A MINUTE — : J FoRY YEARS WHEN T WAS A LITTLE | BAREFOOT KID ——onny wow Times CHANGED SINCE “THEN! WE HAD NO PHONOGRAPHS OR WIRELESS OR AIRPLANES OR NOTHI Awl You've BEEN GAMBLIN’ Ee] WITH THAT BROTHER: FA _-\N-LAW OF YOURS far is its humor goes. But the music . ° SAGA LL BET —y WHY DO You PERSIST IN PLAYING WITH HIM — HE ALWAYS WING ‘OUR Mone ? BuT if He DIDNT WIN (T-HE WOULD Borrow iT! _ Theatrical News and Gossip _ Times Haven’t. Changed Much! { —S soe, is THE RADIATOR LIABLE To FREEZE wITMouT “HaT EXTRA ALCOHOL IN IT? Either Way He's Loser! About Plays - and Players By BIDE DUDLEY So I MIGHT AS WELL HAVE Cote A LOTTLE FUN P EORGE CREEL reported to the G Committee Opposed to Poli- tical Censorship in the The- atre yesterday that his sub-commit- tee, named recently to get the co- operation of the city officials, in a move to have twelve citizens pass on the morality of plays that are mad, the subject of complaints, had oo Mayor Hylan, Police Commissioner nright and License Commissioner Hehrist and that they had approved the plan. The only group in the main committee which not sanctioned the plan is that of the Producing aguikiaN Managers’ Association, and it hae HEY Mom ¢ HERE COMES THE | MAN I SAVE THE Doe “H~ AND Hes BRINGIN' 1M feat. MY WIFE SAYS Me OR THIS WELL. THE MAN I GAve earns ITS CAVE ME WHOLE TLHATE CIGAR-HOLDERS, BUT KATINKA GAVE ME THIS ONE FOR MY BIRTHDAY AN 1 WANNA SHOW HANG I(T! THAT'S THE THIRD TIME MY CIGAR FELL OUT OF THIS OLD THING ? ‘AW, LISSEN KATINKA- BOSH! T WANT LEMME EXPLAIN — NOTHING T'DO WITH IT's Too Goop\ A SMOKE To on the receiving end of the slap-stick. ‘Then ! quit. Since then I have been content to ‘Bay It With Words.’ And now look at the success umn in her life ledger. RUDDY EXPLAINS. Why does a bull-fighter wear a pig nual dinner of the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers at The Biltmore. The advertising and publicity men bay they ve planned a show in which they will be the actors, Hays will speuk and there'll be a dinner. Then somebody will probably te “And He Learned About Moyles From Them king tnis pertinent question. Paramount, it seems, has taken a The next day’ be & day and mean advantage they'll all be able to slumber later Anyway, they were kind enough to} than usual send along Rodolph Valentino's ex —— slunat ic PEARL IS PEEVED. Tt soe agcordins to Val, that the Pear] White grew hectic yesterday tile braided Mipper that hangs trom] when the first letter she opened ack of the ately head of the} proved to be from a widely known hter is called the “coleta’’ and] facial surgeon who asked if he might t serves to mark the fighter w “wait on her in the matter of hav- heen graduated {7991 the bull t ing hee face lifted or her features ing to the bull fignting class. remodelled dors, picadors, toreadors and almost] Pearl took her fountain pen in hand very other kind of a door are en-Jand wrote him that he might “wait 1 to wear the coleta. until the widely touted torrid place It also serves for a fine hangie to] could boast of icicles” and that abe the defunct buill-] was perfectly capable of* changt her own mind or face whenever she Anyway, Valentino wears one in} thought either needed it 8 late and the girls will prob An jnvestigation proved that Miss bly sigh and gle ‘Aint that] white’s name had been placed op ttle braid jest too cute the surgeon's mailing list by mis- WILL MEET “THE GANG.” After having met and mitted se st and directors at a recent din. HOW ‘BOUT GARLIC? es, the V era Dagny Se Will H. Hays, who hasn't started to] p swayed by perfumes function actively as “head of the] that it not make a picture movies,” will get a chance to break}. fit her mood ure sion Muturday night, when ' nulants to my the guest of hone: ut the an-lecu des lures actresp, ‘All thy 6 { vs time I am acting, electric atomizers waft to my nostrils the odor viglets and lilies, passion and beaut). | Ince studios this week and I think of love. Then Tact tore ’, for 1 1m dominated py the majority of film players ar ing snow-stuff in Trucker is now eight aceper all the A WISE LOBSTER. thought the baste was haunted and good would come from cooking wonld registe to be from the wind happened Jersey side some like many men »| stars and striy had occasion the last I saw of him he shooting scenes home one day last Bugene O'Brien at « : be a surgeon, do his cutting up on the —————— HER STRONGeHINT. A lad of nine. ervant girl to had surgeon and Gene gets Pattullo story that Harol@ Lloyd the attack of influenza th him down and pretty near out for been keeping company My dad, while handing has been actin: forty ye with her for eight years a Me a whack, Henry Clive will engineer never even mention Slipped up and land shuns for the Friars at the Cc and she had deciéed to give ms ie hia bark, night him a strong hint at the first oppor- some nolge in filmland, « _ It came one autumn afternoon As they started for a walk into the she caught up a bright red sweater to wear vided for him and shown in peniten sprinkled here Irving Willat wil touched her a FOOLISHMENT. The Thalian Dramatic Society wit] wouldn't W if 1 were], offer “Milestone: the Morris Hig Phoilise’ he “the flela| TRE Cireus is in town once more, | sohool Maren 26 inch we shalt cross has a Jersey bull] love to hear the lion's roar. Nan Halperin entertained som darkscloud effect y Scouts watch closely will learn how to make nese film|der,”” European families he tough on the then [ won't wear it,” she strong Winter Gerd " last ae : ered emphatically, throwing thel y. 0. ¢ ate des ne Gr toom ¢ vill have ena chair. ‘If in eight] When Central gels my number wrong.) yypiic revel at the Cohan Theatre you haven't got enough courage re Easter Sunday ‘ne from an approaching} FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Ethel Levey will return to the P; 1 know yu wouldn't “Is Harry Lauder a detective?” ace Theatre in a new act next wee! Husbar t nt Madge Bellamy capecte te Anis ot sending ce pety auloarecbod wtull an et sian: amma tn a a St SH Business Has Gone to the Dogs! been holding ont to await the verdict of the city authorities. Now a eub- committee bas been named to pi the matter up to the managers’ ganization. Charles D. Coburn hae been representing the managers and he will arrange for a conference be- tween the producers and the sub- committee named yesterday. ere Ss Your Dos -AND TWO DoLLars HE HAD HIS DOUBTS, Clarke Silvernail. stage director of “Montmartre’’ at the Belmont, dis- nusscd a young man from the cast the other night. The following evening he noticed the discharged player hang ing around the stage door. “What are you doing here?’ de manded Mr. Si ‘pall. ‘Oh, nothing:"’ came the reply. "I just thought I'd drop around and see if the play was still running.”’ RAMBY TO DOLL UP. Jack Norworth is to be made tho reason for a theatre party of newsies at the Greenpoint Theatre to-morrot night. The youngsters will be gues of the Greenpoint Home News. Edi Ramby will attend, wearing her Christmas bonnet. Mr. Norworth, however, will likely be the main at- traction , NUTT'S DOPE. Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt writes us from Bogash, 0., as follows: “Dear Dud—I and the wife h that the coal miners are threatens to strike on April 1 and it seems to us the newspapers ought to say some- thing about this. Why not send I and she to see the head of the union. We could scoop the world for you with a whale of a story. I could interview the head man on the subject of profit and loss, saying to him: ‘Well, sir, what about profit and loss and the economies?" Then I'd turn him over to the wife, who would ask him how the babies’ oatmeal! will be cooked.and thus touch his heart. We could point out that there is honor in a smutty e, after which the wife could sing ‘My Papa Iso Miner." Wire me $11, please. Juniper Hecht's wife made a mistake at the Epworth League meet. ing here last night. She suggested Pe A that the League hold a draw poker party and invite some well-known artists to do the drawing She's an | RHYMED THRILLS j| innocent Httle person, but she sure Ed Gilland, a man who lives| Started something. Much excitement down on Long Ialand, .s to-day’s as- | Ut could learn nothing, JEFF." gu pirant for tt of the song, “Y May Hold Me Tight If You Get Me GOSSIP. A FELLER WHO Picks" uP "BUTTS’ FRoM THe STREET! e bug like that.” ht.” Mr. Gilland, who is rathe Idy May Chadwick is a radiophone “What did you do with it?” said Just laurhod pil SPAS K free 7 getting mad thrill, Read this: A i toenleht? 3 z out the back door with The greatest thrill Jocko. H me's crow, like the maniac he Minna ater nae Hulio: building a ne nis boudoir He had sardines for dinner.—Jud . F. Zlesteld jr. will arrive trom Came when T was I Be ep Ida Waterman of “Lawfa' is to ibe seen at special = matinees at the Sam H. Haeris ‘Thea. A THOUGHT tre. Hops off Agril 4 ‘The two rival undertakers in W Meriam Macauley of the Kaintueks ville have begun sending flowers to] ygacauleys, sah, will enter the cast everybody who becomes ill. of “Montmart: might ha Would that my voice were just ag} Junior Leas girls with tea at th 1 in w few minutes to save} ‘No. Why?" ie Beynon Ray will entertat approaching butl.--Way “Beenuse T understand jis home’ the “First Fifty Years” cast at dis has @ Scotland yard.” ner Sunday. They'll both be there,