The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1922, Page 22

About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY GINNING next mont Theatre, direction of Ric don, Will house a repertory company mnade up of well kn ers, di- rectors and others | n the presentatio: of dramatic play A name for the conipany ha t yet been chosen, b ite tion, we hex qualities of the old and Lyceum Thea as well ax those of Francaise of Paris and and Lessing Theatres of Her counpany will be directed by 4 Comedie Reinhardt rhe manager, working wi board which will d>cid The personnel of this will be announced by shortly. “VODE” FOR MISS SEGAL. Vivienne Segal, huving finished her work in “The Me e tering vaudeville gin her tour du Century Week at Keith's, Washing- ten. Next season she will appear In a. Dillingham musical comedy. HELPING THE BABIES. A benefit performance will be given at the Belasco Theatre Tuesday after- fioon, April 4, to aid the Speedwell Society, which takes care of aban- doned and sick children. Clara Bumes fs in charge: KYRA SAYS SOMETHING. “Why can't an armless person dance gracefully?" asks Kyra, who {8 dancing in Shubert vaudeville “Dunno,” we reply. “Because ys Kyra, “the dancer who seeks to convey expression can do, 30 only with t rms and hands, ‘The lags talk but the arms interpret their meaning. The dumb are not dumb tf they have hands. ‘Therefore the bext dancers are best because they know how to use their arms and hands." Did you know that before, reader? Neither did we PLACING THE BLAME. Vrank Moulan of ‘Just Because’? ts mad. His Boston terrier has flv fies and none of them has « cork- serew tail. “Oh. why pitition on fst Pro- MISS TAYLOR FOR LONDON. Plans are being mude to present “The National Anthem" in London with Lauretio Taylor, its star, in her original role. Arrangements already ave been concluded for its adaptation in French and there is a possibility that Mme. Simone may be seen in It n Paris. If this keeps up tt may be necessary to change the play's title to “The Internationa] Anthem.” HE Likes BLAYDS.” Gilbert Emery, actor and playwright, was introduced recently to a promi- nent leader of society, the wife of @ well known editor “Have you seen ‘The Truth About Blayds?" usked the lady ‘ “Yes, I've seen it,’ ery. ‘Oh, from the tone of your voice ¥ ean see you don’t think much of it.’* "On the contrary, I think most highly of it.” Mr. Emery thoughtfully refrained from telling her he ts playing the role of Royce, the critic, in ‘The ‘Truth About Blayds,’’ at the Booth, replied Mr, and there is possibility the Indy will never know it unless she reads this story. CORRECTING AN ERROR. We tried to say here the other day thet Ann Irish's playlet, ‘The Cheap Woman," had been converted into a screen scenario and it came out in the column “screem.'’ The playlet is dramatic and the error did it an injustice. JOLSON ENDING RUN. Al Jolson will terminate his long engagement in “Bombo'’ at Jolson's O9th Street Theatre on April 8 He ‘vill begin # spring tour the following Monday tn Atlantic City, with Phila- delphia to follow. The Messrs, Shu- bert will send the ‘‘Bombo'' company on tour intact. WHO KNOWS? A reader asks us when ‘Until Hter- nity’’ was played in New York. He says Margaret Illington had the lead- ing role. Will some of our victims with retentive memories kindly help us out with the information? MISS BINGHAM TO TALK, Amelia Bingham will deliver a talk Gt the New Century Club, Philadel- phla, to-morrow afternoon, on Modern Woman."" Miss Bingham is much in demand public speaker and she has 2 weulth of interesting information tu iropust KLAW GETS “THE SHADOW.” Mare Klaw, Inc., unnounces thet the American rights of Eden Phill notts's ‘The Shadow’ have been ac- «iuired by this coneern and that the play will be produced soon at a Broad- way theatre. Lester Lonergan will uairect the staging. NUTT'S DOPE Jeffergon Shrewsbury Nutt w Bogash, V., lias written us @ sugges fon thal shows hi a live w ‘Ftere's ‘his letter: “Dear Dud—I and the wife see b: the Bogash Exterminator that th @ big argument going on about Mack- momey’s statue ‘Civilian Virtue." Un- derstand Mayor Hylander says the woman shouldn't be stepped on by the handsome big bruiser who's standing up. Personally, I don't snuch be tromps on jeaybe whe deserves !t & MO! DAY. MARCH 27, 1922 ee “TORS CAR -t- OUST WHAT HE'S ALWAYS WANTED ~ Joe HAS OFTEN WISHED FOR A PAIR OF WINGS ON HIS RADIATOR. CAP ~ Swett - NIFTY may (WHAT Have. \ You Gor To BE so HAPPY | Tiler ‘ s THE Door BELL. 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Eve. World) By Prose Pub. Co MERCY ! WHAT HAPPENED To \F YOU DIDN'T TURN OFF THE POWER IN OUR) HOUSE I'D NEVER OBEEN ABLE To SNEAK ouT! / Aaa) WKY VW WORKING IN THAT | \ ELECTRIC PLANT, FERDIE- We are printing a thrill by Matty to-day and it is his third entered in the contest for the song, ‘You May Hold Me Tight If You G Matty lives up at Ray Brook, where he ts looked on as a great poet. hanging around the now waiting for his E let's e's his th The thritting thrill I thrilled to-day Will open up your eyes. You've seen a lot of thrills, I know, And felt a few, But this one Will knuck the others out. This thriller is the best of then You'll praise this one a lot. lister Why not wire !t? Old Man Mott's cow, Pansy, swished him tn the face with the tossel on her tail to-day and and get } eymb: be and wo: Scrawney Williams, colored, laughed. Muoh excitement nothing.—Jer?, but could learn GOSSIP. 4 professional matinee pertorm- ance of ‘The Rose of Stamboul" will be given during the week of April 17, People named Stork will be admit- ted free at th April 7 to see ‘The Players’ a new play fe the Belmont Evelyn Com Dearie,"* will 1 nee Wednesc home! A new thriller | mick will be seen in Reyel at the Cohan Theatr “The Green Rin by Zenaida Hippius, will open Neighborhood Maynouse Me Tight.”* He's Post Office right W. to arrive, tters further. not delay m At: ! Wow! joy! Oh ora Bayes Theatre ‘Just Married."* Assembly will stage jal matinees at Hip, wip, hooray! sweet surprise? jood Morning, rut the mati - y. House cleaning at no doubt, L with tts knockout blow gdon MeCor- © Green Room April 16. play at the April 4. while I tet! this gem- Peggy Wood, Mary Hu Lennox Gee whiz! II forgot. | Pawle und t “Marjol: chorus - === [will take par the Bi Annuul r © wife to see Mackmoney | Show. Netta Sunderland and Howar gauged by A Charlatan Marion Bertram ale have been en- Kluuber for “The ry? I'd ask him what t was meant to id say to him: ‘What's this nine e would] The Minsky Lo: ave planning no lady|a midnight show for the Park Music on her itke | Hall, It will be for theatrical folk Then she could sing him her and will be culled The Midnight Re- ong, ‘Show No Malice Towards | treat."* * Woe could get & great story| -Barney Ge hus signed 4 con- oy «By tt y neo’ $11. tract to p e bie Durlesque Farl revue, “Follies of the Day,” in Lon- don, about the middle of June. A club calling itself the Gods has taken a block of seats at Carroll's Theatre to-night to whoop it up for Queenie Smith, the He jumped out of that bram As happy as the deuce. His arms held seven bottles whe never Gallery The Day’s Good Stories ble L MISSED BOTH WAYS. editor sent aid Brown, o that mu to you of “'E says us 'e charges you only for| the monotony | “ Varle @ FUNNY WHEN SHE SINGS. An entertainment was being given in the village school, When the pro- gramme was half over, the faces of the scholars shone dancer, in "Just Because,” THE LIFE OF TRADE. NO TROUBLE AT ALL, with agreeable an- jorge Leffler of the William Competition wa E de street of jelpation, e Harris jr offices epent’ the week-end mpetition was| PN a south side str this city teat, tani wee: to f * keen in the Lon- lives a woman who for optimism be a vocal solo by at Ridgewood, N. J., and had a great ‘ } Seca tna ba |B vorat! enlg by tne BC Fea Fi bee don street. mar- ‘and homely philosophy takes rank beng tea oS please copy. ket. Two rivals] With Mrs, Wiggs of the well known had delighted the The two daughters of Dr. Orville wero selling| “Cabbage Patch. Li aaah NaI Ward Owen, noted us an authority : ‘ } This woman, with pcr husband and singing. on Shakespeare. have entered vaude- wady-made coats | ramiy, was ed at the dinner table ‘There ; followed ville, They will be at Proctor's 28d things, and/one daynot long since, when @ knock en impatient pause, street 1 = to-da: i eunet > finally the Chatr- Street Theatre, hesinning: today tried to un-|came to the door and a friend cal ano mig ey ed rele ve re A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY dercut the other. | “Won't you come in for dinner sorry to say, children, that Miss “Look ‘ere,’ housewife invited. “4 contracted a cold and will be 5 arene eves ie tet houted the first Ih, no,’” the caller answered, o sing. he te willing, however, we are © ng the Evening . , ts emilee a poem instead, if you wish it. World's Kidding Club. as a brain wave struck him, “1 tell} have such a large family yours Do your i yer I am éeliing t rock | Would be a shame to put you to extra| Several heads in the rear of the room . e > trouble, me grouped as 1 con- FOOLISHMENT. bottom prices. I charges only von.’ was the cheery reply, “one|Yerswtion. ‘Then they evidently elected There was a man in our tow makin’. J don't need to make ni : bit of difference, |% SPokesman. "Please, sir," sald the ind he twas wondrous wise penny for more don't make @ bit of difference. |phoy, “4 afiss Willet don't mind, wo'd is eile shes | % \ll I have to do js tu put another|rather have her get up an’ try to sing: He jumped into a bramble bus. cup of water in the pw.''—Chicago|and {f her throat's too sore to make a ut not to scrateh his eye ete eS! she can make her funny faces the planner plays the tune,""— A HERO, The old fordidden fuice.) the mukin’ cums pinches the replied Sinith, inetds ven aaas 16 aay tat 10} he ge oe vat did he * asked Brown y " y do r FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. malin T piueten aul sete exit bas ory was both good beac Araceae bia : foaty fund ey Fe 4 are Just covering him eorge Washington never told a = a und original ae ie and he never flew in an aero- THE KICKER'S MISSION unos FY ond seaithy he tial He: "Oh, yes, id run some risk , Say what you will uf the chrouie|what was 6 ws or! He was using the telephono t of it? There are thousands |kicker, he at leas Lie under storm & battle and a t ‘| some villainous background. Screenin By DON JACKIE'S VILLAINS, “Could you think of a bette: Fagin than Lon Chaney?” asks the busy press agent of Associated First National. Running over the entire list of “Hams What Am," we announce right here that we could NOT, un- less, perhaps, Ben Turpin might bo. induced to play the role; but that's neither here, there nor anywhere, ‘The fact remains that Lon Chaney will make an ideal Fagin in Ji Coogan’s version of “Oliver T and if Noah Beery can bo prevailed upon the play Bill Sikes, then the cheruble little Jackie will sure have And while we're on the subject o” imagining—can any one picture an) kid more ideally fit to assume the role of Oliver than sad-faced Jackie" PAGE NOAH WEBSTER! @ Buster Keaton, the fronem-face: one, has coined a word. It's “optience.” And it means the folks who go tu see a motion picture as opposed tu the audience which gathers to hea: the artists of the speaking stage - Auditor—audience; Optic—optience, Get it? And in “My Wife's Reiatio: Buster says his optience will get « chance to see him binged tn tho optic, Billy, now, isn't it? CROP REPORT. ‘Tia Juana, down Mexico way, ic a wonderfully fertile soil and equali.’ famous climate for coaxing crops out of that soil. Realizing this, William Russell, the Fox star, has travelled there and will hibernate until a cr in which he 1s vitally inte! sprouts and grows to full-grown kerhood. Russell, it seems, was ordered (uv raise a bumper crop of chin-chit- chilla so that he would fit nicely in u new film part. Still having a little bit of pride, Bill trekked to the Sout~ and wireless reports have it thet now looks like a Bulgarian brigand. “I'd have stayed in civilization radiphones Bill, ‘but the script for rampant sagebrush on my and jowls. if they'd let me do little landscape gardening it would: be so bad, but I wasn't going to | any walking ad. for Ostermoor. > Picture or no picture!'’ re you are! REALISM. In filming “Sonny,” Richard By thelmess's next starring vehicle, He ry King has sustained his reputati: for being a stickler for realism. One of the scenes calls for actioy in and around a Y. M. C. A. hut France just before the boys are c dered to the front, King herded t gether a lot of overseas veterans a. just told ‘em to wait. It wasn't lo before the old fever got into the ve erans' blood and they were re-enac ing some of the scenes over there. In about an hour one of the vet who seemed to be a spokesman, aske Mr. King when he was going to E shooting the picture, “Start?” gasped King, “I finis): half an hour ago. You boys did ex actly what I wanted while you we. supposedly waiting.” “Huh!” mused a vet, “Atta the easiest ten bucks T ever earne Guess I'll keep on picture acting.’ “CAMERA!” a perfect feve now," fever A pre-view of ¢ i: spec. starring Owen Moore will be given the Ritz on the night of April There will be hostesses and dancin and a lotta other things. D. W. Griflth has made ninety seven changes in ‘Orphans of Thi Storm" since it started at the Apol! thirteen weeks ago. “Those who are on the fence gen erally get the gate," quips Aesop’ Film Fables, E. K. Lincoln bought another chan pion Chow Dox last weel. Here's one on “Hi Speed," fam: praise agent. In a letter just recelved Hi wrote us: ‘Constance Talmadge’ leading man in ‘Goodnight, Paul’ 1 Norma Kerry. Get that ‘Norma stuff! Owen Moore handball. Myrta Bontllas, leading woman{ Willlam Farnum, is ill. She col Japsed last week while acting in t Fox studio. Tom Mix has gone and done 4 He's playing a Northwest Mounta! officer in “Up and Going.” They take a try at tt sooner or later. Lupino Lane, the English comediar now in America, says the Pueblo In dians wanted to adopt him, Now afraid to stand in front of a clfm store. Schulte’s might grab him. “This Way Out,” a Goldwyn pic ture, {s alxo a remance of the Bronx Sylvia Breamer, comedienne, 1s Iii Eddie Foy. She wants to play Haw let, Evan R. Chesterman, a Richmon newspaper man, has just been name as one of Virginia's new Censorsh! Board. P. A. Powers (s working hard t perfect new plans for R-C, It ts ru mored @ half interest may be throw on the market for $600,000, De Pauw University is now offerin a course in scenario writing. Fror some of the films lamped recently lot of professional writers could bend fit therefrom. Syracuse cinema owners have pi the ban on ‘mush" within their door Once there was 4 slogan: ‘Brir| keeps fit by playin: D Your Girl to the Movies if You Car But that’ Make Love at Home."* over now, rdered to