The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1922, Page 12

TURNING ON THE SPOTLIGHT BY CHARLES DARNTON This curious thought never oc- OES the matinee make for morality curred to me until a few days ago when @ woman who was plan- ning to go to one said: “What would you suggest? But first 1 should explain, perhaps, that Tam prejudiced against a certain type of play as afternoon entertainment. 1 \eqon't go to a matinee performance of & play with a ‘fast’ woman in it. I'm mot a prude by any means—please @on’t micanderstand mo—it's simply that1 don't likesthat kind of play in afternoon. At that tune of day 1 ike the sex-play. 1 don't mind in “RHE least going to one at night. It Yweems all right after dinner, but all “rong after juncheon.” You might say this is purely fer of taste. Yet it may & @hing More, something that only Tose facaulay, let us say, would be able to ‘plain, In any event, it is interest- fng. It should be especially interest- ing to producers of plays, {f only from ‘@ business point of view, for the ques tion “What do women want?" is one that they must solve. Passing the buck to them is both a relief and a pleasure. OU may care to know that the Y woman who brought about this discussion went to Balleff's “Chauve Souris” and expressed her- elf as having had a delightful after- Moon. She enjoyed everything, in- eluding the audience. It was kept In Close touch with the performance by the genial Balieff, who paused at one moment to ask an eager little girl her mame and then got himself hopelessly into trouble by trying to pronounce it after her. A sympathetic audience must mean @ great deal to our Russian friends who at least understand the lanin of hands and feel the frie ndly w Appreciation. They pro their first inspiration f sympathy at home. T of it, as you may- mber, in Clare Pheridan’s Diary, when she tella of being taken to the ballet in Mosoow that Hd Wynn isn’t such a foot as he looks, Var from it, he ts an ex- eeodingly shrewd and clever comedian Watch him closely and you will ob- serve that he is watching you just as closely to see how you are taking him I don’t mean to say he does this ob- vivusly. But there is scarcely a mo- ment in his whole performance thu he hasn't his eye on his audience, studying it narrowly at every turn he tukes and quick to notice the slightest change of mood. Moreover, he works like lightning, Rd Wynn really doesn't neod a stage. A soap-box would serve him quite as well, T've no doubt he could stund on a street corner und give a thoroughly funny performance, He combines the rare qualities of a comic enius and a good showman, — fc AAT MRS. GABBY © AN! TH’ WiFE [Xo GETHER MEANS BooKo0" GoseiP # The Evening World’s ve BEEN FINE ! OH! T HAVE $0 MucH 7 TELL [Ceor, 1922 (N.Y. Eve. World) By Prose Pub. Cé s Comics + ,JOE’S CAR (IF YSONT MIND ME evi’ Yau — Ty’ BEST WAY “To KEEP A QLUTCH FROM WEARING OUT 'S “To LET IT IN Easy WHEN YOu SHIFT GEARS — DON'T RAGE Th’ MOTOR AND SLAM 17 IN, WITH IDEA ? A BANG! Get “he ~OH, 1 GET BE RICe ' How 19 YouR HUSBAND ? “The ballet was ‘Cophelia,’ beaut! folly produced, and the orchestra one of the finest T ever heard, The theatre Ys the size of Covent n, and @ecorated with crimson and i] boxes all round the first tier, and the fhouse was packed theonchout. The audience consisted of working people, ‘who had admission free through the Mistribution of tickets to certain unions. They were a motle chiefly en blouse. In the roy Feuerved for Commissioners and thelr ‘wives, there was a man with a cloth cap. The women were eating apples In the box next to murs there was an ol4 woman with a shawl over her head. It was intensely moving to see the absorbed attention of the aud!- ence. People leaned their elbows on tthe ledges of the boxes and watched the ballet with an almost devouring fmterest. There was not a cough, not whisper. Only when Cophelia came to life as the mechanical doll there were delicious low ripples of con- itrofled laughter from the children. At the ends of the acts people left the stalis to rush, not for the exits of the foyer, but to get to the front of the ieways nearest possible to the to see the dancers close to, and #0 applaud them. The people were KATINKA LITTLE MARY MIXUP ftirea people who had worked all duw ‘and had earned a good evening > 1 ‘were enjoying it to the full.” have our own Balir W the least, in Kd Wynn. has a way of seizing his audi- nce and holding it that is no less than extraordinary. It is his humor, wi course, that gives him this power ‘Whether he happens to be describing @ Japanese design as the ventriloquist calling to its mate, or falling all over Himself as an impulsive acrobat, he ds continuously, tirelessly, irresistibly funny. DID You EVER GET A CALL FROM A FELLOW THAT HE | WAS COMING OVER WITH TICKETS FOR THE THEATRE — Coming away from “The Perfect Fool" on Thursday night I overheard @ woman saying: ‘'I think those in- ventions of his were pretty cheap. ‘You could get ‘em all in a five-and- ften-cent store.” This solemn, practical woul failed to realize, apparently, that it was the humor Ed. Wynne put into @hese things that made them price- AND You Do A MAN-O WAR DOWN To A MANICURE KITCHEN To HAVE YOUR NAILS SHARPENED AND YOU SPEND FOUR HOURS. TRYING To MAKE YOURSELF LOOK LIKE THE GIRLS You SEE ON MAGAZINE Theatrical News and “Gossip es [athe IDEA 1S “Tuer I do EVERYTHING WRONG! 1 OUGHT Do (Tv THis way INSTEAD OF THAT way {1 I'VE Done EVERYTHING WRONG SINCE WE WERE MARRIED ~ (T= You Poor THING ! ‘You SURE HAVE MY SYMPATHY # OMY! HE'S So BUSY AT THE OFFICE THAT I ONLY SEE Him FOR ABoUT ONE HouR A DAY # BAW-W-? I'm MAD AND | In Gon? - “RIGHT Home . AND I As 1 T SLaPPEd Hm HED CET MAD AND Go Home AND SQUEEZE YouR \21NCH HOOFS INTO A SIZE 6 SLIPPER JUST To LOOK SPIFFY FoR THE OCCASION — COVERS — WS SSS NSN ‘_ ce = ess. The same woman probably eouldn’t see any sense in his wearing @ fireman's helmet while playing the plano, and it would doubtless bo im- ‘possible to make her understand he does this because there isn't any sc an it. ‘Any one who knows an for an “international villain''—what- ever that may be—he can be found in Glasgow. Inspiration Pictures has the ‘at call on his services, but judgin ything knows} fiom his own letter this latest find —<— is bad enough to go all around “L see by the pay writes the villain, “that American, film makers S Cc ree n in Ss are having trouble in finding an in Ay ternational villain. I aim it, My ree- i By DON ALLE ord shows that. Iam really bad and = could bring to your films real realism and could show up the ludicrous at- tempts at being criminals now made. by men who know nothing of vil- lainy. “Lam forty-five and can vip a sate stab a man or scuttle a with the best “Another reason I want to leave eotland is that I'm tired of the jails here. I've seen ‘em all As far as Inspiration Pictures he'll stay in Bonnie Scotrland A BIRD OF A YARN. We don't know exactly whe Bhould be titled “A Martini Bronx," but it is a good rooster story, anyway. Tt seems that Pan flurst story, ‘The Provider, was being shot, the script called for 9 ig red rooster << play one of tne principal parts. ‘The property man Beouted around and purchased Dan for the modest price of $2.30 on tie | plaw. — Bo perfect a bird-actor did Dan CENSORSLIPS. prove himself to be that a longer part] Censors are human, sometimes: al feaeritien in for him though you couldn't get by unscathed And now, after having finished his} with that remark along Movie Row §) werk in bis original film, Dan crows] Yesterday the Film Cenaora were Justily about the studio and seems} pooxing over a bateh of the latest cel Hight proud when he hears his owners} jitoid efforts of a news reol organiza- Bemand and get $10 a day for his ser-| tion, The representative of the board ides a8 an actor. , didn’t say much daring the unwind Bares, pan lan't laying 2 ~karatl ing, When it was over he spoke of a eggs, but $10 a day isn’t such a bad he barning power for a $2.30 chanticleer, OW pow is it? ship alnog: ee. — at woul epresentatly The censor gazed ' BOLD AND BAD. a moment, hesitated and then pointed }WePiiere’s o crying need in flmdom to @ buge billboard that could be the flim ¢ the window plainly seen, It advertised a famous tooth paste and one of the lines read: “REMOVE THAT FILM." WRONG DATE Knowing to-day was some sort of a holiday and mixing it with St. Valen tine’'s Day, Buster Ke no last night ma the following valentine to nis er-in-law “You are the mother of my wile, And that’s how you came into my life. You brought me joy, you brought me Dliss (1 know my wife will read this.) amen LIKES RICHARD. Dick Dix yesterday received a ie letter from a Canadian woman who atated that she had seen him eigh teen times in “Al's Palr in Love’? and twenty-two times in “Dangerous Curve Aheud."? She dechired the ae- tor looked so much lke a favorite brother who was killed in the war that she always saw his films as of- ten as posible Mong with the same mail Dick received from other feminine adn four dozen silken handkeretie a gold pencil, a dozen tes and a poein, all framed in gilt He is keeping tho letter from the admirer who lost her brother EDITOR EXPLAINS Paul Bern, Goldwyn scenario ed tor, tipped of ye screen nduy why a must be painted an ebony, black and @ hero given a coat of pristine whitewash in motion pic- tures, “A photoplay runs an hour or s0,"* explained Paul, “and in this short] hut, leans against tl time we must establish traits of char-] out come acter whieh In life would he ol through a perlod of many is nee with sible up to screen for the benefit of some friends] girls do have thetr of mine of the weaker sex? he sweet young things are wor- on th professional a “Have asked a lot of people a above. ‘Much excitement, but} adorned both sere learn nothing.’ Yours, &ec, | past, has a prominent role with Shir-lown cooking Edward €, Wilson.” th could Dear Ed: In or to go into the detail which the] started sc hovelist: is permitte Will spend eight or t n book." So there you have it terday the Sp yon Stroheim AND WHEN HE GETS To THE HOUSE YOU FIND OUT IT'S TICKETS To A MOVIE THEATRE THAT HE HAS ? — “Herr Stroheim ist reicher.”” Then we drills up to the Valentino » white-bean and ok with a bunch in front of each oester- | Rurop: a pa erved | of Virginia creepe ars. It] listener. therefore, that we paint] We delivered your message strok Tt is not pos-] “Rodolph (NOT Rudolph Valentino) n acting in “1 for a reader| Horsemen,’ he answered, ‘11 n hows reading} a professional tango dancer in a C {fornia cabaret and says he is sweet thirty.” How ‘bout that, Ed.? were offices of FLASHBACKS. Ho bar, sroad role ANSWERED. al Delivery man couple o' he-vamps of the] flowing locks in another, — Thos don't the Ben Zeidman, producer, has just purchased the rights to “Tho First Fifty Years," the two-character play He's looking for a director capable of handling the mob scene Helen Raymond, whose beauty has n and stage in the themselves skinny over whetli: a German ant s Rudolph Valentino has been een; it he has ever been a yer, and how old he Nweets,” tion pleti “Doubling ley Mason in "Very ‘Truly Yours,’ Philo McCullough, r tu find the an-] Who has been New king for a Pyramid to your questions we Dutted up| spell, returned yesterday to Holly-]Frenc’ Von Stroheim shack, pressed | wood. uckground ne-zing and out comes a gu John nerson, President of the} forthcoming 4 Mardi Gras make-up on, with | actors" Association, and his} Bddic screen writer, start-[extra, has a tour of France, | eds on each side of bis map Germun?"* we asked answered the funky, ed ] an countries film atmosphere while vacationing. Rowland V terday to direct “The Lee was selected Man of Zanzi- the famous short story by William Russet | boulevards, has sent 1 ard Harding Davis will be the Jon Gilbert Four] the coast in was} did Outcast." on] Me Tight dual An even dozen feature turned over productions York al Pictures, This} My finge is said to be wrecked is shown In Corinne fith's “Island Wives.” troubles, now] A new book of Hughes, wife pert, is on the market, William Orlamc portant part scored in the following Adesque] Marion Davies no sooner had her hair bobbed to play one part than she} Miss Miami, ire the chanees of wising me] was called upon to appear with long, [Set-Plane, redoubtable Ru- . big hit as the mo- o e director in Will Rogers's o und Pat O'Malley, both doing their in| She'd scold him euch day, of] But revenge came his way Antonio Mo screen players, different tiims ereen heavy] their culinary village Dillon y a 1 Dillon, the England, Germany, Austria and other specials @ year. — AND L suppose iF I'D sald YES” “HE INSTANT You PROPOSED TO ME. You'D HAVE ARGUED i. WAS WRONG THe Hour SOON GOES — Dur iF 1D 4-SENT™ Him Home iT MIGHT HAVE HurRT His FEELINGS ¢® Educational Stuff! WELL — THAT'S WHY Xu WE HAVE So AMBULANCES They will absorb i 8 RHYMED THRILLS ec Sac Ed oan Adolph Mann, well known on the a thrill which may win the song “You May Hold if You Get Me Tight.” s look at the Mann thrill: Rich- Let IT rummaged through my closet To-day and found a suit Of spring-weight clothes, a The outfit was a beaut. sought the pockets As fingers often will, And gosh, I found a dollar, That was my greatest thrill nd veully A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. 1 bread, soon wed; jazz played, old maid! —Pink FOOLISHMENT,. A dentist once wed, in Duluth, { cranky young woman named Ruth. When she needed some work on @ nl tooth. as the FROM 7T.'— CHESTNUT TREE uy as} “What is an amendment to the con- of tour|atitution?* “A wooden leg, I'd say.” Maybe She Was — { About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ITH no new plays opening this veck we were wondering to- day how the inveterate first- nighters had been managing to exist. Encountering George Mayer, who has been “first-n ting” for forty years, asked him how he had been spend- ing his evenings. w “Oh, very pleasantly," he replied, “In the first place, T have saved a lot of moncy on ti Then L spent one night very happily in a little game of draw and another very profitably ut a bridge party, A third night tound 1 a soc! 1 gathering at the home man who has a won derful cel and the next night | read a gomi book. Last night I ten hours of excellent sleep and t night T may go toa dance, All in all 1 nice vacation,” May golf to-mor- e suggested, replied Mr. old enough for golf DOCKSTADER IN IT. De Wolf Hopper's Funmakers, at the Jolson Theatre soon, will include A minstrel first part in their enter- tainment, and the principal endman will be Lew Dockstader, Mr, Hopper will officiate as interlocutor. A NEW SHAW. George Bernard Shaw has relented and will permit the Theatre Guild t cut “Back to Methuselah" enough to prevent overexertion on the part of the audiences. Another evidence that Shaw is really human comes in story from the management of “Can dida’’ at the Greenwich Village The atre. When he was cabled for mission to use the play he replied “Where? When? How? Write! The producers cabled: “Here! Now! Excellently! Ca Miett And his second reply. said: “Go uhead! THAT'S BETTER. The Selwyns have decided to change the title of their new Pota Perlmutter story from nekem & THIS IS THE DAY. “No,” said the Mayor firmly “I'll take no raise in pay. I'm getting all I'm earning Don't tempt me—get away! The city needs its money. conomy’s my rul (Please don't torget, dear reader, that this is April at! Raise the fare?" said Hed- yi Oh; that would naven devaiia Interboro wealthy and philan- thropic too, The man who would suggest it is just a silly fool," (Please don't forget, dear reader, that this is April Fool). . A diner up on Broadway winked At the waiter man T want a nic: ‘etch high-ball,’ ordering began n't get it he said garcon, in dignant, yet quite cool. (Please don’t forget, dear reader, that this is April ool) GOSSIP. Eva Tanguay is Cireuit Fred Irving Lewis has joined “Just Married."" Roy Cummings and Billie Shaw of Shubert Vaudeville were married Thursday Wilda Bennett of “The Music Box Revue" is back at work after a siewe of illne: The jated Mayers, Ine, we produ “The Gorilla,’ by E. Lar- kin, Fred Erie will haye the leading role The do; at Earl Carroll lruws a salary, it isn't so many bones a week. Lillian Tashan and Fleming Ward for roles in the to tour the Loew Albeo's book, “A ideville," isn't off the press yet, many people are writing him for it Mae Kuschner and Margie Kenny, champion one-steppers, will defend their title and Mrs, Eddie jen Dance vow afternoon, Monday night a country store affair will be held, and Tuesday night the Long Is and preliminary in the waltz contest will take place, There will be exhibi- tions Thursday.