The evening world. Newspaper, April 11, 1922, Page 28

News © THE NEW PLAYS © ||| JOE’S CAR Charlotte Greenwood Cavorts in “Letty Pepper” BY CHARLES DARNTON (mM Gon’ IN Here anth Giue MIKE A GOOD BAWLING OUT ~—HeE's |HELD ME. UP Too LONG ON st ‘3 3OB = I'm Teo Goo N f ATURE D favour ¢y!——= ‘vi Alt BA) 7 ! \ LL the clowne are not in the circus at Madison Square Garden. By ' way of reminding us of this fact, Charlotte Greenwood swung into { the Vanderbilt Theatre last night, and, as she herself suggested, Managed to get along without stilts. For some time “Letty Pepper” seemed to cramp her free-and-easy style, but in the second act of this musical comedy she kicked the plot in the face and got into violent action with 5 her incredibly long arms and legs, to the great relief of others than herself. What Miss Greenwood needs more} = Ee MALL et than anything else on the stage !s room, her talents being essentially spacions. - Any shopgirl of her design who applied for a position in a de- partment store would probably be re- ferred to the architect of the building. Yet she succeeded fairly well in squeezing into Rose Stahi's old part in Charles Klein's serio-comic “Maggie Pepper,” remodelled somewat melo- dramatically by Oliver Morosco and George V. Hobart. Busy as she was banging on to her job, Letty found time to adopt a dear, sweet, fat Nittle girl, who had been a great help to her shop-lifting guardian, an ex- tremely nervous and untrustworthy character addicted to opium. This noble act, together with the astonisli- ing education of the shopgirl’s dar Ming at a Briarcliff school, might have passed almost unnoticed had it not heen for the ‘haughty and jealous fiancee of the young merchant. Keep- ing in mind ail that had gone before —as you should do in order to under- lively though conventional tunes. Jane and Mary King also warbled in- dustriously, and the chorus girls burst into song even during working hours. But the singing was never up to con- cert pitch. A fashion parade gave the girls a chance to look stunning. Little Frances Victory and Master Gabriel had a great deal to say, and the tall language they used made them a bit tedious. It was the tall Miss Greenwood, cavorting in her happy: lucky way, who furnished the only real amusement. THE BIG LITTLE FEN PETTY BP sca a ETT TI Lissen! You KNow “THAT Svea 147 Hole - WELL SIR <r DRove OFF AN’ NéT ONLY MADE TH GREEN - BUT THER Was TH’ earl LAVIN’ WITHIN A FST OF TH’ Pint Tae Now Ge CAREFUL OF Your “ENGLISH \ pear! pas! ize this high-toned lady was not so cryptic as she may have sounded when she said to Letty, with wither- ing scorn: “Your story Is to me like the opium dream of refribution.” You may well say this is a nasty remark for any one to make, but you see its releyancy, don't you? Anyway, Letty didn't care, for by this time she had put the store on a paying basis and Sompletely won the heart of |ts sus- ceptible owner. It was then that Miss Greénwood gayly flung out her arms and legs |r sheer joy at release*from a plot thot for a moment had caused her to weep. This was when she got a note from the terribly unpleagant manager say- ing she was “fired.” But before the curtain could go down on her tears she seemed to reflect that a little “LITTLE MARY = AND Heee VE BEEN WITHOUT my CAR Four pays! 7y' TROUBLE with You ts YOU Hop FROM CN THING To ANOTHER ey SOME GUY WANTS A SPARK’ PLUG AND MY oB HAS To WAIT WHILE YE GETS IT — IF You'b STICK “Te IY T BET You'D HAVE My CAR OUT IN. A DAY ——+ AIN'T 1 RIGiT ? — AND TH'TROUBLE. WITH YOU OWNERS IS, YOU SPEND A MONTH KNOCKIN Yee cars He PIECES AN’ THEN EXPECT Us 7% PUT EM IN SHAPE IN A DAY! IE You'd sta 0 CAREFUL DRWING YER GAR WOULDN'T BE LIN HERE MCREIN ADAY — peu ‘aie in? ai, aa 1S 7H" ABSOLUTE BD ~ Counter Copr. 1922 (N. Y. Eve, World) By Pres Pub. Co. pathos gos a long way in musical ELEAF ———————— comedy, and cheered her easton aes 4 NICE —\% | Ashe Teee — } audience with a smile. She sang by Doctor- He 'Le 4 14 STO ci Sa fits and starts, without bothering GIVE You Some thy 4, . Sa ae ii much about keeping on the key. In NCE Mepiane pRousch os MAKE You SOME THIN C e number with Ray Raymond she AND MAKE You MD DD Hel J F — JAKE THAT ALL stopped short as though concluding, Ml arene “One of us is terrible.” She danced CURL A in her amusing way, with all her old, ridiculous steps, but no new ones. “Young “Mr. Raymond grinned de- Mghtfully and made the best of his share of Werner Janssen’s rather AND Ig , y | SPOSEN pe CUTS MY Lee | OFF OR. \ Pe 5 me Palit ( OVWKYZ. 6 . Screenin By DON ALLE! A LA CARTE, ; Picture making out Paramount way was interfered with yesterday by an Qverzealous praise agent who was trying to find out what motion picture Players considered an ideal “working food.” hink Swanson. “Apple pie!" suggested Jack Holt. ‘The others had to ponder awhile before setting themselves down on the gastronomic record, Finally, Walter Hiers suggested spaghetti. He was quickly seconded by Rodolph Valen- tino, Bebe Daniels and Lila Lee, “Roast wild duck cannot even be tied as food,” chimed in Wally Reid, and Theodore Roberts and Tom Meighan voted unanimously for steak, Agnes Ayres sald she believed eating was a waste of time, Ten minutes later they were all .into tons of “cornbeef- S| a chow!" answeved. Gloriw THOSE GUYS ARE A Lot OF CHEATS! GIMME THAT BILL— TLL. Go DOWN AN’ GIVE 'EM'AN EARFUL! NEVER USED UP THAT MUCH ELECTRICITY ! WHEN THE HiSsUS SEES THIS SHE'LL PERTURBED. William Anthony McGuire has a mad on. qt seems that some one has been circulating the rumor that the screen rights to “Six Cylinder Love," the — YOU'RE A BUNCH OF CROOKS AN’ WE Won'T PAY IT, DY'UNDERSTAND yy ~ Mom.) Y AV SPC ) GVESS THAT'S TELLIN’ ‘EM A THING OR TWO — TU BET THEY'LL SEND! A CORRECTED BILL FoR HALF THE } | Why Bother With Medicine ? + witaT 's ( Y wee He | <P \Nie MY STOMIcK ina “L.so I gust | { UPSET iT ] % ef is WAS UPSET. Tie IDEA 5 Back Acai? ( = | ‘S 1F YHINDED YER OWN BUSI We WOULDN'T HAVE To BE BURNIN) CANDLES ae speakie that hasn't missed an explo- sion yet, had been disposed of for the paltry sum of $35,000, ‘This, according to a Special Deliv- ery announcement that reached @creenings last night, is a million miles from the truth. “Please make an emphatic denial forming a film company to exploit er, Jackie Coogan yawned when he heard this latest “rival” story, Gareth Hughes, who ts now playing Little Eva fn the film “Eva Ascends."” When she received the congratula- tory wire, Mrs. McDonald didn't know who Gareth was, but she has learned since and has seen the film twice, She says Little Evas have sure Many artists D. W. GRIFFITH SAILS. David Wark Griffith sailed to-day land, and as a result those who go in for art are decidedly against films. and broken into print since the Manners film was given its initial showing, and nearly all of them deplore pictures. The answer 1s, however, that the Royal Opera House, where the film is mobs to act in ‘Nero,’ the William Fox special which the praise agents claim will make all other “big films’’ look like one reel fillers. Houdini has béen challenged and has accepted, He will try to escape from a packing box especiglly made artistes have this canard,” requested Mr. Mc-|on the Aquitania, following a } bel : 5 by the shippers employed in a big de- ; f Na | ea eing unwound, is packed from pit to Guire. “There is not en lota of truth | oo rom songland, @ hurry}changed some since sho Was @/ dome at every showing, while many |Dartment store. About the only if it. The screen rights have not as ‘rom England, rouper. of the altars of art are wondering | {?!2& Houdini cannot get out of is the yet been disposed of and we haye| Although the real reason for the HOBE BOYS where all the people have gone, limelight. spurned offers of much larger sums|rather hurried departure is being bd e os Noah Beery is sure some villain, than the one mentioned.” Strolled over to the Hugo Ballin Studio yesterday and wondered where all this “hard work" talk comes from. ‘The actors and actresses were lolling about, some tatting and knitting (the actresses, of course) and others just talking. ‘We heard a lot of laughter out back of a set and wandered thenceward, Deep in a game of marbles we found Little Bobby Clark and not-too-little Perey Marmot. Marmot was clad in the costume of “one of New York's biggest business men,’ whatever that may be, and Bobby was dressed as a Bowery Kid, We didn’t wait to see which won, but we put our cash on Little Bobby guarded as a secret, it is rumored that the “master producer” is hurry- ing to London to confer with English Interests in regard to his next big picture, Just what this picture will bo is| also being kept a secret, but it was learned that Griffith has practically abandoned his idea of filming the Bible, at least for the present. ‘About the only thing left for Grif fith to do now is to start in and film a real history of the world. And that's our guess as to what his next picture will be. ANSWER’ “BPRTRAM A. (Pelham) yesterday “Screenings” “Who directs a Lioyd?” “Who directed the “Three Musketeers” and “Who was the star in ‘The Golem?” Lloyd direets Lioyd. Fred Niblo terday. actor. No, et seller in a “Bertram A.” right back: “Who directed your envelope?” If it Wadn’t been for the good old “Nixie Gierks” we'd never received it, ticket. time.” SHE'S NO. 975,977. Jackie Coogan has another rival. ‘This brings the total up almost to the milion mark, The jatest kid" to demand that Jackie moye over a bit on his shelf im the Hall of Fame is Hanna Lee, a six-year-old screen player from hatanooga, Tenp. So sure js Hanna's iother that her daughter will soon Decome a movie star that she brought her to New York regerdey and is ‘ the rhinoceros. EVA NOW 73, Mrs. Cornelia Howard McDonald of Betty Blythe Troy, N. Y., the Little Eva’ of the original Uncle Tom's Cabin Company, recently celebrated her seventy- third birthday by getting up at 5.30 and doing her regular day's work, Among the many telegrams of eon- gratulation she received wag one from AN UPHEAVAL. London is not only all fog but ‘tig all agog. And it's all because of the advent into the films of Lady Diana Manners, It seems that films are not consid ered urt with a capital "A" in Eng- Ben: tasteful, Airplanes were STILLS. Lamped the “first straw hat’? yes- it wasn’t on a movie That's one not be blamed on the movies, “The richer the cat the poorer the mouser,"’ muses Aesop's Film Fabl Once upon a time there was a tick- movie didn't have bobbed blond locks and who smiled when some one bought a But that was “once upon @ OV Don Clarke, puMicist for Good- wyn, comes to bat with a treatise on We Goldwyn had started a zoo, yesterday long term contract with the Whitman tt Productions. star in a series of melofiims, Of all the titles in late movi “p; “ oe Se think “Pay Day” is the most alluring and “The Luxury Tax" the most dise used to secure the It's a wonder, though, that Volstead doesn't kick against his name, Dick Barthelmess wants us to an- nounce that he has no “rest periods’’ between fil So, of course, he can- not accept all the alluring invita- tions for week-ends, month-ends and year-ends he has received lately. rom Cowboy to Millionaire’ isn't the name of a Tom Mix feature, It's just a terse way of telling what Tom has done in ten years. Muriel Frances Dana (a big name for a little four-year-old), busy acting in ‘‘A Fool There Was." Twelve Boston editors went through the New York studio of William Fox recently. They expressed their ad- miration in a series of,‘'Ah's!"' using the broad ‘‘a."’ A lon and a bulldog, great pals, appear in ‘Iron to Gold,’ Yesterday the pup bit an ear off the lion, Now the lion won't play any more. John Gilbert will star in Splendid Outcast." A sci “thor says he's going to thing that can- house who didn't know signed & Inc, She wilt “The cen \ . sereenize the Woolworth Building. Plenty of stories there, at that. A screen player just in from Cali- fornia mused yesterday: “I came from the cold and rain of “sunny California” into the glorious sunshine POEMS OF PROVOCATION We have decided to launchta con- test for the best.poem of provoca- of frigid New York." But that was| tion. The prize will be announced yesterday. * later. First we'll start with a few oo rhymes on ‘The Dentist." Later NEVER MISSED IT. LD Blowbottle went to visit his friend Goldbags. Goldbags had a swagger little place in the country, and among other con- we'll jingle about other sources of provocation, but the tooth-puller is first. ‘Try your hand. Here's a sam- ple: The dentist gets me in his chair And says there'll be no pain. O veniences thad a L private goit| Ze grabs me firmly by the hair course, And yanks with might and main, Blowbottle was particularly anx- fous for a game, but after the first hole Goldbags waxed sarcastic over the visitor's play. “Who ever told you that you could play golf?’’ he demanded. "They knew each other very well, and such intimate questions were un- hesitatingly asked by both. The roof falls in; I clench my fists While fighting back a scream, And when he's through with digs and twists He'll praise the baseball team. THAT'S WHY HE WENT. Now it is Violet Heming that has caught the fancy of Arthur Rosen- feld, our picture-frame poet. This is the way he eulogizes her: Sweet Violct Heminy, an actress of “Who? Me?’ quoth Blowbottle, pay hs playing Just as well a8 you, ANY-} oia,5 in a show, “The Rubicon” by “Why, man alive, you took fifteen name. strokes to make the first hole! Is] The outstanding feature of Violet's that what you call Playing?" one “Well, I hit the ball every time, a 2a didn’t 12" snapped Blowbottle.—Way- Is the fact that it’s certainly very side Gales. \ risque, and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ND still the new plays come. Gil- A bert Miller has acquired for production by Charles Froh- man, Inc., an original American com- edy by Arthur Richman entitled “The Awful Truth.’ It will be given a preliminary production by Henry Miller, with Ruth Chatterton in theres leading role, in San Francisco this summer. Merlieck, Inc., a new producing concern, js preparing to stage a mu- sical comedy called “And Very Nice, Too."’ The book is by Raymond W. Peck and the music if ky Perey Wenrich. Harry Clay Blaney announces he has accepted an American drama by(*, Eugene Walter entitled “The Flap- per,’ and will give it an early pro- duction out of town, He would like to have Peggy Hopkins in the leading role. Lee Shubert, through an arrange- ment with A. H. Woods, will present Marjorie Rambeau in her new play by Gladys Unger entitled “Her Three Husbands" at Maxine Elliott's Thea- tre next Monday evening. Charles 1. Wagner will transfer ‘The Mountain Man” from Maxine Elliott's Theatre to the 39th Street Theatre the same evening. THEY “HAVE THE CONTRACT. A recent story from London sai)! Brock Pemberton, who is over there doubted the report that the Selwsn had signed a contract with A. A Milne for the American production 0 his next three plays. it has brought forth the following statement “The contract s at present in theli(> offices with Mr. Milne’s signatur properly affixed to same Mr. Ven berton’s impression is totally nee rect.’* So there! GOSSIP. Galway Herbert will be in Te Hairy Ape.” o& The report that ‘Just Because,” at Earl Carroll's Theatre, was to close [| erroneous. “The Pigeon'’ weeks at the Fre out April 2 Franklyn Fox, vecently in ‘Drift- ing,’ has been engaged for the cast of On the Stairs."” ythe Baker of “The Blushin Bride’ will appear in London music halls during August and September Richard Barbee and Malcolm Dun- can have been engaged to act in “Whispering Wires."’ The Child Recreation League will produce a musical play called Poppy Gigl’’ April 29 at the Waldorf- Astoria. The next special matince perform- is in its Theatre. final Mtg ance of ‘*Taboo"' will be given at the Sam Wi. Harris Theatre Monday, April 17, Charles Dillingham has put the stage cops in “Good Morning Dearie’, back on the nine-platoon system, The graduating class of the high school at Sheridan Lake, Col., wants to produce ‘Bull Dog Drummond’ just for fun, jeraldine Farrar has pald $100 for a box at the Rose Coghlan tes- timonfal performance, Apollo The- atre, April 23. rel Carl Randall, who has been dan- cing in Kelth vaudeville, will sail for England to appear with Berta Don and Mary Washburn at the London Coliseum, Hod Jackson, colored, insists we correct the story printed here yester- day to the effect that he started a fight when losing money shooting ‘4 craps, He says he never loses at that game.—Wellsville Optic. a r| A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. t i 4] FOOLISHMENT, “When a man says he loves May, “T tell him to go on away, And if he retires, He's one of them Mars That always is getting too FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “He died at one hundred and forty,” “ Years?’ i “No, 19th me,” said gay. 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