The evening world. Newspaper, April 14, 1922, Page 36

} a on Theatrica 1 News an ‘© THE NEW PLAYS © |[t-102'S Eddie Cantor Disports Himself in Winter Garden’s Big Revue WAS ALL 1 CouL MAKE UP FoR BY CHARLES DARNTON PRING was celebrated at the Winter Garden last night by a return to rhyme, women and song, rainbow colors, the airy runway and the unblushing leg In a revue called “Make It Snappy,” with the chief @emand upon Eddie Cantor. Not the least of the revelations Wes the China-eyed comedian’s ap- Pearance in white-face—grantiog a Matural sallow tinge of complexion— until nearly midnight, when he ked up” In his more Tamillar Lillian Fitzgerald might well have frightened the sensitive Cantor by more than living up to her role of a red-headed vamp, but there was charm as well as humor in her lttle Style and indulged in a song or two| Irish song. Marie Burke sang nicely, that seemed to be precious beyond J, Harold Murray was loud in his Words to him, But he was at musical expressions of Kipling, Mar- Pest as a desperate tallor in one of] garet Wilson carried an air or two those drag-'em-in clothing pleasingly, and Muriel De Forrest from which there is no escape for] kicked with both feet and a lightness the unwary customer. For his vic- | equatled only by her costume, tim he had Lew Hearn, looking like| "Make It Snappy” will doubtless Joe Weber in hard luck and adding| be snappler when some of its slack Is Breatly to the amusement of the skit] taken up, butas tt stands itis a nand- by piping up, “I want a belt in the| some production on a typically lavish back” untii he was in imminent] Winter Garden scale. @anger of getting it in the eye. This Was the funniest part of the show Mr. Cantor also disported himself as ® hooch-dispensing taxi driver, an ats stores d Gossip _ Gosu ~'M So HAPPY 1 CouLD FL ONE WHOLE WEEK WIthouT “Ty! car CAR ot alu Get ovr ON SOME avier | Z BACK ROAD AN! OPEN 'ER uP — |Z OH BABY — zIzzz2= --.." IT'LL BE GREAT T'FEEL “THE, OLD TELEPHONE POLES FLASH BY AGAIN (Ss Tew. D STAND — Now ILL tt @morous Sheik who almost drove the bass viol players to murder, and @gain as a timorous applicant for a Place on tho police force, His songs Were not exceptionally good, nor were they always in good tasfe. He sung them with much of Al Jolson's phiysi- al activity, but without the force and heartiness of his famous pre- @ecessor on the same stage. The lightness of bis voice, for one thing, Made this impossible. But he did Succeed, beyond doubt, in pleasing his devoted friends. Beauteous maidens gorgeously ar- fayed here and there filled the ¢ and strode majestically alo runway, occasionally pausing to {css bon-bons or flowers to adoring be- holders. They figured, too, in many attractive scenes, including a flaming ballet with Cleveland Bronner and Sugrid Solferg as the principal dancers. Prominent among the individual performers was Nan Halperin, ter WY" GONNA Do WoT ? ras WYTNESS FoR “He DEFENSE I WOT Do bu KNow ABOUT CouRT , PROCEEDINGS —YOUVE NEVER BEEN INA CourRT IN ouR Lure? war DIFFERENCE Does “HAY Do “ou KNOW TH' NATURE OF SPRi Fasnions | “Kiki” number was very good, put there was altogether too much of her as Catherine the Great in a song tnat dragged heavily in spite of her ae- termined efforts to carry it along. Even Doris Keane could not have made it snappy. Miss Halperin’s (lap- per recitative also took more time than it was worth, That Spanish €° Conchita Piquer, tossed off her I GoTT™! Co tome An’ Co TS BED Baru. cause IM Gone Por MY Har WHERE THE RABBIT CAN PUT COLORED: BEES nat = )wer song froni “The Wildcat,” in her imitable way, though the freshness @! this delightful bit suffered some- Avhat from the lateness of the hour. 5 creenings OPINIONS, Probably nothing connected with the motion picture industry has caused as much diversity of opinion as the Fat- ty Arbuckle acquittal did yesterday. With Zukor announcing that he ‘would soon release an Arbuckle film, others connected with the business @lored up tight as to what they thought of this latest bit of ‘‘show- manship.”” 1 We talked with a score of persons, selected at random, and merely asked what they thought of the proposed Whowing of the obese comedian's pic- tures. YES- THIS 1s KATINKA— Y'DON'T MEAN To SAY You'RE GONNA STAY IN ON EASTER SUNDAY ? COME OVER AN’ 5 WE'LL Go For “1 think such a showing would be shame and an insult," flared an @iderly woman, the mother of two daughters. _ "I never saw Fatty,” admitted a qniddie aged man, “and for that rea. 1'd go." saw Arbuckle in ‘The Prodigal »’* announced a matron, ‘so yy should I see him again?” (It Maclyn Arbuckle who appeared “The Prodigal Judge.”) _ "If Hays can't put a stop to such ‘an attempt he better go back to the Office,” flashed a Broadway bus|- man, “It would be a crime to ed him to the youngsters of the * As to the opinion of Screenings— well, you wouldn't really like to read That sort of language. ; WHY HE PARCHED? | “The Bootlegger’* is abroad in pic- success in the schools of scores of citles, and the verdict of the educators has been that movies will prove the great educational factor in the schools of the future. We wish that when we went to school they'd had movies. We sure would like to have seen George Wash- ington straddling that dory on his tm- mortal way across the Delaware. WOMEN SEE “LADY.” Members of the Motion Picture Committee of the State Federation of Women's Clubs were guests yester- “She didn’t clipped it." ) And you can spend ‘‘Ten Nights in ® Barroom" in the movies. | So, why be “High and Dry?” | AS A MATTER OF FACT— Jackie Coogan is in ‘*Trouble'’— fn the screen. + Conway Tearle will become a stage in “The Sheik.” Charles Chaplin’s short “Pay Day" Tong enough to get the coin. Eugene camera artist. Take Bebe Daniels, Yesterday William de stalled in his studio. about ten feet away fr i O’Brien is death to boot-|day at a special showing of “Lady | 's 4 s ‘ That,” sald de Mille, Jesgers—in ‘Channing of the North-| Godiva,” the picturization of Tenny-|¢ne near one, “is your ree Bt saidelVletmstoaly “ chine; and that"—Indic: = George Stryker played the male dead with Pearl White in “The Broad- ‘way Peacock." Peggy Shaw is not a native of Washington, although she has lived Mhere for a lotta years. One hundred and twenty thousand ef film were nsed in shooting jero,’” of which a scant 12,000 will ‘be shown the public. On leaving the projection room Mrs, Clinton B. Smith, Chairman, satd: “As an accurate portrayal of the early feudal period in England, “Lady Godiva” undoubtedly possesses un- usual value as an educational pic- ture, while offering at the same time unusual entertainment quality." Another member of the committee was heard to say: n the language of the times, no away box—"is for close ‘The secret was that in the far away was ground nihilates distance and t added to the perspect! ‘Technical, but true. STATIC, “Better Late Than EDUMOVIES ARRIVE. ; one has anything ‘on’ ‘Lady diva,’ | title of the latest Perey and Verdie] year's contract with F sramount. Record. ) Movies as an educational factor have} Wonder just what she meant. comedy. “Pink Gods" and ‘Burning Sands" | === -! = arrived.” — * The lst of notables pictured jn] will be started soon. “Ye ¢¢ 3) Viv’ aR Gstemant bacomes abeciutely CLIPPED, Screen Snapshots No. 24 should ull bo| Diminutive Sardines” will never tol sonatas, aitt be et flartin, all Mmeontrovertible in view of the amaz-| ‘Gee!'’ muttered Irv Brookes as|in electric lights In front of Broud-| started as a film One way to reach the screen ts} full Hing reception and success of the big-|he strolled up Movie Mall yesterday Among them are—but] Mary Muy has crsaged twelve] ’Through the Rack Door" and “U; att geet educational movie move made by|afterngon and gazed at a particularly in Who's Who in tie for next Tuesday night's per-|the Back Stairs, i 96 tthe Cinema ‘Travel Association, under] flapperish flapper. ‘That guy who| Movies, if there is such a book forma of “Marjoluinc’ ut thel. ‘The next lesue of the Olcial Urban| and Girection of Harry Levey, in present-| said that the girls were bobbing their] Hope Hampton yesterday refused a] Broudburst Theatre ne only] Movie Chats will be devoted to eti- ing “Around the World With Burton] skirts ay well as their hair certainly| very flattering offer to appear in alreason this squib is in at all is}quette. The film will sbuw the "" trilled a whole cadenza." foreign film. The offer was made by] because the Gish sisters spectators correct deportment under ) ‘The film, # ten-reeler, entirely edu- ‘‘Why?"' we asked, * ja big French movie concern and the|ray, Norma and Const Talmadge, almost any circumstance. Wonder if )PPionel, has been shown with marked ‘‘Lookn that wren,” answered Irv.| picture they wanted her to star in| Vora Gordon, Mirluu) Hultista, Effie} some of the “stars have seen it? IT-IN A BARBER SHOP OR AT A SIX DAY BICYCLE RACE ? bob THAT skirt—she BEBE SURPRISED. The marvels of the modern movie camera lenses sometimes surprise even to the most seasoned Bebe to two new cameras just in- One was placed the other about eighteen feet away close-up camera Doane ZZ b wae HTN 4 — ——. & TS A WoNdDER “THEY Would AT LEAVE A LIGHT iN ae Haut ZZ a \Y Yy, DRESSED - “RUN No 7) PWT SOME “PRE (] | ( COLORED EGES* IN ye | ]/| | Your ar US / CuRTAIN. INDICATING LAPSE OF TIME OF ONE NIGHT 5] THAT BELT LOOKS Like A LUFE PRESERVER - AN’ sucH A COLOR=BROWN ~ A NEAR SIGHTED PERSON WOULD TAKE Serer ‘YOU FOR A BoTTLE OF VARNISH ! THQSE NEW STYLES ARE AWFUL — WHY DIDN'T You WEAR YouR OLD COAT- THAT AT LEAST WAS BECOMING ! will cost five million course), The titles of four First National pictures have been changed to—but what's the use In giving the new Utles? They too will probably be switched before long. Frank Lloyd will Twist." Irving Cummings, who had an im- portant part with Guy Bates Post in “The Masquerader,” ts now a film producer on his own hook. ‘The latest thing in fan letters was received yesterday by Helene Fer- guson. It is a printed form request- ing the player's photograph. The name of the star is scribbled in on a dotted line provided for that purpose. Rose Rosanoya, to the (francs, of Prove a PROMISE OF IMPROVEMENT. HE regular horn player of the by orchestra was {ll and the con- ductor reluctantly accepted the services of an applicant who played in an amateur brass band. He was, naturally, a little doubt- ful of the technical ability of the amateur. After the first performance the new player asked the conductor how he had done. The conductor replied that he had direct “Oliver for instance. Mille guided om & set and pointing to long shot ma- ating the fo ups.” Just special lens who went tha ood ~ fo that tans | West, Coast. to appear in “Hungry ia eh iene hed io th ‘| Hearts," likes California so well she 4 ‘ woor he other lense] hag decided to stay. She has rented}. Vnereupon the newcomer exclaimed ve gratefully: “Sir, the music was strange to me to-night, and I'm not quite sure of it yet. But just wait till to-morrow wight, and you aren't going to hear any of the fiddles at all!'’—Musical & bungalow, purchased an automobile and is talking about the “wonderful weather."* §Vhen they get that far they are incurable, Georg Never” ts the Faweett yesterday signed a Now LISTEN —-Taxe 7 EASY, see? “Hem BeaRines } MOTOR'S STIFF -_y'DON'T WANTA Go GRACKIN' ANY SPEED RECORDS FOR Aw MEEP "ER “Down To “TWENTY MILES 7TH’ NExY The Day’s Good A wishing to charge and at the same time take purchases must show the fiéorwalker Something for identifica- tion. One day a stout woman bustled up to the glove counter, selected a pair of gloves, and sald to the clerk: them, please. necessary slips and called the floor- walker, “Have you anything by which you can be identified?”’ he asked. ‘The customer flushed u*comfort- ably. such a thing: “It's a new rule, madam. customer is required to show some mark of identification. none of our other customers have taken offense." The woman looked about her doubt- Then quickly unfastening her collar on her neck, she said: ‘This is the only mark I've got. my life. your store any possible good you're welcome to look at tt World’ — THEM NEw RINGS (S$ “TIGHT: ~ "Th! wHoLe, Out" AN TRY [IT Let For, About Plays and Players Tye UsTeNeD You PLAY *GOLF” OFTEN ENOUGH # is much excitement and ex- pectation, Why? Well, there is a beauty contest on at the Franklin College—for girls, we mean—and eight young women have been run- ning neck and neck for first plave. ‘They were all photographed the othe! day, and F. Ziegfeld jr, theatrical beauty expert, received their picturés. With them came a request that he decide which should be rated as pret- tiest. It was a hard job for the “Follies” proprietor, because all the girls were shown to be regular In- diana beauties, He took an eveniny off, however, and studied the photo- A WAY out in Franklin, Ind., there in the bunch who caused him to hesitate. The other girl’s name will not be made pudlic, 80, as the matter stands, a lot of hopes, pride and possibly vanity need not be wrecked. KUGEL'S NEXT, ee Kugel has placed in reheursal a comedy by Annie Nathan Meyer, en- titled ‘The Advertising of Kate.’ Prominently cast will be Mrs. Whif- fen, the veteran actress of the Amer- She is seventy-seven years old and had retired, but the persuasive conversational qualities of Mr. Kugel made her decide to return WOODS GOES ABROAD. A. H, Woods disappeared Tuesdu Nobody up at his offices knew wher he was and his absence begur, t cause some apprehension when telegram reached Martin Herman, hi*} general manager. It read: “Just thought I'd take a run to Europe. Am sailing on the Aqui Don't know why, but don’t . Have a toothbrush and 4 clean collar with me."’ 3 eat. she RADEIT PuT THe EGES IN Z 2 = WHAT ? You've GOT THE || NERVE To WALK WITH ME ON EASTER SUNDAY IN | OLD CLOTHES ! NO TIME TO SCRAP. Archie Selwyn went to Stamford last night to see Barney Bernard any Alexander Care in Partners Aggin.” the new Potash and Perlmutter stage story. “How are the stars getting with each other?’ we asked. ‘All right,’ he replieg. Thon ! ded: ‘This isn’t w, very good se son for temperament, you know.’ alony WALTER GUMBLE DEAD. Walter Gumble, a brotler of Mus Gumble of the Remick Musie Com pany, died yesterday. He suffered from heart trouble aggravated by in- digestion. © Walter Gumbic was a very popular young man In the Broadway District. WITH ETHEL LEVEY. “Go Easy, Mabel," musical comedy in which Ethel come to Broadway early in Ma. rehearsal. Engaged for her cast gre Estelle Winwood, Arthur Aylcew.: th, Will Deming, James C. Marl swe Russell Mack, Margaret Dumont uni Hazel Kirk. POEMS OF PROVOCATIO! Helen 8., of the Bronx, wants to get into the Poems of Provocation contest. She has nothing to say about dentists, but she would like to jack up @ mele admirer who arrives at her home nights too late to go to a show or other place of amusement. This is exactly what she thinks about it: I have a friend and he’s some boy, Does ev'rything I ask But one thing to complete my joy, And that's a mighty task. He won't come to my home, yeu see, Until it's much too late To do a thing but stay at home, And that’s a thing I hate, IDENTIFICATION. RULE was recently established in one of Chicago's stores to the effect that any customer Gossip. Johnnie Fields has joined the of “Just Because.”* “The Night Call’ will open at tho razee Theatre on April 26 H. N. Holde has resigned as man- ager of “Tangerine” and will go ' iP Wy cast Europe. ¥red J. Fries succeeds hir When Ed Wynn concludes his on: gagement at the Cohan Theatre ho will go on tour and remain away un- tir 1926. “Tu take these with me. Charge The clerk filled out the A THOUGHT FOR To:-pay. The performance of ‘Marjoluij"’ at the George M. Cohan Theatre of Ed Wynn in“'The Perfect Foo!’’ in beine given at @ matinee to.day.— Brooklyn Times of April 5. ZITA MOULTON, POETBAS! ata Moulton, playing in William Hodge's Company !n Chicago, doesn't want to be forgotten in New York and, to keep her memory green, she sends us the following original poem on “Spring.”* If you read it you'll never forget her. Look: Oh, spring és in the year, And the green is in the trees, And the lassies’ skirts are blowing In the roguish April breeze, And the sailor men are singing In their ships on seven seas, And the river flows Uke silver, ‘Why--I—I never heard of FOOLISHMENT, “If I were a bird I would fly,” Said Mary Ann Jones one July. T fell in a ft, For I'l have to admit, If I were a bird, so would j FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE “Which is the longest word iy ihe dictionary?" “I don't know,’ ‘Smiles,’ because there's g betwoen the beginning and the ena | Every T'm sorry, but “Well,”’ sho said reluctantly, I've got to, I suppose 1 must,’ pointing to a large brown mole If you think it’s going to do —Judge.