The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1922, Page 12

, ed \ | TURNING ON THE SPOTLIGHT . BY CHARLES DARNTON oe A LTHOUGH the clinking of the shy city are sure to hear th fas never before along Broadway. By way of completing a week of ~ Preparation for the hot weather festi- val the fluent Mr. Hopper will un- dimber himself to-night, and there- after watch the thermometer and the box-office with eager interest. Indeed, with him and Charlotte Greenwood In fown at the same time it might be ~ said that the musical comedy season had already reached its height. But there are more to come, among them —astonishingly enough—that hitherto pongiess actress, Estelle Winwood, ‘who is to take her first step along the flowering path in ‘Go Easy, Ma- bel,” with Ethel Levey setting the pace. Yet, strange as this may seem, there is the other side of the medal. Has that ineffable glare in Maric _ Dressler’s eyes never led you to guess her fierce yearning to play Lady Mac- beth as year after year she looked high and low for a good, strong actor to weigh in as Macbeth? You do ‘know, of course, that you cannot men- «tion Hamlet within earshot of Eddie Foy without causing his hands to form themselves into the shape of poor *Yorick's skull. -- Please don't laugh, for this is se- rious. ' T creer Mr. Hopper and Miss Greenwood may never appear together in “Jack and Jill," or some other little thing, it does seem within bounds to contemplate a run- Bing singing race between the lengthy Charlotte and Eddie Cantor, who, the mament he strikes his first note, Washes off like mad. He is suggested to me as our champion cross-country singer. Although he covers a lot of ground as a vocalist, he would have to travel very fast to beat Miss Green- wood, for with her range she should be able to make up in stretch what she lacked in speed. In fact, the bet- ting on such a match ought to be even money. Let us say that Charlotte starts with ‘You Teach Me" and Eddie with “My Mammy in the Bronx,"* each go- ing in an opposite direction. This ar- rangement may not be in strict ac- cordance with track rules, but it has at least gallantry to commend it. If ‘Miss Greenwood saw Mr. Cantor get- ting a bar or two ahead of her in the “poore, it would be the simplest thing in the world for her to throw out a leg and trip him up, doing so from ‘such a distance as to deceive the eye. In this way a new musical record tight easily be established. For judges none could be be**er than Victor Her- bert, Frank Damrosch and John Philip Sousa, for with their unerring judg- ment they could be depended upon to give the decision to Miss Greenwood. HHILE we are on the subject of musical comedy — and that's all there is this week — will fome one kindly tell me why the so- called ‘dope fiend’’ is sometimes ex- hibited in this form of entertainment? Surely “Letty Pepper" would be better off without him, not to mention the “Dope Song" that poisons the score. Is it ‘possible that anyone can find anything humorous ina nervous, twitching, sickly-looking wretch with a@ nasty habft of drawing his hand across the end of his nose? A more offensive character could scarcely be imagined. In this case he is made ut- terly dispicable by figuring as a shop- lifter who is bringing up a little gin in his evil ways. The limit seems to have been reached. For years this type of degenerate has infested un- derworld melodrama. He may have had some excuse for being there, but he certainly has no business in musi- cal comedy, UT to get back to pleasanter and B brighter things, the summer Season has never looked more promising. ‘Good Morning, Dearie," “The Music Box Revue,"' “The Rose of Stamboul” and Ed Wynn in ‘The Perfect Fool," just to mention a few, are bound to keep things humming through the palm-leaf fan period, while it is almost equally certain that ice in the tall glass may not have the old, sweet sound to them, summer visitors to our fair, gun- 6 tinkle of musical pieces at every “gurn. There {s every indication that the song-and-dance show will flourish Julia Sanderson's refreshing smile in “Tangerine” will have its effect on the ice cream soda trade, Then there's the new Winter Garden entertainment, ‘Make It Snappy," with Eddie Can- tor and the girls to help make life endurable in town. he Blue Kit- ten” and ‘Marjolaine’ also display staying powers. Other musical shows are on their way—in fact their num- ber is probably second only to the radio plays and sketches now in proc- ess of construction. When your Uncle Hiram comes to town don't worry about hfe not being able to amuse himself, Just hand him @ lst of the girl-and-music shows and let nature take its course. OH! 1% A LETTER From MY Cousin “MINNIE” # How. MARY’, Miss TUBBY 18 COMING -T KNOW SHE’s f AUITITLE be ot BOT DONT sav ANYTHING ABouT FAT PEOPLE AND DONT 45K HER IF SHE CAN RIDE ON STREET CARS FOR & NICKEL 2 UNDERSTAND * Yessir - AL ' TL Witt Pees RIGHT, ) pare Theatrical News and Gossip THE Goof THAT TRIES To WALK DOWNSTAIRS ON THIS MOLASSES WON'T WEAR OUT MUCH SHOE Me TL MIGHT AS WELL IE ('VE GOTTA Use IT MY DASHING , > SPORTY HuseaND! OMY # LISTEN To "THIS = You REMEMBER THAT HANDSOME’ MR. WeDDUM” Thar CaKie * , wits TH’ DYED STASH' AN’ BIG THe 5ociock » LLEATHER! ST WHISTLE ! > SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922 I JOE’S CAR “te Tinie savs 1 Cant DRIVE MoRE'N TWENTY MILES’ AN HOUR For “Ty! NEXT FIVE HUNDRED Miles ¢ NOT Have A CAR FOR QRAWLING ! You OUGHT 7 RIG “Tose ConTRIVANCE IN THE Movies Fole] SPEED EFFEeTs! WHY DON'T You IHEN THAT FELLER SITS ON THIS TACK HE'LL SEND TEN THOUSAND WORKMEN Hone - THEY'LL THINK His HOWL IS UP ONE OF THEY USE — AND THINK WHAT You’D SAVE IN FINES! vit? IN YoUR FACE. — Feuix coup SHAKE THE CAR FoR You — About Plays | and Players By BIDE DUDLEY WELL- HE GoT inNTo “TROUBLE “THROUGH MARRYING FOUR WOMEN xX KNOW A MAN “THAT GdT TROUBLE ENOUGH “THROUGH MARRYIN' ONLY ONE r FIRST night performance be~ A hind closed doors! That ts what is scheduled for the 49th Street Theatre Sunday evening, April 30. The show, which is to be given only once, will be called “The Ny Sirree,"’ and some of the best actors the Vicious Circle will participate, No tickets would be sold if they could be, so there Is absolutely no doubt that they will be in demand, We don’t dare outline the plot here, as we haven't any idea what It is, but we feel certain that if there is one, we could hardly, outline it in this, the Family oo. column. The cast has been enj more with an eye to good looks than ability. Init are Franklin P. Adams, : Robert C, Benchley, Heywood Broun, COME - BABY- Mare Connelly, George S. Kaufman, SIT ON MAY K 1. M. Kerrigan, Murdock Pemberton, LAP Tus? HE THINKS Arthur Samuels, Donald Ogden Stew= Won't YOu? r art, Deems Taylor, John Peter Too- 2 C& » You HAVE NT hey, David H. Wallace and Alexander Woolleatt. So! HARDING TO PRODUCE. Lyn Harding, who {s in Amertea acting in films, has taken the Savoy Theatre, London, and will produce there Haddon Chambers's play “The Card Playes.”” As Mr. Harding will not reach London before the middle otf May, he has engaged Godfrey Tearle for the leading role. TO STAGE “THE FOOL.” The Selwyns have accepted a n@ lay by Channing Pollock enti “The Fool,” which they will produce in the fall in association with Sam H. Harris, MORE OLD-TIMERS. It is becoming the custom for a few old-timers to band together and. go into vaudeville. The youngest old aggregation goes by the name of ‘ “Rice's Surprise Party” and, beside J Edward FE. Rice, the veteran man: and producer, is composed of Leonard Grover, Eddie Girard, Frank E. Me- Nish, Katie Rooney, Annie Hart, Ed Begley, Laura Bennett and John Harding. They will hop off Thursday at Proctor’s 68th Street Theatre. HO PUT THAT PAIL OF WATER OVER THE DOOR- ED To F WHAT'S THE IDEA Won ae OF ALL THis ? THe LANDLORD \S COMIN’ HERE THis AFTERNOON ! HUNDREDS WANT TO ACT. The headquarters of the Equity 1s being flooded with requests from players to appear in the All-Star Equity Show on May 7 at the Met- ropolitan Opera House, As a matter of necessity, only a few hundred will be given parts. A feature of the show will be an act played by 100 leading men, i De | ie Kine Gossip. Frances White has rented Al Jobe Screenings By DON ALLE SOMETHING NEW. Either press agents have changed or died or some of them are taking &@ few days off, for in **The Man Un- conquerable,"’ there is a pearl, about which the story revolves and evolves. and in the pre-release announcements it is not stated thet the gem used is @ real one and worth $3,769,465.01 In fact it is freely and readily acknowledged that the pearl star is nothing but an imitation and when hot posing before the camera reposes in the property room in plain view ef every one, If the film itself contains one nov- elty as refreshing as this bit of un- expected candor it will please untold thousands. A RARITY. Yesterday we discovered an acter ‘In the movies who refused to accept money, No, he wasn’t in Bellevue, but was acting right before the camera in the Biograph Studios, where an unnamed picture is being produced In one of the scenes an actor play- Ing @ wealthy man stops and asks a yeungster @ Question. Then the script calls for him to hand the boy some chan The actor the reached view yesterd: the entire film but played the dual] Well role of father and son So far no producer has ever pro- actor as the father spanking himself lim “Fools First’ at a pre-release ay. when a number wh, left the theatre they were sure noth Some remarkable double-shots are |ing like that shown, Including one where Duncan | iife. as the son passes in back of Limself| But it has as the father, Out in Frise was put on W duced a double exposure showing an| charge of having murdered a litter of Angora kittens, view by which the board hopes to sound out the reflex action of mo- change-giving episode and held out] The situation shows a man who has . his hand. The boy refused, just been slain calmly sitting at a] {0M Pictures on high school puptis “My father doesn't allow me to] table and playing poker with a gang |S Put in the mails take money from any one," an-|of crooks. In fact, the “dead’’ man| The National Committee for Better nounced the lad. plays the game so well he fools a| Films has no axe to grind and merely The director tried to explain. The] srowd of detectives who rush in wishes, if possible liscover what lad agreed, but when t take was] How does Netlan do it? sort of pictures are liked best and being shot he still refused. It was not] Well, that wouldn't be fair to tell, | which are liked the least by boys and until the father was sent for and gave] Wait till the picture js released and] girls of high schoo! age his permission that the six-year-ola ch the shivery scene. Then you e read a list of “Kuvorite photo agreed to accept the pent yon't know, either recently “He has lots of principle.’ sighed : school girl, It wa the director, “but he'll never be rich.” ACQUITTED. shiek.” " : , We read no furthe: DOUBLE- DEALING. "Member “The Silent Call,” the siln William Duncan has just finished | Caturing “Strongheart,” the ar SAME TOWN. the hardest job his long screen} And how he was tried and convicted! 4 particularly spiffy locking Amer- career. In his latest picture, “The{% Sheep-killing and sentenced toliean gcreen player hesitated in Paria Silent Vow," Bill not only directed | 2¢ath> Only to.earn his pardon lust week and was idling away his time say | in front of one of those sidewalk cafes so popular in the French capita a could happen in reay]°” POPUIAE eatery i. is, he wasn't just exactly ‘idling’? be- causé he had in font of him a skime yesterday a) Airedale} mer of that which is forl.idden by Vol- jal for his lie on al stead At a table close by was a couple as the son—although a lotta actors] The “attorney” for the detense/of men, also Americans. ‘The actor Olight tobe apankea, at that made a masterly plea and after an| seemed to recognize in one of them yi hour's wrangling the Alredale was |S0me one out of the dim and hazy past. jismissed as guiltless And he stared long and earnestly, One SORTER EERIE It does happen sometimes now, ]of the couple indignant Ever see a de lay poker? joesn't it? “If you do: tout that staring Ever think any suen Mil aanet _ ' yu blamed thing? SOUNDING SENTIMCNT Se ehoaetaal i the indig- Of course you didn’t! Neither dia] Yesterday the questionnai. pre ‘English nuthir iaawenidlane We unt we suw Marshall Sxeilan's| pared by the National Bowrd of Re-lactor, “i'm trom Rushville, ing," “So am I,"' volunteered the challen- And thus a wonderful time was had oy all. Boy, bring up some aromatic spirits “ ammonia—and hurry! STILLS. Het ceyctwo| Streets but the neighborhood doesn’t} "Panny Brice, Charlotte Greenwood, Director Henry King is in the South | , Alexandre Dumas died fifty-twol soem to affect his verse writing avil-|Vvan and Schenck and Jack Hazzard ; years ago. Wonder how he would be ar at the Rese, Cuca recuperating. He's just had pneu-|iice the filmization of some of his|'ty @ pit, The ryyme: will: SDpeer nonia and has just finished d‘recting benefit. \ picture, so you can judge for your- self why he Norman pervise the shooting of Wesley Bavry was born in 1886 in Ekaterinoslalf, son's apartment and cook. “Whispering Wires" will open Mom day at the Apollo, Atlantic City. Bernard Delaney and Hilda Spong have been engaged for “On tig Stairs."” One hundred Rotarlans saw “Letty Pepper’’ last night In honor of the composer, Werner Janssen, Russia. Mebbe the name makes her look older. “The Battle of Jutland,” Educa- tional’s historical special film, was the principal subject of an entertain- ment of the Rankin Drew Post No, 340, American Legion, at Wurllt- zer Auditorium, last night. (Poems OF PROVOCATION Ray Foster, with ‘The Dentist” in mind, has written a poem for this classification, Ray lives on West 87th stories? R-C Pictures Corporation has of- fered all its staff and stars to aid I'm exhausted and I'm sleepy, The week of April 24 will be “Kettis Third of a Century Jubilee Week’* all Keith theatres. suffering is resti I'm hungry and I'm tired, Kerry |s from n the Rose Coghlan benefit Miss And my feet are hurting; e e "“Kileg eyes." He was vamped by} Coghian'’s last part was in an R-C ‘ i on the _afteroons t Apel too many strong studio lamps and] picture. How they burn and ache! Shakerpenrs 8 ee Fey anes per x be ong . he Sc be temporarily blind for some} wai. gon of the Wolf” is the] Mw eves are bloodshot, bleery, Te meld at the fons. Theale latest Jack London story to reaci| pm, dine, I'm sad and weary, New York's west side di , Goldwyn yesterday took out a $10,-]ine screen. Edith Roberts and , crime to-morrow afternoon, in a 000 policy on @ mink coat worn by! Wheeler Oakman are the featured And my head is thumpin’, Seiuiaary atthe walt Giaiiaaaee Se hee es Bey DOR: TAS players F Poundin’, "bout to break. ship contest at Terrace Garden Dance ad aud peen Swe) over Ni- Tnive: it Ho oi » C e nse! garn in taking the thrill scene Inf yooversat has lost Harry Carey.) rye a cold that lete me know it, | Palace; and the Jerseyites will have bi pupae re een My Hf He's now an R-C star, 4 their inning Tuesday night. Another coe ee Bom B yond the pisture “Rroven Rlovsoms” was shown be And my ears are ringing loud. country store affair will be held there yould have been shown jt e ; wow spit Py etna ti) lion to | f0r@ @B invited assemblage at the And my back is almost Monday night, Wednesday will be same, recaulinn voi theatre late yesterday after carpival night and exhibitions will-be }.) hoot an en ending et Rigid from a pain, yea Whurscay. Bey a Bret Nor OF _eehal “What is the Hfe of a motion] put there's one sweet consolation, — aye" and ‘Our a riend, e sks the Rothacker Lab . : A THO - yesterday for the West coast to su- “\veld say. that Chaplin{ Call it joy or provocation, MGHT FOR TO-DAY, ; The weather ms was the “life” of every film in which My teeth are false— an predicts supe “From Rags to Ric THO ke aoneare LAER GX9) shine for to-morrow. But, neverthea shooting will not be at suntise, Tow. Pt Comers, President of the They'll never hurt agatn. lens, we'll bet he leaves "town over “Please Remit” is the title of thu (aie tatest Urban Movie Chat FOOLISHMENT. — latest Monty Banks comic fil Giavenee Burton has played villains] Tle boy stood un the burning deck,| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, Vera Gordon has a mad on, some] e¢ every land. His next The wind blew through his hair, “Courtship is the first intoxicatia announced she was Uetween} pit of vcture acting will turn him] mye poy stood on the desk because of love." f forty-five and fifty, She says sie} fhito a swedish bad man.* In 1 lite Then marriage must be the @ He didn't have a chair, he's no} bad at all, at all. 2 lirtum tremens,"