The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1922, Page 32

Theat rical r silly farce. No doubt there are humorous poss! - Dilities {n a situation created by & young wife who engages as servants @ kidnapper, a paigoner and « shop- Mfter for purposes of reformation by thought strgestion and proper envir- onment, and finally brings home !n a glow of righteous triumph a suspic!- ous Tooking jadividual whom she proudly intréduces as the murderer of his mother-in-law just out of Sing Sing. But to be really funny these worthies should be genuine specimens Ukely to get into more or less deviltry once they are thrown together, As a matter of fact, they turn out to be hopelessly’ respectable persons who have simply taken Advantage of the Jndy’s “bug,” and so they do nothing amusing. The husband, to “cure” his wife, merely gots the supposed mur- derer to pretend he has killed the but- ler, who is given his fill of liquor while hidden away in the atti¢. ‘The whole scheme falls dismally flat beneath a lot of talk that is Se HOW’'LL HE ENFORCE IT? There seem to be grave doubts among members of the motion pic- ture fraternity as to the ability of Will H. Hays to enforce his antt. Arbuckle film edict. Acting a la Judge Landis, Hays decreed that no Arbuckle films should be shown. “That was all right in the Landis- Babe Ruth controversy,” ventured a film man yesterday, “because Landis rules with an iron hand over organ. wed baseball and what he says af- all ball clubs in organized base- ball, When Landis set Ruth down Ruth had nowhere to go, unless he Jumped to the outlaws and burned his daseball bridges behind him. “But in the Arbuckle matter, Hays’ ultsmatum can only heve weight with and producers and distributers and exhibitors who have, signed to be ruled by him. What is to prevent an Independent producer-director-ex- Mibitor from showing the Arbucitie fiims i¢ he wants to flaunt the Hays’ ruling? Nothing! “Unless each State takes drastic action against the showing of Ar- buckle films, the. Hays’ order will be © scrap 6f paper, as far as univer. sally ‘barring Arbuckle from the screens of the country.” EXPENSIVE. Robert Leonard, director of “Broad- way Rose,” tried “saying it with flowers” on Easter, and he bought his message on Broadway too, The day after Easter the business manager of the Tiffany studios was looking over the production bill of “Broadway Rose” and was squirming some. “Broadway Rose,” he sighed, “is an expensive proposition, jan't it?” <“What are you kicking about?” asked Leonard, “You are only paying for ONE.” MARKSMANSHIP. Will C. Murphey, handling the pub- lcity of “A Fool There Was,” dropped into a neighborhood ‘bur- lesque theatre last night. Suddenly = dancing team ywiried onto the stage. The male member ambled to the footlights and announced: “Ladees and gen'men: We will offer as our next number Rudyard Kipling'’s famous vampire dance, ‘A Fool There Was'—shoot, perfesser.” ‘The professor shot. . Murphey didn't—he didn't have o gun, * NEVER PLAIN. A sweet young thing pranced up to Harold Lloyd and cooed: “Oh, Mr. Lioyd, do those glasses help you to see things plain?" Yes," answered the comic, “they make everything plain but a pretty HEDDA 18 BUSY. by acting in pictures and took it. principal parts in ‘A Lady by Luck,’ Edward Dillon's latest production. wore finer plumes than ‘busy young person. LOOK OUT THERE, WRITERS, , Peculiar slant on the movie Meves that motion pictures will hav: @ great effect on fiction in the future, imasmuch as the flicker drama will sc % make fiction writers stick to tho truth, | Gide" write the above—it was sent “The screen’ has infinite possibiij.| Screenings by a ten-year-old “poet, ties," said Harding, ‘I think we wil soon eee history revealed in it. will be decidedly-awkward for fictior writers and te, ws it wil THE NEW PLA Hedda Hopper believes in making hay while Old Sol is glimmering. And #0, although she has been receiving a six-cylinder stipend as one of the members of the “Six-Cylinder Love"’ saw a chance of gath- for an Easter outfit ‘That is the reason why this popular actress may be seen in one of the And in the Easter assemblage none this same Lyn Harding, who specializes in and who is in this This YS “Lady Bug” a Sad Case By CHARLES DARNTON. MUST have been after listening to a partioularly dull and silly woman raving about her fads that Frances Nordstrom decided to write “Lady Bug,” for this play at the Apollo Theatre is a particularly dull and gularly devold of humor. While the men stand together rather helplessly except when they are rushing upstairs with quarts and quarts of gin and whiskey for the butler, the women prattle in uplifting terms and make nothing but fools of themselves. Al- together, ‘‘the Lady Bug’ ts a sad case. : John Cumberland can be only tm= potently acquiescent as the-husband, ‘ou SHOULD “Aire ME TS DANCES More OFTEN —-r susT Love ‘Te DANCE? Haw-He-RAW? LookuT He FUNNY Looxin’ MAN — Haw: oe strip history of some of its glamour] one of his actors sound asleep, In spite of her role of the wif Nordstrom looks. bright, Maley is agreeably quiet ‘ale to drink. The rest is noise. =") ‘ ee News and Gossip JOE’S CAR iit Wave some eun~} NLL KID HER A LiL’ JAN' GET HER Goat THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1922, | Ps f STUNTS went har LONG ENOUGH "vo TG sumP'n ? omy! isttt THAT MUSIC Dust HEAVENLY ML LMU LY, UO, I NeveER SAW A suc FUNNY MWHISWERS AN’ rae ET (N.Y. "Be. Werks) CHEER UP, GIRLIE = TLL Fix (T UP -WHERE 1S THAT GUY ? 5— vas HE'S. Y AvéHra see wHaT IT saw? ee nal) SITTIN’ ON THE He when events are portrayed as they| awoke him. actually occurred.’ Something to ponder over, at that, LOIS, SHE SPEAKETH. Lois Lee, widely known and liked film player, spoke right out in meet- ing yesterday and declared all women are flirts at heart. We didn’t think such a demure lit- tle screenite would give vent to such sentiments, but she did. She spoke thusly: “This tradition of the rude man who stares—how ridiculous! Every glance is a tribute; each stare a treasure. Both are received with considerable inward glow and satisfaction, Why not? The eye of man is the rule whereby woman gauges her beauty. It is her only sincere mirror."’ But then, that's only the opinion of Lois. c. c. “What makes the world love Charlie aor” The eager children ory. “Why, Charlie loves the world, you know!” The teacher did reply. No, reader, our stablemate B. dD, iM 3 NAP OR MAP. m Hugo Ballin looked around his ll studio yesterday afternoon’ and saw “What's the idea?" asked the boss. “Ohb,"’ yawned the actor, ‘this is my beauty nap!'* “You sure need a nap for that map,” cooed Hugo, sauntering off. And the actor is still wondering what he meant. ONE-HALF OF 1°, E. K, Lincoln, great dog lover, jus: received the beautifully stuffed rv mains of one of his champion chovws that died. Line's dusky butler wattod into the Lincoln brary in the dus last evening and saw the stuffed an inal for the first time, He rushed out. “At dawg,” he panted, “have clumb up onter de table an’ has got things all mussed up."’ “Why didn’t you shoo him off +h table?’ asked Lincoln, scenting some tu At's jes what ah tried t’ do,’ onswered the dusky one, "an ‘at dawg he enap at me sumpin turribie.” “Lay off prescriptions for a while, Fompe!" was the sage advice given by master to man. STILLS. In being cast as the star in a serios wf Northwest Mounted roles by Uni- versal, Reginald Denny says he is at last realizing his pet ambition. Ho's being given a chance at least to pre- tend he is one. “Sunshine Sammy,"’ the pint-sized and ebon-hued Pathe kid wonder, has been adopted as ® mascot by Andree Peyre, French aviatrix, who is now stunting in "Riddle of the Range,” Ruth Bolana’s lat Sammy doesn’t know it yet, but he'll be flying soon, Betty Jewel, Griffith's latest ‘find,"* yesterday refused an offer to go to Austria to make a picture. She de- clares that if she is going to be a movie star her rays will be red, white and blue. “Keep the mechanics of the movies from the public and let it keep its \Nusion," advises a big screen director. What illusion? Billy Dove, formerly of the Cosmos politan cote, has flitted to Metro, She'll soon be a star, “Sherlock Brown,’ a correspon dence school sleuth, is the hero of Hert Lytell's latest film, Doyle hasn't seen it yet, John F. Seitz, demon camera man, opines that ‘'The hand that cranks the camera fools the world,”* Vitagraph has just finished “My Wild Irish Rose," another green drama, 150 per cent. Irish, Pal, wonderful do tor, has a prominent part in “Restless Souls,” Karle Williams's latest. The good Lincoln thritler Sir Conan old us been always wanted to "Ge “4 memb of the -your-man" clan and now he's } ‘ d early next ys the impor- een Percy has season, Buck Jones p! tant male-role, while E FELIX — CAN Yod @utT DOING } omics eee eee The Evening World’s C RULER LisTEN re DOESNT 1T Simety LIFT You FERDIE 1S A SMART FELLER’ AN ALUTHAT BUT L KNow IT WILL BE USELESS To TRY To REASON WITH THAT OLD -TiH EsT LOOKIN’ MAN & WHISKERS ALL OVER HIS FACE AN’ sucH- MONSTER! the feminine lead. Shades of Diamond Dick jr.! Jack Ford, the director who cathe to New York for a rest and got the flu, js back at work again. This time the picture Is “Kentucky Days," “The Yellow Stain,” in which John Gilbert will star, is not the story ofa spilled ‘bottle of iodine, May Allison and Robert Ellis are to be featured in a series of four pic- tures by Associated Exhibitors, Ar- thur 8, Kane signed the contract with them yesterday. Harry Levey, President of the Na- tional Non-Thea' Motion Pic- tures, Inc, had better scratch that out of his frm name. He's now exhibiting “Around the World ‘With Burton Holmes,” and in a thea- tre too! Shirley Mason yesterday started work on “Lights of the Desert.” They will burn brightly for some weeks to come. There'll be no lack of activity in the Fox New York studio this summer. Already decks are cleared for action with all hakds busy, ——_— NO SPELLBINDING. 66] WANT fo take time by the fore- I look,” he said as he entered a lawyer's office “Yes, eit! Yes, sir!” wan tho reply. “always take time by the torelock and you won't get left. What is it, arwvell, we are to have an election p_wHEN MY WIFE CALLS up, (ELL HER THAD To LEAVE “th HE CAR ‘To BE FIXED — VLL “Thy ' ' jn _ TAKE. “TH! PHone ¢ GEEM Quite AS IT'S ALL FIXED UP, KATINKA- YOUR LANDLORD AIN'T GONNA, You See? Hen (Tv DONT HEAVENLY AS ALL THAT! S| I owed youd S\ |-BE SPRISED “To HAVE YER UNCLE FELIX OP INL ON YA-~ HAW-HAW. DID YOU PAY. OUR RENT ? for city offices, and I wanted to know {f I could engage you to make a speech for me the night before election.” ‘ “Are you going to be a candidate?” was asked, ‘I. am."" “But what about the speech ?"’ “Why, a feller is going to run against me again who beat me by 300 votes last year. In fact, I only got two votes, I want you to come up and give a speech that I will beat him worse than he beat me. You will want to lay it right down to him. He killed a horse once, and stole a sawmill, and has been married three times. If you will come up and present the case in a way to knock the feller out I will sive you $5," ‘The lawyer respectfully declined to take the case, and somebody will get snowed under again.—Cincinnati En- quirer, . —— LOYAL TO DAD. ITTLE John was sent alone to the LP barber shop for @ hair cut. The barber, in his joking way, inquired what kind of a hair cut he wished and then pointed to the man in the chair, ‘Do you want one like this man {s getting?’ “No, sir,’ the little fellow returned, after he had looked at the man. “‘If you have "to ent It like somebody's, just cut it like my dad’s, with a little hole in the middle."’—Indianapolis News. YSU ~ BUT YesTeepay y'sain ('D NEVER @ET ANYWHERE (F 1 “Teut AT Least -tT DONT LIFT ‘You ore MINE! DAW-W -¢@, How'd I KNow He WAS A- “RELATION OF OQuRs ¢ NO- I PUSHED Him OFF POEMS OF PROVOCATION Henty Harrison has a poem of pro- vocation for you to-day, lady and gentlemen readers. He calls it “The Limit.” What would you nickname it? Here it is: When at a play it happens that My seat's behind a post, I don’t go into fits of grief— Of that I sure can boast. When I have waited patientiy To see a long-sought fight And learn that it’s again postponed, I don't bemoan my plight, But when IT run with all my might To catch the morning train And at the station find it’s late, I can’t myself restrain From uttering blasphemies upon The whole darned shiftless road, There's nothing under sun or sky That can me so explode, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Blank held his wifes hands two hours last night.” “They're they?’ “Not He had to hold them to keep her from punching his face.” a loving couple, aren't at all Cpr, 1922 (N.Y. Eve, World) By Prose Pub, Co, By BIDE DUDLEY _ LBERT DE COURVILLE, tho A Iondon theatrical producer, left New York last night for Canada and will sail for England soon accompanied by his “Hello, Canada’’ company, which has been touring the Dominion. Incidentally, Shirley Kel- logg, his wife, is in New York, having arrived last Saturday. She will re- main here indefinitely. Mr. de Cour He isn't bemoaning the fate of ‘*Pins though he feels keenly its failure, which, by the way, was not due to any lack of effort on his part. The truth is, his production did not ar- rive in America until too late and, as a result, the ‘Pins and Needles’ seen et the Shubert Theatre wes not the London show at all. “I'm going back to London and re- deem myself," said he. ‘‘I intend ¢o produce the biggest revue London ever saw, and make up for the failure of “Pins and Needles’ over here. I don't want London and New York to think (he show I was forced to produce here ‘wae a representative de Courville pro- duction,” NUTT’S DOPE. When it comes to “the nose for news,” the palm must go to Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt, at present visiting his wife's relatives, the Bones, in Bogash, O. A letter from him, Just in, says: “Dear Dud—I and the wife see that the Russian Sophia Government and Germany have decided to join hands and force a new deal at the Grenoble meeting. Now listen—there in a prominent German in the butcher business here and a talk with him on the subject might be of great inter- est. His name is Schmidt and he's a big man in this town, I and the wife, being on the job, could inter- view him jointly and scoop the news- papers of the country. I could cateh him in his shop and say: ‘Hello, Schmidt! What does this Russian- German trick mean? It might mix him up, but, when he did get going he might slip me the real dope. Then the wife could say to him: ‘Mr Schmidt, if Russia and Germany join hands what about the starving people in the Alps?" When he got through exploding she could read him an essay she wrote on ‘Love Your Enemies’ or sing him her new song, ‘Happiness Abroad.’ If you can use this story send me $11, as I want to get a new hat so as to make Schmidt think I've got power behind me. Ezra Michaels, of this town, was kicked by a mule yesterday, and the Shakespeare Club, to which he gave a ham for their banquet, sent him a letter of sympa thy. Much excitement put could learn nothing.—Je! MR. DILLINGHAM SPEAKS. Charles Dillingham, having read F. Ziegfeld jr.'s statement about the way “Sally” has been brealking records, ix just a bit annoyed, and he has arisen to say a word or two for “Good Morn- ing Dearie.” Not only does he testify that “Dearte” has not had a vacant seat at her 200 performances at the Globe, but he {s sure the girl will break “Sally's record for receipts, Outside of that the boys are good friends. Incidentally, Mr. Ziegfeld has invited the Boston dramatic critics to come over at his expense and have a look at ‘‘Sally.""| He wants them to know the original company wilt open in Boston, GOSSIP. R. H. Burnside has appointed Frred- erick Manatt as stage manager of De Wolf Hopper's ‘‘Funmakers," at the Jolson. “What the Public Wants" will re- place “Back to Methuselah” at the Garrick on May 1. , The Selwyns will present Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr in “Part- ners Again’’ at the Selwyn Theatre, May 1.' A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Six readers have written us to say that Miss McAleenan, who is to be- come Mrs. P. H, Money, is fortunate because, while it is a love match, she will have Money, too, FOOLISHMENT. “Oh, tell me this—and do it now,” Said Oscar Delamater, “Why people clinb the steps when ow A moving escalator,” : 2 Needles” to any great extent, al- , ) P