The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1922, Page 12

TURNING ON THE SPOTLIGHT BY CHARLES. DARNTON HERE'S no place like home for the French play, even when it speaks al our language. Changing its scene from Paris to New York, let us A say, is almost as difficuit as turning vin rouge into ice cream soda, “*“\or while the substance may be there, neither the original color nor flavor ~ ‘e present, Yet the good work, morally speaking, is kept up. This form 1 the gentle art of adaptation is, of course, usually a matter of morals. The Goldfish” Is a shining example. jt is time in a sense that morals are matter of geography. But geogra- “phy, in my opinion, should come first, wecause of its important relation to play. Here is where she really comes into her own with grace and distinc- tion, But the ideal cast for ‘The Goldfish,’ if you don't mind, would Theatrical News and Gossip the subject. It should be taken into consideration before everything else forming our judgment of people. Tm fact, it makes all the differenco jp the world. Moreover, it softens any shock that may be felt, While the easy morals of the Norwegian in Knut Hamsun‘s novels— be Frances White as Jennie in pa- Jamas, panting but victorious after a rough-and-tumble fight; Ada Lewis as the Riverside Drive queen of bur- lesqua and Miss Rambeau in the simple elegance of Park Avenue. [ realize, of course, there might be three objections to this arrangement—Fran - ces White, Ada Lewis and Marjorie Rambeau. “Wanderers” and ‘Shallow Soil,” not to mention "Growth of the —may be amazing, they are not, me at least, shocking, but merely ihieresting as a serious part of the study of a country. It is barely possible we may take a different view of the French sim- ply because we think them naughty when they're not “nice.” But with all their faults we love them still if they are left where they belong. This ja what Belasco was wise enough to do with “Zaza” and “Kiki,"". thus saving himself a great deal of trouble ‘and a pretty penny or two into the vargain, LADYS UNGER in transplant- G ing “The Goldfish’’ must have had her hands full, In spite of spll she could do it wriggles out of her .slutches and swims back to Paris more than once. There are at least two bad breaks, For one take the col- “red maid's remark to a visitor that Jennie never gets up until 11 o'clock. , €an she stay in bed till this hour and _fiire some one to do her housework, “with a husband getting only $35 a “Week? Not in New York. You feel «there is something Wrong here, and 42 can't quite believe Jennie has a iusband, for surely not even a song writer would put up with such idle twbits in a wife. He couldn't afford © on bis salary. In her simple omy Miss Unger unwittingly lets jennie slip away to Paris, without a wedding ring, at this early stage of Here Comes “THAT “BIG FAT Book AcENT jhe play. There is a distinctly foreign AGAIN - MY? site atmosphere, too, when Jennie’s sec- Looks LIKE & husband loafs about the Park “Avenue home, provided her by her catch, and then calls back her husband. This may be all right in Paris, but it's all wrong in New York, It simply isn't done, as you “Know, and Miss Unger must know. She forgets herself and remembers edhe French play. As things have turned out Leonard “Merrick might have waited to write “WWhile Paris Laughed.”. When Paris dears that the little cocotte of Armont 240d Gerbldon's comedy has acquired i husbands in New York it will Mobably throw back its head and Thugh itself all over the boulevards. PEAKING of streets, there is as ground for suspicion that » num- ber of our playwrights are col- Yaborating with Park Avenue real estate agents, When they give their FAMILY @ 4 KATINKA TH’ wire PUT tT THERE TO REMIND ME “TO Post A LeTrER HE GAVE ME “THiS MORNIN’ Boy! ters SumP'N ABOUT “This FIRST SMELL OF SPRING IN “he AIR “THAT MAKES A PELLAH FEEL Jazzy! I FEEL LIKE 1 COULD KNOCK Dempsey HAPPY ON A DAY LIKE THIS OUGHTA CONSULT AN UNDERTAKER ! LOOK AT ED — HE'S GOT A GRIN ON FROM IM CALLING ON YOUR Mé& AMONG THE Few “PROMINENT PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN OUR MARVELOUS OFFER $ You “THINK SHE ‘LU See me? HEY Mom ¢ THAT BIC FAT LADY “THAT WANTED TS SEE YOU YESTERDAY 1§ COMIN’ AGAIN @ Copr, 1922 (IN. Y. Eve. World) By Prose Pub Co. oF Tv You Jus’ can't Sou MAILED (T Hunt? HEN WHY DIDNT ‘You REMOVE “THE KNow Jus How Y'FEEL on KID — LTTE SPRING FEVER — Gor (TY MYSELF — I CAN SEE. IM YOUR FACE ~ FUNNY THING AINT IT? HELP SMILING AT EV'RY THING! 3 case IM KEEPIN’ IT THERE HS REMIND ME YO TELL HER WHEN I Ger THAT I ForGoT — Yo PUT A STAMP’ Home — 2 Bud + Coun IHAN.. Mother’s Eyesight Is Normal! HOW CAN | SHE HELP iT ~~ is Al <BR INE RFE —y Now, Merit Will Be Rewarded} characters x rise in the World they establish them on this uristoeratic ievel, usually often leaving Riverside vfirive flat. ~sThis is not said out of envy, T've \ venlly no feeling in the matter. 1 SIRLOIN STEAKS AND T mtd easily afford to take @ Park BEAT Hitt Down To ‘Avenue apartment for an hour or _TWENTY- FIVE ! two, but 1 hate crosstown cars. What iMlerests and amuses me is the offish tude toward Riverside Drive. It se funny enough on the stage years @ when George Cohan put it into *Populurity" with overpowering but- resplendent furnishings, tophats, » {gil taik and other inconveniences of ‘Braoleur. But now it is used by ‘Mur dramatists merely as a shorreut ‘> Park Avenue. All that the richest man in “The Goldfish” has to” do iy win Jennie away from Herman Krauss of Riverside Drive is tell her “that he has a beautiful apartment on Park Avenue and that it would just quit her style. ‘That's enough for her. ie makes it im one jump between etirtains. M SOME SLICK SHOPPER THE BUTCHER CHARGES 30¢ PER POUND FOR (You a Bun cut! p NOBODY GETS ANYTHING FOR’ ee = woty 1 Thies | NOTHING IN Tuts WORLD - Tefose He SLIPPED | | IF YWANT THe BEST You've GOTTA PAY THE PRICE ¢ T DON'T TRY ANY MORE OF THAT) CHEAP STUFF, DY'HEAR — LWANT You T'PAY FULL VALUE) rFor EVERYTHING WE HAVE gare eye, THIS House ! GONNA GE WY PAY DovBtep !! 5 X « Skea | ( Ken Kline (Saas HERE'S no denying that Marjori+ : Rambeau is even more beauti- 4 ful than tho apartment she enough to strike a “Just right” ator, oper ANOTHER MODEL. Merton Clivette, for thirty years a painter of vanrpires, conducts whut and who alsu iA tae | iScreenings By DON ALLE! FILM DANCES. *paviowa has just announced that he ts thinking of abandoning the bya “thee and giving five years of her]®*¥¢re! photographs of Estelle Taylo life to the movies. She says] '%® Yamp of vamps in Fox's “A Fool is known Mecca of the Soul Light Shrin Greenwich Village way, ts a And, believe "down Xeited il takes somethings er us, out of the ordinary to excite Mer Yesterduy the artist looked There Was” und right awuy ¢ a strong yen to yse her as mode] vamp. veloped his 1922 Vie wishes to record her dancing Tiiture generations That for all very Welk as far as the} “I must paint her,” declared the ‘hought goes. But did you ever see}urtist to Vivian Moses, puficist for Werdance on the screen that was ar-|the lox organization. “Have come noon’ Miss Taylor ‘Wiwtic? If so, it was just because the camera operator was not in a hurry or Nrasp't too lazy fm ninety-nine cases out of 100 a wereen dance, no matter who tie artist or artiste, is a joke. 7. The Castles tried it in their heyday sand foozied miverably. Scores of ‘stars who can really dance lave tried Wonty to sse thelr efforts thrown on : screen in the guise of jumping- to my studio to-morrow after wires that it is a jong trip from Los Ang Village just to have her soul kalsomined, she says she may muke the some atternoun just thing os 10 journey ‘or the fun of th WASTED PAESENTS. jaek antics: Any one who hus been saving up RW Paviowa can conyince every op- | el” pennies and dimes to purel wr that he mustn't “hurry home| ’eddne p oy Murjorle wb. supper? or “kill the evening’ Pinight jut vest thely savings well 4 While running off her dunce film, then y ‘Ber wonderful dancing might Le pieus- on the screen. Otherwise——- let's n home brew great majority Why? Oh, nuthin’ much. Only nent and join the hope we all are lucky there “aia’y = - 2a R. ©. immediately and the medium % roma a ——~ liaughed, showing she was a happy, gonna be any wedding. That is, us|ference, but it’s all in the nature o/)smaller and cheaper ‘ils all bearing] that she'd be a star som +} medium. far as Marjorie # concerned, sweet charity and some long sufferin:| the same title are thrown on the mar-| William Fox announces POEMS OF PROVOCATION | medi ce “It makes me so angry,” fussed Mixs| movie actor and actress is bound t»] ket to catch the unwary, and some-Jan important role iy his } : e Daw yesterday, “when I hear these} win and be crowned. times unerring exhibitor. In the end] cial. That's one stép, at leust Wo have desided’ to give an Iron AN EXCELLENT IDEA! stories about me getting married, The} ‘The A. 1. C. P., which in plain| the public is “bunked Lupino Lane, the British pantomin ie the prize tn_the Poems of | Opal Essent, rehearsing in ‘Sue, only trouble with the present rumov ts] United States means the Association A not pt Was that of star, now a se r, made a bh tion, cuntest, It is non-|pear,!’ intends. to go bathing tie that they have me en, 4 to sometfor the Improvement of the Poor, Griffth’s “Two Orphans.” Just as be] hit this we ity minstrel! | preakable and, at-the same time, very loshes at Atlantic City when the man Ff never even heard of. Isn't} conducting a nation-wide contest {yJwas about to release his show. Hia darky t went im: | jig Dhicot ERGEE ie Lhe guthon | MDteNee 80. 4 " that annoying—{ ask you—isn't ‘hat! decide just which sereen players wii] many ‘Two Orp mense with the br gah MA. | ce tocauy's poem show goes to that city from Stam~ Just too annoying for words?" Le elected the rulers of moyicland and| upon the mar Will A. Page, praise agent par oxo ec ntign wus ay dis ford May 1. Opal, who Is a striking he last votes will be counted «| the: copy-cuts"’ a chance ellence, has just issued engraved in ied ots blonde, says she doesn’. want her feet LUCY, DISAPPOINTED. Coronation Ball at the Hotel Astor or a yote for the office of Kink elt 7" she asked ike which?’ she was asked “Oh, jumping off trains or diy Alms offered What's that bout ‘Imitation betny THEIR FIRST FLICKERS, waited ng Lleanor Boardman and et Sabge .s - William | other?’ Ot an ha ed eal W a cliff hes, both of Manhatt a taal other * said the director, “Nothin: “a8 sree net , bid Jidutes as STILLS. ‘o having the best “movie per-] jg Central Theat nalities"? by Robert B. Mel ng director for one of the 4, yre over this morning by nothin pan Lo say, there ¢ ost tee from i$ Prank E. Bly us in the titm waked in| notion pleture producing firuis, aro ee eae ee ee rutame ag tion of Diekey + will I FOOLISHMENT. i dyorrerct peri ge Sizer rea arrested the: directo;, | ‘#3, breauing J pepe cle Will go tu the Mile Puna | Wally Reid's next Paramount Starrs) iy Nancy MeTavish: “I wonder a gifl and her game is Phyllis Esther, nepenieee preven ne dlreate They huve been given their tiratl or that schoo! ing vehicle, It it could be called a biy blunder The Mozart Mandolin Orchestra. ‘ B arty, and it wus anni stor- | stetnsvine MacKonald\ ls: recoverine phenomena is being POP NGI SON will have an entertainment at Car- hake foe= oN 4 radiophone fre er City cold contracted Wille shootin, n-wany new releases, Latest] If 7 should say et zie Hall to-night with three dogen “what? just as soon as t knees stop| (oy tcenes In Northern Cultfornti . pirit’? film is “Borderland,” star Tf got in @ jan neers twanging, : Foul. age ofS doa coe ster king and the involuntary fright) |} st. John just completed a [tng Agnes 1) the subway that runs the ground) ‘The Bronx preliminary of the walt, know. and they dang: amy culms down, they will start] putemgue on Whats| Mildred jas * tempor shige hamplonsip contest will be held at CANMLEEM EE Rte. diapaans } veel acting Mee cae Witt vainat iim] Alwndoned the ynovies for a Ming * ce Garden Danae: Palpae tas r y ypoin i x Cuan ® vaudeville, She will tour the Keith morrow afternoon and the finals like DUPLICATE TITLES. bi ook ater ena a Lireuit. In tu sketch called Movie] FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. | uday night. Monday night there KINK & QUEEN WY weenie. that no booker dies xony a. egonna-be-stars dinkha Mud,’ “What are the best seats ina thea-| will be a country store affair and Who's going to be Kink and Queen producing firm Nt ends . fs newest leading oman Nat Ross will henveforth swing the | tre” , Wednesday night a carnival at ewhich ¢ the movies? release the flmnlzation of some very one said when Pexxy Shaw megaphone over Reyinald Denny's "Ob, tell me, pl Hyman Hirsch and Sisters will show Not that tt makes am loia of dit ular work of fiction than several other! stepped out of the Follies into pictures tandolined locks. “Receipts. new dances, and others will entertain Griffith switehed the title to “Orphans one net! Carl Vitations to employers asking them {v| -t source of great delight. Lucy Fox, who plays the adventu May of the Storm." hire him ‘Twas just like the gefilteyish ess in “Sonny,” simply can't get over We haven't much advance dope on} The latest bit of “copping” ts int Lita Lee, feminine lead in “Blood] 7 eat on Friday night. the fact that na the apie she doest iow the candidates are running, Lut | connection Be Se Sherlock He reves and Sand,"’ has been appointed Chair-] 7; seems to get my nanny now, have to do anything dangerous so far WI H. Hays hasn't received | release of Jolin rryinore ow} man of the Music Committee of the * ; sn't receives x Wy me Mus nd often makes me groan, “Don't I have to do anything ox there ure scores of Sherlock Holmes'’| post War Service League of Holly-| 4/¢ often-makes me groa wood, an organization which provides « said} ortertainment in soldier hospitals: To play the saxophone, ‘ing ev} ‘Pwe more doctors gone wrong, W —— — —_— -——— Somerset’ Maugham and Will M.[ A’ THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Eitchey started out to be M. D.'s and] jyepburn Groat, who owns the Kat- hove ended as pen-shoy Both are} wei Restaurant in Wellsville, writing for the jumping oper had indigestion for yours. i aker, an japla - Because my neighbor's learning how You ean'T BLAME ME IF 3 SMLE A LITTLE Bir, Joe! About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY &S TRAIGHT THROUGH" is the title ofa play now being written by Eugene Walter for Ggorge M. Cohan to’ produce, It is a drama, Mr, Cohan is busy at present ca: titled “How a new comedy en- ry American,” by story of built. for Inctden Cohan is finishing bis new “Little, Nellie wheh is scheduled for ¢ summer sea- vi Arthur Goodrich English and American life tt is a laughing purposes mainly. tally, Mr ruusical piece. Kelly.” son in Boston. KEITH STATISTICS. The Bf. Keith “ hind of a Cen~ tury” celebration’ Begins Monday in all Keith and’ affliated houses , throughout “North: America, Inter esting features will be injected in alr Statistical information will be given out that when Mr. Keith launched yaudevilie in Boston there wore bilis. showing thirty-three years but few pert while now there It will be shown, s $2,000,000 0 weet are about also, that it to operate the yaude theatres of the Keith group, SHE “WRITES W’ PLAY. Anne Morvison, playing in Tha Bat" at the Moroseo Theatre, has written # comedy catled “Mow Muely Did You Tuve Me He will be pro duced by the: Hobing Stock Company, Toronto, in May BOTH TOLD THE TRUTH. \ young man went to the entrafee of the Stage F Inn yesterday and knocked, A daughter of ry Da. venport of “Thank UU." opened the door “Ts usked t “Yes, jed, of course, this inn open to the public?” > caller indeed,” she replied. op by young women stu “You know." smilingly, “Tye always been interested in every> we Said thing connected with the stage. My name is Augustin Daly.”’ “So have 1," veplied the young, woman. ‘My name is Fanny Daven- port."” A PLAYFUL SPIRIT. “Robert Edeson is to play a Swami in “On the He visited a me- dium recently, he says, and a spirit tried to hug him.” He made an emt airs."” to get cold. GOSSIP. Abraham Levy has returned ‘fren North Carolina. Bill Spaeth will send out the "Lagees White Minstrels again in August. ‘Aileen Poe has been engaged for a role in “Her Temporary Hus~ band, Sixteen peachy stage girls will sell ‘programmes at the Rose Coghlan benefit, Apollo Theatre,» to-morrow night. has