The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1922, Page 24

__ Theatrical News an d_ Gossip _ ~_ THE NEW PLAYS “The Charlatan” Amusing Parlor Magic By CHARLES DARNTON. INCE nearly every so-called mystery play is nothing more than drama- S tized hocus-pocus, what could be more simple and honest than turn- ing back to the old fashioned magician, quivering rabbit, cabinet trick and all, for its inspiration? This is what Leonard Praskins and Ernest Pascal have done in “The Charlatan,” by way of furnishing the sleight-of-hand performance at the Times Square Theatre. For good meas- wre they add a touch of spiritualistic materialization that might confound COE Si (AMS “Mey's A MAN OUT “here, T'SEE YA wuaT Says HE'S MISTER SARIVVEL OH GOSH, Him ? WELL, SHow HIM IN IF HE KNOWS I'M Here! DAWGONNIT , I KNOW WHAT “THAT MEANS — HE'LL INVITE HIMSELE G RIDE HOME wit me AND PLU HAFTA LISTEN 1H HIM MOAN ABOUT HIS Bum car! WELL .WELL ~“Tin's Too BAD OL! MAN — MD LIKE NOTHIN! BETTER — BuT ILL BE WORKING HERE FoR AN HOUR Yer— DARN SORRY ov! MAN ——— 1» repre ee RRS | emt ER A ee TTT The Sower Reapeth! ‘SAL RIGHT Joe — T CAN WAIT? “I (i orf WUD even Conan Doyle. Here you have then, ladies and gen- flemen, two shows for one price. Yet id the bowl! of goldfish set before your € astonished gaze, the frisked and frisky rabbit, and the ribbons drawn from eps, are but trifes compared with the disappearing lady discovered in- terestingly dead in the secret com- partment of a cabinet after swords have been thrust in vain at a dwarf fh apparently greater danger of his life. Observe closely at this thrilling moment and you wil! see the plot get- ting in its deadly work. There is nothing in the theatre so dangerous a8 an evil plot. Shrink as we may from speaking Ill of the dead, we must say the lady who breathed her last in great style $ —full evening dress, no less—had not i been a good wife to the magician, hav- ing arranged before entering the cab- inet to slip out in due time and elcpe with her husband's handsome assist- ant—likewise in evening clothes. He is so worried when she doesn't appear upstairs according to schedule that he rushes down and demands that the cabinet be searched for her. No sooner is the back door opened than out she flops dead to the world. No one could be more surprised than the magician, in spite of his be- ing up to all the tricks in the cabinet wortd. But it’s just his luck, of course, to be accused of the murder. He had been so suspicious of Mhima, with her Spanish temperament, and for all any one knew he might have smothered her. However, every pos- sible opportunity for an investigation fs at hand, for thé pleasant house party in Florida conveniently includes ® doctor and a District Attorney. After an examination the doctor re- porte thet death was caused by a pol- soned reedic, The unfortunate lady didnot get it in the neck, but between the shoulder blades, a matter of no importance considering her style of dress. | » While the District Attorney makes it decidedly unpleasant for the magi- ian you may be sure the skilled Cag- lostro makes a fool of him. Strangely emough, no police arrive in response a call, In spite of the fact that a station only five miles away, meanwhile Cagliostro and other make themselves perfectly ut | ond Indeed, they move around so iy that the exasperated District At- torney finally declares: ‘This roaming about the house must cease!" Event- ually, Cagliostre clears himself by calling on Dhima to come out of the cabinet and accuse her murderer. She is most obliging after a few rappings, but she knocks the romance out of the play by indicating the uninteresting, middle-aged host, who had grown to fear her because of certain shady transactions he had conducted in In- @iay A similar trick was more cleverly in “The 13th Chair,’ iting that even the Joctor had been fooled and anything may be granted in a play of this sort—it ‘would be a pleasant surprise for Dhima to step forth smilingly in the best of health and to have the magi clan politely announce; ‘Ladies and _ gentlemen, this concludes my eve- ning’s entertainment."” He me plains the apparition as his -iltuston,"’ which isn't the same thing at all. - Frederick Tiden performs deftly and —— i , 4 : i 3 ' & i t i { Fairbanks in a picture that eventually be named ‘Robin flock of temperamental that he says helps him his work. newest addition to the Dwan a cork helmet, same wear in Egypt and South he wears it during mob soft velour is for love ie tweed cap for comedy @ plain gray cap, worn with r to the back, is for night s i E i Fa as the ure. this,"’ explained the director, if any one accidentally walks it will i Le Fe 5 i it of the camera ‘ i G. G, G. above Gets Glyn.” And ih turning over her story probably at sunrise. superintend many of ‘and misunderstanding It is also rather hectic. “Three Weeks.” » CONNELLY INJURED. insists that all visitors dress in the fashion of the not knows a girl named Hattie three letters stand for this that the Goldwyn outfit an- yesterday that the famous authoress had signed a con- “Bix " to the producers for on early Glyn has been in conference the Goldwyn scenario editors for which are to be made in Paris. Days” is a strong story of between It is, “1 fr ‘One Week" out of} the Pullman company is insisting that Connelly, anog veteran suavely as the magician, with William Podmore helping him to keep up an air of mystery in the role of the sinis- ter dwarf. Fania Marinoff is a thing of wiles and gestures as the pictur- esque Dhima; Olive Wyndham has moments of pretty terror, and Mar- garet Dale, kinky-haired for a change —though not a change for the better gets considerable fun out of a chatty ro} A generally capital cast, for that matter, makes ‘The Charlatan”’ amusing parlor magic. —_ THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY BLA -BLAB —- BLAH tf WHAT WAS. You BerorRe TI Mer ous NETHING ‘ATS WHAT X Said - — DIDNT © MAKE Yau WHAT You ARG “TO-DAY, HUH ? “Wen Peck” SAWS HE SUFFERS IN SILENCE —— “SuFFER" BUT NOT in St LENce ITTLE MARY MIXUP Tye MwaYS WANTED 6 GET ME A WIDOW - AND MARY S Mom 's A BEAR -— T Wondee IF MARY WouLD LIKE ae CALL TEN Bucks- BUT ITS SURE HEY Mom ¢ THere's A FUNNY LOOKIN’ MAN ouT HERE PEDDLING FLOWERS. WANTA BUY ANY 2 About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY BUT HAVE TON) Ever REPROACHED You FoR \T # ARRY ALWARD, well as a theatrical manager and known advance man, has one hobby and it is horses. He knows every trotter by its first name and he'd travel 600 miles for the chance te drive one in a race. Eighteen years ago, when the Barnum & Bailey heavy horses were brought down to Mott Haven to take the circus over to Brooklyn, Harry drove the quarter- pole wagon and every year since he has repeated. Yesterday he received a wire saying the draught horses would arrive at 7 P. M. and assigning him to drive the quarter-pole wagon. The train got in on time and at 9.80 o'clock Harry started for the lot in Brooklyn where the Ringling-Barnum & Bailey show will be next week His journey ended at 4 A. M. to-day but at 7 Harry was still hanging around the eight horses he had driven over. MISS RAMBEAU TO LONDON. Marjorie Rambeau will go to Lon- don to appear in several of her suc- cessful plays when her engagement in ‘The Goldfish” ends. Among them will be “So Much for So Much," which we consider one of her best. She has never played in London AT THE PRINCE6S. “The Red Gerantum,” @ play Ruth M. Woodward, will be presente. : Baw -wi? How was I 6 KHow HE Was - CALLIN’ on YOU. by the enwich Village Producitiirs Company at the Princess Theatre May 8. ana | NEGROES TO PRODUCE. Miller, Lyles, Sissle and Blake, e who wrote and composed Along," have become produc: y will present at the Lincoln Theatre, Washington, Monday evening, a drama based on the life of Negroes in New York. It is called “The Flat Below.” Wow ! WHAT A WHACK ? THE MISSUS MUST BE MASSAGING THE Boss's HEAD WITH A ROLLING PIN AGAIN ? HEAVENS - (T'S UP — AND We're EXPECTING COMPANY WHO LEFT THAT DOOR OPEN AGAIN — \T NEARLY Took My EYE out ? FoR DINNER, Too 7 screen actor, was painfully injured yesterday while acting in the Metro studios in Hollywood when he was at- tacked by ‘Joe Martin,” a giant ape. The animal crushed the actor in his forearms and bit him several times before other players and attendants could rescue him. Barbara La Marr, who was appearing in the scene with Connelly, was brushed asido when the mame for such a nice looking girl) sat herself down to her trusty and rusty typewriter and figured out the following musical programme for the use of the porters: ’ “Tip, Tip, Tip, the Boys Need Tip- that we need It, but we'll pass it on). Marion said: “Clear cold water is a stimulant. Physicians and beauty experts agree that it is far better than hot water, as the latter tends to make the skin soft and flabby. The use of cold water and the elimination of coffee from the diet are the best things for the com- plexion, picture ‘‘Beauty's Worth.”’ doll-dressers. ‘‘It takes me back the days when I was a girl." of “You're the Heart, Sweet Emmaline."’ My what kind of fences make the best sort of exercise. parlor dust from his boots and now in Banff, Canada, shooting snow-stuff for Curwood's “Valley of Muriel Frances Dana, ON THE SQUARE. r The old-fashioned square piano has a prominent role A DOUBLE HiT. ural. People are not square dances any more. dancing the from the redskins, and then he asked what it was all about A in bis next film, From mdiophone reports, Ted looks| the week of May 3. was Buffalo Bill's ghost Hence the interest man all the way to the West Coast That God Forgot,” 1a, n hereabouts, yesterday read where They're having all sorts of fun up in the Cosmopolitan wardrobe depart- ment these days and the place lookw like the night before Christmas, The tere you a Seu} sue 4 * Xmaslike activity was caused when a larion Davies tipped us off on|hurry order came in to drens 200 di “How to Be Beautiful” yesterday (not |'The dolls are being given robecafisy nals dozen feature pictures thas T the asterring wieew left vacant its porters cultivate harmonious voices BEAUTY HINTS. in order not to grate upon the music nerve of any passengers. Immediately Billy (which ig no 24 Bir etene 5 ee ee GIMME A RAW OYSTER To PUT ON THis EVE, QUICK! L CANT RECEIVE THE SAPPINGTONS WITH A BANGED UP FACE LiKe Tus ! lucky girls who attend showings of the “It’s lots of fun,"’ said one of the “It's not so much fun for me," sighed another, ‘‘for it takes me back to the night I was dressing a doll just like this for my little one and then be- fore I knew it I didn't have any little lape rushed at Connelly and was un-| ‘Bertha, You're Worth a Million| ‘‘And there isn't a better exercise] girl to give It to"'-—— injured, although thrown into hys-|to Me." for reducing than fencing."’ Which only goes to show that all Merl incre That's all right, Marion, but yeu|movie tears are not made of glycerine. ‘the animal, it was announced, BUFALO LEW. didn’t tell us whether to drink the -— would be used in no more pictures, Lew Cody, who has shaken the} Cd water or use it to swim in, or RE-TAKES. the four- year-old Bernhardt of the screen, has in Douglas Mc- Silent. Men,” had the fright of his Lean’s next picture, town and the result was the theatr: | wy gentist is a great old guy, Ear! Carroll for the Green Room of ” t » derby and . was f Seen alg tec Paprectintad Ws ie when be aia a cei like killing two birds with} Marshall Nellan, widely-known di- here iat Re ays (1 knew him when he wuzzen't), | vis theatre. ; : A © was surp: 9 note scores} one boulder. ctor, is on the briny and will eoon * 2 Ar 1 New York's School Board discovered of indians in full war paint lined] ‘Theodore Kosloff, the dancer and] start a. two-months' vacation in| "hat. He says: “Now this won't hurt you) =, THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, Eeeny eee t offered to ive away | up along the tracks when he climbed| character screen ector, has just re-| jourope. Between scenes, William aeeeea mucl We have been using the telephoum how in dead storage, Nobody wanted | 0%, the train: turned from a hunting trip in Arizona!“ weenoid the Man,” adapted trom|2°¥_ in the None. (Cal ain And, sure as fate, it dussen't. twenty-five years and never yet hast eee met ae All made @ beeline for Lew when} which resulted in the bagging of tWO) wo Tite of Our Saviour,” tas been bored pana tne in Ee To te ne| 80 don't pick on a man Hke that, wo known a ‘central’ girl to lose he> in they were told that he was their] good-sized mountain lions. . climbing. at woul ie , the wire, hy." coord Mae Murray, when} man, It took him several minutes}! And at the same time ‘Theodore | secured ge et at the Masonic | wag shooting desert stuff? For he's a benefactor, bese asali hil she heard the story, “that’s only nat-lang a lot of talking to get away] grew a beard which will be Exhibit] Fashion m and Beauty| 4 parrot used in one of the teenes| Lay off, McDuff, you play too ruff Bazaar at Madison Square Garten are It seems that some had spread] like a Bulgarian brigand rampant. The movies are full of mysteries. HARMONY. the news about that “Cody was com- —— Now every one {8 wondering who Billy Dove, who ts about to Pull-]ing’ and the Indians all thought it THE DOLL'S HOUSE. “Mr, X," the author of “The Town Rarbara Bedford has stepped into Patsy Iuth Miller when the latter decamped to aeumMe & now contrast, Fenough real reel talent to make a BURLEY AT THE APOLLO. Fred Moore of the Apollo Theatre Atlantic City, hasn't been well lately and Guy Burley {s acting manager of that house. Guy is a hustler and ts popular down by the ocean. He was proprietor of the musical hit, "Lady, Luxury.” Awl, DON'T FEEL TOUCHY ABOUT THAT, BosS- THEY HAVE SCRAPS AT HOME GOSSIP. De Wolf Hopper is reciting “Casey at the Bat” at Jolson’s Theatre. He does it rather well too. Frederick Lloyd has joined the cast of “The Green Ring” following Eu- gene Powers. Maurice and Leonora Hughes are doing their “Good Morning, Dearie” dances in the Club Maurice, Paris. Winchell Smith and Mrs. Smith will sail for New York on the Homeric to- day. Mr. Smith wrote two plays while abroad. Joseph E. Shea announces that “Om the Stairs” will open at the Gaiety Theatre on May 15. . “Creditors” will open at the Greemi- wich Villago Theatre next Tuesday tor seven performances. Hyman Hirsch and his sisters, just back from Paris, will demonstrate @ new dance, the Hirech Time, at the Carnival at Terrace Garden Dance Jace to-night. Pearea Taylor will conclude her engagement in “The National An~ them” at Henry Miller's Theatre Gat- day night. as Green, the burlesque actor~ preacher, will occupy the pulpit of the Unitarian Church, Newburgh, Sunday morning. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has given an autographed copy of his book "The Wanderings of a Spiritualist’ to ready been engaged in “Kentucky Days.” Clyde Cock has just finished “Th: Ghost Buster." Wonder if it’s any re- ation to “The Ghost Breaker?” George Mitchell, who directed “America’s Making,” the = public school pageant, is seen with Glenn Hunter in the film “Second Fiddle.” Rex Ingram yesterday renewed his contract with Metro for two years He will make six big pictures during that time. The Mayor of New Castle, Pa yesterday declared “Peacock Alley,’ a Mae Murray. film, was not sug gestive. Such a charge had been made in a paper in the Pennsylvania to appear { POEMS OF PROVOCATION Mervin L, Lane is provoked be- cause people joke about dentists, His is a poem of protest and here it is: The wheezes that are handed us In English, French and Latin, Leave me as cold and hard and stig As some seats I have sat in. The dentist gag's a sturdy joke, And summons peals of laugnter. But if folks think at it rl smile, I won't—for I don't haughter. to “% FOOLISHMENT, ip serapy Riebe Our Tutt eat sea WHA that there tooth extractor. naalaeae veal) ol fohnn) eo terday. Thee reports say the bird will Ladies, kindly lend yore sare reco 1 would make a speecta ver. M.D. Gordner of the Goldwyn stat] FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Pay attention, Uttle deara, i haa just beon elected Grand Exalted] “He's the dumbest man I evar Wane aus i Ruler of the Santa Monica Lodge of | knew,” Every one @ peach, lke, “What makes you say that?’ I have scom vou eyeing me, Raymond 1, Schrock, author and] “In a restaurant to-day a waiter In yous manner shy, soonarist, in vacationing in New York {handed him a bill of fare and he sai6t Tate PA say: $ am not free "a a married guy, by prior to a long summer of work, He returns to the West Coast Saturday, al- serene pes onapeny