The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1922, Page 36

Theatrical News and Gossip he Evening World's ete te “t- “t- -+ Appointment With Mr. Shrivvel | } _ THE NEW PLAYS i “The Night Call” a Gets the Bootlegger By CHARLES DARNTON 'M @LAD 1 RAN ONTO JOE AGAIN He'S A GOOD CHAP, ALTHOUGH 1 NEVER LIKED HIM VERY WELL IN SCHOOL ~ MIGHTY NICE OF HIM % OFFER. B MOTOR ME HOME — ft HAVE. KEEPS PEOPLE WAITING Like. AN IDEA 1 CAN Do SOMETHING TAS ~? = We Must “tine aim FOR HIM IN A BUSINESS WAY A HEAD WAITER ! 1 WONDER IF HE ALWAYS HOH -1-HUHM —!-< GOSH —T wish OL SHRIVVEL WOULD GET ME 4 SOFT JOS IN HIS RUBBER COMPANY # } WAS BOUND to happen. With all his artful dodging, the festive boot- legger could not hope to elude the watchful melodramatist. And by ali the powers of hooch it's a woman who has run him down! Adeline BeHuricks gots him with “The Night Call” at the Frazee Theatro. "This is no common, sordid cellar Paid of the home-brew variety but a Gescent upon a tunnel with cases of imported stuff stacked up be- ers’ Assembly to tell the rest of her story, It is the end of an imperfect play that you may go to see if you are Reath a stately old Jersey mansion, if} brave and reckless in your theatre- You please. It seems that friends of] going. It may be that the time is leon had planned to sneak him| short for such an adventure. Of St. Helena and stow him away in| Perhaps to lighten her woes as the this seaside retreat but perhaps it's} heroine, Elsie Rizer. returns from the as well they didn’t, for he might] coroner's inquest bedecked 'n a rose- the place a bad name. In] colored gown, with stockings to vent Federal agents snoop-| match, and a white feather drooping alons the Jersey coast would} «ver one eye. Otherwise sho is gnite 4, bably start right in by saying|'n harmony with the play. Charles L "8 lock into that Napoleon dump," | Trowbridge, Helen Lowell, Neilie end utterly ruin it as a base of sup-| Burt, Earle Mitchell, Brandon Hurst, Some times a little history 1s] Gay Hanna and Wells Spalding ‘act © dangerous thing. as well in the dark as they do in the As matters have turned out, real] jignt, and a radfophone adds to the (@stinction has come to the dear old] mtrul mystery. Place, for its bootlegging group in- Glutes a former eminent jurist and one ‘Of the biggest sheriffs that ever struck terror to the soul of a weighing ma- @hine. Tiere is a third member but he‘doesn’t amount to much. In fact, he is so low in the social scale that he takes the name of a captain sup- WAS UERW FOND THEN WHY WeLL— and Players Peved to have died for his country, ic OF “OUR ee DID ‘ou LeAve We CouLDNT ON MY id is all t to mar e Becrets is (6 lanerit the moanalon, Sese aM BN eALS CONTINUE TO. Sarary ¢ By BIDE DUDLEY Bhe doorn't love him but she wants ae eter! BE “FRIENDS — to pleas» her uncle, the ex-judge, who 4m turn ‘s ready to do his fellow boot- Jogger «. favor. Al this is naturally a bit rough on the ‘girl, though not nearly so rough has been playing with a stock company at New Britain, Conn,, has been having trou»lesome A PPARENTLY Louis Mann, who ‘ap the weather on the night she is ¥ . 5 f times. A report from New Britain : rea 7 a id loft alcne in the house, One of those (3) day before yesterday sald & lane part storms ich Jersey prides itself : : ss 8 na bes . d . performance of “Friendly Enemies, is making her awfully jumpy when > z A strange young man pops in and has $b - * walked out before the play was over. with her. Yes, you are right—he bs i SS i . ihe another report cane in saying the real captain, but he just asks r. Mann had stopped abruptly in the questions without saying much about middle of an act and requested a if, Although interested in him, polfeeman to remove a man who, ho ‘) poor girl is sleepy and goes to said, was annoying him Why these troubles have arisen nobody seems to FE : SZ hes ; = . know along Broadway. The stock the sienaige Cu Thies Maal i company is not made up of Equity glcam through the darkness as e players but it is highly improbablo Rum hunners! ‘There are that the Equity would care to make & of them, and strangely enough trouble for Mr. Mann. That has 4 never been its policy. New Britain H Stenes the optior drawing a list is pretty much of a union towd, how- eS is : i co ale ever, and it is possible that people contumers out of a secret com-| | Mom wen A +3 “PAPA, one DAW -W ¢ affiliated with other unions have mt above the fireplace. the ’ Pen of the gitt's uncle and a thor Winow Has 4 ' 1 M T was _Sust Fp eae beaedl bretiee nari retain tpt oor t : the actor. Mr. Mann, an, officer of § a“ hly unprincipled looking bootles-1 | supoR «Misre PRACTICING the Fidelity League, Is very active in aled, Their quarrel at eR pie nah AA A (are rev. eir q Bux ly ta ey the work of that body of players. foot of the stairs is cut short by LIK CAUSE ~ 4 He is, also, a man who speaks right Cia Wien WE cALED : Q i o out In meetin’ and expresses pointed From all you can see it Inoks bad THE OER Day = \ Q “Az Waveoay Regier realty Uncle George. Yet betore ho WITH 4 PLANT { : | Mr. Mann or somebody else— in New ‘game, some one knocked a loud note Fo: —————sF : R \ Britain. ‘of the piano, bear this in mind. Mi R bara thiye : > 1 / t course, the girl who stayed alone STOO iM For 4m the house all night ts suspected Pe mM ‘and finally accused of murder by the LOWER Federal sleuth who gets on the job] | TEDDLER - Bur 4m the morning. The sheriff's young Gaughter helps with the housework os ‘@nd is so sympathetic that she moves oO * the distressed hero‘ne to say brightly N BE REAL ‘48 she rests under the dark cloud of ICE TS Him murder: “What is it, do you think, i thing we call love?” =, iN vTURE Pas AND THEN THEY LAUGHED. Belle Baker, who is a young mother, was so popular at the Franklin Theatre the other night that she ran out of songs. Smiling but weary she threw up her hands and asked: “Well, what will you have me do next?” “Bring out your baby,” came from CONTINUED a woman in the third row. 3 @ And just then, darn it, a big, fat vaudeville performer weighing 200 nourds, accidentally stepped ‘out of the wings onto the stage, en this beautiful serenity is dis- a Z r Toro ‘4urbed from time to t!me by the soul- = = . ; Z acl aoe detective, members of the house- together with impromptu gucsta, through the fireplace and fra- ' . te sate the freplace and fra: \ TO OFFER SHAKESPEARE. ly, the sheriff makes the mistake 7 R = ts ‘of jumping into « chest, and when he ’ THe Miu WAGON IS" corer rn ot tar U GON 1S \T's MY Forks shakespeare, played by famous stars, Przios oss peunnanees srt he did onemeen ean ARRIVING IN THEIR together with Mark Antony's.sceng at @ q is ghter THE CANS RATTLING! Caesar's death; will *comprise 7 y i J ~_ , ‘lagsical feature of the Equity Annu pe ee nese! REMAN fa = Z y Show at the Metropolitan Opera 2 House a week fr % » and after following him through n ae storm— TO DANCE IN THE STREET. be far to the Pay : One of the principal features of Mrs, 5 ‘ +s Lydig Hoyt's Theatre programme at z *he Street Fair, to be held om Park Avenue, May 16, will be a Russian dance given by Gilda Gray and her sirls from the Rendez-Vous, This dance was staged by Fokine, BOX BRINGS GOOD PRICE. The Friars box at the recent Rose Coghlan benefit brqught $401, and this amount has bee turned over to Sam 4. Harris by William Collier, whd dis- posed of it. The benefit was a great juccess both artistically and finan. clally. A SURE SURE-FIRE. , Someone once remarked there was such thing as a sure-fire io."" We differ and offer— SPRINGTIME LOVE. Close-up of baby smiling—cut to Long shot of chicken scratching’ for baby chicks—cut to View of mother in Madonna-like at- smiling at baby. it out. I am depending on the short|*Torchy” series, ran against a good} so enthusiastic that he was about to|phers doubt the authentictty of any of|lulu. She is accompanied by her | Iris tn long shot of country boy and|*tory market for plots right now and| one over in Port Washington yester-|don tinsels and tights and go out and|Sir Arthur's pictures of the disem-| grandmother, Mrs. Julia Miles. POEMS OF PROVOCATION | on Ward's Island next Thursday. @ i—Iris out, will always be on the lookout fpr|day. The scene called for an auto-|try a triple-somersault, bodied soul, but the photographers] Hope Hampton, rushing about The “Sue, Dear," musical comedy Close-up of father bird singing in] Yarns that will fit well on the screen."' | mobile to be driven over a cliff. They “I think I can still do it,” said Eddie | feel that he could have far more in- | making personal appearances in the Frank M. Mahoney of the Bronx}°OMpany, opening in Stamford to- t—panbrafna to ‘eeliican ‘ound the cliff and were about tg}to Al Feinman, his press agent. teresting subjects just for the asking.| South, is spending her time betweer| ja, entered the contest for the iron|™&ht, carries two big radiophone View of whole nest, showing mother vend the machine hurtling when two] “But what if don't?” Al.| ‘For an autographed copy of|stations considering manuscripts fo. power amplifiers, and birdlets—tade. z ‘The champion long-distance-catch:| ‘armers, the joint owners of the land, |"what would become of ieee ‘of | ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ said Seitz, ‘any | her next picture, pansy. His Poem of Provocation deals} " winiam’ € Close-up of little old gray’ mother}us-catch-can and no-holds-barred | 1ppeared. Captain Kidd's adventures?” one of Us could give Sir Arthur éither] Lee Moran has just purchased »| With baseball and should prove pop- ing wistfully. movie-talker gat behind us during the} The refused to allow the scene to} 0 Bddie called It off. @ still or a movie of the shade of |iitty-acre tract of land in the San|W&r with many fans, Look: Long shot of mother cat and kit-|unreeling of “Around the World With] be taken unless they were paid, Then Anthony Comstock doing the} Fernando Valley, Cal. He says hi | /'™ fond of baseball, you can bet, Burton Holmes," Tuesday night. She] one suggested the scene could be shot shimmy,” would tell us how much money he | I love to see it played. i Close-up of baby crying—tfade. started right in when the film showed|!f Johnny would give him what was HAROLD CELEBRATES. 3 going to las Renn ha: mab aiente! 1 90 out to the ae poor time oeeegtd of country girl lookin¢|Times Square in New York and/left of the machine. An agreement| Harold Lloyd celebrated his birth- t GOSSIP. The Friars wil) entertain the people Rainey will have the principal role in the “Red Geranium," at the Princeast May 8. Taylor Holmes, now in ‘The Hotel Mouse;'s ‘is to star in a new Shubert production in the Fall, and sells it—only he can't figure 3, fs Frederick ("Kid") Wedge, th - ade. gabbed all the way to Southampton.|was signed. The farmers stepped |day yesterday. Harold wouldn't have | STILLS. high. My bankroll “makes the grade,” | oii iarvard stadent, ss “loa: -up of country boy looking--| London, Paris, \taly and— back. Johnny poured five gallom of| said a word about it, but some one} “Friday the 13th,” a Paul Parrott! Brownie, the wonderdog, is heins |But one thing has’ provoked meé}som time"-iast might at the Ambas- wall, it might be most anything—tade. ‘Isn't that wonderfulT" she gasped,| gasoline over the machine, touched| spread the news about the members |~omedy, Shows every sort of jinx in| airected by Alf Goulding. much— sador. ' Close-up of ensuing kiss—tade. T've stood right there on Times|a match and started it. of his company and when Harold went | 2Ptivity. It will be released on } Close-up of American flag—needie-|Sauare.”” Over the cliff it went, leaving alto punch the time clock he found in| “ay 18th. ‘out, “Un, buh." crooned her friend. | biasing comet-like trail. Its place beautiful grandfather's} Snub Pollard, now acting in a hick ‘Ob,” cackled the talker, “that'’s} When the farmers reached “their|clock made of Circassian walnut, the|:0medy, personally supervised thc Fiaving finished his role as a N. W M P, Sepgeant, E. J. Brady ha: signed for another “cold and blea’ role” with Dorothy Dalton in “The A lot, to tell the truth— Max Marcin Is to produce a new It’s that there darn suspension of _|three-act comedy by Aaron Hoffman, My slugging friend, B, Ruth. _ entitled “Give and Tal THE END. se sed ey saat J The | Sisterhood Men WANT NEW STUFF. Ge nce cite Witch vere cere ESS He eoee ener. Re Glatay, So tices then | eee ie taking fenci A THOUGHT FOR TO Ased and intr, wll have « bonett '° ~ we e car was to 4 iy yeste . le lares ere Bert Lytell is bus: king fencine ‘TO-DAY. buh,” moaned the friend, be burned” théy expostulated. ses. Wace. Pa, misled tno. She ee a ;. “Jat the Sam H. Harris Thea ‘ Jabez Hecker of Wellsville, was ihn given a 26-cent cigar by a travelling man recently. Jabez is saving it for his Fourth of July celebration. Ul % : studio cafeteria for luncheon, he was| ¥ére no repeats in the list, all make-|'egsons, He fights all the wa: baad matty Pere. I've fame ‘hace Pa ingecoad did 1,” chimed in Hines. | stil! furthor surprised when the chef |4ps being different. through hig next film and wants t afternoon e the Cunee ol etl i anni ne Sarre erases. Then| trundied in an immense birthday cake] “Fire Fighters,” with an entire cast | be prepared to be on the we 3 ie “Uh, huh!” sighed the friend. LOE Tt, Be tone ene-cer scene and} A family party-in his home rounded |of Kida, and canines, is just of the} stead of the recelving end of the demand has already been made,| On the screen a title flashed which r ne out his happy natal day, camera in the Hal Roach studio, rapiers, a Put Marshall Neilan, famed director, | stated that when the picture was made How old was he? Joo W, Farnham, title-writer and|, Robert B. McIntyre, casting direc: FOOLISHMENT. \Palleves that it will grow wonderfully.| was the first time a white person had POLO GREETS 'EM, That's Just what we were wonder-| who claims to have originated thc |t0r for Goldwyn, says the outstant. | 7 know @ young woman named Nye, “Producers,” said Nellan, ‘‘are| ever penetrated that part of Java. Eddie Polo, now the acknowledged | 'RS: famous title “The End," is planning | "x tFalt of applicants for movie Jobs) 1, tung @ dig nail in a pie, away from adaptations of] ‘And I suppose you often stood on| “Serial King,” and now working on the release of a series of Tombston: | *pashtulnets ss . gteven | Said she, with good grammar: 4nd stories, due largely to the| that spot?” asked an annoyed spec-| "Captain Kidd,” broke in the show| ATTENTION, SIR ARTHUR, |Comedios. He claims these stories} | S¥!via paca wgd ch iceliagincieherba i } # yi that after they pay fabulous sums] tator behind the knowing on world ag an aertallat {na circus. Yes-|_ ‘Twenty-three motion picture cam. | "ave made millions laugh themaclves| 7m and Stuart Hall were yestonday}. “Gosh! Where ie the hammor? motion picture material they are] ‘Why—er—er.” blubbered she. terday he strolled into Madison Square | oramen, headed by John F, Seltz, star | ° death. ‘ irhalr pec {'a nat in this pie—wonder why?” ped to change it. “Uh, huh!" exulted the friend. Garden and renewed several old ac-| Metro photographer, yesterday ot- Raymond Hatton, characier co-}|. pp seo’ the Sea’ Rudolph “What the average producer is after] The rest of the film ran off in| quaintances. fered to provide Sir Arthur Conan] vedian, was yesterday added to the| cameron plays opposite “The Woman silence, After meeting and talking over old] Doyle with all the “spirit photo-|oast of “Pink-Gods,” Bebe Daniels's| qe Married." She's Anita Stewart —_— times with “Sultan,” the famous lion,|graphs" he can use during his| atest. and this is the first time she an¢ JOHNY SHOOTS A 7. Eddie wandered into the dressing | lectures. Mary Miles Minter is reported as} rriend-husband have been in the same Johnny Hines, still filming bis] room of the earl acrow ly end grew| It isn’t that any of the ~_— veing on her way back from Hono-]film since they were wed. day evening. r “Partners Again,” the new Potash & Perlmutter play, comes to New York with a record of capaeity audi- ences on its preliminary tour, Margaret C. Sullivan, playing the role of Aunt Jemima in “Bronx Ex- press," at the Astor Theatre, is a daughter of the late Big Tim Sullivan, John Golden has engaged James Bradbury for the role of the father in “The First Year.” The part.was cre- ated by William Sampson, who died recefitly, Reports from the Moore & Megley FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Why is a pretty woman like o door knob?” production, ‘Molly, Darling,"’ which @ “You'll have to tell me. John.” is In Cleveland, say it ts @ good show, “Bhe's something to adore.” “It is headed for the