The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1922, Page 24

MONDAY, MAY 1, 1922 About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY TSURE PLAYED IN SWEET LyoK l SQUARING MYSELF WITH SiRivveL TWAS AFRAID HE'D BE OFF mE mM PRETTY sma HE new Repertoire Compan whieh will occupy the Belmont ‘Theatre next season, is rapidly taking form. The Board of Advisers includes Prof. George P. Baker of Harvard, Louis K. Anspacher, Burns Mantle, Robert G. W Benjamin De Casseres, B. Jay Kaufman, Owen Davis, Thomas P. Robinson, Iden Payne, Augustin Duncan, Lester Lonergan and Robert Milton he play readers and the special commit- tees will be named luter, At least four plays will be approved and ac- cepted before the first one is pro- duced, The company |s planning a season of thirty weeks, and it is likely that a tour of the principal cities of the Bast will follow, Richard G, Herndon, proprietor of the Belmont : Theatre, is the General Director of a the organization. i Saker 1 HE'S COOL, ALL RIGHT. a “Are you cool on first nights?" Brandon Hurst was abked just before he Night Call'’ was launched. Perfectly,” he replied, “in my WHY “THIS MAN Sap HE'D PUT THE SCREENS \N-CLEAN THE CELLAR 'N'EVERNTHIN’ + For Bio . MRS. HARTLEY WINS OUT. When Emily Wakeman Hartley, Manager of the Stamford ‘Theatre, was made Chairman for Stamford of the Woodrow Wilson Fund, predic- tions were made that she would have a%hard time doing the work assigned her because her town is Republican. Mrs. Hartley went at it with all her energy, however, and she now states that Stamford’s quota has gone over the top. “{ don't believe in that word ‘can't,’ said she when the work was done. AN ELUSIVE MOUSE. Mrs. Loo Newman, wife of Broad- ; way's fashion-plate ticket broker, is 3 very happy. She has succeeded in ; catching a mouse that bothered her at her home for three months, Cheese failed to tempt the rodent into the trap, and he ignored bread, porter- house steak, filet mignon and other delicacies, She was about to give up in-despair when she thought she'd try @ cereal. She cooked some oatmeal and put a spoonful in the trap. Next morning there was Mr. Mouse, a pris- oner, using the oatmeal as a poultice for a sore leg. x THEY LIKE JAZZ. Sophie Tucker writes us from Lon- . don to say she has made the biggest hit of her life over there singing jazz 80} TS Cab 18 MISTER BUK Conde nes. “The English are wild over jaz,” says her note, “I am giving them from seven to ten numbers at each show, May be seen in a revue here q soon.” - WARREN EXPLAINED. Frederic Warren gave a pass to one of his entertainments to a young woman. On the pass was the line “Not transferabl “Oh, Mr. Warren,” came from the girl, “what does ‘Not transferable’ mean in this connection? : “It means," he replied, “that you will not be admitted on the pass un- less you come yourself." , TO SHOW “THE PARMELEES.” ‘The American Play Company has arranged with the Beechwood Play- ers, a semi-professional organization at Frank Vanderlip’s theatre at Scar- orough-on-Hudson, to give two per- formances of a new play by Alice Bradley, called “The Parmelees." It S expected a number of Broadway ‘producers will see it, A THRIFTY BRIDE. A certain theatre treasurer, who has a very young bride, had ‘to go ‘way for two weeks recently. She promised she'd write him daily and she did. At first she wrote letters and then she switched to postal card: ‘When he returned he asked why she had used the cards. “I wamted to save money,” she said. “I sent you seven postals instead of letters.” He took the cards out of his grip. “Yea,” he said, “but you put a 2-cent stamp on each card." “Well, what of it?” she said. “1 SUCH A BOAT ID LIKE To MAWE A MIT wiTH l The LD Bird — meBBe wen | |] FAKE A NOTION To “TAKE ME INTO WE SEES MY GAR HeE'LE “Tink Tey ‘We've All Been There! | _ By DON A OH Boy! WHAT IF HE sHou| s His COMPANY — m-m-mM -MH 1M GONNA SHINE UP SHRIVVEL For FAIle BE ON TIME WHAT'S KEEPIN’ THe orp [L CRAB? iF i'm NICE ENOUGH IM LUKE DRIVE HIM HOME WHY CAN'T HE " kite) fo. >? LOG — MAKiN' A FooL oF MYSELF Jus’ ‘DO ME SOME. Goop "! MAGNIFIQUEI” Georges Carpentier, always enthi stic over any undertaking, even pect of again facing Dem pnt into raptures, 80 we are ¢ when he was read the synopsis of story in which he is to be starred the movies by J, Stuart Blackton, When the reading was finished Carp slapped Col. Blackton on th shoulder blade and shouted: “Magnifique! Magnifique!"* ‘Then he was shown a photograph 6 the English screen player who ts # opposite him, and the fights r spouted: “Tres jolie! La belle Anglaise!’ *At's all right, Georges. But careful what you say about the dies. HERE 1 SIT WAITING For IN HOPES CT'LE play Once upon a time there was a@ 8! opera prima donna who never on all her singing career developed perament or took a try at the mo But that was “Once Upon a Tim SOME TABLE D'HOTE, J. Gordon Edwards, in Rome filmi ‘Nero’ for Fox, wanted to stick Now! IN A FEW DAYS + \ OH! MY BILL ? —eR— F352 Pease! MISTER “BLIY is Now You CALLING - ERUN ON To & Good TONIGHT — Hed MAYBE I can eT You KNow- Maybe Mr. Blix Would Like to Know Too! jqicnu hired “cream: fosting om details, and so, when about to a week-end party as given by ancient ruler, he sent his scouts @ to find out just exactly what Ni had served as he was pouring tea, The scouts brought back the fa lowing menu: Dormies stewed with honey al pepper, sages served on” indi vidual stoves, plums with kernels pomegranates, pea-hen eggs witl wheat ears hidden in the centre, peasy beef kidneys, African eggs, custard, lobster, fowl crammed with nut rabbit larded with fish fins, relish wild boar, dates, almonds, little pili stuffed with sweetmeats, blackbird tongues, locust fried in honey, hon flavored jelly blocks encasing brotli humming birds, breads, cheese cakes) whole thrushes with the bones re- moved, sugarloafs crusted with caviar, haunch of bear, fried snails, cold tarts dipped in boiling honey, bacon drippings with goose Iver gravy, eels stuffed with brandied peaches, drinkable perfumes, salad of chestnuts and hearts of roses, wine chilled turtle soup and a few addi. BED LIKE SiR rs a ERI SS Saar FIND ouT f | - MR BLIX ~~) WHAT, Maer 7/ / tional dishes, washed down with 100 varieties of wine. And, even after partaking of a rep- Mea of that supper, one of the actor’ went to a lunch cart and ordered ham and. 1S GONNA BE ) MY NEW Papa. R-C ENLARGES. An announcement filtered tn fr Los Angeles yesterday to the effec that ’P. A. Powers, who now control R-C Pictures, Inc., had completed ar- rangements whereby R-C was to 00-1 cupy the United Studios for the staging of future productions, The United Studios, formerly known as Brunton's, is one of the most com- plete motion picture plants on the West Coast and adjoins the present R-C studio. Ry combining the two, R-@ has added fifty-six acres to its studio equipment and, according to Powers, there are great plans for the futu! ‘The value of thd amalgamated studios = ge CONTINUED “ToMoreow — GEE, 1 COULD JusT USE: THAT TEN CENT es! ’ Pores mT Emr That’s Right—Blame the Woman! GREAT SCoT! WERE You IN A and land is placed at $12,000,000, RUSH HOURS. ~ William De Mille believes in qual- ity rather than quant'ty. That's why he makes comparatively few scenes each day A visitor dropped in on the set where De Mille and his company were working on his latest film, ‘Nie People.” v “How are you getting on?” aske the visitor of one of the players, ] ‘We've been working terribly hard] to-day," replied the actor, “we Wid three days’ work this morning.”* How do you figure that out?” asked the astonished caller, “Well,” replied the wearied player, “Mr. De Mille shot one scene—and that's three days' work the way he does It DICK DECORATES. Now, what do you think of thi: girls? Handsome Dick Barthelmess hi gone and done it! What? why he’s sprouted a lip-muff that is wonder, had some 2-cent stamps I Widn't know what to do with.” ANOTHER ROSENFELD BARD. er Arthur Rosenfeld has be- Mn, asad poems for us. He lives] Stup (a young lady, by the way) at No. 10 West 117th Street, and his|has no use for young men who take is a talented one. Seeing “Bronx|giris home and try to kiss them, Fesprees at the Astor Theatre re-| And we think she is right about it. cently, he felt constrained to write the}Imagine a cakie being so fresi following about Hope Sutherland, who} well, Stup has written us a Provo- appears as Leah: cation rhyme about the whole matter, “Oh, Leah, my dear, sincere, Look: For love you shouldn't fear. Rarely I'm in anger steeped, A maid s0 cunningly sweet, My temperment is quite serene, * I've often longed to mect. But there's a time when I see red, Arthur. And now I'll tell you what I mean, tweed I meet a lad at a cakie'’s dance, ~ (HASCALL’S EXCUSE, With patent leather shoes and hair; Loa Lampe rae nae, Sine He takes me home and smiles at me, boul’ was late’in arriving at the the- yen cr tly, and st Director He even coughs up street car fare. - » leg hi agie gear eer aig When we reach home my tecth I ‘Just came from @ hospital,” said grind Lea. As cakie takes a look around et. Vo were you doing! Ana ambles in and up the steps. rent to mee an old friend of mine. You see he is a Hallway Hound, a bow," said Lon, And as the come- dian walked away the Stage Manager coughed, vaudeville shows so long they know what an audience looks ‘The other day the stage man- DU MAURIER NOT COMING, Geoffrey Millar of “Bull Dog Drummond,” a nephew of Gerald Du Maurier, the English actor, has had a letter from his relative giving his plans. Mr, Du Maurier will revive “Dear Brutus" at Wyndham's Thea- took| tre, London, and play in it until f August. In September he will have a new play. ‘The report that he was to visit New York is without foun- dation, OH, CONSTERNATION! Zita Moultony appearing in the support of William Hodge, in Wash- ington, writes that she had a weird experience when the Hotel Willard's ballroom caught fire recently, She had just donned a bathing suit to have a swim in the hotel's pool when the fire broke out and she had to run downstairs considerably undressed, Seven firemen, who were directing a stream of water, grew rattled and missed the fire by fifty feet. GossiP. The “Her ‘Temporary Husband’ company will make its preliminary tour by automobile. Fokine and Fokina will dance at the Eoulty Show at the Metropolitan Sunday, May 7. “Sue, Dear’ was voted a real suc. cess by Stamford audiences, It opens m Atlantic City to-night. David Warfield will close his tour in “The Return of Peter Grimm" in Arkon, ©., to-night, He has had a successful season Josephine Drake is now featured tn “Lilies of the Field," which opens May 1 in Chicago for a run, ‘Tyrone Power has been engaged for the role of Herod in the Players’ Forum production of ‘Balome,"* Elsie Dufour, with Liliae MacLane a and the Dufour dancers, will dance at Town Hall, Thursday evening, May 4. For its Philadelphia engagement the Robert Edeson-Hilda Spong plays tile has been changed from “On the Stairs’ to Haunted." HIS OPINION. Avery Hopwood has written a vaude- HEY'VE been carrying on @ re-} <q), ville sketch for the use of Edna Aug. vival over tuther side of Mount eens She will appear in it next season, Pizgy for quite a spell,” related THE REAL DIFFERENCE. Lois Bolton has bee a revival of **'Billetted' done The Mayor Social Club will hav minstrel show May 20. Phil and die Ross will crack jokes, “Her Tempori Husband,” in which Tallulah Bankhead has the leading role, will open in Stamford on May 9. engaged for soon to be and a pleasant time was had tll the converts took to confessing in meeting. A sister riz up and let it be known that she and a certain brother had been figgering on elop- ing, and two or three brothers follered with re- marks about the sins of themselves and other gents. “Next day the lady's husband A THOUGHT FOR To-pDay. Pity the woman who doesn't talk about her neighbors’ clothes—she's blind, 4 pa FOOLISHMENT, An artiat who lived at Rich Hill Said; “William, my son, please sit}though he swore he'd never even 4 he boss."* still heerd of the plan, whipped him to al‘ : photographer, will turn the crank on} for @ mask by W. T. Benda, the Then, tho! he'd no fear custard. And quite @ passe! of gents} “A lot of men think that way, and) to) No tian when that story ia|Polsh artist. That took two haurs, had Gram ldanh an ce left in the next few days, claiming|yet there's one big difference. He] turned into pictures in London. ‘Then she grabbed a scant bite and aap near, that if everybody was going to tell! knows what you don't know." “Alert action always actuates am-|of coffee and started in her regular The artist at ounce drew hig Will. everything they knowed they didn’t FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, |set- frequently sleeps standing up, Johnny—The cop, every feller that feels like he'd got to Preas It confess go ahead and do 80, but leave other ties nt of it. Kansas City |‘ @Ppear in several Lasky picture Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark..]¢¢ CAN'T see why boss over me. the work around here. “1 guess that is] the ‘champion freckled kid of the|aprout the hirsute barricade, ‘but T do most of I know the he] put in a torture chamber and forced Whenever| to undergo untold agony, This is a business than he wants to know anything about going on|sor of the Goldwyn menage is de- he comes to me to] scribed as being hunted up the feller she said she'd] ‘That's usually the way." been going to elope with, and al-| «im the fellow that ought to be] ted line, however. feel like waiting till the Grand Jury nae a IT enough to hire good] Aesop's Film Fables, men like you to do the work, If yon] Doris Deane, leading woman for|through for the day with nothing to Teacher—Name an animal that] ‘Religion 4s all right, but I sorter|know that you'd be the boss and he'd| Clyde Cook, has just won a beauty }to until Monday, ‘ of ‘low it ort to be a private matter—|he in your } place,"’—-Detroit Free|contest in the Far West. But we| Judging from that the “sang te /J Knowing Richard pretty well, never would have thought that he ever take to hiding behind a fringe, but he has. So, at last; the secret of that cent trip to Bermuda ts out. Kno ing that he must have a mustache order to portray his own father his next film, and having heard #1 onions and potatoes grow well Bermuda, Dick lied himself sou! ward, When he went his face wi as smooth ax a baby's, When he RETAKES. Pyramid Pictures, Inc., announces ft has just purchased Donald McGib- eny's story ‘When the Desert Calls. What is the call—‘'How Dry I Am? Arthur Carew is treking westward Ray Smailwood and the cast of “The Queen of the Moulin Rouge’ arrived in New York yesterday from Quebec, where they have been shoot- ing snow stuff. turned he looked like a Fredey Vitagraph comes to bat with the|Remington cavalty sergeant. claim that Little Richard Daniels is] It only took Richard a week is screen." Some claim, we'd aver, with Wesley Barry in the immediate offing. Larry Semon in his latest film is will take him leas than that to rid of it once he has posed in all th scenes that call for extra hair, STUDIO LIFE. Studio life isn't one grand, swe song, although most every one outside, the movies thinks it Is. Take Mabei Ballin, for instance. The word ‘Work is stamped on her doormat and embroidered on ati things. Last Sunday Miss Ballin, in- stead of lolling over a leisurely break- ” fast, as most of us were, arose short- ly after 6 and started right in posing reversal of form. Usually the spécta- tors are the tortured ones, Blonde and beautiful Claire Wind- “of Swedish destrac- tion."* Helen Chadwick just dotes on auto- graphs. She prefers ‘em on the dot- Charles Van Enger, noted Cinema bitious attainments,” —_—alliterates|day's work of posing before the eam- ara, By 7 that evening she was almost, mustn't bold that against her, somewhat of a discord. \