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| THE NEW PLAYS ie “What the Public Wants” A Matter of Taste Laer Oy: 2 OS By CHARLES DARNTON. OH COME ON‘ NOW suRivveL , LET H' CHASPFEUR “TAME YouR GaR Home. A J ND YOU RIDE “OUT. WOTH mm ary ULL HARTA Go vy REMEMBER! “THe ot! Days" aT School. 7 BOTH OF US SONS OF ‘POOR PARENTS — Jus’ Care FREE KIDS — AN' Now — BoTH OF US. BET. The or! BIRD'S, “Thinning I MUST BE A DARN SuccEssFuL BUSINESS MAN “To BE DRIVING A BOILER LIKE This —'s FUNNY He J DONT SPEAK OF TT + He KNOWS QARS INSIDE our! -RATHER EXPENSIVE CAR FOR"A MAN OF YOUR MEANS , ain't IT? How bo vine ‘er SHRIVVEL ? You KNOw Cars —— PAE publications of a certain London editor whose namo carries a title have gone to press many a tinie, possibly without loss of circulation, since Arnold Bennett wrote “What the Public Wants,’ produted in an fatelligent, if somewhat faltering way, by the Theatre’ Guild last night at the Garrick. AeNext to jam there is nothing, per- - _|chest able-bodied performance as a nav ad mae ek ange the self-satisfied editor, He met his Stally wants so much as sensation. IN) match only in Louls Calvert, who ts own quiet way it ball ay seae irnd put up a good ‘fight in the part of lend. Now, being something of a spe-lthe theatre director. There should @ialist in jam himself—though Max]naye been more charm, perhaps, in Beerbohm has described him 4s &! Margaret Wycherly's embodiment of Worker in worsteds—Mr. Bennett the poor actress, but® this role was co te Pidang) edhe fl A ne rig. |Played appeatingly. Jane Wheatley . ; “lwas an ornate and amusingly tem- pad oe eis when be wc, | Peramental leading lady, and Claude @oyed as authentic. a King and Moffat Johnaton acted the Play is accepted here without aues- |) . fon remains to be seen, It las little) Menty man’s brothers with tact and @ram: form, but a good deal of @arpcter, and the vigorous acting of Charles Dalton gave it considerable ‘vitality. 5 Material success cannot be denied. It looms up like a building and.con- fronts the passerby as a solid’ and stupendous thing. Only a spiritual rack in the walls can. mar its im- Posing aspect. Mr. Bennett makes it In short, the Theatre Guild has again produced an interesting play with an excellent cast. THE BIG LITTLE Se : Yessa-We CERTAINUY Satay ‘AtS WaT X SAID~ be WouLD Have TRAVELLED : BUT “PROF! =E THoucHT About Plays Dis business to show this crack, even « P wee ft 44 fy M though: by doing #0 he doesn't a Bliss pinoe = Ill ewer )( FARTHER Hap er OUR pills eenine. seer T-€R- SPEAK eusly woaken the structure. Nothing *GREATARCTIC ‘ AUEN OUT, BF d Pla Sf great importance huppens. After .f Foowene “ime € “WRevess creaures! IN & CULINARY an yers all, the only big thing tn tho play is SENSE MADAM? the forceful publisher, who is not to he despised, no matter how much we nay despise the methods he employs. “ Sir Charles Worgan, owner and di+ rector of forty publications, ts an in- teresting study. Except for «his pgotism there is no nonsense about Si, Starting as the editor of a boys’ f rang Vos eons im Nor- onlyeag seq ghee Namah 4 | ? r ‘ ‘A team oe horses) sHitehea pers 3 ; to the public what it draves. He b 5 7 can't explain exactly what this is, but heb tat area away and an old Negte he ’hus “never mado a failure, and “ A en coe “f in their path. Some one that's enough for him, But with al! seueah ss nies and he gave a juynp ‘Wis success, he realizes that he stands Pee Hoth him Fee pero death, Outside the circle of finer things and ee rela yee ae old Negro cannot break throngh, Althoygh he ee oman rbstone and put Thay, be the hardest man in London : see nia, ads. A white man reach, a8 he boasts, he has no real who seen his eseape, said: : ignds. They almé@st got you, didn’t friends. This, of course, ts often the they?" The old Negro didn’t reply A iatnae be ts ovr aetoaleg hike LITTLE MARY MIXUP . AU Run onthe New Bank | “I say, they almost got you, didn 1 ; © they?” repeated the white man. The ent this hae ake him ; ye old Negro lifted his head slowly. Scoff as he may at superior intel- Ob Gok Lae paella nie wane Ll chili ase fl an’ I'm a’goin’ ter keep right o University training cannot wholly Prayin’. explain the vast difference between ‘Charles Worgan and his finer-grained brothers. Yet it is impossible for him tor get thelr point-of-view when he $ goes back to the fatnily home in one id of Bennett's beloved Five Towns and i find# that a neighbor who ts to take supper there Is likely to have her feelings outraged by the revival of a murder story he has announced in one ot newspapers, He regards this = a8 provincial, and.in a sense is right. The trouble with him— asthe woman ‘he expects to mairy trlés to make him understand—ts that he™*can't see it.” Shevis a poor—a ‘very poor—actress whom he has saved from penury by taking over the theatre in which she. appeared and 16 ing it from am artistic failure @ financial success. Im agreeJng | Frank Tinney and ‘Tickle Me,” is back in town with a story. He J FLYNN, advance man for res = Bid s MAYBE HEL RE 7) —— — SYNOPSIS — 2m oe WAY GLad 76 SEE us irs WorTrt MORE N € SHOULD OUGHT “TE is f AN + er @& QUARTER 16 ty MAYSE Mom's surToR- MisTER ds No quaeTea yy | F stay away ~ les coil To caue™ 1) oo TS BE MARY'S “Te STAY AWAY: EW PAPA - ANYWAY misTER + Ea BLIx “18 MAKING A BIE HIT WITH MARY = He civEs HER JusT LoTs AND-LoTs OF NICKELS AHD PENNIES AND LOLLY POPs — oTHae DAY HE GAVE WER 4 WHOLE QUARTER Just XO Go AWAY AND STAY AWAY - Mary stems 76 HAVE MENTIONED “THis TS ‘- & Faw INTIMATE FRIENDS_ SRD Asean THE OILY PRINCESS, (A novel of a beautiful girl and moaning saxophone, by Wash Tay lor of Whiff, Ky.) Royalty was disturbed in the King dom of Baffilebang. The populace, h sent the King word his block would knocked off if he didn't fire his Prim: Minister, Alonzo P. Jones, a youn; American believed to be a crap- shooter. King Splush did not want to let Minister Jones go, as he was an expert at making home brew and could play the saxophone delightfully. So what was the King to do? Nobody knew! Jones, himself, gave the matter Iit- / tle thought. Whenever the subject : wise! CONTINUED Sat came up he would get his saxophone Cope. Y. Eon. World) By Pree Pub. Co. ty . “Te MORROW — and play ‘The Livery Stable Blues” ‘Stop publication a the murder and soon the threatening populacp tory, ho merely yields@e ber caress, would be forgotten and all would be end this thought troubic. her. She KA TINK A ‘ wakens in him nothing more thar & Tee muth for character. “Bat the| «Lag MA ; + DY'KNOW "THAT GOOF AN ALWAYS HANDS ME AN’ GAVE ME A WIFE aT L : Siting. me belie of machine oi play gains no dramatic strength from ; (s MAKES THe PULL ALL A BUSTED BEAN OR A TWICE HY SIZE Wo WELL, AT LAST HE'S GoNNA GET A ‘DOSE OF ard a box of axel grease,” shd com- thig. remote murder busin: THOSE PID STUNTS AN’ BLACK EYE AT THE END CROWNS ME WITHA HIS OWN MEDICINE — manded. hance, th dal , ( th She wi ajestic figure. Th " ‘to tho man there might be more %, Sa ROLLING PIN AT HE JusT GOT ioe ie ey 2 than ine tears. However, Ben- 4 r “Grease me all over!"* pone aoa of pape atie! torkahae 1 p MARRIED! 7 Just then the strains of “The Livery» Te nat heieomtatian. Se'eaene |..: { 4 Stable Blues’ floated into her window, san as he found him, after the] © 5 44 Next came an angry how! from the has left him to find under- 5 7, populace. Miibiag 304. © thy with bis 4 4 It looked darned touchy for royalty. , casual dramatic critic, You, ‘ } (ToDo Sane) “im-turn, ‘are left to conclude that Z q C Swet the Public Wants” is a matter ~ ae r . GOSSIP. Children of the University Settle- ment will dance Sunday night at the benefit for that institution at the ‘Apollo, Hugh Walpole, coming to, America in the fall, will give an intimate talk in the Green Room of Earl Carroll's Theatre. John Tiller, who trained the Sun- : shine girls in ‘Good Morning 7 Dearie,”’ will sail for America bs JEALOUS? } 7 — i England soon. ome Evidently rather envious of the r ; A Dana, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, |didn't like about the presentation was|And I don't care what any one sayd|mah talent-check he done stop his Virginta Danforth, daughter | of elongated and extremely euphontous . his’ mind. am: William Dat th of “Blossom Time,'* , title of the Amalgamated Association Feat siees: and Vivian Osborn. Ihe = pes ln oe aeseriey ot the about mo far saying that, ether.” [talk bout, de wickedness ‘o' de ‘Renae ip leeies ie POEMS OF PROVOCATION |] w!!!_ maxe a ange dant with the v ociat ivi se) e have bet se c] ‘the _ of Turtles and Turtle Doves of the! 6) nen wear conventional black. oc re) ot Mise Tites por? ae 4 photons movies. changed to “Remember,” Wednesday Fordham Players. U the members of the Supreme 8 “ Ran . a dedi Order of the Rereane ble" rig of a few years ago and—just), . ALICE PULLS A BEN BOLT. Fetentiy it ene haat “ = Hector Hy My) s Wan Strobe clerk, | eb tt pee hig? tars h Be ee ihe wuneata at VOL8TEADY, THERE! KERNEL, NOT COLONEL. between ourselves—we don't blame} ‘The Alice of Ben Bolt fame coula| me: ‘and. now its “Remem.-|sets mad now and then and writes|trect, and will move into It la the Hollywood, submitted a list of its] Walt Hill, alias Hi Specd, puMcist| ver singe the release of “"The Birth | "*T "king.the present style better. weep at the drop of a hat; and Alice .” It's mighty hard to re-|rhymes about things that provokel fall, — officers to Screenings. for Selznick, told some one that we]of a Nation” Henry B. Walthall, one Terry, wife of Rex Ingram, the notea| member whether its “Remember” or] him, He has sent us a Poem of A th ‘ho will ‘Among them ure such titles as Su-| Were poetically inclined. That is, belof the stars of “One Clear Call,"" has WELL MATCHED. director, lives up to the tradition. “Remembrance.” : Provocation that 1s reall th|cBitleted”’ are Lole Bolton. Selena G gy aA to és : ‘ e ally wor! , preme Thrice Infamous Inferior Gu] down and wrote: Recently the screenite, who is now| Atwayes the bearer of a frozen face, /Of Peter Grimm," with David War. | eek in Dublin, No wonder there| I like to go to vaudeville, ig ert digg lho priate aL view of the. tatter, the ‘Turties| nomen: don't ve with hue th bay Moreergg teh agen hens Pier. reeher vemretiod that: bis 'aare Pal bperiog theo sare’ Fee ee eee xaiey. will goto. Awana |}, eee ee Marshall Vincent, \ , 8 uth. ‘ in the au an Eat @tie Doves Save drawn into, Ddands, TE Teed a tenia dan Alaborns os quite blend with the rest of his gent for tha moue pair. Ee arene shortly to praaied pictures. He is to I 99 when I've some time to kill,| The Upper Brnox Club, all girls, their shell, folded their wings and| Some men don't live with wives, town, he was surprised to see a darky es all right, ‘now, howeve congratulated Miss Terry on her act.|© backed by American capital and| Jf fifty cents I've got. had a theatre party at “Six Cylinder shimmied awa: The reason is very apparent— make @ quick movo, grab all his grips | just returned from Truck ver, KeatoD | ing in ‘The Conquering Power.” says one of his main objects in mak-| J like thé songs; the dances too, Love” last night, After the perform- , ee, where it's But kindly jot thia d ance the members visited the com- Too late the stung one gets wise.® | #84 hurry away. as cold as the North Pole, apa ie wan}. Whereupon, Allce, too overcome for| ing the trip is to see If he can find iy “Wha sail y behind thi i ‘Walthill ts ‘Wha's de hurry?" asked another |) oteq by those who cared to look that | Word Pulled a Ben Bolt and wept|# real Vienna roll. I hate the man with jgkes not new pany ind the scenes. to, herself. Ken-gratulations, Kling! [6nd Shorsge “Sim, the Princess, iy ajl the actors were inclined trifle uncertain tn their lines pate ELECTION NOTES. Great big guy, an’ it's | dusky one. copious}: be oun: ; 5 iy. Wonder what the tenor of her Charles Dillingham has ann aapteing ea oet ome nnne eenee oft Hicky, S60 nila bovis, “Yo’ all bettah hurry too!’ pantea | Poth ears were frozen. thoughts may be?’ mused a new. Who chides us when we frown. ne will give a trophy to be knows an A ng connection “Heah' Now every one should be satisfied, “ Ain" Dette faretet er oe Seti — the luggage carrier, ‘Heah's de cubnel + CUT-BACKs. paper. “Ain't a tenor at all,” ai the Globe Championship Cup, to be f for Improving the Condition of the HONOR P. A. o' de Ku Kipxes! Make haste, dinge, Barle willl: . swers Timely Topics Films. “She's] A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. |contested for by male actor-golfers. : bod is coming slong swimmingly|’ 11 doesn't often. happen, but reo) mee Meee ved ee pa CHANGE, TUNE. ieee Sen folate ep finishing|in love with that baritone with a] speaking of daylight waving, we no-| Later he may put up a cup for the a 5 fe nd the other obeyed ri ngerly, ro! loyd needed a ‘ 42 ler | bl. tache.” box 4 ' : hat votes are pouring in. The resylts|¢ently a press agent was honored eaeis vedanta, iin the oes and 1s now restlessing all over the| Robert C. Bruce, famous for nis| {iced 4 sign on the box office of a pic- pee ture theatre uptown Sunday reading, In the cast of ‘‘The Red Geranium,"’ “Watch your change and change your}which opens at the Princess on May watch,"’ 8, will be Florence Rittenhouse, Wil!- o ‘be announced at a grand movie| when Capt. James M. Loughborough ‘he ma ot th Astor Hotel on the night! of the Exploitation Staff of Associ- course). And so he asked an old |*tentic Ocean in his yacht. scenics, is travelling through Califor- ENSIBLE CLOTHES. negro mammy if she would act, She| .Ma&ty Alden, one of the best known| nia, ing more of them, ated First National and also booster} Viola Dana, the dainty little Jexplained that her hushand strenu- |oharacter women in pictures, ison her] Doris Deane, leading woman for far it is pretty hard to tell who Metro ‘star, doesn't believe there is Ratan way East to play a mother rol ly. Sore iam 8. Rainey, Mary Downelly, be clected “Queen,” out we'll ae me Marie Camis! Poi Macaeog | cquoh esuse in wearing what formerly ously objected to the pictures because ‘ole in} Clyde Cook, has just won a beauty FOOLISHMENT. Eleanor Coates, Mary Ricard, Marion he characterized them as ‘wicked.’ _| “The Bondboy."* contest in the Far West. But we Lond, Kireh Markham, ‘Mine ’Giemen her name is in the following However, she was prevaited upon to}. Betty Blythe playn the part of al mustn't hold that against her. ‘The medal of the order, conferred | OMstituted. “sensible | clothes.” she “Married life is not alt joy,” Mary Pickford, Histe Ferguson, says she thinks women's clothes as Governor's lady in “Should H ji i Robert J. Adams, Benjamin. Kauser, ‘I eor the first time in histor pose in a scene and wis given @ 4 oR usbands| When Jim Jeffries wrecked Bob] gaid a bride, Suzanna, . aad taka § paimeaes Ee for ae onthe wen ral ied +S ere ee eae wer sensible out-} check for $10, api eee te er eceee if she is very ks] Fitzsimmons it drove ‘Tom Wilson out “Monday night: my darting boy Baward Gr AOARERN ale eae Pe ptain — . The next day she strolle the | Judy O'Grady? f t game and eventually into : Mathon Davies, ‘Theda. Bara, | the Captain fos his services in keeping | ‘n opposition to the frilly sir," studio, looking for mole picture work], Billy Bevan and Roy del Ruth have| the movies, Now Tom ts quite some| SHpped qn a banana. — } PM ctuaptnin (Ourrare |atory of France betore the eyes oc |tca (ete the eit! oie dened are |t2, do. just finished “Gymnasium Jim.” It|fim comic, Tom helped train Fita,| Made me laugh, I do declare; FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, used rl res “sen- “What about the objecti your | Was three strenuous weeks’ work, but e scrapper himeelf. But it must have hi “Mamma, Willie's swallowed son Childers,, Peggy Hyland, Do-|the American Nation during the Gen-|aibly. ‘There was much truth in}nusband?” asked Lloyd. *°™ they both say the finished picture was| wien tis del was shattered he lost Races pil veisighss ts ch ae Ink." nee Cassinelli, Mary Anderson, Co-|crajissimo’s recent visit. Griffith, May Allison, ‘Viola Capt. Jimmy, says the only thing he a - ‘: 4 that word then. Now ali girls who dress in style are dressed sensibly, ‘ “Dey done vanish,"’ announced the} worth it. all his rosy dreams of being the woman, “Soon's-he catch a squint at! Wish Rupe Hughes would make up ¥ future heavyweight champ. ‘ , t ’ “Horrors! Gi hit ‘Though he's only thirty.” dog sap ani fn ae te ee aR I mae Ser Hos Lad ~ _— - . re