The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1922, Page 32

| THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1922 | THE NEW PLAYS ue “Partners Again” Loads of Fun. JUST A MOMENT ~ You're |! SURE! 1'™ Gonna NOT FIGURING ON “TaKinGe Rida tebe out “We CAR’, ARE You? FOR “TH FIRST GAME — IVE FOUND OUT “THe oLd ORAB'S WORTH A MILLION BERRIES AN’ THAT'S ALUT WANTA KNOW — “IM DAWGONNE LUCKY He'LL RIDE. (WHY NOT! \asn'T He. GOT “WREE CARS AND “Two CHAUEFEURS OF His |. Own ? WE HAS ~ ay’ “WAT'S duet ay 1M “TAKIN HIM IN, MY car —!—. — and doe! —yoi'p OF “THE SEASON -- WHY NOT? ad 1 y CHARLES DARNTO! IN MY o1' BUS —I'm sorRY IF . 1M GUMMING UP. 4 YOUR PLANS - HPRE is cause for hearty rejoicing over the reunion of Barney Ber- “Too BAD~ of nard and Alexander Carr in “Partners Again” because of the fact that. Good BYE. this happy arrangement enables Abe and Mawruss to be themselves Again, It doesn't matter that they have changed from the clothing to the Automobile business, for nothing could change Potash and Perlmutter. Our disputatious friends have their ld troubles in a new place. But the feeling that they knew more about clothing than they know about cars is not at all disturbing. It is possible at the Selwyn Theatre to take mere!- Jess delight in watching them fairly race to disaster, getting terrible bumps at every turn, yet hanging on for dear life and bawling each other @ut with undiminished vigor. Al- @ough there have been funnier Pot- ah and Perlmutter comedies, this mew vehicle, as the saying goes, is Jeads of fun, Assembled by Montague Gass, and Jules Eckert Goodman, it @reaks and rattles in parts, but it scatters laughs all along the way like fo many chickens taken by surprise It is enliventng to contemplate Abe musing gloomily 6n his “hunches” In the absence of any knowledge of the trade. But his instinctive suspicion of the crooks who threaten to put him out of business and into jail is swept aside by the enthusiasm of Mawruss He simply doesn’t understand, ‘To him even the stenographer is just “the little girl. wi had her teeth straightened for $3: *He is worried when he learns his young foreman in going to her House every hight, and dismayed upon finding that-his blun- against any outside criticism, by stout- ly declaring: “My partner may be a lunatic and a damned fool, but he's got a heart like « watermelon.” No more is needed to cause Abe to beam with gratitude. Adele Rolland is by long odds the prettiest stenographer of the season. As the mother of this businesslike charmer, Helen Reimer is unduly tear- ful and, through no fault of her own, somewhat tedious on the mirthless subject of operations, It remains for Jennie Moscovitz, as Rosie Potash, to look after Abe, and she ts equal to the job. If we were us mean as Maw- russ we might add: Some job! THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY 1922 (N.Y. Eve. World) By Press Puby Go, CHOPPED IT AGAIN! — THis DAWGONE GAME I$ ENOUGH To MAKE A Parson cuss ¢ BETTER LET HIM WIN ‘ATS WITT SAID — WHAT Do Sou MEAN 6Y SWEARIN’ GEeFoRE MY Wire ? X DIDNT KNow YouR WIFE WANTED “vo ewens FIRST About Plays and Players oe EORGE C, TYLER recently G read the opening instalment dering attempt to stop their love- of a story called “Merton of making results in his getting them the Movies’ in # weekly publication: engaged right before his bulging It is by Harry Leon Wilson and, @ eves, This is the most laughable in- knowing Mr. Wilson well, Mr. Tyler eldent of the play, though the scene wired Him asking if he might have | im which Abe faces the prospect of going to Atlanta Prison and keeps re- minding “Mamma” Potash of things the dramatic rights. Mr. W plied that the play was Mr. Tyler's, The producer, with to put in his bag has its homely Glenn Hunter in mind, sought George. phase of humor. When she is sug- Kaufman and Marc Connelly, au- gested as 0 possible witness, he thors of “Dulcy” and “To the La- makes one of his worst breaks by say! the hearing of the Commis+ no How can she be a witness? Bhe uin't been coached yet His momentary hope that a patent for a substitute for gasoline invented by the foreman may count as an asset js rudely lied by Mawruss, who euts In with: “If that’s asaet, then diabetes is an amusement.” His view of matrimony is no less cheerful as he reflects: “Men can't afford to get married nowadays until they're so old that practically nobody will have them.” However, the invention turns @ut to be worth oodles of money, and the stenographer and the foreman ans — THANK You . “THANK You VERY uct AWAD EVERYTHING ~ HeY Mom. I cuess MISTER BLIX /LK MAKE & FINE PAPA T LiKE HIM Twice Yi AS WELL As I Dip Year - Just Capr, 1922 (N.Y. Eve. World) By Press Pub. Ca EXACTLY ¢ * Twick —~ { T asked Hig { AND HE eave | FoR & NicKeL | Me A DIME dies," and asked them if they would make a play for Mr, Hunter out the story. They would, so avrants ments were made to that end, It is expected that next season George . @ ‘Tyler will present “Merton of th | Movies" with Glenn Hunter prom- inently cast. And now you have Uw real dope of the entire story. “THE DIVINE CROOK.” A. H. Woods, by arrangement wit: Selwyn & Co., has engaged Florence Reed for the stellar role in “The Di- vine Crook,” a new melodrama by Bayard Velller, suggested by a play by de Flers and de Croisset. This is prove they have managed to get mar- Mr. Veiller’s first play since ‘'The ried into the bargain. Thirteenth Chair,” several seasons Mr. Bernard is unfailingly human ago. In the cast supporting Miss and amusing as Abe, whether earnest- ly advising the distribution of weight in a car by putting fat passengers in the front neat, or pacing up and down im silent meditation as he casts re- proachful glances right and left. He gives a sense of reality to his essen- tially comic characterization. By way of contrast Mr. Carr makes Mawruss true to type, always ready to wither Abe with contempt, but defending him 8 ee —— FARSIGHTED. “Is love blind?” ‘croas-questioned the s{atély ‘Katherine ‘MacDonald, be- tween scenes yesterday. ‘In the language of the avenues: ‘How do you wet that way?’ Who.ever mado that ipane remark?" We raked our think boiler for a moment or two and for the life of us couldn't tell Kathy just who had first advanced the idea that love suffered from chronic astigmatism; and told her so, “Of course you do. not know!"’ she broke in, ‘but whoeyer it was it must have been some, doddering,! senile eynic. It is a ce inty that this re- me if I believed love was blind. I say LWAS_KIDDING KATINKA ABOUT BUYING A RACE HORSE AN’ SHE THINKS T MEAN (IT. IF THEY WERE THE PRICE OF PEEDIN' ONE OF THosE BABIES WOULD KNock MY BANK ROLL FLATTER THAN A TABLE CLGTH— BU THAT LooKs Like A COULDN'T STICK ES GENTLEHEN- THis 1S QUEEN BLAAH - THe FAMOUS OLD SPRINTER - SELLING 'MORVICH’ FOR SIX DOLLARS 1 COULDN'T BUY fe LAN EVEFUL OF 4 SELLING TLL STAND AROUND THE AN’ SHE'LL THINK I'M INTERESTED! PADDOCK | GOOD HORSE, ME ON A PLUG LIKE THAT— HE'S ONLY GOT Tree Lecs! WHAT WILL You GIVE FoR HER, SiR? HA? ABouT Reed will be Francis Byrne, Perey Ames, William B. Mack, Frederick Burt, Faire Binney, Francis Hackett and Rosalind Corliss. The opening will take place in about two weeks. “SUE, DEAR” SOON, “Sue,Dear,”” a new musical come edy, with book by C. S. Montanye and the writer of this column, and music by Frank H. Grey, is headed for Broadway, and will likely arrive before May 20. It is at the Apollo, Atlantic City, this wéek, where it is doing very well, thank you! Arthur Ryan is ahead of this company. SILLY SEASON HERE, Nowy why should Marie Schnorr of Brooklyn have written the following poem, and why should she have sent it to this column? We don't knew, we don't, Will some of the multitude guess at t? The peem: Of all the handsome matinee idol. That I have seen in showland, The one that I admire most Is Donald Slater Rowland. His hair is light; his head the same, The darling little thing! But when it's dark within a park— Oh, death, where is thy sting? | GOSSIP, Frank C. Bond has taken over the direction of ‘‘On the Stairs.’* Hereafter the Tuesday matinees at the Winter Garden will be omitted. Cecil Lean has bought a motor boat Bo, “it you dou't believe me—take a] and intends to live on it this sum- look at my love. He's far from blind) all; Frankie Ryan and many others. | letters a year, employs two secretaries|_ When he had finished his job he] Joined Realart She immediate! are and has the most beautiful eyes! Why,| The picture? to answer them and {t costs him an|handed in a bill for $860. It was| proved a wonder as a seller of films| Thocjord tobe nae” ana ne Arthur Hammerstein hae engaged Dis eyes are"—— The fledding was good and we Gosh! We clean forgot to look at it. even $10,000 a year to supply his fans with photographs."" handed right back to him in a hurry. “This is ridiculous,’ stormed the and remained with Realart until it went out of business. Then she Theodore Roberts has upper lip clean. shaved his { POEMS OF PROVOCATION Grant and Wing, dancers, for ‘‘Daffy- Dill,” in which he will star Frank ——- P Sedded. SENSBLESSSHIP. Oh, hun! Daylight saving does}|owner of the film, “Why, I can get| joined First National as a special wil eee tne Berepare eiine| Harry ©. Burt, who retused to say | Tinney. REE Some folk are gifted with an ability| make, the evenings longer, now,|a film cut anywhere for $10. Pleuse| representative. Now she has tied up| Christine” where he lives, has written a poem of| Frank Craven Is writing a comedy FASHION NOTES. to amass statistics and with the yen| “doesn’t it? itemize that bill.”” on @ long-term contract with Asso-| Carey Wilson, writer, wanted to| provocation and hopes to win the iron | f Small-town life in Russia for John The chic knee-length oat, which|for so doing. Now some one has sat greed Spence took his pen in hand and.jn| ciated Exhibitors and is doing weil,| have the continuity of ‘‘Broken|panay or the cat-nip corset, He says | 20%? 0 Produce. # has been the thing in the smartest] himself down and figured that if all LEWIS ON JoB. a few seconds turned in a bill, item-|thank you. Chaina’* Just right, #0 he ts writing It! {t describes an experience of his own weaning ia Mastncies aot fe Winter suits, has been discarded in|the censorship rules and regulations} Warren W. Lewis, acrobatic praise] zed as follows: himeelt, » |mer dancing in “*Marjolaine” and ip #pite of the uncertainty of the weath- er, In the movie promenade along the Snoring Forties the spring euit & here with a vengeance, Youterday those film actresses who were promenading proved they had adopted the hip-length model with Straight lines and rather short, narrow skirts. The hair is still worn Roberted. engraved invitations, n'ever'thing, and 4t was indeed SOME party. laid down for the guidance of motion picture producers were carried out to the letter, thirty-five dramatic scenes and situations would be barred from Public view. Under some censorships not one of the Biblical pictures could be shown, because some of the characters appeur in abbreviated costumes, If the day ever arrives when each vommunity has a censor board all its Don Clarke, who is a nice feller and has @ familiar front monicker, and who whiles away his agent for the Hodkinson Corporation, pulled stakes ‘to-day for Washington to make ready for the Motion Picture Theatre Owners’ Association Conven- tion next week. ‘The meeting will be one of the most important ever held as far as the “future of the movies" is concerned. The entire convention will centre about the bitter fight being waged for the presidency of the organiza- tion, -with Senator James Walker and feathers flying, no matter who is elected. “Cutting one feature «&, “Knowing what to cut . And he collected, too. WHY NAG? In “Fools First" a nice girl makes a nice boy go straight when both his hands are crammed with stolen money. And she doesn't say one word to All the women stars in filmdom are not on the screen, Associated Ex- RE-TAKES. Stars may come and stars may go— from one company to another—but Tom Mix seems to prefer to stick to Fox. He is now making his thirty. fourth Fox special, Helen Ferguson, leading woman for Buck Jones, hates to autograph Photographs. Recently a crowd of school children begged her to auto. graph something for them. So she fed , Having completed “Under Oath,’ Edward J. Montagne is collaborating Baby Pegsy was presented with a wrist watch yesterday. They used a wedding ring for the bracelet. It is said that Marie Prevost's next Pieture, ‘*They’re O1 is that of a girl whose desire fluctuates from the kitchen to the ball room to the auto race track, Sounds like a triple play, but you must admit it is some fluc- tuation, Harry W. Eustace, world famous ‘They are using Shelk Hadji Tahar and fifteen real Arabians to furnish Look, friends—loow a'here: He asked) the maiden for a kiss, She did not say him no, And 80 he thought the world was fair. Oh, he was happy, bo! She made reply in manner thus: “I'm fond of kisaing—some, But e’er oftr lips in bliss do meet, IT must remove my gum.” Mabel was a signgy girl, Used “Finale hopper.” the fall will be in a Hammerstein show. The Blaney Players, at the York- vile, will have a flappers' contest, whatever that is, Saturday aftern Go up and flap, girls! * Hyman Adler is going on tour in August in “Broken Branches” with a new final act written by a great final acb man. ° Joseph Sterling of “Bronx Ex- presa,"" at the Astor Theatre, is a : ' noe ‘em a~bunch of aut has signed * wi ee | Dis times at the Criterion Theatre| story, ‘Tho producers would then| Use siiney Cohen, organizer of the} title. ; David Wark Grimth returns to-day| he'd fall some time. It ‘gets’ ‘em all, EINES Ths foal programonie. of tty 3 ae night; or was it this morning?| hve to stick to scenics. And we Synce son and Ate present head, Just watches him with a Mona List! on the Homeric. He is sald to have| sooner or later. Pyies Varsity , peas Boek , oo _| Guess it was both, as th +4 J ee » however, the doughty y mite and—zip—up pops his better 6 a eee Te “ of ie x = eh Gt 11.90 aod Qik ae aa wart cIaim tont eras obnsore Would “cut | Senator ie not as strong as his apa Ree iy, Big ae adbarg) eee Magiand| | Baie Maat says his role In VRob-| _A THOUGHT FOR To:DAY. |Y. U. will be given May 10 and 11 in a ‘ . "7 » cause the limbs of the e' 3 Py “s) . r ” icture within };inson Crusoe’ giv nl y 7 “ the auditorium of Gould Memori; z \ By “The Affair’ we refer to a spe- , ere think he is, he will eventually] She comes “Smilin Through,” one] q year, ve he had in “'The| What good is a “Danger sign on moriat ; Jelal invitation showing of/ Conway| {ie these censors lead usr er" | throw Bis strength to Willard Patter-| might almost say. if one was so dis-1" ‘the Gish sisters have started for| Connecticut, Yankee,” ‘That may, be |® New York sidewalk? Rabeary, Veu Biaviets Ol be ieee ‘ » Tearle’s latest film called ‘The Ret- . lpia Ape paral a3 sp aaeilyy Ga.,| posed, mightn't one? Indianapolis where they will be the| so Hany, tat ee doubt if, f ae oe régtion of Prof. Carey C. | 1 eree. Selznick did ‘the thin, Pe a extremely dark horse. a uests of honor at a big civic 4 K . returned t ‘ 2 F | Dea siradding ont eaten MORE “STATISTICS. ‘Anyway, there will be w lot of fur ANOTHER “STAR.” retin. Bite PTle cole, | Ama Sree aR EIR TP FOOLISHMENT, The 700th performance of “The First Year” will be given at the Little Theatre on Wednesday, May 24, The “Sporting Fraternity,” what-| nice pice. Hine “writing —e hibitors has a woman sales reprée-| with Myron Selznick on another store | atmosphere in a British cinema dur- . F aver that-may, mean, was present al. | Tic®, ects, about the Goldwyn me- ITEMIZED BILL. sentative who is so much of @ 60-|to be known as “Borrowed Wings.” [ing the showing of “The Sheik's| | ¥2ther asked her to desis FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. ost ima. body. -Chiet sanone those ee hurried the following toSereen-] Ralph Spence, who titled is way nt she has been nicknamed| Owen Moore, has. started work inf ite.” They do. Father tried to stop lier. “My wife and I were walking along hrs hoctethae Oletane tie pomligae one lust night: into movie fame when he evolved the}the mma McChesney of the] Hollywood on "A Previous Engage-) Did you know that Lawrence Bar-| “J don't know just what it means,” | Main Street yesterday when a téle- who dropped in were Patsey Haley, the popular referee i _* Platte, Joe Hum; dean: of em" “Talk about the high cost of living! It isn't in it with the high cost of admiration, Take Antoalg Moreno frinstance! -He i fen “ sub-titles for “A Connecticut Yankee" recently accepted an assignment to cut down a feature fim that had been “over-shot,"* The fim saleswoman is Esther F’. Rosecan, She started in St. Louis, ment.”’ Realizing that ‘Uncle Josh Whit. comb" in “The Old Homestead” ir but soon outgrew that handicap and4 played with a mustache would be like rett once played @ light comedy role? We didn’t, either, until Ruby Lafay- ette, the seventy-eigbt- year-old screen player, told us. Mabel once admitted, Then without a single care On a chair she sitted, graph pole fell on us. My brother removed it and was arrested,"* “Arrested? What for?’ “For taking the post off ¥s."*