The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1922, Page 28

ews and Gossip _| | ‘TUESDAY, MAY 9, wm | - THE NEW PLAYS i Ethel Levey Dances Back In “Go Easy, Mabel” By CHARLES DARNTON. H j N the most complimentary sense it may be sald that Ethel Levey's feet are . the biggest part of Go Easy, Mabel,” for once she got them going in { q the musical comedy at the Longucte Theatre last night there was lively ta entertainment of a high-kicking orde: ‘After years in foreign parts anil vaudeville, Miss Levey danced back to @ houseful of cordial friends with all her old time skill and nimbleness, In the'play she said she was twenty-five or so, and out of it she told us she fad been on the stage nearly twenty-four years, It would be a gallant thing (Add that she doesn’t look it, !f we could only be sure which way she would take tt. PPhe only linc we could get on Charles George was the one in the/#s the lucky husband, and Arthur programme crediting him with writ-]Aylesworth displayed great self-re- fig the book, music and lyrics. In]straint when caresses were lavished the course of her remarks Miss Levey|tpon him, — Russell Mack looked a merely mentioned him, and then, ap-|trifle young for the matrimontal hon- parently, as an afterthought. ors bestowed upon him, but Miss seemed almost as though her reti-|Levey doubtless chose him for his ence were due to modesty, Who|*00d dancing qualities. Nine at- knows? Anyway, the mysterious Mr pee eae hated tesa as many ot bp! ob. mre backs upon 6 appraising spec- bien Femained impenetrably tators, with no one to say to them, “Go Wasy, Mabel,’ is the sort off 1° Cas, maidens: == musical comedy George M. Cohan i = = ! could write if it were a good deal bel ter, There is something about it that ; suggests it may have secn carlier 4 Gays as a French farce. It is a naive | little thing, toying with the tdea of a 4 young husband and wife driving each ' SSE other to jealousy by most obvious Gio yaharoae “eULL eR WILL YoU Promise x Promise # ; fiirtations. Being a slmple play ‘ LL Ki Not \ AST d Pl | wright, the husband urges a stenog- OLD “To-DAY-AN KNOW WoT IN WITH A 70 Lhe SARAERTE aR AGE AH ai ani ayers rapher to ‘‘vamp" him, while the T FEEL Like DPM *“Yo-DAW"” Lit PRESENT 5 AG BEEN wife {s like a clinging vine to an un- A WUNDRED 16 MY Hun ? boris Ruerenced 2 comfortable chap who loves her girl an’ oten ! ove £ ; a, % 2 —= ‘ E friend. By way of a change, the vic- * tims of the affair aro shut up in a i bathroom instead of a bedroom. It's all quite innocent and rather dull The lyrics are little better, but the 4 music is pretty, though more than f occasionally familiar. i As the “classy stenog,” Miss Le i mt a lot of life into the piece, espe- clally with her feet. But she was a too clever to make the most of them ina first fling. She began by giving merely flashes of the dash and grace _long ago marked her as the best dancer of her kind along Broad- way. It was really step by step, dis- erestly considered and taken, that she finally swung into her own as an artist of something more than the vaudeville type. In her singing she was less deliberate, changing from soprano to baritone in the same song with all the seriousness of Al Jolson in the throes of a mammy outburst. Even more amusing was the deep emotion that stirred her after the bathroom revelation, when she woted, “Evil to him who evil thinks" id “poured out the wrongs of the v% expensively dressed working ‘with all the faucets of her wrath WHis.open. Sometimes there is more » &hBR meets the eye in musical com- "Dut there was Estelle Winwood Jooking as dainty and priceless as ever, though a bit shy as she took her’ first step into a;strange field. While Eileen Van Biene sang feel- i and melodiously of love, Miss ‘wood cuddied up all by herself on ivan and indulged in calisthenics Speer expressive of the tender sentiment. But in spite of her silly role as the wife she was often her oharming self. She spoke one or two ,fongs, danced two or three steps, and for the most part managed to keep her pretty face straight. Copr. 1922 (N. Y. Eve. Wofld) By Press stoPs!s - WieTtee Kips? Is To BE These PAPA EVER MisTee Bux WANTS ALL HIS FRIENDS i JOE'S CAR ta @ LITTLE MARY MIX-UP Did You Ever Know It to Fail? |{eneretn ts to ates the. I WANT YOu “TS come D Badges NEVER crv? JW. George Gatts, by the way, is Dd BA a i , wipes IT 18 sree RIGHT UP 76 THE House QuT Now- pont THESE ff / % } WE THAT HAW ~ HaWé udtude || [parte to\put bls tHshtanoe, Waller & LITTRE AND MEET MY NEW Go TAKIN’ on P Scanian, in a play called “The Irish “ a ’ NICEST Kids THEY Must UNCERTAIN WIDOW —AND Telos Wibow aNd SAW “1 you ever sawt| | BEEN siti’ MISTER BUX Td alte Kids- DoT KIDs— Nowe. — Heres | } aw. meeting with great success on the MARYS New —NIcEST KIDS You Dippy 48 quick Coinne “6 MEET \ ' “SUPERSTITION” AGAIN. 1 + ED, “Wie oper 1 GET “W' MORE 1 LEARN To APPRECIATE. “Th'GOoD THINGS IN LIFE ~ You've. BEEN MY BEST FRIEND ED —~ YOu'VE NEVER. FAILED ME — 1 CAN ALWAYS Honest, JOE - 1 HAVEN'T REST FRIEND 1 EVER HAD AND I'm { GOT A CENT WITH met $$$ - JAWGONNIT ~ HERE Comes A FELLAN HOS WORTH “TEN OF OL sHRIWEL! GONNA “TeLi HIM So! Od OLD SCouT ~“Tha's wat HE ts — Mouse BUT HE'S A FRIEND! About Plays \F = Gwe vou A Box OF CIGARS" Q MMA DUNN is to be seen soon 2 E in a new play called “Marelli,” 2 in which she will impersonate ar Italian woman of middle age. It tells a story of a woman brought to New York when young by a grand opera (© impresario who abandons her before she has a chance to demonstrate her vocal abilities. She has to take a job as a cook in an Italian table d’hote. Twenty years later, when she has be: come owner of the cafe, the same im- presario brings her daughter to Amer- ica from Italy. It is then that the play begins. Edmund Breese muy. have the principal male role. Lester’ Lonergan is to stge the play for s8ud+ Coun HAN. - =e ANOTHER GATTS VENTURE. e Musketeers,” by E. E. Rose. This one re, will be ready in the early fall or late T Never THOUGHT | || Wo TBAWLING DN aN es ; in the eummer. Mr. Scanion has been ARE DIFFERENT- Dives & MAN eh eae aaa, S4W — - PAS & BUNCH oF tHe Nicest \ L. Lawrence Weber has obtained ‘ RE 1-4 ake “Superstition,” a play by Col. Jasper ECS Melo, ny old \ ( Ewing Brady and EB. E. Rose, and FA oe th ry will produce it early next season. Max : Marcin is rewriting it. RAY BROOK IS PROUD. The Ray Brook Voice, the same being a newspaper, is exulting over the fact that Matty of Ray Brook won the copy of the song, “You May @ Hold Me Tight If You Get Me Tight,”’ in a recent poetry contest conducted by this column. “Mr. Madison,’’ says the Voice, “demonstrated his ability as a real Fe . 2 OFTENER THAN 1 CHANGE creenings ||| | 1 tino: By DON Al ws THE QUESTION 18s— “Of what seminary is Priscilla Dean? “Out of what kind of brass docs |‘ @laine Hammerstein? : “With Owen Moore “Paid in Ful much does Eugene O'Brien? aes jokes on 1922 bathing sults ‘ in more than one piece? “AWhy does Mary Pickford as the Country's greatest man? 3 pAWho does Montague Love? ) Jf Marie Prevost keeps a roll in the r National Bank" we wonder Douglas Fairbanks? n Will: Deming was duly appreciative) (TViaat? KATINKA HAS ANOTHER BEAU ? DON'T TeLt ME YOURE THINKING) J iru BEA , GOODNESS, SHE CHANGES FELLOWS IMPOSSIBLE ! poet." Do You THINK THAT'S LONG’ There is a rumor out that Matty of WELL, ‘TAIN'T HE'S WELL RECOMMENDED — A OF GETTING MARRIED — WEEK ToHoRRoW)| ENOUGH To KNoW AMAN | | As iF HE WuZ PERFECTLY LOVELY GIRL I KNOW Wuz Ray Brook is the editor of the Voice, YOU'VE ONLY BEEN GOING BEFORE TAKING SUCH AN A NEW FELLER,|| (ENGAGED To Him FOR NINE Years! but why worry about that? WITH Him A Few DAYS! IMPORTANT STEP ? A a “STAMBOUL" FOR LONDON, “The Rose of Stamboul,"’ the at- traction at the Centyry, is to be pro- duced in London in a few months. A prominent English theatrical manager has practically signed for the English rights. . THAT ‘s OH SUCH a BAND. ‘There was a big crowd at the piew when the Homeric sailed for Englan Saturday More than 100 of those present were there to bid farewell to Hassard Short, who sailed to join Ir- ving Berlin abroad. The majority of his friends were from ‘The Music Box Revue," which he staged for Manager am H. Harris. A breas band of four sour pieces accompanied the Short contingent to the pier and did all it could to make him glad he es) mre — Jerid) By Press Pub. Co. * Nutt? ‘Good, so have we! te ts. ON TO MECCA! «Keen interest is beige aroused y | Ways reminded of his all-star minstrel dvance on Palestine by Ameri- 2 days whenever he meets Jim Corbett, "4 can’ film interests, there to make |®*-heavyweight champton, and who apectacular film scenes from Biblical | ¥44 !™terlocutor of the famous black- tories, says a report to the Palestine | {ce aggregation. Foundation Fund of No. 55 Fifth] When Hitchy ran into Jim the other ywenue, which has already raised day up at the Cosmopolitan Studio he 000 of the $8,000,000 fund for the |*8Ked, with a very serious face: Fedbliding of Palestine as the Jewish} "Howdy, Mr. Interlocutor homeland. you make a pumpkin speak “ne company is busy shooting}. ““! don't know, Mr. incidental to the fight between JOU Make a pumpkin speak? a and Gollath. They are using [Pack Corbett footmen, 600 riders, 000 “Dig it out an’ make it holler!’’ gheop., 500 camcle and a pack’ of fHouted Endman Hitchcock Fatimas. puck off" And with all the vacancies in the : Tombs, too. shot OPINIONS. a A : *Yfaving heard a lot of talk for and], FAOLE ‘Civic Virtue,”’ alias the nee upon a time, ucconling to uy,’ ‘alias “The Sore Thumb, and Aesop's Film Fables, ‘twas said a ‘wishing to. see for himself, Dick Bar-]'™0U8® Was afraid of a man, a man limousined down to City Hail] WS 4fraid of a woman and a woman Fark in the quiet of yesterday after-] ¥@* “'rald of a mouse I “Ldke thousands of others, Dick just stood and looked as the alabaster] - “OH, WAD THE of the statue stood out] Think you can dance? its murky Federal Building] Rather imagine that Payiowa would background, squirm with envy should she see you “That's a fine bust of Nathan Hale," tripping the light and airy fantastic? muttered one squint-eyed man who]Or Irene Castle would put handcuffs on her ank'! Ip keep her resolu- scorned er to dance again if she hap- “AU's a stachoo of mp you on the dance floor? If #o, take heed from the Fairbanks dancers now back in. the It took more than aromatic spirits of'ammonia to bring Dick back to life. : ; tact, bay Seis sd him three or four “i you think that you are just pe he bame to. about right in the dancing line,’ said the twins in chorus yesterday,’ just do your stuff before a movie camera! Then have them run off the film. OH, HITCHY: leaving. The band non-pro- an oars = — = — |w fessional, but why mention names You'll see every defect and wonder] but they are interfering greatly with A WINDING WAY. ies and jokes: All right, Helen, try z Just where you ever got the idea that|the work of production,” said Neilan] wijle Collier jr., son of his father|@nd maks US laugh! { POEMS OF PROVOCATION fe LEM” SUNDAY. you knew end Late ‘Terpsichore. | recently, ‘There are few places of in-] in every particular, was killing a little] Tom Mix has taken en Kid McCoy ‘THE GO! 5 ba We tried if! Ask us! Like Dad—we]terest so diligently visited as the yeaterd Of course, he was|® @ sparring partner. Look out for cs aa ‘Tommy Gray las consented to \, time yesterday f course, he wai Mary Jennings (no address), has}. ouncer at the benefit performance know!"* studios. The visitors are Kings, talking of “Dad.” that old “Why-don’t-you-tie-your- Sa Queens, Jacks and just ‘ ordinary} “t shall follow my father’s foot-| Shoe?" gag, ‘Tom. Retief Jentered the contest for the iron pansy. | for the Jewish Consumptives' GREAT MINDS. Jokers. announced the young screen| _ Clyde Cook, screen comic, had hir|Taxi drivers provoke her and she has} Society, to be held at Karl Carroll's Some one once chortled that great] ‘long ago we rubbed out the ‘Wel- . i first bout with a bucking bronco|this to say on-the subject: ‘Theatre Sunday night, He will an- minds run along the same roadway,|come’ signs on the studio door mats, |” “The ‘Rocky Road to’ Dublin’ witi|"€cently. He took the‘ first fall in} 31 in not easily disturbed, nounce the English-speaking acts or words to that effect. And, strange|but that makes no difference. Of] pe as smooth as macadam compared] thing, flat: ne) v ed, that will appear during the intermis~ as it may seem, “Some ono" was|course, the visitors don’t realize it,]¢o the path you've mapped out for| Annual convention of William Tox Yet sometimes I get mad, sions, Max Gabel, in lis musteat absolutely right. but many big movie firms keep a| yourself!” mused a veteran speaky| strict sales managers will be hele | pi tell you of an angry fit version of “The Golem,” in Yiddish: All of this means that company of ham actors working on| detor who had trouped with William|* the Hotel Pennsylvania May 15] qyat yesterday I had, will be the biggest part of the ey Brown," the REAL real be fake scenes just for the benefit of the| er, before he reached the topmoat| ‘© 18 Inclusive. The big event will be] 4 14) driver charged too much ning’s entertainment, = Mr. Ga from the facile typewriter of our] Visitors and to keep the mobs from] rungs in Fame’s ladder. a beefsteak dinner. a ; nuch, Twill be assisted by Jennie Goldstein 3 “Concelt,"” as a film title, might When I said, “No, old kia!” and a company of more than fifty, friend across the cartoons—Bide Dud-|“nnoying the real actors. eer ley, which appeared first ax a gerial “Folks are yelling about slow pro- have been inspired by the great] He said ‘twas high, but that the rain] A Yiddish production of this sort in in the columns of The Evening World| duction, Eliminate the studio visitor CUT-BACKS. amount of praise the producers give} jaa made hig tari skid. the Broadway district should ‘prove and has now been issued as a book by| nd speed it up, say 1." Elaine Hammerstein, to make alto their own pictures: dof wae piovcked a distinct novelty : is soon to be in the movies. pa successor to "Evidence," is ‘'Under] ‘Bucking the Tiger’ is a photo Harpe: a The ‘great minds" idea, flashed to WISE KIDLET. Oath” in Hollywood, Just to make| play that doesn’t conan New York — TWO LIARS HERE. us when we read a note to Hide ask-| Little Miriam Battista, the nine-| tt lesal, Hi Speed swears to this rolitics at all; at all, .. FOOLISHMENT James Ashley told us a story’ re- ids why Bolivar hadn't been mado| year-old veteran of the screen who| Now, that Owen has arrived on the] “I've met you somewhere,”” cooed licen AT tty for Sein |a fair young flapper to the matinee |/ st20d one night on Brooklyn Bridge } ce West Coast to make pictur into a screen story. A few moments|made her big hit as the A Miehas'the-rhge é 4 S aaeane F afterward we were talking with a] youngster in “Humoresque,"* Fae Aas nick, the mother of all the Moores] idol, “I presume you have," agree. Hae een a nee ns Beale ¢ Se pie ee big movie producer and he brought| ly learning all the tricks of the movie|sive® a corned-beef-and-cabbage fes-|the M. I., “for I've often been there." /U rt TM” Baty ih | 0m t Gnawa ness was up the same subject. gue. fival every Sunday at the family re-| ‘Onto Censors Bliminate Superfiu-| | 1 hac no wav of Knowing. “{t's all right,” came the reply. “T ait look very much as though} While. shooting scencs in ‘The| union. Tom, Matt and Joe beat|ous Lingerie,” slates forth a head. | Fut Ge tee ruer fowed along, BSS Sa eae or A Bolivar would soon be filminized, | Good Provider,” in which Miriam has} Owen to it previously. line, Canporship wit be the ruina: | oe eee men ead rh A ae s Rnd we are right here with the sug.]an Important ‘part, the action called] Conway ‘Tearle’s “The Referee''|tion of the picture business {f It keeps} /usi then @ man sald, “This looks) Sire 114 soo" came trom the sec- was shown to the sport writers last] that up. week at the Criterion Theatre, Joe “The Green Temptation’ seems How can men be so spiteful? gestion that Wes Barry would be ap] Cor the child to smile when she re- ideal Bolivar. ceived a rose from her “father, ond, “Well, I got one for $125,000 in Ottumwa, Ia." The first who had = played by Dore Davidson Humphreys made his announcements] hard to resist, especially if it happens Ne eauaiaree Cte) NS Or ded 4 ign language. apr c order, frownec STUDIO GAPERS. Davidson handed the child the] !m the eign languag to be long-green. next be seen in] FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. | "I believe you're a Nar,” he said. 4 ,,| flower and prepared to see her smile} Lupino Lane, England's famous} Marton Davies wil London has iE had ew Yak! peautifully. Instead, she burst into af pantomimist, is the proud possessor|‘The Young Dian: its mythical Gay White Way, Niagara} peguiar Niagara of tears. of a scrapbook containing the pro-| screen from Marie Corelli's novel. {ts tons of waters and Los Angeles] “Why do you cry, Miriam? asked| gramme of every pantomime held in] ‘My Country" is the next Robert) Editor—Throw it away, adapted for the| New Reporter—I've got a story] “All right,” said the second, “I'm about a dog biting a policeman. willing to be reasonable. You reduce, sours and I'll reduce mine.” the motion picture studio. he last} her director, “when the script ¢% Drury Lane since 1757, In not onelC e Wilderness Tale to be sent] New Reporter—Well, what do you —, of these is the greatest magnet for] for a smile?’ scrle Soe of 7 does the Lupino or Tats cee Educationm! Pictures. The] all a gocd story? A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, drawing the curloys tourist, accord “Whoever heard of any one getting] family fail to appear. “My Country” part of it 1s all right,| Editor—If the policeman had bitten| Before you refuse to let your wife ing to Marshall Nellan, director close-up 0B @ smile?” asked the| Helen Ferguson, Fox player, has|out how ‘bout the “Tis of Thee” end|the dog—that would have been first }have a new dress, find out whegher “studio visitors may not realize ft, chud nished a volume of funny stor.’ of the title? “ é eer atult, she's bought it already, ee ‘1