The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1922, Page 28

eer RAL RET heatric THE NEW PLAYS “The Advertising of Kate” Of Display Type By CHARLES DARNTON. “JOE'S CAR “sav! K LIMBS ALL OvEro i! VEN if clothes don’t make the woman, they surely‘are not to be despised ; E ccordingly, Kate isn’t convincing when she turns her bare back 9 4 fashion in the play at the Ritz Theatre and declares: “I'm going bac« to the business world, wlicrs a woman is what she Is and not what her dress maker ms ‘And, of course, she doesn't do anything of the kind For thay jwutter, so many business women nowadays rush into evening fowns after office hours that jt would seom as though Annle Nathan Meye: must have written “The Advertising of Kate" when skyscrapers were in their infancy. In uny event, Mrs. Meyer doubtless speaks her own mind through her best character, old Aunt Maisie, who urges her niece to make herself attractive to men if she hopes to have something more than a desk in her life. Here, too, is the best acting, with Mrs, Thomas Whiffen giving the most delightful performance of its kind since the days of Mrs. Gilbert. The transformation of Kate is by no means 80 surprising as the fuR- gestion that her finery mukes the man who has been her partner in the advertising business for five years realize at this late day that he loves her, Surely, he must have seen her before in evening dress. Her 5°- ing to dinner with a railroad Presi- dent has, to be sure, something to do with the case, but possible jealousy can scarcely be taken seriously. The fact remains that no man associated with a woman in an office for five years is iikely to change suddenly In partner simply and well, granting an English accent; Helen Gill bas a way of saying sweet nothings amusingly, and Byron Beasley leaves little to the imagination as the bad railroad presi - dent. But he is punished with a ter- rible Mme im the end when ho tells Kate, “Our agent will call on you to- morrow,’ and backs out trying to look dignified, It can’t be done, THE BIG LITTLE Atal Abr: FAMILY bis attitude toward her, At the most, this partnership should not have been allowed to run for longer Wou NEVER DID than one year, Time stales romance, especially when people are fairly well along in years. Although it is rather fine of Kato to feel she has traded on her charms by advertising them in the latest fashion, she really has no reason to be ashamed of herself. After all, she has done nothing more than be agreeable to the railroad President who is ready to place a big contract with her firm. If sex lure lurks In evening gowns, susceptible railroad presidents should be careful to ask ‘well-rounded business women only to luncheon. As a matter of fact, this particular millionaire is an insuffer- able bounder, with the manners of a cheap drummer at his best and in- sulting when he is drunk. But hav- ing made his vinous advances at a Long Island house party, It is un- natural he should abruptly retreat. A drunken man may be counted on to stand his ground with a woman, no matter how unsteadily. Obviously, he gets out of the way to leave Kate's partner a clear field, but the move is \. awkwardly managed. The railroad i President tsn't the only one guilty of bad taste at this somewhat rowdy house party. Kate.and her rival, de- scribed as social butterfly," in- dulge quite shamelessly in discour- teus retorts, Well-bred women would never dream of talking as they do. As its title suggests, ‘“The Advertis- ing of Kate” is the display type of comedy. Although its humor is negligible, it has the virtue of a sound idea ex- pounded by the sensible and delightful Aunt Maisie. There is true pathos as well in her confession that she is 6 lonely old woman with no one but her- self to blame. Mrs. Whiffen makes this the one real moment in the play, finally brightening it with a brave, though quivering, smile. Mary Boland is thoroughly businesslike as Kate in the office, but not so convincing out of Austen plays the long-silent A THING RIGHT “WN SouR LIFE WOU =<BLA-BLA: Siae-esras ! Awl suut up! You WAS ALWAYS A FAULT FINDER! MISTER Buxis HERE AND WE DOESNT LIKE CHILDREN. Now YOU AND “BROTHER STAY IN THE OTHER “ROOM AND KEEP “REAL QUIET WHILE I Get DRESSED — G Seoas WHY CERTAINLY, KATINKA ~ AN’ T'M GOING To GIVE You THe WEEK'S WAGES. FoR A SCENARIO DONT'S. ‘A movie director responsible for more than 100 successful pictures, many of which he wrote himself, of- fers the following “Dont’s” to as- piring screen writers: DONT. Worry about screen technique, but tell your story in simple language. Acquire wrinkles figuring out en- trances, exits, fadeouts, &c. The di- rector can do this better than you can. Submit your story before you know each situation is possible, Try to dash off your story In one sitting. Resort to the long arm of coinei- AND SO- WITH THE (© 1 @eT TH'CAR WASHED “THAT -FOoL HOOD 100K LiKE “THERE'D BEEN A OF A“SEVEN DaY"CLOCK Time FLIES BY— aNd \ dence. It is already out of joint, ‘ Let your judgment be final. Give THE NEXT SCENE your friends a chance to criticise. Try to write about things you know OPENS ONE WEEK LATER, nothing of * Btint your imagination, Forget that acon is a» prime N.Y. Eve. World) By Press Pum requisite, - *. The Evening as — ; er WELL, T WISH You'D Come OUT HERE: Ne ree a "Eee cP SEE HERE Joe! Said I Hes ul wHat's HAPPENED! 7’ veRY eat GETS The § OF BEING DON'T You STRIKE. That SucH A CLEAN ANIMAL UNLESS CAT — pont You ' ' ITS BECAUSE HE WIPES His FEET do ir! fae iT! TW! FooTPRiNTs LLOFF ON AUTOMOBILES a) ——— if TOMCAT'S CONVENTION You Poor BOOB — “THERES ONLY ONE GOOD “THING ABOUT ADMIT “THere ‘You # eo ONE Good WING ABOUT Me Hun? | OPINION OF WouRSELF ! rope ose Ido mT —_— wiee-e-E-° pips ane vor Bl MMe Meer? SPE notes Ys BOTHERING misier ‘You : —TI Téed To BE QUuIRT AND HoT Disturw MISTER Blix. < Bux - HeLe Cer YA “PeEVED AND NeveR WiLL MARRY 4 THis FAMILY CONTINUED “Tam cRROW ~ “A ra) But That Was a Minor Detail! RA-BRAvE! On, SUST LOVELY, BOSS — I Wore THE CUTEST DRESS — HY BRIDESMAIDS LOOKED $0 SWEET, AN’ AND WHAT KIND OF A GROOM Dip * FeRDIE MAKE ? WELL, HOW WAS THe Bic EVENT ? WRETCH NEVER AD Think that action means a lot of races anJ chases. Overlook the fact that human sto ries are the most successful, Expect to make $1,000,000 4 yea: Writing, because you will not ished shooting George Ade's ‘Our Leading Cilizen,"’ spent last woek on the Ade farm tn Indiana helping the slangland king evolve the titles. Yesterday we heard long, loud and lilting laughter being broadcast trom Caine story and to many has far more chance at. the good old Human \nterest than that of the star part. Phillis was born in Douglas, Kan., the dryest spot in the world, and this may have had something to do with r having chosen the career of u|Hollywood, Taking our radiophone FOX IS BUSY. vathing beauty; although we hear]in hand, we asked the why of the William ox, the effervescent mo-|there were two other very good rea- | 8!esl tion picture producer, seems bound to capture Broudway this summer. In @anouncem<ats jasued lust night, Fox tells the waiting movie world that sons. Be that as it may, she now has the shance of her young lifetime to show what she can do when it comes down “T’m just dyin’ o' laughin’ at those titles of George's! nswered Meigh- an, ‘They are the funnies’ things I ever heara"——He was interrupted —— his super-production of “Nero” is}to real reel acting by further paroxysms “I—1 all ready and will start an extended — es as in on some,” we ether ai icles waved. ee on einen.” other: tat ENTRAL BATQA! “Why George said to" —gr-n'r'r'r! te ‘Across the Rainbow." another Div} Readers, moct the Starland Revue,}zing! Zoom! Zowle! @ special, will soon star la? Fax SUM Tthe latest news-stunt in the movie Doggona! “We wish that cen z ee eron: #5 tae Apollo Theatre, Now that that formality is tral hadn't cut us off % Vivian Moses, the praise agent ting out what Starland Revue reall: oy AY sell elle atl means ; SOME ANSWERS. 3 Tuinvow™ aches that the old axinn |. According to an announcement yes-| J. BN, Yi—-As you will see by the ’ bi sh yi dior elie Mterday afternoon, the new new above item (if you read it), Thomas EF bi se the Rod” doesn’t mean any-| feature will be issued # In daily 1 Meighan. is back in Hollywood, A oe SR vupte of moog | BAPEN except that It will not be ily. |note addressed to him there and car 3 Aparey. wore’ ie i te aple of good 1 Te will be woekly. A staff of elttors|of Paramount will reach him < : Be mmer Movies to look forward 10. Jang manuging editors and city editors! Theda.—Your namesuke has threat- ‘ WHAT! ANOTHER? and li eorts of editors and n lotta re-}ened- another movie vampage in th \ porters has heen engaged and already | near future. Anvitier bathing beauty has stepped | work has started under the direction] Brooklyn.—There are no panes in Out of her one-piece Annette Ketler-1 o¢ Demitri Stephon, the managing ed-| Harold Lloyd's hort s man und into the legitimate end of | itor, Estelle.—Yes, Charlie Chaplin an Merion pictures. The weekly films will show, it Is| swers letters, That ts, he always av Goldwyn gpnounces last might that] .omisod, eversthing that i imeost. | >wers the ones we write him Phyllis Haver, blonde and. shapely. ting about movie stars and starlets A. B.C, (Westchester).—As tar ax had been assigned the role of Polly}! phat is—and we stand corrected—it] We know, Valentine hasn't changed Love in the production of “The Chria iis name yet this week ian,” which Maurice Tourneaur will will show MOST everything Bb) Winthrop (Boston).—The pank filma abroad, ting next week. gah: cenes in “Boomerang ! set zs B were The role Polly ig the second SOME TITLES taken in Battery Park, New York. feminine lead im the Danas Hall Thomas Meighan, who has fust fn-Jang not in Boston Common. Lionel and not John Barrymore Star—and a good one tov, White Fan.— Pearl White is in Paris, but due back almost any minute She's commuting between New York and Paris these days. , A SAD ENDING. Although most producers and di- rectors demand (and get) happy end- ings to all their movie stories, here is a movie yarn with a little heart- twang toward the end We learned yesterday that Kath- erine MacDonald had abandoned her famous old studio out Hollywood way and had moved, b: the Louls B. When one stops and remembers how many screen stars received their start In.the old studio and what it ts about to become one grows sad, one does. Among those who started there are: Mary Pickford, the Gish sisters, Lionel Barrymore, the Moore broth- ers, Bobby Harron, Mae Marsh, Blanche Sweet, Charlic Ray and scores of others. And now it's going to be a ga for disabled and Indigent street care. We leave it to you, now. Isn't that an unhappy ending for an otherwise happy old studio? STATIC Gloria Swanson is on her wa to California and, after a res start shooting “The Impossible Mre. Bellow."" No, it won't be homicide: just a picture. Alfred E. Green bas been chosen to was the}direct Wally Reid Breaker. The Louis B, Mayer lot is a busy one. Mayer, himself, has the screen rights on stories by Harold McGrath, James Oliver Curwood, Kathleen Nor- ris and Frances Nimmo Greene, and also the options on two big stage suc-~ cesses. Rex Ingram, Metro's star director, will soon start filming scenes tn ‘*Toil- ers of the Sea'’ along the coast of Maine. He'll find plenty of toilers and plenty of sea. Georges Renavant has been engyged to star in several short reel subjects by the, newly formed Selig-Kalem Features, Inc. Pathe will do the re- leasing. Selig Kalem Pathe! ounds like the pioneer days, doesn't it? Helen Ferguso Buck Jones in Wi tucking broncho yesterday. “Did I she asked Jones. ‘You he assured.her. ‘*You rode every part of him." Marjorie Daw issued another press- time bulletin yesterday. It read: “No, Um NOT going to be married,"" Oh, all right! Jack Ford, the director, having re- covered from @ recent attack of vaca- back at work on ‘Kentucky in “The Ghost Barbara La Marr, although but twenty-four, has had three careers. She was first a dancer, then an au- thor and now & screen player, She has. made good in all three. Bianche Bra writer of ‘Don’ Write Letters. immediately disre- garded the warning when some one criticised her film. And what a let- ter she did write! - Word has come East to the effect that Leatrice Joy and John Gilbert, ‘ox star, were quietly.married re- cently. We certainly hope John pur- suades*Leatrice to change her firet name as well as her last. We have written it ‘Leatrice’ for months and it always comes out “Beatrice. Josephine ‘Crowell, “widely known character actress, will have a part in “The Lights of the Desert.’ Barbara Bedford will be Tom Mix’ leading woman in “The Gun Fanner. The film “The Queen of Sheba” in- spired a professor of an Eastern col- lege to burst into poetry, Don't worry, we've no idea of printing it. William Russell arrived in Holly- wood yesterday from Tia Juana. He vas not alone. His traveling com- panion was, as fine a set of chin chinchilla a& has been sprouted in month: Wanting scenes on board the liner Olympic, Emmett J, Flynn, director, ordered them built in his West Coast studio, After he saw the bills he 4 cided he could have brought his company to New York, shot the real ship scen nd gone back again for less money than the set cost, ( POEMS OF PROVOCATION Pretty Peggy is the way she signs her note, and she says she is a student at Barnard College, One of the things that provoke her is the scraggiy mu: tache. An embellishment of th sort she simply cannot stand. This is what she has to say about it: I like the smooth-faced feow, Who shaves cach day, at least. E’en though his clothes aren’t nifty, His pants may not be creased, But I can’t stand one minute A raggedy mustache, So if you wear one, fellow, Don't call—we're apt to clash. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. His first theatre pass frequently ruins a profitable patron of the play- houses, ing woman for tried to ride a FOOLISHMENT. I knew a young woman named Keane, Who treated her sweetheart so mean That often he'd cry, Tho’ he didn’t know why, And bust himself square in the bean. Jackie Coogan insists that his mother read a chapter of Dickens to him every night. He sleeps well too, ‘tie, sald, Lambert Hillyer, director, yesterda: hed ‘The Brotherhood of Hate. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. ‘Tramp—Lady, can you help @ man, out of work? Housewife—You look as though you were out of work already, orld’s' Comics He's Just Taiking! “Wat DON'T MEAN 1 wouLdn’T | KE 7} About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY AVID BELASCO doesn't believe in blowing his horn until he is perfectly, sure he can play a tune on it. When he has a new play to try out he does it quietly. If it looks good he calis his press agent and tells him to send out about three lines concerning it. If it continues to look good, Mr. Belasco may sanc- tion the printing of a whole para- graph. Later, when it “gets over’ in New York he lifts the ban and the press agent gets all the newspaper space he can—in a dignified way. All of this is’ preliminary to the an- nouncement that Mr. Belasco is try- ing out a new play for Frances Starr. It ts “Shore Leave," described as a joing comedy, by Hubert One It will be seen at Ford's Theatre, Baltimore, next week and Mr. Belasco will be with it, directing the staging. The play is said to be totally different from any in which Miss Starr has appeared. Also, it will offer her opportunities such as she has not found in any previo arring vehicle. In Miss Starr's supporting casi will be James Rennie, Reginald Bar low, Schuyler Ladd, Stanley Jessup, Mrs. Jacques Martin, Evelyn Carter Carrington, Audrey Baird, Frances Grayson, Mildred Mantell, Alma Lind, Thomas E. Jackson, Samuel E. Hines John F. Hamilton, H. Percey Wood ley, Paul, E. Wilson, Bernard Sui man, Jose To.res, Jose Yovin Kenneth Diven. ae FILM STARS IN STOCK, Stock appears to be luring some of the film stars this spring. In’ Bal- tmore Mary McLaren of picture fame is working hard in a company at the Lyceum Theatre headed by Roland Young, and containing Horace Braham and other good actors. At the New Theatre in the same city, there closed last Saturday night « stock company which was headed by Betty Ross Clarke, well known in the films. These film players who are dipping into stock appear to be thinking of a future possibility that the spoken drama may offer them better opportunties than the films. At any rate, a number of them are acting in the stock organizations, WHAT HE SOUGHT. Walter Wilson, stage director, was im Atlantic City last week. A con- vention of members of the Mystic Shrine was there also. Saturday night Mr. Wilson, while on the board- walk, encountered a lodge member who had been imbibing to a stagger- ing degree. The man with the fes stopped him. “Shay, frien’,” he said, “I'm lookin’ fr a stationary place.” You mean a place to buy writing asked Mr. Wilson, somewhat A stationary hotel. I wanta go ta bed, but I can't ketch a hotel.” replied the inebriated one. And as he tacked away, he added; ‘Zis ole town is jus’ one roun’ of pleasure.” BY WAY OF DIVERSION, The postman has come, and he'g brought me a letter. The handwriting’s shaky—il's almost ascrawl, But still, to my notion, no penmanship’s*better. It’s from an. old lady who's feeble and small—the mother who loves me; the mother who's yearning to sea me start homeward while she is still there; whose thoughts to her boy far atoay are e'er turning; the boy for whom nightly she of- fers a pray'r. It tells me her flowers are just a bit tardy, The rain has been awful this spring, mother writes, It tells me that Rover, the dog, always hardy, has lately been, hurt in some ter- rible fights. To you 'twould be childish, dear reader—I know i to me it's a mighty sweet little affair, Some day I intend to just pack up and go it, and visit the home place—twhile Mother's stit there,