The evening world. Newspaper, May 11, 1922, Page 32

i LT ‘¢ WY" the approval of summer tourists It may be timely to warn the Wut the rent is supposed to be free. Princess Yheatre. Everything else aside, there can be Mo doubt that “The Red Geranium” 4s rooted in Village muck. Vicious, Silly, artificial and abnormal types are exhibited in the familiar man- her. Some are amusing, but that 16 the most that can be said for them. Strangest of all is the male vamp, for his fascinations are not visible to the naked eye. Yet, Larry, the Vil- lage lover, proves irresistible. Flap- Pers seem fairly to worship him. When he tires of one of them he hands her a geranium. This is his aesthetic way of giving her the air. His eoul expresses itself in erotic poetry, but he is also capable of turning to the plano and lifting his tenor voice in song. Far from being modelled on the plan of our “Civic Virtue” statue, he ts slight and gentle. ‘There really is no way of making him out at all. Although you might expect @ echool teacher to know better, Mary ‘falls a victim to the gallue philan- @erer almost as soon as she takes eff her hat in her friend's place, Then ‘ff comes her hair at an even swifter clip. and properly bobbed she la ready flor the dance in a neighboring studio. Meanwhile the sturdy small-town man she has promised to marry ts kept waiting. Before she can get ack to him a dope fiend dies In his chair after hitting the hooch three or four good cracks, and the police lock Mary in the room with the other roysterers. But Larry consoles her with these uplifting words: “Don't be foolish. Your soul is not locked in. You're free, and are glad of it. You know you are. Mary is even giad at the thought of becoming a mother when she and Larry start a tea room, but he dis- ourages her hope. The doctor at the hospital goes still further, if you can Delieve it, by telling his patient she can never have children. He couldn't have chosen a worse time for impart- ing this saddening information. To please her mother, Mary asks Larry to marry her, but as he leaves to ar- Screenings By DON VOLSTEAD NOTE. “If you should happen to seb geese, ducks, hens and roosters on a fine spree and rolling all about the barnyard, what would you think?" asks the energetic young pifflicist of Vitagraph. ‘While we haven't taken the time to ‘mswer him personally, we want to state right here and now that if @ver we should behold such a sight ‘we'd call for an ambulance and de- mand that we be deposited in the Psychopathic ward. But then this is only in pictures and it is said that the poultry all ‘gets @00-coo in a new comedy Jimmy Au- Brey is making. to.the question! If we again we'd say it looked Hike a lotta stewed chicken, as ‘twere. ~ ADMIRES US. Florence Dixon, who plays the fem- fmine lead jn Edward Dillon’ Production, “ phenomenon. And that's nothing to do } The strange thing about Miss Dix- on is that she is a real Westerner who adores New York. And you must ad- mit there are very, very few of that species outside of museums. _. Yesterday morning we met Miss D. She was hurrying toward a railroad station. _ “Whither-and why?" we asked, al- hough it was none of our blamed Dusiness. ® “I'm so astounded at the size of New York,” she answered, “that I'm going to Atlantic City and motor back, ust to seo where Manhattan starts.”* Bhucks! We could have told her @hat. New York starts about where Avanta ends. FREEDOM. + Diplomats prate about the freedom ‘Of the seas, Rathing girls are strong for freedom ef the knees, And Eugene O'Brien is an advocate ef @ screen freedom of the squeeze. (Censors please read and heed). MECHANICALLY PERFECT, Walter Hill, who sometimes writes nice pleces about Selznick under the ame of Hi Speed, has always had a bug for bugs. He's cured. aged man, plainly a German, “He explained that he had heard of my passionate interest ‘ all things mechanical, especially Mechanical bugs, Then he showed me the most marvellous mechanical flea. It was really a wonderful bit of mechanism, some of the intricate in- ‘er works being invisible to the naked eye. It would walk and hop and turn over on its back and then hop gome more. “I wan ~vild to possess it. asked hin for it he meniried a sum in marks ‘that spelled about $2.47 in real money, I bought the mechanical marvel. But ‘Fm sorry. Oh, bow sorry lam, “Why? we asked, right interested. When I THE NEW PLAYS “The Red Geranium” Rooted in Village Muck. By CHARLES DARNTON. country schootma’am that Greenwich Village is no place for her, at any rate that part of it given over to studios, in whcth everything Perhaps this is the purpose of Ruth M. Woedward's light housekeeping tragedy, “The Red Geranium,” at the It is comforting to feel the play may have a purpose of some kind, even though we can't be sure about it. range the mattter she glances into a mirror and sees him kissing a flapper nurse. he slinks back and announces he has changed his mind. She sends him away and then jumps from the window. Parts of this last act are well written, but the play generally is unwhole- some. tion of seeing Larry beaten up by the honest swain. pealingly, and Marion Lord and Mary Donnelly have their amusing mo- ments. weight champion lady-killer, but oh, flapper, how he can talk! heatrical News and Gossip _| IRSDAY, MAY 11, 1922 SULTS It doesn't matter to her that There isn't even the satisfac- Florence Rittenhouse acts Mary ap- William S. Rainey is a light- is in near. Conrad, be used to shoot the Algerian scenes in “Under Dean's next big picture. one, we do not mean that this mod- ernness will show on the screen, be- cause it will not, entire unit, the chef of a leading Los and mess-tents have been erected to house the actors and actresses. are preparing for the time of their such he would take VEZIIZIE 4 DEAR MARY:~ HERE 1s, Nice BASKET oF Sr flag AND CANDY AND THINGS FoR YOU — Now .You LL STAY, HOME “TONIGHT LIKE A- Good GiRL AND LET YouR Mom AND ME Go TS T TOLD KATINKA TD B ACE HORSE, BUT ALL I HAVE Ri 1S TEN DOLLARS AN’ THAT WOULDN'T EN BUY:OATS. I WONDER WHo Hill, “last night the blamed thing|“The Son of the Wolf” and R-C Pic- acted so natural that it bit me'’’—— MODERN ARABIA. Cal., and will Two Flags," Priscilla When we say the city is a modern But to care for the Angeles hotel and his assistants have been engaged and canvas steep-tents The company will be on this loca- tion tor ten days or two weeks and young lives. LITTLE SAVAGE. the screen.” use,"’ continued the saddened an Eskimo beauty. The pictijre is Premera uy 5 | JOE’S CAR t= THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY tures, Inc. is doing the producing. And so Miss Dixon is having curds engraved bearing the inseription; “Ali day. ‘For J just love Eskimo pi Marriage,” a film taken years uso and Enveh Arden in disguise, but unlike mont films containing an gives Tord Tennyson some credit. Lillian plays Annie Lee and Wally is Philip Ray, who is the cause of Wnoch's shock when he returns D. W. Griffith supervised the pro- @ one of them is in favor of { 0 a on BEE! tm eonna: SHRIWYEL SAYS I DONT AWFUL FALL OUTA Th’ BANK RoLL “DAY! é I KNow IT.tL BE A sHock Ww You i a ee Cas . MORE Gor GIMGRACKS 1 suppose ? MYSELF TO ONE OF Those Form FITTING surTs! ont BEEN Vi6i FRIENDS WELL -WeLL~ So Youve Been DRESS WELL ENOUGH To MATCH OUR CAR — t'M GoNNA BLow ory UJ - NEW NCAT CAN’ Hun? = 9 cHocoLaTes, SLOLLYPoPs 2 ORANGES 6 BONRBONS 14 FES 2! GRAPES 7 BANANAS 2 APPLES 1S. ALMONDS, CONTINUED CONTINUED Piha Ne 2 Mope FIGs ~~ era — ONE AWFUL TUMMYAcHE AND T iN N&XT COLUMN petro MRBit. I see yOu SENT MARY & LOT OF STUFF. TRYING 7S BEBE HER TS STAY HOME ~ Sa You covLD GO “6 THe Mowes - WELL — ~ AID FELLER SOMETHING FoR HIM ANYUAY - 1T HAY Be ALL HE HAS TOMORROW OR KATINKA ‘LL ZS CALL ME A BLUFF] | DoiLaRs FOR THE HORSE BuT LLL MAKE UP A STORY AN SLIP IT To HIM THAT WAY! 1 COULDN'T OFFER HIM TEN AW, You've Seen ‘EM JN THe” WINDOWS — “Hey 'Re “hye LATEST SPRING STYLES —"Ty' COAT Comes “THE WAIST AND “THe. ‘Trousers ARE WIDE AT Thy) ToP AND NARROW AT “THE [ sick WELL .1T MADE Her sO T Have 76 STAY HOM AND “TAKE CARE oF HER & THE INMEA® YOU OUGHT To KNOW Berrer away from any other horse in film- lom and his owners would like to match him against Morvich, just to ee how far behind Afert would be at}long, tongue-tw' ‘A city of the Arabs has arisen in oe of savage roles done on short] the finish. company’s next the desert over night. notice, Well, even if Alert couldn't beat . "I ought to make a good little | (Clover, the fifty-one-year old speed- | which ared But it's an ultra modern city and it] Eskimo" cooed Miss Dixon sl shash Ha haat ee lake’ broken’ a ib which appe: yarn, dent in ‘The Queen of the Turf,’ in-|" Harry Myers asmuch ag he doesn’t “come from be- hind” and win the race in the last hop, skip and jump. A REVIVAL. The thousands of bobbed haire * the Mo! flapperettes who think Wally Rain That's something to his credit, any- {42% ° the perfect screen lover, und the |¥®¥ cent, Ould Sod. same number of fat-hatted youths who adore Lillian Gish, will al! be DOUG SOLD NaiLs, utation as the happy when they see “The Fatal The hardware game josi a corking Doug had once signed his name to the payroll of a hardware firm, for which he was acting as a clerk, That was back in 1903 and at the time Fairbanks was living modestly at No. 119 West 95th Street. We write “modestly” advisedly, for the amount Arden, it No, she doesn't you know. Brownie, “wonder-dog,”* Edith Roberts is fast winning the| duction, which William Christy Ca- opposite the Fairbanks name was $5,| ture. title of the little 4 anne directed. lh 5 5 of phe “savage tittle logenue Of UAE mamnt ite rumored, that not] ee thee cers, Mitek ‘The Stern Bros. Doug in a recent letter confirmed the “Omar, the Tentmaker,’’ will be the name of the film. Vitagraph lately seems to revel in isting titles. release will be The V “The Lawless Godliness of Billy Smoke, first as a S. EB. P. yesterday signed a contract to play the leading male role qpposite Gladys Walton in “The rnin,’ another fie that promises to be at least 300 per Martha Mattox, who made her rep- sinister woman in “Conflict,” is rapidly reaching out for i bad nail salesman when the films| Stardom. She'll get there too! Mark now scheduled for Mi dates grabbed Doug Fairbanks. {t became Jour wolds. film i# nothing more than| known yesterday that the redoubtable} Gertrude Astor, dazzling blond beauty, has been chosen for a lead- ing-role in “The Kentucky Derby.’ wear it—it's a race, Century Comedy is making personal appearances and barking out a lec- will make com- edies with Lee Moran in England this She has been w hot blooded Tahiti| insue, Talk about "Ghosts of \ ter_| the Story and wrote: “I'm sure no one}summer. Stern doesn't sound well °. will remember mo as a comedy, does it? Well, then, maiden with a shredded wheat skirt} day.” This sure is one of ther salesman; that Is, if said epi heither toes England, and « St. Louis made ukelele, She (LENGE was prompted by his ability to dis-| Johnny Fox, latest movie ‘“‘find,”’ Is has been'a cigarette emoking belle A CHA : pose of hardware. a nine-year-old orphan and has who never feels at home unless she's} Alert, the thoroughbred out ae enough freckles to make Wesley at a bull fight. Again, she has played| which the plot revolves in “Queen of Barry a little bit nervous. a noble blooded Spanish senorita,|the Turf," yesterday issued u chal STILLS James A. Fitzpatrick, Kineto di- who swung a wicked dagger, But it|lenge. It is for a race at any iis-| Richard Walton Tully, haying |pector who held the megaphone over remained for Norman Dawn, aided by| tance and is almed at all horsedom—|eathered unto himself a staft of ex-|the “Great American Authors and a Jack London novel, to turn her into | Morvich, in. particular. perts to work upon his next picture, | sygteamen" series, is in Europe, He It is claimed that Alert can wailktieft for Los Angele yesterday, twit’ do the same for great European _ aeneeeyrncn eet a oat at mena semen authors, Wish he'd start in on George Ade, Mr. Dooley and a few authors we like. Samuel Gompers tells his ideas of how prosperity can be brought about in the present release of Urban Movie Chats. There's a new thrill-film due for re- lease soon. It is “Lights of New York," and there's nothing dim about it, Herbert Brenon, director, is at Lake Saranac, looking for locations and ineidentially resting up a bit. Esther Lindner is right proud of the fact that she named one of the latest Cc. B. C. Film Sales Company's pic- tures. She christened it: “She Loved Him But——"' No, there isn't a goat in the whole footage, butt—— The latest Sheik to occupy screen space is none other than H. B. War- ner, our old speaky friend, who is Shelking it a bit in “The Sheik of Araby,” R-C's latest thriller. Lillian Gish will broadcast a radio message just before “Orphans of the Storm’ starts unreeling in Los Angeles. Miss Gish will do her speaking in the Bast and doesn't have to go to Hollywood at all, These ra- diophones are great things, aren't they? An announcement last night from United Artists states that George Ar- liss will next be starred in ‘The Si- lent Call." Can it be possible that they have mixed Arliss with “Strong- heart?" “Ghosts of Yesterday"’ have noth- ing whatsoever to do with the “spirits'’ now haunting many cel ee CONTINOSD “TS64oOR ROW \T WOULD O'CosT ME #5 To HAVE THE OLD MARE SHOT IN THE MORNING ! { POEMS OF PROVOCATION | Anthony Graci, whose Dannemora,_N. Y., Poems of Provocation feela sure he will pansy. Bottle of Booze.’ annex Look: The other day I booze And I had all the while the blues. Gee! how it shook my very ife— The very thought of having a wife. Now I was dreaming with open eyes Of hearing sweet music or otherwise. It was a chicken cackling on a fence And I was with my wife at no dance. The wife that I was dreaming of hav- ing Close to, my bosom; oh, the darling! It was too daring to let her loose, My beloved treasure, my bottle of booze! FOOLISHMENT, (By Old Doo Largeman,) Here lies the body of Percival Mush, His death is too sad for description. He was killed by the mob in a ter- rible rush : When he carelessly dropped his prescription, ee eee ETRE EER AI als addrers has entered the contest the Anthony calls his rhyme He wrote the poem right out, of his own head, but that isn’t the reason he is at Dannemore was drunk with ving nounces he will produce next vehicle, “Daffy Dill,” “Sunshine,” and car Hammerstein 2d and Herbert Stot By BIDE DUDLEY A “ounce HAMMERSTEIN an- season three musical comedies, These will be Frank Tinney’s new another called “Blossom,'’ which {5 the joint work of Otto Harbach, Os hart. On tour Mr. Hammerstein wi! have “The Blue Kitten,” AMBITIOUS MARJORIE. Marjorie Rambeau, starring in ‘T') Goldfish,” js planning to appear in Shakespearian productions next se. son, “T want to approach Shakespeare i: an humble spirit,” says she. “T want to see if my personality lends itse!! to the classic drama.” Better drop ‘round and have a little chat with Laurette Taylor, Mars: A FAT PART. “Dear Dudley,” writes Barnoy Ward, ‘‘kindly mention under head- ing, ‘A fat Part,’ that Barney Ward was engaged recently to play Tony Schmaltz in the revival of ‘Th Princess Pat’ and oblige." All right, Barney. Now knock ‘en dead. HONORING RAY. Ray Meyers of the Orpheum Cir cult is about to be married. | ‘beefsteak'’ was tendered him tic cther night, just to console him, John Pollock tried to make u speech, ran out of gas. Everybody who wa» invited to the affair was present bu the guest of honor, “FOLLIES” NEWS. F. Ziegfeld jr. has engaged Gilda Cray for the new ‘‘Follies.""| Another recruit for this show is Monica Rus- sell, prima donna, from Chicago. M Eaton {s to be the principal dance: She will appear in a new ballet now being arranged by Fokine. It will have Victor Herbert music.’ Ring Lardner has been hanging around the rehearsals seeing several scenes he wrote rehearsed. Fing laughs heartily at his own jokes. That's bad Oh, yes—Pearl Howell, who, we have been assured, has won many beauty’ contests, has been engaged for the ‘ Follies. FROM THE PRESS /.GENT. “People who wish to succeed on the stage should do their own washing, I shave recently discovered this strange fact and I am announcing {t for the good of young Stage aspirants,” When Lillian Lorraine of “The Blue Kitten’ made this statement, according to the press agent, she looked very seriout Yea bo! The silly season approach- eth, “WEST OF PITTSBURGH.” There seems to be no stopping those two lads, George Kaufman and Mare Connelly. Not content with writing “Duley” and “To the Ladies,” they now have a new comedy called “West of Pittsburgh” in rehearsal George C. Tyler 1s the producer. BERT CLARK DEAD. Herbert Knight Clark, bettc: known as Bert Clark, a popular com- edian, is dead of intestinal trouble. His last appearance on the stage was in Shubert vaudeville. The funeral, will be held at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning at the Funeral Church at Eighth Avenue and 43d Street. GOSSIP. Frederick Kaufman is now stuge dire r of ‘Bronx Express." huffle Along’’ will give a benefit performance Sunday night, May 21. Frank Hatch has joined the cast of “Up the Ladder’ at the Playhouse The Players’ Forum will present “Salome’’ at the Klaw Theatre be- ginning May 23. Lillian and Dorothy Gish will ap- pear in person at the Strand to-mor- row afternoon and evening, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Why is it that every girl who wins a beauty contest sooner or later tries a stage career? FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Who was the world's greatest genius?’ , Ger feller vot invented in- terest was no slouch,” ar