The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 36

| Theatric al News and Gossip _| | THE NEW PLAYS “Hindle Wakes” Renamed Acted as Never Before By CHARLES DARNTON N these days it is not so unusual as {t was ten years ago, when “Hindle Wakes” seemed almost startling, to find a girl refusing to marrey ® man just to save her “character,” as simple-minded moralists would put it. But Stanley Houghton’s provincial English play is so full of character that fts revival at the Vanderbilt Theatre last night as “Fanny Hawthorn” had JOE’S CAR BLANCHE SUR HANDED Me A. HoT ONE WHEN “SHE WANTED "D KNow HOw 1 EVER EXPECTED WEAR A FORM FITTING GoaT! ME WITH MY “THIRTY INCH CHEST AN’ MY FORTY EIGHT WAIST Line! the everlasting interest of reality. For one thing, it was acted as nevor before. This is said with all due apprecia- tion of the cast that gave an excel- it rformance when ‘‘Hindie| "ed lips. She was Fanny from her Wakes wan first produced here at| ‘fant hair, to her firmly-planted ‘Maxine Elliott's Theatre. Indeed,| feet. You. felt that ‘‘brass,"’ the ae member of that. cast, Herbert| Lancashire term for money, could not Lomas, again played the father of the Skylarking youth who leads Fanny out of the narrow path on a Bank holiday, and a better man for this hard job could not be found, search Where you may. For the softer work ef the girl's father, Whitford Kane was on hand to do his best, and the @riving, shrewd mother gleamed in fhe eyes and vibrated in the figure of Loute Emery. Alice Belmore Cliffe pat back comfortably and waited con- fidently for the young man to get out of the mess into which he had unwittingly plunged himself, And Diding her time as Fanny, while ethers talked and made their plans, ‘was Eileen Huban, saying little but ‘ @uggesting much. In this waiting role, Miss Huban ‘was the embodiment of a fine young * gnimal—a thoroughbred ready to leap the barriers of smug convention with By DON MORE SCRIPT ADVICE. Believing that 999 out of every 1,000 Persons above the age of seven are earrying around the plot of the “great American movie" and in consequence, are interested in what producers ran? we asked Col. Jasper Ewing Brey Metro's knowing scenario editor, ges was really wanted in the wa’ stories. “Give us good, clean storie with life as it exists to-day @wered, right prompt lik with tense situations, sp* romance and love, confoy*4 hypocrisy and reward virtue, an¥ you'll land with both feet. j “There is a chanogtet the original story writer—a bul) chance—but the every 100 scripts yecelved is (ittmality. Plagiarism, wee unconscious, sticks out all ever them. Or if that is not so, they aro #0 trivial, siliy or impossible, that the return postage is a total waste.”’ ‘Now that you know what they want, folks, why go ahead and give it to ‘em! “FLAPPER WANTED.” The above want ad caused a riot In and around the Pyramid Studio yes- terday. More thar 2,000 flappers, fiapperettes, flappines and flap- doodies mobbed the place seeking a fob in the fim of that name, ‘They came fat, fair and over forty. Brunettes, ebony-hued, green, gray pink. They had bobbed hair, curled bair, frizzied hair and just plain hair. And the clothes they wore—not know- tng a blouse from a scarf, we cannot describe their clothes at all. Anyway, not one out of the 2,000 mecured the job, as it was impossible to choose a representative flapper trom such a misrepresentative bunch. The quest is still on to-day, with heavy casualties reported on each side. A GO-GETTER. Most boys are sent to college with @he fond hope that they will learn something. The parents of Edward ‘Horton, who plays the leading role in “Too Much Business,"’ had no such illusion. They sent their son to col- lege to keep him off the stage. And they picked out Oberlin College out in the Buckeye State, a strict re- Hgious institution, where blue-laws mre the deepest indigo. ‘Three months after entering college ‘which he called ‘'Too Much Tooley." Asd now that the screen has claimed Bim as Its very own he is, by a singu- “Too Much"’ affair. COMEDY V8. TRAGEDY. Whaplin, the king of ‘em all, been causing millions to laugh Pious before the camera, tion “Fools First.’ When the wi iar coincidence, appearing in another Tdke all great comedians, including the hankering to play tragic roles has Deen hovering over Raymond Griffith, whose screen antics for years have Believing that GriMth could be se- Marshall Nellan gave him the opportunity to play a bit in the First National attrac- ctor caught his first Blimpse of the “rush films," showing Grifith's trst attempt at serious cam- no more than a scornful twist of her move this lass, and as for marrying the youth who would be lined with it, she preferred a ‘‘real man," thank you. .« It is a simple study of character this Houghton play, but so real and human that it has the tang of life. Its revival ts justified, if justification were needed, by acting that is sure to delight the discriminating playgoer. sTHeme Goes “WH “Te rerHorr — Xu Ber 176 ' “Mas. GABBY AGAIN + SR earn ¥ A ib LITTLE MARY MIXUP aes be No. He Was & “Penate So YouR FaTHER WAS LOST IN TAE wae, eh? A REAL t}eRo . 1922 (IN. ¥_ Eve: World) By Prove Pub. Co. KATINKA big spectacle, are French and speak no English and very little Italian. Guido Tronto, Alexander Salvin! and other principals, are Itallans, and there were several other nationalities represented, including many Rus- sians. So Edwards engaged an interpre- ter for each language, and he says when they re-shouted his shouted directions that the Tower of Babel was a sound-proof room in compart - son. days. ten dit A few years ago Mary Carr, the model mother of the screen and in real life, and one of her daughters went to call upon a very old man. When the youngster was introduced the aged man, his eyesight dimned by his years, reached out and patted her on her THE BIG LITTLE fAMILY THIN UITH ALU THE BiG Guys — the ten leading cinemas of that city. The multi-first runs*will last three Following this film will come “The Shetk’s Wife” and a long list of films, all of which will be shown in ferent houses at the same time. We scanned the pictures that are included in the ‘‘show-'em-to-ten-at- once’’ Hst and the thought struck us that when they were shown tn New York at ONE theatre at a time that that was quite sufficient, thank you. OH, MABEL, Mabel Normand, the Mack Sennett star, is superstitious. never stopped to a for refusing to walk under a ladder or to dodge anything pertaining to Friday or the mystic number thir- AROUND IN onl AND LISTEN DEAR-~- ~BLA-BLAB - BLAH — BEAT BUT LISTEN- THa's Ave RIGHT SEITs FING = ALL L WANT IS A SUIT TO KNoee he Evening World’ s_ Comics | MY CAR —TI'Le Tava tr! JRE ? — LooKit MERCY! MRS GABBY” AND “x CAN HARDLY UNDERSTAND EACH OER ovER THe HEY MISTER - DID YA KNOW YA GoTTA FLAT Joe Spoke Out of His Turn! { 7, \ WAIT A MINUTE There — DON'T WRAP UP “THaT rr OLD suit Wh ——. ” 1922 (N. ¥. Eve. World) By Prese Pub. Co. and Players By BIDE DUDLEY VAN ACKERMAN, the scenic artist, was in a jovial mood yesterday when we ran across him in the Broadway district. “IT just saw a new set of scene: fall on an actor at a dress rehearsal, he sald. ‘‘The fellow wasn’t hurt, but the incident reminded me of slip that occurred one night in a: per- formance of ‘The Whirlwind’ at the Standard Theatre. In this play the villain was strung up to a tree nightly. On this particular evening when the rope was thrown over th tree, his weight caused trouble. ‘The tree began to fall on him and, al though he was half-hung, he caught Dole on - yes — He Gave Mc PENNIES AND LOLLYPOPS AND BICYCLES AND SCOoTeRs Any )_oNt DAY He = MARY. GET You SICK so You GOING TS THE CIRCUS~S0 HE “ook ME TS THE CIRCUS AND LATE 7 BAGS O' PEANUTS AND SAW 25 ELEPHANTS — 4ND T Gor sick AND SO THE NEXT, DAY MY POP says - MARY. YouRE Mary And T HAVE HAN Quite & VISIT — SrHE SS “BEEN TELLING ME ALL ABOUT HER “REAL PHPA- e HAT- We 'Re NEEDNT Go TS MC | S¢HtooL TODAY - Wei Go T THE MoviES INSTEAD, So AFTER TH Movies. HE BovenT * Me TWo ick-ceean SODAS AND 5 Lon.yPors AND — ~~ ®Tc- Gre - ee rl. HP SIWNEY WHO OWNS THE BEST THOROUGHBREDS IS A PAL OF _ MINE! the wild tales of million dollar sal- artes and the fortunes being paid in scenarios, recently submitted a 60,000 word script to a big producer. Along with the manuscript he sent a demand for a certified check for $500,000 for the rights to produce it. After spending hours delving through the pages in search of an idea the scenario editor wrote the young man that he could have his bulky manuscript back if he would send return postage. In a letter to Screenings the em- bryonic author states: ‘And to think of the difference in the estimation of the yalue of my work. I wanted a half million dollars for it and they wouldn't even pay the sixteen cents postage."* She says she yze her reasons . era work, he immediately re-wrote the] curly head. teen, but ehe says she has inherent] ‘Tis a sad old world, at that 2 a part into the leading one in the ple-|. “So this is the boy," he said,| feasons, whatever that may mean. jes ¥ ture and handed the actor a new con-|“What a fine little fellow, I hope he] Miss Normand ts deathly afraid of RE-TAKES, tract to sign. grows up to be a big, strong man and| black cats, will not leave by any door} jesse 1, Lasky leaves t es Ard now the world of comedy has|that he is President some day.” other than the one she entered|iat\q fve week's sojourn In Bucop Jost @ fine congiian and the serious| Thank you,” answered the mother, | through and is @ firm bellever in re-|pviring his stay he will try: t TODS: @rama has gai! @ dandy screen ac-|‘‘but May Beth has started life as a|tributive thought. She's been known | 4 1 Beeps eee i 2D interes ior. little girl and I rather think she'll] to lose sleep over the fact that sheli.. tne aims n writing direct grow up that way, But she might be| caught ber first glimpse of the new], r ™ A MODERN BABEL. Presidentess some day; who can tell?"| moon ever her aashs shoulder and if doa Pateercins pnd Taming oT Gordo: she ever spills the ealt—good night! |* ‘ latest novvel, Ww! ~ eaberee the eet pbaol os OUT OMAHA WAY. But the climax came recently when be Peat neg ae Warnes Brothers. It > @4 oo in three lunguares and about | Nebraska first gave us William Jen-|4n eligible young millionaire pro- | "ll surely Be beautiful and will prob- ‘a Mineteen dialects. That is,.he didn't|nings Bryan and now It's trying to posed to her and she was thinking of |" ny be = ny the reformers, actually speak in all those different | cover up this faux pas by showing the| accepting. Then she counted the let-] Wallace Worsley, old time speaky languages, but he had that many in-|rest of the movie world something] ters in his name. There were thir-}actor, has started directing "From terpreters who re-shouted his orders.|new in the way of “first run" show-| teen. Rags to Riches And it was some mix-up, Take it] ings. Mabel is still single, “Don't Tell Everything” is good trom Edwards. Paulette Duval and Jacques Grot Word has drifted in from Omaha) that “The Prodigal Judge’* has been t MODESTY NOTE. who took leading roles in the' booked for simultaneous showings in}, A man, evidently having absorbed advice; both in and out of the movies Wesley ‘Barry has been arrested 80 often in connection with his persopal WHY, A BIG TRAINER Took ME To TH K AT FIVE OCLOCK THIS HORNING To WATCH THE HORSES WORK OUT, AN'|\ THE END WAS OUT$S500 & a UT GOT THE = ELL, BY BOE 0 ig ON HORSES To:DAY AN'AT ED HANE LET ME PLACE His BETS HE'D NEVER HAVE DROPPED ALL THAT DOUGH — DOPE ON JusT WHO'D WIN éa To-DAYS | rein nace eee appearance trip that he is thinking of} bachelor, declares “‘Her Husband's writing, a book called ‘'Jails I've Bin] Trademark’’ should be a ball and At.” chain, “Broadway After Dark’ and ‘‘The Little Church Around the Corner,” two ten-twent'-thirt’ thrillers of the Barbara La Marr, who plays in “The Prisoner of Zenda,"’ says she was once mistaken for Theda Bara. past generation, will soon come to] Why spread that story? life as films. In “Blue Blood" Alice Calhoun Charles G. Norris, whose ‘atest}does a blackface act when she im- novel, “Brass,” is being turned into al personates a giant negro who weighs flm by Harry Rapf, told the pro-| close to 800. As Alice tips the beam ducer that ‘too many minds spoil]at but 113, she sure must have “grew an author's brain-child.” So is golng to film the story as ts. Arthur Maude has been engaged by Selig-Kalem to direct ,’The Song of the Lark,”’ the firm's first production, Daniel Carson Goodman, widely read author, has formed a film pro- ducing corporation to filmize his pub- lished staries. Rapf| some" for this part of her part. The Mack Sennett feature made under the title “Love or Money” will ne released under the name of “Cross- oads of New York.” More than 1,000 stockholders in the Urban Motion Picture Industries, Inc., the parent organization of the Kineto Company of America, met yesterday After a screenlews year Mr. andJat Urban Institute at Irvington-on- Mrs. Carter De Haven will return and] Hudson. After looking over the new make a series of two-reelers. Work] plant, the stockholders re-elected has already started on the West] Charles Urban President. Coast. Larry Semon has spent the Inst Six girls from ‘The Rose of Stam-| couple of days and @ bankroll in see- boul’ are being used to support|ing New York, the town where he Martha Mansfield in “The Queen of the Moulin Rouge.” We knew she was plump, but didn’t imagine {t used to work as @ newspaper artist. In ite of his phenomenal screen success, he still wears the same size skimmer. The Criterion Theatre seems to be the ‘Port of Missing Men."" When Owen Moore was ‘Reported Missing’ we found him there and now It's the would take six to support her. “And now," mused Allce Terry ‘along comes Lady Astor American girls not to much. Looks as though heeded her advice before she] place to look for ‘Missing Husbands." gave it.” If you happen to Want to know the A new film founded on O. Henry's|time of day, just ask Bhirley Mason, “Cabbages and Kings” has been|if she happens to be near, Why? started by Earle Williams. Oh, nuthin’ much, ‘ceptin’ a fine new Old George Grouch, the daring wrist watch, And @ present, too. » SHE NEVER HER KATH HE WENT 70 WAR t LONG BEFORE spe COULD “REMEMBER. it in his arms and put it back in place. * ‘Now,’ he sald, ‘if you must han Qi me, go ahead, but look out you don’ injure this fine tree.’ “And, with the posse bracing the tree, the villain was strung up until the hero arrived and shot the rope ir two.” —a-— SBeniceanvee — KNEW es iS ¢ NUTT'S DOPE. Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt, special correspondent of this column, hus written us from Bogash to give us a tip on a news story cad his let ter: “Dear Dud—I and the wife hea! {nat bobbed hair is to keep on bein: the style. Now there will be a. bik argument about this and I and her thought we could get a lot of good dope on the subject right here. Mra J. Ainsley Potts, society leader, has bobbed hair and we thought mayo vhe could give us a great story about it. Her husband is worth at least $26,000 and she's very majestic in he manner, If you want us to I and th wife will call on her. She would lixely bring us into the French Rey olution room at her home and I could say: ‘Mrs. Potts, I represent Dudle; column and they want to know abou Lobbed hair. Is It here to stay ani why did you cut off your locks?’ matter what she said, we'd play our ace next. The wife would say: ‘Ont’ women with ugly hair should cut it off.’ Whee, but that would start her, and I'll bet you'd have a story you could head ‘Mrs. Potts, Bogash So- ciety Leader, Scores New York's Best Reporters.’ I'd get the wife to recite that rhyme of hers about ‘Bobbing for Apples with Bpbbed Hair’ and there we'd be. Send me $11, please, I'm broke. Elmer Garside tried to kick his horse to-day, but missed and his shoe flew off and hit Mrs Grooch, the butcher's wife. Sis spoke right up and the fun atarter Much excitement but could lear nothing.—Jeff.'" No HE'S NO PRETTY CHILD. Francis Sadtler, who plays the page in ‘What the Public Wants’’*at the Garrick, wears a blue suit with brass buttons, and he was mighty proud of it until he overheard a remark from « woman recently, 2 “Oh, look at that little boy," said she. ‘Isn't he a sweet little fellow?’’ Now, Francis is nineteen, has giris stuck on him and everything, and the remark hurt his feelings. He is now seeking a way to raise a mustache GOSSIP. John Tiller has trained his dancing girls in “Good Morning, Dearie," in a new number. It is about arranged that Ed Wynn will begin a Chicago engagement at the Illinois Theatre on Labor Day, The p. a says “Tangerine” wil! begin Its forty-first week at the Ca sino goon, with Julla Sanderson, Her- bert Corthell and Frank Crumit re maining intact. Ula Sharon, dancer in “The Green Wich Village Follies,"’ will sail to- Ynorrow on the Baltic for’a visit ‘abroad. POEMS OF PROVOCATION Anon Y,. Mous of Harlem has writ- ten us a rhyme merely because a fel- low with an auto “beat his time’ with a girl, He doesn’t care especially for the iron pansy, but he wants the world to know why the lady !s going around with his rival. His rhyme follows: He asked her if he stood a chance, And vowed his love was true. With ling'ridy glance. Which did entrance, She said: “Indeed you dv If you an auto can engage And have a lot of dough.” Which did enrage Young Herman Sage. And therewith did he go. Maxine Brown has reveived an offer to appear in a musical show in Lon- ’ POOLISHMENT: _._|don, Her new, wealthy “daddy-in There was a young woman from) iaw” ways she may have a show here Hayti, if she wants it. Quite fleshy; in fact far too weighty. And tho’ she looked funny, Her beau called her “Honey,” And spoke of his cute little Katie. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “| was wonvering.” Members of the “Bull Dog Drum- mond’ company—all Englishmen— saw their first baseball game recent ly. Yesterday they saw their first American horse-racing, They say baseball is the less expensive. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. “What about? Some men go crazy over women; “I was wondering what Prohibiti religion and others put on had done to the Port of New York,” ows, i WE: