The evening world. Newspaper, May 22, 1922, Page 22

ba rical News ' Theat and Gossip About Plays and Players ; H By BIDE DUDLEY Vv ILLIAM FAVERSHAM will x7 make a tour of Long Island towne this summer, acting in several playlots for the benefit of the Professional Children’s School, in the Welfare of which he is deeply inter- ested. Hi will begin about the mid- le of June under the business direc- tion of Gverge H. Brennan. Mr. Faversham is a Long Islander, nis home being near Huntington. The supporting cast and the names of the playlets will be announced later. PEMBERTON HAS ONE. Broadway hears Brock Pemberton has a musical comedy which he in tends to produce early next season. Musical comedy, eh? Well, goodby, Brock; take keer yerself! THE OILY PRINCESSE. {A story of a beautiful giM and a moaning saxophone. Cousing great excitement among Junior League girls because. of its love interest.) Whe King entered the room confronted the Princess Otga “Olgy,"’ he said, ‘‘who's tha* play ing ‘The Livery Stable Blues’? "’ } Why should she tell and reveal what Was in her heart? “Father,” she said, “you shave. if you had a few mor hairs on your face you'd be jurping from j limb to lirb,"* Three of the ladies in laughed, but the old King was grave. _ A bomb exploded in the corridor “Look out!" yelled Citizen Prebble “My word!"’ came from Olga fs getting rather flooey.”’ ; But was there sufficient reason for such @ statement? (To be continued.) and She knit her brow need a waiting Phis SO HELEN WORRIES. Helen Lowell has a garden at her country home, but being an amateur + at agriculture, it is worrying her a lot. “You see,’’ she suld recently, ‘I'm @fraid to pull up anything 1 don’t think I planted for fear that later TN find out I did plant it.”” BY WAY OF DIVERSION. TU sing of my tailor, my ehretcd little tailor, jho presses my clothes in his two by four shop. His speed in his work is | Uke that of a snail or perhaps like the speed of a big, lazy cop. He takes my Tuxedo and telis me he'll. press it and have it back home as the clock triking siz. It comes the next day, and I'll have to confess it, I rant and ac- ) use him of all sorts of tricks. O tailor, O tailor, you're sure @ goat-getter. You wake me lose weight through sheer anger, you do. You swear you'll reform and you say you'll do better, and then you forget it; you know this is true, If there were a land where no tailors were needed, I'd pull tp my stakes and I'd move there, T would. I long for the time then we'll all live just beaded. Uf that og comes, say—I'Ul bet you'll be good, { | | A TITLE FOR SOPHIE. A letter’ from Sophie Tucker, now singing in London, says she has been called “The Queen of Jazz" and that because of her title she intends to eoxe herself into royal circles, Sophie spened May 17 in a revue called “Round in 50." She will remain in London untt! August PLAYLETS AND A PLAY. The Cooper Players, all students at Cooper Union, have taken the Punch and Judy Theatre for next Bunday night and will act ‘A Night at An Inn” and “'The Man Who Married ® Dumb Wife.” The leading roles will be in the hands af Harry Birdof, Sol 5 Silver, Hrnestine Weiss, Martin L. Pye Orner and Irving Bridgeman, ‘The Town Drama Guild will pro- duce Hugene O'Neill's “Ie” at the Provincetown Theatre on June 2, 3 and 4. Mabel DeVales will be prom- imently cast. “APE” STILL HOPS. At Jast reports he Hairy Ape” was still hopping from limb to limb at Art Hopkins's Plymouth Theatre, entirely uninjured by the great gobs of Publicity it received through that re~ ported condemnation by Chief Mag- fetrate McAdoo. Yesterday we met Owen Davis and asked him what might happen if a jury of twelve cen- Bors suggested that the play be closed. “I don't believe it would make such @ suggestion,” said Mr. Davis, “but if ft did, Mr. Hopkins would have to close the show.” “The Hairy ape” has been on the Boards for several months. Wonder why its condemnation was so long de- layed? Yea, bo, we wonder GOSSIP. Frances White ®as wriltei a song ealted *'Bobby.’ ful — Biyxorsis - JOE’S CAR SINCE “Those EXCAVATIONS HAVE BEEN GOING ON DowN “He STREET IM ALL OF A FLITer ~‘You MUST GPEAK “To “THAT DYNAMITE CARRIER ! “TKING THE PLUGS ouT oF A | WIN 51X15 No Jos FoR A GENTLEMAN ~ IT'S A JOB FoR TW Guy That BuLT iM ve TEN OF “EM OUT AND IT's “TAKEN ME AN HOUR Ir BEGINS TS Look AS IF MARY 's POP WAS ALIVE AFTER ALL - ANYHOW WHILE WAITING TS HEAR FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT - Mom cals OP MR BLK. sxe TELLS Him THar te REALLY MUSTN'T GALL ANY MORE — THAT MAYBE HER HUSBAND 1S Auve AND IT Woolkd NT Loot WELL AND THE NeiGHBors WourD TALK- iL Wr AR BLIX Ss CLEVER -~ HE Is — Com, 1808 (H, Y, Kem. Werkd) fy Prom Pub Co. KATINKA GEE, IT'S CHILLY — 1 WISH 1 HAD A UL: HOOTCH To WARM ME tis higtey hth id i a ita SCH! TU TELL You How TO GET Cope. 1922 (N. Y. Eve. World) By OH, HELLO ED —— WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND + You PEST ? SOMEBODY WANTS *YOU ON “THE PHONE SOUNDS Like Ep's voice ! Gor in AN’ — You've BEEN CRAZY To hint “THAT SHACKAMAXON COURSE AN! AVE GOT IT ALL FIXED UP WITH JACK - HoP IN YOUR CAR WE'RE ALL READY HURRY DowN HERE — Te START! :- The Well-Known Incentive: * YaTTa Bor! Five MINUTE'S WORK ON TH’ CAR AN’ 1'LL BE ON MY Way Wt ~~ aie "8 Screenings By DON ALLE! SCREEN'S MENACE. For the first time since Volste& turned the keys in the majority of saloon doors, the movie folks are facing a real rival Every one with balf an eye and a quarter of an ear has seen how the radio has chopped into the chief in- door sport of movie-going in the few months of the etherphone's existence. But, like the folks most vitally inter- ested in the liquor business who scoff: ed at such a thing as Prohibition, the average movie producer and exhibitor hus figured the radio craze as just @ craze; 4 passing fancy that would soon step down and once again turn over the millions of people to the movies They are, that ix some of them are, beginning to realize now that the radio-phone as jan entertainer has come to st Ran into a big motion pleture pra- ducer yesterday afterne more worried than usu why n. He looked When asked epee! You SHOULDNT CARRY A “THAT “DYNAMITE” FATHE AD - WERE S09 CARELESSLY— Woo EVER IN Donty ‘tou KNOW WWS HIGHLY 5 EXPLOSIVE © AN beheld <3 Ms Dangle AN’ AH Don SPECT “To BE IN , mMoreN ONE ! Mae *Bup- count Dont Know -ME — Do You? Seen “THAT Buk YELLOW SKYLARKIN * UND. Look ay THE j noni TALRE TY -RLX~-oHe 3 Funny LOoKiNG- Guy Goin’ iNTo THE MIKOPS ATELY - It Might Have Been Santa Claus! CONTINUED ‘TOMORROW - he said: “Last night 1 was scheduled to look over my latest big picture. When I reached the theatre where it was be- ing given a trial I found | was so late that the picture was more than hair over.” “What detained you? we ventured, “TL got so interested in a radia con- cert that I forgot the picture. Which looks bad for pictures, say we. LISTEN, EAR! A few days ago HRustér Keaton, wishing to synchronize lis man, froze his right ear while shooting snow stuff in Truckee, Cal Then, just to even things up, he went to Death Valley and had the other hearing appendage sunburned. Ain't he the blamedest cut-up? GETS DEGREE Martha Mansfield al the screens has just finished a serious fling at vaudeville Hundreds of her friends wondered why she, at the height of a success ful screen career, should desert that career and adopt the irksomeness of trooping around the two-a-day cir- feutt We were among those who won- | dered, and so, when we lamped the fair Martha yesterday, we asked het point blank She must have been as expecting the question, she said), without a moment's hesitation “Why do I go into vaudeville? Be- cause the stage is the greatest college of acting in the world and I am al- ways seeking to improve myself. So few realize how hard it is to act for the movies, On the speaking stage words actuate physical action, which renders one’s acting more spontane- ous and natural."* Isn't that nice, now? Joe Striker, the young filmster, wished he was twins one night last week. A bunch of Joe's friends gav@ a theatre party in his honor at the Apollo Tiextre, where Joe is playing a promincat part in the Mary Car film, “Silver Wings Joe had, of course, been invited, as he was to be the guest of honor, a \T'S AGAINST THE RULES OF THIS SHIP To CARRY LIQUOR AN’ ANYONE CAUGHT WITH \T (S SUBJECT 70. A BIG FINE. T SAU A.MAN GO IN-ROOM 11 WITH SOMETHING ON HIS HIP — AN’ \F You'Lt RAP ON THe DOOR AN’ SAY YOU'RE AN ~) THROW THE, BOTTLE RY] OUT OF HIS CABIN, For FEAR OF BEING SAY' THIS 1S THE SHIP'S OFFICER! GONNA INSPECT ALL CABINS, AND ANYONE CAUGHT WITH LIQUOR INEM he had accepted with alacrity, what- lever that may mean. Then at the last moment Pyramid Pictures notified him that he must appear in some night scenes in “The Queen of the Moulin Rouge,"’ and so the theatre party was off I can't make a personal appear- ance,” wired Joe, “but I'll be with you in celluloid HELPING FATHER TIME. hardest things in al One of ‘ of a few craniums,* moviedom (outsid the of co e) is to build anything that looks old. We all know what a job it is to kill time, but few, outside of pictures, know what a real job it is to make anything look as though Old Man Time had been on the job. Recently hundreds of carpenters were put to work building a set for a Cosmopolitan picture, When it was finished {t was a brand new railroad station with brand new tracks run- ning alongside, In fact, everything shone out in its brand newness Frank Borzage, the director, hap. pened along on a tour of inspection The very newness of everything in the act dazzled his eyes. “Get in that and add fifty years to the age of that station in fifteen min- utes,"’ ordered Frank { POEMS OF PROVOCATION Netiteaniehsiiennceaisaie pieiianierehiesetnass We have decided to end the Poems and an effort To-day we Let's go: of Provocation contest next day afternoon, At 3 o'clock the judges will meet and decide: who shall re- ceive the tron pansy, The committee 18 composed of Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt, Dingo Batt and Gussie Ohi, the girl bicycle rider who is 60 beauti- Thus it is plain to be seen the decision will be @ fair one, The win- ner will be taken to City Hall park wilt be made to get Mayor Hylan to rivet the iron pansy on him, have a rhyme Langdon Bang. It is just fu)] of feline. ‘Tis horrible to have a fence Satur- from That runs around your house, AS quiet as a mouse, Because at night when you're asleep, The cats will get on that old fence And yow! with alt their might, see ‘The Rose of Stamboul’’ to-night as Jim Barton's guest Cass Burt is now playing the com edy drunk in “The Perfect Fool."" Wilbur Cox say Cass is “some intoxi- cant Gallagher and Shean have with drawn from the Royal Palace ang t And that's a provocation, dear, That gets my nanny right belleve It is the ugliest sort of vipe and, asa rule, succeeds. But if it sees {ts bluff detected it falls limp and liter- ally goes into convulsions of terror. Quite as clever in its way is the cat- erpillar of the sphinx moth—a slow, fat green worm, It has no armor or spines or poison or ability to defend itself, but the instant anything approaches, it at once rears up and wags its horned head, programmes for this week because of throat trouble, they say. Chic Sale succeeds them at the Palace. Two dollars will be the most charged for the best seats at Henry Miller's theatre when Allan Pollock] 4 presents ‘A Pinch Hitten” there. While abroad Charles Dillingham HOG-NOSED SNAKE A REPTILE BRAGGART. Seeks to Ins} leer peeeae by Swell- Out Head ing and Hissing « Bloft, Neck—Blow- From London Answers.) vay will dispose of the Puropean rights ¢ In this way it looks so formidable that “ ae ner Most harmless of reptilo braggarts {8 Gi ite enemies have the ners to to “Good Morning Dearie," now at} the hog-nosed snake, which really ean | tach it, 7 the Globe. hurt nothing bigger than a mouse or! 4 izard common to Australia, and ‘The Minsky Brothers would like to have Peggy Joyce in their musical shows at the Park, but Peggy hasn't fledgling sparrow. and relies for self- defense upon pure “bluff.”’ It seeks to Inspire terror by swelling out its head and neck to twice thelr si which has a frill like an Elizabethan collar, Is another clever braggart. When attacked it starts a comleal perform TI * ance, opening its frill and raising it~ haghoars 7 Then it blows and hisses and makes self upon its haunches, Its front raised Prot. Geotge Raker, Walter Prit- | — se | a8 HIgh a5 possible, it sinks chard Faton and Richard G. Herndon will choose the 1922 Harvard prize play Jay Velie, brother of Janet Velie, has replaced Guy Robertson in the cast of Ed Wynn's thow at the George M. Cohan Theatre The two Milne comedies now cur- rent in New York, ‘‘The Dover Roatl”’ and “The Truth About Blayds,"’ are to be published In book form, Mimi Carpen, a young French ac. tress, who studied in this country several years ago, has returned from France and will make her English between {ts shoulders until it | a miniature umbrella. —>—— ODD WAY OF MEASURING, by ‘Takes to Drink Tea. ments of torture but no barber's hot towel. FOOLISHMENT. I badly need a new strau To wear upon my bean But I will tell the whole world that My pocketbook is lcan, My derby still is serving me, And yet I do not brood, It tops me off becomingly, And I'm no datwgone dude, nge Reckon: Time, 1¢ hat (From the London Chronicle.) The Tibetans, who, according to the Everest explorers, meaqure short dis- tances in cups of tea—meaning the time {t takes to drink so many cups of hot tea—are not to use similar measures the only primitive people debut this year. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. When Harry de Windt visited the Frederic Graham, « member of the] «where's that $5 you o ‘oe [Siberian Ostiaks he found that they Lambs, and recently with “A Hill of What five?" $5 you owe me calculated quite long distances in terms Divorcement,”’ is very ill at the Luth pete Nor of kettles, an almost identical oustom eran Hospital, ass “ie aa mined you last week. Jat the other end of Asia. If n journey ou said you'd pay mo back whea|was five kettles long the explorer found you returned from Boston."* they meant that it would take as long A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY “Oh, that's so. But f didn't go it woud to holl five kettles of cold The Convict Ship has many instru- to Boston,’ ater In succession, ~, STATIC. . “And We'll Learn About ‘Movies From Him" ought to be the title of the book now being written by (or for) Samuel Goldwyn—but that isn’t the title at all, Anyway, he's prom- ised to tell all he knows about the movies and has ordered ten carloads of foolseap on which to write his manuseript We were notified in etght different ways yesterday by Vitagraph that 3 Wild Irish Roi is finished From which we take it that “My Wild Irish Rose’ is finished. When did it start? Jimmy Aubrey claims he has a fliv- ver that will answer him back when he scolds it, We thought they'd stop selling that kind of stuff. Or are they just starting? “Hope,” the fourth of the series of Triart Masterpieces for release by Hokinson, is completed and all ready for the screens. “Love is laughed at by jokesmiths,” muses Aesop's Film Fables. Once upon a time there was a movie queen who didn't care for an automo- bile, She wanted two William — Russell recovered from the effects of being bitten on the arm by a near tame bear The bear is also out of danger It's d a! ‘The adaptation of Max Brand's noyel “Aleatras’ for the screen ix to be known as ‘Just Tony'’ in honor of ‘Tom Mix's horse. ‘Tom is to support the horse in the picture Jerome Storm has started i on Fr ‘A California Romance." 1 Btory with @ Spanish favor—| siniects for the old folks’ home. They Ttarty Millarde, selected to direct|Chiselled and they rasped and they “If Winter Comes," salle next Satur. |Smeared dust and dirt und they day and will soon start shooting the | used up the place in general, but exteriors in England. Interiors will| mere man couldn't add a graceful be made in the William Fox New| age to the infantile set York studio. So the company went out on lexa- Katherine MacDonald plays the} ton and shot a Long Island agpot part of a frump part of the time in “Heroes and Husbands." imagine, nt part photography,” camera chief ductions Ca are act. Will in th Charles W. Bayer, who played the lead in ‘Ten Nights in a Barroom,” is making personal appearances, not barrooms Joy is spending her time these days learning to drive an auto- nobile as recklessly as possible. thea Lei ts, say Yet Rogers, he Bast. tres isn't it? of says Chester Lyons, Cosmopolitan Pro- Now, that's sure strange! We never thought of that, at all. moton picture directors, (he hardest animals to train to the famous cat ctor, will play almost any sort of a part for a nip o° catnip, “Cupid's dart, hits a Miss and makes her M muses Aesop's Film Fables. Work has been started on Legend of Sleepy Hollow," starring The scenes were taken of Cosmo, help herself watching drivers. some But it’s so. ing and shading is the most all. “$0,” laughed his director, “the u 4 ipped with Kdsses,| 1. your Mmousine? Why the tom effect?” eppe| “Well, you see," started Hrnegs, And when the agers finished, station and environs looked the It is said like fit that had seen actual service for years Hard to]#2d bore many ‘wound stripes METER AND ALL For weeks folks around an studio had listened to Erne ballyhoo the fact that he chased a gas-buggy. From his de- scription every one rather imagined | Ernie would roll up in a Rolls-Royce or royce up in a Royce-Rolls, Yesterday he jounced up !n a Fir Department red Ford taxi, meter ang x motion picture iptow Halli Md | aid pure | “My wife cannot bear to ride in the open, s0 I have the covered tonneau for her. I cannot bear to ride in- doors, so I can drive out here in the air. Sort of a Jack and Myre Spratt 1922 model, eb muttered — §hy In Mrector, aghast “And, besidew’ continued Hilliard, Sho| “If movie agttwe beoumes unprofitable, along thore lines|I will he @ble to keep the hyena New York taxi] away from the apartment by picking up & few dares.” ne 1 ae — ¥ aa