The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1922, Page 32

SR a MN co te en et ie heatrical News and Gossip | THE NEW PLAYS ||[_JOB’S CAR j “Salome” Ridiculously Bad . By CHARLES DARNTON OU have only to open your programme at the Klaw Theatre, where “Salome’! is on exhibition, to see thut it gives the whole show awa with this line in large type turing the dance of the seven velis. ah this baretaced announcement you get the intent of a show poor enough to } Make the so-called Players’ Forum take the fell. ; There is no disguising the belated attempt to create a sensation wilh a i NONE WHATEVER! ND LIKE TO “TAKE a HEY, You FATHEAD — ton, Joe His LAMP, ARE! Sone oe tele] | DIM YouR LIGHTS! re 7 ‘ : BLINDING ! AROUND -“Ta' BLOCK. AN! m \ Bust HIM on. Ta’ Nose # : AE aa : : Tt Say so! Look AT “HIS T Lime rT ALL BUT “These. HEADLIGHTS a BO You LE T dRive AT MAKES IT, HARD ‘To SEE , Don'T rr? ] @aincer who can’t act. The result 1s ludiero As for Oscar Wilde's moibid, grisly play, some one has butchered it until it is an even worse mess than Jobanaan’s seyered head. It has been strung out with such poor stuff that + you can hardly believe your ears. The wonder is that it doesn’t gag the fore intelligent members of the cast, Howeyer, there is no sympathy to Waste, for this ridiculously bad “Salome'’ Is too tedious for words. Opwviously, the advertised “feature Su SRNR: 25 725Se a RRTE is supposed to be the reward of tlence. Strange as it may seem, this acting isn’t at all in her line. From the watst up she is hopelessly ama- thomd less than a Salome in high-/teurish. Her volce suggests throat heeled slippers! First you wonder] treuble, but fortunately she has little where in Judea she got them, and/to say. Fred Bric is at least a vigor- then whether she is going to dance]ous Herod, and Alma Krusor is not jrrthe new-fangled things. Her bobbed] without authority as Herodias. Per- hair is equally up-to-date, and dis-] haps they shiné tby contrast, No tinguishes her as a strawberry blonde. | matter! fhe could strut off to a Broadway], cabaret just as she is and be com- pietety in tho picture. While the prophet is saying uplifting things fromthe well she seems bored stiff. +). @ebasionally she takes a turn about + the well, but apparently there isn't enough freedom in “this exercise. to suit- her. At last she makes Herod deliriously happy by con @ance for him, and tossin veil after another she wrig: © foolish virgin. g4ima Harvey can do no more, for About Plays ? i on! Dip'NT 2 e 7 Wetr TLL Gor een Mou KNow “That | No! way = BUT "Nor everv Be wen Age sales Mrs. ee 2 “HosawT Ste HAIR ON His Raia heeds ADoRED EVERY StHoutDER # _ PPo ~~ Mt me a TH’ “ ALIMONY Se ONY HAIR ON HIS Heap! and Players By BIDE DUDLEY Screenings WO boys were in a playful strug: T gle on a subway platform last night, and looking on was Olga Steck of. the ‘Sue Dear’ cast. A train approached, but the boys paid _By DON ALLEN” MINERVA SPECIAL. FALCONVILLE, May 24 (Special to Séfeénings).—Hopped off early yes- terdgy.. Carbureter fluttering badly. for altitude and swerved over fro; the Doug Fairbanks camp and yoiplaned down over the Swiss Alps. Discovered a familiar face and found “At felopsed to Marsh he ee He is On & hunting expedition. He says he's ting ree! snow stuff for his fir Goldwyn release. Saw another man Gbuting over here. He shot an Alpian chute, about 5,000 feet long. Neilan ays, he's gone him some better by shooting 7,300 feet already. ‘Saw another party shooting some- thing elss. One shot a six and then aseyen. Then he shot himself, Laoked around Or a real Swiss cheese. Only cheese I saw was Nei- Jan's camera man. He had the measles. Put me in mind of a dotted Swiss dress our Mary was wearing When I left. » See what the boys in the back room will nave. » @igned) MINERVA, the Falcon. Tn OF THis = Nor KHowinG WHETHER MAY STILL SINGLE. y Collins, remembered for her work in the leading role in ‘Hot Romance," is not strong . ‘matrimony, that is, and please let qualify—not at the present time. © So strong is she against wedding a ing but her art that Miss Collli @ parrot and @ cat and she will be contented to spénd FS can be, and sometimes is, ery fine thing,"” mused May, “but =f no hurry to jump into it. I work and I certainly intend to © to it. Of course, if the right es along I might change my but for the present I’m satisfied my lot. 19 Started this, anyway? BUSINESS IS—— ” Im the parlance of the movie world, c is “business.’’ For example, is to walk into a scene and a book on the table the director 1” business is ‘to walk in and lay #8 Wook on the table! “Then the actor would probably say —ttand what shall I do next?” “We don't know what the director is supposed to say, but if we were in his we'd probably tell the actor to ie’ and then lose our job as a ; but what we started to say ‘the above situation really hap- find the director said: “Oh, E USE THis RADIO, WILL YA~ TL WANNA GET IN ToucH WITH THAT TUS, WE JUST PASSED! My FELLOW FELL QUERBOARD AN I WANT To FIND We'tt Kiow 'N A- DAY oR Wo — I Tost wWeore 4 KETTER ASKIN’ ALL ABOUT IF OFF WHEN 1 SPIED THis |] CONEY ISLAND — TUG Bound FoR AMERICA! LUNA PARK — TS wiom wWHERS 16 172 Y . EA jJoRROW . te hw Crd fine CLL OTIC CONTINUED SI N MAY BEA WHAT ? FELL OVERBOARD ff Good PLACE To SPEND NOTHING— T JUMPED A SUMMER -BUT THINK THOSE COZY BENCHES THe PARKS — THE SAZZ BANDS — BALL GAMES — too much business in this c Then the producer, who was ing, shouted; “That's just the name I want for <flm—'Too Much Business."* > Sand #0 it stands, _ But we'd like to see an actor lay a husk on a table at that. ‘ rected the original film, gathered to- gether the cast, headed as before by Herbert Rawlinson, and according to the reports of those who have seen the first projection room runs “Come Through" has come through with a rush and is even better than the original version. A WET spoT. Yack Holt’ and Clarence Burton, and leading player in “The Man uerable,” are anything but MORE DEVILS. ‘Stunny how film titles swing in cycles. ie but they, now claim there ie a | No sooner does one film gather unto to everything—even dampness, |!t#elf ® name\than there are scores m" th were engaged in making | (more or less) thrown on the market ‘water scenes and were called upon |thet In some way resemble it, to do a lot of fighting in the sea at} Take ‘The Devil," for instance, Balboa Beach. While neither claims} Singe there was talk of re-vamping ‘@ pumped the ocean dry, both | that old film others containing devil- wear that high tide now looks |igh names have sprung up like yeast slow tide down that way since Jin the old home brew. + Shey swallowed most of t water that] Now we have “Devil's Foot,” feme within their reach. ~*t meyer want to see the sén again, much jess taste it," swears Holt: and Burton counds a fervent “Amen!” Jay right. ‘THEY CAME THROUGH, ‘My nounce “When the Devil Drives.” A FUNNY WORLD. lier situation in filmdom ‘This is a peculiar old sphere, at s when ull the prints of “Come | that. film famous fi When we opened our mail last © shop-worn and|night we ran plumb into a request to print a lotion that would remove ) eonld not be used, and the negative gas ‘burned so that no more prints ‘be made, . flo many requests for the picture s received that it was thought ad- GOING!” been broadcast that o new production company has just been formed to produce films with Madge Kennedy as the star and that the Dor-] put in fifteen out of her othy film was the one wanted as a send-off attraction. So representatives of Miss Kennedy and the producing corporation closed | look at her, a deal for the picture rights to the Majer story for $17,000. In the mean Stuart Blackton sent out}in her latest release, scouts with a commission to purchase | ‘Peggy Immigrates.’" the story for Lady Diana Manners and Mary Pickford started scurrying around to secure the rights for her- Friend, the Devil’ and Exhibitors an- ‘That “Deviled Drama” all right, Believing that Wes Barry would know less about freckle-removers than any one else in moviedom, we turned over the “F, F. F."' letter to Im another envelope was a letter “Orphang of the Storm."’ She in- STILLS. closed a note from a Londoner which requested her to find a tenant for a small apartment the writer had to let in West London, “The Bonded Woman” she has knocked down about 98 per of the dining room ceiling. Which ‘is a Ruthlike batting average, to say the least. FOUR! and then five or six! Larry Semon is all set and ready to tee-off in his next picture, ‘‘Golf.”” “If you came tleman’s Mother"? and will put it in yehearsal next week. “Tangerine” will close its run at the Casino Saturday night after a ses- sion of forty-two weeks and 336 per- POEMS OF PROVOCATION Wow O'Neill of Hast sth Street, wants the iron pansy, but says he'd rather have it welded on if he wins Look at ‘his rhyme: 1 sought a prescription Of liquid description, The old family doctor catied 1. Around him I hovered, And then he discovered He'd used up his whole month’s Betty Compson has just finished and Richard Rarthelmess is working hard with “The Bond Boy."" We suppose “Bot- tled in Bond"? will be a near release. There are thirty-two in the cast of It seems that whenever these film] “Pink Gods'’ and the praise agent stars or staresses want anything they] announces it as a “cast of all-star just go right’ out * and—sometimes Harland Dixon's flivver had its fifth birthday yesterday and the Morning, Dearie’’ girls gave it a gal- home and found all your money, sold your house and disappeared—what would asks a press agent, thus outlining the theme of “The Girl In His Room’— well, if that could happen to us we'd try to hunt the agent up and talk him into dividing about 60-49, then—it couldn't happen to us, as we have no agent. We always thought we wouldn't want to even visit an Arabian desert, and now we know it. that ‘The Sheik’s Wife” is considered an absolutely true to life picture of that locality. Patsy Ruth Miller says the latest flapper vogue is to appear bored and Patsy also declares she has too much energy to be in style. Shirley Mason has just had a birth- day. Shirley now can vote—and will, Folks who thought tho old melo- thrillers had died along with the Dodo and the 5-cgnt cigar would better look over a list of the latest releases. Speaking of titles, it’s about time some one took a few expurgeés at some just announced. Charles W. Bayer, who played the lead in “Ten Nights in a Barroom, is making personal appearances. theatyes—not barrcome, calibre''—.82-calibre, as "twere. ‘The cast to support Wallace Reid in A great struggle (7) has been going] “The Ghost Breaker'’ on between several feminine stars to] chosen. It will be headed by secure the screen rights to the novel| Lee, Walter Hiers, Arthur “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,’*| and J, F, McDonald. The bidding grew so spirited recently that it sounded ‘like a Five Hundred Curolyn Duffy, a very pretty little uetress, is now playing a part in “The Rubicon” at the Hudson Theatre, * Lew Fields was seen in the Shubert offices yesterday with a new play un- Johnny Fox will try to fill the place “Well, why not?’ asked left vacant in the Century Comedy forces by the leaving of Harry Sweet. It's some gap to fill, Johnny. Ena, Gregory, who is to support Lee Moran-in "Too Much Family," has The police were having a look at at the Klaw Theutre yes- But alas, the danco aa ——EEEE terday afternoon. We just learn had been tamed. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. When you go to a restaurant for @ new straw hat be sure you have re- moved your name from your old John T. Murray and Vivian Oak- : tage and screen. years on the stage and screen EE ap repre be Ube th Neg etarted in pantomime in Australia at the ripe old age of three, and now Petrova is writing a play which will be tensely dramatic. Fay Marbe of ‘'The Hotel Mouse"’ has an offer to appear in a London ° Baby Peggy, @ real wonder child, Is playing the part of an immigrant kid FOOLISHMENT. A sweet little miss from St. Joe Once had a deaf mute for a veau, They couldn't hold hands, As true love demands, He used his to talk with, you know, e Cat and the Canary’’ will have @ matinee on Decoration Day, elimi- nating the usual afternoon Wednes- day afternoon performance. Allan Pollock has engaged J. M. Kerrigan for a role in “A Pinch Hit- Henry Milier’s It is claimed that po one on the screen could out-Villa the Mexican villians in such a clumsy, Raylike way as does Charlie Ray in It was announced yesterday that]"Gas, Oil and Water,” a forthcom- the bids had reached $60,000, but tuat]ing featuré, Miss Konnedy has decided that it it is worth that much to other stars it surely will be worth that much to|pe perfect in this from Lillian Gish, one of the bas: in her, and that's the way it stands now. ? 3 FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Lye had fresh vegetables from my garden on my table some time.” “Why don’t you eat them?’’ Alice Calhoun is practisin: frog in the attic of her home 60 as to Sam 8. Harris has obtdined @ new play by Martin Brown called A Gen, renuous outdoor game in her next picture. no heed to it, continuing to struggle near the edge of the platform. With the front car fifty feet away, a big woman stepped up and shoved them hack “Why don't you stop that?’ she demanded The boys looked at’ her sheepishly * but did not reply.. As the woman boarded a car, Mise Steck said to her: “Were you afraid the boys would get killed?” "Oh, it wasn't that,’ she ‘repliet “T didn't want them to fall under the ~ train and delay it. I'm in a hurry to get to Brooklyn.”* COCHRANE GETS IT. ©, B. Cochrane is to present "he Music Box Reyue’ in London. A cable from Irving Berlin, now abroail received by Sam H. Harris yesterday, said Mr. Cochrane had arranged to buy the London rights. Hassai Short will stage the show for him with a cast recruited in England THE OILY PRINCESS. (A story of a beautiful girl and a moaning saxophone. Mystery much more absorbing than that surroundins striking of Billy Patterson.) Princess Olga was very much per- turbed. Word’had been received that the Royal train was to be wrecked. Alonzo P. Jones, the American saxo phone player, would be on that train She knew she loved him but whit could she do. That was the question, and SOMI: question, too, I don't care to talk," sald Olga Citizen Muldoon sprang to his feet. “Then I resign,’’ he shouted, A tense moment followed. His re ignation would mean much to the throne as his family was very promi nent in Nutley, N. J. “Piffie!” said Estelle de la Place Vendome, the French woman whos« influence has caused the King to shave off his mustache. “Ma Cherie!"* replied the King. Olga gave him a swift kick ani wept. She had no alternative. (To Be Continued.) OH, YOU CHICAGO! Louis H, Chalif, the ballet master, invited a friend from Chicago to see “The Hairy Ape,'’-the O'Neill drama, recently. “No, thanks!" replied the visitor “TI never did care for animal acts,’ NEXT*AT CARROLI.'S. “Heads 1 Win,” a new comedy by L, Marshall, will begi’ an engage- ment at Earl Carroll's ‘Theatre with a matinee Tuesday afternoon, In the cast will be Marie Louise Walker, Curtis Cooksey, Albert Housem, Ned, Dye, Ernest Elton and Florence Cur- ren. EQUITY TO MEET. The annual meeting of the Actors Equity Association will be held to- morrow afternoon at 2.15 o'clock at the Hotel Astor. WHAT ABOUT THIS? A list of current attractions on Broadway, published in the Indianap- vlis Star of May 21, gives the loca- tion of “The Perfect Fool” at the Commodore Theatre. There is a re- port out that the name of the George M. Cohan Theatre is to be changed. Has the news reached Indianapolis? TOM OLIPHANT DIES, Tom Oliphant, press representative of Sam H. Harris, died yesterday at 4 P. M, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, where he had been ill. about a week, following a double stroke of paralysis. Tom was born thirty-nine years ago in Indianapolis and was a newspaper- man of ability. He leaves a widow but no children. Incidentally, he was one of the most popular young men in the Broadway district, where his friends were legton. ‘ A NEW SECOND ACT, Owen Davis has written a pew sed- ond act for ‘Bronx Express," now at the Astor Theatre, It is proviig highly satislactery,