The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1922, Page 12

a a Sees a . .elub, heatrical N TURNI-JG IN THE SPOTLIGHT i BY CHARLES DARNTON v ] theatres are still going like electri ably easier to rent a well-located ment. There are, in fact, enough em at greatiy reduced rates. Sometimes these experiments turn hapa half & dozen, may band together 1S all very well to yawn and say the season is about over, yet foriy c fans. At the same time, it is prob- theatre to-day than a similar apart- pty playhouses to invite experiments out well. ‘Two or three people, per chip in a little money, take a house for a week or ao, rig up an electric sign and put on a play in which they vave’an abiding faith. They could a fford to do this at no other time of year, for then only a goiden key set with diamonds would unlock the door of even the lesser of Broadway's tem more than the adventurer in love n the theatre. R one, “Kempy” is in a fair way P F to flourish. It happens to be one of those pleasant little sur- prises in which weatherbeaten play- goers geem to take a personal interest. Somehow they feel they should help it along. For example, good old Frank McKee buttopholed me on the street the other day and said: “What about ‘Kempy?’ I hear !t's worth while, and I'm going to sec it.” A play of any merit quickly makes friends here. Any one who asserts that New York is cold-hearted doesn't kgow the town. It warms up to any- thing reasonably good with an en- thusiasm not to be found tn any other city. Indeed, the true ice specialists live far from Rroadway. Hand them something without the metropolitan label and they are more than likely to freeze it solid, There was “The Great Divide,” you may remember. When it reached here it had icicles hanging on it. Buta thaw set in with the first night. In fact, the reception was so glowing that for some time afterward the modest author, William V. Moody, was placed in the embar- rassing position of being obliged to deny that he bad written “the great American play." In those days we were a bit ingenuous and simply wouldn't be satisfied with anything lens, It was funny but encouraging. OWADAYS we are not ao intent piece, and more than often quite content if we can find the theatre to which we are bound. The houses are so numerous that we hardly know which way to turn. This situation helps to explain present vacancies, though, of course, the lateness of the season has more to do with the matter. In the circumstances revivals are to le expected despite the fact that re- productions, with such exceptions as “The Return of Peter Grimm" and “The Easiest Way,"' haven't fared very well in the course of the year. all odds the strangest of the lot is the revival of ‘'Salome,"’ obviously to exploit a dancer innocent as a babe ot acting. However, we have been spared a Greek tragedy, which usually blossoms forth as a merry springtime offering. There is cause for hearty rejoicing in the of revival “The Rivals'’ on June 5 by The Players. Here is an undertaking worthy of an actors’ not only an honor to the club ,jtself but a tribute to the memory of that greatest of actors, Edwin Booth, whose spirit lives In the reverent shadows of Gramercy Park. We can fancy, too, the shade of Joseph Jef- ferson joining merrily in this cele- bration of Sheridan's comedy. Well may it enliven Francis Wilson, who knew the rare comediam so well and doubtless learned many a good trick from him. We have reason to con- esider with almost equal interest the Tames of those who also are to figure in the cast—Tyroge Power, Heary uaF] Scree DAME RUMOR AGAIN. Old Lady Rumor, it would seem, has chalked down another on the Gebit side of her ledger. That is, the old trouble-maker has been found wrong again. ‘This time it concerns the story that has been swirling up and down Broad- way snd once in a while jumping out to the west coust, stopping now and again at water tanks and way sta- tions, to the effect that Theda Bara was about to go on another screen vampage under the guidance of Asso- ciated First Nattonal. Every one seemed to take the story a8 Gospel until it reached the head- quarters of A. 8. F. Here they ju laughed and laughed and laughed. *All of which means that Associated First National asked us to deny the fumon—which we hereby do ANSWERS. MARY REGAN: 1t permissible to submit scenarios screen stars direct, but not gener- ally productive of good results, They really should be sent to the scenario editor (they'll reach him sooner or later, anyway), There is no set rule In regard to number of words in a scenario. The original scenario of “Nero,” submitted by Charles Sa: ver, contained wbout 5,000 words. Others run as low as 350. T. D. WARD: Many of the motion picture magazines have lists of pro- ducing compenies and their stare, which they would be glad to let you copy. FRANK SHEEHAN: Griffith per sonally directs or supervises every scene in all of his pictures. M. D.: Write to Don Clarke, care Goldwyn, No, 469 Fifth Avenue, for list of words contained in motion pic- ture dictionary. He knows more movie words than any one else in America. FLORENCE PERRY: Yes, the star is, of course, ples of art. Spring is for something The modest violet raises its head even B. Dixey, Robert Warwick, James T. ‘owers, Ernest Glendinning, Mary Shaw, Violet Heming and Patricia Collinge. The night of June 6 prom- {ses to be bright with stars. Only circumstances over which, un- fortunately, we have no control, pre- vent our drinking the health of The Players. THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Au! “Heee , Gaoe — -~R- f ie ae ] F ITS For ME =x out! Seg (N.Y. Eqs. Wald) By Prose Pub. Co. | ws and Gossip | | JOE'S” CAR “ YT RELIC! ave vcona BE RUBBERING out: oF “Thar WINDOW ALL DAY OR @AN Y'FIND Time oO EMPTY THAT WASTE BASKET ? > LISTEN DEAR-IT WAS MRS. De SWELL” SHES GIVING A PARTY “To-NIGHY AND WANTS US To Come t LITTLE MARY MIXUP MARY SENT A LETTER TS THE WAR DEPARTMENT ASKING WHEN HER PAPA 18 COMING Home — SHE S$A1D FRANKI.Y THAT.IF THEY Dip Nor SEND HER PAPA Home Seon, SHE AND Mom WERE GoINe TS MaRRY MR. Bux - Cape. 1088 (M. Y, Hn. Wovtd) By Pram Pade. Ca. KATINKA You ALWAYS LAUGH AT MY CLOTHES So TLL a . TWe WEA! THE IDEA OF YouR SENDING THAT SILLY LETTER 4 THE WAR DEPARTMENT ¢ ~ AND THE WORST OF 1T- WAS TELUNG THEM THAT MAY8E I WAS Cone Ta MARRY AR. BEX. DO You UKE THis, Fernie ? LIKE A GAME OF Tick “TACK -ToE/ # . T woz Jus’ waTenin! D'COP Down ONT Th" CORNER Loowin’ At y'ear ! <_ SHE'S. HAVING MUSIC AT EIGHT AND” SUPPER’ AT ih it 40) | FO) 0 a (\ ((/ \ YUP —'CLASSY LooKIN’ BoaT — LIKE “T SWAP You ME ELIVVER FER (T~ Uow's SHE RUN ? We’LL Be Here avr ELEVEN! Bud 2 COUN HAN. HEY Mori? T FiXep iT ALL Teun HIM MERRY You WouLd NT MARRT MR BLIX IF HE ASKED Yu WELL, THATS WHAT 1 CALL CLASS! (IT Fits —YPERFECT AN’ HAS A o re YOUTH Fut PARDON HE ,CADY— Youul Got THAT DRESS ON BACKWARDS! { you mention really ate everything you thought he did during the dinner scene. Why not? NOT IMPRESSED. Leonard, whose duty Metro director calls upon him daily to manufacture jilusions, does not take these spirit manifestations seri ously at all. Bob “It's all a lotta bunk," declared Bob yesterday. “But,” interrupted the friend who was backing the spirits, “here is a man who claims the spirit ef his son materialized and stroked him oo the arm, What do you say to that? “That was merely a son-stroke,” mused Hob. THE WRONG MAN. Viola Dana wished to hire a chauf feur. So she looked in the “’Situa- tions Wanted” column and read: “Situation wanted as chauffeur by & young man, Experienced ful; makes all own repairs.” She looked further A GOOD WORKER. An Eastern boat builder shown through was being one of the bi hip plants at San Pedro, a half hour's ride m Los Angeles, the other day He was particularly interested in a grease covered and d figure hard at work on a boat's en- gine “1 like the way that workman goes about his work,” said the visitor, “Ta like to hire a man like Plant in the ast.’” “‘l guess you can,” smiled the host “for about $6,000 a week, That's Dustin Farnum working on his speed- boat Miss Los Angeles II." that for my “In the Name of the Law," tribution by R-C pictures, And, wonder of wonders, the hero- cop is not a sheriff in the far, far West nor a member of the Northwest Mounted. He's just a pavement- pounder who lives the life of a regu- for dis- THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE | 1a, honest-to-God human being. He TRUTH doesn't once get on the trail of an ex-convict or put any poor suffering Joe Jackson, who worked on New York newspapers before he took over the job of managing the publicity for jdwyn out in Culver City, has al 8 boasted that he never wrote & paper or a movie con w. fake for in his life. Yest ceived the which is ament Mason Hopper (a Goldwyn dl- rector) accompanied by a party of! four friends was fishing from a twen ty-fivesfoot boat off Catalina Island ny afternoon s following wire printed without eenings ra- from Joe malice or when thirty whales, ranging from twenty fo fifty feet in length, sur- rounded the small craft. They made no attack om the boat but circled around it continously. The oceu- pants were unable to break through the dangerous ring two hours. Nothing could be done except keep the & out of the whales’ path as: they played around |t CAN IT BE? It's mighty hard to believe, but a movie producer has been found who is about to take @ policeman seriously He is Emory Johnson, who has made heroine or hero through shird degree. We, for one. victure, It relief, a gruelling are anxious to see the will certainly come as @ RETAKES. ‘Tom Mix jumps backwards down the side of # ninety-foot cliff ingthe next picture, Shucks! If he'd only reverse and jump UP ninety feot then there'd be something for thas guy Viv Moses to prate about They have a new leading lady up in the Fox studio on West n Street. Her name is Dawn O'Day and ghe is just three years old, We are not sure, but we think she has brother called “Break” and a cousin named “Time.” “The Man Who Saw looked only so To-morrow,” far ahead as to see to-day iterday Hope Hampton was the only film star chosen to shine at a recent fashion show held at the home of Mr. and Mra#. Willian Clothier in Wynnewood, Pa. That in itself doesn't really amount to much, and the only reason this was written was to call attention to the faet that they certainly picked an ideal hold the show. Fashion! Gidap! The manuscript of “Her called for and described place Clothier! an Man" idea) American home as one of the sets. What did Marshall Neilan do? Why, he ad&cted his own bungle-house out Charity, by the way, in Hollywood isn't the only home. When it com ally demand a new deal, thing that bdgins ay 8 to poetry we gener- Yesterday we received an it-is-said-to-be poem all about the Ohio Film Censors, One of our ambitions fm life is to receive a poem about Ohio that doesn’t contain the line “Oh, My Oh! O HI O!" but we probably never will “Saint Cuple ed be recogni. ade."* An old friend the screen: the word at would probably not “Love's: Masquer- we seldom meet on Ine Moment, Please, to Change Film." The utter stranger is “Please.” “If You Believe it, It's Bo’ helps a lot in our visits to the movies. Ruth Dwyer says the greatest hair raising situation oceurs when a bobbed woman decides she wants long hair again Screen Villains are a queer lot, They'd rather be hissed than kissed. Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein is to make her screen debut !n “What's Wrong With the Women?" which | POEMS OF PROVOCATION | mh ome Elisha Q. Buff of 1284 EB. 78th Street wins the fron pansy in the Poems of Provocation contest, “His rhyme,” writes Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt, ‘tis simply delicious. Mr. Baff will have the papsy welded on him at City Hall Place ‘to-morrow at eventide. His rhyme: I do not like a lot of things They're far beyond my station. Wahoo, wahoo, I know that vou Will like my provocation FOOLISHMENT. The mun who always has advice And gives it with a vim, Will seldom think the person nice Who offers some to hin FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “I'm going to give up cigars.” “You'll have to show me.; You've never given up one yet. Daniel Carson Goodman is to pro- What are women to do wails Mae Murray—"At the beach they ar- rest us if we show our knees and now along comes a woman's college that forbids any of the girls wearing bou- doir caps outside their own rooms, ‘We're wrong if we don't wear enough clothes and we're wrong if we wear too many.” MUNRO HAS ONE. Wailace Munro will launch « play “The Romance of Youth" at the Apollo Theatre, Atlantic City, on June 5. Carroll McComas has the vrinctpal role. The GOSSIP, Shubert Riviera close its season to-night Theatre will Dodson Mitchel! si for Europe to-day. He may stagé his. play, “Cornered,” in London “Her Temporary Husband," tried out recently, will be re-written and re-cast and staged again 1 n Stewart will be seen in the ingenue role in the suport of Allan Pollock in “A Pinch Hitter.’ All attractions in Shubert theatres in New York will Decoration Day rhe death of Charles Osgood leaves hooking Eplanger syn- Leighton is a booking ex for nager dicate pert The open 4 sence pleasing features at the Ti Leighton for th M: as general Ay 1. of a ct rge for den Dance Palace this summer country on Wednesday nings is another. Last Charlotte Cormer of Bayside store y dancing and the dancing ace e extra matinees eve Wednesday was given a live hen and it laid an eg« next day She returned the egg, as the hen was all she was entitled to oix day theatres next winter, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. If Babe Ruth doesn't look out he|nett in “The Music Box Revu won't be good for ten minutes in theiTerry is a very beautiful black-naired -\It is hoped to establ'sh similar com~ Lotta PEP > and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY THE annual meeting of the Actors’ Equity Association, held at the Hotel Astor yes- terday, John Emerson was re-elected President. Other officers chosen are Ethel Barrymore, First Vice Presi- dent; Frank Bacon, Second anak President; Grant Stewart, Recordin Secretary, Frank Gilmore, Elected to the council to and Treasurer, serve three years are George Arliss, Harry C. Browne and banjo, Berton Churehill, Augustin Duncan, Gilbert | Emery, Ernest Glendenning, Frank McGlynn, Helen “MacKellar, George, Marion, Edith Wynne Matthison, Lynne ‘Overman, Laurette Taylor, Walker Whiteside, John Willard, Fritz Williams, Peggy Wood. Wi liam C. Fields was elected to srry until the annual election, The meeting indorsed the council in its plea to members not to sign contracts beyond June 1, 1924 when the Equity's aggrement with the Producing Managers’ Association ex~ pires. Mr. Gillmore characterized this ds merely a common sense step. A resolution was adopted opposing the exposing of stage illusion tricks, Harry Houdini requested it, as Prest- dent of the Society of American Magicians. The enthusiatic support of the Equity, was pledged to the Equity Playe Inc, which body of actors has taken over the 48th Street. The- atre for the production of plays, Tt sum of $117,750 was shown that th Had been subser:bed to back this plan, New guarantors were shown to be Lillian Russell, Marion Davies, Ped De Cordoba, John Cope, W. H. Don Joseph Santley, Stewart Fox, aldson. Lucille La Verne, Be Alexander Lewis and others, Baby gave quite a sum of money as well as a couple of goos. Augustin Duncan will have charge of all productions made here. panies of Equity acting people in other cities LIZZIE WILL STRUT. Reyue entitled "Strut, Miss Liza will be presented soon { at the National Winter Garden, Cremey and Layton are the authors, Cullud folks sho’ is popular in New York these days. A Creole JOLSON A YEAR OLDER. Al Jolson, who has closed his seae son in “Bombo,” discovered yester- day that it was his birthday, Al thought very deeply and then decided to permit it to go on being his birth- day. Then he arranged to go to California via the Panama Canal, Out West he will fsh a lot and tn the fall: he will resume his tour in “Bombo. Could anything be sweeter? A THEATRE FOR COHAN. that George M, Cohan may take over the Hudson Theatre from the Henry B Hanied astate and name it after himself. The , of course, could not be used it is taken off the present George M. Cohan Theatre, but there is a persistent rumor that such @ move will be made. FOR ELEANOR PAINTER, Broadway hears nor Painter will be A new operetta, entitled of the Rose,’ in the fall by the Messrs, Shubert. Miss b iter is sail Ing to-day for London, where shq will see the English production ons this piece and confer with J. J. Shue bert OLIPHANT BURIED. The funeral of the late Tom One Phant was held at the Campbell rooms yesterday afternoon and was attended by hundreds of friends of the deceased. Interment took place at Woodlawn. Tom Oliphant was Just about as clean and finé a young man as Broadway has known in @ decade Hl SOCIAL NOTES. Arthur Rosenfeld and Louis Shone- man will motor to Philadelpnia and Atlantic City to-day to visit ladies. Ethelind Terry has been engaged by Sam F. Harris to succeed Wilda Ben-; " Miss girl.