The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1922, Page 16

and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ' RRIS GEST announces that Comstock ’& Gest have leased the Century Roof Theatre for { the summer and have transformed it into a Russian playhouse. Next Monday evening they will remove Bélieff's “Chauve-Souris’ there from the <9th Street eatre and offer an entirely new programme which this Russian troupe has prepared. The Century Roof Theatre will seat 500 and the performances will begin at matinees on $.30 P.M. nightly, with Tuesdays and Saturdays TO PRESENT “SAVVA.” The Beechwood Players of Scar- borough, under the direction of Henry Stillman, will produce “Savva," by Leonid Andreyev, in English on June 1, 8 and 9, at their little theatre ' This play was banned in Russia. It has been produced in Berlin and Vienna but never bere. BELASCO SIGNS HER. s placed Mary term David Belasco Servoss under contrac of years, and will make a Bela ct fo e will appear in a new star of her. play soon, Miss Servoss has been under Mr, Belasco's observation for more than a year. ACTRESS TO MARRY. Phyllis Carrington of ‘The Dover Road" wil! withdraw from the cast of that play early next month and retir from the stage. She is to marry @ Kansan, formerly 1 Captain of the A E. F., whom she met in Paris while she was over there acting for the sol- diers. The announcement of her com- ing wedding doesn't give the naine of the bridegroom-to-be, but since he is a Kansan, he's al! right. Hooray! : MISS LARRIMORE’S RELICS. Francine Larrimore was the last star to appear at the National Thea tre, Washington, which ts to be torn a modern p down and replaced by house. Hearing timt the house was to be dismantled, she bought from the manager half a carload of its furntsh- Ee | | ings, ull relics of other theatrical days. Te | j In the lot is a dressing table used by hundreds of noted stage people. For hor manager, Sam H. Harris, she pur- chased a pair of massive hand- — Wrought tron hinges which Mort Sher- wood, the National's veteran carpen- Y ter, says came from the barn at Mount 4 Vernon, Now that Mr, Harris owns a * racehorse, theve hinges should come in handy. Hyery stable door has to have binges if you want it to look like any- thing. MEBBE THAT'S IT. A newly-arrived English actor asked Grant Mitchell of ‘“‘Kempy'’ recently why the air here ts so much clearer than ft is in London “TL really: can't BMitehe! “why-serapers,” PHILIP BOOSTS MARY. Philip B. Dooner, our Poet of Ad- miration, saw ‘‘Up the Ladder” at the Playhouse recently and Mary Brandon made a hit with him. On reaching home ie wrote this poem about he: Mary Brandon, your abandon made a great big iit with me; with your bobbed hair and your enodbed air and your flapper fepartee. It gave pleasure be- \ yond measure, such as I wilt ne'er forget, watcling you as you went through a part sgns fact and etiquette. Perfect of both form and feature, really quite a charm- ing creature, right in all the act- ing that you done, Stardom sure- ly should confirm you; tilt then I will gently term you “Swect Miss Flapper-Dolt A No. 1.” replied Mr, “inicss it 1s because of our MUSTA BEEN A FROST. be quite chilly if occasion demands. 4 eently somebody asked: Nn on't even ‘sce’ it now." ¢ “HE WANTED mors. worth reprinting here. Liste » the bass fiddie player at the Belin Wheatre urrived at that playhou eently in on open tax The man wasn't satisfied Is that all I get?"’ he asked. the munician. IN VAUDEVILLE. Julia Sanderson, now that Theatrical News and G JOE’S CAR ih 5 1 + I SHOULD WORRY WHETHER OR OLD SHRIvEL GETS In’ MAY YouNG LIFES) rly’ Fact Tar He's REEKING L | wet money DON'T Gut AN ior. | ey wih ME ALL 1 ASK OF A Weis LEI TY FIFTY BREAK ~ Ty," LAL cil at 4 v( A; r ee | an Ae Copr. 1922 (N. Y. Eve. World) By Press ‘eb. Co. T DONT JUDGE A MAN WELL, WELL - HELLO SHRIWEL — WHERE Y'BEEN KEEPIN YOURSELF ? How's YOUR Game ? yiTTiIN’ 'em our sk ANY Guy | (] \4ouar He j For His ) 8) ates THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY F7. wT “THIS CRIME WAVE N'EVERY THIN’ —CERTAINLY IM PARTICULAR ABOUT “THE Doors AND WINDOW ! ALL LocKEeD -€0 Go TO ~ BLEEP! LITTLE MARY MIXUP Gas STORY CONTINVED-~ SECRETARY WEEKS THE SEcreTARy OF WAR PECEIVE S MARY'S LETTER 18 MY PAPA COMING HOME oR HOY 2 MISTER Bix - RE (N.Y. 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WHAT'S THE By Way of Diversion. McIntyre & Heath have been stage partners forty-eight years and they There now.'Mandy, quit yer grievin’, You're a-pinin’—yes, you air, I hin sce it; scein's b'tievin’, Scott of ‘Good Morning, has won a brid Champion Scott lives at Bayside, Aisty, menibate obine Players’ Club TT HE examination of witnesses. is Rope Winter, true to her name, can While she was attending « play 1v- Allan Pollock at- Henry “Did you ever sce this play before?” ."* replied Miss Winter, “and 7 You air tryin’ hard to bear it Am’ be brove; that's plain to see. Better tet your daddy share it, You're the world an' all to me. “A Pinch Hitter," Margaret Prussing has joined the cast of “The Nest” at the Forty-eighth Street Theatre Tain't fer me to mean to scold you,| Want to be a vaudeville star? Proc- That ain't what T want to do. True, he hadi't ought a’ told you oul a love for "s really better That he married Jessie Brown Some day you'll be glad he met her An’ then took an’ turned you down Oixie Hines sends us « story we may have heard before, but which is Wagstaff Gribble at the Ma But perhaps Dowell Gallery on June 7, § and % Jon the oc ab. He had bis violin with him. Stepping out, he i jeaned the big instrument against the theatre's wal! and paid the taxi driver the fare as indicated by the meter, heart's abreakin’, But your grievin’, Gives my own a double achin FOOLISHMENT “YPhat's the fare, isn't it?" askea| Worst lve hud in twenty year. °, Let old mem'ry scenes go flittin’, For you, yes; grumbled the) pon't be pinin’ ‘way for him “but how about that there . Mandy, try forgittin’ ; Time ull bring another Jim, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Tan- eith houses, GOSSIP. a satirical comedy by “Did 'you speak jJocosely si0n jo inclined “Did you speak jocosely!"" “1 ‘tell you,’ said the > FH TT (A wise guy was he) Lila Mot the matter, sSmith—are]® could learn the business. you in love?"* utter the head of the shipping firm no! f Was married last} wrote back to the youn Your son has ived saidhd afternoon oft in George Melford's in “Burning Sands,” she pends it gath- ering up her mail {pleage note spell- ing) at the four studioes where she R-C, United Temperance Union has just compli- mented George Arliss on his picture, “The Ruling Passion,” t that the film has nothing to do The Day’s Good Stories medal DIDN'T KNOW JOE. in spite of tho given him employment at twenty dollars a week, of his class, at my office One of these young men has just bought a hundred-thousand- dollar yacht and another comes to the office in a twelve-thousand-dollar mo- tor car. >I think your his surroundings delphia Ledger George Field has a ‘million dollar wrinkle” in his forehead. The wrinkle look to be the world’s meanest man and gets him many vil- lain roles in pictures, Edmund Goulding has just finished Richard Bar- and the autumn, Mr for an art, but one in which many Miller's Theatre Thursday night in lawyers fail because they do not put thelr questions in words that the common man understands, able member of the bar was noted Joseph De Grasse, now directing hated actors He's not a bit conceited now. Quick, needle—the Watson! Helene Chadwick landed in Holly- wood yesterday after a visit to New No, she didn’t buy a singlo thing in the way of wearing apparel. is somewhat of a for his severity in the examination of tor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre will give | Witnesses, but he often failed to bring nee to try oul —_ VULGAR CURIOSITY. ISHOP CANDLER OF ATLANTA was condemning week out an appropriate answer be will be filmed atre Arts, Inc, will pres|did not put himself on the verbal plane with his witness. a certain theo “Tol'able David."" logical controversy William Fox intends to show “Monte New York film famous Shakespearian actor, has, he says, at last found his ideal role. Khayyam in Look out tor the “jug” thar, ‘These iS per'lous times! of Omar--James Ewens been appointed assistant for Richard Walton the Tentmaker.”" yo kin remember the time when was broadcast from the woodshed,” quips a Timely Topics Film, Ciara Kimball hued maid is uch idle controversies,’ is that Rubai- me of the Negro preacher “I don't know him,'' answ answered the began a sermon with the words: A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. | witnens fellow with little tu say is The lawyer repeated the question usually a man who cotlld say a great|with increased severity of deal if he were Marjorie Daw, who plays the sister in ‘a Fool There Was," !s a star in She once played § A see-saw wis her part- was created, he was] "<f own right. made otter wet clay and set up agin Charley Ray's wire- haired fox terrter, is a patriotic purp. He has just won a red, a white and a dog show. Keep your seats, readers! Patriotism Is a lovely thing, but you must be tired y Marmont, a typical English- man, was chosen to pla in the back of the Tully's angrily, “I don't know Joe Cosely. Said Annabelle Mary McGee Philadelphia Ledger here aren't any flles upon me," 8 queer,” suid her beau They like sweet thinys, you know incredulously, STRUGGLING YOUTHS, was made outer wet clay and set up agajn de palin’s to dry? ““«Dem's mah words, Br'er Simcox Dem’s mah words! head of a large shipping firn: ved a Young's chocolate- vagering that several same win at Evidently d's name) he yom a millionaire banker an American ng that his son be given a job where “-*Br'er Simcox parson severely as yourn would upset any Angeles Times, burnt-umber complexion wi! the forthcoming election. Rosetta (that’s the n faith In dark horses. ‘Such fool questions|blooming Britisher- same fillum. When Jacqueline man’s father How cometh Screenings __By DON MINERVA SPECIAL, FALCONVILLE, May 28 (Special to Screenings).—This job of aerial acting for Doug Fairbanks isn’t all it's cracked-up to be. I'm not a waters fowl, but I ducked over to see what Mary was doing. She's busier tha an eel with the hives. Mary sa: that all she’s mixed up in now ts be+ ing President of a club of movi stars that provides entertainment for, wounded soldiers; she is supervising the building of a seven-room “dress= ing cottage;” played the part ‘of a man for Salvation Army drive; keeps anless Wedding;" breaking all rec- ords by receiving 2,800 pieces of mail a da receives radio messages while at work on location; acts as Chair: man of Salvation Army drive; keeps up her Good Cheer photograph fund for poor children; buys a $4,00 painting; gets Brother Jack starte: directing a new film and works ten hours a day on “Tess of the Storm Country.” In her spare time she does a bit Of tatting. As far as I can see, Mary is about half as busy as your correspon dent since I started working for Screenings. In the future please don’t be so formal. Don't sign my stories “Mi« nerva,” just use “Minnie.” Did the boys in the back room set (Signed) ERVA, THE FAIRBANKS’ FALCON, WHAT THE——? A young actoy working with Bar thelmess on location down Maine way was rather nettled one Sunday when an overpious native called his atte tion to the fact that he was comnil! ting a sin by thus laboring on th Sabbath. “Hell will be your portion in the life to come!"’ warned the native. “Aw,” answered the actor, “heaven and hell are only what you make 6a this earth." “Don't you believe in hellfire and brimstone?’ asked the native. The actor said he did not, and was sure there was no such thing. . “Well,” mused the son of Maine, 'f wisht I believed that." "Why?" asked the screenite. d have an awful good time " answered ning the rest o’ my life! the local one. And then all was silence. SPRINT RECORD, All records for sprinting all dis- tances have just been smashed ini¢ the well known and widely quoi ¢ smithereens. The record breaker is Art Cami property man for Irvin V. Willat, n directing Paramount's “Siren Call somewhere in the Yosemite Valley Art broke all old records and mv«'e new ones when he was set upon ty six wild beasts last Saturday. lie didn't have a cinder path or a smouih roadway on which to run, but ie didn’t even stop for trees or moutip tain bear can swim, run and clit gy trees,” announced Art, ‘so I didn’t stop to argue which class we wig going to try out, I just decided (6 beat ‘em running—and I did!" What really was chasin his own shadow and two 1 coons—but it'll always be ‘Ler? when he tells the yarn, A MESS. Homer scott, cameraman for Ma! 4 Normand in making the Mack Scns nett picture, “Suzanna,” is recovers ing from a bruised head, a skinn: nose, barked shins, a wrenched shou! « der and a sprained wrist, the direot results of having parted company, with his saddle last Saturday. ‘There wasn't a house within mile there was no automobile to take him back to civilization, and so all Homvr could do was stick around. “Tm all messed up and no place to go!" he soliloquized. And right rightly, too. REALISM. Does real reel realism pay? Ask Theodore Kosloff. Like the muchly advertised paternal parent, Theodore knows. With much coaxing, a little sweurs ing and some massaging, Kosloft gvew us fine a goatee as has ever graced (or disgraced) @ classic pro« file. for his role of Lord Carnal in “To Have and to Hold.” Accompanied by his bristling hirsute appendage, Kosloff strolled onto a lot, His director saw him and shouted: “For the lova pictures, Teddy! If you're gonna paste on crepe hair, do it right! You got ‘at on all crooked An’ besides, it's too artificial lookin’ Ain't that appreciation for you? We ask you, ain't that appreciation? A CALAMITY. Word was rushed East yesterday to the effect that Wes Bar suffered a terrible loss during the f first day of a vacation in the Cali. fornia mountains. It seems that Wes, following @ strenuous personal appearance jaunt that touched every State in the Union, started out on a camping expedition, While the freckle king was loaded for b'ar, he really didn’t want to run into any big game at all, Well, the first hour he was in camp they say a bear that looked as big #8 the Woolworth Buildin; picked out Wes and his freckles as {tw breakfast and started after the youngster, Wes made the first twenty miles in a little less than nothing flat and was still’ going strong when he reached civilization, The loss referred to was that at 9,476,532 freckles, blown off by liq & breeze caused by the kid's speed Shucks! He'll never miss that small number, We thoucht it was sumpin* serious, had