The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1922, Page 36

World’s Comics | NY ONE who went to Henry Miller's Theatre last night expecting to THE NEW PLAYS \ Allan Pollock Brings Out “A Pinch Hitter” By CHARLES DARNTON And Eliminate Elmer’s Grin! IT MIGUT AS WELL BE CANDID with EVERY “Time t BACK IT OUTA MYSELE AND AbDmrr fr — I've Gorta “HE Garace IY “TAKES ME “har GET RID OF “haT CaR! WHAT SENSE MUCH NEARER THE EDGE OF (S$ “THERE (N ME DRIVING A BoAT TAAT'S TIMING ME “Th' PooRHouse ? \ Look AT FUNNY OL' ELMER with A GRIN ON HIS FACE - HE CAN AFFORD TO SMILE , DRWING ALS LiL FLIVVER — ue WouLDN'T Look so CHEERFUL IF HE OWNED MY BiG — AND Now SHE INSISTS, UPON my GETTING A CAR WITH A BIT MORE. STYLE “fe IT — one WITH @LAssyY LINES AND ALL “Thay soRT oF Pollock in baseball togs had to be satisfied with watching a divorce shortstop in a comedy as English as cricket. yuse of ite ie, “A Pinch Hitter’’ remained something of a mystery olay until its roving sportsman explained the phrase he had picked up yer here. ‘After the mental strain of “A Bill of Divorcement” it was only natural, yerhaps, that Mr. Pollock should turn to comedy for relaxation, and he certainly found it in the beginning of H. M. Harwood's play. The first act, with more wit than is common in the theatre, raised high hopes, and inci- dentally gave J. M. Kerrigan « capital role in which he was delightful. He had the good fortune, as well as the skill, to play @ facile gentleman of legai ‘raining who made a specialty of matrimonial disorders, holding th: to be the cause of most of the trouble In the little world that came directly under his shrewd eye. Here was by far the best of the fun, with Millicent Spang og haere an ye powering member of men’ if tent upon acquiring her fortune, anx- jous to learn ways and means whereby she could be freed from her hunting and golfing husband. Hemming and ‘awing, the upright M. P. had only to expli he could not afford to figure in the matter for the resourceful law- yer to announce he had just the man for the job right on the premis ‘Thereupon Mr. Pollock appeared the potential co-respondent, a needy and rather shrinking adventurer, with the dashing name of Dennis Lestrange. With as much delicacy as the cir- cumstances would permit, details were arranged, the bogus lover to go to the Hannay country house as the M. P.'s friend, and there pretend to woo the willing lady for a consideration of £500. A check for half this sum was handed over on the spot. It would never have done, of course, for the curtain to go down on this theck. Dennis saw to that by lighting a cig- arette with half of it while thé lawyer wasn't looking. e play then proceeded to take a = slower and duller course, with trick- ery and sentiment rather badly mixed. However, nothing really outrageous happened. Dennis merely played a waiting game, and when at last he supposed Millicent to be with him in the dark he tndulged in embraces and loud protestations of love that brought the husband on the run. But went up only to reveal Millicent’s niece, Joyce, by this time extremely fond of Dennis. The M. P. ‘was also disclosed in all his baldness, ‘This sight appalled Millicent who, Strangely enough, had never s pected him of wearing a wig. interest in him ended then and there, Yer husband gave way to utter happi- Yess and, you may be sure, Dennis “non the niece without a struggle. The falf-burned check proved his nob!) ity of character, and as for getting along In the world, all he had to do was to go back to his father's tel: scope factory and work for a living. In short, he was the pinch hitter who had gone in and saved the game. Deft touches of whimsical humor marked Mr. Pollock's sympathetic performance. There was every sign of affection for him in the attitude of the audience, together with appreci- ation of his tasteful producetion of the pinay. Although his time was short, Mr. Kerrigan made the most of it by scoring with every word that fell to his lot. Pamela Gaythorne did her MIDGET HUNTING. If you chance to see an attractive ‘woman running wild and acting as if she is, loco in the cocoa—don't send for @ copper; don't run; don't call up and make a reservation in the Psy- ehopathic Ward down Bellevue way— Just let her rave. For it'll only be Miss Bijou Fernandez, specia) studio representa- tive of Goldwyn, hunting midgets. “All my life I have admired midgets until I received this order,” sighed Mim’ Fernandez yesterday. “Now I almest hate ‘em. I was told to find use in @ new picture, I immediately | thought of the circus and thought it diminutive person and I'm wild.” found the right type. what she starts after. NUT STUFF. were on location recently, several sleepy brother. they throws cocoanuts."”* WAITER—STIMULANT! thg directors fall for wood alcohol: moove actor. inches high several midgets of a certain type for would be afi easy task to borrow the little folke for a while. But no, 1 haven't been able to ‘land’ one single ‘It is quite true that Mies Fernande's office has been cluttered up by many more or less midgets ever since her search started, but she hasn't yet But she says she'll find them. And we guess she will. She usually gets While Jack Holt and his company Negro extras were sunning them- selves, One, more ambitious than his fellows, was amusing himself by throwing walnuts at the head of a You all bettah stop usin’ mah haid fo’ a tahget!"' warned the soporific “G'wan, man" shot back the thrower, “You mustn't min’ a few walnuts—back whah yo’ come fum ‘The following communique, received by William Dunn, casting director for Vitagraph, proves why so many cast- “fam very interested on mooveing pistures. I wood like to became a “I think you will take advantage of my figer- I'm being five feet ten “I don't skeak Engiesh, but I am pot @ fool. I studied as a, bookeper best work as Millicent in the first act. Edgar Kent brought good nature to the husband, but the niece of Helen Stewart lacked in lightness and charm. Charles Waldron, as the M P., was as obvious as his terrible wig. 1 Ani! Still, it must be granted he had a bad ‘ , “ it part, indeed #o bad that it almost de- i . Ii, {4 stroyed bellef in the play. As l re THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY He Makes “Conversation Seives”’! Wet STRANGER DYe KNow Veesal- ey OH! Youre C \ 1 YAWE TH Fieer T Wave Quite Some ale: ' - ‘ WELL =M REP AT Home 26 TH! WAN =o & FoREmMaAN A STRAW HAT AGOLFER IN & FouR MaNn> MANUFACTURER MATCH PLAY # and Players By BIDE DUDLEY EBORGE MAYER, who has been G ®& Broadway first-nighter for forty years, has gone to Bel- grade Lakes, Me., for a two weeks’ rest “I'll miss half a dozen first nights,” said Mr, Mayer as he stepped aboard the train, ‘and gosh, how I hate iti But the producers are to blame. They have no right to put on new shows in June." It's going to be hard for some of the, actors to do their best without seeing George Mayer in the aisle seat, Row 1, Left Centre, on their opening nights, . OTIS SKINNER SAILING. Otis Skinner and Mrs. Skinner sail for Burope to-morrow. Next season Mr. Skinner will be seen again tn ‘Mister Antonio.” Bid esreapav Mom & IT says . 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THe BELL! 1 KNEW THAT SAY, YER TUB MUST BE DRESSED UP, MUM— YouR COMPANY RELIABLE AS A WEATHER [=I ° o BUNCH WoULp COME AS SOON AS LI GOT OVER-FLOWIN’ — THE WON'T COME ANY MORE TONIGHT —IT's) [PROPHET. | ME FOR ANICE HoT El Ounpessep! TLL CADY DOWNSTAIRS BATH AN A ; wy HAVE T'SLIP ON SAYS HER CEILIN Goon SLEEP MY CLOTHES 7 4 A mn Is SOAKED WAHURRY —§7 * ene ical A Won't WorK.EH? TAaT Ss Fern A NEW PLAY TO 8TART. Sem H. Harris will place in re- hearsal Monday a new play by Martin “A Gentleman’ In the cast will be Jeanne Eagles, Elisabeth Risdon, Ronald Col- man, Arthur Elliott, Frank Wester ton, A. P. Kaye, Russell Sedgwick, Eleanor Daniels, Frank Horton, Mar got Rieman, Adelaide Wilson and Ma- rius Rogati. Sam Forrest will direct. WITH THREE LUMPS. F. Ziegfeld jr. promises that if the new ‘‘Follies'’ ts so long it extends into the morning after opening Mon- day night he will serve ham and eggs to the auidence. That's all right, 0 we've got to have our Java, too. THE OILY PRINCESS, (Love and kisses are predominating! features of this story. A better serial, than ‘Oatmeal,’ by Floogast.) Old King Bugaboo was talkative on the oceasion of the conference his daughter, Princess Olga. “Let us discuss my tailor,” he “A fitting subject, I should say, remarked Delos, the Jester. The Princess scoffed. She did appreciate his humor with the popu lace in such turmoil, She turned Citizen O'Hara. “Can I trust yout’ she asked. “Well, the grocer does, or did,’* Tie replied. She pondered. She knew her happh ness was at stake. Couki the Duchess of Ping Pong thwart her? Dare she trust Alonzo P. Jones, the saxophone player? “Summon Mr. Jones,” manded majestically. The American appeared, playing “The Livery Stable Blues.” Olge shrieked. “I knew it,"’ she moaned, given me the air.’ Citizen Muldoon tore off the Amert- can'’s mask, revealing the Six Brows Brothers she coma “He has and graduated in bookeeping and has| one. Here's to Mildred Dana Schuck- | Anyway, Vélstead hasn't turned off|}by ‘The Dust Flower.’ Somebody] for the scregn by Cardell Hale, has bin my work for two years. er. Long may she wave.” the spigot here just ivnagine!"”’ will be filming “Pillsbury's Best’' the] been purchased by Metro for a star-]]} POEMS OF PREFERENCE “Tam enclosing some snapshots so And we alwa thought Al was]|next thing we know ring vehicle for Billie Dove. (To be continued.) GOSSIP, Ed Wynn writes us to ask where ' e's fist es when the hand t@ He eae my lookings, I SWIMS DE LUXE. Augh a senay, chap! But the idea of} Antonio Moreno is a bachelor. We] Gloria Swanson, Paramount star,] Leon Pollack was a happy man eoated ae \. a Pe him writing anything like that last}don't know what connection, if any, | ret -day the Mauretania DI THe [eee came trom Menino ‘aud cannes “aloked away, Helen’ Wain- |Sentenee. For shame! Monk haeciin the toot Bhat tbe nextlatiar ta ate, wocks’ <vaceiion ini One® bul via) wank (tothe) Bramx to]! J.C. and Wllott Nugent, authors a SQeOPEHAEs Aa SRE ap Vitenranh 16 con: nt, Eileen Riggin, Ethel Bi = picture: will be “The Bitterness of|Europe. She will leave to-night for Now he is getting used ta it, ere writios another play, cerned, will stay there. wright, Etleen Riggin, Eth faker ART IS ART * purope, fi leads I Win" will open at Earl and Florence Briscoe—who al! could ' Sweets. Los Angeles. ¢ and he feels like writing Carroll's Theatre to-night. It is de~ teach a school of mackerel a lot of} Some art is hard to classify. If] Lewis W. Physioc, superintendent] Willard King Bradley's first two Lew has put in a ibid for the ANTI-FAT. new swimming wrinkles—recently | ¥°U don’t believe that, just ask. Alice the Goldwyn laboratories, has] photoplays, “Empty Arms’ and ‘‘Idle|velvet-lined oyster-opener, and we Dey Chee ee a Frank Alexander, who ts quite op-|did a few artistic swimming and div-| Terry, one of the stars of “The Pris-| watched motion pictures grow from aljtands,"" had songs named after them.|have an idea he may win it. Thele.” Gharotte Greenwood's “Letty portunely cast in the ‘‘heavy" role in|ing stunts in the huge and ‘magnifi-]| mer of Zenda."’ The discussion was| despised novelty into a great art and|Now he’ roducing one named after| judges, however, will be sober when ” * j « he's pro 6 Pepper” Company. Jimmy Aubrey's newest film, nolonger}cent Pompelian swimming pool] brought about when the feat of Asa] big business—all in sixteen years. & song—'The Sidewalks of New]|they pick the winning rhyme, so] /SPPOT, OmpANy. oo weights 360 pounds. aboard the Cunard liner Berengo Cassidy in painting undersea scenes| Five hundred extras were used in| York." there's no promising Lew first place. ; at nieak ic ner > eee: Frank, whose weight {s his fortune,| With hundreds of interested spec-|from a glass diving bell was men-|the mob scenes in ‘Fortune's Mask," | voland, widely known| Here's his contribution: mon chard Bennett for the title believes that even a fat 1 tioned. 5 . alte, : Joseph Poland, idely ki role in “The Fool,” by Channing fat man can be| (ators applauding loudly, Miss Riggin| toned Earle Williams's latest. Their prin-|\ritor for the screen, has joined the] 7he maid I toant to hav hold too fat. So he held himself to Gilman|and Miss Wainwright showed their| ‘What would you call them? asked] cipal duty was to wave shredded|stat of William ox. “ BANG OED DIES | Polo: Springs, Cal., with the one idea of! latest stunt—''The Soul Kiss Dive.""|Miss Terry. “They're not exactly | wheat hats and shout ‘Viva! during) © - : Need not have diamonds in her] Helen MacKellar sails for England losing a little flesh, just for the Both dove from opposite sides of the|landscapes—nor are they seascapes. | a revolution, Vor the benefit of the half dozen eyes, to-morrow. he will confer with A, mer comfort of pool at the same instant, met undor| Maybe'’—and she hisitated for <3 or so persons who have not as yet]. H. Woods in London about a new ted for a sec ers Nor locks that match the purest gold, He steamed and he botled and he| water and came to the surface clasped] ond—Maybe one would call them}, Marry Semon, his eyes undimmed|read “If Winter Comes’’ Viv Moses ‘ € purest gold, ay, stewed and he baked and he fried and] in one another's arms. under-water colors,"* i by the Gay Whife Lights, is back in}wants us to say there is no snow-| Her teeth nee@ wos rare pearls com-| Two compantes are being formed he slzzled. Then he stepped on the} “Huh!'' muttered a camera man : Hollywood after a few hectic days in|stuff in the story at all prise. by the Messrs, Shubert to present Lea hts present, “I wish I was a good swim- STILLS. Manhattan. He neve BIORO WRE is} Shirley: Mason is vacationing in| Need she have cheeks like roses fair? | “Blossom Timo’ on tour next season, a P. the hand did not point to 360. | mei What's all this talk about some just the same, only wetter. Southern California following a sea-| asy answer (very firm) ia “No, sir!” Grace Moore, recently with “Up In stopped at—365, Wonder just what he meant? New York ied being crowned “Freckle| ,. Zominsen announced yesterday that {con of downright hand work. i the Clouds.” will gail for Burope toe It's a sad, sad world—even for a fat guy. I merely ask that she prepare morrow, King?" Wes Barry sayeth, “No,"? in| they Were ready to throw six new! Lewis stone, who plays the fool eaves LIKES THE PLACE. 4 hoarse, loud and decisive voice. films°on the market, starting next}i) “4 Fool There Was," is due for Three meals for me each day, ab] Charles D. Wilson, theatrical mane FIVE-DOLLAR BABY. Al Christie, who 1s Londoning for] Life these days for Clarence Brown, | Sestia ane ist ae, tigated py Trene|forty-nino years’ hard luck. He was kosher. ager, who {9 il at the No Because he bet $5 his baby w a spell, sent Screenings the fist] who directed Hope Hampton in “The| no ne F forced to smash seven mirrors in one — Hospital, Brooklyn, would like to see pore be hek TUR baby ould | bulletin yesterday of his impressions | Light in the Dark,” is just one seript Pirates are not the only profi-|sceno of the picture, ‘That's what FOOLISHMENT, his friends, Macey Ec uai\aker ofc otherwise, | of the town after another. He's seching ‘a mew | teers who should walk the plank,'|you call real home-wrecking. pr yep ae Paucak tits baby Brita ee ‘London is a great vill I} story for Hope muses Aesop's Film Fables, Daniel Caraon Goodman Produe- Waa rather seclaneNole, A THOUGHT FOR ‘TO-DAY, peed. tte “Paby red pana | think It has @ future. It reminds me] Helen Chadwick doesu't wear one] We've all heard of playa within }tins announced yesterday that the dd oh ! Chiago needs an rerial polloomasy ‘ve. die name being injof my birthplace, London, Ontario. © fashionable gown in “Deothers| Plays and movies within movies, but} following would be In the cast of And 80 sha went out riding to clase speeding aeroplanes, Wh honor of Viola Dana and her forth- | ‘They not only. have borrowed my na ov Their Skins” Whateet eo[in “The Hands of Nara," Claral+wnat's the Matter With the Wom- Upon an open trolley, ey aiay cee » Why coming picture—“The $5 Baby.” [tive town's name, but they have cop-|mark about girls not loving art? | Kimball Young's next release, there| en? Panuave, Pastors ||. mhe ait anna eather bat a Miss Dana, when she was notified | ped a lot of other ideas, Streets here, | Most of the action in mere. gin} i# & cast within a cast, It’ in of Cliiee Mad ta mana Wie ‘And rae Albeit FROM THE CHESTNUT TR of the honor, wired back: like those in London, Ontario, run| Flood’ takes place in a saloon. : An-| Plaster, and plays important part Hwayno Gordon, Maclague, Lava gon recaca fanned her, thea, otis Vata & Lead nade i a Naming your $5-baby aftes me|north and south and others run east | other one of those historical things, [12 tite story. Hedda Hooper, Constance Bennet The mespencs Wal Pease Mt ought to be; it has baad’ makes me feel like a militor-dpllarjand west. til! others just run.| ‘Phe Wall Flower” is to be followed} ‘4% Temporary Marriage,” @ story upd Beatrice Wangen Me dd not understond her, = ig" bs = ‘ he bat 4 nea Naame pate sar