The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1922, Page 12

TURNING O “THE SPOTLIGHT BY CHARLES DARNTON rJOE’S CAR BS AN oe WELL ,WHAT DO YOu sa! WOULD YoU CoNSIDER: AN OFFER OF $ 1600 FOR YOUR GAR ? For R eg Lo HILE plodding or rattling homeward from the theatre has It ever 00- curred to you that, so far as the home is concerned, the Americait play is the most moral in the world? Now please don't be shocked y seem, Try to take it quietly and by the suggestion, sensational as it mi ytker calmly make comparisons. Thus engaged you may reach the conclusion that the English play 1s fhe most immoral thing of Its kind in existence, Never mind the French Warlety, even though it comes first to mind, for as a rule it keeps a pretty Ghose eye on the honor of the family. Just remember our own home-bred @rama and cherish it as chaste beyond compare. From first to Jast her conduct ts ut- terly reprehensible, yet she keeps her respectability—save the mark!—with- out turning so much as a hair. A great deal ts excused in English comedy that would not be tolerated in an American play. And yet it was « Victorian spinster who, upon seeing Cleopatra on the stage, virtuously re- marked: ‘How unlike our own dear Queen!"’ It's all in the point of view. UT what I'm really getting at, ‘as you may suspect, is the brazen British domestic comedy with its bland air of respectability. ‘his is sald without any wish to hit Pinch Hitter," yet with at least @ gesture in that direction. The ,frankly disreputable Mrs. Tanguerays and notorious Mrs. Ebbsmiths have nothing to do with the case, for they were drowned long ago in their own tears. The grief we shared with them ie now ab dry as our native land. Bernard Shaw may e helped to ‘fake the heart out of such women by .greating others too sensible to be But, again, that doesn't y it Is the wife In M@nglish comedy who carries on out- rageously. In “The Circle” we had a veritable ‘merry-go-round of infidelity. But it ‘eas done with style, and ‘‘style"’ Is ‘abe’ thing that attracts the orchestra floar crowd. Place a butler at the door and almost anything may pass Inspec- tion, especially if it carries an English jaecent. A drawing-room offers great possibilities to the playwright who . trades in indiscretions, but a spacious, lit country house is even better. to it may be introduced a little talk ‘about golf or tennis to take the curse ga@ft the plot. The American play- ish who deals with shady char- ‘acters works in smaller quarters, Suaually an apartment with scandal and wggcktails served at all hours. To him 1g, home 1s elther sacred or suburban, (“70 such scruples hamper the Eng- Mish dramatist. He never forgets of > what the spider said to the fly, “dndhe delights to chuckle over It. | qludged in this class, H. M. Harwood, ‘pauthor of “A Pinch Hitter,” as tt he" Badly called here, wins the prize | ‘Wodrmat with “Welcome” on it. _Miu@nly the ethics of the play need be i sidered in this relation. I it | “You please, is a wife with no other | Mtault to nd with her husband than sthat.he hunts and plays golf. Having | “fired. of these sports she turns to a ie | AML X Ske id ESTERDAY MR. ecHucTZ. | the PosTMAN “TRANSLATED A LETTER FROM A&A NURSE IW GERMANY. GIVING THE FIRST “REAL INFORMATION ABour Mary's PoP ~ “PRIVATE , 6664 -- AR SCHULTZ SEEMS “TS HAVE PASSED THE NEWS ALONG TG THE NEIGHBORS ON rhs = WELL-IT Looks [4 tH LiKe MERRY Id CBT SOME SoRT 0 PoP A PRETTY Soon Now ~ LOST His MEM AND FoRGOT ‘Sompous windbag full of “the Indian tion’* and other remote matters of bieenrthly importance to he: itis not, to be sure, unusual for a n to be carried away by words ‘even, when they are spoken by a man ‘Wiiose inky wig and mustache pro- aia him a double-dyed villain, This jamny.be understood more readily than sMilljcent’s willingness to: become a rty to a scheme whereby a profes- {1 corespondent is hired to go to heF’home and make love to her be- foreher husband's eyes so that she Miay be divorced and marry the duffer Who is behind the plan. It’s a decidedly tasty business oven if the fellow who “Gakes the job does tear up tho check qieith which he is paid, _ | The fact that the wife ts passive ly serves to make the incredible ‘“précedure more astounding. She “really has the face to behave ai though she were doing nothing wron; suwhile all the time her husband no’ _only-treats her with every considera- tion, but ‘gives continual proof of his ‘‘fatth in her. Even though she is left "ito Dim by chance he remains a dupe. | | YOU CAN'T SEE MY Boss Now, FERDIE — THREE MEN ARE WAITIN’ INSI WANT To SELL Him BUM. OIL Screenings ~_By DON ALLE tame *WE EXPLAIN AGAIN, aqi¥esterday a very haughty and -alighly scented blue letter reached _ te@ereenings in which some one signing -\the mame of Mrs, Bertha Biever of sathe Claridge Hotel takes exception to ‘sMary Carr's being called “the great- =ett ‘mother tn the world." ux “I cannot see how Mrs, Carr can Gos! Tha's a’ 'M ASKING FOR “ou Have A NEW MAID Deak 1S 1S NT THE FIRST TIME We HAD & FAMILY: GET OUT OF HERE — THE THREE oF You * HEY! gus’ a NLU MARTA TAKE A LITTLE. TIME TO ConsIDER “Hat OFFER — I'LL PHONE AN’ LEY You KNow ! T LESS “THAN Ts HMemem Yeo -Bur tm ‘A LITTLE SusPicious oF Hore Be he and Players Hert HUSBAND OF HER eet wastes By BIDE DUDLEY ROADWAY hears that Joe Weber B and Lew Fields will be seen In a musical show ‘as partners next season, They are to do one of thelr old stunts at the Friars Frolic, at the Manhattan Opera House, to-morrow night, and this, it is said, has been tn the nature of an opening wedge in the direction of their resuming business nd professional relations, 'Twould be mighty fine to see them working as a team a, in. For time they weren't sending each other New Year's cards, you know, but, according to all re- orts, they have decided to tet by- ones be bywents and pursue the fleet- ing greenback hand-in-hand. A SHOW AT AUBURN. The guests at the Auburn Insti tlon for the eless staged ‘Very, 300d Eddie’ recently and did it ex- ceedingly well. Jordan S. Murphy was vtor and the show cleared $760, he Quburn Advertiser-Journal gaye the production a fine write-up. The feminine roles were played by men who were much better than some of the female Impersonators silll at large. Yead- de Never CouLd REMEMBER THE 87 HE OWES MY HusBAND~ \ eeirter 30, A MULE Kicked S HEAD. OUGHT Ta CRT 4 ABDAL = Cc ORY “BETTER Nor He BoTHer TRYIN” Te GET PoP <Back = THE OILY PRINCESS, (A Btory of Two Lovers in Dreamland.) Princess Olga took a banana from the fruit dish and skinned tt, Tis much better to eat that than the orange when one’s heart is sad," she sald, biting off a big piece, A roar from the angry populace startled Citizen O'Hara, be Anna and her follow~ The Princess still held the luscious fruit. “I guess,” said she, “I shall have to ban Anna.” Delos, the Jester, gtew angry abs once. It was plain to him the Princess was stealing his stuff, Bah!" he ejaculated. Old King Bugaboo laughed, “Ha, ha, hat" (Laughter of King.) Then in his merriment he began to pinch everybody, At that moment a strange ship came around Cape Horn, far away. It seemed significant. * (To be continued.) I'M GLAD You PuT ME WIE To THOSE “FAKIRS — MY BOSS FORBID ME To ALLOW ANY STocK SALESMEN IN THIS FOXY JOHN. John Willard, author of “The Cat and the Canary," and one of the lead- ing members of the cast, wanted to shave off his mustache recently. Producer Kilbourne Gordon wouldn't let him, Thursday Mr. Willard handed Mr. Gordon some photographs of himself. No mustache showed in them, “When did you sit for these?” asked the producer. - “Yesterday.” “But in the pietures you're clean- shaven. Did you grow tnat mustache in an hour? “Kilbourne,” said “ey not tell a lie, mustache when act the actor-author, I only wear this and when £ jbo, termed the ‘greatest mother in the ‘World,’ states the writer, “when Yates divorced from her husband, Alexander Carr, and suing him for -tedagek alimony it it weren't for the fact that for,” sighed James yesterday, “and that is that the authors didn't cast any Tasmanian devils or duck-billed platypuses. Uf thev Fy Her adversaries were none too gentle The net result was a sprained back, much lost skin and a badly ruffled dispesition, And so Miss Calhoun limped up to agi I up he Want to be fair to Mrs. Carr, r director and— wai “Wouldn't take The pains to a: wh NODSUITED, I'm obliged to do all this fight- deny that Mary Carr, the Fox star,|, en @ couple of women start she pleaded, “please, oh Be aivcres: alking clothes, it Is about time for REtAceaI MAR LING Teenant aueMrs. Mary Carr, who w the mere men present to retire to the! men instead of women. A woman “mother in “Over the Hil!" and room where they once could pur-lalways tears your hair, scratches, “Wings.” is NOT the Mary Carr who] se Hauld refreshments. At least, | pites, pulls your clothes and slaps, | bec Aig’ mixed up in the divorce courts, {that’s what Harry Beaumont, the di-[ white a man te and hits. You think: She, as we have said before, is living have a much better chance dodging galled for by the script. Stunts are | | ed to flisht, and t hard sugar-seeking trunk of and Oscar a: att: 4 ‘anc i: ” r tralia by kangaroo express, " SS aS 5 ce st 906,5' sople 7 jpg Riverside Drive with her husband] Ht seems that Harry and another {a man, too. I'm wondentull ; believe that you'll bélieve anything. |saw the light yesterday. It will be pelranlera attr! wnge Neve CULL OES. | URAAR ec perele Daye: peat Peeee.six fine kiddies, Sache kk Wiola’ Dana, hee _—_— But Alice Terry tsn't that way at] Some of the “Missing Millions"|known as the Lustre Photoplays,| /¥ /' NEO thie £60, Lew Leslie has staged a revue called i What more “motherly” trait could math achiingalobe fnsiv antl te ce OSCAR, HE'S MAD. all, She actually blushes when any| have been aised to produce photo-| Inc,, and will specialize in short sub-|/'d just be satisfied to find “4 Deep Sea Midnight Frolic’ which PANY one ak of her than that? ee eee ee tert the mane| Oscar, the elephar:, so important |°°, tes her how charming she ts in| plays. jects, Studios have been opened at| A boy tho could keep pace, eee te aay Hnaeamate ok ‘ ANIMAL STUFF. entirely in discussing a new sult. in "Some One to Love," the circus saab Ope muah a Ricturs ‘What's Wrong With the Women?" | iattsburg, N. ¥. And not just get the other kind Monday night. It has bathing beau- > acl ta tear a The two men stood hack, twirling | tory being filmed by Tom Ince, ts] oonty and gurgled: rushed up re-|is the name of a new pleture. Out-| «Tne Halt Breed,” Oliver Mo-| no always makes me race, les and everything. ae) 5, Igmes Cruze \s tearing away at his}. racquets, and now and then|petulant. It's not real ugliness that's “Oh, Miss Terry, je of being good wives, mothers, |rosco's first picture, is all ready for The first radium gowns ever seen In ~ | arcel waves. Pad if-sentences about “simply {ailing Oscar, just temperament. And a wd pall think you Jook | sisters and homekeepers they are{distribution. Take it from us, “The A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. dmerica were shown in “Good Morn- as Baaimamy is already (niiored,” ‘Just straight lines! and| When an elephant gets temperamen. | ("ore We a Princess off the screen | possibly all wrong. Half Breed’* isn’t half bad. a eee pati R TO-DAY, ing Dearie” last night when a radium | terre Ola Homeste: De ahiinenn inl, the Obly thingie dola/ta gon, van you, - You blush so won-|" Domestic problems continue to feed]! Mary Miles Minter, fresh from her] A Peris fashion authority says the was added to the “Ka-lu-a* = # neuns noth At the end of twenty-nine minutex| It seems that Oscar developed an|"°rully: fdeas to movie writers, One of the} vacation in Honolulu, has started rou in women's stockings is not pop- Lights are used to give these ; pinrtbeend oe z-aine inuatiable yen for lump sugar, Cuien | And Alice blushed furtousty, movies is now asking “Is Matrimony | work on clyde Fitch's "The Cowboy ule any more, Wonder where the] owns many colors f Sting. “1 say, Viola,” he called, “what's | landis and Madge Bellamy were wont Husband Rex Ingram, who over-|— Failure?’ Elaine Hammerstein} ang the Lady." girls are carrying their wealth over} Tne week just finishing has been a ‘ | J Whe of the things Cruze is called vance of settling that suit out oft? indulge Ozcar in his appetite, heard the remark and saw the blush, | solved that problem, it would seem to] James A, Fitzpatrick, in England | ‘here! record-breaker at the Terrace Garden Mion to do is to persuade a cat to nee ON SENN AE SUI UL OFT veciully when Oscar was foot loose | CUldn't resist saying: us, in the title of her film, “Why An-|making @ ‘Famous Author" series ‘ Palace. The removal of the eer i) asleep in a wash basin. The con- ind fancy free to roam at will about Yea! Doesn't she look ike roy-}nounce Your Marriage?" for Kixcto, cables that he is already FOOLISHMENT, ge for dancin hus increased the | Upuity calla for the pet to be discoy- the lot. ity? In fact, that is a regular royal ‘A Woman of No Importance,” alat work on the estate of Lord Alfred| The butcher said: “I'll win that girl,|crowds materially. Thirty electrig HB! gred asleep when Uncle Josh starts to PAGE JACK DEMPSEY. Yesterday, it seems, Madge ana| !"st new Selznick offering, was given a|Tennyron, He's made a good start—| A present fine I'll give her.” ! i. Popular : Witeh his face. Alice Calhoun, now playing Litto |Cullen were not on location, Oscar | Boys Pass that fy-swatter, pre-release showing at the company’s| wonder when he'll start filming Mar-|77¢ won her heart by sending her 1 Tuesdays ‘ = (But that is only one of the things} Wildcat in a film of the same name and se, too, The inquisitive “nonin? projection room, It clearly shows that| got? Oh, excuse wu: This is a Fa- 9 gmitten in for chickens, dogs, ducks, in her’character, which calls upon her] soon started exploring different lunch “Sgeene, turkeys, more cats, cows,|to live by the law of claw and fang.|hoxes in thesbope of finding his ¢ " {Miterses and pigs * This form of in- and out-door sport | vorite sweet er ft MBhere's one thing I'm thankful was decidedly new to Miss Calhoua An stant director saw the for one on the trunk, tia, and still going. One might !magine film celebrities acknowledge to swell { a see you. “Oh, stul sald Mr. Gordon, ng expedition and rapped Oscar] of the Film Players’ Club, That about “The makes it unanimous, Hope Hampton is to be a brides- maid at the weddmg of Miss May Sullivan of the First National forces. The bridegroom? Oh, he's Steve Mc- Grath, and will wear the conventional black. Billy Bevan says he Will finish his latest two-reeler this week. It will come to the screen under the title of “Oh, Daddy Selznick filme are delivered in Aus- It you ting out another version of Flapper," Tom Forman and Charles French, Partners in the long ago of the movies, are working together again in White Shoulders,” Katherine Mac- Donald's next. The contents of one of the sets in “Her Man’ was insured for $60,000 for twenty-four hours. James Young, director for Guy Bates Post, is lecturing at the Univer- sity of California. A brand new film producing firm it took Oscar four seconds to clean the whole place, and by the time had finished, that assistant director s just passing Melbourne, Austra- N { POEMS OF PREFERENCE Helen S., one of the prettiest girls in the Bronx, is very anxious to w the velvet-lined oyster-opener. Her pgem sounds good to us, but of course the judges may consider it too typical of the Greek Bra. Read tit: The boys to-day all seem too fast For poor dear little me, GOSSIP. “The Drums of Jeopardy” closes to~ night, It will be re-staged in the Fall. PaMtildrea Harns, of Keith vaudeville denies she 1s to marry. Jack McGowan, of “The Rose of Stamboul,” has written a musical farce called “Be Yourself,” 1 g00th performance of “The Music Box Revue’ will be given to- A GOOD HAND, coming 80 used to praise that they an introduction with I'm so glad you think hawme: Three pork chops and some liver, STATIC, women ARE of some importance. Ask] mous Authors’ series; we apologize. swe awa | Will H. Hays yesterday ts any politician, A whirling dervish 1s introduced = ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. atement indorsing the et “The Flapper’ was a film long be-|into ‘The Rubalyat’ by way cf ac-| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. H. V. G.—This column was right, “Do you like codfish ball fore goloshes became fashionable. ? “Don't know—pever attended one,” Now another producing firm ts put- 4 tion, The dervish toils not, but he sure do spin. s’ Carn! L. M. B—Adolph Klauber is the producer of "The Charlatan,” ry al to be held all next week sick and b vlent fund EK