The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1922, Page 20

rs Tt rere News and Gossi About Plays and Players By BIDE, DUDLEY ILL the Lambs’ Gambol and Friars’ Frolic and the Green Room Club's Revel kindly Miove over on the bench of popularity ahd give the N. V. A. Clown Night a geat? There, that's fine! The first public Clown Night was held at the Colonial Theatre last night and the theutre ‘was filled to overflowing. The Téceipts went to N. V. A. Post, No, #90, American Legion, composed of Vaudeville players and executives who #erved in the World War. The bil! Was a long one and full of pep. I has been decided that there shall be & public N. V. A. Clown Night every year. Incidentally, in order that our Park Avenue readers may know what we're talking about, we'd like to say that “N. V. A." means “National Vaudeville Artists,’ and it's plastered all over a fine club in West 46th Street, just across from the cafe where you used to get those tall lasses of beer before that Volstead lad mussed things all up. FOR MISS RUSSELL. Vaudeville paid its tribute to the memory of the late Lillian Russell at the Palace Theatre yesterday morn img when impressive services ar- ranged by E. F. Albee were held Mayor Hylan, Gen. John F. O'Ryan, Mrs. Evangeline Booth, Augustus Thomas, David Belasco and other peo- ple, of note were present. Dr. Ed ward Travers of Pittsburgh, rector of Trinity Church, delivered the eulogy MANICURE MAMIE. {Should a girl be true to the Instincts of her childhood, or should she let the futury take. its course? Read this fascinaung Mory of love and hate. It will tell you.) Mamie coughed It was a peculiar cough, sounding like “Whee doodi “No.” said the thought she had said ing.” Blodgett, remembering his Western training, drew her to his breast and squeezed her. “Ah, ha,” said the girl, “I seo you belong to the Hugmen.” Three ministers of the Gospel, on their way to enjoy a dinner of pigs knuckles and beans at a near-by cafe called Happy-Snappy Land, hesi- tated. Suddenly all burst out laugh- policeman, He “Good morn- Around thé corner came the Sal- vation Army Band, its music just as terrible as ever. But the lady Salva- ttonists were very pretty. ‘rue-Biue Blodgett released Mamie from his embrace, “Nobody shal) part us,” he said. Six of the trombone players smiled. yy were not immune to diatacti! rethiniscences. But, of course, they were all young and thoroughly honest. Alonzo, the bootblack, came gal- loping up. He had obtained a horse for riding purpos he yelled, Once, twice, thrice. A yell went up from the crowd. The horse was Morvich, disguised as Whiskaway. (To be continued.) TOO TRUE, ALAS! “What,"’ asked Maxine Brown, in- genue, of us yesterday, ‘is a man ‘who drin! “What J “A cocoanut,”’ said Miss Brown. We ran four blocks and turned to the right, ignoring al) street signs. TIPPING YOU OFF. A church in Brooklyn is to hold a handkerchief bazaar soon. Everybody is expected to blow himself. Hopperville, N. J., has decided to number the houses of the town so that people may know where they live. Ralph Trout of Freeport went to Philadelphia to work recently, but didn't stay. Trout felt like a fish out of water away from Freeport. Mrs. P. Bodkin of Sullivan County, whose hens laid 101 dozen eggs last month, is being congratulated about it. ‘Why not congratulate the hens? A Negro preacher is to lecture in Newark soon on “Fifteen Million Dry Bones," or ‘How the Devil Are You Going to Get to Heaven if You Don't Go to Church?" HULL WRITES ONE. Henry Hull of “The Cat and the * has written a play called “Manhattan in association with Leighton Osmun. It is to be produced next month out of town. Henry won't bo able to see the premiaxe, so when th® audience yells ‘tAuthor!"" Mr. Osmun will have to be the Hull thing. TO STAGE “PATRICIA.” “Patricia,” a comedy by Maria Thompson Davies, founded on her story, “Blue Grass and Broadway,” will be produced in the fall by Milton Hocky and Howard J, Green, Goss Allan Pollock announces his final week in “A Pinch Hitter’ at Henry Miller's Theatre. “Good Morning, Dearie," at the Globe will have a special matinee on July 4. Hedda Hopper has been added to the cast of ‘That Day,'’ which the Felmont Repertory Company will pro- bg Maria Bazzi, a noted Italian actress, will make her first English speaking appearance on Broadway next season. Merman Timberg has been engaged to produce a revue called ‘Joys and Glooms" for Shubert Vaudeville. ‘Reymond Hitchcock's “Pin Wheel Revue'’ at Earl Carroll's Theatre has been cut until now it ends at 11.10 PM et Barris will progace a bow JOE. ARE You GOING “Te DAWGONED \F TLE GIVE IN —SHE INEGISTS ( on-7W Beacu AN! x SAY TH MOUNTAING — 116 MY VACATION STAY THERE ALL DAY? Do) YES KNOW (T'S “Ten o'evocn?/ Aw, THEY'S NOTHIN T'GET UP For " '™ Tired WAS COMING nies see AT “THe TRAIN Coes IN TWe HOURS — Now GET EVERYTHING TOGETHER Yu WANT Té TAKE - co POEMS OF PREFERENCE | Phil Kramer of the Bronx steps forward to-day to state his prefer- ence regarding women. Phil wants a wife; he also wants the velvet- ned oyster-opener, the prize we have offered in this contest, Let us hope he wins both. Up in the Bronx they say he's a nice boy, not good-looking, but broke and polite, Here's his rhyme: I'm looking for a sweet young girl, She must speak English, you see, She must not be a finale hopperita, Or a flapper to any degree. Don't think I mean she must be dead, My choice is very rare. Bo, if this girl is not around. I'll stay a bachelor, so there! eee comedy called “It's a Boy," by Will- fam Anthony McGuire, at Atlantic City on July 17. Rudolf Frim!, after completing the score of & new operetta called ‘'Gen- evieve,"’ sailed for Kurope Saturday just for fun. Charles Parks wrote the book and lyrics for "Genevieve." “Sue, Dear,” a new musical com- edy by Joseph Herbert, Frank H. Grey, C. 8. Montanye and the fwriter of this columa, opens July ag SECOND THOUGHTS, N a certain island section of Florida I @ good many rough characters live, who are idle, quarrelsome, shift about a good deal and are hard to keep track of. One of them, named Tomlinson, was accused of robbery, and the Sheriff went to arrest him. But Tomlinson “got the drop” on the officer, disarmed him and kept him two days. Finally Tomlinson re- leased the Sheriff and gave him back Branch and will come to a 42d Street theatre one week later A THOUGHT FOR TO-Day. Business was at a standstill in Wellsville Saturday morning. A mu- sical show with eight flapper chorus girls changed trains there FOOLISHMENT, I saw a dig electric fan Throw breezes on a Chinainan, His shirt flew up; he grinned in glee. “Das wind bane belly nice,” said he, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, t is the oldest known soup?” quite a dis- WELL - some MAN SUST PHONED “Hat HE Loox AT THE CaR! va DUST Look AT “TH' / BEAUTIFUL SCENERY AN LAKES 'NIEVERYTHIN' IN TH’ MoUNTAINS — WoT Bo ‘You The Day’s Good Stories on HERE 7 SAID HE'D HURRY OVER IN A “TAxt —~ HE ~ A DAWGONE OLE BEACH ~~ —— his pistol, ridges out. Then the Sheriff returned home, Tomlinson landing him on the main- Jand. “Well,” the deputy asked his chief, “did you get your man?” “No,” the Sheriff replied, ‘he's about the only man over there who does anything, and I thought I would let him alone."—E. W. Howe's Monthly. first throwing the cart- penu=anmieesresee ONE LAST REQUEST. HEY were sitting close together T and suddenly, unable to resist the temptation, he kissed her. She was furious, “Leave me! I never want to see you again!" she chilled. “You are no gentleman to take advantage of a poor girl that way. Leave me, I say; leave me at once! After this I do not want to know you. “All right,"’ he agreed meekly, ‘but before I go may I beg one last favor of you? I shall never see you again. ‘Will you grant it for old times’ sake?’ Her rage abated a trifle. “If it is not too much I will try,” Then, with @ pleading look in his eyes, he begged: “Darling, before 1 go won't you e take your arm from around my "American Legion Weekly. GET NERY THING MBCETHER . You WANTED Ta TAKE "6 ye COUNTRY - OMAN, T So BAD! Look AT THAT SUIEET LIL ~ SOUNDED as (F HE WERE IN AN AWFUL .Go To 7H" HE, SIR—- THAT AN'T_A Room — fe OH! You DARLING gue oNeiee ae ou BEACH" AN’ STAY ) ALL GuMMER! P. S.—Send*In Your Krazy Krax ! IVE TOLD THE LANDLORD A DOZEN Times To REPAIR THIS HOLE IN Ne Ng Dear! ( —— on Baie REDE ‘ean STILLS. A certain movie scrivener takes ex ception to a little yarn carried in Screenings in regard ,to the comment made by Bull Montana when he saw a newspaper picture of Jack Dempsey wearing @ monocle, She doesn't see how Bull could have said anything be. cause he is in Italy. As far as we can learn, letters are still being car- ried back and forth—even between New York and Italy, and Bull Mon- tana can write—and did. Ben Turpin wasn't going where he was looking or looking where he was going—take your choice—while mush- ing a dog team during the taking of @ recent picture and suddenly found himself at the bottom of a heap of snarled up dogs. There were fourteen dogs in the team, and Ben says he bit every one of them before his assist- ants could untangle him. Little Josephine Adair, one of the kiddies in R, C.'s “In the Name of the Law,’’ swings a mean crayon. Her pet ambition is to become another Bud Counihan, Johnnie abandoned Walker his has temporarily Job of defending mothers on the screen and is now paying @ little attention to fathers. It all happens in a picture called *My Dad."* H. A, Leonard, publicity director of the Strand Theatre, has been forced to take an carly vacation on acegunt of & nervous breakdown, He's up in the Catskills wooing back his lost health. During his absence An- atol Feldman, secretary to Managing Director Plunkett, has his hand on the wheel of the publicity department Fred Schaefer sends Screenings six solidly written typewritten pages de. scribing the Norman castle set in Doug Fatrbanks's next big pictues, Boiled down, Fred's six pages simply said: “Doug Fairbanks's Norman castle set is the biggest ever built."’ Robert Frazer and Charles Lane, both of whom played promirient roles in “Fascination” recently, have been engaged to appear in the B. B. ductions, Inc,, picture, “How Women Love," Betty Blythe's next starring vehicle Miss Mildred B. Phillips, formerly of the Fox News, has been made managing editor of Starland Review, Doris May, the screen's flappi flapper, has just finished ‘The U derstudy."” Strange as it may seem, her husband—Wallace MacDonald~-is her leading man. it 1, Isdahl jr. of Bergen, Norway, here to study the screen industry wrote Dick Barthelmess a_ letter which was received which he stated: the company that made work.’’ So would Henvy yesterday in directed ‘em Ever get a scented note signed “Very Truly Yours, Shirly Mason? No? Weill, you probably, will bee long, as that's the name of her new film and she's gonna write to every one in the U. 8. A.—perhaps. “What's a dry dock?" asked an tg- norant college professor. ‘A physi- cian who refuses to give preseri tions!’ answers ‘Topics of the Da: Films—just like that. Doris Deane, Clyde Cook's newest leading lady, glided from vaudeville into pictures. She was a dancer, you know, and did ‘That Cinema Glide.” Charles Richman has the leading role in ‘My Friend the Devil.’ Patsy Ruth Miller, the seventeen- year-old leading woman, is sure jumping around from company to company. First its Goldwyn, then Fox and now Vitagraph is featuring her as Earle Williams's lead. French censors seriously objected to the showing of a monkey dressed as a poilu in trench scenes in ‘The Four Horsemen."’ Premier Poincare then looked at the picture and announced he saw nothing objectionable—so the monkey actor stayed in the film. A MYSTERY. One of Tom Mix's favorite ponies was injured recently when a runaway automobile crashed into a lot of horses being exercised, ‘This in itself wouldn't call for much space he but we note that the accident happened on the boule- vards of Asbury lark, N. J Wonder what a Tom Mix horse was joing so far away from home? E. Once upon a time there was shown a feature film that didn’t start with a lengthy strip of titles announcing every one from the Director General to the Errand Boy at the studio, But that was “Once Upon a Time." AUTHOR! AUTHOR! One would naturally think that bey ing the mother of Norma, Constan and Natalie Talmadge, the mother-in- law of Buster Keaton and the grand- maw of Buster Keaton jr. would be enough for any one. But not so with “Maw” Talmadge. And so the other day she roped and hog-tied a typewriter and set her nim- ble fingers to work, and presently ap- peared with the manuscript of a full- sized novel. Henry Bee, a publisher, grabbed the manuscript and the first edition is al@p ready on the press. That sure is one talented family them Talmadges. WHY, GEORGE MORRIS! Seldom do we print what the praise agent sends us. That is—not exactly, as they send it. But here's one from our old pal George D. Morris that we wouldn’t change a line of. Espe- cially is this true of the closing sen- tence. Let's be on our w: “Pauline Garon, who was selected by Richard Barthelmess as his leading lady in ‘Sonny,’ has been voted by her class in the French Convent near Montreal, from which she graduated last year, as the most beautiful and gifted of the forty-two girls. A group picture of the class reveals that to obtain this pulchritude Miss Garon had to outstrip many beauties.”* Stet is sure the right word “% THAT one! OLD AND NEW. Charles Urban has given us another screen novelty in ‘Old New York."’ The little film shows certain parts of New. York as they were when Peter Stuyvesant was hobbling around and then the scenes dissolve into the same locality in 192: The action starts at the Battery and gradually works uptown. Wouldn't it have been another nov- elty, Charles, if you had incorporated a few close-ups of flappers of the New Amsterdam era and then dissolved into seénes of how the same flappers look to-day? Some of the same ones are still flap- ping—you know! WEATHER. The much touted California weather acts up at times. F’rinstance! Just received a letter from Robert Thornby, director, in which he said: “The script of ‘Wreckage’ called for & storm at sea. We waited ten days for the storm. It didn't arrive. Our vessel was moored to the dock an ready to put to sea to be tosse.! about in a regular Joseph Conrat gale. Still the storm refused to show up. “Needing the storm stuff, we bi a vessel on the lot and took scenes with the ald of a mechanical! storm. After the last foot was shot and all the bills for the mechanic: ! boat paid, the locality was hit by just the sort of a storm we had want: im the first place, Talk abot weather! But then, rather tls of something else.” Va WHAT'S IN A NAME? Here's a reel oddity. Ever hear of a screen star wither! a name? ‘That makes it unanimous! Neit!» did we until we were told of pretty little Helen Lyncli But there! We've used a name just after telling you she had no name It's a long story, mates! Helen Lynch won a beauty contest Despite this handicap, Marshall Neil - an, the director, gave her a chanco in pictures. She made good. “Now, Miss Lynch," advised Mick - ey, “what have you chosen for a acreen name? In making your selec- tion choose something short anid catchy and easy to remember, Whiat'll it be?” But Helen couldn't decide, so she's left it to the public. What would you call her? As far as we are concerned we wouldn't call her at all; jes’ let her dream on! EXPLOITATION. ? It takes these Mid-Western movie exhibitors to think up the smart ones, doesn't it? We just heard whe¥e an exhibitor who was showing Wes Barry in ‘School Days" had an ambulance drive up to the theatre and the at~ tendants carry out a small boy, Of course a crowd gathered. As the people stood wondering what it was all about the manager pasted, a sign on the ambulance which read: “This kid busted his sides laughing at Wesley Barry in ‘School Days’ at the Such-and-Such Theatre.” Not bad, wot? LOOK OUT, RODOLPH! If he's not careful Rodolph Vaien- tino, the young man who has figuris somewhat in the news lately, may have a rival for his screen honors. The said rival is none other than Count Mario Caraccialo di Meleto (which is not the name of the latest way of dressing spaghetti). The Count, taking the name of Mario Carillo just to simplify mat ters, has made good with a hop, ski» and a jump in the mov: Normu ‘Talmadge discovered him and spon sored him in “The Wonderfu! Thing;" then he appeared for Fox in “A Stage Romance,” then Pyramid Tictures grabbed him and now he ix offered a big part in “The rina.” Which is, as any one must admit, quite some start for this newest “screen lover."