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SUED TSOP ATE ENE TaiHae, RAR A re Povey Aan ARNT Neo IL RIN to ah oo TS HR GT TT sical hn arg TROT SER ene Ne: enn THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1922, TURNING ON THE SPOTLIGHT | BY CHARLES DARNTON ; i : seems to be the last, word of “The World We Live In,” evi- dently conceived by those frowning Czechs the brothers Capek ' while still brooding over the war. Perhaps the snails are right, but they .. @ffer such small consolation that we may well keep ofr thanks to our- VY selves Tf the snails are meant to suggest ®——————____—_—____ the possible wisdom of being slow. but] hook. After two houre or more | gure, the butterflies are certainly |dozed off in @ chair, to be awakened by—a chill in the air, Tho fire hed “fast"’ enough to make up the dif- gone down, that was all. But # ference. Tho females of the species} moment tater my temperature fell act more like cats than butterfiles,/about twenty degrees, for just as | yet it must be admitted that they,|W@s getting a stick of wood for the stove a sharp rap halted me. Taking together with the more discreet males, |.” yo Gtip on tha stick I waited W* may take ft from the snails that we are lucky to be alive. This ‘A . look something like insects. This 18] or nearty an hour. Then three more oe cate SANE Mypkelad ss more than can be eald for the ants,|raps, seemingly on the inside of the ; ; Avera. Om Ee For who reesmble nothing so much as|Cabinet, scared me stiff. To rlay Ws Ray ag —- WEACTS AND FIGORES, fair witty the ghost we had closed ESA ea men, or ut any rate the mechanteallins aoors of this suspicious -ploce of men of “R. U, K.,'' that other satire} furniture. Now, with thé stick in by Karel Capek. The tollers seemlone tand, I pulled them open, only another make of robots, and] Nothing! ‘The result was the jam when they march to war they are| when I hustled out into the moonlight every inch soldiers. They carry guns|to make further investigation. There and even go through the manual of|weren't even footprints. Nothing arms, All this is so literal that {t/more happened. Neither the ghust Kills Imagination. In fact, this whole|nor the story materialized. Aden is a bit too obvious to have any| Many years afterward | bought an lost, with the result th 6 AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS, into the hut of three outea ver th ay & 40th Bt Mexican border, on whom ta an|) EMPIRE Dscaaway & gon ae. American college man who had gone HENRY MILLER wrong over a woman and who RUTH CHATTERTON 1 lost the incentive to attempt to get convincing relation to insect life. old mahogany bureau and set tt up nde dt Larabie ieee, ponies VDRESSE* oy?’ GOHAN ™ Thea, ae eS te | But the beetles, the crickets andjin a steam-heated apartment. It Thig renegade takes her to his hut in “ : th PULAR 2 MATIN the murderous saw-fy are fascinating. | proved to be « cranking good bureau. ‘ the Monten wastes One eee owe CAIHENRY, MILLERS) Seem They give the curious satire at Jol-| In fact, {t nearly cracked to pieces, bs ‘ the *OneiWeek\of Lover in which the by { son's Theatre grotesque, unusual In-| After midnight, when the steam was oi é : ‘ haughty society beauty comes to lovel] INA CLAIRE *2,¢ NOR BAYES..,.21 oan a YY, 40th Bt Hive RKUCE. MeHAR, * “THE AWFUL TRUTH” she is found EXTRA MATINEE ELECTION DAY. art back to KNICKERBOCKER Bway & Bt. Bv.8.20 1 intervenes Mats. Sat. & Tues. 2. terest, the interest of gazing at in-| shut off, it made so much noise that sects through a magnifying glass. You} there was no sleeping in the samo earry them in your mind's eye long|room with {t. But it solved the after the butterfiles and the ants have faded away. The tramp who observes them would be better if ho were the man who orders her about as he would a squaw we Oy At the end of a week mystery of the haunted farmhouse, ‘ee by her fiance a ith {ts old mahogany cabinet and ¥ : civilization, but 1 flo air Sinos Late el Ds Let “A Haunted Husband" look to oughly restored to manhood, rescues mal t Irn B's Latest Musical Gem, theatre, Robe: eson might YT nig ¢urniture. He ought to be able A list of those who attended had ali} he : sll latte Resp any @leeping in it for a week to get out to-night, hes eatathns OP a gevised /@iclal San RRA MUSIC BOX. West INGHAM GIRL Ai | nese is aw distinctly ugly aspect Register, It included several Bud as} ‘The Appellate Divislo ; 4 ER CIN ore td MATS. TO-DAY & F N DAY 3.00 4 to that other fantasy of th Pla fe th well ag such names as the Biddles| court yextorday allirmed the convictio: an aA Baan te hee SRA Ys ror the : Dukes and "Wilsons, "aod ssoree of] f"thtics mene, mer pia mes |] MUSIC BOX REVUE ox EQUITY 48TH ST | i i te : ° : : 4 others of equal prominenc policeman, who was sentenced to from y 88) . | LAST TWO «eg A Bearch of an Author,"" at the Coming Week <— Then, of sour there mero moore] Eee eto" sear in tates Prvoy orl «gt wae ea oe re Weed UE : Princess, Thu a ré who make up 3 woman with a Kjack 4 Mata. Sat of names in t @ stock company are amusing in their vanity and tcave themselves wide open to lively criticism, but the six characters who walk into the theatre and interrupt a rehearsal by declaring that they represent living drama which should be staged bring with them a tainted atmosphere. For this country, at least, the Italian e@uthor, Luigi Pirandello, has made them lamentably, unpleasantly vi- clous. Say what you will, they are the body of the play and they give ‘t @ rottenness that becomes more and more repellant. Happily, the performance has tts bright side in the vivid acting of Florence Eldridge, Hore is a young woman of uncommon talent and charm. Vibrant as a live wire, she ts charged with a vitality that never seems forced. There is nothing theatric about her. Obviously, her nes at 6.0 ix motion picture world ‘ : D, 0» JANE COWL? which usually are read in electric th Avenue, July 28.1) WwanLack EDDINGER—MARY Nas BEGINNING NOV. 12, ly, Robert Ober, Jack Giddings, E4-|iivity, ‘Thess wer ginented, too, i a ba at 3 - : a and Jobeo id Spottiswoode Aike: 5 es a8 Sir Thomas Lipton, n there APTA § “The Season’ alti "raat eter anf no ie oar a SSE EIESTAE CAIETY fomaltiog SAM HARRIS West #24 St. trve, wt guts, fesareso-mess fi MONDAY NIGHT. Playhouse—"“Up She Goes.’’ TUESDAY NIGHT. Maxine Elliott's Theatre—"'Rain.”” Punch and Judy—''The '49e: ae of Tackle Coogan in “OU-| A018 wverai others like them CONCERTS AND MUSIC. : thrill-drama, “One Exciting Night, ere Attration dine] And it was a night well spent. | *?araegio ftall, Monda Bena aes “ y De . as "oO i f Love’ is one of the Seng Recital by 4 : continues Ite highly successful run. lehowing. There will be tho usual | “2° ieaacevse rt Gacy Lewis T the Playhouse on Monday night] CAMEO—* Queen of the Mou-| Strand musical program in conjunc J ag wnt and. the, elimax-a speg- CI .AUSS W. A. Brady will present “Up|itn Rouge.” Ray C, Smallwood’s|tion with the feature pleture. acular-flood scene, in which a mum- She Goes," a musical comedy | screening of Paul M. Pottor’s play, 1s as keeehaenaih yn leaee 5 Che version of Frank Craven's ‘‘Too Many | being held over for a second weck moth bridge is washed away and a Cooks." The music ts by Harty! GAPITOL—A Ts © peanc. (Oe five-car train topples over Into the Tierney, with lyrics by Joseph Mo-| qo re Tere ent Produ raging torrent—-is one of the best ever tL tion of “To Have and To Hold,” with || R | R ‘ Nano. iteettal by ‘0 Have and ‘To Hold,” with Carthy, Among others In the company |a cast headed by Hetty Compson and ee SVICWS If screener. VELONt a 8.00 TAGLIONE LENORE ULRICo-KIKI ¥ EXTRA MATINER ELECTION DAT. are Donald Brian, Gloria Foy, Helen] pert Lytell, will be the principal tilm The picture has to do with a spolled Bolton and "Skeets" Gallagher. feature, with “The Burial of the Un. || By DON ALLEN soclety beauty, who has had her own][ ,,., g y during all of her life known Soldier,’’ and the Capit petulant way 4 z OE titagious cone Dy “Rain,” @ play by John Colton and News, An elaborate musical pro- until she reached the mature age of ~ HepamROwE—To ogo SPACE ee ; : grit DALY NATS.256 MGHTS 508 Clemence Randolph, ‘ ; twenty-one, and then things Dappen to IN.) Aft. at 3— ; fs Bomerset Maughan Gane, brie gents Hide af ; on Knighthooa | #0" Pictures are fast developing into/ner, She starts on an erie race FRAZEE, ‘West, 424 8t-, venings at gv DF LAUGHTER, hs G *RITERION nen Knighthood nae : = SHerSLAT SS 00 en ene Mate. tt as es = Hy, Harris’ at Maxtog Bilioie en | Was tn Flower.” with Marion Davies (im, nMlure of, brillant soclety, ane; |e cere etcee fo Mie Chat WILLIAM COURTENAY © LYCEUM i oat Maxine Elliott's Thea- | a5 its star, is still the offering at this | YOM " “HER TEMPORARY HUSBAND”, 84m DAVID BELASCO Presen been ret Mezzo-Soprano Metropolitan Opera Co. Mat. Haensel & Jo! TOWN 10 Hers 1, ata.s DAVID BELASCO Prewen Haensel & 3 Saat B13 Premicro showings of feature mo- tre on Tuesday night. The cast in- |night of "One Week of Love,’* with] the winner of the race may have iis 4 t d freshness are great aids, tre. , : ae A.Paulton . R , ass A aseiaeaty. erate girl, but} °ludes Jeanne Eagels, Fritz Williams ee ahOt RTH ST, THEATRE| Plaine Hammerstein and Conway |own answer to any proposal. a HUDSON West, 4428, £t,, Evenings at a.s0 FRANCES STARR in and . her gifts are far more than physical, | 2®¢ Rapley Holmes. —“Phe Village: Blacksmith," a re-|Tearle, in tho ballroom at the Ritz he files Into a henvy.fog a: Ata ea eleeee, Tee ¢ © a le Bhe first proved her ability in “Am- markably attractive vening of th | ; 4 GEORGE 1. COHA\ Presents | P SP Ome iT “ ‘anera”” SEMEN: AST 2 WEEK: ; bush,” only to be led astray by “The | a oe Sh take possession | tamous Longfellow n by William AMUSEMENTS. poset TR ——— hei THE HIT OF THE TOWN GEORG ss a Cat and the Canary.” Now once he Punch and Judy Theatre on|rox Jack an excellent — SOc LG Pee Toe ——— =e E WHITES Serad 4 ngein she is doling good work. in's Tusssay aight and sive a browram feast headed by Willlam Walling, Vir- | WINTER GARDENS", 4, hure, &- Bat | | BROADHURST: Hep 40 WORT euet SO THIS ISLONDON! AOL Wi reac TRE ROeEE bad play vy + Skits, bur-|ginia Valli, Tully Marshall, Bessie Ua te} E Neale meotmsaad r ao 10N ‘OF BEAUTIES. Another young actress with the|lesques and pantomimes. In the list ee end Geores Hackathorne, This | « iPlay <PiNGIMEAiYO iT be eianibete ‘A HOWLING SUCCESS.""—Eve. Post spark, not to say flash, that the week |°! authors are Montague Glass, Hey- has brought into view again is Helen| Wood Broun, Franklin P, Adams, we. Menken, who puts lightning into "The |Deems Taylor, Ring Lardner and picture opened Thursday night and is Mi WILLIE & EUGENE HOWARD to be shown for an extended run, Beventh Heaven” at the Booth{others, May Irwin, Roland Young, Pichia seca eb des inte tuesday dee MORROW | NIGHT <SONGERT, | ‘Theatre. She has a way of flaring up| Beryl Mercer and Sidney Toler are} pioadway week with the demand for Beis UPL StaT CONE Tt 18 Aa th OuER Mis 11 Ue company. weats far exceeding tho supply. Tho touched a match to herself after] A new burlesque called ‘Hello, i" i of Bway. Eyes. 8.30. ON THE STAIRS = comma wire WO SHUBERT ™ Ath, W. of By. dena'tale ven THE SMART COMEDY WITH MUSIO. Mets Sat end © i Greniien Vitact Fou DALY'S 634A Te | OnaNGE BiosSéms AMBASSADOR sits ac. The Lady tn Ermine en Wh iggest ple- fist Bt. Bot Bway. val 30 feeming cold as ice, fhe may have| Mamma’ will be given by tho “Hello| eee ty vet ater te Walteve BAND THe COMEDY “Si SisecaThure and Sec. |) = Jearned something from watching |Good Times" company at the Colum- Beery Sam De Grasse, Paul Dickey, wit FROURL 8 OE tens prionadgsrrr| THIN ‘ic E \GRAGE GEORGE a TO tye | Bernhardt, but she has something |bia, Nat Haines heads the cast, i 000 |W eee | py oruomane A Enid Bennett and “more than others."' . RIALTO—Thomas Me'ghan tn “The Man Who Saw To-morrow," seen last Change of Bills week at the Rivoll, moves to-morrow to this house. I Vie ° RIVOLI—Rodolph Valentino tn his n audeville latest. picture, ‘The Young Rajah," will be shown for the first time in New York at this theatre to-morrow, too, all her own. Just now she| ‘The Bat’ comes to the Bronx whakes a wicked horsewhip and with |Opera House, ft her audience, Bhe Is thin but mighty. CENTUR Ties .62d 8t., Cont. Pk. W. 20, Misiat.,Blec.D.wd TIM BLOSSOM With Norman fevor—hober: Warwick ETHEL BARRYMORE Ss “ 1 7 » “Rose Bernd” ,,,, ve ayy JOHN CE DEN SUCCES iH “LONGAGRE TRA cts att $38 rr i — “|sBi ‘ oy Aly | The FOOL ure te. " 00m ky 4.30 “Few dramas have eariched Weds! Wtx.Sat.,Taes Wed. the eenson 90 mach as the || Ekta MATINEE El ELECTION ‘DAY. a | — Qe Laci POP. iis Eat TUESGAY | vai XANDER BERNARD'S & CARR ARTHUR HOPKINS Prese Absolutely the Only New Thing in Pictures At last something different again for the screen “The first of its kind I have ever seen, and I have seen many an innovation.” (Louella Parsons in the Telegraph) himself “A Haunted Husband,” comes this desperate plea: “Won't you please write something to show the dangerous effect of mys- aioe cinvat’ U7 wiles tan. pone to] CENTRAL—Irene Castle in a spe-| In this film the popular young actor them until she has the wild notion | “ality billed as “A $100,000 Gown and| supported by Pat Moore, Funny Mid: that our upartment is haunted. She| Dance Revue" will appear next week | says she hears strange knockings at|as an added attraction with the Shu- AMUSEMENTS. night. As for myself, I'm a vert unit, “Facts and Figures,” Some Sleeper, But I'm terribly disturbed of the others are Frank A. Burt, Jack L ul * ebout the situation. ‘The worst of tt] Gees. eorge W. deny, etn ET Ss GO lani and’ Herm Rose. fs my wife won't let me go out nights unless I take her with me."’ ? wrnocron THEATRES wea wer- | THE DANCING GARNI AL Foun a correspondent who signs 49TH ST, Thess: Wot Bwa: * Mats. Bat. @ Election esl “Superior to anything of the kind the screen has known.” (Sun) D. W. GRIFFITH’S “Most excting motion picture ever seen. y. 39th. Fitz. 0879. Mats. Thurs. Sat. (Journal) The closing sentence of the com- Munication proves this to be indeed a he RR AEN SE RAMONE FETS } tes 5 oe 3 | PARTNERS AGAI eurtoua master, But the truth about LA Mths opal ad a aves ST. MICPOLAS RINK | WORLD'S LACanIVG, | the hobgoblin melodrama is titin | iy ten Variably. explain and expooea the] 40d, Buokridae, ‘Casey “and” band. EAN EEE AY POP, PRE Ma. TuESbAY TODAY AT 2.80—TONIGHT AT 8.30 oo me A necro sae, Celene be seen the latter half. “Alias Julius Admission ENTRA MAT. ELECTION DAY. — || 500 Orch. Seats Mats. 50c. is nothing to worry about in the ena. | Caesar.” with Charles Ray, will b: | : RITE, W apn &. ae tna Tus ‘ BANCO” With Lele F 300 Orch. Seats Eves. $1.00 WIT ETAM FOX > Every*hing is made clear. Mechanical or physical, the spook is brought o Nght and shown up in all tts #lmpic or contemptible trickery. There are, of course, honorable ex- the film feature at each of the other Daily, 55 MOROSCO ante Ba Proctor houses. Mercedes, Leedum BUT IRE OCI Bre, and Gaeriner and Grew and Pates Sat. ard Sun., vill appear at the 29d Street Theatre, Smiles, Van Dyke and Vonci are Geptions. The greatest of these is the | Ong those coming to the sth Street Ghost in “Hamlet.” For one, 1 abso- | Theatre, and Lew Seymof, and Hall —— Iutely "believe in it. I am awed and] #24 Dexter will be at the 136th Street VESD Y IGHT) thrilled by its sublime dignity, its in-| Theatre. ; | finite sadness, its unfaltering purpose | MO8S'S BROADWAY THEATRE— Mires Wire” Famiiis as it is, it always holds ms| Valerie Bergere and company will spellbound. Not so, Banquo's ghost, | Present & Japanese playlet oalled “Oh, | Learu tne TANGO—Danced F: ; To me it is annoying, a tricky spectre, APOLLO THEATRE || Sunday Mat. ats. cv.. 8.20—Uther da at 2,30 & 8,20—Prices Nights 50c <o $1.54 42nd St., West of Broadway All matinees 50c and $1,00 SPECIAL PRESENTATION UNDER MR. GRIFFITH'S OWN SUPERVISION | ~The Theatre Guild Presents ae; GARRICK. peat aie AND. TVOLI WEIGHAN sere MARION who ata ER THE HILL," ' ‘a CRITERION ‘saracmanc The FaithfulHeart Te aan > ae | CRITERION WHEN Ee DRAMA _ EVER STAGED! ore nf} VALENTINO in'‘The Young Rajah WAS IN FLOWE § TAT E| ETHEL GLAYTON Soy ct i Others on the program Inatructorm for wesone ® spollsport at Macbeth’s feast that] ®re Lester Crawford and Helen Brod- should be shown the door, Each of Laine Sandy Paid and the Garcinetti Dancing Rolle Sista Billarés ts, no doubt, has hia pet ghost. others, while the film feature ‘ ‘a Thomas H, Ince's “Skin Deep."* THE DANCIN PS CARNIY, ae LOPW'S STATH THEATRE—Dva| Mm % Nicholas Mo, - Tanguay will be the headliner. Mat- thews and Ayres and Lee Mason will perience. be on the bill the first halt of the|COLUMBIA Pry {Entire Changs of In the course of youthful adven-[ week. ‘“The Cowboy and the Lady" 0 SHOWS ELECTION Michi tures as a reporter I passed a winter'y|With Mary Miles Minter and Tom io ™ I i, might in a haunted farmhouse with a| Moore, will be the film feature during At 8 and 11, well-established reputation for mys-|the forepart of the week and “The RETURNS READ FROM STAGE tious rapping. It was a lonely,|Impoasible Mrs, Bellew,” with Gloria Commnvaning weather-benten dwelling almost log | Swanson, the latter part, HELL 6000 TIMES Viti wat SUREEW'S gies ACHIEVEMENT we is ec NKS Gasca i edad HOUS ner va N any event, ‘A Haunted Husband” should not despair. I might help him by telling of @ personal ex- dist Bt., W.of B'way. 11 44ths THEATRE, W. ¢4th 6t. ‘amo’ @ TWICE DAILY, 2,30-8.51 WILLIAM FOX Presents 1 WERE Qu E wv, 48 Bt, B'y & 45 st, | ARDON @ Pi R in the underbrush of a hollow that — rin! SGM Wonka PAS vay da A Brand New Burlesque with New Offerings gies: it ful of show Thomas » The) Nay Pe : Man Who Saw To-morrow. t_Week—EVA TANGUAY (in Pe dipped into the river. Its only ocey- Pants, except for the ghost, were an ‘moderato pricas—Bouta -@ld man and his wife, They were fork Nov. MAIDA OF AMERICA, All New 0 S a MAURIGE SWARTZ "l THAN Rnrentce Te tter-of-f ni - - - a lap rast y t trand Symphony Orel Same “wich mooncate'soce tey| Ort he. Screen) ina oyun vows 300%, « ar go ROB IN | HERE Th nas oak Bie ln rent Or Gene ti on pee gaia, from the I ( hea. 37 Sees Ga ans, comer thie aces MARJORIE RAMBEAU PLYMOUTH vise tm. Bre, 30 YIDDISH ART Z3i2.a55"A% F 300 BROOKLYN. HOOD’ rm : are eee aed | LY Rit "we 4 ete me) a mY Ue 4 ore TRAN|) the Ow Komest: ; JH PRIGES >." § f Deg teow MONTE CRUE stood s tall cabinet, dark brown and | 4 ron he Tore Tet Poitlin' "Tine Gold Figh” ‘with doors running its full length. @ thrilling Fox. pictare, traak-| At about 9 o'clock the farmer an4|17 melodramatic and showing the de Bie wife went upstairs to bed, leav-| struction of a town by flood sing me with « bright fire an@'a dull APPOLLO—D. W. Grimth's latest %