The Washington times., 1916-01-02
Guy Bates Post In
"Omar, the Tent
Maker, and Real
Crook Play a t
heaters This
Week.
UsT as surely as they graduate
from being tlappers into ter

OoI as surely as Chey graduate
from being fiappers into ter
ribly sophisticated young
women to whom no one can tell any
thing which is not already known;
and from knickerbockered Norfolk
jscketed limbs-of-Satan into tightly
collared, young men with will-o'-the-
wisp waists, do they have their
Omar. You had it, l had it, every
body takes peek between the pages
which have fascinated since the
eleventh century.
So, therefore, since reading the
"Rubiayat" is as inevitable as calf
love, and as universal, the appeal Of
Sonar, the Tentmaker," the play
founded on the story Of the Persian
mystic, is irresistible.
Richard Walton Tully, who has
served up Omar" in its stage form,
realized to his and to our beneft, that
people like nothing better than to
have that which they know and love
garnithed and decorated, crowned
and idealized. and presented in all It's
BtOry IN anOtner form. y .s
So he wisely chose that to which
we all turn sooner or later. and with
Guy Bates Post as an interpreter has
given us sumptuous love story en-
bpdying the oft quoted jug of wine,
loaf OF bread, wilderness. garden, and
lovely woman. Voluminous press no
tees eulogizing everything from the
rose which dropped, the. ball which
rallied, the pot, potter and Omar"
himself, inform that Mr.. Tully is at
..anr a. -
Ppst 1t is to be romantic drama,
bHt unless the author seizes upon
either something as inevitable as
young womanhood or young manhood,
IT. is doubtful that he viii duplicate
the universal appeal which Is found
IN "omar, the Tentmaker." ......
N HIS is a joke on Kick In" the
play which comes to the Ma
ttonal Theater this week. 1t is
very hard TO write Joke, espe-
cially when the announcement is made
pelorehand. The Indulgence of the
reader, therefore, is craved The obser.
vatlon is made aside that the better
acquainted the reader is with the YER
nacular of great cities the more en-
Joyaole the joke will be.
When Kick In" went to London, slang
and all. It was received II not with omen
arms, with open mouths. London simply
ate 1t UP in great bites. with perhaps the
anne display of ghoulish interest that
~"nration native of Galena.
upon the words of a
French.
wrote epics on It. For
that the phrase, "kick
busy. Another solemn
as usual in American
ng1Ss, ;e are the villains and
the technical criminals exponents OF a
hlSher morality" Another said that
there was quite a bit OF swift action.
but that. aside from that, there was
!he great American language"
reviews scared upon his mind. and
mindful of the horrors attendant UpolI
a misunderstanding of motives, the
press department oe this GheOtFtna1 Of
ferlng supplied uB generously with en-
planatory material IHere coanA9 the
joke.)
But the chagrin Of the English at
upon them without a dictionary 70 10
with 1t could have been no greater than
the hurt offered the dramatic editors of
this city, where "ISick In" had its first
performance mind you. when they were
informed at the top Of every sheet of
press matter, painstakinglY, clearly, that
Kick in meant give up your spoils!"
the benefit OF the doubt and offered as
a solution, "hfty-hfty," slip me my
bit," "come through, loosen up" or
come across"
And in addition II might be said that
give up. YOUR sDoils' bears the same
relation to the real meaning of kick
in" that GO to Hades'' does to the real
FLORENCE f. YoDER.