The Washington times., 1916-01-02
Guy Bates Post In
"Omar, the Tent
Maker,'' and Real
Crook Play at
Th ca tiers This
Week.
l UST as surely as they graduate
from heino f1apners into ter

ii, from being f1appers into ter
ribly sophisticated young
women to whom no one can tell any
thing which is not already known;
and from knickerbockered Norfolk
jacketed limbs-of- Satan into tightly
collared, young men with will-o'-the-
wisp waists, do they have their
Omar. You had it, 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 it's stage form,
realized to his and to our benefit, that
people like nothing better than to
have that which they know and love
garnithed and decorated, crowned
and idealized. and presented in all its
glory In another form.
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-
bodying the oft quoted jug of wine,
loaf of bread. wilderness, garden, and
lovely woman. Noluminous press no.
tices euloGizng everything from the
rose which dropped the ball which
relied; the pot. potter, and Omar"
himself, inform that Mr. Tully is at
work upon another vehicle for Mr..
Post. 1t is to be romantic drama.
but unless the author scizes upon
either something as inevitable as
1T is doubtful that he will duplicate
the universal appeal which is found
IN "Omar. the Tentmaker."
~ HIS is joke on Kick In," the
play which comes to the Ma
Il tional Theater this week. 1t Is
very hard to write a joke espe-
cially when the announcement is made
beforehand. The Indulgence of the
reader. therefore, is craved. The obser.
walton is made aside that the better
acquainted the reader is with the YER
nacular faTah1d Of great cities the more en-
When 'kick In" went to London slang
and all It was received. If not with open
arms, with open mouths London simply
ate 1t UP in great bites. with perhaps the
sstsne display of ghoulish interest that
""ration native OF Galena
: upon the words OF a
French.
wrote eplcs on 1t. For
that the phrase. "kick
busy. Another solemn
''as usual in American
Iius., % are the villains, and
the technical criminals exponents OF a
higher morality" Another said that
there was quite a bit OF swift action.
but that. aside from that. thero was
the great American language"
Perhaps with the memory OF those
reviews scared upon his mind. anil
mindful Of the horrors attendant upon
misunderstanding OF motives, the
press department Of this theatrical Of
fering supplied us generously with en-
planatory material. ,Here coonoa the
joke)
But the chagrin Of the English at
having the American language thyusr
upon them, without a dictionary to 80
with it could have been no greater than
the hurt offered the dramatic editors of
this city where "kick 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."
They might at least have given us
the benefit OF the doubt and offered as
solution. "titty-ifty." slip me my
hit." come through" loosen up" or
come across"
And in addition ii might be said that
give Up YOUR spoils' bears the same
relation to the real meaning of kick
in" that GO to Hades" does to the real
expression. ~