New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-01
Nchts When Row of
~ ssooks Beckon More
than Broadway
MOVIE
III TEAM is SUGGESTED
poiot Made Against One
Feature in "The Thir-
tenth Chair"
p, HAYWOOD BRoUN

n, het rignts' ."
,, ~ earthquakes and subway
y $50 80, and at al times when
'''' 80, .Aox in town is yea Be- It
~ 80, 49, 70 read plays than TO see
IS pei Print sAes may glow more
s ga, asn the big signs OF our
'fs.' -, hey run along the shelf
,''e'' sEi.6;. wakes" to "Candidn."
w yz.,, n your armchair you may
"a see Arnold DAILY with more
- =. ,,d less waist than in his theatre.
=. is himself again. The
49, -, viii frolic for you with not
- cry ut never happened in Ire
-, vor csh see Magic" without
~ i,turbing thought that Alan Dale
y ,.Tsbod7 will miss the point OF IL
z ss"s' review next day. Eliza Doc
; y r..S rot be old FOR her age nor
4. sin Healer TOO fat.
~ r0h!ng but the page TO shut
> -isior the eve can sec ST the way
~. .on 81 Marina. from which pres
~ ,Ss gods Will come clamplng with
D! 80 Tover heard within the walls
- Princess Beyond the power OF
4, alice. "The Country Wife or the
-..,oitirc Ohicer" is possible. Cesar
"A clsoSstra." AVIAN and Superman,
"A, Piseoa." "CidcrS TO the Sea"
-, s,sree-ov." are yours for the ask
Tbo rnrtain falls when you vsnt
!, snd not before. bat the hour rs
y. and IL is time 20 turn 10 sophie
= ard slunber.
7,,vine hockey from the drama the
,,,s- 6sv. we wrote about Max East-
-r and what he thinks slang IS. We
i. ,-operlv punished as follows:
avav I submit that you cOrroborate
,.,ibinr I said IN my Essay on Slang
4 5oiptine out that John j. NeGraw
,,,ks OF a home run as a home run,
-..r,ss only fans and reporters Cor
IN perhsps. as you intimate, only
,sr'eal sasv marks like myself speak
tripping &c 90 the fence? Ny article
!, h,sed entirely on the distinction
s.resp poeticsl and practical knowl-
NJ, and YOU certainly could not pick
4, 7crson whose relation TO basebe II
rore eminently PRACTICAL than John
NcGrsw 800.
.Somebody may have been kidding
y bot, II Won don't mind my saying
g. & wasn't you"
yar Eastman does us an injustice.
7. wouldn't attempt TO kid him. We
-aHle that he is sweating just as hard
, Bis effort to get away with the low
Inv stuff as We are in trying 70 act
Ike high-brow.
While there is yet time here is a sug-
rs.ion for the All-Americs movie
lsvsn Of 1916: Douglas Fairbanks,
Sidney Drew. Charlie Chaplin, William
6 Hart, Marguerite Clark, Mary Pick
ford. Annette Kellermann, Mae Marsh.
Dorothy Gish, Geraldine Farrar and
Olga Petrova. OF course, Annette
would be on the team in any case, but
Just think Of the things she could do OF,
a wet field
II Henry Hull doesn't begin 70 save
lis voice a little more somebody will
t.,ow him a fish in the middle Of bis
sg scene one Of these nights.
Following your advice as contained
Il your criticisms writes A. E., I'll
Ave been % see The Yellow Jacket
I'D The Gods Of the Mountain ]
iss them. You have had q great deal
. say about the Norcoisn property
San in The Yellow jacket but vou
lave totally neglected the Ethiopian
property man in The Gods Of thc
ltuntain' Is this fair? The later
isplays an unaffected sincerity iu bis
l.k Of interest IN the piece, entirely
rrlsrable with that Of the property
sir in The Yellow Jacket and. in
Nollon 70 the duties OF property
ria, he doubles as one Of the gods
NJ other characters. You real
ought 20 say something nice
A'1. him. Moreover, in your
'sty o. the property man and your
'inirstion Of the art with which
expresses his boredom at the pro-
ssdings. have you not overlooked one
easni fact-could you be property
H'h ~ either performance for a week
nnhing without appearing 70 be
Hlally bored?'
We criticism may be fairly levelled
! that excellent mclodrams "The
'iriesnth Chair" When Resale La
VANCE medium and faker, first prays
1ai here may actually come 70 her
Hn' message from the spirits she
's'fs a rSpping on the door which
esns TO tap out an answer TO her
Ne''lons. Bat, then, the door opens,
% We learn that the seemingly
lac9lous occurrence was no more
Ah The coincidence that the butler
~ knocking az the door at that par
talar time. Later there are other
senatural phenomena. The knife
Us a. Just the right moment and the
WI opens. Quite reasonably. the
reator may look for rational ex-
aaatlons Of these things, too, but
Sv are left unexplained. No one
.oIld oerrudge the author a little
-yiS but be ought not to suggest
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