New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08
Plays and Players

Emmett Corrgan, who plays the part
of the master German spy in "Three
Faces East" at the Conan e. Harris
Theatre, thinks the joke is on George
NJ. Cohan. People who have seen the
play remember that in the second act
| there is a pretty nurse who has but a
few lines to say. Well, although the
nurse is billed as Mary llene Mack, in
private life she is Mrs. Emmett Corri-
gan, and in Mr.. Corrigan's vaudeville
sketches she is always the half, more
or less, of his presentation.
My. Corrigan was in the middle of
perfectly good vaudeville engagement
when Mr.. Cohan called to see him at
his home one afternoon to offer him the
pivotal part in "Three Faces East" He
accepted quite promptly, but Mr.. Cohan
noticing that Mrs. Corrigan looked
quite glum throughout the transaction
asked: "What's wrong? Doesn't your
good lady fancy the part of German
spy for you?"
"Oh, no." Mr.. Corrigan explained,
laughing, at isn't that. When she
plays in vaudeville with me pay her
regular salary, and when she doesn't
play all She gets is pin money. You
see, you are breaking in on her in
come"
Mr.. Cohan said nothing at the time.
but went away looking very thoughtful,
yet every single feminine part in
Three Faces East" had already been
cast. Then he and the stage director
got together and plotted to incorporate
the present nurses role A few DAYS
later Mrs. Corrigan was notified tina,
she was member of the cast.
"Well, old man." said Mr.. Cohan 70
Mr. Corrigan, pointing to his now con-
tented better half, "did I fix it for
you?"
"Thanks awfully, George" MIR. Cor
rlgan responded heartily, you surely
did. But do you know you've raised
her salary? | never paid her as much
as you're paying her now
! Bert Levy, the whistling artie- Of
Charles Dillingham's "Evcrything' at
. the Hppodrome, whose rapidly drawn
sketches of wartime celebrities are
proving a big feature of the show, is
known from one end Of the country to
the other as true lover of children.
Fifteen years in vaudeville have
taken him into almost every city in tn,
country, and his invariable practice is
to issue widespread invitation
through one of the local papers to the
youngsters to get together for party
They arrive by the hundreds, little
ones in the arms of big ones and small
toddlers clnging to protecting skirts.
And for whole morning the artist
VIII tell them stories beginning with
"Once upon a time'-and each story
Will have series of his inimitable
sketches to illustrate it. He will
whistle for them and initiate the calls
of birds-and, best of all, he will let
some eager little embryo artist try his
hand at making a sketch on the little
disk upon which he works. Great books
full of panstakingly scrawled childish
letters testify to his friends among the
little people, some of the more talented
OF which eve their start TO the big
hearted artist.
Another practice of Mr.. Levy's which
he has carried on for years is to GO
about to the children's wards of hos
pitfalls and entertain the little sick ones
In fact, 1t was for such a pitiful
audience that his present apparatus. by
means Of which at the Hippodrome he
projects a sketch an inch and a half
IN diameter on a tifty-foot screen, was
invented