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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

with the Washington Square Players
at the Bandbox Theatre, and emerged
again from the intellectual hinterland
to play the young poet in Good Ora
cious, Annabellc." His Characterization
had precisely the quality of sharp
delicacy and charm the Clare Kun
mer play had - it established him in
that combination Of whimsicality and
satire which is his individual mood.
This week saw the accomplishment
OF tour de force when he galvanized
INTO life the wraithlike hero Of a more
than ordinarily faccid play, "Luck in
PAWN 1t is an achievement of
foung's main strength-so much could
be judged by how heavily the rest of
the play thumped after him. Doubt
less, every young actor of robust as
rirations should have in his bag of
tricks, for the emergency when for
tune Is at ebb, this extremely useful
one Of lifting himself by his own boot
straps.
But one wonders how often Roland
Young's unusually keen intelligence
and subtle gifts of Characterization
would help him repeat this trick
without tagging. 1t would not be fair
20 test his resistance by exposing it
70 long series Of stupid plays. The
sickness, glibness and inscnsitiyeness
OF the average young actor is so large
~ the result Of long exposure at lou
resistance TO the inanities Of stage draw
ing roons. Rolannd Young Ia tho
occasional fresh material that comes
once 80 often to renew the theatre--;f
there are plays to make use Of him.
When the sophists have decided
whsther the egg was created before tho
hen, or vice versa, they might turn
their energies to deciding whether
type" actors breed type plays, or tho
reyerse. IL IL not easily to be denied
that tho writing Of plays was aoyer
more matter os formula than now
and yet, curiousIy enough, the very
p~oDls who rail loudly about tho de-
ssAense Of sesing stand pat on al tho
os0 snsasfscsA nsvacsss r. d.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Soldier Sho,U in Full
S,Cing at the Century

The 9th Division musical success
Lets Beat 1t" opens its second week
at the Century Theatre tomorrow
night. 1t has been big week for the
soldieractors.
To Judge from Lets Beat 1t" one
would never know there had been a
war. And the costumes and sets arc
devoid Of even a suggestion of war.
The show is downright pretty from tho
dresses to the girls" It's hard to be-
lieve that even the clevcrest makeup
artist could beautify those eyes which
for nine months were peering over
parapets in France, but that feat has
been accomplished. 4
Plans are now being formulated to
take the show on the road at the COM
pletion Of the three weeks run in this
city, If it is decided to take the troupe
on tour the principal New York State
cities probably will be made first.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
By Ralph Block

There is no standard for romance;
avery one creates it and gives his own
shapes to the empty forms of it out
Of his own mind. 1t is like music,
which has as many meanings as there
are minds and hearts to hear. Every
man is D'Artagnan in his own image,
every woman plays all the queens in
her time. The playwright is no excep-
ton. He sees himself in the fine vir-
tues of his most dashing hero. All
the repartee he invents five minutes
afterward, after the docr has closed
on him, he puts into his plays, along
with the several splendid retorts he
thought up at the bottom of the stairs.
The fact that this is the psychology
of romance doesn't, however, throw
down all the fences for dramatists who
go to history for the background of
their aspiration. An artist owes some
obligation to fact, much as it is his
inclination to avoid it. For life that
builds upon the stepping stones of its
dead selves, it is just as immoral to
libel and falsify the past as it is the
present. Indeed, the present may often
deserve attack, where the past by its
many siftings-at least so we conven-
tionally believe-has been rid of its
chaff, and what fact remains comes
fairly close to the truth.
Somewhere between them Mr.. Noel
Ter, who wrote "Moliere," and Mr..
Miller, who produced it, have failed to
consider that limitation 1t is not easy
20 believe their disregard was inten-
tional. It is much easier to believe it
was by limitation of their magma
tons and vision than by intention. In
the composition of historical incident
the dramatist has quite skilfully made
a jointure which fits the hodge-podge
Of events that comes out of the life of
dead genius. The additions to legend
are entirely acceptable as episodes in
a career Of the time Mr.. Miller wears
quite the kind of mustache the great
Snowman of the Grand Monarch's reign
is disclosed with in the portraits. AS
suredly there can be no cavil at what
these collaborators have put into their
play But somewhere there is an i'm
pressive discrepancy; it is not so much
what has been put in as what has been
left out After the length and breadth
Of Broadway's somewhat fashy pave
ments there is an urgency about the
mere production of such play on
such a subject which predisposes you
toward it, makes you agree even be-
fore the first curtain that you will be
suited by it 1t does not even need
Mr. Mi1ler's curtain speech to make
you turn gratefully toward a pros
cenium that will blow out upon
you a breath, however brief, of the
grace and wit and elegance Of soci-
ETY. that still had only to regard the
decoration of life, never its dulness.
This is romance in its commonest and
yet finest sense, TIE strangeness of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Az of Moliere
But His Laughter

another time, when adventure could be
urged on by hot blood without the in
tervention at any moment of the mon
strous disturbances of a machine like
age like the present. Here are to be wit
and beauty and perfume and high ad-
venture and fine comedy-nay, even
wisdom. Surely this does not set too
high mark for the playwright and his
actors to reach.
They do not make any splendid sue
cess of such venture, nor do they
deeply fail. AS it is played out in it's
three settings, "Moliere" discloses q
rewarding rhythm in it's action-it has
depths and values and pleasant shad-
ings and harmonious advance and re-
treat that is strange to the conven-
tional contemporary stage. But all
these watermarks of quality do no
more than meet your expectation; they
do not at any point overtop it.
For here expectedly ought to be
something more than the gossamer It's
sue of elegant romance. 1t is consid-
erably more the adventure of q great
mans life which is to be played out,
borrowing from the reality of those
past days something Of the tempo he
set 1T in, and supplying in the recrea-
ton by art a part of the flavor and
unique fragrance of this very special
life of greatness.
1t is here that the collaborators turn
out their audiences empty of favor. 1t
is unbelievable that the life Of so
splendid a figure in the lists Of human
commentary and laughter should be-
come SO insufferably heavy and sweet
ened a person as Mr.. Miller and Mr..
Moeller would make him out. At the
very moment "Moliere" was being
played In the tone Of sentimentality at
the Liberty Theatre M. Copeau was
doing the immortal laughter of the
real Moliere at the Theatre du Vieux
Colombier. The man who laughed out
of court all the follies Of France never
once enters the stage Of the Liberty
Theatre. From first curtain to last he
Is sIrupy, overwhelmed, too-heroic,
even priggish, portrait of mana
man who takes himself too seriously.
instead of the genius who would not
take the world seriously enough.
Laughter, the laughter of a man who
sees the comedy of life, is what Mr..
Moeller and Mr.. Miller, have left out
Of their play.
The informal biographers of the time
have agreed to endowing Moliere with
delicacy in his private relations, with
gentleness and kindness. All this Mr..
Miller has not failed to catch and hold.
But the temptation to overreach the
measure was too much. His "Moliere"
runs on from sentiment to sentimental
ity, until, even with all the elasticity
that romance is allowed, the legitimate
limitations are passed.
The romanticist may have little or
no obligation to the facts. He owes
every obligation to the spirit The
creators of "Moliere" assuredly have
failed to pay theirs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Roland Young

Only an interviewer hardened to
suffering as this one is not would
have stayed after seeing how acutely
unhappy it made Roland Young to be
interviewed So, after FIVE minutes
with Roland Young in the dressing
room Of the 44th Street Theatre,
whsrc he is playing in "Luck in
Pzwn," the sight Of the young mans
suffering touched mo with pity, and 1
left
The results in personal information
we're mcagre. They were, chiefly, that,
/ having achieved dazzling failure as
d1AIghtsman in his fathers archi-
tertural Office, Young was faced with
the Englishman's alternative Of Aus
tr1iis or Canada, whereupon he bolted
for London and Joined the company of
Arthur Bourchier.
Roland Young is still less than
thirty, and has already achieved list
Of unusually vivid impersonations
Fortunately, his fine eagerness and in
tcI1ixenos have not wasted their edge
on dnu plsys- He came To this country
IN 1919 with the English company
which byought "Hindle Wakes" that
fresh and vigorous play OF an English
Mil torn girl who refused TO indcYnni-
~ a day OF Madness by lifetime
Of expiation in marriage. Young
D1aysd the part Of the mill owners
sos, VINO ssducsd the girl. II IL Ia
ever Planned 70 nasnscis Young TO his
at far comedy, Soma o1iS should in
ysa1s tho memory N his intense por-
trsyai nj TIM stDiid and suiien lout.
4 little later 10 appeared with Ernanue
u RsiehAs IN "Johs Gabriel Djorkmsn,'
ysAySsg ~ ysst IT the old friend who
= Dterinp3As link WITH ft4 esssids
ssws Tor . ~A~,rss ~ zr5sksd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

recipient of the reminder. Moses q
valet to Johnny Dooley. the acrobat;,
comedian of "Listen Lester" at tn,
Knlckerbocker Theatre.
Greatest thing in the world" he
told the mystified bystanders.
Il take lot of falls" he explained.
"Now it is al very we'll to say that an
acrobat doesn't hurt himself because
he gets used to it, I've been doing
acrobatics for years and get pretty
we'll bruised up.
There's where the charts come in.
They enable me to catalogue the bumps
| receive. You don't understand Lis
ten Lester: After every performance
| find out what new bruises | have
received and make a record of them
on the chart, with the date. figure it
takes week for all the soreness to go
out of the average bruise, and the chart
helps me to remember where | am
hurt. For instance, if l fall on MY
left ear and hurt it, the next time I
want to fall or my ear l collapse on
my right auricular organ. If | get
EN- both bruised up, l gotta fall on
some other part. use a new chart
every week and have adopted car
ried forward system for all unhealed
bumps. Of course, it necessitates TAX
ing weekly inventory of bumps, but
wait until Mr.. Cort sees my charts.
How can he resist an impulse to give
me raise in salary when I show him
the painful record of what am doing
for art?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Vaudeville

Dressler's return to
vaudeville after two years spent in
war work and Jack Norworth in
new act are the principal features
of the bill. Other features are
Sheila Terry in tabloid musical
comedy, Toney and Norman in a skit
Lou Holtz, singing coincidence, and
Winston's Water Lions.
ROYAL - Nine. Petrova is the head
liner of a bill that includes Josie
Heather, Georgia Price, Henry
Keane and company in Aaron Hoff-
mans sketch, Ward Bros, Belle
claire Bros, the Gliding O'Mcars,
Devine and Williams, Karl Emmys
Pets and the Royal News Pictorial
ALHAMBRA-Ge George White and his
dancing quartet head the bill.
Stuart Barnes in songs and mono
logue, Frances Nordstrom and Will
lam Pinkham in sketch called "The
Memory Book" the Mellette Sisters
in songs and dances, Frank J. Arcath
in rural travesty and Frank Joyce
and Flo Lewis in songs and dances
are other features of the bill.
RIVERSIDE ~- An all-star bill with
Bert Williams, Van and Schcnck,
Chilson-Ohrman, Lillian Shaw and
the Ford Sisters is this week s
special offering. The supporting bill
will include Edmund Hayes and COM
pany in Arthur Hopkins's play
"Moonshine, Henry Master and
Jack Kraft in songs and dances, and
Burns and Terrence in THE Awak-
cning of. the Toys"
COLON1ALrFivc members of the 27th
Division presenting a military play
Intelligence" is the leading feature
of the bill. Herman Timberg in
"The Viol-Inn," Ethel Cochran and
Neil Moore in tabloid musical
comedy, George Whiting and Sadie
Burt, Felix Rush in "Crosby's Cor
ners," Mignon in impersonations,
Counte Peronne, barytone, and Ishi-
kawa Bros, acrobats, complete the
bill.
LOEW'S N-Tbe Jarvis
Footlight Revue is the principal
vaudeville feature the first part of
the week. j. Stuart Blackton's pro-
duction "Life's Greatest Problem
with Mitchell Lewis, is the picture
attraction. Temptation" musical
comedy production, heads the bill
the second part of the week. The
picture feature is Alice Brady in
The World We Live In"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
BROOKLYN

MAJESTIC-"The Little Brother"
with Walker Whteside and Tyrone
Power, comes here from its New York
run.
MONTAUK-"Penrod PLAYS re-
turn engagement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Who's Who in
Current PLAYS

E. Lyall Swete, who is playing the
name part in Maeterlinck's "a Burgo-
master of Belgium" at the Belmont
Theatre, won his first fame at the Hay
market in London. At that theatre for
nine years he was both actor and pro-
Queer, first with Herbert Trench and
later with Frederick Harrison Of the
plays brought out under his direction
the most important was Macterlinck's
"The Bluebird." 1t was only after the
plays long run at the Haymarket that
Winthrop Ames was persuaded to give
the play at the New Theatre, now the
Century Theatre, in New Yorl, CITY.
Mr.. Swete was brought to America
by Morris Gest for the particular pur-
pose of directing "Chu Chin Chow"
The call of the stage, however, was
too strong for Mr. Swete to remain as
director. He joined Ethel Barrymore
in "The Off Chance" playing the part
only in New York. Since then he has
appeared in Belinda" in Barrie's "Thc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

New World" as the uncle in Helen
With The High Hand" and finally this
fall in Freedom" the spectacular Of
terlng which opened the Century's
present season. Not only did he play
seven different and exacting roles in
the spectacle, but he also directed the
entire production.
When Miss Tessa Kosta, the little
prima donna of the new Cohanized
Royal Vagabond," was five years old
Sam Forrest, general stage director
for Conan & Harris, was an itinerant
actor Their paths then crossed for the
first time. Forrest was playing a one
night engagement in Salt Lake City,
but business was bad, for on that even
ing Miss Tessa Kosta, a local child
wonder had chosen to demonstrate at
an opposition theatre-her talents as a
pianist. All Salt Lake City thronged
to the kosta child's support, and the
next day the papers ran columns about
the event, while scarcely a mention
was made of FORESTS play.
In Chicago some years later, when
Forrest had found his meter as q pro-
Queer, Miss Tessa Kosta came again to
his attention. She was now a profess
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
CHRONICLE AND COMMENT OF THE STAGE
NeaU Plays This Week

MONDAYAt the Broadhurst Theatre Messrs
present Rachel Crothes reeact comedy "39
headed by Henry Hull
Skipworth,
John Kirkpatrick The play love tells
of girl who Yorkin
search of fame "39 East" the
fashionable boarding The
1t From Me- musical comedy The book
World
Anderson. The includes Mchena, Alice
Raftery Baour Wizard
and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
At the One-Week Houses

STANDARD-"A Tailor-Made Man.
with Grant Mitchell, is this weeks at
traction.
SHUBERT RIVIERA-Bertha Kalich
and the original cast of "The Riddle
Woman" comes here this week.
LOEW'S SEVENTH AVENUE-Bay-
ard Veiller's melodrama, "The Thir-
teenth Chair" will be presented here.
BRONX OPERA HOUSE-'Lom-
bardi, Ltd, with Leo Carrillo and
Grace Valentine, is this weeks bill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Bowery Burlesquers at
Columbia This Week

The Bowery Burlesquers, one of the
oldest organizations in this class of
entertainment, will be at the Column
bia Theatre tomorrow afternoon with
new two-act burlesque called "The
Health Hunters" and a long programme
of vaudeville specalties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
''The Kiss Burglar Mores
To Nora B1yes Theatre

"The Kiss Burglar" the musical ro-
nance, with Marie Carroll, Denman
Malcy and Harry Clarke, moves to
Nora Bayes's Theatre tomorrow even
ing. The engagement there, it is an
nounced, is indefinite.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

sional dancer, and friendly Chicago
critics hailed her as the coming Genee.
Forrest, having seen her on the stage,
agreed that they might be right.
Last season when "Chu Chin Chow"
was in New York Miss Mary Ryan, who
is Mrs. Sam Forrest, attended a per-
Torrance and came home singing the
praises of "that silver voiced little
Tessa Kosta"
"But she's a dancer" protested For
rest. "Also I've heard her play''--
"You should hear her singh" purred
his wife. Which Forrest did.
Some weeks ago when the cast of
''The Royal Vagabond" was being en-
gagged and Miss Kosta presented her
self at Mr.. FORESTS managerial door
for the ingenue role he remembered
her varied accomplishments "But this
part requires an actress" he ex-
planned "Your singing and dancing
would be secondary"
"But l can act" said Miss Kosta
sweetly, "Why, have notices that
"Never mind" gasped Forrest. 81
know a future Bernhardt, and all that
No, don't show them to me. Just take
along this part and report at rehearsal
tomorrow morning. I'll believe you
can do anything."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

"And don't forget to get me another
hundred of those anatomical charts,
Moses"
"Yassah," acknowledged the colored
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-15
Chance Of Challenge
Or, E Pluribus Unum
BY RAZZ BERRY.

No chance, Thus spake the cham
peen. but the would-be-champeens,
or meal ticket collectors. heed not
the cruel words. Sweet clinking OF
iron men. Music to the ears of the
bulky projectors of defies.
They're after Dempsey-not because
they're out 20 avenge the slaughter of
Jester Willard. but because of certain
emoluments involved Dempsey's first
name Is Jack-and lots of it.
Comes now Tom McMahon, who I'M
qualifedly states he also whipped the
gigantic Kansas Cowboy, oil promoter
and movie star. Evidently Tommy
didn't see the pictures of the fight,
nor the accounts of the punishment
Jester absorbed. Or else he's desper-
ate and doesn't care. Anyhow. he
wants fight.
Managing Thomas Is the highly re-
spected uncle of boxing impresarios.
Jimmy Dime. Jimmy ought to change
his name to Quarter-everything else
has advanced accordingly.
Then there is fat little Willie Nee
han, Frank Moran. Billy de Miske.
Georges the Carpenter. our English
cousin Joe Beckett, ct cetera- ct Get
era.
We'd suggest taking three or four
of them on in one afternoon. That
probably would attract a crowd big
enough to make it pay.
They're trying awfully hard to
keep Dempsey out OF the circus.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-15
MISS FANNIE DURACK
APPLIES TO A. A. u.

New York. July II. - Miss Fannie
Durack and Miss Nina Wylie, Aus
tralia's two most famous mermaids.
have landed in California and applied
for registration with the Amateur
Athletic Union through the Pacific
Association. The decision regarding
their standing is now awaited with
interest, owing to the trouble which
marked their previous visit to this
country last summer. but they seem
quite confident themselves that their
applications will be favorably passed
upon. Miss Wylie, in fact, has al
ready signified willingness to meet
any American rival. either at breast
stroke swimming or at the shorter
free-style distances. Miss Durack
however. received notice upon arri-
val of the death OF her sister in Aus
tralia, and declared at the time that
she would do no racing for the pres
ent, though she counted on trying
conclusions with our leading fair
natators later on.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-15
ENGLISH GOLFER COMING
Miss Cecil Leitch Title Holder Plan
ming to Visit America.

Rumor has 1t that Miss Cecil Leitch
(holder Of the English golf title) is to
come to this country within a short
time. Miss Leitch. who is to be mar
ried in the fall. recently won the title
for the second time on the st. Anne's
links. defeating Mrs. Temple DobeII
DIETER known as Miss Gladys Ra-
venscrofD in the finai round. The
match was at thirty-six holes. and
Mrs. Dobell had the uncomforta BILE
experience of never winning hole
In the first eighteen, and as a result
finished s down. Starting the second
round with this advantage. Miss
Leitch was practically assured OF vic
tory. and she played well enough to
become dormie after twenty-seven
holes had been concluded. and then
won the first hole on the inward
journey. taking the title by 10 and 2.
Miss Leitch's previous win was lust
before the war in 1911