Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-27

Tor the National Iheater next week CON-
,tains the announcement that Charles
Emerson Cook asks you to meet "A
Regular Feller' because it would be
emfnently worth your while to do so.
Mr.. Cook, who last year presented one
season. Remnant" in which Florence
Nash starred for thirty-odd weeks. and
who also made it possible for Lou Telle-
gen to write across the financial pages
Great hiti' is the producer of Mark
Swans latest comedy Of American love
and adventure.
In "A Regular Fe1ler'' that dashing
young actor. Ernest Glendinning. plays
the tito role. supported by Everett But
terrified. James Bradbury, Edwin Holt,
Roy Gordon. Charles Abbott, Dudley
Clements, Albert Bushee, George Cukor,
Miriam Sears, Margaret Greene, Char
.lotte Granville, Kittie O'Connor and
others
"When 1 finished reading the manu-
script Of Mr.. Swans new play" Mr..
Cook says, 81 felt as a soldier must
feel who, after several years of volun-
tary exile upon the bloody battlefields
Of France. amid tho din and confusion
Of modern warfare. comes back at last
to his homo in the country and finds
tho river winding past his house just as
sersnely and the apple orchard just az
laden with rudy fruit and the home
as sweet and good TO taste as ever. Such
a soldier must heave and exclaim. Gee,
this Is home!'
What's the way feel about "A Regu-
lar Feller." 1t Is not only home. it is
"Aftsr the freak tendencies Of stage
products during the last few years OF
war. It struck me that a play Of red
.blooded American manhood and woman
hood, with normal adventures in love
& ~ 1StDhAy. Ana u1Oi1ld he about q
welcome to the American theatergoing
public as the sight Of his own hearth
stone must be to the returned soldier.
IT has been said that the American
Ventmer and the most business-like
fomancer in the world. This is rather
substantiated BY the plot Of "A Regular
FeliAf,' but our young men are only as
systematic In their campaigns for 70
capture Of billion-dollar industry. Here
the business element stops, for most
Americans, in the game Of hearts.
Il believe" Mr.. Cook continued, that
"A Regular Teller is the best, the most
mature piece Of writing Mark Swan has
l. put out. and i've minutes after the read
ing Of the script had him on the phone
and the play was mine. 1t is de-
parture In the right direction from his
. re;t hit Of last season. Parlor. Bed
room and Bath which set half the
country 10 laughing"
"A Dkeordant Note-Isabel Rea,
WHO his had her day in the unspoken
Dana n now through with ''histri-
onSe shadows.
For two years Miss Rea was lead
anv woman of the Biograph Motion
Picture COMPANY, and afterward with
Pskhe and the Kalem Comedy Com
~anv Now she ia credited with saw
ing things:
Z will admit that 1t was a high
balafy that attracted me from the le-
ultimate stage first" she is said to
have admitted. land then was rather
fascinated for q time by seeing myself
on the screen. But I tired of it all
and 1t was only longtime contracts
that kept me In the picture game.
Il was fairly successful on the
stage, when a dazzling offer lured me
from my chosen profession. For a
time the excitement made me con :
tent. but the everyday shooting of
soenes' In dramas I never could n
defstand, because there was no con-
tinuity of action. palled. on me- To be
honest. never knew what they were
all about until I went to see them In
q movie theater.
.Scene after scene would be taken
in rapid succession, but in the nm
ished drama there would be 1apses OF
hours. days or months between these
scenes. s...-
TT was a case, too, of work every
day from early morn until late in the
.affArnoon. or 1oafing spell without
N.Y. action. when the lights did not
HnE or stage managers consulted
Dter the way to pull scene. You can
Nestzassured / was a happy woman
When / managed to cancel all con-
tracts and return to the speaking
stage, where ] hope to remain until
/ get too old or too fat to play"
A One-Armed Hero-Pianist.-Lieut
Leo Girard. one of the sturdy
host Of American manhood that won
fame on the French battlefields. on
his return to this country found
himself irresistibly hurled from the
-soncert stage into vaudeville, through
1 the loss Of one of his good arms in
| the Argonne forest drive. Before he
went abroad Lieut.. Girard was ac-
counted a concert pianist Of genuine
merit But when the country's cal
came. like thousands of artists in al
talents to the art of patriotism an6
went overseas to do his best Many
many times. he says, he had occasion
to thank God from the very depth:
Of his heart for narrow escapes from
death, and these very escapes gave
! him added confidence and also per
haps less consideration for the mat
ter Of personal safety.
It was IN the whitening drive Of
A., the doughboys through the French
forest Of Ar1onne that he received