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New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
How To Be Successful
In Comedy, According
To Bernard Granville

Laughter is the only reward of the
comedian" declares Bernard Gran
Vile, who leads the fun in the new
musical farce. THE Little Blue Devil"
at the Central Theater.
II comedian is given bright ma
teriel by the author. the creation of
laughter is but secondary considera-
tlon. Furnish him with a funny situa-
ton and no matter what may happen
the real comedian will be able to turn
1t into series Of laughs.
One Of the difficulties that beset
the path of the funmaker is found in
the fact that q really funny situation
is among the rarest things on the
stage. When it is met, technical treat
ment at the hand Of the actor is re-
CURED. Then and there is where ex-
perence counts. 1t does not matter
what is the character of the audience.
Those who pay high prices to visit the
theater may require a different brand
OF comedy from those who patronize
nevertheless, that the laughs at either
place are not to be had unless thew
are worked for
ut is necessary under all condi-
tions to put thought into your work.
1t isn't any argument that funny man
is not thinking OF his work just be-
cause he is able to do things in a
familiar way. That familiarity is the
result of thought. He has become so
conversant with it that it is not neces-
sary for him to stop and pursue e long
process Of logical reasoning before
knowing how to meet the situation.
Like everybody else who hopes to
get ahead | am always trying to i'm
prove my work. l trust | will be par
doned for thinking that | have a gift
OF being, funny on the stage, as I have
been led to believe that there is an
individuality that makes an appeal and
that | have that magnetic something
which enables me to say things that
bring forth laugh. l hope, however
that no one believes am foolish
enough to think that unless use a lit
tie brainwork in connection with i
that gift is going to carry me through
indefinitely.
'"Quick observation and an adapta-
olllty to meet a situation with poise
and composure are the qualities for the
fellow who succeeds best in comedy
work"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
BE Jack of All Parts on the Stage
Not Master of One," Says Newly-Wed
Actor; "Specialize Only in Matrimony' "

"Dont specialize" Frank Carter in.
sists On giving this ~advice to young
sectors" He says it is his first offense,
that he's never given any advice to any
one before In his life, and particularly
nsver-well. hardly ever-tc actors.
hut on this occasion he is determined
to advise. II is his first interview since
he left the "Follics" to become a real
actor In "See Saw" scoring strong
personal success and incidentally STIR
ring Broadway for the second time in
single season. The frst time was when
he walked off and married Marilynn
Miller. For these two coups-de- ton
nsrre the visitor from The Tribune
agreed that young Mr.. Carter should
was given carte blanche either to OBJ
serve Aristotle, in providing his inter
view with a beginning. middle and an
end. or not to observe Aristotle.
In the Carter-Miller bridal suite at
the Astor II is hard to observe Aris-
totle. Everything is so young, and
carefree and ecstatic. Here is the pref
tiest romance our stage has known in
many day. But neither Of the chill
dren can talk about that yet So Frank
Carter decided to launch his interview
Murder me If you must" quoth this
Henry W. Savage's play. "but long to
advise young actors. This may be my
one and only chance. What ! want to
say Is, Don't specialize.
Disqualification seems to me the curse
Of our stage, as we'll as age. Seven
eighths of US get caught in the spe-
eialization net before we even begin to
develop our real talents. mean, once
We hit on one thing that earns US
living. we get so bound up in that thing
that we forget there is great. wide
world around US. Concentrations all
right. but If you put too much force on
too little goal you get all cramped,
narrow. limited, and lose your sense Of
perspective. Then follow compression
and eonceit. Don't paint an allitera-
tive picture?
"But honestly" declared Frank
Carter. ~ know what specialization
means on the stage. Ever since / was
sixteen I've been branded as a spe-
Gus. was with Bostock's Carnival
and my stunt-or specialty-was a
daredevil dive from the top Of maju
pole, ninety feet high, into q pond the
size Of bathtub.
"Twice day for two years I did
this. Then it got on my nerves, as
anything will that you do too long
and missed my aim. Well, after
three cheerful months in q hospital
rejoined the troupe. ! asked for a a
different stunt to do. But they didn't
think was good for anything but
diving. That was my first run-in with
specialization. The way beat it was
by making the manager take me back
40 Q ticket seller.
meantime studied with the jug
glers. acrobatic dancers and imperson
etors in the troupe. Every one Of them
told me it was better to be jack-of
ail-trades In the theater than master
Of one. I've learned this since, on
the vaudeville and revue stages. Spe-
cialization simply does not pay. OF
course some speciality actors make
more money in Ave years, on the
stage, than most all-round actors make
in a lifetime; but after five years the
speciality man has exhausted his pub
lie and can't come back Now you
know what it means to stage folk tc
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Hippodrome Performers
From All Over British
Empire to Hail Prince

While Happy Days" at the Hippo
drome was selected by the committee
in charge Of the entertainment Of the
Prince Of Wales as the most thoroughly
American amusement spectacle to be
seen in New York. Charles Dillingham's
big show will acord the prince
entertainment by moro performers
born under the Union Jack than could
be found on any stage outside Eng
land itself. Singers, dancers, acrobats,
artists and divers, both principals and
members of the ensemble, from every
the British Empire. which he some day
will rule, will take part in this gala
welcome to the prince.
A recent poll of the stage people at
the Hippodrome revealed that moro
than sixty persons are subjects or
former subjects of the British Empire.
Beginning with R. H. Burnside, the
Hippodrome producer, who was born
in Scotland. and working through all
of the Hippodrome stage departments,
there Is no section in which a liberal
q. sprinkling of "limeys" cannot be found.
The Prince of Wales will get his
first greeting from Hippodrome sub
| ject less than minute after the cur
| tain for the opening scene. Clyde Cook,
who dances the role of Puck through
the kiddies' dormitory scene the fairy
land scene and the book store scene, is
an Australian by birth and still retains
land scene, which follows, one of the
principal bicycle riders, Maudie MALTA
again represents Australia and Harry
Ward and William Richards, acrobats,
represent British South Africa.
Tommies and Tommyettes appear In
the chorus in. the school days scene,
and in the circus scene, in which Pow
ers's elephants disport themselves, are
two lndia-born elephants, Lena, the
leader of the Hippodrome herd, and the
late Jumbo's daughter. Jennie, VINO
does the shimmy. Arthur Froom who
sings the role Of Shakespeare in the
book store scene, was born in London,
and Bert Levy, the Hippodrome car
toonist, started life as a pawnbroker's
assistant In Australia. Arthur Geary,
who sings "Lfes Race" in the league
Of nations Derby scene, which closes
the first act, was born in Tasmania,
Jockey in the scene, started life in
Liverpool. Angel Barbara, another
rider in the race scene, was born on
I British territory at Gibraltar.
In the flower store ballet, which
ovens the second act, the principal
dancers include Daisy Smythe, who
during the coming summer will return
to London for a short engagement and
. visit to home folks, and Cissie
Hayden, born in India and who secured
her first experience on the London
stage. Clyde Cook, Of course, scores
again both for England and Australia
with his dance of the Leicester Square
lamplighter in the second scene Of the
act. Chinco, who occupies the center
Of the stage in the international con-
gress of jugglers, Is English by birth,
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Dorothy Dickson, Who Is Now Dancing
AT the Colonial, Says Her Success Was Due
To Adhering to Her Motto, Fit Via vi"

II you believe in fairy stories you
might accept the tale that Dorothy
Dickson, light and airy as . bit of
thistledown was tossed from the
Windy City right into the lap Of Broad
way. there to take her place az one of
tho lovcliest flowers in the garden Of
Terpslchore. For it is hard to believe
that Miss Dickson, who danced her way
into playgoers' hearts in "The Royal
Vagabond," could have arrived by any
difficult route. But she didl And she
is u headliner at the Colonial this
week.
"Mine wasn't really hunger route
to fame" she smiled, during the re-
appear in, "but / did encounter din
cuities. Out in Chicago-my home
town, you know had everything a
girl could desire. Dad even allowed me
to learn the waltz and two-step. But
when | grew up into the all-important
teens fortune seemed to frown on US
and the family encountered financial
reverses. 1t was then that l received
the first hard blow of my life"
What could the blow possibly have
been? Surely this 1.-THE creature, who
seemed built just for dancing and
frolic, had not actually been put to
work. We waited Breathe sly.
1T was just that had had my heart
all my friends. But the folks wouldn't
let me. So l contented myself with
riding my pet hobby-dancing, Of
course. Daily | went to settlement
house in one Of the poorer sections of
Chicago and taught the children to
dance. 1t was great fun! Even though
had never received instruction my
self, 1 interpreted we'll known musical
airs according to my own fancy, and
the youngsters and l danced together.
We had such jolly timesl"
A pretty picture, this-dainty Dor
othy with her group Of ragged urchins
all caught in the whirl of the dance!
But must tell you about Carl
Miss Dickson interrupted herself. "He
ls my dancing partner band, you
know. Carl was a Yale student when
we met at a social affair-although we
had known each other in childhood
and after our first dance we seemed 80
we'll suited to each other that we have
danced through life ever since, both on
stage and off. Our friends gave rs so
much encouragement that one day
Just for fun-we ran over to Peoria
Ill.,, and appeared in public. Would it
be very conceited Of me to say that we
made q ht?"
We solemnly declared it wouldn't.
The next thing we knew, Rector's
Of Chicago had engaged us. Our tran
| sition from the amateur to the profes-
sional stage had been SO rapid that l
felt like moth who had been turned
into butterfly. But what was our
surprise when F. Ray .Comstock, who
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Ina Claire Invents
A Prince of Wales
Fan for His Coming

Ina Claire, star Of "The Gold Dig
gers" at the Lyceum Thcater, Is tho
first young woman In Broadway TO
design and use Prince Of Wales fan.
II Is most original design and was
discovered by her friends at tho Bilt-
more last night.
"1'll feel quito like successful in
ventor," she confided when urged to
explain, "if any one should see this
fan or want to copy it.
Reading about the young Prince Of
Wales coming here gave me the idea
Of the three feathers" Then, leaning
over the arm Of her chair, she con-
tinued; "Did you know that using the
three white plumes as crest In this
manner originated with the. Black
Prince, son Of Edward III, way back
in the fourteenth century?
"The motto on the crest, Itch Diem,
means I serve 1t first was used as a
badge Of peace, and the feathers also
times Of war and unrest The feathers
first became fashionable In our modern
sense when George " was the Prince
Of Wales in that fascinating era of
the dandes when the young Prince,
Beau Brummell and Lord Anvanly
astonished and delighted London with
! their wit and pranks and parties.
"Chippendale preferred heavier and
more exotic motif, but the graceful
Sheraton used the three feathers in
decorative carvings on his chairs and
cabinets. They were very delicately
employed by the master designer and
ri 1F l..
wonderful furniture.
"And now. here we are in the armis.
tice year of 1919 with the plumes more
chic than ever and with another hand
some young prince to complete the
scene and the fashion"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
BrooklynTheatres

MAJESTIC-"The Man Who Came
Back Jules Eckert Goodman's in
teresting drama taken from the
story Of John Fleming Wilson, will
be the attraction for the coming
week. Arthur Ashley heads the cast
which also includes AIDA Glea son.
James Seeley, Lillian Booth, Norah
Sprague, Margaret D. Graham and
others.
Schofeld, the IN
vincible detective of mo. 1OS," will
make his third bow to the theater.
goers Of Brooklyn tomorrow night.
There is but one company playing
"Penrod." In its organization are
John Webster, Fanchon CampbsIl.
Flo irwin, Frances Homer, Raymond
Grlff1ths, Andrew Lawlor. Richard
Ross, Claire Hitler and others.
ORPHEUM-"Bee" Palmer. the or;d.
nal "Shimmy- She .Wabble Girl VIII
be the star, assisted by the six
Kings of Jazzapation." Henry
"Squidgulum" Lewis, "The Creole
Fashion Plate" Mile. Nitta-Jo. the
Du-For Boys, Robert Hyman and
Virginia Mann, with Francis Morev
and company. Duffy & Sweeney, syi-
via Loyal & Co.. Alfred Farrell and
company, Topics Of the Day" and the
news pictorial will complete the bill.
bUsHWICK-One Of Broadway's lat.
est miniature musical comedies
Chicken Chow Men," in which JAY
Gould and Flo Lewis are featured.
Will I'll the TOP position. This ID
an American-Chinese fantasy in four
courses with twenty people, mostly
pretty girls. Mckay and Ardine.
Mehlinger and Meyer, Jack Altman
and Marietta Nally, George Austin
Moore, Ethel MacDonough, Page.
back and Mack, Bert and Lottie
Walton, Topics of the Day" and the
news pictorial will round out the
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Vaudeville

PALACE-Grace LaRue, prima donna,'
will head the bill. She promises
new and entertaining songs and
smart wardrobe showing the advance
winter styles. Pat Rooney and
Marion Bent remain a second week
with their company in Edgar Allan
Woolf's one-act musical revue,
will be that of Anatol Friedland,
own "Music Land" George Whiting
and Sadie Burt will do their new
edition of Song Sayings Phil Baker
will give a comedy accordion recital.
Bruce and Duffet are booked for
"Thru the Keyhole."
RIVERSlDE-Back In vaudeville for
another brief sojourn. Anna Wheaton
and Harry Carroll will share the
principal honors with Maryon Vadie,
danseuse. and Ota Gygi, court vo-
linist to the King of Spain. on bill
which includes Extra Dry; Phil
Baker. Ed Gallagher and Joe Rolley;
Lowry & Prince; Luba Merotf & Co.;
Billy Potter and Effie Hartwell;
Topics Of the Day and the news pic
torial
COLONIAL-William Rock will top the
bill the coming week, assisted by
seven young women. "Vie" Quinn
debut; Winston's Sea Lions and
Diving Nymphs; Al Shayne; Harry
Cooper; Vinie DAILY; Joseph E. Ber-
Herbert's Leaping CANNES; Topics
OF the Day and the news pictorial
will be on the bill.
e1ST STREET-Jimmy Hussey, Hebrew
comedian. assisted by Tot Qualters,
William Worsley, Six Shimmy Cops
and company Of ten. will be the
star of the bill at the head of a
new production entitled "Move On"
The screen star, William S. Hart,
will be shown In new picture fea-
ture entitled John Petticoats. /"
Others on the bill will include Her
bert Clifton, William Brack & Co.,
The Dorans, Topics of the Day and
the news pictorial.
ALEXANDRIA - Dorothy Dickson and
Carl Hyson, dancing pair, will
make their first Harlem appearance
IN several seasons as stars of the
bill Others on the bill include
""Once Upon Time; Swift & Kel-
] ley; Bert Hanlon; j. KERN Bren-
nan and Bert Rule; Guy Voyer &
Co.; Mabel Burke s. Co.; Vallecita's
Leopards; Alex Sparks & Co.; Top
les Of the Day and the news pic.
torial.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-Murry Bennett
will top the program at Loew's Amer
lean Theater and Roof Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday. Others will b.
Torelli's Circus, Nellie Kingsbury
and Roscoe Munson in q comedy
playlet, "The Devil In Possession;
the Wheeler Trio, head and hand
balancers: De Lea and Orman. in a
review Of popular melodies; Dale
and De Voc, Margaret Ford and com
pany and Harris and Holloway Enid
Bennett in What Every Woman
Learns" will be shown in the the
ater Jack Rose, in his nut" COM
edy, and Arnold Grazer and Myrtle
Lawler, in a revue, will be the main
features the last part of the week.
Others will be Jerome and Albright,
Joe Sherman, Sydney Taylor and
company. John B'ondy and company
end SIENNA and Weber. Douglas Fair
banks, IN "His Majesty the Amer
iesn," will be shown la the theater.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
be chucked out of the theater In Ave

be chucked out Of the theater In Ave
years!
"As soon as came to Broadway and
got job at acrobatic dancing, l be-
gan to take vocal lessons. The public
may have suffered, but one season
insisted on singing a principal role
and not dancing step. In the Folles'
Mr.. Ziegfeld began to let me play
parts in the sketches we used. And
them
And then you began to study act
ing"
"Well, studied diction, and watched
good actors, and read Shakespeare
and Ibsen. This summer l asked Mr.
Savage to let me read a real acting
part in See Saw And now. as the in
genues say in their first interviews,
I'm having the happiest moments of
my stage career"
"Then your great ambition is to be
an actor?"
"Yes, but not a type. That's spe-
cialization again. Oh, boy, but l hate
that thought"
A door to the interior of the apart
ment opened and golden head popped
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
GLADDEN. James in Film
Play With Cladys Leslie

GLADDEN. James is at Chateau Lau-
rler, City Island. where 1.-THE Midnight
Bride" is being made under the direc-
1lon, of William Humphreys. Gladys
Leslie is the star of this picture and
the chateau has been transformed into
a veritable Japanese garden for the
Vitograph Company "Glad." as he is
called, gave one of the best perform
Wetonah." with Norma Talmadee and
in "The Third Degree" with Alice
Joyce, he also received honorable men
t,on. Sincerity is the keynote Of his
Interpretations,
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
A Bit From Boys Will Be Bows

Sergeant Bagby-My wife says I'm
crazy five times a week, but if things
turn out my way l amt so crazy
as she thinks.
Nick Bell--Jedgc. things often look
one way when they're t'other. My wife
give me a black eye onct. Folks
thought she done it with her fist but
the fact was she done it by accident
when she was a-tryin' to kiss me.
Boys Will Be Boys" in an effort to
prove that Peep O'Day is not as crazy
as he seems to be. George Parke
plays Sergeant Bagby, the unrccon-
structed "reb," and Claude Cooper
takes the part Of old Nick Bell, a
characterization that wins many
laughs.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Dorothy Dickson at the Colonial

tury Roof at 10:45 and At the Biltmors
at IL. Those were busy days"
But even buster times are In store
for Miss Dickson. Next season Lon
don is to see her, for she has received
many fattering offers from abroad.
And now we're rehearsing a new
play" continued Miss Dickson. "There's
surprise in it, too. No. won't tall
what it is"
We didn't coax her to divulge the
secret. If it has her approval, it must
be worth while. You and I will Just
have to wait to see what it is.
Her motto is Fit via vi"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

witnessed our turn one night, wired to
ask us if we would appear in oh, Boy.
"The rest you know. ! shall never
forget Mr.. Comstock's telling US after
the premier that we should soon have
every manager knocking at our door
Carl and waited home for two weeks,
and when no one showed up, we decid-
ed that perhaps we weren't as good
dancers as the critics and public had
led us to believe. But then came offers
galore. Mr.. Ziegfeld engaged us for
the Cocoanut Grove, and then came the
Biltmore Hotel. SO we danced thrice
dai!y--in oh Boy at 10. at the Cen
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
ut. Mercy" ehirped Marilynn Mil

out. Mercy" ehirped Marilynn Mil
ler Carter, haven't you stopped spe-
cializing yet. Frank? AS IT," she
stage whispered to the interviewer,
"he wasn't regular victim Of spe-
cialization. Any man is who's limited.
cramped, narrowed-what was . the
rest of it-with one wife"
Frank Carter hastily qualified his
advice to young actors:
Don't specialize" said he, Except
in matrimony."
Marilynn thought this was noble
sentiment for young actresses. as
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
To Film Lady Roses Daughter

Lady Roses Daughter" the novel
BY Mrs. Humphry Yard, has been Sc
ected by Famous Players as a starring
vehicle for Elsie Ferguson. At present
Miss Ferguson is working on "His
House in Order"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
scenic spectacle that after painting the

scenic spectacle that after painting the
scenery abroad felt it was my duty
to come to New York with it and see
that it was properly arranged to fit
the big stage Of the Century Theater.
Although there are but nine scenes in
'Aphrodite,' while 'Chu Chin Chow had
fourteen, these 'Aphrodite' settings are
on such an immense scale that this is
in reality the biggest thing we have
ever attempted. Ny stay in New York
will be limited only until the date Of
the opening, November a."
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Tonight at the Neighborhood

Tonight at The Neighborhood Play
house "The Queens Enemies" and "A
Night at an Inn" by Lord Dunsany.
will be given, and The Festival Dancers
will appear in a program of Russian
folk dances. For the following week
end, on Saturday evening "a Sunny
Morning" will be substituted for "A
bill will be the same as tonight.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Harker Says Biggest
Thing He Ever Painted
Is Coming ''Aphrodite'

Philip Harker, famous London scenic
art<st, for more than twenty years the
scenic artist who painted all of Sir
Henry Irving's productions, and more
recently famous in New York as the
artist who designed and painted all
the fourteen settings for "Chu Chin
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Whitticrs Russian Draans

Robert Whittier will present his
Russian drama season of matinees -
@ sne Longacre Theater, opening With
lhe Night Refuge" by Maxim Gorkyt
soon. In the cast Mr.. Whittier will
include several we'll known Russian
actors. who will play for the first tins
In English. Russian music viii BE- 4
special feature.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

and Tommy Keenan,, also appearing in
the scene, is a Canadian.
The Hanneford family Of riders is
ivc-sixths British, the exceptional
sixth being Mrs. "PoodIes" Hanneford,
who is a native of Brooklyn. Mrs.
Edwin Hanneford ST., who acts as
ringmaster, and her three illustrious
children, "Poodles" Hanneford, George
Hanneford and Miss Elizabeth Hanne-
ford, all are English, while Fred Der
rick, who also rides In the act, was
born in New Zealand.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Chow" arrived in New York last week

II came to New York to personally
look after the scenery of 'Aphrodite,'
which and my brother painted in Lon
don," said Mr.. Harker at the Century
Theater during a rehearsal. II can
truthfully say that 'Aphrodite' is the
biggest scenic production ever painted
by us in the history of our Arm, and
that includes everything my father
did before began to work with him.
In fact, 'Aphrodite' is such q colossal
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-10-03

proposed dismemberment, have deep
cause of permanent irritation as
against the five great powers; recall
ing that Germany will inevitably have
an undying hatred and deepseated
determination for revenge against
these same powers; that this will like
wise be true Of Austria, Of Bulgaria
and Of Turkey; that all of these pow
ers have not only been cut out from
part in the league of nations, but
that they have not even as yet been
invited to become Misunderstanding
in mind all this, can anyone believe
there is any power on earth which
can prevent these great powers from
Immediately closing together, from
Immediately forming secret alliance
which shall pledge them to mutual
undertaking for recovery Of the
territories and the possessions which
they have lost?