The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-25
The SeaEny Side Of Broadway
By Dixie Hines.

By Dixie Hines.
 New York. October 25.-so many new plays have been produced in New York that one of the difficulties is selecting q title. Therefore 1t is quite usual for a play to begin with title and to he r2-haptised with a changed moniller a dozen times be- fore it comes to New York.
 Dear, dear,' a, stranger to the B-s Town said the other day in discuss ing d play, this play is strangely like one 1 have sCen. Ii Was called Sal lies Satisfaction so 1t is not inpos- sibIe thai it could be this one"
 Bat unquesdonably it was, Sallie hoi undergone many changes since she first was born, and eventually be- came ''Samnie's Salva'ion.'
 It was Pietro Non, the noted inusi- elan who suggested that We might select style of play naming and then go the limit For instance last year a play was produced called East fF West.'' Maybe it was for stage p1lr- pose, jus as this year We are in formed that ''F'irst Is Last" So Mr. Yon, who is a composer of rare dis tiue-i09,, has set about placing music to a new and appropriate l3roiadway doggorel:
 If 'F'irss is Last and East is West Why not, l ask, produce the rest? Say 'BIacIz is White and Hot is
 Cold
 And park is Light and Young is
 Old
 Since speech Is Song and 'Hunger's 'short IS Long and Best is Worst So Wrong is Right and sick is We'll With Depth is Hetghs' and-'Heav-
 ems He'll"
 Captain Pau Gordon, one of the best young actors on the American stage, is "comiug back next month, He has been in the service for a couple of V. $. and th.s will b. the First time Broadway has seen him since his wonderful success in Sha Nespeare plays with James F. IaCErtt and that beautiful and well remembered war play. ''NIoIoch.'
 When Captain Gordon returned 1t was duly chronicIed in the newspa- -7ers. and he was flooded with plays, one of hem was of exceptional den- sE,v and he returned il to the au- thor.
 .It Is sure to be a success the author continued. People will come back again and see it, mark my word"
 why" inquired Mir. Gordon, '.shouId they come b2ck2'
 .'We11.' was the confident reply it is 50 great that the audience is nof expected 10 understand it the first time"
 Out in Los Angeles NIamame Mar guerira Sylvs, the celebrated concert singer who is the wife Of MajOf Bernard L. Smith, United States Ma rim" Corps, was invited to decorate a local hero and also a marine, with tl.e French medal Madame Sylva E.as long an operatic idol in Paris, and she accepted the commission for obvious reasons. She is as proud of the marines IS her celebrated hus- band is and as the entire United States So she was the center of in tcras- when she stepped out and pin ned lha medal on the breast of Jhe hero, ana then, in rue French GUS loIl. kissed him on both cheeks, to his dismay and ccnfusion-
 -'II was just like when I took my frs cail s1u.~ he declared later to inquiring Los ADEci2s reporters
 W-esr Forry-eighth street in New York is filled with pIayhOuses. At
  ing and one If her leading actors is George IacQuar-le- Across the street .-Th- storm has just opened to trc- Ilendous success, and in this Robert RendeI is one of the best of the play CTS llr- NacQuarrie frequently calls on The Storm To take his wife home. He venturcd in Mir Rendei's dressing room and asked about the attendance AIr. RendeI gave him the figures. and the visitor offered the information that their show had done $500 more that evening than The Storm" Later in inc week the visitor ,t.urned-
 Well he irqufred of .eThe storn1'' actor "how was business touight2''
 NO you don't" RendeI answered, -I- is your G1ne ro tell me first
 Ethel Valentine, the witty actress, was li=cvssinE people in general with some professional friends
 Nov there is Miss Blank one of the party observed, -'she is gifted with 2 keen sense of humOr-';
 Yes admitted Miss Valentine who remembered the distinctive char acteris-ic of the lady, provided you spell il with an R
 II is difficult for Americans to re- coUcil= themselves to prohibition but far more so for our foreign visitors. George Plateau, the noted French actor has just returned from Paris and while away they slipped ,he pro- hibiion law over and gave him a shock Last year AIr- Plateau acted in --The Crowded Hour,'' and spent the entire year in two cir1es-Chica- go and New fork This year with
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