Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-22
HE PLAYCOER'S
WEEKLY TALK
0bserpations on Plays and
Phosoplays OF Interest
TO PhiludeIphidns
,9csA BAYEs is in town, and the

|Xk hrsv Nora wants every one to know
II - rhe does not believe In hiding her
llxht under a bushel. She is busy lit
tle Advertiser. Nora does not try 10
xool herself by putting her advertising
afuntn on a high-brow basis. She mas
sofnsthinr to sell and she Is anxious to
! all Il. Presto THE way to do 1t with
the greatest dispatch is to advertise
lssf'm in the same position as the cor
mar butcher Nora told the Playgoer.
4 .,f4e sells meat and sell entertainment
: 4e adyertlses, and 80 do l. He tries TO
\ tonvince people he has for sale the best
< <Ane4t IN town. try to convince people
thAt have the best entertainment IN
4t6un. Having convinced myself OF that
!, ,faot Il Is easy for me to convince others.
You win never gather any shekels IN
this old world II you wait to De as
covered. Discover yourself first ana
then yell loud enough so that everybody
will pay attention to you That's adVer-
tising."
But that is not all about Nora's ad-
yertislng. She injects the personal ele-
{ snsnt into It, both in her newspaper ad-
vertising and on the billboards
IA When the Atlantic feet came back
from European waters Nora plastered
New York with her posters welcoming
the gobs home. and she did 1t TO such
an extent in her advertising that she
aonvinced thousands of them that she
was the greatest little welcomer of all,
Che called them gobs, too, and signed
herself "your loving son, Nora Bayes,
b subscription that has already become
familiar to Philadelphians during the
week she has been in our midst
TAMES ASHLEY. stage director ana
s u the man who votes as many times
~ he can change his suit in Ladies
First" used to be minstrel He owns
up to the fact that he once played
Little Eva in an Uncle Toms Cabin"
troupe.
TAMES MCINTYRE and Thomas
u Heath. who are reappearlng at the
Shubert in Hello Alexander" have
3 ample funds, thank you. but they are
!. worrying about the future. Not for
Z themselves--for others. Because the
real, genuine, dyed-in- he-wool black
face dialect comedian soon will be a
thing of the past. There are only
dozen or SO of him left. Mcintyre and
Heath are two of the limited number.
& When these men have passed away 1t
viii be at an end. Why? Because
8 nobody is in training. Nobody is down
South studying the negro to preserve
i his Identity on the stage. Within rev
years burnt-cork minStresy will be but
a burlesque of it's real self. THE Georgia
Minstrels' Is twenty-five years old, as
Jim Mcintyre and Tom Heath produced
II. II has been abused, lacerated. torn
aaunder, put into every conceivable
shape, and it still lives.
Neither Thomas nor James will be
Z interviewed You must interview the
Arm. Last night the firm said: I'm
& Pntsburgh recently we didn't know
i single person on the same bill with us.
There are thousands of actors in the
country now. In the old days we knew
every actor and actress in the United
States. his or her pedigree and family
conhections. The profession has made
progress. Vaudeville actors are now
business people. You hear them talking
of property values and taxes" Business
y Sxnethods, the movies and other factors
seam to be crowding blackface off the
boards. Hence Mcintyre and Heath's
regrets.
z yTVIERE is still room for those WHO
y have novelty to offer the motion
:: 9ifture producers. Perhaps 1t is an idea
\ for titIing pictures or their projection.
No matter what il may be they will
receive a hearing because the industry
+ needs more than just the ordinary run
OF pictures AS for the stars, they have
been placed into the picture world from
almost every walk of life. Many of
4 these players have come from vaude-
Vile, The latest recruit is Johnny
Dooley, Philadelphian. who Is to start
work with his own company, although
H. Bart McHugh is interested by rea-
son Of being his manager.
Many nationalities are represented in
the film players ranks. but one of the
! ouTtauding feminine artists is Lady
s Tsen Mel. who recently appeared at
4 Keith's. She is said TO be the only
Chinese star in motion pictures. Her
work Is as good as many of the better
known players. and if she is given the
E proper vehicles, right direction and sur
rounded by capable players there is no
xeason why she should not become as
4 popular as did Sessue HayakaWa and
8 Hsu Aoki, the Japanese players.
FL The Betzwood Film Company Is the
oponsor for For tho Freedom of the
9 East" which was made in this city and
b which Is essentially local product, al
z though the exterior scenes were photo
graphed at Betzwood. where the old
4 Lubin studio was located Although the
h production was an early one for the
company, II will have a showing the
Hrst half of next week at the Regent
Theatre.
1l<1I ulcHty 70 tie OIL SlZo.zO
&. IN Is used in paying off the lien on the
&BascOm farm in Turn TO the Right.
Mot even the two-bits is stage rnazuma
8This point was insisted upon by Win
Hchell Smith, co-author Of the play, who
aleo staged 1t.
I Belasco could not he more realistic.
A CORRESPONDENT asks the Play
IA "A goer to recall some of the roles in
flwhich Chauncey Olcott has appeared
8. 11r. Olcott admitted at the Walnut thai
~ appeared early in his career as Ralph
q. IN 'Pinafore" and Nanki Poo in THE
\ Ntkado," and then quickly dictated the
a FOLLOWING list of his parts:
Maurice Cronin in 1.-THE Irish Artist,
4 the Minstrel in 'The Minstrel of Glare.
Gerald O'Carroll in Sweet Iniscarra, ;
~ Dick Ronyape in "A Romance of Ath
f lone" Garrett O'Magh in an Irish drama
3s,-of the same name, the featured role il
# tOld Limerick" Terrence in an ole
X 1rish play Of that name, the title role,
1u Edmund Burke" 'ONeill of Derry
and Ragged Robin" Richard Tempt,
& IN 'Eileen ASHORE" His most recen
appearances have been in "Macushla
<6h4meen Dhue" and "The Heart o
M X41dy Whack." "Once Upon Time
IN last seasons success, brings hin
: down TO the year 1918, and his presen
~ 61<x. s-The Voice of Mcconnell"
*TEE SHUBERT is a firm believer 1,
~ the bill now before the Legislator