Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-03
THE PLAYCOER'S
WEEKLY TALK
.ObserUutions on Plays and
Photoplays of Interest to
Philadelphians

fresh attractions at six of the locaI
houses. As usual, there is a decided
preponderance among the musical offer
angs, the four to come Monday night
being 'The Night Boat" Dillingham;
forthright musical comedy, to the For,
Fest; The Rose of China Com
stock and Gest show, to the Chestnut
Street Opera House; Nothing But
eilove.' a musical comedy of youth, to
the Shubert. and Lets Co.. said to
be markedly jazzy, to the Walnut. Com
iedy minus music will be on view at the
@Garrick, where Three Wise Fools
dramatizes an old house in Washington
Square, and at the Broad, where the
attractive young comedienne. Ruth
Chatterton, will be seen in Moonlight
and Honeysuckle. -
FiHOUGH many stars of the stage find
- it difficult to obtain new "vehicles"
and even new material. the patrons of
yaudevIlle usually expect something new
1'om artists classed as headliners. The
most successful players in vaudeville,
especially those who present sketches
1re those who are able to change Of
terings at least once each season.
One of the latter is Emmet Devoy,
who has a wide reputation as a writer
and player. Not only does he write his
own plays. but furnishes playlets for
other players, and he may be consid
cred one of the successful author play
ers in the two day. Regardless of
how favored playlet may be by an
audience, Mr.. Devoy discards it at the
end of the season. While he is playing
one piece he is at work on another, so
That each season finds him touring in a
new play.
Mr.. Devoy comes to Keith the com
Ing week in a one act comedy drama.
Mothers Diary" 1t is built on the
Theme of frenzied finance. and the moral
is that the really important things IN
life cannot be bought.
IHRANK MCINTYRE, who helps to
- navigate the laughter in 1.-The Rose
Of China is one of the biggest ex foot
ball stars in the country. His only
rival is Robert J. (alias Tiny Max
we'll, who reformed and became news
spaperman. Mr.. Mcintyre made sew
eral records while on the gridiron for
Ann Arbor. while Maxwell did the
heavy honors for Swarthmore.
After deserting the football field,
Frank was inveigled into the news
a great distance. On one occasion he
Wrote a story concerning the theft of n
mule before the mule had been stolen.
Fortunately. however. the animal was
purloined just about the time that the
,rotund reporter was being pressed for
explanations. Mr.. Mcintyre first
played in support of Frank Keenan, and
after successful engagements with other
stars launched forth as a star himself
IN .'The Travelling Salesman" He
often strays from his lines-but. as Il
rule, his stray'ng is beneficial to the
show. Mr.. Mcintyre was for some
time one of the popular lmembers Of
the old Bijou stock company in this
city
HOWELL, of "On the
NJ Hiring Line" is another former
athlete. One of his engagements was
mt the Little Theatre in 1917: when he
was with Miss Angln in The Open
Fire" a good play by Hubert Foot
'ner, which did not win the success it
deserved.
''But know Philadelphia in another
way than as an actor said he one day
last week. ''Gou sec. | am an oars
man. / row with the Nassau Club, and
have rowed on the Schuylkill in re-
gattas on the Fourth of July and on
other big days. The Schuylkill has
splendid course for oarsmen. and
rather envy those men who have such
fine river right at their doors. The
houses that the rowing clubs have are
ideal, and their proximity to the city is |
= a great recommendation. Rowing, |
shink, is one of the finest sports 1t
means that a man shall keep in good
condition, and, in fact, it puts him in
good trim. | know that am the better |
for my athletics, and l hope that l shall |
never be too old to give up aquatics |
The actor really does himself harm if |
he does not keep physically fit
MTHEN movies were first brought to
~ the attention of the local film fans
:. they mostly represented the chase"
sstyle of picture, in which people ran
las rapidly as possible while in pursuit
Of some stumbling comedian. Today the
slower tempo seems to have taken hold |
of the fancy, for the subjects for the
most part are not very rapid in action. |
An evidence of the newer form of movie |
art is found at the Stanley, where
.sNiemOries" is screened in natural col |
mrs.
"Memories" is the movie name for
John g. Whitters poem. In School |
Days" and shows the first attempt of |
the Prizma studio to give the screen a |
poem in natural color, with delightful |
child actors for the principals. The |
action is very slow, and yet it was one
of the outstanding films of the last
year.
OF the larger films shown perhaps the |
presentation of The Miracle Man" |
should receive the first honors, for it |
marked an advance in the mission of |
the screen. As for the new stars, Will |
Rogers and Tom Moore of the men and |
Clara Horton of the women are the out |
standing players.
UT is said, and on no less an authority |
\ than the dramatist himself, that |
when J. NJ. Barrie, whose newest |
comedy, Dear Brutus," ends it's sue
cessful and regrettably brief run tonight |
at the Broad, was boy his mother in
tended him for the ministry. Barre's |
mother had all of the Scotch love of |
religion and she wished James to be |
fitted for the kirk. But the young man, !
like untold numbers of other young |
men, when it came time for calling in |
life, wanted to do his own choosing. His |
mother would not hear of this at, all, |
particularly when young Barrie in |
formed her that his ambition was to |
work on a newspaper. She was hustered. |
But the young man persevered. BY the |
time he had left the university he had |
made his mother believe, or pretend she |
Relieved, that a man might be a God |
fearing person and still work on a news
paper. And so began his career as
newspaper reporter, or as it is better |
known in London, press man.
There Is 10 record that Barrie was a |