New-York tribune., 1920-12-19


grant their wish and throw in one
for good measure. Then when the
screen fans walled "Are we going to
lose our Madge 2" she said, mot at
all" and gave them a picture with
the same number Of Madges in it that
the play has.
At the Astor Theater she is Ma
Brennan and Margaret Waring ~
"Cornered," and at the Capitol Theatar
she is Mennonite maid and tele-
phone girl in THE Girl With the Jazz
Heart" That makes four, and then
there Is ono more-the Madge Kennedy
Who had tea with US at the Ritz. thc
gay after her new play opened at the
Astor. When you meet Mrs. Harold
Bolster Chats the fifth Madge Ken
roiy) YOU realize what really great
she is, for she is not in the
Ae any of the other four You
Ac,e. would believe, unless you had
seen her do it, that Mrs. Harold Bolster
ever could or would play farce, and
yet yet she she did It bettsT than any one
would realize that she might be MAJ
earet Waring, but you never would
shink that she could be convincing as
Mary Brennan, a child of the slums,
1 shouldn't be an actress at all, you
Know confided Mss Kennedy, as she
poured the golden Orange Pekoe tea
INTO blue china teacups. Il love farms
and chickens and cows and ducks"
and pigs we said quoting from the
new play. well, in that you agree
with Mary Brennan. Do you remem-
Der what she tells Frank in that scene
when he proposes to her, believing her
TO be Margaret?"
Yes, and that's just the way l feel
Now. If;
/ want you to swear to tell the truth"
Ihis usually frightens us, for when
people make you swear to tell the
truth they say, do you think I've rot
thlnner?" or, Would be a success
IN the pictures?' or "Do | look like
Elsie Ferguson But with Madye
Kennedy we didn't feel a bit nervous.
We think her figure is stunning, and
she hasn't got any thinner, and her
acting is gorgeous. So VIC looked her
5traight III &c eye and said. Il ull
speed ahead"
WELL she said, tremuously, "did
lou like 'Cornered' % To this We in
tantly and truthfully answered Eyes"
thanking our lucky stars that she had
not said DO you think 'Cornered' is a
good play" For assurcdly it isn't a
good play, hut most assuredly it is an
enjoyable one. Even our very best
critics conceded as much 1t is full Of
tricks VII ch would be fascinating even
If you didn't have Madge Kennedy; and
with her as the heroine, or heroines,
rather, and Elmer Cornell Us the nee
essary lover, it proves irres stible
We are going to see it again, SO we
can pay more attention to the tricks
We always did love to watch the wheels
go round, and if YOU didn't know that
there is only one Madge Kennedy you
would declare that Margaret Waring
and Mary Brennan were on the stage
at the same time. They are, only you
don't always see their faces.
me man who sat next to US the
opening night evidently didn't Get in
in time to study the program before
,ne curtain went up. When Miss Ken.
nedy went into the little booth to have
supper with Jerry. and you could plain
~ see her gray and black suede punnps
hooked over the rung of the chair "a
she eats and chats, and her profile
fenected against the screen, and then
came on the opposite side Of the stage
- az claoorate evening gown OF pink.
,he man said: BY Jove, that's clevnr'
Don't those two girls look alike, Thcv
must be sistcrs."
Yes, answered his companion.
rrhcy do look alike in their maS..wn
nus probably they wouldn't look at ali
alike of the stage %'' '''
but ~e do, don't we ?" said N,,se
nS-asdy NJ laughing when VIC told her
10 you know that l heard several
people say they didn't know at first
trat It was ! playing two parts and
pnc 'nan refused to believe Il. WIN
~ sa'd I'm not crazy and Nadia
henaedy isn't Houdini! How can sSs
~ IN tf~o places at the same time
lou Kno" those thlNgs delight me
because " was | who selected Cor
nerea, and | read dozens Of plavs ho-
tefe / decided on IT, It WIZ the oniy
MiNg you'd consider doing and +
"<'d ~ 'oT two reasons. In The Nra,
pace whiic 'Corncred' may not be art
~ is entertaining, isn't it. and in the
second place ! wanted chance 20 get
away from farce. ! decided that long
aKo' FOR the days Of Fair and Warmer
are past and, oh, the prcsent-dav
iarces~~Jamais dc Ia vie! You zee
40 'Cornered' I haze two chances to
~'t away from farce~~one as Margaret
NM one as Mary, and weren't the
critics kiDd % ne7 stayed up 70 rec
'he papes>. You know | depend 40
mncn on What the critics say that |
T1ualI amend my performance after
'eah their viewg. The first time
eY'r, played in New York Alan Dnle
SAD that / could naycr be great unt,, |
iost my nasnl Chic n volce and I |
&Sa.Te sa,', you ! lost IL tins next day,
Ansfs's Patricia Coiinge over thsy.