Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-28

discovered" Miss Hayes two years ago
when he borrowed her. TO appear as
the dream girl with William Gillette In
Barrles Dear Brutus." Last season
she was the adolescent Cora Wheeler in
Tarkingtons comedy. Clarence" and
she was taken from that play to create
the part of Bah.
with the Maude Adams of The Little
Minirter" OF 1895. The role Miss Hayes
plays Is that of q young girl seventeen
years of age, who fancies herself as
tante. % sprightiy adventures result. and
there Is full opportunity for the express
sion of romantic temperament.
UCTUDIo OR sTAGE?" was the aues-
y ton that beset Jack MCGOWAN be-
fore he accepted the part of Jack Keene,
here last spring. He will be welcomed
again In this role when this delightful
musical comedy returns Monday. The
lure of the motion pictures had enticed
play with Viola Dana and was at work
with Taylor Holmes in his new photo
play, Nothing But Lies" He was
playing plnochle with Lou Hirsch, COM
told told him that he knew Of a part par that that
would Just At his type. MCGOWAN told
him he could not think of It, as he was
in the midst Of the Taylor Holmes pic
ture.
The following Saturday" says Mr..
MCGOWAN. relating his experiences, "the
picture director informed me that | was
to have two weeks more salary and be
released. I phoned TO George NJ. Cohan,
and was at once engaged for the part
that 1 am now playing in Mary.
uAL SKELLY, who is appearing in
IL Victor Herbert's new operetta, THE
Girl In the Spotlight" also had some
paternal conflicts as to his stage car eer.
1t may be mentioned that the elders of
this young man Intended him for the
the days OF the revivals. Hal liked the
theatre more than the church, however,
and as often as he could get "the price"
he was counted among those present"
In the gallery. He won fame among his
boy friends as an imitator of those
noted to the stage who passed through
Davenport. His yearning for the stage
caused him to run away and Join a cir
Gus. In this life he rapidly picked up
acrobatic training, became a clown be-
sides doing odd Jobs under the tent
With this start he gained entrance TO
vaudeville and later to musical comedy
and today Is one of the best-known
stage.
ttTT IS strange" says Avery Hopwood,
co-author with Wilson Collision Of
THE Girl In the Limousine" that few
persons are satisfied with their own par
ticular careers and the line of work they
have chosen or been forced into. Some
other fellows job always appeals to them
more. ! am no exception to the rule"
Mr.. Hopwood is a young man. He
gives his age as being between thirty
and thirty-six years. He has made
fortune from his plays Of the light and
frivolous type; still he wants to be
novelist and write about serious prob
lens of life and IL not novelist then
his second choice is to be n playwright
dealing with the same kind of questions
The author of Fair and Warmer"
and THE Gold Digger" has some inter-
esting comment on the American farce.
He says
I'm French farce tho charac cters may
step beyond the lines of discretion. but
not so here. Our puritancal Anglo
Saxon nature won't stand for It, The
other characters in the American farce
may know that their companions have
done wrong, but the audience must know
that they are entirely innocent. So It
Is more difficult to write for home con-
sumption than for Gallo tastes.
IF line which goes beyond the pale
comes to my mind I react against II. I
have never in all my life written a line
with the intention OF giving a sneaky,
dirty laugh. When such an unintended
Interpretation is put one one Of my lines
by the audience ! always change it."