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New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Mary Didn't Know
Herself When She
Struck Broadway

~ HOSE who are responsible for the
W. fortunes of Mary" who romps
her way blithely across the stage
of the Knickerbocker Theater. shrewdlv
avoided the mistake of bringing an
overconident cast into New York for
the opening last Monday evening. For
nearly six months Boston and Philadel-
phia had been charmed by Lou Hirsch' s
tunes and by the story which Otto Har-
bach and Frank Mandel tell
Based on past experiences of other
musical productions which were ac-
claimed outside Of the metropolis, it
was known that an overconfident, stale
cast could not win Broadway audi
ence. So few evenings before the
opening, when MARY" was still play
ing Philadelphia, scenes were rear
ranged, new scenes were put in and
lines were changed. The whole en-
semble, which had been going along so
smoothly, felt that the play had been
turned topsy-turvy and, frankly, every
one was nervous on the opening night.
"We were better for the nervous
ress," said Janet Velie,s who plays the
title role in the spirited musical
comedy. I'VE had become set in our
ways and the changes helped US to
give better performance"
Janet Velie has been on the musical
comedy stage for a little more than
-.
dramatic stock organization in Denver,
her home city, she came East with her
brother, who is also on the stage, and
played in the road company of The
Only Girl" until shes joined the
Roricks- Glen musical stock company
in Elmira. For eleven weeks there she
played leading parts in musical come
dies which had been successful in New
York and on the road
Coming to New York again, she de-
termined to learn more about dancing
and secured an engagement in the
chorus of "Oh, Lady, Lady"
"Mr Royce, the director, told me
IHdI Hc dulHlAcV my plum 4OT SOlIS
into the chorus after | had played
leading parts and he helped me a great
deal. 1t seemed to me the bes- way to
learn to dance and it gave me an op-
portunity to continue my vocal les
sons in New York Then l was almost
broke" she confessed laughingly, "and
the money earned in the chorus was
welcomed. | remember the four flights
of stairs / had to climb and the many
meals cooked over gas jet. am glad
did it, for it makes me appreciate
everything more now"
For three months Miss Velie was in
the chorus of "Oh, Lady, Lady" and
then an opportunity came to take the
ingenue role in THE Kiss Burglar"
with Fay Banter, and she accepted,
later joining a special company of
Going Up" to play Edith Days part.
She had the leading feminine role in
LA La Lucille" at Henry Miller's
Theater, playing in it before joining
the cast Of "Mary."
Much credit Tor whatever success she
has attained Miss Velie attributes TO
her brother. He is her severest critic
Continued on page ave.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Capitol Theater Will
Celebrate Its First
Anniversary To-day

To-day the Capitol Theater ceie-
brates its first anniversary, and S. L.
Rothapfel has prepared a gala motion
picture and musical program in cele-
bration of the event. Just a year ago
Managing Director Edward Bowes
opened the worlds largest theater to
the public.
The main feature of the anniversary
program is Nazimova, who will be seen
in Metro production called Madame
Peacock" The story is by Rita Wei
man, and gives the actress an oppor-
tunity to display the versatility of her
powers in the portrayal of a dual role
There will be other screen features and
an extensive musical program.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Our Idea OF on, Orgy

IT I'VE times a week is enough
~ theatergoing for anybody, in
our opinion, but at least those five
nights need not be wasted. 1t would
be fun never to have been to a
theater in your life and then to
come to New York and see in rapid
succession "The First Year"
Enter Madame" "Tip Top" "The
Bad Man and "The Bat" After
that the newcomer would probably
become confirmed theatergoer,
but it seems to US that he might
have to wait while to have again
so good week.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

someness and home, and you felt that
her life had been sane, but not shell
tered, and that her friends and family
adored her
Next to her was a tut-tut-er, whose
every breath was one of righteous in
dlgnation. If ever she meets me in a
restaurant, Pm sure she will draw her
skirts aside, because she plainly be-
lieves that my characterization was due
to-well, not to h'strionic ability. She
was one of those prissy, evil-minded,
good women, who have a very clean,
uncomfortable home for their family
and who nag men until they go out and
become willing victims of the Betty
Bonds.
Then there was sweet little thing,
about sixteen, who laughed until l be-
gan going after the men, when she be-
gan to watch the scene with the
thrilled, frightened manner of the
adolesccnt, and experienced a disap-
pointed relief when the scene didn't
get 'sexy.' Pm sure her memory of nv
part consists of great admiration for
my blue Russian suit
Near her was real Betty Bond,
who seemed little amazed at the ex-
pose Of her methods.
"One thing has particularly impressed
me. Even good women must have their
moments Of deception, because there
is quality of recognition in the femi-
nine laugh which greets I'm not de-
ceving him-I just don't want him to
know anything about it,
"Another thing that I've noticed is
that women are on time at the matt
nees, and no one who has not tried to
open a play with a comedy scene can
appreciate the courtesy as I do
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

preferred we would not have been haTf
SO excited. All these things are nothing
in our life, but at the time of writing we
have cook, and such things are vital.
Hattie didn't do very we'll and thncs
went so badly that by and by Grace
and Tommy had q serious quarrel and
she left him to go home to her mother
Some of the rest of it gave US Just
suspicion that we were sitting in a
theater and not really at the edge of
transparent fourth wall. The play
wright just had to reunite his hero and
heroine and SO he arranged that some
body should whisper to him that she
was going to have baby. Mr.. Craven
did not remember to forget this. It
has happened in plays before. In fact
it is practically the universal formula
of playwrights for reuniting husband
and wife who have quarreled. There
must also be some other way, or there
wouldn't be so much talk about race
suicide.
But, at any rate, it is not preposter-
Gus. The fight in the last act, the very
sudden effect of alcohol upon the hero
in the second act and his equally sud
den fortune are all somewhat more Of
the theater than the rest Of Mr.. Cra-
ven's play, but all are used judiciously
enough to keep the action and the at
mosphere almost free of grease paint
The people talk as they should talk.
There is wealth of minute and ingen-
ious observation of little things. The
eventual arrival of the Sunday papers
in the last act proves even more hilari-
ously amusing than if oaa- member OF
the cast, two, or all of them. had fall
len down fight of steps. Very real
people they are and the cast keeps them
that way Craven's performance as
Thomas Tucker is mastery. William
Sampson, who hasn't very many lines
to speak and most Of those interjec-
tions in which somebody is asked to
repeat something said two minutes be-
fore, has never appeared to better ad-
vantage. Roberta Arnold as Grace, and
Leila Bennett as Hattie add other per-
formances which seem to US unim-
peachably good.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Bah Decides in Favor
OF uCareer on Staee

1<AB, aged seventeen. in Edward
~a~' Carpenters pay Of the same
name at the Park Thcater, dis
eussos careers with her chum jana.
she has decided to write plays.
Bab-Could | do it? Last year
wrote play on divorce-"The Trial
Marriage" 1t was only narrowness
on the part of the faculty that pre-
vented it from being the class plav.
NO one realizes that | am capable Of
dealing with life. But in that play.
Jane, MINCED NOTHING.
Jane-Do tell ne about it,
Bab-l can't remember all of it
only the big scenes, where the erie,
lirst husband comes back and finds
his wife married again and haunv
and takes the children out to drown
them, only he can't, because they can
SWIM, and pull him in instead. The
curtain goes down on nothing but q
few bubbles rising to mark his
watery grave.
Jane-It's too touching for words,
Bab' | can close my eyes and see
the theater dark and the stage almost
dark and just those bubbles coming
up and breaking. / don't know how
you think Of such thing
Bab-Neither do I! When fin
lshed that scene l was done out. It's
really too much-living the agonies
Of my characters, suffering the pangs
of the wife with two husbands and
both living; struggling in the water
with the children, the fruit of the
first union, dying with No. 2 and
blowing my last bubbles heavenward.
After all these emotions, I'm q rag.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

kkrTHE dramatic editor OF The New
W. York Tribune would like to
know what constitutes success
money or happiness? L am here to
find out"
Thus read a note which was sent
hackstage in the Hudson Theater few
evenings ago, just before George NJ
Cohan was to make his entrance as
Richard Clarke, the young attorney in
The Meanest Man in the World"
"Tell The Tribune man that it is all
brought out in the play Tell him to
stay and see it,"
That was the terse reply he sent out
by the same courier. And then he re-
Tented and consented to talk after the
first act. For brief ten minutes he
would be free of his manifold duties of
the theater. Ordinarily, he spends such
time working on the forthcoming
'Cohan Revue" or on plans for the other
lays which he has running on Broad
way
Is
George M. Cohan. Either he refuses
entirely to talk or he is altogether will.
ing to express his views for publication
Although in this instance the latter was
true, he was not unhampered
'Oh, yes, you want to know about
success" was his greeting. money or
happiness"-
There was a knock on the door and
one of the members of the cast en-
tered. He wanted money, received it
and departed.
Money or happiness" Mr.. Cohan
started again. "Of course, we know by
now that if man is happy he is sue
cessful."
Eyes, but can man be happy though
broke?" he was asked.
That's a stiff one," the energetic
9ctor-author-producer countered. "If
a man is used to certain things some
money is essential for his happiness,
but money lis not the most impo rtant
factor. What do you think, Eddie, can
q man be happy, though broke?" he
asked of Eddie Dunn, who has been
associated with him for many years
Eddie Dunn hesitated for a moment
before replying.
fortunately, I have never been in
what, so l feel hardly qualified to ex-
press an opinion on that point" he re-
piled. "But take the vagabond in The
Tavern He's broke and thoroughly
happy"
"All nuts are happy" Mr.. Cohan vol
unteered, laughingly. Really there's
only thin thread between happiness
and unhappiness, just as there is only
thin thread between comedy and
tragedy. A man may create happiness
for himself as easily as unhappiness
Personally have lived too many lives
and have seen too many things to be
unhappy. ] don't take things seriously
enough to be unhappy"
All the foregoing did not come as
smoothly as it is recorded, but that was
no fault of the actors. More money
had to be paid out; business details
and appointments which he had hoped
to avoid had to be arranged. S.
"I'll stand fox anything" he offered
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New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

Paris that he occupied as a struggling
artist years ago, only it is now en-
riched by priceless collection of art
objects. And his generosity is almos. q
byword AS q discoverer of stars his
insight IS almost weird. Among ths
artists ne has found and trained ara
Jane Marnac, called the new Rejane;
keline F!ory, Lautelme and Alice De-
lysia, who will make her first American
appearance in her latest musical COM
ment of F. Ray Comstock and Morris
Gest
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
The New Plays

LAY GOtRS the
' sss UP @ S aS % % Ssc sss wssss
nsl ana sometimes
put one new production This Max Youth pv of the
Polish border before the produced Mezr at the
greenwich Village Theater Tuesday
This play which had large cities of Eurone
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
As W e " ere saying
By Haywood Broun

l<ESH He FIRST YEAR" is the comedy
V~E that think it s best
of writing the
He didn't try to had
done successful comedy of last month";
eyes and watched and listened
somebody
that have perpexng
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

of be'ysia Mr.. Gest has this 70 says
"Delysia IS marvellous combination
Of talents which hitherto seemed 10 DEFY
mixing. She has wonderful sense OF
humor; she is a comedienne of charming
magnetism, she sings with voice
which at times seems worthy of grand
opera; she acts dramatic scenes like "A
vigorous young Rernhardt: she can
dance; she can wear clothes smartly:
she wins women and children with her
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

Lively interest attaches to the propose
visit to New York of Charles Cuvillier,
turope's best known producer of musi-
cal plays, whose operetta, "Afgar," is
10 open in this city November g. Cuvil-
lier is to arrive some time around the
holidays and it is said he will probably
remain year, putting on new produc-
tions as well as some of his European
successes. At one time he had five
major successes running in London
The Lilac Domino" Sunshine of the
World" Wild Geese Johnny Jones"
and "Afgar." Sunshine of the World"
is one of the productions scheduled for
Ncw York THE Naughty Princess. "
which has had an unprecedented run Of
eight months in Paris, may also be seen
here.
Cuvillier is enormously popular in
france, where his highly credtable part
IN the military service of his country
has endeared him no less than his serv-
ice to the stage. With all his honors
he is the most modest and unassuming
ot men He lives in the sarn.a little
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

Ordinarily something like hundred
plays are launched in the course of the
season in these parts to tempt the golden
lure of Broadway. Up to date about
one-half this number have got under
way and many are suspended on the
fnnges Of the theatrical center awaiting
the opportunity to come in. The near
future is likely to see the removal of
certain productions, which are doing
what in an ordinary season would be
considered good business, in favor of
plays that promise larger returns.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

For the following week two new plays
are announced-"The Half Moon. i"
which will open Monday, November |,
at the Liberty Theater, where The
Night Boat is finishing a years run.
and Just Suppose which viii occupy
the Henry Miller Theater on the same
GATE. OF "The Half Moon" Joseph Cav
thorn is the star and reviewers out of
town have accorded it high praise.
Just Suppose" which deals with the
visit to America of Prince of Wales.
Will have distinguished cast. Fred
Kerr, the English actor, last seen here
IT The Inferior Sex" with Maxine Ell
lott, Will play the role Of the British
Ambassador Godfrey Kerr, his son,
Will be the Prince. The leading wom-
ans part is assigned to Patricia Col
Inns.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

before the war, is presented to Amer
lean audiences for the first tine. Lois
Churchill, who will be seen in the lead
ing role, makes her American debut
Vie scenes are laid in Poland The plot
tells the story of the love of two young
people who face obstacles both of re-
hgious and sinister character. In
fuences of heredity and environment
are factors in the opposition.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

Continued on page f,ye)
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Happiness? Keep 1t
By Circulating 1t
Is C0han Formula

Ik%MHE dramatic editor OF The New
W. York Tribune would like to
know what constit,,tes ancco,r
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

Continued on page five)
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

tcontistued on page fvs)
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-06
Illustration Of
Selfish Father

Dear Miss Grey: arm the young
mother Of two boyA My husband
does not chew. drink or smoke. but
he spends over half Of his salary for
nee cream. candy. pastry and other
rood things TO eat all for himself
when have tried TO show how
Dnuch he is spending. he becomes
Very angry. It's no use for me TO
kay q word. but things are going
{from bad 10 worse. Sometimes i
have no money for food for my chill
dren. Really. Miss Grey. perhaps
this will sound like joke when you
read II, but II Is very sad one for
me. I am telling you this because
=, feared you would think someone
Il lust writing for the sport OF II :
l0ut IT'S the honest truth, before God
q AN you tell me of anything can
~ 70 stop my husbands foolish ex-
Xrnva1ance? NJ. NJ.
This p pcrv Encouraging qucs-
fton. The Indulgence described Is a
habit. and about as dcmoraii<iuo. so
far a. the family Is concerned, "a in
~bvjrfv f1ouid be. II " not easD 10
1,nke oper man tcho cannot curb
hts appetite.
but vou might experiment bD
making candy at home. and provid-
tng him trith rich pies. cakes and
ofher dclicocics. Thus the family
could share the food. iohiIc the man's
rrarirg for sueets uosdd be satisfied.
II Is highly probable that his appe-
fife piH result In a rerD serious DIS
~ase unless he stops tndnfOin0 u. Get
me family doctor to ioarn him.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-06
PATIENTS
INJURED.
IS Charge
Action by Legislature on
State Insane Hospitals Is
Now Being Urged

TACOMA. Nov. s.---Action by the
legislature. meeting In January. to
effect reforms in the administration
Of tho states hospitals for the insane
h being urged by tho Pierce County
Bar association today. A committee
to. draft a bill providing needed
changes has been appointed.
Action followed report By the as.
sociation's committee which visited q
member Of tho bar who was at the
sseilacoom hospital for two monshs-
This attorney. said he. with other pa
tienfs. was forced 20 stand In iine.
stripped TO the skin. while an At.
tcndant jabbed . needle into their
hMctp % est auid exsracxs from their
spinal columns fos d1ngnnm<Dd pur-
s4<vu>s ~
supt- W. ~. Reiiar admitted spinal
pun<furcs were performed on hun.
drr<1s cf patient. each y~ar a. q reg.
u.Ar procedure. but denied that the
pain was great or that severe rsac-
tons occurred In every instance.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-06
N5IISYESS|78
THE ORIGINAL STORY

fHE sehMt stery~ eo01eDt - innQ6Bo4.
by Basil Kings novel, Earth hound"
. now picturized 1T the Strand theatre.
II concerns the soul struggle Of 4
man who II murdered by his best friend,
when the latter learns that his wife Is infat-
uated with him.
The mans sin. which has caused. his
friend to be locked behind prison hars,
brought widowhood and disgrace upon his
wife, the woman he really loves. and made
his little daughter an orphan. holds his spirit
10 the earth, even tho Il has left his body.
He sees the misery he has brought TO his
dear ones, but does not know how TO REM
edy Il. He tries 10 communicate with them.
but altho he can see them. they cannot see
him. He haunts his old club, where he and
his two college friends had spent 30 many
Of their leisure hours. He wanders thru all
the haunts Of his lifetime, seeking release,
but never finding peace.
Then his faithful, true-hearted friend,
Harvey Breck, feels his presence and speaks
to him M tho he were present In the flesh.
He tells him peace will come TO him only
when he has righted the wrongs he has COM
mitted. The mans spirit visits the woman
who was responsible for his death, prevails
upon her to confess the cause for the MUIR
der, and her husband Is set free.
The spirit then pleads with his best friend
to forgive him, and finally, with the forgive
ness Of his wife, his soul is released from
the bonds that hold II to earth.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-06
MANY PROTESTS
ON HOSPITALS
ARE MADE HERE

Dissatisfaction with the adminis-
fration Of the states insane hospitals
is a matter well known to members
OF the King County Bar association.
Attorney J. w. Heal. secretary. said
today.
Heal said he has not seen a copy
Of the bill framed by the Pierce
County Bar association. but should
the King county association take the
matter up officially. he said II will
be done at the next meeting here
In December.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-06
Colorado Defeats
Plan for Tunnels

DENVER. Colo. Nov. 6.--Almost
certain defeat OF Colorado's tri.tunnei
amendment was indicated today on
returns ON all but 400 of the states
precincts. A lead Of 1900 votes
against the proposition had been
piled up.
The tri-tunnel amendment would
provide for the construction OF three
tunnels thru the continental divide In
Colorado. The tunnels were to be
combined railway and highway
thorofares and would save several
hours In transcontinental travel as
well as open up thousands of acres
of farming land to easy access