The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-03
The SeaEny Side Of Broadway

New York-It may have been only coincidence, but it was none the Mess suggestive that the day that E3roadway took on sackcloth and IAshes, metaphorically speaking, in kereaving for the death of booze, M distinguished visitor arrived in New York in the person of Sir Oliver ,dge.
 The spirits departed from the Rial b on the evenings of January 16 and M, but Sir Oliver, who is the protag- xonist of the theory that departed 1spirits return again to earth, gave the | Broadwayites fresh courage, and there may after all be something in the learned scientists theory.
 The wake" was one of the most universally celebrated festivities New York has seen. Every restaurant re- served tables, charged double prices, permitted the guests to bring their own, and make merry as they might until exactly midnight, Friday. Thereafter that which had been a convivial custom since the days of Adam, became a crime in the eyes of the law, and vigilent excise agents stood about like the death head at the feast to see that the bottles were empty or out of commission when the final stroke of twelve had been struck.
 The foreigner cannot understand our country. Many of them joined in the festivities with more or less puzzled expression. Robert Kendall, an English actor of distinction was one He had known the United States in better days when one might take theirs as they pleased, and when
 
 MT. Kendall expected something to really happen. something of serious portent.
 tIt is all quite puzzling to me-" he confessed. You take away the greatest liberty and those who suffer by it celebrate the event in festival style. 1 expected some demonstra- tion, but I frankly confess that l did not expect t> dance while Rome burned. You reat. Sout those things you know, but you really don't ex- pect to find them happening"
 And MT. Kendall is not alone in his astonishment. Those who engaged in the festivities were with him.
 Richard G. Herndon, manager of the Theatre Parisien. and Frank Fay Tor Kintzing. manager of The Pas sion Flowec," have a joint interest in an automobile. MT. Kintzing is the most proficient chauffeur, but MT. Herndon is the more dignified and can give instructions better
 They were to meet the other day and MT. Kintzing went for the car It was to be brought to the Thea tre Parisien, which is in the heart of the theatre district. and any one who knows will tell you that the only way to reach a spot in this dictrict is by using many and divers side streets. al the time getting nearer and nearer tc your destination. One might walk it five minutes, but following the traf ffc regulations takes twenty-five oI thitry. MT. Kintzing suffered thi: inconvenience, but finally reached tn, theatre, where MT. Herndon stood i'm patiently.
 What have you been doing, tour ing?" he sarcastically inquired.
 'T1o,' MT. Kfntzing answered with out hesitation, "de-touring''
 ''The so-cal1ed historical drama appears to be imminent Plays abou great characters are not new, but i one half of them are, produced thi year that are threatened, it is a saf. prediction that there will be no short age. George Arliss is the most pro nounced proponent of the historica play. MT. Arliss is undisturbed b, any condition which may arise whether it be Disraeli, Chopin, Ham iIton, Voltaire or what not, Mir. Ar liss "does'' him. But the new his torical play is to deal not only witt historical characters, but with his torica1 incidents. as we'll.
 Ernest A. Elton, one of the bes character actors on the Americal