Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-29

| tinue as they are.
r IMAGINE that the dyed-in- the-wool
i barrie fans are perfectly happy now
| that they've got something to argue
about. Everybody
Did Barrie Is reading a mean
Intend Message ing into Mary
In "Haru Rose?" Rose and Bnrries
followers persist In
their stand that he had deep spiritual
intent throughout the whole play.
tried my honestest to find 1t, but l
confess didn't have much success. The
play left me with sense Of some dis
appointment, though / can quite under.
stand that the real Barrie fan will find
| it complete delight.
| Ruth Chatterton is certainly making
| the most Of her difficult part. She has
n daintiness and sweetness that seem
| ideally suited to MARY Rose and
whether you really enjoy the play or
not, you cant help being delighted with
her.
THE new meiodrama which we seI
l. next week is one Of those slashing
big affairs which make you sit up and
| pasn in astonishment and wonder now
fhnv can get such stage effects: IN
tho Night Watch. is new here, but "
made ali kinds Of hit In England. |
remember seeing It about three years
ago in London, and I'm particularly IN
terestcd TO see what It's reaction on
an American audience will be.
II brings with II leading man who
b,s been n great favorite in the movies
for some years. You who go 10 tne
flm shows will know Robert WarwicK;;
nj
remember him in his last Philadelphia
nnpenrance on the stage-in The BAL
kan PRINCESS? That Is getting a
fairly we'll rounded experience, ] should
snvSfrom musical comedy to pictures
and then into melodrama. And the re.
mnrkable part of il Is that he started
omt originally to be an operate singer
: and studied for some years In farls'
FEW of us are to nave nm unusual
n Halloween party tonight at the
: AdeInhi Theatre. After the regular
nerfnrmance tho audience will be al.
lowed to go aud then the party Will
,, begin, The company now appearing IN
"The Rat'' will present then a sequcl
called "More Bats Than One, when
will carry the story Of the play turthGr
than tho authors intended 1t to go. 1t
will all be in spirit OF fun' or course
and it's rather shame that the pubic
. can't be invited.
r Tre pever seen a better dressed Sho,c
than this ne,o "Ifcrry Wid0w. ItS
the first time Trc been impressed run
= oonns. but these struck me as oeW0
= not stage costumes but rfn"y "'M-
= destined things that people 'co"td r'd"H
pear-it they could afford to.
IT'S mighty gratifying to be abl" to
announce the fact that Mr..
PIN Passes BY" has made good.
Tho show was put out expert
, mentally and this rhi'ndclnhia en-
"grmrnt was to decide its tate.
Fortunately, it has done we'll rnOuEa
10 Justify its continuance. 1t S the tEP'
t Of good, clean comedy that we neeo
, and It would have been n sham" t" lei
It die just because there 8 noth'ns par
ticularly sensational in It.
TT WOULD be hard TO imagine any
, / thing more impressive in dancing
than that big bacchnnalo in 'McCCa.
''' Personally. vC
r Bncchundle in never seen anything
( "MeccG" Most TO exceed the clean
impressive Dance STnrGtalnGSS EIortba nsr rb . p
You simply don't realize how scantiIy
q clothed she is. She just comes dowr
q md dances and uses that marvellous hail
. of her to cloak her figure. There
! something about Miss LorbCr's person
: alty that keeps you from thinking o
the fact that she doesn't wear much
She is the genuine spirit Of the dance
2 in It's best classic aspects.
@ TN A delightfully."- intimate little cha
n i between the acts Of Enter Madame
y Mt the Lyric, Gilda Naresi told me TIN
| story Of her first chance at big pnr
y and how It fell absolutely fiat. Sh
u was born In Italy, Of course, but he
: theatrical experience all has been Il
this country.
Q When she was seventeen she wa
. playing with Modieska on n tour of tn
T United States. Somewhere out in tn
t Middle West Modjcska was stricken
g with what proved to be her fatal ill
II ness. Miss Naresi was called upon a
y n moments notice to play the star
q part and there wasn't time to annouuc
s the substitution. So the audenC
= gathered expecting to see the famou
. Modjeska.
;; Everything went fne for the first tw
u nets. Modjcska had been billed T.
Z nppear md tho Westerncrs knew s.
II littlc about her that they accepted
Z Vnresi as the star, And they applaudc
Z wildly. And this, in spite of the fac
that Modjeska was then something lik
=, seventy years old,
- Gradually, however, the report begal
t to spread around tho house that
: wasn't Modjeska on the stage at all
n that il was q substitute Then tn
II quality Of Narcsi's acting didn't count
II The people felt that they were heIn
3 fooled and they made no bones abOu
showing their dIsapprOval. About hal
:. OF them went to the box Office and de
u mauded their money back.
h "That proved to me- said Mis-
= Varcsi, that you need a label to sue
coed In the American theatre. SO lonl
s as the label Of Modjcska was on M
Q that night tho audience was Wild in it
d applause. And then, when they tool
d the label off, the whole spirit changed
;, They didn't want to see me--Gildi
II VRrcsi. | had no label.
e "But ---' and she smiled n wistru
IS little smile, II have my own label now
IT I used to wait hours to see manager
It and | was quito accustomed to beiu
r spubbcd by Office boys and stenog
IS rnphers. used to 60 home and loo
- at myself in the mirror and say, 'Neve
e mind. Gilda. You will get your re
y vcnge.
but, somehow, cant think Of
= as revenge now. When I look bac
cubctit,,tnJ g., Al /