Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-22
CARRULOUS GARRY
SEES HER MOVIE
STARS ON STAGE
BY HELEN KLUMPH

&C A LII the worlds a stage" Garry
/ "A remarked as briskly as though
the sentiment had been original with
her, "and almost all the motion picture
players are going back on 1t. It's
terrible. My sense Of loyalty-or my
curiosity, IL you insist-makes me tear
all around the country attending tryouts
Of plays with my motion picture favor
ties in them.
'There was Faire Binney in 'Ihe
Teaser, up in Stamford, and Alice
Brady in Drifting down at Asbury
Park, and I've travelled all up and down
Broadway seeing Martha Mansfield and
Crane Wilbur in different vaudeville
houses"
What an odd name for play, l
intsIpsssd' sIsi; - vor,d u,itsd lust a mo.
ment l would have told you what tney
play in. They give one-act Play
called Right or Wrong, and II :
screamingly funny. It's scene In IN
on trial for stealing fur coat. =.
"In this weather? Ridiculous. no
one would. And yet they. criticize the
movies for being unnatural. :.
well, If you're not Interested,
Garry began, but / promised not to IN,
terrupt her again if she would tel
me all the news about our fricnds on
the screen.
Crane Wilbur admits in the play
that he has way with women, that
they just cant resist. but really. ne
won't be able to say that long, II ne
keeps on getting fat. Hes not at all
the same Crane Wilbur we used to
write fan letters to. y ., .
But he wasn't fat in The Heart OF
Maryland " protested.
"You ought to sec him now.' Garry
walled. "Why is it that no one but
Maclyn Arbuckle can, get fat without
losing all his fricnds?'
T ADMITTED that I didn't know the
answer, and tried to veer the sub i"ct.
back to our screen favorites who had
gone on the stage. After Garry had
gone into rhapsodies over the prospect
of seeing Catherine Calvert in Blood
and Sand" | asked her II II was true
that Lillian Gish was going on tho
stage.
"Well. read it in the paper so
often | almost believed it," Garry ad-
mitted. Lillian laughed at the rumor
whenever ! talked to her over the
phone, so finally ! ran down to the
studio at Mamaroneck and asked her.
And do you know what she told mcF'
"Not yet" | had TO admit.
"Shc told me" Garry went on airily
that she never had had the slightest
intention of going on the stage this
season. OF course. she's going on some
day-every one knows that--and the
teacher who is training her voice says
that now it's plenty strong enough to
play in n small theatre. But Lillian 3
so ambitious that she won't go on until
she's as well fitted for acting on tn"
stage as she is now for movies.
"A lot of managers heard that she
was having her voice trained. and as
sumed that she was just waiting for an
engagement. They made her wonderful
offers and one or two of them even
mentioned inadvertently to their friends
that thev were going to have her in their
companies next season. and of course
J the newspapers printed it. It's awfully
nice to have newspapers think YOU re
so important that they print every little
rumor about you. but | should think
| that Lillian would like to restrain them
from printing wild rumorS all the time. -
Garry's voice dwindled to whis-
per as she leaned forward and tried
to look at newspaper over another
woman's shoulder.
"What is it," asked anxiously
Nobody killed. is thcre?'
Ssh" Garry commanded. II think
see something about Lillian going on
| the stage