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New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
On the Screen
By Harriette Underhill

Samuel Rothafel has arranged a pro-
gram of short subjects for the Capitol
Theater this week, and it is called
Armistice Week program. Mr., Rotha-
fel always has had fondness for
these programs made up of short sub
lects, and this is not the first time that
he has put that sort of entertainment
on at the Capitol. The week before
last Marshall Nielan's "Bits of Life"
was really several short pictures, and
many people expressed themselves as
delighted with the arrangement. This
week all Of the theaters are showing
so many of the pictures pertaining to
Armistice Day that it was really neces-
sary to cut something, so Mr.. Rotha-
fel has cut the feature. Instead Of
the usual five recls-he has two cork
ing comedies, Will Rogers in "Thc
Ropin' Fool" and Harold Lloyd in
Never Weaken" Mr.. Rogers's comedy
is partly done with those slow motion
pictures which show the whereforeness
of everything, and what Will can do
with the rope is revelaton! Of
course, his act when he first came to
New York was rope act, but the peo-
pie soon learned to like his maxims
so much better than they did his rop-
liiS bidI Vie ldlCGI feature OF MS ell
tertainment became negligible. In the
new picture you have both, for he has
done the titles in his old inimitable
style. The picture hasn't any plot,
but then Rogers admits it and says
that motion pictures seldom have. The
comedy is in two reels, and in it Mr.
Rogers makes his bow as a producer
The picture is all his own.
Harold Lloyd's comedy is one of the
best he has done, and right now we are
going to entreat one or more of the
people who write us letters to tell us
if they know how the dizzy scenes in
Lloyd's comedy are done. So far as
we could detect, it was bona fide, but
Of course no man would risk bis neck
dong stunts on the top Of skyscraper
and finally falling therefrom. 1t was
all so real that when he did finally fall
people in the theater screamed. 1t was
like the old stunt that Bert Williams
used to do. presumably on top of a
skyscraper, but in reality on the stage
of the New Amsterdam Theater. "Neyer
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
Frank McIr,tyre Shoius
Neau Sketch, CIT Palace
Frank McIntvre made his debut at

Frank Mcintyre made his debut at
the Palace Theater yesterday in
"wednesday at the Ritz" by Gordon
Bostock, piece which was much more
deftly staged than written. McIntyre's s
genial manner and accompanying bulk
were we'll suited for the part of the
wet" hotel intruder that he was called
upon to play. A real bathtub, filled
with water, served to cool the jealousy
of the husband who comes back from
the road to greet his wife. The setting
for "wednesday at the Ritz" is decided
ly reminiscent Of "Parlor, Bedroom
and Bath"
Eddie Leonard's illness prevented his
appearance yesterday and Sophie
Tucker and company filled the vacant
spot satisfactorily. She sang several
songs and was assisted by the clowning
of her musicians. Johnny Dooley and
company. including Robert Dooley,
father of the famous family, offered a
new act, which was decidedly entertain
ing. The comedians pantomimic inter
pretation of the work Of the stage
acrobat was delightfully."- droll. No
Dooley act would be complete without
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08

Or barcelona, represented by Helen
freeman, producer and co-author Of
the play which is dramatizaton Of
Harold Fish's novel of the same title.
Dulcy mcanders backward until she
meets the high~chested Jose Luis. son
OF union between Spaniard and an
Englishwoman. A week of his society
starts her on the sleeps of renunc;a-
tion and amendment, and she finds her
heavenly citizenship when she becomes
a great operate prima donna.
The line between the lofty and the
bathetic was so often crossed that it
was more or less oblitcrated During
three of the periods the play was COM
pletely offside in the territory of
bathos. There was an excellent first
act concluding with an intensely dram
attic situation when Jose is wounded
by the lover who has been infuriated
by Dulcy's firtatious effronteries. But
in the ensuing episodes the play
tain climbing to the throne of grace
excited an amusement which the audi
ence iA the Park Theater made polite
endeavors to suppress. This appeared
to be the fault partly of the play and
partly Of the players. ~
Miss Freeman explained in n cur
tain speech that the company had
opened "cold" at the Park. having
omitted the cuctomary try-out on the
road. 1t is possible, therefore, that
changes can be made which will bring
the piece into the category of real
plays, of which last night it fell short.
For there is good material in the pro-
duction. The setting is superb; there
is convincing Spanish atmosphere ap-
propriate to the problems of the group
of characters exhibited, and Miss Free
mans own performance was such as
to approve the Judgment of David
Belasco, who, several years ago, picked
her as an emotional actress who might
we'll become heir to the then eposing
laurels of Mrs. Leslie Carter. But she
requires a support more even than fell
to her lot on the opening night. B. F.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
Princess Bill Composed
of Four Or,e-Act Plays

The bill of four one-act plays pre-
sented last night at the Princess Thea
ter, by the East-West Players is, with
the execution of tedious piece vaguely
titled "The Eternal Judith" only mild
ly entertaining.
"The Eternal judith" is Rumanian
version Of "The Bells" but not one
tenth as melodramatic or thrilling. 1t
is certain that this banal piece lost
nothing in translation; indeed, after
sitting through it one feels that it
Nor does Gustav Blum as the lunatic
help matters by his neighing or whin-
nying. The other players are almost
as bad as the setting.
However, it is a relief to have this
play followed by "The Pot Boiler" by
Alice Gerstenberg. This little bur-
lesque of the too-comm ercial theater is
always amusing
The East-West Players give fairly
good production of "Autumn Fires" by
Gustav Wied. This Danish one-act
classic suggests, with a trace of pathos,
the sadness. OF. lonely old age. and re-
lates gr,ippingly the struggle of two
lonely old chums, who live in al"home," ="
to clutch at youth in the shape of a
boy. Gustav Blum and S. Robert
Wyckotf are good as the old chums and
Henry B. Forbes plays the misanthropc
Boiling with the right shade of morose-
ness edged with wry touch of
humor. The setting by Frederick Bent
ley is good. ;.9.
Sweet and Twenty" by Floyd Dell,
stands revealed as somewhat the
worse for age, and its humor some
times becomes messy. The Province
town Players, who presented it first
played this skit, so to speak, on wings,
while the West Players push the
lines over on numbering cart wheels.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
Rogers Offers His Quaint
Talent at Winter Garden

Will Rogers and his lariat and Lee
White, an American girl who estab-
lished her popularity in London music
halls. made their debut in Shubert
vaudeville at the Winter Garden yes
terday. --,~
Swinging his lariet in nonchalant
| loops and figure eights, Rogers deliv-
with philosophical humor. He took
some slaps at the political situation,
motion pictures, the theater. and las
seed timely topics generally. A large
delegation of film and stage celebrities
welcomed him back to the footlights.
Miss White, who has been leading
successful revues in London, including
some of her own productions, gave
ample justification for her vogue with
the overseas public. She has an ex-
cellent voice and her manner is dis
tinctive. The act also serves her. we'll
in the matter of costumes.
Held over for third week, the Lock
fords, brother and sister team from
the Follies Bergere, again offered their
beautiful dances Also on the dancing
list was the act of Ernestne Myers
and her company. Tom Lewis, in a
monologue, and Vinie DAILY, in mix
ture of grand opera and reminiscent
dances, had places on the bill.
Bobby Clark and Paul Mccullough,
in "Chuckles of 1921" head the comedy
bill at the Forty y-fourth Street Theater.
"Chuckles" is a travesty de luxe, being
a condensed version of the "Peek "a
Boo" show that entertained New York
ers several summers ago. Clark and
Mccullough are tried and true come
dians. Pretty girls, pretty costumes
and pretty dancing lent an artistic
touch
Joe Niemeyer and his dancing asso-
ciates, including Margo Raffaro, Mazda
Du Frayne, Margaret Davies and Billie
Maye. gave a review in six scenes. The
company presents fast routine Of
dancing that is both expert and grace
full
William Moran and Al. Wiser sailed
their boomerang hats. Other numbers
were the Seven Musical Spllers, Kings
and Queens of Jazz, Earl Rickard, Fred
Rial and Maia Lindstrom, in "Some-
thing for Rainy Day.; White Way
Trio, in Bits of. Everything," and
Permane and Shelley, in "Pulley-
Pulley"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
alls, and Johnny does not neglect this

falls, and Johnny does not neglect this
feature.
The Mosconis, whirlwind dancers or
one might call them, rhythmic acrobats,
are held over for another week. Beatrice
Herford, monologist, characterizes the
suburban housewives difficulties with
the maid problem. Nat Nazarro jr.,
and his company present a refreshing
style of entertainment, perhaps the
most varied and pleasing Of the bill.
Others who are appearing this week
are Ernest r. Ball, the composer; Doris
Humphreys Dancers and Jean Granesc.
Karyl Norman, the "Creole Fashion
Plate; Wilton Lackaye, the Four Nor
tons and Anna Chandler are the head
liners at tho Riverside this week. At
the Eighty-first Street Theater a con-
densation of "a Man of the People" ;"
with Frederick Burton as Lincoln, is
the main attraction. Ruth Roye divides
feature honors with "Frescott" and
Hope Eden at the Alhambra. Daphne
Pollard heads the Colonial's bill. "Sin-
gers Midgets," liliputian actors, is tho
chief offering at the Royal. Robert
Emmet Kcane, and Claire Whitney, in
"The Cosby Sex" and George Jesscl
and company in TROUBLES of 1920"
share the honors at the Hamilton. \
Sophie Tucker, Ed. Gallagher and Al
Shean and Allen Rogers and Leonora
Orpheum, in Brooklyn. A.. the Bush
wick, Harry Carroll, with his "Varie :
ties of 1927; George MacFa rlane, Stan
Stanley and Harry Holmes and Florrie
La We're are included among the chief
attractions,
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08

Sam Fl. Harris has engaged James Crane
to. appear in Elsie Ferguson's supporting
company in "The Varying Shore" by Zoe
Akins now in rehearsal
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
Miss MacCuigan in Violin
Recital at Carnegie Hall

Hall, assisted by Maurice Eisner at
the piano, essayed an ambitious pro-
gram. Paganini's D major Concerto,
Ernest Chausson's "Poame," a new
"Ballade and Caprice" by Mana yucca,
Bazzinis "Ln Ronde des Lutins" and
the Sant-SaGns "Rondo Capriccioso"
were among other things on Che list.
Miss MacGuigan has large tone, but
she has not yet fully conquered the
difficulties incident to a smooth per-
formance of the works she attempted.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08

There. will be Election Day n1atinees to-
day at practically all theaters. At night
returns will be read, from the stages.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
Weaken" is n thoroughly enjoyable Of.

Weaken" is a thoroughly enjoyable af-
fair.
The performance starts with Tschai-
kowsky's "Overture 1872" Then comes
Hy Mayer Travelaugh, mon Petit
Paris" This is indeed novelty Then
Lucicn Boyer, the French composer, -
seen in skit, assisted by the Capitol
Ensemble. They sang Boyer's "Madelon
la Victoire" and others OF his favorites.
"Wherc Poppies Bloom" is Prizmn
picture which is very beautifully done,
with double exposures. The Capitol
Quartet sang -selections from "Thc Blue
Paradise" and special feature Of the
bill is the Capitol News, which has been
nnlarged for the occasion
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
The Stage Door

Conway Tearle In THE Mad Dog" will
be for the first time tonight at the
Comedy Theater.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
Clown Scandals at Columbia

duction. featuring Ethel Shutta. began
a weeks engagement at the Columbia
Theater yesterday. 1t is styled a
fantasy" in two acts and eight scenes.
Tho show is fully up to the excellent
standard of Columbia burlesque. Miss
Shutta is n clever performer. She had
the assistance Of Helen and Ola Hud-
son, Jack Buckley, Corinne Wilson,
Charles Pagan, Joe Van and Norman
uop1av
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
SOthern and MarIO,Ue
Pleasing in ssHan.let''
THE CAST

Horatio ...~............ Frederick Lewis
First Player ...........J Jerome Coliamore
First Gravedigger Rowland Blackstone
Second Gravedigger ........ James Hagen
Ghost of Hamet's Father Albert Howson
gertrude ....-.........,.. Alma Kruger
opnella ....... -..-...'.. julia Marlowe
For the second week of their present
Shakespearian engagement at the Cen
tury Theater, E. II. Sothern and Julia
Marlowe are appearing in Hamlet"
and the first performance took place last
night. Mr.. Sothern's representation of
the melancholy Prince of Denmark,
scholarly and mature, pleased the audi
cree, and he was called before the cur
tain many times at the end of each act.
For the most part his reading of the
lines, especially of the soliloquy, and in
the scene in the Queens closet, was
good, but in the early scenes of the
play there were several sudden and
oft-quoted speech of advice by Polonius
to his son Laertes was omitted last
night and was missed.
The scenic investfture of the Sothern
and Marlowe production is simple and
effective, and the appearance of the
ghost of the murdered King is most
convincing. One actually sees ghost
iy apparition and not an actor ca
parisoned in a filmy bit of cheesecloth,
as is so often the case in productions
of Hamlet"
Miss Marlowe's Ophelia, if not thor
oughly convincing physically, is perfect
otherwise and as artistic as ever. Last
night she was Va excellent voice. Frank
Peters played Polonius in conventional
fashion, while Rowland Blackstone, who
has been gravediggcr in Hamlet"
for many years, gave. his usually fin
ished performance. Sydney Mather,
Frederick Lewis, Jerome Collamore and
Alma Kruger were good
New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
You'H Like sSThe Skirt;
Miss Borriscale's in 1t
THE CAST

After seven years in the silent drama
Bessie Barriscale returned to the stage
last night at the Bijou Theater in
play by Howard Hickman called 1.-The
Skirt" Now, while we prefer an
audible Miss Barriscale to silent one,
we should much prefer "The Skirt" as
a screen play. The plot would lend
itself admirably to .cellulcid treatment;
and think of all the cute scenes which
could then be written in where the
heroine could ride in rodeo and
rope cattle. etc. AS it is, the author
has been forced to confine his scenes
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-10
MANY BIRDS AVOID IRELAND
Species That Are Common In England
Are Not TO Be Found In the
Emerald Isle.

One bf the curious features of wild
life In Ireland is the absence of some
of the birds best known in England.
The nightingale, for instance. is never
found In Ireland, while the wood
warbler. the redstart, all the species
of woodpecker. the wryneck, the nut
hatch and several other kinds are so
rare that they are unknown to the
great majority of the people. There
seems to be no very obvious reason
for the absence of these birds. 1t may.
perhaps, be found in the lines of mi
grafton along which the birds travel.
for most OF those mentioned above are
not resident In Britain all the year.
But 1t is certainly strange that such
a bird. for instance, as the common
whitethroat. should thrive everywhere
In Ireland. while the lesser variety is
unknown. and that while the willow
warbler Is one of the. commonest of
summer birds its larger relative, the
wood warbler. is found in only few
places and in very few numbers. Ire
land can only boast of one bird. the
hooded crow, which is not regular
visitor In the neighboring island
Christian Science Monitor.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-10

What is a season without few new
cOlorS?
Thus we have them-forward comes
some fashion authority and announces
in our midst that the four newest and
most popular colors of the present mo-
ment are rosewood, chow, aztec and
humming bird.
With rosewood we're more or less IA
miliar-we've met it In pianos, spinet,
desks and so on.
; But chowl a'Tis different st0ry-it
might be anything from a pet pup to
the food your doughboy existed on in
those mad days of memory.
sAztec-ah There's something to
conjure With The name brings visions
of bright shawls. beads and painted
feathers in which we might array our
selves and bedeck the Sunday land
scape.
As for humming bird-the subtleties
of that are left to your imagination
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-10
Mistaken Identity.

Miss Minnie Mckee lis. Terre
Haute librarian, who is not by any
means a suffragist. The other morn
ing when she started to her library
she decided to leave some notices for
delinquent books on the way. She
went to one porch. Knocked at the
door and gave the. woman. of the
house the notice, At the next house,
in which there happened to be a de-
iinquent book. she did the same thing.
And then she heard in disappearing
tones from two men who were behind
her: "Now If there isn't one of those
women candidates. Just see for your
self how masculine she looks passing
hand bills"
And one question still remains un-
answered in her mind: "Who on
earth is to deliver future delinquent
book notices ?"-Indianapolis News.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-10
CHILDREN WILL BUILD NESTS
Members of Junior Audubon Clubs
Throughout the Country Are to
Provide Bird Homes.

Birds winging their way n0rthward
just now will find 175,OO0 new houses
built for them during the last year by
boys and girls who are members OF
the $1,000 Junior Audubon clubs scat
tered over the United States and Cam
ada. the New York Evening Post
states. These youths are among the
100000 members of the organization
planted in kindergartens, grammar
schools and among groups of young
Americans by the National Audubon
society.
Each club member, after paying 10
cents as an initiation fee, starts ac-
quiring knowledge of the appearances
and habits of both songsters and the
unmusical types of birds. Through
picture books and hikes to woodland
spots they learn TO distinguish one
kind of bird from another by the kind
OF feathery clothes they wear and
how also to tell them by their eggs,
their nests and sometimes by their
chirps.
Careless hunters have found the
club members. unc0mfortably observ-
ant of those whom they suspect are
bagging more than the limit or shoot
ing out of season. Recently the asso-
citation received letter from a.sports-
man saying there We're 400. young
volunteer game wardens' in his city
exerting restraining influence upon
tricky hunters.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-10
Cane Cod Turnips.

On Cape Cod special type Of tur-
nip is being developed. Not that
there is anything unusual to be said
for the taste of this turnip as COM
pared with similar turnips raised else
where. But the interesting thing
about the Cape Cod turnip is that 1t
will grow on farms having sandy top
soil. 1t has proved useless to recon-
mend that the regular Cape Colder
move elsewhere II he wished to grow
crops that did not promise to do well
In the Barnstables and the Truros'
"why not adapt. the crops to the
land?" asks the native. The answer
is turnip with an unusually long tap
root which penetrates below the sand
stratum to the moist subsoil and
flourishes even in spots that weeds
find discOuraging.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-10
Giant French Machine.

From France it is reported that the
Establishment Schneider. of Creusot,
manufacturers of guns. armor, loco
motives and other steel products, are
hard at work on new four-engined
military airplane in. which the four
engines will be arranged in tandem
inside a central fuselage. The wing
span will be about 100 feet, and the
power plant is to consist of four en-
gines of 400 horsepower each. The
machine will be designed for bombing
work, and will carry several machine
guns. The Farman Goliath" pilot.
Lieut.. Comm. has been engaged to
test the, first machine. while 1t Is
possible that Casale, who has already
tested the Bleriot "Mammouth." will
test the second MISUNDERSTANDING
American.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-10

Several years ago l had a fancy
white dress that I kept on coat
hanger in my closet. but on close ex-
animation / noticed that the hanger
was leaving its print on the. sleeves.
In order to do away with that pinned
the dress by the belt to the back Of a
coat. One evening two friends called
and asked me to so with them to the
postoffice. AS it was cool l put on
a coat and had reached the street
when my friends simultaneously no.
ticed that was wearing the coat that
had my elaborate white dress fastened
to the back of. it. Ny embarrassment
was little short of frenzy.-C Chicago
American.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-10
Snow Geese.

The only known flock Of snow geese
In existence, containing more than o.
900. weighing an average of eight
pounds each. arrived recently at Cape
Tourmente. Quebec. on its annual
northern migration from the Southern
states. Each year the birds make this
a stopping-off place on their way to the
Labrador coast. and have been known
10 do so for more than forty years The
flock has been closely protected. and
this year moving pictures were taken
of them by the moving picture service
of the Dominion parks branch, Ottawa
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-10

Useful Bird Owned BY English Hotel
experimentation Kings Pet
Saved Royal Property.

The proprietress Of q hotel in Hert-
fordshlre owns a parrot which she has
trained to whistle In exact imitation Of
a police whistle, London Answers
states.
The birds accomplishment has come
in handy on more than one occasion
when r0wdy customers have started
to make a disturbance.
To King George belongs q parrot
which on one occasion saved York
cottage fnpm being burgled. The royal
family we're at dinner. when suddenly
loud cries we're heard coming from an
upper room where the bird was kept.
'Iook Oufr'.if screamed. Look out
Look oui r.
A hurried rush upstairs resulted In
the discovery that one of the bedroom
windows had been forced open, the
burglars having secured access to 1t
by means OF ladder brought from. a
nelghboring clubhouse On the alarms
being raised by the parrot they prompt
ly bolted
Parrots. however. are not Invariably
on the side of the police. Frank Wood
stock. the famous liking of the coiners."
eyaded arrest for years owing to one
he possessed.
His mint" was situated at the bot
tom of a blind alley In the borough,
and the bird, whose cage was placed
In such position that IL commanded
the entrance to the court, had been
trained TO give instant warning of the
approach OF strangers.