Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-19
Mr.. Cdrle Tells
Bad Jokes and
Makes You Lauqh
BY JAMES WHITAKER

another bit of last years Greenwich
Village Follies, large chunk O
1918 vaudeville, and whose remain
ing per cent is contributed by 81,
authors and composers, does nothing
so much as bring Richard Garlic bacl
to Broadway. Mr.. Carrie is for,
tunately all over the stage at nearly
all times. He has the happy faculty
of fitting snugly into any hand-me.
down of a show. which is what "The
Broadway Whirl" is.
What is particularly lovablc about
Mr.. Carle is that he and you have
so much fun with his bad Jokes
Anybody can crack good joke. Mr.
Carle will now show us how tc
crack bad one.
Prayed Topics Funny.
,Mr. Carle talked about wood
alcohol, income tax, and other frayed
topics and, honestly, he was funny
here is pleasant irony under Mr.
Carries naked skull and purple cut
away. If you care to trace it back
wards from your symptomatic side
ache, you will find that the laugh
that you laugh is at the laugh that
Mr.. Carle laughs at your laughter.
1t is very funny, insinuates Mr..
Carrie, that you should be so easily
amused, He is right. 1t is per-
fectly ridiculous.
Blanche Left Flat.
The piece enfolds Miss Blanche
Ring, who has been another absentee,
less happily. Though everybody
concerned, including Miss Ring, tried
prodigiously, nothing came OF the
music to revive memories of Blanche
Ring warbling "Rings on Your Fing-
ers," into the hearts of a milan
pianolions. The music left Miss
Ring flat.
Miss Winona Winter, who is also
ventriloquist, sings Poppy Land"
borrowed melody and this good
song stands out like the mint on a
julep. But Miss Winters other voice
is her best one.
Title Suggested Once.
When an obscure young lady,
whose name-Virginia Birmingham
= barely manages to creep into the
printed cast, dashes out of a row of
pretty girls at one moment of the
evening, the title of the show is at
once and only this once, unerringly
suggested.
Apart from the enumerated Incl.
dents and persons, The Broadway
Whirl,' with nice girls in the chorus,
an enormous amount of scene shift
ing and at least two numbers which
call for the presence of the nice
girls in the aisles, turns out to be
very average summer stuff. 1t can
pleasantly numb an overheated brain.
Battle of Actors.
The actors had bitter all-night
battle last Sunday when two rival
groups of them--the Lambs and
the Actors Fidelity league-held
synchronous benefits in neighboring
theaters. 1t usually takes deal of.
explaining to tell what benefit is
about. These will take even more.
There was once chorus girl and
Leonard Merrick wrote a story about
.how she paid for her own pair of
stockings. Then there was a strike
about how Mr.. Shubert should pay
fcr her pairs of stockings. Then the
actors disagreed about how Mr.. Shu-
bert should pay for her pair of stock
ings. Then the pair of stockings got
split and some actors. who banded to-
gether as the Fidelity league, got
Mr. Shubert to pay FOR one stocking
in their way and some other actors,
wLo organized as the Equity associa-
ton, got Mr.. Shubert to pay for the
other stocking in their way. And
row Miss Flossie Thespia dances in
free stockings, but they do not
match and, because their colors
quarrel, so do Thespia's legs and
she is continuously treading pain
fully on her own feet.
Lambs Win on Endurance.
II was by what looked suspicious
" like a scheme that the Lambs,
who represe, equity, gamboled on
the night Of the Fidelity show. The
two entertainments developed into
a contest for endurance and general
trillance. The Lambs scored for
endurance, playing IN the Hippo
drome until the small hours. The
Fidelity folk were more brilliant
They had Mrs. Fiske. Miss Julia
Arthur, Margaret Anglin, Chauncey
Olcott, George Cohan, Henry Miller
and Frances Starr.
In the Hippodrome De Wolf
Hopper, as spokesman for the Equi-
~. hurled a vociferous challenge at
the enemy in the New Amsterdam
theater. In the New Amsterdam
theater Cohan, as spokesman for the
Fidelity, made do or die speech
in which he advanced the grewsome
suggestion that the bitter animosi-
ties of the numerically stronger
Equity, backed by the American
FEDERATION of Labor, would force
Fidelity actors off the stage this
fall, when, according 10 rumors
from both camps, the ultimate bat
tie between the right leg and the
left leg is to be fought.
To Play in Tent.
II am ready to play in a tent
Mr.. Cohan told Mrs. Fiske, Miss
Arthur, Miss Starr and Miss Anglin,
ard advised them to prepare like
wise.
Great will be the lament of Pag-
l;scci if all these things come to
pass. 1t is utterly ridiculous, but
ol,:te probable that Thespia will
solve this problem of mismated hose