The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-01-22
Satire and Thrills
Earn $4,000 for
the Actors Fund
Five Minute Playlet So Good
1t Is Done Over for
Encore.

The annual benefit for the Actors
Fund. which is coming TO be known for
the manner In which IT presents some of
the most striking novelties OF the the
atrical season, lived up to it's reputation
by revealing to the hundreds who
jammed the Century Theatre yesterday
afternoon dramatic encore. The Same
walls In the past had echoed to an oper-
attic encore when a scene from clas-
sic work was repeated because OF the
applause, but it's safe to say this was
the first time when a whole dramatic
piece was done over again in view of its
warm reception.
The piece in question was one act
play called The Triangle" by Alexan-
der Leftwich, described as "a drama of
yesterday. to-day and tomorrow and
therefore immutably bound 20 be sktt
on the problem play.
The sketch was short, sharp and de-
cisive, and moved so fast that 1t was
only at the end the audience laughingly
caught it's satirical import, and even
then bewilderment held the plurality.
So Edmund Breese in curtain speech
explained that in view of its enthusiastic
greeting the piece would be done over
again. Then the knowing audience
laughed IFS fill at the playlet. which
slkilfnlly compressed into five min utes
the dramatic rawlings of many three
hour play. The satire was heightened
by the fact that the principal parts
were filed by players known for their
serious work in such pieces, and
Florence Reed Edmund Breese. Vincent
Serrano and Henry Stephenson tore II to
bits as though they were enjoying hoii-
day from school.
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granme, the best so far presented for
the fund. which made Daniel Frohman,
the president happier by more than
5000. Another amusing travesty was
"Fancy This" in which Lionel Braham
Horace Braham, Alfred Gerard and
others showed the crime wave inundat-
ing q police station, with plenty Of girls
and music in tow. Herbert Corthell
and Helen Ware. in a prologue to Love
and Kisses" showing love scenes from
current and recent hits, did one OF the
most diverting introductions for this
kind of act seen In long time, with
Miss Ware revealing musical comedy
ambitions and the roly-poly Corthell ex-
posing his desire to play emotion roles
and train down to the romantic
weight"
Margaret Anglin, Holprook Blinn
Dorothy Donnelly and Bruce McRae die
powerful work in THE Recoil." 6
thriller from the Grand Guignol. Paris
which put a kink in the nerves. Mis-:
Julia Arthur spoke a prologue to the
afternoons entertainment written by
Charles Hanson Towne after Ford
Dabney's syncopated orchestra from the
Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic" had cleared
the air.
Others who offered turns were Sean
lon. Demo Brothers and Scanion II
dances, Ada Mae Weeks in songs ant
dances, Alphonz Either in limitations
Janet velie and Jack MCGOWAN. will
Louis Hirsch. doing ''rhe Love Nest
from Mary :" the six Brown Brothers
!. Nora Bayes i'm songs right out of He
Family Tree Savoy and Brennan from
THE Greenwich Villese Follies." De
stree Lubovska in gavotte and Fred
Stone from Tip Top
AS the final. striking feature color
full pageant, Ports OF the World wa!
presented, with Miss Gladys Hanson
from Mecca" representing New York
supported by United States Navy sailors
and a score of society girls. who slighte'
no big seaport, not even Hoboken.