Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-10

Then on Tuesday came q break in the
weather and a few hot nights cut down
the attendance by about a third. Still,
at that, 1t was good business for this
time Of year and the showmen are par
ticularly we'll satisfied because they had
looked forward 10 slow opening.
Two more lcgit houses will be lightcu
during next week. The Walnut opens
tonight the Adelphu on Monday The
South Broad will get into the running
on the twenty sixth with "A Bill Of
Enforcement and little later tine
Chestnut Street Opera House will start
it's career as a Shubert vaudeville house
and the Garrick will come back to legit
with the ending of the run Of Tue
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
It looks like an unusually good season
from the viewpoint of the theatre goer.
The winter will bring a rich variety of
serious. semi serious and not so semi
that will please all tastes and, according
to the verdicts Of audiences in other
cities, there are a number of new shows
which are quite above the average.
All the way along the pennsy road to
New York, where the farmers cultivate
rich crop Of advertising signboards,
YOU will see Jams
ne Didn't Want sen Wants to See
to Make Money You at the HOfi J.
days, il used to mean more to you than it
does now. But Papa Jansen docsn {
care He. has made his and he doosn
have to worry much If he mislays Il
strip of car tickets.
Papa Jansen has learned a lot about
lifc in general, but there is one man in
the world whom he cannot understand.
That man is his son. Werner.
When Werner was big enough to
wear Papa's old ones. the boy began
TO develop an individuality. And Papa
couldn't get II at all. He wanted Wer-
ner to learn the business and, when the
time came, just take over the Hofbrau
and the various bank accounts and read
the financial pages of the newspapers.
Werner wouldn't. They began to
fight about il. Papa insisted on making
Werner rich: Werner insisted on
making himself an individual. And one
day Werner didn't come down 10 break
fast. They searched his room but he
and some Of his clothes were gone.
The trouble was that Werner wanted
70 study music. Papa declared II was
fcolish-that they could hire all the
music they wanted. though the unions
were constantly raising their scales
and demanding shorter hours and ex-
tras. Werner didn't want to hire it;
he wanted to BE it.
Next they heard of Werner, be was
working his way through Dartmouth
College-waiting on table in one OF the
frat houses or clubs or something. And
he was a good waiter. He had learned
that at the IIofbrau.
He went through the whole musical
works at collegc-harmony. instrumen-
tation. highbrow. lowbrow and song
and dance. And he began to compose.
Little things at first. and then bigger
things.
About the time he was leaving COL
lege. Oliver Morosco put on show
called Love Dreams out in Los An
geles. II was n pleasing drama, and
Il went fairly we'll, though II didn't
bust the speed regulations. Morosco
wasn't satisfied. He liked the story
and felt that something big could be
done with it. Then he conceived the
idea of turning it into a new form of
play: he would have a good score com
posed for it and put it out as melody
drama.
Somebody told him about the young
Dartmouth waiter chap who had been
composing a lot of melodies that Clung
to the memory and insisted on being
hummed while you lathered for YOUR
morning SnNNe, AOTOStO SPUL lot lllu .
Morosco knew Papa Jensen. OF course,
But he hadn't the slightest suspicion
that this young waiter chap was any
relation.
He told Werner what he wanted.
Werner bubbed over. Great. He'd
love to try il. So he wrote a score
with fourteen musical numbers and took
II to Morosco. Then Morosco bubbled
over. Greater. 1t was 50 good he com
missioned the Young waiter to write
him show for Charlotte Greenwood
werner's doing that now. Meantime,
Love Dreams" hopes you'll like its
young musical father. 1t opens the
Walnut Street Theatre tonight. anC
young Werner will be among thost
present.
But Papa Jansen wont be- there
He hasn't forgiven Werner vet. The
idea Of a young fellow. with comfort
able fortune and a going business ready
TO fall into his lap. and here he goes
and makes one of those musician fell
lers out OF himself When. if he
only behaved himself. hc could easily
hire all the musicians he wanted to
Now | ask you.
Percy Goggles, the horn. trimmed Cor