The Washington herald., 1921-11-01
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Day By Day
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NEW York. Oct. si--strip po-
ker. has received sttention from a
critical press lately. due to carry
inss-on in Hollywood, but not ANTI
last week was the jsuntx. i6solsnce
Of this feature OF Americafi life
anaiyzed by the Broadway drama.
The overwhelming theme OF Avery
Hopwood's latest bIay Is strip
poker" 49,
Mr.. Hepwood Is the paIe-faced
youth who has furnished the satyrfc
FRANKS and blunt aphrodisiacs for
half dozen plays this season for
Al Woods With the proceeds wood,
builds q chain of theaters across
the country and produces a few
helpful dramas that pay only skim
by returns.
"Dearie," said Al to me on, Broad
way the other day-he calls all his
pals Dearie--watch out for this
number. It's a pip. snappier than
Getting Gertie's Carter 1t looks
almost good enough for a PINCH
And Of course, IL the police swoop
down on it, it means a fortune for
this astute East Side boy who be-
gan producing EDNA. the Pretty
Typewriter" ''The Bowery After
Dark and a long string Of thrilling
ten. twent and thirts.
hopwood, however, seems unable
to get quite enough of the old Sam.
T. Jack Burlesque punch across. He
is, as one Broadwayite expressed 1t,
too darn dedicated" The play with
the strip poker, theme Is merely
brazen piece Of pornology-stupid
when 1t isn't venaL
People may laugh at Woods yer
despite his prediction for bedroom
dramas ! admire him more than
most Broadway managers. He's al
ways putting his cards on the table
Woods Is rough and tumble guy
from tough ward. He has no frills.
He doesn't burn incense in his office.
wear trick clerical collars nor talk
about uplifting the dramas. He pro-
duces. as he says. for ''the old Jack"
Once a playwright was protesting
to AL about a certain actress Sc
lected for a part. You want a more
etherial type" said the playwright.
This Is not merely for an ingenue.
You want some girl who suggests
the spirituelle-indeedS the faint
futter of an angels wings"
Yes said Woods, but where the
bloody hell you goin' to get a mutt
like that?"
Overheard at Che Rendezvous,
one of the stuntiest of the new mid
nigh supper clubs! They were re-
volving about on the dance floor.
She-I know something you don't
know!
He-what's that?
She-You're on my foot.
New York has an impressive way
OF receiving its visitors. An Italia n
general put up at an inn in my
neighborhood the other morning. A
half hour before he left his steamer
squad of police drove all curb au-
tomobiles off the street
Soon platoons of mounted police
stationed themselves about the no.
tel. Far away came the bark of a
hundred motorcycles-the advance
guard to clear the traffic.
Then rush OF motorcycles that
surrounded the general and his staff.
When the general finally stepped
from his car the streets for five
blocks in either direction were
packed and damned with pushing,
neck-craning humanity.
II the general had got in an au-
tomobile and driven to his hotel in
the usual way not a soul would have
noticed him. We are quite used to
generals in New York. One new one
fails to thrill.
Down at a Bowery theater on
amateur night a hefty blondeSca
out and attempted to hit high c.
after sc had gone through several
bars someone in the gallery
shouted: Take that voice out and
get it pressed@
Louis H. chaIif, the Russian ballet
master. gave the Washington Irv-
ing High School, students his idea
OF true artist in an address the
other day. He said: when we find
the phenomenal mind of the scien-
tist. the reasoning powers, spiritual
ity and morals of a philosopher and
the creative powers OF a super
genius. We have thef true artist
and only then"
A lot of vaudeville artists" ]
know don't measure up to this,
WHn,C UUun Fny.