Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-03
HTHE last WALTZ" is an en-

"THE last WALTZ" is an en-
courdOiug cridencc maj re
hnrcu't net lost OHr taste fOr rcdWV
GOOD music of the lighter sort and tor
the class of opercttu INIT has 80 many
honored names in its roster. It's pres.
Cnt success has led IN me rcrirdi ot
"The Chocolate Soldier" which ought
10 get here toward the Cnd ot hiS
season.
IT'S funny to watch the psychological
L effect Of billing n stage attraction ms
coming from some foreign country. 1t
seems to give II II prestige with audi
cnceS. and American audiences are not
alone in this weakness.
a year ago last March dropped into
MontpvidcO. Uruguay. after n long
voyage M from below the Horn. and.
like all visitors to that South American
capital. went the first evening to the
TeatrO RPalr 10 sec the vaudeville bill
and mix in the cabaret aftprward
The headlines on the program were
"rhc Musical AvolOs." who were billed
~ Americans and the urcmicrs of
vandevillianS up here. There were
three men who played Xylophoncs and
girl who sang. | remember the girl
especially because II was the first time
! had heard the good old United States
, language for about six months and. in
spite of her Middle Western accent. it
sure did sound like music.
The act went big down there below
the equator and the fact that it was
billed as coming from this country
helped its prestige. for our movies and
our theatrical ideas are good deal
more popular there than our politics or
business Inptb
Last Thursday night dropped into
tn" ChrS-Op House for my weekly en-
ioymcnt of the vaudeville fare. and the
first name that met my eye in running
down the program was "Thrrr Musical
AvooS-England' Premier Nyophon-
lists. ! waited to see If they were my
AvolOs from Montcvidco. And they
we're. But the girl wasn't with them.
In Uruguay they were Americas
are Englan''s ditto. I'm not criticiz-
ing. We like it that way. and 80 do
the Iruguayians. And it just happens
that the AvOloS can do it cgitimatcly.
for they are British horn American cit
liens.
nEBONAlR and dappcr Leo Dit
- rirhstcin nS the 'homclicSt man
in the world '" Sounds impossible.
doesn't it? And yet that is lust the
role that this "Grcat Lover" of the
stage has IN now comedy. which he
viii present for IL single week next
Monday. It's frCm the Italian of Saba
tinO Lopez, and when DitrichStcin first
staged it they called "Thnt IIomcly
llCnriqu"z. but they've shortened that
into Face Value which may not
mean so much. but is easier to say.
The scenes of Face Value" are laid
IN New York. Whlrh in itself Is un-
usual Tor Ditrichstcm play. "Toto"
and "rhe Purple Mask and 1.-The
Marquis de Prioln" all had French set.
tings. However, DitrichStcin plays the
rol" of foreigner, Il Cuban this time,
who knows he's the homclicst man in
New York, but still feels he's more at
IT, hi' $ T,,, AFRAID TO ,""K IN the the glass and
bripht Iirht 50 h" docs his 'Drn Drnnn.iu" %
Win thr lichts law and rho I,Jy'r ownc
turnnL ovnv \n,urnlIv hi" |oico l.,
the sane old DitrichStein voice, even
thourL no Jnn. wrnr - rod ui, ond W."
! sjpLtIv "op~lcs "''' "''
|
~r,v- uEI<>Lp oa 49, ,.,,,,
was ""' 'Il'li'"'
~ bcgGar ~ 'kiSmct, IN Italian
warrior IN 'frenc"Srn dn Riminl. u
I tr"nrhman in "Ihc Honor OF the Fam
NY. an Italian organ grinder In MIR.
Antonio and now h" Is Spanish
bull Fighter in '''Iuod and sand, dra-
mAtiIcd from the liIaSco lbaneH novel,
which comes to the Broad Monday.
The acting OF colortul, romantic parts
has always been the Skinner forte. and
in order to ma ke the present one of 'El