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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
Varied Career Of Lester Allen.
Lively Comedian of "'Scandals''

Some years ago there was street
faker who gained precarious living
travelling about the country as the zone
Man Band" He had a bass drum to
which was attached several instruments
and the musician, by using both hands
elbows, knees and feet, and his mouth,
gave a fairly voluminous concert.
Lester Allen, the diminutive come
dian with George Whites scandals"
at the Liberty, is sort of one man
band himself. He is actor, coined Ian.
singer and dancer rolled into one small
package, and although he does not play
on any instrument in the present
Scandals" he did do so in the first
edition, and there is more than one
instrument in the orchestra upon which
ne could perform creditably if it be-
came necessary Lester Allen is gen
orally credited with being product
'of the burlesque stage, but this is not
the case, although he has been in bur
lesque.
He comes from a theatrical family
and his name is combination that was
derived from the vaudeville team of
Lester and Allen, one we'll remembered
hy the old timers who used to go to
Tony Pastors Theater in Fourteenth
Street when that famous playhouse was
the only vaudeville-then called iva
rlety"- theater which played to women
audiences. Paul Allen, of the team,
was Lester Aliens uncle and the
youngster was called Lester in honor
OF his uncle's partner.
Lester Allen went with a traveBng
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
Miss. Watson Goes Back Some
Years---for Old Times Sake

During the final days of rehearsals
OF "Ehe Temperamentalists,' the COM
edy by Harry Wagstaff Gribble, which
comes to the Bijou Theater on Au-
gust 8, the presentation, according to
schedule, was threatened by the with
Grawal of one of the cast. w. H. Gill
more, who is staging the play, and the
playwright, were in quandary as to
where they should turn For some one
tc fill the part when Lucille Watson, re-
Gently of the cast of "Heartbreak
House." dropped in to watch a re-
hearsal She had come in from New
Rochelle to bring her dog to g veterina-
rian. When she learned of the diff
fculty she Immediately volunteered to
play the part.
"But my dear Miss Watson" said
Mr.. Gilmore, cts an old lady You
wouldn't want to play an old LADY,"
"Who said / wouldn't?" replied Miss
Watson. "I'm simply exploding to
play anything. My dear Mr.. Gilmore,
If you had been for four months in
the country struggling wich house
and all the problems appurtenant
thereto-if you had supelin,ended the
Transformation of cottage into a
double duplex suburban vilia-why, Pm
simply
"You don't really mean to say you'd
take the part and play it?" cried Mr..
Gilmore joyously
why, Of course l will, Haven't I
told you so?" answered Miss Watson.
And as for it's being an old lady, why,
at twenty one played an old lady of
fifty-five in Clyde Fitch's Captain
J:nks of the Horse Marines and a
year later played disreputable old
woman in Carrots Besides, you know,
| should particularly like to play this
part to pave the way for the revival of
repertoircs, in which every one has to
play every kind of part. By the way,
you know, the repertoire has got to
come back. 1t is the only solution of
all the troubles the managers are ex-
periencing with the costs of production
and transportation. And, besides, |
am personally very much interested in
The Temperance In way |
feel like it's godmotner. I christened
1t; and | supplied Norma Mitchell to
Mr.. Gribble for the try-out.
"You know, believe in Miss Mitch
ell tremendously, and know tina. the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31

part of Claudio is just the part she
needs to come into her own. And now
that | am going to play in it my
SELF"
will you really, Lucille ?" cried Miss
Mitchell.
Haven't I just told you 1 will
Norma, please don't interrupt me!
Now, where was II"
Christening Miss Mitchell or the
play, or something" prompted Mr.. Gill
more.
ooh, yes" continued Miss Watson.
"Now that am godmother to the play,
| feel that no ble,sing will come to 1t
unless am right with it all the time
to watch its growth and DEVELOPMENT,
! The play was tried out by Mr.. Gribble
! and his coworkers in the most extraor-
| binary circumstances, and from the
moment of the inception of the idea
and right through the preliminary re-
] hearsals for the try-out was so keen
ly interested in the project and it's
results that my feet were just tingling
tc tread the boards in it myself.
/ "You know, / feel that my little dog
was made sufficiently sick just so |
could pay this casual visit to you all
to find you in your difficulty and so
help you out of it,"
Say no more,' said Mr.. Gilmore,
Come up to the Office. The contract.
are calling you"
And she did
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31

circus when very young, where he
learned all the tricks Of the saw
dust ring, just as Fred Stone had done
before him, and it was that comedian
whom the youthful Allen tried to copv
III those days. Dancing always seemed
TO come natural to him, anyway, SO it
wasn't so hard for him to become an
acrohatlc dancer after his circus train
ing. But the experience which really
uncovered the young Comedians talent
came IN stock companies. His first en-
gagement in this field was with Emma
buntlng, q popular stock actress, who
was the idol at one time of theater fans
in the Far West and Southwest. While
with her Lester played all sorts of char
acters. In two years he appeared with
that company in nearly hundred diff
ferent parts, ranging from juvenile
leads to octogenarians.
If they had put on Hamlet I would
have tackled any enc of them" he said
from the title role to Guildenstern or
Polonius or even Ophelia."
1t was this experience that gives the
comedian his ease on a first night and
ability to grapple with any emergency
that may arise.
Young Allen, like most comedians
would really rather play serious roles,
but his size prevents any thought of
dong SO. His favorite character in fic-
ton is DArtognan in "The Three Mus
keteers."
Il know will never have chance to
play that fellow seriously" he says,
put some day hope to have a chance
10 burlesque him in a revue, and III do
1t SO earnestly that he will know that /
love him, just the same"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
Motion Picture Day Aug. 25

Eleven motion picture producing and
distributing companies have designated
August 20 as motion picture day."
Free screen service will be given to all
exhibitors who contribute SO per cent
of their receipts on that day to gen
eral fund. The fund has two purposes
to finance cooperative work for the
protection of the industry and to con-
tribute to charities and humanitarian
relief organizations, thus avoiding So
llcitations in motion picture theaters.
Each state will have motion picture
protective committee of twelve mem
hers-nine exhibitors and three ex-
change men representing the producers
and distributors. The state committees
will collect the funds raised, keeping
two-thirds of the total and sending the
remainder to the motion picture pro-
tectiye committee in New York, which
is composed of producers and distrib-
utorS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
Wbe Gnnlutint1 of q 5tar
Eeo1t Grrol


Leon Enrol, co-starring with Mari
lynn Miller in "Sally," the ziegfeld
musical comedy success at the New
Amsterdam Theater came to America
from Australia twenty-five years ago.
The particular trick for which he is
most celebrated, the impersonation of
a man happily inebriated, has been one
of the staple things of his repertoire
during his career in America, and even
before. While New York has seen
many Enrol inebriates all of those with
Whlch it is acquainted are concerne d
with the comic aspect of the matter
One of the parts which Enrol PLAYED
in Australia, however, was that of
Eccles in "Caste," one of the most
celebrated drunken men in all dra-
matte literature. Whether Enrol in
tends to- essay this role in New York is
Pfoblematical, for it probably would
require many months of patient in
-struction to persuade a New York audi
ence that it ought not to laugh at an
Enrol drunk.
An Instructive Flair
For the Comic Stage
Enrol was intended by his father for
the medical profession and ct the aee
of fourteen was placed in a sort of
medical apprenticeship, which con-
tlnued through his school and. college
days In Sydney. Naturally, the fair
for the comic began to show itself LONG
before the medical course was COM
pleted, and there are indications that
the younger Enrol was often a source
OF not little unhappiness on the part
OF Enrol pere. In the words of Enrol
he was constantly "clowning about
HIS acquaintance with the stage was
formed gradually and at first without
the knowledge of his parents. In his
sophomore year at college young Enrol
In addition to his academic and medi-
Cal lahors, found time to write, stage
and act in a variety of amateur musi-
cal melanges, which were given by the
coliegians at "smoke concerts" the
principal diversion of Sydney clubmen
Most Of his ability at this sort of
thing seems to have been instructive
for as boy he never saw the inside
of a theater.
His first makeup as a comedian was
PATTERNED after performer whom he
saw represented on a three-sheet out
side Sydney music hall. In those
days all low comedians-particula
English low comedians-were cred
nosed comics" with neckties as red as
their noses, baggy trousers and big
shoes.
1t was at college operetta of his
own composition that Enrol first APP
Peared as a red-nosed comic, and on
this occasion, too, that he first ap-
peared in the character of an inebriate.
The operetta was successful and the
comedian more $3.50 much so, in fact,
that the news speedily reached the
Enrol household. The family came to
see for itself, and the result was the
summoning of young Enrol to his
fathers office. There he was fatty
charged with disgracing the family
and informed by his father that his
mother had wept at his performance.
He went home contrite, prepared to
give up all thought of stage career,
only to discover, when he reached
home, that his mother had wept tears
of laughter, not of sorrow. The result
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31

hrlanger CHANGED to witness the pro-
euctlon and was SO taken by the work
OF Enrol he decided that he must have
him Immediately.
Mr.. Erlanger paid $4,000 for his
release, intending to present him in q
musical piece called "The Primrose
PATH" but for some reason that play
was never produced. Florenz Ziegfeld
Jr. then took him over and gave him
part in 'The Winsome Widow at
the New York Thester. After that he
went into the 1911 'Foliies" and re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31

NAMED an important part of that in
stitution for four seasons. After leav.
ing the "FoIlies," in 1915, he appeared
IN The Century Cir" which he part.
ly staged, and after that in TIVE
"Hitchy Koo" shows.
In 1918 he was in vaudeville and the
reXt year he went to London to appear
at the Hippodrome in ''Joy Bells" On
hls return to America Mr.. ziegfeld
agreed to star him as soon as he could
find suitable vehicle. And then came
"Sally.p
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
National 'Iheater, New House of
Intimate Type, TO Open Aug, Is
Many Novelties of Construction in Walter c. lor
dams Playhouse in 4lst Street; To PLAY
Legitimate Productions

Walter c. Jordan's National Theater,
the latest addition to the list of first
class Broadway playhouses, is now
nearing completion in F'orty-6rst Street,
at the entrance to all the subways
and within 100 steps Of Times Square
This theater, the plans Of which were
designed and executed by William Neil
Smith, is the first venture Of Walter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
Interesting Chat and Stage Gossip for Playgoers
The Nightingale Marbles
Cayly i'm S'The Skylark' -
Watch Your Galleries, Says Marguerite Sylvia, if You
Would Be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise;
Not to Add Slim and Beautiful

they keep so thin? ?" we asked Margue-
rita "How come 2"
"Calories," she replied, gayly.
Watch Your Galleries. think that is
the name of the book. 1t tells you
just how. to become any weight you
want to be-. I reduced thirty-fve
pounds and then stopped, Now, just
for amusement | juggle with five
pounds to prove that l can do it. If
put it on one week l. take it off the
next
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31

y. jordan as owner and operator "a, :.
metropolitan house, although for \.
best part Of a busy lifetime he has h.s-
the head and active factor in ,...
and successful institution for .tba sss
ding and exploitation Of the. n,a...
and players of Europe and Ams,isa
Out Of thus experience and with an :,
innate personal knowledge of tina ~.
aters in New York, London. pariu D..
lin, Vienna and other theatrica, oa,
ters of the world. Mr.. Jordan belisvo.
be has realized the best and most hoo.
tiful, the bappiest and the most sc;sn
tifc plan and features for his ns,,
land only theater, which will be ready
to open about August Is.
In the first place the Nas;on.,
Theater achieves the paradoxical f.a,
Of being both capacious and an -.
innate house. It contains 1900 scar,
and yet every seat IS near the stase
The lofty and commodious balconr
which contains half the seating canac.
ity Of the National, offers the singular
effect of an upward-sloping ceiling to
those in the parquet, or orchestra
Instead of the downward, awning-like
effect produced by the balcony slops
in all other modern theaters, the ceil-
ing under the balcony slopes at a
goodly angle toward the peak of the
proscenium, the result being an en-
iarged radius of vision, with an added
sense of spaciousness and freedom to
those seated under the balcony pro-
lection.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
A True American
Is Marguerite

And now Nine. Sylvia speaks without
trace Of any accent. She even has an
absolutely, all American sense of
humor. She is American, if you except
her great black eyes, her cream and
peach complexion and her dark hair
with glints of red in it. These seem to
be from Spain, even if Nine. Sylvia was
born in Brussels.
"Did you notice how thin l have
become?" she asked after the maid
had shown us all of the gowns, hats
and evening coats and we had tried on
the black hat of our desire. Now if one
sees Mme. Sylvia at all one must notice
how her figure has changed. She used
to be what Eddie Cantor calls chilly"
In short, she looked like a grand opera
singer. Now she is OIL sylphike,
and for the benefit of all those trust
ing souls who write to us and say, 'You
know all Of the actresses. How do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31

was that he made immediate prepare
lions to take his show on tour; his
father decided that further attempts
to educate him would be futile, and
young Enrol became professional
performer.
The Dramatic Stage
Was Not His Forte
The next season he Joined another
company, but once outside his own
jurisdiction he was not permitted to
play what he pleased, and the result
was that he was cast in straight parts
He had some success as Juvenile, but
fasically his talent was not for the
dramatic stage, and he presently re-
turned to the musical stage He went
into musical reloa rtoire, and during the
next few years played all the popular
light operas of the day. Between
times he went out occasionally with 4
company of his own, being on those
occasions author, manager, producer
and stage director. Invariably, in these
entertainments, he also appeared as
| red-nosed comic. Even the music of
these shows, incidentally, was written
by Enrol, although there is nothing to
show that he is possessed Of great vir
tuosity in that line.
Enrol came to Anne RIGA upon the wb;n,
OF the moment. He was home in Svd-
ney after a tour-his father had long
since forgiven him-when an American
boat in the harbor arrested his eve.
1t happened that he knew an actor who
was sailing on her and since he would
nave company he decided to go along.
when he arrived in San Francisco he
was hooted in the streets for the cut of
ms clothes-his stick, his spats, were
not such as to gain for him the kind re-
gard of city full of Pacific Coasters
and native sons. His Australian accent
also was so marked that for many
weeks he was not only unable to obtain
work, but found it almost impossible
to make himself understood in con-
versation.
His American Debut
In Frisco Beer Garden
His first job in America was to en-
terrain an audience at beer garden
"chutes" is the word on the Coast He
was given a try-out in his street
clothes, which the chutes manager evil
IDENTIFY mistook for character makeup.
When he sang coster songs the audi
ence groaned and followed that bv
showering him with popcorn and pea
nut shells. His eccentric dancing, how
ever, was done without an accent and
caught the crowds fancy. The manager
at once offered to engage him for the
season, with the stipulation that he
should dance and not sing.
The first manager of any reputation
to engage him was John Cort. for
whom he played a season of musical
comedy stock in Salt Lake CITY. There
followed several hectic seasons spent
IN writing, producing and acting butt
it was not until 1911 that he came to
New York By this time he had drift
ed into the burlesque field and was an
Fearing IN an entertainment bearing
the name of ''The Lilies" Enrol had
written the show and produced it and
was the principal comedian as we'll.
In these circumstances, of course, it
need hardly be added that he was
enjoying himself as red-nosed comic.
Whlle the organization was playing in
New York, at the columbia, A. L.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-02
PROPOSALS

Sealed BIDS and proposals will be re-
ceived on July 9Th. 1921. at 1880 p. M.
STANDARD Time) by the Council in the
Council Chambers at the City Hall, Perth
Amboy, N. j., for the construction Of q
sanitary sewer in Carson Avenue from
Compton Avenue to Brace Avenue.
The work to be done embraces thu
building of approximately 800 lineal feet
of 81 sewer, with all appurtenances.
Specifications and blank forms Of pro-
posals can be obtained and detail plans
examined at the office Morgan = Lar-
son, City Engineer, M Smith Street.
Perth Amboy, N. J.. Full sets@ plana
and specifications will be sent tsSSz con-
tractor on the receipt OF ten deEf
same to be returned on surrender"ox this
plans In good condition within thirty days
Of the award.
Each bid must be accompanied BY =
certified check or cash In the am >unt OF
$500. 90 payable to the order of the Treas
urer of the City of Perth Amboy, without
any conditional endorsement. The success
full bidder will be required to furnish .
surety company bond in the amount OF
the contract price, conditioned for the
faithful performance of the work and in
Identifying the City of Perth Amboy from
all suits. or actions Of any name OF
description.
The Council reserves the right to reject
any or all bids, If in their opinion It II 10
the best interest of the City so to do.
A. F. Mufspz.
Street Commissioner
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-02
Today and Monday at Ditmas.

Good Women" the Robertson
Cole super-special. directed by
Louis j. Cashier, will be seen for
the last time tonight at the Ditmas
theatre. This unusual production,
from the pen Of c. Gardner Sulli-
van, has pleased the audience at
every performance.
William Christy Cabanne's new
Robertson-Cole super-special pro-
duction whats a Wife Worth ?"
will be the leading. attraction at the
Ditmas theatre beginning Monday
for a run of three days. Mr.. Cab
anne. who was the author and di-
rector Of 1.-The Stealers," has given
the screen one Of the most whole
some comedy-dramas in his latest
picture. Critics agree that the photo
play, Judged from all angles, is as
near perfection as possible.
The story tells of the marriage OF
a wealthy mans son and a village
belle. OF the early disruption of the
union by malicious acquaintance.
How. following the divorce, a son is
born and how the mother sees in him
the image of his father and is de-
voted to him. The wealthy mans
son marries again and a baby is
Born to his second wife. but dies.