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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-04-08
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other. Thus woodchuck has nothing
10 do with wood and chuck but is q
variation of the Indian wejack. Bow
spirit introduced into French became
beau-pre beautiful field); and Me-
thuselah in French became Matthews
ale (salted Matthew A statue OF the
Gallic chioftain Iercingetorix erected
in rural France was locally canonized
and regerenced as that Of the patron
saint merely because the last four
syllablcs suggested Saint Gretorix e
saint no one else had over heard of
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-04-08
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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-04-08

ancc Clemson went to
Gay to inspec; her farm
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
As Marie Doro Paints the
Fielded Lily, She Is No Drone
IN MIR. Solomons Day the Lily May Not Have
Toilcd, but i'm MIR. Hurlbut's Generation
She Most Decidedly Does
By Harriette Undcrhill

those days. didn't have this longing
for other worlds to conquer"
And you are not going to make any
more pictures?"
~ don't think so; not now, at any
rate. One of the most intere sting
things about being on the stage is
watching the audience as you play to
them. In this Lilies of the Field /
can always tell the terribly respectable
from the only mildly respectable. The
superlatively respectable ones laugh
loudly and without reserve at the say
ings of the "Lilies." The partly respect
able ones are very careful and do not
laugh at all until they arc sure no one
is looking at them"
And we were glad that we sat SO far
back when we viewed the "Lilies" that
Miss Doro couldn't see us. She hasn't
thing on US.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30

he-Sewins- Machine Girl" type of play,
musical comedy, straight drama, light
comedy, farce, romantic offerings and
in fact, everything. The fact that he
appeared in twenty original Broadway
productions doesn't mem that he hasn't
done his share of stock acting and his
share of the one-nght stands.
Pieces with which this player has
been identified include the following
Damon and Pythias." his very frs,
production; Caprice" and "In Spite
OF AL" both with Mrs. Fiske, then
known as Minnie Maddern; Hazel
Kirke,' III which his mother played;
LA Tosca," "The Voyage of Suxette,' p
"The Rainmaker of Syria" "Incog,'
which later became "Three Twins, y
with Bessie Mccoy and musical trim
mings; Nothing But Money" "Riley
and the 400,' with Ned Harrigan, at
the Harrigan Theatsr which Is now
the Garrick; "The De. ender,'' musical
Offering; THE Country Mouse" with
Ethel Barrymore; "The Belle OF New
York, original production; "Sari," with
Mizzi Hajos; The Inner Man" with
Wilton Lackaye; "The SQUAD Farm
"The Girl From Kay's," 'Ths New
South and Three Wise Fools
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
The Two Orphans Filmed
On Familiar Ground

The lumber of the stage floor at the
old Union Square Theater. now being
wrecked, has been bought by D. ".
Griffith and will be used in building
one OF the studio sets for "The Two
Orphans" 1t was at the Union Square
Iheater on December 81, 1875, that
The Two Orphans" was first acted in
America, with Kate Claxton, +. F..
Mackay, Mckee Rankin and Kittis
Blanchard.
But one more set, small one. has
yet to be built for Mr.. Grifith's pro-
duction, and the lumber from the old
stage floor where "The Two Orphans
so prospercd will be used by Griffith
70 make set that will remain pcrms
nentiy at the studio.
The door of The dressing ro0m
which Kate Ciaxton used throughout
the run OF the production has alss
teen bought for the studio.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30

enjoy playing these parts, and | can't
help it.. There's far more strength and
substance to them than characters of a
different type that have done So many
Of the interesting heroines of history
have been wicked
"ln Along Came Ruth had a part
that I played just to be busy until
could find something l liked and really
wanted. / think Lily in the Song of
Songs is my favortc.'
Miss Fenwick has other "favorites."
Golf is her favorite sport.
Chicago-hcr home-is perhaps her
favorite city.
Either Carl Mays or Waite Hoyt is
her favorite pitcher.
Broadway is her favorite street.
And to play Nora in "a Dolls House.
is her great ambition.
Miss Fenwick began her stage career
in the chorus Of the musical comedy
Peggy From Paris" From this she
went after three weeks to an ingenue
iOlc III Olc OL Lulu NlaS6ES pfOQuC-
tions, where Charles F'rohman saw her
and put her in "The Brass Bottle" and
"The Speckled Band" Her first fea-
tured engagement was her acting the
role OF Xxi in "The Zebra" comedy
successful in England, but not very
we'll received in this country Several
farces followed, including "The Mil
lion" and "Hawthorne Of the U. S. A."
the latter with Douglas Fairbanks.
Then she left ingenues to play bad
women. Her first role OF this sort was
that Of Kitty in "The Copperhead." A
brief respite came with Ruth in "Along
Came Ruth" Ruth didn't stay very
long after she came and it's end
brought Miss Fenwick to "The Song Of
Songs" This was followed by "The
Co Respondent" "Ihe Guilty Man"
and "Mary's Ankle" She has done
several motion pictures.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
Advice From
An Old Master

NEW YORK, October 1e. 1921.
To the Dramatic Reviewer: Pcrnis.
sion IS hereby graciously given TO Nr.
Percy Hammond, to be "intrigued1 ss
much and as often as he wishes, pro-
vided he is willing to confess his will
lngness to abjure good English snd
follow the illiterate Smart Aleck phrase
hunters.
English: Intrigue-(l) to form
plot or scheme; to contrive to accom-
piish purpose by secret artifice-
70 TO carry on q secret love or amour.
French: Intriguer-(1) to puzzle: 10
perplex. (2) to lay plot; to form plots.
Latin: Intricare (intrico. intrics-
tun.)-to cntangle; TO throw into con
fusion; to perplex.
oh, Hammond; You didn't mean
that the poker game in THE Demi-
virgin" puzzled or perplexed you; bu.
simply that it Interested and amused
you q guess, or that in expectation it
aroused your curiosity. II ever catch
you intriguing in poker game pl
know what I and the police ought to
tnink of you. I don't think you're so
innocent that you need this admoni-
ton; but please be good,
II. f. KREHBIEL.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
William HodgeGilds
Jim SON Weed and
Explains His Satire

"Explaining a satire is like gliding
.jjisrison weed" says William Hodge,
author and star of Beware Of Dogs"
at the Thirty-ninth Street Thester.
"Botanically and paradoxically speak
ing, the jimson weed is sort of
satire on the lily, which it resembles
in both contour and color, but its scent
confirms tho satire. Moreover, the
touch or even the odor of this satiric
lily is poisonous to some, especially
thin-s skinned folk And am surprised
to find that some people Of the love
me-love-my- variety are inclined
to be supersensitive when it comes to
little we'll meant and wholesome sat-
ire at the expense of their pets.
''One lady writes that while she has
seen and enjoyed all my other plays
she could not think Of coming to one
which is called Beware OF Dogs be-
cause she loves these animals and can
not bear to hear evil about them.
Thus my attempt to adapt the ancient
Latin warning cave canem' as the
title has resulted in a complete mis-
understanding--rn at least one good
and sind lady's mind-of the scope
Of nay mildly satiric play.
"In the first place, it is a comedy
designed not entirely 'for laughing pur-
poses only but to give a slightly
humorous slant at certain familiar
phases Of modern domestic complica-
tions due to keeping high bred pets
There is no anti-doa propaganda or ul-
terror purpose to give dog bad
name and then hang him for it, On
the contrary, the authors sympathies
are entirely with these much-suffering
pets, however the actor in the charac-
ter Of George Arnold, who is some
thing of an under dog himself, may
rail against them in his capacity az
landlord OF a dogs boarding house.
Few landlords are really fond of their
tenants, anyway.
"But, personally. 4 Iovs dogs. I have
six out on my farm, and / love them too
we'll to condemn them to an unnatural
existence in the cities. have even ar
ranged for 'understudics' for the two
dogs use in the play, so that when they
tire Of city life they can go back to
the farm. get healthy and frolcsome
again and ready to welcome me home
In summer.
"The idea of this play occurred to me
couple of season ago, when I had an
apartment away uptown and used to
walk down to the theater every eve
ming. One night 1 counted 2so-odd
women out exercising their dogs
Then ! got to wondering what their
husbands were doing for society.
Later ! learned something Of the Gus
toms and clientele OF one of those
Dogs Boarded Here places which
abound around New York, and the.
comedy wrote itself. 1t is newer and
sruer than anything I have written
before, and / notice that the audiences
howl louder than the dog chaperons.'
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
Thomas Jefferson as the
Screen "Trip Van Wrinkle"

Hodkinson promises two interesting
pictures for the first of November. One
is Hugo Baliin's "Jane Eyre the
novel by Charlotte Bronte, the other
is Irving Bachelors Light in the
Clearing" =. Hayes Hunter directed
this last-named picture. rip Van
Wink!e" is the current release of Hod-
kinson, which is commanding consider
able attention. Thomas jefferson ap-
pears in the role made famous by his
father, Joe jefferson, and he is the
fifth one Of the Jefferson family to
play in the Irving classic. There has
been Jefferson in Rip since 1929.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
Irene Fenwick, Silent as TO the
''W," Is Vocal on Other Matters


Bad women of the drama would be
III bad way were it not for Irene
EeUHick. Season after season she has
played the hcartless and soulless crea-
lures, leaving the Pegs and the Pollyan-
mas to others. Broadway predicted not so
long ago that she was petting enough
of the evil company. Just wait until
about 1921, Broadway said Perhaps
then the dainty Miss Fenwick would
go back to the Along Came Ruth stuff
and forsake forever the unwholesome
pursuits.
Nineteen hundred and twenty one
came and so did "The Claw" Lionel
barrymore was announced as the star
of the play, Arthur Hopkins the pro-
ducer, Miss Fenwick as the featured
member OF the supporting cast. 4
theater was hired and the play was
staged And when the curtain fell on
the fourth act New York first-nighters IS
realized that Broadway had it wrong
again. Irene Fenwick--the "w" is
| silcnt-as Antoinette was still running
On the same old ticket. She was still
the bad bad girl; still Turing and siren
ing and vamping and wrecking, still
the same heartless and soulless Irene
only more so.
And this isn't the last Of it. Miss
Fenwck hasn't stuck to the hard,
! cruel life merely because Of the pre-
vailing policy Of playing to theater
folk year in and year out in the kind
Of parts in whicl, they once won dis
tinction. She is wicked creature
again because she thinks that sort Of
part interestingly more so than the
goody goody, "sweet" role. She finds
that she likes Antoinette in the play
at the Broadhurst almost as we'll as
, she liked Lily in "The Song of Songs"
some seasons back.
II know people win hate me for say
ing it," said Miss Fenwck, s'but | do
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
Harry Davenport's
5Oth Anniversary
IL, the I'hcater
,E05EhzHRy 7REBI. III
~3HHM,E" CHY7Dz.

Harry Davenport, who is the Rev
David Lee in the Winchell Smith-Tom
Gushing THANK You at the Gaiety
Theater, is celebrating this season his
hftieth anniversary on the stage.
This statement of fact might lead
you to believe that Mr.. Davenport has
gray beard, walks with cane and
is allowed to eat only certain things
at certain times. The actor, however,
decided upon his life's work at the ten
| der age of Ave, and when he reached
| twentyone didn't have to bother him
self about whether he was going to be
merchant, bank president or law
yer. His lifetime vocation was fixed.
And now, at the age of hfty-tiye, Mr.
Davenport, after playing about half the
parts ever written and acting nearly
! everywhere under the sun, has no fault
to find with the decision he made fifty
years ago.
Mr.. Davenport finds The "parson" part
which he is essaying at present vastly
different from any other ministerial role
he has encountered in The theater
II think David Lee is an interesting
person because he is so entirely differ
ent from most stage clergymen," said
Mr.. Davenport. "1n The Little Minister
and other plays we have had fightine
clcrgymen, and in some plays many
plays, III fsct--comic clergymen, but in
my opinion the parson in Thank You
is in a class by himself"
During the fifty years that Mr. Dav-
export has been an actor he has an.
peared in score of original Broadway
productions, which is quite a record as
records go. The majority of them have
been successes, two or three terrible
failures. One piece called "The Rain
maker of Syria" fails into that cate.
CORY. 1t was done a good many years
ago at the Casino
Mr.. Davenport has appeared in sup
port of numerous celebrities, including
Wilton I.ackaye, Mrs. Fiske, Frank
Bacon, Ethel Barrymore and others
whose fame increases with the passing
years. The parson of "Thank You" was
Tor seven weeks in the original pro-
duction of "Lightnin' at the Gaiety
going from that to "Three Wise Fools, .
which he played in on Broadway for
quite spell and then toured with to
the far corners Of the United States.
1t was long tour, and when he got
lack to the Pennsylvania Station, to
New York and to Broadway. he expected
TO find new plays in all the Broadway
houses, including the Gaiety. But the
old tenant, "Lightnin'," had just begun
to form liking for this particular
playhouse.
| Mr. Davenport took fling at the mo-
ton picture industry several years ago
serving considerable time as director
He also acted bit, and comes back TO
the legitimate with an idea for series
of educational pictures which he thinks
can be screened with tremendous ef-
fec.iveness.
The productions that Harry Daven-
port has appeared in since his debut
| nifty years ago include the old Bertha
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30

NO group OF llBeS ever lolIcu balucr
than that group which is gathered to-
gethcr AZ the Kiaw Theater under the
caption "Lilies OF the Field; Marie
Doro, the head lily, toiled the hardest
Of all. and still in spite OF that the
curtain WAS rung down the opening
night several minutes ahead of time
because the lilies had not toiled quite
hard enough.
Now, we were present that opening
night and we did not at all relish hav-
ing the curtain fall between us and
Miss Doro, Norman Trevor and Roy
Walling just as they we're about to
decide the most important problem in
the play. Nobody seemed to have any
idea what was wrong, and the con-
scnsus was that the man who holds
the~key to the curtain had unlocked it
too soon. Poor curtain man, it wasn't
his fault at all! However, we did not
know that until later, and being de-
tcrmined to know how that play ended
VIC visited the theater again the sec
md night.
The End Of
Perfect Play
Just at the point where the curtain
had fallen the previous night Norman
Trevor, the hero, stepped to the center
of the stage and told Ray Walling, the
villainous husband, that he would ruin
him financially if he did not let Marie
Doro, his cx-wife, have the child for
her own. The .villainous husband start
ed back, sworc under his breath and
consented. Miss Doro threw her arms
about the hero's neck and said: my
little Rose and you" in that sweet,
sweet voice which has made her every
mans favorite actress, and the curtain
fell. Well, We didn't care so much for
this. 1t seemed like putting an undue
strain on condolences arm, but we did
not have to worry about it for long, for
the next day we heard that William
Hurlbut had written new ending. AS
VIC had an appointment to talk to Miss
Doro after the performance, we dropped
in the next night in time to see 1t. 1t
i : probable that Mr.. Walling approved
of this new ending, for he is left out of
il entirely aud it gives him chance to
90 homo very early IN the evening
An actor once told US that his idea of
the millennium was when he could get
u chence Ia Dlav character who got
killed in the first act for $3.50. The
new ending sounded fine to us. but 1t
seemed that there was still another
ending in the process, for when we
went backstage Miss Doro was listen
ing. all eyes, as Mr.. Hurlbut explained
his idea for q latest fve-star final end
ing. ''You take the child, so, to your
breast" he said, "and throw your cape,
YOU are about to escape successfully
you meet your husband" Miss .)oro
said, eyes, splendid!" so we have an
idea that there is going to be still an
other ending, and we are going TO be
there when they do it. In fact, we
have registered vow to see every end
ing which the Lilies have this season.
So that is how ] know that the Lilies
at the Klaw Theater do toll. 1t is
necessary for them to know all about
shese new endings, for although few
arc chosen many arc cailed-for the
rehearsals.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
English Producer and
English Star TO Work Here

Cecil N. Hepworth, England's best
known producer of pictures, has set sail
for America. He Will be accompanied
by Alma Taylor. who is considered the
most beautiful and popular British
screen artistic. Miss Taylor has been
acting in Hepworth pictures Cor fifteen
years, having frstsplayed ~ = small
child in one reel comedies.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
Al II. Woods Rises to
A Question of Privilege

10 the Dramatic Critic OF The Tribun.
Sir: When l was a boy in Delann.~
Street-long before I produced @Ts.
Bowery After Dark" and "NelIe -.
Beautiful Cloak Model - Profe,..s
"Chuck" Connors used to tell me .h.,
good and bad, moral and immoral 4.
cent and indecent, were states unknov.
to Mother Nature, and we're meal
fences built by man around the ~.
lures he loved TOO well, to keen A.,
from browsing himself to death, a, it
were, on their succulent grasses.
On the fences inclosing thc fields \.
loved-wine, women, horses. tobacc.
cards, ctc.-he put "Verbotens sjer'
called Bad" ''Indecent,9 "Immor.lo
and so forth, and pretended to be,;.v.
that they were haunted by devils ara
diabetes who plucked a man by the hair
in the midst of his pleasures and made
horrible example OF him.
The more he was tempted the bes.r
and more various he made the sirr.
and the more devils he put into bis
cups and his concubines. And. finally
he peoplei the pastures Of his dss;r..
with living devils who welded b;v
sticks and mouthed great thunder,
And these he called policemen and "a
formers.
But, Of course, the temptation p.
mained, Tor the desires Of a man svs
taller than his stceples and deeper thar
his humbug, and the club of his CON.
less potent than the kick in his Guns
So lie strayed. But, instead Of going
by day, he sneaked in by night, fearful
of his neighbors, and found himselA
uneasy in his joys, and more and mora
he decided it was better to marry and
settle down and come by his living
honestly, and think his own Thoughts
where no devils could torment him.
So he developed can't, humbug and
repressed desires.
But why. do you ask, DO you bring
this perennial wisdom into this hou.e
where all is ephcmersl and nothing en-.
dures9 For is not critique a thing
Of an edition, tenuous and modest IN
it's life?
will tell you in a line. You will
| receive instruction and shall receive
publicity~-a poor return for nv psius
! for am reticent man, and the coun.-
ing of profits IS pleasure that breeds
silence. But, forward
She who inspires this PHILOSOPHY
this song, is "The Demi- Virgin Slight.
ly denni as she is, far more virgin than
demi-barely, if may say so, demiged
at ali-she yet elected from the critics
so mighty roar of "Verboten!" So
great cry of Devils, fore.7 that
wonder yet what power kept them from
storming the cbaste and pastoral stags
where the idyll was being enacted.
At what leash were they tugging-
these your colleagues? Was it domes-
tic? How fares Mcgowan? What Dor
ridge has De Foe? Towse, how is It
with him? Say, what hid fame within
the Mantle Burns? Shall 7 spread them
a feast? Shall I give them party
viii they sometimes cut loose-as now
and then one does?
And you, too, Pcrciensis, Was It 81
naughty? Ehcu, Chicago. Sincerely,
A. a. WOODS.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
Beauty Only
Skin Deep, but

One reason NC like Marie Doro is
because she is so pretty Of course,
we have been taught from the cradle
up that "handsome is as handsome
does" and that "beauty is only skin
Deep" and no doubt there are plenty
of worthy women who are ugly. but the
fact that they are worthy doesn't make
us like 'em. We like best people who
look like Constance Talmadge and Pola
Negri and Marjoria Rambeau and Mary
Ryan and Billie Burke.
This was the first time we had seen
Miss Doro since her return from Italy,
and before we asked her thing about
Europe we said, "What made the cur
tain come down at such an inopportune
moment the opening night?" And what
Miss Doro answered is noteworthy, be-
sausc she took the blame herself.
why" she said, laughing, "you know
We had been rehearsing new endings
and we finally selected one and agreed
TO stick to il and in the middle of the
E,cene couldn't remember word. So
! said to myself, Well, for tonight at
any rate, that's all there is; there isn't
any more and we gave them the cue
TO lower the curtain"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
A Continual Sigh for
More Worlds TO Conquer

ado you like your new play?' we
asked next. When we first began to
ask actors and actresses questions and
then write their answers Cor the fol-
lowing Sunday, Emily Stevens, fright
ened us out of n years growth by re-
kusing, very decidedly, to answer such
"a question. So, for a long time, we
didn't ask it, but lately we have re-
turned to our evil ways, and Miss Doro
didn't mind at all. She said that she
flowed the play just so long as she had
ito work hard in it, but as soon as the
,part got to running along by itself
that she wanted to have another new
play. 1--WE been away from the stage
for so long," she added, "that can't
get work enough. | am so happy TO
get back. You know made only pic
lures over in Italy, and I'll never do it
again. ! want 10 be in plays now, all
the tlme-new plays, lots OF them"
you used not to feel so, for unless
nay memory plays mo false you were
in The Morals OF Marcus for three
ysars.
Yes, but wasn't so ambitious in
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
And What Of Them
Before the Play Began.

1t is such questions that reflect an
active imagination and make US believe
that the two and half hours spent in
the theater have brought forth not only
laughter and good hunor but some
thing to think about the next day.
In your query of What becomes of
the people in the play after the play
is over?" you have opened an avenue of
speculation that should be of vast in
terest to the theatergoers. By this
same token we might with equal inter
est ask, Where were these people be-
fore they entered the play?
can see this woman of thirty
eight that | am playing at the age Of
seventeen. happy little thing full Of
the joy of living. She was dutiful
daughter, and when her mother de-
cided that a marriage to the minister
would be the best thing for the church,
the community and the family she
obeyed her mother in this with the
same childish simplicity that she would
had her parent sent her to the grocer's
for pound Of coffee. That the minis
ter was quarter Of century her
senior was of secondary Importance. l
can see her for eighteen years giving
birth to his children, mending his
clothes, making his bed and cooking
his meals. and when he died leaving
her with two children ard 500 year
TO live on the outlook was not very
bright. Here, however, was the turn
ing point OF her life. She might have
become seamstress or, perhaps worse,
pensioner on the church; but it was
because she sad imagination and
New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
'teresting Chat and Stage Gossip for Playgoers
What Becomes of the People
After the Fall of the Curtain
Mary Ryan Tells How to Play the Delightful Cams
of ''Follow Up; Letters From Correspond.
ents; Every Man in His Own Humor

| sense Of humor that she could ri,. :.
the stepping stones Of her dead se,t =.
higher things.
thank you for the suggestion
MARY RYAN