The Washington herald., 1922-01-23
PRODUCERS NOW
PLEAD FOR PLAYS,
SAYS MINTYRE
Ill Treatment of Young
Writers Cause of
Dearth.
By o. o. M'INTYRE.

NEW YORK. Jan. ga page
from the diary of a modern Samuel
Pepys; Up and drowsed about, but
1t being an excellent frosty day put
on my great coat and rode atom a
stage to Grants Tomb. there alight
and over to Arthur William Browns
afoot, and W tched him paint a
while.
Home for a lunch and a trades.
man clamored for money, Silly, me
thought. Came C. Seitz and Mistress
Kitty. who have journeyed from
China. and gave my wife. poor
wretch, a piece OF Jade and me a
China cigarette case, initiated in
gold. the bravest gift ever / had.
Labored while. but to no good
report, and So away again on the
avenue and met Miss Edna Ferber
ana sister, Miss Fanny. and walked
awhile looking in the noble shop
windows and bought each a flower
with good grace
In the evening to a dinner ana
Frank Tinney's wife disguised as a
French maid served the meal. nor
did anyone know her until in a net
she quit and returned in a fine silk
gown. G. Gershwin played the
many tunes he has writ and all
sang. very gay. Home again by
subway and so to bed.
lie had the appearance of the
French marquis. HIS hair was
silVery white and his mustache and
~
his white evening shirt he wore a
red ribbon. His companion at the
smart supper club was a bob-haired
girl who smoked necessarily and
chartered gaily. when they danced
the diners stopped eating to watch.
To the New Yorker he was either a
nobleman or noorwalker Two
days later ! saw him In a depart
ment store. FloOrwalker was right
One of the most amusing skits in
the highest priced revue In town is
burlesque of a moving picture,
The idea Is to show that in the
movies words mean nothing. The
scene is lady's boudoir and the
characters are the butler. the lover,
the wife and the husband. The hus
band and wife enter and the butler
brings in a dinner. As they are
seated the butler says: THE RED
ants seem to be flying high today,
sir" The husband replies. "Sche-
nectady." He lifts a bottle of wine
to pour his wife a drink and
says: Have you the capital of Italy
about you handy" She replies:
The camels are coming. Wash of
the goldfish" and So does the mean
ingless chatter run up to the muir
der of the couple by the jealous
lover and the arrival Of the police.
And yet the acting Is done superbly.
The poke collar is coming back
for gala dress and the wing is 60
ing into the discard. according to
the boys who know. Three were
seen at the opera the other night
and they were worn by young men
whose daddies used to sell hides and
fish, but who now live in Fifth ave-
nue. mansions-so the rest will fol-
low the leaders Styles in New
York represent the ultimate in hard
instinct. mass psychology or lump
thinking. o yes, To wear spats
and not carry a walking stick is
to be classed as a stolid burgher.
Cheerio!
The most successful plays in New
York this season have been revivals,
which is proof of a dearth of play
wrights. Play brokers are even
sending out letters to obscure writ
ers. asking them to try their hand
at new plays. They intimate that
the chance for selling a play was
never so great. The treatment that
producers have accorded ambitious
playwrights in the past has had
much to do with the lack of en-
deavor on the part of the novice.
He has grown weary of not receiv-
ing his manuscripts back or even an
Acknowledgement