Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-07
Theatrical Billboard
for the Coming Week
New Attractions

BROAD-"Only 49," comedy. with Mary
Ryan. by A. T.. Thomas. author OF
Tho Champion" and The Rainbow"
Harry C. Browne is the leading man.
Neil Martin. Leon Cunningham and
Margaret Shackleford. The story of
Il widow OF thirty-eight, who tries to
bo young again.
LYRIC-"Ladies' Night" Avery Hop
wood and Charlton Andrews farce.
with scenes in Turkish bath. Allyn
King, John Arthur Evelyn Gosnell
and Edward Douglas in the cast.
FORREST-"Orphans OF the Storm" u:
w. Grffith's spectacular film, based
on episodes in Guy d'Ennery's Two
Orphans" Kate Claxton's famous
play. The cast includes Lillian and
dorothy Gish. Joseph Schildkraut
Sheldon Lewis, Frank Puglia. Creigh-
ton Hale and others. Opens 'Yednes-
day.
GARRICK-"Ziegfeld FrcliS.' popular
New York roof show brought at last
out on the road. with VIII Rogers as
the chief fun-maker and a cast that
Arthur West, Jimmy Duffy. Jack Nc
Gowan and many others. Opens
Tuesday.
Shows That Remain
WALNUT-"Tho Bad Man." Porter
Emerson BROWNE ueHBHtIul sdtlTlC
comedy, in which Holbrook Blinn is
featured as the fascinating Mexican
bandit, who 'breaks all the ten cCm-
mandments without mussing a hair"
Last week.
SHUBERT-''The Passing Show Of
1921" latest of the Winter Garden
attractions, potpourri of fun and
music, with Willie and Eugene How
ard featured, and a cast that includes
Peggy and Cortez. GraceZ and Berks,
May Boley and VIII Philbrick.
ADELPHI-"The Bat" Avery Hopwood
and Mary Roberts Rinehart thriller
enters on it's sixteenth week. Helen
Dauvray and Jessie Ralph In the cast.
Stock
llETR ROPOLITAN- comedy
melodrama. by Dcbson Mitchell, in
which Madge Kennedy played here
earlier in the season.. Mae Desmond
and n crook and the company OF
favorites in congenial parts.
ORPHEUM-"Our Wives" comedy
built around the friendship of four
bachelors, who, one by one, meet the
dearest girl in the world" DWight
Ruth Robinson and the others in con-
genial roles.
Vaudeville
REITH'S-Naleska Suratt, In n dra-
matte playiet called THE White Way"
by Jack Lait Is the headlner. She
Is Supported by William Rosele and
Viola Frayne. Anna Chandler,
Philadelphia girl. has a repertoire of
character songs. The bill also In
cludes Allan Rogers, baritone. and
Leonora Allen, soprano, in musical
act; Harry Jolson. songs and chat
ter Harry Norwood and Alpha Han,
sketch; Ernest Anderson and Mar
jorie Burt, comedy about newlyweds
Jack Wyatt and his Scotch Lads and
Lassies, and others.
STREET OPERA HOUSE
Bessie Mccoy Davis returns to the
Philadelphia stage after an absence
OF two years, in an unusual sketch,
"Castles in the Air" which gives her
opportunities for all kinds Of dancing
is assisted by Emmett Merrill and
Jack Barrett. ''Harmonyland,"
syncopated revue. Is another feature
OF the bill, which also includes Mar
guerite Farrell character songs Ryan
and Lee, comedy skit Bert Shepherd
and others
GLOBE-"Diyiding a Woman in Half"
one of vaudeville's most baffiing nov
elites, Is the headliner. Bobby Heath,
philadelphia song writer, is another
fs9tpEe The p%,,,p ,pr9gram ,n also includes
minstrels; Vera Burt, with Saxi
Holtsworth and his Harmony Hounds
r"Cupid's Close-Up," comedy playlet
Eckert and Francis, comedy; Weber,
Beck and Frazer. versatile entertain
ers. and others.
Wednesday, Lew Cooper. billed as the
''black spasm," blackface comedian,
heads, the big bill, which also includes
the 1rssn Family comedy variety