Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-25

RUT the week ought to boost attend
~ ance, anyway, for there IL plenty
worth seeing. .&r
Beginning down town. Eddie Cantor
will again be at the shubert; Avery
Hopwood's new farce. ''The Gold Dig
ers," at the Broad; Grifith's big film,
Orphans Of the Storm" In its last
week at the Forrest; that ace.high
Girl" at the Garrick Ladies' Night"
AZ the Lyric; Hodge playing in "Dos
Love" at the Adefphf, and the stage
version of the popular novel, Main
Street." at the Walnut.
ORDINARILY We get very weary Of
~ the musical comedy type Of thing this
late In the season, They seem to be
cut out OF the same pattern and to be
go lacking in anything original or "dif-
ferently" entertaining. That's why It
was such pleasure this week to be able
to make an exception of one.
'"The O'Brien Girl has an unusual
combination Of good singers and dancers
and comedians and there is something
about tho whole atmosphere Of the show
that Is friendly and intimate and
in good taste. There aren't any Of
those moments when the laughter be.
comes tinged with that hint Of coarse
guffawing which means that the jokes
are verging on rawness.
Ada Mae Weeks made an unqualified
hit with me. There's something indi.
vidual about that girl that ought to
make her top -notcher when she gets
a part that Will bring out her mnny-
sidedness. She's a mighty pretty girl,
but she has knack Of grotesquing
things every now and then that is ire
sistibly funny. She would have been
great as Irene in that first act.
Robinson Newbold is another Of the
different" kind. His burlesques on
THE Flowers That Bloom in the
night. It's a speciality Of his that he
did in the last Cohan show he was in,
but It didn't play Philadelphia, so he
can give it to us now. And I simply
love that line Of his when Mrs. Hope
chides him for not being ambitious and
doing things. "I do do things" he
says. "rrouble is, work so last I'm
always through
LJELEN HOERLE, the very ot.
IL troctire business manager Of
"lfain Street" at the Walnut,
brought me In O photograph tho other
day. "Who is H?'' she asked.
"1'hat. easy." ! said; "Ifs Ro.
said triumphantly. "tts MoKoy
Morris, pho plays DR.. Kennicott
rtth us. Ever see such an uncanny
resem blanccf' And it tcas unconny
just that one full face riep. It's
reproduced on this page today. SEQ
u you don't think so.
DAN into bit of theatrical leserds.
1G main in the making this week.
Monday night the final curtain didn't
drop on the Eddie Cantor revue at
the Shubert until II 40, and Tuesday
!. J. Shubcrt. Cantor and other Shu.
bert lieutenants gathered to WELD the
blue pencil.
Lets cut out that Alpine scene,
Eddie" suggested !. !.
"No...'' objected the star. THAT
goes great
Glow about that Cleveland Bonner
ballet" chimcd in Ed Bloom, general
manager Of all Winter Garden shows.
"No. High brows like that" re-
torted Mr.. Shubcrt.
Then bit after bit Of the fast moving
revue was offered up for sacrifice only
to be saved by some pertinent argu-
ment
Finally Leonard B,umberg. Philadel-
phia manager for the Shuberts, had his
weekly bright idea.
Lets cut do&n the intermission.
he suggested, and so fourteen minutes
were saved.
At that "Makc 1t Snappy' is just
about the fastest and least boring Of the
many rcvurs that have beguilcd thea
tregoers this season.
After three weeks of endcavorng to
whrt the vaudeville appetite Of Pitts
burgh via Shubcrt Advanced Vaudeville,