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New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
Gloria Foy, Broadaoay's Neso Star,
appears Fittingly il, UP She Goes
She Cipes Short Ans,cers to Long Question.

dancing under the tuselage Of her
mother. the Clark OF the Foy and Clark
'eam, and her debut at the palais Royal
four years ago ss dancer.
II have never been in the chorus. ?,
she said amiably at 1882, when more
friends arrived. Their stay was brief.
She had, 1t appeared, gone from the
Palais Royal to the musical comedy
What's in Name?'' where she also
danced. Then Mr.. Ziegfeld had given
| her place in the Midnight Frolic" of
last season, whsre she did DANCE num-
bar with Leon Errol and an imitation
of Marilynn Miller. In March, when
Miss Miller was i'll for three days, she
played Sally. All this while members
of the company and their wives and
others we're stopping by for word of
appreciation. Frederick Graham, who
played the elderly but skittish uncle in
the piece, said: "Yeu were wonderful,
my dear" as he gallantly kissed her
hand.
It was while she wan on the Ziegseld
Roof that Mr. Brady came to know Of
her and shaped his nlans to give her an
opportunity this season.
~ wish you would say 9or me-" she
requested, "that I owe everything 60
Mr.. Brady and Mr.. Tierney and Mr..
Mccarthy. They had confidence in me
when othor managers wouldn't give me
part, and they have been very patient
and kind" This was at 1880, and Mr.
Brady himself entered, In q glow over
the success Of his production, shape
less cigar in one hand.
"Yon're the real thing!'' he an
nounced with emphasis and without
i prelude. "Youth--youth conquers the
world. We can't find them like your
His enthusiasm was galvanic. She had
been tired, her wide blue eyes had been
a bit smoky with the fatigue of it all,
but they came to life and coruscated.
She gave a gleeful little laugh and
thanked him. He would hear none Of
her thanks. ''You're the real thing .
he repeated, and then he, too, kissed
her hand and departed.
1t was two years ago that she started
to take ballet lessons. She continues
them daily. She began singing lessons
one year ago and Ia at them regularly.
She works hard. She thinks she would
enjoy playing winsome ingenue parts
continually. She ia not related 60 the
Eddie Foys. She is Of Irish and Scotch
descent and thinks it an odd mixture.
These things she told before I1:47,
erasing the makeup as she talked.
Then as the time FOR the 1924 grew
steadily nearer Miss Foy walked out
Of tho interview into taxicab.
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Livingston Plat Evokes
Spain for Miss Nanett
O'Neill and Benavenle

Some one has said Of modern PET
wrights in general, and George BsFriH
Shaw in particulsr, thst they assaa
more manuscript space 10 dsscriptea
of the sets and thu characters than w
do to the play itself. Certainly g
charge cannot be applied to JAsla@
Benavents,. the Spanish plsymakss y
deed, Nance oNeil, Benaysate's Ans''1
lean sponsor, wishes IL eould-
Miss o'Neil first encountered bes''
vente's lsconicisn, In aThs rsss''
Flower. In which she has been sppsss
ing for two seasons. Her lstess exsss
snce with It has been in aFisld q :.
mine" which she hss juss lsunssss .
tour preparatory 20 New YORK ss's.
When Miss O'NeiI and her e''sss
Alfred Hickman, set to WORK oa 8 SIS
latter play they found the sFss assg sys.s
aced by just two words. 'Nsa
boudoir." the second act By enl, 81
Drawing room in Irsne's hosi'e s,s.
the thisd described tersely 9 !,
sanie.n Nine words In sll and nes
of light in any Of them.
This play introduces twenty N s.,.
not one Of whom Was desestbsd z s
acterized. s.s ..;.,
Fortunately, there was bs@ ..,y
Platt. Mr.. plate knew Spain. y sss n
the sort OF an apartment NatsIis M s.,
have, with It's countertsis 81.
painted on the walls and 'ts g ..a>.
convincing imitation Of Frsnea ss. IS. i
ings. He knew, too, thst ifeas & "a
marchioness. and that resss ssss 81
and dignity and priceless ola .sss.s
"Fieid os Er1nine" sot sts ssls
despite its authors terssasss
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larger. We played anything we could
buy or borrow the story Of, and some.
times we played piece built up en-
tlrely from the memory Of some one
In the cast who had seen a plav he
liked. II there, was not enough Of
it we added dances and songs. We
played 'Erminine' with fourteen people
and as tho larger thieS Of the play
wore the costume Hamlet, Prince OF
denmark, had worn the night before.
Who couldn't learn to be comic, and
incidentally, why Is not such an ex-
perlence very good one for a bud
ding playwright? have improved on
Shakespeare many q time because OF
my bad memory and struggled on while
the other players stood In the wings
and laughed at my fix on the stage
alone. Many a time have in the char
aeter OF, let US say Marks in Uncle
Iom's Cabin started off speech to
the blackened Uncle Tom with ,By ali
the gods, 0thello'
All this by the way of proving that
comedian can be such by artful ex-
aggeration. To be sure, as he sp-
proaches the spot where the great
white light of Broadway beats on him.
the coming comedian will be expectea
to add to his curriculum the arts Of
exaggerating q common dance step to
one intricate and comic, OF placing,
the comedy in q tone as surely as the
prima donna does her treasured high
z, and outdoing the Sunday cartoons
IN the expressiveneas OF his face. Be,
yond all that, all he really needs is to
develop what sense Of humor he NAV
nave until he knows what is funny
among the ideas that may come to
him in the dark and lonesome night.
But first prospective comedian
should go out into the great wide
reaches where the world is sober and
serious and little laugh goes great
way"
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
Hal Shelley Prescribes Work in
Stock for Aspiring Comedians

Comedians are made to order, no,
born," says Hal Shelley, principal
comedian of "Orange Blossoms. p
There's many a man and woman, too,
who has no more sense of humor than
q sober-faced donkey, who has been
forced to be comedian because there
was no one else to play some part that
was supposed to be comedy one.
IN the brief rehearsals they would
be ordered to overdo their few simple
actions; their very grotesaueness
brought laughs, and often the PLAYER
would be smart enough to see possi-
oiiities and developed himself into a
Recognized comedian OF certain tvne.
How many comedians prove successful
If given part to create that does not
allow for the little mannerisms of
speech and movement they have always
depended on for laughter?
'If am ever chosen to the faculty
Of school for comedians shall in
sist that the students become members
Of some struggling but happy little
STOCK company out in the wilds. If it
is 80 much out of the way that news
OF It never percolates even to the Bill
board SO much the better, and If in
addition TO playing six different old
timers each week the beginner has to
peddle out cough or rheumatism cure
as member of an old-time medicine
show It will be best for him.
Without mentioning any names Of
the comedians, not many miles
from Broadway at this speaking who
have done that very thing, let me re-
call that one who is now in the Orange
Blossoms company and bears my name.
once performed for glad season with
Or. Rncker's Famous All-Star Come
dians all over the State of Oklahoma
and suburbs. We played one night
only in some places and as much as
three months in some other towns no
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
The Older the Comedy
The Fresller the Laugh, Is
Maurice Swartz's Theory

Maurice Swartz, whose eighty-odd
charaeterizations in. Ave years at the
jewish Art Theater entisla him to speak
from the fuliness Of knowledge of many
kinds OF plays, finds 1t hard to beat
the classics for real laugh -getters in
the theater.
He was caught between scenes Of
"The Reyizcrv ("The Inspector Gen
eral''). in which he plays Kalestakoy,
the genial. philandering youth cut an
q spree from st. Petersburg. 81 have
learned said Mr.. Swartz, "that FOR
profoundly moving stories Of life the
contemporary dramatists have wide
range Of suitable material to offer an
art theater. But for simon-pure mer-
riment the safest chance theater di~
rector can take is the production OF q
classic comedy.
Take The Revizor,' by Gogol, for
instance. Here is a comedy that IL
eighty years old, and set in foreign
environment. Yet the laughs are the
heartiest have heard IL, theatar flur-
ing these last five years.
Underneath the foreign and the old.
fashioned in place and atmosphere in
this play is an idea more modern than
tho bedroom farce. The blustering
bully, the high officials cringing be-
fore supposed greatness, the coquettes
aet for conquest, are aa funny and as
truly human to-day as in Gogors time.
That is why people laugh at this old
classic while a modern prohibition
wheeze gets no response,
And tina technique of this play ;g
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

| What follows Is the best account Of
Gloria Foy that could be obtained in
her dressing room the night she made
Broadway aware of her as an imminent
| musical comedy star.
The account is necessarily sketchy,
because Miss Foy was, though serenely
cool, in no mood to be interviewed; be-
cause her room off the stage at the
Playhouse was uproarious most Of the
time with ecstatic actors, managers and
friends, and, particularly, BECAUSE of
the 1924 train for Douglaston, /. I.
One was able to learn. for instance,
in the intervals when no excited nd
mirers We're present that Miss Foy was
born in West Eighty sixth Street, Man
haitian, but not when; that her father
and mother were the vaudeville team Of
Foy and Clark before she went on the
stage four years or so ago, but not
whether she passed her childhood trav-
cling with them; that she prefers golf
to Other games, but not what she likes
to read; that personable young man
addressed as "Bus" had sent her the
rope of pearls she was wearing, but not
whether that signifed romance that
might soon deprive Broadway Of her.
| She had just come Monday night
her cheeks showing their own warm
flush under the makeup, from the
stage where Producer william A.
{ Brady had been giving resonant praise
to the members Of the "Up She Goes''
company for the opening night success
LOT the Frank Craven Harry Tierney-
Joseph Mccarthy musical play. He
had grown lyrical over her youth and
charm and, frankly acknowledging his
indebtedness to Mr.. Belasco for the
phrase, had referred to her as "my
little girl" The audience had been
immensely Impressed with her ingenu-
Gus winsomeness through the evening
and had voted her their principal favor.
She was unknown to them, hardly any
save her friends having even heard her
name before. One of the best informed
critics wrote of her the next morning
as being new to Broadway. II had
been personal triumph of some pro
| portions.
She reached her dressing room at
11:19. 1t was alistsr with symbols of
her new station, apparently dozens Of
kilograms in a wire arrangement on
one small wall signed aJim," William, !"
MARY" and by other Christian names.
The second chair was filled with bow.
auets. She sat back before her dress
ing table, relaxed, tired, her lips
spread in a wide, happy smile. AT
ll:2l the interview began. She was
born in West Eighty-sixth Street. she
went to school In the Holy Angels
Convent in Red Bank, N. r., where Miss
Alice Brady also had been pupil. AT
11:2s the room was filed with merry
group of friends led by Mrs, William
Collier and "Bus.' Miss Fey is a
protegc Of the Golfers and lives with
them at Douglaston. Arrangements
were made Tor taking the 1924 train.
AS @Bus," who was handsome Young
man, with black hair and sumptuously
dressed, was departing she thanked
m for the pearls. They're straight
from Paris he assured her, Bit
pridefully. Her own hair il aureate.
varying according to the light from 4
golden glow to tawny.
The interview proceeded. Her sar,v
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

class presented q thrse-act farce en-.
titled "a Count Of No Account
At the University Of Michigan two
of his plays were presented by the
Comedy Club. By way Of coincidence
Phyllis Povah, who is in the cast OF
Hospitality" and who is remembered
in New York for her performances n
"Mr. PIN Passes By" appeared with
Cunningham in several Of the plays he
wrote for the Comedy Club.
While playwrighting has always been
his favorite occupation Mr.. Cunning.
ham was for a time reporter on "The
Detroit News" and for briefer pe-
riod q bond salesman. After leaving
college, however, he decided that while
ne wanted TO write plays he had TO
make living in the mean time, and he
felt that he was best fitted TO do that
by acting.
He has appeared with Sothern and
Marlowe, Stuart Walker and for vari-
GUS other producers in the last six
years. His most recent engagement
was with "only Thirty-eight," when
ne played the role OF bashful coll
lege freshman. Incidentally, Mr.. Cum
ningham Is only twenty-eight himself
and he looks several years younger.
Before the executive board of EQUITY
Players decided on Hospitality" some
400 plays had been carefully read.
Some were by authors Of interna-
tional reputation.
Hospitality" was written for Louise
Closer Hale when Mrs. Hale was play
ing in "Miss Lulu Bett," but at that
time Equity Players had not been
formed.
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remarkably modern, too. Gogol seemed
TO have anticipated the motion pictures
by threescore years. The end of his
first act and the beginning of the third
are really continuous; the second acs
Is the movies pet invention, flash
back to another bit Of action going on
simultaneously with the other scenes.
And the popular Weber and Fields or
Gallagher and Shean act WIS long ago
anticipated in The Inspector General
by that immortal duo Of Hobchin.ky
and Dobchinsky.
Altogether it would appear the older
the comedy--if it be good comedy
The fresher the laugh in this blasa age
of farce and comedy.
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The Playbin
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Lies" and "The End of the Book"
by HENRY MYERS. will be on the
same program.
@Thin lee the Parcival knight
comedy. in which Mr.. knight plays the
leading part, will move from the Com
edy to The Belmont Theater tomorrow
night.
Molly Darling goes from the Lab
erty Theatcr to the Globe Theater to-
morrow night ..The Bunch and judy
will come up from the Garrick The
ater, Philadelphia. 70 the Globe on
Monday night, November 20. Molly
Darling win start its road tour on
! the same night at the Garrick, In Phil
sGeIphis.
An entertainment committee, COM
posed Of Mrs. Douglas Monroe Rehin-
son, Mary Hoyt Wiborg, Mrs. .. 81.
Thomas. Mrs. =. Gilmore Drayton and
Josephine schain, viii present a series
Of concerts at the Neighborhood Play.
house on Grand Street beginning next
Friday night.
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Another Neso Playwright Makes His
Boso to broadway IL, 'Hospitality'
He Is Leon Cunningham, Of Saginaso, Mich.

Some would have IL that playwrights
are born, not made. And they. might
put forward Leon Cunningham, 2athol
OF Hospitality" which has its pre-.
miere at the Equity Forty-eightt
Street Theater tomorrow evening, is
living proof of the theory. If he was
not born a playwright, he at least be.
came one at q tender age, and when he
had reached the mature age Of twelve
was already producing plays which
were sagely reviewed by the dramatic
critics of Saginaw, Mich. These mas
terpieces were produced by the Ma
jestic Stock Company. which boasted
Of a stage with real footlights, in the
upper story of garage owned by one
Of the authors friends.
Most Of Mr.. Cunningham's earliest
efforts were melodramas, to ba sure,
ut most carefully produced as far as
emery, costumes and lighting were
oncerned: the villains always wore
mustaches of the deepest dye and the
heroinen were always dreadfully
wxonged.
One Of these plays was entitled "The
Brokers' Cousin" and the fact that
the budding playwright had whole
soma respect and admiration for sne
successful man Of affairs is eviaencsd
by the fact that the fnal line Of the
play, to show to what depths the VII
lain had fallen, was "and to think that
you were once a brokers' cousinl y
Curtain.
However, Cunningham left the Geld
Of rnelodrama in few years. When
nc was graduated from high school his
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
AT the Columbia

The Maids Of America company win
present Varieties la Mode. written
and staged by William K. Wells.
Among those in the cast are Jack
shutta, Aifaretta Symonds, Florence
De We're, Mildred Franklin, Fred Reeb.
George Leons Don Trent. Sidney ].
Page and Qua Legert.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
Al the Hippodrariae

Two new scenes. introducing the
Hippodronae ballet Of pogo stick girls
and the ballet Of rope skipping girls.
with the Misses Ruth Russell Matiock
and Sersta Lorraine as the toe-skip-
ping soloists, are announced for the
eleventh week os "Beeter Tines,
which begins to-morsov.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
The Bright Shawi.' Announced

John $. Robertson, who recently
signed o contract with Inspiration
Pictures, will make for his frat pro-
duction for that company q picsuriza-
tion Of Joseph Hergeshsimer's latest
novel, "The Bright Shawl" Director
Robertson. whose most recent produc-
tion, Mary Pickford in aTess os the
Storm Country" is being shown at
the New York Strand Theater. leaves
for Cubs in a few days with Dick
Barthelmess and company to make
exteriors for "The Bright Shawl
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
The Dance Of Life" Screened

The two schildkrau.s. Joseph and
Rudolph, father and son, are to ap-
pear in motion picture called aThe
Dance Of Life" which Eve unssll has
written.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
AZ the Sh,aIserss Riviei!ss &

Ae the Sklalscr Y sss srs,sasts
~Ths Hotel Mouse,s wsta III
White and Taylor HSlins q A N 4
r8ies. will come to this sasessssh. .sh .s;s gS
week. hsginning tomorrow a'sss
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"TRUNIPET ESEAND."
Story by GOuverneur Morris Makes
Wonderful PhotOplay.

When story written by such a
master of plot and action as GOuver-
neur Morris has been \ adapted for
motion picture purposes by an expert
of the type of Rudolph de Cordova,
and then the adaptation has been
gone over by Mr.. and Mrs. George
Randolph Chester to receive the
final touches, it may be depended
upon that wonderful material has
been provided for an impressive
motion picture drama.
When Vitagraph undertakes to
make special production of the
drama and selects an all-star cast
headed by Wallace Macdonald and
Marguerite de La Motto, with Tom
ierriss as director, the result is sure
to be remarkable.
All that and more has been done
| to make Trumpet Island" which
will be shown at the Dirigo theatre
on Monday and Tuesday one of the
most remarkable motion picture pro
J auctions ever seeL.-Advt.
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Sullivan.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The class parts have been as
signed The first four, according to
rank, were: Royden Trip, valedic-
tory; Doris Bean, salutatory, Zemro
Hall, grafton; Paul Carpenter essay
The others were given by vote; his
tory, Dorothy Cook and Maynard
Gordon; prophecy, John Marcho; adj
dress to undergraduates, Forrest
Hanna; presentation of gifts, Evelyn
Staples and Harriet Hooper; class
will, Stephen GrindIe and Donald
stabrooke.
The senior class play will be given
at X. of P. hall, April 81. Those in
the cast are: Zemro Hall, Paul Car
penter, Maynard Gordon. Donald
Estabrooke, Royden Trip, Forrest
Hanna, John Marcho, Agnes Sinclair,
Doris Bean, Evelyn Staples, Hilda
Johnston, Dorothy Cook.
Good work is being done on the
school paper, the Harbor Beacon,
especially in the literary column
The business managers, Evelyn
Staples and Dorothy Cook, have been
in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth solicit
ing advertisements, and did we'll in
both places.
The baseball team will play its
first game with Ellsworth on Satur-
day if weather permits.
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West GouIdsbOrOe

Mrs. Vine Smith, who has been
spending the winter with her sister,
Mrs. Eugene Sargent lit South
Gouldsboro, has rturned.
Mrs Ada HUdgkins of CGrea is
working for Mrs, Nina Bunker.
Mrs, Lizzie Libby of Gouldsboro
and Miss Grace Holt are caring for
Mrs. Georgia Holt, who is very ill.
E. NJ Stevens, who has been very
ill in Sullivan, returned Sunday.
About thirty-five from here at
tended the Easter concert in East
Sullivan. Sunday afternoon.
The home of Elliott Wordsworth
caught fire Sunday, caused kw a
spark from burning chimney Very
little damage was dene.
Mrs. George Allen was a recent
guest of her mother Mrs. Louise
Wood.
Mrs. Rodney O'Reilly entertained
a party of twenty friends Saturday
evening as a surprise for her hus-
band, his birthday being Thursday.
April II. l..
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East Sullivan.

Ralph Hanna is teaching his first
term of school in Stetson. Ralph is
very popular, having been in the post
Office since his graduation from high
| school. All hope this new venture
will be a success.
Aunt Ophelia" sends word the
new gasoline lights must be in the
hall before she brings her "Comical
| Country Cousins" All are we'll and
Bilious Button Buster" increasing
in weight.
Easter was sunny day, and those
| who attended the Easter concert
given jointly by the Oliver and Ash
vile Sunday schools felt new life and
| courage because of this festival
which marks the change from death
| to life. The exercises, with bells
and lilies, the drawing of the cur
tains before the cross, the boys with
banners bearing inscriptions typical
of Easter, the children with shining
faces, the music, the flowers, made
glad an audience, which filled even
standing room. The pastor, Mr.
Knowles, was in Bangor, but Mr.
Rideout kindly came down from
West Sullivan to open the services.
Gifts were .givn to the children, and
the collection of $25, was given to
the pastor. Five of this was from the
Ashville Christian Endeavor Mrs
Dallas Hanna, Mrs. Gipson Hanna,
Mrs. Frank Robbins, Mrs. Sterling
Sutherland, Mrs. Lamont Johnson
were the workers. Mrs. G. H. Rich
ardson, accompanist, and Lamont
Johnson, assistant superintendent,
had a care over all. Mrs. Elmer
Hanna had charge of the Ashville
school. The name "Oliver" is for
Capt. Oliver P. Bragdon, who at full
and low tide in interest was superin-
tendent, teacher, friend and guide
of the young, in this cause to which
he was devoted.
Mrs. Belle Wooster Higgins leaves
to-day for her annual visit in New
York
M. M. Urann is having siege with
rheumatism. Mrs. William Lord,
her brother, Edward Stevens, and
Mrs. B. c. Baker, have been ill of
grip.
April II. H.
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East BluehiIl.

Capts. H. F.. and r. B. Long have
started their mill, at present saving
Eaths.
On account Of the granite strike,
Luther w. Bridges is home from
Massachusetts and Richard Ashworth
from Vin&lhavn.
Bird day was observed by the East
Bluehill school on April IA. The
following program was given: Pro-
clamation read by Malcolm Long;
roll calf, answered by bird names,
bird CALLS" vfctrola; compositions;
Bird Day." Forrest Atherton;
poem, robin Red Breast" primary
schools; compositions, John Au-
dubon," Elizabeth York; Birds Re-
lation to Man." Caroline Cousins;
Emigration of Birds" Wallace York;
Bird Reservations" Roy Earls;
Bird Senses" Malcolm Long; read
ing, Dawn and Twilight with the
Birds" illustrated by victrola, Eliza
beth York; compositions: Audubon
Society,"" Harry Woods; John Bur-
roughs," Albert Conary; readings:
"Robin Red Breast" Maurice Cous-
ms; "Bluebird," Caro- Leach:
"Chickadee," Inez Anterior: Sand