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New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Conedie Francaise
Favorite to Appear
AT 39th St. Theater

While the forthcoming engagement
at the Thirty ninth Street Theater of
Cecile Sorel, Albert Lambert and
Louis Ravet, of the Comedie Fran
caise, will be the first time that rep
resentatives of the French National
Theater have played. in America since
Coouelin came here in 1897. London
and other European capitals are quite
familiar with the more celebrated
members Of the company. Although
no Comedie Franchise artist can leave
France without special sanction of the
Ministry of Beaux Arts, such permis-
sion often is given because the govern
ment believes it sound policy and good
propaganda to let other countries make
the acquaintance of their great artists
and playwrights.
La Sorel, herself, has played often
in London, Brussels, Madrid, Petro-
grad. Moscow, Stockholm and Chris
tiania, and only recently she and Mr.
Lambert and Ravet enjoyed months
triumph in the British metropolis.
In fact, not a year passes when some
members Of the Comedie Franchise do
not go on a continental or English
tour. This is possible, without inter
fering with the program of the home
theater, because of the size and or
ganization of the company and the
scope Of the repertoire. There are
some forty members, and rarely are
all OF them needed in the same play.
so that it is easy to arrange the pro-
grams SO that certain artists will not
be needed for two weeks or month
or more.
While those artists are away plays
IN which they take the leading parts
are not performed. Particularly is
this so in the case Of "Societaires." or
life members, such as Mile. Sorel and
M. Lambert, who virtually own certain
roles. Thus, while they are in America
"L'Aventuriere" and "Le Demi Monde"
which are exclusively Sorel's, and
"Tartuffe," which is as much Lambert's.
and lie Misanthrope," which is theirs
together, will not be played at the
comedie Francaise. On the other
hand, Camille" and "Le DueI.n which
they also will present in New York,
Will remain in the Comedie repertoire
because the leading roles are common
property.
although few artists of the
Coincide Francaise go. on tour from
time to time, the entire company
never does. The theater is open the
year round, there being no vacations
ZOE ehe company as whole. Activities
were curtailed somewhat during the
war OF course, but that was because
OF abnormal conditions. And lust after
the war, when extensive repairs upon
the theater were imperative, the entire
company was permitted to play in Lon.
don Tor month. But that is the enJv
time such thing had happened in two
hundred years.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Brings Argentine
Color to Stage of
"Village Follies''

The ,rst to organize and present a
native Argentine ballet was Alexander
Yakovleff, one Of the principal dancers
in the fourth annual production of the
lGreenwich Village Follies. now at the
Shubert Theater.
Mr.. Yakovleff had school for dane
ing at the Theater Colon in Buenos
Aires. Before he opened this school
dancers in Argentine had always been
imported from Europe, but Mr.. Yakov-
left successfully developed many native
dancers. In speaking Of Argentine
dances Mr.. Yakovleff says:
81 found no difficulty in training the
Argentine girls, because many if the
natives have Oriental blood and their
temperament adapts them admirably
for learning intricate dance steps. The
artistic sense of the young women is
exceptionally developed and this COM
bination is very happy one for
dancers. What I have said applies only
to the ladies of Argentine, as the men
show no adaptability to become dancers.
The native Argentine dances are very
different from the dances Of to-day.
Many are like the old quadrilles which
We're danced decades ago in this coun-
try. The young ladies and gentlemen
dance together and very important
part of the dance is for them to make
humorous remarks, not only to their
partners but to all who are present.
These remarks are quite as important
part of the dances as the steps. The
result is that each couple tries to outdo
the other i'll wit and departee. The
number of different nations represented
In Argentine make the dances excep-
tionally diverse, but all the dances are
very graceful"
Buenos Aires is serious about mod
ern dances. Before left there" says
Mr.. Lakovleff, "these dances were being
done in public, which was very recent
innovation. | really know no more
amazing sight than to see Argentine
couples dancing. The music is soft,
low and mystic, and the couples take
the dances very seriously. They move
very slowly, almost as if they were in
trance, and the expressions on their
faces are such as no tango dancer ever
has in this country. You might think
they were on their way to dentist or
to hospital, for there is no spirit of
levity in the dancing in Buenos Aires.
became interested in the serious way
the natives danced the tango. made
several inquiries and all whom talked
with said, The reason they dance the
tango SO seriously is not because OF
the dance itself, but because Of the
native music which is used for the
tango in our country. When we hear
our native music played it makes us
sad, because we realize all the hard
ships and vicissitudes our country has
gore through. and when we think of
our country's troubles the music
arouses our sense of patriotism
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Toby Tyler" To Be
.Iackie,s Next Picfmre

"Toby Tyler" or ''Ten Weeks With q
Circus is to be Jackie Coogan's next
big picture, which is good news for
every one. Probably nobody has for-
gotten how he (and she) loved Toby,
and it ought to offer most attractive
material for the clever Jackie. Jack
Coogan sr. had written story especial
ly for his young sons next picture, but
this will 90 held over until later, as
it was deemed better TO do something
radically different FROM Oliver Twist
for Jackie's next picture.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
a. A. Milne Believes
Rules May Be Made
!. For Others, Not for Him

= In an aside, A. A. Milne mas his saw
about his play, "The Romantic Age"
Sow in rehearsal, with Margelo Gill
tore and Leslie Howard in principal
parts and due for production here in
the near future by Frederick Stanhope
and Hugh Ford. Mr.. Mines comment
IS taken from his volume, Second
Plays" just published by Alfred A.
Knopf:
= 1.-The Romantic Age appeared first
st the Comedy (in London) and, like
sMr. Pim,' found in its need home at
the Playhouse. Miss Gladys Cooper
has charming way of withdrawing
into nursing home whenever I want
a theater, but / beg her not to make q
habit of it. My players can be spared
so much more easily than she.
"By the way, word about Nell
sande. Many Of the critics said that
nobody behaved like that nowadays. /
am terrified at the thought af arguing
with them. for they can always reduce
me to bushes with a scornfu1, NV dear
man, you can't do that in play!' And
when they tell me to remember what
Strindberg said in '9S (if he were alive
then; really don't know, or what
Aristotle wrote in--no, | shan't even
guess at Aristotle. Well, then. / want
to burst into tears, my Ignorance is so
profound.
$50, very humbly, just say now that,
when Melisande talks and behaves in
a certain way do not mean that a par
ticular girl exists (Miss Jones, Of 9ss
BEDFORD Park, who talks and behaves
like this. but / do mean that there
Is type of girl who, in her heart,
secretly thinks like this. If, from
your great knowledge of the secret
places Of young girls heart you tell
me that there is no such type, then /
shall only smile. But if you inform
me sterniy that dramaSist has no
business to express an attitude in
terms of an actress, then you reduce me
to bushes again, for really know
nothing about playwriting and I
am only sustained by two beliefs.
me first is that rules are always made
for the other people; the second is
that, If play by me is not obviously
by me and as obviously not by any
body else, then, obviously, I had no
business to write it,"
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Players Spike Theory
That Gallery God Has Passed

Impressions that such student would
probably gather is that the purchasers
Of the 25-cent seats are, as a proup.
just as we'll to do and just as pros
porous In appearance as the purchasers
OF the more expensive seats. The sec-
ond Impression would probably be that
they are even more anxious to see the
performance than those who buy or
chestra seats. This is evidenced not
only by the eagerness with which they
ask If there are any second balcony
seats left, but by the heartiness Of
their applause during the perform
ance.
The patrons of Equity Players sec
ond balcony apparently come from all
walks of life and from all sections Of
the city.
AS Francis Wilson, president Of
Equity Players, was descending the
second balcony steps after last Tues
days matinee, he was stopped by two
elderly ladies who wished to congratu-
late him on the organizations policy of
cheap seats for those who wanted them.
My sister and / rarely go to the
theater," one of the ladies said. sour
income is such that we cannot afford
it, yet we are very fond of the theater
and in former days went frequently.
We want to tell you how much indebt-
ed we feel to Equity Players and to
tell you we intend to see every play
you produce"
1t is voluntary appreciation of this
character which has made both Mr..
Wilson and the executive board Of
Equity Players feel that even if it were
not for the overwhelming testimony Of
the box office the 25-cent balcony has
proved to be an unqualified success.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

Not the least interesting feature in
connection with the Equity Forty
eighth Street Theater is it's 25-cent
gallery on Tuesday afternoons. When
Equity Players announced that in order
to give every lover of the theater an
opportunity to see it's productions it
had been decided to scale its entire
second balcony at 80 cents every eve
ming in the week, including Saturdays,
and at Is cents on Tuesday afternoons,
old and experienced theatrical man
ayers along Broadway were inclined to
smile.
"The gallery gods have gone for
ever" they declared. "The big motion
picture palaces have lurcd them from
their former haunts. A man or woman
with only 25 so cents to spend on an
afternoons amusement would rather
occupy a seat in the luxurious orches-
ira OF one of the glittering new motion
picture theaters along Broadway than
climb two flights of stairs to see the
"iA~'e ui"AA@'AS performance IidC could
be offered
Again the Broadway manager was
proved wrong. The gallery gods are
not dead. They had merely gone into
temporary retirement. This is evidenced
by the fact that at every Tuesday mat
inee performance Of "Malvaloca" at the
Equity Fortv-aie,}th cfrao+ rL.,4
every 25-cent seat in the house has
been sold long before the hour of the
performance and many have been
turned away. The 50-cent seats in the
evenings have been in almost as much
demand.
The Tuesday matinees offer IN es-
pecially interesting study for the stu
dent of human nature One of the first
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Do Not Worry About
Animals That Can A.

Ginger. a dog actor, @played dsaa !
so artistically in Broken Chasns
which Allen Holubar recently fnls's,s
for Goldwyn, that his owner, DR.. e T !,
Cowles, of Santa Monica, CALI. u,s
the following affidavit co resssare ~
lovers who may see the picture; Il.
"This is to certify that Ginger, ss
dog seen in Broken Chains acsea e 4
part as directed In the scene ~ xa's !,
he was shot, and at this wr'tiaE s
alive and wcil.''
People are constantly fsncyins ss
animals are cruelty treated In nssfss
pictures, when the reverse Is true. AZ,
mails which are able to act are % sH
demand that their owners wcuso
that they had the best Of care Y sFs
from selfish motives.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Interesting Chat and Information for the Playgoe
The Author and
The Actor Boil,
Love The Fool
MIR. Pollock Declares He
Planned for Years to
Write This Serious Drama

Long ago Claiming Pollock said that
some day he was going to write play
which was just what he wanted to
write. In that play he would voice his
ambitions, his beliefs and his ideals.
He has done it at last, and the result
IS The Fool" He assured us Of this
I'D short conversation over the tele-
phone in which he requested our pres-
enee at his play that evening, saving
that he had never put his trust in
princes, but that he did put his trust
in "The Fool"
And surely he is justified. The Fool
1s such nice fool; even though he
is minister he never breaches. Mr..
Pollock has evidently chosen the title
OF his play from the verse in the
Scripture which says that the fool and
his money are soon parted. You see,
the Fool gave away all of his money
and so his fancee, Miss Pamela Gay
thorne, threw him over for Lowell
sherman, Mr. Pollock has written a
meiodrama in which all the characters
talk like real people, but the best lines
IN the play fall to che unregenerate
sherman. In one scene where the
heroine, violently protesting her love
Ter and her allegiance to the Fool, is
answered by the villain thus: amy
telephone number is Rhinelander 1892"
And whenever she protests too much
ne reiterates "Rhinelander 1852"
James Kirkwood, the we'll known
screen hero, plays the title role, and
this is the first time we ever have
heard his voice. 1t had been ar
ranged that we were to interview
MN, and we had arranged a cute en-
trance line suggested not by Mr..
PoiIock, but by another playwright,
VINO few seasons back had gone to
hipiing's famous poem for his theme.
hpt 1T never was delivered. After the
fsnai curtain we managed to reach Mr..
4>irkwood, but we hadn't been in his
dressing room for more than a roinute
Tnen some one came to the door and
SAID: Mr. Kirkwood, will you come on
the stage Immediately? They are going
to take pictures of the company So
that settled that, but before leaving
we managed to say, "How do you like
playing the Fool'?"
We'll" replied Mr., Kirkwood, when
received motion picture offer by
wire asking me to sign contract for
next season wired back, will be busy
for year. and at that time the play
pad not even opened. That is how
gel about It," HU.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
q. X. Chesterton
On the Technique
OF Mystery Plays

The technique of mystery plays and
stories Is coming in for serious
literary consideration, according to
Kate L. McLaurin, author Of whisper
ing Wires," at the Forty-ninth Street
Theater. Miss McLaurin points to G.
K. Chesterton as proof of her asser-
ton.
"Chesterton recently took up the
cudgels in behalf of proper treatment
of mystery plays at the hands Of the
reviewers" said Miss McLaurin, "and
his interest will prove of vast benefit
in field Of criticism that to date
has been characterized by a causalness
and superciliousness that have been
discouraging, to say the least, to
creators of ingenious plots. With such
figure as Chesterton to lead the way
this attitude will undoubtedly be
changed to one of respect, if not Of
admiration.
"Chesterton takes up his complaint
in an article in The Illustrated Lon
don News and declares it all the more
curious that the technique Of such
tales is not discussed, because they are
exactly the sort in which technique is
nearly the whole Of the trick
"'There are textbooks instructing
people in the manufacture of sonnets,'
writes Chesterton, 'as if the visions of
bare ruined where late sweet birds
sang, or of the ground whirl of
the perished leaves of hope, the wind
Of Deaths i,nperishable wing, were
things to be explained like conjuring
trick. We have monographs expound-
ing the art of the short story as if the
dripping horror of the House of Usher
or the sunny irony Of the Treasure Of
Franchard' were recipes out of 8 cook
cry book. But in the case of the only
kind of story to which the strict laws
OF logic are in some sense applicable,
nobody seems to bother to apply them.
Nobody writes the simple book which
expect every day to see on the book
stalls, called How to Write a Detective
Story
THE whole story exists for the
moment Of surprise; and it should be
moment. 1t should not be something
that it takes twenty minutes to ex-
plain and twenty-four hours to learn
by heart, for fear of forgetting it,
SIT should be remembered that
Whispering Wires was modelled upon
the short story of the same name"
The English author, declares Miss
McLaurin, shows US furthermore that
the detective tale should be on the
model of the short story rather than
the novel.
There are splendid exceptions he
writes, but ! think that the difficulties
of long detective novel are real diff
culties, though very clever men can BY
various expedients get over them. The
chief difficulty is that TIE detective
story is, after all, drama of masks
and not OF faces. It depends on mems
raise characters rather than their real
characters. The author cannot tell us
until the last chapter any of the most
interesting things about the most in
teresting people. 1t is masquerade
ball, in which everybody is disguised
as somebody else, and there is no true
personal interest until the clock strikes
twelve. That is. we cannot really get
at the psychology and philosophy, the
morals and religion, of the thing until
we have read the last chapter. There
fore. | think it is best of all when the
first chapter is also the last chapter -
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
AT the Columbia

= Hello, Mama" two-act burlesaue.
will be presented by the Hello, Good
Times" company, beginning tomorrow
afternoon. Nat Haines, who is the
principal comedian, wrote the book. In
the supporting cast are Fay Tunis,
Louise Wright, Dick Hahn, Lew Rice,
Charles Ponroy, Pearl Briggs, Jimmie
Slater and Wenn Miller.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
AT the Hippoflror,e

"Better Times" begins it's tenth full
week at the big playhouse tomorrow
The fan ballet and aThe Harbor of
Prosperity" are the outstanding SCENES
Of the production. Elna Hansen heads
the ballet. There are many foreign
and American novelty acts in the
spectacle.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
s.Down TO the Sea in Ships''

"a Quaker marriage ceremony is per-
formed in Elmer Clifton's new pic
ture, Down to the Sea in Ships.'' Such
q ceremony requires neither minister
nor ring. The meeting house where
the scene wss shot is f35 years Old
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-02-07
4DEAD 20 LOST IN
RICHMOND FIRE
Twenty Persons Missing
Following Destruction of
Lexington Hotel
Fifteen Are Injured-Three of Dead
Identifed-Origin of Fire Not
Determined

I Richmond, Va, Feb. -Four men
were killed and fifteen persons were
injured, some seriously, in fire which
started in the Lexington Hotel here
early today and which was still burn
ing at 9 o'clock.
At least twenty persons are missing,
and it is feared that other bodies will
be found in the ruins.
Three of the dead have been identi-
fled. They are:
NJ. J. Fox, Williamsport, Pa.
Hiram F. Austin. Fincastle, Pa.
A. Johnson, Charlottesville, Va.
The fire is one of the most disas-
trous which has occurred in the State
of Virginia in a sore of years. At 9
o'clock firemen were still pouring
water into the blazing wreckage in
efforts to prevent the fire from
spreading to adjoining buildings.
The origin of the fire had not been
determined this morning, and police
expressed the belief that it would be
I. impossible to learn the cause of the
blaze. The first alarm was turned in
by night clerk of the hotel shortly
after 4 o'clock. The flames were
spreading rapidly when firemen ar
rived, and men and women who were
asleep in the hotel rose terrified from
their beds to find the blaze about
them.
A. Johnson, one of the identified
dead, jumped for net held by fire
men. He missed the net BY six feet
and was killed instantly J. H. Webb
of Fincastle, Va. threw a mattress
to the street and jumped. He also
missed, badly injuring both hips.
The hotel was a five-story brick
building, located at Twelfth and Main
streets, and had $50 rooms.
Police estimated the damage at
100000.
The injured include:
William o. Bailey, New York city,
severely burned about hands and face.
William P. Little, Portsmouth, Va,
broken leg.
Paul Bigone, New York city, frac-
tured hip, e-...- =
Austin, cne of the dead, had been
in Richmond to attend the execution
this morning of Edmund Thompson,
colored youth, sentenced to death for
implication in the killing of relative
Of Austin in Fincastle.
The blaze damaged adjoining build
ings. including the Savings Bank Of
Richmond. the Branch Cavell Com
pany, brokers', and the Cooperative
Produce Exchange, located in the rear
of the hotel.
The Lexington was one of the last
of the old hHcls of Richmond, being
four-story structure of old-fashon-
ed design, built in tho SOS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-02-07
OPENING NIGHT
BIG SUCCESS
Elks' Auditorium Is Crowd
ed to Capacity For
Put and Take
Bazaar
Vaudeville Numbers Warmly Greeted
-GaiIy Decorated Booths Largely
Patronizcd Deep Sea Band
Feature

The opening night of the big Put
and Take Bazaar staged under the
Joint auspices of the American Le-
gion, their Ladies Auxiliary and the
Veterans of Foreign Wars was
greeted warmly last night with a
crowd that fairly iammed the Elks'
Auditorium, and everyone seemed to
thoroughly enjoy themselves.
The big feature of the affair Is
the music. Sailor Tilton and his
Deem Sea Jazz Band scored a big hit
with the audience, particularly the
dancers. The Sailor Boys played IN
uniform. each man is artist and
several play two instruments, The
vounrer folk who enjoy dancing
should flock to the bazaar during the
The feature vaudeville numbers
showed Larry Gavitt, a clever young
star in pianologue that was clever
Mary Smiles S'minter also came IN
for her share of the applause.
Tonight is All-Fraternal Night, and
big turnout of the Lodges IS ex-
pected, also the fire companies are
exnected to rally to the support OF
the bows in their efforts to create a
Relief and Welfare Fund for the local
Unemployed Ex-Service Men. AS a
CONTINUED on Page SKI
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-02-07
BIDS ARE ASKED
FOR new SCHOOL
Will Be Opened February 25
In Office OF City
Engineer
New Building Will Contain II Rooms
and be Erected on Lot of Alex
andria High School

Announcement is made elsewhere in
The Gazette that the public property
committee will receive sealed proposal
to 4 p. m, February 25 for the con-
stru@tion OF seventeen room school
building on the lot OF the Alexandria
High School. The drawings and
specifications are now on file in the Of
flee of City Engineer f. c. Dunn in
the city hall. The city council re-
serves the right to reject any and all
proposals.
News that the committee is now
ready to receive bids for the new
school will be received with general
satisfaction by all citizens as the pres
cnt school facilities are entirely made
quate to accommodate the large num-
her of pupils who are registered to at
tend school, and as result it IS stated
that many pupils arc now deprived OF
full DAYS school work.
1t is regarded as highly probable
that the work of erecting the school
nrohably will be started early IN
March. Tn the event the work is be-
gun in March it is expected that the
new school will be ready for occupancy
in time for the next school session
which will be in September.
There is now a resolution pending
before city council carrying with it
an appropriation of $4,000 for the
erection of the new school.