Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-21

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| Coming-"rhe Squaw Man" with |
William Faversham. Lyric.
Under the Bamboo Tree" with
Bert Williams, Shubert.
Main Street" Adelphi.
Sothern and Marlowe in roper.
toire.
such things. Every one of these things
must be kept on such n system tnat,
the moment the girls come off from ono
number, the costumes for the next are
waiting for them While they arc on
the stage again, the first costumes are
put away and those for the succeeding
number are brought out.
Some job. that!
T LILLIAN GISH. speaking for her
- self and her sister Dorothy. made
speech in this city on Wednesday
night. telling people lot of nice things
about Orphans of the Storm" which
Is at the Forrest. That statement re-
quircs some explanation because, ol
course. neither Lillian nor Dorothy was
In Philadelphia Wednesday night. They
were in Pittsburgh. Yet couple Of
thousand people here heard Lillian make
her speech and were interested TO hear
her say that. while it was tremendous
strain on her TO make the guillotinc
scenes for the now film. nothing she has
ever done was such strain as making
the ice scenes for Way Down East.
Sound as II ! were crazy. doesn't it
this about the girls being in Pitts
burgh and some thousands Of people
here hearing them talk? But it isn't
The answer is-wireless telephone. Six
nj t.N e..
in West Philadelphia and heard every
word distinctly on an amateur set
And goodness only knows how many
similar amateur sets there are around
here. all listening nightly to the con-
certS and entertainments that are sent
out from Pittsburgh, Lillian was an
extra added attraction on Wednesday
night. And all the wireless bugs"
here have been talking about it ever
since
Aud, speaking of the "Orphans. "
that's clever stunt of the Mae Dcs-
mond stock company at the Metropeli-
tan to put on the old classic. ''The Two
Orphans right now. 1t will give
would-be scenario writer's a chance to
see how man like Griffith takes the
material of story and adds to it and
changes it and builds 1t up until it suits
the requirements of his pictures.
nv FRIDAY. the 3h. thirteen
~ people connected with "Thc Bat
company dt the AdClphi. held a dinner
and formed "7'hc Secret and Honoro Die
Order of Bats just to shoe that they
admit bciterc in hoodoos. Tmo days
later they rerc notified that their Iona
stay here mould end after the reck OF
January 80 and that William Hodge
wW succeed them. This rW prcrcnt
"Thc Bat" from breaking the local
continuous idNg-run record. which raS
established bV Mr.. Hodge himself. And
uH teach those thirteen "Bats' 10
treat hOodoos With more respect in the
future.
Two players who made undoubted
hits last year in B6oth Tarkington' S
Clarence" at the Broad will be al
the same theatre in
BHtte BURKE the same author
Tries to Be Intimate Stran
Elderly gers with Billie
Burke next week
Alfred Lunt, who played the part OF
Clarence. and Glenn Hunter, who
played the young boy. are both mem
bcrs of her company. Harrington
new play. from all advance accounts,
gives the lovely and youthful Miss
Burke a role II Is hard TO imagine her
in. She plays n spinster of uncertain
age. who tries to make herself look ant
act even older than she is.
The hcroine's play name is Tsabe
Stuart. She finds herself murooned BY
a storm In n little shack of New Eng
land railroad station with cranky
elderly young bachelor as companion
They have TO make the hest OF the
situation. The bachelor discloses hi,
hatred of modern young women. whom
he terms "brazen young hussles' until
in the morning, one of the young hussies
appears and attracts his attention. But
he is astonshed TO find that the CIR
is the grandniecc of Miss Stuart.
Isabel, piqued by his misunderstood
ing of her age and his temporary attrac.
tion 10 the niece, spends the next two
acts trying to make him believe she i.
really as old as the possession of q
grandniece would suggest 4he refer
to her memories of long dead president,
and worlds fairs and she hides tn,
family Bible, which has her real age in
scribed in it, and altogether makes hin
miserable until she Is ready to reyea
the truth and accept his love.
IT'S been great year for the Follies
l. Frolic- Passing Show kind of thing
with wonderful stage pictures anc
plenty of pretty girls and elaborate cos
tune effects and music and fun r
everything. And next week we'll hnv,
another with us in the third annua