Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-08

NEW YORK. April S,-The stage. after
all, is not so bad as It is painted, the
Rev. John Roach Straton Of New YORK
CITY. to the contrary. Leaving out Of con
sideration the Al Woods brand Of bed
room furces and the occasional dash Of
pepper" shows from Paris, we find that
the stage is pretty much family aitair-
fath~rs and daughters, mothers and sons.
Erot - and sisters, to say nothing Of
any number Of happily married couples
all playing together in productions and
sketches which most anybody's daughter,
sister or wife could with safety sit
through without shock to their refined
seasibi1ities.
This other side of the stage picture
comes forcibly to those who have seen
George Conan as leading man make love
(stage and paternaD to his own daughter,
Georgette Cohan, as leading woman In
"Nadelaine Of the Movies" a comedy
written, staged and produced by Mr.
Conan.
DO you not find it strange at forty
three years Of age to be playing the op-
posite lead to your twenty one year-old
flesh and blood daughter p ] asked or
the Fourth of July comedian.
81 am a family man, on and off, he
REPLIED. II played my own mothers
father at NJ. S. Robinson's Eden Musee IN
Buffalo when I was fifteen and mother
was thirty eight years old. The whole
stage IS a family affair, and my case is
only one instance of many"
As n manager. Mr.. Cohan was asked for
an opinion Of his daughter as an actress
and her opinion Of him as playwright
He said:
ITO the first query l will say that 1
never stage dead ones and for her views,
nothing can excite her. She is the cham
pion Of the world when 1t comes to
keeping her opinions to herself She
seems to be always amused"
Following up the theater family sug-
gestion made by Mr.. Cohan recently,
probably Of equal interest is the appear
ance of Miss Cornelia Skinner In Blood
and Sand" with her distinguished father,
Otis Skinner, now on the road. The
SINNERS when at home occupy n New
York apartment with Mrs. Skinner, who
in staReland is known as Maud Durbin.
Cornelia still is in her teens, attended
Bryn Mawr College and she has excep-
tional histrionic talents. In the play she
is a grand lady of Spain, a small part
for a starter, but she sings an old song,
and once in Chicago, when the leading
woman, Miss Madeline Delmar, was Ill,
she stepped in and played the wife Of the
Dull0g1ter, III OdlldFuO, IHe part ldheh
by her father.
Jacob Adler, the venerable Jewish ac-
tor, is the Edwin Booth Of the east side
Of New York This last winter his health
has been poorly and we have to go back
several seasons to his superb presentment
of Jacob GordOns great play, elisha
Ben Aveazuyo," in which his eldest
daughter, Francis. played his daughter
in the drama. Mr.. Adler has two younger
daughters who have appeared in various
plays. the Misses Stella and Julia, both
of whom aspire to the English speaking
stage He has two sons, one of whom
acts, as his business manager, and lad
now in school.
Cyril Maude. the eminent English &C
tor, who endeared himself to the Ameri-
can theater- going public with Grumpy"
lost his daughter Margarey through her
playing in that piece with him. Margerey
Maud met and charmed Joseph Burden,
wealthy New Yorker, whom she sub
sequently married and then retired from
her fathers company.
l am told that Blythe Daily once ap.
peared in a play with her father, Arnold
DAILY Then there Is Miss Louise Drew,