New-York tribune., 1922-04-17
The New Play
By Percy Hammond
''Somc Party" Is a Minor
Lambs Cambol, Pretentious
as TO Actors, but Rather
Slow as to Performance

Herewith is an abbreviated inventory
of De Wolf Hopper, his associated ard
so-called Funmakcrs and long, dull,
quasi-Lambs gambol called Some
Party" which is undergoing per
formance at Al Jolson's Theater
1mprimis: A comedy of veterans
with imposing pasts-among those
present being John +. Hcnshaw, Lew
Dockstader, Jefferson De Angels, Viii
liam Courtleigh, William B. Mack and
Mr.. Hopper himself.
Item: A slothful program OF dance,
burlesquc and melodrama interspcrscd
with songs Of a hearable sort.
Item: A minstrel first part, with Mr.
Hopper as intcrlocutor, employing his
de luxe vocabulary in polysyllabic in
quiries addressed to the end men,
Mcssrs. Hcnshaw, Dockstader, De
Angels aud Harry c. Browne
Item: Hoar jokes in this minstrel
first part. When Sam Ash is cncored
after rendering with considerable
sweetness "Jn Rose Timc," Mr. Hen
shaw turns to MIR. Hopper and says:
"lf he had done it right at first he
wouldn't have to do it again" Mr.
Hopper becomes vituperativc, as he
himself would say, toward Mr.. Dock
stader, and indicts him with many
proud epithets. When he has finished
Mr. Dockstader rustles the mournful
leaves of memory BY observing, "But
Otherwise I'm All Right"
Item: "Among Thieves" a lengthy
short play by William Gillette, in
which two noble murderers, meeting
in an Arizona desert, exhibit many of
the praiseworthy attributes common
to their kind. Safe blowing and
assassination are discussed, nobly, and
the play reeks with the loyalty of one
crook to another. It is we'll acted by
MIR. Mack, Mr.. Courtleigh and Miss
Percy Haswell, who impersonates Ruth,
the faithful wife of a likable. though
consumptive blood letter.
Item: Uncle Toms Saloon" Though
you may not believe it, this is
buresque Of "Uncle Toms Cabin" with
Mr.. Hopper as Uncle Tom.
Item: Miss Virginia Futrele, very
musical and handsome, singing verse
from Mr. Berlin's "Say 1t With Music"
better than it has ever before been
sung. Also other young and pretty
vocalists voicing the song "hits" Of the
popular musical plays.
item; Lew Dockstader equipped in
monologuc, with wireless telephone,
talking to warren" IN the White
House, and referring to Secretary
Hughes as "Charlie" and to the Mayor
as "ldike," with coy references to
Samuel Untermyer, also to Bryan and
the Ku-Klux Clan. Newborn stuff in
the arms of doting grandparent.
Item: A satire on grand opera, en-
titled Burning to Sing" or "Singing
to Burn" Melodious, ironic and ex-
cellently sung and acted, but hours
ana hours and hours too long.
Item: "Some Party" an actors show
in which the Famous Players of these
and other days seem to overestimate
the appeal of their regulations and
their personalities. We are chill, one
to past glories, and it doesn't
so much matter what once one was as
what one is to-day. "Some Party" is a
modern revue Handicapped by a senility
of manner and a confidence in a senti.
ment which does not, perhaps, after a
first night, exist. "Some Party is
stupid, though worthy.
Seek French COunterfeifers
PARIS, April 16.- French Secret
Service men have arrived in Brazil,
1thoro ic ho1iovad 4b,,,