South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-08
NEWS OF THE STAGE
This Weeks Events in the World of the Theatre From
Broadway to South Bend
BY Dorothy Day

ruzvu- D>ctL. The author VINO ls
a graduate a. Notre Dame. by The
way will have two plays on in Chi
cago very shortly Anna Chris
tie" which played there all last
winter is returning. and when Anna
Christie" goes. The Hairy Ape" VIII
come from New York.
ii viii be remembered that John
Taylor. Margaret AngIin's property
master was hurt while in South
Bend by having a spotlight fall on
him. lie left the hospital here yes
terday and is rejoining "The Wo-
man Of Bronze" In Milwaukee. Dur
ing his enforced sojOurn here Miss
Anglin has been in constant com
muuication with r II. wood, the
manager Of the oliver.
Two star Bookings.
Two musical comedies are prom
ised for the future. Shuttle Along, %
tho colored musical show which has
been playing in Chicago and I'D.
Wynne's the Perfect Fool" They
are going 20 have hard time
crowding all Of the shutters in the
former play on the little stage OF the
oliver And as for their orchestra.
they could take up the first ten rows
Of the theater easily. The cast was
so large that they had 20 have the
biggest stage I'm Chicago. What they
may have done is TO divide IL into
two companies.
Thank You" which ran last
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running now in Chicago. viii be
here. Also six Cylinder Love
Valentines Struggles.
And now because we wish 20 be
highbrow about "A half "a column
later we will begin with some in
formation about the early struggles
% Rudolph Valentino. hoping 10 in
gratiate ourselves thus with our
readers. IL comes in the form OF a
letter written 20 the press some time
ago from Valentino himself.
The letter reads.
There have appeared I'm the
newspapers recently several stories
which were written with no o-her
purpose than 10 discredit me. I'm
the short time 1 have been i'm this
country-and let me say that 1 hope
to live here and work here for the
rest of my life-I have learned that
one may ask and receive fair play.
The first OF these stories an
nounced that I was the son Of Ital-
ian peasants. and that 1 had come
here in the stcerage as a farmer
who called himself an "agrtcultur-
list" The truth is that 1 was born
i'm Castellaneta Italy, and that my
father was Doctor Giovanni Gug-
Helmi. formerly a captain in the
Royal Italian Cavalry, and later a
student of bacteriology. Moreover,
my father is well-known in Euro
pean scientific circles for his dis
coveries. I came 20 this country as
a frst-cabin passenger. and i was
admitted as an agriculturist because
that was my profession. have
college diploma TO prove the fact
Another story has it that 1 sup
ported myself by dishwashing. cut
ting hair. and serving as an omni-
bus boy in Broadway restaurants
THE truth is that for six months,
during which time 1 spent almost all
my savings. I could not find any sor-
of work. My first job was at Je-
richo. Long Island, where Cornelius
Bills. Jr.. engaged me 20 plan and
supervise the laying out of an italian
garden. Unfortunately, his wife re-
turned from Europe and decided to
turn the land into a golf course in
stead of a garden knowing nothing
about golf courses. I lost my job.
More months went by before I got