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The New York herald., 1922-10-24
THE NEW MOVIES
By Robert E. Sherwood

clutch at the empty air. villainous
eyes CLEAN like automobile headlights
from the depths OF the night. Door
knobs turn mysteriously. And the au-
dience, as one man, shivers.
Of course there is burnt cork negro,
who indicates extreme fright by blinking
his eyes rapidly and knocking his knees
together. There Is also suitcase which
contains 100000, and a grim visaged
detective who never takes his hat off
What is more. there is foreword from
Mr.. Griffith which starts I'VE welcome
you to our new offerings little ro-
0tdace-just a little mystery. we hope
just few thrills" and so forth.
What would a Griffith opening be
without forewordi
The general spirit of the thing Is well
carried out by the members of the cast.
Most of them are veterans at this sort
of work. The hero, Henry Hull, has
been doing it for several months now
in "The Cat and the Canary" and c. II.
Crocker-king, unless we are very much
mistaken, was the arch villain upon
whom a green spotlight was always
focused in Bulldog Drummond."
''One Exciting Night" is In reality a
pot boiler-and a highly successful one
ar that 1t will do well in the box office
Wherever ii goes. Mr.. Griffith often has
to devote his attention to pictures like
this, because ii is an open secret that
some of his more ambitious offerings
have not been quite as profitable as they
might be.
Let us trust, then, that "One Exciting
Night win make enough money to pay
for another Broken Blossoms"
The New York herald., 1922-10-24

Revels of considerable glitter and
sumptuosity were resumed last eve
ming in West Forty-fifth street. In
the Music Box, that gem of theater
that has been raised and set aside as
a playground for the talent and the
showmanship of Irving Berlin, a new
set of comedians and dancers in new
set of furbelows began a new set of
tricks.
II was probably inevitable that, once
with all its unequaled opportunities for
antic scenery, Berlin and his accom-
plice, Hassard Short. would fall into
the habit of thinking of revue rather
as something to look at than as a
con1icality to laugh about or a sweet
sound TO hear. Yet buried under an
avalanche of costumes as ample and
bespangled and scenery as active as
ever our stage has beheld. there lurk
a few diverting comedians and some
mgn,y good tunes by Irving Berlin.
iiN eihiphNudc anu
OF the Music Box and the wealth of its
Golfers led them into veritable orgies.
For time last night IL began to look
as though none of the somewhat baffled
and bewildered players on the stage
would be permitted to resort to any
such routine and hackneyed entrance
as merely walking on the stage No,
they emerge from tree trunks and bird
cages. spring up out of trap doors and
lightly swing down from high trapezes
When this is not possible they walk
groggily down intermina BILE staircases
of black velvet, managing the perilous
descent as nonchalantly as possible
under the circumstances of having to
carry with them gowns of silver Sc
quins weighing about a ton each.
Thus the fair and sweet voiced
Grace La Rue appears one time in a
hoop skirt that occupies the entire
stage and contains as many yards of
silk as you would find at any one time
in Liberty's shop in London. And be-
fore the evening is over the poor lady
must needs mount the aforesaid stair
way with silver train said to be the
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
A Grimth Comedy.


ID. w. Griffith has never been noted
as a producer of comedy. In fact. the
lighter touches in his photoplays have
generally been of rather crude order,
value of his work As an instigator of
as mirth provoker he has been some
what OF a dud.
However, it's a long lane that doesn't
lead ultimately to Yonkers-and i'm his
latest production. zone Exciting Night"
which opened last night at the Apollo,
Mr.. Griffith has concocted slapsticls
farce which is well worthy of Mack
Sennett at his best.
"One Exciting Night" is very much
en- the order of Bulldog Drummond."
1t is mystery molodrama. so literally
leavened with broad burlesque that the
casual spectator never quite knows
whether he is laughing at or with Mr.
Griffith. Just when the action becomes
SO terrific that the audience is con-
strained to smile patronsingly in self
defense, Mr.. Griffith steps in AMI
pushes his characters over the line
which separates ham melodrama from
utter nonsense ana the audience su J.
denly realizes that 1t is being effec-
lively kidded.
The early stages Of the picture are
ret particularly promising. For a reel
or SOC "One Exciting Night shapes up
like another "Dream Street." and the
prospect is none too alluring. But then
the murders start and all is we'll. Hands
appear through trap doorways and
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
GOODFELLOWSHIP CLUB
GIVES ANNUAL DINNER
Miniature Follies Staged Dur
ing Coffee.

The third annual dinner, entertain
ment and dance of the New York Life
Goodfeilowship Club took place last
night in the grand ballroom, Of the
Waldorf-Astoria. with more than 900
members and guests present. Among
the speakers We're Darwin p. Kingsley,
president of the New York Life Insur-
ance Company; George H. Ecker vice.
president of the Metropolitan Life and
Percy H. Johnston, president of the
Chelsea Bank.
After the dinner there was presented
The Nylic Follies of 1922 which in
cluded seventy girls under the dircc-
tion of Arthur B. Coyle. It was a roll
licking musical revue after the style
of the "Ziegfeld Follies," especially the
bathing girl scene located on a South
Sea Moon" Dancing followed the en-
tertaining show, which made big hit
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
"sTEPPIN' AROUND" SEEN.
Lively Revue Presented mt the
Central Theater.

Weber and Friedlander brought step
pin Around to earth at the Central
Theater yesterday. with James Morton,
comedian and dancer. several jumps
ahead of the cast. The entire Merton
family, including Mamie, Edna and AL
fred were on hand in the revue. and
would have provided, besides their own
performance, an appreciative enough au-
dience for James. even IL the regular
paying spectators hadn't Dan Healy
demonstrated that a pleasant singer
need not let peir of talented feet run
away with his voice.
In zone Night in June Healy, as
sisted by Miriam Hopkins and George
Trip. was almost diverting enough 10
cause the swallows to turn back from
their southwark flight. A dress parade
in a number called The Sheiks Tent
gave the girls in the chorus ample ex-
ctse for existing.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
AUTHOR ENTERTArNs EDITORS.

Thirty prominent magazine editors
of New York and Deputy Police Com
missioner. WHO looked after them, at
tended last nights performance of
Whispering Wires at the 49th Street
Theater as the guests of Henry Lew
erage, author of the story from which
Kate l.. McLaurin drama atized the mys-
terry play Among those in the party
were Commissioner Carleton Simon of
the Narcotic Division of the Police De-
partment and his aids, Robert H..
Davis, editor of Munsey's; A. S. Hoff-
man. editor of Adventure Mdgdsinc !;
Chief Blackwell of Detectiue Story
Magazine, Harold Hersey OF Ace High
Magazine. William Clayton of Telling
Tales Mdga@tHe, Harry b. Maule, editor
of Doubleday, Page & Co.. and Henry
w. Thomas of Top Notch Magdsi,te.
The assistant and associate editors OF
the above publications were also pres
ent.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
PIRANDELLo's PLAY PUT ON.

The first American performance of
Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in
Search of an Author" will be given at
the Beechwood Theater, scarborough
on Hudson. next Friday evening.
Brock Pemberton and company will be
guests of the Beechwood Players. This
performance will be followed by dress
rehearsals on Saturday and Sunday eve-
nings before the dramatic classes Of
Columbia and New York universities, in
accord with Mr.. Pemberton's re-
Gently announced policy. The New York
premiere will take place at the Princess
Theatcr October 80.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
BLOSSOM TIME AT CENTURY.
New Singers Heard I'm Operetta
with shubert Music.

Blossom Time" operetta with Schu-
bert music. which has had more than 400
performances at the Ambassador and
Jolson's E'ifty-ninth Street Theater. was
transferred last night from Jolson's to
the Century Theater. Several changes
were made in the company previous to a
tour Hollis Davenny sang for the first
time the role of Schubert. He was
formerly baritone of the Washington
Grand Opera Company. Laurel Nenetn,
a lyric soprano from the concert stage.
sang the part of Mitsi, while Roy Crop
per. formerly tenor of 'Chu Chin Chow"
was heard as Baron Schober
Others i'm the cast are Edna Temple.
Teddy Webb. Roland Titus, Edmund
Fitzpatrick. Joseph Mendelsohn. Sonya
Leyton. Shirley Sherman. Edwin Tay-
lor, Otis Sheridan. Amy Lester, Julia
Hurley, Eta Hezlitt. Dorothy Seeger,
James Burroughs, Eden Baker and
others.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
By Alexander Woollcott

largest single piece of fabric exhibited
since the last Durbar.
Aside from these mere elements of
size and gorgeousness that smite the
eye, a few other items in the enter
tainment do manage TO separate
themselves from the general whirl in
this mornings assorted memories.
Item. A magnificent musical battle
between two themes which Berlin sets.
one against the other, for a dizzyinS
finale of the first act.
Item. Bobby Clark, late of the bur-
lesque halls, and still later of London.
now emerging on what is flagrantly
called Broadway hard working but
often enormously amusing clown who
simply cannot be submerged by all
the swank and frills Mr., Harris could
pay for.
Item. The Fairbanks twins looking
as cunning as ever and a rough little
dancer named Olivette who is funny
in her own (and Fanny Brice's) way.
Item. A capital dancer named Hal
Sherman, who combines the manners
OF Eddie Cantor and whichever is the
funny one of Williams and Woolfus.
Item. Several Berlin lyrics, which
are inclined to run to such couplets
as:
I'd love to design a
Love-nes. in China,
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
"CIRCUMsTANTIAL EVIDENCE"
Little McIodrama mt the Palace
Belle Baker Retained.

Belle Baker opened fire in her second
week al the Palace yesterday with new
material and new smart frock-in
fact. virtually everything was new but
her voice. and Belle Baker fans wouldn' t
have that changed for worlds. The
Cansinos. also held over showed thW
could fight outside their class by doing
Spanish variations of French and Rus
verdict.
John Davidson in strong melo-
dramatic tabloid, "Circumstantial Evil
dcnce:" Wells. Virginia and West in
dancing numbers;. May Wirth and fam
lily in equestrian stunts. and George lie
Niaire in his skit. AT the Dentists,
were others of the six headliners who
provided painless entertainment.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
INCE SUED For $50, 900.

Charles II. Duell. j. Boyce Smith,
Frederick +. Neuman and George New
gass. lawyers, began suit yesterday in
the Supreme Court against Thomas H.
Ince for $55.000. They allege, through
Max ID. Steuer of AZ Broadway, that
since May they rendered professional
services to Incc which were reasonably
worth 100000. Ince paid $1,000 on
account. they say, and they ask for
judgment for the balance.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24

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The New York herald., 1922-10-24
"rHE FAITHFUL HEARrv MOVE.

"'rhe Faithful Heart Monchton
Iioffes romantic comedy shifted 10
Maxine Elliott's Theater from the Broad
hurst last night. Tom Nesbitt and Flora
Sheffield continue as the featured mem
bers of the cast.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
"THE FOOL" PRODUCED.

Claiming Pollock's play. "The Fool"
was produced by the Sewyns at the
Times Square Thcater last night. 1t
will be reviewed tomorrow in THE New
YORK HERALD by Mr. Woollcott.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24

MUSIC BON THEATER-IRVING BER-
LIN'S 'MUSIC BOX REVUE" staged
by Haasard short. Principals includ
Grace La Rue, Charlotte Greenwood
Clark and Mccullough. William Cax-
ton, Robinson Newbold, Fairbanks
Twins and William Seabury.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
or, again:

or, again:
He eats with his knife
But a mllionaire's wife
Says. oh ,how he can dance! =
Item. The Rath brothers incom-
parable gymnasts who for one too
brief moment work their lazy miracles
of muscle in silhouette against moon
green background. For once you see
the familiar vaudeville athletes in mo-
ton without their sweatNor their smirk
or their silk handkerchief and the re-
suit is as fine as the Discus Thrower
in its sublimation of marble.
In this fact that one Of the most
arresting and vivid pictures in the
whole revue is accomplished with the
fewest of those accessories which our
show folk proudly call effects" there
probably turks a lesson for Messrs.
Berlin and Harris and Short. 1t is a
sound lesson of which the sharp point
will doubtless be blunted by the cas-
cade of American dollars which the
prosperous passersby will pour into
the Music Box during the next twelve
months.
The New York herald., 1922-10-24
@NoW1LTSHIRE

Virginia av.. Sd hotel from beach. Private
baths; running water: elevator; reduced Eau
rates. Sam Ellis. owner. N. J. Collins. mgr,
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-07-07

after Nancy Mooy and asked
have the will read to her,
Molloy looked the pretty little widow She had heen
high school girl when Biyin her cam5ake staged 0r
party purposes, singled her Himself
Of matrimony and married her.
Despite disparity in Nancy a1lrInaively
love her husband. She had grown MS LIE
because his and his fights long
before she him and she found him rich elderly,
trough diamond, looked
by newspapers generous, lghheartcd bghcaItod
had a vague notion that her husband
OF politics ard shady
But she ad full faith that been
magned paid the Jealous less rivals
She had for ensQyed uzur
ous homes South up found
that entirely into her husbands
coddled and toyed win her and atvavs nd19nt
Moloy she knew but slightly. She had lawyer
AIoioy husbands counsellor tacre-
fore looked him her
You have the will believe" she asked.
Ioloy cleared his throat.
YES Mrs. Bigirs, have it, drew It. It goes lie
this afternoon. having auditing company prapsre
estimate the OF The estate believe
tidy residue, the bcquess shall
made good.
"Oh-there other bequest5?'
"Some, You your husband sentiment aist
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-07-07

districts, that he being undermined trimmed
aenhe oared Mike Mooy and priest Father Donegan
attended him and Bvin yielded to such listening and praying
incidentals shilling fixing soft fall
he'll u when Molo arrived Riyns all business, for he
still alive and he knew what he wanted and how
wanted it.
Mike" said the "Czar" the lawyer his side, "Im
gonna croali damn it."
nAw-dont YOU boLovo what thaao doctata say. VOW
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-07-07

1uest3?"
I late husband was sentiment alist.'
Naturally. The men who stocd
by him, who
81 am sorry, Mrs. Biyins. Bat
they are-not men"
you mean-'
"They are, without exception,
women"
women? What sort of women?"
'H'm-seFeral sorts, l should
say"
please read the will"
Molloy read it. Mrs. Molloy
listened without a tremor, with
out any outward sign.
'NIr. Molloy," said the widow.
when he had finished, you drew
the will. You are an expert on
such matters, as we'll as beng so
closely familiar with all the de.
tails. Tell meas my lawyer now
lis there any way this will could
be broken?"
Eyes, Mrs. Biyins-there Is. The
will is SO radically unique, tho
circumstances in connection With
your late husbands relations ard
with some OF the bencsciaries
are of such nature that | an
confident We can force ch2a
Of Venue from Judge Par2laan,
who was your late husbands pc.
lidcal straw man, and nullify The
will on grounds that he was rot
of sound mind. l am certain Of
it, ,Grs. Bigins.9
"Nou believe, then, that We can
go % law With this issue, and SIC.
ccssfully prove that Mr.. Biyins
was CIT / mean, was not re.
sponsj5Je-when he dictated The
terms of this papcr?"
Exactly
You didn't think he was crazy,
did YOU, when you acted for hin
in this matter? You wouldn't
have drawn an instrument inyoly.
ing millions for an insane man,
would you, Nj. NoIloy?"
"of course not-or, rather, 1r.
Bivins as ny client and my friend.
Had l refused to do as he de.
manded, he would merely have
employed another attorney, one
not as Thoroughly in sympathy
with him. one who would have
had perhaps even less influence
with him than I, his cid adviser
and close friend"
But now you have thought il
over. and have come to the con.
clnsion that, while he seemed 10
act sane, he must have been Go.
ranged or he would not have
made such obviously. peculiar be.
Q0csj.9"
"EHactly, Mrs enthusiastically,
/ ln,set even say that now, as ]
l1cE at YOU. IN ycuy radianf boo,,t,,
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-07-07

enough, "AH risht, Chief
assented Motley Lead yom'
ace"
"Thats better. Now thst
lis settled that I'm gonna
cash in | wanna have some
say about how my chips are
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-21
HOPPE WINS4TH
STRAIGHT GAME
NCUE TOURNEY
Former Champ Wins
Right to Play in Round
for National Grown

NEW YORK, Nov 2O.-Wi1ls
Hoppe. former champion, scored his
fourth straight victory today In the
international 1872 balk line billiard
championship by defeating Erich
Hageuidcher. German star, In close
match, 500 to 462 The resul. as.
sutcd Hoppe, who has but one more
match to play, of at least a tie In
the tournament.
Hoppe gained his victory In
match filled with a strange medley
OF poor and uncertain cuelne,
Hoppe had an everage Of % 1922
with high runs of III. 90 and 30.
On two occasions, when juggling his
cue for the shot, he had 10 stem
away from the table to steady him
self before continuing.
Hagenlacher made two desperate
effortS to win and but for wrong
selection Of shots might have done
so. His average was 20 and his runs
100. S6 and 67. 1t marked the Ger
mans final appearance in the tour.
nament in which he has not won
game in five starts.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-21
THREE TEAMS IN
TIE FOR WESTERN
GRIDIRON CROWN
Iowa, Michigan, Standing
Even With Chicago in
Conference Race
by DAVIS J. WALSH

EN YORK, Nov. 20 Iowa,
Michigan or Chicago may establish
uudisput,d right and title to the big
teu' football championship. Califor-
MIA, no doubt. viii coast into an
other title on the Pacific coast. Cor
nell West Virginia and the Army
may remain uudtfoatcd in the east
but no team is going to outclaim
Princeton when 1t comes TO the final
showdown. The Tigers record is as
gogI as any and better than most.
II Chicago gets the decision over
Wisconsin and finishes its conference
campaign without q defeat, tho big
ten" situation will lose caste because
OF PrinCeton's intersectional victory
over the Stagg entry II Cornell
boHts Pennsylvania IT Will merely
establish the lthaCans as fine team
bat viii not prove them great one
Any team can win with Il hand
picked schedule.
Again IL the Army beats the Navy.
II Will have a fair-enough claim to
the eastern title but not an alto
Vcther sound one because Princeton
has Just finished with the business
of knocking over Yale while the
Army considered itself fortunate in
pulling out tie with the Bulldog.
California's record suffered in pro.
Bbl AlOii " AAit Mth u llfHo Ok It's OlpO-
siton. SO does that OF West Vir-
ginia, although the latter gained con-
siderable prestige by beating Pitts.
burgh.
Notre Dame will be in a position to
dispute Priuceton's championship
pretentons If II disposes of Nebras-
ka. The Hoosiers' record Is a clean
one bnt they could get nothing bet
ter than scoreless tie with the
Army, the only real opponent they
faced with the possible exception of
Georgia Tech. All in all. Princeton
is sitting very handsomely with vic
tories over Harvard. Yale and Chi
caEo and a season of victories be-
hind It. The Tigers. on paper. were
not tho best team iu the east but
paper strength Is often a gay de-
Ceiver.
Princeton cared not what The dope
said. IT was a team of two-fisted
men. who went out to die with their
cleats on ana were quite surprised
to learn that they still lived on.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-21
RAu WORKING BOYS
FOR SApUIPA BATTLE.

Coach Rau's Tulsa high school foot
bah lads Monday afternoon settled
down TO real work, plugging up
holes and preparing to. nail down
their claims for tho conference
championship, by taking the Sapulpa
crew down the line Saturday.
Tulsa has already defeated Enid
and oklahoma City, and as the four
teams are tied, a victory over Sapul-
pa would put tho local crimson and
cream out in front IN the 1922 race.
Real scrlmmago practice will
start tonight and will continue daily
until Friday, Coach Rau announced
last night.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-21
STORM BREAKS
IN ANNUAL MEET
OF A.A. u. BODY
Virtual Rejection of Pad
docks Record Brings
Tie-Up

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-The viz
tual rejection OF seven records sub
mitted on behalf Of Charles W. Pad
dock, Los Angeles 4. c., sprinter,
because Of implied faulty timing
ana the decision to leave the ques-
uon of controlling womeu's
amateur athletic activities to the In
coming board Of governors. were
thf outstanding features Of todays
meeting Of the Amateur Athletic
union.
sharp controversy regarding the
acceptance Of Paddock's records
preceded the final decision of the
delegates TO refer their passage to
the record committee for 1923 which
body will be elected at tomorrow's
session.
Acceptance Remote.
IN view of the fact that the new
committee will not officially tunc-
ton unUl late In the fall Of 1928,
unless special l-lneetings are held. IL
was the geueral opinion of the dele
gates that acceptance of the records
appeared remote.
The records claimed for Paddock
were all made in one race, srun at
Santa Barbara, Cal, last July
T. They included what are claimed
five worlds records and two Ameri-
can records for distances ranging
from 60 90 $50 yards. They are as
follows; so yards, lis seconds; 20
yards, Z Lilo seconds; rs yards, z
3-5 seconds; so yards, AS seconds;
100 yards, . 3-5 seconds; 125 yards
IL 15 seconds; l75 yards, II
seconds.
The dispute over Paddock's re-
cords hinged principally on one
point, the fact that only one-fifth
of q second elapsed between the
marks for rs and so yards. Louis
Goldsmith, chairman OF the record
committee, characterized this as a
physical impossibiiity and as ground
for rejection of all the records. but
Lorrin Andrews, spokesman for the
Southern Pacific association, In
sisted they be accepted
Women Question Up.
Sharp division OF opinion de-
veloped on the question of control
ling women's athletics before final
decision was referred to, the incom-
ing board of governors. one group
of delegates favored taking over the
direct supervision of meinine COM
petition, while another group urged
that Il be vested in n new women's
athletic federation or union which
would handle It's own activities, but
affiliate with the A. A. L. to obtain
essential cooperation and CO.
ordination.
Earlier in the day the suspension
of three Chicago athletic stars
Joie w. Ray Frank Loomis and 10
Loomis, until December 81, FOR re-
ceiving alleged exorbltant expense
money from New York clubs, was
made effective on the recommends
ton of the registration committee. 1t
was provided that the suspension
become permanent after that date
unless the funds involved are re-
paid as follows: Ray s100;F rank
LOOMS $50 and 10 Loomis IS.
William c. Prout of Boston, presi-
dent OF the A. A. L., In an address
to the delegates, replied TO alleged
attacks on the organizations work
during the past year be declaring
the A. A. L. was today more
strongly entrenched in public esteem
than ever.