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The New York herald., 1922-12-10
Staging of Passion
Play Cost $I,a9a

Special Correspondence to THE NEW YoEK
HERALD.
OBERAMMERGAU, Nov. 25.-The finan-
ciaI controllers of the Passion Play OF
last season who have completed their
accounts and banked their money have
discovered that the total expense of stag
ing the play was less than the cost to
an American tourist who came to see
the play. The total expenses figured at
the rate on the day the accounts were
closed were $1.2s2. The total receipts
from admissions and the sale of books
and pictures, expressed in dollars
amount to S4,574.
Although the players refused an
American motion picture offer OF
S1,400, 900 to stage the play for the films
agents of church societies of John d
Rockefeller, Jr., are still carrying on
negotiations in the hope they will
change their minds, since the pictures
are to be used purely for religious pur-
poses
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John Ervine on the business man In the
theater He comments bitingly on that
much abused individuals general intel
ligence and pointedly upon his recent
experiences with the London theaters.
Prohteers out of the war. strange. un-
couth creatures from Lancashire and
Yorkshire. he says. have seized upon the
London stage to show the simple actor
folk how to do ID. He creates lot of
justification for Arnold Benefits The
Regent" And then he challenges COM
parisoh between the perfect swarm of
failures that has darkened playhouse
after playhouse in London during the
last few weeks with the comfortable
triumphs and the tidy fortunes from the
theater created by such simple actor
folk as Irving in the old days and Sybil
Thorndike in the new, with dozen or
so IN between.
Among the few changes to record in
the London theater is the ending of
"Phi-Phis" run at the Pavilion. This
wonderful bit of French fun and music,
which somehow didn't get over In
America at all, has had cheerful career
on Piccadlly circus and the plans for
the Pavilion are as yet unknown. for
C.. 3. Cochrane Is not yet returned from
New York "Phi-Phi' was crisp right to
the last Its Greek costumes, it's swing
ing music, it's great comfcalities, which
were Anglo Saxonized as French comi
calities have seldom bean before and its
capable company Of funny men and
pretty girls carried It rollicking to the
very end.
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in dance halls during the winter. and a
tango and shimmy which will certainly
take on.
'L'Avocat," by M. Brieux, the most
criticized new play of the season, has
finally been removed from the Vaude-
Vile. and "Femmes," by NJ Leopold
Marchand, has taken its place. But
little has been heard Of ''Femmes" and
fears are entertained that it will not
enjoy such run, small as IL was, as
"L'Avocat." Whether or not NJ. Brieux
will revise his piece and try it again
later cannot be learned yet. At one
time he had such an intention, but at
present he is busy on a new play to be
produced early in the New Year.
The music halls at last announce
something new for next month. The
Folies Bergere will be the first to give
new review, which it is stated will
exceed in color effect and costumes any
thing yet seen at that establishment.
Marigny has already changed its pro-
gram and has cast aside review for the
time being and is showing a compost
ton of vaudeville and operette entitled
"Dis que c'est toi'' ("Say it is your.
There is said to be a deal of pretty
music and sarcasm aimed at high So
ciety In the plot, and as the cast Is
good one the show will probably register
long run.
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Thirty-nine Films
Will Be Released
byFamous Players
Corporation Announces Pic
lures to Be Presented in
Next Six Months.

The Famous Players-Lasky Corpora
ton announces thirty-nine Paramoun,
pictures for release during the six
months from February to August l.
1922. Among these pictures will be
the following in the order of their n
lease:
Dorothy Dalton in Dark Secrets "
directed by Victor Fleming; Gloria
Swanson In MY American Wife," with
Antonio Moreno, directed by Sam Wood
Adams Rib" Cecil b. De Mile pro-
duction, featuring Milton Sills, Elliott
Dexter, Theodore Kosloff, Pauline Garon
and Julia Faye; Mary Miles Minter in
Drums of Fate" directed by Charles
Maigne; Jack Holt in Nobody IS
Money" directed by Wallace Worsley
George Melford's production of Java
Head" by Joseph Hergesheimer, with
Leatrice Joy, Jacqueline Logan and Ray
mond Hatton y Betty Compson In "The
White Flower" written and directed by
Julia Crawford Ivers, and Marion
Davies in adam and Eva" a Co.'S
mopolitan production, directed by Rob-
ert G. Vignola
Agnes Ayres will be seen in "Racing
Hearts," with Theodore Roberts and
LIN, uiIcCltQ Dy raul ROWell
'The Covered Wagon" a James Cruze
production, with a cast Including Lois
Wilson, ]. Warren Kerrigan. Charles
Ogle and Ernest Terrence; "The Nth
Commandment" Cosmopolitan pro-
duction. directed by Frank Borzage
Thomas Meighan In ''The Ne'er-Do-
Well" by Rex Beach. directed by AL
fred f. Green; Alice Brady In 'The
L.eopardess," directed by Henry Kolker
Jack Holt In THE Tigers Claw"
directed by Joseph Henabery Pola
Negri In bella Donna" George F'itz-
maurice production, with Conway
Tearle and Conrad Nagel; Grumpy"
a William De Mile production, with
Theodore Roberts, May McAvoy and
Conrad Nagel, and '"The Go-Getter," a
Cosmopolitan production, directed by
f. Fl. Griffith.
Gloria Swanson in "Prodigal Da;ugh-
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BY JOHN M,HUGH STUART.

" VERY dancing school in London
- is FULL OF more or less lightly
prancing fairies. Miss Edna
Best is closely observing the gambols
of her precious twins. In other words,
the Christmas season of pantomime
is in preparation and Peter Pan" will
once more appear at the St Games.
That and the special presentations of
various special plays by many special
stage societies on Sundays and special
matinees marks the pre-holiday slump
on the London stage.
Peter Pan" at thesSt. James will
be specially in the children's class this
year, too. for it is relegated to a series
of matinees. The queersbolshie drama
The Beating on the Door" has been
withdrawn, and no one in London
wept at that, though there are many
suggestions for some other way to let
London hear the wonderful Russian
choir that Grigor Makaroff trained
and sang with, and that the discern
ing management of the st. James sub
stituted for the orchestra.
And pantomime too will have to. yield
some of It's old ground to the London
successes. Drury Lane Is still packing
it's newly furbished vastnesses with De
cameron Nights" and though the title
will keep many a holidaying schoolboy
and miss away from the play If respec-
table English parents have anything to
say about 1t. the beautiful n somewhat
exotic settings of this phantasy would
probably prove less of shock-.to the
respectable English parents -who have
not seen 1t than the tinsel vulgarity Of
much modern pantomime. 1t Is a far
cry from the pretty little productions OF
Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk
to some of the modern settings In which
these simple old gems have been placed.
"OId Dutch" Still at Lyceum.
The other stronghold of pantomime,
the Lyceum, has not settled its Christ.
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TRAvELTALK ON KHARToUM

E, M. Newman's fourth Traveltalk OF
the Across Africa Cape series
is ca. led "Khartoum." This evening at
Carnegie Hall the traveller will con-
duct his audience from the shores of
Victoria Nyanza northward along the
Blue and White Niles to Khartoum. In
group Of color views and motion pic
lures the journey leads to Mombasa,
Oar -es-Saiaam, the former German port,
across to Zanzibar Nairobi. Fort Hall
and Kenya. The Roosevelt trail is fol-
lowed and the many different savage
tribes and main varieties of animals will
be pictured.
The New York herald., 1922-12-10
Paris Theaters Make Ready
for FeStal Christmas Week
Interregnum of Revivals to Precede Yuletide After
Overdose of New Plays in Early Season
Have Overburdened Actors.

four nets. The first shows Pdsteur
teaching his pupils the understanding
of the words right and honesty"
and thereby leading them on to a sue
cessful career. The second act shows
IA meeting of the French Academy OF
Medicine, where Pdsteur, probably the
most criticized French savant In his
tory, is emphaticaliy and energetically
replying to his doctor colleagues who
cannot forgive him for being merely
chemist and of wanting TO overthrow
completely their doctrines.
The third act takes place in the corri-
doors of the Institut de France PdstofT
learns that he has been nominated In
the Grand Cross Order of the Legion OF
Honor and that the academy wants 10
include him in it's membership. Pas
teur loses his temper and tells ever
one that he does not want any honors,
but merely seeks to be understood. In
the fourth act an Alsatian boy is
brought to Pdsteur. The boy has been
bitten by an enraged dog. and Pdstetw
himself injects his famous serum into
the boy. and before his scared coll
leagues, who dare not approach the BOY,
picks him up In his arms and carries
him to a private room, where he Will be
put under observation.
Then there appears the President OF
the French Republic. who. to the ac-
compartment OF the "Marseillaise,'
leads Pdsteur away into the Sorbonne
Institute and TO Immortality. Every
night Lucien Guitry and his pai ,n-rs
have 70 reappear repeatedly to earn well
deserved applause.
Sacha Guitry and his wife, Yvonne
Printemps. meanwhile continue TO score
success upon success at the Edouard
VII, where "Une Petite Main qui Sc
Place." depicting the servant problem OF
- -. DA. q.
nearing its 200th performance. Three
different Paris thcaters are at the same
time playing pieces by Sacha Guitry
the latest being the ''Varietes." where
"SIoir et Blanc" r. being played with
Jane Marnac and Raimu In the princi-
pal roles. All three theaters play be-
fore a full house every night This Is
undoubtedly the first time in the his
tory Of Wrench theaters that play
wright-artist has succeeded In produc-
ing three plays at the same time. II is
fumored that Sacha has two or three
rev plays ready and he Is only await
Ing the opportune moment. probably
about Christmas time. TO produce
them.
Critics have taken kindly to the new
Apollo operette. lie Baiser aux
Encheres" ("The Auctioned Kiss") but
the public as yet has shown but little
enthusiasm for the sketch where Miss
Nan Stuart sings in a cage containing
lions. French audiences fail TO see any
original idea in this and certainly are
at q loss as to the utility Of such
show. The other part Of the piece Is
slightly better received, but were 10 not
for the catchy music which accom-
panies the operette II could not last
long. AS It is now there are Several
pretty waltzes. one or two becoming
fox trots which will make their way
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HmALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, Nov. 70.
~ ARIS theaters have reached the
r. marking time period, although
= they are in the middle of their
winter season. New plays. new oper-
ettas and new reviews are at present
being either written, revised or re-
hearsed In readiness for Christmas
week, which for Paris means a week.
and often more, of reveIry.
The opinion is expressed here that
already there has been an overcrowd-
ing OF new plays this season. albeit
the majority Of them showed no new
ideas nor have been very great at
fractions. Some which enjoyed fairly
good runs soon ceased to please when
opposed to new plays. On the other
hand. managers think that artists
have SO far been overworked. No
sooner Is a new play launched on its
way than artists have to begin inn
mediately to learn parts OF another
play and rehearse them and stil ap-
pear nightly and often at matinees in
the former.
Thus. with the approach of the new
year. playwrights and managers are
firstly anxious that artists should have
little rest In order 10 appear al theic
best during Christmas week, when thea
ters are deslrous OF presenting i'm.
portant and powerful casts. Besides.
artists in nine cases out of ten in
France are the drawing cards and not
the plays themselves.
Until about the third week In Decem.
ber only revivals with understudies In
the chief roles will be produced, when
existing plays have Go give way TO pub
lie opinion. Some Of these plays are
very old, such as La Course du Flam-
beau" which the Comedie Franchise has
Just revived, but they serve as stop
gaps between new winter plays and
new Christmas productions.
Probably tho most interesting revival
recently is that staged at the Theatre
Sarah Bernhard which has given the
s'ynal for the commencement OF the
Pasteur centenary celebrations In Civ
Ing "Pastcur" by Sacha Guitry. This
piece was first played In 1919 at the
Edouard VII. with the author In the
main role. At present Lucien Guitrv.
Sacha's father takes the part OF
Paste11., The play has proved that IL
still Is attractive. for a crowded house
10 registered every night. IL depicts
the life OF Pasteur, whose centenary
II 70 be officially celebrated throughout
France. the Government taking a lead
ing part ~ allffestivites.
The play written by sacha GuItry has
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Frivolity Taboo.

Conversation and merriment are at a
low ebb. Either one dances, or one
silently watches the entertainers. Even
Americans talk in low tones. Boisterous
laughter is frowned upon. It's alnrather
serious business. not to be taken
lightly. The artists are the most seri-
ous-minded of all. They openly resent
any inattention on the part of the spec
tators. and sometimes rebuke the igno-
rant foreigner for a too frivolous de-
meanor. Many of the comic songs are
political in character. frequently of
Monarchist tendency. A large section
of the audience always applauds them
frantically, fixing scornful eyes on any
allied or associated nationals who
chance to be present.
Evening dress Is little In evidence.
The wonen's raiment ranges from
tailormade suits to evening gowns, SEEM
ingly straight from the Rue de la Paix.
Not one woman in a hundred. however,
wears silk stockings, although her men
folk buy champagne with recklessNex-
travagance.
When o'clock comes general mi
grafton sets in. apparently only small
minority of pleasure seekers deeming
that a fitting hour for bed. If one
doesn't know where to go, one asks the
whom can reel off the names of dozen
or more places. Most of them are
short-lived, some existing only for one
night, even though left strictly alone by
the police. The most popular jazz band
In Berlin, which performs up to 1 A. M
in an Unter den Linden restaurant, ap-
pears after that hour at different es-
tablishment every night Its leader goes
to great pains to tip off his admirers
where the band will be after the closing
hour. This mysterious shifting about
amuses the Berliner, and reduces the
amounts paid to the police for protec-
tlon.
There are of course all sorts of illegi-
innate resorts, g few utterly vicious. the
majority merely dancing Joints" nc
less respectable, and no gayer than those
flnctioning earlier in the night. Prices
for champagne are higher. and smiles
perhaps more frequent-depending upon
the consumption of champagne.
But whatever the hour when one
energies into the street homeward bound,
shivering. cringing outposts Of disease
and destitution are awaiting there to
exact their pitiful toll. And forgetful-
ness fees.
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New York Herald Bureau. }
Paris, Nov. 25. J

Special Correspondence to THE .NEw York
HUuAIp.
The New York herald., 1922-12-10

HOUGH on pleasure bent Ber-
lin has a gloomy mind--but by
= no means a frugal one.
The New York herald., 1922-12-10
Berlin Takes Its Amusement
in Futile Effort to Forget
Depression From Conditions in Germany, Ever
Present, Causes Disregard of Money, Which Is
Thrown Wildly in Quest of Soporic.

after that hour. In actual practice the
advent of the legal closing time merely
necessitates moving from one place TO
another. The biggest. most celebrated
dance establishments and cabarets obey
the law. The rest disregard II complete
ly. save for turning out their electric
signs.
There are certainly five or six times
more legitimate places of amusement
here than there are in Paris. And the
average is bigger and gaudier. Almost
without exception they offer a cabaret
show consisting of singing and dancing
acts. usually painfully inferior TO the
same sort of performance in the allied
capitals or New York.
The bigger places have general dane
ing interlarded with the entertainment.
All are crowded nightly. People sit at
little stables facing small stage and
surrounding a dancing floor. and drink
Rhine or Moselle wine at the cheaper re-
sorts, or German or French champagne
at the more expensive. German cham
pagne costs from three TO twelve thou
sand marks a quart. the average price
being more than the weekly wage of
many workers.
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The other stronghold of pantomime,
e Lyceum. has not settled its Christ
The New York herald., 1922-12-10

ters." Sam Wood production 'tGlimpses
OF the Moon an Allan Dwan produc-
tion. with Bebe Daniels and Nita NaIdf:
Mary Miles Minter in "The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine" with Antonio Moreno,
directed by Charles Maigne; Dorothy
Dalton in "The Law OF the Lawless,"
with Theodore Kosoff and Charles de
Roche; You Can't Fool Your Wife" a
George Melford production with Leatrice
Joy. Nita Naldi and Lewis Stone: Wal
ter Hers In "Mr. Billings. Spends His
Dime" with Jacqueline Logan, directed
by Wesley Ruggles. and THE Rustic of
Silk" George Fitzmaurice production.
with Betty Compson and Conway
Pola Negr1 In a George Fitzmaurice
production of "Declassee" Hollywood"
James Cruze production, with a cast
including Cecil B. De Mile, Pola Negri,
Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Wal
lace Reid. Bebe Daniels, Agnes Ayres.
Jack Holt Betty Compson, May Nc
Avoy. .Leatrice Joy. Lial Lee, Theodore
Roberts. Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson,
Theodore Kosloff. George Fawcett,
Charles Ogle, Walter HERS, Jacqueline
Logan and others; Vendetta" a Cos
mopohtan production, with Lionel Barry
more and Alma Rubens; Thomas Meig-
han in white Heat" directed by AL
fred e. Green; Agnes Ayres in Contra
band" directed by. Paul Powell Betty
Compson iR 'The Woman with Four
Faces, %by Bayard velller; Gloria Swan
son In 'Bluebeard's Eighth Wife,"
sam Wood production. and ''Only 3s," a
William de Mile production, with Ell
lott Dexter. May McAvoy. George F'aw-
cett and Lois Wilson.
Bebe Daniels and Bert Lytell I'm "The
Exciters"; Wallace Reid In "a Gentle
man OF Leisure" directed by Wallace
Worsley; Children of jazz" an Alfred
e. Green production, with Nita Naldi.
Jacqueline Logan. Conrad Nagel and
Robert Cain; Dorothy Dalton in "Fog
Bound" directed by Victor Fleming;
Alice Brady In '"The Snow Bride" dl-
fected by Victor Fleming. and Jack Holt
in '"The Light to the Leeward," directed
by Joseph Henabery.
The New York herald., 1922-12-10
Special Correspondence to THE NEW YosK
HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Berlin, Nov. rs.
Nv vINC0V.N EYRE

BY LlNCOLN Ef HE.
HOUGH on pleasure bent Ber-
lin has a gloomy mind-but by
no means a frugal one.
That is the reaction borne in to-
day upon one fairly familiar with the
frivolous aspects OF life here before,
during and since the war. Outwardly
there is no noteworthy change. The
same kipd of entertainment, innocent
or evil, is purveyed in the same kind
of places. But under the surface
everything Is different-and dismal
The difference and the dismalness are
the result of the Berliner's changed
mentality.
The Berliner no longer goes out of
an evening just to be amused. He
goes out to steep himself in forgetful-
ness. to seek transitory solace from
thoughts of the black perils he sees
menacing his country and himself.
For the sake of this relief he's willing
TO pay high, particularly since he has
little or no faith in the value of the
money he spends. But what he gets
is not enjoyment but a soporific.
There have never been so many places
of amusement in Berlin as to-day, and
the prices charged in most of them
compared with other living costs--has
never been so dear. Yet never has there
been less real amusement, because the
festive spirit is dead.
1t is hard for the Berliner, or even
for the foreigner, to be carefree and
gay when to the general atmosphere of
impending catastrophe are added
specific, tangible signs of misery and
want and the. most repulsive forms of
vice. The road 10 the glittering palaces
OF song, dance and wine is lined with
wretched victims of their F'atherland's
plight War cripples, piteously Haunting
the Iron Cross, which more prosperous
veterans never wear: consumptives, in
the last stages of their mortal malady !;
pallid young mothers with babies at
their breasts; bony apparitions ap-
parently dying Of starvation--a CHASTITY
army of them mounts guard in the cold
streets outside the jazz emporfums of
the Friedrichstrasse and the Kurfuer-
stendamm. They form decidedly un-
pleasant skeleton at a rather unappe-
tizing feast.
Vice FIaunts Itself.
Mingled among them are the mill
tants of the underworld. Sleek youths
of the cadet type slip brothel CARDS INTO
ones hand, or whisper inducements
anent some clandestine dive. Hawklke
women with haggard faces and girls
very young in years, but old in the
oldest profession, hover eagerly about,
addressing foreigners in strange varia-
tions of English or French or Russian.
Degenerates promenade openly in
wonen's clothes and high heeled shoes.
Drug peddlers urge cocaine or morphine
upon one. There are even ''cappers"
for gambling houses, who dilate upon
the attractions OF baccarat and
roulette without troubling to lower their
voices
Berlin is probably the only capital in
the world where despite severe laws
against 1t gambling Is SO publicly ad-
vertised.
Where amusement Is concerned the
Berlin night is sharply divided into two
parts-before and after 1 a. NJ. Le-
gally and theoretically nothing is open
The New York herald., 1922-12-10
Pantomime Again to Feature
Christmas on London Stage
Young Terpsichoreans Prepare for Presentation O.
Peter Pan at st. Jamess Theater-'Bolshie'
Drama Withdrawn.

mas plans at the present writing, for
Albert Chevalier's "Old Dutch" rs there.
This whole evenings entertainment that
the immortal coster has spun about his
old song, however, Is just the sort OF
somewhat sad sentimentality that Eng
lish people like with their Christmas
joys and many an AIRY and 'Arriett
and many a Lord and Lady will prob
ably go to sit tittering and weeping
through the inimitable cadences Cheva~
lier has managed to spread thinly but
efficiently throughout the piece.
Miss Bayliss's fine company at the
Old Vic last week stepped out Of Shake
speare long enough to produce with ad-
mirable effect the seventeenth century
comedy of Massinger, "a New Way to
Pay Old Debts" accompanied by Cor
don Bottomley's "Britains Daughter"
The production Of "A New Way to Pay
Old Debts" was a fine demonstration of
what dramatic quality can be per Sc
Ma16inger wrote in blank verse. But he
didn't have a poem In all his>soul. He
was as fortnight, as terse and as vigor-
Gus as an Elizabethan soldier or sailor.
There was no Shakespearean fanciness
about him. When you read the play
you wonder why 1t lived at~all. it's so
essentially prosaic. But when it Is acted
out on the boards there emerges that
gripping thing which It has become a
solecism to call dramatic. It's a play
And Massinger had distinguished con-
temporary authority for saying "the
plays the thing
It's the tale Of cruel extortioner, not
In Italy or some far land of fancy but
in Nottinghamshire. What could be
more prosaic than that? In fact. 1t
seemed like a real comedy Of manners
It might have been the legitimate an
cestor of Sir Arthur Pinero. And, Of
course, at the Old Vic 1t was done with
the sure touch and the complete finish
that this wonderful repertory company
gives to everything.
The New York herald., 1922-12-10
Pan. Theater Business Man.

The success of Miss Bayliss. now that
she has an endowment, furnishes anus
ing background for a long diatribe this
week In the Sunday Observer by st.